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Add a second axis to every RFC — its class (feature, bug-fix,
simplification, architecture, process, testing) — encoded in the path
as docs/rfc/{lifecycle}/{class}/file.md. The folder is the label, so
the closed set is enforced by structure rather than a parsed field.
Two new doc-sync gates back it:
- verify-rfc-classification: every RFC sits in a valid class folder and
the README index lists it under the matching lifecycle→class heading.
- verify-doc-refs: every docs/*.md path cited in a packages|examples TS
comment resolves — closes a drift class verify-md-links can't see, and
catches the four comment refs this reorg moved.
The README gains a Classification section explaining the taxonomy and
per-class index sub-sections. A self-referential process RFC records why
the scheme is path-encoded and gated.
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# RFC: Extract a generic long-running tool runtime
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Status: proposed
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## Problem
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The bash capability seam supports both foreground commands and long-running background tasks. Background support is large: the abstract executor exposes `start`, `get`, `ownerOf`, `list`, `readOutput`, `kill`, and `onTaskDone`; the local executor tracks tasks, incremental reads, owner tokens, process cleanup, and completion listeners; the model sees three tools (`bash`, `bash_output`, `bash_kill`); the tool plugin injects completion notices back into the owning agent's session. The local executor fences task access behind owner tokens because predictable global task ids are a cross-session read/kill hazard.
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The [tool cookbook](../../../cookbook/adding-a-tool.md) already points at the real design smell: background bash is really generic long-running-tool infrastructure living inside one tool. If future tools need background execution, polling, kill, ownership, and completion notices, those semantics should not be hidden in `dsh-bash`.
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## Proposal
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Move long-running task semantics above bash into a tool-agnostic runtime. Bash remains able to run background commands, but it stops owning the general concepts of task ids, ownership tokens, polling, cancellation, completion notifications, and model-facing "read/kill this task" commands.
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The runtime should own:
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- Stable task ids and owner tokens keyed to the calling session/agent.
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- Registration of a long-running task with a producer for incremental output and a completion promise.
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- Generic read/cancel/list operations with the same cross-session authorization rule for every tool.
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- Completion notification injection into the owning session.
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- Presentation hooks for pending/running/completed task state, with bash supplying only command-specific labels and output formatting.
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`dsh-bash` then keeps the bash-specific execution contract: resolve a request into a command spec, run a foreground command, or start a process and hand its streams/process handle to the generic runtime. `dsh-tool-bash` keeps the model-facing command tool, but the follow-up operations become generic long-running-tool operations or a shared utility that bash registers with, rather than bespoke `bash_output`/`bash_kill` plumbing.
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## Acceptance criteria
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- The bash-specific packages no longer define the generic task registry, owner-token authorization, polling, cancellation, or completion-notification machinery.
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- A shared long-running-task service or tool layer owns those semantics and is documented as the path for any future background-capable tool.
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- Bash background behavior remains available through the shared layer, with tests proving cross-session isolation still holds.
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- ACP and snapshot fixtures render background bash through the shared task vocabulary, not through bash-only lifecycle semantics.
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- The [tool cookbook](../../../cookbook/adding-a-tool.md) points long-running tools at the shared runtime instead of telling each tool to invent its own task protocol.
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## What we give up
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The bash package loses local ownership of an already-working background-task implementation, and the implementing PR may temporarily churn model-facing tool names or transcript presentation. That churn is worthwhile if it leaves one background-task contract instead of making every future long-running tool clone bash's private protocol.
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