feat(session-persistence): abstract seam + JSONL backend + wiring
Add the durable session-persistence capability seam (ADR 0016): an
abstract SessionPersistence service (dsh-session-persistence,
ctx.sessionPersistence) defining create/append/load/list/has/delete/
update over the existing SessionEvent — no parallel persisted type — and
a first implementation (dsh-session-persistence-jsonl): an append-only
JSONL log per session with crash-safe atomic writes, truncation-repair
of a never-committed crash tail, and a read/replay path. SessionMeta
(format version, cwd, lineage) travels out-of-log via session.header.
A shared runPersistenceContract suite holds every backend to the same
append-only / contiguous-seq / lazy-materialization / serializability
semantics.
Config-driven create() now uses a per-run ${id}-session-<uuid> session
id so a fixed name no longer collides with an on-disk log once a durable
backend is loaded; each run is a new session (a demo simplification). The
examples drop their hand-rolled session-jsonl.ts and load the JSONL
backend via cordis.yml; CI smoke-loads it too.
The agent-facing create/resume factory that consumes load() is a
separate seam, deferred to a follow-up; this change stops at the load
primitive and does not reach into the loop.
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# ADR 0016: Session persistence as an abstract service over the existing `SessionEvent`
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Status: accepted (2026-06-15)
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## Context
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Sessions lived only in memory. The example `session-jsonl.ts` plugin (duplicated byte-for-byte in both examples) was write-only telemetry: it buffered `session/event` and appended JSON lines, with no read/replay path, no crash-safety (no fsync, no atomic write, a fire-and-forget dispose drain), no listing, and no format versioning. Nothing could rehydrate a past session from disk into a live agent, so durable resume ("continue yesterday's task"), durable forking, and the ACP `session/load` method (RFC 010) were all impossible.
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The [event-sourced model](0003-event-sourced-sessions.md) makes the append-only log the single source of truth and derives LLM history from it. Persistence had to stay faithful to that: persist the existing `SessionEvent` directly, with no parallel "persisted message" type that the log is converted to and from. The backend also had to be swappable — a file store now, a database store later — behind one interface.
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## Decision
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Persistence is an abstract **capability seam** ([ADR 0009](0009-capability-seams.md), the `dsh-bash` template), not loop or core logic:
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1. **Interface** (`dsh-session-persistence`, `ctx.sessionPersistence`) — an abstract `SessionPersistence` service: `create`/`append`/`load`/`list`/`has`/`delete`/`update`. Its persisted unit IS the existing `SessionEvent` (`{ type, seq, time, data }`), reused verbatim — no conversion type.
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2. **Implementation** (`dsh-session-persistence-jsonl`) — an append-only JSONL log per session (a `SessionHeader` line then one `SessionEvent` per line, verbatim **including `assistant/chunk`**) plus an atomic `.summary.json` sidecar for the mutable `SessionSummary`.
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Key choices recorded here because they are durable, contested, and surprising:
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- **The canonical durable log persists every `SessionEvent` verbatim, including `assistant/chunk`.** `deriveMessages()` skips chunks, and a chunk-filtered rollout (Codex's `policy.rs`) is tempting — but `seq = log.length` and the load-validation `events[i].seq === i` require a *contiguous* log; filtering chunks out would leave holes and break both the contract and resume. A chunk-filtered projection is possible later as a derived view with its own renumbering, but it is NOT the canonical log.
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- **Append-only with a single exception.** Committed events — those at or below a flushed `turn/end` — are never rewritten. The loop only flushes at `turn/end`, so a crash can leave a half-written final turn below the last checkpoint; `load` returns events only up to the **last complete `turn/end`**, and the first post-load `append` runs a one-time **truncation-repair** (`ftruncate` + `fsync`) that physically discards only that never-committed crash tail before writing.
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- **File backend canonical, DB backend a drop-in.** `SessionEvent` maps 1:1 onto a row `(session_id, seq, type, time, data)` — `append` is INSERT (in a transaction asserting the contiguous-seq contract), `load` is SELECT … ORDER BY seq. A future `dsh-session-persistence-sqlite` is a `SessionPersistence` subclass with no interface change (opencode runs this exact shape on SQLite/WAL).
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- **Metadata is out-of-log.** Format version, cwd, and lineage are storage concerns, not replayable conversation state, so they live in a `SessionMeta` (`SessionHeader & SessionSummary`) owned by `dsh-session` and attached to a `Session` via a new readonly `session.header` — never in `SessionEventMap`, never reaching `deriveMessages()`. The alternative (a merge-extensible `session/meta` event as log line 0) was rejected: an in-log event would ride along with a seeded/forked session for free, but metadata is not replayable state, so the explicit out-of-log header seam is the cleaner cost.
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- **`load` returns a resumable event log, not just bytes.** `load(sessionId)` yields the `SessionMeta` plus the committed `SessionEvent[]` (through the last complete `turn/end`), shaped so a caller can reconstruct a live session with the loaded events as seed (so `lastTurnNumber`/`deriveMessages` continue) on the SAME session id. The agent-facing create/resume factory that consumes this is a separate seam (a follow-up on `ctx.agents`); the persistence layer deliberately stops at the `load` primitive and does NOT reach into the loop. The agent-loop does NOT hard-inject `sessionPersistence` (that would pend non-persistent demos forever), so any resume path built on this rejects with a typed error when the backend is absent.
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Format versioning: the header carries a `version`; `load` rejects an unknown version (no v1 migration). Stated honestly: append-only + flush is robust to partial trailing writes (tolerated on load) but not to fsync-less power loss mid-line; a DB/WAL backend is the stronger option later.
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## Consequences
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Two new packages and the metadata seam in `dsh-session` (`session.header`, the `create(id?, options?)` signature). Bought: durable resume/fork, a read/replay path, crash tolerance, and the foundation RFC 010's `session/load` needs — all over the existing event-sourced log, with the backend swappable behind one interface. The reusable `runPersistenceContract` suite holds every backend to the same append-only / contiguous-seq / lazy-materialization / serializability semantics. This completes [ADR 0003](0003-event-sourced-sessions.md)'s deferred "real persistence backend" and resolves its `TODO(review)` on the event vocabulary: persisting the log freezes its shape, and the `assistant/chunk` fidelity question is answered above (persist verbatim).
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| [0013](0013-property-based-testing.md) | Property-based testing for protocol-shaped code | accepted |
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| [0014](0014-doc-sync-enforcement.md) | Doc-sync enforcement (doc code blocks + event taxonomy) | accepted |
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| [0015](0015-structured-error-taxonomy.md) | Structured error taxonomy (HarnessError base) | accepted |
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| [0016](0016-session-persistence.md) | Session persistence as an abstract service over `SessionEvent` | accepted |
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| [0017](0017-turn-enclosure-invariant.md) | Every session event is enclosed in a turn | accepted |
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│ @deepseek-ai/dsh-agent-loop (the ONE concrete plugin) │
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│ @deepseek-ai/dsh-bash-local (bash impl) │
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│ @deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-bash (bash tool schemas) │
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│ @deepseek-ai/dsh-session-persistence-jsonl (persistence impl)│
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├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
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│ @deepseek-ai/dsh-agent (vocabulary + registry) │
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│ @deepseek-ai/dsh-tools (registry + exec waterfall)│
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│ @deepseek-ai/dsh-system-prompt (assembly registry) │
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│ @deepseek-ai/dsh-session (event-sourced log) │
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│ @deepseek-ai/dsh-session-persistence (persistence seam) │
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│ @deepseek-ai/dsh-llm (abstract model service) │
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│ @deepseek-ai/dsh-bash (abstract bash executor) │
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├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
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| `ctx.llm` | `LlmService` | dsh-llm | adapter registry; `stream()` / `streamBlocks()` / `generate()` |
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| `ctx.sessions` | `SessionStore` | dsh-session | creates/holds event-sourced `Session`s |
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| `ctx.sessionPersistence` | `SessionPersistence` (abstract) | dsh-session-persistence | durable persistence seam: create/append/load/list/update sessions |
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| `ctx.systemPrompt` | `SystemPrompt` | dsh-system-prompt | ordered sections + tool schemas → `assemble()` |
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| `ctx.tools` | `ToolRegistry` | dsh-tools | tool definitions; `execute()` through waterfall |
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| `ctx.agents` | `AgentRegistry` | dsh-agent | live `Agent` handles |
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Replay/fork = `ctx.sessions.create(id, { seed: seedEvents })`. Trace/telemetry = listen to `session/event`.
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**Durability seam**: `session/event` is a synchronous notification; persistence plugins buffer (write-behind) and drain at the awaited `session/flush` checkpoint the loop fires at every turn end (see `examples/echo-agent/src/session-jsonl.ts` for the pattern). **TODO**: real persistence backends (JSONL per session dir, sqlite) are a future phase.
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**Durability seam**: `session/event` is a synchronous notification; persistence plugins buffer (write-behind) and drain at the awaited `session/flush` checkpoint the loop fires at every turn end. The durable backend is a real **capability seam**: the abstract `SessionPersistence` service (`dsh-session-persistence`, `ctx.sessionPersistence`) defines create/append/load/list/update over the existing `SessionEvent` (no parallel persisted type), and `dsh-session-persistence-jsonl` is the first implementation — an append-only JSONL log per session with crash-safe atomic writes, truncation-repair of a never-committed crash tail, and a read/replay path. Session metadata (format version, cwd, lineage) travels separately as `SessionMeta`, attached to a `Session` via `session.header`. `ctx.sessionPersistence.load(sessionId)` returns the committed event log so a caller can reconstruct a live session and continue it. A SQLite/WAL backend is a future drop-in `SessionPersistence` subclass (the row shape `(session_id, seq, type, time, data)` maps 1:1 onto `SessionEvent`).
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## Prompt assembly (dsh-system-prompt)
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Error containment: a throwing `agent/turn-continuation` listener or a broken step ends the **turn** with an `error` event (appended INSIDE the turn, before `turn/end`) — never the driver loop. An adapter that ends its stream with a `finish {kind:'error'}` or `{kind:'aborted'}` chunk (the in-band error path, for adapters that can't throw mid-stream) is likewise translated into a step error, so the turn ends `error`/`aborted` instead of logging a normal `completed` assistant message. `abort()` is honored mid-stream **and** between tool calls; disposal mid-turn ends the turn with reason `disposed` and emits `agent/status('disposed')`.
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A failure that happens once the turn is already closed has no in-turn position for a session `error` event (appending one after `turn/end` would put it past a persistence backend's commit boundary, where it is dropped as a crash tail — ADR 0017). So a rejecting `session/flush` (the post-`turn/end` durability checkpoint) and a throwing `agent/turn-end` listener are reported via `agent/error` + the logger only, NOT as a session event; the turn stays balanced and the backend keeps its buffered events for the next flush.
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A failure that happens once the turn is already closed has no in-turn position for a session `error` event (appending one after `turn/end` would put it past the persistence commit boundary, where it is dropped as a crash tail — ADR 0017). So a rejecting `session/flush` (the post-`turn/end` durability checkpoint) and a throwing `agent/turn-end` listener are reported via `agent/error` + the logger only, NOT as a session event; the turn stays balanced and the persistence backend keeps its buffered events for the next flush.
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**Turn-enclosure invariant**: every session event lives inside a turn (between a `turn/start` and its `turn/end`). The loop appends queued `user/message` events *after* `turn/start`, and an idle `agent.inject()` wraps its `context/message` in a one-shot `injection` turn. This makes the turn the single durability/replay boundary: a persistence backend can treat anything after the last `turn/end` as an interrupted-crash tail without risking the loss of legitimately-recorded between-turn context. The `dsh-invariants` plugin enforces it in dev (a message event outside an open turn throws). See ADR 0017.
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Tracked here deliberately — each is designed-for but not implemented:
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- **Sub-agent spawn/fork semantics** (seam: `AgentLoop.create()`); inter-agent channels beyond `send`/`steer`/events.
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- **Persistence backends** (JSONL session dirs, sqlite) on the `session/event` + `session/flush` seam.
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- **SQLite/WAL persistence backend** — a drop-in `SessionPersistence` subclass (the abstract seam + the JSONL backend landed; see the durability-seam paragraph).
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- **Compaction implementation** (auto thresholds, summarization prompts) on the `agent/request` seam, with its session-event types added by declaration merging.
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- **Parallel tool execution** (concurrency-safety hints on ToolDefinition).
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- **Session branching/tree** (pi-style entry tree) if needed beyond seed-based forking.
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- **Session event vocabulary review** once the loop and a persistence plugin coexist (`TODO(review)` in dsh-session).
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# RFC 009: Durable session persistence — an abstract, append-only, event-based store
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Status: proposed
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Status: implemented (see [ADR 0016](../adr/0016-session-persistence.md))
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## Problem
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