@volter/live 0.5.210 → 0.5.212

package/src/client.ts

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+import type { Dispatcher } from 'undici';
+import { createDispatcher, dispatchFetch } from './http-transport.js';
+import { verbCommandId } from '@volter/sdk/commands';
+import type { DocumentProbeResult, DocumentProbeStep } from '@volter/sdk/document-probe';
+import type {
+  ActiveDocumentCapture,
+  AssetCompareCapture,
+  AssetCompareOptions,
+  AssetKind,
+  AssetPreviewCapture,
+  AssetPreviewOptions,
+  AssetPreviewShotSetDefinition,
+  AssetPreviewSource,
+  CaptureDimensions,
+  DocumentCameraPose,
+  DocumentLookOutcome,
+  StageFrameCostReading,
+  DocumentTableProjection,
+  EditorChromeCapture,
+  EditorChromeCaptureOptions,
+  EditorState,
+  EditorView,
+  EditorWorkspaceName,
+  HelperVisibility,
+  InspectedFieldWrite,
+  InspectedHierarchy,
+  InspectedInspection,
+  LabeledShotSetCapture,
+  PresentedEditorView,
+  ProjectInfo,
+  RecentProject,
+  ShadingMode,
+  StructureOp,
+  StructureOpOptions,
+  StructureOpResult,
+  TransformMode,
+  TransformSpace,
+  Vec3Value,
+  ViewPreset,
+  ViewportCapture,
+} from '@volter/sdk';
+
+// The editor's default origin, spelled out because this package deliberately
+// does not depend on `@volter/project`. `DEFAULT_EDITOR_PORT` in
+// `packages/project/src/manifest/editor-port.ts` is the owner of the number and
+// of the never-`localhost` rule; keep this in step with it.
+const DEFAULT_URL = 'http://127.0.0.1:20173';
+
+/**
+ * A refused editor command, carrying the relay's own STRUCTURED failure code
+ * (`/__editor/command`'s `{ ok: false, error, code }`) alongside the prose, so
+ * a caller that reacts to a specific refusal matches the code, never the
+ * sentence.
+ */
+export class EditorCommandError extends Error {
+  readonly code: string | undefined;
+  constructor(message: string, code?: string | undefined) {
+    super(message);
+    this.name = 'EditorCommandError';
+    this.code = code;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * The client's own ceiling on ONE relayed command.
+ *
+ * A backstop for a LOST server, not a per-command budget: the server already
+ * owns per-type budgets (`server/server-utils.ts`'s `relayCommandTimeoutMs`)
+ * and its timer must always be the one that fires, because its message names
+ * the tab and the remedy while this one can only say "no answer". So this is
+ * deliberately ONE number, comfortably above the longest server budget
+ * (120s, `play`/`capture-story-variants`) rather than a mirror of that table —
+ * a second copy of it would drift silently, and the drift would show up as
+ * this timer winning a race it must always lose.
+ *
+ * Without it a `fetch` with no `AbortSignal` waits on the OS: a dev server
+ * that stops answering mid-command holds the CLI open indefinitely, with no
+ * output and nothing to read.
+ */
+const COMMAND_DEADLINE_MS = 150_000;
+/** undici's default `headersTimeout`; a command deadline beyond it needs its own dispatcher (see `command`). */
+const UNDICI_DEFAULT_HEADERS_TIMEOUT_MS = 300_000;
+
+/** Deadline for console-ledger reads and acknowledgements. */
+const CONSOLE_DRAIN_TIMEOUT_MS = 1_500;
+
+/**
+ * Node's `fetch` collapses EVERY network-layer failure into one two-word
+ * `TypeError: fetch failed`. The real reason — `ECONNREFUSED`, `ECONNRESET`,
+ * `EPIPE`, a DNS miss — lives only on `error.cause` (sometimes two links down,
+ * or inside an `AggregateError`), and nothing prints it unless something walks
+ * the chain, so a bare "fetch failed" cannot tell a dead editor from a
+ * momentary one. This walks the chain so the message can say which.
+ */
+function describeFetchFailure(error: unknown): { code: string; detail: string } {
+  const messages: string[] = [];
+  let current: unknown = error;
+  for (let depth = 0; depth < 8; depth++) {
+    if (!(current instanceof Error)) break;
+    if (current.message) messages.push(current.message);
+    const code = (current as { code?: unknown }).code;
+    if (typeof code === 'string' && code !== '') {
+      return { code, detail: messages.join(' <- ') };
+    }
+    const aggregate = (current as { errors?: unknown }).errors;
+    if (Array.isArray(aggregate) && aggregate.length > 0) {
+      const inner = describeFetchFailure(aggregate[0]);
+      return { code: inner.code, detail: [...messages, inner.detail].join(' <- ') };
+    }
+    current = (current as { cause?: unknown }).cause;
+  }
+  return { code: 'UNKNOWN', detail: messages.join(' <- ') || String(error) };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Connection failures eligible for one retry when a command opts in. An editor
+ * response is not a transport failure and does not use this retry path.
+ */
+const RETRYABLE_TRANSPORT_CODES = new Set([
+  'ECONNREFUSED',
+  'ECONNRESET',
+  'EPIPE',
+  'ETIMEDOUT',
+  'EHOSTUNREACH',
+  'UND_ERR_SOCKET',
+  'UND_ERR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT',
+]);
+
+/** Gap before the one automatic retry — long enough for a dev-server restart's
+ *  listen socket to come back, short enough to stay invisible. */
+const TRANSPORT_RETRY_DELAY_MS = 400;
+
+/** What one undo/redo step reports back — `moved` is false when there was
+ *  nothing left in that direction, which is an answer, not an error. */
+export interface HistoryStep {
+  readonly moved: boolean;
+  readonly canUndo: boolean;
+  readonly canRedo: boolean;
+  readonly undoLabel: string | null;
+  readonly redoLabel: string | null;
+}
+
+/** What `open()` acknowledges: the workspace document the scene-table entry
+ *  resolved to, and the title its tab now carries — the project's own word for
+ *  that composition, not a filename. */
+export interface OpenedDocument {
+  readonly documentId: string;
+  readonly title: string;
+}
+
+export class EditorClient {
+  private readonly baseUrl: string;
+  private readonly fetchOverride: typeof fetch | undefined;
+  private readonly transport:
+    | ((body: Record<string, unknown>) => Promise<Record<string, unknown>>)
+    | null;
+
+  constructor(opts?: {
+    url?: string;
+    /** An authenticated transport for the same HTTP routes (e.g. a hosted tab). */
+    fetch?: typeof fetch;
+    /**
+     * An IN-PAGE command channel, for a client that lives inside the editor
+     * page itself and has no editor server to reach. Given, every command goes through it instead of
+     * `POST /__editor/command`, and answers in the route's own body shape
+     * (`{ ok: true, ...data }` / `{ ok: false, error, code? }`).
+     */
+    transport?: (body: Record<string, unknown>) => Promise<Record<string, unknown>>;
+  }) {
+    if (opts !== undefined && (typeof opts !== 'object' || opts === null || Array.isArray(opts))) {
+      throw new TypeError(
+        'EditorClient options must be an object. Use new EditorClient({ url: "http://127.0.0.1:20173" }), not new EditorClient("...").',
+      );
+    }
+    const unknownOptions = Object.keys(opts ?? {}).filter(
+      (key) => key !== 'url' && key !== 'transport' && key !== 'fetch',
+    );
+    if (unknownOptions.length > 0) {
+      throw new Error(
+        `EditorClient: unknown option${unknownOptions.length === 1 ? '' : 's'} ${unknownOptions.map((key) => `"${key}"`).join(', ')}. Use { url: "http://127.0.0.1:<port>" } to target an editor.`,
+      );
+    }
+    this.baseUrl = (opts?.url ?? DEFAULT_URL).replace(/\/$/, '');
+    this.fetchOverride = opts?.fetch;
+    this.transport = opts?.transport ?? null;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * `retryTransport` opts a command into ONE automatic retry after a transport
+   * failure (see {@link RETRYABLE_TRANSPORT_CODES}). It is deliberately
+   * OPT-IN and off by default: a socket that died after the request was written
+   * cannot prove the editor did not already run the command, so a blanket retry
+   * would risk playing/stopping/writing twice. Read-only relays — the captures —
+   * have no such hazard and turn it on.
+   */
+  private async command<T extends object = Record<string, never>>(
+    body: Record<string, unknown>,
+    options?: { retryTransport?: boolean; deadlineMs?: number },
+  ): Promise<T> {
+    const type = String(body['type'] ?? 'command');
+    const deadlineMs = options?.deadlineMs ?? COMMAND_DEADLINE_MS;
+    if (this.transport) {
+      const answered = (await this.transport(body)) as {
+        ok: boolean;
+        error?: string;
+        code?: string;
+      } & T;
+      if (!answered.ok) {
+        throw new EditorCommandError(
+          answered.error ?? `Editor command "${type}" failed`,
+          answered.code,
+        );
+      }
+      return answered;
+    }
+    const url = `${this.baseUrl}/__editor/command`;
+    const request = JSON.stringify(body);
+    let res: Response | undefined;
+    let retried = false;
+    let commandDispatcher: Dispatcher | undefined;
+    for (;;) {
+      try {
+        const init: RequestInit = {
+          method: 'POST',
+          headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+          body: request,
+          signal: AbortSignal.timeout(deadlineMs),
+        };
+        // The route answers when the command completes. Undici's default header
+        // timeout is 300s, independent of the abort signal; longer command budgets
+        // use an explicit dispatcher through undici's fetch to extend that timeout.
+        commandDispatcher = deadlineMs > UNDICI_DEFAULT_HEADERS_TIMEOUT_MS
+          ? createDispatcher(deadlineMs + 30_000)
+          : undefined;
+        res = this.fetchOverride ? await this.fetchOverride(url, init) : await dispatchFetch(url, init, commandDispatcher);
+        break;
+      } catch (error) {
+        await commandDispatcher?.destroy();
+        commandDispatcher = undefined;
+        // Only the deadline is reshaped into a "no answer" verdict; everything
+        // else is a TRANSPORT failure, and Node hides its reason behind a bare
+        // `fetch failed` (see `describeFetchFailure`).
+        if ((error as { name?: string } | null)?.name === 'TimeoutError') {
+          throw new EditorCommandError(
+            `The editor at ${this.baseUrl} never answered "${type}" ` +
+              `within ${Math.round(deadlineMs / 1000)}s — past every server-side budget, so ` +
+              'the server itself is not answering. Check the terminal that started this editor session.',
+          );
+        }
+        const { code, detail } = describeFetchFailure(error);
+        if (options?.retryTransport === true && !retried && RETRYABLE_TRANSPORT_CODES.has(code)) {
+          retried = true;
+          await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, TRANSPORT_RETRY_DELAY_MS));
+          continue;
+        }
+        throw new EditorCommandError(
+          `POST ${url} ("${type}") never reached the editor: ${code}${detail ? ` (${detail})` : ''}.` +
+            (retried
+              ? ` Retried once after ${TRANSPORT_RETRY_DELAY_MS}ms; it failed the same way.`
+              : '') +
+            (options?.retryTransport === true
+              ? ''
+              : ' Not retried automatically: this command can change editor state, and a socket that' +
+                ' died after the request was written cannot prove the editor did not already run it.') +
+            ' A transport failure means the port stopped answering, not that the editor refused —' +
+            ' the dev server restarts on any watched source edit, and it shuts itself down after an' +
+            ' idle window. Check the terminal that started this editor session and confirm the port' +
+            ' this client resolved.',
+          code,
+        );
+      }
+    }
+    let data: { ok: boolean; error?: string; code?: string } & T;
+    try {
+      data = (await this.readJson(res)) as typeof data;
+    } finally {
+      await commandDispatcher?.destroy();
+    }
+    if (!data.ok) {
+      throw new EditorCommandError(
+        data.error ?? `Editor command failed: ${res.status}`,
+        data.code,
+      );
+    }
+    return data;
+  }
+
+  /** Refuse shutdown if a document cannot be saved. Does not stop the server. */
+  async prepareClose(): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({ type: 'session-prepare-close' });
+  }
+
+  // --- Selection ---
+
+  async select(id: string | null): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({ type: 'select', id });
+  }
+
+  async selectMultiple(ids: string[]): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({ type: 'select-multiple', ids });
+  }
+
+  async selectAll(): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({ type: 'select-all' });
+  }
+
+  // --- Viewport ---
+
+  async focusEntity(id: string): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({ type: 'focus-entity', id });
+  }
+
+  async focusSelection(): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({ type: 'focus-selection' });
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Frame the EDIT viewport camera on one entity — the strict sibling of
+   * {@link focusEntity}. Same framing; an id the scene does not know is a
+   * refusal naming the id (`EditorCommandError`, code `ENTITY_NOT_FOUND`)
+   * rather than `focusEntity`'s silent no-op, so a caller that frames an
+   * entity before capturing it cannot photograph the wrong thing.
+   */
+  async frameEntity(id: string): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({ type: 'frame-entity', id });
+  }
+
+  async viewPreset(preset: ViewPreset): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({ type: 'view-preset', preset });
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * LOOK AROUND THE OPEN MODEL, visibly. Swings the active asset
+   * document's camera — the one on the human's screen — by `azimuth`/
+   * `elevation` radians, animated over `duration` seconds, and resolves when
+   * the move ends. A human drag during the move cancels it where it stands
+   * (`cancelledBy: 'human'`); the promise still resolves.
+   */
+  async orbitDocument(options: {
+    azimuth?: number;
+    elevation?: number;
+    duration?: number;
+  }): Promise<DocumentLookOutcome> {
+    return this.command<DocumentLookOutcome>({ type: 'document-orbit', ...options });
+  }
+
+  /** What a frame of a 3D document's stage costs, uncapped (`document-frame-cost`). */
+  async frameCostDocument(options?: { readonly frames?: number; readonly stage?: string; readonly quality?: 'full' | 'navigation' }): Promise<StageFrameCostReading> {
+    return this.command<StageFrameCostReading>({ type: 'document-frame-cost', ...options });
+  }
+
+  /** A slow full revolution around the open document's subject, at a constant rate. */
+  async turntableDocument(options?: {
+    seconds?: number;
+    revolutions?: number;
+  }): Promise<DocumentLookOutcome> {
+    return this.command<DocumentLookOutcome>({ type: 'document-turntable', ...options });
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Frame the open document's subject (its selection if it has one). `fit`
+   * scales the fitted distance: 1 is the toolbar Frame button's tight fit.
+   */
+  async frameDocument(fit?: number): Promise<DocumentCameraPose> {
+    return this.command<DocumentCameraPose>({
+      type: 'document-frame',
+      ...(fit === undefined ? {} : { fit }),
+    });
+  }
+
+  async setCamera(position: Vec3Value, target: Vec3Value, fov?: number): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({
+      type: 'set-camera',
+      position,
+      target,
+      ...(fov === undefined ? {} : { fov }),
+    });
+  }
+
+  async captureViewport(size?: number): Promise<ViewportCapture> {
+    const data = await this.command<ViewportCapture>({
+      type: 'capture-viewport',
+      ...(size === undefined ? {} : { size }),
+    });
+    return { base64: data.base64, mimeType: data.mimeType };
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Capture an isolated, deterministic four-view preview through the editor's
+   * native Asset Lab. The SDK delegates rendering to the editor; it never
+   * loads, clones, or interprets 3D assets itself.
+   */
+  async captureAssetPreview(
+    source: AssetPreviewSource,
+    options: AssetPreviewOptions = {},
+  ): Promise<AssetPreviewCapture> {
+    const data = await this.command<AssetPreviewCapture>(
+      {
+        type: 'capture-asset-preview',
+        ...source,
+        ...options,
+      },
+      // Photographing changes nothing, so a momentary transport failure is
+      // retried rather than costing the caller its capture.
+      { retryTransport: true },
+    );
+    return {
+      width: data.width,
+      height: data.height,
+      orientation: data.orientation,
+      views: data.views,
+      contactSheet: data.contactSheet,
+    };
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * A caller-defined labeled shot set (`live`'s `assetPreviewShots`): the
+   * DEFINITION travels with the command (see `AssetPreviewShotSetDefinition`),
+   * and the editor's generic
+   * capture engine renders it — see the 3D integration's
+   * `captureShotSetAssetPreview`. Throws (via `command`'s `{ok:false}`
+   * unwrap) with a clear message naming the missing joint(s) when the asset
+   * lacks a bone the definition requires.
+   */
+  async captureShotSetPreview(
+    source: AssetPreviewSource,
+    definition: AssetPreviewShotSetDefinition,
+    options: AssetPreviewOptions = {},
+  ): Promise<LabeledShotSetCapture> {
+    const data = await this.command<LabeledShotSetCapture>(
+      {
+        type: 'capture-asset-preview',
+        ...source,
+        ...options,
+        shotSet: definition,
+      },
+      { retryTransport: true },
+    );
+    return {
+      width: data.width,
+      height: data.height,
+      shots: data.shots,
+      warnings: data.warnings,
+      contactSheet: data.contactSheet,
+    };
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Score the asset against a reference GLB (the editor's `screenshot
+   * <model.glb> --compare <ref.glb>` command): matched orthographic front + side silhouettes
+   * (equal-height bounding-box framing, both yaw-normalized to face the
+   * camera), per-view IoU numbers, and overlay evidence images. The
+   * reference GLB's raw bytes travel base64 in the command; the editor
+   * renders and scores — the SDK never interprets 3D assets itself.
+   */
+  async captureAssetComparePreview(
+    source: AssetPreviewSource,
+    refGlbBase64: string,
+    options: AssetCompareOptions = {},
+  ): Promise<AssetCompareCapture> {
+    const { refForward, ...dimensions } = options;
+    const data = await this.command<AssetCompareCapture>({
+      type: 'capture-asset-preview',
+      ...source,
+      ...dimensions,
+      compare: { glbBase64: refGlbBase64, ...(refForward ? { forward: refForward } : {}) },
+    });
+    return { width: data.width, height: data.height, views: data.views };
+  }
+
+  // --- Panels ---
+
+  /** Focus a static workspace panel by the key the editor's panel registry
+   *  holds; an unknown key refuses naming the keys it does hold. */
+  async showPanel(panel: string): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({ type: 'show-panel', panel });
+  }
+
+  /** Show several instances of the running project split-screen — multiplayer
+   *  authoring. Pass a total `count` (default "Player N" labels) or an array of
+   *  `names` (its length is the count; index 0 is the primary). Requires a live
+   *  play session. */
+  async setInstanceCount(countOrNames: number | string[]): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command(
+      Array.isArray(countOrNames)
+        ? { type: 'set-instance-count', names: countOrNames }
+        : { type: 'set-instance-count', count: countOrNames },
+    );
+  }
+
+  async openAsset(path: string, kind: AssetKind): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({ type: 'open-asset-tab', path, kind });
+  }
+
+  /** SELECT a project asset — the other half of the browser's
+   *  selection-vs-open contract (single click selects and fills the
+   *  Inspector; double click opens a document). */
+  async selectAsset(path: string): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({ type: 'select-asset', path });
+  }
+
+  async closeAsset(key: string): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({ type: 'close-asset-tab', key });
+  }
+
+  async toggleCommandPalette(): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({ type: 'toggle-command-palette' });
+  }
+
+  async toggleConsole(): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({ type: 'toggle-console' });
+  }
+
+  /** Switch the editor's NAMED WORKSPACE — the task-named layout memory
+   *  (`design`/`animate`/`look`, or one a package contributes). Resolves once the
+   *  dock has finished rebuilding, so a following capture photographs the
+   *  arrangement that was asked for. */
+  async setWorkspace(workspace: EditorWorkspaceName): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({ type: 'set-workspace', workspace });
+  }
+
+  /** Choose a STYLE (`volter.style`) — its material, icon set and type, and the colour theme it
+   *  was drawn with (`classic`/`glass`/`maya`/`substance`, or one a package the project or
+   *  product composes carries). */
+  async setStyle(style: string): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({ type: 'set-style', style });
+  }
+
+  /** A view's presentation, answered resolved. With a LAYER the person's choice is recorded
+   *  first. */
+  async viewportPresentation(
+    documentId: string,
+    layer?: import('@volter/sdk/viewport-presentation').PresentationLayer,
+  ): Promise<{
+    presentation: import('@volter/sdk/viewport-presentation').ViewportPresentation;
+    binding: { stageKind: string; documentLayer: import('@volter/sdk/viewport-presentation').PresentationLayer | null } | null;
+    bound: { viewId: string; stageKind: string }[];
+    lastDraw: import('@volter/sdk/viewport-presentation').ViewDrawReport | null;
+    presets: string[];
+    /** The environment images registered (`./environment-images`), for `lighting.preview.environment.image`. */
+    environmentImages: string[];
+  }> {
+    return this.command({
+      type: 'viewport-presentation',
+      documentId,
+      ...(layer ? { layer } : {}),
+    });
+  }
+
+  async showBuild(): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({ type: 'show-build' });
+  }
+
+  /** Atomically present a durable editor view and return its shareable URL. */
+  async present(view: EditorView): Promise<PresentedEditorView> {
+    const presented = await this.command<PresentedEditorView>({ type: 'present-view', view });
+    return { view: presented.view, url: presented.url, warnings: presented.warnings };
+  }
+
+
+  async inspect(): Promise<InspectedInspection> {
+    const data = await this.command<{ subject: InspectedInspection }>({ type: 'inspect' });
+    return data.subject;
+  }
+
+  /** Run one verb exposed by the active Inspector subject, by its id. */
+  async runInspectionAction(actionId: string): Promise<InspectedInspection> {
+    const data = await this.command<{ subject: InspectedInspection }>({
+      type: 'run-inspection-action',
+      actionId,
+    });
+    return data.subject;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Run ONE command by id — the door to everything the command palette lists.
+   *
+   * Under the Code-OSS frame this is the workbench's own `ICommandService`, so
+   * any command id works: a view's `volter.<view>.<verb>`, an editor action's
+   * `volter.action.<id>`, or one of VS Code's own. A call made before the
+   * command service lands waits for it.
+   *
+   * The result is whatever the command answered — a view verb's state, or
+   * `null` for a command that returns nothing.
+   */
+  async runCommand(commandId: string, args?: unknown): Promise<unknown> {
+    const data = await this.command<{ result: unknown }>({
+      type: 'run-command',
+      commandId,
+      ...(args === undefined ? {} : { args }),
+    });
+    return data.result;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * One STRUCTURE op on the authored tree — the hierarchy context menu's own
+   * verbs, on the same helpers, for a caller with no pointer to right-click
+   * with. `id`/`ids` default to the current selection.
+   */
+  async structureOp(op: StructureOp, options: StructureOpOptions = {}): Promise<StructureOpResult> {
+    return this.command<StructureOpResult>({ type: 'structure-op', op, ...options });
+  }
+
+  /** "Extract Component…" — the hierarchy row's action, as a command. Answers
+   *  the action's own sentence, which NAMES the files it created. */
+  async extractComponent(options: { id?: string; name?: string } = {}): Promise<{ hint: string }> {
+    return this.command<{ hint: string }>({ type: 'extract-component', ...options });
+  }
+
+  /** "Fork Component…" — extract's twin: one new file, one callsite retargeted. */
+  async forkComponent(options: { id?: string } = {}): Promise<{ hint: string }> {
+    return this.command<{ hint: string }>({ type: 'fork-component', ...options });
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * The HIERARCHY PANEL's actual rendered row tree, as data.
+   *
+   * The panel projects component marks, document promotion, child caps,
+   * collapse state, search and selection scope onto the adapter tree.
+   *
+   * Deliberately NOT `status().entities`, which walks the raw adapter tree and
+   * therefore answers a different question: a panel defect is invisible in it.
+   *
+   * Each row reports the projected child count and whether the panel draws a disclosure control.
+   *
+   * Rejects, naming the panel, when no hierarchy panel is mounted: an empty
+   * tree would be a fabricated answer about a surface nobody is being shown.
+   */
+  async hierarchy(): Promise<InspectedHierarchy> {
+    const data = await this.command<{ hierarchy: InspectedHierarchy }>({ type: 'hierarchy' });
+    return data.hierarchy;
+  }
+
+  /** Run the Hierarchy panel's own Expand All action. */
+  async expandHierarchyAll(): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command<Record<string, never>>({ type: 'expand-hierarchy-all' });
+  }
+
+  /** Run the Hierarchy panel's own Collapse All action — Expand All's other
+   *  half, and the only way back to the tree's rest state through the product
+   *  (see `HierarchyPanelSnapshot.collapseAll`). */
+  async collapseHierarchyAll(): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command<Record<string, never>>({ type: 'collapse-hierarchy-all' });
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Write one editable path through the active Inspector's own IO.
+   *
+   * The answer carries `write` as well as the subject, because an ack alone
+   * cannot be believed: a write with no persistence route open succeeds and
+   * changes no byte, and `write.persisted` is how the caller tells the two
+   * apart without diffing the tree (`InspectedWriteDestination` in `types.ts`).
+   */
+  async setInspectionField(path: string, value: unknown): Promise<InspectedFieldWrite> {
+    const data = await this.command<InspectedFieldWrite>({
+      type: 'set-inspection-field',
+      path,
+      value,
+    });
+    return { subject: data.subject, write: data.write };
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * REMOVE one editable path's authored override — the other half of the write
+   * door, and the only one that can express byte-ABSENCE.
+   *
+   * {@link setInspectionField} writes a VALUE, so reverting a property an
+   * authoring gesture ADDED puts the default back EXPLICITLY and leaves the
+   * source one attribute heavier than it started. This drops the property, so
+   * whatever governs it in its absence takes over — the same `io.remove` the
+   * Inspector's revert arrow calls, the same persistence pipe, the same awaited
+   * `{ destination, persisted }` ack.
+   *
+   * Rejects with `code: 'REMOVAL_UNAVAILABLE'` when the field does not declare
+   * itself removable or the lane implements no removal door. That refusal is a
+   * MISSING SEAM, not a failed removal, and it is coded rather than phrased
+   * precisely so a caller can grade the two differently.
+   */
+  async removeInspectionField(path: string): Promise<InspectedFieldWrite> {
+    const data = await this.command<InspectedFieldWrite>({
+      type: 'remove-inspection-field',
+      path,
+    });
+    return { subject: data.subject, write: data.write };
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * OPEN one piece of the adapter's SCENE TABLE by id — a scene, a prefab, or
+   * a story state, because the table makes them siblings (they differ only in
+   * instance site). The ids are exactly what `getState().adapter.scenes.entries`
+   * reports, so the table is both the menu and the address space. It opens
+   * the entry's document in Play as in Edit.
+   *
+   * Rejects with a coded reason rather than prose: `SCENE_NOT_FOUND` (and it
+   * names the ids that DO exist), `SCENE_NOT_OPENABLE` carrying the reason an
+   * entry owns no document (the adapter's own, when it declared one),
+   * `SCENE_TABLE_UNAVAILABLE` before the adapter has loaded, and
+   * `SCENE_DOCUMENT_NOT_MOUNTED` when the host has no document for a piece the
+   * table says is openable — a host gap, not a table statement.
+   */
+  async open(id: string): Promise<OpenedDocument> {
+    return this.command<OpenedDocument>({ type: 'open', id });
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Undo / redo one project transaction — the same queue the keyboard shortcut
+   * drives. `moved` is false when there was nothing left in that direction.
+   */
+  async undo(): Promise<HistoryStep> {
+    return this.command<HistoryStep>({ type: 'undo' });
+  }
+
+  async redo(): Promise<HistoryStep> {
+    return this.command<HistoryStep>({ type: 'redo' });
+  }
+
+  /** Read the editor's actual current durable projection. */
+  async currentView(): Promise<EditorView> {
+    const data = await this.command<{ view: EditorView }>({ type: 'current-view' });
+    return data.view;
+  }
+
+  /** Photograph the editor PAGE itself — every panel as the person sees it, at
+   *  `scale` output pixels per CSS pixel (default `devicePixelRatio`), which is
+   *  what a 1 px border or a glyph edge is judged through. */
+  async captureEditorChrome(options?: EditorChromeCaptureOptions): Promise<EditorChromeCapture> {
+    return this.command<EditorChromeCapture>({
+      type: 'capture-editor-chrome',
+      ...(options?.scale === undefined ? {} : { scale: options.scale }),
+      ...(options?.region === undefined ? {} : { region: options.region }),
+      ...(options?.name === undefined ? {} : { name: options.name }),
+    });
+  }
+
+  /** Capture the active document's render, excluding editor chrome. A number
+   * requests a square; `{width, height}` requests that shape, bounded by
+   * {@link CaptureDimensions}. With a view, present and capture it in one request
+   * so discovery cannot retarget the capture between client calls. */
+  async captureActiveDocument(
+    size?: CaptureDimensions,
+    view?: EditorView,
+  ): Promise<ActiveDocumentCapture> {
+    return this.command<ActiveDocumentCapture>({
+      type: 'capture-active-document',
+      ...(view ? { view } : {}),
+      ...(typeof size === 'number' ? { size } : {}),
+      ...(typeof size === 'object' && size !== null
+        ? { width: size.width, height: size.height }
+        : {}),
+    });
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Read or drive the ACTIVE center document's own DOM — the scoped
+   * editor-chrome door, and the read/gesture half of the same subject
+   * {@link captureActiveDocument} photographs. NOT play-mode gated, and NOT
+   * page automation: a target outside the active document's container is
+   * refused by name. Design and scope contract:
+   * `packages/sdk/src/editor-document-probe.ts`.
+   */
+  async documentProbe(step: DocumentProbeStep): Promise<DocumentProbeResult> {
+    return this.command<DocumentProbeResult>({ type: 'document-probe', step });
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * A verb a package contributes: the Code-OSS command `volter.<type>` its page half registers,
+   * waited on as long as its declaration says (`contributes.commands`' `volter.timeoutMs`, which
+   * the relay reads from the same manifest), so a package's long verb (a modeling chunk, minutes
+   * under Wasm) has its budget in one place. A verb no package declares is refused by name
+   * before anything is sent.
+   */
+  async contributedVerb<T extends object = Record<string, unknown>>(
+    type: string,
+    fields: Record<string, unknown> = {},
+  ): Promise<T> {
+    const id = verbCommandId(type);
+    const res = await this.httpFetch(`${this.baseUrl}/__editor/commands/${encodeURIComponent(id)}`);
+    const declared = (await this.readJson(res)) as { timeoutMs: number; error?: string };
+    if (!res.ok) throw new Error(declared.error ?? `No package declares the command "${id}" (${res.status}).`);
+    // Past the relay's own budget, so the relay's answer (its result or its timeout) is what arrives.
+    return this.command<T>({ type, ...fields }, { deadlineMs: declared.timeoutMs + 30_000 });
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Run a wire-carried step against the ACTIVE document's published context
+   * (`packages/editor-core/src/document-context-registry.ts`) — the REPL door over
+   * an open document. `src` is JavaScript source evaluated in the page; references to the caller's
+   * closures are unavailable.
+   */
+  async documentScript<T = unknown>(src: string): Promise<T> {
+    const outcome = await this.command<{ result: T }>({ type: 'document-script', src });
+    return outcome.result;
+  }
+
+  // --- Display (set semantics) ---
+
+  async setGrid(enabled: boolean): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({ type: 'set-grid', enabled });
+  }
+
+  async setHelpers(enabled: boolean): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({ type: 'set-helpers', enabled });
+  }
+
+  async setStats(enabled: boolean): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({ type: 'set-stats', enabled });
+  }
+
+  async setShadingMode(mode: ShadingMode): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({ type: 'set-shading-mode', mode });
+  }
+
+  async setHelperType(helperType: keyof HelperVisibility, enabled: boolean): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({ type: 'set-helper-type', helperType, enabled });
+  }
+
+  // --- Transform tools (set semantics) ---
+
+  async setTransformMode(mode: TransformMode): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({ type: 'set-transform-mode', mode });
+  }
+
+  async setTransformSpace(space: TransformSpace): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({ type: 'set-transform-space', space });
+  }
+
+  async setSnap(enabled: boolean): Promise<void> {
+    await this.command({ type: 'set-snap', enabled });
+  }
+
+  // --- Project management ---
+
+  /** A new project from one of the running product's templates or examples (its `/__editor/templates`), or its default
+   *  where neither is named. */
+  async createProject(
+    name: string,
+    location: string,
+    from: { readonly template?: string; readonly example?: string } = {},
+  ): Promise<ProjectInfo> {
+    const res = await this.httpFetch(`${this.baseUrl}/__editor/create-project`, {
+      method: 'POST',
+      headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+      body: JSON.stringify({ name, location, ...from }),
+    });
+    const data = (await this.readJson(res)) as {
+      ok?: boolean;
+      error?: string;
+      path?: string;
+      config?: ProjectInfo['config'];
+    };
+    if (!res.ok) {
+      throw new Error(data.error ?? `Create project failed: ${res.status}`);
+    }
+    return { path: data.path as string, config: data.config as ProjectInfo['config'] };
+  }
+
+  async openProject(path: string): Promise<void> {
+    const res = await this.httpFetch(`${this.baseUrl}/__editor/open-project`, {
+      method: 'POST',
+      headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+      body: JSON.stringify({ path }),
+    });
+    const body = (await this.readJson(res)) as { error?: string };
+    if (!res.ok) {
+      throw new Error(body.error ?? `Open project failed: ${res.status}`);
+    }
+  }
+
+  async getProject(): Promise<ProjectInfo | null> {
+    const res = await this.httpFetch(`${this.baseUrl}/__editor/project`);
+    const data = (await this.readJson(res)) as { project: ProjectInfo | null; error?: string };
+    if (!res.ok) throw new Error(data.error ?? `Failed to get project: ${res.status}`);
+    return data.project;
+  }
+
+  async listRecentProjects(): Promise<RecentProject[]> {
+    const res = await this.httpFetch(`${this.baseUrl}/__editor/recent-projects`);
+    const data = (await this.readJson(res)) as { projects: RecentProject[]; error?: string };
+    if (!res.ok) throw new Error(data.error ?? `Failed to list projects: ${res.status}`);
+    return data.projects;
+  }
+
+  // --- State ---
+
+  /**
+   * The document table the host resolved — every scene, prefab, page, model,
+   * shot, take … the project's finders produced (`getState().adapter.scenes`
+   * is the same projection). A command, so it answers wherever the control
+   * channel reaches, not only where `/__editor/state` is served.
+   */
+  async documentTable(): Promise<DocumentTableProjection> {
+    return this.command<DocumentTableProjection>({ type: 'document-table' });
+  }
+
+
+  async reloadPage(): Promise<void> {
+    const timeoutMs = 60_000;
+    const epochs = async () => {
+      const { tabs } = await this.getState().catch(() => ({ tabs: [] }));
+      return new Map(tabs.map((tab) => [tab.tabId8, tab] as const));
+    };
+    const pause = () => new Promise((settle) => setTimeout(settle, 250));
+    const before = await epochs();
+    const deadline = Date.now() + timeoutMs;
+    await this.command({ type: 'page-reload' });
+    let reloaded: string[] = [];
+    while (reloaded.length === 0) {
+      if (Date.now() > deadline) throw new Error('The reload was ordered and no tab of this session reported a new page load.');
+      await pause();
+      const now = await epochs();
+      reloaded = [...now].filter(([tabId, tab]) => tab.epochCount > (before.get(tabId)?.epochCount ?? 0)).map(([tabId]) => tabId);
+    }
+    for (;;) {
+      if (Date.now() > deadline) throw new Error('A new page loaded, but its command listener did not become ready.');
+      const now = await epochs();
+      if (reloaded.some((tabId) => {
+        const listener = now.get(tabId)?.commandListener;
+        return typeof listener !== 'string' || listener === 'ready';
+      })) break;
+      await pause();
+    }
+    for (;;) {
+      try {
+        await this.command({ type: 'current-view' });
+        return;
+      } catch (error) {
+        if (Date.now() > deadline) throw error;
+        await pause();
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  async getState(): Promise<EditorState> {
+    const res = await this.httpFetch(`${this.baseUrl}/__editor/state`);
+    const state = (await this.readJson(res)) as EditorState;
+    if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Failed to get editor state: ${res.status} ${res.statusText}`);
+    return state;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * The complete unresolved console set the session is holding right now.
+   *
+   * The console endpoint returns named conditions; command envelopes carry
+   * only their counts. The request has a bounded header deadline.
+   */
+  async getUnresolvedConsole(opts?: { all?: boolean }): Promise<unknown> {
+    const res = await this.httpFetch(
+      `${this.baseUrl}/__editor/console${opts?.all === true ? '?all=1' : ''}`,
+      { signal: AbortSignal.timeout(CONSOLE_DRAIN_TIMEOUT_MS) },
+    );
+    // Status first: a 404's empty body would otherwise die inside readJson
+    // with a parse error that hides the one fact the caller classifies on
+    // (does this server SERVE the console route at all?).
+    if (!res.ok) {
+      throw new Error(`Failed to read unresolved console: ${res.status}`);
+    }
+    return await this.readJson(res);
+  }
+
+  /** Acknowledge one named console condition. */
+  async acknowledgeConsole(input: {
+    readonly id: string;
+    readonly reason: string;
+    readonly by: string;
+  }): Promise<unknown> {
+    const res = await this.httpFetch(`${this.baseUrl}/__editor/console/ack`, {
+      method: 'POST',
+      headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+      body: JSON.stringify(input),
+      signal: AbortSignal.timeout(CONSOLE_DRAIN_TIMEOUT_MS * 4),
+    });
+    const body = await this.readJson(res);
+    return body;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * `fetch` for this client's plain routes, with the ONE thing Node's `fetch`
+   * will not do: name why it failed.
+   *
+   * `readJson` below already owns "the server answered the wrong thing"; this
+   * owns "nothing answered at all", naming the real code Node buries on
+   * `.cause`. No retry
+   * here — these routes create projects, run tools and acknowledge console
+   * conditions, so repeating one is the caller's decision. The relayed
+   * `command` path above has its own opt-in retry for the read-only captures.
+   */
+  private async httpFetch(
+    url: string,
+    init?: RequestInit,
+  ): Promise<Response> {
+    try {
+      return this.fetchOverride ? await this.fetchOverride(url, init) : await dispatchFetch(url, init);
+    } catch (error) {
+      if ((error as { name?: string } | null)?.name === 'TimeoutError') throw error;
+      const { code, detail } = describeFetchFailure(error);
+      throw new EditorCommandError(
+        `${init?.method ?? 'GET'} ${url} never reached the editor: ${code}` +
+          `${detail ? ` (${detail})` : ''}. Nothing answered on that port — check the terminal ` +
+          'that started this editor session and confirm the port this client resolved.',
+        code,
+      );
+    }
+  }
+
+  /** Require a JSON response from the editor server. */
+  private async readJson(res: Response): Promise<unknown> {
+    // The client's JSON response routes funnel through here, so this is
+    // where "did the editor server answer?" is asked — the same question, and
+    // the same JSON-content-type rule, that
+    // `packages/sdk/src/editor-server-response.ts` owns on the browser side.
+    // It is asked again rather than imported because THIS package is published
+    // and depends on neither `@volter/project` nor the editor bundle (see
+    // `DEFAULT_URL` above for that policy).
+    //
+    // Not theoretical here: `baseUrl` is whatever `--url`/`VOLTER_EDITOR_URL`
+    // says, so the CLI can be pointed at a static host, which answers
+    // `200 text/html` for a route nothing serves, and `res.json()` would die as
+    // `Unexpected token '<'`, naming neither the URL nor the cause.
+    const contentType = res.headers.get('content-type') ?? '';
+    if (!contentType.includes('application/json')) {
+      throw new Error(
+        `The editor at ${this.baseUrl} answered with its page fallback ` +
+          `(${contentType || 'no content-type'}) rather than JSON, so no editor server handled ` +
+          'the request. Check that this URL is a running editor session.',
+      );
+    }
+    return await res.json();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Whether an editor browser tab is connected to the server *right now*.
+   * Unlike {@link getState}, this reflects live SSE connections, not cached
+   * state — use it to check whether commands will actually reach an editor.
+   */
+  async isConnected(): Promise<boolean> {
+    const state = await this.getState();
+    return state.connected === true;
+  }
+
+  async waitForState(
+    predicate: (s: EditorState) => boolean,
+    timeoutMs = 10_000,
+  ): Promise<EditorState> {
+    const start = Date.now();
+    while (Date.now() - start < timeoutMs) {
+      const state = await this.getState();
+      if (predicate(state)) return state;
+      await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 100));
+    }
+    throw new Error(`waitForState timed out after ${timeoutMs}ms`);
+  }
+}