fix(session): synthesize tool results for interrupted tool calls on crash recovery (review #33)

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).
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Tianyi Cui
2026-06-16 23:50:52 +08:00
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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Persistence is an abstract **capability seam** ([ADR 0009](0009-capability-seams
Key choices recorded here because they are durable, contested, and surprising:
- **The canonical durable log persists every `SessionEvent` verbatim, including `assistant/chunk`.** `deriveMessages()` skips chunks, and a chunk-filtered rollout (Codex's `policy.rs`) is tempting — but `seq = log.length` and the load-validation `events[i].seq === i` require a *contiguous* log; filtering chunks out would leave holes and break both the contract and resume. A chunk-filtered projection is possible later as a derived view with its own renumbering, but it is NOT the canonical log.
- **Append-only; a crashed turn is closed, never truncated.** Committed events — those at or below a flushed `turn/end` — are never rewritten. The loop only flushes at `turn/end`, so a crash can leave a durable log whose final turn never closed: real, fully-written events sit after the last `turn/end`. **A single turn can be huge in a long-horizon task** (many steps, large tool output spanning a long autonomous run), so discarding the interrupted turn would silently destroy a large amount of real work — truncating a turn is wrong. Instead, on reload `load` PRESERVES those events and CLOSES the orphaned turn by durably appending the minimal synthetic boundary events: a `step/end` if a step was still open, then a `turn/end` carrying the merge-extensible `{ kind: 'interrupted' }` reason (a marker that records the turn was cut short by a crash, not completed by the model — no loop ever emits it). `load` returns the balanced log, so a resumed session is immediately usable. The ONLY thing discarded is a never-fully-written **torn tail fragment** — a final record whose bytes (JSONL) or row were never completely flushed; that fragment is not a valid event and is dropped before the synthetic closers are written. A parse error or `seq` gap in the COMMITTED region (at or before the last real `turn/end`) is genuine corruption and makes the session unloadable.
- **Append-only; a crashed turn is closed, never truncated.** Committed events — those at or below a flushed `turn/end` — are never rewritten. The loop only flushes at `turn/end`, so a crash can leave a durable log whose final turn never closed: real, fully-written events sit after the last `turn/end`. **A single turn can be huge in a long-horizon task** (many steps, large tool output spanning a long autonomous run), so discarding the interrupted turn would silently destroy a large amount of real work — truncating a turn is wrong. Instead, on reload `load` PRESERVES those events and CLOSES the orphaned turn by durably appending the minimal synthetic boundary events: an error `tool/result` for every `tool-call` the crash left unanswered, then a `step/end` if a step was still open, then a `turn/end` carrying the merge-extensible `{ kind: 'interrupted' }` reason (a marker that records the turn was cut short by a crash, not completed by the model — no loop ever emits it). The synthetic tool results matter for resume correctness: the loop logs the `assistant/message` (carrying the `tool-call` blocks) BEFORE running the tools, so a crash mid-tool leaves calls without results; `deriveMessages()` would then replay a dangling assistant tool-call, which every provider rejects as an invalid transcript on the next request. Answering each orphaned call with an error result keeps the rehydrated history valid. `load` returns the balanced log, so a resumed session is immediately usable. The ONLY thing discarded is a never-fully-written **torn tail fragment** — a final record whose bytes (JSONL) or row were never completely flushed; that fragment is not a valid event and is dropped before the synthetic closers are written. A parse error or `seq` gap in the COMMITTED region (at or before the last real `turn/end`) is genuine corruption and makes the session unloadable.
- **File backend canonical, DB backend a drop-in.** `SessionEvent` maps 1:1 onto a row `(session_id, seq, type, time, data)``append` is INSERT (in a transaction asserting the contiguous-seq contract), `load` is SELECT … ORDER BY seq. A future `dsh-session-persistence-sqlite` is a `SessionPersistence` subclass with no interface change (opencode runs this exact shape on SQLite/WAL).
- **Metadata is out-of-log.** Format version, cwd, and lineage are storage concerns, not replayable conversation state, so they live in a `SessionMeta` (`SessionHeader & SessionSummary`) owned by `dsh-session` and attached to a `Session` via a new readonly `session.header` — never in `SessionEventMap`, never reaching `deriveMessages()`. The alternative (a merge-extensible `session/meta` event as log line 0) was rejected: an in-log event would ride along with a seeded/forked session for free, but metadata is not replayable state, so the explicit out-of-log header seam is the cleaner cost.
- **`load` returns a resumable event log, not just bytes.** `load(sessionId)` yields the `SessionMeta` plus the committed `SessionEvent[]` (through the last complete `turn/end`), shaped so a caller can reconstruct a live session with the loaded events as seed (so `lastTurnNumber`/`deriveMessages` continue) on the SAME session id. The agent-facing create/resume factory that consumes this is a separate seam (a follow-up on `ctx.agents`); the persistence layer deliberately stops at the `load` primitive and does NOT reach into the loop. The agent-loop does NOT hard-inject `sessionPersistence` (that would pend non-persistent demos forever), so any resume path built on this rejects with a clear error when the backend is absent.