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docs/adapter-authoring-guide.md now states the qualified-id obligation as one general rule for adapter authors, instead of leaving it to be inferred from psmux's per-seam specifics. TerminalMultiplexer.new_parked_window gains the sentence saying its id is opaque and MAY be qualified, matching new_window.

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#254 and #291 landed the same shape twice, and the rule behind both was spread across two backend docstrings and a parenthetical. Every way of getting it wrong is quiet: a mint/list split reads every live window as instantly dead, a list_windows/current_window_id split makes the ctl-window prune kill the window it is running in, and a verb handed a form it rejects no-ops with no error reaching core.

Closes #311

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Documentation only — no behavior change and no test changes, as the issue scoped it. trunk fmt and trunk check clean on all three files; 403 passed / 18 skipped across test_multiplexer, test_psmux_backend, test_tui_launch and test_portability_guard; pyright shows only the five pre-existing Windows-only platform_util.py errors, untouched by this diff.

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  • Documentation
    • Clarified requirements for preserving qualified native IDs across adapter operations.
    • Documented support for opaque, optionally qualified IDs when creating parked windows.
    • Added guidance for backend translation and consistent handling when ID formats cannot be represented.
    • Clarified that qualified IDs must match the corresponding identifiers returned when listing windows.
    • Documented adapter handling for hard-stop requests, including reporting aborted operations without raising errors or deleting requests.

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The changes document qualified native-ID consistency across adapter seams and clarify the parked-window ID contract. They also add adapter guidance for aborted session results and hard-stop polling. The changelog links are updated for version 0.11.1.

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Qualified native-ID documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Adapter native-ID contract
docs/adapter-authoring-guide.md, CHANGELOG.md
The adapter guide and changelog document consistent qualified ID forms, backend translation, fallback behavior, and failure modes.
Parked-window ID contract
src/bmad_loop/adapters/multiplexer.py
The new_parked_window documentation permits qualified opaque IDs and requires them to match the corresponding list_windows window_id form.
Aborted session contract
docs/adapter-authoring-guide.md
The adapter contract adds aborted and requires bounded hard-stop polling without raising or deleting the request.

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The guide can still direct adapter authors to drop routing scope from qualified window identifiers, which may cause replay operations to target the wrong window, and it overstates that failures are always silent. These documentation issues should be corrected before merging.

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A rabbit checks each window ID,
Qualified forms stay side by side.
The guide records the abort state,
Hard-stop polling keeps it straight.
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`session:@N` at the minting and listing seams — but the rule a backend author
needs in order to do that safely was only inferable from two backend-specific
docstrings and a parenthetical. The authoring guide now states the general
obligation: an id minted in anything but the bare native form binds every seam
core compares it against to the identical form, and every verb it is replayed
through to accepting it. Where a verb cannot take that form, the backend
translates inside the verb rather than exempting the id.

The worked example is the live one — psmux's option trio routing a qualified
target through `_option_scope` and refusing a bare id rather than guessing a
server. `select_window` carried such a translation until the 3.3.8 floor made
the server resolve a scoped id itself (psmux/psmux#497), so it survives as a
past-tense aside rather than as documentation of code that is no longer in the
tree.

Also names the third quiet failure the rule prevents, which the issue did not:
a `list_windows`/`list_window_ids` split reports every kill candidate as
verifiably gone, survivors included (bmad-code-org#435).

`TerminalMultiplexer.new_parked_window` now says its id is opaque and MAY be
qualified, matching what `new_window` already said.

Documentation only; no behavior change, no test changes.

Closes bmad-code-org#311
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549-551: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document the run_dir source for adapters.

State that adapters must read run_dir from spec.env["BMAD_LOOP_RUN_DIR"] when they implement hard-stop polling. SessionSpec has no run_dir field. Bundled adapters may use constructor state instead. Without this contract, new adapters may omit the poll and delay bmad-loop stop until the next item boundary.

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In `@docs/adapter-authoring-guide.md` around lines 549 - 551, Update the adapter
hard-stop polling guidance to specify that adapters must obtain run_dir from
spec.env["BMAD_LOOP_RUN_DIR"], since SessionSpec has no run_dir field; note that
bundled adapters may instead use constructor state. Keep the requirement to poll
on both sides of the loop’s blocking wait and return
SessionResult(status="aborted") when the stop request is hard.
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In `@docs/adapter-authoring-guide.md`:
- Around line 158-159: Update the adapter authoring guide’s qualified-ID
fallback guidance to permit bare-ID fallback only when it preserves the owning
server during replay; otherwise require translating the ID inside the verb or
rejecting the operation. Clarify that psmux bare `@N` uses the caller’s server,
while session:`@N` identifies ownership, and apply this consistently to both
documented fallback passages.
- Around line 194-200: Revise the quiet-failure statements in the adapter
authoring guidance to apply only to window-ID mismatches and rejected verb
forms. Explicitly preserve the distinction that transport failures from
list_window_ids raise MultiplexerError and must reach core rather than being
described as silent or swallowed.

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In `@docs/adapter-authoring-guide.md`:
- Around line 549-551: Update the adapter hard-stop polling guidance to specify
that adapters must obtain run_dir from spec.env["BMAD_LOOP_RUN_DIR"], since
SessionSpec has no run_dir field; note that bundled adapters may instead use
constructor state. Keep the requirement to poll on both sides of the loop’s
blocking wait and return SessionResult(status="aborted") when the stop request
is hard.
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Three review findings, all documentation:

- Name the bare-id fallback as lossy. The general rule said the degrade
  keeps every pairing consistent, which is true but reads as a free escape
  hatch; a bare psmux id routes by the caller's server, so the degrade
  condition has to stay the narrow one the grammar forces.
- Scope the quiet-failure claim to id-shape faults. A transport failure is
  a different thing and list_window_ids must still raise it — the ABC is
  explicit that an empty list must not be conflated with "couldn't ask".
- Condense the changelog entry to a release-note summary.
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Re: the outside-diff finding on run_dir (docs/adapter-authoring-guide.md:549-551)

Not fixed here — out of scope for this PR. The finding is correct, and worth filing against #319.

I verified all three claims rather than waving it through:

  • SessionSpec (adapters/base.py:49) has no run_dir field. Its fields are task_id, role, prompt, cwd, env, model, timeout_s, stall_nudges_cap, and the token-budget group.
  • spec.env["BMAD_LOOP_RUN_DIR"] is the right source, and it is set on both SessionSpec construction sites, not just the engine's: engine.py:4753 ("BMAD_LOOP_RUN_DIR": str(self.run_dir), passed through as env=env at :4888) and resolve.py:189.
  • Bundled adapters do use constructor state instead — generic.py:453 sets self.run_dir, and :217 polls runs.read_stop_request_mode(self.run_dir).

So an out-of-tree adapter implementing wait_for_completion has no documented way to obtain the run_dir that line 550 tells it to poll, and the consequence is the one stated: the poll gets omitted and bmad-loop stop waits for the next item boundary.

Why it is not in this PR: that paragraph is the #319 hard-stop contract, added upstream while this branch was being rebased. This PR is #311 — one paragraph on the qualified-id obligation, one sentence on new_parked_window, one changelog entry, no behavior change. Documenting a different issue's seam contract is a separate change with a separate reviewer, and folding it in here would bury it.

Happy to open it as its own issue against #319 if a maintainer wants that.


Unrelated to this PR, surfaced while verifying it: adapters/psmux_backend.py:355 attributes the per-window-user-option boundary to psmux/psmux#321. That issue is titled "Fall back to global window options" and concerns built-ins like pane-base-index; the maintainer's line there is "options like pane-base-index only exist at the global level", which is not the @-user-option boundary. The claim itself is true — is_window_option()'s allowlist has no @ arm — just not what #321 documents. This PR cites #310 instead. Also a separate fix; flagging so it does not get lost.

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