Every event type that can appear in a session's durable event log: each member of the merge-extensible `SessionEventMap` — the owning vocabulary in `@deepseek-ai/dsh-session` plus every plugin declaration merge in this repo — with the payload it carries, its surface badge, and the declaration it comes from. It complements [session.md](core-data-structures/session.md) (the `SessionEvent` envelope, surface list, and `deriveMessages()` projection), [persistence.md](core-data-structures/persistence.md) (how the log is made durable), and the [cordis events catalog](cordis-catalog/events.md) (the live bus wiring — a log event is NOT a cordis event; it reaches listeners via the single `session/event` emit).
This file is GENERATED from source (`scripts/gen-persistence-catalog.ts`) and verified fresh by `pnpm run verify-persistence-catalog` (part of `doc-sync`) — do not edit it by hand. Payload blocks use a `ts persistence-catalog` fence (skipped by doc-typecheck, since a bare payload fragment is not standalone-compilable). Type names in a payload link to the page that documents them. See [the persistence-log-catalog RFC](rfc/implemented/process/2026-07-04-persistence-log-catalog.md).
The on-disk envelope around every payload is `SessionEvent` — `type`, monotonic `seq`, epoch-ms `time`, the `data` documented here, plus `surfaceOp`/`sourceEventSeqs` on **surface** events only ([envelope](core-data-structures/session.md#sessioneventt--one-log-entry)). **surface** marks a `SurfaceEventType` member: it produces an LLM message and declares how it joins the surface list. **log-only** marks everything else: durable, replayable record with no derived-history contribution. Every payload is JSON-serializable (enforced at `Session.append`), and the whole format is pinned at `SESSION_FORMAT_VERSION = 0` — pre-release, no compatibility implied ([the version stance](core-data-structures/persistence.md)). Scope: the packages in this repo; a downstream plugin can merge further event types, which are outside this catalog by construction.
An approval question was put to the answerer chain — log-only audit (like `hook/*`; NOT a surface event, carries no `surfaceOp`). `id` pairs it with the `approval/decided` that always follows; `toolName` is the tool the question is about, `callId` the exact tool call when the asker had one, `reason` the asker's human-readable explanation (e.g. a hook's permission-decision reason).
The outcome of a prior `approval/asked` (same `id`) — log-only audit. Exactly one per ask, appended when the outcome is known: a decision, a cancellation, or the fail-closed `'unavailable'`.
The session's approval policy was switched — log-only, durable, replayable, never in the model transcript (the model learns the policy from the prompt section and the narrator's notices). The LAST such event is the session's override (effectiveApprovalPolicy); who asked for it is derivable from position (an event after the log's last `request/header` was a runtime switch by the user).
Assembled assistant message for one step (derived history uses this). Carries the step's `usage` when the adapter reported token accounting, so the model output and its accounting travel together (there is no separate usage record). `usage` is absent when the adapter reported none.
The session's sandbox mode was switched — log-only (like `approval/*`; NOT a surface event, carries no `surfaceOp`): durable and replayable, never in the model transcript. The LAST such event is the session's override (effectiveSandboxMode); who asked for it is derivable from position (an event after the log's last `request/header` was a runtime switch by the user; see the tool layer's narrator).
Provenance record of a completed summarization — log-only, no surfaceOp. The summary content is in `data.summary`; the actual surface replacement is performed by a subsequent `user/message` event that shadows the compacted range.
In-session context injection (file-change notices, subdir AGENTS.md, skill content, cron notifications, …). Rendered into the derived history as tagged synthetic context — NOT a user prompt.
A hook command was invoked at a hook point — log-only provenance (like `compact/*`; NOT a SurfaceEventType, carries no `surfaceOp`). `dialect` is the bridge that ran it (`claude`/`codex`), `point` the hook point (`PreToolUse`, `Stop`, …), `matcher` the matcher-group pattern that selected it (absent for match-all), `handlerId` a stable id for the command (so an invoked/result pair correlates). `turn` is the open turn the invocation lives inside.
A hook command's outcome — log-only, paired with a prior `hook/invoked` (same `handlerId`). `decision` is the dialect-neutral outcome derived by `appendHookResult` (which owns the rule): the hook's parsed decision (`approve`/`allow`/`block`/`deny`/`ask`), else `'stop'` when it asked to halt via `continue:false`, else `'pass'`. `exitCode` is the process exit (absent if it never ran), `stderrSummary` the trimmed stderr truncated to the bridge's configured cap (the block reason source on exit 2), `durationMs` the wall-clock runtime (audit timing; snapshot replay normalizes it). `turn` matches the `hook/invoked`.
A queued prompt an `agent/prompt-submit` listener VETOED — the durable record of a blocked prompt and why. Appended in place of the `user/message` the prompt would have become, so the block survives replay even in a MIXED batch where another queued prompt is allowed (there the turn does not end `rejected`, so the boundary reason alone would not preserve it). `content` is the original prompt the listener rejected; `reason` is the veto text (PromptDecision `block.reason`). NOT a SurfaceEventType: a blocked prompt produces no LLM message and never reaches `deriveMessages()`.
Full snapshot of the EpochHeader the NEXT request is built under, with the RequestHeaderReason it was recorded whole. Appended by the loop inside the step, before dispatch, on a loop instance's first request-building step (`'initial'`/`'resume'`) or when a later request's header changes (`'change'`); always records what the request actually used, post-`agent/request`. Reconstruction reads the latest snapshot. NOT a SurfaceEventType: it produces no LLM message — it is the request envelope, logged so every request is a pure function of the session log (the reconstructability RFC).
The agent's whole todo list, carried as a full snapshot and replaced wholesale on each write — the current list is the most recent `todo/write` (last-write-wins on replay, no fold). Appended by an owning agent via `session.append('todo/write', { todos })`.
NOT a SurfaceEventType: it produces no LLM message and never reaches `deriveMessages()`, so it carries no `surfaceOp` and stays off the surface — it is durable, replayable UI state, distinct from the conversation history. It is a `SessionEventMap` member riding the existing `session/event` emit, not a first-class Cordis `interface Events` notification, so it has no cordis-catalog row.
The model requested one tool invocation: `name` with the raw `arguments` JSON string exactly as the model produced it (unparsed). `callId` pairs the call with its `tool/result`.
One bridged sub-dispatch from a `run_code` program: the parent `run_code` call id, the deterministic sub-call id (`<parent>:code:<n>`), the tool `name` with its JSON-normalized `arguments` — the exact value dispatched, normalized BEFORE dispatch, so this append can never fail on payload shape — whether the sub-call errored, and a bounded `resultSummary` of its model-facing text. Log-only: `deriveMessages()` ignores it, so sub-calls never re-enter model context; persistence and UIs get every call. Appended inside the parent `run_code`'s execution (the bridge drains its queue before returning), so the turn-enclosure invariant holds by construction.
A completed tool call's model-facing result, plus an optional tool-private `meta` presentation payload. `meta` is opaque to the core (`unknown` — the producing tool owns its shape and reads it back in `presentResult`) but MUST be JSON-serializable: `Session.append` runtime-validates all event data with `isJsonValue`, so a non-serializable `meta` is rejected at the source, and the durable log reproduces the identical card on replay. Absent unless the tool attaches one (e.g. `dsh-tool-fs` carries its result-time contextual diff here).
Closes turn `turn` with the TurnEndReason that ended it. The loop fires the awaited `session/flush` checkpoint at every turn end, so the turn boundary is also the durable-commit boundary.
Opens turn `turn`. `trigger` records what started it — a drained message batch or an idle-time injection. The turn is the durability/replay boundary: every event sits between a `turn/start` and its matching `turn/end` (the turn-enclosure invariant).
