Review corrections on the observation record:
- `pumpJobOutput` subscribes to `done` once and keeps one pending timer;
racing the same pending promise every poll round retained a reaction
per round for the life of the job.
- The `ctx.jobOutput` effect disposer is async and awaits every open
carrier's `dispose()`, so the fiber reports unloaded only once the old
iterators are quiescent.
- `SessionJob.record: true` replaces `outputTotal`: `append` never commits
a roster change, so the mirrored count was stale while output flowed;
the live offsets ride the observation stream's `opened` anchor.
- The record is documented as a best-effort live preview whose
cross-stream reordering is bounded by the poll interval.
- The web e2e scenarios hold their background job on a test-owned barrier
file instead of a wall-clock sleep, and each is one test rather than a
chain sharing a job id.
Carries the master sync forward (invariant-companion cleanup, alpha.3 bump);
regenerates the client api catalog so ISession lists both killJob and the new
loadThrough, and refreshes the new ptc-python-turn scenario's system-prompt
pin for this branch's bash timeout-promotion schema text.
Absorbs the repo-wide no-op invariant companion removal (ui-jobs loses its
placeholder companion, export, and devDep), the 0.1.2-alpha.3 release bump,
and the tool-subagent-report package retirement; regenerates the client slot
catalog for the shifted contract line numbers.
bash and pwsh background runs declare record: true and pump their observed
streams straight into the job through observeProcessRecord — the open/end
pairing, outcome mapping, and registry-absent degradation branches are gone,
and the pump's final drain folds into hooks.done so the record holds its
last bytes before settlement closes it. activityPollMs becomes recordPollMs.
tool-workflow drops its foreground activity mirror deliberately: a
foreground run's live phase/log narration had the mirror as its only
carrier, and the transcript keeps the recorded run/member lifecycle events.
Live narration returns with backgrounded runs when workflow gains
run_in_background.
The executor seam collapses run()/start() (and the planned begin()) into one
resolve() + execute(): the handle IS the live process, and the foreground
result, the background cursor, and the deadline's promotion offer are
projections over the same spawn. ShellExecSpec.onExpiry ('kill' default /
'offer' / 'none') replaces the implicit method split; one stdout budget applies
everywhere, the 'start ignores timeoutMs' wart dies, and sync spawn throws are
contained into the same settled-killed handle as async rejections (result()
rejects with the original error, identity preserved for the sandbox
classification).
The promotion offer settles exactly once and never rejects — offer at an
'offer' deadline while running, undefined when the process settles first — so
'await execution.promotion' alone distinguishes the outcomes. An offer must be
answered synchronously; an unanswered one auto-declines back to the
kill-on-timeout behavior. accept() ends the deadline and detaches the caller's
abort signal; decline() kills and classifies timedOut.
tool-bash and tool-pwsh promote on timeout by default (promoteOnTimeout: true,
inert without run_in_background or a job registry): at the offer the running
handle registers as a job with the same hooks as run_in_background, mirrors
into ctx.activities (the web task list streams it, stop control included), and
the call returns { kind: 'promoted', jobId, timeoutMs, output } carrying the
output so far — the job cursor continues exactly after it. Any promotion
failure declines and falls back to the plain timeout kill. Descriptions and
the timeoutMs schema text advertise the semantics only when they hold;
recorded-session and web snapshot fixtures re-recorded with them.
Also repairs the four CI failures from the human-kill push: ui-activity's
missing dsh-session peer declaration (static + windows observational), the
observe owner-arm/outer-catch and killJob-stub coverage gaps, tool-workflow's
owned-run arm, and the timing-dependent projection-cache interval flush test
(now poll-based for coarse Windows timers).
Peer evidence and rejected alternatives (Codex's session model, a third seam
method, a second threshold knob) in the Agent Note
2026-08-26-shell-execute-timeout-promotion.
Both ds-review-bot criticals verified and fixed:
- ClientActivityFeed release closures resolved the entries map at release
time, not the entry they were minted for. A late release of a superseded
observation decremented (and could tear down) the successor's stream, and
the post-dispose model clear could land after a re-observation inside the
dispose round-trip re-anchored the view — blanking the panel until the
popover reopened (React StrictMode's double effect hits the same window).
Releasers now capture their entry, reconcile the map only when it still
holds that entry, and skip the view clear whenever a successor owns the
key. Both regressions fail on the previous code.
- The background observation tap mapped the process outcome as soon as the
pump settled — including its failure path, where the process is usually
still running: processOutcome requires a settled handle, so an early
mapping froze 'exit code: 0' onto a live task and first-wins end discarded
the real terminal state. The tap now awaits proc.done before mapping (the
promise never rejects) and swallows mapping failures per the module's
contract, in bash and its pwsh mirror.
Also applied from the same review: the Remote tier's cross-session
visibility is now stated in the controller README, ActivityRead.next
documents its chunk-boundary nature that client concatenation relies on,
mergeRows records the one-activity-per-job assumption, and the 08-24 Agent
Note now reflects the shipped unified task list.
Add the activity capability seam: ctx.activities is a pure observation
plane where long-running work (background bash/pwsh, workflow runs) opens a
handle, appends transient output into a byte-offset ring buffer, and settles
exactly once. Nothing model-visible changes: reads are non-consuming and
lossy-by-design (absolute UTF-8 offsets survive eviction and report gaps),
correlation carries {callId, jobId}, and visibility is owner-fenced like jobs.
The seam is strictly optional. Producers tap it through ctx.get('activities')
and contain every observation failure, so an unregistered or broken registry
never affects the underlying job (proven by broken-registry tests).
Ship the full path in one change:
- @deepseek-ai/dsh-activity: Service Definition, pumpActivityOutput pull
substrate, invariant companion; dsh-activity-local: ring-buffer provider
with retention config and owner cleanup.
- shell: ShellProcess.observed exposes non-consuming stdout/stderr readers;
tool-bash/tool-pwsh mirror background jobs into activities.
- tool-workflow: phase/log/agent lines mirrored as a workflow activity.
- api-activity-controller: Typert Remote control (roster baseline+buckets)
and observe (opened/output/status frames, coalesced and byte-capped)
streams plus the client feed service with reference-counted observation.
- ui-activity: session-header action rendering live output through
TerminalBlock, which now shows output while a command is still running.
Docs: activity subsystem page, architecture row, regenerated catalogs, and
the Agent Note (2026-08-24-activity-observation-seam), all bilingual. A
keyless web e2e replays a real run_in_background stream to ARIA goldens.
Yichen Jiang