Deleting the preset a user default names left the setting pointed at an id
nothing will ever supply again, and every session created without an explicit
pick then failed to start — the delete dialog called it 'new sessions cannot
select it', which understates a hard creation error. `remove` now clears the
user layer when it named the preset just deleted, exposing the deployment's own
default underneath. Storing a default that does not exist YET stays deliberate:
the roster is a live directory, so a name absent now may exist by the time a
session asks, and `resolve` still reports that case.
`agentPreset.select` also leaves the loopback set. It was pinned as a real
escalation — one preset mounts the toolset that edits the live runtime — but
`session.create` already takes an `agentPreset`, so pinning only the switch left
the same capability one method over. The deeper reason is that the capability is
not the preset's to grant: the deployment's own default already carries `bash`
and the filesystem tools, so any caller that may start a session at all can
already run commands as this process. `read`/`write`/`remove` stay pinned on
their own footing — those touch files, not sessions.
`config.default` becomes the composition base of an `agent-presets` settings
namespace, so the user document layers over the deployment's engineering
default and a person can change which preset new sessions get without a
restart.
The value is read per resolution rather than snapshotted: a hot-reloaded
document takes effect on the next session created, and every running session
stays on the preset it was composed from — which is the same rule the
session-header guard enforces from the other side.
`resolve()` read `config.default` directly, which would have made the whole
setting inert; it now goes through `defaultId` like every other caller.
The write-protection test is rewritten against a temp profile root. It was
passing vacuously: the un-overridden Loader REWRITES the composition it read —
stamping `disabled: true` onto the self-disposing row — so the committed
fixture had been mutated by the very run that proved the bug, and every later
run compared against the damaged file and passed. Building the preset in a
temp directory makes the assertion immune to its own failure mode, and it now
fails with a visible `+ disabled: true` when the override is removed.
Review follow-ups on this layer. The exported schema is
`AgentPresetSettingsSchema`, symmetric with the `AgentPresetSettings`
interface it resolves and self-describing at an import site. The `session.create`
JSDoc promised "the deployment's default preset" for an omitted `agentPreset`,
which this layer makes false — it now names the effective default. The
constructor records why it does not use `installSettingsSection`: that helper
re-judges what a consumer DERIVED across attach and detach, and nothing here is
derived. The provider-unload test disposes the fiber `ctx.plugin()` handed back
instead of reaching into `ctx.reflect.store`, and the write-protection wait says
why slack is the right shape for an absence assertion.
The real composition covers the layering too. `apps/cli` boots the shipped
`cordis.yml`, stores `agent-presets.default`, and asserts an unnamed session
composes from it — the package suite proves the layering against a hand-built
context, this proves the roster and the settings provider are wired to each
other. That test also pins the settings row at a temp file: it defaulted to
`$DSH_HOME/settings.yaml`, so a developer's own stored default decided the
outcome of a file whose whole point is that only the shipped root does.
The Agent Note records the per-resolution read and its correspondence with the
session header, and the vacuous-test finding above.
