round 2: address manual compaction review findings

packages/client/runtime/README.md

@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ SlotsService gives the renderer separate bare observables for `useSessions` and
 
 Because the projection is log-ordered, the node array is seq-monotonic by construction: log-only `command/run` / `command/done` nodes splice in by seq, `Session` merges interrupted frozen nodes by their fractional seqs, and a window whose checkpoint cites a shadowed range outside it renders the marker with nothing logged. The marker's summary text comes from the checkpoint's `compact/summary` provenance; a window cut that left the provenance outside makes the row non-expandable rather than empty, and a later page that supplies it resolves the text. Performance contract: one append materializes at most one node and copies the projection only when it adds that node; an event that changes no node keeps the previous array reference (a chunk storm costs nothing), and unchanged nodes keep their object identity.
 
+## Request inspection
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+`SessionHistoryInspection.requests` is one chronological, purpose-discriminated provider-request stream. Assistant requests always carry their numeric `turn` and `step`; compaction requests carry `step: 0` and a `turn` owner that may be `null`. That null owner means a manual compaction ran standalone between turns, not that it belongs to either adjacent turn.
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 ## Code Mode sub-dispatch index
 
 `ConversationSnapshot.codeDispatches` groups a `run_code` call's sub-dispatches under their parent callId, in start order, using the native call-block shapes: a `tool/code-dispatch-start` event lands the `RunningToolCall` form (rows derive the running ring from the shape) and its `tool/code-dispatch` settlement replaces it in place with the `ToolResultNode` form, `callTime` carrying the paired start's time. A settle whose start fell outside the replay window appends directly with `callTime: null` (duration unknown — never a fabricated zero). Live mux frames and history replay build the identical index; sub-calls never join the transcript `nodes` flow; per-parent array and map references are memo-stable across unrelated snapshot swaps.