deepseek-harness/packages/ui/jsonrpc-agent/README.md

# @deepseek-ai/dsh-jsonrpc-agent

Bin-only app that boots an external `cordis.yml`; its [`jsonrpc`](../jsonrpc/README.md) entry serves SDK clients over newline-delimited stdio. The config composes the spine, backends, and serving plugin. `lib/bin.js` is also the [single-executable runtime](../../../docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-10-single-file-executable-sdk-runtime-distribution.md) entry.

## Config discovery

The first non-empty channel wins: `$DSH_CORDIS_CONFIG`, then positional `argv[2]`. If neither names an existing file, the bin prints one-line usage to stderr and exits 1; there is no working-directory or built-in fallback. [`dsh-app-boot`](../app-boot/README.md) makes plugin load failures fatal. This protocol does not use `DSH_SNAPSHOT`.

A config without `dsh-jsonrpc` is valid and serves nothing; the bin does not designate a server plugin.

## Exit lifecycle

stdin EOF and `SIGTERM` dispose the root to quiescence and exit 0; `SIGINT` exits 130 after the same disposal. EOF may cut off an in-flight turn as documented in the [distribution RFC](../../../docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-07-10-single-file-executable-sdk-runtime-distribution.md). The `jsonrpc` plugin owns response-before-exit protocol shutdown; both paths are idempotent and safe to race.

## stdout is the protocol

stdout carries only JSON-RPC frames. The bin and boot guards diagnose on stderr, and the config must omit stdout loggers.