feat(session): project the inherited-history boundary into the log
A plugin owning a standalone open/close bracket cannot tell a dead marker from a live one: an unmatched `compact/start` reads identically whether the previous writer died mid-compaction or a compaction is running now. `Session.firstLiveSeq` already holds that answer exactly, but only in memory. Append the log-only `session/inherited` event at that seq from the seeded constructor — the single waist all six seeded-start paths pass through (resume, configured startup on a persisted id, `sessions.fork()`, a subagent fork child, `adopt()`'s live prefix, and a bare seeded `create`). Read it through the new `isInheritedSeq(events, seq)`. The constructor placement means persistence needs no changes: the marker is already in `events` when a backend captures the creation seed, so it rides the ordinary seed path with no load-time write. It also covers fork, where the inherited bracket's owner may still be running — the case a persistence-layer boundary could not reach. Activity ordering excludes the boundary through `lastActivityTime()`, since lazy resume makes browsing a pickup and the three call sites would otherwise float every opened session to the top of a picker or list.
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# Agent Note: the inherited-history log boundary
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Status: implemented
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English | [中文](2026-07-30-session-inherited-log-boundary.zh.md)
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## Problem
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A plugin that owns a standalone open/close bracket in the session log cannot tell a dead marker from a live one. `compact/start` … `compact/end` is the shipped case: on picking up a log whose last compaction event is an unmatched `compact/start`, "the previous writer died mid-compaction" and "a compaction is running right now" are byte-identical stored history. The owner must either refuse to compact a log that is actually free (wedging the session) or proceed over one that is genuinely busy.
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Nothing in the log marked where inherited history ended. `session/created`, `session/disposed`, and `session/flush` are cordis runtime signals, not log events; `agent/session-start` is emit-only. `Session.firstLiveSeq` already held the answer exactly — the seq of this lifecycle's first own write — but only in memory, so a consumer reading stored bytes could not see it.
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Crash repair does not close the gap and must not: `interruptedTurnClosers` synthesizes turn, step, and tool boundaries because core owns that vocabulary, and `compact/*` belongs to the compaction seam. A core repair pass that closed plugin brackets would put every plugin's bracket semantics in core.
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## Decision
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`Session`'s constructor appends the log-only `session/inherited` event as the seeded session's first live write, at the seq `firstLiveSeq` names. The event is the durable projection of that field: `firstLiveSeq` answers "which prefix did I inherit" for a consumer holding the object, the event answers it for one holding only stored bytes. Its payload is empty — position and `time` carry the whole meaning — and it is not a `SurfaceEventType`, so it produces no message and cannot perturb derived history.
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`isInheritedSeq(events, seq)` (exported from `dsh-session`) is the predicate a bracket owner calls on an unmatched opening marker. True means the marker belongs to a lifecycle that has ended and cannot still be running. Core writes the boundary and reads nothing from it; each bracket's vocabulary stays with its owning plugin.
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The constructor is the placement because it is the single waist every seeded session passes through. All six entry points reach it: `agents.resume()`, config-driven startup on a persisted id (`restoreOrCreateConfigured`), `sessions.fork()`, a subagent fork child, `coordinator.adopt()`'s live-prefix path, and a bare `sessions.create(id, {seed})`. A boundary written at persistence load would miss both fork paths — and a forked child inheriting a still-running parent's open `compact/start` is precisely the case the predicate must classify. A boundary written at loop start would miss `fork()` and `adopt()`, and would have to fire on `SessionStartSource: 'startup'`, which is what a fork child publishes, so that field would stop discriminating.
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Two guards keep the marker from becoming noise. An empty seed writes nothing: a boundary with nothing below it marks nothing. A seed already ending in one is not re-marked, which makes the write idempotent. Idempotence is load-bearing rather than tidiness — `agentFor()` resumes a cold session on first touch, so merely opening one in a client is a pickup, and without the guard browsing would grow a log by one event per visit.
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## Persistence needs no changes
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The marker is in `session.events` before the coordinator captures its creation seed, so it persists through the ordinary seed path — `onCreated`'s `createCore` + `appendCore`, or the ownerless-claim suffix write. No load-path write, no revision bump at load, no durable mark on a rejected `append`, and a read-only store still serves loads.
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Being a live event, it reaches disk through the write-behind drain (`session/event` → `live.pending` → `scheduleDrain`) rather than a synchronous commit, so a crash can lose it. That costs nothing: `pending` drains in order, so a lost boundary means every live event above it is lost too, and the next pickup reads the same bytes the previous one did, appends its own boundary, and classifies the bracket identically. In-process consumers should prefer `firstLiveSeq`, which is exact before any write.
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## Scope of the guarantee
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The predicate holds for a bracket *this* session inherited, not as a liveness signal about other writers. A concurrently live session may hold an open bracket over the same stored history while its own boundary sits elsewhere. A consumer that must tolerate concurrent writers needs a liveness signal beyond the log and cannot omit it on the strength of this event.
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## Alternatives considered
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**A boundary written by the persistence coordinator's cold-load path.** Built first, as the [`session/resumed` boundary](../../rejected/architecture/2026-07-29-session-resumed-log-boundary.md), and abandoned before merge. It covers no fork, which is the one case where the inherited bracket's owner may still be running. Because the marker was minted at load it also had to be a durable write on a read path, which spread cost across the seam: a revision bump on every cold load, a `commitRepair` batch on a balanced log with nothing to repair, a stored-time floor to keep the clamp monotonic, and a load that failed against a read-only store.
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**A boundary appended at loop start.** The loop is one call above `resumeWith`, so it covers the resume paths, but it misses `fork()` and `adopt()` entirely, and the event would have to fire on `'startup'` — the source a fork child publishes — so `SessionStartSource` would stop discriminating. It also publishes the session before the marker is appended, so a `session/created` listener could observe a seeded log with no boundary.
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**Reusing `header.seedLength`.** It is the durable *fork-lineage* boundary and deliberately keeps the original fork value across a resume, where the constructor seed is the whole stored log. The two facts differ and conflating them would lose both.
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**Crash repair closing `compact/*` alongside turn boundaries.** Rejected: it moves every plugin's bracket semantics into core's repair pass, and core cannot know what closing another package's bracket should record.
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## Consequences
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Bought: one predicate, in one place, correct for all six seeded-start paths — including the fork gap the persistence-layer version could not reach. The persistence packages keep a pure read path. `firstLiveSeq` gains a durable twin rather than a second, competing notion of the same boundary.
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Cost: a seeded session's log is one event longer, which moved seq expectations in tests across nine packages (session, agent-loop, persistence contract, jsonl, session-query, session-title, subagent-inprocess, telemetry, token-meter). Two of those updates are load-bearing rather than mechanical: telemetry's adoption tests now assert the boundary IS exported, because it is this lifecycle's own write, and the property suite's replay invariant is restated as "seed reproduced verbatim, plus one log-only boundary" with idempotence added as its own property.
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`session/inherited` joins the on-disk vocabulary. Under the pre-release stance (`SESSION_FORMAT_VERSION` pinned at `0`, no compatibility promise) older logs simply lack it, and a log without a boundary correctly reports nothing as inherited.
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Not built here: no plugin consumes `isInheritedSeq` yet. Wiring the compaction seam's staleness check to it is the follow-up that motivated this boundary, and it belongs with that seam's own tests.
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# Agent Note: 继承历史日志边界
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Status: implemented
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[English](2026-07-30-session-inherited-log-boundary.md) | 中文
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## Problem
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拥有独立开/闭括号的插件无法区分一个已死的标记和一个存活的标记。`compact/start` … `compact/end` 就是已发布的实例:当接手一份日志、而它最后的压缩事件是一个未配对的 `compact/start` 时,"上一个写入方在压缩中途死掉了"与"此刻正有一次压缩在运行"在存储历史中是逐字节相同的。所有方只能二选一:拒绝压缩一份其实空闲的日志(把会话卡死),或者在一份确实繁忙的日志上继续压缩。
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日志中没有任何东西标出继承历史在哪里结束。`session/created`、`session/disposed` 与 `session/flush` 是 cordis 运行时信号,不是日志事件;`agent/session-start` 只发射不落盘。`Session.firstLiveSeq` 本来就精确地持有这个答案——本生命周期第一次自有写入的 seq——但只存在于内存中,因此读取存储字节的消费方看不到它。
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崩溃修复既没有填上这个缺口,也不应该去填:`interruptedTurnClosers` 合成轮次、步骤与工具边界,是因为核心拥有那套词汇表,而 `compact/*` 属于压缩 seam。一个会关闭插件括号的核心修复流程,等于把每个插件的括号语义都搬进核心。
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## Decision
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`Session` 的构造函数把仅日志事件 `session/inherited` 作为带种子会话的第一次实时写入追加,位置正是 `firstLiveSeq` 指出的 seq。该事件是那个字段的持久投影:`firstLiveSeq` 为持有对象的消费方回答"我继承了哪一段前缀",该事件则为只持有存储字节的消费方回答同一问题。它的 payload 为空——位置与 `time` 承载全部含义——并且不是 `SurfaceEventType`,因此不产生消息,也无法扰动派生历史。
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`isInheritedSeq(events, seq)`(由 `dsh-session` 导出)是括号所有方在一个未配对开启标记上调用的谓词。为真意味着该标记属于一个已结束的生命周期,不可能仍在运行。核心写入该边界但不从中读取任何内容;每个括号的词汇表仍归其所属插件。
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选择构造函数,是因为它是每一个带种子会话都必经的唯一收窄处。全部六个入口都会到达它:`agents.resume()`、在已持久化 id 上的配置驱动启动(`restoreOrCreateConfigured`)、`sessions.fork()`、子代理 fork 子会话、`coordinator.adopt()` 的实时前缀路径,以及裸的 `sessions.create(id, {seed})`。在持久化加载时写入的边界会漏掉两条 fork 路径——而一个继承了仍在运行的父会话开放 `compact/start` 的 fork 子会话,恰恰是该谓词必须判定的场景。在 loop 启动时写入的边界会漏掉 `fork()` 与 `adopt()`,并且不得不在 `SessionStartSource: 'startup'` 上触发——那正是 fork 子会话发布的取值,于是该字段将不再具有区分力。
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两条守卫让这个标记不至于变成噪声。空种子不写入任何内容:下方什么都没有的边界标记不了任何东西。种子本身已以该事件结尾时不会重复标记,这让写入具备幂等性。幂等性是承重的,而不是为了整洁——`agentFor()` 会在首次触碰时恢复一个冷会话,因此在客户端里仅仅打开一个会话就是一次接手;没有这条守卫,浏览会让日志每访问一次就增长一个事件。
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## 持久化无需任何改动
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协调器捕获创建种子时该标记已在 `session.events` 中,因此它通过普通的种子路径落盘——`onCreated` 的 `createCore` + `appendCore`,或无主认领的后缀写入。没有加载路径写入、加载时没有 revision 递增、被拒绝的 `append` 不留下持久标记,只读存储依然可以服务加载。
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作为实时事件,它经由后写式 drain(`session/event` → `live.pending` → `scheduleDrain`)而不是同步提交到达磁盘,因此崩溃可能丢掉它。这没有代价:`pending` 按序 drain,所以丢掉一个边界意味着它上面的每个实时事件也一起丢掉,而下一次接手读到的字节与上一次相同,会追加自己的边界,并对括号作出完全相同的判定。进程内消费方应优先使用 `firstLiveSeq`,它在任何写入之前就是精确的。
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## 保证的适用范围
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该谓词对*本*会话继承的括号成立,而不是关于其他写入方的存活信号。一个并发存活的会话可能在同一段存储历史上持有开放括号,而它自己的边界在别处。必须容忍并发写入方的消费方需要日志之外的存活信号,不能仅凭这个事件就省掉它。
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## Alternatives considered
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**由持久化协调器的冷加载路径写入边界。** 最先实现的方案,即 [`session/resumed` 边界](../../rejected/architecture/2026-07-29-session-resumed-log-boundary.md),在合并前被放弃。它完全覆盖不到 fork,而 fork 恰恰是继承括号的所有方可能仍然存活的那一种情形。由于标记是在加载时铸造的,它还必须在读取路径上做持久写入,这把成本铺开到整个 seam:每次冷加载都递增 revision、对一份无需修复的平衡日志也要走 `commitRepair`、需要一个已存储时间下限来维持钳制的单调性,以及加载在只读存储上会失败。
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**在 loop 启动时追加边界。** loop 位于 `resumeWith` 上一层,因此覆盖恢复路径,但完全漏掉 `fork()` 与 `adopt()`,而且事件不得不在 `'startup'` 上触发——那是 fork 子会话发布的来源——于是 `SessionStartSource` 将不再具有区分力。它还会在追加标记之前就发布会话,因此 `session/created` 监听方可能观察到一份没有边界的带种子日志。
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**复用 `header.seedLength`。** 它是持久的 *fork 血缘*边界,并且刻意在恢复时保留原始 fork 取值——而恢复时构造种子是整份存储日志。这两个事实并不相同,混同会同时失去两者。
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**让崩溃修复连同轮次边界一起关闭 `compact/*`。** 否决:这会把每个插件的括号语义搬进核心的修复流程,而核心无法知道关闭另一个包的括号应该记录什么。
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## Consequences
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买到的:一个谓词,位于一处,对全部六条带种子启动路径都正确——包括持久化层方案触及不到的 fork 缺口。持久化各包保留纯读取路径。`firstLiveSeq` 获得一个持久孪生体,而不是关于同一边界的第二套彼此竞争的概念。
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代价:带种子会话的日志长了一个事件,这在九个包(session、agent-loop、持久化契约、jsonl、session-query、session-title、subagent-inprocess、telemetry、token-meter)里挪动了 seq 期望。其中两处更新是承重的而非机械的:telemetry 的收养测试现在断言该边界*会*被导出,因为它是本生命周期的自有写入;而属性测试套件的重放不变式被重述为"种子逐字节复现,外加一个仅日志边界",并把幂等性补成一条独立属性。
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`session/inherited` 加入了落盘词汇表。在预发布立场下(`SESSION_FORMAT_VERSION` 固定为 `0`,不作兼容承诺),更旧的日志只是没有它,而没有边界的日志会正确地报告没有任何内容被继承。
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此处未做:还没有任何插件消费 `isInheritedSeq`。把压缩 seam 的陈旧性检查接到它上面,是催生这条边界的后续工作,应当与那个 seam 自己的测试一起完成。
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