tasks/ — background task capability family
The shared background-task runtime: ONE home for task ids, owner isolation, polling, cancellation, wait, and completion notification, so bash, subagents, and every future long-running tool expose the same model-facing habit instead of cloning a private task protocol each. Rationale and the full design: 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 split is the state/surface boundary: the registry holds task state (an HMR reload of any tool plugin never orphans or kills a running task), while the tool surface is stateless presentation. Producers (dsh-tool-bash, dsh-tool-subagent) hand their work to ctx.tasks.start (preflight, then the producer's starter, then an atomic commit) and keep their own execution concerns; whether a producer exposes run_in_background is that producer's own enableRunInBackground config, never rewritten by this family.