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strukto-ai/mirage `Workspace.execute` command execution

Technical Positioning
Reliable command execution control and resource management via `AbortSignal`
SaaS Insight & Market Implications
This issue identifies a critical flaw in `Mirage`'s `Workspace.execute` `AbortSignal` implementation: signals are only checked at entry, ignoring mid-execution aborts. Long-running commands, like `sleep 5`, complete despite an active abort signal. This creates a significant developer pain point for AI agent orchestration, where timely termination of tasks is crucial for resource management and responsiveness. The lack of cooperative polling or event listener registration for `AbortSignal` within command execution flows leads to unresponsive agents and wasted compute cycles. For B2B SaaS platforms building on `Mirage`, this directly impacts the reliability and efficiency of agent operations, necessitating a robust, interruptible execution model to meet enterprise performance and cost requirements.
Proprietary Technical Taxonomy
AbortSignal Workspace.execute mid-execution long-running commands AbortError RAMResource MountMode AbortController

Raw Developer Origin & Technical Request

Source Icon GitHub Issue May 7, 2026
Repo: strukto-ai/mirage
Bug: `AbortSignal` is only checked at entry, never observed mid-execution

## Summary

`Workspace.execute(command, { signal })` documents an `AbortSignal` option, but the signal is only checked once at the very start of the call. Aborts that fire after `execute()` begins are ignored — long-running commands run to completion regardless.

## Repro

```ts
import { Workspace, RAMResource, MountMode } from '@struktoai/mirage-node';

const ws = new Workspace({ '/data': new RAMResource() }, { mode: MountMode.WRITE });

// Pre-aborted signal: works as expected — throws AbortError.
const ac1 = new AbortController();
ac1.abort();
try {
await ws.execute('echo hi', { signal: ac1.signal });
} catch (e) {
console.log(e.name, '-', e.message);
// Output: AbortError - execute aborted
}

// Mid-flight abort: silently ignored.
const ac2 = AbortSignal.timeout(50);
const t0 = Date.now();
const r = await ws.execute('sleep 5', { signal: ac2 });
console.log('took', Date.now() - t0, 'ms; exit:', r.exitCode);
// Output: took ~5000 ms; exit: 0
// Expected: AbortError thrown after ~50 ms.
```

## Where in the source

`workspace.ts`'s `execute()` (around line 530) checks `options.signal?.aborted === true` once at entry and throws if so. There's no `signal.addEventListener('abort', ...)` registration and no cooperative `signal.aborted` polling between commands in a list, between pipeline stages, between iterations of `for`/`while`/`until` loops, or between dispatch boundaries.

The `JobTable` already has its own per-job `AbortController` infrastructure (used internally for...

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