docs: reserve seam for complete capabilities
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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ The [initiating Agent scope decision](2026-07-15-agent-initiator-scope.md) inten
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## Decision
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Agent owns the runtime-only `AgentCancelCause` union `{ kind: 'user' } | { kind: 'parent' }`; `agent.cancel()` defaults to `user`. TypeScript enforces that vocabulary at this typed same-process seam, with no runtime validator, fallback, or special compatibility contract for untyped callers. An active `TurnCancellation` copies the typed discriminant into a fresh frozen signal reason; idle cancellation has no holder to mutate and does not arm later work.
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Agent owns the runtime-only `AgentCancelCause` union `{ kind: 'user' } | { kind: 'parent' }`; `agent.cancel()` defaults to `user`. TypeScript enforces that vocabulary at this typed same-process boundary, with no runtime validator, fallback, or special compatibility contract for untyped callers. An active `TurnCancellation` copies the typed discriminant into a fresh frozen signal reason; idle cancellation has no holder to mutate and does not arm later work.
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An interrupted live turn ends with the coarse durable `{ kind: 'aborted' }` outcome. The terminal event records what happened to the turn, while the runtime signal identifies who requested cancellation; it does not duplicate `user` or `parent` into replay. Session seed/load rejects legacy aborted records with a reason or any other extra field, so replay cannot reintroduce caller-owned cancellation detail. The process-local `agent/cancel-requested` notification is not durable; a future audit requirement uses a separate durable control-request event so a request and its eventual outcome remain distinct. Durable events contain no stack, signal, error object, free-form cancellation text, or backend-private detail.
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The driver keeps only a cause-less pre-run marker for queued work cancelled before a turn is claimed. An effective `cancel()` emits the observe-only `agent/cancel-requested` notification with its resolved typed cause before clearing queued and steering work or aborting the holder; notification failures cannot veto the stop, and an idle call emits nothing. Work synchronously queued by a notification observer is included in that clear, while work queued by a later signal abort observer is latched and runs when the aborted activity converges to idle — a `disposed` cancel leaves it parked ([cancel-convergence wake latch](../bug-fix/2026-08-07-cancel-convergence-wake-latch.md)). If a `running` listener synchronously cancels old work and sends a replacement, the driver discards the aborted holder and creates a fresh one for the replacement. Repeated cancellation is first-wins for the active holder, while later calls may still clear newly queued pending work.
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The explicit event signatures pass a single payload object: agent-scoped events carry `agent` and `signal` in the payload with `next` last, and the remaining seams keep `signal` immediately before a waterfall's final `next`. `PreStepContext` and `RequestFailureContext` are retired, with their fields folded into the `agent/pre-step` and `agent/request-error` payloads ([payload-object events](2026-08-06-agent-event-payload-objects.md)). Pre-step entry, request configuration, request-error recovery, model generation, tool execution, approval, turn stopping, and subagent or workflow requests all receive the current signal. Hook bridges must also supply `RunHookOptions.signal`, so a turn cancellation reaches the bash executor's process-group kill and join boundary. `SystemPrompt.assemble()` carries `signal?: AbortSignal` in `AssembleContext` because that object is an explicit request value that can also represent signal-less assembly outside a turn. Listeners may cooperate with the signal but must not retain it to control another turn.
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The explicit event signatures pass a single payload object: agent-scoped events carry `agent` and `signal` in the payload with `next` last, and the remaining APIs keep `signal` immediately before a waterfall's final `next`. `PreStepContext` and `RequestFailureContext` are retired, with their fields folded into the `agent/pre-step` and `agent/request-error` payloads ([payload-object events](2026-08-06-agent-event-payload-objects.md)). Pre-step entry, request configuration, request-error recovery, model generation, tool execution, approval, turn stopping, and subagent or workflow requests all receive the current signal. Hook bridges must also supply `RunHookOptions.signal`, so a turn cancellation reaches the bash executor's process-group kill and join boundary. `SystemPrompt.assemble()` carries `signal?: AbortSignal` in `AssembleContext` because that object is an explicit request value that can also represent signal-less assembly outside a turn. Listeners may cooperate with the signal but must not retain it to control another turn.
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`ctx.agents` continues to carry only the initiating Agent. Ambient Agent presence does not imply liveness, a current turn, or cancellation authority. The cause reader is private to the loop and states the machine-private slot invariant (only `cancel()` aborts a turn controller, always with a canonical frozen cause) instead of re-validating the reason structurally; no public helper reads a cause off an arbitrary signal. Concurrent Agents isolate both their initiator identities and their turn signals; a child driver shadows the parent initiator while its parent request signal still travels through the subagent seam.
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**Expose public turn or step context wrappers.** Existing seams already identify Agent, turn, and step. A wrapper would widen every API, duplicate ownership, and tempt callers to treat a captured object as durable authority.
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**Abandon uncooperative work after a grace period.** Returning idle while same-process work still runs breaks teardown and resource-ownership guarantees. Hard termination requires a worker or process isolation boundary and is outside this control seam.
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**Abandon uncooperative work after a grace period.** Returning idle while same-process work still runs breaks teardown and resource-ownership guarantees. Hard termination requires a worker or process isolation boundary and is outside this control boundary.
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## Consequences
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Cancellation has one runtime owner, one signal per live turn, and one typed runtime caller vocabulary. Session retains the coarse `aborted` outcome that its consumers actually use, rejects reason-bearing legacy forms, and stays isolated from runtime objects. Cooperative cancellation reaches every asynchronous turn seam, including work before the first step and after the last one, while terminal publication and persistence remain outside its authority.
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Cancellation has one runtime owner, one signal per live turn, and one typed runtime caller vocabulary. Session retains the coarse `aborted` outcome that its consumers actually use, rejects reason-bearing legacy forms, and stays isolated from runtime objects. Cooperative cancellation reaches every asynchronous turn extension point, including work before the first step and after the last one, while terminal publication and persistence remain outside its authority.
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The explicit signal adds parameters to several public events and requires plugins to forward cancellation deliberately. This is intentional: authority is visible at the call boundary, lifetime matches the turn, and stale ambient descendants cannot acquire control. Uncooperative in-process work may delay cancellation, but the reported quiescent state remains truthful.
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