# The workspaceHost runtime retires; the registry is the workspace plane The v8 wire cleanup removes the `workspaceHost` contract and its runtime worker entirely (13 host runtime contracts → 12). The registry established by ADR 0005 was already the sole owner of workspace lifecycle; workspaceHost had shrunk to a residue of one observation and three dead or single-caller verbs. This ADR records the collapse — it fulfills rather than revises ADR 0005/0006, whose models are unchanged. Disposition of the surface: - `measureUsage` — the git-aware disk observation (total bytes plus reclaimable git-ignored artifact bytes) moves to `workspaceRegistry.measureUsage({ workspaceId })`, id-keyed like the registry's other per-workspace observations. - `initializeWorkspace` — cut. Its one consumer, the automations runtime, rewires to `workspaceRegistry.createWorkspace` (idempotent, designed for registering existing paths, worktrees auto-adopting their parent repository) followed by `activateWorkspace`. Side benefit: automation workspaces become registry-visible at run start instead of waiting for adoption scans. - `runWorkspaceScript` and `notices` — cut as dead. Production scripts flow through registry activation and `terminals.runWorkflow`; the UI reads notices from the registry records overlay. The workspace-host worker leaves both worker graphs (the desktop gateway entries and the workspace-server daemon's), and the `workspace-host-actions` mirror service is deleted. Its session-cleanup code, which registry deactivation uses, survives as imported library code under the registry runtime — an implementation detail with no wire surface. The aggregate `workspaceWireContract` loses the `workspaceHost` key. ## Consequences - One fewer required supervised child process per host; the automations worker gains an explicit dependency on the workspace-registry runtime in both graphs. - Workspace observations, lifecycle, and now usage measurement live on a single contract; there is no second "host" plane to keep consistent with the registry. - Re-adding any cut verb later is an additive minor bump under the v8 protocol.