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deepseek-harness/packages/tasks
Tianyi Cui b06ae91fa8 fix(tasks): address task API review feedback
The public kill result used the awkward phrase already-terminal. Rename it to already-finished and keep the model-facing response aligned; not-alive would be inaccurate because a force-failed registry record can still correspond to orphaned producer work.

Task kinds were open strings even though producer namespaces are an extension point. Add the merge-extensible TaskKindMap and derived TaskKind, cover consumer declarations in task and bundle tests, and retain the runtime non-empty check for untyped callers.

With exactOptionalPropertyTypes, owner?: Agent | undefined allowed an explicit undefined value that no caller needs. Tighten the property to owner?: Agent so unowned work is expressed by omitting it.

Record the requested task-service/backend split as a follow-up, using a systemd-backed runtime as a concrete candidate without guessing its durability and ownership contract in this PR. Regenerate the type and Cordis catalogs so public docs match the declarations.
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tasks/ — background task capability family

The shared home for background-task ids, owner isolation, reads, cancellation, waiting, and completion notices. Bash, subagents, and future long-running tools use one model-facing protocol. See the background-task runtime RFC.

Package ctx key Role
tasks (@deepseek-ai/dsh-tasks) ctx.tasks The registry service: branded <kind>-N ids, owner-fenced read/kill/wait/list, settlement bookkeeping, the awaited owner-cleanup path, and the attachSurface misconfiguration fence
tool-tasks (@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-tasks) The model-facing control surface: task_output, task_list, task_kill, the completion-notice injection, and the background-habit prompt section

The registry owns state across producer or surface reloads; the tool package owns presentation. Producers register execution hooks through ctx.tasks.start and own whether their config exposes run_in_background.