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* feat(preset): declare Agent compositions in profile YAML

* fix(preset): share scope binding cleanup and refresh module graph

* fix(preset): use host syntax colors in the YAML editor

* fix(preset): write new profile declarations as block YAML

* fix(preset): align eager activation with browser and worker surfaces

* fix(ui-agent-preset): retain the existing preset card layout

* fix(preset): keep rows waiting for a Host service mounted and re-audit after settlement

A preset row whose Host provider was still activating at declaration time
was reported as waiting for a missing service, and the registry recorded the
definition as broken for the rest of the process. Split the mount audit into
failed and pending rows: failures and root-realm leaks still reject the
mount, while pending rows stay mounted and every read and binding re-audits
them after the Host Loader tree settles.

Remove the accidental self-dependency of @deepseek-ai/dsh-web-app and its
lockfile self-link. Archive the copy-only preset authoring note, which the
declarative-preset note fully supersedes, and update the ralph note's
restore recipe to the profile-patch mechanism.

* chore(lint): re-key and prune the unknown-cast baseline after the master merge

* refactor(web-app): ship each Agent preset as its own bundle patch file

`dsh.bundle.patch` accepts an ordered file list, so the four shipped preset
declarations move out of the 1000-line web patch into
`presets/<id>.patch.yml`, one insert per file, applied after the host patch.
The host patch keeps the preset registry row. Gates and test scaffolds that
read the web layer resolve every patch file through `bundlePatchPaths`
instead of one hardcoded path.

* refactor(preset): drop the save notice injected into live Agents

The notice duplicated the save result the Web editor already shows, and
after the producer-owned message sources it would have needed its own
persisted source kind. Saving now only persists and reports the activation
diagnostic; the persistence catalog is unchanged from master.

* docs: regenerate the module graph after dropping the registry's llm dependency

* test(ui-agent-preset): cover the guide dialog's keyboard handling on the declarative section

* fix(preset): address the remaining review comments

Apply the lowercase id rule only when creating a declaration, so presets
declared with other ids stay editable. Export `isBuiltInPreset` from the
display fold and key the client card groups on it. Remove the dead `error`
and `retry` locale keys, the JSDoc orphaned by the `trust` removal, the
`trust` fields in the plugin-inventory test fixtures, and the stale
`dsh-agent-presets` package name in comments and READMEs.

* refactor(preset): make the Web preset page view-and-select only

Remove the child-plugin YAML editor, the `agent_preset` tool and the
registry's read/save Remote methods. Presets are declared and changed only by
bundle patches; the settings page keeps the roster, the new-task default and
the mode help, and its question icon explains that and offers to start a
Creator-mode task. The `editing-cordis-compositions` skill and the Creator
persona describe the bundle-based path, and the authored skill-load Session
and Web snapshots are refreshed for it.

* docs(skill): make the composition skill self-sufficient for preset authoring

State where the shipped declarations live, list every declaration field,
inline a complete minimal bundle and an override example, and name the
verification calls, so Creator mode no longer reads DSH package sources to
infer the format. Refresh the authored skill-load Session for the new text.

* test(tools): drop the removed agent_preset tool from the catalog expectation
2026-09-21 08:24:18 +00:00

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Agent Note: Copy-only preset authoring, and the way into a preset's files

Status: implemented Archived: 2026-09-20

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Problem

The agent-preset settings page carried a web YAML editor: agentPreset.write accepted arbitrary composition text, the page held a textarea with no completion, highlighting, or diff, and the shape check leaned on the Loader's own entryListSchema — whose dialect includes !!js, so "shape-checked text" was still arbitrary code on the next mount. Weak as an editor, wide as a capability, and the source of the editor-vs-roster races the section had to defend against.

Decision

Authoring is a host-side copy, and files are the editor. agentPreset.write became agentPreset.copy { from, agentPreset, name? }: two ids the host resolves against its own roots plus an optional display name, whole-directory cp (symlinks dereferenced, modes re-tightened to owner-only with owner-execute kept), metadata rewritten to keep the source's description but never its name or order. The page becomes: read-only viewer over shipped compositions, copy dialog as the only create entry (no blank "new preset" — writing YAML from nothing is not a thing people do), delete for custom rows, and a location action that leads to the files — settings/openAgentPresetDirectory { agentPreset } resolves the directory host-side and opens it natively, or answers { opened: false, path } for the row to show as text where the deployment has no desktop (hasDocument on list; settings/canOpenAgentPresetDirectory gates the row, and Settings Controller's nativeOpen pins server behavior where platform detection would mislead).

Consequences

  • No composition text and no path crosses the browser wire in either authoring direction; the entryListSchema/!!js concern dissolves with assertComposition itself (deleted). The authoring operations are read/copy/openDocument/remove — none accepts a filesystem target, and Connection authenticates them with the complete Host API.
  • With the editor gone, hand-editing agent.cordis.yml is the ONLY composition edit, so the standing-mount layer grew stamp-keyed generations: ensureStanding compares the file's mtime+size and starts the next generation for later sessions (standing-mounts note, updated in place). Without this, an edited file would serve stale compositions until process restart.
  • A copy is a full snapshot that drifts from an upgraded shipped source — accepted; the preset layer has no patch semantics (that is the bundle layer's cordis.patch.yml), and the shipped set itself pays the same cost (cordis/code are full copies of standard) for one-file readability.
  • read dropped writable (no editor to gate) and builtin directories are never opened (openDocument refuses non-user trust like remove): the install is overwritten by upgrades, and pointing an editor into it invites edits an upgrade silently discards.

Load-bearing details

  • Copy target refusal is two checks on purpose. The roster check refuses any id a root supplies — a user directory named like a shipped preset would be shadowed, so "create" would land a file nothing ever lists; the disk check (PresetExistsError before cp with errorOnExist as the race backstop) refuses a directory occupying the name without being a preset, which discovery cannot see.
  • The revealed path is response-direction disclosure, browser-authenticated. The invariant "no browser payload can select an arbitrary filesystem target" is about the request direction; showing the resolved directory to the authenticated browser is the fallback the plan requires. It never rides list.
  • The e2e lane pins nativeOpen: false (agent-preset-authoring.overlay.yml) — both so goldens render the same branch on macOS dev and headless Linux CI, and so test runs never pop a real file manager. The revealed directory is tokenized as {{presetRoot}} by the lane itself, since normalizeAria only knows the workspace cwd.

Alternatives considered

Keeping write with a better editor (CodeMirror etc.): still arbitrary capability over the wire, still the race source, and still a worse editor than the user's own. Patch-semantics copies ("standard plus this diff"): no such layer exists below the bundle plane, and the repo's own shipped presets chose full copies deliberately. Browser-side session/openWorkspacePath with a returned path: breaks the README's no-arbitrary-target invariant the moment the path is a request parameter.