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Jinwoo Hong 54a8afc91d fix(orchestration): typed error codes for dispatch and worker-start refusals (#18902)
* fix(orchestration): typed error codes for dispatch and worker-start refusals

orchestration dispatch (and worker-start, which composes it) surfaced task
not found, task not ready, and inject rejected as the same bare
runtime_error, so an agent reading the receipt could not choose between
creating the task, waiting on dependencies, or picking another terminal.

Add task_not_found (data.taskId), task_not_ready (data.status,
data.unmetDependencies), and inject_rejected (data.terminal, data.reason),
each carrying data.nextSteps so every shipped CLI already prints the
recovery. worker-start's not-ready refusal moves from task_not_startable
to task_not_ready with the same detail. runtime_error stays for genuinely
unexpected failures.

Proven red-first from RpcDispatcher through the CLI's own failure
formatting, plus an SSH bridge test that the host CLI's typed refusal
relays unchanged.

* test(orchestration): load CLI formatter at runtime in the dispatch-code test

The composite node typecheck (config/tsconfig.node.json without
--composite false, as CI runs it) rejects a static import of src/cli from
a main test with TS6307. Load the formatter and error class dynamically
behind narrow structural types, as the CLI/runtime boundary test does.

* fix(orchestration): keep task_not_startable and split the CLI-format proof

Review on #18902:

- Drop task_not_ready. worker-start already published task_not_startable
  for a not-ready Task, so renaming it would change an existing receipt
  value under old clients. dispatch now emits task_not_startable too (it was
  a bare runtime_error before, so this is purely additive), with the new
  data.status / data.unmetDependencies / data.nextSteps.
- Move the refusal receipts (code, message, data) into
  src/shared/orchestration-dispatch-refusal-contract.ts so the runtime
  emits them and the CLI test formats the identical envelope. The RPC test
  under src/main asserts toEqual against the contract; the new
  src/cli/orchestration-dispatch-refusal-format.test.ts feeds those same
  receipts to formatCliError / reportCliError. Neither tsconfig widens and
  the composite typecheck CI runs is clean.

* fix(orchestration): keep published refusal messages and type the DB claim guards

Codex review of #18902:

- Every call site keeps the exact message it published on main
  ("Task not found: <id>", "only a ready Task can start.", "cannot retry
  from Dispatch"); the shared contract now takes the message per site and
  only owns the code and data. Baseline strings are pinned as literals.
- createDispatchContext's own missing/non-ready guards, including the
  atomic-claim loser, now emit the same typed receipt instead of a bare
  Error, so a dispatch that races a status change no longer flattens to
  runtime_error. Covered by a dispatcher-level race test.
- Invalid --retry-of keeps task_not_startable but now carries status,
  unmetDependencies, retryOf, and a retry-specific next step.
- Dependency recovery text distinguishes waiting on running deps from
  retrying/unblocking failed ones.
- CLI test adds an unknown-code case so the old-client claim rests on an
  assertion, not a comment; SSH test asserts exact stdout.
- Guide table narrowed to the covered preflight cases; occupancy stays
  runtime_error and is named as such.
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