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[Enhancement]: Standardize tool execution results across Relay #445

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Goal

Establish a consistent tool-execution result contract across Relay.

Tool results should contain the application-visible result together with optional opaque annotation metadata. The contract should behave consistently across in-process, worker, and native plugin surfaces.

Expected behavior

  • Tool-result annotations remain separate from the application-visible result.
  • Middleware can preserve, replace, or remove annotations.
  • Security and observability components can process the result and annotation independently.
  • Existing continuation, error, short-circuit, and pending-mark behavior remains consistent.
  • Incompatible plugin and Relay versions are rejected with clear migration guidance.

Compatibility

This introduces a breaking semantic contract for tool-execution results. The change must have a documented Relay compatibility boundary, migration guidance, and coverage across all supported plugin surfaces.

Acceptance criteria

  • All tool-execution paths use the standardized result contract.
  • Result and annotation behavior is consistent across plugin boundaries.
  • Sanitization and export behavior are tested independently.
  • Compatibility validation prevents mixing legacy and standardized result semantics.
  • The migration and compatibility expectations are documented.

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