The first-use directory name and its stored title came from the Client's startup language, so one product decision carried two incompatible requirements: a path addressed by shell commands, tool arguments, @path references, and session logs, and a label a reader reads. The controller now owns the fixed `default-workspace` directory name and the registry titles the Workspace after that same segment, so `workspace.initializeDefault` takes no request at all — WorkspaceInitializeDefaultRequest and its name validation are gone, and the registry resolver returns a path instead of a path and title. No language reaches the Host. Browser consumers label a Workspace through the new `workspaceDisplayTitle`: a title still equal to the automatic one reads as the localized default name from the `common` namespace, every other title reads verbatim. The Workspace browser resolves it once at the store read, so rows, hover card, search meta, and the rename and delete dialogs inherit it; the hero picker and the Conversation chip resolve it too. Confirming a rename stores the text on screen, which is what stops a row following the language.
apps/web browser e2e
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These tests boot the real web composition in-process and drive it with real browsers over real HTTP. Chromium runs the full lane; the model and reasoning picker scenario also runs in WebKit to cover native mouse focus behavior. The lane's mechanics — modes, fixtures, goldens, and the deliberate composition divergences from dsh web — are documented in scaffold.ts and the browser e2e Agent Note.
After installing workspace dependencies, install the browsers and their system dependencies from the repository root:
pnpm --filter @deepseek-ai/dsh-web-frontend exec playwright install --with-deps chromium webkit
On Linux, --with-deps installs dependencies through the system package manager. The persistent CI VM must provide these dependencies through image maintenance; CI installs only the browser binaries, as required by the failover runbook.
Ordinary scenarios begin with no registered Workspace or Session and a durable marker recording a removed default Workspace, so explicit folder-selection scenarios retain control of their cwd. launchWebScaffold({ firstUse: true }) leaves initialization eligible for startup scenarios.
Completion observations
State-sensitive cases use Workspace, admission, attachment, and model-stream barriers to separate visible intermediate states from completed operations. Details close waits for frame transitions; archive verification assigns an explicit title to the seeded Session and follows that identity across reload. See the CI fixture synchronization decision.
Explicit scrolling uses scrollIntoView from support.ts: it resolves the locator again when its old element detaches and checks connection in the same browser task as native scrolling. Scenarios retain their visibility and geometry assertions after scrolling.
These are Host-face tests
They type-check in the root tsconfig.host.json, not in the Client aggregate, because they read Host services directly: ctx.connection, the Host SessionStore, and ctx.sessionProjectionCache. Driving a browser at runtime does not make a file part of the Client program — the two faces merge Cordis Context under the same keys with different services, so one program cannot see both. Moving these files into the Client aggregate makes every Host-service access fail to compile.
Do not import @deepseek-ai/dsh-client-* here
Importing a Client package — a value or a type — pulls its whole TypeScript project, and every project it references, into the Host build graph. That has bitten this lane once already: four Client consumer packages reference api/remotes' Client face, which cannot compile until Host tsdown has generated @deepseek-ai/dsh-goal/remote, so the Host build phase ended up waiting on an artifact it produces itself.
When a scenario needs a Client-owned constant or pure function, mirror it here instead, next to the commented-out import that names the source module. A drift then surfaces as a missed selector or a stale mirrored value — a loud failure, never a silent pass. scaffold.ts follows this rule for the welcome-notice namespace, acknowledgement field, version, and asserted Chinese copy.
The built-client harness is the exception. assembled-boot.ts imports AppWebEntry, the boot-manifest type, and RemoteMock; assembled-remote.ts imports the Client test runtime's default responses and RemoteMock. These packages are explicit project references for booting the real shell against a test-owned carrier. The chat scenarios mirror conversationContextKey in support.ts instead of importing its Client owner.
Nothing mechanically enforces this rule; keep it in review.