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+# acture-sandbox
+
+> **acture is a development tool first.** This package is an *optional
+> accelerator* — and a deliberately small one. The extension **host/loader** is
+> a ~15-line core-only pattern you hand-write (see
+> [`docs/hand-written-sandbox.md`](https://github.com/thorwhalen/acture/blob/main/docs/hand-written-sandbox.md)),
+> with no `acture-*` dependency. `acture-sandbox` ships only the *one* rung that
+> is genuinely hard to hand-write: **isolating code you did not author.** See
+> [`docs/positioning.md`](https://github.com/thorwhalen/acture/blob/main/docs/positioning.md).
+
+An extension system is two layers (research-9 §1). The **host/loader** —
+load/unload/observe bundles of command contributions — is pattern territory: a
+`CommandRecord` already *is* the manifest, so a host that trusts its authors
+needs nothing beyond `acture` core. The **isolation layer** — running code you
+cannot audit *safely* — is the first acture surface that genuinely earns a
+package. `acture-sandbox` is that layer, and nothing else: **one
+`ExtensionRunner` port plus an in-process transport.**
+
+The port is async and errors-as-data on purpose. A cross-boundary transport
+(Web Worker, cross-origin iframe, QuickJS-in-WASM, Node `isolated-vm`) is
+asynchronous and cannot transport thrown exceptions, so the in-process adapter
+holds the identical contract. Design for the worst runtime; the local case is
+then trivial — and moving in-process → isolated is an adapter swap, not a
+rewrite.
+
+> **The in-process transport is not a security boundary.** It is the v1 adapter
+> for *trusted* authors. The moment an untrusted author is about to run code,
+> swap in a real isolating transport behind the same port. Admitting untrusted
+> code through the in-process adapter is the one irreversible mistake.
+
+## Install
+
+```sh
+pnpm add acture-sandbox     # `acture` is a peer dependency you already have
+```
+
+## Run a trusted extension in-process
+
+```ts
+import { createInProcessRunner } from 'acture-sandbox';
+import type { Registry } from 'acture';
+
+// The runner treats the bridge as opaque (`HostBridge = unknown`), so the host
+// owns its shape and the extension narrows to it. Typically a facade over the
+// registry / `dispatch` — what an extension may touch is the host's policy.
+interface AppBridge {
+  registry: Registry;
+}
+
+const csvProfiler = {
+  activate(bridge: AppBridge) {
+    const unload = bridge.registry.registerAll(/* the extension's commands */);
+    return { deactivate: () => unload() };
+  },
+};
+
+const runner = createInProcessRunner();
+const hostBridge: AppBridge = { registry: appRegistry }; // appRegistry = your acture registry
+
+// `bridge` is optional — omit it for a pure extension that acquires nothing,
+// and `activate` receives `undefined`.
+const loaded = await runner.load({ id: 'acme.csv-profiler', module: csvProfiler }, hostBridge);
+if (!loaded.ok) console.error(loaded.error.code, loaded.error.message);
+
+runner.loaded();                              // → ['acme.csv-profiler']
+await runner.dispose('acme.csv-profiler');    // runs deactivate(), forgets it
+```
+
+Loading is errors-as-data — `load` and `dispose` never throw. Error codes:
+`already_loaded`, `load_failed`, `activate_threw` (load) and `not_loaded`,
+`deactivate_threw` (dispose). A disposed id can be loaded again.
+
+### Lazy sources
+
+A source can defer its module behind an `import` thunk (unwrapping a `default`
+export), so the host can populate the palette / AI tool list from a manifest
+*before* the extension's code is fetched:
+
+```ts
+await runner.load({
+  id: 'acme.lazy',
+  import: () => import('./extensions/lazy.js'),
+});
+```
+
+## What this package is NOT
+
+Isolation only. It deliberately does **not** ship the manifest schema, the
+host/loader, an effect channel, capability grants, an entitlement / install
+gate, or a marketplace. Those are a core-only pattern
+([`docs/hand-written-sandbox.md`](https://github.com/thorwhalen/acture/blob/main/docs/hand-written-sandbox.md))
+and host product architecture — documented, never bundled (no god-package; the
+package translates, it does not decide). Real isolating transports
+(Worker / iframe / QuickJS / `isolated-vm`) arrive one at a time, only when a
+real untrusted-author need names them.
+
+## API
+
+| Export | What |
+| --- | --- |
+| `createInProcessRunner()` | Create an in-process (no-isolation) `ExtensionRunner` for trusted authors. |
+| `ExtensionRunner` | The isolation port: `load(source, bridge?)`, `dispose(id)`, `loaded()`. Async, errors-as-data. |
+| `ExtensionSource` | `{ id, module }` or `{ id, import }` — how the runner obtains an extension's module (open for future transports). |
+| `ExtensionModule` | `{ activate(bridge) }` — the extension's entrypoint, returning an optional `ActivationHandle`. |
+| `ActivationHandle` | `{ deactivate?() }` — teardown, invoked on `dispose`. |
+| `HostBridge` | The host capabilities handed to `activate`. Opaque to the runner; defined by the host. |
+| `LoadedExtension` | `{ id }` — a live handle returned from a successful `load`. |
+
+## See also
+
+- [`docs/hand-written-sandbox.md`](https://github.com/thorwhalen/acture/blob/main/docs/hand-written-sandbox.md) — the ~15-line host/loader you hand-write to drive this runner.
+- The `acture-extensions` skill — the agent's guide to adding an extension system to a target project.
+- [`docs/research/acture_research_9 -- Extensions and Plugin Systems.md`](https://github.com/thorwhalen/acture/blob/main/docs/research/acture_research_9%20--%20Extensions%20and%20Plugin%20Systems.md) — the design: trust model, isolation table, the effect-as-data seam.

package/dist/index.cjs

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+'use strict';
+
+var acture = require('acture');
+
+// src/in-process-runner.ts
+async function resolveModule(source) {
+  if ("module" in source) return source.module;
+  const imported = await source.import();
+  return "default" in imported ? imported.default : imported;
+}
+function describe(error) {
+  return error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
+}
+function createInProcessRunner() {
+  const active = /* @__PURE__ */ new Map();
+  return {
+    async load(source, bridge) {
+      if (active.has(source.id)) {
+        return acture.err(
+          "already_loaded",
+          `Extension "${source.id}" is already loaded.`
+        );
+      }
+      let module;
+      try {
+        module = await resolveModule(source);
+      } catch (error) {
+        return acture.err("load_failed", describe(error), error);
+      }
+      let handle;
+      try {
+        handle = await module.activate(bridge);
+      } catch (error) {
+        return acture.err("activate_threw", describe(error), error);
+      }
+      active.set(source.id, handle ?? {});
+      return acture.ok({ id: source.id });
+    },
+    async dispose(id) {
+      const handle = active.get(id);
+      if (!handle) {
+        return acture.err("not_loaded", `Extension "${id}" is not loaded.`);
+      }
+      active.delete(id);
+      try {
+        await handle.deactivate?.();
+      } catch (error) {
+        return acture.err("deactivate_threw", describe(error), error);
+      }
+      return acture.ok(void 0);
+    },
+    loaded() {
+      return [...active.keys()];
+    }
+  };
+}
+
+exports.createInProcessRunner = createInProcessRunner;
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+//# sourceMappingURL=index.cjs.map

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package/dist/index.d.cts

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+import { Result } from 'acture';
+
+/**
+ * The `ExtensionRunner` isolation port and its data contract.
+ *
+ * This is the single accelerator `acture-sandbox` exists for (research-9 §1,
+ * §6.1): isolating the execution of code you did not author. Everything here
+ * is transport-agnostic — `load` / `dispose` are async and return
+ * errors-as-data because a cross-boundary transport (Web Worker, cross-origin
+ * iframe, QuickJS-in-WASM, Node `isolated-vm`) is asynchronous and cannot
+ * transport thrown exceptions. The in-process adapter holds the identical
+ * contract, so moving in-process → isolated is an adapter swap, not a redesign
+ * (research-9 §3.3, §4.6: "design for the worst runtime; the local case is
+ * then trivial").
+ *
+ * What this file deliberately does NOT define: the manifest schema, the
+ * host/loader, the effect channel, capability grants, an entitlement store, a
+ * marketplace. Those are a ~15-line core-only pattern (`docs/hand-written-sandbox.md`)
+ * and host product architecture (research-9 §6.3, §7) — not package territory
+ * (hard-don't #2: no god-package; hard-don't #3: translate, don't decide).
+ */
+
+/**
+ * The host capabilities handed to an extension at activation. OPAQUE to the
+ * runner by design: the in-process adapter passes it by reference; a future
+ * isolating adapter proxies it across the membrane as a capability-gated
+ * channel. The runner never inspects it — *what* an extension may touch is
+ * host policy (e.g. a facade over `registry.dispatch`), never the runner's call.
+ */
+type HostBridge = unknown;
+/**
+ * What an extension exposes to the runner: an `activate` entrypoint the runner
+ * invokes once at load, mirroring VS Code's activate/deactivate lifecycle. Its
+ * returned handle (if any) is invoked on dispose.
+ */
+interface ExtensionModule {
+    activate(bridge: HostBridge): ActivationHandle | void | Promise<ActivationHandle | void>;
+}
+/** Returned by `activate` to register teardown. Optional — a pure extension
+ *  that acquires nothing needs no `deactivate`. */
+interface ActivationHandle {
+    deactivate?(): void | Promise<void>;
+}
+/**
+ * How a runner obtains an extension's module. Discriminated and open by
+ * design: the in-process adapter accepts a direct `module` reference or an
+ * `import` thunk; cross-boundary transports add their own variants (a URL, a
+ * source blob, a bundle hash) WITHOUT changing the port.
+ */
+type ExtensionSource = {
+    readonly id: string;
+    readonly module: ExtensionModule;
+} | {
+    readonly id: string;
+    readonly import: () => Promise<ExtensionModule | {
+        default: ExtensionModule;
+    }>;
+};
+/** A live handle to a loaded extension. */
+interface LoadedExtension {
+    readonly id: string;
+}
+/**
+ * The isolation seam — one port, swappable transports.
+ *
+ * Errors-as-data (`acture`'s `Result`) and async on purpose: the contract is
+ * byte-identical whether the extension runs in this realm or behind a
+ * membrane. An implementation NEVER throws across `load` / `dispose`.
+ */
+interface ExtensionRunner {
+    /** Load and activate an extension. Returns the live handle, or an error
+     *  datum (`already_loaded`, `load_failed`, `activate_threw`). */
+    load(source: ExtensionSource, bridge?: HostBridge): Promise<Result<LoadedExtension>>;
+    /** Deactivate and unload. Returns an error datum (`not_loaded`,
+     *  `deactivate_threw`); the extension is removed from `loaded()` regardless
+     *  of whether `deactivate` threw. */
+    dispose(id: string): Promise<Result<void>>;
+    /** The ids currently loaded, in load order. */
+    loaded(): readonly string[];
+}
+
+/**
+ * The in-process (no-isolation) `ExtensionRunner` transport — the v1 adapter
+ * for TRUSTED authors (research-9 §3.5).
+ *
+ * It runs an extension's `activate` in the SAME realm, passing the host bridge
+ * by reference. It contains nothing — an extension can do anything its bridge
+ * allows. Its job is to establish the async, errors-as-data lifecycle so that a
+ * real isolating transport (Web Worker, cross-origin iframe, QuickJS-in-WASM,
+ * Node `isolated-vm`) is an adapter swap behind the same port, not a redesign.
+ *
+ * It is NOT a security boundary. The moment an author is untrusted, swap in an
+ * isolating runner — that is the single trigger for the isolation transports
+ * (research-9 §0). Admitting untrusted code through this adapter is the one
+ * irreversible mistake.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Create an in-process extension runner. Each `load` activates an extension in
+ * this realm and tracks it by id; `dispose` deactivates and forgets it.
+ */
+declare function createInProcessRunner(): ExtensionRunner;
+
+export { type ActivationHandle, type ExtensionModule, type ExtensionRunner, type ExtensionSource, type HostBridge, type LoadedExtension, createInProcessRunner };

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+import { Result } from 'acture';
+
+/**
+ * The `ExtensionRunner` isolation port and its data contract.
+ *
+ * This is the single accelerator `acture-sandbox` exists for (research-9 §1,
+ * §6.1): isolating the execution of code you did not author. Everything here
+ * is transport-agnostic — `load` / `dispose` are async and return
+ * errors-as-data because a cross-boundary transport (Web Worker, cross-origin
+ * iframe, QuickJS-in-WASM, Node `isolated-vm`) is asynchronous and cannot
+ * transport thrown exceptions. The in-process adapter holds the identical
+ * contract, so moving in-process → isolated is an adapter swap, not a redesign
+ * (research-9 §3.3, §4.6: "design for the worst runtime; the local case is
+ * then trivial").
+ *
+ * What this file deliberately does NOT define: the manifest schema, the
+ * host/loader, the effect channel, capability grants, an entitlement store, a
+ * marketplace. Those are a ~15-line core-only pattern (`docs/hand-written-sandbox.md`)
+ * and host product architecture (research-9 §6.3, §7) — not package territory
+ * (hard-don't #2: no god-package; hard-don't #3: translate, don't decide).
+ */
+
+/**
+ * The host capabilities handed to an extension at activation. OPAQUE to the
+ * runner by design: the in-process adapter passes it by reference; a future
+ * isolating adapter proxies it across the membrane as a capability-gated
+ * channel. The runner never inspects it — *what* an extension may touch is
+ * host policy (e.g. a facade over `registry.dispatch`), never the runner's call.
+ */
+type HostBridge = unknown;
+/**
+ * What an extension exposes to the runner: an `activate` entrypoint the runner
+ * invokes once at load, mirroring VS Code's activate/deactivate lifecycle. Its
+ * returned handle (if any) is invoked on dispose.
+ */
+interface ExtensionModule {
+    activate(bridge: HostBridge): ActivationHandle | void | Promise<ActivationHandle | void>;
+}
+/** Returned by `activate` to register teardown. Optional — a pure extension
+ *  that acquires nothing needs no `deactivate`. */
+interface ActivationHandle {
+    deactivate?(): void | Promise<void>;
+}
+/**
+ * How a runner obtains an extension's module. Discriminated and open by
+ * design: the in-process adapter accepts a direct `module` reference or an
+ * `import` thunk; cross-boundary transports add their own variants (a URL, a
+ * source blob, a bundle hash) WITHOUT changing the port.
+ */
+type ExtensionSource = {
+    readonly id: string;
+    readonly module: ExtensionModule;
+} | {
+    readonly id: string;
+    readonly import: () => Promise<ExtensionModule | {
+        default: ExtensionModule;
+    }>;
+};
+/** A live handle to a loaded extension. */
+interface LoadedExtension {
+    readonly id: string;
+}
+/**
+ * The isolation seam — one port, swappable transports.
+ *
+ * Errors-as-data (`acture`'s `Result`) and async on purpose: the contract is
+ * byte-identical whether the extension runs in this realm or behind a
+ * membrane. An implementation NEVER throws across `load` / `dispose`.
+ */
+interface ExtensionRunner {
+    /** Load and activate an extension. Returns the live handle, or an error
+     *  datum (`already_loaded`, `load_failed`, `activate_threw`). */
+    load(source: ExtensionSource, bridge?: HostBridge): Promise<Result<LoadedExtension>>;
+    /** Deactivate and unload. Returns an error datum (`not_loaded`,
+     *  `deactivate_threw`); the extension is removed from `loaded()` regardless
+     *  of whether `deactivate` threw. */
+    dispose(id: string): Promise<Result<void>>;
+    /** The ids currently loaded, in load order. */
+    loaded(): readonly string[];
+}
+
+/**
+ * The in-process (no-isolation) `ExtensionRunner` transport — the v1 adapter
+ * for TRUSTED authors (research-9 §3.5).
+ *
+ * It runs an extension's `activate` in the SAME realm, passing the host bridge
+ * by reference. It contains nothing — an extension can do anything its bridge
+ * allows. Its job is to establish the async, errors-as-data lifecycle so that a
+ * real isolating transport (Web Worker, cross-origin iframe, QuickJS-in-WASM,
+ * Node `isolated-vm`) is an adapter swap behind the same port, not a redesign.
+ *
+ * It is NOT a security boundary. The moment an author is untrusted, swap in an
+ * isolating runner — that is the single trigger for the isolation transports
+ * (research-9 §0). Admitting untrusted code through this adapter is the one
+ * irreversible mistake.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Create an in-process extension runner. Each `load` activates an extension in
+ * this realm and tracks it by id; `dispose` deactivates and forgets it.
+ */
+declare function createInProcessRunner(): ExtensionRunner;
+
+export { type ActivationHandle, type ExtensionModule, type ExtensionRunner, type ExtensionSource, type HostBridge, type LoadedExtension, createInProcessRunner };

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+import { err, ok } from 'acture';
+
+// src/in-process-runner.ts
+async function resolveModule(source) {
+  if ("module" in source) return source.module;
+  const imported = await source.import();
+  return "default" in imported ? imported.default : imported;
+}
+function describe(error) {
+  return error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
+}
+function createInProcessRunner() {
+  const active = /* @__PURE__ */ new Map();
+  return {
+    async load(source, bridge) {
+      if (active.has(source.id)) {
+        return err(
+          "already_loaded",
+          `Extension "${source.id}" is already loaded.`
+        );
+      }
+      let module;
+      try {
+        module = await resolveModule(source);
+      } catch (error) {
+        return err("load_failed", describe(error), error);
+      }
+      let handle;
+      try {
+        handle = await module.activate(bridge);
+      } catch (error) {
+        return err("activate_threw", describe(error), error);
+      }
+      active.set(source.id, handle ?? {});
+      return ok({ id: source.id });
+    },
+    async dispose(id) {
+      const handle = active.get(id);
+      if (!handle) {
+        return err("not_loaded", `Extension "${id}" is not loaded.`);
+      }
+      active.delete(id);
+      try {
+        await handle.deactivate?.();
+      } catch (error) {
+        return err("deactivate_threw", describe(error), error);
+      }
+      return ok(void 0);
+    },
+    loaded() {
+      return [...active.keys()];
+    }
+  };
+}
+
+export { createInProcessRunner };
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+{
+  "name": "acture-sandbox",
+  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "description": "acture sandbox — the isolation seam for an extension system: one ExtensionRunner port plus an in-process transport. Swap in Worker / iframe / QuickJS / isolated-vm transports when authors are untrusted.",
+  "license": "Apache-2.0",
+  "author": "Thor Whalen",
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "git+https://github.com/thorwhalen/acture.git",
+    "directory": "packages/sandbox"
+  },
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/thorwhalen/acture#readme",
+  "bugs": "https://github.com/thorwhalen/acture/issues",
+  "type": "module",
+  "files": [
+    "dist",
+    "README.md",
+    "LICENSE"
+  ],
+  "main": "./dist/index.cjs",
+  "module": "./dist/index.js",
+  "types": "./dist/index.d.ts",
+  "exports": {
+    ".": {
+      "types": "./dist/index.d.ts",
+      "import": "./dist/index.js",
+      "require": "./dist/index.cjs"
+    },
+    "./package.json": "./package.json"
+  },
+  "sideEffects": false,
+  "peerDependencies": {
+    "acture": "^1.0.0"
+  },
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "tsup": "^8.3.0",
+    "typescript": "^5.7.0",
+    "vitest": "^2.1.0",
+    "zod": "^4.0.0",
+    "acture": "1.3.0"
+  },
+  "keywords": [
+    "acture",
+    "sandbox",
+    "extensions",
+    "plugins",
+    "isolation",
+    "command-dispatch"
+  ],
+  "publishConfig": {
+    "access": "public"
+  },
+  "scripts": {
+    "build": "tsup",
+    "typecheck": "tsc --noEmit",
+    "test": "vitest run",
+    "clean": "rm -rf dist *.tsbuildinfo"
+  }
+}