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# User Interaction
The user-interaction seam of [dsh-user-interaction](../../packages/core/user-interaction). It is the provider-neutral vocabulary a tool or permission plugin uses when it needs the human to answer before the agent can continue. UI surfaces provide the active `UserInteractionProvider`: `dsh-stdio-agent` renders questions in readline, and `dsh-acp` maps them to ACP form elicitations.
Source: [`packages/core/user-interaction/src/index.ts`](../../packages/core/user-interaction/src/index.ts)
## Question options
`AskUserQuestionOption` is the selectable-choice shape. `label` is user-facing, while `value` is the model-facing answer returned when the option is selected; when omitted, providers use the label.
```ts type-equiv
interface AskUserQuestionOption {
/** User-facing label. */
label: string
/** Value returned to the model when selected. Defaults to `label`. */
value?: string
/** Optional extra context rendered by capable UIs. */
description?: string
/** Marks the recommended/default option. */
recommended?: boolean
}
```
## Ask request
`AskUserQuestionRequest` is the cross-package request. `options` being absent means free-form input; an optionless request remains free-form even when a caller sets `allowCustom: false`, because there is no selectable option to constrain the answer to.
```ts type-equiv
interface AskUserQuestionRequest {
/** The question to display. */
question: string
/** Optional short heading/group label. */
header?: string
/** Optional choices the UI can render as a menu. */
options?: AskUserQuestionOption[]
/** Whether free-form answers are accepted. Defaults to `true`. */
allowCustom?: boolean
/** Calling agent, when the request came from an agent tool call. */
agent?: Agent
/** Abort signal for the owning tool/step. */
signal?: AbortSignal
}
```
## Answer
Providers return the model-facing `answer` text and optionally echo the chosen option as metadata. Consumers should use `answer`; the option is for UI/session metadata and diagnostics.
```ts type-equiv
interface AskUserQuestionAnswer {
/** Model-facing answer text. */
answer: string
/** The selected option, when the answer came from `options`. */
option?: AskUserQuestionOption
}
```
## Provider
Only one provider may be active in a context. Provider registration is effect-bound so HMR/disposal removes the active UI.
```ts type-equiv
interface UserInteractionProvider {
ask(request: AskUserQuestionRequest): Promise<AskUserQuestionAnswer>
}
```
## Errors
`UserInteractionError` extends `HarnessError`, so `ctx.tools.execute()` preserves `{ name, code }` for model-facing tool failures such as `NO_PROVIDER`, `ASK_ABORTED`, or ACP-side cancellation.
```ts type-equiv
class UserInteractionError extends HarnessError {
constructor(message: string, code: string, options?: ErrorOptions) {
super(message, code, options)
this.name = 'UserInteractionError'
}
}
```