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ryan4yin | 二花 373b233f32 feat(agents): steerable turns, PTC, and a Nushell-only dsh (#473)
* feat(agents): use the shell's own dialect; allow 5 s retry backoff

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* feat(dsh): make Nushell the only shell

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* docs(agents): wait for CI in the background

Pushes to a PR often start multi-minute CI runs, and an agent that holds
the turn open on a foreground watch reports nothing until it ends. Require
the pushed head and running checks to be reported first, the watch to run
in the background, and the result to be collected after independent work
or after ending the turn.

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* docs(agents): keep the shell-handoff rule platform-neutral

The global rules carry no Windows assumptions: drop the cmd, pwsh, and
wsl handoff examples and keep the POSIX forms plus the dsh refusal.

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* docs(dsh): keep the shell-swap docs POSIX-only

This repository manages Linux and Darwin hosts, not Windows: drop the
Windows handoff examples and terminal-backend wording from dsh.md. The home
patch also disabled pwsh-sandbox redundantly because dsh-base already
disables that row on POSIX; keep only the active bash-sandbox disable and
verify the composed rows with --dump-config.

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* docs(agents): keep the global rules runtime-neutral

Global rules are loaded by every agent CLI, so they must not describe one
runtime's behavior. Drop the dsh-specific sentence and wording while keeping
the expectation to prefer Nushell structured pipelines and Python. Runtime
behavior stays documented in home/base/tui/agents/dsh.md.

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* docs(agents): default shell work to Nushell

Keep the Nushell preference explicit in the runtime-neutral global rules, and
keep runtime behavior in runtime docs. Bash stays a narrow fallback for tasks
Nushell cannot do.

Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)

* docs(agents): tighten global-rule scope and CI guidance

Keep global rules runtime- and project-neutral, and state that boundary in the
file. Remove the duplicated CI turn-steering text in favour of the Communication
rule, resolve the watch run before watching instead of relying on
gh pr checks --watch alone, name the working-directory parameter generically,
and distinguish a bounded retry backoff from a fixed completion wait.

Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)

* docs(agents): never estimate a CI run's duration

A CI run has no predictable length, so do not turn "it looks short" into a
reason to wait. The rule is unconditional: report the head and started checks,
start a background watch, and end the turn; collect the result on completion.
The eval scenario now uses an unknown duration.

Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)

* docs(agents): move maintenance guidance to the README

The runtime/project boundary is guidance for editing the rules, not a rule
agents need loaded every session. The README's Maintaining global rules
section already owns that audience; the loaded rules keep only behavior.

Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)

* refactor(dsh): render the home patch from a YAML template

Move the home-layer cordis patch into dsh-cordis.patch.yml, substitute the
bundle and Nushell store paths with replaceVars, and link the rendered file
through home.file.source. This module is the only writer of
~/.dsh/cordis.patch.yml, the current host has no such file, and the profile
patch is a separate layer.

Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)

* refactor(dsh): install the shell plugin through NUR withPlugins

Replace the local runCommand bundle, peer symlink, and home-layer YAML file
with the plugin package and dsh.withPlugins from ryan4yin/nur-packages#43. The
package wrapper adds a generated --patch overlay after the profile layer, so
dsh no longer writes or manages ~/.dsh/cordis.patch.yml. The NUR input is
temporarily pinned to the PR branch and its commit; point it back at main once
the NUR PR merges.

Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)

* refactor(nix): expose the NUR package set as nurPkgs

Pass one per-system NUR package set through specialArgs instead of repeating
nur-ryan4yin.packages.${pkgs.stdenv.hostPlatform.system} at each call site.
The agents, rime, and idols-ruby modules now use the short binding.

Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)

* refactor(nix): use nurPkgs in package overlays

The overlays receive specialArgs too, so they can use the per-system NUR
package set instead of rebuilding the long input path from prev. This leaves
only the definition in outputs/default.nix.

Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)

* refactor(nix): name the per-system NUR set myNurPkgs

Leave room for consuming another NUR repository later, and match the existing
mylib/myvars naming.

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* chore(dsh): consume the merged NUR package set

nur-ryan4yin now points at main after ryan4yin/nur-packages#43 was squash
merged; the lock records the merge commit. No branch ref remains.

Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)

* fix(dsh): pass the web profile explicitly

The withPlugins launcher prepends --patch, which historically prevented dsh
from auto-expanding "dsh web" into "--profile web". Pass the profile
explicitly in the Just recipe and the verification commands so they work with
both plain dsh and the wrapper.

Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)

* chore(dsh): pick up the wrapped-profile fix

Update nur-ryan4yin to the squash merge that keeps an implicit profile name
first, so "dsh web" and "just dsh-web" work through the wrapper again.

Assisted-by: DeepSeek Harness (deepseek-flash)

* chore(dsh): pick up the plugin peer-link fix

Update nur-ryan4yin to the squash merge that links the dsh peer tree at
node_modules/@deepseek-ai instead of nesting it one level deeper. This is the
import failure that stopped nushell-executor from activating after deploy.

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Agents

Home Manager module that owns the Nix side of the AI coding agents: deploying the global rules and custom global skills, the agent CLIs, and their environment.

The canonical rules text, local skills, behavioral scenarios, and external-tool snippets live in the top-level agents/ directory. That directory stays portable Markdown with no Nix dependency; this module only wires it into place.

Files

  • rules.nix: links the global rules to every agent's config location.
  • skills.nix: links the global skills into ~/.agents/skills/<name>, from pinned flake inputs and from agents/skills/; the inventory is agents/skills/README.md.
  • packages.nix: agent CLIs (codex, opencode2, pi) from the llm-agents flake input, plus pkgs.mcp-grafana for the Grafana MCP server.
  • env.nix: telemetry and auto-update opt-outs for the agents. dsh is installed by this module and configured at runtime: profile patches live in ~/.dsh/profiles/<name>/cordis.patch.yml. The Nushell-only shell is selected when the package is built, via dsh.withPlugins from nur-ryan4yin, so it is a derivation choice rather than runtime state. See dsh.md for the layer order and the settings that bite.

Deployed rule targets

rules.nix creates one out-of-store symlink per target, all pointing at ~/nix-config/agents/global-rules.md:

Agent Target
Codex ~/.codex/AGENTS.md
OpenCode ~/.config/opencode/AGENTS.md
Pi ~/.pi/agent/AGENTS.md
Cross-tool ~/.agents/AGENTS.md
dsh ~/.dsh/AGENTS.md

dsh reads both ~/.dsh/AGENTS.md ($DSH_HOME) and, from 0.2.1-alpha.2 on, ~/.agents/AGENTS.md ($DSH_AGENTS_HOME); identical content renders once.

Out-of-store means an edit to agents/global-rules.md takes effect on the next agent session without a Home Manager switch. The trade-off is that the rules stay writable in the checkout; use a store symlink (home.file.<target>.source = ../../../../agents/global-rules.md) if immutability matters more than fast iteration.

Global skills

skills.nix links every directory under agents/skills/ out-of-store, so an edit applies on the next session, and the skills selected from pinned flake inputs as store paths, which change only with a lock bump and a switch. Home Manager's normal collision checks apply: do not force replacement of an existing same-name skill, and do not install global skills with npx skills add -g alongside these links.

The installed releases support the shared root and symlinked skill directories, so no agent-specific compatibility links are needed:

Adding or removing links requires a user-run Home Manager switch. Changes to an already-linked skill are available without a rebuild; start a new session or use the harness's reload mechanism to read them. After activation, verify the link target and that git-delivery appears in the skill catalog. Custom root overrides or disabled discovery still need runtime configuration.

The rules include a direct checkout fallback for git-delivery before its link is installed. Runtime permissions are not managed by this module.