@orkestrel/agent 0.0.19 → 0.0.20

package/dist/src/core/index.cjs

@@ -11,14 +11,14 @@ let _orkestrel_workspace = require("@orkestrel/workspace");
 let _orkestrel_budget = require("@orkestrel/budget");
 //#region src/core/constants.ts
 /**
-* The default cap on an {@link AgentInterface} turn's tool iterations — the maximum
+* Caps an {@link AgentInterface} turn's tool iterations by default — the maximum
 * number of context → provider → tools cycles before the loop stops, so a model that
-* keeps requesting tools can never loop forever. Overridable per agent via
+* keeps requesting tools can never loop forever. Overridable per agent through
 * `AgentOptions.limit`.
 */
 var DEFAULT_AGENT_LIMIT = 10;
 /**
-* The zone an {@link AuthorityInterface}'s default fallback {@link AuthorityDecision}
+* Names the zone an {@link AuthorityInterface}'s default fallback {@link AuthorityDecision}
 * carries — the classification for a tool call that matched no rule. Paired with the
 * default `allowed: true` fallback, an unmatched call is allowed under this zone, so a
 * rules list of denials acts as a denylist; a caller wanting deny-by-default supplies
@@ -26,16 +26,16 @@ var DEFAULT_AGENT_LIMIT = 10;
 */
 var DEFAULT_AUTHORITY_ZONE = "default";
 /**
-* The default number of recent live messages a {@link ConversationInterface}'s `compact()`
+* Sets the default number of recent live messages a {@link ConversationInterface}'s `compact()`
 * RETAINS verbatim — `0`, so a manual `compact()` folds ALL of the current live messages
 * into one summarized section (no tail kept). A caller retains a recent tail by passing
 * `keep` (on {@link ConversationOptions}, {@link ConversationManagerOptions}, or per-fold
-* via {@link CompactOptions}), folding only the older `count - keep` messages and leaving
+* through {@link CompactOptions}), folding only the older `count - keep` messages and leaving
 * the most recent `keep` live for the next turn. Overridable everywhere `keep` is accepted.
 */
 var DEFAULT_CONVERSATION_KEEP = 0;
 /**
-* The framing label a {@link ConversationInterface}'s `view()` prefixes onto each compacted
+* Names the framing label a {@link ConversationInterface}'s `view()` prefixes onto each compacted
 * section's summary so a small model reads it as a CONDENSED RECAP of earlier turns — not a
 * literal assistant turn to echo or treat as the live answer.
 *
@@ -50,40 +50,40 @@ var DEFAULT_CONVERSATION_KEEP = 0;
 */
 var CONVERSATION_RECAP_PREFIX = "[Summary of earlier messages] ";
 /**
-* The opening tag a {@link import('./ThinkSplitter.js').ThinkSplitter} recognizes as the start of
+* Names the opening tag a {@link import('./ThinkSplitter.js').ThinkSplitter} recognizes as the start of
 * an in-content reasoning span — the de-facto wire convention thinking models (qwen3, DeepSeek-R1
 * family) emit their chain-of-thought under when a daemon renders it inline instead of on a
 * separate wire field. Paired with {@link THINK_CLOSE}.
 */
 var THINK_OPEN = "<think>";
 /**
-* The closing tag that ends a {@link THINK_OPEN} reasoning span. A span the stream never closes
+* Names the closing tag that ends a {@link THINK_OPEN} reasoning span. A span the stream never closes
 * (the model was cut off mid-reasoning) is treated as thinking to its end —
 * {@link import('./types.js').ThinkSplitterInterface.flush} settles it.
 */
 var THINK_CLOSE = "</think>";
 /**
-* The section header {@link import('./AgentContext.js').AgentContext}'s `build()` renders the
+* Names the section header {@link import('./AgentContext.js').AgentContext}'s `build()` renders the
 * ACTIVE workspace's TEXT files under — the leading line of the dedicated workspace block in the
 * system message, the carrier-split counterpart to the documents / images section headers.
 *
 * @remarks
 * `build()` OWNS the workspace render (a `Workspace` / `WorkspaceManager` stays file-focused — no
-* `description` / `framing` getters), so this header lives here as the agents module's one
+* `open` / `format` getters), so this header lives here as the agents module's one
 * workspace-section framing constant rather than on a manager. Each workspace text file renders
 * beneath it as a fenced `` File: <path>\n```<language>\n<text>\n``` `` block — the SAME framing
-* the documents section uses — placed just after the documents section in the system block.
+* the documents section uses — placed immediately after the documents section in the system block.
 */
 var WORKSPACE_SECTION_HEADER = "## Workspace";
 /**
-* The estimated per-message role/framing overhead {@link import('./helpers.js').estimateMessages}
+* Estimates the per-message role/framing overhead {@link import('./helpers.js').estimateMessages}
 * adds on top of a message's content estimate — accounts for the fixed wire framing every
 * conversation turn carries (its role tag, delimiters) that {@link import('./helpers.js').estimateTokens}'s
 * content-only heuristic does not otherwise capture.
 */
 var MESSAGE_TOKEN_OVERHEAD = 4;
 /**
-* The coarse, deliberately-approximate per-image token cost {@link import('./helpers.js').estimateMessages}
+* Names the coarse, deliberately-approximate per-image token cost {@link import('./helpers.js').estimateMessages}
 * charges for each attached image.
 *
 * @remarks
@@ -96,16 +96,19 @@ var IMAGE_TOKEN_ESTIMATE = 512;
 //#endregion
 //#region src/core/errors.ts
 /**
-* Thrown by a {@link ProviderInterface}'s `stream` when its bound signal aborts
-* mid-flight — carries the {@link ProviderResult} assembled from whatever streamed
-* before the cancel.
+* Reports a provider stream cancelled mid-flight by its bound signal — thrown by a
+* {@link ProviderInterface}'s `stream`, carrying the {@link ProviderResult} assembled
+* from whatever streamed before the cancel.
 *
 * @remarks
 * Lets a caller recover the partial content (and any tool calls / usage seen so far)
 * on cancellation: `catch` the throw, narrow with {@link isProviderAbortError}, and
-* read `partial`.
+* read `partial`. `code` is the machine-readable condition (`'ABORT'` — the only one this
+* error reports), so a `catch` branches on it rather than on the message string.
 */
 var ProviderAbortError = class extends Error {
+	/** Names the machine-readable condition — `'ABORT'`: a stream cancelled mid-flight. */
+	code = "ABORT";
 	partial;
 	constructor(partial) {
 		super("provider stream aborted");
@@ -114,10 +117,10 @@ var ProviderAbortError = class extends Error {
 	}
 };
 /**
-* Narrow an unknown caught value to a {@link ProviderAbortError}.
+* Narrows an unknown caught value to a {@link ProviderAbortError}.
 *
 * @param value - The value to test (typically a `catch` binding)
-* @returns `true` when `value` is a {@link ProviderAbortError}
+* @returns True if `value` is a {@link ProviderAbortError}; false otherwise
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
@@ -132,9 +135,9 @@ function isProviderAbortError(value) {
 	return value instanceof ProviderAbortError;
 }
 /**
-* Thrown by an agent-job handler (a `createAgentQueue` / `createAgentRunner` job) when
-* its {@link AgentInterface} run ended {@link AgentResult.partial} and the job's
-* `allowPartial` policy is `false` (the default) — carries the partial
+* Reports an {@link AgentInterface} run that ended {@link AgentResult.partial} under a
+* `partial` policy of `false` (the default) — thrown by an agent-job handler (a
+* `createAgentQueue` / `createAgentRunner` job), carrying the partial
 * {@link AgentResult} so the failure stays inspectable.
 *
 * @remarks
@@ -142,12 +145,16 @@ function isProviderAbortError(value) {
 * runner abort threaded in, a `timeout` deadline, or an exhausted token `budget`) rather
 * than finishing naturally. For a durable JOB that is a failure by default: throwing this
 * lets the Queue's retries re-run the job and a Runner's fail-fast abort its siblings.
-* Set `allowPartial: true` (see `AgentQueueOptions` / `AgentRunnerOptions`) to treat a
+* Set `partial: true` (see `AgentQueueOptions` / `AgentRunnerOptions`) to treat a
 * partial as success instead, in which case this is never thrown. Narrow a caught value
-* with {@link isAgentJobError} to read `partial`.
+* with {@link isAgentJobError} to read `partial`. `code` is the machine-readable condition
+* (`'PARTIAL'` — the only one this error reports), so a `catch` branches on it rather than on
+* the message string.
 */
 var AgentJobError = class extends Error {
-	/** The partial {@link AgentResult} the cancelled job produced. */
+	/** Names the machine-readable condition — `'PARTIAL'`: a job that ended partial under a disallowing policy. */
+	code = "PARTIAL";
+	/** Holds the partial {@link AgentResult} the cancelled job produced. */
 	partial;
 	constructor(message, partial) {
 		super(message);
@@ -156,10 +163,10 @@ var AgentJobError = class extends Error {
 	}
 };
 /**
-* Narrow an unknown caught value to an {@link AgentJobError}.
+* Narrows an unknown caught value to an {@link AgentJobError}.
 *
 * @param value - The value to test (typically a `catch` binding or a rejected enqueue)
-* @returns `true` when `value` is an {@link AgentJobError}
+* @returns True if `value` is an {@link AgentJobError}; false otherwise
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
@@ -174,22 +181,22 @@ function isAgentJobError(value) {
 	return value instanceof AgentJobError;
 }
 /**
-* Thrown by a {@link ConversationInterface}'s `compact()` when the conversation has no
-* {@link ConversationSummarizer} to fold its messages with, or when its `sections` cap is
-* structurally invalid — carries a machine-readable `code`.
+* Reports a conversation with no {@link ConversationSummaryHandler} to fold its messages
+* with, or with a structurally invalid `sections` cap — thrown by a
+* {@link ConversationInterface}'s `compact()`, carrying a machine-readable `code`.
 *
 * @remarks
 * Compaction REQUIRES a summarizer (it digests the folded slice into a section summary and
 * regenerates the rollup); a conversation created without one can still store + `view()` its
-* live tail, but a `compact()` is a programmer error (§12) and throws this with `'SUMMARIZER'`.
-* A `sections` cap (§F2, on {@link import('./types.js').ConversationOptions} /
+* live tail, but a `compact()` is a programmer error and throws this with `'SUMMARIZER'`.
+* A `sections` cap (on {@link import('./types.js').ConversationOptions} /
 * {@link import('./types.js').ConversationManagerOptions} /
 * {@link import('./types.js').CompactOptions}) must be `>= 1` — a sub-1 cap is a programmer
 * error and throws this with `'SECTIONS'`. Narrow a caught value with
 * {@link isConversationError} and branch on `error.code`.
 */
 var ConversationError = class extends Error {
-	/** The machine-readable condition — `'SUMMARIZER'`: a `compact()` with no summarizer; `'SECTIONS'`: a sub-1 `sections` cap. */
+	/** Names the machine-readable condition — `'SUMMARIZER'`: a `compact()` with no summarizer; `'SECTIONS'`: a sub-1 `sections` cap. */
 	code;
 	constructor(code, message) {
 		super(message);
@@ -198,10 +205,10 @@ var ConversationError = class extends Error {
 	}
 };
 /**
-* Narrow an unknown caught value to a {@link ConversationError}.
+* Narrows an unknown caught value to a {@link ConversationError}.
 *
 * @param value - The value to test (typically a `catch` binding)
-* @returns `true` when `value` is a {@link ConversationError}
+* @returns True if `value` is a {@link ConversationError}; false otherwise
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
@@ -216,19 +223,22 @@ function isConversationError(value) {
 	return value instanceof ConversationError;
 }
 /**
-* Thrown synchronously by an {@link AgentInterface}'s `stream()` when a concurrent run would
-* corrupt SHARED per-agent accounting — carries a machine-readable `code`.
+* Reports a concurrent run that would corrupt SHARED per-agent accounting, or a rehydration
+* name absent from its registry pool — thrown synchronously by an {@link AgentInterface}'s
+* `stream()` and by an {@link AgentRegistryInterface}'s accessors, carrying a machine-readable
+* `code`.
 *
 * @remarks
-* A run already in flight on the same agent, PLUS a construction-level `window` (a shared
-* context budget) or a construction-level `budget` with no per-run override (a shared cost
-* budget), means a second concurrent `stream()` would race its charges against the same
-* shared instance — corrupting the accounting. `code` is `'CONCURRENCY'` (the only condition
-* so far). Use separate agents, or per-run `budget` overrides with no `window`, for genuinely
-* concurrent runs. Narrow a caught value with {@link isAgentError} and branch on `error.code`.
+* `'CONCURRENCY'` reports a run already in flight on the same agent, PLUS a construction-level
+* `window` (a shared context budget) or a construction-level `budget` with no per-run override
+* (a shared cost budget) — a second concurrent `stream()` would race its charges against the
+* same shared instance, corrupting the accounting. Use separate agents, or per-run `budget`
+* overrides with no `window`, for genuinely concurrent runs. `'REGISTRY'` reports a rehydration
+* name absent from its registry pool, on `provider` / `tool` / `authority` / `scheduler` /
+* `build`. Narrow a caught value with {@link isAgentError} and branch on `error.code`.
 */
 var AgentError = class extends Error {
-	/** The machine-readable condition — `'CONCURRENCY'`: a concurrent run on a shared accounting agent. */
+	/** Names the machine-readable condition — `'CONCURRENCY'`: a concurrent run on a shared accounting agent; `'REGISTRY'`: a rehydration name absent from its registry pool. */
 	code;
 	constructor(code, message) {
 		super(message);
@@ -237,10 +247,10 @@ var AgentError = class extends Error {
 	}
 };
 /**
-* Narrow an unknown caught value to an {@link AgentError}.
+* Narrows an unknown caught value to an {@link AgentError}.
 *
 * @param value - The value to test (typically a `catch` binding)
-* @returns `true` when `value` is an {@link AgentError}
+* @returns True if `value` is an {@link AgentError}; false otherwise
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
@@ -255,335 +265,9 @@ function isAgentError(value) {
 	return value instanceof AgentError;
 }
 //#endregion
-//#region src/core/conversations/Conversation.ts
-/**
-* A conversation grouping messages ABOVE a flat message store — a live uncompacted tail it
-* OWNS DIRECTLY plus compacted, summarized {@link SectionInterface}s and a regenerated rollup
-* `summary`, with on-demand `rehydrate` and substring `search`, driven by a provider-agnostic
-* {@link ConversationSummarizer} seam (so `core` never imports a provider).
-*
-* @remarks
-* - **Live tail + sections.** The conversation OWNS its live tail DIRECTLY — `#messages` is an
-*   insertion-ordered `Map` of immutable {@link MessageInterface}s keyed by their minted id
-*   (the SAME store mechanics a flat manager had, folded in: `add` / `message` / `messages` /
-*   `remove` / `clear` / `count`), exactly as a `Workspace` owns its files (no separate
-*   per-value manager). `#sections` are the compacted history (oldest → newest), each a
-*   summarized slice that RETAINS its originals. `#summary` is the rollup (a
-*   summary-of-summaries over all sections), regenerated on each compaction (`undefined`
-*   until the first).
-* - **`view()`.** Each section folds to ONE synthetic summary message (role `'assistant'` — a
-*   prior-context recap — keyed by the section's stable `id`), then the live messages
-*   verbatim. The rollup `summary` is NOT injected (it is separately pull-able); `view()`
-*   carries the per-section summaries, which ARE the compaction benefit.
-* - **`compact()`.** Folds the oldest `count - keep` live messages into a new section
-*   (its `summary` from `#summarize`), removes them from the live tail by id, regenerates the
-*   rollup (a SECOND `#summarize` over all section summaries), and emits `summary` then
-*   `compact`. Returns the section, or `undefined` when nothing folds (`count <= keep`).
-*   THROWS a {@link ConversationError} when no `#summarize` was supplied. Two summarizer calls
-*   per compaction.
-* - **`rehydrate(id)` / `search(query)`.** `rehydrate` returns a section's full original
-*   messages (`[]` for an unknown id) and emits `rehydrate` — a pure read (v1 never
-*   auto-reinserts). `search` is a case-insensitive substring scan of `content` across ALL
-*   messages (every section's originals + the live tail).
-* - **Observable (§13).** The owned {@link emitter} ({@link ConversationEventMap}) carries
-*   `compact` / `summary` / `rehydrate`, emitted directly, strictly AFTER the state change;
-*   the emitter isolates a listener throw and routes it to its `error` handler (the `error`
-*   option), so a buggy observer can never corrupt a compaction.
-*
-* @example
-* ```ts
-* const conversation = new Conversation({ summarize: async (m) => `recap of ${m.length}` })
-* conversation.add([
-* 	{ role: 'user', content: 'Hello' },
-* 	{ role: 'assistant', content: 'Hi there' },
-* ])
-* const section = await conversation.compact() // folds both into one summarized section
-* conversation.view() // [{ role: 'assistant', content: 'recap of 2' }] — the live tail is empty
-* conversation.summary // 'recap of 1' — the rollup over the one section
-* ```
-*/
-var Conversation = class {
-	#id;
-	#emitter;
-	#summarize;
-	#keep;
-	#cap;
-	#sections = [];
-	#summary;
-	#messages = /* @__PURE__ */ new Map();
-	constructor(options, seed) {
-		this.#id = seed?.id ?? options?.id ?? crypto.randomUUID();
-		this.#emitter = new _orkestrel_emitter.Emitter({
-			...options?.on === void 0 ? {} : { on: options.on },
-			...options?.error === void 0 ? {} : { error: options.error }
-		});
-		this.#summarize = options?.summarize;
-		this.#keep = options?.keep ?? 0;
-		if (options?.sections !== void 0 && options.sections < 1) throw new ConversationError("SECTIONS", "a sections cap must be >= 1");
-		this.#cap = options?.sections;
-		if (seed) {
-			this.#summary = seed.summary;
-			for (const section of seed.sections) this.#sections.push(section);
-			for (const message of seed.messages) this.#messages.set(message.id, message);
-		}
-	}
-	get id() {
-		return this.#id;
-	}
-	get emitter() {
-		return this.#emitter;
-	}
-	get summary() {
-		return this.#summary;
-	}
-	get sections() {
-		return [...this.#sections];
-	}
-	get summarizable() {
-		return this.#summarize !== void 0;
-	}
-	get count() {
-		return this.#messages.size;
-	}
-	add(input) {
-		if ((0, _orkestrel_contract.isArray)(input)) return input.map((one) => this.#create(one));
-		return this.#create(input);
-	}
-	message(id) {
-		return this.#messages.get(id);
-	}
-	messages() {
-		return [...this.#messages.values()];
-	}
-	remove(ids) {
-		if ((0, _orkestrel_contract.isArray)(ids)) {
-			let removed = false;
-			for (const id of ids) if (this.#messages.delete(id)) removed = true;
-			return removed;
-		}
-		return this.#messages.delete(ids);
-	}
-	clear() {
-		this.#messages.clear();
-	}
-	view() {
-		return [...this.#sections.map((section) => this.#recapMessage(section)), ...this.#messages.values()];
-	}
-	async compact(options) {
-		const summarize = this.#summarize;
-		if (summarize === void 0) throw new ConversationError("SUMMARIZER", "cannot compact a conversation without a summarizer");
-		const cap = options?.sections ?? this.#cap;
-		if (cap !== void 0 && cap < 1) throw new ConversationError("SECTIONS", "a sections cap must be >= 1");
-		const keep = options?.keep ?? this.#keep;
-		const live = [...this.#messages.values()];
-		const fold = keep <= 0 ? live.length : live.length - keep;
-		if (fold <= 0) return void 0;
-		const slice = live.slice(0, fold);
-		const summary = await summarize(slice);
-		const section = {
-			id: crypto.randomUUID(),
-			summary,
-			messages: slice
-		};
-		for (const message of slice) this.#messages.delete(message.id);
-		this.#sections.push(section);
-		if (cap !== void 0 && this.#sections.length > cap) {
-			const overflow = this.#sections.length - cap + 1;
-			const folded = this.#sections.slice(0, overflow);
-			try {
-				const merged = {
-					id: crypto.randomUUID(),
-					summary: await summarize(folded.map((one) => this.#summaryMessage(one))),
-					messages: folded.flatMap((one) => one.messages)
-				};
-				this.#sections.splice(0, overflow, merged);
-				this.#emitter.emit("collapse", merged);
-			} catch (error) {
-				this.#summary = await summarize(this.#sections.map((one) => this.#summaryMessage(one)));
-				this.#emitter.emit("summary", this.#summary);
-				throw error;
-			}
-		}
-		this.#summary = await summarize(this.#sections.map((one) => this.#summaryMessage(one)));
-		this.#emitter.emit("summary", this.#summary);
-		this.#emitter.emit("compact", section);
-		return section;
-	}
-	rehydrate(id) {
-		const section = this.#sections.find((one) => one.id === id);
-		this.#emitter.emit("rehydrate", id);
-		return section === void 0 ? [] : section.messages;
-	}
-	search(query) {
-		const needle = query.toLowerCase();
-		return [...this.#sections.flatMap((section) => section.messages), ...this.#messages.values()].filter((message) => message.content.toLowerCase().includes(needle));
-	}
-	reference(options) {
-		const lines = [`[Reference — conversation "${options?.label ?? this.#id}" — NOT part of this conversation]`];
-		if (options?.summary !== false && this.#summary !== void 0) lines.push(`Summary: ${this.#summary}`);
-		const messages = options?.messages ?? [];
-		if (messages.length > 0) {
-			lines.push("Relevant messages:");
-			for (const message of messages) lines.push(`- ${message.role}: ${message.content}`);
-		}
-		return lines.join("\n");
-	}
-	snapshot() {
-		return {
-			id: this.#id,
-			...this.#summary === void 0 ? {} : { summary: this.#summary },
-			sections: this.sections,
-			messages: this.messages()
-		};
-	}
-	#summaryMessage(section) {
-		return {
-			id: section.id,
-			role: "assistant",
-			content: section.summary
-		};
-	}
-	#recapMessage(section) {
-		return {
-			id: section.id,
-			role: "assistant",
-			content: `${CONVERSATION_RECAP_PREFIX}${section.summary}`
-		};
-	}
-	#create(input) {
-		const message = {
-			id: crypto.randomUUID(),
-			role: input.role,
-			content: input.content,
-			...input.calls === void 0 ? {} : { calls: input.calls },
-			...input.images === void 0 ? {} : { images: input.images }
-		};
-		this.#messages.set(message.id, message);
-		return message;
-	}
-};
-//#endregion
-//#region src/core/conversations/ConversationManager.ts
-/**
-* The registry of {@link Conversation}s keyed by `id`, in insertion order, WITH an active pointer
-* — the §9 store over the conversation layer PLUS the `active` / `switch` seam the
-* {@link import('../AgentContext.js').AgentContext} renders. Event-free (a registry, like
-* {@link import('@orkestrel/workspace').WorkspaceManager}); the observability lives
-* on each {@link Conversation}.
-*
-* @remarks
-* - **Registry.** Conversations live in an insertion-ordered `Map` keyed by `id`. `add(input?)`
-*   mints a {@link Conversation} (its `id` from `input` or `crypto.randomUUID()`), flowing the
-*   manager's default `#summarize` / `#keep` in unless the `input` OVERRIDES them, and stores
-*   it (an already-present `id` OVERWRITES — last write wins). `count` is the map size,
-*   `conversation(id)` looks one up, `conversations()` lists them in insertion order.
-* - **Active pointer.** `active` is the active conversation (the agent's message source the
-*   context renders), `undefined` until the FIRST `add` (which auto-activates it — a registry
-*   with conversations always has one active). A subsequent `add` leaves `active` unchanged.
-*   `switch(id)` re-points `active` to the conversation with `id` and returns it; an unknown `id`
-*   returns `undefined` and leaves `active` unchanged (the lenient lookup style — never throws,
-*   no new error code).
-* - **Removal.** `remove` drops one by id, or a batch (§9.2) — `true` when any was removed;
-*   removing the ACTIVE conversation sets `active` to `undefined`. `clear` empties the registry
-*   and sets `active` to `undefined`.
-* - **Event-free.** A purely registry store — no Emitter, no events (each conversation owns
-*   its own observable `emitter`).
-*
-* @example
-* ```ts
-* const manager = new ConversationManager({ summarize: async (m) => `recap of ${m.length}` })
-* const conversation = manager.add() // auto-activates — active === conversation
-* manager.add({ id: 'scratch' }) // leaves active unchanged
-* manager.switch('scratch') // re-points active to the 'scratch' conversation
-* manager.count // 2
-* ```
-*/
-var ConversationManager = class {
-	#conversations = /* @__PURE__ */ new Map();
-	#active;
-	#summarize;
-	#keep;
-	#sections;
-	#store;
-	constructor(options) {
-		this.#summarize = options?.summarize;
-		this.#keep = options?.keep ?? 0;
-		this.#sections = options?.sections;
-		this.#store = options?.store;
-	}
-	get count() {
-		return this.#conversations.size;
-	}
-	get active() {
-		return this.#active === void 0 ? void 0 : this.#conversations.get(this.#active);
-	}
-	conversation(id) {
-		return this.#conversations.get(id);
-	}
-	conversations() {
-		return [...this.#conversations.values()];
-	}
-	add(input) {
-		const sections = input?.sections ?? this.#sections;
-		const summarize = input?.summarize ?? this.#summarize;
-		const conversation = new Conversation({
-			...input?.id === void 0 ? {} : { id: input.id },
-			...input?.on === void 0 ? {} : { on: input.on },
-			...summarize === void 0 ? {} : { summarize },
-			keep: input?.keep ?? this.#keep,
-			...sections === void 0 ? {} : { sections }
-		}, input?.snapshot);
-		this.#conversations.set(conversation.id, conversation);
-		if (this.#active === void 0) this.#active = conversation.id;
-		return conversation;
-	}
-	switch(id) {
-		const conversation = this.#conversations.get(id);
-		if (conversation === void 0) return void 0;
-		this.#active = id;
-		return conversation;
-	}
-	async open(id) {
-		const existing = this.#conversations.get(id);
-		if (existing !== void 0) {
-			this.#active = id;
-			return existing;
-		}
-		if (this.#store === void 0) return void 0;
-		const snapshot = await this.#store.get(id);
-		if (snapshot === void 0) return void 0;
-		const conversation = this.add({ snapshot });
-		this.#active = conversation.id;
-		return conversation;
-	}
-	async save(id) {
-		const conversation = this.#conversations.get(id);
-		if (this.#store === void 0 || conversation === void 0) return false;
-		await this.#store.set(conversation.snapshot());
-		return true;
-	}
-	remove(ids) {
-		if ((0, _orkestrel_contract.isArray)(ids)) {
-			let removed = false;
-			for (const id of ids) if (this.#drop(id)) removed = true;
-			return removed;
-		}
-		return this.#drop(ids);
-	}
-	clear() {
-		this.#conversations.clear();
-		this.#active = void 0;
-	}
-	#drop(id) {
-		const removed = this.#conversations.delete(id);
-		if (removed && this.#active === id) this.#active = void 0;
-		return removed;
-	}
-};
-//#endregion
 //#region src/core/helpers.ts
 /**
-* Project an unknown value onto the canonical JSON representation of an
+* Projects an unknown value onto the canonical JSON representation of an
 * {@link AgentResult}.
 *
 * @remarks
@@ -638,7 +322,7 @@ function agentResultToJSON(value) {
 	return captured.success ? (0, _orkestrel_contract.parseJSONValue)(captured.value) : void 0;
 }
 /**
-* Filter a list of items by a {@link import('./types.js').ScopeInterface} allow-list of
+* Filters a list of items by a {@link import('./types.js').ScopeInterface} allow-list of
 * keys — the pure, total set-membership primitive the context's build step and the agent
 * loop's tool-advertise step apply a scope through.
 *
@@ -655,7 +339,7 @@ function agentResultToJSON(value) {
 * @typeParam T - The item type being filtered
 * @param allow - The allow-list of keys (`undefined` ⇒ all, `[]` ⇒ none, else only-listed)
 * @param items - The items to filter (returned unchanged when `allow` is `undefined`)
-* @param key - Extracts the key an item is matched on (e.g. an instruction's `name`)
+* @param key - Extracts the key an item is matched on (for example an instruction's `name`)
 * @returns The items that pass the allow-list, in their original order
 *
 * @example
@@ -673,7 +357,7 @@ function filterAllowList(allow, items, key) {
 	return items.filter((item) => set.has(key(item)));
 }
 /**
-* Estimate the context-token footprint of a string — the deterministic char-based heuristic
+* Estimates the context-token footprint of a string — the deterministic char-based heuristic
 * {@link estimateMessages} sums over a conversation's messages (the default context-budget
 * estimator).
 *
@@ -698,7 +382,7 @@ function estimateTokens(text) {
 	return Math.ceil(text.length / 4);
 }
 /**
-* Estimate the context-token footprint of a batch of messages — the default `consume`
+* Estimates the context-token footprint of a batch of messages — the default `consumer`
 * estimator for an agent's context `BudgetInterface` (a budgets surface's tracking contract)
 * (the {@link import('./types.js').AgentOptions} `window`).
 *
@@ -710,7 +394,7 @@ function estimateTokens(text) {
 * deliberately-approximate per-image cost — a base64 length is NOT a token proxy). Deterministic
 * and provider-free — the same messages always yield the same estimate, with an empty batch `0`.
 * It is the fully-swappable default an agent's auto-compaction context budget charges each
-* turn's new messages through; a caller wanting a sharper count supplies its own `consume` to
+* turn's new messages through; a caller wanting a sharper count supplies its own `consumer` to
 * `createBudget` instead. Total — never throws: a `calls` `JSON.stringify` that throws (a
 * circular `ToolCall.arguments`) is caught and replaced with a conservative fixed contribution of
 * {@link import('./constants.js').MESSAGE_TOKEN_OVERHEAD} (the same per-message overhead scale)
@@ -739,47 +423,48 @@ function estimateMessages(messages) {
 	}, 0);
 }
 /**
-* Run one rehydrated agent and apply the partial-as-configurable-failure policy — the
+* Runs one rehydrated agent and applies the partial-as-configurable-failure policy — the
 * shared job-handler step BOTH `createAgentQueue` and `createAgentRunner` settle each job
 * through, so the policy can never diverge between them.
 *
 * @remarks
 * A turn that committed PARTIAL (a cancel — abort / budget / timeout) is by default a
 * FAILURE, so it THROWS an {@link import('./errors.js').AgentJobError} carrying the partial
-* (the Queue's retries + a Runner's fail-fast then engage); with `allowPartial` it RESOLVES
-* the partial as success instead. A natural finish ALWAYS resolves with its result.
+* (the Queue's retries + a Runner's fail-fast then engage); the `partial` policy RESOLVES
+* it as success instead. A natural finish ALWAYS resolves with its result.
 *
 * @param agent - The rehydrated {@link AgentInterface} to run to its {@link AgentResult}
-* @param allowPartial - When `true`, a partial result resolves as success; when `false`
-*   (the default policy), a partial result throws an {@link AgentJobError}
-* @returns The agent's {@link AgentResult} (a natural finish, or a partial when `allowPartial`)
-* @throws {AgentJobError} When the run ended `partial` and `allowPartial` is `false`
+* @param partial - The partial policy. If `true`, a partial result resolves as success; if
+*   `false` (the default policy), a partial result throws an {@link AgentJobError}
+* @returns The agent's {@link AgentResult} (a natural finish, or a partial one under the
+*   `partial` policy)
+* @throws {AgentJobError} Thrown when the run ended partial and the `partial` policy is `false`
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
 * const result = await settleAgentJob(registry.build(input, signal), false)
 * ```
 */
-async function settleAgentJob(agent, allowPartial) {
+async function settleAgentJob(agent, partial) {
 	const result = await agent.generate();
-	if (result.partial && !allowPartial) throw new AgentJobError("agent job ended partial", result);
+	if (result.partial && !partial) throw new AgentJobError("agent job ended partial", result);
 	return result;
 }
 /**
-* Handle one queued agent job by rehydrating it through a registry with the queue
+* Handles one queued agent job by rehydrating it through a registry with the queue
 * attempt's signal, then applying the shared partial-result policy.
 *
 * @param registry - The registry that rehydrates the serializable job
-* @param allowPartial - Whether a partial result resolves instead of throwing
+* @param partial - The partial policy. If `true`, a partial result resolves; if `false`, it throws
 * @param input - The serializable agent job
-* @param execution - The queue attempt whose signal bounds the agent
+* @param context - The queue attempt whose signal bounds the agent
 * @returns The settled agent result
 */
-function handleAgentQueueJob(registry, allowPartial, input, execution) {
-	return settleAgentJob(registry.build(input, execution.signal), allowPartial);
+function handleAgentQueueJob(registry, partial, input, context) {
+	return settleAgentJob(registry.build(input, context.signal), partial);
 }
 /**
-* Handle one runner agent job by fanning out its declared children, rehydrating the
+* Handles one runner agent job by fanning out its declared children, rehydrating the
 * parent through a registry with the controller signal, and applying the shared
 * partial-result policy.
 *
@@ -788,189 +473,779 @@ function handleAgentQueueJob(registry, allowPartial, input, execution) {
 * inline, preserving bounded-runner progress.
 *
 * @param registry - The registry that rehydrates serializable jobs
-* @param allowPartial - Whether a partial result resolves instead of throwing
+* @param partial - The partial policy. If `true`, a partial result resolves; if `false`, it throws
 * @param controller - The runner controller for this parent job
 * @returns The settled parent agent result
 */
-function handleAgentRunnerJob(registry, allowPartial, controller) {
+function handleAgentRunnerJob(registry, partial, controller) {
 	const children = controller.input.children;
 	if (children !== void 0) for (const child of children) controller.spawn(child);
-	return settleAgentJob(registry.build(controller.input, controller.signal), allowPartial);
+	return settleAgentJob(registry.build(controller.input, controller.signal), partial);
 }
 /**
-* Whether an `unknown` is structurally a {@link MessageInterface} record — the per-message step of
-* the {@link isConversationSnapshot} read-boundary narrow (AGENTS §14: narrow an untrusted storage
-* read via a guard, never an `as`). The conversation analogue of
-* {@link import('@orkestrel/workspace').isFile}.
+* Renders a path-addressed text body as a fenced reference block — the framing an
+* {@link import('./AgentContext.js').AgentContext}'s ACTIVE-workspace text-file render emits (the
+* active workspace is the SOLE document/image context).
 *
 * @remarks
-* A total guard (it NEVER throws — adversarial input returns `false`). It checks the message's
-* SHAPE: a record with a `string` `id`, a `string` `role`, a `string` `content`, and — WHEN present
-* — a `calls` array EVERY element of which is a valid
-* {@link import('@orkestrel/tool').ToolCall} ({@link isToolCall} — the
-* ASI06 fail-closed deepening: a tampered `calls` element rejects the message, so the snapshot
-* reads back as absent rather than replaying a malformed call) and an `images` that is an array
-* (an absent optional passes). The `role` is left as a broad `string` here (an open
-* {@link import('./types.js').MessageRole}, so any storage-read role string is accepted
-* defensively rather than rejected against the current literal set). Enough to safely impose the
-* {@link MessageInterface} type at
-* a storage boundary WITHOUT a cast.
+* Produces `` File: <path>\n```<language>\n<content>\n``` `` — the `File:` label line, then a
+* fenced code block tagged with `language`, the `content` verbatim inside. Pure string assembly,
+* total — never throws. The one fenced-file format string for the whole module — `AgentContext.build()`
+* frames an active workspace's text files with it (each carries its own `language` on its
+* {@link import('@orkestrel/workspace').FileContent} text arm).
+*
+* @param path - The file path shown on the `File:` label line
+* @param language - The fenced-code language tag (for example `'typescript'`)
+* @param content - The file body rendered verbatim inside the fence
+* @returns The fenced reference block
+*
+* @example
+* ```ts
+* import { renderFencedFile } from '@orkestrel/agent'
+*
+* renderFencedFile('src/main.ts', 'typescript', 'const x = 1')
+* // 'File: src/main.ts\n```typescript\nconst x = 1\n```'
+* ```
+*/
+function renderFencedFile(path, language, content) {
+	return `File: ${path}\n\`\`\`${language}\n${content}\n\`\`\``;
+}
+/**
+* Sanitizes one reported token count into a safe non-negative integer.
+*
+* @param value - The token count to sanitize
+* @returns The floored count, or `0` when the value is non-finite or non-positive
+*/
+function sanitizeToken(value) {
+	return Number.isFinite(value) && value > 0 ? Math.floor(value) : 0;
+}
+/**
+* Sanitizes a {@link TokenUsage} into safe, non-negative integers — the guard an agent's
+* abort-usage path applies to a provider's partial usage before it is charged against a
+* budget or folded into the run total.
+*
+* @remarks
+* Per field (`prompt` / `completion` / `total`): a non-finite value (`NaN`, `+Infinity`,
+* `-Infinity`) or a negative value floors to `0`; a fractional value floors to its
+* non-negative integer part. No upper cap is applied. Total — never throws.
+*
+* @param usage - The token usage to sanitize (for example a provider's abort-partial usage)
+* @returns A new {@link TokenUsage} with every field a safe non-negative integer
+*
+* @example
+* ```ts
+* sanitizeUsage({ prompt: -5, completion: NaN, total: 12.7 }) // { prompt: 0, completion: 0, total: 12 }
+* ```
+*/
+function sanitizeUsage(usage) {
+	return {
+		prompt: sanitizeToken(usage.prompt),
+		completion: sanitizeToken(usage.completion),
+		total: sanitizeToken(usage.total)
+	};
+}
+/**
+* Joins the reasoning a run's provider calls separated from the answer — the first call
+* seeds the accumulation, a later call appends blank-line separated so each turn's reasoning
+* stays readable.
+*
+* @remarks
+* Pure and total. `running` is `undefined` until a call surfaces reasoning, so the first join
+* returns `next` verbatim (no leading separator). The result is display/audit metadata that
+* never re-enters the conversation.
+*
+* @param running - The reasoning accumulated so far (`undefined` before the first)
+* @param next - This call's separated reasoning
+* @returns The joined reasoning
+*
+* @example
+* ```ts
+* joinThinking(undefined, 'first') // 'first'
+* joinThinking('first', 'second') // 'first\n\nsecond'
+* ```
+*/
+function joinThinking(running, next) {
+	return running === void 0 ? next : `${running}\n\n${next}`;
+}
+/**
+* Adds two {@link TokenUsage} values field by field — the running total an agent run keeps
+* across its provider calls.
+*
+* @remarks
+* Pure and total: the first call seeds the total (`running` `undefined` returns `next`
+* unchanged), later calls accumulate. No sanitization happens here — charge a provider's
+* reported usage through {@link sanitizeUsage} first.
+*
+* @param running - The total so far (`undefined` before the first usage-bearing call)
+* @param next - This call's reported usage
+* @returns The summed usage
+*
+* @example
+* ```ts
+* sumUsage(undefined, { prompt: 2, completion: 1, total: 3 }) // { prompt: 2, completion: 1, total: 3 }
+* sumUsage({ prompt: 2, completion: 1, total: 3 }, { prompt: 1, completion: 1, total: 2 })
+* // { prompt: 3, completion: 2, total: 5 }
+* ```
+*/
+function sumUsage(running, next) {
+	if (running === void 0) return next;
+	return {
+		prompt: running.prompt + next.prompt,
+		completion: running.completion + next.completion,
+		total: running.total + next.total
+	};
+}
+/**
+* Assembles the settled {@link AgentResult} from a run's {@link RunOutcome} — `thinking` and
+* `usage` are carried only when the run surfaced them.
+*
+* @remarks
+* Pure and total. An absent optional is OMITTED rather than stored as `undefined` (the
+* present-when-given convention the message store follows), so a settled result JSON
+* round-trips without an explicit `undefined` field. `exhausted` is loop bookkeeping and does
+* not reach the public result — the `exhaust` event carries it instead.
+*
+* @param outcome - The run's settled outcome
+* @returns The public {@link AgentResult}
+*
+* @example
+* ```ts
+* assembleResult({ content: 'hi', thinking: undefined, usage: undefined, partial: false, exhausted: false })
+* // { content: 'hi', partial: false }
+* ```
+*/
+function assembleResult(outcome) {
+	const result = {
+		content: outcome.content,
+		partial: outcome.partial
+	};
+	if (outcome.thinking !== void 0) result.thinking = outcome.thinking;
+	if (outcome.usage !== void 0) result.usage = outcome.usage;
+	return result;
+}
+/**
+* Synthesizes the denial {@link ToolResult} an authority-blocked call is fed back with — the
+* call's `id` / `name` keyed back, carrying a denial `error` instead of a value.
+*
+* @remarks
+* Pure and total. The rule's `reason` is rendered as `denied: <reason>` when one was given,
+* else the generic `denied by authority`. There is no `value`, so the agent loop feeds it back
+* exactly like a tool error and the model can react to it.
+*
+* @param call - The denied {@link ToolCall}
+* @param reason - The rule's explanation, or `undefined` for the generic denial
+* @returns The failure-arm {@link ToolResult}
+*
+* @example
+* ```ts
+* denyCall({ id: '1', name: 'drop', arguments: {} }, 'read-only mode')
+* // { success: false, id: '1', name: 'drop', error: 'denied: read-only mode' }
+* ```
+*/
+function denyCall(call, reason) {
+	return {
+		success: false,
+		id: call.id,
+		name: call.name,
+		error: reason !== void 0 ? `denied: ${reason}` : "denied by authority"
+	};
+}
+/**
+* Renders one context section — the resolved `open`, each item's rendering, and the resolved
+* `close` when one exists, blank-line joined.
+*
+* @remarks
+* Pure and total. A section with NO items renders nothing (`undefined`), so an empty or fully
+* scoped-out manager stays silent — its `open` / `close` never appear without items. `close`
+* is the only optional slot: an unset one (there is no built-in close) drops the
+* trailing line.
+*
+* @typeParam T - The section item being rendered
+* @param open - The section's resolved leading text
+* @param items - The already scope-filtered items
+* @param render - Renders one item to its prompt text
+* @param close - The section's resolved trailing text, or `undefined` for none
+* @returns The rendered section, or `undefined` when there are no items
+*
+* @example
+* ```ts
+* renderSection('## Instructions', [{ content: 'Be terse.' }], (one) => one.content, undefined)
+* // '## Instructions\n\nBe terse.'
+* renderSection('<rules>', [], (one) => one.content, '</rules>') // undefined (no items)
+* ```
+*/
+function renderSection(open, items, render, close) {
+	if (items.length === 0) return void 0;
+	const lines = [open, ...items.map(render)];
+	if (close !== void 0) lines.push(close);
+	return lines.join("\n\n");
+}
+/**
+* Resolves one section's OPEN text through the format cascade — manager-options override >
+* provider default > built-in header.
+*
+* @remarks
+* Pure and total. The leading text has NO per-item level. A manager's `open` already
+* encapsulates `[options-override → built-in]`, so it is reached only when neither the
+* override's `open` nor the provider's `open` applies — and there it IS the built-in header.
+*
+* @typeParam T - The section item the manager renders
+* @param manager - The section source (its `format` override + its built-in `open`)
+* @param provider - The provider-default framing for this section, or `undefined`
+* @returns The section's leading text
+*
+* @example
+* ```ts
+* resolveOpen(instructions, undefined) // '## Instructions' (the built-in header)
+* resolveOpen(instructions, { open: '<rules>' }) // '<rules>' (the provider default)
+* ```
+*/
+function resolveOpen(manager, provider) {
+	return manager.format?.open ?? provider?.open ?? manager.open;
+}
+/**
+* Resolves one section's CLOSE text through the format cascade — manager-options override >
+* provider default.
+*
+* @remarks
+* Pure and total. There is NO built-in close, so a section with neither level set returns
+* `undefined` and {@link renderSection} appends no closing line. Paired with
+* {@link resolveOpen}, one level can WRAP the whole group.
+*
+* @typeParam T - The section item the manager renders
+* @param manager - The section source (its `format` override)
+* @param provider - The provider-default framing for this section, or `undefined`
+* @returns The section's trailing text, or `undefined` when no level sets one
+*
+* @example
+* ```ts
+* resolveClose(instructions, undefined) // undefined (no built-in close)
+* resolveClose(instructions, { close: '</rules>' }) // '</rules>'
+* ```
+*/
+function resolveClose(manager, provider) {
+	return manager.format?.close ?? provider?.close;
+}
+/**
+* Resolves ONE item's rendering through the format cascade — item override >
+* manager-options override > provider default > built-in rendering.
+*
+* @remarks
+* Pure and total. The item's own `override` is the most-specific level (a fully-rendered
+* string for that item alone). A manager's `render(item)` already encapsulates
+* `[options-override → built-in]`, so it is reached only when no higher level applies — and
+* there it IS the built-in rendering.
+*
+* @typeParam T - The section item being rendered (it may carry its own `override`)
+* @param manager - The section source (its `format` override + its built-in `render`)
+* @param provider - The provider-default framing for this section, or `undefined`
+* @param item - The item to render
+* @returns The item's prompt text
+*
+* @example
+* ```ts
+* resolveItem(instructions, undefined, terse) // 'Be terse.' (the built-in rendering)
+* resolveItem(instructions, { render: (one) => `<rule>${one.content}</rule>` }, terse)
+* // '<rule>Be terse.</rule>'
+* ```
+*/
+function resolveItem(manager, provider, item) {
+	return item.override ?? manager.format?.render?.(item) ?? provider?.render?.(item) ?? manager.render(item);
+}
+/**
+* Copies a message with image data merged onto its `images` — the message's own images
+* first, then the attached data.
+*
+* @remarks
+* Pure and total: the original message is NEVER mutated. `calls` is carried only when the
+* source message has one (kept omitted otherwise, mirroring the store's present-when-given
+* convention).
+*
+* @param message - The message to copy (left unchanged)
+* @param data - The base64 image data to attach
+* @returns A new message carrying the merged `images`
+*
+* @example
+* ```ts
+* attachImages({ id: '1', role: 'user', content: 'Describe' }, ['<payload>'])
+* // { id: '1', role: 'user', content: 'Describe', images: ['<payload>'] }
+* ```
+*/
+function attachImages(message, data) {
+	const images = [...message.images ?? [], ...data];
+	return message.calls === void 0 ? {
+		id: message.id,
+		role: message.role,
+		content: message.content,
+		images
+	} : {
+		id: message.id,
+		role: message.role,
+		content: message.content,
+		calls: message.calls,
+		images
+	};
+}
+/**
+* Attaches image data to a conversation's LAST user message — the turn a vision provider
+* reads images off.
+*
+* @remarks
+* Pure and total: the conversation and its messages are NEVER mutated, and the returned array
+* replaces exactly the one target message with the copy {@link attachImages} builds. Empty
+* data returns the conversation unchanged; a conversation with NO user message returns it
+* unchanged too (there is nowhere to attach, and the images already rode the system block).
 *
-* @param value - The value to test (one element of a snapshot's `messages` / a section's `messages`)
-* @returns `true` when `value` has the structural shape of a {@link MessageInterface}
+* @param conversation - The messages to attach into (left unchanged)
+* @param data - The base64 image data to attach
+* @returns The conversation with its last user message replaced by the carrying copy
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
-* isMessage({ id: '1', role: 'user', content: 'hi' }) // true
-* isMessage({ id: '1', role: 'assistant', content: '', calls: [] }) // true
-* isMessage({ id: '1', role: 'user' }) // false (missing content)
-* isMessage({ id: '1', role: 'assistant', content: '', calls: [null] }) // false (malformed call)
+* attachUserImages([{ id: '1', role: 'user', content: 'Describe' }], ['<payload>'])
+* // [{ id: '1', role: 'user', content: 'Describe', images: ['<payload>'] }]
 * ```
 */
-function isMessage(value) {
-	if (!(0, _orkestrel_contract.isRecord)(value)) return false;
-	if (!(0, _orkestrel_contract.isString)(value.id) || !(0, _orkestrel_contract.isString)(value.role) || !(0, _orkestrel_contract.isString)(value.content)) return false;
-	if (value.calls !== void 0 && !((0, _orkestrel_contract.isArray)(value.calls) && value.calls.every(_orkestrel_tool.isToolCall))) return false;
-	return value.images === void 0 || (0, _orkestrel_contract.isArray)(value.images);
+function attachUserImages(conversation, data) {
+	if (data.length === 0) return conversation;
+	let target = -1;
+	for (let index = conversation.length - 1; index >= 0; index -= 1) if (conversation[index]?.role === "user") {
+		target = index;
+		break;
+	}
+	if (target === -1) return conversation;
+	return conversation.map((message, index) => index === target ? attachImages(message, data) : message);
 }
 /**
-* Whether an `unknown` is structurally a {@link SectionInterface} record — the per-section step of
-* the {@link isConversationSnapshot} read-boundary narrow (AGENTS §14: narrow an untrusted storage
-* read via a guard, never an `as`).
+* Collects the `base64` payload of the IMAGE files in a workspace file list — the data an
+* agent context attaches to the last user message.
 *
 * @remarks
-* A total guard (it NEVER throws — adversarial input returns `false`). It checks the section's
-* SHAPE: a record with a `string` `id`, a `string` `summary`, and a `messages` array EVERY element
-* of which is a valid {@link MessageInterface} record ({@link isMessage}). Enough to safely impose
-* the {@link SectionInterface} type at a storage boundary WITHOUT a cast.
+* Pure and total. `isBinary` NARROWS the tagless content to its binary arm (a total guard,
+* never an assertion), then the MIME prefix gates it to an image, so a text file and a non-image
+* binary (a PDF) are both skipped. Order follows the file list.
 *
-* @param value - The value to test (one element of a snapshot's `sections` array)
-* @returns `true` when `value` has the structural shape of a {@link SectionInterface}
+* @param files - The (already scope-filtered) workspace files
+* @returns The `base64` payload of each image file, in file order
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
-* isSection({ id: 's', summary: 'recap', messages: [{ id: '1', role: 'user', content: 'hi' }] }) // true
-* isSection({ id: 's', summary: 'recap', messages: 'nope' }) // false
-* isSection({ id: 's', messages: [] }) // false (missing summary)
+* collectImageData([createFile({ path: 'a.png', content: { base64: '<payload>', mime: 'image/png' } })])
+* // ['<payload>']
 * ```
 */
-function isSection(value) {
-	if (!(0, _orkestrel_contract.isRecord)(value)) return false;
-	if (!(0, _orkestrel_contract.isString)(value.id) || !(0, _orkestrel_contract.isString)(value.summary)) return false;
-	return (0, _orkestrel_contract.isArray)(value.messages) && value.messages.every(isMessage);
+function collectImageData(files) {
+	const data = [];
+	for (const file of files) if ((0, _orkestrel_workspace.isBinary)(file.content) && file.content.mime.startsWith("image/")) data.push(file.content.base64);
+	return data;
 }
 /**
-* Narrow an `unknown` to a {@link ConversationSnapshot} — the AGENTS §14 boundary guard for an
-* UNTRUSTED snapshot read (a storage row a
-* {@link import('./conversations/stores/DatabaseConversationStore.js').DatabaseConversationStore}
-* reads back from its opaque JSON column, a snapshot loaded from disk). The EXACT analogue of
-* {@link import('@orkestrel/workspace').isWorkspaceSnapshot}.
+* Builds the RAW synthetic summary message for one compacted section — role `'assistant'`,
+* the section's stable `id`, its `summary` VERBATIM as content.
 *
 * @remarks
-* A total guard (it NEVER throws — adversarial input returns `false`). It checks the snapshot's
-* SHAPE: a `string` `id`, an OPTIONAL `string` `summary` (present-or-absent — the rollup is
-* `undefined` until the first compaction), a `sections` array EVERY element of which is a valid
-* {@link SectionInterface} ({@link isSection}), and a `messages` array EVERY element of which is a
-* valid {@link MessageInterface} ({@link isMessage}) — enough to safely impose the
-* {@link ConversationSnapshot} type at a storage boundary WITHOUT a cast. The structural twin of
-* {@link import('@orkestrel/workspace').isWorkspaceSnapshot}. A malformed blob (a non-record, a missing / non-string `id`, a
-* non-string `summary` when present, a non-array `sections` / `messages`, or any malformed
-* element) resolves `false`, so a
-* {@link import('./conversations/stores/DatabaseConversationStore.js').DatabaseConversationStore}
-* read yields `undefined` rather than a broken conversation.
+* Pure and total. This is the unframed form the rollup regeneration digests (a
+* summary-of-summaries over the section summaries); the recap LABEL is a `view()`
+* presentation concern kept out of what the summarizer re-reads — see
+* {@link buildRecapMessage}.
 *
-* @param value - The value to test (an opaque storage read)
-* @returns `true` when `value` has the structural shape of a {@link ConversationSnapshot}
+* @param section - The compacted section to render
+* @returns The synthetic summary message
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
-* isConversationSnapshot({ id: 'c1', sections: [], messages: [] }) // true
-* isConversationSnapshot({ id: 'c1', summary: 'recap', sections: [], messages: [] }) // true
-* isConversationSnapshot({ id: 'c1', sections: 'nope', messages: [] }) // false
-* isConversationSnapshot({ sections: [], messages: [] }) // false (missing id)
+* buildSummaryMessage({ id: 's1', summary: 'recap', messages: [] })
+* // { id: 's1', role: 'assistant', content: 'recap' }
 * ```
 */
-function isConversationSnapshot(value) {
-	if (!(0, _orkestrel_contract.isRecord)(value)) return false;
-	if (!(0, _orkestrel_contract.isString)(value.id)) return false;
-	if (value.summary !== void 0 && !(0, _orkestrel_contract.isString)(value.summary)) return false;
-	if (!(0, _orkestrel_contract.isArray)(value.sections) || !value.sections.every(isSection)) return false;
-	return (0, _orkestrel_contract.isArray)(value.messages) && value.messages.every(isMessage);
+function buildSummaryMessage(section) {
+	return {
+		id: section.id,
+		role: "assistant",
+		content: section.summary
+	};
 }
 /**
-* Render a path-addressed text body as a fenced reference block — the framing an
-* {@link import('./AgentContext.js').AgentContext}'s ACTIVE-workspace text-file render emits (the
-* active workspace is the SOLE document/image context).
+* Builds the FRAMED recap message for one compacted section — the same role and stable `id`
+* as {@link buildSummaryMessage}, with the content prefixed by
+* {@link import('./constants.js').CONVERSATION_RECAP_PREFIX}.
 *
 * @remarks
-* Produces `` File: <path>\n```<language>\n<content>\n``` `` — the `File:` label line, then a
-* fenced code block tagged with `language`, the `content` verbatim inside. Pure string assembly,
-* total — never throws. The one fenced-file format string for the whole module — `AgentContext.build()`
-* frames an active workspace's text files with it (each carries its own `language` on its
-* {@link import('@orkestrel/workspace').FileContent} text arm).
+* Pure and total. The prefix is what makes a small model read the message as a CONDENSED
+* RECAP of earlier turns rather than a literal assistant turn to echo or answer from. It is a
+* fixed handful of tokens, so a conversation's `view()` stays lean however many sections it
+* carries.
 *
-* @param path - The file path shown on the `File:` label line
-* @param language - The fenced-code language tag (e.g. `'typescript'`)
-* @param content - The file body rendered verbatim inside the fence
-* @returns The fenced reference block
+* @param section - The compacted section to render
+* @returns The framed recap message
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
-* import { fencedFile } from '@src/core'
-*
-* fencedFile('src/main.ts', 'typescript', 'const x = 1')
-* // 'File: src/main.ts\n```typescript\nconst x = 1\n```'
+* buildRecapMessage({ id: 's1', summary: 'recap', messages: [] })
+* // { id: 's1', role: 'assistant', content: `${CONVERSATION_RECAP_PREFIX}recap` }
 * ```
 */
-function fencedFile(path, language, content) {
-	return `File: ${path}\n\`\`\`${language}\n${content}\n\`\`\``;
+function buildRecapMessage(section) {
+	return {
+		id: section.id,
+		role: "assistant",
+		content: `${CONVERSATION_RECAP_PREFIX}${section.summary}`
+	};
 }
 /**
-* Sanitize one reported token count into a safe non-negative integer.
+* Intersects two scope category lists under the "`undefined` is the universal set" rule — the
+* primitive a scope narrows through.
 *
-* @param value - The token count to sanitize
-* @returns The floored count, or `0` when the value is non-finite or non-positive
+* @remarks
+* Pure and total, and it can only TIGHTEN: `undefined` ∩ `undefined` is `undefined` (still no
+* constraint); `undefined` ∩ a list is a COPY of that list (the `undefined` side imposes
+* nothing); a list ∩ a list keeps the child keys the parent also allows, so a parent-excluded
+* key can never be re-admitted. Every returned list is a fresh copy, so a later mutation of
+* either input cannot leak into the result.
+*
+* @param parent - The parent's allow-list (`undefined` ⇒ no constraint)
+* @param child - The narrowing allow-list (`undefined` ⇒ no constraint)
+* @returns The intersected allow-list, or `undefined` when neither side constrains
+*
+* @example
+* ```ts
+* intersectKeys(['read', 'write'], ['write', 'admin']) // ['write']
+* intersectKeys(undefined, ['read']) // ['read']
+* intersectKeys(undefined, undefined) // undefined
+* ```
 */
-function sanitizeToken(value) {
-	return Number.isFinite(value) && value > 0 ? Math.floor(value) : 0;
+function intersectKeys(parent, child) {
+	if (parent === void 0) return child === void 0 ? void 0 : [...child];
+	if (child === void 0) return [...parent];
+	const allowed = new Set(parent);
+	return child.filter((key) => allowed.has(key));
 }
+//#endregion
+//#region src/core/conversations/Conversation.ts
 /**
-* Sanitize a {@link TokenUsage} into safe, non-negative integers — the guard an agent's
-* abort-usage path applies to a provider's partial usage before it is charged against a
-* budget or folded into the run total.
+* Represents a conversation — a live uncompacted tail of messages it OWNS DIRECTLY ABOVE a
+* flat message store, plus compacted, summarized {@link Section}s and a regenerated rollup
+* `summary`, with on-demand `rehydrate` and substring `search`, driven by a provider-agnostic
+* {@link ConversationSummaryHandler} seam (so `core` never imports a provider).
 *
 * @remarks
-* Per field (`prompt` / `completion` / `total`): a non-finite value (`NaN`, `+Infinity`,
-* `-Infinity`) or a negative value floors to `0`; a fractional value floors to its
-* non-negative integer part. No upper cap is applied. Total — never throws.
+* - **Live tail + sections.** The conversation OWNS its live tail DIRECTLY — `#messages` is an
+*   insertion-ordered `Map` of immutable {@link Message}s keyed by their minted id
+*   (the SAME store mechanics a flat manager had, folded in: `add` / `message` / `messages` /
+*   `remove` / `clear` / `count`), exactly as a `Workspace` owns its files (no separate
+*   per-value manager). `#sections` are the compacted history (oldest → newest), each a
+*   summarized slice that RETAINS its originals. `#summary` is the rollup (a
+*   summary-of-summaries over all sections), regenerated on each compaction (`undefined`
+*   until the first).
+* - **`view()`.** Each section folds to ONE synthetic summary message (role `'assistant'` — a
+*   prior-context recap — keyed by the section's stable `id`), then the live messages
+*   verbatim. The rollup `summary` is NOT injected (it is separately pull-able); `view()`
+*   carries the per-section summaries, which ARE the compaction benefit.
+* - **`compact()`.** Folds the oldest `count - keep` live messages into a new section
+*   (its `summary` from `#summarize`), removes them from the live tail by id, regenerates the
+*   rollup (a SECOND `#summarize` over all section summaries), and emits `summary` then
+*   `compact`. Returns the section, or `undefined` when nothing folds (`count <= keep`).
+*   THROWS a {@link ConversationError} when no `#summarize` was supplied. Two summarizer calls
+*   per compaction.
+* - **`rehydrate(id)` / `search(query)`.** `rehydrate` returns a section's full original
+*   messages (`[]` for an unknown id) and emits `rehydrate` — a pure read (the caller decides
+*   whether to re-add them; `rehydrate` never reinserts). `search` is a case-insensitive
+*   substring scan of `content` across ALL messages (every section's originals + the live tail).
+* - **Observable.** The owned {@link emitter} ({@link ConversationEventMap}) carries
+*   `compact` / `summary` / `rehydrate`, emitted directly, strictly AFTER the state change;
+*   the emitter isolates a listener throw and routes it to its `error` handler (the `error`
+*   option), so a buggy observer can never corrupt a compaction.
 *
-* @param usage - The token usage to sanitize (e.g. a provider's abort-partial usage)
-* @returns A new {@link TokenUsage} with every field a safe non-negative integer
+* @example
+* ```ts
+* const conversation = new Conversation({ summarize: async (m) => `recap of ${m.length}` })
+* conversation.add([
+* 	{ role: 'user', content: 'Hello' },
+* 	{ role: 'assistant', content: 'Hi there' },
+* ])
+* const section = await conversation.compact() // folds both into one summarized section
+* conversation.view() // [{ role: 'assistant', content: 'recap of 2' }] — the live tail is empty
+* conversation.summary // 'recap of 1' — the rollup over the one section
+* ```
+*/
+var Conversation = class {
+	#id;
+	#emitter;
+	#summarize;
+	#keep;
+	#cap;
+	#sections = [];
+	#summary;
+	#messages = /* @__PURE__ */ new Map();
+	constructor(options) {
+		const snapshot = options?.snapshot;
+		this.#id = snapshot?.id ?? options?.id ?? crypto.randomUUID();
+		this.#emitter = new _orkestrel_emitter.Emitter({
+			...options?.on === void 0 ? {} : { on: options.on },
+			...options?.error === void 0 ? {} : { error: options.error }
+		});
+		this.#summarize = options?.summarize;
+		this.#keep = options?.keep ?? 0;
+		if (options?.sections !== void 0 && options.sections < 1) throw new ConversationError("SECTIONS", "a sections cap must be >= 1");
+		this.#cap = options?.sections;
+		if (snapshot !== void 0) {
+			this.#summary = snapshot.summary;
+			for (const section of snapshot.sections) this.#sections.push(section);
+			for (const message of snapshot.messages) this.#messages.set(message.id, message);
+		}
+	}
+	get id() {
+		return this.#id;
+	}
+	get emitter() {
+		return this.#emitter;
+	}
+	get summary() {
+		return this.#summary;
+	}
+	get sections() {
+		return [...this.#sections];
+	}
+	get summarizable() {
+		return this.#summarize !== void 0;
+	}
+	get count() {
+		return this.#messages.size;
+	}
+	add(input) {
+		if ((0, _orkestrel_contract.isArray)(input)) return input.map((one) => this.#create(one));
+		return this.#create(input);
+	}
+	message(id) {
+		return this.#messages.get(id);
+	}
+	messages() {
+		return [...this.#messages.values()];
+	}
+	remove(ids) {
+		if ((0, _orkestrel_contract.isArray)(ids)) {
+			let removed = true;
+			for (const id of ids) if (!this.#messages.delete(id)) removed = false;
+			return removed;
+		}
+		return this.#messages.delete(ids);
+	}
+	clear() {
+		this.#messages.clear();
+	}
+	view() {
+		return [...this.#sections.map((section) => buildRecapMessage(section)), ...this.#messages.values()];
+	}
+	async compact(options) {
+		const summarize = this.#summarize;
+		if (summarize === void 0) throw new ConversationError("SUMMARIZER", "cannot compact a conversation without a summarizer");
+		const cap = options?.sections ?? this.#cap;
+		if (cap !== void 0 && cap < 1) throw new ConversationError("SECTIONS", "a sections cap must be >= 1");
+		const keep = options?.keep ?? this.#keep;
+		const live = [...this.#messages.values()];
+		const fold = keep <= 0 ? live.length : live.length - keep;
+		if (fold <= 0) return void 0;
+		const slice = live.slice(0, fold);
+		const summary = await summarize(slice);
+		const section = {
+			id: crypto.randomUUID(),
+			summary,
+			messages: slice
+		};
+		for (const message of slice) this.#messages.delete(message.id);
+		this.#sections.push(section);
+		if (cap !== void 0 && this.#sections.length > cap) {
+			const overflow = this.#sections.length - cap + 1;
+			const folded = this.#sections.slice(0, overflow);
+			try {
+				const merged = {
+					id: crypto.randomUUID(),
+					summary: await summarize(folded.map((one) => buildSummaryMessage(one))),
+					messages: folded.flatMap((one) => one.messages)
+				};
+				this.#sections.splice(0, overflow, merged);
+				this.#emitter.emit("collapse", merged);
+			} catch (error) {
+				this.#summary = await summarize(this.#sections.map((one) => buildSummaryMessage(one)));
+				this.#emitter.emit("summary", this.#summary);
+				throw error;
+			}
+		}
+		this.#summary = await summarize(this.#sections.map((one) => buildSummaryMessage(one)));
+		this.#emitter.emit("summary", this.#summary);
+		this.#emitter.emit("compact", section);
+		return section;
+	}
+	rehydrate(id) {
+		const section = this.#sections.find((one) => one.id === id);
+		this.#emitter.emit("rehydrate", id);
+		return section === void 0 ? [] : section.messages;
+	}
+	search(query) {
+		const needle = query.toLowerCase();
+		return [...this.#sections.flatMap((section) => section.messages), ...this.#messages.values()].filter((message) => message.content.toLowerCase().includes(needle));
+	}
+	reference(options) {
+		const lines = [`[Reference — conversation "${options?.label ?? this.#id}" — NOT part of this conversation]`];
+		if (options?.summary !== false && this.#summary !== void 0) lines.push(`Summary: ${this.#summary}`);
+		const messages = options?.messages ?? [];
+		if (messages.length > 0) {
+			lines.push("Relevant messages:");
+			for (const message of messages) lines.push(`- ${message.role}: ${message.content}`);
+		}
+		return lines.join("\n");
+	}
+	snapshot() {
+		return {
+			id: this.#id,
+			...this.#summary === void 0 ? {} : { summary: this.#summary },
+			sections: this.sections,
+			messages: this.messages()
+		};
+	}
+	#create(input) {
+		const message = {
+			id: crypto.randomUUID(),
+			role: input.role,
+			content: input.content,
+			...input.calls === void 0 ? {} : { calls: input.calls },
+			...input.images === void 0 ? {} : { images: input.images }
+		};
+		this.#messages.set(message.id, message);
+		return message;
+	}
+};
+//#endregion
+//#region src/core/conversations/ConversationManager.ts
+/**
+* Registers {@link Conversation}s keyed by `id`, in insertion order, WITH an active pointer
+* — the id-keyed store over the conversation layer PLUS the `active` / `switch` seam the
+* {@link import('../AgentContext.js').AgentContext} renders. Event-free (a registry, like
+* {@link import('@orkestrel/workspace').WorkspaceManager}); the observability lives
+* on each {@link Conversation}.
+*
+* @remarks
+* - **Registry.** Conversations live in an insertion-ordered `Map` keyed by `id`. `add(input?)`
+*   mints a {@link Conversation} (its `id` from `input` or `crypto.randomUUID()`), flowing the
+*   manager's default `#summarize` / `#keep` in unless the `input` OVERRIDES them, and stores
+*   it (an already-present `id` OVERWRITES — last write wins). `count` is the map size,
+*   `conversation(id)` looks one up, `conversations()` lists them in insertion order.
+* - **Active pointer.** `active` is the active conversation (the agent's message source the
+*   context renders), `undefined` until the FIRST `add` (which auto-activates it — a registry
+*   with conversations always has one active). A subsequent `add` leaves `active` unchanged.
+*   `switch(id)` re-points `active` to the conversation with `id` and returns it; an unknown `id`
+*   returns `undefined` and leaves `active` unchanged (the lenient lookup style — never throws,
+*   no new error code).
+* - **Removal.** `remove` drops one by id, or a batch — `true` only when EVERY supplied id was
+*   removed; removing the ACTIVE conversation sets `active` to `undefined`. `clear` empties the registry
+*   and sets `active` to `undefined`.
+* - **Event-free.** A purely registry store — no Emitter, no events (each conversation owns
+*   its own observable `emitter`).
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
-* sanitizeUsage({ prompt: -5, completion: NaN, total: 12.7 }) // { prompt: 0, completion: 0, total: 12 }
+* const manager = new ConversationManager({ summarize: async (m) => `recap of ${m.length}` })
+* const conversation = manager.add() // auto-activates — active === conversation
+* manager.add({ id: 'scratch' }) // leaves active unchanged
+* manager.switch('scratch') // re-points active to the 'scratch' conversation
+* manager.count // 2
 * ```
 */
-function sanitizeUsage(usage) {
-	return {
-		prompt: sanitizeToken(usage.prompt),
-		completion: sanitizeToken(usage.completion),
-		total: sanitizeToken(usage.total)
-	};
-}
+var ConversationManager = class {
+	#conversations = /* @__PURE__ */ new Map();
+	#active;
+	#summarize;
+	#keep;
+	#sections;
+	#store;
+	constructor(options) {
+		this.#summarize = options?.summarize;
+		this.#keep = options?.keep ?? 0;
+		this.#sections = options?.sections;
+		this.#store = options?.store;
+	}
+	get count() {
+		return this.#conversations.size;
+	}
+	get active() {
+		return this.#active === void 0 ? void 0 : this.#conversations.get(this.#active);
+	}
+	conversation(id) {
+		return this.#conversations.get(id);
+	}
+	conversations() {
+		return [...this.#conversations.values()];
+	}
+	add(input) {
+		const sections = input?.sections ?? this.#sections;
+		const summarize = input?.summarize ?? this.#summarize;
+		const conversation = new Conversation({
+			...input?.id === void 0 ? {} : { id: input.id },
+			...input?.on === void 0 ? {} : { on: input.on },
+			...summarize === void 0 ? {} : { summarize },
+			keep: input?.keep ?? this.#keep,
+			...sections === void 0 ? {} : { sections },
+			...input?.snapshot === void 0 ? {} : { snapshot: input.snapshot }
+		});
+		this.#conversations.set(conversation.id, conversation);
+		if (this.#active === void 0) this.#active = conversation.id;
+		return conversation;
+	}
+	switch(id) {
+		const conversation = this.#conversations.get(id);
+		if (conversation === void 0) return void 0;
+		this.#active = id;
+		return conversation;
+	}
+	async open(id) {
+		const existing = this.#conversations.get(id);
+		if (existing !== void 0) {
+			this.#active = id;
+			return existing;
+		}
+		if (this.#store === void 0) return void 0;
+		const snapshot = await this.#store.get(id);
+		if (snapshot === void 0) return void 0;
+		const conversation = this.add({ snapshot });
+		this.#active = conversation.id;
+		return conversation;
+	}
+	async save(id) {
+		const conversation = this.#conversations.get(id);
+		if (this.#store === void 0 || conversation === void 0) return false;
+		await this.#store.set(conversation.snapshot());
+		return true;
+	}
+	remove(ids) {
+		if ((0, _orkestrel_contract.isArray)(ids)) {
+			let removed = true;
+			for (const id of ids) if (!this.#drop(id)) removed = false;
+			return removed;
+		}
+		return this.#drop(ids);
+	}
+	clear() {
+		this.#conversations.clear();
+		this.#active = void 0;
+	}
+	#drop(id) {
+		const removed = this.#conversations.delete(id);
+		if (removed && this.#active === id) this.#active = void 0;
+		return removed;
+	}
+};
 //#endregion
 //#region src/core/instructions/Instruction.ts
 /**
-* An immutable named directive — a {@link InstructionInterface} assembled once from its
-* input (`name` / `content`, an optional `priority` defaulting to `0`), the `id` minted
-* at construction.
+* Represents an immutable named directive — a {@link InstructionInterface} assembled once
+* from its input (`name` / `content`, an optional `priority` defaulting to `0`), the `id`
+* minted at construction.
 *
 * @remarks
 * A thin immutable value object (mirroring {@link import('@orkestrel/tool').Tool}): the
 * constructor mints a fresh `id` (`crypto.randomUUID()`), copies the input's `name` /
 * `content`, resolves `priority` to the input's value or `0`, and carries the input's
-* per-item `format` override ONLY when supplied (assigned just when present, mirroring a
+* per-item `override` ONLY when supplied (assigned when present, mirroring a
 * message's `images` / `calls` present-when-given convention — kept absent otherwise).
 * Never mutated after construction. An
 * {@link import('./InstructionManager.js').InstructionManager} keys it by `name` and
@@ -987,38 +1262,38 @@ var Instruction = class {
 	name;
 	content;
 	priority;
-	format;
+	override;
 	constructor(input) {
 		this.id = crypto.randomUUID();
 		this.name = input.name;
 		this.content = input.content;
 		this.priority = input.priority ?? 0;
-		if (input.format !== void 0) this.format = input.format;
+		if (input.override !== void 0) this.override = input.override;
 	}
 };
 //#endregion
 //#region src/core/instructions/InstructionManager.ts
 /**
-* The instruction registry a richer context assembles a directives block from —
-* immutable {@link Instruction}s keyed by `name`, listed by descending `priority`.
+* Registers the immutable {@link Instruction}s a richer context assembles a directives
+* block from — keyed by `name`, listed by descending `priority`.
 *
 * @remarks
 * - **Registry.** Instructions live in an insertion-ordered `Map` keyed by `name`;
-*   `add` takes one {@link InstructionInput} or a batch (§9.2), MINTS each instruction's
+*   `add` takes one {@link InstructionInput} or a batch, MINTS each instruction's
 *   `id`, and a re-`add` of the same name OVERWRITES it (last write wins). `count` is the
 *   map size, `instruction(name)` looks one up, and `instructions()` lists them SORTED by
 *   descending `priority` (a stable sort, so equal priorities keep insertion order).
-* - **Build contract (with the manager-options override).** `description` is the section
-*   header a context renders the instructions under; `format(instruction)` renders one
+* - **Build contract (with the manager-options override).** `open` is the section
+*   header a context renders the instructions under; `render(instruction)` renders one
 *   instruction (its `content`). Each ENCAPSULATES the cascade's `[options-override →
 *   built-in]` half: when `InstructionManagerOptions.format` supplies an `open` /
-*   `render`, `description` / `format` return IT, else the built-in — so a richer context
+*   `render`, `open` / `render` return IT, else the built-in — so a richer context
 *   reads one consistent pair and layers the provider default + per-item override on top
 *   (see {@link import('../AgentContext.js').AgentContext}). The per-item
-*   {@link InstructionInput.format} is round-tripped onto the stored instruction.
-* - **Removal.** `remove` drops one by name, or a batch (§9.2) — `true` when any was
-*   removed; `clear` empties the registry.
-* - **Observable (§13).** The owned {@link emitter} ({@link InstructionManagerEventMap})
+*   {@link InstructionInput.override} is round-tripped onto the stored instruction.
+* - **Removal.** `remove` drops one by name, or a batch — `true` only when EVERY supplied
+*   name was removed; `clear` empties the registry.
+* - **Observable.** The owned {@link emitter} ({@link InstructionManagerEventMap})
 *   carries `add` (the created instruction) / `remove` (the name) / `clear` for
 *   fire-and-forget observers. Every event is emitted directly, strictly AFTER the map
 *   mutation completes; the emitter isolates a listener throw and routes it to its `error`
@@ -1051,10 +1326,10 @@ var InstructionManager = class {
 	get count() {
 		return this.#instructions.size;
 	}
-	get description() {
+	get open() {
 		return this.#format?.open ?? "## Instructions";
 	}
-	get framing() {
+	get format() {
 		return this.#format;
 	}
 	add(input) {
@@ -1067,13 +1342,13 @@ var InstructionManager = class {
 	instructions() {
 		return [...this.#instructions.values()].sort((a, b) => b.priority - a.priority);
 	}
-	format(instruction) {
+	render(instruction) {
 		return this.#format?.render?.(instruction) ?? instruction.content;
 	}
 	remove(names) {
 		if ((0, _orkestrel_contract.isArray)(names)) {
-			let removed = false;
-			for (const name of names) if (this.#delete(name)) removed = true;
+			let removed = true;
+			for (const name of names) if (!this.#delete(name)) removed = false;
 			return removed;
 		}
 		return this.#delete(names);
@@ -1097,8 +1372,8 @@ var InstructionManager = class {
 //#endregion
 //#region src/core/AgentContext.ts
 /**
-* The richer turn context the agent loop assembles a provider request from — the optional
-* system prompt, the observable context managers (instructions / workspaces), the
+* Assembles a provider request from the richer turn context — the optional system prompt, the
+* observable context managers (instructions / workspaces), the
 * {@link ConversationManagerInterface} message source (whose active conversation IS `messages`),
 * the {@link ToolManagerInterface} registry, and an active {@link ScopeInterface} changed through
 * {@link AgentContextInterface.apply}.
@@ -1119,7 +1394,7 @@ var InstructionManager = class {
 *   {@link MessageManagerInterface} structurally — the same reference, no duplication), and
 *   `build()` folds that conversation's `view()` (its per-section summaries + live tail) as the
 *   AUTHORITATIVE message inclusion — the scope does NOT filter the conversation (it owns inclusion
-*   via compaction; scope filters only instructions / tools / workspace files). Because `messages`
+*   through compaction; scope filters only instructions / tools / workspace files). Because `messages`
 *   is read dynamically, an agent SWITCHES the active
 *   conversation BETWEEN runs (`conversations.switch(id)`) to serve MANY threads (the real
 *   multi-conversation pattern); switch between runs, not during a run, and use separate agents
@@ -1129,31 +1404,31 @@ var InstructionManager = class {
 *   (each as a block: the section's resolved `open` text, each item's resolved rendering, then
 *   any resolved `close` text) into ONE leading `system` message (prepended only when at least
 *   one part exists), then appends the ACTIVE conversation's `view()` (the conversation owns
-*   message inclusion via compaction — the scope does NOT filter the conversation). Each
+*   message inclusion through compaction — the scope does NOT filter the conversation). Each
 *   `open` / item / `close`
 *   resolves INDEPENDENTLY, MOST-SPECIFIC-FIRST — `build()`'s optional `format` (a provider's
 *   per-section default) is the PROVIDER level: `open` = manager-options-override > provider >
 *   built-in; per item = item-override > manager-options-override > provider > built-in; `close` =
 *   manager-options-override > provider (NO built-in ⇒ no closing line when unset) (see
 *   {@link AgentContextInterface.build}). Passing NO `format` (and with no overrides / no per-item
-*   format) reproduces the built-in framing byte-for-byte (each section is its built-in header +
-*   items, no closing line). The active workspace's scoped-in image files' `data` is attached to
+*   override) reproduces the built-in framing byte-for-byte (each section is its built-in header +
+*   items, no closing line). The active workspace's scoped-in image files' `base64` payload is attached to
 *   the LAST user message (a vision provider reads images off a user turn); when no user message
 *   exists the attachment is skipped. Built fresh each call (recomputed, never cached), so it
 *   always reflects the current managers / messages / scope / active workspace; it never mutates a
 *   manager or the stored messages.
 * - **The ACTIVE workspace, rendered BY CARRIER — the SOLE document/image context.**
-*   `workspaces.active` (when set) has its {@link FileInterface}s scope-filtered by `scope.files`,
+*   `workspaces.active` (when set) has its {@link import('@orkestrel/workspace').FileInterface}s scope-filtered by `scope.files`,
 *   then split: TEXT files fold into a dedicated `## Workspace` system section (fenced reference
-*   blocks — placed right after the instructions section), and IMAGE files' base64 `data` attaches
+*   blocks — placed right after the instructions section), and IMAGE files' `base64` payload attaches
 *   to the last user message. ACTIVE-ONLY — never the other registered workspaces; with no active
 *   workspace nothing renders for workspaces. `build()` OWNS this render (a `Workspace` /
 *   `WorkspaceManager` stays file-focused).
 * - **Tools are structural, not in the prompt.** The registry is advertised to the provider
-*   via `tools.definitions()` (scope-filtered by the loop), NEVER serialized into the
+*   through `tools.definitions()` (scope-filtered by the loop), NEVER serialized into the
 *   message array — so `build()`'s output carries no tool content, scoped or not.
 * - **Event-free context; observable managers.** The context itself owns no Emitter; the
-*   context managers each carry their own (the §13 observation surface).
+*   context managers each carry their own (the push observation surface).
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
@@ -1208,12 +1483,12 @@ var AgentContext = class {
 		const parts = [];
 		if (this.#system !== void 0) parts.push(this.#system);
 		const instructions = filterAllowList(scope?.instructions, this.#instructions.instructions(), (one) => one.name);
-		this.#section(parts, this.#header(this.#instructions, format?.instructions), instructions, (one) => this.#render(this.#instructions, format?.instructions, one), this.#footer(this.#instructions, format?.instructions));
+		const instructed = renderSection(resolveOpen(this.#instructions, format?.instructions), instructions, (one) => resolveItem(this.#instructions, format?.instructions, one), resolveClose(this.#instructions, format?.instructions));
+		if (instructed !== void 0) parts.push(instructed);
 		const files = filterAllowList(scope?.files, this.#workspaces.active?.files() ?? [], (one) => one.path);
-		const workspaceTexts = files.filter((file) => (0, _orkestrel_workspace.isText)(file.content));
-		this.#section(parts, WORKSPACE_SECTION_HEADER, workspaceTexts, (file) => this.#fenced(file), void 0);
-		const conversation = (this.#conversations.active ?? this.#ensure()).view();
-		const tail = this.#attach(conversation, this.#workspaceImages(files));
+		const documented = renderSection(WORKSPACE_SECTION_HEADER, files.filter((file) => (0, _orkestrel_workspace.isText)(file.content)), (file) => (0, _orkestrel_workspace.isText)(file.content) ? renderFencedFile(file.path, file.content.language, file.content.text) : renderFencedFile(file.path, "text", ""), void 0);
+		if (documented !== void 0) parts.push(documented);
+		const tail = attachUserImages((this.#conversations.active ?? this.#ensure()).view(), collectImageData(files));
 		if (parts.length === 0) return tail;
 		return [{
 			id: crypto.randomUUID(),
@@ -1221,55 +1496,6 @@ var AgentContext = class {
 			content: parts.join("\n\n")
 		}, ...tail];
 	}
-	#section(parts, open, items, format, close) {
-		if (items.length === 0) return;
-		const lines = [open, ...items.map(format)];
-		if (close !== void 0) lines.push(close);
-		parts.push(lines.join("\n\n"));
-	}
-	#header(manager, provider) {
-		return manager.framing?.open ?? provider?.open ?? manager.description;
-	}
-	#footer(manager, provider) {
-		return manager.framing?.close ?? provider?.close;
-	}
-	#render(manager, provider, item) {
-		return item.format ?? manager.framing?.render?.(item) ?? provider?.render?.(item) ?? manager.format(item);
-	}
-	#attach(conversation, data) {
-		if (data.length === 0) return conversation;
-		let target = -1;
-		for (let index = conversation.length - 1; index >= 0; index -= 1) if (conversation[index]?.role === "user") {
-			target = index;
-			break;
-		}
-		if (target === -1) return conversation;
-		return conversation.map((message, index) => index === target ? this.#withImages(message, data) : message);
-	}
-	#withImages(message, data) {
-		const images = [...message.images ?? [], ...data];
-		return message.calls === void 0 ? {
-			id: message.id,
-			role: message.role,
-			content: message.content,
-			images
-		} : {
-			id: message.id,
-			role: message.role,
-			content: message.content,
-			calls: message.calls,
-			images
-		};
-	}
-	#fenced(file) {
-		if ((0, _orkestrel_workspace.isText)(file.content)) return fencedFile(file.path, file.content.language, file.content.text);
-		return fencedFile(file.path, "text", "");
-	}
-	#workspaceImages(files) {
-		const data = [];
-		for (const file of files) if ((0, _orkestrel_workspace.isBinary)(file.content) && file.content.mime.startsWith("image/")) data.push(file.content.data);
-		return data;
-	}
 	#ensure() {
 		const conversation = this.#conversations.add();
 		return this.#conversations.active ?? conversation;
@@ -1278,9 +1504,9 @@ var AgentContext = class {
 //#endregion
 //#region src/core/Channel.ts
 /**
-* A minimal unbounded async channel — the eager pump WRITES chunks into it (`push`)
-* and ends it (`close` / `fail`) regardless of consumption; a consumer READS them back
-* live via the `drain` async-iterator. Decoupling write from read is what lets a
+* Buffers chunks in a minimal unbounded async channel — the eager pump WRITES them in
+* (`push`) and ends it (`close` / `fail`) regardless of consumption; a consumer READS them back
+* live through the `drain` async-iterator. Decoupling write from read is what lets a
 * producer make progress without a consumer pulling.
 *
 * @remarks
@@ -1341,15 +1567,15 @@ var Channel = class {
 //#endregion
 //#region src/core/Agent.ts
 /**
-* The agent loop — composes a {@link ProviderInterface}, an {@link AgentContext}, and
-* a {@link ToolManagerInterface} into a bounded context → provider → tools → repeat
+* Composes a {@link ProviderInterface}, an {@link AgentContext}, and a
+* {@link ToolManagerInterface} into a bounded context → provider → tools → repeat
 * turn, exposed as both a one-shot `generate` and a live `stream`.
 *
 * @remarks
 * - **One loop, two faces.** A single private async generator (`#run`) drives the
 *   whole turn. `stream` kicks off an eager pump that iterates `#run` into a private
 *   {@link Channel}, settling `result` from the run's outcome — so `result` settles
-*   whether or not the live `events` are drained; `generate` simply awaits that same
+*   whether or not the live `events` are drained; `generate` awaits that same
 *   settled `result` — so the two can never diverge.
 * - **The turn.** `#run` builds the provider input once (`context.build()` into a
 *   working array) then loops up to `limit`: drive `provider.stream(...)` accumulating
@@ -1358,7 +1584,7 @@ var Channel = class {
 *   tools, append the assistant turn, `execute` them, yield a `tool` chunk per call,
 *   append each tool result message, and continue; otherwise append the final
 *   assistant message and stop.
-* - **Bounded.** Each run arms one cancel via `createAbort({ signal: AbortSignal.any([
+* - **Bounded.** Each run arms one cancel through `createAbort({ signal: AbortSignal.any([
 *   …]) })` folding the external `signal`, the `timeout` deadline, and the `budget`
 *   signal; `abort()` fires it. Any trip stops the loop and commits a PARTIAL result
 *   (the `result` promise RESOLVES, never rejects, on a cancel) — only a genuine
@@ -1381,6 +1607,7 @@ var Channel = class {
 * ```
 */
 var Agent = class {
+	#id;
 	#provider;
 	#context;
 	#limit;
@@ -1392,10 +1619,10 @@ var Agent = class {
 	#window;
 	#strict;
 	#emitter;
-	id = crypto.randomUUID();
-	#status = "idle";
+	#settled = "idle";
 	#runs = /* @__PURE__ */ new Set();
 	constructor(provider, options) {
+		this.#id = crypto.randomUUID();
 		this.#provider = provider;
 		this.#context = new AgentContext({
 			...options?.system === void 0 ? {} : { system: options.system },
@@ -1418,11 +1645,14 @@ var Agent = class {
 			...options?.error === void 0 ? {} : { error: options.error }
 		});
 	}
+	get id() {
+		return this.#id;
+	}
 	get emitter() {
 		return this.#emitter;
 	}
 	get status() {
-		return this.#status;
+		return this.#runs.size > 0 ? "running" : this.#settled;
 	}
 	get context() {
 		return this.#context;
@@ -1441,18 +1671,10 @@ var Agent = class {
 		const signal = this.#parents(timeout, budget, options?.signal);
 		const abort = (0, _orkestrel_abort.createAbort)(signal === void 0 ? {} : { signal });
 		this.#runs.add(abort);
-		this.#status = "running";
 		this.#emitter.emit("start", this.id);
-		const state = { outcome: {
-			content: "",
-			thinking: void 0,
-			usage: void 0,
-			partial: false,
-			exhausted: false
-		} };
 		const channel = new Channel();
-		const settled = (0, _orkestrel_workflow.createDeferred)();
-		this.#pump(abort, state, timeout, channel, settled, options?.think, options?.schema, limit, budget);
+		const settled = Promise.withResolvers();
+		this.#pump(abort, timeout, channel, settled, options?.think, options?.schema, limit, budget);
 		settled.promise.catch(() => {});
 		return {
 			events: this.#events(channel, abort),
@@ -1463,26 +1685,38 @@ var Agent = class {
 	abort(reason) {
 		for (const abort of [...this.#runs]) abort.abort(reason);
 	}
-	async #pump(abort, state, timeout, channel, settled, think, schema, limit, budget) {
+	async #pump(abort, timeout, channel, settled, think, schema, limit, budget) {
 		let failure;
+		let outcome = {
+			content: "",
+			thinking: void 0,
+			usage: void 0,
+			partial: false,
+			exhausted: false
+		};
 		try {
-			for await (const chunk of this.#run(abort, state, think, schema, limit, budget)) channel.push(chunk);
+			const run = this.#run(abort, think, schema, limit, budget);
+			let next = await run.next();
+			while (next.done !== true) {
+				channel.push(next.value);
+				next = await run.next();
+			}
+			outcome = next.value;
 		} catch (error) {
 			failure = { error };
 		} finally {
 			timeout?.clear();
 			this.#runs.delete(abort);
 			if (failure === void 0) {
-				const outcome = state.outcome;
-				this.#status = "done";
+				this.#settled = "done";
 				channel.close();
-				const result = this.#result(outcome);
+				const result = assembleResult(outcome);
 				settled.resolve(result);
 				if (outcome.exhausted) this.#emitter.emit("exhaust", limit);
 				else if (outcome.partial) this.#emitter.emit("abort", abort.signal.reason);
 				this.#emitter.emit("finish", result);
 			} else {
-				this.#status = "error";
+				this.#settled = "error";
 				channel.fail(failure.error);
 				settled.reject(failure.error);
 				this.#emitter.emit("error", failure.error);
@@ -1496,7 +1730,7 @@ var Agent = class {
 			abort.abort();
 		}
 	}
-	async *#run(abort, state, think, schema, limit, budget) {
+	async *#run(abort, think, schema, limit, budget) {
 		const messages = [...this.#context.build(this.#provider.format)];
 		const tools = this.#context.tools;
 		let content = "";
@@ -1504,11 +1738,13 @@ var Agent = class {
 		let usage;
 		let pending = false;
 		let broke = false;
-		const compaction = { state: { futile: false } };
+		let partial = false;
+		let exhausted = false;
+		let futile = false;
 		const compacting = this.#window !== void 0 && this.#context.conversations.active?.summarizable === true;
 		if (compacting) {
 			this.#window?.clear();
-			if (!abort.signal.aborted) await this.#trim(messages, compaction, false);
+			if (!abort.signal.aborted) futile = await this.#trim(messages, false);
 		}
 		for (let turn = 0; turn < limit; turn += 1) {
 			this.#emitter.emit("turn", turn);
@@ -1516,20 +1752,14 @@ var Agent = class {
 				await this.#scheduler?.yield({ signal: abort.signal });
 			} catch (error) {
 				if (abort.signal.aborted) {
-					state.outcome = {
-						...state.outcome,
-						partial: true
-					};
+					partial = true;
 					broke = true;
 					break;
 				}
 				throw error;
 			}
 			if (abort.signal.aborted) {
-				state.outcome = {
-					...state.outcome,
-					partial: true
-				};
+				partial = true;
 				broke = true;
 				break;
 			}
@@ -1555,7 +1785,7 @@ var Agent = class {
 			} catch (error) {
 				if (abort.signal.aborted) {
 					if (isProviderAbortError(error)) {
-						if (error.partial.thinking !== void 0) thinking = this.#thought(thinking, error.partial.thinking);
+						if (error.partial.thinking !== void 0) thinking = joinThinking(thinking, error.partial.thinking);
 						if (error.partial.usage !== void 0) {
 							const abortUsage = sanitizeUsage(error.partial.usage);
 							budget?.consume({
@@ -1563,19 +1793,16 @@ var Agent = class {
 								completion: Math.max(0, abortUsage.completion - charged),
 								total: Math.max(0, abortUsage.total - charged)
 							});
-							usage = this.#sum(usage, abortUsage);
+							usage = sumUsage(usage, abortUsage);
 						}
 					}
-					state.outcome = {
-						...state.outcome,
-						partial: true
-					};
+					partial = true;
 					broke = true;
 					break;
 				}
 				throw error;
 			}
-			if (result.thinking !== void 0 && result.thinking.length > 0) thinking = this.#thought(thinking, result.thinking);
+			if (result.thinking !== void 0 && result.thinking.length > 0) thinking = joinThinking(thinking, result.thinking);
 			if (result.usage !== void 0) {
 				const resultUsage = sanitizeUsage(result.usage);
 				budget?.consume({
@@ -1583,10 +1810,10 @@ var Agent = class {
 					completion: Math.max(0, resultUsage.completion - charged),
 					total: Math.max(0, resultUsage.total - charged)
 				});
-				usage = this.#sum(usage, resultUsage);
+				usage = sumUsage(usage, resultUsage);
 				this.#emitter.emit("usage", resultUsage);
 				yield {
-					type: "usage",
+					category: "usage",
 					usage: resultUsage
 				};
 			}
@@ -1604,7 +1831,7 @@ var Agent = class {
 					if (call === void 0 || outcomeResult === void 0) continue;
 					this.#emitter.emit("tool", call, outcomeResult);
 					yield {
-						type: "tool",
+						category: "tool",
 						call,
 						result: outcomeResult
 					};
@@ -1614,7 +1841,7 @@ var Agent = class {
 					});
 					messages.push(toolMessage);
 				}
-				if (compacting) await this.#trim(messages, compaction, true);
+				if (compacting && !futile) futile = await this.#trim(messages, true);
 				pending = true;
 				continue;
 			}
@@ -1627,37 +1854,35 @@ var Agent = class {
 			broke = true;
 			break;
 		}
-		if (!broke && pending) state.outcome = {
-			...state.outcome,
-			partial: true,
-			exhausted: !abort.signal.aborted
-		};
-		state.outcome = {
-			...state.outcome,
+		if (!broke && pending) {
+			partial = true;
+			exhausted = !abort.signal.aborted;
+		}
+		return {
 			content,
 			thinking,
-			usage
+			usage,
+			partial,
+			exhausted
 		};
 	}
-	async #trim(messages, compaction, latchFutile) {
+	async #trim(messages, latch) {
 		const conversation = this.#context.conversations.active;
-		if (this.#window === void 0 || conversation?.summarizable !== true || compaction.state.futile) return;
+		if (this.#window === void 0 || conversation?.summarizable !== true) return false;
 		this.#window.clear();
 		this.#window.consume(messages);
-		if (!this.#window.exhausted) return;
+		if (!this.#window.exhausted) return false;
 		let section;
 		try {
 			section = await conversation.compact();
 		} catch (error) {
-			this.#emitter.emit("compactError", error);
+			this.#emitter.emit("fault", error);
 			if (this.#strict) throw error;
-			return;
-		}
-		if (section === void 0) {
-			if (latchFutile) compaction.state = { futile: true };
-			return;
+			return false;
 		}
+		if (section === void 0) return latch;
 		messages.splice(0, messages.length, ...this.#context.build(this.#provider.format));
+		return false;
 	}
 	async #authorize(tools, calls) {
 		if (this.#authority === void 0) return tools.execute(calls);
@@ -1669,32 +1894,21 @@ var Agent = class {
 			try {
 				decision = authority.evaluate({ call });
 			} catch (error) {
-				const reason = this.#reason(error);
-				denials.set(call.id, this.#denial(call, reason));
+				const reason = (0, _orkestrel_workflow.errorToMessage)(error);
+				denials.set(call.id, denyCall(call, reason));
 				this.#emitter.emit("deny", call, reason);
 				continue;
 			}
 			if (decision.allowed) allowed.push(call);
 			else {
-				denials.set(call.id, this.#denial(call, decision.reason));
+				denials.set(call.id, denyCall(call, decision.reason));
 				this.#emitter.emit("deny", call, decision.reason);
 			}
 		}
 		const executed = allowed.length > 0 ? await tools.execute(allowed) : [];
 		const byId = new Map(denials);
 		for (const result of executed) byId.set(result.id, result);
-		return calls.map((call) => byId.get(call.id) ?? this.#denial(call, void 0));
-	}
-	#denial(call, reason) {
-		return {
-			success: false,
-			id: call.id,
-			name: call.name,
-			error: reason !== void 0 ? `denied: ${reason}` : "denied by authority"
-		};
-	}
-	#reason(error) {
-		return error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
+		return calls.map((call) => byId.get(call.id) ?? denyCall(call, void 0));
 	}
 	async *#provide(messages, signal, definitions, think, schema, onDelta) {
 		const options = {};
@@ -1704,14 +1918,14 @@ var Agent = class {
 		let next = await generator.next();
 		while (!next.done) {
 			const delta = next.value;
-			if (delta.type === "content") {
+			if (delta.channel === "content") {
 				onDelta(delta.text);
 				yield {
-					type: "token",
+					category: "token",
 					content: delta.text
 				};
 			} else yield {
-				type: "think",
+				category: "think",
 				content: delta.text
 			};
 			next = await generator.next();
@@ -1728,34 +1942,13 @@ var Agent = class {
 		if (signals.length === 1) return signals[0];
 		return AbortSignal.any(signals);
 	}
-	#thought(running, next) {
-		return running === void 0 ? next : `${running}\n\n${next}`;
-	}
-	#sum(running, next) {
-		if (running === void 0) return next;
-		return {
-			prompt: running.prompt + next.prompt,
-			completion: running.completion + next.completion,
-			total: running.total + next.total
-		};
-	}
-	#result(outcome) {
-		const result = {
-			content: outcome.content,
-			partial: outcome.partial
-		};
-		if (outcome.thinking !== void 0) result.thinking = outcome.thinking;
-		if (outcome.usage !== void 0) result.usage = outcome.usage;
-		return result;
-	}
 };
 //#endregion
 //#region src/core/AgentRegistry.ts
 /**
-* The bridge that makes a durable, JSON-serializable {@link AgentJobInput} runnable —
-* it holds the named pools of live, non-serializable pieces (providers, tools,
-* authorities, schedulers) and rehydrates a seeded, signal-wired {@link Agent} from a
-* job's names + data.
+* Makes a durable, JSON-serializable {@link AgentJobInput} runnable — holds the named
+* pools of live, non-serializable pieces (providers, tools, authorities, schedulers) and
+* rehydrates a seeded, signal-wired {@link Agent} from a job's names + data.
 *
 * @remarks
 * - **Why it exists.** An `AgentJobInput` is serializable so it can survive a crash in a
@@ -1763,18 +1956,18 @@ var Agent = class {
 *   schedulers carrying functions) cannot serialize. The registry closes that gap:
 *   construct it once with the live pools, then a queue / runner handler calls `build`
 *   on each (possibly restored) job to get a ready agent.
-* - **Accessors throw on a miss (§9.1 + §12).** `provider` / `tool` / `authority` /
-*   `scheduler` resolve a name against their pool and THROW `unknown <category>: <name>`
-*   when it is absent — an unknown name in a rehydrated job is a programmer / config
-*   error that must fail LOUDLY at build time, never silently resolve to `undefined` and
-*   run an agent missing a dependency.
+* - **Accessors throw on a miss.** `provider` / `tool` / `authority` / `scheduler` resolve a
+*   name against their pool and THROW an {@link AgentError} carrying `code: 'REGISTRY'` and
+*   the message `unknown <category>: <name>` when it is absent — an unknown name in a
+*   rehydrated job is a programmer / config error that must fail LOUDLY at build time, never
+*   silently resolve to `undefined` and run an agent missing a dependency.
 * - **`build` rehydrates.** Resolve the job's `provider`; assemble a fresh
 *   {@link ToolManager} from the `tools` names; rebuild the token `budget` from its
 *   ceiling (`createTokenBudget({ max })`); resolve the optional `authority` /
 *   `scheduler` names; construct the {@link Agent} with `system` / `limit` / `timeout` /
 *   the threaded `signal`; seed its context with the job's `messages`; return it. The
 *   `signal` is the queue attempt's / runner unit's cancel, so a bounded abort propagates
-*   into the agent (which commits a partial — the job's `allowPartial` policy then
+*   into the agent (which commits a partial — the job's `partial` policy then
 *   decides success vs. retry).
 * - **Event-free.** A pure resolver — no Emitter, no events.
 *
@@ -1840,15 +2033,15 @@ var AgentRegistry = class {
 	}
 	#resolve(pool, category, name) {
 		const value = pool.get(name);
-		if (value === void 0) throw new Error(`unknown ${category}: ${name}`);
+		if (value === void 0) throw new AgentError("REGISTRY", `unknown ${category}: ${name}`);
 		return value;
 	}
 };
 //#endregion
 //#region src/core/Authority.ts
 /**
-* The synchronous policy gate the agent loop consults before each tool call runs —
-* it turns one {@link AuthorityContextInterface} into an {@link AuthorityDecision}.
+* Gates the agent loop's tool calls — the synchronous policy consulted before each call
+* runs, turning one {@link AuthorityContext} into an {@link AuthorityDecision}.
 *
 * @remarks
 * - **Ordered, first-match-wins.** `evaluate` walks the configured rules in order and
@@ -1865,8 +2058,7 @@ var AgentRegistry = class {
 *   back to the model as a denial {@link import('@orkestrel/tool').ToolResult} (a `tool`
 *   chunk + a tool message) instead of being executed — no tool run, no budget cost —
 *   so the model sees the denial and can react.
-* - **Synchronous now.** The async human-approval handshake (request / grant / deny) is
-*   deferred to a later chunk; `evaluate` returns a verdict directly.
+* - **Synchronous.** `evaluate` returns the verdict directly.
 * - **Event-free.** A purely functional gate — no Emitter, no events.
 *
 * @example
@@ -1899,9 +2091,111 @@ var Authority = class {
 	}
 };
 //#endregion
+//#region src/core/validators.ts
+/**
+* Checks whether an `unknown` is structurally a {@link Message} record — the per-message step of
+* the {@link isConversationSnapshot} read-boundary narrow (a total guard over an untrusted storage
+* read, never an assertion). The conversation analogue of
+* {@link import('@orkestrel/workspace').isFile}.
+*
+* @remarks
+* A total guard (it NEVER throws — adversarial input returns `false`). It checks the message's
+* SHAPE: a record with a `string` `id`, a `string` `role`, a `string` `content`, and — WHEN present
+* — a `calls` array EVERY element of which is a valid
+* {@link import('@orkestrel/tool').ToolCall} ({@link isToolCall} — the
+* fail-closed deepening: a tampered `calls` element rejects the message, so the snapshot
+* reads back as absent rather than replaying a malformed call) and an `images` that is an array
+* (an absent optional passes). The `role` is left as a broad `string` here (an open
+* {@link import('./types.js').MessageRole}, so any storage-read role string is accepted
+* defensively rather than rejected against the current literal set). Enough to safely impose the
+* {@link Message} type at
+* a storage boundary WITHOUT a cast.
+*
+* @param value - The value to test (one element of a snapshot's `messages` / a section's `messages`)
+* @returns True if `value` has the structural shape of a {@link Message}; false otherwise
+*
+* @example
+* ```ts
+* isMessage({ id: '1', role: 'user', content: 'hi' }) // true
+* isMessage({ id: '1', role: 'assistant', content: '', calls: [] }) // true
+* isMessage({ id: '1', role: 'user' }) // false (missing content)
+* isMessage({ id: '1', role: 'assistant', content: '', calls: [null] }) // false (malformed call)
+* ```
+*/
+function isMessage(value) {
+	if (!(0, _orkestrel_contract.isRecord)(value)) return false;
+	if (!(0, _orkestrel_contract.isString)(value.id) || !(0, _orkestrel_contract.isString)(value.role) || !(0, _orkestrel_contract.isString)(value.content)) return false;
+	if (value.calls !== void 0 && !((0, _orkestrel_contract.isArray)(value.calls) && value.calls.every(_orkestrel_tool.isToolCall))) return false;
+	return value.images === void 0 || (0, _orkestrel_contract.isArray)(value.images);
+}
+/**
+* Checks whether an `unknown` is structurally a {@link Section} record — the per-section step of
+* the {@link isConversationSnapshot} read-boundary narrow (a total guard over an untrusted storage
+* read, never an assertion).
+*
+* @remarks
+* A total guard (it NEVER throws — adversarial input returns `false`). It checks the section's
+* SHAPE: a record with a `string` `id`, a `string` `summary`, and a `messages` array EVERY element
+* of which is a valid {@link Message} record ({@link isMessage}). Enough to safely impose
+* the {@link Section} type at a storage boundary WITHOUT a cast.
+*
+* @param value - The value to test (one element of a snapshot's `sections` array)
+* @returns True if `value` has the structural shape of a {@link Section}; false otherwise
+*
+* @example
+* ```ts
+* isSection({ id: 's', summary: 'recap', messages: [{ id: '1', role: 'user', content: 'hi' }] }) // true
+* isSection({ id: 's', summary: 'recap', messages: 'nope' }) // false
+* isSection({ id: 's', messages: [] }) // false (missing summary)
+* ```
+*/
+function isSection(value) {
+	if (!(0, _orkestrel_contract.isRecord)(value)) return false;
+	if (!(0, _orkestrel_contract.isString)(value.id) || !(0, _orkestrel_contract.isString)(value.summary)) return false;
+	return (0, _orkestrel_contract.isArray)(value.messages) && value.messages.every(isMessage);
+}
+/**
+* Narrows an `unknown` to a {@link ConversationSnapshot} — the total boundary guard for an
+* UNTRUSTED snapshot read (a storage row a
+* {@link import('./conversations/stores/DatabaseConversationStore.js').DatabaseConversationStore}
+* reads back from its opaque JSON column, a snapshot loaded from disk). The EXACT analogue of
+* {@link import('@orkestrel/workspace').isWorkspaceSnapshot}.
+*
+* @remarks
+* A total guard (it NEVER throws — adversarial input returns `false`). It checks the snapshot's
+* SHAPE: a `string` `id`, an OPTIONAL `string` `summary` (present-or-absent — the rollup is
+* `undefined` until the first compaction), a `sections` array EVERY element of which is a valid
+* {@link Section} ({@link isSection}), and a `messages` array EVERY element of which is a
+* valid {@link Message} ({@link isMessage}) — enough to safely impose the
+* {@link ConversationSnapshot} type at a storage boundary WITHOUT a cast. The structural twin of
+* {@link import('@orkestrel/workspace').isWorkspaceSnapshot}. A malformed blob (a non-record, a missing / non-string `id`, a
+* non-string `summary` when present, a non-array `sections` / `messages`, or any malformed
+* element) resolves `false`, so a
+* {@link import('./conversations/stores/DatabaseConversationStore.js').DatabaseConversationStore}
+* read yields `undefined` rather than a broken conversation.
+*
+* @param value - The value to test (an opaque storage read)
+* @returns True if `value` has the structural shape of a {@link ConversationSnapshot}; false otherwise
+*
+* @example
+* ```ts
+* isConversationSnapshot({ id: 'c1', sections: [], messages: [] }) // true
+* isConversationSnapshot({ id: 'c1', summary: 'recap', sections: [], messages: [] }) // true
+* isConversationSnapshot({ id: 'c1', sections: 'nope', messages: [] }) // false
+* isConversationSnapshot({ sections: [], messages: [] }) // false (missing id)
+* ```
+*/
+function isConversationSnapshot(value) {
+	if (!(0, _orkestrel_contract.isRecord)(value)) return false;
+	if (!(0, _orkestrel_contract.isString)(value.id)) return false;
+	if (value.summary !== void 0 && !(0, _orkestrel_contract.isString)(value.summary)) return false;
+	if (!(0, _orkestrel_contract.isArray)(value.sections) || !value.sections.every(isSection)) return false;
+	return (0, _orkestrel_contract.isArray)(value.messages) && value.messages.every(isMessage);
+}
+//#endregion
 //#region src/core/conversations/stores/DatabaseConversationStore.ts
 /**
-* A {@link ConversationStoreInterface} backed by one table of the `databases` layer — a
+* Backs a {@link ConversationStoreInterface} with one table of the `databases` layer — a
 * conversation's durable state IS a row, so persistence reduces to keyed point-access (`get` / `set`
 * / `delete`) over a {@link TableInterface}, the driver-pluggable twin of the plain-`Map`
 * {@link import('./MemoryConversationStore.js').MemoryConversationStore}. The EXACT twin of
@@ -1927,19 +2221,20 @@ var Authority = class {
 * - **`set(snapshot)` upserts under the snapshot's OWN `id`** (no separate id param) — it writes
 *   the row `{ id: snapshot.id, snapshot }`.
 * - **`get(id)` resolves the stored snapshot for an id**, narrowing the opaque JSON column back to
-*   a {@link ConversationSnapshot} ({@link import('../../helpers.js').isConversationSnapshot} — the
-*   AGENTS §14 boundary narrow for an untrusted storage read), or `undefined` if none is stored.
+*   a {@link ConversationSnapshot} ({@link import('../../validators.js').isConversationSnapshot} — the
+*   total guard for an untrusted storage read), or `undefined` if none is stored.
 * - **`delete(id)` drops a snapshot by id**; an absent id is a no-op (no throw).
 *
 * UNLIKE a session store there is NO idle-TTL / eviction — a persisted conversation lives until an
 * explicit `delete`. The public surface is EXACTLY `get` / `set` / `delete` — no extra members (the
-* §22 method bijection with {@link ConversationStoreInterface}). Hydration stays a caller concern: a
+* method bijection with {@link ConversationStoreInterface}). Hydration stays a caller concern: a
 * {@link import('../ConversationManager.js').ConversationManager} reads a snapshot back and rebuilds
-* the live conversation through the constructor `seed` (its `open` / `save`).
+* the live conversation through the `snapshot` option (its `open` / `save`).
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
-* import { createConversation, createDatabaseConversationStore, createMemoryDriver } from '@src/core'
+* import { createConversation, createDatabaseConversationStore } from '@orkestrel/agent'
+* import { createMemoryDriver } from '@orkestrel/database'
 *
 * const store = createDatabaseConversationStore(createMemoryDriver()) // a durable driver swaps in here
 * const conversation = createConversation()
@@ -1952,7 +2247,7 @@ var Authority = class {
 var DatabaseConversationStore = class {
 	#table;
 	/**
-	* Wrap a table as a conversation store.
+	* Wraps a table as a conversation store.
 	*
 	* @param table - The {@link TableInterface} holding the snapshots — its row is the
 	*   {@link ConversationSnapshotRow} `{ id; snapshot }` shape (the snapshot one opaque JSON column)
@@ -1960,20 +2255,20 @@ var DatabaseConversationStore = class {
 	constructor(table) {
 		this.#table = table;
 	}
-	/** Resolve the persisted snapshot for `id`, narrowing the opaque JSON column back to a `ConversationSnapshot`. */
+	/** Resolves the persisted snapshot for `id`, narrowing the opaque JSON column back to a `ConversationSnapshot`. */
 	async get(id) {
 		const row = await this.#table.get(id);
 		if (row === void 0) return void 0;
 		return isConversationSnapshot(row.snapshot) ? row.snapshot : void 0;
 	}
-	/** Insert or replace under the snapshot's OWN `id` (no separate id param) — the row is `{ id, snapshot }`. */
+	/** Inserts or replaces under the snapshot's OWN `id` (no separate id param) — the row is `{ id, snapshot }`. */
 	async set(snapshot) {
 		await this.#table.set({
 			id: snapshot.id,
 			snapshot
 		});
 	}
-	/** Drop a snapshot by id; an absent id is a no-op (no throw). */
+	/** Drops a snapshot by id; an absent id is a no-op (no throw). */
 	async delete(id) {
 		await this.#table.remove(id);
 	}
@@ -1981,14 +2276,14 @@ var DatabaseConversationStore = class {
 //#endregion
 //#region src/core/conversations/stores/MemoryConversationStore.ts
 /**
-* The in-memory {@link ConversationStoreInterface} — a process-lifetime `Map` of
+* Implements the {@link ConversationStoreInterface} in memory — a process-lifetime `Map` of
 * {@link ConversationSnapshot}s keyed by conversation id, the DEFAULT store
 * {@link import('../../factories.js').createMemoryConversationStore} builds. The EXACT twin of
 * {@link import('@orkestrel/workspace').MemoryWorkspaceStore}.
 *
 * @remarks
-* A plain `Map<string, ConversationSnapshot>` (AGENTS §21 — the snapshot is already pure,
-* self-contained JSON, so no encoding is needed for the memory tier). Like the
+* A plain `Map<string, ConversationSnapshot>` — the snapshot is already pure,
+* self-contained JSON, so no encoding is needed for the memory tier. Like the
 * {@link import('@orkestrel/workspace').MemoryWorkspaceStore} it twins,
 * there is NO idle-TTL and NO eviction: a persisted conversation lives until an explicit `delete`. A
 * durable backend (JSON / SQLite / IndexedDB) swaps in through the SAME interface without touching
@@ -2001,14 +2296,14 @@ var DatabaseConversationStore = class {
 * - **`set` inserts / replaces under the snapshot's OWN `id`** (no separate id param).
 * - **`delete` drops a snapshot by id**; an absent id is a no-op (no throw).
 *
-* The public surface is EXACTLY `get` / `set` / `delete` — no extra members (the §22 method
+* The public surface is EXACTLY `get` / `set` / `delete` — no extra members (the method
 * bijection with {@link ConversationStoreInterface}). Hydration is a caller concern: a
 * {@link import('../ConversationManager.js').ConversationManager} reads a snapshot back and rebuilds
-* the live conversation through the constructor `seed` (its `open` / `save`).
+* the live conversation through the `snapshot` option (its `open` / `save`).
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
-* import { createConversation, createMemoryConversationStore } from '@src/core'
+* import { createConversation, createMemoryConversationStore } from '@orkestrel/agent'
 *
 * const store = createMemoryConversationStore()
 * const conversation = createConversation()
@@ -2035,14 +2330,14 @@ var MemoryConversationStore = class {
 //#endregion
 //#region src/core/scopes/Scope.ts
 /**
-* A named, immutable filter over a richer context's items — three optional allow-lists,
-* one per category (`instructions` / `tools` / `files`), each keyed by that category's
-* identity (an instruction's `name`, a tool's `name`, a workspace file's `path`).
+* Represents a named, immutable filter over a richer context's items — an optional
+* allow-list per category (`instructions` / `tools` / `files`), each keyed by that
+* category's identity (an instruction's `name`, a tool's `name`, a workspace file's `path`).
 *
 * @remarks
 * - **A category list is three-way.** `undefined` ⇒ NO constraint on that category (all
 *   pass); `[]` ⇒ NONE pass; a non-empty list ⇒ only the listed keys pass. The build
-*   step / loop apply this via `filterAllowList`.
+*   step / loop apply this through `filterAllowList`.
 * - **Immutable.** The `id` is minted at construction; every supplied list is COPIED in
 *   (so a later mutation of the caller's array can't leak in), and the lists are
 *   `readonly`. A `Scope` is never mutated after construction — `narrow` returns a NEW
@@ -2077,9 +2372,9 @@ var Scope = class Scope {
 		if (input.files !== void 0) this.files = [...input.files];
 	}
 	narrow(config) {
-		const instructions = Scope.#intersect(this.instructions, config.instructions);
-		const tools = Scope.#intersect(this.tools, config.tools);
-		const files = Scope.#intersect(this.files, config.files);
+		const instructions = intersectKeys(this.instructions, config.instructions);
+		const tools = intersectKeys(this.tools, config.tools);
+		const files = intersectKeys(this.files, config.files);
 		return new Scope({
 			name: this.name,
 			...instructions === void 0 ? {} : { instructions },
@@ -2087,18 +2382,12 @@ var Scope = class Scope {
 			...files === void 0 ? {} : { files }
 		});
 	}
-	static #intersect(parent, child) {
-		if (parent === void 0) return child === void 0 ? void 0 : [...child];
-		if (child === void 0) return [...parent];
-		const allowed = new Set(parent);
-		return child.filter((key) => allowed.has(key));
-	}
 };
 //#endregion
 //#region src/core/scopes/ScopeManager.ts
 /**
-* The scope registry a richer context reuses named filters from — immutable {@link Scope}s
-* keyed by their minted `id`, in insertion order.
+* Registers the named filters a richer context reuses — immutable {@link Scope}s keyed by
+* their minted `id`, in insertion order.
 *
 * @remarks
 * - **Registry.** Scopes live in an insertion-ordered `Map` keyed by their minted `id`;
@@ -2107,9 +2396,9 @@ var Scope = class Scope {
 *   one up, and `scopes()` lists them in insertion order. (Unlike the name-keyed
 *   instruction registry, a scope's key is its minted `id`, so two scopes may share a
 *   `name`; `create` therefore always adds — it never overwrites.)
-* - **Removal.** `remove` drops one by id, or a batch (§9.2) — `true` when any was
-*   removed; `clear` empties the registry.
-* - **Observable (§13).** The owned {@link emitter} ({@link ScopeManagerEventMap}) carries
+* - **Removal.** `remove` drops one by id, or a batch — `true` only when EVERY supplied id
+*   was removed; `clear` empties the registry.
+* - **Observable.** The owned {@link emitter} ({@link ScopeManagerEventMap}) carries
 *   `create` (the created scope) / `remove` (the id) / `clear`. Every event is emitted
 *   directly, strictly AFTER the map mutation completes; the emitter isolates a listener
 *   throw and routes it to its `error` handler (the `error` option), so a buggy observer can
@@ -2126,10 +2415,10 @@ var Scope = class Scope {
 var ScopeManager = class {
 	#scopes = /* @__PURE__ */ new Map();
 	#emitter;
-	constructor(on, error) {
+	constructor(options) {
 		this.#emitter = new _orkestrel_emitter.Emitter({
-			...on === void 0 ? {} : { on },
-			...error === void 0 ? {} : { error }
+			...options?.on === void 0 ? {} : { on: options.on },
+			...options?.error === void 0 ? {} : { error: options.error }
 		});
 	}
 	get emitter() {
@@ -2152,8 +2441,8 @@ var ScopeManager = class {
 	}
 	remove(ids) {
 		if ((0, _orkestrel_contract.isArray)(ids)) {
-			let removed = false;
-			for (const id of ids) if (this.#delete(id)) removed = true;
+			let removed = true;
+			for (const id of ids) if (!this.#delete(id)) removed = false;
 			return removed;
 		}
 		return this.#delete(ids);
@@ -2171,10 +2460,10 @@ var ScopeManager = class {
 //#endregion
 //#region src/core/ThinkSplitter.ts
 /**
-* The stream-stateful `<think>` separator — feeds raw content deltas through a tiny
-* state machine that routes everything inside a `<think>…</think>` span to `thinking`
-* and returns everything outside it as clean content, so a provider yields ONLY the
-* answer and surfaces the reasoning as {@link import('./types.js').ProviderResult.thinking}.
+* Feeds raw content deltas through a tiny stream-stateful state machine that routes
+* everything inside a `<think>…</think>` span to `thinking` and returns everything outside
+* it as clean content, so a provider yields ONLY the answer and surfaces the reasoning as
+* {@link import('./types.js').ProviderResult.thinking}.
 *
 * @remarks
 * - **Cross-chunk tags.** A tag may arrive split across wire deltas (`'<thi'` then
@@ -2190,7 +2479,7 @@ var ScopeManager = class {
 *   prefix cannot be recalled, so `content` is the authoritative accumulation). The
 *   rule is ONE-SHOT: after any tag event a bare `</think>` is plain text.
 * - **Multiple spans** accumulate onto `thinking` in stream order. A nested-looking
-*   `<think>` inside an open span is just thinking text (no nesting is tracked — the
+*   `<think>` inside an open span is thinking text (no nesting is tracked — the
 *   first `</think>` closes the span), matching how the models emit it.
 * - **Unclosed span at stream end.** `flush()` routes the open span's tail (including
 *   any held partial close tag) to `thinking` — a cut-off model was still reasoning.
@@ -2289,28 +2578,28 @@ var ThinkSplitter = class {
 //#endregion
 //#region src/core/factories.ts
 /**
-* Create a conversation — a {@link ConversationInterface} grouping messages above a flat
+* Creates a conversation — a {@link ConversationInterface} grouping messages above a flat
 * message store it OWNS DIRECTLY, with compaction into summarized sections, a regenerated
 * rollup `summary`, on-demand `rehydrate`, and substring `search`, driven by a
-* provider-agnostic {@link ConversationSummarizer} seam.
+* provider-agnostic {@link ConversationSummaryHandler} seam.
 *
 * @remarks
 * Append turns through the conversation's own `add` (the live tail it owns); `view()` is the model input
 * (each section as a summary message, then the live tail). `compact()` folds the older live
-* messages into a summarized {@link SectionInterface} and regenerates the rollup — it REQUIRES
+* messages into a summarized {@link Section} and regenerates the rollup — it REQUIRES
 * a `summarize` (omitted ⇒ `compact()` throws a `ConversationError`); `keep` retains a recent
 * tail (default `DEFAULT_CONVERSATION_KEEP` — fold ALL). `rehydrate(id)` / `search(query)` read
 * the retained originals. Observable (`emitter` — `compact` / `summary` / `rehydrate`), wired
-* via the reserved `on` option (§8); the emitter isolates a listener throw and routes it to
-* its `error` handler (the `error` option, §13), so it can never corrupt a compaction.
+* through the reserved `on` option; the emitter isolates a listener throw and routes it to
+* its `error` handler (the `error` option), so it can never corrupt a compaction.
 *
 * @param options - Optional `id` / `on` hooks + the `summarize` seam + `keep` (see {@link ConversationOptions})
 * @returns A working {@link ConversationInterface}
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
-* import type { ProviderInterface } from '@src/core'
-* import { createConversation } from '@src/core'
+* import type { ProviderInterface } from '@orkestrel/agent'
+* import { createConversation } from '@orkestrel/agent'
 *
 * declare const provider: ProviderInterface // any concrete implementation supplied by the host app
 * const conversation = createConversation({
@@ -2327,9 +2616,10 @@ function createConversation(options) {
 	return new Conversation(options);
 }
 /**
-* Create a conversation registry — a {@link ConversationManagerInterface} holding
+* Creates a conversation registry — a {@link ConversationManagerInterface} holding
 * {@link ConversationInterface}s keyed by their `id` (in insertion order) WITH an active pointer:
-* the §9 store over the conversation layer plus the `active` / `switch` seam the context renders.
+* the id-keyed store over the conversation layer plus the `active` / `switch` seam the context
+* renders.
 *
 * @remarks
 * Starts empty; `add(input?)` mints a {@link ConversationInterface} (its `id` from the input
@@ -2338,8 +2628,9 @@ function createConversation(options) {
 * AUTO-ACTIVATES the FIRST one (a registry with conversations always has one `active`); a later
 * `add` leaves `active` unchanged. `switch(id)` re-points `active` (an unknown `id` returns
 * `undefined`, leaving `active` unchanged — lenient, never throws); `conversation(id)` /
-* `conversations()` look up; `remove` (one or a batch, §9.2) reports whether any was removed AND
-* clears `active` if it was the removed one; `clear` empties it and clears `active`. Event-free
+* `conversations()` look up; `remove` (one or a batch) reports `true` only when every supplied id
+* was removed AND clears `active` if it was a removed one; `clear` empties it and clears `active`.
+* Event-free
 * (each conversation owns its own observable `emitter`). A conversation created with NEITHER a
 * manager default nor a per-`add` `summarize` cannot `compact` (it throws a `ConversationError`).
 *
@@ -2348,7 +2639,7 @@ function createConversation(options) {
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
-* import { createConversationManager } from '@src/core'
+* import { createConversationManager } from '@orkestrel/agent'
 *
 * const conversations = createConversationManager({ summarize: async (m) => `recap of ${m.length}` })
 * const chat = conversations.add() // auto-activates — conversations.active === chat
@@ -2359,7 +2650,7 @@ function createConversationManager(options) {
 	return new ConversationManager(options);
 }
 /**
-* Create the in-memory conversation store — a {@link ConversationStoreInterface} backed by a
+* Creates the in-memory conversation store — a {@link ConversationStoreInterface} backed by a
 * process-lifetime `Map` of {@link import('./types.js').ConversationSnapshot}s keyed by conversation
 * id, the DEFAULT backing for the durable {@link ConversationManagerInterface.open} /
 * {@link ConversationManagerInterface.save} seam. The exact twin of
@@ -2374,14 +2665,14 @@ function createConversationManager(options) {
 * {@link createDatabaseConversationStore} (the snapshot as one opaque JSON column over a `databases`
 * table) — for a DURABLE store pass it a JSON / SQLite / IndexedDB driver, and it swaps in WITHOUT
 * touching the manager or the conversation. Hydration stays a manager concern: read a snapshot back
-* and rebuild the live conversation through the constructor `seed` (re-supplying the live
+* and rebuild the live conversation through the `snapshot` option (re-supplying the live
 * `summarize` / `keep`).
 *
 * @returns A memory-backed {@link ConversationStoreInterface}
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
-* import { createConversationManager, createMemoryConversationStore } from '@src/core'
+* import { createConversationManager, createMemoryConversationStore } from '@orkestrel/agent'
 *
 * const store = createMemoryConversationStore()
 * const manager = createConversationManager({ store })
@@ -2394,7 +2685,7 @@ function createMemoryConversationStore() {
 	return new MemoryConversationStore();
 }
 /**
-* Create a {@link DatabaseConversationStore} over any {@link DriverInterface} — the durable,
+* Creates a {@link DatabaseConversationStore} over any {@link DriverInterface} — the durable,
 * driver-pluggable backing for the conversation persistence seam, the opt-in twin of
 * {@link createMemoryConversationStore}. The exact twin of
 * {@link import('@orkestrel/workspace').createDatabaseWorkspaceStore}.
@@ -2406,7 +2697,7 @@ function createMemoryConversationStore() {
 * {@link import('@orkestrel/workspace').createDatabaseWorkspaceStore} stores its snapshot. The
 * snapshot is already a COMPLETE, self-contained, pure-JSON payload, so storing it whole is lossless
 * AND keeps the row type FLAT (the column reads back as `unknown`, narrowed on `get` by
-* {@link import('./helpers.js').isConversationSnapshot}). The `driver` DEFAULTS to
+* {@link import('./validators.js').isConversationSnapshot}). The `driver` DEFAULTS to
 * {@link createMemoryDriver}, so the store ALSO works in memory out of the box; pass a server
 * `createJSONDriver` / `createSQLiteDriver` (or a browser IndexedDB driver) for a persistent one —
 * the durability is the driver's job, the store engine is shared. It swaps in behind
@@ -2417,7 +2708,8 @@ function createMemoryConversationStore() {
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
-* import { createConversationManager, createDatabaseConversationStore, createMemoryDriver } from '@src/core'
+* import { createConversationManager, createDatabaseConversationStore } from '@orkestrel/agent'
+* import { createMemoryDriver } from '@orkestrel/database'
 *
 * const store = createDatabaseConversationStore(createMemoryDriver()) // a durable driver swaps in here
 * const manager = createConversationManager({ store })
@@ -2437,7 +2729,7 @@ function createDatabaseConversationStore(driver = (0, _orkestrel_database.create
 	}).table("conversations"));
 }
 /**
-* Create an instruction — an immutable {@link InstructionInterface} (a named directive)
+* Creates an instruction — an immutable {@link InstructionInterface} (a named directive)
 * from its `name` / `content` and optional `priority`, the `id` minted at construction.
 *
 * @remarks
@@ -2451,7 +2743,7 @@ function createDatabaseConversationStore(driver = (0, _orkestrel_database.create
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
-* import { createInstruction } from '@src/core'
+* import { createInstruction } from '@orkestrel/agent'
 *
 * const instruction = createInstruction({ name: 'tone', content: 'Be concise.', priority: 5 })
 * ```
@@ -2460,28 +2752,28 @@ function createInstruction(input) {
 	return new Instruction(input);
 }
 /**
-* Create an instruction registry — an {@link InstructionManagerInterface} holding
+* Creates an instruction registry — an {@link InstructionManagerInterface} holding
 * immutable instructions keyed by `name`, listed by descending `priority`.
 *
 * @remarks
-* Starts empty; `add` (one or a batch, §9.2) MINTS each `id` and OVERWRITES a same-name
+* Starts empty; `add` (one or a batch) MINTS each `id` and OVERWRITES a same-name
 * instruction (last write wins); `instructions()` lists them sorted by descending
-* `priority` (stable for ties); `format` / `description` are the build contract a richer
-* context renders an instructions block with; `remove` (one or a batch) reports whether
-* any was removed; `clear` empties it. Carries an observable `emitter`
-* ({@link import('./types.js').InstructionManagerEventMap}) wired via the reserved `on`
-* option (§8); the emitter isolates a listener throw and routes it to its `error` handler
-* (the `error` option, §13), so it can never corrupt a mutation. An optional `format`
+* `priority` (stable for ties); `open` / `render` are the build contract a richer
+* context renders an instructions block with; `remove` (one or a batch) reports `true` only
+* when every supplied name was removed; `clear` empties it. Carries an observable `emitter`
+* ({@link import('./types.js').InstructionManagerEventMap}) wired through the reserved `on`
+* option; the emitter isolates a listener throw and routes it to its `error` handler
+* (the `error` option), so it can never corrupt a mutation. An optional `format`
 * override is the manager-options level of the `AgentContext` build cascade (consulted by
-* `description` / `format`, beating the provider default + built-in; a per-item
-* `InstructionInput.format` still beats it).
+* `open` / `render`, beating the provider default + built-in; a per-item
+* `InstructionInput.override` still beats it).
 *
 * @param options - Optional `on` hooks + a `format` override (see {@link InstructionManagerOptions})
 * @returns An empty {@link InstructionManagerInterface}
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
-* import { createInstructionManager } from '@src/core'
+* import { createInstructionManager } from '@orkestrel/agent'
 *
 * const instructions = createInstructionManager()
 * instructions.add({ name: 'tone', content: 'Be concise.', priority: 5 })
@@ -2491,8 +2783,8 @@ function createInstructionManager(options) {
 	return new InstructionManager(options);
 }
 /**
-* Create a named scope — an immutable {@link ScopeInterface} from its `name` and the four
-* optional per-category allow-lists, the `id` minted at construction.
+* Creates a named scope — an immutable {@link ScopeInterface} from its `name` and its
+* per-category allow-lists, the `id` minted at construction.
 *
 * @remarks
 * Each list is THREE-WAY: `undefined` ⇒ NO constraint on that category (all pass), `[]` ⇒
@@ -2500,13 +2792,13 @@ function createInstructionManager(options) {
 * tighter child by set-INTERSECTION (an `undefined` side imposing no constraint). Stored
 * immutable — never mutated after creation (`narrow` returns a new scope).
 *
-* @param input - `name` (required) and the optional `instructions` / `tools` / `messages` /
-*   `files` allow-lists (see {@link ScopeInput})
+* @param input - `name` (required) and the optional `instructions` / `tools` / `files`
+*   allow-lists (see {@link ScopeInput})
 * @returns A working {@link ScopeInterface}
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
-* import { createScope } from '@src/core'
+* import { createScope } from '@orkestrel/agent'
 *
 * const reader = createScope({ name: 'reader', tools: ['search', 'read'] })
 * reader.narrow({ tools: ['read', 'write'] }).tools // ['read'] — intersection tightens
@@ -2516,33 +2808,34 @@ function createScope(input) {
 	return new Scope(input);
 }
 /**
-* Create a scope registry — a {@link ScopeManagerInterface} holding immutable scopes keyed
+* Creates a scope registry — a {@link ScopeManagerInterface} holding immutable scopes keyed
 * by their minted `id`, in insertion order.
 *
 * @remarks
 * Starts empty; `create` mints each scope's `id` and stores it (keyed by `id`, so it
 * always adds — two scopes may share a `name`); `scopes()` lists them in insertion order;
-* `remove` (one or a batch, §9.2) reports whether any was removed; `clear` empties it.
-* Carries an observable `emitter` ({@link import('./types.js').ScopeManagerEventMap}) wired
-* via the reserved `on` option (§8); the emitter isolates a listener throw and routes it to
-* its `error` handler (the `error` option, §13), so it can never corrupt a mutation.
+* `remove` (one or a batch) reports `true` only when every supplied id was removed; `clear`
+* empties it. Carries an observable `emitter`
+* ({@link import('./types.js').ScopeManagerEventMap}) wired through the reserved `on`
+* option; the emitter isolates a listener throw and routes it to its `error` handler
+* (the `error` option), so it can never corrupt a mutation.
 *
 * @param options - Optional `on` hooks (see {@link ScopeManagerOptions})
 * @returns An empty {@link ScopeManagerInterface}
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
-* import { createScopeManager } from '@src/core'
+* import { createScopeManager } from '@orkestrel/agent'
 *
 * const scopes = createScopeManager()
 * const reader = scopes.create({ name: 'reader', tools: ['search'] })
 * ```
 */
 function createScopeManager(options) {
-	return new ScopeManager(options?.on, options?.error);
+	return new ScopeManager(options);
 }
 /**
-* Create a richer turn context — an {@link AgentContextInterface} assembling a provider
+* Creates a richer turn context — an {@link AgentContextInterface} assembling a provider
 * request from the optional system prompt, the instruction registry, the workspace registry,
 * the conversation store, the tool registry, and the active scope.
 *
@@ -2550,11 +2843,11 @@ function createScopeManager(options) {
 * `system` is the optional system prompt; `tools` / `instructions` / `workspaces` are pre-built
 * managers to reuse (empty ones are created when omitted, so `context.workspaces` is ALWAYS
 * present); `scope` is the initial active filter (`undefined` ⇒ no filtering, changeable afterwards
-* via `context.apply(...)`). The `messages` store is always fresh. `build()` folds the scoped
+* through `context.apply(...)`). The `messages` store is always fresh. `build()` folds the scoped
 * instructions — PLUS the ACTIVE workspace's scope-filtered text files (fenced) — into ONE leading
 * `system` message and appends the scoped conversation (attaching the active workspace's
-* scope-filtered image files' `data` to the last user message), built fresh each call; the active
-* workspace is the SOLE document/image context. Tools are advertised STRUCTURALLY (via
+* scope-filtered image files' `base64` payload to the last user message), built fresh each call; the active
+* workspace is the SOLE document/image context. Tools are advertised STRUCTURALLY (through
 * `tools.definitions()`, scope-filtered by the loop), never serialized into the prompt.
 *
 * @param options - Optional `system` / `tools` / `instructions` / `workspaces` / `scope`
@@ -2563,7 +2856,7 @@ function createScopeManager(options) {
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
-* import { createAgentContext } from '@src/core'
+* import { createAgentContext } from '@orkestrel/agent'
 *
 * const context = createAgentContext({ system: 'You are concise.' })
 * context.instructions.add({ name: 'tone', content: 'Be terse.' })
@@ -2575,7 +2868,7 @@ function createAgentContext(options) {
 	return new AgentContext(options);
 }
 /**
-* Create an agent loop — an {@link AgentInterface} composing a
+* Creates an agent loop — an {@link AgentInterface} composing a
 * {@link ProviderInterface}, its {@link AgentContextInterface}, and a tool registry
 * into a bounded context → provider → tools → repeat turn, exposed as a one-shot
 * `generate` and a live `stream`.
@@ -2583,11 +2876,11 @@ function createAgentContext(options) {
 * @remarks
 * One private loop drives the turn; `generate` DRAINS the same stream `stream`
 * exposes, so they can never diverge. Each turn is bounded by one cancel folded from
-* `signal` + `timeout` + `budget` (via `AbortSignal.any`) — any trip (or `abort()`)
+* `signal` + `timeout` + `budget` (through `AbortSignal.any`) — any trip (or `abort()`)
 * commits a PARTIAL result (the stream's `result` RESOLVES on a cancel, rejects only
 * on a genuine provider / tool error). The `scheduler` paces between turns; tool
 * iteration is capped at `limit` (default `DEFAULT_AGENT_LIMIT`). Tools are advertised
-* structurally via `context.tools.definitions()`. Two observation surfaces: the
+* structurally through `context.tools.definitions()`. Two observation surfaces: the
 * {@link AgentChunk} stream (pull — per-token content) and a typed `emitter` (push —
 * lifecycle + `usage` / `tool` / `deny` for fire-and-forget observers).
 *
@@ -2598,8 +2891,9 @@ function createAgentContext(options) {
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
-* import type { ProviderInterface } from '@src/core'
-* import { createAgent, createTokenBudget } from '@src/core'
+* import type { ProviderInterface } from '@orkestrel/agent'
+* import { createAgent } from '@orkestrel/agent'
+* import { createTokenBudget } from '@orkestrel/budget'
 *
 * declare const provider: ProviderInterface // any concrete implementation supplied by the host app
 * const agent = createAgent(provider, {
@@ -2610,7 +2904,7 @@ function createAgentContext(options) {
 *
 * const stream = agent.stream()
 * for await (const chunk of stream.events) {
-* 	if (chunk.type === 'token') process.stdout.write(chunk.content)
+* 	if (chunk.category === 'token') process.stdout.write(chunk.content)
 * }
 * const result = await stream.result // { content, usage?, partial }
 * ```
@@ -2619,7 +2913,7 @@ function createAgent(provider, options) {
 	return new Agent(provider, options);
 }
 /**
-* Create a stream-stateful `<think>` separator — a {@link ThinkSplitterInterface} that
+* Creates a stream-stateful `<think>` separator — a {@link ThinkSplitterInterface} that
 * splits a thinking model's in-content `<think>…</think>` reasoning spans away from
 * the answer, delta by delta, so a provider yields ONLY clean content and surfaces the
 * accumulated reasoning as {@link import('./types.js').ProviderResult.thinking}.
@@ -2630,14 +2924,14 @@ function createAgent(provider, options) {
 * partial open tag that never completed returns as final content; an UNCLOSED think
 * span lands on `thinking`). Tags split ACROSS deltas are held back until
 * disambiguated, multiple spans accumulate in order, and a nested-looking `<think>`
-* inside an open span is just thinking text. One splitter serves ONE stream — create
+* inside an open span is thinking text. One splitter serves ONE stream — create
 * a fresh one per provider call.
 *
 * @returns A fresh {@link ThinkSplitterInterface} (state empty, outside any span)
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
-* import { createThinkSplitter } from '@src/core'
+* import { createThinkSplitter } from '@orkestrel/agent'
 *
 * const splitter = createThinkSplitter()
 * const clean = splitter.split('<think>plan the answer</think>Here it is.')
@@ -2649,7 +2943,36 @@ function createThinkSplitter() {
 	return new ThinkSplitter();
 }
 /**
-* Create a policy gate — an {@link AuthorityInterface} the agent loop consults before
+* Creates an empty unbounded async channel — a {@link ChannelInterface} a producer writes
+* values into (`push`) and ends (`close` / `fail`) regardless of consumption, while a
+* consumer reads them back live through `drain`.
+*
+* @remarks
+* Write and read are decoupled, so the producer never waits for a consumer: an agent's eager
+* pump writes each chunk into one, which is why a run's `result` settles whether or not the
+* live events are drained. A value pushed at an already-parked consumer is delivered, buffered
+* values are yielded before the end is reported, and the FIRST failure wins.
+*
+* @typeParam T - The value type the channel carries
+* @returns A fresh, empty {@link ChannelInterface}
+*
+* @example
+* ```ts
+* import { createChannel } from '@orkestrel/agent'
+*
+* const channel = createChannel<number>()
+* channel.push(1)
+* channel.close()
+* for await (const value of channel.drain()) {
+* 	value // 1
+* }
+* ```
+*/
+function createChannel() {
+	return new Channel();
+}
+/**
+* Creates a policy gate — an {@link AuthorityInterface} the agent loop consults before
 * each tool call runs, evaluating the ordered rules first-match-wins and falling back
 * to the configured default when none match.
 *
@@ -2659,16 +2982,16 @@ function createThinkSplitter() {
 * `fallback` decides; it defaults to `{ zone: DEFAULT_AUTHORITY_ZONE, allowed: true }`
 * (allow-unmatched — a rules list of denials acts as a DENYLIST). Pass an
 * `allowed: false` `fallback` to flip the gate to deny-by-default (an ALLOWLIST). Wire
-* the result into `createAgent` via `AgentOptions.authority`: a denied call is fed back
+* the result into `createAgent` through `AgentOptions.authority`: a denied call is fed back
 * to the model as a denial `ToolResult` (not executed, no budget cost), so the model
-* can react. Synchronous now — the async human-approval handshake is deferred.
+* can react. Synchronous — `evaluate` returns the verdict directly.
 *
 * @param options - Optional `rules` (ordered) and `fallback` (see {@link AuthorityOptions})
 * @returns A working {@link AuthorityInterface}
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
-* import { createAgent, createAuthority } from '@src/core'
+* import { createAgent, createAuthority } from '@orkestrel/agent'
 *
 * // Deny the `delete` tool, allow everything else.
 * const authority = createAuthority({
@@ -2681,16 +3004,17 @@ function createAuthority(options) {
 	return new Authority(options);
 }
 /**
-* Create an agent registry — an {@link AgentRegistryInterface} holding the named pools of
+* Creates an agent registry — an {@link AgentRegistryInterface} holding the named pools of
 * live, non-serializable pieces (providers, tools, authorities, schedulers) that a
 * serializable {@link AgentJobInput}'s names resolve against, and `build`ing a seeded,
 * signal-wired {@link AgentInterface} from a job.
 *
 * @remarks
 * `providers` is required; `tools` / `authorities` / `schedulers` are optional pools.
-* The accessors (`provider` / `tool` / `authority` / `scheduler`) THROW `unknown <category>:
-* <name>` on an unregistered name (§9.1 + §12) — a misconfigured or crash-restored job
-* fails loudly rather than running with a missing dependency. `build(input, signal)`
+* The accessors (`provider` / `tool` / `authority` / `scheduler`) THROW an
+* {@link import('./errors.js').AgentError} carrying `code: 'REGISTRY'` and the message
+* `unknown <category>: <name>` on an unregistered name — a misconfigured or crash-restored
+* job fails loudly rather than running with a missing dependency. `build(input, signal)`
 * resolves the names, rebuilds the token budget from its ceiling, seeds the agent's
 * context with the job's messages, and threads `signal` so a queue / runner abort
 * propagates. This is the bridge that makes durable, serializable agent jobs runnable.
@@ -2700,8 +3024,8 @@ function createAuthority(options) {
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
-* import { createAgentRegistry } from '@src/core'
-* import type { ProviderInterface } from '@src/core'
+* import { createAgentRegistry } from '@orkestrel/agent'
+* import type { ProviderInterface } from '@orkestrel/agent'
 * import { createTool } from '@orkestrel/tool'
 *
 * declare const provider: ProviderInterface // any concrete implementation supplied by the host app
@@ -2716,7 +3040,7 @@ function createAgentRegistry(options) {
 	return new AgentRegistry(options);
 }
 /**
-* Create a durable, bounded-concurrency agent-job queue — a {@link QueueInterface} over
+* Creates a durable, bounded-concurrency agent-job queue — a {@link QueueInterface} over
 * serializable {@link AgentJobInput}s that COMPOSES `createQueue`: each job is rehydrated
 * through the `registry` into a live {@link AgentInterface}, run to its {@link AgentResult},
 * and subjected to the partial-as-configurable-failure policy.
@@ -2724,46 +3048,47 @@ function createAgentRegistry(options) {
 * @remarks
 * - **Composes the substrate (no new engine).** The handler is the only new logic;
 *   bounded `concurrency`, `retries`, the per-attempt `timeout`, and durable persistence
-*   via `store` (+ `restore()` after a crash) are all the backing Queue's. `enqueue`
+*   through `store` (+ `restore()` after a crash) are all the backing Queue's. `enqueue`
 *   returns a per-job promise.
 * - **Durable + serializable.** Because `AgentJobInput` is JSON-serializable, a `store`
-*   (e.g. `createMemoryQueueStore` / `createDatabaseQueueStore`) persists outstanding
+*   (for example `createMemoryQueueStore` / `createDatabaseQueueStore`) persists outstanding
 *   jobs; `restore()` re-enqueues them after a restart and the `registry` rehydrates the
 *   live pieces from the names — so a job survives a crash.
 * - **Partial policy.** A partial result THROWS an
 *   {@link import('./errors.js').AgentJobError} by default, so a job cancelled by its
-*   attempt deadline / a queue abort RETRIES while attempts remain; `allowPartial: true`
+*   attempt deadline / a queue abort RETRIES while attempts remain; `partial: true`
 *   resolves the partial as success instead.
-* - **Cancellation threads through.** The handler passes `execution.signal` into
+* - **Cancellation threads through.** The handler passes `context.signal` into
 *   `registry.build`, so a queue `abort()` or a per-attempt timeout cancels the in-flight
 *   agent (which commits a partial → throws → retries / fails per policy).
 *
-* @param options - The `registry`, the `allowPartial` policy, and the substrate knobs
+* @param options - The `registry`, the `partial` policy, and the substrate knobs
 *   (`concurrency` / `retries` / `timeout` / `store`) (see {@link AgentQueueOptions})
 * @returns A {@link QueueInterface} of {@link AgentJobInput} → {@link AgentResult}
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
-* import { createAgentQueue, createAgentRegistry, createMemoryQueueStore } from '@src/core'
+* import { createAgentQueue, createAgentRegistry } from '@orkestrel/agent'
+* import { createMemoryQueueStore } from '@orkestrel/queue'
 *
 * const registry = createAgentRegistry({ providers: { main: provider } })
-* const store = createMemoryQueueStore(agentJobShape) // survives a restart via restore()
+* const store = createMemoryQueueStore(agentJobShape) // survives a restart through restore()
 * const queue = createAgentQueue({ registry, concurrency: 2, retries: 1, store })
 * const result = await queue.enqueue({ provider: 'main', messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'ok?' }] })
 * ```
 */
 function createAgentQueue(options) {
-	const { registry, allowPartial = false, concurrency, retries, timeout, store } = options;
+	const { registry, partial = false, concurrency, retries, timeout, store } = options;
 	return (0, _orkestrel_queue.createQueue)({
 		...concurrency === void 0 ? {} : { concurrency },
 		...retries === void 0 ? {} : { retries },
 		...timeout === void 0 ? {} : { timeout },
 		...store === void 0 ? {} : { store },
-		handler: handleAgentQueueJob.bind(void 0, registry, allowPartial)
+		handler: handleAgentQueueJob.bind(void 0, registry, partial)
 	});
 }
 /**
-* Create an agent-job runner — a {@link RunnerInterface} over serializable
+* Creates an agent-job runner — a {@link RunnerInterface} over serializable
 * {@link AgentJobInput}s that COMPOSES `createRunner` (one-shot, ordered, fail-fast), each
 * unit rehydrated through the `registry` and subjected to the partial policy. The runner
 * enables **sub-agent fan-out**: a parent job's handler can `controller.spawn(childJob)`.
@@ -2778,17 +3103,17 @@ function createAgentQueue(options) {
 *   runner, FAN OUT and return — do NOT inline-`await` a spawn from within the handler (a
 *   slot-holding handler awaiting its own spawn can deadlock; see `ControllerInterface`).
 * - **Partial policy + cancellation.** Same as `createAgentQueue`: a partial result
-*   THROWS by default (the run's fail-fast engages), `allowPartial: true` resolves it; the
+*   THROWS by default (the run's fail-fast engages), `partial: true` resolves it; the
 *   handler threads `controller.signal` into `registry.build`, so a runner abort / a
 *   per-attempt timeout cancels the agent.
 *
-* @param options - The `registry`, the `allowPartial` policy, and the substrate knobs
+* @param options - The `registry`, the `partial` policy, and the substrate knobs
 *   (`concurrency` / `retries` / `timeout`) (see {@link AgentRunnerOptions})
 * @returns A {@link RunnerInterface} of {@link AgentJobInput} → {@link AgentResult}
 *
 * @example
 * ```ts
-* import { createAgentRunner, createAgentRegistry } from '@src/core'
+* import { createAgentRunner, createAgentRegistry } from '@orkestrel/agent'
 *
 * const registry = createAgentRegistry({ providers: { main: provider } })
 * const runner = createAgentRunner({ registry, concurrency: 2 })
@@ -2799,12 +3124,12 @@ function createAgentQueue(options) {
 * ```
 */
 function createAgentRunner(options) {
-	const { registry, allowPartial = false, concurrency, retries, timeout } = options;
+	const { registry, partial = false, concurrency, retries, timeout } = options;
 	return (0, _orkestrel_workflow.createRunner)({
 		...concurrency === void 0 ? {} : { concurrency },
 		...retries === void 0 ? {} : { retries },
 		...timeout === void 0 ? {} : { timeout },
-		handler: handleAgentRunnerJob.bind(void 0, registry, allowPartial)
+		handler: handleAgentRunnerJob.bind(void 0, registry, partial)
 	});
 }
 //#endregion
@@ -2836,12 +3161,19 @@ exports.THINK_OPEN = THINK_OPEN;
 exports.ThinkSplitter = ThinkSplitter;
 exports.WORKSPACE_SECTION_HEADER = WORKSPACE_SECTION_HEADER;
 exports.agentResultToJSON = agentResultToJSON;
+exports.assembleResult = assembleResult;
+exports.attachImages = attachImages;
+exports.attachUserImages = attachUserImages;
+exports.buildRecapMessage = buildRecapMessage;
+exports.buildSummaryMessage = buildSummaryMessage;
+exports.collectImageData = collectImageData;
 exports.createAgent = createAgent;
 exports.createAgentContext = createAgentContext;
 exports.createAgentQueue = createAgentQueue;
 exports.createAgentRegistry = createAgentRegistry;
 exports.createAgentRunner = createAgentRunner;
 exports.createAuthority = createAuthority;
+exports.createChannel = createChannel;
 exports.createConversation = createConversation;
 exports.createConversationManager = createConversationManager;
 exports.createDatabaseConversationStore = createDatabaseConversationStore;
@@ -2851,12 +3183,13 @@ exports.createMemoryConversationStore = createMemoryConversationStore;
 exports.createScope = createScope;
 exports.createScopeManager = createScopeManager;
 exports.createThinkSplitter = createThinkSplitter;
+exports.denyCall = denyCall;
 exports.estimateMessages = estimateMessages;
 exports.estimateTokens = estimateTokens;
-exports.fencedFile = fencedFile;
 exports.filterAllowList = filterAllowList;
 exports.handleAgentQueueJob = handleAgentQueueJob;
 exports.handleAgentRunnerJob = handleAgentRunnerJob;
+exports.intersectKeys = intersectKeys;
 exports.isAgentError = isAgentError;
 exports.isAgentJobError = isAgentJobError;
 exports.isConversationError = isConversationError;
@@ -2864,8 +3197,15 @@ exports.isConversationSnapshot = isConversationSnapshot;
 exports.isMessage = isMessage;
 exports.isProviderAbortError = isProviderAbortError;
 exports.isSection = isSection;
+exports.joinThinking = joinThinking;
+exports.renderFencedFile = renderFencedFile;
+exports.renderSection = renderSection;
+exports.resolveClose = resolveClose;
+exports.resolveItem = resolveItem;
+exports.resolveOpen = resolveOpen;
 exports.sanitizeToken = sanitizeToken;
 exports.sanitizeUsage = sanitizeUsage;
 exports.settleAgentJob = settleAgentJob;
+exports.sumUsage = sumUsage;
 
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