diff --git a/docs/architecture.md b/docs/architecture.md
index c7c84ce3b4..a24f4bdcd0 100644
--- a/docs/architecture.md
+++ b/docs/architecture.md
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ Tool schemas are deliberately **part of the assembly**: "what the model is told
 - `steer(content)` — mid-turn injection, drained **between steps**; behaves like `send` when idle
 - `inject(content)` — in-session context (`context/message` event); the next request sees it (Claude Code attachment / system-reminder analog). An inject made while the agent is *running* joins the open turn; an inject while *idle* is wrapped in a one-shot turn (`turn/start{trigger:injection}` → `context/message` → `turn/end`) so every event stays turn-enclosed (see [the turn-enclosure invariant](rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-15-turn-enclosure-invariant.md)).
 - `cancel(reason)` — the single public stop primitive: clears queued + steering work, aborts the in-flight step, and drops a turn about to start (the pre-step window) so a queued-but-not-started prompt never runs and cannot be batched into the cancelled turn. A UI/ACP `session/cancel` maps to it.
-- `whenIdle()` — resolves once the agent reaches quiescence after settling out of `running` (resolves immediately when already idle; awaits the loop exit when disposed). The teardown signal: `cancel()` then `await whenIdle()` guarantees the in-flight turn has fully stopped. Observes the transition without disposing the agent.
+- `whenIdle()` — resolves once the agent reaches quiescence after settling out of `running` (resolves immediately when already idle; awaits the loop exit when disposed). A non-owner's quiescence-observation hook: it lets a consumer await the current work settling **without** disposing the agent. It is NOT teardown — it does not stop queued work, unregister the agent, or detach the session; a lifecycle owner tears an agent down with `await AgentHandle.dispose()` (which stops the loop, awaits its exit, and unregisters).
 - `session`, `status`, `options`
 
 **TODO(sub-agents)**: `spawn`/`fork` land on `AgentLoop.create()` — fork seeds the child Session with the parent's event log, spawn starts fresh; children are ordinary `Agent` handles so `steer()` and event subscription work uniformly. Inter-agent channels beyond these primitives are deliberately deferred.
diff --git a/docs/cookbook/extension-cookbook.md b/docs/cookbook/extension-cookbook.md
index 41fc85be0e..6c4498e254 100644
--- a/docs/cookbook/extension-cookbook.md
+++ b/docs/cookbook/extension-cookbook.md
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context) {
 
 ## A client-driver plugin (external protocol bridge)
 
-A *client driver* is a UI plugin whose "user" is another program speaking a wire protocol rather than a human at a terminal. It owns the process's stdio (so it must run with **no stdout logger** — every non-protocol byte corrupts the stream), creates/resumes agents on demand through the `dsh-agent` factory seam, translates harness events (`session/event`, `agent/*`) into outbound protocol messages, and translates inbound requests back into `agent.send()` / `agent.cancel()`. Two harness-specific contracts make it correct: resolve each request exactly once off a settle signal (the turn can end without its `agent/turn-end` event firing — fall back through the logged `turn/end` record), and on disposal reach quiescence (handle disposal aborts in-flight work then `await`s `agent.whenIdle()`), not just request it.
+A *client driver* is a UI plugin whose "user" is another program speaking a wire protocol rather than a human at a terminal. It owns the process's stdio (so it must run with **no stdout logger** — every non-protocol byte corrupts the stream), creates/resumes agents on demand through the `dsh-agent` factory seam, translates harness events (`session/event`, `agent/*`) into outbound protocol messages, and translates inbound requests back into `agent.send()` / `agent.cancel()`. Two harness-specific contracts make it correct: resolve each request exactly once off a settle signal (the turn can end without its `agent/turn-end` event firing — fall back through the logged `turn/end` record), and tear each agent down through its `AgentHandle.dispose()` (which stops the loop, `await`s its exit, and unregisters), not just `cancel()` — disposal must *reach* quiescence, not merely request it.
 
 `packages/ui/acp` is the worked example: it bridges the agent to the Agent Client Protocol (JSON-RPC over stdio) so Zed and other ACP editors can drive it. See its README for the full method surface and the deferred-permission-gate note.
 
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ export function apply(ctx: Context) {
     }
   })
   // Inbound "prompt": create/resume an agent and feed it; settle on turn end.
-  // Disposal awaits quiescence: handle disposal aborts, then await agent.whenIdle().
+  // Teardown reaches quiescence via AgentHandle.dispose() (stop + await exit).
 }
 ```
 
diff --git a/docs/rfc/proposed/feature/2026-06-14-acp-agent-client-protocol.md b/docs/rfc/proposed/feature/2026-06-14-acp-agent-client-protocol.md
index e3af4abb3c..8244cab354 100644
--- a/docs/rfc/proposed/feature/2026-06-14-acp-agent-client-protocol.md
+++ b/docs/rfc/proposed/feature/2026-06-14-acp-agent-client-protocol.md
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ The mapping between ACP and existing harness seams — each row names the seam a
 
 The permission gate is the first real consumer of the `tools/execute` veto seam (the documented "single veto/sandbox/permission seam" plus the deferred "Permission system" TODO in [docs/architecture.md](../../../architecture.md)). It is a single global listener registered with `prepend: true` so it runs before any other tool wrapper. `ToolExecution.agent` is optional and the `Agent` interface carries no origin marker, so the bridge tracks ownership itself: it records each agent it creates in a `WeakMap<Agent, sessionId>` and the gate no-ops (calls `next()` immediately) for any `exec.agent` it does not own — non-ACP agents and the no-agent case pass straight through. For an owned agent it resolves the session, issues `session/request_permission`, and stores the pending resolver on that session's record so the outcome — or a `session/cancel`/connection-close — settles it exactly once.
 
-Lifecycle and disposal: the connection, listeners, and in-flight permission promises register via `ctx.effect`/`ctx.on`; teardown is async and awaits quiescence — close the connection, settle/reject pending permissions, `agent.cancel()`, and wait for the agent to settle. The disposal-settle signal must come from the `dsh-agent` interface, not the loop: `agent.done` exists only on the concrete `ReactLoopAgent`, so the bridge instead observes `agent/status` reaching `idle`/`disposed` (or the RFC lifts a quiescence promise onto the `Agent` interface). Every listener contains its `send()` exceptions (log, never reject the turn) because stream chunks are emitted inside the model step, so a throwing listener would corrupt the turn.
+Lifecycle and disposal: the connection, listeners, and in-flight permission promises register via `ctx.effect`/`ctx.on`; teardown is async and must *reach* quiescence, not just request it — close the connection, settle/reject pending permissions, and dispose each owned agent through its `AgentHandle.dispose()` (which stops the loop, `await`s its exit, and unregisters). Disposal must come through the `dsh-agent` handle seam, not the loop: `agent.done` exists only on the concrete `ReactLoopAgent`, so a bridge that wanted to wait on quiescence directly would instead observe `agent/status` reaching `idle`/`disposed` — but routing teardown through the handle's `dispose()` makes that unnecessary. Every listener contains its `send()` exceptions (log, never reject the turn) because stream chunks are emitted inside the model step, so a throwing listener would corrupt the turn.
 
 **Dependency note (architecture rule).** [docs/architecture.md](../../../architecture.md) states "plugins depend on interface packages, never on `dsh-agent-loop`." Creating and resuming agents is currently only on the concrete `AgentLoop` (`ctx.agentLoop`), so this RFC proposes adding an **abstract create/resume factory** to the `dsh-agent` interface (registry-level `create({ sessionId, meta })` / `resume(...)`), implemented by the loop, so `dsh-acp` injects only `agents` (the interface) and the dependency rule holds. The alternative — injecting the concrete `agentLoop` and recording a documented exception in the architecture doc — is explicitly the non-preferred fallback.