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`orca terminal <verb>` answered `terminal_handle_stale` for a structured worker's handle. Nothing went stale: the session is live and simply has no terminal, and it never had one — so callers acted on a false claim and went hunting for a remint that cannot exist. The refusal now carries its own code and names the structured equivalents (`orca terminal read`, `worker-read --source transcript`, `orca orchestration send`), so an agent that lands there learns what to run rather than what failed. A PTY handle that really did go stale keeps the old error, and so does a session this runtime no longer owns — that handle IS dead. `terminal.show` stays non-resolving: synthesising a ptyId/leafId/paneRuntimeId would hand every public terminal verb something that looks writable and is not. `orchestration-worker-specs.ts` promised "the same verbs, the same handle, and the same worker-read sources", and all three clauses were false for a worker with no terminal. A spec agents read must not carry a false promise, so it now states the limitation and the alternative that always works. Note this had to be reconciled with an invariant this branch already holds: the worker MODE must stay opaque, or a coordinator starts branching on something no verb it runs behaves differently for. So the note says "not every worker has a terminal" and points at `--source auto`/`--source transcript` WITHOUT naming a kind — the same mode-neutral wording `readStructuredWorkerOutput` already uses when it refuses `--source terminal`. Both properties are now pinned by tests, so neither can be restored by breaking the other.