@jr2/orchestrator 0.3.0 → 0.4.1

package/src/registration.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 // The internal registration table (ADR-0011): one structure behind both delivery dialects.
-// An Agent slot and `gate` register `address → { accepted event defs, deliver closure, meta }`;
-// the two HTTP surfaces (`/agents/:iid/*` for the Agent's Harness, `/runs/:id/gates/*` for humans and
-// webhooks) are adapters over it — lookup, schema validation, delivery, discovery, and lifecycle
+// An Agent slot and `gate` register `address → { accepted event defs, deliver closure, meta,
+// sender }` — the sender written on every event it delivers (ADR-0015); the two HTTP surfaces
+// (`/agents/:iid/*` for the Agent's Harness, `/runs/:id/gates/*` for humans and webhooks) are
+// adapters over it — lookup, schema validation, delivery, discovery, and lifecycle
 // are implemented ONCE. The table is implementation structure, not vocabulary: workflows speak
 // only `defineEvent` / `agent` / `gate`.
 //
@@ -23,11 +24,20 @@
 // `resolveAccepts` reads them off the invoking Machine below and a nested Machine's names are
 // never the root's problem.
 
-import type { ActorSystem, AnyActorRef, AnyEventObject } from "xstate";
-import type { EventDef } from "@jr2/agent-protocol";
+import { getStateNodes } from "xstate";
+import type { ActorSystem, AnyActorRef, AnyEventObject, AnyMachineSnapshot, AnyStateMachine } from "xstate";
+import { SENDER_KEY, type EventDef, type Sender } from "@jr2/agent-protocol";
 import type { AgentAdmission } from "./actor.ts";
+import type { EffectMarker, EffectRow } from "./effect.ts";
+import type { EffectorPlacement, EffectorTarget } from "./http-effect.ts";
+import type { NoticeScope, TakenNotices } from "./notices.ts";
+import type { AnswerSeat } from "./pick.ts";
+import type { Notice, PickAnswer } from "./wire.ts";
 import type { SandboxPort } from "./workspace.ts";
 import { invokingMachine, vocabularyOf } from "./vocabulary.ts";
+import type { ChartText } from "./chart.ts";
+import { notTaken, senderText, takesNow, type NotTakenWriting } from "./party.ts";
+import { restOf } from "./rest.ts";
 
 /** xstate doesn't export its internal AnyActorSystem; this matches what actors receive. */
 // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
@@ -45,8 +55,17 @@ export type Registration = {
   kind: "gate" | "agent";
   /** The caller-facing id within its dialect (the gate id, or the agent's instance id). */
   id: string;
-  /** Accepted events, name→def — the validation scope AND the discovery listing. */
+  /** Accepted events, name→def — the validation scope AND the discovery listing. For an Agent,
+   * the invoking state's derived set: what its Allowed picks are narrowed from (ADR-0029). */
   defs: Map<string, EventDef>;
+  /**
+   * An Agent's MENU (ADR-0029), in its fixed order: the union of the derived sets of every state
+   * that invokes an Agent of this name, and the tools block the Harness presents — byte-stable for
+   * the conversation, so it never breaks the provider's prompt cache. A superset of {@link defs};
+   * a pick on it that {@link defs} lacks is refused at delivery, naming the Allowed picks. Absent
+   * on gates, and on an Agent registered with no Menu, which serves its `defs` as the Menu.
+   */
+  menu?: Map<string, EventDef>;
   /** Serializable caller/integration context (PR URL, title …) — rides the discovery listing. */
   meta?: Record<string, unknown>;
   /**
@@ -64,6 +83,9 @@ export type Registration = {
   sandbox?: string;
   /** Close over the invoking state's `sendBack`; delivery lands where the actor was invoked. */
   deliver: (event: DeliveredEvent) => void;
+  /** An Agent's: the Harness read this surface (`GET /agents/:iid/surface`), so it has the Turn in
+   * hand and prompts it. Until then the Turn may end with no model ever asked (ADR-0026). */
+  served?: () => void;
   /**
    * The Machine that invoked this actor — `self._parent`, captured at registration. The menu was
    * derived from THIS machine's transitions (ADR-0015), so it is the only snapshot whose guards
@@ -71,6 +93,22 @@ export type Registration = {
    * that have no parent to name, which is why every read of it fails open.
    */
   invoker?: AnyActorRef;
+  /**
+   * Who this registration delivers as (ADR-0015): an Agent by its slot, a Gate by its invoke id.
+   * The table writes it on every event it delivers (`event.sender`), never taken from the caller.
+   * Absent on a registration no party made (a bare unit-test entry): its events carry none.
+   */
+  sender?: Sender;
+  /** The invoke id of the actor that registered: what finds its state — its seat — in the
+   * Machine, for the party questions (`party.ts`). */
+  invokeId?: string;
+  /**
+   * An Agent's: the continued conversation ({@link continuedIid}) this Turn is part of — set only
+   * when the Turn continues one (`continue: true`). A pick whose route leaves the Agent's state is
+   * answered by a notice to it (ADR-0024); a fresh Turn's conversation is never heard again, so its
+   * answer has nowhere to go.
+   */
+  conversation?: string;
 };
 
 /**
@@ -98,6 +136,41 @@ export function wouldMove(invoker: AnyActorRef | undefined, event: AnyEventObjec
   }
 }
 
+/**
+ * The states this exact event's transitions name as targets, by id — empty for a pick with no
+ * target. Read before the send and checked after it with `leftAgain`: what tells a pick that entered
+ * a state and left it again inside its own send (an `always` back to where it was) from one that
+ * stayed where it went or went nowhere (ADR-0024). Fails CLOSED: a read that cannot be made reads
+ * as no target, the plain receipt.
+ */
+export function targetsOf(invoker: AnyActorRef | undefined, event: AnyEventObject): string[] {
+  if (!invoker) return [];
+  try {
+    const snapshot = invoker.getSnapshot() as AnyMachineSnapshot;
+    return (snapshot.machine as AnyStateMachine)
+      .getTransitionData(snapshot, event)
+      .flatMap((t) => (t.target ?? []).map((node) => node.id));
+  } catch {
+    return [];
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Is some state of `targets` no longer active — entered by the send and left again inside it? A
+ * target to the state the pick was taken in (`drafting: { on: { note: "drafting" } }`) is still
+ * active, so it is not. Fails CLOSED: false, the plain receipt.
+ */
+export function leftAgain(invoker: AnyActorRef | undefined, targets: readonly string[]): boolean {
+  if (!invoker || targets.length === 0) return false;
+  try {
+    const snapshot = invoker.getSnapshot() as AnyMachineSnapshot;
+    const active = new Set(getStateNodes(snapshot.machine.root, snapshot.value).map((node) => node.id));
+    return targets.some((id) => !active.has(id));
+  } catch {
+    return false;
+  }
+}
+
 /**
  * COULD this event move the invoking Machine, judged before the Agent has picked its arguments?
  * What the surface build can ask (ADR-0029) — there is no payload yet, so a guard reading one
@@ -138,10 +211,82 @@ export function mayMove(invoker: AnyActorRef | undefined, type: string): boolean
   return readPayload;
 }
 
+/** Would the run take `type` from this registration now, payload-blind? Asked AS its sender
+ * ({@link takesNow}); a registration with no seat to ask from (a plain `setup()` actor tree, a bare
+ * test entry) falls back to {@link mayMove}. */
+function takenNow(reg: Pick<Registration, "invoker" | "sender" | "invokeId">, type: string): boolean {
+  return takesNow(reg, type) ?? mayMove(reg.invoker, type);
+}
+
+/**
+ * An Agent's Allowed picks now (ADR-0029): the invoking state's derived set, narrowed to what the
+ * invoking Machine would take from this Agent ({@link takenNow}), in Menu order — so the list reads
+ * in the order the tools block does. The ONE reading of the list: the surface, every receipt, the
+ * nudge and the wake all ask here, so no two of them can disagree about what the Turn may pick
+ * (ADR-0016).
+ *
+ * EMPTY while the Agent's state is not at Rest (rest.ts, ADR-0024): something below it runs, or a
+ * timer holds, and every pick is refused until it is back at Rest — so the Rest rule and the
+ * payload-blind selection give one list, and a Turn that starts busy is not asked into a refusal.
+ */
+export function allowedPicks(reg: Pick<Registration, "defs" | "menu" | "invoker" | "sender" | "invokeId">): string[] {
+  if (restOf(reg) === "busy") return [];
+  const ordered = new Set([...(reg.menu ?? reg.defs).keys()].filter((name) => reg.defs.has(name)));
+  for (const name of reg.defs.keys()) ordered.add(name);
+  return [...ordered].filter((name) => takenNow(reg, name));
+}
+
+/** A Gate's `acceptsNow` (ADR-0011): its accepted set, narrowed the same way as an Agent's Allowed
+ * picks — the names the run would take from this Gate now. */
+export function acceptsNow(reg: Pick<Registration, "defs" | "invoker" | "sender" | "invokeId">): string[] {
+  return [...reg.defs.keys()].filter((name) => takenNow(reg, name));
+}
+
 /** Delivery target absent (unknown address, settled run, exited state) — the one catch point. */
 export class UnknownAddressError extends Error {}
-/** Delivery body rejected (unaccepted name, or payload failing the named schema). */
-export class EventValidationError extends Error {}
+/** Delivery body rejected (unaccepted name, or payload failing the named schema). An Agent's
+ * refusal carries its Allowed picks, read after the refusal (ADR-0029), so the Harness can say
+ * what the Turn may pick instead. */
+export class EventValidationError extends Error {
+  allowed?: string[];
+}
+
+/**
+ * A pick that arrived while the Agent's state is not at Rest (ADR-0024): refused, `finish` included,
+ * and nothing is delivered — xstate would take it, and a pick its state handles would exit the child
+ * state and stop the work running there. `outstanding` names this Turn's pick still out, when there
+ * is one; without it, the state is busy with work the Turn did not pick (it started busy).
+ */
+export class OutstandingError extends Error {
+  readonly outstanding?: string;
+  constructor(message: string, outstanding?: string) {
+    super(message);
+    this.outstanding = outstanding;
+  }
+}
+
+/** Refuse a caller's body that carries the sender (ADR-0013, ADR-0015): only the Orchestrator writes
+ * it, from the registration, so neither the Agent's wire nor the gates route takes it. */
+export function refuseSenderField(payload: unknown): void {
+  if (payload && typeof payload === "object" && SENDER_KEY in payload) {
+    throw new EventValidationError(
+      `\`${SENDER_KEY}\` is written by the Orchestrator on every delivered event; a caller cannot send it`,
+    );
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * The run would not take this event from this sender (ADR-0015, ADR-0029): xstate's selection holds
+ * a writing that is another party's, or — at a Gate — nothing would move. Refused BEFORE the Machine
+ * sees it. `writings` names the other party's writings, empty when nothing would move.
+ */
+export class NotTakenError extends Error {
+  readonly writings: readonly NotTakenWriting[];
+  constructor(message: string, writings: readonly NotTakenWriting[] = []) {
+    super(message);
+    this.writings = writings;
+  }
+}
 
 /**
  * The actor path below the run's root: every id from the root's children down to `ref` itself,
@@ -164,7 +309,7 @@ export function actorPath(ref: AnyActorRef): string[] {
  * instances (two Pool children, whose ids are the items') can never meet.
  *
  * One derivation, two readers, so they cannot drift: `mintIid` builds every iid on it (a fresh
- * Turn adds a random suffix, a burned conversation's successor its epoch), and the Agent actor
+ * Turn adds a random suffix, a burned conversation's successor its epoch), and the Agent's Actor
  * names the conversation it burns with it.
  */
 export function continuedIid(machine: AnyActorRef | undefined, runId: string, agentName: string): string {
@@ -213,11 +358,14 @@ export class RegistrationTable {
    * Validate and deliver one event to an address: the shared behavior both dialect adapters
    * call. Unknown address / unaccepted name / bad payload throw typed errors the adapters map
    * to their wire (404 / 400, MCP tool errors). The payload is parsed by the named def's
-   * schema, so what lands in the Machine is exactly the validated shape.
+   * schema, so what lands in the Machine is exactly the validated shape — plus the registration's
+   * sender, written here and nowhere else (ADR-0015). A delivery that would run another party's
+   * writing throws {@link NotTakenError}.
    */
   deliver(address: string, type: string, payload: unknown): void {
     const reg = this.byAddress.get(address);
     if (!reg) throw new UnknownAddressError(`no live registration at "${address}"`);
+    refuseSenderField(payload);
     const def = reg.defs.get(type);
     if (!def) {
       throw new EventValidationError(
@@ -228,7 +376,25 @@ export class RegistrationTable {
     if (!parsed.success) {
       throw new EventValidationError(`invalid "${type}" payload: ${parsed.error.message}`);
     }
-    reg.deliver({ type: def.name, ...parsed.data });
+    // `type` after the payload: a payload never names the event the Machine receives (ADR-0011).
+    const event: DeliveredEvent = {
+      ...parsed.data,
+      type: def.name,
+      ...(reg.sender ? { [SENDER_KEY]: reg.sender } : {}),
+    };
+    // Exact, with the real payload (ADR-0015): a delivery whose selection holds a writing that is
+    // not this sender's never reaches the Machine.
+    const others = reg.sender ? notTaken(reg, event) : [];
+    if (others.length) {
+      const owned = (w: NotTakenWriting): string =>
+        w.owners.length ? `, which is ${w.owners.map(senderText).join(" and ")}'s` : "";
+      throw new NotTakenError(
+        `"${type}" from ${senderText(reg.sender!)} would run the writing on ` +
+          `${others.map((w) => `"${w.state}"${owned(w)}`).join(" and ")}`,
+        others,
+      );
+    }
+    reg.deliver(event);
   }
 }
 
@@ -236,6 +402,9 @@ export class RegistrationTable {
 export type RunBinding = {
   runId: string;
   workflow: string;
+  /** The hash of the Assembly the run holds (ADR-0069): the one it started under, through
+   * restarts. Absent for a run no Assembly started. */
+  assembly?: string;
   table: RegistrationTable;
   /** The host's Sandbox backend, when it has a cluster (`workspace()` resolves it here —
    * one cluster per orchestrator instance, so it is host infrastructure like the table). */
@@ -248,18 +417,30 @@ export type RunBinding = {
   instanceHarness?: string;
   /**
    * The Harness bearer for a placement (ADR-0058): `harnessToken(signingKey, placement)`, closed
-   * over the key by the host. The Agent actor asks it for the pod its Turn resolved to; the echo
+   * over the key by the host. The Agent's Actor asks it for the pod its Turn resolved to; the echo
    * attach asks it for the Workspace's. Absent (bare unit-test bindings, the stub path), no bearer
    * is sent — which only a Harness that checks nothing accepts.
    */
   harnessBearer?: (placement: string) => string;
+  /**
+   * Where an Effector placement is, and the key its wire is signed with (ADR-0068): the Instance
+   * Effector's Service and `effectorKey(signingKey, "instance")`, closed over by the host. An http
+   * Effect asks it; absent (bare unit-test bindings, an instance with no Effector), it faults.
+   */
+  effector?: (placement: EffectorPlacement) => EffectorTarget | undefined;
   /**
    * Record an Agent invocation's durable admission in the host ledger (ADR-0016): persisted
    * beside the snapshot in the same RunBlob save, keyed by iid (globally unique, so the map is
    * flat). Optional so a bare unit-test binding can omit it — then admissions simply are not
    * durable.
    */
-  recordAdmission?: (instanceId: string, admission: AgentAdmission) => void;
+  recordAdmission?: (instanceId: string, admission: AgentAdmission, delivered?: readonly string[]) => void;
+  /**
+   * The admission ledger's READ half (ADR-0016): the last admission ledgered under this iid. A
+   * continued Turn asks it whether its conversation was ever admitted — only then can the Harness
+   * have lost it (ADR-0062).
+   */
+  admissionOf?: (instanceId: string) => AgentAdmission | undefined;
   /**
    * The epoch ledger's READ half (ADR-0057): the current epoch of a continued conversation,
    * keyed by its base Instance ID ({@link continuedIid}). The input mapper reads it AT MINT TIME,
@@ -273,9 +454,32 @@ export type RunBinding = {
    * it ended, and the next `continue` on that Agent mints `<conversation>/<epoch>` — a virgin
    * conversation. No fault leaves a conversation worth continuing (ADR-0035): a runaway either
    * had its reroll or holds a poisoned context, and infra and no-signal mean the Harness that
-   * held it is unreachable. Persisted beside the snapshot with the admission ledger.
+   * held it is unreachable. Persisted beside the snapshot with the admission ledger. `reason` is
+   * the fault's: the host raises it as the next `continue`'s `conversation-new` notice (ADR-0062).
    */
-  bumpEpoch?: (conversation: string) => void;
+  bumpEpoch?: (conversation: string, reason: string) => void;
+  /**
+   * The notices' write half (ADR-0062): keep a notice for the next admission in scope — `to` is a
+   * continued conversation's base id or a Sandbox name, as the notice's `scope` says. Persisted at
+   * the write, like the ledgers. `source` names the event, so one event raised twice is one notice.
+   * A burned conversation's notice is raised by `bumpEpoch` itself, in the same save.
+   */
+  raiseNotice?: (notice: Notice, to: string, source?: string) => void;
+  /** Reserve the pending notices in one admission's scope. They are delivered by the
+   * `recordAdmission` that ledgers it (its `delivered` ids), or released if the admission fails. */
+  takeNotices?: (scope: NoticeScope) => TakenNotices;
+  releaseNotices?: (ids: readonly string[]) => void;
+  /**
+   * The pick the Turn now at this address has outstanding, or answered and not yet read (ADR-0024):
+   * what the Agent's Actor asks when its Harness restarted under a Turn — a Turn whose pick is still
+   * out, or whose answer never reached the model, is cut, not faulted (ADR-0031). Read after the host
+   * settles its holds, so `answered` is the Rest rule's verdict now. An earlier Turn's pick on the
+   * same continued address is not this Turn's: its answer went as a notice. Absent outside a RunHost.
+   */
+  outstandingOf?: (instanceId: string) => OutstandingPick | undefined;
+  /** The held answer reached the model by another road — a re-admission's notice — so the poll's
+   * copy is spent (ADR-0031). */
+  heldAnswerDelivered?: (instanceId: string) => void;
   /**
    * Surface absorbed-retry telemetry on the run feed (ADR-0016): attempts are observable, but
    * as `{ child, attempt }` — state-key-class data, never iids (ADR-0014's line holds on the
@@ -287,7 +491,7 @@ export type RunBinding = {
    * settlement pick, so the run's narrative can name what a Turn hosted elsewhere decided.
    * Host-supplied; absent (bare unit-test bindings), turns leave no markers.
    */
-  marker?: (event: TurnMarker) => void;
+  marker?: (event: RunMarker) => void;
   /**
    * Attach the run-narrative echo to a Workspace's Harness (ADR-0023): the host replays the
    * run's feed-so-far to `endpoint` — the Harness in `placement`'s pod, pushed with that
@@ -306,13 +510,63 @@ export type RunBinding = {
    */
   hostStopping?: boolean;
   /**
-   * iid → the abort still in flight for it (ADR-0024). The Agent actor fills this on the way out and
+   * Every reply since the pick that `machine`'s Agent has outstanding, or is delivering now, oldest
+   * first (ADR-0024) — what an `answer` action reads as its `chain` (ADR-0067). `seat` is the place
+   * the action runs from: an Agent's state, and then only that Agent's pick counts; or `null`, a
+   * transition below no Agent's state, and then `event` — the event whose transition runs the action
+   * — names the Agent: the sender of a pick, or the Agent whose pick started the child whose done
+   * or error event it is. Undefined when no such pick is being answered, when the event names an
+   * Agent with none, or when the event names no Agent outside a pick's own send while two Agents'
+   * states are active or more than one pick is outstanding: then the action cannot tell whose
+   * answer it shapes, and sets none.
+   */
+  chainOf?: (machine: AnyActorRef, seat: AnswerSeat, event?: AnyEventObject) => PickAnswer[] | undefined;
+  /** Set what that pick's answer is (ADR-0067): it replaces the default, and the last call wins.
+   * Kept with the hold, so a restore answers the same. */
+  setAnswer?: (machine: AnyActorRef, seat: AnswerSeat, value: unknown, event?: AnyEventObject) => void;
+  /**
+   * The Effect ledger's READ half (ADR-0067): one Effect's row, by its id — what a restored Effect
+   * reads to deliver its output, re-attach, or settle `unknown`, and never to run twice.
+   */
+  effectRow?: (effectId: string) => EffectRow | undefined;
+  /** Every row of the run's Effect ledger, by Effect id — what a push reads its pairs from (each
+   * push of its Workspace and Repo Slot that published, ADR-0067). */
+  effectRows?: () => Readonly<Record<string, EffectRow>>;
+  /**
+   * The Effect ledger's WRITE half (ADR-0067), in the same RunBlob as the snapshot. `"now"` (the
+   * default) saves AT THE WRITE — so an intent row is on disk, with the snapshot that holds its
+   * Effect, before the call leaves. `"with-transition"` is for a row written INSIDE a transition (an
+   * abort, D1): it is kept in memory for the save that carries that transition — a save now would
+   * read the Machine before its route — and saved after the transition if nothing else saves it.
+   * Optional: a bare binding keeps no ledger, and nothing it runs is durable.
+   */
+  recordEffect?: (effectId: string, row: EffectRow, save?: "now" | "with-transition") => void;
+  /**
+   * iid → the abort still in flight for it (ADR-0024). The Agent's Actor fills this on the way out and
    * waits on it before admitting, so an abort can never overtake the next turn on the same
    * instance — flue QUEUES per instance, and an abort that lost that race would settle the new
    * submission before it ran. Created on demand: the ordering must hold for ANY binding, not only
    * one the host remembered to equip.
    */
   pendingAborts?: Map<string, Promise<void>>;
+  /**
+   * A named Chart of the run's own Workflow, by its short name (ADR-0070, D-C): what an Open body
+   * whose input is `{ chart: { name } }` binds. The host resolves it among the Charts of the
+   * wrapper that is the run's Workflow (`<wrapper>` of `<wrapper>/<name>`, or the Workflow itself),
+   * and only for a body that wrapper invokes itself. Absent outside a RunHost: no name resolves.
+   */
+  chartNamed?: (name: string) => ChartText | undefined;
+};
+
+/** A conversation's latest outstanding pick, as the Agent's Actor reads it (ADR-0024). `answered`: the Machine
+ * came back to Rest, or left the Agent's state (`turnComplete`); `fetched`: the answer reached the
+ * model. */
+export type OutstandingPick = {
+  pick: string;
+  answered: boolean;
+  turnComplete: boolean;
+  answer?: PickAnswer;
+  fetched: boolean;
 };
 
 /** One absorbed-retry attempt (a no-signal nudge), as the run feed carries it. */
@@ -330,6 +584,30 @@ export type TurnMarker =
   | { kind: "admission"; agent: string; endpoint: string; prompt: string }
   | { kind: "pick"; agent: string; endpoint: string; event: string; payload?: Record<string, unknown> };
 
+/**
+ * ADR-0064's two feed lines per wait for capacity: a Workspace's Sandbox has no node — `placing`,
+ * with the reason (`on`) and the scheduler's or the quota's own words — and then it has one —
+ * `placed`, `after` milliseconds since `since`. A changed reason adds no line: `RunStatus.waiting`
+ * carries the latest. `child` is the Workspace's actor path below the run root, its ids joined by
+ * `/` (`""` for a run whose root IS the Workspace). Instance-token class like the Turn markers: the
+ * message can name nodes and taints, so these ride the per-run feed alone.
+ */
+export type PlacingMarker =
+  | { kind: "placing"; child: string; on: "node" | "quota"; message: string; since: string }
+  | { kind: "placed"; child: string; since: string; after: number };
+
+/**
+ * A child below an Agent's state failed while a pick of that Agent was outstanding (ADR-0024): the
+ * pick's answer carries no reply for it — the Agent is not told — so the operator reads it here: the
+ * Agent, its pick, the child (its slot, or its invoke id) and the error's message. Instance-token
+ * class like the Turn markers: an error message is mechanism text, as `fault` is.
+ */
+export type ChildErrorMarker = { kind: "child-error"; agent: string; pick: string; child: string; error: string };
+
+/** Every marker a run's mechanism puts on its per-run feed — an Effect's lines among them
+ * (ADR-0067): its start, its stream, its output, its abort. */
+export type RunMarker = TurnMarker | PlacingMarker | ChildErrorMarker | EffectMarker;
+
 const bindings = new WeakMap<AnyActorSystem, RunBinding>();
 
 /** Host-side: bind a run's actor system to its identity, before the actor starts. */
@@ -349,6 +627,12 @@ export function boundEpoch(system: AnyActorSystem, conversation: string): number
   return bindings.get(system)?.epochOf?.(conversation) ?? 0;
 }
 
+/** The bound run, or undefined outside a jr2 host — the SOFT read an Effect uses: with no host it
+ * keeps no ledger and writes no feed, and still runs. */
+export function boundRun(system: AnyActorSystem): RunBinding | undefined {
+  return bindings.get(system);
+}
+
 /** Actor-side: resolve the run this actor tree belongs to. Throws outside a jr2 host. */
 export function runBindingOf(system: AnyActorSystem): RunBinding {
   const binding = bindings.get(system);