Timeout timing/classification was re-implemented three ways across the tool-bearing capabilities, with the fusion of timeout+cancel and the timeout-vs-cancel reason recovery being the error-prone parts. Extract that shared half into a zero-dependency @deepseek-ai/dsh-timeout library (clampTimeout/deadline/timeoutOf/TimeoutReason) and leave the non-shareable hard-kill in each capability, per the timeout-library RFC. bash: run() owns the deadline; runBash drops its killTimer and no longer classifies (SpawnSpec/SpawnOutcome lose timeoutMs/timedOut/aborted), so the public timedOut/aborted booleans become mutually-exclusive first-abort classifications. web_fetch: the hand-rolled controller/timer/listener/ signal.reason dance is replaced by provider-owned deadline/timeoutOf, keeping the WEB_FETCH_TIMEOUT / WEB_ABORTED contract. fs stays timeout-free (README states why).
fs/ - filesystem capability family
The filesystem stack: a provider seam (text IO + atomic mutation with an optional version guard), a local implementation, a policy gate plugin (observed-state + read-before-edit + version-guarded write/edit), and the model-facing file tools + executor. All product packages.
| Package | Role | ctx key |
|---|---|---|
fs/ |
Provider seam: text IO + atomic mutation primitives (optional version guard); owns the fs/* policy events |
ctx.fs |
fs-local/ |
Local-filesystem FileSystem implementation |
(registers ctx.fs) |
fs-policy/ |
Policy gate plugin: observed-state + read-before-edit + version-guarded write/edit, via the fs/* event gate |
(no service — fs/* listeners) |
tool-fs/ |
Model-facing read/write/edit tools AND the executor (reads via ctx.fs, owns read windowing, dispatches fs/*) |
(registers on ctx.tools) |
The interface lives at fs/fs/. A sandboxed, remote, or project-scoped filesystem backend can replace fs-local without touching the seam, the policy gate, or the model-facing tool schemas. The policy (fs-policy/) is a plugin that participates only through the fs/* event gate, not a service the tool injects — so dropping it gracefully loses the policy and leaves the unconstrained bare provider rather than breaking the tool. A deployment that loads tool-fs/ is expected to also load it.
No timeouts on file IO
read/write/edit take no timeoutMs, and the provider seam arms no deadline — unlike bash and web, which consume @deepseek-ai/dsh-timeout. A local syscall is best-effort-abortable at most: a timeout could not force an in-progress fsync/rename to stop, so a deadline here would be a knob that cannot deliver on its promise. Adding one would also be an implicit default in the exact place explicit-over-implicit forbids. Both reference agents (Claude Code, Codex) leave file IO untimed for the same reason; cancellation still propagates through the tool-execution signal for best-effort abort at syscall boundaries.