VSH

VSH is one low-latency transactional filesystem simulator with two SDK surfaces:

native Rust through the vsh crate, backed by vsh-runtime,
Python through the vsh-python PyPI distribution and vsh import package.

Both surfaces execute the same Rust pipeline. Python is a thin PyO3 binding; it does not contain a fallback simulator or committer.

Special thanks to Artyom Pavlov for generously donating the vsh crate name to this project.

Monty program → immutable snapshot → Rust VirtualFs → canonical diff → policy
              → dependency revalidation → recoverable commit → verified receipt

VSH is not a POSIX shell and never gives Monty a host filesystem mount, subprocess, network, or ambient environment capability.

Python

Install the wheel:

uv add vsh-python

Run one complete transaction. PREVIEW does not apply changes to user workspace files; the host runtime may still persist bounded transaction/storage artifacts. AUTO commits only a deterministic native auto-approval.

from vsh import ReceiptDetail, RunMode, RunRequest, Runtime

runtime = Runtime.open("/path/to/workspace")
receipt = runtime.run(
    RunRequest(
        """
from pathlib import Path
text = Path('/workspace/input.txt').read_text()
Path('/workspace/output.txt').write_text(text.upper())
len(text)
""",
        mode=RunMode.AUTO,
        detail=ReceiptDetail.FULL,
    )
)

print(receipt.state, receipt.result, receipt.changes)

The GIL is released while snapshotting, executing Monty, generating the diff, evaluating policy, revalidating dependencies, and committing.

Rust

[dependencies]
vsh = "=0.4.0"

use vsh::{ReceiptDetail, RunMode, RunRequest, Runtime, RuntimeConfig};

fn main() -> Result<(), vsh::VshError> {
    let runtime = Runtime::open(RuntimeConfig::new("/path/to/workspace"))?;
    let receipt = runtime.run(
        RunRequest::new(
            "from pathlib import Path\nPath('/workspace/output.txt').write_text('ok')",
        )
        .with_mode(RunMode::Auto)
        .with_detail(ReceiptDetail::Full),
    )?;
    println!("{:?} {}", receipt.state, receipt.transaction);
    Ok(())
}

Production execution expects the matching vsh-monty-worker executable. Python wheels bundle it; native embedders configure its trusted path through RuntimeConfig::with_worker_path.

Active-snapshot filesystem functions

VSH 0.4.0 injects ten bounded vsh_* functions into each Monty program: read, write, list, make directory, remove, move, copy, glob, literal search and exact text patch. They share the same copy-on-write snapshot as pathlib, so earlier virtual writes are visible to later calls without creating a nested runtime or crossing MCP.

files = vsh_glob('**/*.toml', path='/workspace/services', max_results=101)
assert len(files) <= 100, 'split this migration into reviewed batches'
for path in files:
    assert vsh_patch(path, 'timeout = 5', 'timeout = 15', count=1) == 1
{'updated': len(files)}

MCP

Install the optional adapter and start the stdio server:

uv add "vsh-python[mcp]"
vsh serve

The server exposes exactly one normal tool, vsh_run. A multi-file operation is one Monty program, one Rust transaction, one policy decision, and one Python-to-Rust call. An auto-approved preview can later be promoted by passing its returned transaction handle with mode="auto"; VSH revalidates dependencies before any mutation.

Auto-approved previews use a bounded process-local fast path and must be promoted by the same live Runtime (or MCP server process). The exact artifact is made durable before reservation and commit. Transactions that require independent approval are durable immediately and survive a runtime restart.

Performance

On the dated macOS arm64 release-profile matrix, VSH 0.4.0 lowers median latency by roughly 25–30% for 10,000-file discovery/glob and 5,050-entry removal workloads. The whole benchmark harness reports about 19% less CPU time. Small-call variance remains, and sampled process-tree RSS does not establish a repeatable memory reduction. See the protocol, complete results and caveats.

Security and dependency policy

External Rust crates are exact-pinned in the workspace manifest and lockfile.
Unknown, abandoned, yanked, Git-only, wildcard, and unreviewed crates are rejected.
cargo audit and cargo deny are release gates.
The hash-locked optional/development Python graph is a strict pip-audit gate.
Protected paths are denied before names or bytes enter Monty.
Approval binds the exact program, snapshot, read/write dependencies, canonical diff, policy, execution configuration, and intent.
The committer is the only host writer and serializes only same-workspace commit revalidation/mutation; independent runtimes do not share a global lock.
Process-local preview retention is fail-closed and bounded by both artifact count and encoded bytes; it cannot become an unbounded parent-process cache.

See the threat model, guarantees, and dependency record. Upgrade and benchmark details are in the migration guide and current performance report. Merge coverage scope and floors are recorded in the coverage contract.

Compatibility handles

Existing declarations may continue to install vbash==0.4.0 from PyPI or depend on vbash = "=0.4.0" from crates.io. Both packages are implementation-free mirrors of the exact matching VSH release. New projects should use vsh-python and vsh directly; Python code continues to write import vsh either way.

Documentation

The detailed Rust, Python, MCP, agent, architecture, security, and benchmark guides are built with the exactly pinned Zensical toolchain:

uv run python scripts/generate_llms_txt.py
uv run zensical serve
uv run zensical build --clean --strict

Start at the VSH documentation. The site includes a Venus-inspired palette, automatic light/dark selection, and a Copy as Markdown action on every page. It also publishes a compact LLM index at /llms.txt and the complete Markdown source corpus at /llms-full.txt, with navigation pages first; CI verifies both generated files are current.

Development

uv sync --frozen --all-groups --extra mcp
cargo fmt --all -- --check
cargo test --workspace --all-targets --locked
cargo llvm-cov --workspace --all-features --all-targets --locked --summary-only \
  --ignore-filename-regex '(vsh-python|vsh-worker)' \
  --fail-under-lines 79 --fail-under-functions 70 --fail-under-regions 81
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features --locked -- -D warnings
uv run ruff check
uv run ruff format --check
uv run pytest \
  tests/test_native_binding.py tests/test_native_runtime.py tests/test_python_surface.py \
  --cov=src/vsh --cov-branch --cov-report=term-missing --cov-fail-under=100
cargo run --release --locked -p vsh-runtime --example native_benchmark -- \
  --worker "$PWD/.venv/bin/vsh-monty-worker"

License

Apache-2.0

Development Status
- 4 - Beta
Intended Audience
- Developers
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