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deepseek-harness/packages/session
Tianyi Cui 815bac7de9 refactor(session): drop the dead mutable SessionSummary
SessionSummary (updatedAt/title/firstPrompt) and SessionPersistence.update()
were dead state: zero production callers of update(), no production reader of
updatedAt/firstPrompt, and ACP's title comes from a tool-call presenter, not
storage. The live Session.header was already typed SessionHeader, so the
summary only ever existed in the persistence layer, written and read by nothing
but its own contract test.

Delete it entirely (no SessionMeta alias — SessionMeta collapses to
SessionHeader everywhere). This removes the JSONL .summary.json sidecar
machinery, the SQLite title/first_prompt/updated_at columns and per-append
updated_at bump, and the update() method from the abstract service and both
backends. SQLite SCHEMA_VERSION goes 1->2 and openDatabase now rejects any
non-current user_version (older or newer) — no migration, unreleased software.

Net -400 lines, and it erases the JSONL-sidecar-vs-SQLite-column durability
divergence that the upcoming write coordinator would otherwise have to model.

Records the decision in docs/rfc/implemented/2026-06-19-drop-mutable-session-summary.md
and migrates the 2026-06-14 session-persistence RFC's facts to current truth.
Adds a standalone AGENTS.md section "Tests document behavior, not golden truth"
(a passing test pins current behavior, not necessarily correct behavior) with
the summary-drop as its worked example, and reinforces the no-migration
pre-release stance.
2026-06-20 01:03:57 +08:00
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2026-06-16 14:55:37 +08:00

dsh-session

Event-sourced session log and in-memory store. A Session is the append-only source of truth for an agent's whole interaction history — the LLM message history is derived from it.

Service: SessionStore (ctx key: sessions)

Creates and holds event-sourced Session instances. Persistence is intentionally not implemented here — plugins subscribe to session/event and flush on session/flush.

Public API

  • ctx.sessions.create(id?: string, options?: { seed?: SessionEvent[]; meta?: { cwd?: string; parentSession?: SessionId; createdAt?: number } }): Session — Create a session. options.seed replays/forks an existing event log; options.meta attaches creation metadata (validated absolute cwd, parentSession lineage) as the immutable SessionHeader. The store fills version/id and defaults createdAt to now; a caller reconstructing a persisted session passes the original createdAt to preserve it. Disposed with the calling fiber.
  • ctx.sessions.get(id: string): Session | undefined
  • ctx.sessions.list(): Session[]

Events

Event Mode Purpose
session/created emit A session was created
session/event emit An event was appended (sync, fire-and-forget)
session/flush parallel Awaited durability checkpoint (persistence plugins drain buffers here)

Class: Session

Plain class (not a Cordis Service). Create via ctx.sessions.create().

  • session.append(type, data): SessionEvent — synchronous, never blocks on I/O. Throws if data is not losslessly JSON-serializable (BigInt, function, symbol, undefined, non-finite number, circular ref, or an exotic object like Map/Set/Date) — the event log is the durable source of truth, so this invariant is enforced at the source (exported as isJsonValue for backends to reuse on their replay/fork entry points).
  • session.deriveMessages(): Message[] — derive the LLM message history from the event log. Raw assistant/chunk events are skipped; context/message and steering/message render as tagged synthetic user messages.
  • session.events, session.seq, session.id
  • session.header: SessionHeader — immutable creation metadata (version, id, createdAt, optional cwd/parentSession). Kept out of the event log (a storage concern, not replayable state); a minimal v1 header is synthesized for bare Session construction.

Metadata types (types.ts)

  • SessionHeader — immutable session metadata, written once: { version, id, createdAt, cwd?, parentSession? }. Owned here (beside SessionId) because Session.header is typed by it; persistence backends re-export it rather than own it (which would force a package cycle).

Session event vocabulary (types.ts)

The append-only log: turn/start, turn/end, step/start, step/end, user/message, assistant/message, assistant/chunk, tool/call, tool/result, steering/message, context/message, usage, error.

Merge-extensible via SessionEventMap — a compaction plugin adds compaction/marker, etc.

Also defines TurnTriggerMap and TurnEndReasonMap (merge-extensible sum types for typed turn boundaries — kind-tagged instead of strings).

Extension points

  • Persistence plugins: subscribe to session/event (write-behind) and drain on session/flush (awaited) and fiber dispose. A durable backend reads the log and reloads it into a live session; the metadata seam (SessionHeader, session.header) is what such a backend stores beside the log.
  • Replay/fork: ctx.sessions.create(id, { seed }) seeds a new session with an existing event log.

What is NOT here (TODO)

  • Session branching/tree (pi-style entry tree) — defered unless needed beyond seed-based forking.