Add per-session snapshot replay for nested agents (PR2.5)
The snapshot tier was built single-session: dsh-llm-replay served calls from one global positional cursor, and the harness harvested one session log. A subagent runs as a second agent with its own session, so a parent→child scenario could neither replay deterministically nor harvest the child's log. This resolves the TODO(subagent-snapshots) deferral from the subagent RFC. - Stamp the calling session id onto the model request: GenerateOptions.sessionId (typed Branded<'SessionId'> to avoid the dsh-llm↔dsh-session cycle), set by the agent loop from agent.session.id. Adapters ignore it; an llm/stream listener routes by it. - Key replay per session: dsh-llm-replay loads the parent log plus one per child (childFiles / $DSH_SNAPSHOT_CHILD_FILES), derives a script per recorded session, and binds each live (freshly-random) session to a recorded script by first-call order — parent first (earliest createdAt, first to stream). Keys by WHO calls, so it survives a future concurrent/backgrounded subagent; a global cursor would not. An unrecorded extra session fails loud. - Harvest every log: the harness collects all .jsonl across cwd buckets, ordered primary-first (top-level, then children by createdAt), and RunResult exposes the plural sessionLogs. The spec writes each back on record (session.jsonl + session.<n>.jsonl) and diffs each against its fixture on replay. - Wire the subagent seam + spawn + fork + tool into the acp-agent example (both cordis configs) and add two nested scenarios recorded against the real API: subagent-spawn (parent + 1 child) and subagent-multi (parent + 2 children, 3 sessions). Both replay keyless in the default gate. A new RFC documents the design (docs/rfc/implemented/testing/). Single-session replay is unchanged (a call with no sessionId is one anonymous primary session). TODO follow-up: a dedicated branded-ids package could own the SessionId brand and dissolve the cross-package cycle note; out of scope for this testing PR.
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stop?: string[]
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signal?: AbortSignal
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/**
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* The id of the session this request belongs to — stamped by the agent loop
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* from `agent.session.id`. Adapters ignore it; it lets an `llm/stream` listener
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* route a call by WHICH session issued it (the replay adapter keys its per-call
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* cursor by session, so a parent and its in-process subagent — each with its
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* own session on one context — replay from their own recorded scripts).
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*
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* Typed as `Branded<'SessionId'>` rather than importing `SessionId` from
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* `dsh-session`: that package imports `Message` from here, so importing its
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* `SessionId` back would cycle. `SessionId` IS `Branded<'SessionId'>`, so a
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* real session id assigns with no cast. (A future ids package could own the
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* brand and dissolve this note.)
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*/
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sessionId?: Branded<'SessionId'>
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}
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```
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@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ Do NOT write one for a mechanical or local choice (a variable name, a one-file r
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| [ACP snapshot tests — record-once / replay-deterministic](implemented/testing/2026-06-19-acp-snapshot-tests.md) | 2026-06-19 |
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| [Real-API e2e in CI against the external DeepSeek API](implemented/testing/2026-06-19-real-api-e2e-ci.md) | 2026-06-19 |
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| [Use `session.jsonl` as the only snapshot session-log artifact](implemented/testing/2026-06-20-remove-redundant-snapshot-log-goldens.md) | 2026-06-20 |
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| [Per-session snapshot replay for nested agents](implemented/testing/2026-06-22-subagent-snapshot-replay.md) | 2026-06-22 |
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## Rejected
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# RFC: Per-session snapshot replay for nested agents
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Status: implemented
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## Problem
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The snapshot tier (`pnpm run test:snapshot`) boots the real `acp-agent` subprocess, replays a recorded session through [`dsh-llm-replay`](../../../../packages/support/llm-replay), and diffs the normalized stdout transcript + re-persisted session log against committed goldens. It is the only tier that exercises the full editor-facing transcript end to end.
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It was built for ONE session per process, and that assumption is wired into two places:
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- **`dsh-llm-replay` keyed nothing.** It served the Nth `llm/stream` call the Nth recorded entry from a single global cursor. With a parent agent AND an in-process subagent both streaming on one context, the calls interleave and the single cursor hands the child the parent's script (and vice versa).
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- **The harness harvested one log.** `findSessionLog` walked the sessions root and returned the FIRST `.jsonl` it found. A subagent runs as a second `Session` with its own log in the same cwd bucket, so the child's transcript was silently dropped.
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This was the `TODO(subagent-snapshots)` deferral recorded in the [subagent seam RFC](../../proposed/feature/2026-06-21-subagent-capability-seam.md): the in-process backends (PR2) shipped with unit + e2e coverage, but the full-transcript snapshot tier could not express a nested-agent shape until this infrastructure landed. This RFC is that stacked follow-up.
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## Decision
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Replay is keyed **per calling session**, and the harness harvests **every** session log.
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### 1. The calling session id rides on the model request
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`GenerateOptions` gains an optional `sessionId`, stamped by the agent loop from `agent.session.id` at request-assembly time (where the session is already in scope). Adapters ignore it; it exists so an `llm/stream` listener can route a call by WHICH session issued it. It is typed `Branded<'SessionId'>` (from `dsh-brand`) rather than importing `SessionId` from `dsh-session` — that package imports `Message` from `dsh-llm`, so importing its id back would cycle. `SessionId` IS `Branded<'SessionId'>`, so a real id assigns with no cast. (A future dedicated ids package could own the brand and dissolve the note; tracked separately — it touches every id import and does not belong in this testing PR.)
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### 2. Replay binds live sessions to recorded scripts by first-call order
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A nested scenario records more than one log: the parent (`session.jsonl`) plus one per subagent child (`session.1.jsonl`, …). `dsh-llm-replay` loads them all, derives one script per recorded session, and orders the scripts by header `createdAt` (the parent is created before its children).
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Live session ids are freshly random every run and never equal the recorded ones, so a live session cannot bind to a script by id equality. Instead it binds by **first-call order**: the first live session to make any model call claims the first ordered script (the parent — earliest `createdAt`, and necessarily the first to stream, because it must run a turn before it can delegate), the next new live session claims the next script, and so on. Each session then advances its own cursor independently.
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This keys by WHO calls, not by global call order — so it stays correct even if subagents ever run concurrently or in the background (a global cursor would interleave them). A call carrying no `sessionId` (a direct unit-test `stream()`) is treated as one anonymous session bound to the primary script, so the single-session path is byte-for-byte the old behavior. More distinct live sessions than recorded scripts is a fail-loud error (an unrecorded subagent appeared), never a silent mis-route.
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The alternative considered and rejected was a **call-ordered merge of the parent and child logs** into one global script (sound only because in-process subagent execution is strictly nested — the parent blocks on the child). It is simpler for today's synchronous cut but bakes in the parent-blocks-on-child invariant that a future backgrounded/concurrent subagent would break; per-session keying does not.
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### 3. The harness harvests every log, primary-first
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`harvestSessionLogs` collects every `.jsonl` across every cwd bucket under the sessions root (the JSONL backend puts a parent and its same-cwd child in the same bucket), parses each header, and orders them primary-first: the top-level session (no `parentSession`) leads, then each child by ascending `createdAt`. `RunResult.sessionLogs` is the plural result; the spec writes each back to its fixture on record (`session.jsonl` + `session.<n>.jsonl`) and diffs each harvested log against its fixture on replay. The normalizer already accepted plural session ids and collapses any stray UUID, so no normalizer change was needed.
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### 4. Scenarios
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Two nested scenarios were added and recorded against the real API:
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- **`subagent-spawn`** — the parent delegates one subtask via the `subagent` tool to a fresh spawn child (2 sessions).
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- **`subagent-multi`** — the parent delegates two subtasks, each to its own spawn child (3 sessions), stressing the per-session keying with three concurrent scripts and the `createdAt` ordering of two children under one parent.
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Both replay keyless in the default gate.
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## Consequences
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- The `TODO(subagent-snapshots)` deferral is resolved: nested-agent transcripts are now a first-class snapshot shape.
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- `GenerateOptions.sessionId` is a small, honest core-seam addition useful beyond replay (telemetry, request routing).
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- The `subagent` tool is bound to a single provider, so both children in `subagent-multi` are spawn (fresh). The fork backend is loaded in the example and exercised by PR2's unit tests; a mixed spawn+fork snapshot would need a second tool instance bound to `fork` (pure config) and is a trivial future addition, not a gap in the keying — the keying routes by session, not by backend.
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- Out-of-process (ACP) subagents are a different replay shape entirely (each child is its own PROCESS with its own replay), tracked as `TODO(acp-subagent-replay)` in the PR3 plan.
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- **Blocking the parent turn.** Synchronous collect holds the parent's `runStep` open for the child's full duration. This is acceptable for the first cut; **background / poll / spill semantics are deferred to a future redesign that unifies long-running-tool handling across subagents AND bash** (a sub-agent and a long `bash` background task pose the same "the model started something slow, how does it collect later" problem, and should share one mechanism rather than each inventing its own).
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- **Live progress.** This cut surfaces only lifecycle + final result; a per-chunk child→parent update stream is deferred with the background redesign.
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- **ACP client surface.** Proxying `fs`/`terminal` from the ACP child back to the parent (a shared-workspace mode) is future work; the first cut advertises neither, so the child self-serves in its own process.
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- **Snapshot coverage of nested agents.** The snapshot tier (`pnpm run test:snapshot`) replays a recorded session through `dsh-llm-replay`, whose dispatch is a single GLOBAL positional cursor (the Nth `llm/stream` call serves the Nth recorded entry) and whose harness harvests a single session log file. A subagent runs as a *second* agent with its own session log, so a parent→child scenario needs per-session-keyed replay (or a call-ordered merge of both logs, sound because subagent execution is strictly nested/non-concurrent — the parent blocks on the child) plus harvest-all-logs and plural-session-id plumbing in the harness. This is self-contained infrastructure orthogonal to the backends, so it lands as a **dedicated stacked follow-up** rather than in the in-process-backends PR. Until it lands, in-process subagents are covered by real-loop unit tests (a parent driving a fork AND a spawn child) and a with-key e2e (a parent delegating to a child that writes a file), not by the snapshot transcript tier. Tracked by `TODO(subagent-snapshots)`.
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- **Snapshot coverage of nested agents.** The snapshot tier (`pnpm run test:snapshot`) replays a recorded session through `dsh-llm-replay`. It was built single-session: a single GLOBAL positional cursor (the Nth `llm/stream` call serves the Nth recorded entry) and a harness that harvested a single session log file. A subagent runs as a *second* agent with its own session log, so a parent→child scenario needed per-session-keyed replay plus harvest-all-logs and plural-session-id plumbing — self-contained infrastructure orthogonal to the backends, scheduled as a dedicated stacked follow-up rather than folded into the in-process-backends PR. That follow-up has **landed**: see [Per-session snapshot replay for nested agents](../../implemented/testing/2026-06-22-subagent-snapshot-replay.md). Replay now keys each call by its calling session (`GenerateOptions.sessionId`) and binds live sessions to recorded scripts by first-call order; the harness harvests every log; and two nested scenarios (`subagent-spawn`, `subagent-multi`) replay keyless in the default gate. In-process subagents remain covered by real-loop unit tests and a with-key e2e in addition to the snapshot tier.
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