Slopo reports a bad embedding configuration as the two words "Embedding failed."
on stdout, with the real reason in its agent log. That is a slow way to learn
that a model string has the wrong provider prefix, or that the dimensions do not
match what the model actually returns — the second of which is expensive, because
slopo freezes the dimensions into the index at first use.
`status` now does three things instead of one: it reports the resolved settings,
it runs `slopo --version` through the shell seam, and it makes one tiny embedding
request against the configured endpoint and compares the returned width with the
configured one. Verified against a real Ollama: a correct config reports ok, a
dimension mismatch names both numbers, and a wrong model returns the endpoint's
own 404 rather than a silent failure minutes into an embed.
The probe is a direct fetch rather than a shell call, because it is one small
HTTP request and does not belong behind a boundary that exists to confine
filesystem writes.
Two smaller things this needed:
- the sandbox policy is now resolved once at the top of execute, so `status` can
use it without a second resolution
- provider-prefix stripping is an allow-list, not "drop the first segment".
`unclemusclez/jina-embeddings-v2-base-code:latest` is a real model name with no
prefix at all, and an unknown first segment is left alone so a wrong guess is
visible in the reported `sentModel` rather than silent
dsh-bash-sandbox is the composed ctx.shell, and its resolve() stamps
`request.sandboxPolicy ?? ctx.sandboxPolicy.resolve()`. Omitting the policy
therefore does NOT mean "unconfined" -- it silently substitutes the DEPLOYMENT
default (`DSH_PERMISSION_MODE ?? 'workspace-write'`) for the session's preset.
On a host with no sandbox runner that confines a danger-full-access session and
fails with SandboxUnavailableError before slopo is ever reached, which is
exactly what happened: the tool was unusable while bash worked.
Resolve the calling session's policy the way dsh-tool-bash does, and pass it on
every call. A confining executor with no ctx.sandboxPolicy is now refused
outright rather than guessed at.
That fix exposes a second problem worth naming. Slopo's state lives under
$DSH_HOME, which is outside the workspace root a workspace-write sandbox permits
writing to, so under that preset nothing would work. The tool now refuses before
running and names both ways out -- run under danger-full-access, or set stateDir
to a directory inside the workspace -- instead of letting a write fail halfway
through an embed.
Five tests pin this: the session's policy is resolved exactly once and travels
with the session, a missing policy service is refused, state outside the sandbox
is refused before any execution, state inside it proceeds, and status/configure
never touch the shell at all.
The three skills are ports of slopo's own agent configs, published
user-invocable and NOT model-invocable. Slopo makes that choice upstream and the
reason holds here: every one of these commands can spend minutes embedding, so a
model that decides to "check for duplication" mid-task can do it repeatedly.
settings goes through ctx.inject(['settings'], ...) rather than the top-level
inject, so a profile without a settings provider still gets the tool and the
skills and degrades to the composition config. A required dependency would have
suppressed apply entirely -- a silent whole-plugin failure for an optional
capability.
The tool resolves the CLI, materialises the config, and runs the long actions as
background jobs. Background is the right default because embedding takes minutes
and slopo writes progress to a log file rather than stdout, so there is nothing
to stream; the job handle carries the log path instead.
Nothing is defaulted. Guessing an embedding backend would mean guessing where
money is spent, so status says what is missing and configure sets it.
dsh-slopo agent