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riley-oai 82d4a98912 Add cancellation for native user-verification RPCs (#43925)
## Why

Canceling an elicitation does not stop a separate native verification RPC. Clients need a way to cancel that work and prevent a canceled proof from being delivered while it waits for outbound queue capacity.

## What changed

- Add experimental `userVerification/cancel` with `{requestId}` to signal cancellation of status, enroll, delete, or verify requests on the same connection.
- Return an empty acknowledgment without waiting for native work to exit. Unknown, finished, unrelated, and other-connection requests are no-ops.
- Retain request cancellation state until outbound capacity is available so canceled proofs are checked before enqueueing. Already enqueued responses and completed effects cannot be retracted.
- Document the API, request ID requirements, and independent lifetimes of elicitations and native verification RPCs.

## Testing

Add coverage for experimental opt-in, parameter validation, connection and request ID isolation, cancellation before native dispatch, repeated cancellation, worker-slot retention, and proof cancellation while waiting for outbound capacity.

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# User verification cancellation (experimental)
Local UI clients can cancel a native user-verification RPC by sending
`userVerification/cancel` with `{requestId}` and the `experimentalApi` opt-in.
The result is an empty acknowledgment (`{}`). This API does not enable desktop
verification capability advertisement.
`requestId` is the original status, enroll, delete, or verify RPC's string or
integer ID on the same connection, not the server elicitation ID. Use fresh IDs
for each operation and a distinct ID for the cancel RPC. Unknown, finished,
unrelated, and other-connection requests are no-ops.
The acknowledgment confirms the cancellation signal without waiting for the OS
prompt to close. The original RPC completes independently, with
`cancelled/interrupted` when cancellation prevents completion. Cancellation
cannot roll back completed effects. It remains effective while a proof waits for
outbound queue capacity, but cannot retract a response already enqueued.
Canceling or resolving an elicitation does not itself stop a separate
`userVerification/verify` RPC. Clients must cancel that RPC separately and discard
late proofs after the approval is canceled or resolved. Only one native worker
runs per app-server; if an OS call remains active after cancellation or timeout,
subsequent local operations return `failed/providerError` until that worker exits.
# Thread removal
`thread/archive` and `thread/delete` reject attempts to remove a live internal
worker with JSON-RPC error `-32600`. The worker's owner controls its shutdown.
For example, a Guardian reviewer remains available to its parent conversation
after a client tries to archive or delete it.
After the owner releases the worker, its saved conversation can be archived or
deleted normally. Ordinary client-controlled threads keep their existing behavior.