feat: expose agent session log location

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

@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ The JSONL durable session-persistence backend — a concrete `SessionPersistence
 |---|---|---|
 | `root` | `string` (required) | Root directory for all session files. **No default** — a `process.cwd()` default would scatter files as the process's cwd changes (bash calls, subprocesses). |
 
+`locate(meta)` returns `{ kind: 'jsonl', path }` using the resolved absolute root and the same cwd-bucket/id encoding as materialization. It performs no filesystem I/O: the target can be returned before the file exists, and an existing file contains only the last flushed prefix.
+
 ## Durability and crash semantics
 
 - **Lazy materialization.** `create(meta)` writes nothing; the `.jsonl` (header + first batch) is written atomically (temp-write + `fsync` + rename) on the first `append`. A created-but-never-appended session leaves nothing on disk and is absent from `list`.

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

@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@
  * (the `session/event` → buffer → `session/flush` drain, per-session
  * serialization, write cursors, fork-seed persistence, HMR live-adoption,
  * crash-repair sequencing, dispose quiescence) lives in the backend-agnostic
- * {@link PersistenceCoordinator} this class composes. The four public
- * {@link SessionPersistence} methods delegate to the coordinator.
+ * {@link PersistenceCoordinator} this class composes. The four stateful public
+ * {@link SessionPersistence} methods delegate to the coordinator; the pure
+ * locator remains backend-owned.
  *
  * @module @deepseek-ai/dsh-session-persistence-jsonl
  */
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ import { dirname, resolve } from 'node:path'
 import { randomBytes } from 'node:crypto'
 import {
   SessionPersistence, PersistenceCoordinator,
-  type PersistenceBackend, type StoredPrefix,
+  type PersistenceBackend, type SessionLocation, type StoredPrefix,
 } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-session-persistence'
 import type { Session, SessionEvent, SessionId, SessionHeader } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-session'
 import {
@@ -90,6 +91,11 @@ export class SessionPersistenceJsonl extends SessionPersistence implements Persi
 
   // --- SessionPersistence service surface (delegated to the coordinator) ---
 
+  /** Resolve the absolute target path without touching the filesystem. */
+  locate(meta: SessionHeader): SessionLocation {
+    return { kind: 'jsonl', path: logPath(this.root, meta.cwd, meta.id) }
+  }
+
   create(meta: SessionHeader): Promise<void> {
     return this.coordinator.create(meta)
   }

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

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
 import { Context } from 'cordis'
 import { appendFile, mkdtemp, mkdir, rm, readFile, writeFile, readdir, stat } from 'node:fs/promises'
 import { tmpdir } from 'node:os'
-import { join } from 'node:path'
+import { isAbsolute, join, relative, resolve } from 'node:path'
 import SessionStore, { SessionId } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-session'
 import type { Session, SessionEvent } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-session'
 import SessionPersistenceJsonl from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-session-persistence-jsonl'
@@ -96,6 +96,19 @@ describe('SessionPersistenceJsonl: format helpers', () => {
   it('encodeSegment rejects an empty id', () => {
     expect(() => encodeSegment('')).toThrow(/empty/)
   })
+
+  it('resolves a relative custom root before locating a session', async () => {
+    const absoluteRoot = await freshRoot()
+    const ctx = new Context()
+    await ctx.plugin(SessionStore)
+    const fiber = await ctx.plugin(SessionPersistenceJsonl, { root: relative(process.cwd(), absoluteRoot) })
+    const m = meta('relative-location', '/work')
+    expect(ctx.sessionPersistence.locate(m)).toEqual({
+      kind: 'jsonl',
+      path: logPath(resolve(absoluteRoot), '/work', m.id),
+    })
+    await fiber.dispose()
+  })
 })
 
 describe('SessionPersistenceJsonl: durability and crash semantics', () => {
@@ -110,8 +123,13 @@ describe('SessionPersistenceJsonl: durability and crash semantics', () => {
 
   it('lazy materialization: create() writes no file until the first append', async () => {
     const m = meta('lazy', '/work')
+    const location = ctx.sessionPersistence.locate(m)
+    expect(location).toEqual({ kind: 'jsonl', path: logPath(root, '/work', m.id) })
+    expect(isAbsolute(location!.path)).toBe(true)
+
     await ctx.sessionPersistence.create(m)
-    // nothing on disk yet
+    // locate() is a pure target-path calculation: neither it nor create()
+    // materializes a file before the first append.
     const dir = sessionDir(root, '/work')
     await expect(stat(logPath(root, '/work', m.id))).rejects.toThrow()
     expect((await ctx.sessionPersistence.list()).map(h => h.id)).not.toContain(m.id)
@@ -123,6 +141,26 @@ describe('SessionPersistenceJsonl: durability and crash semantics', () => {
     void dir
   })
 
+  it('keeps the same location on resume and gives a fork its own location', async () => {
+    const parent = meta('location-parent', '/work')
+    const parentLocation = ctx.sessionPersistence.locate(parent)
+    await ctx.sessionPersistence.create(parent)
+    await ctx.sessionPersistence.append(parent.id, oneTurnLog())
+
+    const loaded = await ctx.sessionPersistence.load(parent.id)
+    expect(ctx.sessionPersistence.locate(loaded.meta)).toEqual(parentLocation)
+
+    const child = {
+      ...loaded.meta,
+      id: SessionId('location-child'),
+      parentSession: parent.id,
+      seedLength: loaded.events.length,
+    }
+    const childLocation = ctx.sessionPersistence.locate(child)
+    expect(childLocation?.path).not.toBe(parentLocation?.path)
+    expect(childLocation).toEqual({ kind: 'jsonl', path: logPath(root, '/work', child.id) })
+  })
+
   it('round-trip is byte-identical (incl. assistant/chunk verbatim)', async () => {
     const m = meta('chunks')
     const log: SessionEvent[] = [

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

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 A SQLite durable session-persistence backend — a second `SessionPersistence` implementation ([session persistence](../../../docs/rfc/implemented/architecture/2026-06-14-session-persistence.md)), built to validate that the abstract seam and the shared `runPersistenceContract` suite are genuinely backend-agnostic. It satisfies the SAME contract as `dsh-session-persistence-jsonl` (append-only, contiguous-seq, lazy materialization, interrupted-turn close on load), expressed over `node:sqlite` rows instead of file bytes.
 
+`locate(meta)` returns `undefined`: all sessions share one database, so there is no honest independent per-session transcript path.
+
 > **TODO:** this backend talks to `node:sqlite` directly. If a cordis database service (`cordis/db` / a `@cordisjs` SQL driver plugin) is adopted, route through that instead of holding a raw `DatabaseSync` here — the contract surface (`SessionPersistence`) would not change, only the storage driver.
 
 ## Storage model

packages/session-persistence/session-persistence-sqlite/src/index.ts

@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@
  * Like the JSONL backend it supplies ONLY the storage primitives (the
  * {@link PersistenceBackend} hooks below — INSERT/DELETE/SELECT inside
  * transactions); all the write-path orchestration lives in the backend-agnostic
- * {@link PersistenceCoordinator} this class composes. The four public
- * {@link SessionPersistence} methods delegate to the coordinator.
+ * {@link PersistenceCoordinator} this class composes. The four stateful public
+ * {@link SessionPersistence} methods delegate to the coordinator; the pure
+ * locator remains backend-owned.
  *
  * @module @deepseek-ai/dsh-session-persistence-sqlite
  */
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ import { mkdir } from 'node:fs/promises'
 import { dirname, resolve } from 'node:path'
 import {
   SessionPersistence, PersistenceCoordinator,
-  type PersistenceBackend, type StoredPrefix,
+  type PersistenceBackend, type SessionLocation, type StoredPrefix,
 } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-session-persistence'
 import type { Session, SessionEvent, SurfaceEventType, SessionId, SessionHeader } from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-session'
 import {
@@ -109,6 +110,11 @@ export class SessionPersistenceSqlite extends SessionPersistence implements Pers
 
   // --- SessionPersistence service surface (delegated to the coordinator) ---
 
+  /** SQLite has one database, not an independent local artifact per session. */
+  locate(_meta: SessionHeader): SessionLocation | undefined {
+    return undefined
+  }
+
   create(meta: SessionHeader): Promise<void> {
     return this.coordinator.create(meta)
   }

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

@@ -144,6 +144,12 @@ describe('scanRows', () => {
 })
 
 describe('SessionPersistenceSqlite: durability and crash semantics', () => {
+  it('has no independent per-session log location', async () => {
+    const { ctx, dispose } = await backend()
+    expect(ctx.sessionPersistence.locate(meta('sqlite-location'))).toBeUndefined()
+    await dispose()
+  })
+
   it('an interrupted turn (rows after the last turn/end) is PRESERVED and closed during load', async () => {
     const path = await freshDbPath()
     const m = meta('crash')

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

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ The persisted unit IS the existing `SessionEvent` (event-sourced model — the l
 
 | Method | Contract |
 |---|---|
+| `locate(meta): SessionLocation \| undefined` | Resolve an absolute per-session artifact target without I/O or materialization. Backends without an independent local artifact return `undefined`. |
 | `create(meta): Promise<void>` | Register a new session's metadata. MAY defer the physical write until the first `append` (lazy materialization). |
 | `append(id, events): Promise<void>` | Durably persist a batch (from the `session/flush` drain). Append-only; first event `seq` == stored next-seq after any repair; rejects non-JSON-serializable data naming the offending type. |
 | `load(id): Promise<{ meta; events }>` | Reload meta + log. Preserves an interrupted (unclosed) final turn and closes it with synthetic closers — an error `tool/result` per unanswered `tool-call`, then `step/end?`+`turn/end {interrupted}` (a turn can be huge — never truncated); only a torn tail fragment is dropped. Events contiguous (`events[i].seq === i`); rejects a committed-region gap/parse error or unknown `version`. |
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ The persisted unit IS the existing `SessionEvent` (event-sourced model — the l
 
 The two first-party backends were byte-identical (or same-algorithm) for ALL of their write-path orchestration — the in-memory bookkeeping (per-id state, write-behind buffers, per-id serialization chains, per-session init promises), the `session/event` → buffer → `session/flush` drain, lazy materialization, crash-tail repair on load, the four `session/created` adoption cases (new / HMR-adopt / collision / ownerless-claim), and dispose-time quiescence. Only the STORAGE primitives differed (write bytes vs. INSERT rows).
 
-`PersistenceCoordinator` owns that orchestration once. A first-party backend composes one (`new PersistenceCoordinator(ctx, this)`), implements the small `PersistenceBackend` hook interface, and delegates its four public service methods to the coordinator. This keeps the duplicated, correctness-heavy orchestration in a single place (it used to receive the same fixes twice).
+`PersistenceCoordinator` owns that orchestration once. A first-party backend composes one (`new PersistenceCoordinator(ctx, this)`), implements the small `PersistenceBackend` hook interface, and delegates its four stateful service methods to the coordinator; the pure `locate` query stays backend-owned. This keeps the duplicated, correctness-heavy orchestration in a single place (it used to receive the same fixes twice).
 
 The `PersistenceBackend<TornMarker>` hooks (the only seam between the coordinator and storage):
 
@@ -46,6 +47,6 @@ Import `runPersistenceContract` from `tests/contract.ts` (the public-API contrac
 
 Three backends run these suites: an in-memory reference (in `tests/`), `dsh-session-persistence-jsonl` (append-only file log) and `dsh-session-persistence-sqlite` (`node:sqlite`, each `SessionEvent` one row `(session_id, seq, type, time, data, source_event_seqs, surface_op)`). All passing the same contract + coordinator suite is the proof that the seam is genuinely backend-agnostic — lazy materialization, crash-tail-on-load, and contiguous-seq hold identically over file bytes and over a transactional store.
 
-## Metadata types
+## Metadata and location types
 
-Re-exported from `dsh-session`: `SessionHeader` (immutable session metadata: `version`, `id`, `createdAt`, `cwd?`, `parentSession?`, `seedLength?`).
+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.

packages/session-persistence/session-persistence/src/index.ts

@@ -38,6 +38,18 @@ declare module 'cordis' {
   }
 }
 
+/**
+ * A backend-resolved, per-session local artifact location. The path is an
+ * absolute target path and can name an artifact that has not materialized yet.
+ * Consumers must treat it as a location hint, never as an authorization token.
+ */
+export interface SessionLocation {
+  /** Backend-specific artifact kind, for example `jsonl`. */
+  readonly kind: string
+  /** Absolute path to this session's backend-owned artifact. */
+  readonly path: string
+}
+
 /**
  * Whether a live session's seed reproduces a persisted prefix exactly. Backends
  * use this collision check to distinguish a legitimate resume/HMR rebind from a
@@ -104,6 +116,15 @@ export abstract class SessionPersistence extends Service {
     super(ctx, 'sessionPersistence')
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Resolve this backend's independent local artifact for a session without
+   * reading, creating, flushing, or otherwise materializing it. Backends such
+   * as SQLite that do not own one artifact per session return `undefined`.
+   * @param meta - the immutable session header whose artifact is requested.
+   * @returns the backend-specific absolute location, when one exists.
+   */
+  abstract locate(meta: SessionHeader): SessionLocation | undefined
+
   /**
    * Register a new session's metadata. A backend MAY defer the physical write
    * until the first {@link append} (lazy materialization), in which case a

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

@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@ class MemoryPersistence extends SessionPersistence implements PersistenceBackend
 
   // --- service surface (delegated to the coordinator) ---
 
+  locate(_meta: SessionHeader): undefined {
+    return undefined
+  }
+
   create(m: SessionHeader): Promise<void> {
     return this.coordinator.create(m)
   }