@owlmeans/llm-common 0.1.18-rc.11 → 0.1.18-rc.13

package/README.md

@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ persistence/queue consumer need to name the same things.
 - The inheritable `ModelPolicy` and its JSON-safe `ModelConfigPatch` / `ModelConfigOverride`
 - `ExecutionState` / `TaskExecutionState` — what an execution looks like once its
   collaborators (models, file access, live handles) are stripped off
+- The inquiry contracts — one question put to a person mid-run, the answer that comes back,
+  and the pure helpers every layer reads an answer through
 - Spectator record contracts and the `NullCapture` diagnostic
 - No `@langchain/*` runtime dependency: safe to import from a browser bundle, a queue
   worker, or a package that must not pull an inference SDK
@@ -20,7 +22,7 @@ extends these; `@owlmeans/llm` implements against them.
 ## Installation
 
 ```bash
-bun add @owlmeans/llm-common
+bun add @owlmeans/llm-common@^0.1.18-rc.11
 ```
 
 ## Usage
@@ -63,12 +65,13 @@ export interface MyExecutionState extends ExecutionState {
 
 | Export | Description |
 |--------|-------------|
-| `ModelProvider` | `OpenAI` · `Anthropic` · `Compatible` — each maps to an `LlmPlugin` type in `@owlmeans/llm`. |
+| `ModelProvider` | `OpenAI` · `Anthropic` · `Compatible` · `Delegated` — each maps to an `LlmPlugin` type in `@owlmeans/llm`. `Delegated` talks to no provider: the call is handed to a transport the application seated (`@owlmeans/llm-delegate`). |
 | `ExecutionLevel` | `Project` → `Task` → `Helper`; an execution is refined downward only. |
 | `ExecutionEffort` | `Economy` · `Standard` · `High` · `Max` — the one "how hard should this run" axis. |
 | `StructuredMode` | `Native` (provider JSON-schema mode) vs `Tool` (forced tool call). |
 | `SpectatorContentType` | `Text` · `Json` · `ToolCall`. |
 | `SPECTATOR_GENERAL` | Default entry kind for consumers that do not classify calls. |
+| `DEFAULT_INQUIRY_ANSWER_CHARS` (2000) · `DEFAULT_INQUIRY_OPTIONS` (12) · `INQUIRY_STATE_TEXT_CHARS` (200) · `CONFIRM_YES` / `CONFIRM_NO` | The one ceiling on a stored answer, the point past which a choice is not a question, what a pipeline state keeps of an answer's prose, and the two confirmation values. Never introduce a second copy of any of them. |
 
 ### Types
 
@@ -82,6 +85,9 @@ export interface MyExecutionState extends ExecutionState {
 | `TaskExecutionState` | Adds `phase` / `completed` / `cursor` / `data` for checkpoint & resume. |
 | `LlmPurpose` | `{ type?, dedication? }` — observability metadata carried on every call. |
 | `NullCapture`, `NullKind` | Full diagnostics of a call that returned nothing usable. |
+| `Inquiry`, `InquiryAnswer`, `InquiryOption`, `InquiryTransport`, `InquiryConfig` | One question put to a person while a run is in flight, and its answer. `ExecutionState.inquiry` carries the channel and the policy, so a resumed run asks the same way. |
+| `InquiryKind`, `InquiryPolicy` | `choice` / `text` / `confirm`; `ask` / `default` / `refuse` — no configuration means `default`, so a run nobody is watching never blocks on a question. |
+| `defaultAnswerFor`, `answeredWith`, `isDeclined`, `capAnswer`, `stateAnswerOf`, `renderInquiry` | The ONE reading of an answer every layer shares. `capAnswer` cuts prose only and reports the cut; a `value` is the decision itself and is never shortened. |
 | `SpectatorArgument`, `SpectatorEntry`, `SpectatorEntryLogged`, `SpectatorEntryMessage` | The record format an observability sink stores. |
 
 ## Related
@@ -96,7 +102,7 @@ This package ships embedded agent skills under `agent-meta/`. After installing y
 your project's skill store (`.agents/skills/`):
 
 ```sh
-npx @owlmeans/agent-skills
+npx @owlmeans/agent-skills@^0.1.18-rc.13
 ```
 
 The embedded files are version-matched to this package release. Do not edit them

package/agent-meta/manifest.json

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 {
   "schemaVersion": 2,
   "package": "@owlmeans/llm-common",
-  "version": "0.1.18-rc.11",
-  "generatedAt": "2026-09-01T22:50:56.459Z",
+  "version": "0.1.18-rc.13",
+  "generatedAt": "2026-09-10T18:54:42.500Z",
   "canonicalRepo": "https://github.com/owlmeans/common",
   "entries": [
     {

package/agent-meta/skills/llm-common/SKILL.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ user-invocable: false
 # @owlmeans/llm-common
 
 **Layer:** Core
-**Install:** `"@owlmeans/llm-common": "^0.1.18-rc.11"` in `dependencies`
+**Install:** `"@owlmeans/llm-common": "^0.1.18-rc.13"` in `dependencies`
 
 The contracts half of the LLM stack. **No `@langchain/*` runtime dependency** — importable
 from a browser bundle, a queue worker, or any package that must not pull an inference SDK.
@@ -34,21 +34,47 @@ The dependency direction is one-way: a domain contracts package extends these;
 | `SkillDefinition` | One named block of reusable prompt knowledge. `body` must be a pure constant. |
 | `PromptPolicy` | `{ role?, skills?, cacheSystem?, cacheTtl? }` — carried on `ExecutionState`, merged downward. |
 | `CacheTtl`, `CacheUsage` | `'5m' \| '1h'`; normalized prompt-cache accounting. |
-| `LlmFileProvider`, `FileProviderRef`, `resolveFileProvider` | The minimal read/write file contract prompt plugins work against. Its optional `key` is the provider's stable identity (project root, sandbox id) — the only thing a plugin caching per-project reads can key on, since providers are rebuilt per request. |
+| `LlmFileProvider`, `FileProviderRef`, `resolveFileProvider` | The file contract prompt plugins work against — four members, every path relative to the host's project root. `FileProviderRef` accepts the provider or a thunk returning one; `resolveFileProvider` unwraps whichever form arrived, or `undefined`. |
 | `NullCapture`, `NullKind` | Full diagnostics of a call that returned nothing usable. |
+| `Inquiry`, `InquiryAnswer`, `InquiryOption`, `InquiryTransport`, `InquiryConfig` | One question put to a person mid-run, and the answer that comes back. |
+| `InquiryKind`, `InquiryPolicy` | `choice`/`text`/`confirm`; `ask`/`default`/`refuse`. |
+| `DEFAULT_INQUIRY_ANSWER_CHARS`, `DEFAULT_INQUIRY_OPTIONS`, `INQUIRY_STATE_TEXT_CHARS`, `CONFIRM_YES`, `CONFIRM_NO` | The one answer ceiling, the option ceiling, what a pipeline state may hold of an answer's prose, and the two confirmation values. |
+| `defaultAnswerFor`, `answeredWith`, `capAnswer`, `isDeclined`, `stateAnswerOf`, `renderInquiry` | The pure reading of an inquiry and its answer, shared by every layer. |
 | `SpectatorArgument`, `SpectatorEntry`, `SpectatorEntryLogged`, `SpectatorEntryMessage` | What an observability sink stores. |
 
+## `LlmFileProvider` — what a host must supply
+
+A consumer's own file helper satisfies it structurally (`interface FileHelper extends
+LlmFileProvider`); implementing it from scratch means all four:
+
+| Member | Contract |
+|---|---|
+| `readFile(path, noThrow?)` | Read a file relative to the root. With `noThrow`, a missing file yields `''`. |
+| `getSourceList(pattern?)` | Glob for files relative to the root. Project-skill discovery in `@owlmeans/agent-skills` is built on it, so a provider that stubs it indexes nothing. |
+| `writeFile(path, content)` | Write relative to the root, creating parent directories. |
+| `deleteFile(path, noThrow?)` | Delete relative to the root. With `noThrow`, a missing file is a no-op. |
+| `key?` | Optional. The provider's stable identity (project root, sandbox id) — the only thing a plugin caching per-project reads can key on, since providers are rebuilt per request. A provider without one is treated as uncacheable. |
+
+Resolving the project root is deliberately NOT part of the contract, and an implementation must not
+narrow an inherited signature — that is what stops a rich helper from satisfying this one.
+
 ## Extension rules
 
 Open types are open **on purpose** — extend, do not fork:
 
 ```typescript
+import type {
+  ExecutionState as LlmExecutionState, LlmPurpose,
+  TaskExecutionState as LlmTaskExecutionState,
+} from '@owlmeans/llm-common'
+
 // Your roles: an enum whose values satisfy the open `ModelRole` string.
 export enum MyRole { Analyst = 'analyst', Coder = 'coder' }
 
-// Your purpose and state: extend, never redeclare.
+// Your purpose and state: extend, never redeclare. Aliasing the imports keeps your own
+// `ExecutionState` the name the rest of your domain uses.
 export interface MyPurpose extends LlmPurpose { agent?: string }
-export interface MyExecutionState extends ExecutionState {
+export interface MyExecutionState extends LlmExecutionState {
   purpose: MyPurpose
   projectId?: string
 }
@@ -64,12 +90,35 @@ export interface MyTaskState
 `SpectatorEntry.kind` is an open `string` for the same reason: declare your own kind enum
 and narrow it on your own entry interface.
 
+## Inquiry — the contracts half
+
+`src/inquiry/` carries the human-in-the-loop primitive's serializable half: the question, the
+answer, the transport interface, and the pure helpers every layer reads an answer through.
+`ExecutionState.inquiry?: InquiryConfig` says how one run may put a question to a person, and it is
+STATE rather than a collaborator — a resumed run must ask through the same channel under the same
+policy, so it travels into every snapshot (it is deliberately absent from `@owlmeans/llm`'s
+`COLLABORATOR_KEYS`).
+
+`DEFAULT_INQUIRY_ANSWER_CHARS` is the ONE ceiling on a stored answer; every other layer references
+it rather than choosing its own, and `capAnswer` reports the cut (`truncated: true`) instead of
+truncating silently. It cuts the PROSE only: a `value` is the decision itself, so a shortened one
+matches no option and is passed through whole with `truncated` raised on it.
+`INQUIRY_STATE_TEXT_CHARS` is the much smaller amount a resumable pipeline
+state may hold of an answer's free text (`stateAnswerOf`, the other writer of `truncated`) — a
+state is keys and markers, not prose.
+The primitive end to end, including the runtime registry and the pipeline park: [[inquiry]].
+
 ## What must NOT go here
 
 Anything that cannot survive `JSON.stringify` or that needs an inference SDK: model
 instances, credentials, file handles, callbacks, `ModelConfig` (it carries `secret` /
 `headers` / `fallback` — that lives in `@owlmeans/llm`).
 
+## Tests
+
+`bun test ./tests` in the package. Contracts and enums are not tested (nothing to assert); the
+specs cover the pure helpers that carry a decision — `tests/inquiry.spec.ts`.
+
 ## Depends On
 
 Nothing at runtime. `@langchain/core` is a **dev** dependency, for the `UsageMetadata` type
@@ -78,3 +127,4 @@ on a spectator message only.
 ## Related
 
 - [[llm]] — the runtime that implements these contracts
+- [[inquiry]] — the human-in-the-loop primitive whose contracts live here

package/build/consts.d.ts

@@ -9,7 +9,21 @@ export declare enum ModelProvider {
     /** Anthropic messages API. */
     Anthropic = "anthropic",
     /** Any OpenAI-compatible endpoint — OpenRouter, HuggingFace router, Together, vLLM, … */
-    Compatible = "compatible"
+    Compatible = "compatible",
+    /**
+     * No endpoint at all: the call is handed to whoever holds the execution.
+     *
+     * A delegated model does not talk to a provider. It packages the call — the system prompt, the
+     * conversation, the tools or the schema — and hands it to a transport the application seated,
+     * which carries it to something outside this process entirely: a coding agent driving the
+     * application through a connector, a human, a test. The answer comes back the same way and is
+     * turned into a completion the rest of the stack cannot tell apart from a provider's.
+     *
+     * It exists so that "who performs this call" can be a property of the SESSION rather than of the
+     * code: the same pipeline, the same prompts and the same retry rules, billed to somebody else's
+     * model.
+     */
+    Delegated = "delegated"
 }
 /**
  * Refinement level of an execution. An execution is refined downward only:

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     ModelProvider["Anthropic"] = "anthropic";
     /** Any OpenAI-compatible endpoint — OpenRouter, HuggingFace router, Together, vLLM, … */
     ModelProvider["Compatible"] = "compatible";
+    /**
+     * No endpoint at all: the call is handed to whoever holds the execution.
+     *
+     * A delegated model does not talk to a provider. It packages the call — the system prompt, the
+     * conversation, the tools or the schema — and hands it to a transport the application seated,
+     * which carries it to something outside this process entirely: a coding agent driving the
+     * application through a connector, a human, a test. The answer comes back the same way and is
+     * turned into a completion the rest of the stack cannot tell apart from a provider's.
+     *
+     * It exists so that "who performs this call" can be a property of the SESSION rather than of the
+     * code: the same pipeline, the same prompts and the same retry rules, billed to somebody else's
+     * model.
+     */
+    ModelProvider["Delegated"] = "delegated";
 })(ModelProvider || (ModelProvider = {}));
 /**
  * Refinement level of an execution. An execution is refined downward only:

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package/build/delegate/types.d.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+/**
+ * The serializable form of one model call, for a performer outside this process.
+ *
+ * A delegated call cannot pass a `BaseChatModel` or a langchain message anywhere: the thing that
+ * answers it is a coding agent on somebody's laptop, a test double, or a person. So the call is
+ * reduced to what any of them can act on — a persona, a conversation, and the shape the answer
+ * must take — and everything provider-specific is left behind.
+ *
+ * There is no vocabulary here from whatever pipeline asked. A `role` and a `tier` travel because
+ * the performer has to choose a model; nothing else about the caller does.
+ */
+/** What the answer must be. */
+export declare enum DelegatedMode {
+    /** Prose or code. */
+    Text = "text",
+    /** Exactly one JSON object satisfying `outputSchema`. */
+    Json = "json",
+    /** A list of calls chosen from `tools`. */
+    Tools = "tools"
+}
+/** Who a message came from. Deliberately the four roles every chat API agrees on. */
+export declare enum DelegatedRole {
+    System = "system",
+    User = "user",
+    Assistant = "assistant",
+    Tool = "tool"
+}
+/** What shape an answer came back in. */
+export declare enum DelegatedResultKind {
+    Text = "text",
+    Json = "json",
+    ToolCalls = "tool-calls",
+    /** The performer could not answer. Treated as a malformed answer: asked again, with the reason. */
+    Error = "error"
+}
+export interface DelegatedToolCall {
+    id?: string;
+    name: string;
+    args: Record<string, unknown>;
+}
+export interface DelegatedMessage {
+    role: DelegatedRole;
+    content: string;
+    /** Assistant turns that called tools. */
+    toolCalls?: DelegatedToolCall[];
+    /** Tool turns answer one call, and name the tool they answer. */
+    toolCallId?: string;
+    name?: string;
+}
+export interface DelegatedTool {
+    name: string;
+    description?: string;
+    /** JSON Schema of the arguments. */
+    parameters: Record<string, unknown>;
+}
+export type DelegatedToolChoice = 'auto' | 'none' | {
+    name: string;
+};
+export interface DelegatedTask {
+    id: string;
+    /** Which transport is expected to answer it — the key the application seated it under. */
+    delegate: string;
+    /** The performer's role name, for its own logging. Never load-bearing. */
+    role?: string;
+    /** Which power class the performer should run this on. */
+    tier?: string;
+    /** 0-based. Above zero means a previous answer was refused; `feedback` says why. */
+    attempt: number;
+    mode: DelegatedMode;
+    system?: string;
+    messages: DelegatedMessage[];
+    tools?: DelegatedTool[];
+    toolChoice?: DelegatedToolChoice;
+    outputSchema?: Record<string, unknown>;
+    /** A soft cap, stated so a performer can size its own call. */
+    maxOutputChars?: number;
+    feedback?: string;
+    /** ISO. A performer past this may say so rather than answer. */
+    expiresAt?: string;
+}
+export interface DelegatedUsage {
+    inputTokens?: number;
+    outputTokens?: number;
+}
+export interface DelegatedResult {
+    taskId: string;
+    kind: DelegatedResultKind;
+    text?: string;
+    json?: unknown;
+    toolCalls?: DelegatedToolCall[];
+    error?: string;
+    /** What the performer spent. Recorded; it costs this deployment nothing. */
+    usage?: DelegatedUsage;
+    /** What the performer actually ran. Display only. */
+    model?: string;
+}
+/**
+ * How a delegated call reaches its performer.
+ *
+ * One method, because that is the whole seam: everything about routing, waiting, redelivery and
+ * giving up belongs to whoever implements it. A transport that cannot serve the call must THROW
+ * rather than answer with an error result — an error result is a bad answer, which is retried,
+ * while a transport that is gone is terminal.
+ */
+export interface DelegateTransport {
+    dispatch: (task: DelegatedTask, signal?: AbortSignal) => Promise<DelegatedResult>;
+}
+//# sourceMappingURL=types.d.ts.map

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package/build/delegate/types.js

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+/**
+ * The serializable form of one model call, for a performer outside this process.
+ *
+ * A delegated call cannot pass a `BaseChatModel` or a langchain message anywhere: the thing that
+ * answers it is a coding agent on somebody's laptop, a test double, or a person. So the call is
+ * reduced to what any of them can act on — a persona, a conversation, and the shape the answer
+ * must take — and everything provider-specific is left behind.
+ *
+ * There is no vocabulary here from whatever pipeline asked. A `role` and a `tier` travel because
+ * the performer has to choose a model; nothing else about the caller does.
+ */
+/** What the answer must be. */
+export var DelegatedMode;
+(function (DelegatedMode) {
+    /** Prose or code. */
+    DelegatedMode["Text"] = "text";
+    /** Exactly one JSON object satisfying `outputSchema`. */
+    DelegatedMode["Json"] = "json";
+    /** A list of calls chosen from `tools`. */
+    DelegatedMode["Tools"] = "tools";
+})(DelegatedMode || (DelegatedMode = {}));
+/** Who a message came from. Deliberately the four roles every chat API agrees on. */
+export var DelegatedRole;
+(function (DelegatedRole) {
+    DelegatedRole["System"] = "system";
+    DelegatedRole["User"] = "user";
+    DelegatedRole["Assistant"] = "assistant";
+    DelegatedRole["Tool"] = "tool";
+})(DelegatedRole || (DelegatedRole = {}));
+/** What shape an answer came back in. */
+export var DelegatedResultKind;
+(function (DelegatedResultKind) {
+    DelegatedResultKind["Text"] = "text";
+    DelegatedResultKind["Json"] = "json";
+    DelegatedResultKind["ToolCalls"] = "tool-calls";
+    /** The performer could not answer. Treated as a malformed answer: asked again, with the reason. */
+    DelegatedResultKind["Error"] = "error";
+})(DelegatedResultKind || (DelegatedResultKind = {}));
+//# sourceMappingURL=types.js.map

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 export type * from './spectator/types.js';
 export type * from './files/types.js';
 export * from './files/utils.js';
+export * from './delegate/index.js';
+export * from './inquiry/index.js';
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package/build/index.js

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
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 export * from './files/utils.js';
+export * from './delegate/index.js';
+export * from './inquiry/index.js';
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package/build/inquiry/consts.d.ts

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+/**
+ * What shape of answer a question expects. Deliberately three, because a question a person is
+ * asked mid-run is answered in seconds or not at all: pick one of these, say it in your own
+ * words, or say yes/no. Anything richer is a form, and a form belongs to an application screen.
+ */
+export declare enum InquiryKind {
+    Choice = "choice",
+    Text = "text",
+    Confirm = "confirm"
+}
+/**
+ * What a run is allowed to do when it needs a decision that is not its own.
+ *
+ * - `Ask` — put it to a person through the seated transport and wait.
+ * - `Default` — assume the question's own default (or record a decline) and carry on. The caller
+ *   is expected to RECORD the assumption; a run nobody is watching must never block.
+ * - `Refuse` — nobody may be asked at all; the attempt is an error.
+ */
+export declare enum InquiryPolicy {
+    Ask = "ask",
+    Default = "default",
+    Refuse = "refuse"
+}
+/**
+ * The ONE ceiling on a stored answer, in characters. An answer is a decision, not a document.
+ *
+ * Every layer that carries an answer references this constant rather than choosing its own:
+ * `viable-common`'s `CONNECT_INQUIRY_MAX_TEXT` (the wire copy) equals it, `capAnswer` enforces it,
+ * and the connector's answer schema caps `text` at it. Three ceilings for one value is how a
+ * user's answer gets accepted on the wire and silently halved further in.
+ */
+export declare const DEFAULT_INQUIRY_ANSWER_CHARS = 2000;
+/** How many options one question may offer. Beyond this it is not a question. */
+export declare const DEFAULT_INQUIRY_OPTIONS = 12;
+/**
+ * How much of an answer's free text a resumable pipeline STATE may hold.
+ *
+ * A pipeline state is keys, markers and paths — a couple of full-size answers would make it prose,
+ * which is the invariant the whole pipeline design rests on. The decision (`value`/`declined`)
+ * stays whole; the prose is cut here and belongs in whatever document the application keeps for
+ * it (`stateAnswerOf`).
+ */
+export declare const INQUIRY_STATE_TEXT_CHARS = 200;
+/** The answer value of a confirmed {@link InquiryKind.Confirm}. */
+export declare const CONFIRM_YES = "yes";
+/** The answer value of a refused {@link InquiryKind.Confirm}. */
+export declare const CONFIRM_NO = "no";
+//# sourceMappingURL=consts.d.ts.map

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package/build/inquiry/consts.js

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+/**
+ * What shape of answer a question expects. Deliberately three, because a question a person is
+ * asked mid-run is answered in seconds or not at all: pick one of these, say it in your own
+ * words, or say yes/no. Anything richer is a form, and a form belongs to an application screen.
+ */
+export var InquiryKind;
+(function (InquiryKind) {
+    InquiryKind["Choice"] = "choice";
+    InquiryKind["Text"] = "text";
+    InquiryKind["Confirm"] = "confirm";
+})(InquiryKind || (InquiryKind = {}));
+/**
+ * What a run is allowed to do when it needs a decision that is not its own.
+ *
+ * - `Ask` — put it to a person through the seated transport and wait.
+ * - `Default` — assume the question's own default (or record a decline) and carry on. The caller
+ *   is expected to RECORD the assumption; a run nobody is watching must never block.
+ * - `Refuse` — nobody may be asked at all; the attempt is an error.
+ */
+export var InquiryPolicy;
+(function (InquiryPolicy) {
+    InquiryPolicy["Ask"] = "ask";
+    InquiryPolicy["Default"] = "default";
+    InquiryPolicy["Refuse"] = "refuse";
+})(InquiryPolicy || (InquiryPolicy = {}));
+/**
+ * The ONE ceiling on a stored answer, in characters. An answer is a decision, not a document.
+ *
+ * Every layer that carries an answer references this constant rather than choosing its own:
+ * `viable-common`'s `CONNECT_INQUIRY_MAX_TEXT` (the wire copy) equals it, `capAnswer` enforces it,
+ * and the connector's answer schema caps `text` at it. Three ceilings for one value is how a
+ * user's answer gets accepted on the wire and silently halved further in.
+ */
+export const DEFAULT_INQUIRY_ANSWER_CHARS = 2_000;
+/** How many options one question may offer. Beyond this it is not a question. */
+export const DEFAULT_INQUIRY_OPTIONS = 12;
+/**
+ * How much of an answer's free text a resumable pipeline STATE may hold.
+ *
+ * A pipeline state is keys, markers and paths — a couple of full-size answers would make it prose,
+ * which is the invariant the whole pipeline design rests on. The decision (`value`/`declined`)
+ * stays whole; the prose is cut here and belongs in whatever document the application keeps for
+ * it (`stateAnswerOf`).
+ */
+export const INQUIRY_STATE_TEXT_CHARS = 200;
+/** The answer value of a confirmed {@link InquiryKind.Confirm}. */
+export const CONFIRM_YES = 'yes';
+/** The answer value of a refused {@link InquiryKind.Confirm}. */
+export const CONFIRM_NO = 'no';
+//# sourceMappingURL=consts.js.map

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package/build/inquiry/index.d.ts

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+export * from './consts.js';
+export type * from './types.js';
+export * from './utils.js';
+//# sourceMappingURL=index.d.ts.map

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package/build/inquiry/types.d.ts

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+import type { InquiryKind, InquiryPolicy } from './consts.js';
+/**
+ * One question put to a person while a run is in flight, and the answer that comes back.
+ *
+ * Everything here is serializable for the same reason a delegated task is: whoever answers is
+ * outside this process — a browser dialog, a coding agent driving the application through a
+ * connector, a test double — and the question may outlive the process that asked it, parked on a
+ * pipeline run row until somebody comes back to it.
+ */
+export interface InquiryOption {
+    value: string;
+    label: string;
+    description?: string;
+}
+export interface Inquiry {
+    /** Stable id, chosen by whoever asks. The ONLY thing that routes an answer back. */
+    id: string;
+    kind: InquiryKind;
+    /** One question, in plain words. */
+    question: string;
+    /** One or two sentences of background. Never the whole task. */
+    context?: string;
+    /** Required for {@link InquiryKind.Choice}; ignored otherwise. */
+    options?: InquiryOption[];
+    multiple?: boolean;
+    /** A `Choice` the answerer may answer in their own words instead. */
+    allowText?: boolean;
+    /** What to assume when nobody answers. {@link InquiryPolicy.Default} returns exactly this. */
+    default?: string | string[];
+    expiresAt?: string;
+}
+export interface InquiryAnswer {
+    inquiryId: string;
+    value?: string | string[];
+    text?: string;
+    /** Nobody could decide. A legitimate ANSWER, never a failure. */
+    declined?: boolean;
+    /**
+     * This answer is not exactly the one that was given. Never an answerer's own flag.
+     *
+     * Two writers, two ceilings: `capAnswer` cuts the text to `DEFAULT_INQUIRY_ANSWER_CHARS` (and
+     * raises this WITHOUT cutting when a `value` arrived over that ceiling, since a shortened
+     * identifier matches no option), while `stateAnswerOf` cuts the text again to the much smaller
+     * `INQUIRY_STATE_TEXT_CHARS` a pipeline state may hold. So a flag read back off a resumed run
+     * says the state's copy is short — not that the person hit the answer ceiling.
+     *
+     * It exists so no cut is silent: whoever records the answer can say that the rest of it was
+     * dropped, instead of the answerer discovering it in the work that followed.
+     */
+    truncated?: boolean;
+}
+/**
+ * How a question reaches a person.
+ *
+ * One method, like `DelegateTransport` beside it, and for the same reason: routing, waiting,
+ * redelivery and giving up all belong to whoever implements it. A transport that cannot serve the
+ * question must THROW rather than answer — a declined answer is a decision, while a channel that
+ * is not there is terminal, and the two must never look alike.
+ */
+export interface InquiryTransport {
+    ask: (inquiry: Inquiry, signal?: AbortSignal) => Promise<InquiryAnswer>;
+}
+/**
+ * How one run may put a question to a person. Carried on an execution's serializable state, so a
+ * resumed run keeps the channel and the policy it was started with.
+ */
+export interface InquiryConfig {
+    /** The key the application seated an {@link InquiryTransport} under. */
+    transport?: string;
+    policy: InquiryPolicy;
+}
+//# sourceMappingURL=types.d.ts.map

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