docs(compact): align seam docs with the pre-step seam and record session/invariants changes (CBR-003)

Codex round 1 CBR-003: several docs still described compaction as an
`agent/request` waterfall concern, and the implemented compaction RFC
claimed "No changes to dsh-session or dsh-invariants" while the diff
changed both.

- Package READMEs / JSDoc (agent, agent-loop, system-prompt, compact,
  compact-basic): compaction now lives on the serial `agent/pre-step`
  seam (fired after turn/start, before step/start); the structural guard
  is tool-pairing balance (`isToolPairingBalanced`), not step-alignment;
  the convergence bound is strict (`>=` rejects).
- architecture.md / core-data-structures/compaction.md: same seam +
  predicate + dispatch-mode updates; regenerated cordis catalog.
- Implemented compaction RFC, updated in place to describe shipped
  reality: the seam is `agent/pre-step` (@mode serial) fired before
  step/start; alignment is surface tool-pairing balance; the convergence
  invariant rejects `>=`; and the "no dsh-session/dsh-invariants changes"
  claim is corrected — dsh-session gains the tool-pairing predicate and
  dsh-invariants drops its `start <= end` replace assertion (a positional
  replace makes start > end normal).
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@@ -50,6 +50,6 @@ interface CompactionResult {
## The service
`CompactService` (`ctx.compact`, abstract — defined in [`packages/compact/compact/src/index.ts`](../../packages/compact/compact/src/index.ts)) declares two abstract methods: `compactIfNeeded(session, system, model, signal)` checks token pressure and compacts an older range if the history is too large (returning `null` when nothing needs it), and `compactRegion(session, start, end, model, signal?)` forcibly summarizes surface nodes `[start, end]` into a single replacement node. `compactIfNeeded`'s parameters are all required — the loop's `agent/pre-request` checkpoint always supplies the assembled `system`, the `model`, and the turn `signal`. A backend summarizing via `ctx.llm.stream()` must forward `signal` into the call's `GenerateOptions.signal`, so an abort or dispose tears down the in-flight summarization. The entire strategy — token estimation, retention policy, event sequencing, summarization — is a HOW decision owned by the implementation.
`CompactService` (`ctx.compact`, abstract — defined in [`packages/compact/compact/src/index.ts`](../../packages/compact/compact/src/index.ts)) declares two abstract methods: `compactIfNeeded(session, system, model, signal)` checks token pressure and compacts an older range if the history is too large (returning `null` when nothing needs it), and `compactRegion(session, start, end, model, signal?)` forcibly summarizes surface nodes `[start, end]` into a single replacement node. `compactIfNeeded`'s parameters are all required — the loop's `agent/pre-step` checkpoint always supplies the assembled `system`, the `model`, and the turn `signal`. A backend summarizing via `ctx.llm.stream()` must forward `signal` into the call's `GenerateOptions.signal`, so an abort or dispose tears down the in-flight summarization. The entire strategy — token estimation, retention policy, event sequencing, summarization — is a HOW decision owned by the implementation.
Auto-compaction runs on the awaited `agent/pre-request` loop seam (fired once per step, BEFORE the request history is derived), not the `agent/request` waterfall: compaction mutates the session surface in place, and the loop derives the request from the already-compacted surface. Retention is turn-agnostic — the only structural guard is step-alignment (a compacted region never splits a step's tool-calls from their results), so a single runaway turn that alone exceeds the window compacts its own early closed steps rather than being retained verbatim. The backend that ships this (`dsh-compact-basic`) documents the retention walk, the single-pass convergence invariant, and the crash/recoverable failure taxonomy.
Auto-compaction runs on the serial `agent/pre-step` loop seam (fired once per step, after `turn/start` and BEFORE the step opens and its request history is derived), not the `agent/request` waterfall: compaction mutates the session surface in place — with its log-only `compact/*` records landing cleanly outside any step — and the loop derives the request from the already-compacted surface. Retention is turn-agnostic — the only structural guard is tool-pairing balance (a compacted region's edges are balanced cuts on the surface, so it never splits a step's tool-calls from their results), so a single runaway turn that alone exceeds the window compacts its own early closed steps rather than being retained verbatim. The backend that ships this (`dsh-compact-basic`) documents the retention walk, the single-pass convergence invariant, and the crash/recoverable failure taxonomy.