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.
@deepseek-ai/dsh-session-persistence-jsonl
The JSONL durable session-persistence backend — a concrete SessionPersistence (the dsh-session-persistence seam). One append-only .jsonl event log per session plus a small atomic .summary.json sidecar for mutable metadata.
On-disk layout
<root>/
cwd-<sha256(cwd)[:12]>/ # per-project bucket (or _no-cwd/ when no cwd)
<encoded-id>.jsonl # header line + one SessionEvent per line (verbatim)
<encoded-id>.summary.json # mutable SessionSummary (atomic temp-write + rename)
- The first
.jsonlline is the immutableSessionHeadertagged{ type: 'session', version, id, cwd?, createdAt, parentSession? }; every subsequent line is oneSessionEventJSON, verbatim includingassistant/chunksoseqstays contiguous (events[i].seq === i). - Session ids are unvalidated branded strings, so they are percent-encoded to a single safe path segment before use (no traversal, no collision).
Config
| Key | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
root |
string (required) |
Root directory for all session files. No default — a process.cwd() default would scatter files as the process's cwd changes (bash calls, subprocesses). |
Durability and crash semantics
- Lazy materialization.
create(meta)writes nothing; the.jsonl(header + first batch) is written atomically (temp-write +fsync+ rename) on the firstappend. A created-but-never-appended session leaves nothing on disk and is absent fromhas/list. - Append-only. Committed events (at or below a flushed
turn/end) are never rewritten. Subsequent appends are line appends at EOF +fsync. - Truncation-repair.
loadreturns events only up to the last completeturn/endand records the byte offset of any never-committed crash tail; the first post-loadappendftruncates to that offset (+fsync) before writing, atomically discarding only the uncommitted tail. - Contiguous-seq.
loadrejects a mid-log parse error orseqgap (unloadable);appendrejects a batch whose firstseqdoes not continue the stored log, and rejects non-JSON-serializableevent.datanaming the offending event type. - Format version. Only v1 is supported;
loadrejects an unknown version. A future format change requires a version bump + migration.
Write path
The plugin generalizes the example session-jsonl.ts: it subscribes to session/created (capture the header; persist a fork's seed once), session/event (snapshot each event when buffering — the live session.events object is mutable), and session/flush/dispose (drain the write-behind buffer through append). A per-session write cursor means a resumed session never re-appends already-stored events. Existing live sessions are seeded on plugin apply (HMR does not replay session/created). All backend operations for one session are serialized, and disposal awaits quiescence (every init + final drain) before returning, so no write lands after teardown.