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docs/core-data-structures/persistence.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ The seam is a textbook [capability seam](../../.agents/notes/implemented/archite
 
 ## The flush checkpoint
 
-`session/event` is a *synchronous* notification; persistence plugins buffer it (write-behind) and drain at the awaited `session/flush` checkpoint the loop fires at every turn end. Flush is `ctx.parallel` (awaited): a turn's events are durably committed before the next turn starts, and the turn boundary is the commit boundary. A rejecting flush is reported via `agent/error` and the logger — never as a session event (it would land past the commit boundary), so the backend keeps its buffered events for the next flush.
+`session/event` is a *synchronous* notification; persistence plugins buffer it (write-behind) until `session/flush`. The loop awaits an ordinary turn's checkpoint before claiming the next queue item; synchronous idle `inject()` schedules its checkpoint without blocking `send()`, and disposal still drains it. A successful flush durably commits the closed turn as one unit; a rejecting flush is reported through `agent/error` and the logger — never as a session event past the closed turn — while the backend keeps its buffered events for the next flush.
 
 ## Crash recovery preserves an interrupted turn
 
@@ -60,12 +60,18 @@ interface SessionHeader {
    * boundary lets resume and replay distinguish parent history from child work.
    */
   readonly seedLength?: number
+  /**
+   * Delegation depth: absent (zero) for a top-level session, parent depth + 1
+   * for a subagent child. Persisted so a recursion budget survives restart and
+   * resume — a runtime-only depth would reset a resumed child to top-level.
+   */
+  readonly delegationDepth?: number
 }
 ```
 
 ## `CreateSessionOptions` — seeding and metadata
 
-Creating a `Session` through the store takes a `seed` (replay/fork an existing event log) and `meta` (the storage-level fields the store folds into a `SessionHeader`). The store fills in `version`/`id` and defaults `createdAt`; the caller supplies the validated absolute `cwd`, the `parentSession` lineage, the `seedLength` seed boundary, and — only when reconstructing a persisted session — the original `createdAt` to preserve it.
+Creating a `Session` through the store takes a `seed` (replay/fork an existing event log) and `meta` (the storage-level fields the store folds into a `SessionHeader`). The store fills in `version`/`id` and defaults `createdAt`; the caller supplies the validated absolute `cwd`, the `parentSession` lineage, the `seedLength` seed boundary, the `delegationDepth`, and — only when reconstructing a persisted session — the original `createdAt` to preserve it.
 
 ```ts type-equiv
 /**
@@ -85,6 +91,7 @@ interface CreateSessionOptions {
     readonly parentSession?: SessionId
     readonly createdAt?: number
     readonly seedLength?: number
+    readonly delegationDepth?: number
   }
 }
 ```
@@ -95,5 +102,5 @@ Replay/fork is therefore `ctx.sessions.create(id, { seed: seedEvents })`; resumi
 
 Both implement the same abstract `SessionPersistence` (locate/create/append/load/list over `SessionEvent`) and pass `runPersistenceContract`, proving the seam is genuinely backend-agnostic:
 
-- **[dsh-session-persistence-jsonl](../../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-jsonl)** — an append-only JSONL log per session with crash-safe atomic writes, the interrupted-turn crash recovery above, and a read/replay path.
+- **[dsh-session-persistence-jsonl](../../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-jsonl)** — an append-only logical JSONL log per session, stored as checksummed concatenated Zstandard frames by default or raw lines by configuration, with crash-safe atomic writes, interrupted-turn recovery, and a read/replay path.
 - **[dsh-session-persistence-sqlite](../../packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-sqlite)** — `node:sqlite`, one row per `SessionEvent`. The row shape `(session_id, seq, type, time, data, source_event_seqs, surface_op)` maps 1:1 onto the event, including optional surface metadata, so there is no parallel persisted schema to keep in sync.