Abstract user-interaction seam. It owns `ctx.userInteraction`, the service a model-facing tool or permission plugin uses when it needs to pause work and ask the human for a decision.
-`ctx.userInteraction.registerProvider(provider): () => void` Register the UI-side provider. Only one provider may be active in a context; disposal unregisters it.
-`ctx.userInteraction.ask(request): Promise<AskUserQuestionAnswer>` Ask the active provider and wait for the answer.
-`AskUserQuestionRequest` — `{ questions: [{ id, question, detail?, header?, options?, multiSelect? }], agent?, signal? }`; `detail` supplies supporting text that providers render with the question without turning it into an option label.
When an answer includes `custom`, `selected` is empty; custom text is an override rather than a supplement to selected choices. A UI may preserve a skipped item as `{ id, selected: [] }`, keeping the existing answer shape while retaining other answers in the batch.
This is the interface package. Model-facing consumers such as `@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-ask-user` depend on this seam; `dsh-tui` and the host runtime provide interactive implementations. The loop stays unchanged: a tool call awaits a promise, and the tool result resumes the normal agent loop.
Indirectly, through `dsh-tool-ask-user`, which retains a successful provider answer as compact JSON or one of these failures: `Error: ask_user_question was aborted before the user answered`, `Error: ask_user_question requires at least one question`, `Error: no user-interaction provider is registered`, or `Error: <message>`. Waiting for the human adds no tokens.
- **One provider per context** — there is no routing or fan-out to multiple UIs; a second registration throws `DUPLICATE_PROVIDER`, and with none registered `ask()` throws `NO_PROVIDER` rather than degrading.
- **The vocabulary is the question-form shape only** — selectable options plus optional custom text; richer interaction shapes (file pickers, diff-preview confirmations) have no seam vocabulary yet.