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support async hook calls

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
28/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reading the follow-up issue #151 and the linked greenback documentation, then review the await-me-maybe reference. Clarify the checklist decisions around await transparency, async entry points, async-call behavior, and sync/async hook interaction. Done includes agreed APIs and behavior plus the requested guide on hook colors.

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Description

follow-up/spin out to #151

it should be possible to have a a await transparent hook caller interface that allows to await hooks

optionally integrated with https://greenback.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ so that accidentally wrongly coloured hooks can be worked around

  • basic await transparency
  • apis/entrypoints for async hook calling from a normal hook manager
  • define what happens when a async hook call happens
  • define how sync/async hooks interact (do we need async first internals)
  • consider https://simonwillison.net/2020/Sep/2/await-me-maybe/
  • write up a guide on hook colors
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