dsh-plugin-guide 0.3.21 → 0.3.23

package/references/official-docs/docs/subsystems/jobs.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 English | [中文](jobs.zh.md)
 
-Types shared by long-running producers, `ctx.jobs`, and job controls. The [runtime Agent Note](../../.agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-20-generic-long-running-tool-runtime.md) owns the design; this page records the exact fields and variants from [`packages/jobs/jobs/src/types.ts`](../../packages/jobs/jobs/src/types.ts).
+Types shared by long-running producers, `ctx.jobs`, and job controls. The [seam consolidation Agent Note](../../.agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-09-03-jobs-seam-consolidation.md) owns the current design and the [runtime reference](../../packages/jobs/jobs/README.md) its origin; this page records the exact fields and variants from [`packages/jobs/jobs/src/types.ts`](../../packages/jobs/jobs/src/types.ts) and the client-safe [`view.ts`](../../packages/jobs/jobs/src/view.ts) leaf.
 
 ## Ids and status
 
@@ -19,45 +19,83 @@ interface JobKindMap {
 }
 ```
 
-`JobStatus` is `'running' | 'stopping' | 'completed' | 'killed' | 'failed'`; producer-specific facts belong in `JobSnapshot.detail`.
+`JobStatus` is `'running' | 'stopping' | 'completed' | 'killed' | 'failed'`; producer-specific facts belong in `JobView.progress` while the job runs and in `JobView.detail` once it settled.
 
 ## Producer contract
 
-`JobStart` declares identity and a starter. The runtime finishes preflight before calling `run()` and commits without a later failable step. Producers own execution resources; the runtime owns identity, access, and lifecycle state.
+A `JobSpec` declares identity, the owning session, optional pull `output` sources, and a starter. The runtime finishes preflight before calling `run()` with the job's `JobHandle` and commits without a later failable step. Producers own execution resources; the runtime owns identity, access, lifecycle state, and the output ring.
 
 ```ts type-equiv
 /**
  * Producer declaration passed to {@link JobRegistry.start}. The runtime
  * preflights access and cleanup before invoking {@link run}; the producer owns
- * execution resources while the runtime owns identity and lifecycle state.
+ * execution resources while the runtime owns identity, lifecycle state, and
+ * the output ring.
  */
-interface JobStart {
+interface JobSpec {
   /** Producer kind — also the id prefix (`bash`, `subagent`, …). */
   kind: JobKind
   /** One-line model-facing label (the command; the delegation description). */
   label: string
+  /**
+   * Owning session. Access is fenced by it, and the owner's live Agent must be
+   * the one currently registered under that id: its disposal cancels and
+   * awaits the job. Omitting the owner creates an unowned job, open to any
+   * caller until service disposal.
+   */
+  owner?: SessionId
   /**
    * Optional UTF-8 byte cap for each complete model-facing completion notice or
-   * output read, including controller status metadata.
+   * output read, including controller status metadata. Independent of ring
+   * retention: it bounds the consuming model surface, never observers.
    */
   outputLimitBytes?: number
   /**
-   * Owning live agent. Access is fenced by its session id, and agent disposal
-   * cancels and awaits the job. The instance must be the one currently
-   * registered under its agent id. Omitting the owner creates an unowned job,
-   * open to any caller until service disposal.
+   * Pull sources the registry pumps into the ring at its own cadence.
+   * Producers that narrate their own progress use {@link JobHandle.append}
+   * instead; a job may use both.
    */
-  owner?: Agent
+  output?: readonly JobOutputSource[]
   /**
    * Start the work after preflight and synchronously return its hooks. Called
-   * once; a throw leaves nothing registered, and the producer must clean up any
-   * partially started resources.
+   * once with the job's producer face; a throw leaves nothing registered (the
+   * spent ordinal is skipped), and the producer must clean up any partially
+   * started resources.
+   * @param job - the issued id plus the ring append and progress writers.
+   */
+  run(job: JobHandle): JobHooks
+}
+```
+
+```ts type-equiv
+/**
+ * Producer face of one registered job, handed to {@link JobSpec.run} and
+ * valid for the job's whole life. All methods are synchronous. Writes staged
+ * inside the starter call are retained and become visible with the
+ * registration commit; after settlement — the producer's own outcome, a kill,
+ * or a registry-forced teardown end — writes log and drop instead of
+ * throwing, so a producer's trailing flush cannot break its own teardown path.
+ */
+interface JobHandle {
+  /** The registry-issued id (`<kind>-N`). */
+  readonly id: JobId
+  /**
+   * Append one chunk to the output ring. Offsets advance by the chunk's UTF-8
+   * byte length; an empty chunk is dropped without waking observers.
+   * @param text - the chunk text, exactly as produced.
+   * @param options - stream label and gap marker.
+   */
+  append(text: string, options?: JobAppendOptions): void
+  /**
+   * Replace the live progress line (`3/10`, the current phase). Settlement
+   * clears it; the terminal reason travels in {@link JobOutcome.detail}.
+   * @param line - the new progress line.
    */
-  run(): JobHooks
+  updateProgress(line: string): void
 }
 ```
 
-`JobHooks.done` resolves after the producer releases its resources, not merely when work finishes. Optional `readOutput` distinguishes consuming stream jobs from final-output-only jobs.
+`JobHooks.done` resolves after the producer releases its resources, not merely when work finishes. A job whose result is a value rather than a stream — a subagent's report, a workflow's rendered result — returns it as `JobOutcome.result`; the model's first read after settlement carries it once.
 
 ```ts type-equiv
 /** Hooks through which the runtime controls and observes producer work. */
@@ -74,12 +112,6 @@ interface JobHooks {
    * registry record without claiming that the work stopped.
    */
   done: Promise<JobOutcome>
-  /**
-   * Consume output produced since the previous call. The producer formats
-   * truncation and spill notices. Absence marks a final-output-only job; each
-   * job has one consuming cursor.
-   */
-  readOutput?(): string
 }
 ```
 
@@ -88,73 +120,215 @@ interface JobHooks {
 interface JobOutcome {
   /** How the job ended: finished (`completed`), cancelled (`killed`), or broke (`failed`). */
   status: 'completed' | 'killed' | 'failed'
-  /** Kind-specific detail rendered into status lines ('exit code: 3', 'max-tokens'). */
+  /**
+   * Terminal reason rendered into status lines (`exit code: 3`, `max-tokens`).
+   * When the job settles `killed` after a {@link JobRegistry.kill} with a
+   * reason, the registry appends that reason.
+   */
   detail?: string
-  /** Final output for jobs without `readOutput`; stream jobs leave it unset. */
-  output?: string
+  /**
+   * Return value for jobs whose result is a value rather than a stream (a
+   * workflow's rendered result, a subagent's report). The output ring carries
+   * the stream; this is handed out once by the model's next {@link JobRegistry.read}.
+   */
+  result?: string
+}
+```
+
+A pull source hands the registry a non-consuming offset reader — the subprocess `readFrom` family. The registry pumps every source at its own cadence (`pumpPollMs` on `dsh-jobs-local`) and drains it once more before settlement closes the ring, so producers fold nothing into `done`.
+
+```ts type-equiv
+/**
+ * A pull source the registry pumps into the job's output ring — the subprocess
+ * `readFrom` family. The registry owns the cadence and drains every source one
+ * last time before settlement closes the ring, so a producer folds nothing
+ * into its `done`.
+ */
+interface JobOutputSource {
+  /** Stream label attached to every chunk this source yields. */
+  channel?: JobChannel
+  /**
+   * Read everything captured since `fromByte` without consuming it.
+   * @param fromByte - whole-stream offset to resume from (a prior read's `nextOffset`; 0 first).
+   * @returns the delta text, the next offset, the lossy flag, and the spill path the source currently keeps.
+   */
+  read(fromByte: number): JobSourceRead
+}
+```
+
+```ts type-equiv
+/** One incremental read from a {@link JobOutputSource}. */
+interface JobSourceRead {
+  /** Text captured since the requested offset (the whole retained tail when lossy). */
+  text: string
+  /** Whole-stream offset to resume from on the next read. */
+  nextOffset: number
+  /** True when the requested offset slid out of the source's retained window. */
+  lossy: boolean
+  /**
+   * Host path of a file holding the complete stream, when the source
+   * currently keeps an intact one. Reported on every read, so the registry
+   * tracks it as source metadata: a later read without it withdraws the file.
+   */
+  spillPath?: string
+}
+```
+
+## The output ring
+
+Every job owns one bounded ring. Pull sources are pumped into it and `JobHandle.append` pushes land whole; the model consumes the ring through a registry-kept cursor (`JobRegistry.read`), any number of observers read it at absolute byte offsets (`JobRegistry.readAt`), and neither disturbs the other. `JobChannel` labels `stdout`, `stderr`, and `log`; `log` is producer narration that reaches observers only, never the model's consuming read. Settlement ends the stream and trims retention to the settled cap — the ring has no separate lifecycle. The spill file a pull source keeps is job metadata (`JobView.output.spillPaths`, refreshed by every pump read), not per-chunk metadata, so the model's dropped-output notice names it after the ring evicted the bytes and even after the gap chunk itself is gone. Browsers reach the roster and the ring through `job.list` and `job.follow`, the Remote streams of [`dsh-api-job-controller`](../../packages/api/job-controller/README.md), whose frames are listed under its Cordis API section below.
+
+```ts type-equiv
+/** One chunk of a job's output ring: absolute offset, text, channel, and loss marker. */
+interface JobChunk {
+  /** Absolute offset of the chunk's first byte; offsets never move once assigned. */
+  readonly at: number
+  /** Chunk text exactly as appended (possibly tail-trimmed by retention). */
+  readonly text: string
+  /** Stream label, when the producer supplied one. */
+  readonly channel?: JobChannel
+  /** Bytes immediately before this chunk were lost, at the producer or to retention. */
+  readonly gapBefore?: true
+}
+```
+
+```ts type-equiv
+/** Result of one non-consuming {@link JobRegistry.readAt}. */
+interface JobOutputRead {
+  /** Retained chunks overlapping `[from, total)`, in offset order. */
+  chunks: readonly JobChunk[]
+  /**
+   * Offset to resume from — the ring's current `total`. Always a chunk
+   * boundary: appends land whole and trimming only advances chunk starts, and
+   * consumers concatenate `chunks` under that assumption, so a provider
+   * serving partial chunks would silently duplicate text.
+   */
+  next: number
+  /** True when `from` fell below the oldest retained byte, so bytes are missing before `chunks`. */
+  lossy: boolean
 }
 ```
 
 ## Consumer views
 
-Snapshots are fresh read-only projections. `ownerSession` carries the shared `SessionId` used for authorization; completion listeners separately receive the exact owner object used for lifecycle cleanup. `reported` suppresses a completion notice after another reporter has delivered or committed to deliver the terminal state, including the teardown cancel that drains an owner or the service.
+`JobView` is the one projection every reader consumes: the model tools, the browser roster, and the observation stream. `owner` carries the session id that fences access; the registry resolves the live `Agent` behind it for lifecycle cleanup and never hands the object out. `progress` is the producer's live line and is cleared at settlement; `detail` is the terminal reason, with a recorded kill reason merged in.
 
 ```ts type-equiv
 /**
- * A read-only projection of one job, safe to hand to listeners and tools —
- * a fresh object per call, never live registry state.
+ * Read-only projection of one job — a fresh object per call, never live
+ * registry state. The model tools, the browser roster, and the observation
+ * stream all consume this one shape.
  */
-interface JobSnapshot {
+interface JobView {
   /** The registry-issued id (`<kind>-N`). */
-  id: JobId
-  /** The producer kind the job was registered with. */
-  kind: JobKind
-  /** The producer-supplied one-line label. */
-  label: string
-  /** Producer-owned cap for complete model-facing notices and output reads. */
-  outputLimitBytes?: number
+  readonly id: JobId
   /**
-   * Owner session id used for authorization and correlation; absent for
-   * unowned jobs. Completion listeners receive the exact {@link Agent}
-   * separately through {@link JobDoneListener}.
+   * The producer kind the job was registered with: a Host-registered
+   * `JobKind`, carried as an open string because a browser bundle or a Remote
+   * codec sees only the `JobKindMap` merges its own program compiles.
    */
-  ownerSession?: SessionId
+  readonly kind: string
+  /** The producer-supplied one-line label. */
+  readonly label: string
+  /** Owning session; absent for an unowned job, which every caller can see. */
+  readonly owner?: SessionId
+  /** Producer-owned cap for complete model-facing notices and reads, in UTF-8 bytes. */
+  readonly outputLimitBytes?: number
   /** Current lifecycle state. */
-  status: JobStatus
-  /** Kind-specific status detail, present once the producer supplied one (usually terminal). */
-  detail?: string
+  readonly status: JobStatus
+  /** The producer's live progress line (`3/10`, the current phase); cleared at settlement. */
+  readonly progress?: string
+  /** Terminal reason (`exit code: 3`); a recorded kill reason is merged in. */
+  readonly detail?: string
   /** Epoch ms when the job was registered. */
-  startedAt: number
-  /** Epoch ms when the job settled; absent while `running`/`stopping`. */
-  finishedAt?: number
+  readonly startedAt: number
+  /** Epoch ms when the job settled; absent while live. */
+  readonly finishedAt?: number
   /**
-   * True when a kill, read, wait, or teardown cancel has reported or committed
-   * to report the terminal state. Completion reporters suppress redundant
-   * notices when set. Teardown claims it because the owner or service being
-   * destroyed leaves no reader: a reporter that opens a turn on notice would
-   * otherwise spend a model request per teardown layer.
+   * The output ring's absolute coordinates and the complete-stream files
+   * behind it. `total` is the offset the next chunk starts at (0 while
+   * nothing was written); `earliest` is the oldest retained byte, greater
+   * than zero exactly when retention dropped the head. `spillPaths` lists the
+   * spill files the job's pull sources currently keep, in source order and
+   * deduplicated, and is absent while no source keeps one: it outlives any
+   * chunk, so a reader below `earliest` can still name where the bytes went.
    */
-  reported: boolean
+  readonly output: { readonly total: number; readonly earliest: number; readonly spillPaths?: readonly string[] }
 }
 ```
 
+`JobRegistry.list`, `get`, `read`, `readAt`, `kill`, and `wait` each accept the caller’s `SessionId`; omitting it permits only unowned jobs, while a session may also access its own jobs.
+
 ```ts type-equiv
-/** Output and post-read state returned by {@link JobRegistry.read}. */
+/** Output and post-read state returned by the consuming {@link JobRegistry.read}. */
 interface JobRead {
-  /**
-   * Stream kinds: the consuming delta since the previous read. Final-output
-   * kinds: empty while live, the terminal {@link JobOutcome.output} (or
-   * empty) once settled — idempotent, never consumed.
-   */
-  text: string
+  /** Ring chunks appended since the model cursor, in offset order; every channel included. */
+  chunks: readonly JobChunk[]
+  /** True when the cursor fell below the oldest retained byte, so bytes are missing before `chunks`. */
+  lossy: boolean
+  /** The producer's {@link JobOutcome.result}, handed out by the first read after settlement only. */
+  result?: string
   /** The job's state at read time. */
-  snapshot: JobSnapshot
+  job: JobView
 }
 ```
 
+## Events
+
+The registry announces every commit through one filtered stream. Lifecycle events carry the projection after the commit they announce; `settled` names its cause so a completion reporter can skip a teardown; `output` carries only the id and the new total, so observers read from their own cursor and the registry never pushes payloads.
+
+```ts type-equiv
+/**
+ * One lifecycle or output event. Lifecycle events carry the job's projection
+ * after the commit they announce; `output` carries only the id and the new
+ * total, so an observer schedules a {@link JobRegistry.readAt} from its own
+ * cursor and the registry never pushes payloads.
+ */
+type JobEvent =
+  | {
+    /** Registration commit, progress line change, stopping transition, or removal from the visible set. */
+    readonly type: 'registered' | 'progress' | 'stopping' | 'removed'
+    readonly job: JobView
+  }
+  | {
+    readonly type: 'settled'
+    readonly job: JobView
+    readonly cause: JobSettleCause
+    /**
+     * Whether this settlement released a live {@link JobRegistry.wait}. That
+     * waiter's caller receives the terminal projection as its own result, so
+     * a completion reporter treats an awaited settlement as already delivered
+     * and reports only the unawaited ones. A wait that timed out or was
+     * aborted before the settlement does not count.
+     */
+    readonly awaited: boolean
+  }
+  | {
+    readonly type: 'output'
+    readonly id: JobId
+    /** Owning session, absent for an unowned job. */
+    readonly owner?: SessionId
+    /** The ring's total after the append (or at settlement, which ends the stream). */
+    readonly total: number
+  }
+```
+
+```ts type-equiv
+/**
+ * Who a subscription hears about. `{ owner }` delivers that session's jobs
+ * plus every unowned job (the set that session can see). `{ owners: 'scope' }`
+ * delivers the owners composed under the subscribing context — one registry
+ * serves every composition in the process, and a mount under one preset must
+ * not hear another preset's agents. `{ owners: 'all' }` delivers everything.
+ */
+type JobEventFilter =
+  | { readonly owner: SessionId }
+  | { readonly owners: 'all' | 'scope' }
+```
+
 ## Service behavior
 
-The abstract [`JobRegistry`](../../packages/jobs/jobs/src/index.ts) Service Definition specifies atomic `start`, caller-scoped `get` and `list`, `read`, `kill`, bounded `wait`, failure-isolated `onJobDone` and `onJobsChanged` listeners, and `attachController`; [`LocalJobRegistry`](../../packages/jobs/jobs-local/src/index.ts) is the process-local Service Provider. Authorization compares owner sessions; owner cleanup and admission use the exact registered `Agent` instance. The local provider's positive-safe-integer `maxConcurrentJobsPerOwner` config defaults to `10` and counts `running` plus `stopping` records per exact owner, with one shared bucket for unowned jobs; terminal producer settlement releases capacity. See [`dsh-jobs`](../../packages/jobs/jobs/README.md) for the Service Definition contract, [`dsh-jobs-local`](../../packages/jobs/jobs-local/README.md) for the registry lifecycle and admission policy, and [`dsh-tool-jobs`](../../packages/jobs/tool-jobs/README.md) for the model-facing Consumer.
+The abstract [`JobRegistry`](../../packages/jobs/jobs/src/index.ts) Service Definition specifies atomic `start`, caller-scoped `list`, `get`, consuming `read`, non-consuming `readAt`, `kill`, and bounded `wait`, the filtered `events` stream, and `attachController`; [`LocalJobRegistry`](../../packages/jobs/jobs-local/src/index.ts) is the process-local Service Provider. Authorization compares owner sessions; owner cleanup and admission use the live `Agent` registered under the owner session when the job starts. The local provider's positive-safe-integer `maxConcurrentJobsPerOwner` config defaults to `10` and counts `running` plus `stopping` records per exact owner, with one shared bucket for unowned jobs; terminal producer settlement releases capacity; `retainBytes` (default 262144) and `settledRetainBytes` (default 16384) bound each ring's live and settled retention, and `pumpPollMs` (default 150) is the pull cadence. See [`dsh-jobs`](../../packages/jobs/jobs/README.md) for the Service Definition contract, [`dsh-jobs-local`](../../packages/jobs/jobs-local/README.md) for the registry lifecycle and admission policy, and [`dsh-tool-jobs`](../../packages/jobs/tool-jobs/README.md) for the model-facing Consumer.
 
 <!-- BEGIN GENERATED cordis-surface (gen-cordis-catalog.ts) — do not edit between markers -->
 
@@ -164,18 +338,66 @@ The abstract [`JobRegistry`](../../packages/jobs/jobs/src/index.ts) Service Defi
 
 Generated from source by `scripts/gen-cordis-catalog.ts` (verified fresh by `pnpm run verify-cordis-catalog` in doc-sync; regenerate with `pnpm run gen-cordis-catalog`) — the language sides differ only in locale-specific paired document paths. Signature blocks use a `ts cordis-catalog` fence and keep the original source JSDoc; dispatch modes are defined in the [primer](../cordis-primer.md#dispatch-modes), and the framework-inherited `ctx` API lives in [cordis-api/inherited.md](../cordis-api/inherited.md).
 
+<a id="ctxjobcontroller--jobcontroller"></a>
+
+### `ctx.jobController` — `JobController`
+
+Host service backing the generated `ctx.remote.job` namespace.
+
+```ts cordis-catalog
+/**
+ * Stream the jobs one session can see — its own plus every unowned job —
+ * as whole-set frames: one on open, then one after each coalesced burst of
+ * lifecycle commits. The stream has no natural end; the carrier closes it.
+ * @param request - the session whose visible set to mirror.
+ * @param signal - cancellation owned by the Remote stream carrier.
+ * @returns the roster frames.
+ */
+@Remote({ mode: 'stream' }) list(request: JobListRequest, signal: AbortSignal): AsyncIterable<JobListFrame>
+
+/**
+ * Stream one job's retained output from an absolute byte offset, then its
+ * terminal projection once settled and drained. Non-consuming: the
+ * model-facing cursor and notice state never observe these reads. The
+ * request's session is the fenced read's caller; the registry rejects a
+ * job the session cannot see and an unknown job.
+ * @param request - target job, owning session, and optional resume offset.
+ * @param signal - cancellation owned by the Remote stream carrier.
+ * @returns anchor, coalesced output frames, and the terminal status.
+ */
+@Remote({ mode: 'stream' }) follow(request: JobFollowRequest, signal: AbortSignal): AsyncIterable<JobFollowFrame>
+
+/**
+ * Kill one background job on a human's behalf. The request's session is
+ * the fenced read's caller, so the job must be one that session can see:
+ * the registry's owner fence is the only access rule, and a child session's
+ * own jobs are killable from its list like any other. The kill records
+ * `cancelled by the user` as its reason; it is not one the model requested,
+ * so the owning agent still receives the completion notice, and a shell
+ * tool waiting on that job reads the reason in its own result.
+ * @param request - Session whose job list carries the job, and the job id.
+ * @returns the registry's admission of the kill request.
+ */
+@Remote('kill') kill(request: JobKillRequest): JobKillValue
+```
+
+Source: [`packages/api/job-controller/src/index.ts`](../../packages/api/job-controller/src/index.ts)
+
 <a id="ctxjobs--jobregistry-abstract-seam"></a>
 
 ### `ctx.jobs` — `JobRegistry` (abstract seam)
 
-Abstract background job registry. Subclass, implement the abstract methods, and load the subclass as a plugin — it registers as `ctx.jobs` (one implementation per context; loading a second throws, which is cordis' standard duplicate-service behavior).
+Abstract background job registry. Subclass, implement the abstract members, and load the subclass as a plugin — it registers as `ctx.jobs` (one implementation per context; loading a second throws, which is cordis' standard duplicate-service behavior).
 
 Implementations must honor these semantics:
 
-- Registrations outlive producer and controller fibers. Owner and service disposal cancel live work and await compliant producers; a throwing teardown cancel force-fails only the record. Teardown cancellation also marks the record reported, because a record its owner is being destroyed for has no reader left.
+- Registrations outlive producer and controller fibers. Owner and service disposal cancel live work and await compliant producers; a throwing teardown cancel force-fails only the record. Such settlements announce `cause: 'teardown'`, because a job whose owner is being destroyed has no reader left.
 - Owned-job access is fenced by the owner's session id. Ids are predictable, so authorization — not secrecy — is the boundary.
-- Settlement is first-wins: one terminal record, released waiters, and one round of contained listener notification, even against a late producer outcome. Completion is announced last, after the record is committed and every other observer of the settlement has seen it, because a reporter may open a model turn synchronously.
-- start refuses work while no attached job controller serves the spec's owner, so a producer cannot start work that owner cannot collect or stop. One registry serves every composition in the process, so this question — and completion-listener delivery — is owner-relative rather than process-wide: registrations made from an unscoped context serve every owner, and registrations made under an agent composition's scope serve exactly the agents composed under it.
+- Settlement is first-wins: one terminal record, released waiters, then one round of contained event delivery, even against a late producer outcome. The `settled` event follows every released waiter and reports whether it released one (`awaited`), so a completion reporter can skip settlements a waiting caller already collected.
+- A settled record stays listed until its owner's disposal, service disposal, or an explicit remove by a caller that collected the terminal state itself and never handed the id out.
+- start refuses work while no attached job controller serves the spec's owner, so a producer cannot start work that owner cannot collect or stop. One registry serves every composition in the process, so this question — and event delivery under `{ owners: 'scope' }` — is owner-relative rather than process-wide: registrations made from an unscoped context serve every owner, and registrations made under an agent composition's scope serve exactly the agents composed under it.
+- Every job owns one output ring. Pull sources named by the spec are pumped by the registry and drained once more before settlement; pushed appends land whole. The model's consuming cursor and observers' absolute offsets read the same bytes and never disturb each other.
+- Ring retention is bounded. Appends past the live cap drop the oldest retained bytes; a reader below the retained window gets a lossy read, never an error. Settlement trims retention to the settled cap and ends the stream; the ring has no separate lifecycle.
 
 ```ts cordis-catalog
 /**
@@ -183,96 +405,83 @@ Implementations must honor these semantics:
  * admission before starting and atomically registering work. Any preflight
  * rejection leaves no job id or execution resource. A throwing starter
  * leaves nothing registered; after it returns, registration cannot fail.
- * Settlement records the outcome, notifies listeners, and releases waiters.
- * @param spec - job identity, owner, and synchronous starter.
+ * @param spec - job identity, owner, output sources, and synchronous starter.
  * @returns the registry-issued `<kind>-N` id.
  */
-abstract start(spec: JobStart): JobId
+abstract start(spec: JobSpec): JobId
 
 /**
- * List caller-owned and unowned jobs in registration order without exposing
- * another session's labels.
- * @param caller - reading agent; a non-agent caller sees only unowned jobs.
- * @returns fresh snapshots.
+ * List caller-owned and unowned jobs in registration order.
+ * @param caller - reading session; omission sees only unowned jobs.
+ * @returns fresh projections.
  */
-abstract list(caller?: Agent): JobSnapshot[]
+abstract list(caller?: SessionId): JobView[]
 
 /**
- * Return a non-consuming snapshot without changing its read cursor or notice
- * state. Throws for an unknown or foreign job.
+ * Project one job without changing its cursor. Throws for an unknown or
+ * foreign job.
  * @param id - job to look up.
- * @param caller - reading agent checked against the owner.
- * @returns a fresh snapshot.
+ * @param caller - reading session checked against the owner.
+ * @returns a fresh projection.
  */
-abstract get(id: JobId, caller?: Agent): JobSnapshot
+abstract get(id: JobId, caller?: SessionId): JobView
 
 /**
- * Read the next stream delta, or the idempotent final output after settlement.
- * A terminal read marks the job reported. Throws for an unknown or foreign
- * job.
+ * Consume the ring from the model cursor and advance it to the current
+ * total. After settlement the first read also carries the producer's
+ * result. Throws for an unknown or foreign job.
  * @param id - job to read.
- * @param caller - reading agent checked against the owner.
- * @returns output text and the post-read snapshot.
+ * @param caller - reading session checked against the owner.
+ * @returns the chunks since the cursor, the lossy flag, the result once, and the post-read projection.
  */
-abstract read(id: JobId, caller?: Agent): JobRead
+abstract read(id: JobId, caller?: SessionId): JobRead
 
 /**
- * Request cancellation, then mark the job stopping and reported. A producer
- * throw propagates without changing job state. Throws for an unknown or
- * foreign job.
+ * Read retained ring output without moving the model cursor. Resume with
+ * a previous read's `next`; an offset inside a retained chunk returns the
+ * whole chunk (its `at` may precede `from`). Throws for a negative or
+ * non-integer offset, or an unknown or foreign job.
+ * @param id - job to read.
+ * @param from - absolute byte offset to read from (0 for the retained head).
+ * @param caller - reading session checked against the owner.
+ * @returns retained chunks overlapping `[from, total)`, the resume offset, and the lossy flag.
+ */
+abstract readAt(id: JobId, from: number, caller?: SessionId): JobOutputRead
+
+/**
+ * Request cancellation, then mark the job stopping. A producer throw
+ * propagates without changing job state. A supplied reason is merged into
+ * terminal `detail` when the job settles `killed`. Throws for an unknown
+ * or foreign job.
  * @param id - job to cancel.
- * @param caller - killing agent checked against the owner.
- * @param reason - logged reason forwarded to the producer.
+ * @param caller - killing session checked against the owner.
+ * @param reason - cancellation reason forwarded verbatim to the producer.
  * @returns `requested` for live work, otherwise `already-finished`.
  */
-abstract kill(id: JobId, caller?: Agent, reason?: string): 'requested' | 'already-finished'
+abstract kill(id: JobId, caller?: SessionId, reason?: string): 'requested' | 'already-finished'
 
 /**
  * Wait for settlement or timeout without cancelling the job. Caller abort
  * rejects only while the job is live; after settlement the terminal
- * snapshot wins so a notice suppressed for this waiter is still delivered.
- * Throws for invalid, unknown, or foreign input.
+ * projection wins. Rejects for an invalid timeout or an unknown or foreign
+ * job.
  * @param id - job to wait for.
  * @param timeoutMs - positive finite wait bound in milliseconds.
- * @param caller - waiting agent checked against the owner.
+ * @param caller - waiting session checked against the owner.
  * @param signal - optional cancellation of the wait itself.
- * @returns snapshot at settlement or timeout.
- */
-abstract wait(id: JobId, timeoutMs: number, caller?: Agent, signal?: AbortSignal): Promise<JobSnapshot>
-
-/**
- * Register an effect-scoped completion listener. It receives the settlements
- * of the owners its registering context's scope covers; each listener is
- * contained; returned promises are observed but not awaited. No listener runs
- * after service disposal.
- * @param listener - receives each terminal snapshot and its exact owner.
- * @returns disposer that unregisters the listener.
+ * @returns projection at settlement or timeout.
  */
-abstract onJobDone(listener: JobDoneListener): () => void
+abstract wait(id: JobId, timeoutMs: number, caller?: SessionId, signal?: AbortSignal): Promise<JobView>
 
 /**
-/**
- * Register an effect-scoped observer of visible-set changes. It fires after
- * every commit that changes what {@link list} returns for that owner —
- * registration, every stopping transition (including the one teardown
- * performs before it awaits a slow producer), settlement, owner-disposal
- * removal, and the emptying that service disposal commits — so an observer
- * re-reads rather than accumulating deltas.
- *
- * Delivery is owner-relative on the same terms as {@link onJobDone}: an
- * observer registered from an unscoped context — a host composition's own
- * carrier — sees every owner, while one registered under an agent
- * composition's scope sees exactly the agents composed under it.
- *
- * This is not a superset of {@link onJobDone}: that one delivers the terminal
- * record under first-wins semantics a job controller couples to notice
- * delivery, while this one carries no delivery meaning and marks nothing
- * reported. Listeners are contained and never awaited.
- * @param listener - receives the owner whose visible set changed, or
- *   `undefined` when an unowned job changed and every caller's set did.
- * @returns disposer that unregisters the listener.
+ * Drop one settled job's record from the visible set and announce
+ * `removed`. For a caller that collected the terminal state through its own
+ * {@link wait} and never handed the id to the model, such as a shell tool's
+ * foreground call. Throws for a job that is still live, unknown, or foreign.
+ * @param id - settled job to drop.
+ * @param caller - removing session checked against the owner.
  */
-abstract onJobsChanged(listener: JobsChangedListener): () => void
+abstract remove(id: JobId, caller?: SessionId): void
 
 /**
  * Attach an effect-scoped controller that can read and stop jobs. It serves the
@@ -284,7 +493,7 @@ abstract onJobsChanged(listener: JobsChangedListener): () => void
 abstract attachController(name: string): () => void
 ```
 
-Types: [Agent](core.md)
+Types: [SessionId](core.md)
 
 Source: [`packages/jobs/jobs/src/index.ts`](../../packages/jobs/jobs/src/index.ts)
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