The loop logs the assistant/message (carrying tool-call blocks) BEFORE running
the tools, so a crash mid-tool leaves durable tool calls with no matching
tool/result. interruptedTurnClosers only added step/end + turn/end, so a resumed
session's deriveMessages() replayed a dangling assistant tool-call — which every
provider rejects as an invalid transcript on the next request.
interruptedTurnClosers now scans the interrupted turn for tool-call blocks
without a matching tool/result and synthesizes an error tool/result for each
(before the step/end), so the rehydrated history is a valid transcript. Adds a
dedicated repair.spec.ts and a shared-contract case proving both backends pair
every orphaned call with a result. Docs (ADR 0018, both persistence READMEs,
load() JSDoc) updated.
Also fixes the echo-agent README session-cleanup path: demo:echo runs from the
repo root, so sessions land in <repo-root>/.sessions/_no-cwd/, not
examples/echo-agent/.sessions/ (review #33).
Mirror the JSONL backend's crash-recovery contract change: load() now PRESERVES
the real events of an interrupted final turn (a turn can be huge — truncating it
would destroy work) and durably CLOSES the orphaned turn with synthetic boundary
events (step/end if open, then turn/end {interrupted}) inside one transaction
that also deletes any torn tail row. load() is therefore mutating; the deferred
truncation-repair on the next append is gone. Replaces cutAtLastTurnEnd with
scanRows (longest preserved prefix + torn-tail offset). Updates the sqlite tests
and README to the preserve-and-close semantics; the shared runPersistenceContract
suite now holds both backends to identical interrupted-turn behavior.
A config agent with `resumeSessionId` set continues a persisted session
instead of starting a fresh `${id}-session-<uuid>`. The id is sourced from
an env var in cordis.yml, so the coding-agent demo can resume a prior
conversation without code changes. The resume is deferred until the
`sessionPersistence` backend loads (via ctx.inject) and is contained: a
missing/unreadable id logs a warning and starts no agent. Adds a real-API
resume e2e proving cross-process continuity through the JSONL backend.
A crash can leave a durable log whose final turn never closed. The old
behavior truncated everything after the last turn/end as a "crash tail".
But a single turn can be HUGE in a long-horizon task (many steps, large
tool output), so truncating it silently destroys real, durably-written
work — truncating a turn is wrong.
New crash recovery (ADR 0018): load() PRESERVES the interrupted turn's
events and CLOSES the orphaned turn by durably appending synthetic
boundary events — a step/end if a step was open, then a turn/end carrying
the new merge-extensible TurnEndReason {kind:'interrupted'}. load()
returns the balanced log, so a resumed session is immediately usable. Only
a never-fully-written TORN tail fragment is discarded; corruption in the
committed region is still unloadable.
- dsh-session: TurnEndReason {kind:'interrupted'} + shared
interruptedTurnClosers() repair helper.
- JSONL backend: scanLog preserves the longest contiguous prefix
(including a partial final turn); loadCore truncates a torn fragment and
durably writes the closers, returning the balanced log.
- runPersistenceContract gains a crash-recovery test (both backends + mock).
- Docs: ADR 0018/0017, architecture.md, package READMEs.
Also (review #33): RFC 013 records the "move event vocabulary to Zod"
question (merge-extensible maps → runtime schema registry) + blast radius;
deferred, not done here.
The `materialized` INTEGER column was redundant: create()/update() already
keep a lazy session in memory and write no row, so a `sessions` row is
written only by the first append. Its EXISTENCE is the materialization
signal — has()/list() now report exactly the sessions that have a row,
matching the JSONL backend's "file exists ⇔ materialized".
The column only existed to force has()/list() to FALSE for an all-tail
crash (a partial first turn, zero committed events). That actually
DIVERGED from the JSONL backend, whose file (and thus has()=true) survives
a first append that never reached turn/end. Removing the column drops that
special case: an all-tail session keeps its row and stays present, the
same as JSONL. The orphaned tail rows are still removed by the deferred
truncation-repair on the next append, and load() stays non-mutating.
Also: add a TODO to route through a cordis db service if one is adopted,
and correct the README's Node-version framing to the repo's engines (>=24).
master's pnpm migration claimed ADR 0016 (0016-pnpm-over-yarn), which
collides with this stack's session-persistence ADR. Renumbering the
session-persistence ADR to 0018 (turn-enclosure stays 0017); update the
json.ts module-doc reference accordingly.
materialize() removed the temp hard link in a finally that ran BEFORE
syncDir() and before state.materialized/cursor advanced. If link()
succeeded (log published) but the temp rm then threw, materialize()
rejected after publishing — leaving state.materialized false, so the
buffered events stayed unpersisted and every retry wedged on the
"already exists" exists() backstop.
Restructured to the robust shape: track link() success; on link failure
remove the temp (the only reference) before propagating; on success
fsync the directory, mark materialized, THEN best-effort remove the
now-redundant temp link (a leftover *.tmp is harmless and never read).
A temp-rm failure can no longer reject a session whose log published.
The prior fix handled a throwing session/event listener on the turn/start
append, but the SAME push-before-notify hazard remained on the three
FINALIZER appends. Session.append pushes the event before notifying, so a
throwing listener on a finalizer event left the event logged but aborted
the rest of finalization — stranding the turn open.
- failTurn(): set `reason` BEFORE appending the `error` event, and contain
a throwing session/event listener on it (the event is already logged
either way). Otherwise reason stayed unset, agent/error was skipped, and
the caller's closeTurn(false) never ran → open turn.
- closeStep(): the try/catch wrapped only the agent/step-end EMIT, not the
step/end APPEND. A throwing session/event listener on step/end escaped —
fatal when closeStep runs from the outer catch during finalization
(turn/start + step/end but no turn/end). Now both the append and the emit
are contained and surface as a turn error via failTurn.
- closeTurn(): contain a throwing session/event listener on the turn/end
append (it would propagate to the runLoop backstop from closeTurn(false),
or skip the turn-end emit from closeTurn(true)). turn/end is logged
either way, so the turn stays balanced.
Regressions: a throwing session/event listener on the error event, on
step/end during finalization (driven by a throwing agent/step-start), and
on turn/end — each leaves a balanced turn and the loop survives.
- load() no longer DELETEs the crash tail — it stays non-mutating w.r.t.
the event log and records a repair point (repairFrom). The next append
runs the DELETE inside its own transaction before inserting. This makes
the SQLite backend honor the SAME public contract as JSONL (load returns
the committed prefix; the subsequent append performs the one-time
physical truncation-repair), instead of mutating during load.
- All-tail load: when the discarded crash tail was the session's only
committed content (committed.length === 0), the metadata row still read
materialized = 1 from the prior append, so has()/list() reported a
session load() had just emptied. load() now flips the row's materialized
flag to 0 (metadata only — the orphaned event rows are still removed by
the deferred repair), so has()/list() are immediately consistent.
- Schema version: openDatabase now stores SCHEMA_VERSION in PRAGMA
user_version on a fresh database and rejects opening one whose
user_version is newer than this build supports, protecting against a
future incompatible layout.
Regression tests: load is non-mutating (tail rows survive until the next
append), all-tail load makes has()/list() false, and a newer-schema
database is rejected on open.
- agent/README: the inject() line said "without triggering a turn",
regressing the #32 turn-enclosure model. Restored the running-vs-idle
wording (idle inject wraps a one-shot injection turn; ADR 0017) to match
the interface JSDoc.
- agent-loop resume() JSDoc said "throws a typed error" but the code
throws a plain Error (consistent with the sibling assertAgentIdFree
throw). Softened to "rejects with a clear error" — no behavior change;
plain Error is intentional (no consumer needs a structured code here).
A durable persistence backend must not treat a storage fault as absence.
listCwdDirs() and exists() swallowed EVERY error and reported "no
sessions" / "not found", so EACCES/ENOTDIR/transient I/O could make
list() return nothing, load() report not-found, and collision checks
proceed under a false absence assumption.
- Add an isENOENT() helper; listCwdDirs() and exists() now return the
empty/absent result ONLY for ENOENT and rethrow every other error.
Regression tests drive ENOTDIR through both paths.
TODO-level hardening also addressed:
- writeSidecar() now uses an exclusive owner-only temp open ('wx', 0o600)
like the log-materialization path, instead of a truncating writeFile —
the sidecar can carry user data (title/firstPrompt), so a predictable/
pre-existing temp path must never be silently followed.
- The shared runPersistenceContract serializability case now exercises
EVERY value isJsonValue rejects (BigInt, undefined, Infinity, function,
symbol, Map, circular), not just BigInt, so a backend cannot pass the
contract while accepting values that corrupt the round-trip. The mock
MemoryPersistence now validates via the canonical isJsonValue.
Session.append pushes the event BEFORE notifying session/event listeners,
so a throwing listener leaves the event in the log while the line after
the append (a boolean flag) never runs. Both turn-balance decisions were
gated on such flags, so a throwing listener could strand an open turn or
skip a durability checkpoint.
- loop.ts: the outer catch decided "turn/end owed" from `turnStarted`.
A throwing listener on the turn/start append left turn/start logged but
the flag false → catch rethrew and skipped turn/end → permanently open
turn (violating ADR 0017). Now decided from the log (this turn's
turn/start present), so the turn is always balanced; only a genuine
pre-push failure (non-serializable trigger — turn/start never logged) is
rethrown to the runLoop backstop. Removed the now-dead `turnStarted`.
- agent.ts inject(): the idle one-shot-turn flush was gated on a
`turnRecorded` flag set after append('turn/end'); a throwing turn/end
listener skipped the flush, losing the balanced in-memory injection turn
on crash. Now the flush decision is read from the log, the synthetic
turn/end append contains a throwing listener (turn stays balanced), and
a failing idle flush is reported via agent/error (step 0 convention) AND
the logger — mirroring the loop's post-turn/end flush path — with a
throwing agent/error listener contained.
Rewrote the test that encoded the old (buggy) "turn/start listener throw
is rethrown, no turn/end" semantics to assert the balanced-turn contract,
and added regressions for the throwing-turn/end-listener flush and the
agent/error report. Updated Agent.inject JSDoc.
The source-level JSON-serializability invariant was only a preflight: the
Session constructor copied the seed array but shared every event/data
object with the caller, and append() stored the caller's `data` reference
verbatim. A post-create/post-append mutation could rewrite the durable
log or reintroduce a non-JSON-serializable value AFTER validation, so
session.events could diverge from what was validated / what a backend
can persist.
- ctor deep-clones each seed event after validation (not just the array).
- append() stores structuredClone(data) (serializability already checked,
so the clone is safe); the returned event carries the same snapshot.
Regression tests: mutating the original seed / the passed append object
after the call leaves session.events unchanged. Adapted the dev-freeze
invariants test to assert on the logged clone (append no longer freezes
the caller's input). Documented isJsonValue's exact scope (own enumerable
string keys, matching JSON.stringify) and synced the README create()
signature with meta.createdAt.
Two parity gaps with the JSONL backend found in review:
- append() now validates serializability and structuredClones the batch
synchronously at call time, BEFORE waiting behind the per-session
chain. A caller that mutates the passed array (or an event inside it)
after the call can no longer corrupt the persisted copy or advance the
cursor past what was written. Matches the JSONL backend.
- load() now computes the last-turn/end cut from the seq+type COLUMNS
only (cutAtLastTurnEnd is generic over {seq,type}); event `data` is
JSON-parsed only for the committed prefix, never for the uncommitted
tail. A malformed `data` in a crash tail is discarded, not treated as
unloadable — only a parse error/gap in the COMMITTED region is
unloadable (the SessionPersistence.load contract). Matches scanLog.
Regression tests for both.
Add a SQLite SessionPersistence backend (node:sqlite), a SECOND
implementation built to prove the abstract seam + the shared
runPersistenceContract suite are genuinely backend-agnostic. Each
SessionEvent maps 1:1 onto an events row (session_id, seq, type, time,
data); append is an INSERT inside a transaction asserting the
contiguous-seq contract; the mutable SessionSummary lives in the
sessions metadata row.
It satisfies the SAME contract semantics as the JSONL backend, expressed
over rows instead of file bytes:
- Lazy materialization: create() records intent in memory; no row until
the first append (a never-appended session is absent from has()/list()
via a materialized flag set inside the first append transaction).
- Crash-tail-on-load: load() returns events only through the last
complete turn/end and deletes the uncommitted tail; a seq gap in the
committed region makes the session unloadable.
- Transactional append: a mid-batch failure (a UNIQUE seq collision from
a concurrent writer) rolls back entirely, keeping the cursor truthful.
Like the JSONL backend it is also the write-path plugin (session/event →
buffer → session/flush drain, onCreated seed/adopt/collision handling,
HMR seeding, dispose-to-quiescence). The package runs the shared
runPersistenceContract suite plus SQLite-specific tests (transaction
rollback, crash-tail cut, schema version, HMR adoption).
Docs flip every "SQLite is future/deferred" reference (ADR 0016,
architecture.md, the persistence module doc + README) to "implemented;
the contract holds both backends to identical semantics".
Add the agent-creation factory seam on ctx.agents (AgentRegistry):
setFactory/create/resume plus the AgentFactory interface and
CreateAgentOptions/ResumeAgentOptions. AgentLoop implements AgentFactory
and registers itself via ctx.agents.setFactory(this), so plugins
create/resume agents through the interface without depending on the
concrete loop package.
- create({ agentId, sessionId, meta?, agentOptions? }) — programmatic
create on a caller-supplied session id (e.g. an ACP-generated id).
- resume({ agentId, resumeSessionId, agentOptions? }) — load a persisted
session via ctx.sessionPersistence (RFC 009) and resume an agent on it;
the live session id is the resumed id, turn numbering and derived
history continue from the loaded log. sessionPersistence is NOT
hard-injected (non-persistent demos still work); resume rejects with a
typed error when it is absent. assertAgentIdFree runs before any
session is created (and again after the load await) so a duplicate id
never leaves an orphaned live session.
Adds the runtime dsh-session-persistence dependency to agent-loop.
Add the durable session-persistence capability seam (ADR 0016): an
abstract SessionPersistence service (dsh-session-persistence,
ctx.sessionPersistence) defining create/append/load/list/has/delete/
update over the existing SessionEvent — no parallel persisted type — and
a first implementation (dsh-session-persistence-jsonl): an append-only
JSONL log per session with crash-safe atomic writes, truncation-repair
of a never-committed crash tail, and a read/replay path. SessionMeta
(format version, cwd, lineage) travels out-of-log via session.header.
A shared runPersistenceContract suite holds every backend to the same
append-only / contiguous-seq / lazy-materialization / serializability
semantics.
Config-driven create() now uses a per-run ${id}-session-<uuid> session
id so a fixed name no longer collides with an on-disk log once a durable
backend is loaded; each run is a new session (a demo simplification). The
examples drop their hand-rolled session-jsonl.ts and load the JSONL
backend via cordis.yml; CI smoke-loads it too.
The agent-facing create/resume factory that consumes load() is a
separate seam, deferred to a follow-up; this change stops at the load
primitive and does not reach into the loop.
Every session event now lives inside a turn (between turn/start and its
turn/end). The loop records queued user/message events AFTER turn/start;
an idle agent.inject() wraps its context/message in a one-shot injection
turn. This makes the turn the single durability/replay boundary so a
persistence backend can treat anything after the last turn/end as a
crash tail without dropping legitimate between-turn context.
A failure once the turn is already closed (rejecting session/flush, a
throwing agent/turn-end listener) has no in-turn position for a session
error event, so it is reported via agent/error + logger only; the turn
stays balanced. failTurn appends an error event only while the turn is
open.
The dsh-invariants plugin enforces turn-enclosure via a default case:
every non-boundary event type — including plugin-added merge-extensible
keys — must sit inside an open turn or it throws.
Documented in ADR 0017 + architecture.md.
Adds the durable-session metadata seam and enforces the log's
JSON-serializability invariant at the source:
- SessionHeader / SessionSummary / SessionMeta and CreateSessionOptions in
dsh-session; Session gains a readonly `header`; SessionStore.create takes
`(id?, options?: { seed?; meta? })` (validated absolute cwd, parentSession
lineage). The injection TurnTrigger variant is added for the idle-inject
one-shot turn that a later change introduces.
- isJsonValue (new json.ts): a value round-trips through JSON losslessly —
rejects BigInt, function, symbol, undefined, non-finite numbers, sparse
arrays, circular refs, and exotic objects (Map/Set/Date/class instances).
- Session.append throws on non-JSON-serializable data, and the Session
constructor validates every seed event (isJsonValue + contiguous seq from
0), so a replay/fork seed can never build a live log no backend can
persist — the source-level guarantee a durable backend relies on.
Migrates the ~3 internal positional-seed `create(id, seed)` call sites to
`{ seed }`, and adapts the invariants tests forced by the new guard (the
bad-seq seed is now caught by the constructor; the cyclic deep-freeze test
drives via session/event since append rejects cyclic data; a direct
session/event drives the invariants seq-monotonicity check). Docs kept
backend-agnostic (the persistence packages arrive in a later PR).
closeStep() previously caught and silently swallowed a throw from
agent/step-end emit. In the normal no-tool/no-steering path, this
caused runTurn to reach closeTurn(true) with reason still
{kind:completed}, so the session recorded a completed turn with
zero error events — even though a plugin had failed at a loop
boundary. This violates the contract that a throwing plugin is
contained as a turn error, not a silent success.
Now the catch calls failTurn(toError(error)), which appends the
single error event and sets reason={kind:error,…}. failTurn is
idempotent (errorReported guard), so existing error paths that
call failTurn after closeStep are unaffected.
Add regression test: a throwing agent/step-end listener during a
successful step now produces exactly one error event, a turn/end
with reason error, balanced boundaries (step/end before turn/end),
and a surviving loop.
llm.registerAdapter, agents.register, sessions.create, systemPrompt.section,
systemPrompt.tools, and tools.register each mutated state, emitted a change
event, then returned the disposer. In Cordis a synchronous throw before the
effect returns its disposer leaves nothing for the fiber to collect, so a
throwing change-listener leaked the registry entry permanently — HMR/dispose
could not clean it, and the duplicate-name/already-exists check stayed wedged
until restart.
Convert each to the generator-effect pattern already proven in
AgentLoop.create: mutate state, `yield` the disposer that undoes it (collected
before the next step runs, so it is torn down if a later step throws), THEN
emit the change event. The existing duplicate-name throws are unchanged — they
fire before any mutation, so they correctly leak nothing. No public API change:
generator effects are still synchronous SyncEffects and register() keeps
returning its fire-and-forget disposer wrapper.
Tests: a listener-throw rollback test for all six methods — register with a
change-listener that throws, assert the call throws AND the registry is clean
(entry absent; a subsequent listener-free register of the same name succeeds
and contributes exactly once). For systemPrompt (no duplicate-name check) the
two tests assert assembly is clean. Verified each fails against the pre-fix
emit-before-return-disposer form.
The loop passed the authoritative call.id into ctx.tools.execute() but then
appended tool/result using result.callId — the value a tools/execute waterfall
listener returns — with no check. A listener returning a mismatched id silently
recorded the result under the wrong call. callId is the model-transcript
correlation id: deriveMessages() turns it into the tool-result block's
toolCallId, which must pair with the assistant tool-call block; a wrong id
orphans that pairing in the next model request.
Append tool/result with callId: call.id (the loop's authoritative id). A
listener-internal id, if ever worth keeping, belongs in a separate diagnostic
field — never overloaded onto callId.
Test: a tools/execute listener returns a wrong callId; assert the logged
tool/result.callId equals call.id AND deriveMessages() yields a tool-result
block whose toolCallId equals call.id (not the wrong returned id). Verified the
test fails on the pre-fix result.callId behavior.
After turn/start was appended, nothing guaranteed a matching turn/end: a throw
from a boundary emit (agent/turn-start, agent/step-start, the normal-path
agent/turn-end) escaped runTurn, and the outer runLoop backstop logged an
error but never appended turn/end — leaving an unbalanced turn that replay,
telemetry, and the invariants plugin all assume is impossible.
runTurn is restructured around idempotent finalizers that satisfy the four
traps a naive finally would hit:
- closeStep()/closeTurn(emit) are guarded (stepOpen/turnEnded) so they run at
most once; the agent/step-end and agent/error emits are contained so a
throwing listener can't strand the turn open.
- failTurn() records the single error event + reason and emits agent/error
exactly once (errorReported guard) — no double-logging when the outer catch
also runs (e.g. a step error followed by a throwing turn-end listener).
- the catch closes an open step BEFORE turn/end (invariants reject turn/end
while a step is open), and rethrows ONLY pre-turn throws (turnStarted false),
where no turn/end is owed, so the backstop still nets them.
- disposal precedence: reason stays disposed only when disposed AND no error
was reported; otherwise the error reason wins.
Tests (with the invariants plugin loaded as a balance oracle): throwing
turn-start (one error, one turn/end, no step), throwing step-start (step/end
before turn/end), throwing agent/error on a step-error path (balanced, loop
survives), disposal mid-turn (reason disposed, no error event), a pre-turn
turn/start-append throw (rethrown to the backstop, no turn/end owed), and a
step error + throwing turn-end listener (error logged exactly once). Verified
all six fail against a simulated finalizer bypass. dsh-invariants added as an
agent-loop devDependency (test-only oracle; no package cycle).
Every loop boundary appends the session event before emitting the Cordis
event (ADR 0003's append-before-emit rule) — except step/start, which was
inverted. A listener on agent/step-start that inspected session.events could
not see the step it was just told had started.
- Swap the two lines so session.append('step/start') precedes the emit.
- Fix the two stale pseudo-code copies (the runLoop JSDoc STEP-loop block and
docs/architecture.md) so neither shows step-start emitted before the append.
- Regression test: a step-start listener observes the matching step/start
event already at the tail of session.events. Verified the test fails on the
pre-fix (emit-first) order.
