# RFC: Event-sourced sessions with derived message history

Status: implemented (accepted 2026-06-11)

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## Context

The MVP requires strict event-based tracing with fully replayable sessions (严格的基于事件的trace、logging系统，session完全可回放). Two models were considered: a mutable message array with events fired as notifications (simpler, but state and log can diverge), or event-sourcing where the log IS the state.

## Decision

A `Session` is an append-only log of typed `SessionEvent`s — the single source of truth. The LLM message history is *derived* from the log (`deriveMessages()`); raw stream chunks are logged for token-level replay fidelity while the assembled `assistant/message` event is authoritative for derivation. Replay/fork = seed a new session with an existing log.

Appends are synchronous (the hot path never blocks on I/O); `session/event` is a sync notification; persistence plugins buffer write-behind and drain at the awaited `session/flush` checkpoint fired at every turn end.

Ordering contract: the loop appends to the session *before* emitting the corresponding Cordis event, and the `agent/step-result` waterfall runs before the `assistant/message` append so the log records what tool dispatch actually used (post-review fix; regression-tested).

## Consequences

- Replay, trace, and telemetry are structurally guaranteed, not bolted on.
- Persistence stays a plugin concern; the in-memory store ships in dsh-session.
- The event vocabulary is merge-extensible (plugins add e.g. compaction events); it carries a TODO(review) marker until the first persistence plugin and real adapter exercise it.
- Derivation cost grows with log length — compaction (future plugin) is the intended mitigation, not log mutation.
