@deepseek-ai/dsh-host-directory-picker
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The web GUI host's workspace-directory picker is a capability seam. The abstract DirectoryPicker service (ctx.directoryPicker) is its Service Definition. Its only method, capability(), returns a discriminated union describing how an operator selects a directory. Backends differ in user interaction, not just implementation: { kind: 'native', pick(signal) } opens one native OS chooser on the host display (-native); { kind: 'browse', list(path?), createDirectory(path, name) } provides listing and creation operations for an in-app browser, which works for remote clients that cannot reach an OS chooser (-browse). Consumers switch on capability().kind; the union derives from the merge-extensible DirectoryPickerCapabilities map, and a new backend adds its variant there through declaration merging. For an unknown kind, consumers hide directory picking rather than fail. The capability object must be stable for the service lifetime. Each backend package also has a browser entrypoint that registers the matching interaction in ui-workspace's directory-flow slots, so one composition row selects both the host capability and the client flow. A composition that should choose at runtime mounts -auto, which inspects the host once at boot and mounts the matching backend row.
Browse primitives fail with the typed DirectoryPickerError (directory-unreadable / directory-exists / directory-create-failed, each carrying the subject path), which the consuming gateway maps 1:1 onto wire error codes. DirectoryEntry rows carry a host-owned hidden flag (POSIX dot convention) so display policy stays client-side; DirectoryListing.crumbs is the ancestor chain from the filesystem root, every crumb a jump target. Design rationale, the ctx.fs separation, and the policy decisions live in the directory-picker capability seam Agent Note.
Model Experience
None, as the seam serves the GUI host's directory selection; nothing here reaches a model request.
KV Cache effect
None; this package neither assembles nor sends a provider request.
Known Limitations and Deferred Work
- No multi-root support — the browse contract exposes one ancestry chain per listing; per-deployment root scoping (and Windows drive-root enumeration above a drive) waits for a consumer that needs it, per the DirectoryPicker Agent Note.