fix(session-persistence-jsonl): require delegation depth

packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-jsonl/README.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ The JSONL durable session-persistence backend — a concrete `SessionPersistence
     <encoded-id>.jsonl           # header line + one SessionEvent per line (verbatim)
 ```
 
-- The first `.jsonl` line is the immutable `SessionHeader` tagged `{ type: 'session', version, id, cwd?, createdAt, parentSession?, seedLength? }`; every subsequent line is one `SessionEvent` JSON, **verbatim including `assistant/chunk`** so `seq` stays contiguous (`events[i].seq === i`).
+- The first `.jsonl` line is the immutable `SessionHeader` tagged `{ type: 'session', version, id, cwd?, createdAt, parentSession?, seedLength?, delegationDepth }`. `delegationDepth` is required on disk and is `0` for a top-level session; a missing or invalid value rejects the log. Every subsequent line is one `SessionEvent` JSON, **verbatim including `assistant/chunk`** so `seq` stays contiguous (`events[i].seq === i`).
 - Session ids are unvalidated branded strings, so they are percent-encoded to a single safe path segment before use (no traversal, no collision).
 
 ## Config

packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-jsonl/src/format.ts

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ export interface HeaderLine {
   cwd?: string
   parentSession?: SessionId
   seedLength?: number
-  delegationDepth?: number
+  delegationDepth: number
 }
 
 /**
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ export function toHeaderLine(header: SessionHeader): HeaderLine {
     ...header.cwd !== undefined ? { cwd: header.cwd } : {},
     ...header.parentSession !== undefined ? { parentSession: header.parentSession } : {},
     ...header.seedLength !== undefined ? { seedLength: header.seedLength } : {},
-    ...header.delegationDepth !== undefined ? { delegationDepth: header.delegationDepth } : {},
+    delegationDepth: header.delegationDepth ?? 0,
   }
 }
 
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ export function fromHeaderLine(line: HeaderLine): SessionHeader {
     ...line.cwd !== undefined ? { cwd: line.cwd } : {},
     ...line.parentSession !== undefined ? { parentSession: line.parentSession } : {},
     ...line.seedLength !== undefined ? { seedLength: line.seedLength } : {},
-    ...line.delegationDepth !== undefined ? { delegationDepth: line.delegationDepth } : {},
+    delegationDepth: line.delegationDepth,
   }
 }
 
@@ -71,6 +71,10 @@ function isHeaderLine(value: unknown): value is HeaderLine {
     && typeof (value as { version?: unknown }).version === 'number'
     && typeof (value as { id?: unknown }).id === 'string'
     && typeof (value as { createdAt?: unknown }).createdAt === 'number'
+    && typeof (value as { delegationDepth?: unknown }).delegationDepth === 'number'
+    && Number.isSafeInteger((value as { delegationDepth: number }).delegationDepth)
+    && (value as { delegationDepth: number }).delegationDepth >= 0
+    && !Object.is((value as { delegationDepth: number }).delegationDepth, -0)
   )
 }
 

packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-jsonl/tests/jsonl.spec.ts

@@ -461,9 +461,30 @@ describe('SessionPersistenceJsonl: scanLog unit', () => {
     expect(() => scanLog(Buffer.from('{"type":"event"}\n'))).toThrow(/session header/)
   })
 
+  it.each([
+    ['missing', undefined],
+    ['a string', '1'],
+    ['fractional', 1.5],
+    ['negative', -1],
+  ])('rejects a session header with %s delegationDepth', (_label, delegationDepth) => {
+    const log = JSON.stringify({
+      type: 'session',
+      version: 0,
+      id: 'invalid-depth',
+      createdAt: 1,
+      ...delegationDepth === undefined ? {} : { delegationDepth },
+    }) + '\n'
+    expect(() => scanLog(Buffer.from(log))).toThrow(/session header/)
+  })
+
+  it('rejects a session header with negative-zero delegationDepth', () => {
+    const log = '{"type":"session","version":0,"id":"invalid-depth","createdAt":1,"delegationDepth":-0}\n'
+    expect(() => scanLog(Buffer.from(log))).toThrow(/session header/)
+  })
+
   it('a seq gap after the last turn/end bounds the preserved tail (torn fragment tolerated)', () => {
     const log = [
-      JSON.stringify({ type: 'session', version: 0, id: 'g', createdAt: 1 }),
+      JSON.stringify({ type: 'session', version: 0, id: 'g', createdAt: 1, delegationDepth: 0 }),
       JSON.stringify({ type: 'turn/start', seq: 0, time: 1, data: { turn: 1, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } } }),
       JSON.stringify({ type: 'step/start', seq: 2, time: 2, data: { turn: 1, step: 1 } }), // gap: missing seq 1
     ].join('\n') + '\n'
@@ -475,7 +496,7 @@ describe('SessionPersistenceJsonl: scanLog unit', () => {
 
   it('rejects a seq gap BEFORE a later committed turn/end (committed data damaged)', () => {
     const log = [
-      JSON.stringify({ type: 'session', version: 0, id: 'g2', createdAt: 1 }),
+      JSON.stringify({ type: 'session', version: 0, id: 'g2', createdAt: 1, delegationDepth: 0 }),
       JSON.stringify({ type: 'turn/start', seq: 0, time: 1, data: { turn: 1, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } } }),
       JSON.stringify({ type: 'step/start', seq: 2, time: 2, data: { turn: 1, step: 1 } }), // gap: missing seq 1
       JSON.stringify({ type: 'turn/end', seq: 3, time: 3, data: { turn: 1, reason: { kind: 'completed' } } }),
@@ -487,7 +508,7 @@ describe('SessionPersistenceJsonl: scanLog unit', () => {
 
   it('rejects a corrupt line BEFORE a later committed turn/end (committed data damaged)', () => {
     const log = [
-      JSON.stringify({ type: 'session', version: 0, id: 'c', createdAt: 1 }),
+      JSON.stringify({ type: 'session', version: 0, id: 'c', createdAt: 1, delegationDepth: 0 }),
       '{not json', // corrupt, sits in the committed region (a turn/end follows)
       JSON.stringify({ type: 'turn/end', seq: 1, time: 2, data: { turn: 1, reason: { kind: 'completed' } } }),
     ].join('\n') + '\n'
@@ -495,7 +516,7 @@ describe('SessionPersistenceJsonl: scanLog unit', () => {
   })
 
   it('a header-only log (no event lines at all) preserves nothing — committedBytes is the header', () => {
-    const log = JSON.stringify({ type: 'session', version: 0, id: 'h0', createdAt: 1 }) + '\n'
+    const log = JSON.stringify({ type: 'session', version: 0, id: 'h0', createdAt: 1, delegationDepth: 0 }) + '\n'
     const scanned = scanLog(Buffer.from(log))
     expect(scanned.events).toEqual([])
     // committedBytes falls back to the header line's end (no preserved events).
@@ -504,7 +525,7 @@ describe('SessionPersistenceJsonl: scanLog unit', () => {
 
   it('a corrupt line after the last turn/end bounds the preserved tail', () => {
     const log = [
-      JSON.stringify({ type: 'session', version: 0, id: 'c2', createdAt: 1 }),
+      JSON.stringify({ type: 'session', version: 0, id: 'c2', createdAt: 1, delegationDepth: 0 }),
       JSON.stringify({ type: 'turn/start', seq: 0, time: 1, data: { turn: 1, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } } }),
       '{not json', // corrupt crash fragment, no turn/end committed
     ].join('\n') + '\n'
@@ -515,7 +536,7 @@ describe('SessionPersistenceJsonl: scanLog unit', () => {
 
   it('tolerates a seq gap AFTER a turn/end (uncommitted tail)', () => {
     const log = [
-      JSON.stringify({ type: 'session', version: 0, id: 't', createdAt: 1 }),
+      JSON.stringify({ type: 'session', version: 0, id: 't', createdAt: 1, delegationDepth: 0 }),
       JSON.stringify({ type: 'turn/start', seq: 0, time: 1, data: { turn: 1, trigger: { kind: 'message', source: { kind: 'user' } } } }),
       JSON.stringify({ type: 'turn/end', seq: 1, time: 2, data: { turn: 1, reason: { kind: 'completed' } } }),
       JSON.stringify({ type: 'step/start', seq: 9, time: 3, data: { turn: 2, step: 1 } }), // gap in uncommitted tail
@@ -593,7 +614,7 @@ describe('SessionPersistenceJsonl: edge cases', () => {
     // `readFirstLine` accumulates chunks before `list()` parses it.
     const bucket = join(root, '_no-cwd')
     await mkdir(bucket, { recursive: true })
-    const bigHeader = JSON.stringify({ type: 'session', version: 0, id: 'big', createdAt: 1, pad: 'x'.repeat(9000) })
+    const bigHeader = JSON.stringify({ type: 'session', version: 0, id: 'big', createdAt: 1, delegationDepth: 0, pad: 'x'.repeat(9000) })
     await writeFile(join(bucket, 'big.jsonl'), bigHeader + '\n')
     const ids = (await ctx.sessionPersistence.list()).map(x => x.id)
     expect(ids).toContain('big')

packages/session-persistence/session-persistence/README.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 The abstract durable session-persistence seam (`ctx.sessionPersistence`). Defines WHAT a persistence backend does — durably store, reload, and list sessions — without saying HOW. Mirrors the `dsh-bash` capability-seam template ([capability seams](../../../.agents/notes/implemented/architecture/2026-06-13-capability-seams.md)): an abstract service here, a concrete implementation in a sibling package, consumers that inject the interface.
 
-The persisted unit IS the existing `SessionEvent` (event-sourced model — the log is the single source of truth), so there is no parallel "persisted message" type. Metadata that is NOT replayable conversation state (format version, cwd, lineage, seed boundary) travels separately as `SessionHeader`, owned by `dsh-session` and re-exported here.
+The persisted unit IS the existing `SessionEvent` (event-sourced model — the log is the single source of truth), so there is no parallel "persisted message" type. Metadata that is NOT replayable conversation state (format version, cwd, lineage, seed boundary, delegation depth) travels separately as `SessionHeader`, owned by `dsh-session` and re-exported here.
 
 ## Service API (`ctx.sessionPersistence`)
 
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Three backends run these suites: an in-memory reference (in `tests/`), `dsh-sess
 
 ## Metadata and location types
 
-Re-exported from `dsh-session`: `SessionHeader` (immutable session metadata: `version`, `id`, `createdAt`, `cwd?`, `parentSession?`, `seedLength?`). `SessionLocation` is `{ readonly kind: string; readonly path: string }`; its path is an absolute backend target, not proof that the artifact exists or contains an unflushed turn.
+Re-exported from `dsh-session`: `SessionHeader` (immutable session metadata: `version`, `id`, `createdAt`, `cwd?`, `parentSession?`, `seedLength?`, `delegationDepth?`). `SessionLocation` is `{ readonly kind: string; readonly path: string }`; its path is an absolute backend target, not proof that the artifact exists or contains an unflushed turn.
 
 ## Model Experience