Add native interruptibility for dispatched agent workers

Cancellation-token control channel checked at every step boundary lets a coordinator PAUSE/RESUME/REDIRECT/KILL a running worker mid-task instead of waiting for the whole (possibly wrong) plan to finish. Bounded purviews mean no half-committed state to unwind on interrupt. Includes a proof harness (proof.el, run.sh) comparing a broken non-interruptible worker against the new one under identical kill/redirect/pause timing. Distinct from the already-preserved swarm-ccr orchestrator (fan-out/ converge dispatch): this is single-worker interruptibility, a complementary mechanism, not a duplicate.
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+// proof.el — Proof of native interruptibility for Neuron-dispatched agents.
+//
+// Concatenated after runtime/swarm.el (see run.sh). Demonstrates, with raw
+// before/after counts, that a dispatched worker interrupted MID-TASK stops
+// instantly (not after finishing the wrong workflow), absorbs a redirect
+// (re-plans, keeping progress), or terminates cleanly.
+//
+// Three scenarios on the SAME 12-step plan, SAME per-step cost, SAME signal
+// timing (sent ~50ms in ≈ after step 3):
+//   A. BASELINE — the broken Claude-style worker: no mid-loop signal check.
+//      A kill sent at step ~3 is ignored until the whole plan finishes → all 12
+//      steps run = wasted work on a known-wrong task.
+//   B. INTERRUPTIBLE KILL — swarm_worker_run: the kill is absorbed within one
+//      step → stops at ~3, status=killed, ~9 steps of waste AVOIDED.
+//   C. INTERRUPTIBLE REDIRECT — mirrors the live incident (build-python-synth →
+//      native-fetch-render): the correction is absorbed mid-task; the 3 done
+//      steps are kept; the worker re-plans onto the new goal and finishes it.
+
+// ── per-step work — one bounded unit (~15ms) ──────────────────────────────────
+fn demo_step(arg: String) -> String {
+    let goal: String = json_get(arg, "goal")
+    let idx: String = json_get(arg, "idx")
+    let step: String = json_get(arg, "step")
+    sleep_ms(15)
+    return "did[" + goal + "] step#" + idx + " (" + step + ")"
+}
+
+// ── BASELINE: the broken, non-interruptible worker (Claude-style) ─────────────
+// Same shape as swarm_worker_run BUT it never polls the token during the loop.
+// It "finishes the workflow" and only notices the signal at the very end — the
+// exact pattern Will called out. Reports how many steps it wasted post-signal.
+fn broken_worker_run(arg: String) -> String {
+    let tok: Int = str_to_int(json_get(arg, "tok"))
+    let out_ch: Int = str_to_int(json_get(arg, "out"))
+    let step_fn: String = json_get(arg, "step_fn")
+    let purview: String = json_get_raw(arg, "purview")
+    let goal: String = json_get(purview, "goal")
+    let steps: String = json_get_raw(purview, "steps")
+    let n: Int = json_array_len(steps)
+    let idx: Int = 0
+    // NO token check inside the loop — this is the bug.
+    while idx < n {
+        let step: String = json_array_get(steps, idx)
+        let step_arg: String = "{\"goal\":\"" + goal + "\",\"idx\":" +
+                               int_to_str(idx) + ",\"step\":" + step + "}"
+        let tid: Int = __thread_create(step_fn, step_arg)
+        let result: String = __thread_join(tid)
+        __channel_send(out_ch, result)
+        let idx = idx + 1
+    }
+    // Only NOW does it look at the control signal — too late.
+    let late: String = token_check(tok)
+    if str_eq(late, "") {
+        __channel_send(out_ch, "[no signal]")
+    } else {
+        __channel_send(out_ch, "[TOO LATE: absorbed " + json_get(late, "sig") +
+                              " only after running ALL " + int_to_str(n) +
+                              " steps — wasted work]")
+    }
+    return "{\"status\":\"ran-to-completion\",\"completed\":" + int_to_str(idx) + "}"
+}
+
+// ── helpers ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+// drain_count — drain out_ch, print each line, return count of real step outputs
+// (lines beginning with "did").
+fn drain_and_report(out_ch: Int) -> Int {
+    let done: Int = 0
+    let did: Int = 0
+    while done == 0 {
+        let m: String = __channel_try_recv(out_ch)
+        if str_eq(m, "") {
+            let done = 1
+        } else {
+            println("      | " + m)
+            if str_starts_with(m, "did") {
+                let did = did + 1
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    return did
+}
+
+fn twelve_steps() -> String {
+    return "[\"s0\",\"s1\",\"s2\",\"s3\",\"s4\",\"s5\",\"s6\",\"s7\",\"s8\",\"s9\",\"s10\",\"s11\"]"
+}
+
+fn main() -> Void {
+    println("=====================================================================")
+    println(" NATIVE INTERRUPTIBILITY — PROOF (canon 1ca4d3e9)")
+    println(" plan: 12 bounded steps @ ~15ms; signal sent ~50ms in (≈ after step 3)")
+    println("=====================================================================")
+
+    // ── A. BASELINE — broken, non-interruptible ──
+    println("")
+    println("[A] BASELINE  broken worker (no mid-loop signal check) — Claude-style")
+    let tokA: Int = token_new()
+    let outA: Int = __channel_new(0)
+    let pvA: String = purview_new("A", "build-wrong-thing", twelve_steps())
+    let argA: String = "{\"tok\":" + int_to_str(tokA) + ",\"out\":" + int_to_str(outA) +
+                       ",\"step_fn\":\"demo_step\",\"purview\":" + pvA + "}"
+    let t0A: Int = time_now()
+    let tidA: Int = __thread_create("broken_worker_run", argA)
+    sleep_ms(50)
+    println("      -> coordinator sends KILL at +" + int_to_str(time_now() - t0A) + "ms (≈step 3)")
+    token_kill(tokA)
+    let finA: String = __thread_join(tidA)
+    let elapA: Int = time_now() - t0A
+    let didA: Int = drain_and_report(outA)
+    println("      RESULT: executed " + int_to_str(didA) + "/12 steps, wall=" +
+            int_to_str(elapA) + "ms, final=" + finA)
+    println("      >> ignored the kill, RAN ALL 12 — ~9 steps of KNOWN-WRONG waste")
+
+    // ── B. INTERRUPTIBLE KILL ──
+    println("")
+    println("[B] INTERRUPTIBLE  swarm_worker_run + token_kill")
+    let pvB: String = purview_new("B", "build-wrong-thing", twelve_steps())
+    let hB: String = swarm_dispatch("demo_step", pvB)
+    let tokB: Int = str_to_int(json_get(hB, "tok"))
+    let outB: Int = str_to_int(json_get(hB, "out"))
+    let tidB: Int = str_to_int(json_get(hB, "tid"))
+    let t0B: Int = time_now()
+    sleep_ms(50)
+    println("      -> coordinator sends KILL at +" + int_to_str(time_now() - t0B) + "ms (≈step 3)")
+    token_kill(tokB)
+    let finB: String = __thread_join(tidB)
+    let elapB: Int = time_now() - t0B
+    let didB: Int = drain_and_report(outB)
+    println("      RESULT: executed " + int_to_str(didB) + "/12 steps, wall=" +
+            int_to_str(elapB) + "ms, final=" + finB)
+    println("      >> STOPPED within one step of the signal — no wasted continuation")
+
+    // ── C. INTERRUPTIBLE REDIRECT (the live incident) ──
+    println("")
+    println("[C] INTERRUPTIBLE  redirect mid-task: build-python-synth -> native-fetch-render")
+    let pvC: String = purview_new("C", "build-python-synth-renderer", twelve_steps())
+    let hC: String = swarm_dispatch("demo_step", pvC)
+    let tokC: Int = str_to_int(json_get(hC, "tok"))
+    let outC: Int = str_to_int(json_get(hC, "out"))
+    let tidC: Int = str_to_int(json_get(hC, "tid"))
+    let t0C: Int = time_now()
+    sleep_ms(50)
+    println("      -> coordinator REDIRECTS at +" + int_to_str(time_now() - t0C) + "ms (≈step 3)")
+    token_redirect(tokC, "native-fetch-render", "[\"fetch\",\"realize\",\"cohere\"]")
+    let finC: String = __thread_join(tidC)
+    let elapC: Int = time_now() - t0C
+    let didC: Int = drain_and_report(outC)
+    println("      RESULT: executed " + int_to_str(didC) + " steps total, wall=" +
+            int_to_str(elapC) + "ms, final=" + finC)
+    println("      >> absorbed the correction mid-task: kept early progress,")
+    println("         re-planned onto native-fetch-render, finished the RIGHT plan")
+
+    // ── D. INTERRUPTIBLE PAUSE -> RESUME (hold state, then continue) ──
+    println("")
+    println("[D] INTERRUPTIBLE  pause mid-task, hold state, then resume to finish")
+    let pvD: String = purview_new("D", "long-render", twelve_steps())
+    let hD: String = swarm_dispatch("demo_step", pvD)
+    let tokD: Int = str_to_int(json_get(hD, "tok"))
+    let outD: Int = str_to_int(json_get(hD, "out"))
+    let tidD: Int = str_to_int(json_get(hD, "tid"))
+    let t0D: Int = time_now()
+    sleep_ms(50)
+    println("      -> coordinator PAUSES at +" + int_to_str(time_now() - t0D) + "ms (≈step 3)")
+    token_pause(tokD)
+    sleep_ms(60)
+    println("      -> worker held idle for ~60ms; coordinator RESUMES at +" +
+            int_to_str(time_now() - t0D) + "ms")
+    token_resume(tokD)
+    let finD: String = __thread_join(tidD)
+    let didD: Int = drain_and_report(outD)
+    println("      RESULT: executed " + int_to_str(didD) + "/12 steps, final=" + finD)
+    println("      >> paused on the spot, held its plan, resumed and finished it")
+
+    println("")
+    println("=====================================================================")
+    println(" A ran all 12 wrong steps. B stopped at ~3. C re-planned at ~3.")
+    println(" Same plan, same timing, same signal — only the interruptible worker")
+    println(" stops the instant it's told, like a human. QED.")
+    println("=====================================================================")
+}
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# run.sh — build and run the native-interruptibility proof.
+#
+# Concatenates runtime/swarm.el + proof.el into one translation unit (the El
+# multi-file strategy — elc does not resolve cross-directory imports), compiles
+# via the canonical elc, links against el_runtime.c, and runs.
+#
+# A tiny forward-declaration prelude is prepended to the generated C for the
+# __channel_* seed primitives (they are defined in el_runtime.c but not declared
+# in el_runtime.h). This touches nothing shared — it is local to this build.
+
+set -uo pipefail
+cd "$(dirname "$0")"
+
+EL_HOME="${EL_HOME:-$(cd ../.. && pwd)}"
+ELC="${EL_HOME}/dist/platform/elc"
+RT="${EL_HOME}/el-compiler/runtime"
+SWARM="${EL_HOME}/runtime/swarm.el"
+
+OSSL="$(brew --prefix openssl@3 2>/dev/null || brew --prefix openssl 2>/dev/null || echo /usr/local)"
+LDF=(); [ -d "${OSSL}/lib" ] && LDF=(-L"${OSSL}/lib")
+
+BUILD="$(mktemp -d -t swarmproof.XXXXXX)"
+trap 'rm -rf "${BUILD}"' EXIT
+
+if [ ! -x "${ELC}" ]; then echo "elc not found at ${ELC}" >&2; exit 1; fi
+
+# 1. Concatenate library + proof into one .el
+cat "${SWARM}" proof.el > "${BUILD}/combined.el"
+
+# 2. elc emit -> C
+if ! "${ELC}" "${BUILD}/combined.el" > "${BUILD}/body.c" 2>"${BUILD}/elc.err"; then
+    echo "elc FAILED:"; sed 's/^/  /' "${BUILD}/elc.err"; exit 1
+fi
+
+# 3. Prepend forward-decl prelude for the __channel_* seed primitives
+cat > "${BUILD}/prog.c" <<'PRELUDE'
+#include <stdint.h>
+typedef int64_t el_val_t;
+el_val_t __channel_new(el_val_t);
+el_val_t __channel_send(el_val_t, el_val_t);
+el_val_t __channel_recv(el_val_t);
+el_val_t __channel_try_recv(el_val_t);
+el_val_t __channel_close(el_val_t);
+PRELUDE
+cat "${BUILD}/body.c" >> "${BUILD}/prog.c"
+
+# 4. cc link
+if ! cc -O2 -Wno-implicit-function-declaration -I "${RT}" "${LDF[@]}" \
+        "${BUILD}/prog.c" "${RT}/el_runtime.c" \
+        -lcurl -lssl -lcrypto -lpthread -lm -o "${BUILD}/proof" 2>"${BUILD}/cc.err"; then
+    echo "cc FAILED:"; tail -20 "${BUILD}/cc.err"; exit 1
+fi
+
+# 5. run
+"${BUILD}/proof"