Two outcome classesA worker exit returns no IPC result. Unicode truncation returns a damaged path that later fails correctly at realpath.

Route by the last boundary that worked.

A · no resultNode / Koffi crash

The dialog accepts a folder, then the worker aborts while materializing the path.

Node 22 ↔ Node 24+
B · wrong resultUTF-16 truncation

The worker returns a path cut immediately before a U+XX00 character.

开 U+5F00 → 00 5F
C · before dialogNative install

The native artifact never built inside the exact dependency tree DSH resolves.

install + import evidence
D · unhealthy ownerStale DSH process

An unexpected listener survives after its terminal or wrapper disappeared.

PID + parent + command line

rc.8 still carries the reported decode path.

COM resultvoid **namenative address
→
readUtf16koffi.view(address, 32768)reported Node 24 abort
→
expectedIPC pathnever sent on crash

The discussion reports the picker path succeeding on Node 22.23.2 and aborting on Node 24.18.1 across multiple Koffi versions. Treat that as a focused component A/B, not a claim that every Node 24 DSH feature is broken.

A zero byte is not a two-byte terminator.

Character开 · U+5F0000 5Fvalid code unit
≠
TerminatorNUL · U+000000 00end of string

rc.8 checks only the first byte, so it can return a shortened path and produce a downstream ENOENT. Reports now confirm both 开 U+5F00 → 00 5F and 销 U+9500 → 00 95. Regression fixtures must contain actual U+XX00 code points; “some CJK text” is not sufficient.

Recover through the shipped browse picker.

Current rowadaptive chooser@deepseek-ai/dsh-host-directory-picker-auto
Replace by the same IDbrowser picker@deepseek-ai/dsh-host-directory-picker-browse
- id: directory-picker
  name: '@deepseek-ai/dsh-host-directory-picker-browse'

Do not widen an unrelated boundary.

No compiled-lib editoverwritten and unaudited
No unrestricted modedecode abort is not permission denial
No global package guessnpx may resolve another tree
No kill-all Nodeidentify the exact DSH PID

Prove the fallback.

  1. OpenIn-browser directory card renders.
  2. NavigateDrive root and nested paths resolve.
  3. UnicodeASCII and CJK paths round-trip exactly.
  4. U+XX00A path containing 开 round-trips exactly.
  5. CreateDisposable workspace is registered once.
  6. RestartWorkspace identity stays stable.

Primary evidence.

Keep the evidence matrix.

The full runbook includes PowerShell process capture, clean Node A/B, native-tree diagnosis, precise PID cleanup, rollback, and native-versus-browse acceptance.

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