@raidiant/notifai 10.1.1 → 10.1.3

package/src/hooks.ts

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-import { randomBytes } from 'node:crypto'
-import {
-  closeSync,
-  existsSync,
-  mkdirSync,
-  openSync,
-  readFileSync,
-  readdirSync,
-  rmSync,
-  statSync,
-  writeFileSync,
-} from 'node:fs'
-import path from 'node:path'
-import { REPLY_MAX_WINDOW_SECONDS } from '@raidiant/notifai-protocol'
-import {
-  LEGACY_QUESTION_CLAIM_TTL_SECONDS,
-  QUESTION_STOP_TEARDOWN_HEADROOM_SECONDS,
-  QUESTION_SUBMISSION_COMPLETION_HEADROOM_SECONDS,
-  QUESTION_WAITER_CEILING_SECONDS,
-} from './question-timing.js'
-import type {
-  LifecycleEndState,
-  ListRepliesResponse,
-  MediaItemT,
-  NotificationDraftT,
-  QuestionT,
-  ReplyView,
-  SourceContextT,
-  SubmissionReceipt,
-} from '@raidiant/notifai-protocol'
-import {
-  ApiCallError,
-  isRetryableReplyPollError,
-  type ApiClient,
-} from './client.js'
-import {
-  loadConfig,
-  projectSessionPointerPath,
-  sanitizeSessionId,
-  sessionConfigPath,
-  stateDir,
-  type CliConfig,
-} from './config.js'
-import { buildDraft } from './send.js'
-import { atomicWriteFileSync } from './atomic-file.js'
-import { withFileLock } from './file-lock.js'
-import { inferInvocationContext } from './invocation-context.js'
-import type { Logger } from './logging.js'
-import {
-  HARNESS_CAPABILITIES,
-  HOOK_INSTALLABLE_HARNESSES,
-  type DeliveryRoute,
-  type HookInstallableHarness,
-} from './harnesses.js'
-
-/**
- * Harness hook handlers.
- *
- * The supported harnesses expose the same useful lifecycle joints: a turn-end
- * event and an event that fires when the user submits a prompt. Claude Code
- * and Codex can continue directly from a turn-end answer. Harnesses without a
- * proven exact-session continuation fail closed at question admission.
- *
- * Where the user is standing no longer decides anything here. It used to: the
- * old turn-end route held the terminal briefly and made keyboard presence an
- * input to whether it waited. The current policy is explicit instead: Claude
- * Code owns the complete answer window out of band, while Codex owns it by
- * holding the asking turn. Neither infers notification preference from
- * keystrokes.
- */
-
-/** Fields we read from harness hook JSON. Everything else is passed through. */
-export interface HookEnvelope {
-  session_id?: string
-  cwd?: string
-  hook_event_name?: string
-  /** How a harness lifecycle began: startup, resume, clear, compact, or fork. */
-  source?: string
-  /** Set by the harness when this Stop follows a previous Stop continuation. */
-  stop_hook_active?: boolean
-  /** Cursor's stable per-conversation identifier. */
-  conversation_id?: string
-  /** Cursor's project roots; the first is the hook's configuration root. */
-  workspace_roots?: string[]
-  /** Cursor increments this after each stop-hook automatic follow-up. */
-  loop_count?: number
-  /** Cursor Stop completion state; cancellation must not auto-follow. */
-  status?: string
-  /** The prompt the user just submitted, when the harness includes it. */
-  prompt?: string
-}
-
-export interface SessionState {
-  /** Harness that owns this exact lifecycle state. */
-  harness?: HookHarness
-  /** Checkout whose hook definition activated this session; lifecycle diagnostics only. */
-  activation_cwd?: string
-  /** Cursor's documented session context path is lossy; bounded first-Stop fallback journal. */
-  cursor_activation_claimed_at?: number
-  cursor_activation_confirmed_at?: number
-  /** Epoch ms of the user's last prompt in this session — our presence signal. */
-  last_prompt_at?: number
-  /** Epoch ms of the last observed Stop hook, distinct from prompt routing. */
-  last_stop_at?: number
-  /**
-   * Questions registered by `notifai ask`, in registration order, each
-   * awaiting escalation or its answer. A list, deliberately: registering a
-   * question never ends an earlier one. Superseding is reply semantics — a
-   * later reply corrects an earlier reply to the same question — never
-   * question semantics; the single-slot model silently discarded a live
-   * question the moment a second was registered (2026-08-09).
-   */
-  pending?: PendingQuestion[]
-  /**
-   * Bounded terminal history for stable `q_...` lookup after the live queue is
-   * gone. It carries identities and lifecycle state only; question content
-   * remains in the ordinary pending/retirement records under their existing
-   * retention boundary.
-   */
-  question_history?: QuestionHistoryEntry[]
-  /**
-   * Questions that have been delivered to the user's devices and are now dead,
-   * but whose retirement has not been confirmed yet.
-   *
-   * A retirement needs a network call and the moment we learn a question is
-   * dead is not always a moment we can make one — the user's return to the
-   * terminal is observed by a bare hook, and the machine may be offline.
-   * Dropping the ids there is how a delivered question becomes permanently
-   * unretirable, so they are parked here instead and every later hook with a
-   * client drains them. Retirement is idempotent, so a duplicate attempt
-   * costs nothing and a missed one costs a stale notification for ever.
-   */
-  retiring?: RetiringQuestion[]
-  /**
-   * Tracks bounded Stop continuations so a follow-up ask is delivered once.
-   * `count` is how many answer generations have run consecutively without the
-   * user taking a turn themselves; their next prompt starts it over.
-   */
-  continuation?: {
-    answered_at: number
-    count: number
-  }
-  /**
-   * A phone answer durably captured but not yet acknowledged. It stays here
-   * until a delivery is acknowledged — by the route's own write, or by the
-   * successor Stop of a blocking continuation — so a crash before the answer
-   * reaches the harness replays it instead of erasing it.
-   */
-  accepted?: AcceptedAnswerDelivery
-  /**
-   * Required Agent Acknowledgements that the resumed agent still owes. This is
-   * separate from answer delivery: the answer journal may settle as soon as a
-   * harness accepts the continuation, while this obligation must survive until
-   * the service confirms the agent-authored follow-up exists.
-   */
-  acknowledgement_due?: AcknowledgementDue[]
-  /** Consecutive turns this session has been held for an acknowledgement. */
-  acknowledgement_blocks?: number
-}
-
-export interface AcknowledgementDue {
-  request_id: string
-  recorded_at: number
-  /**
-   * Whether this request's acknowledgement must carry text. Absent on state
-   * written before the obligation started recording it; treated as true, which
-   * is the default the service ships.
-   */
-  text_required?: boolean
-}
-
-interface AcceptedAnswerDelivery {
-  answers: AnsweredPending[]
-  remaining: number
-  recorded_at: number
-  /**
-   * Epoch ms when a route's own write handed this answer to the harness, with
-   * the route that performed it. Recorded so that "this answer was delivered"
-   * is a fact on the journal rather than something inferred from a harness flag
-   * that only one route ever sets.
-   */
-  delivered_at?: number
-  delivered_route?: string
-  /**
-   * How many times this answer has been handed to any route. The route-agnostic
-   * loop backstop: bounded by `MAX_CONTINUATION_COUNT` in one place every route
-   * passes through.
-   */
-  delivery_attempts?: number
-  /**
-   * Linearization point between delivery and SessionEnd. Once recorded, the
-   * route began first; before it, SessionEnd cancellation wins.
-   */
-  delivery_committed_at?: number
-  /** Turns this answer has been held without being handed to the agent. */
-  held_deliveries?: number
-}
-
-/** A delivered question awaiting its retirement push. */
-export interface RetiringQuestion {
-  /** Stable local identity retained through remote retirement. */
-  question_id?: string
-  request_id: string
-  collapse_key: string
-  /** The Device Installations that actually received the question. */
-  device_ids: string[]
-  /** Shown if the companion has no history entry to correlate against. */
-  question: string
-  project?: string
-  source?: SourceContextT
-  state: LifecycleEndState
-}
-
-/**
- * A retirement that outlived its session.
- *
- * Per-session parking assumes some later hook in the SAME session will hold a
- * client, and `SessionEnd` is exactly where that assumption breaks: it may not
- * touch the network, and no hook for that session ever fires again. Deleting
- * the state there lost the only copy of the delivered question's ids, so the
- * phone kept an answerable question nobody was listening to. These entries are
- * moved to a machine-global queue instead, drained by whichever session's hook
- * next holds a client.
- */
-export interface OrphanRetirement extends RetiringQuestion {
-  /** Epoch ms when the entry was orphaned; entries beyond the TTL are dropped. */
-  enqueued_at: number
-}
-
-/**
- * A retirement is only worth syncing while the question it retires could still
- * be answered, so this has to outlive the longest reply window a user can
- * choose — it is derived from that bound rather than from a guess about how
- * long questions stay open, which is exactly the assumption that broke when
- * the window stopped being one hour. Past it the companion shows the question
- * as dead on next open anyway. Also the backstop that keeps an unreachable
- * server from growing the queue for ever.
- */
-const ORPHAN_TTL_MS = (REPLY_MAX_WINDOW_SECONDS + 3600) * 1000
-
-/** More orphans than this means something is looping; keep the newest. */
-const ORPHAN_QUEUE_CAP = 50
-
-export interface PendingQuestion {
-  /** Stable local identity across racing state writers and submit recovery. */
-  question_id?: string
-  /** One-line summary: the single question's text, or the set's first. */
-  question: string
-  /**
-   * Epoch ms when `notifai ask` registered this. The grace window runs from
-   * here, not from the turn's end: a question the agent asked five minutes ago
-   * while it kept working has already served its wait in the terminal.
-   */
-  asked_at?: number
-  /**
-   * The full question set as `notifai ask` validated it: generated ids,
-   * texts, choices, multi flags. What actually rides the push.
-   */
-  questions?: QuestionT[]
-  /** Canonical Markdown body composed when the question was registered. */
-  body?: string
-  /** Final ordered media collection; uploads complete before registration. */
-  media?: MediaItemT[]
-  /** Final Project and Source Context frozen at registration. */
-  project?: string
-  source?: SourceContextT
-  /** Set once the question has actually been pushed, so it can be retired. */
-  request_id?: string
-  collapse_key?: string
-  /** Exact fanout of the live question; routing config may change afterwards. */
-  device_ids?: string[]
-  /** Absolute end of the server reply window. */
-  reply_deadline_at?: number
-  /**
-   * Absolute process-owner deadline. It begins before submission and includes
-   * startup headroom, so it must be later than `reply_deadline_at`. Absent on
-   * state written before ownership was persisted — treated as already spent
-   * instead of inventing a fresh multi-day claim.
-   */
-  owner_deadline_at?: number
-  /** Frozen before the first network byte, so an ambiguous submit is replayable. */
-  submission?: PendingSubmissionIntent
-}
-
-export type QuestionDeliveryState =
-  | 'local'
-  | 'frozen'
-  | 'live'
-  | 'answered'
-  | 'withdrawn'
-  | 'retired'
-
-type QuestionTerminalState = Extract<QuestionDeliveryState, 'answered' | 'withdrawn' | 'retired'>
-
-export interface QuestionHistoryEntry {
-  question_id: string
-  state: QuestionTerminalState
-  /** Present only after local promotion proves the Notification Request exists. */
-  request_id?: string
-  /** Reserved idempotent identity that was never locally promoted. */
-  frozen_request_id?: string
-}
-
-export interface QuestionStateView {
-  question_id: string
-  state: QuestionDeliveryState
-  /** Null means a frozen submission may or may not have crossed the service boundary. */
-  submitted: boolean | null
-  request_id: string | null
-  frozen_request_id: string | null
-}
-
-export type QuestionStateLookup =
-  | { found: true; session_id: string; question: QuestionStateView }
-  | { found: false; ambiguous: boolean }
-
-/** Keep immutable session grouping while replacing per-event Git location authoritatively. */
-function sourceContextAtHookEvent(
-  source: SourceContextT | undefined,
-  cwd: string | undefined,
-): SourceContextT | undefined {
-  const invocation = cwd === undefined ? null : inferInvocationContext(cwd)
-  const current: SourceContextT = {
-    ...(source?.session_id !== undefined ? { session_id: source.session_id } : {}),
-    ...(source?.session_label !== undefined ? { session_label: source.session_label } : {}),
-    ...(source?.harness !== undefined ? { harness: source.harness } : {}),
-    ...(invocation?.branch !== undefined ? { branch: invocation.branch } : {}),
-    ...(invocation?.worktree !== undefined ? { worktree: invocation.worktree } : {}),
-  }
-  return Object.keys(current).length === 0 ? undefined : current
-}
-
-interface PendingSubmissionIntent {
-  request_id: string
-  idempotency_key: string
-  collapse_key: string
-  device_ids: string[]
-  draft: NotificationDraftT
-  owner_deadline_at: number
-}
-
-function summarizeRequestIds(entries: readonly PendingQuestion[]): {
-  ids: string[]
-  display: string
-} {
-  const ids = entries.flatMap((entry) =>
-    entry.request_id === undefined ? [] : [entry.request_id],
-  )
-  return { ids, display: ids.join(', ') }
-}
-
-/**
- * The wire contract's shortest reply window. A question submitted with less
- * than this is rejected outright, and accepting one would in any case let the
- * server go on taking an answer after the waiter that owns it has returned.
- */
-export const MIN_REPLY_WINDOW_SECONDS = 60
-
-/**
- * The terminal-first wait: the question sits in the terminal for
- * `ask_grace_seconds` from when it was sent, and only then reaches companion
- * devices.
- *
- * A plain timer, and nothing else. It once polled an idle signal so it could
- * abandon the wait the moment the user touched the keyboard — necessary while
- * the wait blocked the terminal, because a user wanting to answer locally was
- * otherwise locked out of their own prompt. Presence no longer changes this
- * deterministic timer; whether the harness holds or wakes is a separate route
- * decision.
- *
- * The window is measured from registration, not from the turn's end: a
- * question the agent asked five minutes ago while it kept working has already
- * served its wait. A stamp from the future would otherwise consume the whole
- * ceiling and leave no room to answer, so it starts no later than now.
- */
-async function awaitTerminalFirstWindow(
-  ctx: HookContext,
-  askedAt: number,
-  ceilingAt: number,
-): Promise<void> {
-  const graceSeconds = ctx.config.ask_grace_seconds.value
-  if (graceSeconds <= 0) return
-  const until = Math.min(Math.min(askedAt, ctx.now()) + graceSeconds * 1000, ceilingAt)
-  const remaining = until - ctx.now()
-  if (remaining > 0) await ctx.sleep(remaining)
-}
-
-export interface HookOutcome {
-  /** Written to stdout verbatim — the harness parses this as output. */
-  stdout?: string
-  /** Commit a blocking continuation immediately before the harness stdout write. */
-  commitStdout?: () => boolean
-  /** Whether stdout takes over the turn, rather than adding prompt context. */
-  decided?: boolean
-  /** Diagnostics; harnesses surface hook stderr in the transcript. */
-  notes: string[]
-  /** Structured lifecycle detail that belongs on hook.end without user text. */
-  log?: Record<string, unknown>
-  /** An unpushed registration survived UserPromptSubmit and needs its own owner. */
-  settlementRequired?: boolean
-}
-
-/** An accepted continuation ready for whichever host owns the last meter. */
-export interface ContinuationEvent {
-  context: string
-  answers: number
-  remaining: number
-  request_ids: string[]
-  journal_recorded_at: number
-  /**
-   * Must be called immediately before the route's irreversible harness write.
-   * It atomically orders that write against SessionEnd; false means cancellation
-   * won and the route must hand nothing over.
-   */
-  commitDelivery(): boolean
-}
-
-/**
- * How much a route's own return proves about where the answer ended up.
- *
- * Acknowledgement belongs to the delivery, not to the harness envelope: routes
- * end in different places, so no single field on a hook payload can speak for
- * all of them. `stop_hook_active` is the harness confirming that a *blocking
- * continuation* was admitted; it stays false for ever on a route that starts a
- * brand-new turn instead of continuing this one, so a journal keyed to it alone
- * never settles and every later turn-end redelivers the same answer.
- *
- * - `delivered` — the route completed a write to the harness itself (an inbox
- *   socket, a cold resume). Delivery is not consumption: the write proves the
- *   harness accepted the message, never that the model acted on it. But nothing
- *   later will ever prove more, and redelivering an answer without end is
- *   strictly worse than settling on the write, so the journal settles here.
- * - `stdout` — the answer is this process's stdout, which the harness reads only
- *   after this process exits. Nothing this process can write is proof, so the
- *   journal waits for the successor Stop's `stop_hook_active`, and a crash
- *   before stdout replays the answer instead of losing it.
- * - `held` — the route handed nothing over; the journal replays the answer.
- */
-export type DeliveryAcknowledgement = 'delivered' | 'stdout' | 'held'
-
-/** What a route returns: the hook's outcome plus what the attempt proved. */
-export interface DeliveryOutcome {
-  stdout?: string
-  /** Deferred SessionEnd fence for a blocking stdout continuation. */
-  commitStdout?: () => boolean
-  notes?: string[]
-  log?: Record<string, unknown>
-  acknowledgement: DeliveryAcknowledgement
-}
-
-/** Host adapter injected into the waiter; no route is implemented by the waiter. */
-export interface EscalationDeliveryRoute {
-  kind: Exclude<DeliveryRoute, 'unsupported'>
-  deliver(event: ContinuationEvent): Promise<DeliveryOutcome>
-}
-
-export interface EscalationWaiterOptions {
-  sessionId: string
-  envelope: HookEnvelope
-  route: EscalationDeliveryRoute
-  processDeadlineAt?: number
-  /** Stop owns diagnostics; a pre-Stop recovery owner must not impersonate it. */
-  recordStop?: boolean
-}
-
-function sessionStatePath(sessionId: string, env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): string {
-  return path.join(stateDir(env), 'sessions', `${sanitizeSessionId(sessionId)}.json`)
-}
-
-/**
- * Durable cancellation for observers that can outlive the harness process.
- *
- * Absence of session state is not enough: SessionEnd deliberately deletes it,
- * and an in-flight submit/fence could otherwise recreate it afterwards. The
- * marker shares the session-state lock, giving every racing writer one total
- * order: either its state lands before SessionEnd and is cleaned up there, or
- * it observes this marker and must not write or deliver into the ended session.
- */
-function sessionEndMarkerPath(sessionId: string, env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): string {
-  return path.join(stateDir(env), 'sessions', `${sanitizeSessionId(sessionId)}.ended`)
-}
-
-function sessionHasEnded(sessionId: string, env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): boolean {
-  return existsSync(sessionEndMarkerPath(sessionId, env))
-}
-
-function markSessionEnded(sessionId: string, env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv, now: number): void {
-  const stateFile = sessionStatePath(sessionId, env)
-  withFileLock(`${stateFile}.lock`, () => {
-    atomicWriteFileSync(sessionEndMarkerPath(sessionId, env), `${now}\n`)
-  })
-}
-
-function clearSessionEndMarker(sessionId: string, env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): void {
-  const stateFile = sessionStatePath(sessionId, env)
-  withFileLock(`${stateFile}.lock`, () => {
-    rmSync(sessionEndMarkerPath(sessionId, env), { force: true })
-  })
-}
-
-export function readSessionState(sessionId: string, env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): SessionState {
-  const file = sessionStatePath(sessionId, env)
-  if (!existsSync(file)) return {}
-  try {
-    const parsed: unknown = JSON.parse(readFileSync(file, 'utf8'))
-    if (typeof parsed !== 'object' || parsed === null) return {}
-    const state = { ...(parsed as SessionState & { session_id?: unknown }) }
-    delete state.session_id
-    return state
-  } catch {
-    // A corrupt marker must not wedge the harness; treat it as "no evidence",
-    // which fails closed onto ordinary terminal behaviour.
-    return {}
-  }
-}
-
-/**
- * Resolve a stable question or request id to the one exact session that owns it.
- *
- * This deliberately searches lifecycle state, not checkout pointers: question
- * identity is global on this machine, while a linked worktree is only where a
- * command happened to run. Ambiguous or corrupt matches fail closed.
- */
-export function findOwningSession(
-  id: string,
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-): { sessionId: string | null; ambiguous: boolean } {
-  const directory = path.join(stateDir(env), 'sessions')
-  if (!existsSync(directory)) return { sessionId: null, ambiguous: false }
-  const matches: string[] = []
-  for (const name of readdirSync(directory)) {
-    if (!name.endsWith('.json')) continue
-    let persisted: (SessionState & { session_id?: unknown }) | null = null
-    try {
-      const parsed: unknown = JSON.parse(readFileSync(path.join(directory, name), 'utf8'))
-      if (typeof parsed === 'object' && parsed !== null) {
-        persisted = parsed as SessionState & { session_id?: unknown }
-      }
-    } catch {
-      // Corrupt lifecycle state is not identity evidence.
-    }
-    if (persisted === null || typeof persisted.session_id !== 'string') continue
-    const sessionId = persisted.session_id
-    const state = persisted
-    const pendingMatch = pendingList(state).some(
-      (entry) => entry.question_id === id || entry.request_id === id,
-    )
-    const retiringMatch = (state.retiring ?? []).some(
-      (entry) => entry.question_id === id || entry.request_id === id,
-    )
-    const historyMatch = (state.question_history ?? []).some(
-      (entry) => entry.question_id === id || entry.request_id === id,
-    )
-    const acknowledgementMatch = (state.acknowledgement_due ?? []).some(
-      (entry) => entry.request_id === id,
-    )
-    const acceptedMatch = state.accepted?.answers.some(
-      ({ pending }) => pending.question_id === id || pending.request_id === id,
-    ) ?? false
-    if (pendingMatch || retiringMatch || historyMatch || acknowledgementMatch || acceptedMatch) {
-      matches.push(sessionId)
-      if (matches.length > 1) return { sessionId: null, ambiguous: true }
-    }
-  }
-  return { sessionId: matches[0] ?? null, ambiguous: false }
-}
-
-export function writeSessionState(
-  sessionId: string,
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-  state: SessionState,
-): void {
-  const file = sessionStatePath(sessionId, env)
-  withFileLock(`${file}.lock`, () => writeSessionStateUnlocked(file, sessionId, state))
-}
-
-export function clearSessionState(sessionId: string, env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): void {
-  const file = sessionStatePath(sessionId, env)
-  withFileLock(`${file}.lock`, () => {
-    rmSync(file, { force: true })
-    // The session override lives in a sibling file; leaving it behind meant a
-    // later session reusing the id silently inherited `ask_notifications = false`.
-    rmSync(sessionConfigPath(sessionId, env), { force: true })
-  })
-}
-
-function writeSessionStateUnlocked(file: string, sessionId: string, state: SessionState): void {
-  atomicWriteFileSync(file, `${JSON.stringify({ ...state, session_id: sessionId }, null, 2)}\n`)
-}
-
-function updateSessionState(
-  sessionId: string,
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-  update: (current: SessionState) => SessionState,
-): SessionState {
-  const file = sessionStatePath(sessionId, env)
-  return withFileLock(`${file}.lock`, () => {
-    const current = readSessionState(sessionId, env)
-    // SessionEnd and every asynchronous writer share this lock. Once the
-    // durable marker exists, no observer may recreate state for that session.
-    if (sessionHasEnded(sessionId, env)) return current
-    const next = update(current)
-    writeSessionStateUnlocked(file, sessionId, next)
-    return next
-  })
-}
-
-/** Record the current installation when an owner session starts. */
-export function recordSessionStart(
-  sessionId: string,
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-  harness?: HookHarness,
-  cwd?: string,
-): void {
-  // Harnesses may reuse a session id only by explicitly starting that session
-  // again. That lifecycle edge is the sole authority for clearing cancellation.
-  clearSessionEndMarker(sessionId, env)
-  updateSessionState(sessionId, env, (current) => ({
-    ...current,
-    ...(harness === undefined ? {} : { harness }),
-    ...(cwd === undefined ? {} : { activation_cwd: current.activation_cwd ?? cwd }),
-  }))
-}
-
-/** Atomically claim Cursor's first-Stop activation fallback once per conversation. */
-export function claimCursorStopActivation(
-  sessionId: string,
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-  now: number,
-): boolean {
-  const claimGuardMs = 30_000
-  let claimed = false
-  updateSessionState(sessionId, env, (current) => {
-    if (current.cursor_activation_confirmed_at !== undefined) return current
-    if (
-      current.cursor_activation_claimed_at !== undefined &&
-      now - current.cursor_activation_claimed_at < claimGuardMs
-    ) {
-      return current
-    }
-    claimed = true
-    return { ...current, cursor_activation_claimed_at: now }
-  })
-  return claimed
-}
-
-/** Cursor's loop_count proves the previous Stop follow-up reached the host. */
-export function confirmCursorStopActivation(
-  sessionId: string,
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-  now: number,
-): boolean {
-  let owned = false
-  updateSessionState(sessionId, env, (current) => {
-    if (current.cursor_activation_confirmed_at !== undefined) {
-      owned = true
-      return current
-    }
-    if (current.cursor_activation_claimed_at === undefined) return current
-    owned = true
-    return { ...current, cursor_activation_confirmed_at: now }
-  })
-  return owned
-}
-
-/** A fresh/cleared Cursor lifecycle makes its next Stop the fallback owner again. */
-export function resetCursorStopActivation(sessionId: string, env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): void {
-  updateSessionState(sessionId, env, (current) => {
-    if (
-      current.cursor_activation_claimed_at === undefined &&
-      current.cursor_activation_confirmed_at === undefined
-    ) {
-      return current
-    }
-    const next = { ...current }
-    delete next.cursor_activation_claimed_at
-    delete next.cursor_activation_confirmed_at
-    return next
-  })
-}
-
-/**
- * Session state a crashed harness left behind.
- *
- * `SessionEnd` removes session state and leaves a short-lived cancellation
- * marker; a harness that crashes or is killed never reaches it. At roughly a
- * hundred sessions a day that is tens of thousands of files a year, none of
- * which anything reads.
- *
- * Opportunistic rather than scheduled: hooks are the only thing that runs, so
- * a hook is where this has to live. It is rate-limited by its own stamp file
- * so the common case costs one `stat`, not a directory walk — a Stop hook is
- * on the critical path of every turn.
- */
-const SESSION_PRUNE_AFTER_MS = 7 * 24 * 3600 * 1000
-const SESSION_PRUNE_INTERVAL_MS = 24 * 3600 * 1000
-
-export function pruneAbandonedSessions(
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-  now: number = Date.now(),
-  maxAgeMs: number = SESSION_PRUNE_AFTER_MS,
-): number {
-  const directory = path.join(stateDir(env), 'sessions')
-  const stamp = path.join(stateDir(env), 'last-prune')
-  try {
-    if (existsSync(stamp) && now - statSync(stamp).mtimeMs < SESSION_PRUNE_INTERVAL_MS) return 0
-    mkdirSync(path.dirname(stamp), { recursive: true })
-    writeFileSync(stamp, '', { mode: 0o600 })
-    if (!existsSync(directory)) return 0
-
-    let removed = 0
-    for (const name of readdirSync(directory)) {
-      const file = path.join(directory, name)
-      try {
-        const age = now - statSync(file).mtimeMs
-        // A negative age means the clock moved, not that the file is old.
-        // Deleting live session state on an NTP correction would lose a
-        // question already on the user's phone.
-        if (age <= maxAgeMs) continue
-        rmSync(file, { force: true })
-        removed += 1
-      } catch {
-        // A file that vanished under us, or one we may not read. Neither is
-        // worth failing a hook for, and the next pass will see it again.
-      }
-    }
-    return removed
-  } catch {
-    // Housekeeping must never be the reason a turn fails.
-    return 0
-  }
-}
-
-/**
- * One question, one push, even with two Stop hooks racing.
- *
- * Path-independent hook ownership stops the *usual* cause of two handlers
- * firing, but it cannot stop every one — two harnesses in one directory, or an
- * install this build does not recognise. Both processes would read the same
- * pending question, see no `request_id`, and both escalate: one question, two
- * notifications.
- *
- * Exclusive create is atomic on POSIX, so exactly one process gets the claim
- * and the other steps aside. A short guard serializes stale replacement with
- * contenders and releases; random ownership tokens keep an old holder from
- * unlinking its replacement. A live PID owns the claim regardless of age; a
- * known-dead PID is recoverable immediately. Only legacy/corrupt claims with
- * no trustworthy PID fall back to an age limit.
- */
-const CLAIM_TTL_MS = LEGACY_QUESTION_CLAIM_TTL_SECONDS * 1000
-
-/**
- * How long a crashed claim *guard* blocks the next hook.
- *
- * The claim itself may legitimately be held for the whole waiter, so it takes
- * that ceiling. The guard is a short lock around the claim's own bookkeeping —
- * a few file operations — and borrowing the waiter's ceiling for it meant a
- * hook killed at exactly the wrong moment wedged this session's Stop path for
- * eight minutes, for a critical section that never runs longer than a second.
- */
-const CLAIM_GUARD_TTL_MS = 30_000
-const heldClaims = new Map<string, string>()
-
-export function claimQuestionPush(
-  sessionId: string,
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-  now: number = Date.now(),
-  beforeStaleReplace?: () => void,
-  ownerDeadlineAt?: number,
-): boolean {
-  const file = claimPath(sessionId, env)
-  const guard = `${file}.guard`
-  const token = randomBytes(12).toString('base64url')
-  const pendingQuestionIds = pendingList(readSessionState(sessionId, env)).map(
-    claimQuestionIdentity,
-  )
-  mkdirSync(path.dirname(file), { recursive: true })
-  if (!acquireClaimGuard(guard)) return false
-  try {
-    try {
-      writeFileSync(
-        file,
-        `${JSON.stringify({ pid: process.pid, at: now, token, pending_question_ids: pendingQuestionIds, ...(ownerDeadlineAt === undefined ? {} : { owner_deadline_at: ownerDeadlineAt }) })}\n`,
-        {
-        mode: 0o600,
-        flag: 'wx',
-        },
-      )
-      heldClaims.set(file, token)
-      return true
-    } catch {
-      // Held. Break it only if whoever holds it cannot still be running.
-      try {
-        const held = JSON.parse(readFileSync(file, 'utf8')) as { at?: unknown; pid?: unknown }
-        const age = typeof held.at === 'number' ? now - held.at : Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY
-        if (typeof held.pid === 'number') {
-          if (processIsAlive(held.pid)) return false
-        } else if (age >= 0 && age < CLAIM_TTL_MS) {
-          return false
-        }
-      } catch {
-        // Unreadable or corrupt: treat as abandoned.
-      }
-      beforeStaleReplace?.()
-      rmSync(file, { force: true })
-      try {
-        writeFileSync(
-          file,
-          `${JSON.stringify({ pid: process.pid, at: now, token, pending_question_ids: pendingQuestionIds, ...(ownerDeadlineAt === undefined ? {} : { owner_deadline_at: ownerDeadlineAt }) })}\n`,
-          {
-          mode: 0o600,
-          flag: 'wx',
-          },
-        )
-        heldClaims.set(file, token)
-        return true
-      } catch {
-        return false
-      }
-    }
-  } finally {
-    rmSync(guard, { force: true })
-  }
-}
-
-function claimQuestionIdentity(entry: PendingQuestion): string {
-  return entry.question_id ?? `${entry.asked_at ?? 'legacy'}\u0000${entry.question}`
-}
-
-/** True only when the live owner could not have snapshotted this unpushed ask. */
-function claimHandoffState(
-  sessionId: string,
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-): { hasNewQuestion: boolean; ownerDeadlineAt?: number } {
-  const unasked = pendingList(readSessionState(sessionId, env)).filter(
-    (entry) => entry.request_id === undefined,
-  )
-  if (unasked.length === 0) return { hasNewQuestion: false }
-  try {
-    const held = JSON.parse(readFileSync(claimPath(sessionId, env), 'utf8')) as {
-      pending_question_ids?: unknown
-      owner_deadline_at?: unknown
-    }
-    if (!Array.isArray(held.pending_question_ids)) return { hasNewQuestion: false }
-    const snapshotted = new Set(
-      held.pending_question_ids.filter((entry): entry is string => typeof entry === 'string'),
-    )
-    return {
-      hasNewQuestion: unasked.some(
-        (entry) => !snapshotted.has(claimQuestionIdentity(entry)),
-      ),
-      ...(typeof held.owner_deadline_at === 'number' &&
-      Number.isFinite(held.owner_deadline_at)
-        ? { ownerDeadlineAt: held.owner_deadline_at }
-        : {}),
-    }
-  } catch {
-    return { hasNewQuestion: false }
-  }
-}
-
-function processIsAlive(pid: number): boolean {
-  try {
-    process.kill(pid, 0)
-    return true
-  } catch (err) {
-    return (err as NodeJS.ErrnoException).code === 'EPERM'
-  }
-}
-
-export function releaseQuestionPush(sessionId: string, env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): void {
-  const file = claimPath(sessionId, env)
-  const token = heldClaims.get(file)
-  if (token === undefined) return
-  const guard = `${file}.guard`
-  if (!acquireClaimGuard(guard)) {
-    heldClaims.delete(file)
-    return
-  }
-  try {
-    try {
-      const held = JSON.parse(readFileSync(file, 'utf8')) as { token?: unknown }
-      if (held.token === token) rmSync(file, { force: true })
-    } catch {
-      // Missing or replaced claims are not ours to release.
-    }
-  } finally {
-    heldClaims.delete(file)
-    rmSync(guard, { force: true })
-  }
-}
-
-/** The guard serializes stale replacement and release; recover a crashed guard. */
-function acquireClaimGuard(file: string): boolean {
-  for (let attempt = 0; attempt < 2; attempt += 1) {
-    try {
-      const handle = openSync(file, 'wx', 0o600)
-      closeSync(handle)
-      return true
-    } catch (err) {
-      if ((err as NodeJS.ErrnoException).code !== 'EEXIST') return false
-      try {
-        if (Date.now() - statSync(file).mtimeMs < CLAIM_GUARD_TTL_MS) return false
-      } catch {
-        // A vanished/corrupt guard is safe to retry once.
-      }
-      rmSync(file, { force: true })
-    }
-  }
-  return false
-}
-
-function claimPath(sessionId: string, env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): string {
-  return path.join(stateDir(env), 'sessions', `${sanitizeSessionId(sessionId)}.claim`)
-}
-
-/**
- * A question is stored so a later hook can push it, and it reaches us from a
- * shell command, so its size is whatever the agent typed. The push itself is
- * bounded by the current 4096-byte push-provider envelopes; this bounds what
- * sits on disk in the meantime, and keeps one runaway agent from writing
- * megabytes per session.
- */
-const MAX_STORED_QUESTION_CHARS = 2000
-
-interface StoredProjectSessionPointer extends ProjectSessionPointer {
-  updatedAt: number
-}
-
-interface StoredProjectSessionDocument {
-  root: Record<string, unknown>
-  sessions: unknown[]
-}
-
-export interface ProjectSessionPointer {
-  sessionId: string
-  harness: HookHarness
-}
-
-function storedProjectSessionPointer(candidate: unknown): StoredProjectSessionPointer | null {
-  if (typeof candidate !== 'object' || candidate === null || Array.isArray(candidate)) return null
-  const entry = candidate as {
-    session_id?: unknown
-    updated_at?: unknown
-    harness?: unknown
-  }
-  if (typeof entry.session_id !== 'string' || entry.session_id === '') return null
-  if (typeof entry.updated_at !== 'number') return null
-  if (!(HOOK_INSTALLABLE_HARNESSES as readonly unknown[]).includes(entry.harness)) return null
-  return {
-    sessionId: entry.session_id,
-    updatedAt: entry.updated_at,
-    harness: entry.harness as HookHarness,
-  }
-}
-
-function readStoredProjectSessionDocument(file: string): StoredProjectSessionDocument {
-  if (!existsSync(file)) return { root: {}, sessions: [] }
-  try {
-    const parsed: unknown = JSON.parse(readFileSync(file, 'utf8'))
-    if (typeof parsed !== 'object' || parsed === null || Array.isArray(parsed)) {
-      return { root: {}, sessions: [] }
-    }
-    const root = parsed as Record<string, unknown>
-    return {
-      root,
-      sessions: Array.isArray(root['sessions']) ? root['sessions'] : [],
-    }
-  } catch {
-    return { root: {}, sessions: [] }
-  }
-}
-
-/** Records every live session working in a directory, for `notifai ask`. */
-export function writeProjectSession(
-  cwd: string,
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-  sessionId: string,
-  now: number,
-  harness: HookHarness,
-): void {
-  const file = projectSessionPointerPath(cwd, env)
-  withFileLock(`${file}.lock`, () => {
-    const stored = readStoredProjectSessionDocument(file)
-    const existing: unknown[] = []
-    let refreshed: Record<string, unknown> = {}
-    for (const candidate of stored.sessions) {
-      const entry = storedProjectSessionPointer(candidate)
-      if (entry?.sessionId === sessionId) {
-        refreshed = { ...refreshed, ...(candidate as Record<string, unknown>) }
-      } else if (entry === null || now - entry.updatedAt <= 24 * 3600 * 1000) {
-        existing.push(candidate)
-      }
-    }
-    atomicWriteFileSync(
-      file,
-      `${JSON.stringify({
-        ...stored.root,
-        sessions: [
-          ...existing,
-          { ...refreshed, session_id: sessionId, updated_at: now, harness },
-        ],
-      })}\n`,
-    )
-  })
-}
-
-function readStoredProjectSessionPointers(file: string): StoredProjectSessionPointer[] {
-  return readStoredProjectSessionDocument(file).sessions.flatMap(
-    (candidate): StoredProjectSessionPointer[] => {
-      const entry = storedProjectSessionPointer(candidate)
-      return entry === null ? [] : [entry]
-    },
-  )
-}
-
-/**
- * Resolves the session working in `cwd`. Stale pointers are ignored rather than
- * trusted: an id left by a session that ended days ago would send the question
- * into state nothing is watching.
- */
-export function readProjectSession(
-  cwd: string,
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-  now: number,
-  maxAgeMs = 24 * 3600 * 1000,
-): string | null {
-  return readProjectSessionPointer(cwd, env, now, maxAgeMs)?.sessionId ?? null
-}
-
-/** A live pointer keeps when it was last written, so callers can rank by it. */
-export interface LiveProjectSessionPointer extends ProjectSessionPointer {
-  updatedAt: number
-}
-
-/**
- * Every session that has fired a hook in this directory recently, newest first.
- *
- * This is the only local record of which harness sessions are actually alive
- * here, which makes it the tiebreaker when the environment alone cannot say
- * which harness owns the current shell.
- */
-export function readLiveProjectSessionPointers(
-  cwd: string,
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-  now: number,
-  maxAgeMs = 24 * 3600 * 1000,
-): LiveProjectSessionPointer[] {
-  const file = projectSessionPointerPath(cwd, env)
-  return readStoredProjectSessionPointers(file)
-    .filter((entry) => now - entry.updatedAt <= maxAgeMs)
-    .filter((entry) => {
-      try {
-        // A pointer is routing evidence only while its session state still
-        // exists and parses. SessionEnd and explicit cleanup therefore
-        // invalidate it even when a crash prevented removal from this index.
-        const sessionFile = sessionStatePath(entry.sessionId, env)
-        if (!existsSync(sessionFile)) return false
-        const state: unknown = JSON.parse(readFileSync(sessionFile, 'utf8'))
-        return typeof state === 'object' && state !== null && !Array.isArray(state)
-      } catch {
-        return false
-      }
-    })
-    .sort((left, right) => right.updatedAt - left.updatedAt)
-    .map((entry) => ({
-      sessionId: entry.sessionId,
-      harness: entry.harness,
-      updatedAt: entry.updatedAt,
-    }))
-}
-
-export function readProjectSessionPointer(
-  cwd: string,
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-  now: number,
-  maxAgeMs = 24 * 3600 * 1000,
-): ProjectSessionPointer | null {
-  const latest = readLiveProjectSessionPointers(cwd, env, now, maxAgeMs)[0]
-  return latest === undefined ? null : { sessionId: latest.sessionId, harness: latest.harness }
-}
-
-export function readMatchingProjectSessionPointer(
-  cwd: string,
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-  now: number,
-  sessionId: string,
-  harness: HookHarness,
-  maxAgeMs = 24 * 3600 * 1000,
-): ProjectSessionPointer | null {
-  const match = readLiveProjectSessionPointers(cwd, env, now, maxAgeMs).find(
-    (entry) => entry.sessionId === sessionId && entry.harness === harness,
-  )
-  return match === undefined ? null : { sessionId: match.sessionId, harness: match.harness }
-}
-
-function clearMatchingProjectSession(
-  cwd: string,
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-  sessionId: string,
-): void {
-  const file = projectSessionPointerPath(cwd, env)
-  withFileLock(`${file}.lock`, () => {
-    const stored = readStoredProjectSessionDocument(file)
-    const remaining = stored.sessions.filter((candidate) => {
-      const entry = storedProjectSessionPointer(candidate)
-      return entry === null || entry.sessionId !== sessionId
-    })
-    const hasUnknownRootFields = Object.keys(stored.root).some((key) => key !== 'sessions')
-    if (remaining.length === 0 && !hasUnknownRootFields) {
-      rmSync(file, { force: true })
-      return
-    }
-    atomicWriteFileSync(
-      file,
-      `${JSON.stringify({
-        ...stored.root,
-        sessions: remaining,
-      })}\n`,
-    )
-  })
-}
-
-export interface HookContext {
-  client: ApiClient
-  config: CliConfig
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv
-  now: () => number
-  /** Injected so tests advance a virtual clock instead of sleeping. */
-  sleep: (milliseconds: number) => Promise<void>
-  /** Bounded wait for the first reply; injected so tests do not sleep. */
-  waitForFirstReply: (
-    requestId: string,
-    timeoutSeconds: number,
-  ) => Promise<{ replies: ReplyView[]; timedOut: boolean; degraded?: boolean }>
-  /** The active harness selects the native continuation output adapter. */
-  harness?: HookHarness
-  /**
-   * The local record. A hook's decisions are invisible from everywhere else —
-   * its stderr belongs to the harness and its usual outcome is to do nothing —
-   * so this is the only account of why a question did or did not travel.
-   */
-  log?: Logger
-}
-
-/**
- * Record one gate decision.
- *
- * `verdict` is what happened to the question and `reason` is the closed-set
- * name of the rule that decided it, so an agent can ask "why was it held" with
- * a filter rather than by matching on prose. The prose still exists — it is what
- * the user sees in the terminal — but it is free to be rewritten, and a log a
- * filter cannot rely on is a log nobody filters.
- */
-export const GATE_REASONS = [
-  'no-session',
-  'no-question',
-  'answered',
-  'continuation-repeat',
-  'continuation-limit',
-  'delivery-limit',
-  'acknowledgement-required',
-  'acknowledgement-abandoned',
-  'harness-cannot-continue',
-  'notifications-off',
-  'claimed-elsewhere',
-  'elapsed',
-  'proceeding',
-] as const
-
-/**
- * A runtime list rather than a bare type, so the guidance that tells agents to
- * filter on these can be tested against the set the code can actually emit.
- * `already-asked` and `no-devices` were declared here for a long time and never
- * emitted once; documenting them taught agents to filter for silence.
- */
-export type GateReason = (typeof GATE_REASONS)[number]
-
-function gate(
-  ctx: HookContext,
-  verdict: 'held' | 'proceeding',
-  reason: GateReason,
-  data: Record<string, unknown> = {},
-): void {
-  ctx.log?.info('hook.gate', { verdict, reason, stage: 'queued', ...data })
-}
-
-export type HookHarness = HookInstallableHarness
-
-/**
- * One round of the waiter's reply poll. Short enough that several questions
- * still share one wall clock, long enough not to hammer the server.
- */
-const REPLY_POLL_SECONDS = 5
-
-/** Avoid hot-looping while a live observer cooperatively yields its claim. */
-const CLAIM_HANDOFF_POLL_MS = 1_000
-
-/**
- * Push a question and block for the answer.
- *
- * An answered question is closed the moment this wait sees the answer: the
- * first device to answer claims the question and the others are told. Until
- * that close, a later reply is a correction — so what this returns as "the"
- * answer is always the latest reply, with the full stream alongside for
- * free-text answers given in parts. An unanswered question stays open,
- * because nobody has acted on the silence yet and the next turn can still
- * collect the answer with `notifai replies`.
- */
-/**
- * Put one registered question on the user's devices. Submission only — the
- * wait happens once, across every live question, in the caller.
- */
-async function prepareQuestionSubmission(
-  ctx: HookContext,
-  options: {
-    title: string
-    body: string
-    questions: QuestionT[]
-    media?: MediaItemT[] | undefined
-    project?: string | undefined
-    source?: SourceContextT | undefined
-    /** How long the server keeps accepting an answer. */
-    windowSeconds: number
-    /** Absolute owner deadline persisted before submit. */
-    ownerDeadlineAt: number
-  },
-): Promise<PendingSubmissionIntent | { error: string }> {
-  const collapseKey = `notifai-hook-${randomBytes(8).toString('base64url')}`
-  // A draft carrying `reply` is rejected outright if it targets a device that
-  // cannot answer, so resolve the healthy companion platforms explicitly.
-  const answerable = await answerableDevices(ctx)
-  if (answerable.length === 0) {
-    return { error: 'no device can answer a question yet; leaving this to the terminal' }
-  }
-  const build = buildDraft(
-    ctx.config,
-    {
-      title: options.title,
-      body: options.body,
-      lifecycle: { tier: 'needs_you' },
-      ...(options.project !== undefined ? { project: options.project } : {}),
-      ...(options.media !== undefined ? { media: options.media } : {}),
-      device: answerable,
-      reply: true,
-      replyWindow: Math.max(MIN_REPLY_WINDOW_SECONDS, options.windowSeconds),
-      questions: options.questions,
-      collapseKey,
-    },
-    options.source === undefined ? {} : { source: options.source },
-  )
-  if (!build.ok) return { error: build.error }
-
-  return {
-    request_id: `req_${randomBytes(18).toString('base64url')}`,
-    idempotency_key: `hook-${randomBytes(12).toString('base64url')}`,
-    collapse_key: collapseKey,
-    device_ids: answerable,
-    draft: build.draft,
-    owner_deadline_at: options.ownerDeadlineAt,
-  }
-}
-
-async function submitQuestion(
-  ctx: HookContext,
-  intent: PendingSubmissionIntent,
-): Promise<SubmissionReceipt> {
-  const receipt = await ctx.client.submit(
-    {
-      request_id: intent.request_id,
-      idempotency_key: intent.idempotency_key,
-      draft: intent.draft,
-    },
-    0,
-  )
-  if (receipt.request_id !== intent.request_id) {
-    throw new Error(
-      `server replay returned ${receipt.request_id}, expected reserved ${intent.request_id}`,
-    )
-  }
-  return receipt
-}
-
-function canSubmitCompleteWindow(
-  ctx: HookContext,
-  intent: PendingSubmissionIntent,
-  fallbackWindowSeconds: number,
-): boolean {
-  const frozenWindowSeconds =
-    intent.draft.reply?.expires_in_seconds ?? fallbackWindowSeconds
-  return (
-    intent.owner_deadline_at - ctx.now() >=
-    (frozenWindowSeconds + QUESTION_SUBMISSION_COMPLETION_HEADROOM_SECONDS) * 1000
-  )
-}
-
-/**
- * The waiter's wait: one bounded poll across every live question at once.
- *
- * Each round polls all of them concurrently, so several questions cost the
- * same wall clock as one; the first round that finds any reply returns
- * everything found in that round, and whatever was not answered stays
- * registered. A question whose polling is permanently rejected drops out of
- * the round rather than failing the whole wait.
- */
-async function waitForAnyReply(
-  ctx: HookContext,
-  requestIds: string[],
-  timeoutSeconds: number,
-  interruption?: () => 'ownership-ended' | 'new-question' | null,
-): Promise<{
-  byRequest: Map<string, ReplyView[]>
-  degraded: boolean
-  permanentFailures: Map<string, string>
-  interrupted: 'ownership-ended' | 'new-question' | null
-}> {
-  const deadline = ctx.now() + timeoutSeconds * 1000
-  let degraded = false
-  let firstPoll = true
-  const permanentFailures = new Map<string, string>()
-
-  if (timeoutSeconds <= 0 || deadline <= ctx.now()) {
-    return { byRequest: new Map(), degraded: false, permanentFailures, interrupted: null }
-  }
-
-  for (;;) {
-    const beforePoll = interruption?.() ?? null
-    if (beforePoll !== null) {
-      return { byRequest: new Map(), degraded, permanentFailures, interrupted: beforePoll }
-    }
-    const remainingMs = Math.max(0, deadline - ctx.now())
-    if (!firstPoll && remainingMs === 0) {
-      return { byRequest: new Map(), degraded, permanentFailures, interrupted: null }
-    }
-    firstPoll = false
-    const pollSeconds = Math.min(REPLY_POLL_SECONDS, Math.max(0, Math.ceil(remainingMs / 1000)))
-    const results = await Promise.all(
-      requestIds
-        .filter((requestId) => !permanentFailures.has(requestId))
-        .map(async (requestId) => {
-          try {
-            return { requestId, ...(await ctx.waitForFirstReply(requestId, pollSeconds)) }
-          } catch (err) {
-            if (isRetryableReplyPollError(err)) {
-              return { requestId, replies: [] as ReplyView[], degraded: true }
-            }
-            return {
-              requestId,
-              replies: [] as ReplyView[],
-              degraded: false,
-              permanentFailure: replyPollFailure(err),
-            }
-          }
-        }),
-    )
-    const byRequest = new Map<string, ReplyView[]>()
-    for (const result of results) {
-      degraded ||= result.degraded === true
-      if (result.permanentFailure !== undefined) {
-        permanentFailures.set(result.requestId, result.permanentFailure)
-      }
-      if (result.replies.length > 0) byRequest.set(result.requestId, result.replies)
-    }
-    const afterPoll = interruption?.() ?? null
-    // SessionEnd or terminal-side retirement wins even if an in-flight poll
-    // happened to return an answer. A newly registered question merely asks
-    // this owner to yield; an answer already observed remains authoritative.
-    if (afterPoll === 'ownership-ended') {
-      return { byRequest: new Map(), degraded, permanentFailures, interrupted: afterPoll }
-    }
-    if (byRequest.size > 0 || permanentFailures.size === requestIds.length) {
-      return { byRequest, degraded, permanentFailures, interrupted: null }
-    }
-    if (afterPoll === 'new-question') {
-      return { byRequest: new Map(), degraded, permanentFailures, interrupted: afterPoll }
-    }
-  }
-}
-
-/**
- * Local lifecycle signal for a long-lived observer.
- *
- * SessionEnd and terminal-side retirement remove an owned request from pending
- * state; the detached process must stop instead of recreating that session.
- * A new unpushed question asks this owner to yield the session claim so the
- * successor Stop can submit it promptly.
- */
-function waiterInterruption(
-  sessionId: string,
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-  requestIds: readonly string[],
-): 'ownership-ended' | 'new-question' | null {
-  if (sessionHasEnded(sessionId, env)) return 'ownership-ended'
-  const pending = pendingList(readSessionState(sessionId, env))
-  const owned = new Set(requestIds)
-  // One question can be retired from the terminal while this observer owns
-  // several. That is a per-question change, not whole-session cancellation;
-  // the caller filters the changed set after each poll and keeps the rest.
-  return pending.some(
-    (entry) =>
-      entry.request_id === undefined &&
-      (entry.submission === undefined || !owned.has(entry.submission.request_id)),
-  )
-    ? 'new-question'
-    : null
-}
-
-/** A non-retryable replies fault, with enough server identity to act on it. */
-function replyPollFailure(err: unknown): string {
-  return err instanceof ApiCallError
-    ? `${err.code} (HTTP ${err.status}): ${err.message}`
-    : String(err)
-}
-
-function permanentReplyFailureNote(failures: Map<string, string>): string | null {
-  if (failures.size === 0) return null
-  const details = [...failures].map(([requestId, failure]) => `${requestId}: ${failure}`).join('; ')
-  return `reply polling stopped after a permanent server rejection (${details}); the affected question will be retired before its continuation owner exits`
-}
-
-/** Healthy Companion devices that advertise the current answer job. */
-async function answerableDevices(ctx: HookContext): Promise<string[]> {
-  const configured = ctx.config.devices.value
-  const { devices } = await ctx.client.listDevices()
-  return devices
-    .filter(
-      (device) =>
-        (device.platform === 'ios' ||
-          device.platform === 'macos' ||
-          device.platform === 'android') &&
-        device.registration_healthy &&
-        device.capabilities?.includes('answer') === true &&
-        device.derived_status !== 'must_update',
-    )
-    .filter((device) => configured === null || configured.includes(device.device_id))
-    .map((device) => device.device_id)
-}
-
-/**
- * Everything retirement needs. Narrower than a HookContext on purpose:
- * `notifai ask` supersedes the previous question and it is a plain command with
- * no hook payload, no idle probe and nothing to sleep for.
- */
-export type RetireDeps = Pick<HookContext, 'client' | 'config'> & Pick<Partial<HookContext>, 'log'>
-
-/**
- * Close is a server-side serialization fence: a successful response contains
- * every reply that committed before the window closed. `null` is deliberately
- * different from an empty reply set — it means ownership could not be proven
- * final and the local record must stay recoverable.
- */
-async function finalizeReplies(
-  ctx: RetireDeps,
-  requestId: string,
-): Promise<ListRepliesResponse | null> {
-  try {
-    return await ctx.client.closeReplies(requestId)
-  } catch {
-    return null
-  }
-}
-
-/** Best effort only for already-journaled retirement debt. */
-async function closeQuietly(ctx: RetireDeps, requestId: string): Promise<void> {
-  await finalizeReplies(ctx, requestId)
-}
-
-/**
- * Close the reply window so the server can mint the retirement push. Client
- * submissions cannot carry `question_retired`; that event is reserved for
- * server-origin state syncs.
- */
-async function proveRetirement(
-  ctx: RetireDeps,
-  requestId: string,
-): Promise<boolean> {
-  const response = await finalizeReplies(ctx, requestId)
-  const proven = response !== null
-  ctx.log?.info('hook.retirement', {
-    request_id: requestId,
-    attempted: true,
-    proven,
-  })
-  return proven
-}
-
-/**
- * Park a delivered question for retirement. Called at the moment we learn it is
- * dead, which is frequently not a moment we can reach the network.
- *
- * Nothing is parked for a question that never reached a device: with no
- * request_id there is nothing on any device to retire.
- */
-export function parkForRetirement(
-  sessionId: string,
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-  pending: PendingQuestion,
-  state: LifecycleEndState,
-): void {
-  const retirement = retiringQuestion(pending, state)
-  if (retirement === null) return
-  updateSessionState(sessionId, env, (current) => {
-    const already = current.retiring ?? []
-    const existing = already.findIndex((entry) => entry.request_id === retirement.request_id)
-    if (existing < 0) {
-      return rememberQuestionState(
-        { ...current, retiring: [...already, retirement] },
-        pending,
-        state === 'answered' ? 'answered' : 'retired',
-      )
-    }
-    const retiring = [...already]
-    // An observed answer is final truth and upgrades an earlier supersession
-    // parked while the submission callback was racing a newer question.
-    if (retirement.state === 'answered' && retiring[existing]!.state !== 'answered') {
-      retiring[existing] = retirement
-    }
-    return rememberQuestionState(
-      { ...current, retiring },
-      pending,
-      state === 'answered' ? 'answered' : 'retired',
-    )
-  })
-}
-
-/**
- * Convert live question state into a complete retirement instruction.
- *
- * A request/collapse pair without the original Delivery targets is not safe to
- * send: re-resolving today's routing can miss a device that still shows the
- * question or retire a device that never received it. Fail explicitly and keep
- * the pending record instead of silently broadening or narrowing the fanout.
- */
-function retiringQuestion(
-  pending: PendingQuestion,
-  state: LifecycleEndState,
-  cwd?: string,
-): RetiringQuestion | null {
-  // A submit journal is written before the first network byte. SessionEnd can
-  // therefore race a request that the server accepts after local cleanup. Its
-  // reserved request id and exact fanout are already sufficient retirement
-  // identity, even though the ordinary live fields have not been promoted yet.
-  const requestId = pending.request_id ?? pending.submission?.request_id
-  const collapseKey = pending.collapse_key ?? pending.submission?.collapse_key
-  const deviceIds = pending.device_ids ?? pending.submission?.device_ids
-  const hasRequest = requestId !== undefined
-  const hasCollapse = collapseKey !== undefined
-  const hasDevices = deviceIds !== undefined && deviceIds.length > 0
-  if (!hasRequest && !hasCollapse && !hasDevices) return null
-  if (!hasRequest || !hasCollapse || !hasDevices) {
-    throw new Error(
-      'live question state is incomplete; refusing to retire it without request, collapse, and device identifiers',
-    )
-  }
-  const source = sourceContextAtHookEvent(pending.source, cwd)
-  return {
-    ...(pending.question_id !== undefined ? { question_id: pending.question_id } : {}),
-    request_id: requestId!,
-    collapse_key: collapseKey!,
-    device_ids: [...deviceIds!],
-    question: pending.question,
-    ...(pending.project !== undefined ? { project: pending.project } : {}),
-    ...(source !== undefined ? { source } : {}),
-    state,
-  }
-}
-
-const SHORT_CONFIRMATIONS = new Set(['done', 'yes', 'y', 'no', 'n', 'ok', 'okay'])
-
-function normalizePrompt(value: string): string {
-  return value.trim().replace(/\s+/g, ' ').toLowerCase()
-}
-
-function pendingChoiceLabels(pending: PendingQuestion): string[] {
-  const fromQuestions = (pending.questions ?? []).flatMap((question) =>
-    (question.choices ?? []).flatMap((choice) => [choice.label, choice.id]),
-  )
-  return fromQuestions.map(normalizePrompt).filter((label) => label.length > 0)
-}
-
-function pendingHasMatchingChoice(pending: PendingQuestion, normalizedPrompt: string): boolean {
-  return pendingChoiceLabels(pending).includes(normalizedPrompt)
-}
-
-/**
- * Which outstanding questions this prompt plausibly answers.
- *
- * A unique closed-choice match is enough. A short confirmation such as "done"
- * matches only when exactly one question is outstanding. Long unrelated
- * prompts leave every question open for the reply window.
- */
-export function pendingAnsweredByPrompt(
-  prompt: string | undefined,
-  pending: readonly PendingQuestion[],
-): PendingQuestion[] {
-  const normalized = normalizePrompt(prompt ?? '')
-  if (normalized.length === 0 || pending.length === 0) return []
-
-  const labelled = pending.filter((entry) => pendingHasMatchingChoice(entry, normalized))
-  if (labelled.length === 1) return labelled
-  if (labelled.length > 1) return []
-  if (pending.length === 1 && SHORT_CONFIRMATIONS.has(normalized)) return [...pending]
-  return []
-}
-
-/**
- * Send every parked retirement, and forget the ones that landed. A failure
- * leaves the entry in place for the next hook rather than losing it, which is
- * the whole reason the queue exists.
- */
-export async function drainRetirements(
-  ctx: RetireDeps,
-  sessionId: string,
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-): Promise<string[]> {
-  const queue = readSessionState(sessionId, env).retiring ?? []
-  if (queue.length === 0) return []
-
-  const retired: string[] = []
-  for (const entry of queue) {
-    const proven = await proveRetirement(ctx, entry.request_id)
-    if (proven) {
-      retired.push(entry.request_id)
-      // Persist each success before touching the next entry. A later corrupt
-      // record or interrupted process must not resurrect work already done.
-      updateSessionState(sessionId, env, (current) => ({
-        ...current,
-        retiring: (current.retiring ?? []).filter(
-          (candidate) => candidate.request_id !== entry.request_id,
-        ),
-      }))
-    }
-  }
-  return retired
-}
-
-function orphanQueuePath(env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): string {
-  return path.join(stateDir(env), 'retire-queue.json')
-}
-
-function readOrphanQueue(env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): OrphanRetirement[] {
-  const file = orphanQueuePath(env)
-  if (!existsSync(file)) return []
-  try {
-    const parsed: unknown = JSON.parse(readFileSync(file, 'utf8'))
-    return Array.isArray(parsed) ? (parsed as OrphanRetirement[]) : []
-  } catch {
-    // Same stance as session state: corruption fails closed to "nothing queued".
-    return []
-  }
-}
-
-function writeOrphanQueueUnlocked(file: string, queue: OrphanRetirement[]): void {
-  atomicWriteFileSync(file, `${JSON.stringify(queue, null, 2)}\n`)
-}
-
-function updateOrphanQueue(
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-  update: (current: OrphanRetirement[]) => OrphanRetirement[],
-): OrphanRetirement[] {
-  const file = orphanQueuePath(env)
-  return withFileLock(`${file}.lock`, () => {
-    const next = update(readOrphanQueue(env))
-    writeOrphanQueueUnlocked(file, next)
-    return next
-  })
-}
-
-/** Move retirements into the global queue; deduped so a retry costs nothing. */
-export function orphanRetirements(
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-  entries: RetiringQuestion[],
-  now: number,
-): void {
-  if (entries.length === 0) return
-  updateOrphanQueue(env, (queue) => {
-    const known = new Set(queue.map((entry) => entry.request_id))
-    const added = entries
-      .filter((entry) => !known.has(entry.request_id))
-      .map((entry) => ({ ...entry, enqueued_at: now }))
-    return [...queue, ...added].slice(-ORPHAN_QUEUE_CAP)
-  })
-}
-
-/**
- * Retire everything a dead session left behind. Failures stay queued for the
- * next holder of a client; entries past the TTL are dropped as already dead.
- */
-export async function drainOrphanRetirements(
-  ctx: RetireDeps,
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-  now: number,
-): Promise<string[]> {
-  const queue = readOrphanQueue(env)
-  if (queue.length === 0) return []
-
-  const done: string[] = []
-  for (const entry of queue) {
-    const age = now - entry.enqueued_at
-    // A negative age is a clock jump, not a fresh entry; retiring is idempotent
-    // and cheap, so treat it as due rather than letting it linger for ever.
-    if (age > ORPHAN_TTL_MS) {
-      done.push(entry.request_id)
-      updateOrphanQueue(env, (current) =>
-        current.filter((candidate) => candidate.request_id !== entry.request_id),
-      )
-      continue
-    }
-    const proven = await proveRetirement(ctx, entry.request_id)
-    if (proven) {
-      done.push(entry.request_id)
-      updateOrphanQueue(env, (current) =>
-        current.filter((candidate) => candidate.request_id !== entry.request_id),
-      )
-    }
-  }
-  return done
-}
-
-const LATE_STOP_POLL_SECONDS = 4
-const LATE_PROMPT_POLL_SECONDS = 3
-/**
- * The one bound on answer deliveries, for every route.
- *
- * It caps two things that both used to be able to run away: how many times a
- * single accepted answer may be handed to a route before the journal gives up
- * on it, and how many answer-driven continuation generations one chain may
- * produce.
- */
-export const MAX_CONTINUATION_COUNT = 3
-
-/**
- * How many turns an answer may be *held* before it is settled unread.
- *
- * A hold is not a delivery: the route reported that it handed nothing over, so
- * the agent has not seen the answer and the wake-loop the continuation cap
- * exists to stop has not happened. Counting holds against that cap meant three
- * turns where a liveness probe could not reach a busy session were enough to
- * discard an answer the user had already given.
- *
- * It still has to end. A route that can never deliver would otherwise retry
- * every turn for the life of the session, so holds get their own, far looser
- * bound — loose because each one costs nothing and the answer is still wanted.
- */
-export const MAX_HELD_DELIVERIES = 20
-
-interface PendingPoll {
-  /** The answer to act on: the latest reply, because a later one corrects. */
-  reply: ReplyView | null
-  /** Every reply in arrival order, for free-text answers given in parts. */
-  replies: ReplyView[]
-  degraded: boolean
-  permanentFailure: string | null
-}
-
-/** One bounded recovery poll for a question that outlived its original wait. */
-async function pollPendingReply(
-  ctx: HookContext,
-  pending: PendingQuestion,
-  timeoutSeconds: number,
-): Promise<PendingPoll> {
-  if (pending.request_id === undefined) {
-    return { reply: null, replies: [], degraded: false, permanentFailure: null }
-  }
-  try {
-    const result = await ctx.waitForFirstReply(pending.request_id, timeoutSeconds)
-    return {
-      reply: result.replies.at(-1) ?? null,
-      replies: result.replies,
-      degraded: result.degraded === true,
-      permanentFailure: null,
-    }
-  } catch (err) {
-    return isRetryableReplyPollError(err)
-      ? { reply: null, replies: [], degraded: true, permanentFailure: null }
-      : { reply: null, replies: [], degraded: false, permanentFailure: replyPollFailure(err) }
-  }
-}
-
-/** One answered registered question, with everything the agent needs to read it. */
-interface AnsweredPending {
-  pending: PendingQuestion
-  reply: ReplyView
-  replies: ReplyView[]
-  /** Immutable server snapshot for this request, known after a replies/close response. */
-  agent_acknowledgement_required?: boolean | undefined
-  /** Whether that acknowledgement must carry text; the account's snapshot. */
-  agent_acknowledgement_text_required?: boolean | undefined
-}
-
-interface FinalizedPending {
-  pending: PendingQuestion
-  response: ListRepliesResponse | null
-}
-
-/** Close several windows concurrently without confusing failure with silence. */
-async function finalizePendings(
-  ctx: HookContext,
-  pending: PendingQuestion[],
-): Promise<FinalizedPending[]> {
-  return Promise.all(
-    pending.map(async (entry) => {
-      const response = await finalizeReplies(ctx, entry.request_id!)
-      ctx.log?.info('hook.retirement', {
-        request_id: entry.request_id,
-        attempted: true,
-        proven: response !== null,
-      })
-      return { pending: entry, response }
-    }),
-  )
-}
-
-/** Convert a fenced final reply set into the exact answer handed to the model. */
-function finalizedAnswer(finalized: FinalizedPending): AnsweredPending | null {
-  const replies = finalized.response?.replies ?? []
-  const reply = replies.at(-1)
-  return reply === undefined
-    ? null
-    : {
-        pending: finalized.pending,
-        reply,
-        replies,
-        agent_acknowledgement_required:
-          finalized.response?.agent_acknowledgement_required,
-        agent_acknowledgement_text_required:
-          finalized.response?.agent_acknowledgement_text_required,
-      }
-}
-
-/** Persist and surface one answer without letting the two representations drift. */
-function reportAnswer(
-  ctx: HookContext,
-  notes: string[],
-  answered: AnsweredPending,
-  late: boolean,
-): void {
-  ctx.log?.info('hook.answer', {
-    answered: true,
-    stage: 'queued',
-    ...(late ? { late: true } : {}),
-    request_id: answered.pending.request_id,
-    device: answered.reply.device_name,
-    text_chars: answered.reply.text.length,
-  })
-  notes.push(`${late ? 'late ' : ''}answer from ${answered.reply.device_name}: ${answered.reply.text}`)
-}
-
-/**
- * One bounded recovery poll across every delivered question, concurrently —
- * N questions must not multiply the hook's latency budget by N.
- */
-async function pollPendingReplies(
-  ctx: HookContext,
-  live: PendingQuestion[],
-  timeoutSeconds: number,
-): Promise<{
-  answered: AnsweredPending[]
-  transientTrouble: boolean
-  permanentFailures: Map<string, string>
-}> {
-  const polls = await Promise.all(
-    live.map((entry) => pollPendingReply(ctx, entry, timeoutSeconds)),
-  )
-  const answered: AnsweredPending[] = []
-  let transientTrouble = false
-  const permanentFailures = new Map<string, string>()
-  for (const [index, poll] of polls.entries()) {
-    if (poll.reply !== null) {
-      answered.push({ pending: live[index]!, reply: poll.reply, replies: poll.replies })
-    }
-    if (poll.degraded) transientTrouble = true
-    if (poll.permanentFailure !== null) {
-      permanentFailures.set(live[index]!.request_id!, poll.permanentFailure)
-    }
-  }
-  return { answered, transientTrouble, permanentFailures }
-}
-
-/** The registered-question queue. Anything but the current shape reads as empty. */
-function pendingList(state: SessionState): PendingQuestion[] {
-  return Array.isArray(state.pending) ? state.pending : []
-}
-
-const QUESTION_HISTORY_CAP = 50
-
-type QuestionIdentity = Pick<PendingQuestion, 'question_id' | 'request_id' | 'submission'>
-
-/** Keep a bounded, content-free map from local identity to its terminal state. */
-function rememberQuestionState(
-  current: SessionState,
-  question: QuestionIdentity,
-  state: QuestionTerminalState,
-): SessionState {
-  if (question.question_id === undefined) return current
-  const existing = (current.question_history ?? []).find(
-    (entry) => entry.question_id === question.question_id,
-  )
-  const terminalState =
-    existing?.state === 'withdrawn' || existing?.state === 'answered'
-      ? existing.state
-      : state === 'answered'
-        ? 'answered'
-        : state
-  const requestId = question.request_id ?? existing?.request_id
-  const frozenRequestId =
-    requestId === undefined
-      ? question.submission?.request_id ?? existing?.frozen_request_id
-      : undefined
-  const record: QuestionHistoryEntry = {
-    question_id: question.question_id,
-    state: terminalState,
-    ...(requestId === undefined ? {} : { request_id: requestId }),
-    ...(frozenRequestId === undefined ? {} : { frozen_request_id: frozenRequestId }),
-  }
-  const history = [
-    ...(current.question_history ?? []).filter(
-      (entry) => entry.question_id !== question.question_id,
-    ),
-    record,
-  ].slice(-QUESTION_HISTORY_CAP)
-  return { ...current, question_history: history }
-}
-
-function pendingQuestionView(entry: PendingQuestion): QuestionStateView | null {
-  if (entry.question_id === undefined) return null
-  if (entry.request_id !== undefined) {
-    return {
-      question_id: entry.question_id,
-      state: 'live',
-      submitted: true,
-      request_id: entry.request_id,
-      frozen_request_id: null,
-    }
-  }
-  if (entry.submission !== undefined) {
-    return {
-      question_id: entry.question_id,
-      state: 'frozen',
-      submitted: null,
-      request_id: null,
-      frozen_request_id: entry.submission.request_id,
-    }
-  }
-  return {
-    question_id: entry.question_id,
-    state: 'local',
-    submitted: false,
-    request_id: null,
-    frozen_request_id: null,
-  }
-}
-
-/** Read one stable local question identity without minting or submitting anything. */
-export function inspectQuestionState(
-  questionId: string,
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-): QuestionStateLookup {
-  const owner = findOwningSession(questionId, env)
-  if (owner.ambiguous || owner.sessionId === null) {
-    return { found: false, ambiguous: owner.ambiguous }
-  }
-  const state = readSessionState(owner.sessionId, env)
-  const pending = pendingList(state).find((entry) => entry.question_id === questionId)
-  const pendingView = pending === undefined ? null : pendingQuestionView(pending)
-  if (pendingView !== null) {
-    return { found: true, session_id: owner.sessionId, question: pendingView }
-  }
-  const accepted = state.accepted?.answers.find(
-    ({ pending: entry }) => entry.question_id === questionId,
-  )?.pending
-  if (accepted?.question_id !== undefined) {
-    return {
-      found: true,
-      session_id: owner.sessionId,
-      question: {
-        question_id: accepted.question_id,
-        state: 'answered',
-        submitted: true,
-        request_id: accepted.request_id ?? null,
-        frozen_request_id: null,
-      },
-    }
-  }
-  const retiring = (state.retiring ?? []).find((entry) => entry.question_id === questionId)
-  if (retiring?.question_id !== undefined) {
-    return {
-      found: true,
-      session_id: owner.sessionId,
-      question: {
-        question_id: retiring.question_id,
-        state: retiring.state === 'answered' ? 'answered' : 'retired',
-        submitted: true,
-        request_id: retiring.request_id,
-        frozen_request_id: null,
-      },
-    }
-  }
-  const history = (state.question_history ?? []).find(
-    (entry) => entry.question_id === questionId,
-  )
-  if (history !== undefined) {
-    return {
-      found: true,
-      session_id: owner.sessionId,
-      question: {
-        question_id: history.question_id,
-        state: history.state,
-        submitted:
-          history.request_id !== undefined
-            ? true
-            : history.frozen_request_id !== undefined
-              ? null
-              : false,
-        request_id: history.request_id ?? null,
-        frozen_request_id: history.frozen_request_id ?? null,
-      },
-    }
-  }
-  return { found: false, ambiguous: false }
-}
-
-/** Registration identity — the convention every racing writer compares by. */
-function isSamePending(a: PendingQuestion, b: PendingQuestion): boolean {
-  if (a.question_id !== undefined || b.question_id !== undefined) {
-    return a.question_id !== undefined && a.question_id === b.question_id
-  }
-  return a.question === b.question && a.asked_at === b.asked_at
-}
-
-/**
- * The frozen draft itself will never be accepted. Replaying it forever hides a
- * contract-skew (deleted fields, unexpected properties) as a recoverable wait.
- * Auth, conflicts, and timeouts are not this class.
- */
-function isTerminalDraftRejection(err: ApiCallError): boolean {
-  return err.status === 422 || (err.status === 400 && err.code === 'invalid_request')
-}
-
-export function dropPendingQuestion(
-  sessionId: string,
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-  entry: PendingQuestion,
-  terminalState: QuestionTerminalState = 'retired',
-): void {
-  updateSessionState(sessionId, env, (current) => {
-    const pending = pendingList(current).filter((candidate) => !isSamePending(candidate, entry))
-    const next: SessionState = { ...current }
-    if (pending.length > 0) next.pending = pending
-    else delete next.pending
-    return rememberQuestionState(next, entry, terminalState)
-  })
-}
-
-/**
- * Drop registrations that never reached a device, so a later Stop cannot push
- * them. A retirement push would be noise: there is nothing on any device to
- * withdraw. Returns the withdrawn entries in registration order.
- */
-export function withdrawUnpushedQuestions(
-  sessionId: string,
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-): PendingQuestion[] {
-  let withdrawn: PendingQuestion[] = []
-  updateSessionState(sessionId, env, (current) => {
-    const pending = pendingList(current)
-    withdrawn = pending.filter((entry) => entry.request_id === undefined)
-    if (withdrawn.length === 0) return current
-    const remaining = pending.filter((entry) => entry.request_id !== undefined)
-    const next: SessionState = { ...current }
-    if (remaining.length > 0) next.pending = remaining
-    else delete next.pending
-    return withdrawn.reduce(
-      (remembered, entry) => rememberQuestionState(remembered, entry, 'withdrawn'),
-      next,
-    )
-  })
-  return withdrawn
-}
-
-function clearFrozenSubmission(
-  sessionId: string,
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-  entry: PendingQuestion,
-): void {
-  updateSessionState(sessionId, env, (current) => {
-    const list = pendingList(current)
-    const index = list.findIndex((candidate) => isSamePending(candidate, entry))
-    if (index < 0) return current
-    const next = [...list]
-    const copy = { ...next[index]! }
-    delete copy.submission
-    next[index] = copy
-    return { ...current, pending: next }
-  })
-}
-
-/** The question set this pending record pushes, however it was registered. */
-function pendingQuestions(pending: PendingQuestion): QuestionT[] {
-  return pending.questions ?? [{ id: 'q1', text: pending.question }]
-}
-
-/** Did any question in the set offer choices? Decides how replies combine. */
-function pendingHasChoices(pending: PendingQuestion): boolean {
-  return pendingQuestions(pending).some((question) => question.choices !== undefined)
-}
-
-/**
- * The answer as the agent should read it. For a question with choices the
- * latest reply IS the answer — an earlier conflicting one was corrected by
- * it. Free-text answers can arrive in parts, and every part reaches the
- * agent in the order it was written, so it can tell expansion from
- * correction itself.
- *
- * The continuation repeats only identity the agent actually registered and
- * the answer the server accepted. It never invents trust, urgency, permission,
- * or approval claims for the transport to assert.
- */
-function answerContext(answered: AnsweredPending): string {
-  const { pending, replies } = answered
-  const latest = replies.at(-1)
-  if (latest === undefined) return 'Notifai — no answer was recorded.'
-  const answeredQuestionIds = [...new Set(latest.answers.map((answer) => answer.question_id))]
-  const identity =
-    answeredQuestionIds.length === 0
-      ? ''
-      : `question_id${answeredQuestionIds.length === 1 ? '' : 's'} ${answeredQuestionIds.join(', ')}, `
-  const question = `question ${JSON.stringify(pending.question)}`
-  if (replies.length === 1 || pendingHasChoices(pending)) {
-    return `Notifai — ${identity}${question}; the user answered ${JSON.stringify(latest.text)}.`
-  }
-  const parts = replies.map((reply) => JSON.stringify(reply.text)).join(', then ')
-  return (
-    `Notifai — ${identity}${question}; the user answered in ${replies.length} parts, ` +
-    `in the order written: ${parts}. Later parts extend or correct earlier ones.`
-  )
-}
-
-/**
- * Every answer that has arrived, as one message. Several registered questions
- * may resolve in one hook pass; the agent reads them together, each answer
- * tied to the question that asked it, with a truthful note about anything
- * still waiting.
- */
-function acknowledgementCommand(requestId: string, textRequired = true): string {
-  return textRequired
-    ? `notifai acknowledge ${requestId} --text <text>`
-    : `notifai acknowledge ${requestId}`
-}
-
-/**
- * The acknowledgement is owed either way; only its text is conditional. So the
- * instruction never says "you may skip this" — it says what to run.
- */
-function acknowledgementDemand(textRequired: boolean): string {
-  return textRequired
-    ? ' with non-empty text saying what concrete work you will do because of the reply; a bare acknowledgement is insufficient'
-    : ' exactly as shown; this account turned acknowledgement text off, so the receipt carries no words'
-}
-
-function acknowledgementContext(answered: AnsweredPending[]): string {
-  const due = answered.filter(
-    (entry) =>
-      entry.agent_acknowledgement_required === true && entry.pending.request_id !== undefined,
-  )
-  if (due.length === 0) {
-    return ' Agent Acknowledgement is not required for the answered request(s).'
-  }
-  if (due.length === 1) {
-    const entry = due[0]!
-    const requestId = entry.pending.request_id!
-    const textRequired = entry.agent_acknowledgement_text_required !== false
-    return (
-      ` Agent Acknowledgement is required for request ${requestId}. Immediately, before doing the resumed work or ending this turn, run ` +
-      `\`${acknowledgementCommand(requestId, textRequired)}\`${acknowledgementDemand(textRequired)}.`
-    )
-  }
-  const anyTextRequired = due.some((entry) => entry.agent_acknowledgement_text_required !== false)
-  const commands = due
-    .map((entry) => {
-      const requestId = entry.pending.request_id!
-      return `- ${requestId}: \`${acknowledgementCommand(requestId, entry.agent_acknowledgement_text_required !== false)}\``
-    })
-    .join('\n')
-  return (
-    ` Agent Acknowledgement is required for ${due.length} requests. Immediately, before doing the resumed work or ending this turn, run every command below${acknowledgementDemand(anyTextRequired)}:\n` +
-    commands
-  )
-}
-
-function answersContext(answered: AnsweredPending[], remaining: number): string {
-  const tail =
-    remaining > 0
-      ? ` (${remaining} more registered question${remaining === 1 ? ' is' : 's are'} still waiting for an answer.)`
-      : ''
-  const guidance = acknowledgementContext(answered)
-  if (answered.length === 1) {
-    return answerContext(answered[0]!) + tail + guidance
-  }
-  const lines = answered.map(({ pending, replies }) => {
-    const latest = replies.at(-1)!
-    const answer =
-      replies.length === 1 || pendingHasChoices(pending)
-        ? JSON.stringify(latest.text)
-        : `${replies.map((reply) => JSON.stringify(reply.text)).join(', then ')} (parts in the order written; later parts extend or correct earlier ones)`
-    const ids = [...new Set(latest.answers.map((entry) => entry.question_id))]
-    const identity = ids.length === 0 ? '' : `question_id${ids.length === 1 ? '' : 's'} ${ids.join(', ')}: `
-    return `- ${identity}${JSON.stringify(pending.question)} → ${answer}`
-  })
-  return `Notifai — the user answered ${answered.length} questions:\n${lines.join('\n')}${tail}${guidance}`
-}
-
-function stopAnswerOutput(context: string): string {
-  return JSON.stringify({
-    decision: 'block',
-    reason: context,
-  })
-}
-
-/**
- * Close, truthfully retire, and forget every answered pending question in one
- * state write, without dropping any other retirement debt or any question
- * still waiting. Stop answers also open one bounded continuation generation;
- * UserPromptSubmit answers ride the user's new turn.
- */
-function stageAcceptedAnswers(
-  ctx: HookContext,
-  sessionId: string,
-  answered: AnsweredPending[],
-  remaining: number,
-): AcceptedAnswerDelivery {
-  const accepted: AcceptedAnswerDelivery = {
-    answers: answered,
-    remaining,
-    recorded_at: ctx.now(),
-  }
-  updateSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env, (current) => {
-    const pendingRemaining = pendingList(current).filter(
-      (entry) => !answered.some(({ pending }) => isSamePending(entry, pending)),
-    )
-    const acknowledgementDue = [...(current.acknowledgement_due ?? [])]
-    for (const answer of answered) {
-      const requestId = answer.pending.request_id
-      if (
-        answer.agent_acknowledgement_required === true &&
-        requestId !== undefined &&
-        !acknowledgementDue.some((entry) => entry.request_id === requestId)
-      ) {
-        acknowledgementDue.push({
-          request_id: requestId,
-          recorded_at: accepted.recorded_at,
-          text_required: answer.agent_acknowledgement_text_required !== false,
-        })
-      }
-    }
-    const next: SessionState = {
-      ...current,
-      accepted,
-    }
-    if (pendingRemaining.length > 0) next.pending = pendingRemaining
-    else delete next.pending
-    if (acknowledgementDue.length > 0) next.acknowledgement_due = acknowledgementDue
-    else delete next.acknowledgement_due
-    return answered.reduce(
-      (remembered, answer) => rememberQuestionState(remembered, answer.pending, 'answered'),
-      next,
-    )
-  })
-  return accepted
-}
-
-/** Amend the live accepted record in place, without resurrecting a settled one. */
-function amendAcceptedAnswers(
-  ctx: HookContext,
-  sessionId: string,
-  amend: (accepted: AcceptedAnswerDelivery) => AcceptedAnswerDelivery,
-): void {
-  updateSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env, (current) =>
-    current.accepted === undefined ? current : { ...current, accepted: amend(current.accepted) },
-  )
-}
-
-/**
- * Finish a route write that linearized before SessionEnd.
- *
- * Ordinary state writers stop at the ended marker. This one narrow completion
- * is allowed through because the journal's own `delivery_committed_at` proves
- * the irreversible write won the ordering first; without the matching finish,
- * a later SessionStart would replay a write that already reached the harness.
- */
-function finishCommittedDelivery(
-  ctx: HookContext,
-  sessionId: string,
-  accepted: AcceptedAnswerDelivery,
-  deliveredRoute: string,
-): void {
-  const file = sessionStatePath(sessionId, ctx.env)
-  withFileLock(`${file}.lock`, () => {
-    const current = readSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env)
-    if (
-      current.accepted?.recorded_at !== accepted.recorded_at ||
-      current.accepted.delivery_committed_at === undefined
-    ) {
-      return
-    }
-    writeSessionStateUnlocked(file, sessionId, {
-      ...current,
-      accepted: {
-        ...current.accepted,
-        delivered_at: ctx.now(),
-        delivered_route: deliveredRoute,
-      },
-    })
-  })
-}
-
-export function clearAcknowledgementObligation(
-  sessionId: string,
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-  requestId: string,
-): boolean {
-  let cleared = false
-  updateSessionState(sessionId, env, (current) => {
-    const due = current.acknowledgement_due ?? []
-    const remaining = due.filter((entry) => entry.request_id !== requestId)
-    cleared = remaining.length !== due.length
-    if (!cleared) return current
-    const next = { ...current }
-    if (remaining.length > 0) next.acknowledgement_due = remaining
-    else delete next.acknowledgement_due
-    return next
-  })
-  return cleared
-}
-
-function acknowledgementBlockContext(due: readonly AcknowledgementDue[]): string {
-  const commands = due
-    .map(
-      (entry) =>
-        `- ${entry.request_id}: \`${acknowledgementCommand(entry.request_id, entry.text_required !== false)}\``,
-    )
-    .join('\n')
-  const anyTextRequired = due.some((entry) => entry.text_required !== false)
-  return (
-    `Notifai — required Agent Acknowledgement${due.length === 1 ? '' : 's'} still missing for request${due.length === 1 ? '' : 's'} ${due.map((entry) => entry.request_id).join(', ')}. ` +
-    `Before doing more resumed work or ending this turn, run ${due.length === 1 ? 'this command' : 'every command'}${acknowledgementDemand(anyTextRequired)}:\n${commands}`
-  )
-}
-
-/**
- * How many turns in a row a session may be held waiting for an acknowledgement.
- *
- * The gate is the one place hooks deliberately break the fail-open rule, and it
- * had no bound at all: an agent that could not or would not acknowledge — or a
- * server that stayed unreachable, since an error here counts as unresolved —
- * held every turn of that session for ever. Blocking a user's agent
- * indefinitely does not get them an acknowledgement; it costs them the agent as
- * well as the acknowledgement.
- */
-const MAX_ACKNOWLEDGEMENT_BLOCKS = 3
-
-/**
- * Hold the turn for an outstanding acknowledgement, or give up and let it
- * through once holding has stopped being worth its cost.
- *
- * Returns the outcome that blocks the turn, or `null` to carry on.
- */
-function holdForAcknowledgement(
-  ctx: HookContext,
-  sessionId: string,
-  due: readonly AcknowledgementDue[],
-  notes: string[],
-): HookOutcome | null {
-  if (due.length === 0) return null
-  const requestIds = due.map((entry) => entry.request_id)
-  const blocks = (readSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env).acknowledgement_blocks ?? 0) + 1
-  if (blocks > MAX_ACKNOWLEDGEMENT_BLOCKS) {
-    // Drop the obligation with the reason recorded. The answer was already
-    // delivered; what is lost is the agent's receipt for it, and the log is
-    // where that loss stays visible.
-    for (const requestId of requestIds) clearAcknowledgementObligation(sessionId, ctx.env, requestId)
-    resetAcknowledgementBlocks(sessionId, ctx.env)
-    gate(ctx, 'proceeding', 'acknowledgement-abandoned', {
-      request_ids: requestIds,
-      blocks: blocks - 1,
-      limit: MAX_ACKNOWLEDGEMENT_BLOCKS,
-    })
-    notes.push(
-      `no acknowledgement after ${MAX_ACKNOWLEDGEMENT_BLOCKS} turns; continuing without one rather than holding this session for ever`,
-    )
-    return null
-  }
-  updateSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env, (current) => ({
-    ...current,
-    acknowledgement_blocks: blocks,
-  }))
-  gate(ctx, 'held', 'acknowledgement-required', { request_ids: requestIds, blocks })
-  return {
-    stdout: stopAnswerOutput(acknowledgementBlockContext(due)),
-    notes,
-    log: { stage: 'acknowledgement-required', request_ids: requestIds },
-  }
-}
-
-/** A turn that was not held resets the streak; only consecutive holds count. */
-function resetAcknowledgementBlocks(sessionId: string, env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): void {
-  updateSessionState(sessionId, env, (current) => {
-    if (current.acknowledgement_blocks === undefined) return current
-    const next = { ...current }
-    delete next.acknowledgement_blocks
-    return next
-  })
-}
-
-async function reconcileAcknowledgementObligations(
-  ctx: HookContext,
-  sessionId: string,
-  due: readonly AcknowledgementDue[],
-): Promise<AcknowledgementDue[]> {
-  const unresolved: AcknowledgementDue[] = []
-  for (const obligation of due) {
-    try {
-      const snapshot = await ctx.client.agentAcknowledgement(obligation.request_id, {
-        waitSeconds: 0,
-      })
-      if (
-        snapshot.agent_acknowledgement_required === false ||
-        snapshot.agent_acknowledgement !== null
-      ) {
-        clearAcknowledgementObligation(sessionId, ctx.env, obligation.request_id)
-      } else {
-        unresolved.push(obligation)
-      }
-    } catch (err) {
-      unresolved.push(obligation)
-      ctx.log?.error('hook.gate', {
-        verdict: 'held',
-        reason: 'acknowledgement-required',
-        stage: 'reconcile-failed',
-        request_id: obligation.request_id,
-        message: err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err),
-      })
-    }
-  }
-  return unresolved
-}
-
-/**
- * Retire the answered questions and close the journal.
- *
- * Called once an answer's delivery is acknowledged — by the route's own write,
- * or by the successor Stop of a blocking continuation. The continuation counter
- * grows with each settled generation, so the cap that bounds chained
- * answer-to-question loops is a real count rather than a constant 1.
- */
-function settleAcceptedAnswers(
-  ctx: HookContext,
-  sessionId: string,
-  accepted: AcceptedAnswerDelivery,
-  cwd?: string,
-): void {
-  const retirements = accepted.answers
-    .map(({ pending }) => retiringQuestion(pending, 'answered', cwd))
-    .filter((entry): entry is RetiringQuestion => entry !== null)
-  updateSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env, (current) => {
-    const retiring = [...(current.retiring ?? [])]
-    for (const retirement of retirements) {
-      const existing = retiring.findIndex((entry) => entry.request_id === retirement.request_id)
-      if (existing < 0) retiring.push(retirement)
-      else retiring[existing] = retirement
-    }
-    const next: SessionState = { ...current, retiring }
-    delete next.accepted
-    next.continuation = {
-      answered_at: accepted.recorded_at,
-      count: (current.continuation?.count ?? 0) + 1,
-    }
-    return next
-  })
-}
-
-async function retirePendings(
-  ctx: HookContext,
-  envelope: HookEnvelope,
-  sessionId: string,
-  entries: PendingQuestion[],
-  state: LifecycleEndState,
-): Promise<void> {
-  updateSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env, (current) => {
-    const retiring = [...(current.retiring ?? [])]
-    for (const entry of entries) {
-      const retirement = retiringQuestion(entry, state, envelope.cwd)
-      if (retirement !== null && !retiring.some((item) => item.request_id === retirement.request_id)) {
-        retiring.push(retirement)
-      }
-    }
-    const pending = pendingList(current).filter(
-      (candidate) => !entries.some((entry) => isSamePending(candidate, entry)),
-    )
-    const next: SessionState = { ...current }
-    if (pending.length > 0) next.pending = pending
-    else delete next.pending
-    if (retiring.length > 0) next.retiring = retiring
-    else delete next.retiring
-    return entries.reduce(
-      (remembered, entry) => rememberQuestionState(
-        remembered,
-        entry,
-        state === 'answered' ? 'answered' : 'retired',
-      ),
-      next,
-    )
-  })
-  // Network retirement is deliberately deferred to a later no-question hook.
-  // The state write above is the durable operation; blocking here creates a
-  // crash window before an answer can reach harness stdout.
-}
-
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// UserPromptSubmit — the user is at the keyboard
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-/**
- * Records presence. Retires a live question only when this prompt plausibly
- * answers it. Typing in the terminal is not by itself a resolution: the User
- * may be answering a different question on a device.
- */
-export async function handleUserPromptSubmit(
-  ctx: HookContext,
-  envelope: HookEnvelope,
-): Promise<HookOutcome> {
-  const notes: string[] = []
-  const sessionId = envelope.session_id
-  if (!sessionId) return { notes }
-
-  const state = readSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env)
-  if (state.accepted !== undefined) {
-    updateSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env, (current) => ({
-      ...current,
-      ...(ctx.harness === undefined ? {} : { harness: ctx.harness }),
-      last_prompt_at: ctx.now(),
-    }))
-    if (envelope.cwd !== undefined && ctx.harness !== undefined) {
-      writeProjectSession(envelope.cwd, ctx.env, sessionId, ctx.now(), ctx.harness)
-    }
-    notes.push(
-      state.accepted.delivered_at === undefined
-        ? 'a device answer is safely journaled; the next Stop will deliver it'
-        : 'a device answer has already been delivered; the next Stop will close it out',
-    )
-    return { notes }
-  }
-  const live = pendingList(state).filter((entry) => entry.request_id !== undefined)
-  let lateAnswers: AnsweredPending[] = []
-  if (live.length > 0) {
-    const { answered, transientTrouble, permanentFailures } = await pollPendingReplies(
-      ctx,
-      live,
-      LATE_PROMPT_POLL_SECONDS,
-    )
-    const finalized = await finalizePendings(
-      ctx,
-      answered.map((entry) => entry.pending),
-    )
-    lateAnswers = answered.map((entry) => {
-      const response = finalized.find((candidate) =>
-        isSamePending(candidate.pending, entry.pending),
-      )?.response
-      const replies = response?.replies.length ? response.replies : entry.replies
-      if (response === null) {
-        notes.push(
-          `could not confirm the close fence for ${entry.pending.request_id}; preserving the durable answer already observed`,
-        )
-      }
-      return {
-        ...entry,
-        replies,
-        reply: replies.at(-1)!,
-        agent_acknowledgement_required:
-          response?.agent_acknowledgement_required ??
-          entry.agent_acknowledgement_required,
-        agent_acknowledgement_text_required:
-          response?.agent_acknowledgement_text_required ??
-          entry.agent_acknowledgement_text_required,
-      }
-    })
-    if (answered.length > 0) {
-      stageAcceptedAnswers(
-        ctx,
-        sessionId,
-        lateAnswers,
-        0,
-      )
-      for (const answer of lateAnswers) reportAnswer(ctx, notes, answer, true)
-    }
-    if (transientTrouble) {
-      notes.push('could not check every pending question for a late answer before the prompt')
-    }
-    const permanentFailure = permanentReplyFailureNote(permanentFailures)
-    if (permanentFailure !== null) notes.push(permanentFailure)
-  }
-  const matched = pendingAnsweredByPrompt(envelope.prompt, pendingList(state))
-  for (const entry of matched) {
-    ctx.log?.info('hook.retirement', {
-      request_id: entry.request_id,
-      question_id: entry.question_id,
-      reason: 'prompt-matched',
-      attempted: entry.request_id !== undefined,
-      proven: false,
-    })
-  }
-  // Park before dropping `pending`. If the process dies between these writes,
-  // the next hook sees both copies and dedupes them; the old order could die in
-  // the gap after erasing the only request/collapse/device identifiers.
-  const updated = updateSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env, (current) => {
-    const retiring = [...(current.retiring ?? [])]
-    const matchedNow = pendingAnsweredByPrompt(envelope.prompt, pendingList(current))
-    const unmatched = pendingList(current).filter(
-      (entry) => !matchedNow.some((item) => isSamePending(item, entry)),
-    )
-    for (const entry of matchedNow.filter((item) => item.request_id !== undefined)) {
-      const retirement = retiringQuestion(entry, 'answered_elsewhere', envelope.cwd)
-      if (
-        retirement !== null &&
-        !retiring.some((parked) => parked.request_id === retirement.request_id)
-      ) {
-        retiring.push(retirement)
-      }
-    }
-    const unasked = unmatched.filter((entry) => entry.request_id === undefined)
-    const stillLive = unmatched.filter((entry) => entry.request_id !== undefined)
-    const remaining = [...stillLive, ...unasked]
-
-    // Start from the whole document so fields introduced by a newer CLI remain
-    // attached while this older writer applies the prompt transition it knows.
-    const next: SessionState = {
-      ...current,
-      ...(ctx.harness === undefined ? {} : { harness: ctx.harness }),
-      last_prompt_at: ctx.now(),
-    }
-    if (remaining.length > 0) next.pending = remaining
-    else delete next.pending
-    if (retiring.length > 0) next.retiring = retiring
-    else delete next.retiring
-
-    // The user typed, so whatever chain of answer-driven continuations was
-    // running, a human has taken the turn and the consecutive count starts
-    // over. Only a real prompt reaches here: the journal branch above returns
-    // first, and a wake route's injected message always arrives while its own
-    // answer is still journaled, so it can never pass for the user's presence.
-    if (current.continuation !== undefined) {
-      next.continuation = { ...current.continuation, count: 0 }
-    }
-    return matchedNow.reduce(
-      (remembered, entry) => rememberQuestionState(
-        remembered,
-        entry,
-        entry.request_id === undefined ? 'withdrawn' : 'retired',
-      ),
-      next,
-    )
-  })
-  // The bridge that lets a plain `notifai ask` find the hook's canonical
-  // session: an agent shell command gets no hook payload, and not every
-  // harness exports an id in the same shape.
-  if (envelope.cwd !== undefined && ctx.harness !== undefined) {
-    writeProjectSession(envelope.cwd, ctx.env, sessionId, ctx.now(), ctx.harness)
-  }
-
-  if (lateAnswers.length > 0) {
-    // UserPromptSubmit has no later hook field proving its stdout reached the
-    // model. Keep the journal and let the next Stop use its acknowledged
-    // continuation channel instead of recreating the crash-before-stdout gap.
-    notes.push('the late device answer will continue the agent at this turn’s Stop')
-    return {
-      notes,
-      settlementRequired: pendingList(updated).some((entry) => entry.request_id === undefined),
-    }
-  }
-  const retired = await drainRetirements(ctx, sessionId, ctx.env)
-  const orphaned = await drainOrphanRetirements(ctx, ctx.env, ctx.now())
-  const swept = [...retired, ...orphaned]
-  if (swept.length > 0) {
-    notes.push(`retired question${swept.length > 1 ? 's' : ''} ${swept.join(', ')}`)
-  }
-  return {
-    notes,
-    settlementRequired: pendingList(updated).some((entry) => entry.request_id === undefined),
-  }
-}
-
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// Stop — the turn ended; escalate a registered question
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-/**
- * Only engages for a question the agent explicitly registered with
- * `notifai ask`. Guessing from the last assistant message was the alternative
- * and it is not worth it: a false positive here hijacks the terminal.
- */
-export async function handleStop(
-  ctx: HookContext,
-  envelope: HookEnvelope,
-  processDeadlineAt = ctx.now() + QUESTION_WAITER_CEILING_SECONDS * 1000,
-  route: EscalationDeliveryRoute = hookContinuationRoute(),
-  recordStop = true,
-): Promise<HookOutcome> {
-  const sessionId = envelope.session_id
-  if (!sessionId) {
-    gate(ctx, 'held', 'no-session', { stage: 'queued' })
-    return { notes: [] }
-  }
-  return runEscalationWaiter(ctx, {
-    sessionId,
-    envelope,
-    route,
-    processDeadlineAt,
-    recordStop,
-  })
-}
-
-/**
- * Acquire the per-session owner, waiting only when this Stop carries a
- * newly registered question. The live owner sees that state on its next reply
- * poll and yields; without this handoff the new question could sit unpushed for
- * the older question's complete answer window.
- */
-async function acquireQuestionOwner(
-  ctx: HookContext,
-  sessionId: string,
-  hardDeadlineAt: number,
-): Promise<boolean> {
-  if (sessionHasEnded(sessionId, ctx.env)) return false
-  if (claimQuestionPush(sessionId, ctx.env, Date.now(), undefined, hardDeadlineAt)) return true
-
-  while (ctx.now() < hardDeadlineAt) {
-    const handoff = claimHandoffState(sessionId, ctx.env)
-    if (!handoff.hasNewQuestion) return false
-    const holderReleaseDeadlineAt = Math.min(
-      hardDeadlineAt,
-      handoff.ownerDeadlineAt === undefined
-        ? hardDeadlineAt
-        : handoff.ownerDeadlineAt + QUESTION_STOP_TEARDOWN_HEADROOM_SECONDS * 1000,
-    )
-    if (ctx.now() >= holderReleaseDeadlineAt) return false
-    await ctx.sleep(
-      Math.min(CLAIM_HANDOFF_POLL_MS, holderReleaseDeadlineAt - ctx.now()),
-    )
-    if (sessionHasEnded(sessionId, ctx.env)) return false
-    if (claimQuestionPush(sessionId, ctx.env, Date.now(), undefined, hardDeadlineAt)) return true
-  }
-  return false
-}
-
-/**
- * Own one registered question pipeline from its terminal-first timer through
- * its final delivery or retirement. Hosts differ only in the injected route.
- */
-export async function runEscalationWaiter(
-  ctx: HookContext,
-  options: EscalationWaiterOptions,
-): Promise<HookOutcome> {
-  const notes: string[] = []
-  const { sessionId, envelope } = options
-  const hardDeadlineAt =
-    options.processDeadlineAt ?? ctx.now() + QUESTION_WAITER_CEILING_SECONDS * 1000
-
-  if (sessionHasEnded(sessionId, ctx.env)) {
-    notes.push('the Agent Session already ended; no answer observer was started')
-    return { notes }
-  }
-
-  // This event marker is diagnostic evidence in its own right. Record it
-  // before every early return so doctor can distinguish a working Stop route
-  // from the prompt-only state that previously looked healthy.
-  if (options.recordStop !== false) {
-    updateSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env, (current) => ({
-      ...current,
-      ...(ctx.harness === undefined ? {} : { harness: ctx.harness }),
-      last_stop_at: ctx.now(),
-    }))
-  }
-
-  // The waiter, not its host, owns this lease. It spans grace, submission,
-  // polling, close fencing, route delivery, and every retirement path.
-  // Real clock, deliberately, not `ctx.now` — the claim answers whether
-  // another process is alive right now, which an injected clock cannot know.
-  if (!(await acquireQuestionOwner(ctx, sessionId, hardDeadlineAt))) {
-    gate(ctx, 'held', 'claimed-elsewhere', { stage: 'queued' })
-    notes.push('another hook is already handling this session; a newly registered question remains queued for the next owner')
-    return { notes }
-  }
-  let settledAnswerThisPass = false
-  try {
-    let state = readSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env)
-    if (state.accepted !== undefined) {
-      const accepted = state.accepted
-      if (envelope.stop_hook_active === true && pendingList(state).length > 0) {
-        const due = await reconcileAcknowledgementObligations(
-          ctx,
-          sessionId,
-          state.acknowledgement_due ?? [],
-        )
-        if (due.length > 0) {
-          gate(ctx, 'held', 'acknowledgement-required', {
-            request_ids: due.map((entry) => entry.request_id),
-          })
-          return {
-            stdout: stopAnswerOutput(acknowledgementBlockContext(due)),
-            notes,
-            log: {
-              stage: 'acknowledgement-required',
-              request_ids: due.map((entry) => entry.request_id),
-            },
-          }
-        }
-        state = readSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env)
-      }
-      // Acknowledgement is per route, because routes end in different places.
-      //
-      // A blocking continuation ends at this process's stdout, which the
-      // harness reads only after the process exits: the recursive Stop's
-      // `stop_hook_active` is the acknowledgement, and persisting a separate
-      // "offered" bit before stdout would recreate the crash gap this journal
-      // exists to close. An out-of-band route ends at a write this process made
-      // itself and recorded here. A socket write is not proof the model acted
-      // on the answer — delivery is not consumption — but nothing later can
-      // prove more, and an answer redelivered without end is strictly worse
-      // than one settled on delivery. So a recorded delivery settles.
-      const deliveryProven =
-        accepted.delivered_at !== undefined || envelope.stop_hook_active === true
-      if (!deliveryProven) {
-        for (const answer of accepted.answers) reportAnswer(ctx, notes, answer, true)
-        return await deliverAcceptedAnswers(
-          ctx,
-          sessionId,
-          options.route,
-          accepted,
-          notes,
-          envelope.cwd,
-        )
-      }
-      settleAcceptedAnswers(ctx, sessionId, accepted, envelope.cwd)
-      settledAnswerThisPass = true
-      state = readSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env)
-      const currentAcceptedIds = new Set(
-        accepted.answers.flatMap(({ pending }) =>
-          pending.request_id === undefined ? [] : [pending.request_id],
-        ),
-      )
-      const due = await reconcileAcknowledgementObligations(
-        ctx,
-        sessionId,
-        (state.acknowledgement_due ?? []).filter((entry) =>
-          currentAcceptedIds.has(entry.request_id),
-        ),
-      )
-      const held = holdForAcknowledgement(ctx, sessionId, due, notes)
-      if (held !== null) return held
-      state = readSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env)
-    }
-
-    if (state.accepted === undefined && (state.acknowledgement_due?.length ?? 0) > 0) {
-      const due = await reconcileAcknowledgementObligations(
-        ctx,
-        sessionId,
-        state.acknowledgement_due!,
-      )
-      const held = holdForAcknowledgement(ctx, sessionId, due, notes)
-      if (held !== null) return held
-      resetAcknowledgementBlocks(sessionId, ctx.env)
-      state = readSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env)
-    }
-
-    const pending = pendingList(state)
-    if (pending.length === 0) {
-      const swept = [
-        ...(await drainRetirements(ctx, sessionId, ctx.env)),
-        ...(await drainOrphanRetirements(ctx, ctx.env, ctx.now())),
-      ]
-      if (swept.length > 0) {
-        notes.push(`retired question${swept.length > 1 ? 's' : ''} ${swept.join(', ')}`)
-      }
-      gate(ctx, 'held', 'no-question', { stage: 'queued' })
-      return { notes }
-    }
-
-    return await handleClaimedStop(
-      ctx,
-      envelope,
-      sessionId,
-      state,
-      pending,
-      notes,
-      hardDeadlineAt,
-      options.route,
-      // Every route's successor turn-end, named the same way: the harness flag
-      // for a blocking continuation, and the settle above for a route that woke
-      // a brand-new turn out of band.
-      envelope.stop_hook_active === true || settledAnswerThisPass,
-    )
-  } finally {
-    releaseQuestionPush(sessionId, ctx.env)
-  }
-}
-
-/**
- * The blocking Stop hook's own last meter: the answer becomes this process's
- * stdout, and the harness admits it as a new user turn. Exported because a
- * host adapter that has other routes still falls back to this one.
- */
-export function hookContinuationRoute(): EscalationDeliveryRoute {
-  return {
-    kind: 'hook-continuation',
-    deliver: async (event) => ({
-      stdout: stopAnswerOutput(event.context),
-      commitStdout: event.commitDelivery,
-      notes: [],
-      // The harness reads this stdout after the process exits, so only the
-      // successor Stop can acknowledge it.
-      acknowledgement: 'stdout',
-    }),
-  }
-}
-
-/**
- * Hand one accepted answer to a route and record what the attempt proved.
- *
- * Every delivery on every route passes through here, which is what makes the
- * cap below a backstop rather than a suggestion. A guard only one route
- * consults is not a backstop: that is how a single answer once reached a
- * session 250 times.
- */
-async function deliverAcceptedAnswers(
-  ctx: HookContext,
-  sessionId: string,
-  route: EscalationDeliveryRoute,
-  accepted: AcceptedAnswerDelivery,
-  notes: string[],
-  cwd?: string,
-): Promise<HookOutcome> {
-  const { answers: answered, remaining } = accepted
-  const requestIds = summarizeRequestIds(answered.map((entry) => entry.pending)).ids
-  if (sessionHasEnded(sessionId, ctx.env)) {
-    notes.push('the Agent Session ended before answer delivery; stopping this observer')
-    return { notes }
-  }
-  const held = accepted.held_deliveries ?? 0
-  if (held >= MAX_HELD_DELIVERIES) {
-    gate(ctx, 'held', 'delivery-limit', {
-      route: route.kind,
-      held,
-      limit: MAX_HELD_DELIVERIES,
-      request_ids: requestIds,
-    })
-    settleAcceptedAnswers(ctx, sessionId, accepted, cwd)
-    notes.push(
-      `no route could hand the user's answer over in ${MAX_HELD_DELIVERIES} turns; not holding it any longer`,
-    )
-    return { notes }
-  }
-  const attempt = (accepted.delivery_attempts ?? 0) + 1
-  if (attempt > MAX_CONTINUATION_COUNT) {
-    gate(ctx, 'held', 'delivery-limit', {
-      route: route.kind,
-      attempts: accepted.delivery_attempts ?? 0,
-      limit: MAX_CONTINUATION_COUNT,
-      request_ids: requestIds,
-    })
-    // Settle rather than journal for ever. The answer has been offered as often
-    // as any working route could need, it is already in the notes of each of
-    // those turns, and the questions it answered still deserve retirement.
-    settleAcceptedAnswers(ctx, sessionId, accepted, cwd)
-    notes.push(
-      `the user's answer reached the ${route.kind} route ${MAX_CONTINUATION_COUNT} times without being acknowledged; not delivering it again`,
-    )
-    return { notes }
-  }
-  // Count the attempt before making it: an attempt that dies mid-delivery still
-  // happened, and a counter written afterwards could be evaded by crashing.
-  amendAcceptedAnswers(ctx, sessionId, (current) => ({
-    ...current,
-    delivery_attempts: attempt,
-  }))
-  // Linearize delivery after the journal write. If SessionEnd acquired the
-  // shared state lock in between, its durable marker wins and no wake starts.
-  if (sessionHasEnded(sessionId, ctx.env)) {
-    notes.push('the Agent Session ended before answer delivery; stopping this observer')
-    return { notes }
-  }
-  ctx.log?.info('hook.gate', {
-    verdict: 'proceeding',
-    reason: 'answered',
-    stage: 'routed',
-    route: route.kind,
-    answers: answered.length,
-    request_ids: requestIds,
-    journal_recorded_at: accepted.recorded_at,
-    delivery_attempt: attempt,
-  })
-  let deliveryCommitted = false
-  const commitDelivery = (): boolean => {
-    if (deliveryCommitted) return true
-    const file = sessionStatePath(sessionId, ctx.env)
-    return withFileLock(`${file}.lock`, () => {
-      if (sessionHasEnded(sessionId, ctx.env)) return false
-      const current = readSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env)
-      if (current.accepted === undefined) return false
-      deliveryCommitted = true
-      writeSessionStateUnlocked(file, sessionId, {
-        ...current,
-        accepted: { ...current.accepted, delivery_committed_at: ctx.now() },
-      })
-      return true
-    })
-  }
-  let delivered = await route.deliver({
-    context: answersContext(answered, remaining),
-    answers: answered.length,
-    remaining,
-    request_ids: requestIds,
-    journal_recorded_at: accepted.recorded_at,
-    commitDelivery,
-  })
-  if (delivered.acknowledgement === 'delivered' && !deliveryCommitted) {
-    delivered = {
-      notes: [
-        ...(delivered.notes ?? []),
-        `the ${route.kind} route reported delivery without committing against SessionEnd; preserving the answer instead of accepting an unordered write`,
-      ],
-      log: { route: route.kind, stage: 'queued', reason: 'delivery-not-committed' },
-      acknowledgement: 'held',
-    }
-  }
-  const deliveredRoute =
-    typeof delivered.log?.['route'] === 'string' ? delivered.log['route'] : route.kind
-  const deliveredStage =
-    typeof delivered.log?.['stage'] === 'string' ? delivered.log['stage'] : 'delivered'
-  if (delivered.acknowledgement === 'delivered') {
-    finishCommittedDelivery(ctx, sessionId, accepted, deliveredRoute)
-  } else if (delivered.acknowledgement === 'held') {
-    // Give the delivery attempt back and count the hold instead. The attempt
-    // was counted before the call because one that dies mid-delivery still
-    // happened and a counter written afterwards could be evaded by crashing —
-    // but a route that *returns* `held` proves both that this process survived
-    // and that nothing was handed over.
-    amendAcceptedAnswers(ctx, sessionId, (current) => ({
-      ...current,
-      delivery_attempts: accepted.delivery_attempts ?? 0,
-      held_deliveries: (current.held_deliveries ?? 0) + 1,
-    }))
-  }
-  ctx.log?.info('hook.answer', {
-    answered: true,
-    stage: deliveredStage,
-    route: deliveredRoute,
-    acknowledgement: delivered.acknowledgement,
-    delivery_attempt: attempt,
-    request_ids: requestIds,
-    answers: answered.length,
-    journal_recorded_at: accepted.recorded_at,
-    ...(delivered.log?.['reason'] === undefined ? {} : { reason: delivered.log['reason'] }),
-  })
-  const outcome: HookOutcome = { notes: [...notes, ...(delivered.notes ?? [])] }
-  if (delivered.stdout !== undefined) outcome.stdout = delivered.stdout
-  if (delivered.commitStdout !== undefined) outcome.commitStdout = delivered.commitStdout
-  if (delivered.log !== undefined) outcome.log = delivered.log
-  return outcome
-}
-
-/** True while this Stop owner is still allowed a direct-wake wait. */
-function ownerLeaseActive(entry: PendingQuestion, now: number): boolean {
-  return entry.owner_deadline_at !== undefined && entry.owner_deadline_at > now
-}
-
-/** The complete per-session Stop decision, after this process owns the claim. */
-async function handleClaimedStop(
-  ctx: HookContext,
-  envelope: HookEnvelope,
-  sessionId: string,
-  state: SessionState,
-  pending: PendingQuestion[],
-  notes: string[],
-  hardDeadlineAt: number,
-  route: EscalationDeliveryRoute,
-  continuingFromAnswer: boolean,
-): Promise<HookOutcome> {
-  const live = pending.filter((entry) => entry.request_id !== undefined)
-  const unasked = pending.filter((entry) => entry.request_id === undefined)
-  let liveToEscalate = live
-
-  if (
-    ctx.harness !== undefined &&
-    HARNESS_CAPABILITIES[ctx.harness].stopContinuation === 'unsupported'
-  ) {
-    for (const entry of live) await closeQuietly(ctx, entry.request_id!)
-    await retirePendings(ctx, envelope, sessionId, pending, 'expired')
-    // Not `no-question`: there was a question, and this says so. Reading the
-    // log to find out why an ask never travelled is the whole reason these
-    // reasons exist, and the wrong one sent that reader looking for a question
-    // that was right there.
-    gate(ctx, 'held', 'harness-cannot-continue', { harness: ctx.harness })
-    notes.push(`${HARNESS_CAPABILITIES[ctx.harness].deliveryContract}; use a blocking \`notifai send --reply\` question`)
-    return { notes }
-  }
-
-  if (live.length > 0) {
-    const { answered, permanentFailures } = await pollPendingReplies(
-      ctx,
-      live,
-      LATE_STOP_POLL_SECONDS,
-    )
-    const permanentFailure = permanentReplyFailureNote(permanentFailures)
-    if (permanentFailure !== null) notes.push(permanentFailure)
-    const permanentlyRejected = live.filter((entry) =>
-      permanentFailures.has(entry.request_id!),
-    )
-    await Promise.all(permanentlyRejected.map((entry) => closeQuietly(ctx, entry.request_id!)))
-    if (permanentlyRejected.length > 0) {
-      await retirePendings(ctx, envelope, sessionId, permanentlyRejected, 'expired')
-    }
-    if (answered.length > 0) {
-      const finalized = await finalizePendings(
-        ctx,
-        answered.map((entry) => entry.pending),
-      )
-      const authoritative = answered.map((entry) => {
-        const response = finalized.find((candidate) =>
-          isSamePending(candidate.pending, entry.pending),
-        )?.response
-        const replies = response?.replies.length ? response.replies : entry.replies
-        if (response === null) {
-          notes.push(
-            `could not confirm the close fence for ${entry.pending.request_id}; delivering the durable answer already observed`,
-          )
-        }
-        return {
-        ...entry,
-        replies,
-        reply: replies.at(-1)!,
-        agent_acknowledgement_required:
-          response?.agent_acknowledgement_required ??
-          entry.agent_acknowledgement_required,
-        agent_acknowledgement_text_required:
-          response?.agent_acknowledgement_text_required ??
-          entry.agent_acknowledgement_text_required,
-      }
-      })
-      const accepted = stageAcceptedAnswers(
-        ctx,
-        sessionId,
-        authoritative,
-        pending.length - authoritative.length - permanentlyRejected.length,
-      )
-      for (const answer of authoritative) reportAnswer(ctx, notes, answer, true)
-      // Anything still unasked rides the next Stop: the agent is being resumed
-      // with answers right now, and may not even need the rest afterwards.
-      return deliverAcceptedAnswers(ctx, sessionId, route, accepted, notes, envelope.cwd)
-    }
-    const recoverableLive = live.filter(
-      (entry) => !permanentFailures.has(entry.request_id!),
-    )
-    // A spent owner has already reached the end of the answer window it owned.
-    // Passing those questions back into `escalate` starts a fresh ceiling and
-    // can monopolize the per-session claim after expiry. Independent questions
-    // whose lease is still running keep their successor wait.
-    const stillOwned = recoverableLive.filter((entry) => ownerLeaseActive(entry, ctx.now()))
-    liveToEscalate = stillOwned
-    if (unasked.length === 0) {
-      if (recoverableLive.length === 0) return { notes }
-      if (stillOwned.length === 0) {
-        const requestIdSummary = summarizeRequestIds(recoverableLive)
-        ctx.log?.info('hook.answer', {
-          answered: false,
-          stage: 'queued',
-          request_ids: requestIdSummary.ids,
-          owner_spent: true,
-        })
-        notes.push(
-          `${recoverableLive.length} question${recoverableLive.length === 1 ? ' is' : 's are'} still recorded after the previous answer owner ended; a later turn will reconcile ${recoverableLive.length === 1 ? 'it' : 'them'} without starting another full-window wait`,
-        )
-        return { notes }
-      }
-      return await escalate(
-        ctx,
-        envelope,
-        sessionId,
-        [],
-        stillOwned,
-        notes,
-        hardDeadlineAt,
-        route,
-      )
-    }
-    // Questions registered after the earlier push still owe the user their
-    // notification; fall through and escalate just those, plus any live
-    // question whose owner lease is still running.
-  }
-
-  // A Stop answer may immediately produce a legitimate follow-up question.
-  // Allow that new generation, but never re-run an old pending question and
-  // never let answer continuations become an unbounded agent loop.
-  if (envelope.stop_hook_active === true) {
-    const continuation = state.continuation
-    const isNew =
-      continuation !== undefined &&
-      unasked.some(
-        (entry) => entry.asked_at !== undefined && entry.asked_at > continuation.answered_at,
-      )
-    if (!isNew) {
-      gate(ctx, 'held', 'continuation-repeat')
-      notes.push('already continuing from an answer; not asking again this turn')
-      return { notes }
-    }
-  }
-  // The cap is deliberately not keyed to `stop_hook_active`. That flag names one
-  // route's continuation; a route that wakes a brand-new turn never sets it, and
-  // a limit only one route consults bounds only that route. `continuingFromAnswer`
-  // is the same event named for every route, so the chain of answer → follow-up
-  // question → answer is bounded whatever delivered it.
-  if (
-    continuingFromAnswer &&
-    state.continuation !== undefined &&
-    state.continuation.count >= MAX_CONTINUATION_COUNT
-  ) {
-    gate(ctx, 'held', 'continuation-limit', {
-      count: state.continuation.count,
-      limit: MAX_CONTINUATION_COUNT,
-      route: route.kind,
-    })
-    notes.push(
-      `answer continuation limit (${MAX_CONTINUATION_COUNT}) reached; leaving the question in the terminal`,
-    )
-    return { notes }
-  }
-  // Silent to the user by design — they switched routing off, so saying so on
-  // every turn would be nagging about their own setting. That silence is also
-  // why it belongs in the log: from outside, "ask_notifications = false" and "a
-  // bug ate my question" look exactly the same.
-  if (!ctx.config.ask_notifications.value) {
-    gate(ctx, 'held', 'notifications-off', { source: ctx.config.ask_notifications.source })
-    return { notes }
-  }
-  gate(ctx, 'proceeding', 'proceeding', {
-    unasked: unasked.length,
-    already_live: liveToEscalate.length,
-    grace_seconds: ctx.config.ask_grace_seconds.value,
-  })
-  return await escalate(
-    ctx,
-    envelope,
-    sessionId,
-    unasked,
-    liveToEscalate,
-    notes,
-    hardDeadlineAt,
-    route,
-  )
-}
-
-/** The escalation itself, split out so the claim is released on every path. */
-async function escalate(
-  ctx: HookContext,
-  envelope: HookEnvelope,
-  sessionId: string,
-  unasked: PendingQuestion[],
-  alreadyLive: PendingQuestion[],
-  notes: string[],
-  hardDeadlineAt: number,
-  route: EscalationDeliveryRoute,
-): Promise<HookOutcome> {
-  // The questions still owe the user their terminal-first window before
-  // anything reaches their devices — measured from the oldest registration,
-  // because that is the question that has waited longest.
-  const ceilingAt = hardDeadlineAt
-  if (unasked.length > 0 && alreadyLive.length === 0) {
-    const oldest = Math.min(...unasked.map((entry) => entry.asked_at ?? ctx.now()))
-    await awaitTerminalFirstWindow(ctx, oldest, ceilingAt)
-    ctx.log?.debug('hook.gate', {
-      verdict: 'grace',
-      reason: 'elapsed' satisfies GateReason,
-      waited_from: oldest,
-      grace_seconds: ctx.config.ask_grace_seconds.value,
-    })
-  }
-  // Phase one: every registered question reaches the user's devices, each as
-  // its own notification — one ask never stands in for another.
-  const submitted: PendingQuestion[] = []
-  const admissionAnswers: AnsweredPending[] = []
-  for (const entry of unasked) {
-    // The service owns how long the answer is accepted. This process begins
-    // before submission, so its larger maximum-window budget includes startup
-    // headroom and remains alive through the complete committed window.
-    const replyWindowSeconds = ctx.config.reply_window_seconds.value
-    if (
-      ceilingAt - ctx.now() <
-      (replyWindowSeconds + QUESTION_SUBMISSION_COMPLETION_HEADROOM_SECONDS) * 1000
-    ) {
-      notes.push(
-        'too little owner lifetime remains for the complete configured answer window; leaving this question frozen for a successor owner',
-      )
-      continue
-    }
-    const ownerDeadlineAt = ceilingAt
-    const questions = pendingQuestions(entry)
-    const eventSource = sourceContextAtHookEvent(entry.source, envelope.cwd)
-    let intent = entry.submission
-    if (intent === undefined) {
-      if (entry.body === undefined) {
-        notes.push('registered question has no canonical body; register it again with this CLI')
-        continue
-      }
-      const prepared = await prepareQuestionSubmission(ctx, {
-        // Type and Project have their own fields; the title is only substance.
-        title: questions[0]!.text,
-        body: entry.body,
-        questions,
-        ...(entry.media !== undefined ? { media: entry.media } : {}),
-        ...(entry.project !== undefined ? { project: entry.project } : {}),
-        ...(eventSource !== undefined ? { source: eventSource } : {}),
-        windowSeconds: replyWindowSeconds,
-        ownerDeadlineAt,
-      })
-      if ('error' in prepared) {
-        ctx.log?.error('hook.pushed', { ok: false, message: prepared.error })
-        notes.push(prepared.error)
-        continue
-      }
-      intent = prepared
-      // Durable before submit. If the server commits and the response is lost,
-      // the reserved request id still lets this owner poll and finalize the
-      // exact card; a successor can also replay the frozen draft/key.
-      updateSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env, (current) => {
-        const list = pendingList(current)
-        const index = list.findIndex((candidate) => isSamePending(candidate, entry))
-        if (index < 0) return current
-        const next = [...list]
-        next[index] = { ...next[index]!, submission: prepared }
-        return { ...current, pending: next }
-      })
-    } else if (intent.owner_deadline_at <= ctx.now()) {
-      // The frozen wire identity survives a crashed owner, but its local owner
-      // lease does not. Re-arm only the local deadline; request id, key,
-      // targets, and draft remain byte-identical for idempotent replay.
-      intent = { ...intent, owner_deadline_at: ceilingAt }
-      const rearmed = intent
-      updateSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env, (current) => {
-        const list = pendingList(current)
-        const index = list.findIndex((candidate) => isSamePending(candidate, entry))
-        if (index < 0) return current
-        const next = [...list]
-        next[index] = { ...next[index]!, submission: rearmed }
-        return { ...current, pending: next }
-      })
-    }
-    if (ctx.now() >= intent.owner_deadline_at) {
-      notes.push('the owner lifetime ended before submission; preserving the frozen intent')
-      continue
-    }
-    if (!canSubmitCompleteWindow(ctx, intent, replyWindowSeconds)) {
-      notes.push(
-        'setup consumed the admission allowance; preserving the frozen intent instead of publishing an answer window this owner cannot observe completely',
-      )
-      continue
-    }
-    if (sessionHasEnded(sessionId, ctx.env)) {
-      notes.push('the Agent Session ended before submission; preserving no live observer')
-      continue
-    }
-    let receipt: SubmissionReceipt | undefined
-    let admissionConfirmed = false
-    try {
-      receipt = await submitQuestion(ctx, intent)
-      admissionConfirmed = true
-    } catch (caught) {
-      let err: unknown = caught
-      if (err instanceof ApiCallError && isTerminalDraftRejection(err)) {
-        ctx.log?.error('hook.pushed', {
-          ok: false,
-          request_id: intent.request_id,
-          status: err.status,
-          code: err.code,
-          message: err.message,
-        })
-        if (entry.submission !== undefined) {
-          notes.push(
-            `question submission was rejected (${err.code}, HTTP ${err.status}); reminting the draft in the current contract instead of replaying the frozen one`,
-          )
-          clearFrozenSubmission(sessionId, ctx.env, entry)
-          if (entry.body === undefined) {
-            dropPendingQuestion(sessionId, ctx.env, entry)
-            notes.push('registered question has no canonical body; retired the frozen draft instead of retrying it')
-            continue
-          }
-          const reminted = await prepareQuestionSubmission(ctx, {
-            title: questions[0]!.text,
-            body: entry.body,
-            questions,
-            ...(entry.media !== undefined ? { media: entry.media } : {}),
-            ...(entry.project !== undefined ? { project: entry.project } : {}),
-            ...(eventSource !== undefined ? { source: eventSource } : {}),
-            windowSeconds: replyWindowSeconds,
-            ownerDeadlineAt,
-          })
-          if ('error' in reminted) {
-            dropPendingQuestion(sessionId, ctx.env, entry)
-            notes.push(reminted.error)
-            continue
-          }
-          intent = reminted
-          updateSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env, (current) => {
-            const list = pendingList(current)
-            const index = list.findIndex((candidate) => isSamePending(candidate, entry))
-            if (index < 0) return current
-            const next = [...list]
-            next[index] = { ...next[index]!, submission: reminted }
-            return { ...current, pending: next }
-          })
-          try {
-            if (!canSubmitCompleteWindow(ctx, intent, replyWindowSeconds)) {
-              notes.push(
-                'draft recovery consumed the admission allowance; preserving the frozen intent for a successor owner',
-              )
-              continue
-            }
-            if (sessionHasEnded(sessionId, ctx.env)) {
-              notes.push('the Agent Session ended before recovered submission')
-              continue
-            }
-            receipt = await submitQuestion(ctx, intent)
-            admissionConfirmed = true
-          } catch (retryErr) {
-            if (retryErr instanceof ApiCallError && isTerminalDraftRejection(retryErr)) {
-              dropPendingQuestion(sessionId, ctx.env, entry)
-              notes.push(
-                `reminted draft was also rejected (${retryErr.code}, HTTP ${retryErr.status}); retiring the question so it is not retried forever`,
-              )
-              ctx.log?.error('hook.pushed', {
-                ok: false,
-                request_id: intent.request_id,
-                status: retryErr.status,
-                code: retryErr.code,
-                message: retryErr.message,
-              })
-              continue
-            }
-            err = retryErr
-          }
-        } else {
-          dropPendingQuestion(sessionId, ctx.env, entry)
-          notes.push(
-            `question submission was rejected (${err.code}, HTTP ${err.status}); retiring it because the current draft will never be accepted`,
-          )
-          continue
-        }
-      }
-      if (!admissionConfirmed && err instanceof ApiCallError && err.status < 500 && err.status !== 408) {
-        notes.push(
-          `question submission was rejected (${err.code}, HTTP ${err.status}); preserving it for recovery`,
-        )
-        ctx.log?.error('hook.pushed', {
-          ok: false,
-          request_id: intent.request_id,
-          status: err.status,
-          code: err.code,
-          message: err.message,
-        })
-        continue
-      }
-      if (!admissionConfirmed) {
-        notes.push(`question submission response was ambiguous; recovering ${intent.request_id}`)
-        ctx.log?.error('hook.pushed', { ok: false, request_id: intent.request_id, message: String(err) })
-      }
-    }
-    if (admissionConfirmed) {
-      ctx.log?.info('hook.pushed', {
-        ok: true,
-        request_id: intent.request_id,
-        devices: intent.device_ids.length,
-        questions: questions.length,
-        text_chars: questions[0]!.text.length,
-      })
-    }
-    const committedReplyDeadline =
-      receipt?.reply_expires_at === null || receipt?.reply_expires_at === undefined
-        ? intent.owner_deadline_at
-        : Date.parse(receipt.reply_expires_at)
-    const live: PendingQuestion = {
-      ...entry,
-      ...(intent.draft.source !== undefined ? { source: intent.draft.source } : {}),
-      request_id: intent.request_id,
-      collapse_key: intent.collapse_key,
-      device_ids: intent.device_ids,
-      // The server's committed answer deadline is authoritative. The local
-      // owner deadline starts earlier and includes startup headroom, so it may
-      // be later but must never be earlier.
-      reply_deadline_at: Number.isFinite(committedReplyDeadline)
-        ? committedReplyDeadline
-        : intent.owner_deadline_at,
-      owner_deadline_at: intent.owner_deadline_at,
-    }
-    if (intent.draft.source === undefined) delete live.source
-    delete live.submission
-    if (live.reply_deadline_at! > live.owner_deadline_at!) {
-      const response = await finalizeReplies(ctx, live.request_id!)
-      if (response === null) {
-        // Closing was unreachable, so the question is still potentially live.
-        // Preserve it in the exact session instead of demoting it to the orphan
-        // retirement queue, whose later close has no route for an answer.
-        updateSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env, (current) => {
-          const list = pendingList(current)
-          const index = list.findIndex((candidate) => isSamePending(candidate, entry))
-          if (index < 0) {
-            // Terminal input removed this registration while the anomalous
-            // close was in flight. Preserve retirement identity exactly as
-            // normal submit promotion does; the observer must not become the
-            // only remaining record of a live card.
-            const retirement = retiringQuestion(
-              live,
-              'answered_elsewhere',
-              envelope.cwd,
-            )!
-            const retiring = [...(current.retiring ?? [])]
-            if (!retiring.some((parked) => parked.request_id === retirement.request_id)) {
-              retiring.push(retirement)
-            }
-            return { ...current, retiring }
-          }
-          const next = [...list]
-          next[index] = live
-          return { ...current, pending: next }
-        })
-        submitted.push(live)
-        notes.push(
-          'the server committed an answer deadline beyond this process owner and immediate closure was unreachable; preserving the live question for exact-session recovery',
-        )
-        continue
-      } else if (response.replies.length > 0) {
-        admissionAnswers.push({
-          pending: live,
-          reply: response.replies.at(-1)!,
-          replies: response.replies,
-          agent_acknowledgement_required: response.agent_acknowledgement_required,
-          agent_acknowledgement_text_required:
-            response.agent_acknowledgement_text_required,
-        })
-      }
-      dropPendingQuestion(sessionId, ctx.env, entry)
-      notes.push(
-        'the server committed an answer deadline beyond this process owner; closed the anomalous window instead of abandoning it early',
-      )
-      continue
-    }
-    // Record what is now live on the user's devices BEFORE any wait. If we
-    // only learned these ids afterwards, a question that timed out would
-    // leave no trace, and the user returning to the terminal could never
-    // retire it — the notification would stay answerable for an hour with
-    // nobody listening.
-    if (admissionConfirmed) {
-      updateSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env, (current) => {
-        const list = pendingList(current)
-        const index = list.findIndex(
-          (candidate) => isSamePending(candidate, entry) && candidate.request_id === undefined,
-        )
-        if (index >= 0) {
-          const next = [...list]
-          next[index] = live
-          return { ...current, pending: next }
-        }
-        // The entry vanished while the submit was in flight (the user's prompt
-        // wiped the queue). The delivered notification must still be retirable,
-        // so park it rather than lose its only identifiers.
-        const retirement = retiringQuestion(live, 'answered_elsewhere', envelope.cwd)!
-        const retiring = [...(current.retiring ?? [])]
-        if (!retiring.some((parked) => parked.request_id === retirement.request_id)) {
-          retiring.push(retirement)
-        }
-        return { ...current, retiring }
-      })
-    }
-    if (sessionHasEnded(sessionId, ctx.env)) {
-      // SessionEnd may have raced either the submit or promotion. Its snapshot
-      // usually already queued the frozen intent; this idempotent add closes
-      // the other ordering where the request committed just after cleanup.
-      orphanRetirements(
-        ctx.env,
-        [retiringQuestion(live, 'expired', envelope.cwd)!],
-        ctx.now(),
-      )
-      notes.push('the Agent Session ended during submission; queued the question for retirement')
-      continue
-    }
-    submitted.push(live)
-  }
-
-  if (admissionAnswers.length > 0) {
-    const accepted = stageAcceptedAnswers(
-      ctx,
-      sessionId,
-      admissionAnswers,
-      pendingList(readSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env)).length,
-    )
-    for (const answer of admissionAnswers) reportAnswer(ctx, notes, answer, false)
-    return deliverAcceptedAnswers(ctx, sessionId, route, accepted, notes, envelope.cwd)
-  }
-
-  const staleLive = alreadyLive.filter(
-    (entry) =>
-      entry.reply_deadline_at === undefined || entry.reply_deadline_at <= ctx.now(),
-  )
-  const finalizedStale = await finalizePendings(ctx, staleLive)
-  const staleAnswers = finalizedStale
-    .map(finalizedAnswer)
-    .filter((entry): entry is AnsweredPending => entry !== null)
-  const staleSilence = finalizedStale
-    .filter((entry) => entry.response !== null && entry.response.replies.length === 0)
-    .map((entry) => entry.pending)
-  const staleUnproven = finalizedStale.filter((entry) => entry.response === null)
-  if (staleSilence.length > 0) {
-    await retirePendings(ctx, envelope, sessionId, staleSilence, 'expired')
-    notes.push(
-      `expired ${staleSilence.length} question${staleSilence.length === 1 ? '' : 's'} whose continuation owner had ended`,
-    )
-  }
-  if (staleUnproven.length > 0) {
-    notes.push(
-      `could not finalize ${staleUnproven.length} expired question${staleUnproven.length === 1 ? '' : 's'}; preserving ownership for recovery`,
-    )
-  }
-  if (staleAnswers.length > 0) {
-    const remaining = Math.max(
-      0,
-      pendingList(readSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env)).length - staleAnswers.length,
-    )
-    const accepted = stageAcceptedAnswers(ctx, sessionId, staleAnswers, remaining)
-    for (const answer of staleAnswers) reportAnswer(ctx, notes, answer, true)
-    return deliverAcceptedAnswers(ctx, sessionId, route, accepted, notes, envelope.cwd)
-  }
-  const waitingOn = [
-    ...alreadyLive.filter(
-      (entry) => entry.reply_deadline_at !== undefined && entry.reply_deadline_at > ctx.now(),
-    ),
-    ...submitted,
-  ]
-  if (waitingOn.length === 0) return { notes }
-
-  // Phase two: keep the same owner alive across every committed answer window.
-  // Different questions may expire at different times, so finalize each one at
-  // its own server deadline and continue waiting on the rest. Reserving time by
-  // closing early would make the advertised reply window untrue.
-  let activeWaiting = waitingOn
-  let timeoutSeconds = 0
-  let waited: Awaited<ReturnType<typeof waitForAnyReply>>
-  for (;;) {
-    const nextReplyDeadline = Math.min(
-      ...activeWaiting.map((entry) => entry.reply_deadline_at!),
-    )
-    const waitDeadline = Math.min(ceilingAt, nextReplyDeadline)
-    timeoutSeconds = Math.max(0, Math.ceil((waitDeadline - ctx.now()) / 1000))
-    waited = await waitForAnyReply(
-      ctx,
-      activeWaiting.map((entry) => entry.request_id!),
-      timeoutSeconds,
-      () =>
-        waiterInterruption(
-          sessionId,
-          ctx.env,
-          activeWaiting.map((entry) => entry.request_id!),
-        ),
-    )
-    if (waited.interrupted !== null) {
-      notes.push(
-        waited.interrupted === 'new-question'
-          ? 'yielding the answer owner so a newly registered question can be sent now'
-          : 'answer ownership ended locally; stopping this observer without delivering into a closed session',
-      )
-      return { notes }
-    }
-    const currentRequestIds = new Set(
-      pendingList(readSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env)).flatMap((entry) =>
-        [entry.request_id, entry.submission?.request_id].filter(
-          (requestId): requestId is string => requestId !== undefined,
-        ),
-      ),
-    )
-    const removedDuringPoll = activeWaiting.filter(
-      (entry) => !currentRequestIds.has(entry.request_id!),
-    )
-    for (const entry of removedDuringPoll) {
-      waited.byRequest.delete(entry.request_id!)
-      waited.permanentFailures.delete(entry.request_id!)
-    }
-    if (removedDuringPoll.length > 0) {
-      notes.push(
-        `${removedDuringPoll.length} question${removedDuringPoll.length === 1 ? ' changed' : 's changed'} outside this observer; continuing with the independently live questions`,
-      )
-      activeWaiting = activeWaiting.filter((entry) => currentRequestIds.has(entry.request_id!))
-      if (activeWaiting.length === 0) return { notes }
-    }
-    const permanentFailure = permanentReplyFailureNote(waited.permanentFailures)
-    if (permanentFailure !== null) notes.push(permanentFailure)
-    if (waited.byRequest.size > 0) break
-
-    // A permanent rejection is authoritative immediately. Time-based expiry is
-    // authoritative only when this owner reached that question's committed
-    // server deadline; reaching the process ceiling first preserves the record.
-    const expired = activeWaiting.filter(
-      (entry) =>
-        entry.reply_deadline_at === undefined ||
-        entry.reply_deadline_at <= waitDeadline ||
-        waited.permanentFailures.has(entry.request_id!),
-    )
-    const stillAnswerable = activeWaiting.filter((entry) => !expired.includes(entry))
-    const finalized = await finalizePendings(ctx, expired)
-    const finalAnswers = finalized
-      .map(finalizedAnswer)
-      .filter((entry): entry is AnsweredPending => entry !== null)
-    const confirmedSilent = finalized
-      .filter((entry) => entry.response !== null && entry.response.replies.length === 0)
-      .map((entry) => entry.pending)
-    const unproven = finalized.filter((entry) => entry.response === null)
-    if (confirmedSilent.length > 0) {
-      await retirePendings(ctx, envelope, sessionId, confirmedSilent, 'expired')
-    }
-    if (unproven.length > 0) {
-      notes.push(
-        `could not finalize ${unproven.length} question${unproven.length === 1 ? '' : 's'}; preserving ownership rather than risking a lost late answer`,
-      )
-    }
-    if (finalAnswers.length > 0) {
-      const remaining = Math.max(
-        0,
-        pendingList(readSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env)).length - finalAnswers.length,
-      )
-      const accepted = stageAcceptedAnswers(ctx, sessionId, finalAnswers, remaining)
-      for (const answer of finalAnswers) reportAnswer(ctx, notes, answer, false)
-      return deliverAcceptedAnswers(ctx, sessionId, route, accepted, notes, envelope.cwd)
-    }
-    if (stillAnswerable.length > 0 && waitDeadline < ceilingAt) {
-      activeWaiting = stillAnswerable
-      continue
-    }
-
-    const requestIdSummary = summarizeRequestIds(waitingOn)
-    ctx.log?.info('hook.answer', {
-      answered: false,
-      stage: 'queued',
-      request_ids: requestIdSummary.ids,
-      degraded: waited.degraded,
-      permanent_failures: waited.permanentFailures.size,
-      waited_seconds: timeoutSeconds,
-    })
-    if (stillAnswerable.length > 0) {
-      notes.push(
-        `${stillAnswerable.length} question${stillAnswerable.length === 1 ? ' remains' : 's remain'} answerable after the process owner ended; preserving ${stillAnswerable.length === 1 ? 'it' : 'them'} for recovery`,
-      )
-    } else if (waited.permanentFailures.size === 0 && confirmedSilent.length > 0) {
-      notes.push(
-        waited.degraded
-          ? 'could not reach the server before the answer deadline; expired questions were retired so no answer can be lost later'
-          : 'no answer in time; the question expired with its continuation owner',
-      )
-    }
-    return { notes }
-  }
-
-  const polledAnswered = activeWaiting.filter((entry) => waited.byRequest.has(entry.request_id!))
-  const finalizedAnswered = await finalizePendings(ctx, polledAnswered)
-  const answered: AnsweredPending[] = []
-  for (const finalized of finalizedAnswered) {
-    const entry = finalized.pending
-    const replies = waited.byRequest.get(entry.request_id!)
-    if (replies === undefined) continue
-    // The fenced set wins because it includes corrections that committed
-    // while close was waiting for earlier writers. If finalization itself was
-    // unreachable, never discard the durable reply already observed.
-    const finalReplies = finalized.response?.replies ?? []
-    const authoritative = finalReplies.length > 0 ? finalReplies : replies
-    answered.push({
-      pending: entry,
-      reply: authoritative.at(-1)!,
-      replies: authoritative,
-      agent_acknowledgement_required:
-        finalized.response?.agent_acknowledgement_required,
-      agent_acknowledgement_text_required:
-        finalized.response?.agent_acknowledgement_text_required,
-    })
-    if (finalized.response === null) {
-      notes.push(
-        `could not confirm the close fence for ${entry.request_id}; delivering the durable answer already observed`,
-      )
-    }
-  }
-  const accepted = stageAcceptedAnswers(
-    ctx,
-    sessionId,
-    answered,
-    Math.max(
-      0,
-      pendingList(readSessionState(sessionId, ctx.env)).length - answered.length,
-    ),
-  )
-  for (const answer of answered) reportAnswer(ctx, notes, answer, false)
-  return deliverAcceptedAnswers(ctx, sessionId, route, accepted, notes, envelope.cwd)
-}
-
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// SessionEnd — local cleanup only
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-/**
- * Claude Code gives SessionEnd hooks a 1.5-second shared budget and Codex 1
- * second, so this cannot make a network call. It drops the local marker — but
- * first moves anything still live on the user's devices into the global
- * retirement queue, because this file was the only record of those ids and no
- * hook for this session will ever run again. A question whose
- * agent just exited can receive no answer, so it is orphaned as `expired`.
- */
-export function handleSessionEnd(
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-  envelope: HookEnvelope,
-  now: number = Date.now(),
-): HookOutcome {
-  const notes: string[] = []
-  const sessionId = envelope.session_id
-  if (!sessionId) return { notes, log: { outcome: 'ignored', reason: 'missing-session-id' } }
-  // Publish cancellation before reading or clearing anything. In-flight Stop
-  // writers use the same session lock, so none can recreate state after this.
-  markSessionEnded(sessionId, env, now)
-  if (envelope.cwd !== undefined) clearMatchingProjectSession(envelope.cwd, env, sessionId)
-
-  const state = readSessionState(sessionId, env)
-  let stateWithHistory = state
-  for (const entry of pendingList(state)) {
-    stateWithHistory = rememberQuestionState(
-      stateWithHistory,
-      entry,
-      entry.request_id === undefined && entry.submission === undefined ? 'withdrawn' : 'retired',
-    )
-  }
-  for (const answer of state.accepted?.answers ?? []) {
-    stateWithHistory = rememberQuestionState(stateWithHistory, answer.pending, 'answered')
-  }
-  for (const retirement of state.retiring ?? []) {
-    stateWithHistory = rememberQuestionState(
-      stateWithHistory,
-      retirement,
-      retirement.state === 'answered' ? 'answered' : 'retired',
-    )
-  }
-  const orphans: RetiringQuestion[] = [...(state.retiring ?? [])]
-  const retirementCandidates = [
-    ...pendingList(state),
-    ...(state.accepted?.answers.map((entry) => entry.pending) ?? []),
-  ]
-  for (const entry of retirementCandidates) {
-    try {
-      const orphan = retiringQuestion(entry, 'expired', envelope.cwd)
-      if (
-        orphan !== null &&
-        !orphans.some((candidate) => candidate.request_id === orphan.request_id)
-      ) {
-        orphans.push(orphan)
-      }
-    } catch (err) {
-      notes.push(err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err))
-      // Preserve the only identifiers instead of turning an explicit corrupt
-      // state into an unretirable question during SessionEnd cleanup.
-      return {
-        notes,
-        log: { outcome: 'preserved', reason: 'incomplete-question-identifiers' },
-      }
-    }
-  }
-  if (orphans.length > 0) {
-    orphanRetirements(env, orphans, now)
-    notes.push(
-      `queued ${orphans.length} question${orphans.length > 1 ? 's' : ''} for retirement on the next hook`,
-    )
-  }
-  if (state.accepted !== undefined || (state.acknowledgement_due?.length ?? 0) > 0) {
-    const preserved: SessionState = { ...stateWithHistory }
-    delete preserved.pending
-    delete preserved.retiring
-    delete preserved.acknowledgement_blocks
-    if ((preserved.acknowledgement_due?.length ?? 0) === 0) {
-      delete preserved.acknowledgement_due
-    }
-    writeSessionState(sessionId, env, preserved)
-    notes.push(
-      state.accepted !== undefined
-        ? 'preserved an accepted device answer for this exact session to resume'
-        : 'preserved required Agent Acknowledgement obligations for this exact session',
-    )
-    return {
-      notes,
-      log: {
-        outcome: state.accepted !== undefined ? 'answer-preserved' : 'acknowledgement-preserved',
-        queued_retirements: orphans.length,
-        accepted_answers: state.accepted?.answers.length ?? 0,
-        acknowledgement_due: state.acknowledgement_due?.length ?? 0,
-      },
-    }
-  }
-  const history = stateWithHistory.question_history
-  clearSessionState(sessionId, env)
-  if ((history?.length ?? 0) > 0) {
-    writeSessionState(sessionId, env, { question_history: history! })
-  }
-  return { notes, log: { outcome: 'cleaned', queued_retirements: orphans.length } }
-}
-
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// ask — register a question for the turn's end
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-/**
- * Registrations still waiting for their first push. More than this in one turn
- * means an agent is looping, not asking, and related questions belong in one
- * `ask --form` instead.
- *
- * Deliberately counts only unasked entries. A question already on the user's
- * devices is waiting on a person, not on the agent, and an answer stays
- * accepted for a day — so counting live questions here would have turned a
- * patient user into a reason the agent could no longer ask anything.
- */
-export const MAX_PENDING_QUESTIONS = 4
-
-/**
- * Everything this session has open at once, asked or not. The lock screen is
- * the shared resource being protected here, not the agent's turn.
- */
-export const MAX_LIVE_QUESTIONS = 10
-
-/**
- * A session may hold several registered questions at once: a new `ask` never
- * ends an earlier one. Each reaches the user as its own notification and is
- * answerable independently. Superseding is reply semantics — a later reply
- * corrects an earlier reply to the same question (that correction model lives
- * server-side) — never question semantics: the old single-slot model silently
- * discarded a question the moment a second was registered, and the user was
- * pointed at a notification that never existed (2026-08-09).
- *
- * The queue is keyed on the session, not the project: several agents may be
- * running in one project at once, and their questions must never interfere.
- */
-export function registerQuestion(
-  sessionId: string,
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-  question: PendingQuestion,
-  now: number = Date.now(),
-): string {
-  let full: 'unasked' | 'live' | null = null
-  const questionId = question.question_id ?? `q_${randomBytes(12).toString('base64url')}`
-  updateSessionState(sessionId, env, (state) => {
-    const pending = pendingList(state)
-    const unasked = pending.filter((entry) => entry.request_id === undefined)
-    if (unasked.length >= MAX_PENDING_QUESTIONS) {
-      full = 'unasked'
-      return state
-    }
-    if (pending.length >= MAX_LIVE_QUESTIONS) {
-      full = 'live'
-      return state
-    }
-    return {
-      ...state,
-      pending: [
-        ...pending,
-        {
-          asked_at: now,
-          ...question,
-          question_id: questionId,
-          question: question.question.slice(0, MAX_STORED_QUESTION_CHARS),
-        },
-      ],
-    }
-  })
-  if (full === 'unasked') {
-    throw new Error(
-      `${MAX_PENDING_QUESTIONS} questions are already waiting to be asked. ` +
-        'Combine related questions into one `notifai ask --form` instead of registering more.',
-    )
-  }
-  if (full === 'live') {
-    throw new Error(
-      `${MAX_LIVE_QUESTIONS} questions from this session are already open. ` +
-        'Retire the ones you no longer need with `notifai close <question_id>` or `notifai close --pending` before asking another.',
-    )
-  }
-  return questionId
-}
-
-/** Parses hook JSON from stdin, tolerating an empty or malformed body. */
-export function parseHookInput(raw: string): HookEnvelope {
-  if (raw.trim() === '') return {}
-  try {
-    const parsed: unknown = JSON.parse(raw)
-    return typeof parsed === 'object' && parsed !== null ? (parsed as HookEnvelope) : {}
-  } catch {
-    return {}
-  }
-}
-
-export function resolveHookConfig(
-  cwd: string,
-  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
-  sessionId: string | undefined,
-): CliConfig {
-  return loadConfig({ cwd, env, sessionId })
-}