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Codeman maintainer 6261b6f655 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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