feat(desktop): make web search work before anyone configures a key - #1606
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PawWork shipped OpenCode Free as its default model but left dsh-base's DeepSeek search provider in place, and that provider needs DEEPSEEK_API_KEY. Most installs hold no such key, so the README's promise — start without an API key, web search included — failed on the user's first search. Add @pawwork/dsh-web-search: one provider registered into `ctx.web` whose backend is a setting rather than a profile row. The seam resolves `searchProvider` once at construction and exposes no settings namespace of its own, so a per-vendor mount could only be re-pointed by editing the profile and restarting; registering a single id and switching inside it makes the choice reachable, effective on the next search. Exa is the default and needs no key: without one the search goes to Exa's hosted MCP endpoint and its free allowance, which is the mechanism v1 shipped; with one it goes to Exa's official /search. DeepSeek and Perplexity are selectable and resolve their own keys. Vendor wire formats are not restated — each upstream provider class is constructed per search from resolved options. What this plugin owns is the choice between them, credential resolution across the credentials seam (which the Exa and Perplexity packages do not consult), and the anonymous Exa path that has no upstream implementation. Product plugins are copied under the DSH home, where Node resolves their imports from `<home>/node_modules` upward and never reaches the harness packages the app ships. Link the host's `@deepseek-ai` scope in so a product plugin can build on a DSH implementation package, pointing at the very packages the running app loaded rather than a second copy at another version. The standalone `web-search-deepseek` mount is disabled: it stays available as a backend here, so this removes a duplicate settings card, not a capability. Verified end to end in the real Electron app: a fresh search with no key configured returns real results, and the card matches the upstream plugin cards' metrics and tokens in both light and dark.
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR adds a default web-search path that routes requests through Exa or DeepSeek and can use stored credential references. It is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to confirm credential-reference authorization and recovery when a settings write reports failure after applying, since either case could cause unintended credential use or stale displayed settings. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant WebSearchCard
participant CardController
participant SettingsScope
participant CredentialsDomain
participant PawWorkSearchProvider
participant ExaMCP
participant DeepSeekProvider
WebSearchCard->>CardController: Select backend or edit credential
CardController->>SettingsScope: Stage backend setting
CardController->>CredentialsDomain: Read or write credential
CredentialsDomain-->>CardController: Return credential state
PawWorkSearchProvider->>PawWorkSearchProvider: Resolve backend and credential
PawWorkSearchProvider->>ExaMCP: Call Exa MCP when selected
ExaMCP-->>PawWorkSearchProvider: Return report content
PawWorkSearchProvider->>DeepSeekProvider: Call DeepSeek when selected
DeepSeekProvider-->>PawWorkSearchProvider: Return search result
PawWorkSearchProvider-->>WebSearchCard: Return normalized search result
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In `@packages/desktop-electron/resources/dsh/web-search/lib/client.js`:
- Around line 320-345: The save method must capture this.ref() before its first
await and reuse that stable credential reference for credentials.set(), while
preserving the existing save behavior. Update both backend and key controls to
be disabled whenever saving is true, and add a regression test covering the
in-flight save state and stable reference.
- Around line 337-345: Update the key-save flow around credentials.set and
readCredential so it checks the returned RpcResponse result.ok before treating
the save as successful or clearing keyDraft; preserve the draft and mark landed
false when the host rejects the write, even if an old credential remains
configured.
In `@packages/desktop-electron/resources/dsh/web-search/lib/exa-mcp.cjs`:
- Around line 196-226: Wrap response.text() body consumption in the same
abort-classification handling used around fetchImpl: map caller signal aborts to
WEB_ABORTED, timeout aborts to WEB_PROVIDER_ERROR with the timeout message, and
other read failures to the existing provider-error path. Update the response
parsing flow after the response.ok check without changing HTTP status
classification.
In `@packages/desktop-electron/resources/dsh/web-search/lib/index.js`:
- Around line 55-64: Update the base URL schema definitions for Exa, Perplexity,
and DeepSeek to validate absolute HTTPS URLs before provider construction,
rejecting non-HTTPS values while allowing HTTP loopback addresses only when
explicitly supported by the product. Keep the existing URL settings and defaults
unchanged.
In `@packages/desktop-electron/src/main/dsh-product-home.ts`:
- Around line 81-87: Update the link handling in prepareDshProductHome to call
lstatSync independently of existsSync so dangling junctions are detected,
preserve an existing link only when it is symbolic and matches target, and
remove every non-matching existing entry before symlinkSync. Add a regression
test covering a junction whose target was removed and verifying preparation
recreates it successfully.
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…tream lacks The plugin had grown into a backend selector: a thirteen-field settings section, a browser half rendering it, credential resolution across two planes, and three vendor provider classes constructed per search. All of that restated arrangements upstream already ships. dsh-base mounts the DeepSeek, Exa and Perplexity providers itself, each with its own settings card, its own credential thunk, and its own endpoint fallback. The single thing it does not ship is a provider that works with no key at all, which is what a PawWork install running OpenCode Free actually has. So the plugin is now that provider and nothing else: Exa's hosted MCP on its anonymous allowance, registered under one id the profile selects. The keyed providers stay mounted and unchanged rather than being disabled in favour of a re-implementation. Letting the user choose between them needs a settings surface `ctx.web` does not have — it resolves `searchProvider` once at construction — and that is a separate change from making search work at all. Also fixes the harness-scope link this plugin needs: it tested the existing link with `existsSync`, which follows symlinks, so the dangling link left behind by the ordinary "run from Downloads, then drag to /Applications" move read as absent and every launch after the move died on `EEXIST`. Verified end to end in a real Electron build against a home holding no vendor key: `web_search` returned live results.
Three independent reviews of the cut-down plugin converged on the same gap: the shared Exa allowance is a floor, and a floor with no stairs is a dead end. When it stops serving, the user's only recourse was editing YAML under $DSH_HOME. The delegation shortcut that seemed to avoid this — look upstream's DeepSeek provider out of `ctx.web.searchProviders` and call it when a key happens to be configured — is not available. `searchProviders` is declared `private` in the published type contract; `tsgo` rejects the access outright, and it only appeared to work because this plugin is plain JS that no typecheck covers. Its failure mode was silent, too: every user would have stayed on the free allowance with nothing logged. So the choice lives inside the one provider the seam selects. Its section carries the engine and a credential reference per engine, and its card is where a user moves onto their own quota. The card is not decoration: the configurable tab renders the intersection of the namespaces the Host serves and the cards registered for them, and the shipped cards cover `bash`, `agent-loop` and `web-search-deepseek` only — without this file the section exists and nothing can reach it. Neither keyed backend restates a vendor request shape. `ExaSearchProvider` and `DeepSeekSearchProvider` are upstream classes constructed per search from resolved options, so Exa's official `/search` and DeepSeek's server-side native search both arrive with their own mapping, defaults and error taxonomy. Only the anonymous path is ours, because no upstream package implements one. Upstream's `web-search-deepseek` row is disabled: we construct the same backend against the same credential reference, so leaving it mounted would put a second card titled "web search" beside ours, editing a provider the seam will never select. Also fixes the anonymous parser. Exa emits a `---` rule between results and the block split leaves it at the tail of the preceding one, so every snippet but the last carried a trailing ` ---` to the model. Verified against a live response before and after; a markdown table separator in page content still survives. Verified end to end in a real Electron build against a home holding no vendor key: the card renders and switches engines, and `web_search` returns live results on the shared allowance.
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tryblock ends whenfetchImplresolves the headers. Line 191 callsresponse.text()outside that block. If the caller aborts or the deadline expires during body streaming, the rawAbortErrorescapes and breaks the documentedWEB_ABORTED/WEB_PROVIDER_ERRORcontract.searchExainpackages/desktop-electron/resources/dsh/web-search/lib/index.jsthen re-throws that unmapped error to the seam.Proposed fix
- const envelope = parseSse(await response.text()); + let body; + try { + body = await response.text(); + } catch (cause) { + if (signal?.aborted === true) throw new WebError('the search was aborted', 'WEB_ABORTED', { cause }); + const message = timeout.aborted ? 'Exa did not answer in time' : 'could not read Exa’s response'; + throw new WebError(message, 'WEB_PROVIDER_ERROR', { cause }); + } + const envelope = parseSse(body);🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@packages/desktop-electron/resources/dsh/web-search/lib/client.js`:
- Around line 334-350: Update the combined save flow around the backend scope
write and credential update so a failed credential write cannot leave
backendDraft persisted when save() reports failure. Roll back the backend to its
previous value on credential failure, or defer committing it until the
credential write succeeds, while preserving successful saves and existing
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In `@packages/desktop-electron/resources/dsh/web-search/lib/exa-mcp.js`:
- Around line 188-194: Move the response body read and SSE parsing in the Exa
request flow into the existing error-handling scope used by searchExa, so aborts
during response.text() are classified consistently as WEB_ABORTED or
WEB_PROVIDER_ERROR rather than escaping as raw AbortError. Preserve the existing
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… picker The card shipped a native <select>. Nothing else in the app uses one -- there are zero <select> elements and five aria-haspopup="menu" pickers (mode, workspace permission, language, queued send, model). A native select renders an OS popup that ignores our theme tokens, and its arrow had to be drawn with a hardcoded #81858C data URI that does not follow dark mode. The primitives package exports Menu to plugins, so use it, with the same pill styling the app's own selectors use.
The body streams after the headers resolve, so cancelling a search hits `response.text()` as often as it hits the request. That read sat outside the `try` that maps aborts, so a cancelled search reached the seam as a raw AbortError instead of `WEB_ABORTED`, and `dsh-tool-web` reported it as a provider failure. Also stop rolling both settings writes into one all-or-nothing outcome. The engine and the credential settle independently; clearing each draft on its own write landing keeps the card from showing an engine as unsaved when the Host already holds it. And say what the card does in Chinese that reads like Chinese.
The report Exa renders is split into results, and the split looked ahead
for the next `Title:`. Highlight text is verbatim third-party page
content, so a page carrying a blank line and then its own `Title:`/`URL:`
pair — a citation example, a bibliography, a fenced snippet — became an
extra block with a URL, a title and a date the model would go on to cite,
and truncated the real result's snippet at the injection point. A live
OpenAI docs page emits that exact shape today; it escaped only because no
blank line preceded it. Split on the rule Exa actually emits, and require
an http(s) scheme before a block becomes a source.
Two other things this parser got wrong about its own input, both measured
against 150 live results: `...` is Exa's mark for a stretch of missing
page, and dropping it joined the top and bottom of a page into one
sentence nobody wrote; a leading `>` is not Exa's framing but the page's
own blockquote, and stripping it only ever damaged content.
Failures were classified as refused-or-broken, which left no room for
throttled. Now three ways:
- An answer with no readable text fails instead of returning zero
sources. The seam renders zero sources as "No results found.", so
that path had the model confidently tell the user the web holds
nothing on the subject — the only failure here that lied rather
than broke.
- 429 asks for a retry instead of sending the user to buy a key, and
prose is classified on what Exa says rather than on a quoted echo of
the user's own query. The refusal vocabulary now covers the words a
spent allowance is actually described with.
- A plain JSON body parses like an SSE-framed one, which this request
already declares it accepts.
Selecting DeepSeek without a key relayed the upstream class's advice to
configure the `web-search-deepseek` entry, which this product's patch
disables — a remedy the user cannot reach. Name the card instead. And
trim resolved credentials: a trailing newline counted as a key and sent
the search to an endpoint that rejects it rather than to the keyless
allowance that would have answered.
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The card staged two edits: the engine, and one API key field. An API key
means nothing apart from the engine it authenticates, but the draft was a
bare string and `save` resolved the credential reference from whichever
engine was selected at write time. So the ordinary order — paste a key,
then pick the engine, then save — wrote an Exa key to DEEPSEEK_API_KEY,
and the next DeepSeek search sent it to DeepSeek. Key drafts are now held
per engine, which makes the drift unrepresentable and stops switching
engines from discarding what was typed.
Three more holes in the same state machine:
- A write that threw escaped `save` before it could clear `saving`,
leaving Save and Discard disabled for the rest of the session with
the drafts trapped behind them. Every write goes through one `commit`
now, and `saving` clears in a `finally`.
- Whether the credential landed was read from `configured`, which is
already true whenever a key was set before. Rotating a key onto a
deployment that rejected it therefore cleared the field and reported
success while the old key stayed in force. The response envelope
decides now.
- The two writes settle independently but shared one failure line, so
an engine that landed while its key did not told the user nothing had
changed — while the deployment had already switched engines. The card
names the field that did not land.
The engine menu no longer portals to the document body. The primitive
moves no focus into the portal and restores none on close, so a portalled
menu was one a keyboard user could open and not reach into; in flow the
items are the next tab stops after the trigger. Verified in the running
app: the menu renders inside the card, is not clipped at any reachable
scroll position, and the round trip through Save persists.
Also give the engine field a label a screen reader can resolve — a
`<button>` is not a labelable element, so `htmlFor` pointing at one was
ignored — and fall back to the default credential reference for a blank
one, the way the host half already does.
The card is 500 lines the suite never evaluated, which is how a stray
backtick in a CSS template and a native `<select>` both shipped this
week. It has a test file again, and `resources/` is inside the lint glob.
Two silences on the deployment path, both cheap to close. `linkHostScope` returned quietly when the host's `@deepseek-ai` scope was absent. Without that link no bundled plugin resolves its harness imports, and the product patch points `web.searchProvider` at one of them — so the quiet return does not degrade a feature, it makes every `web_search` answer `configured web provider "pawwork" is not registered` with nothing anywhere naming the cause. It throws now, onto the startup-failure page the lifecycle already renders. The scope is present in dev and in the packaged app today; this is about the packaging change that removes it. Both patch rows address upstream entries by id, and `dsh-app-boot` treats an unmatched id as a warning on the sidecar's stderr. An unmatched `web` leaves the base `deepseek-official` selected, reverting the promise this change exists for to a credential error on a first-run user's first search; an unmatched `web-search-deepseek` puts upstream's card back beside ours. Versions are pinned exactly, so this can only arrive through a deliberate bump — the new assertion turns that bump red in CI instead of quiet in a log.
A key typed under one engine could reach another vendor. This is the second time: the first was `save` writing every staged key to the reference the selection held at write time, and the fix for it — a draft per engine — turned the defect into a draft the card no longer displayed but still wrote, so an Exa key abandoned on the way to DeepSeek was saved to Exa anyway. Both are the same defect. The card could stage more than it displayed, so the set of pending writes and the set of visible fields were free to disagree, and a patch to either one left the other able to drift again. So the state is made to match the screen instead. There is one key draft, it belongs to the engine it was typed under, and it is dropped as soon as the selection moves off it — a key has no meaning apart from the engine it authenticates, so carrying one across an engine switch never described anything a user wanted. Nothing is staged that the card is not showing. `pendingWrites` becomes the single answer to "is there something to save": the button's enabled state and the writes themselves both read it. They did not before — the button counted drafts holding characters, `save` counted drafts holding characters after trimming — so a stray space lit a Save that would never write and never clear, wedging the card until restart. Selecting the engine already in force is likewise not a change; leaving the picker and coming back is how a user reads their options. `commit` now announces a failure as well as recording it. `resetBackend` publishes before awaiting its write so the control clears at once, which left a refused reset looking like a successful one until an unrelated later edit published the failure and blamed that edit for it. Verified in the running app over CDP: staging an Exa key and switching engines empties the field and the badge, a whitespace-only key leaves Save disabled, and a real key still enables it. Each new test was mutation-checked against the code it pins.
Exa's hosted MCP returns a rendered report and no `structuredContent`, so the result boundaries have to be recovered from text that carries verbatim page content. Recovering them from a single marker has now failed twice in opposite directions: a lookahead for the next `Title:` let a page mint a source, and the rule that replaced it let an ordinary page containing a horizontal rule — a common thing for a page to contain — lose the rest of its excerpt and mint one anyway. A boundary now needs Exa's rule *and* the header pair that opens the next result. Measured over 18 live captures of eight results each: the rule alone over-splits three of them, the two together split all 18 into exactly eight. That still only raises the cost of forging one, so the count does the rest. The count is ours — a page cannot make Exa rank more results than the call asked for — so blocks past `maxResults` are folded back into the block before them, where the text reads as an excerpt of the page that wrote it rather than as a ranked, dated, attributed source of its own. Replaying a live capture with an injected block through the seam's own `searchMaxResults: 8` returns the eight real results and no forged one. Content blocks are joined on that same rule rather than on a blank line, which had been laundering one page's header into another page's snippet. Failure classification stops reading English prose as a protocol. A rate is transient; "try again later" and "temporarily" are padding a spent allowance carries too — Exa's own wording is "You have exhausted your free tier quota. Please try again later." — so admitting them meant the one message that should send a user to add a key was the only one that never did. The quoted echo of the request is dropped before the classified window is taken rather than after, or a long enough query fills the window on its own; and only double quotes are dropped, because a single quote here is an apostrophe far more often than a delimiter and treating it as one swallowed the sentence naming the reason. A blank or padded credential reference now reads as unset. `credentialRef` answers one with a bare `TypeError`, which is not a failure the seam can report but an unhandled throw taking down even the keyless path — and the card already read the field this way, so the two halves now agree rather than the comment merely claiming they do. The base-profile guard is parsed rather than line-scanned: a scan reads an id out of a block scalar that looks like one and misses a quoted or commented one, which is the wrong way round for a guard. `@deepseek-ai/dsh-base` is declared as the dev dependency it is, so the guard no longer resolves only because vitest injects pnpm's store into NODE_PATH.
The hosted MCP returns a rendered report and no `structuredContent` — `tools/list` confirms the tool takes only `query` and `numResults` — so recovering per-source attribution from it means deciding which bytes are Exa's framing and which are a page's, from text that does not carry the distinction. Everything under `Highlights:` is verbatim page content, so any rule a parser applies, a page can print. Three boundary rules shipped here. A lookahead for the next `Title:` let a page showing a citation example mint a source. The `---` rule that replaced it made any page containing a horizontal rule lose its excerpt tail. Requiring both, and capping the block count at the requested `numResults`, still mints a source for any forgery that is not last, and drops a real result to make room for it — measured against a live capture: ten forged blocks from the top-ranked page left seven of eight returned sources attacker-authored. When Exa returns fewer results than requested, which is ordinary for a narrow query, the cap never engages at all. So the parser goes, and the report is handed to the seam as `content` with no `sources`. The model reads exactly the bytes it read before — Exa's own formatting of the titles, links and excerpts, which `dsh-tool-web` renders ahead of any source list — and nothing in this product vouches for a structure it cannot verify. `searchMetaFromResult` maps content to `answer`, so the desktop web card still renders the text; what it loses is the source chips. The keyed path is untouched: `api.exa.ai` returns real structured results. Failure classification goes the same way and for the same reason. Exa answers a spent allowance, a throttle and an outage identically: HTTP 200, `isError`, and an English sentence that may also quote the user's own query. Keyword regexes over that got it wrong in both directions — a query containing `"api key"` in quotes made an ordinary upstream failure report as "go buy a key", and a genuinely spent allowance saying "please try again later" reported as a throttle, so the one message that should have sent a user to add a key never did. The distinction is not in the data, so the guessing stops and one message names both remedies, cheapest first. Status codes still classify, because those are a protocol. Two smaller authorities go with them. A credential reference outside `credentialRef`'s grammar — `my-key`, `1KEY`, anything hand-edited — threw a bare `TypeError` that took down even the keyless path; an unresolvable name is a name nobody set, which is how the card already reads it. And this plugin's own 30s deadline silently halved the 60s `searchTimeoutMs` the profile configures and `dsh-tool-web` forwards, for the one path it covered. Verified against Exa live: one keyless search returns eight results, 27k characters of report, zero sources, through the shipped code path.
Reset wrote on its own. Every other control staged an edit for Save, but "restore default" fired an `unset` the moment it was pressed, which made it a second writer racing `save` over the same section and the same failure set. Verified: press Reset, type a key before the `unset` lands, press Save, and the key is filed under the engine being left while the card settles on the default showing no key configured. And because `save` clears the failure set on entry, a refused reset that settles afterwards marks a save the user just watched succeed as failed. Restoring the default is not a different kind of act from choosing an engine, so it stages like one. `save` becomes the card's only path to the deployment, which is what makes `saving` sufficient on its own — there is no second operation left to serialize against, so no mutex, no queue, and no per-operation failure ownership are needed. Two orderings follow. The key is written before the engine: the two stores cannot commit together, so the engine never runs a moment without the credential it was chosen for, and an engine write that fails still leaves the key under the vendor the user was looking at. And the key's reference comes from the draft's own engine rather than the selection — the two agree today because `alignDraft` drops a draft the card stopped showing, but deriving the destination from anything mutable is exactly what sent one vendor's secret to another three times. Discard is enabled by a failure as well as by a draft. A write that failed without leaving a draft behind rendered a message with every control that could clear it disabled, saying the value "was left for you to correct" when nothing was left; the only way out was to type into the key field. The picker, the key field and Reset are also disabled while a save runs, matching handlers that were already refusing input then — a correction typed during a slow save used to vanish without a trace. Verified in the running app over CDP: Reset stages the default and writes nothing until Save, Discard puts the committed engine back, saving the staged reset commits it, staging a key and switching engines empties the field, and a whitespace-only key leaves Save disabled.
…them `resources/` holds four plugins that ship verbatim into the product home and are loaded by the sidecar and the renderer. Nothing looked at them: they are outside `tsconfig.json`, and the lint glob added for them walked the files under an empty rule set, so `pnpm lint` reported success without applying a single rule — which read as coverage and was not. The typed rules need a program these files are not part of, so this adds the untyped subset that still finds real defects. It found two on the first run: a caught error bound and never used in the automations retry loop, and a destructured `profileDir` left behind in a desktop-host test.
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334-348: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winKeep the ordering test on a save that actually lands.
scope.set.mockImplementationdrops the default mock's snapshot update.save()then readsscope.getSnapshot().user?.backend, finds no match, and records"backend"infailures. The test still passes because it inspects onlyorder, so it would keep passing if the backend write regressed into a failure path. Preserve the snapshot write in the mock and assert the settled state.♻️ Proposed change
- scope.set.mockImplementation(async () => { - order.push("backend") - }) + scope.set.mockImplementation(async (key: string, value: unknown) => { + order.push("backend") + snapshot.user = { ...(snapshot.user as object), [key]: value } + snapshot.value = { ...(snapshot.value as object), [key]: value } + })
snapshotneeds to be returned fromcardOffor this, or the defaultscope.setbehavior can be kept and only wrapped for the ordering probe. Then add:expect(order).toEqual(["key", "backend"]) + expect(stateOf(injected)).toMatchObject({ failed: false, dirty: false, backend: "deepseek" })🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@packages/desktop-electron/resources/dsh/web-search/lib/client.js`:
- Around line 473-495: Update the write loop around commit("key") and the
pending backend write so a rejected key write stops processing when that key
belongs to the engine selected by the pending backend change; do not call
scope.set("backend", ...) in that case. Preserve backend writes for unrelated
key failures and retain the existing key failure reporting.
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In `@packages/desktop-electron/src/main/dsh-web-search-client.test.ts`:
- Around line 334-348: Update the ordering test around injected.save so the
scope.set mock preserves the default snapshot update while recording "backend",
then assert the save settles successfully and the backend state is actually
written. Keep the existing key-before-backend ordering and credentials.set
assertion.
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…frame Streamable HTTP lets the server send its own notifications ahead of the response on the same SSE stream, and this took whichever framed event came first. One notification from Exa or an intermediary and every keyless search fails, reporting "no readable result" — a sentence about the wrong thing. The answer is now selected by carrying `result` or `error`. A live capture settles what cannot select it: Exa's reply omits both `id` and `jsonrpc`, so matching the request id would have matched nothing it sends. Three more things the keyless path owed its caller: A refusal named only its status. A caller here holds no key by definition, so 401/402/403 is most likely the shared allowance running out — the one moment the remedy sentence written for that has to appear. Both places that name it now share one constant. The report arrived in the provider's voice. `dsh-tool-web` renders `content` first and unattributed and appends "Cite the relevant URLs above", while every byte on this path is page text, URLs included. A preamble now says so ahead of the first byte a page wrote. A non-2xx body was never consumed or cancelled, and a locked keychain escaped the Exa branch as whatever the credentials plane threw, where the DeepSeek branch reports a `WebError`.
Alignment of the staged key was a mutation performed inside `keyText` and `pendingWrites`, so rendering the card deleted state. `saving` guards the actions but not the render path, and the scope subscription publishes throughout a save: an engine change arriving from elsewhere mid-save dropped the user's typed key, and if the write then failed the card said the value was kept for them to correct over an empty field with no unsaved badge. `stagedKey` answers instead of edits. A key is invisible and unwritable under any engine but the one it was typed under, and nothing is destroyed to make that true — switching back shows it again, which is the same value under the same engine and reviewable before any save. Three more things the card owed the user: A reset was written without reading back, while an engine change was not. A Host that resolves the call without dropping the override answered "saved" to a reset that never happened. Both now read back. Choosing the engine already on screen counted as an edit, downgrading a staged reset into an explicit override of the same value — the user pressed restore default and pinned themselves to what they had just unpinned. Discard asked `dirty`, so a key of only whitespace greyed out both buttons over a field with something in it. It asks whether a draft exists. The card also applies the Host's whole reference grammar rather than a blank check, so the two halves cannot describe one reference while the search resolves another; and `backendDraft` carries the reset instead of a second flag beside it, which removes a state where both could be set.
A mutation run over this branch replaced the missing-harness-scope throw with a return and deleted the engine write's read-back, and all 54 tests still passed. Both were introduced as the point of their commits, so both now have a test that fails without them. The read-back's arrived with the fix that made the reset symmetric; this is the other one. The base-profile guard also only checked ids. A bump that kept the `web` row and renamed its config key would match, write, and leave the seam on its own provider — the first-search credential error this change exists to remove, reached through a patch that looks applied. It now asserts the key as well.
Three narratives that argued for decisions already taken rather than stating them: why no report parser was written, why prose is not classified, and why reset stages instead of writing. Each was also restated in the test that pins the behaviour, so the two had to be kept in step by hand and the card's copy had already drifted into claiming a grammar the card did not apply. The named tests are the record of why. What stays here is what a next edit could get wrong without it.
The key is written before the engine so the engine never runs a moment without the credential it was chosen for. A refused key wrote nothing and the loop carried on, producing exactly that state: select DeepSeek, type a key, have the deployment reject it, and the section moves to an engine with nothing stored while the footer names only the key. Every search then fails. The pending engine write always selects the engine the staged key was typed under, so a refused key ends the save. Both drafts stay, the card stays dirty, and Save retries the pair. Reported by CodeRabbit on the PR.
Both files are ours — the plugin came in with #1606, the test helper with #1618 — so DSH writing `@param scope - the bound settings scope` in its own sources is not a reason to write it here. Of the boilerplate lines the diff counted as added, twenty were mine rather than carried through a rewrite, so they go: the new helper's `@param`/`@returns` (the types are on its signatures) and the card's new functions, where the returned shape, the returned literals, and what each parameter means are all in the body a line below.
… publishes (#1663) * fix(desktop): save the web search key through the Remote contract DSH publishes The web search settings card wrote its API key through `ctx.get("connection").api`, which DSH 0.1.1 provided and DSH 0.1.2-alpha.2 deleted when the client runtime split into per-service packages. Every save since has thrown on `undefined`; the throw was caught and recorded as a failed write, and the card rendered "the deployment did not accept the API key" over a request that never left the renderer. The page's own read of whether a key is held failed the same way, so the badge never left its default either: no user could store a search key, and the copy sent them hunting for a fault in their own input. #1618 upgraded DSH and changed one import in this file — `createSnapshotStore` — which is all it could have caught: the card's tests hand-built the context it ran against, and that fake carried the same assumption as the code (`connection: { api: { credentials } }`). A contract that had moved could not make the two disagree. The card now calls the credentials Remote namespace DSH's own settings cards use, and declares `remote.credentials` in its inject, so the plugin depends on a published seam instead of a member of the transport service. The wire is addressed as published — positional parameters and an `{ok, value}` envelope — and `connection` leaves the inject list entirely. Two things kept the break invisible for three releases, and both are part of the fix rather than cleaned up around it: - Failures were attributed to the deployment whatever failed. The credential face now separates "the deployment answered and refused" from "the call never reached an authority" (a `gateway/*` code, or a throw), and only the first keeps the copy that sends the user back to their input; the second is logged and reported as this app's fault. A settings write that throws is the same case, so the read-back now only claims a refusal when the call itself went through — otherwise it overwrote the reason the call failed. - Nothing tested the wire. `dsh-remote-contract.testing.ts` reads the descriptor table the installed DSH generates, builds the double from it, and parses every argument through the generated codec; the card's context hands over only the services its plugin declares. Reverting the card to the broken revision fails all 21 tests. Keeping the published namespace but hand-rolling the call shape fails 7. CI's product probe drives the real form now — type a key, save, and require the configured badge with no pending or failed state — because no Host-side assertion can see a write that stops inside the renderer. Against the broken card it fails with the sentence users reported. * fix(desktop): publish only the newest credential read Leaving the web search card's engine and coming back starts a second read of the same credential reference, and the guard that drops an answer for a reference no longer shown cannot separate those two: both describe the reference in force when they settle. An older answer settling last then overwrites the newer one, so the badge and the input's writability follow a state the deployment has already replaced, until some later read happens to correct it. The controller now counts the reads it starts and publishes an answer only while it is still the newest. The reference check stays: it is the invariant, and the counter is what orders two reads of one reference. Reported by CodeRabbit on #1663. The regression test resolves the three reads by hand, oldest last, and asserts the newest answer survives; without the counter it fails. * docs(desktop): keep only what the next reader cannot get from the code The comments this branch added carried the incident that produced them: what used to be reached for, what broke, how long it went unnoticed. A commit message is where that belongs. What a reader needs in the file is the rule or the external contract the code cannot state — that a Remote call carries positional parameters and an `{ok, value}` envelope, that `gateway/*` means no authority answered, that the settings scope resolves for a refusal — so each comment is now that and nothing more. Also drops one test: `a deployment that answered keeps its refusal` asserted the same copy as `a partial failure names the field that did not land`, and its one unique fact — that the kind is `refused` rather than `broken` — is asserted there. * refactor(desktop): let the web search card hold one failure, not a set of them A save cannot fail on two fields. The key is written first and a refusal ends the save before the engine write is attempted, `saving` admits one save at a time, and every entry point clears the state first — so the map that recorded failures by field could only ever hold one entry. It collapses to the single `{ field, kind }` it can actually be, which also removes `saveFailedBoth`: copy for a state no user can reach, in both locales. The descriptor double loses two pieces with no producer: the contract's `package` field (nothing read it — the errors name the argument) and the `acceptsUndefined` parameter branch (no `credentials` parameter carries the flag). * docs(desktop): drop the comments that restate what sits beside them Eleven lines said again what a line or two away already said: the read overlap and the `configured` rule were each written twice, once where the card implements them and once in the test that pins them, and the rest named what the signature, the assertion, or the function name already states. * docs(desktop): stop restating signatures in the doc comments I added Both files are ours — the plugin came in with #1606, the test helper with #1618 — so DSH writing `@param scope - the bound settings scope` in its own sources is not a reason to write it here. Of the boilerplate lines the diff counted as added, twenty were mine rather than carried through a rewrite, so they go: the new helper's `@param`/`@returns` (the types are on its signatures) and the card's new functions, where the returned shape, the returned literals, and what each parameter means are all in the body a line below. * fix(desktop): attribute an engine write that did not land to the app The settings scope resolves for a write the Host refused and for a call that never reached an authority the same way: it reports that the value did not move, never why. The card read that as the deployment rejecting the user's input, so a carrier failure told them to correct a value they had picked from the two the card offers. Both detections of an engine write that did not happen — a throw, and a read-back that did not move the value — now record the same failure, which leaves `saveFailedBackend` with no producer in either locale. * test(desktop): make the Remote double refuse a call the runtime refuses The double ignored arguments its descriptor does not declare, while the client runtime rejects any call whose arity does not match the generated table. A card sending an extra argument, or too few, passed every contract test. Adds the arity check the runtime performs, and one test that the double refuses what it would. * refactor(desktop): drop the reference check the read counter already covers Every path that changes the reference in force re-reads it, and a re-read is what increments the counter, so an answer for a reference that has moved on is already rejected as superseded. Dropping the counter fails the stale-read test; dropping this check does not. * refactor(desktop): read the credential reference from the section, not a copy The card carried its own copy of the reference names the Host resolves and of the `exa` engine default. Both reach it already: the settings descriptor ships the composition entry as `base` and the resolved section as `value`. Changing a default in the Host half moved the search to the new name while the card kept asking about the old one, which is the class of break this branch exists for. An unusable name in `value` falls back to `base`, the section's own default, so a hand-edited reference is still the one the card asks about. * chore(desktop): drop the web search card's stale connection row `dsh.client.inject` declares which client bundles have to arrive first, and the card's own bundle requires none of them: the services it uses come from cordis inject, and the row's `remote` service is published by `@deepseek-ai/dsh-api-gateway`, which is declared here and declares the connection package itself. Nothing in the package referenced it any more. * refactor(desktop): show the deployment's own refusal instead of classifying it The card turned a failure into a verdict of its own — "the deployment did not accept the API key; it was left for you to correct" against "saving failed on this app's side" — from a `gateway/` prefix classifier. Both strings had to guess which side of the wire was at fault, and the same guess is what made the original bug unreadable: a call that never left the renderer was reported as the deployment refusing the user's input. The credentials controller publishes a refusal as `credential/rejected` carrying the seam's own message, which upstream documents as what a configuration surface must show verbatim and which DSH's own settings page renders as-is. The message the card is given is now the message it shows; the app-side sentence covers only the case where no answer arrived at all. Removes the classifier, the `kind` dimension, `saveFailedKey` in both locales, and the copy that named a culprit. * test(ci): read the configured badge's class, not its copy The product probe matched `/已配置密钥|Key configured/` against the badge's text, pinning a translated string that belongs to the card's dictionary: a copy edit would fail the smoke with nothing changed in behavior. The badge's own class carries the same fact, with `-muted` as the keyless state. * fix(desktop): attribute a credential read only to the reference in force `readCredential` returned for a reference it could not resolve before advancing the read generation, so an inspection already in flight still passed the generation check and published its answer — as the state of a reference the card was no longer showing. The generation counts requests rather than answers, so it advances first now, and `held` is re-scoped to the current reference before that guard, which is what leaves the card reporting only state it can attribute to the reference in force. Each half is guarded on its own: removing the ordering fails one test, moving the re-scoping back below the guard fails the other. * test(ci): establish the web search probe's premise The probe asserted that the configured badge was visible after the form wrote a key, a state a reference that was already configured satisfies just as well. The credential store resolves a reference over the process environment, and the smoke passed the parent environment through, so an inherited EXA_API_KEY reached the app already configured. `buildSmokeEnv` now hands the app no credential the smoke did not create, and the probe records the badge before the write and fails when the reference was configured already — so any other route to a pre-configured reference fails loudly instead of quietly weakening the check.
Why
PawWork ships OpenCode Free as its default model, so most installs hold no vendor API key. Every search provider
dsh-basemounts requires one, so the README's promise, start without an API key, web search included, failed on the user's first search.Free allowances also run out. A user who hits that ceiling needs somewhere to put their own key, and the shipped settings card only ever binds
web-search-deepseek— its client hardcodes that namespace — so an Exa key had nowhere to go.What
One bundled plugin,
@pawwork/dsh-web-search, registering one provider (pawwork) intoctx.web, with a settings card of its own. The product patch pointsweb.searchProviderat it and disablesweb-search-deepseek, whose card our card replaces.The provider dispatches per search:
DeepSeekSearchProviderfromdsh-web-search-deepseek, so DeepSeek's server-side multi-roundweb_search_20250305stays reachable rather than being reimplemented or lost.Both vendor paths construct the upstream provider classes; only the anonymous-MCP client is ours. Selection is a settings namespace, read per call —
ctx.webfreezes the provider id at construction but resolves the provider on everysearch(), so a single registered provider is the only place a switch can live.Failure of the anonymous path surfaces as a
WebErrortelling the user to enter their own Exa key or switch to DeepSeek, so an exhausted allowance is an actionable message rather than a silent empty result.Engine picker
The card's engine control uses the
Menuprimitive, matching the app's five otheraria-haspopup="menu"pickers. The app has no native<select>anywhere: one would render an OS popup outside our theme tokens and need a hardcoded arrow colour that ignores dark mode.Host scope link
Product plugins are copied under the DSH home, where Node resolves their imports from
<home>/node_modulesupward and never reaches the harness packages the app ships.prepareDshProductHomelinks the host's@deepseek-aiscope into the home, pointing at the very packages the running app loaded rather than a second copy at another version.That link was tested with
existsSync, which follows symlinks. The link left behind by the ordinary "run once from Downloads, then drag the app to /Applications" move is dangling, soexistsSyncreported it absent and thesymlinkSyncthat followed failedEEXIST— permanently, on every launch after the move. Now checked withlstatSync, with a regression test for the dangling case.Reading the response
Streamable HTTP lets the server send its own notifications on the SSE stream ahead of the response, and this took whichever framed event arrived first — so one notification from Exa or an intermediary would fail every keyless search, reporting "no readable result" about the wrong thing. The answer is now selected by carrying
resultorerror. A live capture settles what cannot select it: Exa's reply omits bothidandjsonrpc.Verification
.credentials.yamlhas onlyOPENCODE_API_KEY, the section ispawwork-web-search: {}, andEXA_API_KEYis unset in the environment — so a result can only come from the anonymous path. The model calledweb_search, was refused twice, retried, succeeded, and answered with 26 markdown citations resolving to real pages (wiki.postgresql.org,cybertec-postgresql.com,netdata.cloud, and others). Details below.searchViaMcpmaking its own request tomcp.exa.ai, not a stub:numResults: 3honoured, three URLs, zero sources, preamble first. Separately, a captured body replayed behind anotifications/messageframe yields identical content, and HTTP 402 carries the key remedy rather than the number.resources/tree is now inside the ESLint boundary. It was not before — the glob walked those files under an empty rule set, so a green lint said nothing about them.Ordering a save that fails halfway
The key is written before the engine so the engine never runs a moment without the credential it was chosen for. A refused key wrote nothing and the loop carried on, producing exactly the state that ordering exists to prevent: select DeepSeek, type a key, have the deployment reject it, and the section moves to an engine with nothing stored while the footer names only the key. A refused key now ends the save with both drafts staged, so Save retries the pair. Rolling the engine back instead would be a third write that can also fail, against a Host that already holds the new engine.
Reset is staged rather than written for the same reason — it used to be a second writer racing
saveover one section — and both branches of the engine write read the outcome back rather than predicting it, because a Host that resolves the call is not a Host that kept the value.Attribution on the keyless path
Exa's hosted MCP returns a rendered report and no
structuredContent;tools/listconfirms the tool accepts onlyqueryandnumResults. Everything underHighlights:is verbatim page content, so splitting that report into attributed sources means deciding which bytes are Exa's framing and which are a page's — a distinction the report does not carry, and any rule a parser applies is one a page can print.Three boundary rules were tried here and each failed in both directions, minting sources a page authored and truncating pages that did nothing wrong. Capping the block count at the requested
numResultsdoes not rescue it: measured against a live capture, ten forged blocks from the top-ranked page leave seven of eight returned sources attacker-authored, and when Exa returns fewer results than requested the cap never engages.So this path emits the report as
contentwith nosources. The model reads the same bytes —dsh-tool-webrenders content ahead of any source list — and nothing in the product presents page-chosen text as a source it attributes. The cost is the source chips on the keyless card;searchMetaFromResultmaps content toanswer, so the card still renders the text. The keyed path is unaffected:api.exa.aireturns real structured results.That leaves one thing the seam gets wrong on its own:
contentis rendered first and unattributed, as the search service's own answer, and the tool appends "Cite the relevant URLs above" — while on this path every byte, URLs included, is page text. A preamble now says so ahead of the first byte a page wrote, so a page that writes Exa's framing reaches the model as page content rather than in the provider's voice.Failure classification was removed for the same reason. Exa reports a spent allowance, a throttle and an outage identically — HTTP 200,
isError, prose that may quote the user's own query — and keyword regexes over it misclassified in both directions, including on queries containing an ordinary quoted phrase. One message now names both remedies. Status codes still classify.The end-to-end run above exercised that by accident and settles it better than the argument does. The first two
web_searchcalls came back with the shared-allowance message; the model read "it may be temporarily rate-limited … try again shortly, or enter your own Exa API key", retried, and the third call succeeded. The classifier this replaces read that same prose as an exhausted quota and said so, which would have ended the turn with the user told to go buy a key while the allowance was in fact fine. Naming both remedies is what let the model pick the cheap one.Two honest caveats on that run: the throttle was plausibly self-inflicted, since the same address had made several probe requests in the preceding minutes, so it is not evidence about how the free tier behaves at rest. And the citation instruction
dsh-tool-webappends still works with the preamble in place — the answer's links carry real hrefs — which was the risk in labelling the report as page text.Not in this change
web_fetch,time-context, and session full-text search follow separately.Summary by CodeRabbit