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+import * as assert from "assert";
+import * as fs from "fs";
+import * as path from "path";
+import * as vscode from "vscode";
+import type { CowritingApi } from "../../../src/extension";
+
+const WS = process.env.E2E_WORKSPACE!;
+const settle = () => new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 400));
+
+async function getApi(): Promise<CowritingApi> {
+  const ext = vscode.extensions.getExtension("benstull.vscode-cowriting-plugin")!;
+  const api = (await ext.activate()) as CowritingApi;
+  assert.ok(api?.trackChangesPreviewController, "exports preview controller");
+  return api;
+}
+
+async function freshDoc(rel: string, body: string): Promise<vscode.TextDocument> {
+  const abs = path.join(WS, rel);
+  fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(abs), { recursive: true });
+  fs.writeFileSync(abs, body, "utf8");
+  const doc = await vscode.workspace.openTextDocument(vscode.Uri.file(abs));
+  await vscode.window.showTextDocument(doc);
+  await settle();
+  return doc;
+}
+
+// #60 host E2E (no LLM): live progress is purely additive observability. The
+// harness can't read notification subtitles, so it asserts the CONTRACT —
+// progress events don't change the proposals (INV-44), and an aborted turn
+// proposes nothing (INV-47). The live notification/OutputChannel UI itself is
+// covered by the turnProgress unit tests + the manual smoke.
+suite("#60 live turn progress (additive + cancel)", () => {
+  test("a stub that emits progress still produces the same proposals (INV-44)", async () => {
+    const doc = await freshDoc("docs/live60-additive.md", "# Title\n\nOld paragraph.\n");
+    const api = await getApi();
+    const ctl = api.trackChangesPreviewController;
+    await vscode.commands.executeCommand("cowriting.showTrackChangesPreview");
+    await settle();
+
+    // The stub honors opts.onProgress (emitting synthetic snapshots) but returns
+    // the same rewrite — proposals must be unaffected by progress events.
+    ctl.setEditTurnForTest(async (_i, _text, opts) => {
+      opts?.onProgress?.({ phase: "writing", chars: 5 });
+      opts?.onProgress?.({ phase: "writing", chars: 13, tokens: 1234, textDelta: "New paragraph." });
+      return { replacement: "# Title\n\nNew paragraph.\n", model: "sonnet", sessionId: "e2e-live60" };
+    });
+
+    const ids = await ctl.runEditAndPropose(doc, { kind: "document" }, "rewrite the paragraph");
+    await settle();
+    assert.strictEqual(ids.length, 1, "one changed block → one proposal, regardless of progress events");
+    const view = api.proposalController.listProposals(doc).find((v) => v.id === ids[0]);
+    assert.ok(view, "the proposal is live");
+    assert.ok(doc.getText().includes("Old paragraph."), "document unchanged by propose (INV-10)");
+  });
+
+  test("an aborted turn proposes nothing (INV-47)", async () => {
+    const doc = await freshDoc("docs/live60-cancel.md", "# Title\n\nOld paragraph.\n");
+    const api = await getApi();
+    const ctl = api.trackChangesPreviewController;
+    await vscode.commands.executeCommand("cowriting.showTrackChangesPreview");
+    await settle();
+
+    // Simulate the SDK honoring the abort signal: throw as runEditTurn does on a
+    // non-"completed" (aborted) status.
+    ctl.setEditTurnForTest(async (_i, _text, opts) => {
+      if (opts?.signal?.aborted) throw new Error("claude-code turn aborted");
+      throw new Error("claude-code turn aborted");
+    });
+
+    const ac = new AbortController();
+    ac.abort();
+    let ids: string[] = [];
+    try {
+      ids = await ctl.runEditAndPropose(doc, { kind: "document" }, "rewrite", { signal: ac.signal });
+    } catch {
+      ids = [];
+    }
+    await settle();
+    assert.strictEqual(ids.length, 0, "aborted turn must create no proposals");
+    assert.strictEqual(api.proposalController.listProposals(doc).length, 0, "no pending proposals after abort");
+  });
+});