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PawWork ships OpenCode Free as its default model, so most installs hold no vendor API key. Every search provider dsh-base mounts 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) into ctx.web, with a settings card of its own. The product patch points web.searchProvider at it and disables web-search-deepseek, whose card our card replaces.

The provider dispatches per search:

  • Exa — the user's key if the card holds one, otherwise Exa's hosted MCP on its anonymous allowance. That anonymous path is the mechanism v1 shipped and the one thing upstream has no implementation for.
  • DeepSeek — DeepSeekSearchProvider from dsh-web-search-deepseek, so DeepSeek's server-side multi-round web_search_20250305 stays 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.web freezes the provider id at construction but resolves the provider on every search(), so a single registered provider is the only place a switch can live.

Failure of the anonymous path surfaces as a WebError telling 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 Menu primitive, matching the app's five other aria-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_modules upward and never reaches the harness packages the app ships. prepareDshProductHome links the host's @deepseek-ai scope 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, so existsSync reported it absent and the symlinkSync that followed failed EEXIST — permanently, on every launch after the move. Now checked with lstatSync, 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 result or error. A live capture settles what cannot select it: Exa's reply omits both id and jsonrpc.

Verification

  • Full desktop suite (443 vitest + 125 node), typecheck, and lint green.
  • One real turn in the running app, on OpenCode Free, against a home holding no Exa key anywhere — .credentials.yaml has only OPENCODE_API_KEY, the section is pawwork-web-search: {}, and EXA_API_KEY is unset in the environment — so a result can only come from the anonymous path. The model called web_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.
  • The shipped searchViaMcp making its own request to mcp.exa.ai, not a stub: numResults: 3 honoured, three URLs, zero sources, preamble first. Separately, a captured body replayed behind a notifications/message frame yields identical content, and HTTP 402 carries the key remedy rather than the number.
  • Card driven in the running app over CDP, twelve assertions: a whitespace-only key leaves Save disabled but Discard reachable, an engine change stages without writing, a key typed under one engine is hidden under another, re-picking the engine already shown changes nothing, and Discard restores a clean card. The card renders writable with no read-only notice, so the host half of the plugin mounted its section too.
  • The 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.
  • A mutation run over the branch found two guards that were the point of their commits and passed with the guard removed — the missing-harness-scope throw and the engine write's read-back. Both now have a test that fails without 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 save over 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/list confirms the tool accepts only query and numResults. Everything under Highlights: 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 numResults does 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 content with no sources. The model reads the same bytes — dsh-tool-web renders 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; searchMetaFromResult maps content to answer, so the card still renders the text. The keyed path is unaffected: api.exa.ai returns real structured results.

That leaves one thing the seam gets wrong on its own: content is 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_search calls 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-web appends 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

  • New Features
    • Added configurable web search with Exa and DeepSeek providers.
    • Added settings controls for provider selection and API key management.
    • Added anonymous Exa search fallback when credentials are unavailable.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved recovery from missing or invalid application links during startup.
    • Improved saving, resetting, and recovering web-search settings.
    • Improved handling of unavailable providers, malformed responses, rate limits, and interrupted searches.
    • Improved search result content and error messaging.

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.
@Astro-Han Astro-Han added enhancement New feature or request P1 High priority app Application behavior and product flows harness Model harness, prompts, tool descriptions, and session mechanics labels Aug 27, 2026
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Suggested priority: P2 (includes user-path files (packages/desktop-electron/resources/dsh/home/product.cordis.patch.yml, packages/desktop-electron/resources/dsh/web-search/lib/client.js, packages/desktop-electron/resources/dsh/web-search/lib/exa-mcp.cjs, packages/desktop-electron/resources/dsh/web-search/lib/exa-mcp.test.cjs, packages/desktop-electron/resources/dsh/web-search/lib/index.js, packages/desktop-electron/resources/dsh/web-search/package.json, packages/desktop-electron/src/main/dsh-product-home.test.ts, packages/desktop-electron/src/main/dsh-product-home.ts, packages/desktop-electron/src/main/dsh-web-search-client.test.ts, packages/desktop-electron/src/main/dsh-web-search-plugin.test.ts, packages/desktop-electron/src/main/index.ts)).

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Adds configurable Exa and DeepSeek web-search backends, a settings card for backend credentials, product profile integration, and host-module linking for development and packaged Electron environments.

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PawWork web search

Layer / File(s) Summary
Provider configuration and backend dispatch
packages/desktop-electron/resources/dsh/web-search/lib/index.js, packages/desktop-electron/resources/dsh/web-search/lib/exa-mcp.js, packages/desktop-electron/package.json, packages/desktop-electron/src/main/dsh-web-search-plugin.test.ts
Adds Exa MCP and DeepSeek backend selection, credential resolution, caller-controlled cancellation, response pass-through, error mapping, dependencies, and provider tests.
Settings card and product integration
packages/desktop-electron/resources/dsh/web-search/lib/client.js, packages/desktop-electron/resources/dsh/web-search/package.json, packages/desktop-electron/resources/dsh/home/product.cordis.patch.yml, packages/desktop-electron/src/main/dsh-web-search-client.test.ts, package.json, eslint.config.mjs
Adds backend-bound credential staging, sequential saves, reset and discard handling, localization, package exports, product configuration, market injection, client tests, and bundled JavaScript lint rules.
Host module resolution and product-home wiring
packages/desktop-electron/src/main/dsh-product-home.ts, packages/desktop-electron/src/main/index.ts, packages/desktop-electron/src/main/dsh-product-home.test.ts, packages/desktop-electron/resources/dsh/automations/lib/index.js, packages/desktop-electron/resources/dsh/product/lib/desktop-host.test.cjs
Resolves packaged or development host modules, links the @deepseek-ai scope, installs the web-search plugin, repairs stale or dangling links, and applies unused-variable cleanup.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d76aa

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.

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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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Inline comments:
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
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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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188-194: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Classify aborts raised while the response body is read.

The try block ends when fetchImpl resolves the headers. Line 191 calls response.text() outside that block. If the caller aborts or the deadline expires during body streaming, the raw AbortError escapes and breaks the documented WEB_ABORTED / WEB_PROVIDER_ERROR contract. searchExa in packages/desktop-electron/resources/dsh/web-search/lib/index.js then re-throws that unmapped error to the seam.

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-  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);
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In `@packages/desktop-electron/resources/dsh/web-search/lib/exa-mcp.js` around
lines 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
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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
validation.

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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
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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.
…other

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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packages/desktop-electron/src/main/dsh-web-search-client.test.ts (1)

334-348: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Keep the ordering test on a save that actually lands.

scope.set.mockImplementation drops the default mock's snapshot update. save() then reads scope.getSnapshot().user?.backend, finds no match, and records "backend" in failures. The test still passes because it inspects only order, 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.

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-    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 }
+    })

snapshot needs to be returned from cardOf for this, or the default scope.set behavior 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" })
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In `@packages/desktop-electron/src/main/dsh-web-search-client.test.ts` around
lines 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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72-76: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a CommonJS override for bundled .cjs files.

The current block assigns sourceType: "module" to .cjs files that use require() and module.exports. Add a later .cjs block with sourceType: "commonjs"; otherwise valid CommonJS syntax can be rejected as strict module syntax.

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In `@eslint.config.mjs` around lines 72 - 76, Add a later ESLint override for .cjs
files under the bundled resources configuration, setting sourceType to commonjs
so require() and module.exports are accepted while leaving the existing
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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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Nitpick comments:
In `@eslint.config.mjs`:
- Around line 72-76: Add a later ESLint override for .cjs files under the
bundled resources configuration, setting sourceType to commonjs so require() and
module.exports are accepted while leaving the existing JavaScript and module
settings unchanged.

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.
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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.
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… 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.
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