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deepseek-harness/packages/session/README.md
Tianyi Cui 5a5b7d19c3 fix(agent): contain a throwing agent/disposed listener in the register disposer (Codex review)
Codex found a real teardown-leak (A): the AgentHandle's composite effect runs
its disposers as a `.then()` chain, and the register disposer emitted
`agent/disposed` UNCONTAINED. A throwing listener rejected the chain, skipping
the LATER session-detach disposer — stranding the session in the store with
`onAppend` attached (a leak AND a durability hole, since the new composite
design relies on detach running). Verified by tracing fiber.ts:299-301
(`task = task.then(dispose)`) against the yield order in AgentLoop.start.

Wrap the disposer's `agent/disposed` emit in try/catch + logger.warn (the
store entry is already removed before the emit — the useful state is captured
— so logging and continuing is correct, mirroring the guarded `agent/status`
emit in ReactLoopAgent). The sibling `agent/created` emit stays uncontained on
purpose: its throw is MEANT to propagate and roll the registration back.

Regression test (acp dispose.spec): register a throwing `agent/disposed`
listener, drive a clean turn, dispose, assert the session was STILL removed.
Confirmed it FAILS without the guard (the throw escapes dispose and detach is
skipped) and passes with it.

Also (B): document the new `prepare`/`enter`/`announce` ordered-teardown
lifecycle primitives in the dsh-session README (they are public cross-package
methods now consumed by dsh-agent-loop).
2026-06-20 07:47:24 +08:00

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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[]

Advanced: ordered-teardown lifecycle primitives

create() covers the common case (the session is owned by the calling fiber). When a session must be torn down in order with another resource — so a final flush is captured before onAppend detaches — create()'s self-contained effect is wrong, because a fiber unload disposes sibling effects concurrently. For that, split the lifecycle and fold it into the owner's single effect:

  • ctx.sessions.prepare(id?, options?): Session — validate the id/cwd and construct the Session, WITHOUT entering it into the store. Same options as create.
  • ctx.sessions.enter(session): () => void — wire onAppendsession/event and add the session to the store; returns the DETACH disposer. Does NOT emit session/created (the caller yields the disposer first, then calls announce, so a throwing listener rolls the attach back). The id was already validated by prepare, which runs in the same synchronous sequence, so enter does not re-check.
  • ctx.sessions.announce(session): void — emit session/created for an entered session.

dsh-agent-loop's AgentLoop.start is the canonical consumer: it yields enter's detach disposer, the registry unregister, and the loop-stop disposer into ONE composite effect, so teardown stops + awaits the loop (final flush captured) BEFORE detaching the session — whether the trigger is the AgentHandle's dispose() or a fiber unload.

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.