The `readDenyPaths` policy field shipped in the previous commit broke Linux
confinement outright. bwrap has to create the `/dev/null` bind's mount point
inside a tree its own profile has already made read-only, so it refused the
entire confinement whenever the parent directory was absent — every host that
has not stored a credential yet, including a fresh install:
bwrap: Can't mkdir parents for /home/runner/.dsh/.env: Read-only file system
which the executor correctly classifies as SANDBOX_UNAVAILABLE, so every
confined bash call failed closed. Landlock cannot subtract from its own `/`
read grant, so it reported `partial` enforcement on every confined call for a
file it never hid, with no way to switch the denial off (schemastery fills an
omitted array with `[]`, so empty and omitted were indistinguishable).
A protection that breaks confinement where it works and misreports it where it
does not is worse than a documented absence. Revert the field, both expressible
backends, the enforcement downgrade, and the policy default; state the residue
plainly in the credentials-local READMEs — file mode stops other OS users, not
the model — and keep the OS-keychain provider recorded as the real answer.
The narrower discipline stands: no surface hoists the credential document into
`process.env`, and the model is never handed a resolved path to it.
The personal-config smoke asserted that `$DSH_HOME/.env` feeds a `!!js`
expression in the personal `config.yaml` — the hoist this branch removed so
`credentials-local` can own that document and keep stored keys rotatable.
Seed both layers instead and let one expression separate them: the welcome
prefers the personal variable, so it can only render the invoking directory's
value while the harness home's `.env` stays out of `process.env`. The negative
that made the removal worth doing is now asserted in the assembled
application, not just in the provider's unit tests.
The effort field's existence check was unreachable — EFFORT_FIELD is
total over the two known families — and a coverage exemption was papering
over the branch, which the merged toolchain no longer honored. Taking the
narrowed family as a parameter makes the lookup total at the type level,
so the check and its exemption both disappear. The rendered output is
unchanged: the browser goldens replay byte-identical.
Both provider READMEs state what actually holds: credentials-local now
documents the physical-line editor, the read-modify-write under the
writer lock, and a Security boundary section saying plainly that the file
mode stops other OS users and not the model. sandbox-policy documents
readDenyPaths and its per-backend enforcement. The llm READMEs carry the
registration handle, pi-ai's credential-miss semantics, and DeepSeek's
same-generation snapshot; app-boot and the CLI README stop describing
$DSH_HOME/.env as an environment layer.
A new Agent Note records the round (and the prior seam note cross-links
it); the sandbox and core catalog pages gain readDenyPaths and
AdapterRegistrationHandle with their manifest entries. The headless
missing-credential snapshot re-records for the reworded guidance, pi-ai
gains the Loader-composition guard its twin already had, and the
deliberate provider symmetry is marked for the clone detector.
The policy home's resolve() now stamps readDenyPaths, so every consumer
that pins the resolved shape (bash-sandbox hand-off, tool-fs stamps)
carries it, and three uncovered branches gained real tests: landlock
reporting partial enforcement for a denial it cannot express, the
policy's default under programmatic construction, and both ambient
credential paths in llm-deepseek without a mounted seam.
The credential store is 0600 under a 0700 directory, which stops other OS
users but not the model: tool processes run as the same user, so under
the shipped danger-full-access default they read it like any other file.
SandboxExecutionPolicy grows readDenyPaths, and sandbox-policy defaults
it to $DSH_HOME/.env — the exact file rather than the harness home, so
the model keeps its documented access to its own session log. Seatbelt
appends a trailing deny (last matching rule wins) and bwrap maps
/dev/null over each path after any workspace bind; Landlock grants are a
pure allow-list that cannot subtract from its own / read grant, so
confine() reports partial enforcement there instead of claiming a
boundary the process does not have.
A real-kernel Seatbelt e2e proves the shape: the same read succeeds
unconfined and fails under the denial, while a sibling file in the same
directory stays readable. Both READMEs state the residual boundary
plainly — no confining mode means no boundary — and record the OS
keychain provider as the real answer.
The helper's cleanup ran the same fallback for two different events. A
settings provider detaching leaves the consumer running, so falling back
to the composition entry and re-judging derived facts is right. The
consumer's own unload ran it too — re-registering routes and touching
resources the teardown was releasing. The disposer now checks the
consumer fiber's own state and returns when it is unloading or disposed.
Four review findings across the seam and both adapters.
registerAdapter now returns a handle carrying replace(providers): the
candidate route set is validated in full before anything moves, so a
route another adapter owns leaves the previous registration intact, and
the swap itself is one synchronous section with no observable gap. pi-ai
uses it instead of dispose-then-register — the old shape dropped every
route when the new set conflicted, and its facts cache could then equal
the registry's, so reverting to a working configuration never re-applied.
Its registration facts are also sorted by provider, so a settings
document that merely reorders keys no longer triggers a swap.
DeepSeek's per-request snapshot now carries the credential facts, and
resolveApiKey receives it instead of re-reading the raw config: a
settings generation the resolver rejects can no longer contribute its
literal key to a request the previous generation's endpoint serves.
pi-ai only defers to the SDK's provider-native discovery when a profile
names no credential at all; a configured apiKeyEnv that misses now fails
with MISSING_CREDENTIAL naming the route and the reference, instead of
handing pi-ai undefined and letting it authenticate with an unrelated
ambient key.
The eager boot-time credential probe is gone: it could run before the
credentials service mounted and reported every failure as a missing key.
The route stays registered and browsable; the first request gives the
accurate error, whose guidance now leads with the credential store and
mentions a literal apiKey last.
The shipped surfaces loaded the harness home's .env into the process
environment before cordis booted. credentials-local then saw every stored
key as an ambient launch override: describe reported source 'env' with
writable false, and set/unset rejected as shadowed — so a key the web page
or TUI stored was unrotatable and undeletable from the next run onward,
and the adapter kept using the value captured at launch.
The home's .env is now the credential provider's own store, read by that
provider alone and hot-reloaded by it. The genuine launch environment and
the invoking directory's .env (loaded by the bin) remain the read-only
ambient layer, so a plain composition without the provider still resolves
keys exactly as before.
Proven by a real restart in the loader composition: store a key through
the seam, dispose the tree, re-boot over the same harness home, and the
entry is still file-sourced and writable — rotating it lands on the very
next request.
Review round three, credentials half. dsh-atomic-write grows the
cross-process writer-lock primitive (withFileLock: wx sentinel, bounded
backoff, stale takeover via onStaleBreak, deadline failure) plus a dirMode
option, and settings-local migrates its private copy to it; both providers
now create harness-home directories 0700.
credentials-local reuses the reviewed settings-local shape: watcher
reloads and line edits share one settled operation chain; every write
re-reads the document under the lock and publishes unobserved external
entries before editing, so an edit inside the debounce window (or another
process's write) can never be overwritten; the watcher's ready signal
queues one reconcile closing the startup gap.
The line editor is now physical-line aware: continuation lines of a
quoted multi-line value are never mistaken for assignments, untouched
lines keep their exact bytes (CRLF included), an edited line keeps its
own terminator, and appends use the document's dominant ending. A
multi-line entry reports writable: false, matching what set() would do.
The Credentials base class owns a contained notifyUpdated fan-out:
providers publish only after the commit, every listener runs, sync throws
and async rejections are logged without failing the committed write, and
INVARIANT-coded failures rethrow after the fan-out.
Drop the explicit-undefined base fixture exactOptionalPropertyTypes
forbids (the repository trusts TypeScript at typed same-process seams —
no test for an input the static interface excludes; coverage holds), and
reshape the async-listener containment fixture as an unknown-returning
function: the earlier inline cast was silently stripped by the staged
oxlint fixer, leaving a shape the next lint pass rejects.
The seam README states the JSON-shaped write boundary, watch-disposer
quiescence, async listener containment, and the drained teardown; the
provider README rewrites Behavior around the operation chain,
read-modify-write, writer lock, ready reconcile, and leaf-level YAML
diffs, and updates Known Limitations to the residual guarantees.
A new Agent Note records the round's decisions and supersedes the
original note's deferred-lockfile alternative (cross-linked in place).
Chinese counterparts updated pair-by-pair (three briefed minimal
updates, one whole-document translation); type-equiv, config, cordis,
and module-graph catalogs re-recorded.
Review round three found the provider's write path could destroy state it
never observed:
- Watcher reloads and document writes ran on two independent promise
chains, and a write rendered the whole next document from the cached
text. An external edit still inside the debounce window (or missed
outright) was overwritten, and the follow-up reload no-oped because the
post-rename content matched the cache — the edit vanished without a
trace. Reloads and writes now share one operation chain, and every write
starts by reconciling the on-disk text into the seam before rendering,
so unobserved sibling sections survive and publish first. An unparsable
on-disk document fails the write loud instead of being overwritten.
- The initial load raced the watcher's own setup: a change written between
that read and the watcher becoming active never fired an event. The
watcher's ready signal now queues one reconcile, closing the gap.
- Two processes sharing a harness home rendered from independent caches,
last writer winning. Writes now hold a wx-created <file>.lock sibling
around the read-render-rename cycle with bounded backoff, a crashed-
holder stale takeover, and a deadline failure; readers stay lock-free
because the rename commit is atomic.
- renderYaml replaced the whole namespace node, dropping every comment
inside the section. The next section now lands as a leaf-level diff
(set changed values, delete removed keys), so comments, anchors, and
formatting survive on every untouched node and on the key of every
changed pair; arrays still replace wholesale when unequal.
Review round three found four seam defects:
- A watch() disposer only removed the observer from the set; an invocation
already chained onto the watcher tail still ran after disposal. Watchers
now carry an active flag checked when a queued invocation would start,
and the service dispose drain awaits started invocations (pendingTails)
beside the write queues, so disposal is quiescent.
- The settings/updated manual fan-out caught only synchronous throws; an
async listener rejection escaped as an unhandled rejection. Thenable
returns are now contained through the shared listener diagnostic, and
the event contract documents that the INVARIANT rethrow serves
synchronous listeners only.
- structuredClone admitted Dates, Maps, BigInts, and cycles that YAML/JSON
storage silently distorts on reload (a Date lands as a timestamp string,
a Map as a plain map, a BigInt as a number). The write snapshot is now a
single-pass cloneJsonShaped walk that rejects non-JSON values with their
path before anything persists.
- mergeLayers' per-entry undefined guard became dead code once the clone
strips undefined entries at the boundary; removed, with the sparse-patch
contract restated at its enforcement point.
Both files fit their ceilings on each parent; the merge union of this
branch's settings rows with master's typert row and source-launch rewrite
overflows by 6 and 2 words. Every added row is a fixed-format layout or
package-table entry with nothing to relocate, so the ceilings move to the
union size.
The Models page drops the generic schema renderer and the visible
environment-variable field: each editor is a curated per-family card whose
primary input is one write-only API key stored under a derived
<ROUTE>_API_KEY reference (recorded as apiKeyEnv in the pi-ai profile), an
unkeyed whole-section provider opens as its setup card, and the collapsed
customized-settings fold carries baseURL/reasoningEffort (deepseek) or
reasoning (pi-ai). dsh-client-schema-form reduces to the schema/draft model
layer (no React).