feat(skill): spawn and drive DeepSeek Harness workers

The agent skill could spawn a worker in any mode, but it could only
DRIVE a claude one: every other CLI has neither a real end-of-turn
signal nor an answer to read, so the recipes route them through output
markers.

dsh has both halves now -- its harness reports idle/working/blocked to
Codeman, and the previous commit reads its transcript -- so it joins
claude as a mode the four verbs work on unchanged. `spawn_workers alpha
beta:deepseek` is a mixed fleet in one call, and `sendwait` / `last_text`
/ `delete_session` need no per-mode variant.

Preamble 1.20.0 (SKILL.md's §0 heredoc regenerated from it):

- `spawn_worker` grows a deepseek branch that gates on the harness
  composer. ⚠️ Readiness there is NOT the stop signal: the harness
  reports idle at BOOT ~300 ms before its composer paints (measured
  2.26 s vs 2.56 s after spawn), so a send-and-wait fired straight after
  quick-start resolves on the boot edge, reports a turn that never ran,
  and strands the prompt in a pane not yet taking input. Waiting for the
  composer also spends that edge, since signals are edge-triggered.
- `spawn_workers` takes `name[:mode]`, so a mixed fleet stays one
  concurrent call. Case names still have to be unique -- the mode never
  disambiguates two workers that would share a directory.
- `sendwait` asks for `wait:"stop,exit"` instead of the `wait:true`
  default set. That set also carries `idle`, which for an external CLI is
  inferred from output stabilization: on a dsh worker whose TUI repaints
  rarely, the re-wait resolved in 0 ms with `signal:"idle"` on a turn
  with three minutes left to run. It also makes a wrong mode loud -- the
  modes that cannot deliver `stop` answer 400 before writing anything,
  instead of resolving on a flap.
- The self-heal resend carries `delivered:true` forward. The resend is a
  tagged duplicate, so the server truthfully reports `delivered:false`
  about a write it skipped, and §1's cleanup then read a completed turn
  as an undelivered one and kept a finished worker forever.
- dsh workers spawn with the permission posture the Run button sends,
  because the harness default still asks and a worker parked on an
  approval row cannot finish a fan-out. The multi-user clamp still
  applies.

Docs: a worked dsh flow in recipes.md, readiness and the signal rules in
verbs.md, and the corrections this makes necessary -- `stop`/`blocked`
are no longer claude-only, and `last-response` is no longer permanently
empty for deepseek. The integration guide gains a section on reading a
session back and driving one as a worker; its web-UI section was also
stale (that server moved out of a shell session).

The static guard that keeps those lists from naming some external CLIs but
not others is extended rather than exempted: it now knows the three real
classes inside that family (no transcript, no hook signals, and the
positive twin -- the modes whose answers can be read), with the hook class
derived from `hooksAvailableForMode()` so the predicate and the prose
cannot drift apart. Any other partial list still fails, and a new backend
belongs to none of the classes until someone says so.
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@@ -237,7 +237,10 @@ minutes, never retry the credential.
flushed slightly *after* the `stop` hook fires, so a read taken the instant the wait
returns is too early (verified live: empty on the first call, full prose seconds later).
It is also `""` before the worker's first completed turn, and permanently `""` for
`shell`, `opencode`, `gemini`, `antigravity`, `pi`, `grok` and `deepseek`, which write no Claude transcript.
`shell`, `opencode`, `gemini`, `antigravity`, `pi` and `grok`, which write no transcript at
all. `deepseek` is NOT one of those — it is read from `$DSH_HOME/sessions/**` and lags
for the same reason claude does (the harness finalizes the assistant message just after
it reports `idle`), so poll it the same way.
**Fix** Poll it, bounded (10 tries, 1 s apart). If it is still empty on a hook-less mode,
that is expected, not a failure: read `terminal?tail=` and strip ANSI instead.
@@ -279,7 +282,7 @@ than into an existing checkout.
| start case + session in one call | `POST /api/v1/quick-start` |
| create a session in an arbitrary directory (no case, **no PTY**, id at `.data.session.id`) | `POST /api/v1/sessions`, then `POST /api/v1/sessions/:id/interactive` or `.../shell` to start it, see [Starting a worker](#starting-a-worker) |
| send input | `POST /api/v1/sessions/:id/input` |
| **read a worker's answer** (claude/codex) | `GET /api/v1/sessions/:id/last-response` → `.data.{text,timestamp}`, clean transcript text, no TUI noise. ⚠️ **Poll it**, see [symptom 7](#7-last-response-returns-an-empty-string-right-after-stop) |
| **read a worker's answer** (claude/codex/deepseek) | `GET /api/v1/sessions/:id/last-response` → `.data.{text,timestamp}`, clean transcript text, no TUI noise. ⚠️ **Poll it**, see [symptom 7](#7-last-response-returns-an-empty-string-right-after-stop) |
| read terminal (tail is in **BYTES**, raw ANSI) | `GET /api/v1/sessions/:id/terminal?tail=3000` → `.data.terminalBuffer`, for *diagnosis* (unsubmitted prompt?), not for reading answers |
| full tmux scrollback (context bomb; post-mortems only) | `GET /api/v1/sessions/:id/terminal?full=1` |
| background agents, one session | `GET /api/v1/sessions/:id/subagents` |
@@ -321,7 +324,7 @@ on signals and markers for exactly this reason.
⚠️ `GET /api/v1/sessions/:id/output` → `.data.textOutput` looks like the obvious read
but stays **empty for interactive tmux-backed sessions** (it is fed only by the legacy
JSON-stream path). Verified empty on live claude and shell sessions. Use
`last-response` for claude/codex answers; only fall back to `terminal?tail=` for
`last-response` for claude/codex/deepseek answers; only fall back to `terminal?tail=` for
hook-less modes, or to diagnose a prompt that was never submitted, and strip ANSI:
```bash
@@ -640,10 +643,14 @@ block, so a linked case or a raw `workingDir` had no hooks at all. `POST
session-create path installs hooks regardless of how the directory got there. See
[symptom 8](#8-send-and-wait-resolves-instantly-with-signalidle-and-the-answer-is-last-turns).
Default `until` set: `stop,idle,exit`. On non-claude modes the server silently drops
`stop`/`blocked` from the *default* set (echoed back as `wait.until`, e.g.
Default `until` set: `stop,idle,exit`. On modes with no hook signals the server silently
drops `stop`/`blocked` from the *default* set (echoed back as `wait.until`, e.g.
`["idle","exit"]` on shell); requesting them *explicitly* there is a 400 naming the
mode. ⚠️ That 400 is about **mode**, so a hooks-less *claude* session accepts
mode. ⚠️ `deepseek` is not one of those: its harness reports its own lifecycle, so it
keeps the full default set and accepts an explicit `until=stop`. ⚠️ For dsh the answer is
per-SESSION rather than per-mode — a session created with `statusReporting: false` has no
bridge, and an explicit `until=stop` there is a 400 naming that setting. ⚠️ That 400 is
otherwise about **mode**, so a hooks-less *claude* session accepts
`until=stop` happily and then never resolves it. ⚠️ On hook-less modes the lifecycle
signals are also **coarse in practice**: a
short shell command produced **no** `idle` transition within 60 s (verified live), so
@@ -791,7 +798,8 @@ for environment and setup problems.
| `CODEMAN_MUX` unset but you seem to be in a session | remote-SSH case: the env vars are not exported there. Fail closed, refuse to act |
| connection refused from inside a container | a loopback-bound server is unreachable from a container, and `CODEMAN_DOCKER_BRIDGE_HOOKS=1` does **not** fix that: it opens a hooks-only listener, so hook events start flowing but `/api/v1/*` stays refused. Driving the API from inside a Docker case needs a reachable bind (an operator decision); report it, don't retry |
| wait routes 404 on a valid session id | read the `.error` text: a `Route ...` prefix means the server predates the wait endpoints (< 1.13.0; a dev build can serve them while reporting an older version, so probe, never version-compare), poll `terminal?tail=` and say so. `Session ... not found` means your id is wrong, not the server |
| wait on `stop` never resolves | non-claude mode, or hooks not reaching the server (Docker/remote), or a case created by Codeman < 1.13.0 against an `--https` install (its hook curls lacked `-k` and TLS-failed silently; a 1.13.0+ server rewrites them the next time a session starts in that case). Use markers or `idle,exit` |
| wait on `stop` never resolves | a mode with no hook signals, or hooks not reaching the server (Docker/remote), or a case created by Codeman < 1.13.0 against an `--https` install (its hook curls lacked `-k` and TLS-failed silently; a 1.13.0+ server rewrites them the next time a session starts in that case). Use markers or `idle,exit` |
| wait on `stop` never resolves, on a **dsh** worker whose pane clearly finished | that profile does not implement the harness's supervisor contract, which Codeman cannot detect at request time (an unrecognized profile is treated as launchable on purpose). The wait is accepted and then times out. Drive that worker with markers, or switch to a profile that reports — `@deepseek-harness-tui/dsh-tui` does |
| new claude worker ignores its first prompt | it was showing the first-run trust dialog and Codeman's auto-accept did not fire (it is bounded by a 90 s window and an attempt cap); use the readiness recipe in SKILL.md, wait for `shift+tab` first, accept the dialog only as the bounded fallback |
| readiness burns its whole budget, then the worker answers fine anyway | you matched `bypass`, which is the statusline of ONE permission mode. Codeman spawns `--dangerously-skip-permissions` by default, but the server's `claudeMode` setting also has `auto` (`auto mode on`), `allowedTools` and `normal` (both `don't ask on`), and the effective per-session value is not exposed on `GET /api/v1/sessions/:id`. Match **`shift+tab`** instead: every mode's status bar ends `(shift+tab to cycle)` (measured per mode against claude-cli 2.1.226). Expect `blocked` signals mid-turn on the non-default modes |
| ANSI escapes survive the strip pipeline | `sed -e 's/\x1b…'` on macOS: `\x1b` is GNU-only, BSD sed matches nothing and strips nothing. Use the `ESC=$(printf '\033')` form above |