# Human Commands English | [中文](commands.zh.md) The human-command registry service from [`dsh-commands`](../../packages/interaction/commands). Interactive adapters use it to discover and directly execute plugin-owned commands for an exact agent without creating a model message. The [command Agent Note](../../.agents/notes/implemented/feature/2026-07-19-plugin-command-registration.md) owns dispatch and lifecycle rationale; the [package README](../../packages/interaction/commands/README.md) owns composition and limitations. Source: [`packages/interaction/commands/src/index.ts`](../../packages/interaction/commands/src/index.ts) ## Input metadata The service exposes one optional unstructured-input hint. Command availability follows plugin composition: every adapter consuming the registry sees every effective definition. ```ts type-equiv /** Immutable metadata for a command's optional unstructured input. */ interface CommandInputDescriptor { /** Placeholder shown before the user supplies free-form input. */ readonly hint: string } ``` ## Definition `CommandDefinition` is the plugin-authored registration. The registry validates and freezes a detached effective definition. ```ts type-equiv /** Plugin-owned command registration. */ interface CommandDefinition { /** Lowercase command name without the leading slash. */ readonly name: string /** Human-readable summary used in discovery UI. */ readonly description: string /** Optional free-form input hint advertised to capable clients. */ readonly input?: CommandInputDescriptor /** * Whether `command/run` records `rawInput`. Defaults to true. A command * whose domain event owns the payload sets this false to avoid duplicating * that payload in the session log. */ readonly recordInput?: boolean /** Execute against the receiving agent without sending the command to the model. */ readonly handler: (invocation: CommandInvocation) => CommandResult | Promise } ``` ## Invocation and result The adapter owns cancellation and passes the exact target agent. `rawInput` begins immediately after the parsed name and retains the adapter-delivered separator and suffix. Results are direct UI outcomes, not tool results or session events. ```ts type-equiv /** Invocation passed to one registered command handler. */ interface CommandInvocation { /** Pairing id already written to this invocation's `command/run` event. */ readonly commandId: CommandId /** Exact agent whose human-facing surface received the command. */ readonly agent: Agent /** Exact text following the registered command name, including separator whitespace. */ readonly rawInput: string /** Cancellation signal owned by the dispatching UI request. */ readonly signal: AbortSignal } ``` ```ts type-equiv /** Expected command outcome rendered directly by the dispatching UI. */ type CommandResult = | { readonly kind: 'success' readonly text?: string /** Earlier authoritative domain event that owns a richer presentation. */ readonly sourceEventSeq?: number } | { readonly kind: 'error'; readonly text: string } ``` `sourceEventSeq` is optional and success-only. When present, it names an earlier non-command event in the receiving session log; `command/done` persists the same reference so a client can combine the command lifecycle with that domain projection without parsing `text` or relying on adjacent rows. ## Discovery and parsing views Adapters receive handler-free immutable descriptors after scope resolution. `parseCommand()` returns `ParsedCommand` before registry resolution; syntax-valid input can still name an unavailable command. ```ts type-equiv /** Handler-free immutable command view returned to UI adapters. */ interface CommandDescriptor { /** Lowercase command name without the leading slash. */ readonly name: string /** Human-readable summary used in discovery UI. */ readonly description: string /** Optional free-form input hint advertised to capable clients. */ readonly input?: CommandInputDescriptor } ``` ```ts type-equiv /** Syntactically valid slash command before registry resolution. */ interface ParsedCommand { /** Lowercase command name without the leading slash. */ readonly name: string /** Exact text following the command name. */ readonly rawInput: string } ``` ## Cordis surface Generated from source by `scripts/gen-cordis-catalog.ts` (verified fresh by `pnpm run verify-cordis-catalog` in doc-sync; regenerate with `pnpm run gen-cordis-catalog`) — this section is byte-identical in both language sides of the page. Signature blocks use a `ts cordis-catalog` fence and keep the original source JSDoc; dispatch modes are defined in the [primer](../cordis-primer.md#dispatch-modes), and the framework-inherited `ctx` surface lives in [cordis-api/inherited.md](../cordis-api/inherited.md). ### `ctx.commands` — `CommandService` Human-command registry. Plain-context definitions are global; definitions registered through a command-injected child of an agent context shadow globals for that agent. ```ts cordis-catalog /** * Register a global or calling-agent-scoped command. * @param definition - discovery metadata and direct UI handler. * @returns the exact effect disposer that unregisters this definition. */ register(definition: CommandDefinition): () => void /** * List the effective immutable command descriptors for one agent. * @param agent - exact receiving agent and scoped-layer key. * @returns name-sorted descriptors after scoped shadowing. */ list(agent: Agent): readonly CommandDescriptor[] /** * Resolve one effective command definition. * @param agent - exact receiving agent and scoped-layer key. * @param name - command name without a slash. * @returns the scoped shadow or global definition. */ find(agent: Agent, name: string): CommandDefinition | undefined /** * Parse and execute a known command without sending it to the model. * * A resolved command's lifecycle is logged: `command/run` is appended * before the handler is invoked and `command/done` after settlement (a * thrown or aborted handler settles as `kind: 'error'`). Both are direct * log-only appends — no turn wraps them, and persistence drains them at * ordinary checkpoints. Admission misses (syntax or unknown name) log * nothing — they never entered a handler. A `command/run` append failure * fails the execution loud; a `command/done` append failure on the * handler-failure path is contained so the handler's own error stays the * reported failure. * * @param agent - exact receiving agent. * @param line - complete slash-command line. * @param signal - cancellation signal owned by the UI request. * @returns the settled execution (result + lifecycle pairing id), or * `undefined` when syntax or name does not resolve. */ async execute( agent: Agent, line: string, signal: AbortSignal, ): Promise ``` Types: [Agent](core.md) Source: [`packages/interaction/commands/src/index.ts:267`](../../packages/interaction/commands/src/index.ts) ### `commands/*` events #### `commands/change` — emit A command was registered or unregistered. This is an unfiltered registry notification because a global or scoped change may affect any UI view. Observer failures are contained and cannot veto the registry mutation. ```ts cordis-catalog /** * A command was registered or unregistered. This is an unfiltered registry * notification because a global or scoped change may affect any UI view. * Observer failures are contained and cannot veto the registry mutation. * @mode emit */ 'commands/change'(): void ``` Source: [`packages/interaction/commands/src/index.ts:134`](../../packages/interaction/commands/src/index.ts)