Delete @deepseek-ai/dsh-invariants, every package's ./invariant companion
and its tests, the invariant gates and Vitest setup, the scoped-event
resolver generator, and the INVARIANT-coded listener rethrow paths.
Update docs, READMEs, Agent Notes, and add an upgrade guide.
The workflow tool gains run_in_background (enableRunInBackground config,
default on): the run registers on ctx.jobs as an owned 'workflow' record
job and the call returns { kind: 'background', jobId, runId } immediately.
The run belongs to the job — job_kill, the list's stop control, and owner
teardown cancel it; no tool-step signal is bridged. Settlement maps the
stop reason onto the job outcome, with a completed run's rendered return
value riding output to the completion notice and job_output. A record
mirror streams workflow/phase, workflow/log, and member lifecycle lines
into the job record, replacing the removed activity mirror; the output
schema becomes a kind-discriminated union and 'workflow' joins JobKindMap.
Snapshot expected outputs are refreshed for the schema, prompt, and PTC
stub changes (the keyless refresh also migrates fixtures to the current
session write format: range sourceEventSeqs and reasoning-delta chunks).
bash and pwsh background runs declare record: true and pump their observed
streams straight into the job through observeProcessRecord — the open/end
pairing, outcome mapping, and registry-absent degradation branches are gone,
and the pump's final drain folds into hooks.done so the record holds its
last bytes before settlement closes it. activityPollMs becomes recordPollMs.
tool-workflow drops its foreground activity mirror deliberately: a
foreground run's live phase/log narration had the mirror as its only
carrier, and the transcript keeps the recorded run/member lifecycle events.
Live narration returns with backgrounded runs when workflow gains
run_in_background.
Add the activity capability seam: ctx.activities is a pure observation
plane where long-running work (background bash/pwsh, workflow runs) opens a
handle, appends transient output into a byte-offset ring buffer, and settles
exactly once. Nothing model-visible changes: reads are non-consuming and
lossy-by-design (absolute UTF-8 offsets survive eviction and report gaps),
correlation carries {callId, jobId}, and visibility is owner-fenced like jobs.
The seam is strictly optional. Producers tap it through ctx.get('activities')
and contain every observation failure, so an unregistered or broken registry
never affects the underlying job (proven by broken-registry tests).
Ship the full path in one change:
- @deepseek-ai/dsh-activity: Service Definition, pumpActivityOutput pull
substrate, invariant companion; dsh-activity-local: ring-buffer provider
with retention config and owner cleanup.
- shell: ShellProcess.observed exposes non-consuming stdout/stderr readers;
tool-bash/tool-pwsh mirror background jobs into activities.
- tool-workflow: phase/log/agent lines mirrored as a workflow activity.
- api-activity-controller: Typert Remote control (roster baseline+buckets)
and observe (opened/output/status frames, coalesced and byte-capped)
streams plus the client feed service with reference-counted observation.
- ui-activity: session-header action rendering live output through
TerminalBlock, which now shows output while a command is still running.
Docs: activity subsystem page, architecture row, regenerated catalogs, and
the Agent Note (2026-08-24-activity-observation-seam), all bilingual. A
keyless web e2e replays a real run_in_background stream to ARIA goldens.
Beyond the mechanical conflicts (provider capability lines vs master's new
inheritsParentContext field; generated catalogs regenerated rather than
hand-merged; knip/lockfile), three master-side reworks required semantic
adaptation of this branch:
- The persona rework removed AgentOptions.systemPrompt, which was the
structured-output instruction's channel. The instruction now rides the
SAME final-request enforcement listener that injects the schema'd tool:
appended per request to final.system (per-request wire state, not agent
prompt state). Tests assert the wire request (adapter.requests) instead
of child.options; the bare-direct-dispatch test pins the no-system arm.
- Tool guidance moved out of deployment prompts into per-tool prompt
sections; the examples' workflow paragraph became a tool:<toolName>
section contributed by dsh-tool-workflow (explicit-ask-only policy),
and both example personas resolve to master's minimal identity+behavior
form. tool-workflow gains inject: systemPrompt (+ peer dep, tsconfig
ref); the export-shape guard updated.
- The uniform-RFC-format gate: the dynamic-workflows RFC restructured to
the implemented/ skeleton (bare Status line; Proposal -> Decision;
What-was-rejected -> Alternatives considered; new Consequences), and
the overall-run-timeout deferral is now recorded in the RFC's Deferred
list. The doc-graphs atlas classification gains the workflows seam
(workflow-vm implementation, tool-workflow consumer).
Master's harness-identity section made "empty assembled prompt" states
unreachable through the loop, so the instruction-append is a plain
undefined-ternary and the structured tests assert append-not-replace.
All snapshot goldens (including workflow-run) replay unchanged. Full
local CI-equivalent gate sequence green on the merged tree.
A new capability family at packages/workflow/ in the bash seam shape,
modeled on Claude Code's dynamic workflows: the model writes a JavaScript
orchestration script (export const meta = {...} + plain-JS body), a runtime
executes it, and the script — not the conversation — holds the loop, the
branching, and the intermediate results.
- dsh-workflow (ctx.workflows): abstract WorkflowService + run vocabulary
(WorkflowRun whose result NEVER rejects) + observe-only workflow/* events
carrying data snapshots (id + meta, never the live run), per-listener
contained like subagent/*.
- dsh-workflow-vm: in-process node:vm engine. Meta extraction via a
string/comment-aware scanner (template interpolation rejected; literal
evaluated alone in an empty timed context; statement blanked line-
preservingly so stacks keep script line numbers). Hooks: agent(prompt,
{label, phase, schema, model}) over ctx.subagents, parallel(), pipeline()
(no cross-stage barrier), phase(), log(), args. Fatal-vs-null discipline:
hook misuse (unknown/deferred options, bad arguments, unsupported
schemas, tripped caps, seam start failures, cancellation) throws fatal
WorkflowErrors the combinators RE-THROW — never dissolved into the
per-item null reserved for child failures. Realm boundary: inbound values
materialized by descriptor walks that never invoke accessors (defineProperty
copies, __proto__-safe); outbound values rebuilt in-realm via the
context's own JSON.parse. Determinism bans (Date.now/Math.random/argless
new Date) kept so future resume support cannot break scripts. Caps and
timeouts are validated Config. Every hook promise carries a no-op
rejection consumer (app-boot exits on unhandled rejections).
- dsh-tool-workflow: the model-facing workflow tool, synchronous like
dsh-tool-subagent (start → await → try/finally dispose; abort bridged;
non-completed → isError). Generic render card titled by a textual
meta.name sniff. The tool description carries the authoring contract.
Wired into examples/{coding-agent,acp-agent} with explicit-ask-only
guidance. Coverage at every tier: unit (meta scanner, materializer incl.
counting-getter and __proto__ regressions, combinator semantics,
concurrency ceiling, caps, cancellation, no-unhandled-rejection abandon),
integration over the real spawn stack, with-key e2e (real two-phase run +
the tool through the registry pipeline), and a recorded ACP snapshot
scenario (workflow-run, 1 child session). RFC:
docs/rfc/implemented/feature/2026-07-05-dynamic-workflows.md (deferred
work explicitly listed). AGENTS.md budget 1575 → 1590 for the new group's
layout line.
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