docs: address latest simplification review
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Introduce an explicit package classification and move packages accordingly, for example `packages/core/`, `packages/integrations/`, `packages/tools/`, `packages/testing/`, and `packages/examples/`, or an equivalent structure decided in the implementing PR. The important part is that example/test support packages are not indistinguishable from product core.
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The rejected part is the one-dimensional taxonomy. The useful follow-up is explicit package aspect metadata that scripts can consume without pretending a package has only one role.
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The rejected part is the one-dimensional taxonomy. The useful follow-up is [explicit package aspect metadata](../proposed/2026-06-20-classify-packages-by-aspect.md) that scripts can consume without pretending a package has only one role.
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This proposal does not delete `llm-replay` or `ui-stdio` by itself. It makes their status honest: either they graduate into product packages with documented consumers, or they live under a support/testing/example classification where release and compatibility expectations are lower.
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# RFC: Drop durable step boundary events
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Status: rejected — `step/end` is the durable indication that a model step finished, and keeping the symmetric `step/start` / `step/end` pair makes crash repair, invariants, and transcript inspection clearer than inferring completion from adjacent step-scoped events.
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## Problem
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The session log stores `step/start` and `step/end` events even though every step-scoped event already carries `{ turn, step }`: assistant chunks, assistant messages, tool calls, tool results, usage, and errors. `deriveMessages()` ignores step boundaries, ACP ignores them for UI, and the main consumers are invariants, tests, snapshot goldens, and crash repair.
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The rejected argument was that boundary events make the log more ceremonial than informative. In practice, `step/end` is concrete information: a reader can tell whether a model request finished, crashed, or is being repaired without deriving that state from the next event. A bare `step/start` is likewise useful for a model request that began but produced no chunks before failing.
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## Proposal
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Make the turn the only durable boundary. Remove `step/start` and `step/end` from `SessionEventMap`; keep the numeric `step` field on events that need grouping. The loop increments the step counter and records step-scoped events with that number, but it no longer appends open/close boundary events. Consumers infer step groups from contiguous events sharing `(turn, step)`.
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The invariants plugin should enforce that step-scoped events have valid positive step numbers within an open turn, not that separate boundary records surround them. Crash repair should not synthesize `step/end`; if an interrupted turn is preserved, the repair path can still close the turn without inventing step boundary records.
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## Acceptance criteria
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- `SessionEventMap` no longer includes `step/start` or `step/end`.
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- The loop has no `closeStep()` finalization path.
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- ACP snapshots and persistence contract fixtures stop expecting step-boundary lines.
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- `deriveMessages()` and replay derive the same message history from step-scoped events.
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- The [event taxonomy docs](../../architecture.md) describe turns as the durable boundary and steps as a field on step-scoped records.
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- The session format version and recorded fixtures are refreshed; non-current stored logs are rejected per the pre-release format policy.
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## What we give up
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The log no longer records "a model request started but produced no event before the process died" as a durable fact, and no longer has an explicit "this step completed" marker. That loss is not acceptable while the session log is the durable replay and audit surface.
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## Related
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This pairs naturally with [dropping durable step boundaries](../proposed/2026-06-20-drop-durable-step-boundaries.md), because removing same-turn steering and `agent/turn-continuation` leaves tool calls as the only reason a turn contains multiple model steps.
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This pairs naturally with [dropping durable step boundaries](2026-06-20-drop-durable-step-boundaries.md), because removing same-turn steering and `agent/turn-continuation` leaves tool calls as the only reason a turn contains multiple model steps.
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## Related
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This is a direct simplification of [session persistence](../implemented/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md) and [turn enclosure](../implemented/2026-06-15-turn-enclosure-invariant.md). It also removes much of the motivation for durable step boundary events, making [drop durable step boundary events](../proposed/2026-06-20-drop-durable-step-boundaries.md) smaller.
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This is a direct simplification of [session persistence](../implemented/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md) and [turn enclosure](../implemented/2026-06-15-turn-enclosure-invariant.md). It also removes much of the motivation for durable step boundary events, making [drop durable step boundary events](2026-06-20-drop-durable-step-boundaries.md) smaller.
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