feat(host): directory-picker capability seam with dialog and browse backends

The web GUI's folder picking was hardwired to one interaction: a native
OS chooser compiled into the gateway, unusable for remote deployments
and swappable only by editing apiproxy source.

Directory picking becomes a three-package capability seam in
packages/host: ctx.directoryPicker returns a discriminated capability —
dialog (the extracted native chooser; host-display only) or browse
(new: one-level listing + child creation over Node stdlib, hidden flags
host-stamped, symlinks followed, ancestry crumbs; remote-capable). The
gateway injects the seam, advertises the kind via
host.describe.directoryPicker, serves host.listDirectory /
host.createDirectory under browse, and answers
directory-picker-unavailable across kinds. cordis.yml is the swap
point; apps/cli keeps dialog mounted, so behavior is unchanged until
the in-app browser PR flips the default. The connection fixture serves
a deterministic browse tree; WorkspacesService gains the browse calls
the browser UI will drive. Decision record:
.agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-07-28-directory-picker-capability-seam.md

packages/host/apiproxy/README.md

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Session model routing is a session-domain contract. `session.models` returns the
 
 Workspace and Session lists are separate reconnect baselines. `workspace.create` creates a unique name or adopts an existing directory, `workspace.delete` removes only the Workspace registration, `session.create` accepts an optional preallocated Session id, and `host/workspace-changed`, `host/workspace-removed`, plus `host/session-added` carry committed increments in either arrival order. Registration deletion preserves the directory and session logs; its Sessions remain in `session.list` and become Ungrouped. `SessionSummary.blank` and the `host/session-added` frame carry the derived zero-events bit: clients hide blank sessions and reuse them per workspace, flip blank on the first `host/session-status(running:true)`, and treat `session.list` as the reconnect authority; cold summaries are never blank because lazy persistence keeps never-appended sessions out of `list()`.
 
-`host.pickDirectory` opens one native directory picker and returns its selected path, or `null` when the user cancels. Its host implementation invokes platform tools without a shell: `osascript` on macOS, an STA PowerShell `FolderBrowserDialog` on Windows, and Zenity with a KDialog fallback on Linux. The picker function is injectable for tests. This user-paced method is the sole unary call exempt from the default 30-second timeout; caller and connection aborts still propagate to the native process. The browser carrier's prefix-wide trust fence (dsh-client-connection) covers this method like every other `/api` request.
+Directory picking delegates to the composed `ctx.directoryPicker` backend ([the directory-picker seam](../directory-picker/README.md)); `host.describe.directoryPicker` advertises the capability kind the client renders for, and a method called outside the advertised kind fails with `directory-picker-unavailable`. Under `dialog`, `host.pickDirectory` opens one native chooser and returns its selected path (`null` on cancel); this user-paced method is the sole unary call exempt from the default 30-second timeout, and caller/connection aborts still propagate to the native process. Under `browse`, `host.listDirectory` returns one name-sorted directory level with breadcrumb ancestry, a `home` anchor, and host-owned `hidden` flags (absent path = home directory), and `host.createDirectory` creates one validated child segment; the backend's typed failures map 1:1 onto the `directory-unreadable`/`directory-exists`/`directory-create-failed` codes. The browser carrier's prefix-wide trust fence (dsh-client-connection) covers all of these like every other `/api` request.
 
 `session.history` pages on message boundaries, and its tail page (no `beforeSeq`) carries two session-level extras the page window cannot supply: the in-flight partial's chunk events, and `todos` — the latest `todo/write` whole-list projection over the full log. Older pages omit `todos` because the projection is session-level, not per-page; a tail response that omits it means the whole log holds no `todo/write`, so clients read the absent field as the empty plan rather than as unchanged state.
 
@@ -39,4 +39,4 @@ None; this package neither assembles nor sends a provider request.
 - **`respond` routing is shipped, but pending-interaction state is host-side work** — the wire shape (POST `/api/respond`, `RpcReceipt`) is final; the pending table that makes late/duplicate answers meaningful lives in `src/api-proxy.ts` and is still minimal (questions only, no approvals).
 - **Reserved seams stay out of `RpcMethodMap`** — `session.fork`, `prompt.mode: 'inject'`, `task.list`, `host.listModels`, and a describe `hostInstanceId` are documented reservations; an unknown method fails loud at envelope parse rather than getting a not-implemented code.
 - **No protocol version field** — client and host ship together; `host.describe` gains a version negotiation field only when an independently released client exists.
-- **Linux native picker requires desktop tooling** — `host.pickDirectory` reports an actionable error when neither Zenity nor KDialog is installed; it does not fall back to a custom or typed-path browser.
+- **Linux native picker requires desktop tooling** — under the `dialog` capability, `host.pickDirectory` reports an actionable error when neither Zenity nor KDialog is installed; the browse backend is the composition-level fallback (see the [dialog backend README](../directory-picker-dialog/README.md)).