start({ kind, label, owner, run }) preflights everything that can fail
(the attachSurface fence, validation, the owner-cleanup attach) BEFORE
invoking the producer's run() starter, then commits atomically —
'work started but never got a collectable id' is now structurally
impossible instead of a producer try/catch rollback obligation (the
P1 review fix, rebuilt on #185's declare/execute split). Producers
lose their catch-wraps; the leak tests now pin the stronger property
that a failed preflight never spawns anything. TaskRegistration splits
into TaskStart (identity + run) and TaskHooks (cancel/done/readOutput);
docs, type-equiv manifest, catalogs, and both RFCs move with it.
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# tasks/ — background task capability family
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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](../../docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-20-generic-long-running-tool-runtime.md).
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| [`tasks`](tasks/README.md) (`@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 |
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| [`tool-tasks`](tool-tasks/README.md) (`@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 |
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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.
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