dsh-plugin-guide 0.3.21 → 0.3.23

package/references/official-docs/docs/subsystems/settings.zh.md

@@ -1,169 +1,18 @@
-# 用户设置
+# 插件配置表单
 
 [English](settings.md) | 中文
 
-[dsh-settings](../../packages/settings/settings) 的用户设置 seam 持有一份按 namespace 分节的用户文档，并把每个已注册 namespace 解析为：schema 默认值，然后注册方的组合 `base`，最后用户分节。[dsh-settings-file](../../packages/settings/settings-file) 这类提供方存储原始文档并推送外部编辑；消费方插件注册 schema 后读取或观察解析值。组合配置仍留在 `cordis.yml`——namespace 只承载用户可编辑子集。
+[设置服务](../../packages/settings/settings/README.zh.md) 从活动 profile 条目投影 volatile Config 字段。[配置编辑器](../../packages/boot/config-editor/README.zh.md) 通过 Cordis patch 持久化编辑。业务消费者对自己的 Config 引用调用 `.get()`。
 
-来源：[`packages/settings/settings/src/index.ts`](../../packages/settings/settings/src/index.ts)
+## 标识与值
 
-## 标识
+表单命名空间是当前 profile 中可唯一定位条目的本地 id。多个插件实例在条目 id 不同时拥有独立表单。普通字段被排除。描述符包含实际值、继承值、显式 profile 覆盖值和乐观修订号。
 
-namespace 命名用户文档中一个归插件所有的分节。brand 防止调用方将设置 namespace 与在包或进程之间传递的其他 id 混用；构造时校验小写 kebab-case 语法。
+## 编辑
 
-```ts type-equiv
-/** Nominal id of one registered settings namespace. */
-type SettingsNamespace = Branded<'SettingsNamespace'>
-```
-
-## 注册
-
-注册把 schemastery schema 绑定到调用方插件 fiber 上的 namespace——dispose（资源释放）该 fiber 即移除 namespace 及其观察者。options 携带组合层、owner 的生效时机，以及一个可选的、用于校验 schema 表达不了的约束的钩子。
-
-```ts type-equiv
-/** Registration options beyond the namespace schema. */
-interface SettingsRegisterOptions<T> {
-  /** Composition-layer values resolved below the user layer (entry-config subset). */
-  base?: Partial<T>
-  /** Owner's effect timing, surfaced to configuration UIs; defaults to `live`. */
-  applies?: SettingsApplies
-  /**
-   * Reject a resolved section the owner could not act on, for constraints its
-   * schema cannot express — a cross-field requirement, or one field's validity
-   * depending on another's. Throwing here refuses the *write* that produced the
-   * value, so a caller learns at `update`/`replace`/`mutate` instead of storing
-   * something that would silently disable the owner.
-   *
-   * Kept separate from the schema because the schema is also what a
-   * configuration surface renders and what an absent section resolves through;
-   * folding a cross-field check into it would change both.
-   *
-   * Once the owner is registered, a stored section that fails this keeps the
-   * namespace's last good value and warns, exactly as a schema failure does,
-   * so an externally edited document cannot strand a running owner. At
-   * registration there is no last good value yet, so a stored section that
-   * already fails rejects the registration itself — again exactly as a schema
-   * failure does.
-   * @param value - the resolved section, schema-valid by construction.
-   */
-  validate?: (value: T) => void
-}
-```
-
-`validate` 在 schema 接纳该值之后运行，因此它看到的默认值和组合 base 与 owner 实际看到的完全一致。`dsh-llm-pi-ai` 用它在写入处拒绝自己无法服务的提供方 profile，而不是先存下来、再让该 namespace 下每条路由失效。
-
-`applies` 是 UI 提示而非机制：`restart` 的 owner 从不 watch，其值在构造期读取一次，配置界面可为待生效变更加标。
-
-```ts type-equiv
-/** When a namespace's changes take effect for its owner. */
-type SettingsApplies = 'live' | 'restart'
-```
-
-## Owner scope
-
-scope 是面向 owner 的句柄。`update` 把稀疏 patch 只合并进用户分节（绝不进 `base`）；`replace` 整体替换分节，是删除/重置路径——替换中缺席的键重新继承 `base` 与 schema 默认值。同一 namespace 的写入按调用顺序串行，解析值是深冻结快照。
-
-```ts type-equiv
-/** Owner-facing handle for one registered namespace. */
-interface SettingsScope<T> {
-  /** Current resolved value: schema defaults, then `base`, then the user layer. */
-  get(): T
-  /**
-   * Observe committed changes to this namespace's resolved value. Invocations
-   * of one callback run asynchronously, one at a time, in commit order; a
-   * rejection is contained and logged like a sync throw. After the disposer
-   * returns, no further invocation starts — one already queued is skipped;
-   * one already started still settles, and service disposal waits for it.
-   * @param callback - invoked after each commit with the next and previous values.
-   * @returns the disposer removing this observer.
-   */
-  watch(callback: (next: T, prev: T) => void | Promise<void>): () => void
-  /**
-   * Merge a partial patch into this namespace's user layer and persist it.
-   * @param patch - plain-object patch over the user section; JSON-compatible data
-   * only (non-JSON values reject with their path before anything persists).
-   */
-  update(patch: object): Promise<void>
-  /**
-   * Replace this namespace's user section wholesale; absent keys re-inherit
-   * the composition `base` and schema defaults (`replace({})` resets all).
-   * @param section - the complete next user section; JSON-compatible data only,
-   * as for {@link update}.
-   */
-  replace(section: object): Promise<void>
-}
-```
-
-## 描述符
-
-`describe()` 为配置界面序列化每个已注册 namespace：schemastery 的 `toJSON()` 封装结构驱动 schema 渲染的表单，解析值填充表单，分离出的 `base`/`user` 层让表单按字段是否出现在 user 层标注「用户已覆盖」。`describe({ redactSecrets: true })`——每个对外传输接口都必须传入——从三层剥离 `role('secret')` 字段并枚举其 `{path, set}` slot，页面因此能渲染只写输入框而永远收不到机密值。
-
-```ts type-equiv
-/** One registered namespace as surfaced to configuration UIs. */
-interface SettingsDescriptor {
-  /** The registered namespace. */
-  ns: SettingsNamespace
-  /** Serialized schemastery schema (`schema.toJSON()`). */
-  schema: unknown
-  /** Current resolved value. */
-  value: unknown
-  /**
-   * Monotonic revision of the raw user section this descriptor was read at.
-   * Send it back as `expectedRevision` on a write to refuse a stale one.
-   */
-  revision: number
-  /** Registrant's composition `base` layer (detached), when one was declared. */
-  base?: unknown
-  /**
-   * Raw user section from the stored document (detached), when one exists and
-   * is well-formed; a field's presence here is what marks it user-overridden.
-   */
-  user?: unknown
-  /** Owner's declared effect timing. */
-  applies: SettingsApplies
-  /** Schema-declared secret positions; present only under `redactSecrets`. */
-  secrets?: RedactedSecret[]
-}
-```
-
-只持有脱敏 descriptor 的调用方无法安全地重建分节，因此删除改以路径 op 传递。每个 descriptor 还携带针对原始分节的 `revision`；写入可以把它作为 `expectedRevision` 送回，不再匹配的写入会被拒绝，而不会覆盖先落地的写入。
-```ts type-equiv
-/**
- * One path-addressed edit to a namespace's user section. Path mutation exists
- * for a caller holding an INCOMPLETE view of the section — a configuration UI
- * reads the redacted descriptor, which by construction never received the
- * `role('secret')` fields. Such a caller can name the field it means without
- * restating the section: a wholesale `replace` rebuilt from a redacted
- * document silently deletes every secret the wire never returned.
- */
-type SettingsPathOp =
-  | { op: 'set'; path: readonly string[]; value: unknown }
-  | { op: 'unset'; path: readonly string[] }
-```
-
-```ts type-equiv
-/** Options for {@link SettingsProvider.describe}. */
-interface SettingsDescribeOptions {
-  /**
-   * Strip `role('secret')` fields from `value`/`base`/`user` and enumerate
-   * them in each descriptor's `secrets`. Every wire surface MUST pass this;
-   * the verbatim default exists for same-process configuration UIs only.
-   */
-  redactSecrets?: boolean
-}
-```
+`update` 合并提交的字段。`replace` 先将即时字段重置为继承配置，再应用提交的字段。`mutate` 操作独立路径，保留客户端响应中未包含的秘密值。每次写入都会验证完整 Config，并在持久化前拒绝过期修订号。
 
-## 变更提交
-
-每次提交的变更——进程内写入或提供方观察到的外部编辑——在新值成为权威值之后发出 `settings/updated (ns, next, prev, source)`，解析值深相等时绝不发出。source 标记区分两条入口路径。
-
-```ts type-equiv
-/** Origin of one committed settings change. */
-type SettingsUpdateSource = 'update' | 'provider'
-```
-
-## 原生文档操作
-
-`SettingsDocumentOpenValue` 确认 `settings/openSettingsDocument` 已准备好 provider 持有的文档，并将其交给原生文本编辑器。`AgentPresetDirectoryOpenValue` 报告已完成的原生交接，或在桌面打开不可用时返回解析后的用户 preset 目录。两项操作都不接受由浏览器选择的 Host 路径。
+`settings/document-updated` 在 Loader 配置变化后使表单描述符失效。这是 UI 通知；消费者仅在需要刷新注册信息时使用 `loader/volatile-update`。
 
 <!-- BEGIN GENERATED cordis-surface (gen-cordis-catalog.ts) — do not edit between markers -->
 
@@ -173,105 +22,52 @@ type SettingsUpdateSource = 'update' | 'provider'
 
 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.zh.md#dispatch-modes), and the framework-inherited `ctx` API lives in [cordis-api/inherited.md](../cordis-api/inherited.md).
 
-<a id="ctxsettings--settingsprovider-abstract-seam"></a>
+<a id="ctxsettings--settingsforms"></a>
 
-### `ctx.settings` — `SettingsProvider` (abstract seam)
+### `ctx.settings` — `SettingsForms`
 
-Abstract settings service. Providers implement raw-document storage (`load`/`persist`) and push external changes through Settings.publish; the base class owns namespace registration, resolution, validation, change detection, and the `settings/updated` commit event.
+Project Config schemas into forms and own optional instance-level UI policy.
 
 ```ts cordis-catalog
-/**
- * Prepare the provider's user-editable document for a native editor. File
- * providers may materialize an absent document before returning its path;
- * non-file providers return undefined.
- * @returns the absolute local document path, or undefined for non-file storage.
+/** Register the calling plugin instance's page policy without changing its Config.
+ * @param presentation Automatic-page policy for this instance; `auto` defaults to true.
+ * @param owner Plugin instance the policy belongs to; defaults to the calling fiber.
+ * @returns Disposer; register it with the calling plugin's effects.
+ * @throws If this instance already has a registered policy.
  */
-prepareDocument(): Promise<string | undefined>
+configure(presentation: { auto?: boolean }, owner: Fiber = this.ctx.fiber): () => void
 
-/**
- * Register a namespace schema and receive its owner scope. The registration
- * is an effect on the calling plugin's fiber: disposing that fiber removes
- * the namespace and its observers. An invalid stored section fails the
- * registration itself — the earliest point where the schema can judge it.
- * @param ns - unique namespace; duplicate registration fails loud.
- * @param schema - schemastery schema resolving this namespace's value.
- * @param options - composition `base` layer and effect timing.
- * @returns the owner scope for reads, observation, and updates.
- * @throws {TypeError} when `ns` is not a lowercase hyphenated identifier.
+/** Locate the profile patch for native editing.
+ * @returns The existing profile patch path.
  */
-register<const Namespace extends string, T>( ns: Namespace & SettingsNamespaceInput<Namespace>, schema: z<T>, options?: SettingsRegisterOptions<T>, ): SettingsScope<T>
+prepareDocument(): Promise<string>
 
-/**
- * Attach one optional-settings consumer to this provider. The consumer
- * registers its composition entry as the base layer while this provider is
- * present, then falls back to that entry if the provider detaches.
- * @param owner - consumer context whose unload suppresses fallback work.
- * @param ns - consumer-owned settings namespace.
- * @param schema - schema resolving the namespace.
- * @param entry - composition entry used as the base and fallback value.
- * @param hooks - source sink, change notification, and optional validation.
- * @throws {TypeError} when `ns` is not a lowercase hyphenated identifier.
- */
-installSection<const Namespace extends string, T>( owner: Context, ns: Namespace & SettingsNamespaceInput<Namespace>, schema: z<T>, entry: T, hooks: SettingsSectionHooks<T>, ): void
-
-/**
- * Describe every registered namespace for configuration surfaces, including
- * the composition `base` and raw user layers so a form can mark which fields
- * the user overrode (presence in `user`) and what a reset returns to.
- * @param options - redaction switch; wire surfaces must redact.
- * @returns one descriptor per registered namespace, in registration order.
+/** Read active plugin schemas and their live values.
+ * @param options Redaction required for remote callers.
+ * @returns Forms keyed by unique profile entry ids.
  */
 describe(options?: SettingsDescribeOptions): SettingsDescriptor[]
 
-/**
- * Read one registered namespace's resolved value.
- * @param ns - the namespace to read.
- * @returns the resolved value, or `undefined` while unregistered.
- * @throws {TypeError} when `ns` is not a lowercase hyphenated identifier.
+/** Merge editable fields into an entry's config.
+ * @param ns Profile entry id.
+ * @param patch Fields to merge.
+ * @param expectedRevision Revision returned by describe.
  */
-get<const Namespace extends string>(ns: Namespace & SettingsNamespaceInput<Namespace>): unknown
+async update(ns: string, patch: object, expectedRevision?: number): Promise<void>
 
-/**
- * Merge a patch into one registered namespace's user layer, validate the
- * resolved candidate, persist through the provider, then commit and emit.
- * A validation failure rejects before anything is persisted. Writes to one
- * namespace are serialized: concurrent updates apply in call order, each
- * merging over the previous write's committed section.
- * @param ns - the registered namespace to update.
- * @param patch - plain-object patch over the user section.
- * @param expectedRevision - the descriptor `revision` the caller read; a
- *   namespace that moved past it rejects with {@link SettingsConflictError}.
- * @throws {TypeError} when `ns` is not a lowercase hyphenated identifier.
+/** Reset all live fields, then set the supplied fields; ordinary config is preserved.
+ * @param ns Profile entry id.
+ * @param section Complete form values.
+ * @param expectedRevision Revision returned by describe.
  */
-async update<const Namespace extends string>( ns: Namespace & SettingsNamespaceInput<Namespace>, patch: object, expectedRevision?: number, ): Promise<void>
+async replace(ns: string, section: object, expectedRevision?: number): Promise<void>
 
-/**
- * Replace one registered namespace's user section wholesale, validate,
- * persist, then commit and emit. Keys absent from `section` fall back to the
- * composition `base` and schema defaults — this is the removal/reset path a
- * merge-only patch cannot express (`replace({})` re-inherits everything).
- * @param ns - the registered namespace to replace.
- * @param section - the complete next user section.
- * @param expectedRevision - the descriptor `revision` the caller read; a
- *   namespace that moved past it rejects with {@link SettingsConflictError}.
- * @throws {TypeError} when `ns` is not a lowercase hyphenated identifier.
+/** Apply field edits without restating redacted secrets; unsetting an array index removes its element.
+ * @param ns Profile entry id.
+ * @param ops Ordered form edits.
+ * @param expectedRevision Revision returned by describe.
  */
-async replace<const Namespace extends string>( ns: Namespace & SettingsNamespaceInput<Namespace>, section: object, expectedRevision?: number, ): Promise<void>
-
-/**
- * Apply path-addressed edits to one registered namespace's user section,
- * validate, persist, then commit and emit. The ops are applied to the
- * section as it stands when the write reaches the front of the queue, so a
- * caller never has to restate fields it did not touch — and, crucially,
- * cannot delete fields it never saw. This is the write path for any caller
- * holding a redacted view; `replace` remains the wholesale reset.
- * @param ns - the registered namespace to edit.
- * @param ops - ordered path edits; later ops observe earlier ones.
- * @param expectedRevision - the descriptor `revision` the caller read; a
- *   namespace that moved past it rejects with {@link SettingsConflictError}.
- * @throws {TypeError} when `ns` is not a lowercase hyphenated identifier.
- */
-async mutate<const Namespace extends string>( ns: Namespace & SettingsNamespaceInput<Namespace>, ops: readonly SettingsPathOp[], expectedRevision?: number, ): Promise<void>
+async mutate(ns: string, ops: readonly SettingsPathOp[], expectedRevision?: number): Promise<void>
 ```
 
 Source: [`packages/settings/settings/src/index.ts`](../../packages/settings/settings/src/index.ts)
@@ -291,12 +87,6 @@ Host service backing the generated `ctx.remote.settings` namespace. Every remote
  */
 @Remote describe(): SettingsDescribeValue
 
-/**
- * Report whether this deployment can open an authored Agent preset directory natively.
- * @returns true when the matching open operation is available.
- */
-@Remote canOpenAgentPresetDirectory(): boolean
-
 /**
  * Merge a patch into one namespace's stored user section.
  * @param ns - namespace key to write.
@@ -336,15 +126,6 @@ Host service backing the generated `ctx.remote.settings` namespace. Every remote
  * @throws RemoteError when no document exists, preparation fails, or opening fails.
  */
 @Remote async openSettingsDocument(signal: AbortSignal): Promise<SettingsDocumentOpenValue>
-
-/**
- * Open one user-authored Agent preset directory or return its path when no native opener exists.
- * @param agentPreset - preset id resolved against Host-owned roots.
- * @param signal - caller lifetime; abort terminates the native command.
- * @returns an opened confirmation or the resolved directory for text display.
- * @throws RemoteError when the preset is missing, read-only, invalid, or cannot be opened.
- */
-@Remote async openAgentPresetDirectory( agentPreset: string, signal: AbortSignal, ): Promise<AgentPresetDirectoryOpenValue>
 ```
 
 Source: [`packages/api/settings-controller/src/index.ts`](../../packages/api/settings-controller/src/index.ts)
@@ -357,49 +138,18 @@ Source: [`packages/api/settings-controller/src/index.ts`](../../packages/api/set
 
 #### `settings/document-updated` — emit
 
-One registered namespace's RAW user section changed, whether or not the resolved value did. `settings/updated` is the consumer-facing event and stays deep-equal-gated; this one exists for configuration surfaces, which must learn that a field went from inherited to overridden (same resolved value, different meaning) and that their held revision is stale. Listener containment matches `settings/updated`.
+One profile entry's form values, availability, or page policy changed. Form clients re-read its schema, resolved values, and revision.
 
 ```ts cordis-catalog
 /**
- * One registered namespace's RAW user section changed, whether or not the
- * resolved value did. `settings/updated` is the consumer-facing event and
- * stays deep-equal-gated; this one exists for configuration surfaces,
- * which must learn that a field went from inherited to overridden (same
- * resolved value, different meaning) and that their held revision is
- * stale. Listener containment matches `settings/updated`.
- * @param ns - the namespace whose stored section changed.
- * @param revision - the namespace's new revision.
+ * One profile entry's form values, availability, or page policy changed.
+ * Form clients re-read its schema, resolved values, and revision.
+ * @param ns Profile entry id.
+ * @param revision The entry's new revision.
  * @mode emit
  */
 'settings/document-updated'(ns: SettingsNamespace, revision: number): void
 ```
 
-Source: [`packages/settings/settings/src/types.ts`](../../packages/settings/settings/src/types.ts)
-
-<a id="settingsupdated--emit"></a>
-
-#### `settings/updated` — emit
-
-Committed change to one registered namespace's resolved value. Emitted after the provider persisted (for `update`) or published (`provider`) the change; never emitted when the resolved value is deep-equal. Listener failures are contained and logged — a sync throw and an async rejection alike — except `INVARIANT`-coded failures, which rethrow after every listener ran; that rethrow reaches the emitter only from synchronous listeners, so invariant checks on this event must not be async functions.
-
-```ts cordis-catalog
-/**
- * Committed change to one registered namespace's resolved value. Emitted
- * after the provider persisted (for `update`) or published (`provider`)
- * the change; never emitted when the resolved value is deep-equal.
- * Listener failures are contained and logged — a sync throw and an async
- * rejection alike — except `INVARIANT`-coded failures, which rethrow
- * after every listener ran; that rethrow reaches the emitter only from
- * synchronous listeners, so invariant checks on this event must not be
- * async functions.
- * @param ns - the namespace whose resolved value changed.
- * @param next - the new resolved value.
- * @param prev - the previous resolved value.
- * @param source - whether the change entered through `update()` or the provider.
- * @mode emit
- */
-'settings/updated'(ns: SettingsNamespace, next: unknown, prev: unknown, source: SettingsUpdateSource): void
-```
-
 Source: [`packages/settings/settings/src/types.ts`](../../packages/settings/settings/src/types.ts)
 <!-- END GENERATED cordis-surface -->

package/references/official-docs/docs/subsystems/shell.i18n.yaml

@@ -1,6 +1,25 @@
-# Bilingual-pair consistency record (docs/i18n/README.md): the git blob hash of each
-# side as of the last confirmed-consistent state. Both languages carry equal authority;
-# after editing either side, bring the other along and re-record with:
+# Bilingual-pair consistency record for shell.md (docs/i18n/README.md): per heading
+# section, a hash of its English and Chinese blocks outside code blocks and generated regions.
+# After editing either side, bring the other along and re-record with:
 #   pnpm run verify-translation-pairing --write docs/subsystems/shell.md
-shell.md: de04083093a1e53aedd310f388f778638d858ce7
-shell.zh.md: d68b1b2cfba3214a23e9120f19fc9a029a181a18
+/shell-executor:
+  en: c9aba02120c42608
+  zh: f76b6b9745015993
+/shell-executor/managed-shell-environment-namespace:
+  en: f04b6ee0f2ec23d5
+  zh: 8c3104d8ce6c70e6
+/shell-executor/request-vs-spec-the-resolve-split:
+  en: a4f7d0ff18dce0c6
+  zh: d956cc599948fae8
+/shell-executor/foreground-runs-shellrunresult:
+  en: 471d328907ef0761
+  zh: d6b0b8e66e427394
+/shell-executor/file-sandbox-shellsandboxinfo:
+  en: 7f84b75c4128768c
+  zh: cf389bfa6c8d24f3
+/shell-executor/background-processes-shellprocess:
+  en: e5530a4d2b8f3aa3
+  zh: 72e4fd736c1a6d9d
+/shell-executor/the-service:
+  en: b850ffb5f5b75ac6
+  zh: 796e57ae77e0e41f

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

@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ interface ShellExecRequest {
   workdir?: string | undefined
   /** Timeout override in milliseconds (implementations cap it). */
   timeoutMs?: number | undefined
+  /** Deadline policy at `timeoutMs` expiry (default `'kill'`). */
+  onExpiry?: ShellExpiryPolicy | undefined
   /**
    * Foreground stdout capture budget in bytes. Absent uses the executor's
    * default output cap. Trusted in-process consumers use this when they must
@@ -34,7 +36,7 @@ interface ShellExecRequest {
    * tool does not expose it as a parameter.
    */
   stdoutMaxBytes?: number | undefined
-  /** Abort signal — implementations kill the command when it fires. */
+  /** Abort signal — implementations kill the command when it fires, and treat a signal that is already aborted as fired. */
   signal?: AbortSignal | undefined
   /**
    * Bytes to write to the command's stdin, then close it. Absent leaves stdin
@@ -68,19 +70,21 @@ interface ShellExecRequest {
 ```ts type-equiv
 /**
  * A resolved execution spec. {@link ShellExecutor.resolve} fills and caps the
- * required fields; {@link ShellExecutor.start} ignores `timeoutMs` because
- * background processes have no executor timeout.
+ * required fields; under `onExpiry: 'none'` the resolved `timeoutMs` arms no
+ * timer and is only echoed into {@link ShellRunResult.timeoutMs}.
  */
 interface ShellExecSpec {
   command: string
   workdir: string
   timeoutMs: number
+  /** Deadline policy at `timeoutMs` expiry ({@link ShellExecutor.resolve} defaults it to `'kill'`). */
+  onExpiry: ShellExpiryPolicy
   /**
-   * Resolved foreground stdout capture budget in bytes. `run()` uses it for
-   * stdout; background jobs and stderr keep the executor's own output cap.
+   * Resolved stdout capture budget in bytes, applied to every execution's
+   * stdout; stderr keeps the executor's own output cap.
    */
   stdoutMaxBytes: number
-  /** Abort signal — implementations kill the command when it fires. */
+  /** Abort signal — implementations kill the command when it fires, and treat a signal that is already aborted as fired. */
   signal?: AbortSignal | undefined
   /** Bytes to write to stdin before closing it; absent means no stdin. */
   stdin?: string | undefined
@@ -162,7 +166,7 @@ interface ShellSandboxInfo {
 }
 ```
 
-The `SANDBOX_UNAVAILABLE` error code (owned by the [sandbox seam](sandbox.md)) is what the `ctx.sandbox` provider throws — and the executor propagates — when a confined mode has no usable backend. A selected runner refusing its profile reaches the same fail-closed foreground error; a settled background job records `runnerFailed`. The model receives denial/runner facts in results, learns the effective mode only when a denial marker names it, and can request a one-shot strictly wider retry through `sandbox_permissions` plus `justification`; `ctx.approval` must grant that exact call before anything executes. The complete policy and switching design is the [sandbox Agent Note](../../.agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-06-sandbox.md).
+The `SANDBOX_UNAVAILABLE` error code (owned by the [sandbox seam](sandbox.md)) is what the `ctx.sandbox` provider throws — and the executor propagates — when a confined mode has no usable backend. A selected runner refusing its profile reaches the same fail-closed foreground error; a settled background job records `runnerFailed`. The model receives denial/runner facts in results, learns the effective mode only when a denial marker names it, and can request a one-shot strictly wider retry through `sandbox_permissions` plus `justification`; `ctx.approval` must grant that exact call before anything executes. The complete policy and switching design is the [sandbox reference](../../packages/sandbox/sandbox-policy/README.md).
 
 ## Background processes: `ShellProcess`
 
@@ -195,6 +199,13 @@ interface ShellProcess {
    * full-stream spill files when available.
    */
   readOutput(): ShellProcessRead
+  /**
+   * Non-consuming offset readers over the same captured streams the consuming
+   * {@link readOutput} cursor drains, including the provider-failure note a
+   * rejected spawn leaves on stderr. Independent observers read here at their
+   * own offsets without stealing bytes from `readOutput`.
+   */
+  observed: ShellObservedStreams
   /**
    * Terminate the provider-managed range. Returns false when it had already finished
    * (no-op); idempotent.
@@ -237,37 +248,33 @@ Generated from source by `scripts/gen-cordis-catalog.ts` (verified fresh by `pnp
 
 Abstract bash execution service. Subclass, implement the abstract methods, and load the subclass as a plugin — it registers as `ctx.shell` (one implementation per context; loading a second throws, which is cordis' standard duplicate-service behavior).
 
+execute resolves with the process handle after preparation. "Foreground" is a property of what the caller awaits, not of the spawn — a caller that awaits ShellExecution.result ran the command in the foreground; one that keeps the handle ran it in the background. A caller that waits only for a while runs the command under `onExpiry: 'none'` and bounds its own wait; the handle stays valid after the caller stops waiting.
+
 Implementations must honor these semantics:
 
-- run rejects only for infrastructure failures. Nonzero exits, timeout kills, and abort kills resolve with a ShellRunResult.
-- start resolves after launch preparation; cancellation or setup failure rejects before publishing a handle. No timeout applies to background processes. Once published, `done` settles at process close and never rejects; subprocess provider failures settle as `killed` with the error on stderr.
+- ShellExecution.result rejects only for infrastructure failures. Nonzero exits, timeout kills, and abort kills resolve with a descriptive result: first-cause `timedOut`/`aborted`, the spec's `timeoutMs` echoed.
+- The handle is published after preparation. `done` settles at process close and never rejects; spawn failures settle as `killed` with the error on the read path, while `result()` carries the same failure as its rejection.
+- `onExpiry: 'none'` arms no deadline; `'kill'` kills at expiry. Expiry during preparation returns a settled timed-out handle without output.
 - ShellProcess.readOutput is incremental: consecutive reads never repeat output. Lossy reads report truncation and available spill files.
-- A still-running background process is stopped and awaited when its owning composition tears down. With the subprocess seam that boundary is `ctx.subprocess` disposal, so a background process survives an executor-only reload.
+- A still-running process is stopped and awaited when its owning composition tears down. With the subprocess seam that boundary is `ctx.subprocess` disposal, so a process survives an executor-only reload.
 
 ```ts cordis-catalog
 /**
  * Apply implementation-owned defaults and caps to a request before execution.
  * @param request - the caller's request; omitted fields get this
  *   implementation's defaults, capped fields are clamped.
- * @returns the fully-specified spec to hand to {@link run}/{@link start}.
+ * @returns the fully-specified spec to hand to {@link execute}.
  */
 abstract resolve(request: ShellExecRequest): ShellExecSpec
 
 /**
- * Run preparation and the foreground command under the resolved timeout.
+ * Prepare and spawn the command under its resolved deadline.
  * @param spec - a resolved spec from {@link resolve}, never a raw request.
- * @returns the outcome; nonzero exits, timeout kills, and abort kills
- *   resolve with a descriptive result rather than reject.
+ * @returns the prepared handle, including its result projection;
+ *   preparation timeout yields an already-settled handle with no output.
  * @throws on preparation failure or caller cancellation before process publication.
  */
-abstract run(spec: ShellExecSpec): Promise<ShellRunResult>
-
-/**
- * Prepare a background process asynchronously and publish its live handle.
- * @param spec - a resolved spec from {@link resolve}, never a raw request.
- * @returns the live process handle after preparation; cancellation or setup failure rejects.
- */
-abstract start(spec: ShellExecSpec): Promise<ShellProcess>
+abstract execute(spec: ShellExecSpec): Promise<ShellExecution>
 ```
 
 Source: [`packages/shell/shell/src/index.ts`](../../packages/shell/shell/src/index.ts)