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client.rs

1//! `Tasks`: the crate's front door.
2//!
3//! One workspace's durable tasks, over one global [`DataDir`]. `spawn` mints
4//! a task and returns immediately — the mint is a `mkdir` and an atomic
5//! write, nothing durable ever blocks on a model. Everything that *drives* a
6//! task (`ask`, `wait`, `wait_message`) attaches only when no other process
7//! already holds it, and every other verb (`send`, `cancel`, `watch`,
8//! `list`, `terminal`, ...) only ever reads or writes small files under the
9//! attach lock's protection, never taking it. No verb here leaves a resident
10//! process behind (ADR-0019).
11//!
12//! `workspace` matters to exactly two of these: [`spawn`](Tasks::spawn),
13//! which mints under it, and [`list`](Tasks::list), which scans it. Every
14//! other method takes a [`TaskHandle`] that already names its own workspace
15//! key, and resolves purely from that — a host holding a handle can `wait`
16//! or `cancel` it regardless of which workspace `Tasks::open` was given.
17
18use std::{
19    path::{Path, PathBuf},
20    sync::Arc,
21    time::Duration,
22};
23
24use serde_json::Value;
25
26use crate::{
27    Error, Hint,
28    approve::PromptHost,
29    attach,
30    data_dir::{self, DataDir, canonical_workspace},
31    events::EventTail,
32    handle::TaskHandle,
33    inbox,
34    live::{DriveContext, GatewayObserver, LiveSink},
35    lock, policy,
36    spec::{Continuation, DEFAULT_DEADLINE, RunSpec},
37    state::{self, InboxRecord, RunOptions, TaskMeta, TerminalRecord},
38    stop::Stop,
39    tasks::{self, TaskSummary},
40    watch::EventCursor,
41};
42
43/// The current attach's outcome, or a bounded timeout — see
44/// [`attach::WaitOutcome`], which this re-exports as the return type of
45/// [`Tasks::wait`] and [`Tasks::wait_message`].
46pub use attach::WaitOutcome;
47
48/// What [`Tasks::ask`] enqueued and what came of waiting for it.
49///
50/// `message_id` is the durable correlation handle — the same id [`Tasks::send`]
51/// would have returned for the enqueue alone — carried back so a caller can
52/// retry through [`Tasks::wait_message`] if the wait itself times out, or
53/// report it in an "accepted" record either way.
54#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq)]
55pub struct Reply {
56    pub message_id: String,
57    pub outcome: WaitOutcome,
58}
59
60/// One workspace's durable tasks.
61///
62/// `Clone` because a handful of this type's own `async fn`s need an owned
63/// copy to move onto a blocking thread (see `blocking`, below) — every field
64/// is already cheap to clone (a path, an `Arc`), so this costs nothing a
65/// caller could not already do by hand.
66#[derive(Clone)]
67pub struct Tasks {
68    data: DataDir,
69    workspace: PathBuf,
70    prompt_host: Option<Arc<dyn PromptHost>>,
71    gateway_observer: Option<GatewayObserver>,
72    stop: Option<Stop>,
73}
74
75impl Tasks {
76    /// Opens the durable task store: `BASIS_DATA_DIR`, else an absolute
77    /// `XDG_DATA_HOME`, else the platform data home (created private on first
78    /// use). `workspace` is read by [`spawn`](Self::spawn) and
79    /// [`list`](Self::list) only; every handle-scoped method resolves
80    /// straight from the handle, so opening `Tasks` is cheap and does not
81    /// itself touch `workspace` on disk.
82    pub fn open(workspace: impl Into<PathBuf>) -> Result<Self, Error> {
83        let data = DataDir::discover()
84            .map_err(|error| Error::new(format!("open task data directory: {error}")))?;
85        Ok(Self {
86            data,
87            workspace: workspace.into(),
88            prompt_host: None,
89            gateway_observer: None,
90            stop: None,
91        })
92    }
93
94    /// Opens the durable task store at an explicit root, bypassing the
95    /// `BASIS_DATA_DIR`/XDG discovery [`open`](Self::open) performs.
96    ///
97    /// For a host that manages its own data directory location rather than
98    /// the process environment — several `Tasks` in one process, each with
99    /// its own root, for one — and for a test that wants no dependency on
100    /// `std::env` at all.
101    pub fn open_at(
102        data_dir: impl Into<PathBuf>,
103        workspace: impl Into<PathBuf>,
104    ) -> Result<Self, Error> {
105        let data = DataDir::from_path(data_dir.into())
106            .map_err(|error| Error::new(format!("open task data directory: {error}")))?;
107        Ok(Self {
108            data,
109            workspace: workspace.into(),
110            prompt_host: None,
111            gateway_observer: None,
112            stop: None,
113        })
114    }
115
116    /// Supplies how this `Tasks` answers `Approve::Prompt` while it drives a
117    /// task, and whether it can be asked at all — see [`PromptHost`]. Without
118    /// one, `Prompt` refuses the same way an unaskable process always did;
119    /// `basis-cli` is the first caller of this.
120    #[must_use]
121    pub fn with_prompt_host(self, prompt_host: Arc<dyn PromptHost>) -> Self {
122        Self {
123            prompt_host: Some(prompt_host),
124            ..self
125        }
126    }
127
128    /// Observes the gateway ring of every task this process drives, including
129    /// children driven while settling a parent. The observer belongs to this
130    /// attaching process, is never persisted, and changes no task settings.
131    /// A task with no gateway ring emits nothing.
132    #[must_use]
133    pub fn with_gateway_ring_observer(
134        self,
135        observer: impl Fn(basis::runtime::GatewayRingEvent) + Send + Sync + 'static,
136    ) -> Self {
137        Self {
138            gateway_observer: Some(Arc::new(observer)),
139            ..self
140        }
141    }
142
143    /// Supplies the host's [`Stop`]: once it is flipped, every task this
144    /// `Tasks` is driving is abandoned where it stands — the turn in flight
145    /// included, never recorded as an outcome — and left resumable, and every
146    /// wait and ask driving under it returns as timed out. What a server
147    /// shutting down gives the tasks it drives (see [`Stop`]).
148    #[must_use]
149    pub fn with_stop(self, stop: Stop) -> Self {
150        Self {
151            stop: Some(stop),
152            ..self
153        }
154    }
155
156    /// Whether this `Tasks` can currently put an `Approve::Prompt` question
157    /// to whoever answers for it — `false` with no [`PromptHost`] supplied.
158    pub fn can_ask(&self) -> bool {
159        self.prompt_host.as_deref().is_some_and(PromptHost::can_ask)
160    }
161
162    /// The mentra store directory `workspace` resolves to, without minting or
163    /// reading any task.
164    ///
165    /// What a host's attended, one-shot route — no durable task, no handle —
166    /// needs to land its conversation store on the same directory
167    /// [`spawn`](Self::spawn) would use for the same workspace, so the two
168    /// share one conversation history and one memory root rather than
169    /// falling back to two.
170    pub fn store_dir(workspace: &Path) -> Result<PathBuf, Error> {
171        let data = DataDir::discover()
172            .map_err(|error| Error::new(format!("open task data directory: {error}")))?;
173        data.resolve_store_dir(workspace).map_err(Error::new)
174    }
175
176    /// A private directory for one host's own records about this workspace's
177    /// tasks — what an adapter keeps that a task directory does not, such as
178    /// which protocol-level ids it handed out for which handles.
179    ///
180    /// `<data root>/workspaces/<key>/hosts/<host>`, created `0700` on first
181    /// use. `host` is one path component of lowercase ASCII letters, digits,
182    /// and `-`, so a name can never reach outside its own directory. Nothing
183    /// in this crate reads it; deleting it loses the host's index, never a
184    /// task.
185    pub fn host_dir(&self, host: &str) -> Result<PathBuf, Error> {
186        self.data
187            .resolve_host_dir(&self.workspace, host)
188            .map_err(Error::new)
189    }
190
191    fn ctx(&self, live: Option<Arc<dyn LiveSink>>) -> DriveContext {
192        DriveContext::new(live, self.prompt_host.clone())
193            .observing_gateway_ring(self.gateway_observer.clone())
194            .stopping_on(self.stop.clone())
195    }
196
197    /// Mints a task and returns its handle immediately. Durable and resumable
198    /// from the moment this returns: nothing has attached yet, and nothing
199    /// has to for the handle to be good.
200    pub fn spawn(&self, spec: RunSpec) -> Result<TaskHandle, Error> {
201        let RunSpec {
202            prompt,
203            provider,
204            base_url,
205            model,
206            shell,
207            system_prompt,
208            effort,
209            approve,
210            deadline,
211            tool_budget,
212            token_budget,
213            detached,
214            continuation,
215            hop,
216            not_after_ms,
217            answering,
218            config,
219        } = spec;
220        if prompt.trim().is_empty() {
221            return Err(Error::new("prompt is empty"));
222        }
223        if prompt.len() > state::MAX_PROMPT {
224            return Err(Error::new(format!(
225                "prompt is {} bytes; the limit is {}",
226                prompt.len(),
227                state::MAX_PROMPT
228            )));
229        }
230        // Refused here, before a task directory is even minted: a task whose
231        // approval mode can never be honored by this `Tasks` — no
232        // `PromptHost`, or one that cannot currently ask — is refused as a
233        // cheaper, clearer failure than one that could never make progress.
234        crate::approve::validate_approval(approve, self.can_ask())?;
235
236        let deadline_ms = duration_ms(deadline.unwrap_or(DEFAULT_DEADLINE));
237        let options = RunOptions {
238            provider,
239            base_url,
240            model,
241            no_shell: !shell,
242            system_prompt,
243            append_system_prompt: None,
244            effort,
245            approve,
246            deadline_ms: Some(deadline_ms),
247            tool_budget,
248            token_budget,
249            answering,
250            config,
251        };
252
253        let canonical = canonical_workspace(&self.workspace).map_err(|error| {
254            Error::new(format!(
255                "resolve workspace {}: {error}",
256                self.workspace.display()
257            ))
258        })?;
259        let key = self.data.ensure_workspace(&canonical).map_err(Error::new)?;
260
261        // Read off the published BASIS_TASK_ID protocol: a task spawning
262        // another is, by default, that task's parent (ADR-0017's tree).
263        let caller = crate::current_task();
264        if let Some(caller) = &caller
265            && !detached
266            && caller.key() != key
267        {
268            return Err(Error::new(format!(
269                "current task {caller} belongs to another workspace; spawn a detached task to \
270                 start work here"
271            ))
272            .with_hint(Hint::SpawnDetached));
273        }
274        let parent = if detached { None } else { caller };
275
276        // T2(a): resolving which conversation to continue, minting the task
277        // directory, and recording the claim (`continues`) on it are one
278        // unit against a second spawn targeting this same workspace —
279        // otherwise two concurrent `--continue`s could both resolve the same
280        // conversation before either's claim is on disk for the other to
281        // see. Held past `save_meta` below, then dropped explicitly: nothing
282        // after that point reads or writes what this protects.
283        let continue_lock = lock::exclusive(&self.data.continue_lock(&key))
284            .map_err(|error| Error::new(format!("acquire workspace continuation lock: {error}")))?;
285        let continues = self.resolve_continuation(&canonical, &key, continuation)?;
286
287        let requested_deadline = attach::earlier_deadline(
288            Some(
289                state::now_ms()
290                    .checked_add(deadline_ms)
291                    .ok_or_else(|| Error::new("task deadline exceeds the system clock range"))?,
292            ),
293            not_after_ms,
294        );
295        let mut hop = hop;
296        let deadline_at = match &parent {
297            Some(parent_handle) => {
298                let paths = attach::resolve(&self.data, parent_handle.as_str()).map_err(|_| {
299                    Error::new(format!("parent task {parent_handle} does not exist"))
300                })?;
301                let owner = state::load_meta(&paths).map_err(Error::new)?;
302                let accepts = state::read_terminal(&paths).map_err(Error::new)?.is_none()
303                    && owner.pending_terminal.is_none()
304                    && !state::cancel_requested(&paths)
305                    && !owner.deadline_passed();
306                if !accepts {
307                    return Err(Error::new(format!(
308                        "parent task {parent_handle} is no longer running"
309                    )));
310                }
311                // A child is its parent's work one level down in-process:
312                // as many hops from the top-level caller, never fewer.
313                hop = hop.max(owner.hop);
314                attach::earlier_deadline(requested_deadline, owner.deadline_at_ms)
315            }
316            None => requested_deadline,
317        };
318
319        let agents = self.data.agents_dir(&key);
320        let existing = std::fs::read_dir(&agents)
321            .map_err(|error| Error::new(format!("scan workspace agents: {error}")))?
322            .count();
323        if existing >= state::MAX_TASKS {
324            return Err(Error::task_limit(format!(
325                "workspace has {} tasks (the limit); archive old agent directories under {}",
326                state::MAX_TASKS,
327                agents.display()
328            )));
329        }
330
331        // `create_dir` is the atomic claim on the handle; a uuid collision retries.
332        let (task, paths) = loop {
333            let task = format!("{key}/{}", uuid::Uuid::new_v4().simple());
334            let paths = self
335                .data
336                .agent_dir(&task)
337                .expect("a minted handle is well-formed");
338            match std::fs::create_dir(paths.dir()) {
339                Ok(()) => {
340                    data_dir::restrict_directory(paths.dir())
341                        .map_err(|error| Error::new(format!("restrict task directory: {error}")))?;
342                    break (task, paths);
343                }
344                Err(error) if error.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::AlreadyExists => {}
345                Err(error) => return Err(Error::new(format!("create task directory: {error}"))),
346            }
347        };
348        let meta = TaskMeta::new(
349            task.clone(),
350            parent.map(|handle| handle.as_str().to_string()),
351            detached,
352            canonical.to_string_lossy().into_owned(),
353            prompt,
354            options,
355            deadline_at,
356        )
357        .continuing(continues)
358        .at_hop(hop);
359        state::save_meta(&paths, &meta).map_err(Error::new)?;
360        drop(continue_lock);
361
362        TaskHandle::parse(task)
363    }
364
365    /// The conversation `continuation` names, when it names one: `New`
366    /// mints, `Latest` picks the conversation this workspace was last worked
367    /// in, `Named` picks a specific one — the same resolution `--continue`
368    /// and `--continue --session <ID>` need.
369    fn resolve_continuation(
370        &self,
371        workspace: &Path,
372        key: &str,
373        continuation: Continuation,
374    ) -> Result<Option<String>, Error> {
375        let requested = match continuation {
376            Continuation::New => return Ok(None),
377            Continuation::Latest => None,
378            Continuation::Named(handle) => Some(handle),
379        };
380        let summaries = tasks::workspace_tasks(&self.data, workspace)
381            .map_err(Error::new)?
382            .unwrap_or_default();
383        let chosen = match &requested {
384            // `named` tells a bad argument (malformed, or another workspace's
385            // handle) apart from a state fact (well-formed, this workspace,
386            // simply not recorded) — the same distinction `Error` carries.
387            Some(handle) => {
388                tasks::named(&summaries, key, handle.as_str()).map_err(|error| match error {
389                    tasks::NamedError::InvalidReference(message) => {
390                        Error::invalid_reference(message)
391                    }
392                    tasks::NamedError::NotFound(message) => Error::new(message),
393                })?
394            }
395            None => tasks::latest_conversation(&summaries).ok_or_else(|| {
396                Error::new("no task in this workspace has a conversation to continue")
397                    .with_hint(Hint::SpawnFresh)
398            })?,
399        };
400        if chosen.state == "running" {
401            return Err(Error::new(format!(
402                "task {} is running; its attach lock is what keeps one conversation to one \
403                 executor",
404                chosen.task
405            ))
406            .with_hint(Hint::Wait(TaskHandle::parse(chosen.task.clone())?)));
407        }
408        if chosen.agent_id.is_empty() {
409            return Err(Error::new(format!(
410                "task {} has no conversation yet: nothing has attached to it",
411                chosen.task
412            ))
413            .with_hint(Hint::Wait(TaskHandle::parse(chosen.task.clone())?)));
414        }
415        // T2(a): a sibling that already recorded `continues` against this
416        // same conversation, and has not yet settled, holds an open claim on
417        // it — minting a second claimant here is exactly the race that lets
418        // two executors resume one conversation at once.
419        if let Some(claimant) =
420            tasks::claimed_continuation(&self.data, key, &chosen.agent_id).map_err(Error::new)?
421        {
422            let claimant = TaskHandle::parse(claimant)?;
423            return Err(Error::new(format!(
424                "task {claimant} already continues this conversation; a conversation admits \
425                 one open claim at a time"
426            ))
427            .with_hint(Hint::Wait(claimant)));
428        }
429        Ok(Some(chosen.agent_id.clone()))
430    }
431
432    /// Enqueues a follow-up turn. Never blocks and never drives: the message
433    /// is durable the moment this returns, and progress happens only once
434    /// something attaches — `ask`, `wait`, or any other attacher.
435    pub fn send(&self, handle: &TaskHandle, message: impl Into<String>) -> Result<String, Error> {
436        let paths = attach::resolve(&self.data, handle.as_str()).map_err(Error::new)?;
437        inbox::enqueue(&paths, handle.as_str(), message.into()).map_err(Error::new)
438    }
439
440    /// Enqueues a follow-up turn and awaits its correlated reply, attaching
441    /// to drive the task whenever the attach lock is free. `send` plus
442    /// [`wait_message`](Self::wait_message), as one call — the edge is
443    /// validated before the enqueue, so a rejected wait cannot leave a
444    /// message behind.
445    ///
446    /// **Threading:** the edge check and the enqueue are this call's own
447    /// synchronous prelude and run through this crate's own `blocking`
448    /// helper; the wait after it is `attach::wait_for_message`'s own.
449    pub async fn ask(
450        &self,
451        handle: &TaskHandle,
452        caller: Option<&TaskHandle>,
453        message: impl Into<String>,
454        timeout: Duration,
455    ) -> Result<Reply, Error> {
456        let data = self.data.clone();
457        let target = handle.clone();
458        let caller = caller.cloned();
459        let message = message.into();
460        let message_id = blocking(move || {
461            policy::validate_wait_edge(
462                &data,
463                caller.as_ref().map(TaskHandle::as_str),
464                target.as_str(),
465            )
466            .map_err(Error::new)?;
467            let paths = attach::resolve(&data, target.as_str()).map_err(Error::new)?;
468            inbox::enqueue(&paths, target.as_str(), message).map_err(Error::new)
469        })
470        .await?;
471        let outcome = attach::wait_for_message(
472            &self.data,
473            handle.as_str(),
474            &message_id,
475            timeout,
476            self.ctx(None),
477        )
478        .await
479        .map_err(Error::new)?;
480        Ok(Reply {
481            message_id,
482            outcome,
483        })
484    }
485
486    /// Awaits one already-enqueued message's correlated reply — the `wait
487    /// --message` shape: repeatable without any policy check once the reply
488    /// exists, and edge-validated only for the wait that has to actually
489    /// happen.
490    ///
491    /// **Threading:** the dispatch check and the edge check are this call's
492    /// own synchronous prelude and run through this crate's own `blocking`
493    /// helper; the wait after it, when one is still needed, is
494    /// `attach::wait_for_message`'s own.
495    pub async fn wait_message(
496        &self,
497        handle: &TaskHandle,
498        caller: Option<&TaskHandle>,
499        message_id: &str,
500        timeout: Duration,
501    ) -> Result<WaitOutcome, Error> {
502        let data = self.data.clone();
503        let target = handle.clone();
504        let caller = caller.cloned();
505        let mid = message_id.to_string();
506        let resolved = blocking(move || -> Result<Option<Value>, Error> {
507            let paths = attach::resolve(&data, target.as_str()).map_err(Error::new)?;
508            let messages = inbox::load(&paths).map_err(Error::new)?;
509            let terminal = state::read_terminal(&paths).map_err(Error::new)?;
510            if let Some(payload) = inbox::message_payload_for_dispatch(
511                target.as_str(),
512                &messages,
513                &mid,
514                terminal.as_ref(),
515            )
516            .map_err(Error::new)?
517            {
518                return Ok(Some(payload));
519            }
520            policy::validate_wait_edge(
521                &data,
522                caller.as_ref().map(TaskHandle::as_str),
523                target.as_str(),
524            )
525            .map_err(Error::new)?;
526            Ok(None)
527        })
528        .await?;
529        match resolved {
530            Some(payload) => Ok(WaitOutcome::Terminal(TerminalRecord::from_raw(payload))),
531            None => attach::wait_for_message(
532                &self.data,
533                handle.as_str(),
534                message_id,
535                timeout,
536                self.ctx(None),
537            )
538            .await
539            .map_err(Error::new),
540        }
541    }
542
543    /// Awaits the task's terminal record, attaching to drive it whenever the
544    /// attach lock is free — repeatable: a settled task's record is read
545    /// straight off disk, never rerun. `live`, when given, is shown every
546    /// event while (and only while) this call is the one driving.
547    ///
548    /// **Threading:** the terminal read and the edge check are this call's
549    /// own synchronous prelude and run through this crate's own `blocking`
550    /// helper; the wait after it, when one is still needed, is this crate's
551    /// own `wait_unvalidated`'s.
552    pub async fn wait(
553        &self,
554        handle: &TaskHandle,
555        caller: Option<&TaskHandle>,
556        timeout: Duration,
557        live: Option<Arc<dyn LiveSink>>,
558    ) -> Result<WaitOutcome, Error> {
559        let data = self.data.clone();
560        let target = handle.clone();
561        let caller = caller.cloned();
562        let resolved = blocking(move || -> Result<Option<Value>, Error> {
563            let paths = attach::resolve(&data, target.as_str()).map_err(Error::new)?;
564            if let Some(terminal) = state::read_terminal(&paths).map_err(Error::new)? {
565                return Ok(Some(terminal));
566            }
567            policy::validate_wait_edge(
568                &data,
569                caller.as_ref().map(TaskHandle::as_str),
570                target.as_str(),
571            )
572            .map_err(Error::new)?;
573            Ok(None)
574        })
575        .await?;
576        match resolved {
577            Some(terminal) => Ok(WaitOutcome::Terminal(TerminalRecord::from_raw(terminal))),
578            None => self.wait_unvalidated(handle, timeout, live).await,
579        }
580    }
581
582    /// [`wait`](Self::wait) minus the edge check — never exposed on its own,
583    /// since any caller could reach it for any handle and there would be
584    /// nothing left of the wait-edge policy. [`spawn_and_wait`](Self::spawn_and_wait)
585    /// is the one legitimate skip: the edge between a call's own caller and
586    /// the task it just minted is exactly the one [`spawn`](Self::spawn)
587    /// established a moment ago (a fresh descendant, or an independent root
588    /// when detached), and re-deriving it through a `caller` a host is free
589    /// to pass differently here would recompute what that call already
590    /// knows — against a value that, if stale, could strand a task nobody
591    /// is left validated to drive.
592    ///
593    /// **Threading:** the terminal read is this call's own synchronous
594    /// prelude and runs through [`blocking`]; the wait after it is
595    /// [`attach::wait_for_terminal`]'s own — see its doc for where every lock
596    /// and fs read *it* makes runs, model turns included.
597    async fn wait_unvalidated(
598        &self,
599        handle: &TaskHandle,
600        timeout: Duration,
601        live: Option<Arc<dyn LiveSink>>,
602    ) -> Result<WaitOutcome, Error> {
603        let data = self.data.clone();
604        let target = handle.clone();
605        let resolved = blocking(move || -> Result<Option<Value>, Error> {
606            let paths = attach::resolve(&data, target.as_str()).map_err(Error::new)?;
607            state::read_terminal(&paths).map_err(Error::new)
608        })
609        .await?;
610        if let Some(terminal) = resolved {
611            return Ok(WaitOutcome::Terminal(TerminalRecord::from_raw(terminal)));
612        }
613        let ctx = self.ctx(live);
614        attach::wait_for_terminal(&self.data, handle.as_str(), timeout, &ctx)
615            .await
616            .map_err(Error::new)
617    }
618
619    /// Mints a task and immediately attaches to drive it to a terminal
620    /// result — `spawn --await`'s shape, and the one place a wait skips edge
621    /// validation: see this crate's private `wait_unvalidated` for why that
622    /// is safe only here.
623    ///
624    /// **Threading:** [`spawn`](Self::spawn) is a synchronous unit in its own
625    /// right — a directory scan, the continuation lock, `create_dir`,
626    /// `save_meta` — and runs through this crate's own `blocking` helper here
627    /// exactly as it would if this crate wrote it as its own
628    /// `blocking`-wrapped prelude; the wait after it is this crate's own
629    /// `wait_unvalidated`'s.
630    pub async fn spawn_and_wait(
631        &self,
632        spec: RunSpec,
633        timeout: Duration,
634        live: Option<Arc<dyn LiveSink>>,
635    ) -> Result<(TaskHandle, WaitOutcome), Error> {
636        let tasks = self.clone();
637        let handle = blocking(move || tasks.spawn(spec)).await?;
638        let outcome = self.wait_unvalidated(&handle, timeout, live).await?;
639        Ok((handle, outcome))
640    }
641
642    /// Whether `caller` (or nobody, for a host outside any task) may
643    /// [`wait`](Self::wait) or [`ask`](Self::ask) `target` — the ownership
644    /// rule ADR-0017 states: a descendant or an independent root is safe, an
645    /// ancestor or a peer is not (send it instead, and read the reply from
646    /// [`inbox`](Self::inbox)). `Err` names which rule the edge breaks; a
647    /// caller that only wants the yes/no can ask for `.is_ok()`.
648    pub fn validate_wait_edge(
649        &self,
650        caller: Option<&TaskHandle>,
651        target: &TaskHandle,
652    ) -> Result<(), Error> {
653        policy::validate_wait_edge(&self.data, caller.map(TaskHandle::as_str), target.as_str())
654            .map_err(Error::new)
655    }
656
657    /// Whether `caller` (or nobody, for a host outside any task) may
658    /// [`cancel`](Self::cancel) `target` — downward-only, ADR-0017's rule:
659    /// itself or a descendant, never an ancestor or a peer. `Err` names which
660    /// rule the target breaks; a caller that wants the refusal to win over an
661    /// idempotent observation of an already-settled target checks this
662    /// first, the way `basis cancel` does.
663    pub fn validate_cancel_target(
664        &self,
665        caller: Option<&TaskHandle>,
666        target: &TaskHandle,
667    ) -> Result<(), Error> {
668        policy::validate_cancel_target(&self.data, caller.map(TaskHandle::as_str), target.as_str())
669            .map_err(Error::new)
670    }
671
672    /// Requests downward cancellation of `target` and every attached,
673    /// non-terminal descendant. Idempotent: cancelling an already-settled
674    /// task is a no-op, and this call never blocks on one settling.
675    pub fn cancel(&self, handle: &TaskHandle, caller: Option<&TaskHandle>) -> Result<(), Error> {
676        // Existence is checked here rather than left to `cancel_tree`, which
677        // silently skips a directory that is not there: a caller cancelling a
678        // handle that never existed should hear about it.
679        attach::resolve(&self.data, handle.as_str()).map_err(Error::new)?;
680        policy::validate_cancel_target(&self.data, caller.map(TaskHandle::as_str), handle.as_str())
681            .map_err(Error::new)?;
682        attach::cancel_tree(&self.data, handle.as_str()).map_err(Error::new)
683    }
684
685    /// Opens a cursor over the task's event journal, replay-from-start. Pure
686    /// observation — this never attaches or drives; poll it in a loop beside
687    /// [`terminal`](Self::terminal) for `basis watch`'s own shape, or just
688    /// long enough to catch up on a run already in progress.
689    pub fn watch(&self, handle: &TaskHandle) -> Result<EventCursor, Error> {
690        let paths = attach::resolve(&self.data, handle.as_str()).map_err(Error::new)?;
691        Ok(EventCursor::new(EventTail::new(&paths, 0)))
692    }
693
694    /// The terminal record, raw and typed side by side, or `None` for a task
695    /// still resumable.
696    /// Repeatable and lock-free: existence of `terminal.json` *is* the
697    /// completion signal (ADR-0019).
698    pub fn terminal(&self, handle: &TaskHandle) -> Result<Option<TerminalRecord>, Error> {
699        let paths = attach::resolve(&self.data, handle.as_str()).map_err(Error::new)?;
700        state::read_terminal(&paths)
701            .map(|record| record.map(TerminalRecord::from_raw))
702            .map_err(Error::new)
703    }
704
705    /// Whether a live executor currently holds the task's attach lock.
706    pub fn is_attached(&self, handle: &TaskHandle) -> Result<bool, Error> {
707        let paths = attach::resolve(&self.data, handle.as_str()).map_err(Error::new)?;
708        Ok(lock::is_held(&paths.attach_lock()))
709    }
710
711    /// Every message accepted on the task's inbox, bounded 4 KiB summaries
712    /// with truncation metadata — the `basis inbox` payload shape.
713    pub fn inbox(&self, handle: &TaskHandle) -> Result<InboxRecord, Error> {
714        let paths = attach::resolve(&self.data, handle.as_str()).map_err(Error::new)?;
715        let messages = inbox::load(&paths).map_err(Error::new)?;
716        Ok(inbox::inbox_record(handle.as_str(), &messages))
717    }
718
719    /// The workspace the task was spawned against, as it was recorded at
720    /// spawn — not necessarily `Tasks::open`'s own workspace, since a handle
721    /// resolves purely from itself.
722    pub fn workspace_of(&self, handle: &TaskHandle) -> Result<PathBuf, Error> {
723        Ok(PathBuf::from(self.meta(handle)?.workspace))
724    }
725
726    /// The agent-to-agent hop the task's work arrived at, as recorded at
727    /// spawn — see [`RunSpec::with_hop`](crate::RunSpec::with_hop).
728    pub fn hop(&self, handle: &TaskHandle) -> Result<u32, Error> {
729        Ok(self.meta(handle)?.hop)
730    }
731
732    /// When the task gives up, in milliseconds since the epoch, as recorded
733    /// at spawn — the instant every turn is bounded by, so a host that hands
734    /// the deadline on (an A2A server telling a caller, say) states the one
735    /// the task actually runs under. `None` for a task with no deadline.
736    pub fn deadline_at_ms(&self, handle: &TaskHandle) -> Result<Option<u64>, Error> {
737        Ok(self.meta(handle)?.deadline_at_ms)
738    }
739
740    /// The files `handle`'s task attached to its answer, in the order it
741    /// attached them — empty for one that attached none, or that was not
742    /// spawned [`answering`](crate::RunSpec::answering) (ADR-0041 §7).
743    pub fn answer_files(&self, handle: &TaskHandle) -> Result<Vec<crate::AnswerFile>, Error> {
744        let paths = attach::resolve(&self.data, handle.as_str()).map_err(Error::new)?;
745        crate::answer::read(paths.dir()).map_err(|error| {
746            Error::new(format!(
747                "read the files of task {}: {error}",
748                handle.as_str()
749            ))
750        })
751    }
752
753    fn meta(&self, handle: &TaskHandle) -> Result<state::TaskMeta, Error> {
754        let paths = attach::resolve(&self.data, handle.as_str()).map_err(Error::new)?;
755        state::load_meta(&paths).map_err(Error::new)
756    }
757
758    /// Every task recorded for this `Tasks`'s workspace, last worked in
759    /// first. Empty for a workspace nothing has ever run in — that is a
760    /// complete answer, not an error.
761    pub fn list(&self) -> Result<Vec<TaskSummary>, Error> {
762        Ok(tasks::workspace_tasks(&self.data, &self.workspace)
763            .map_err(Error::new)?
764            .unwrap_or_default())
765    }
766}
767
768fn duration_ms(duration: Duration) -> u64 {
769    duration.as_millis().min(u128::from(u64::MAX)) as u64
770}
771
772/// Runs one bounded, synchronous unit of this crate's own blocking work —
773/// a lock acquisition, an fs read or write, [`Tasks::spawn`]'s own mint — off
774/// the caller's async executor and onto tokio's blocking thread pool (G7's
775/// pattern, `ca9ddcb`, applied at this crate's own boundary).
776///
777/// Every `pub async fn` on [`Tasks`] that has a synchronous prelude (an edge
778/// check, an enqueue, a terminal read, `spawn` itself) runs it through this
779/// rather than inline on the caller's task — see each method's own
780/// `**Threading:**` note for which part that is. [`attach::wait_for_terminal`]
781/// and [`attach::wait_for_message`] carry the other half of the same rule for
782/// the poll loop and the model turns it drives.
783async fn blocking<T, F>(work: F) -> Result<T, Error>
784where
785    F: FnOnce() -> Result<T, Error> + Send + 'static,
786    T: Send + 'static,
787{
788    tokio::task::spawn_blocking(work)
789        .await
790        .unwrap_or_else(|error| Err(Error::new(format!("background task failed: {error}"))))
791}
792
793#[cfg(test)]
794mod tests {
795    use super::*;
796    use crate::Approve;
797
798    fn tasks() -> (tempfile::TempDir, tempfile::TempDir, Tasks) {
799        let data_dir = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
800        let workspace = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
801        let tasks = Tasks::open_at(data_dir.path(), workspace.path()).unwrap();
802        (data_dir, workspace, tasks)
803    }
804
805    /// The general hazard `spawn_and_wait` exists to route around: an
806    /// ordinary `wait` refuses a caller that does not exist to validate the
807    /// edge against — the shape a stale `BASIS_TASK_ID` takes once its own
808    /// task directory is gone (archived, or simply never real).
809    #[tokio::test]
810    async fn wait_refuses_a_caller_that_does_not_exist() {
811        let (_data_dir, _workspace, tasks) = tasks();
812        let stale_caller = TaskHandle::parse(format!("{:016x}/{:032x}", 1, 1)).unwrap();
813        let handle = tasks
814            .spawn(
815                RunSpec::new("hello")
816                    .with_approve(Approve::Always)
817                    .detached(),
818            )
819            .expect("spawns");
820
821        let refused = tasks
822            .wait(&handle, Some(&stale_caller), Duration::from_secs(1), None)
823            .await
824            .expect_err("a caller that does not exist cannot be validated against");
825        assert!(refused.to_string().contains("does not exist"), "{refused}");
826    }
827
828    /// `spawn_and_wait` never asks the wait-edge question at all, so a stale
829    /// `BASIS_TASK_ID` — one naming a caller task that no longer exists —
830    /// cannot strand the task this same call just minted, the way routing a
831    /// `spawn --await` through the ordinary edge-validated `wait` used to.
832    #[tokio::test]
833    async fn spawn_and_wait_does_not_edge_validate_the_task_it_just_minted() {
834        let (_data_dir, _workspace, tasks) = tasks();
835        // A deadline so tight it has certainly passed by the time the attach
836        // that follows runs: `run_model` bails on it before ever opening a
837        // workspace or touching a provider, which is what keeps this test
838        // fast and network-free while still exercising a real attach.
839        let spec = RunSpec::new("hello")
840            .with_approve(Approve::Always)
841            .with_deadline(Duration::from_nanos(1))
842            .detached();
843
844        let (_handle, outcome) = tasks
845            .spawn_and_wait(spec, Duration::from_secs(5), None)
846            .await
847            .expect("spawn_and_wait never asks the wait-edge question at all");
848        let WaitOutcome::Terminal(payload) = outcome else {
849            panic!("a tight deadline settles immediately rather than timing the wait out");
850        };
851        assert_eq!(payload.raw["state"], "failed");
852        assert_eq!(payload.stopped_by, Some(basis::Bound::Deadline));
853    }
854
855    /// `Approve::Prompt` names a question nobody can answer without a
856    /// `PromptHost`; a `Tasks` with none refuses it at spawn, before a task
857    /// directory even exists, rather than minting one that could never make
858    /// progress — the doc on [`crate::Approve::Prompt`] promises exactly
859    /// this.
860    #[test]
861    fn spawn_refuses_prompt_mode_with_no_prompt_host() {
862        let (_data_dir, _workspace, tasks) = tasks();
863
864        let error = tasks
865            .spawn(RunSpec::new("hello").with_approve(Approve::Prompt))
866            .expect_err("no PromptHost means Prompt can never be answered");
867        assert!(error.to_string().contains("ask"), "{error}");
868    }
869
870    /// `is_attached` is documented as a read, and `list` asks the same
871    /// question of every task it reports. A read that leaves a file behind is
872    /// not one: probing a task nothing has ever attached must find no lock
873    /// and mint none, so a listing of a workspace is not also a write to
874    /// every task directory in it.
875    #[test]
876    fn probing_attachment_does_not_mint_the_lock_file() {
877        let (_data_dir, _workspace, tasks) = tasks();
878        let handle = tasks
879            .spawn(
880                RunSpec::new("hello")
881                    .with_approve(Approve::Always)
882                    .detached(),
883            )
884            .expect("spawns");
885        let paths = attach::resolve(&tasks.data, handle.as_str()).expect("agent dir");
886        assert!(
887            !paths.attach_lock().exists(),
888            "a task nothing has attached starts with no lock file"
889        );
890
891        assert!(!tasks.is_attached(&handle).expect("probes"));
892        let listed = tasks.list().expect("lists");
893        assert!(listed.iter().any(|task| task.task == handle.as_str()));
894
895        assert!(
896            !paths.attach_lock().exists(),
897            "observing a task must leave its directory as it found it"
898        );
899    }
900
901    /// T3: `wait`'s own lock and fs work — the poll loop's `resolve`,
902    /// `read_terminal`, `try_attach`, all of it — runs off the tokio worker
903    /// thread this test's (deliberately single-threaded) executor is. A
904    /// concurrent, purely async ticker sharing that one worker keeps making
905    /// progress the whole time `wait`'s poll loop sees a contended attach
906    /// lock, which a `wait` running any of that work inline could not
907    /// guarantee: a `current_thread` runtime has exactly one worker, and
908    /// blocking it stalls everything else scheduled there.
909    #[tokio::test(flavor = "current_thread")]
910    async fn wait_does_not_block_the_executor_it_is_called_from() {
911        let (_data_dir, _workspace, tasks) = tasks();
912        let handle = tasks
913            .spawn(
914                RunSpec::new("hello")
915                    .with_approve(Approve::Always)
916                    // Fails fast, without a network call, the moment it is
917                    // actually driven — this test's own point is entirely
918                    // about the poll loop leading up to that, not the turn.
919                    .with_provider("not-a-provider"),
920            )
921            .expect("spawns");
922        let paths = attach::resolve(&tasks.data, handle.as_str()).expect("agent dir");
923        // Stands in for another process already driving the task: `wait`'s
924        // poll loop sees a contended attach lock every iteration for a
925        // controlled stretch.
926        let held = attach::try_attach(&paths).unwrap().expect("lock is free");
927
928        let ticks = Arc::new(std::sync::atomic::AtomicUsize::new(0));
929        let counter = Arc::clone(&ticks);
930        let ticker = async move {
931            for _ in 0..40 {
932                tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(5)).await;
933                counter.fetch_add(1, std::sync::atomic::Ordering::SeqCst);
934            }
935        };
936        let releaser = async {
937            tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(200)).await;
938            drop(held);
939        };
940        let waiter = tasks.wait(&handle, None, Duration::from_secs(5), None);
941        let (outcome, (), ()) = tokio::join!(waiter, ticker, releaser);
942        outcome.expect("wait completes once the lock frees");
943        assert!(
944            ticks.load(std::sync::atomic::Ordering::SeqCst) >= 30,
945            "a ticker sharing this runtime's one worker thread kept making \
946             progress while wait's poll loop was contended — proof that \
947             loop's lock probes and fs reads never held that thread"
948        );
949    }
950
951    /// T2(a): a task minted with `continues = Some(agent_id)` holds an open
952    /// claim on that conversation until it settles — a second spawn that
953    /// would continue the same conversation refuses rather than mint a
954    /// second claimant, the double-continuation race `continue_lock` and
955    /// this check exist to close.
956    #[test]
957    fn a_second_continuation_of_the_same_conversation_is_refused_while_the_first_is_open() {
958        let (_data_dir, _workspace, tasks) = tasks();
959
960        // Stand in for a task that finished with a conversation to
961        // continue — built directly, the way `attach`'s own tests build a
962        // completed task, rather than driven through a real model.
963        let done = tasks
964            .spawn(RunSpec::new("hello").with_approve(Approve::Always))
965            .expect("spawns");
966        let paths = attach::resolve(&tasks.data, done.as_str()).expect("agent dir");
967        let mut meta = state::load_meta(&paths).expect("meta.json");
968        meta.agent_id = "conversation-1".to_string();
969        state::save_meta(&paths, &meta).expect("save");
970        state::write_terminal(
971            &paths,
972            &serde_json::json!({"state": "succeeded", "result": "d"}),
973        )
974        .expect("terminal");
975
976        let first = tasks
977            .spawn(
978                RunSpec::new("step two")
979                    .with_approve(Approve::Always)
980                    .continuing(crate::Continuation::Latest),
981            )
982            .expect("the first continuation claims the conversation");
983
984        let refused = tasks
985            .spawn(
986                RunSpec::new("step two, again")
987                    .with_approve(Approve::Always)
988                    .continuing(crate::Continuation::Latest),
989            )
990            .expect_err("a second, still-open claim on the same conversation is refused");
991        assert!(refused.to_string().contains(first.as_str()), "{refused}");
992
993        // Once the first claimant settles, its claim releases and a fresh
994        // continuation of the same conversation is ordinary again.
995        let first_paths = attach::resolve(&tasks.data, first.as_str()).expect("agent dir");
996        state::write_terminal(
997            &first_paths,
998            &serde_json::json!({"state": "succeeded", "result": "d2"}),
999        )
1000        .expect("terminal");
1001        tasks
1002            .spawn(
1003                RunSpec::new("step three")
1004                    .with_approve(Approve::Always)
1005                    .continuing(crate::Continuation::Latest),
1006            )
1007            .expect("a settled claimant no longer blocks the conversation");
1008    }
1009
1010    /// ADR-0019: an unattended task always gets a finite service bound, even
1011    /// when the caller named none — `attach::run_model` enforces deadlines
1012    /// for agents nobody attached to in time, and that has nothing to bound
1013    /// against without this.
1014    #[test]
1015    fn an_unset_deadline_records_the_default_at_spawn() {
1016        let (_data_dir, _workspace, tasks) = tasks();
1017
1018        let handle = tasks
1019            .spawn(RunSpec::new("hello").with_approve(Approve::Always))
1020            .expect("spawns");
1021
1022        // Grey-box: `Tasks` exposes no deadline accessor — the durable
1023        // record is basis-tasks's own business — so the test reads it the
1024        // way `attach`'s own tests read `meta.json` directly.
1025        let paths = attach::resolve(&tasks.data, handle.as_str()).expect("agent dir");
1026        let meta = state::load_meta(&paths).expect("meta.json");
1027        assert_eq!(
1028            meta.options.deadline_ms,
1029            Some(duration_ms(DEFAULT_DEADLINE))
1030        );
1031        assert!(
1032            meta.deadline_at_ms.is_some(),
1033            "an unattended task always gets a finite service bound"
1034        );
1035    }
1036}