To avoid making the shell block the Compass UI in certain conditions, we want to be able to put the shell runtime in a background thread/worker.

With this investigation we want to build a proof of concept to see and better estimate the amount of work needed to build a full implementation of a shell runtime that works in a separate thread.

The proof of concept should explore the following areas:

• Is it possible to run mongosh runtime in a Node.js worker
• What needs to be in the same thread as the runtime
• How the runtime will communicate evaluated code results back to the main thread