The paragraph claimed later child output reaches only the scrollback. Output
after a settle still reaches the scrollback and whichever send is active when
it arrives — appendOutput writes both (session.ts:302-307), and settleActive
clears `active` rather than suppressing delivery. Only the settled operation
stops receiving it, which is what the timing bound protects.
A cursor-less adoption (process restart + resume, fork, seam-module
reload) replayed the session's full log from seq 0, re-exporting
history that already left the process — a resume re-billed its entire
stored log on every restart, and a fork re-shipped the parent's prefix
under the child's id, doubling query-time counts on OTLP backends with
no native ingest dedupe.
dsh-session now exposes the fact the constructor already validated but
discarded: Session.firstLiveSeq, the constructor-seed length — the
first seq appended in this process. header.seedLength cannot serve
here: it is the durable fork-lineage boundary, and a resumed session's
constructor seed is its full stored log while the header keeps the
original fork value (llm-replay and session-query-sqlite depend on
that meaning). Constructor seeds also never publish on the
session/event firehose, so adoption replaying them was inconsistent
with the system's own publication semantics.
Adoption's cursor-less fallback starts at firstLiveSeq; seed events
still feed the chunk projection, so mid-step continuations re-drop
after a resume. Fork streams are no longer self-contained: records now
carry session.seed_length (with the existing session.parent_id) so
receivers stitch the child's stream onto the parent's. Accepted cost,
consistent with at-most-once delivery and recorded in the revival
Agent Note: a resume no longer backfills records a previous process
failed to deliver — a deployment with that requirement needs the
deferred outbox, not replay.
Pinned red-first: seeded adoption exports nothing (assertion reversed
from the prior seed-readback test, obsolete behavior changed with its
test), resume-shaped seed rebuilds the projection without exporting,
and fork records carry the stitch attributes.
master already stabilized the raw-mode SIGINT scenario in 65e0ffe03 and
3be090f1d with wider scenario-owned bounds and deliberately delayed child
readiness, so the merge takes master's test implementation. What this branch
keeps is the contract that explains why those bounds are required: the note
paragraph on the settle boundary in PtySendOperation.append, and the
waitForOutput comment recording that raising its deadline alone cannot
recover output the send never collected.
The Agent Note paragraph recorded test-specific timing advice, which
docs/AGENTS.md excludes from implemented notes. The durable half of it —
LocalSendOperation.append drops output after settle, so it survives only in
the scrollback — now documents append itself.
