refactor(agent): replace the per-step advice seam with agent/session-prefix
Review discussion converged on the industry shape (Claude Code caches user context per conversation; Codex separates initial context from diffs; Kimi appends at continuation boundaries to protect prompt caching): stable openers belong in a compose-once prefix, mid-session changes belong in append-only history — not in a per-request slot. agent/session-prefix fires ONCE per loop instance, lazily on its first request-building step: the composed Message[] is deep-frozen, cached on the transmission bookkeeping, recorded as EpochHeader.messagePrefix on the anchoring 'initial'/'resume' snapshot, and reused verbatim for every request the instance sends — prefix stability is structural, not a producer discipline, and a resume recomposes with attributable drift. The request is messagePrefix + boundary snapshot. The per-step RequestAdvice/RequestAdviceContext surface and the messageSuffix header field are dropped: the tail slot had no consumer, and every current update pattern (new AGENTS.md discovered, memory update, skills change) routes through the existing append-only history channels — inject(), tools/post-execute additionalContext, prompt-submit additionalContext — each paid once and prefix-cached thereafter. The messagePrefix delta arm stays for codec totality; the loop never produces one in practice.
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| Event | Mode | Declared in | Dispatchers | Listeners |
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| `agent/created` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:313`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent) (`emit`) | [`stdio-agent`](../packages/ui/stdio-agent) |
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| `agent/disposed` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:320`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent) (`emit`) | [`stdio-agent`](../packages/ui/stdio-agent) |
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| `agent/error` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:512`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | - |
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| `agent/pre-step` | `serial` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:398`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`serial`) | [`compact-basic`](../packages/compact/compact-basic) |
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| `agent/prompt-submit` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:411`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude), [`hooks-codex`](../packages/hooks/hooks-codex) |
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| `agent/queued` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:338`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | - |
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| `agent/request` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:435`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | - |
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| `agent/request-advice` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:477`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | - |
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| `agent/session-start` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:353`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude), [`hooks-codex`](../packages/hooks/hooks-codex) |
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| `agent/status` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:329`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp), [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants), [`stdio-agent`](../packages/ui/stdio-agent) |
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| `agent/step-result` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:487`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | - |
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| `agent/turn-continuation` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:500`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude), [`hooks-codex`](../packages/hooks/hooks-codex) |
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| `agent/created` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:265`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent) (`emit`) | [`stdio-agent`](../packages/ui/stdio-agent) |
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| `agent/disposed` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:272`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent`](../packages/core/agent) (`emit`) | [`stdio-agent`](../packages/ui/stdio-agent) |
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| `agent/error` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:455`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | - |
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| `agent/pre-step` | `serial` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:350`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`serial`) | [`compact-basic`](../packages/compact/compact-basic) |
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| `agent/prompt-submit` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:363`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude), [`hooks-codex`](../packages/hooks/hooks-codex) |
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| `agent/queued` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:290`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | - |
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| `agent/request` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:387`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | - |
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| `agent/session-prefix` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:420`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | - |
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| `agent/session-start` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:305`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude), [`hooks-codex`](../packages/hooks/hooks-codex) |
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| `agent/status` | `emit` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:281`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`emit`) | [`acp`](../packages/ui/acp), [`invariants`](../packages/support/invariants), [`stdio-agent`](../packages/ui/stdio-agent) |
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| `agent/step-result` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:430`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | - |
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| `agent/turn-continuation` | `waterfall` | [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts:443`](../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts) | [`agent-loop`](../packages/core/agent-loop) (`waterfall`) | [`hooks-claude`](../packages/hooks/hooks-claude), [`hooks-codex`](../packages/hooks/hooks-codex) |
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| `fs/edit-intent` | `waterfall` | [`packages/fs/fs/src/index.ts:123`](../packages/fs/fs/src/index.ts) | [`tool-fs`](../packages/fs/tool-fs) (`waterfall`) | [`fs-policy`](../packages/fs/fs-policy) |
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| `fs/observed` | `emit` | [`packages/fs/fs/src/index.ts:138`](../packages/fs/fs/src/index.ts) | [`tool-fs`](../packages/fs/tool-fs) (`emit`) | [`fs-policy`](../packages/fs/fs-policy) |
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| `fs/write-intent` | `waterfall` | [`packages/fs/fs/src/index.ts:109`](../packages/fs/fs/src/index.ts) | [`tool-fs`](../packages/fs/tool-fs) (`waterfall`) | [`fs-policy`](../packages/fs/fs-policy) |
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