docs: replace vague provenance prose with recorded facts

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## Problem
Compaction is a one-way door. The summary the model sees carries no reference to what it shadows — the `shadowedRange` provenance lives only on the log-only `compact/summary` event — and no tool lets the model read a shadowed span back. Whatever the summarizer drops is gone from the model's reachable world, even though the append-only log holds every byte. Repeated compaction compounds this: the head checkpoint is rewritten every pass, so the request prefix takes a full prompt-cache miss each time, and earlier summaries are re-summarized generation after generation.
Compaction is irreversible from the model's current context. The summary the model sees carries no reference to what it shadows — `shadowedRange` lives only on the log-only `compact/summary` event — and no tool lets the model read a shadowed span back. Whatever the summarizer drops is unavailable to the model, even though the append-only log holds every byte. Repeated compaction compounds this: the head checkpoint is rewritten every pass, so the request prefix takes a full prompt-cache miss each time, and earlier summaries are re-summarized generation after generation.
The root cause is one artifact playing two conflicting roles. An **index** wants to be frozen, chronological, and cheap; the model's **working memory** wants a global view, re-prioritization, and mutability. A single summary can be neither well.
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Newly stale history splits into chunks by deterministic policy: accumulate towar
- two or three lines of what happened;
- a keyword line of low-frequency literal anchors — exact error strings, values, config keys — grouped by kind;
- a code-composed footer: `[checkpoint c<summarySeq>: shadows conversation span #<start>–#<end>; originals retrievable via history_read]`. Pointers are assembled from provenance, never model-authored.
- a code-composed footer: `[checkpoint c<summarySeq>: shadows conversation span #<start>–#<end>; originals retrievable via history_read]`. Code assembles these pointers from the `compact/summary` seq and `shadowedRange`; the model never writes them.
A committed stub is never rewritten and never re-enters a later compaction region. A stub call's input is layered: the fixed preamble and the byte-identical pass-start state checkpoint (the shared prefix across all calls in the phase), then the keyword lines of all previously committed stubs — so a new entry indexes what is distinctive to its chunk instead of repeating the directory — the one or two most recent committed stubs for chronological continuity, and the slice itself. Sibling stubs from the same pass are not inputs (the concurrent phase forbids it; turn-aligned boundaries carry local continuity instead), and the state checkpoint is background only, never material to summarize into the stub. A slice consisting of recalled content is stubbed by code alone — a pointer line, no LLM call. A failed stub call degrades the same way: its slice gets a code-only pointer stub and the pass continues, making the state rewrite the only hard LLM dependency in a pass.
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ A new package `@deepseek-ai/dsh-tool-recall` (consumer-only, over the `dsh-sessi
- `history_read(checkpoint, offset?)` — renders the shadowed span of any checkpoint in the log, including superseded ones, as `User:`/`Assistant:`/`Tool result:` transcript, paginated by a configured budget with a continuation cursor.
- `history_search(query, checkpoint?, limit?)` — case-insensitive literal scan over every shadowed span; returns snippets with checkpoint ids and coverage metadata (`scanned`/`matched`/`truncated`). The zero-match hint notes the scan is literal and points at direct `history_read` of a plausible checkpoint.
Both read `exec.agent.session.events` (the tool-todo access pattern; non-agent callers rejected), render only surface-type message events, and return ordinary `tool/result`s — recalled bytes land at the context tail, logged, so reconstructability holds with no special casing. There is no new storage and no sidecar index: the session log is the archive, `compact/summary` provenance is the index metadata, and the tools are a read path over both. The tool schemas and the package's one system-prompt section are static strings; checkpoint ids reach the model only through footers. The transcript renderer moves from `compact-basic` into `dsh-session`, shared by summarizer and tools.
Both read `exec.agent.session.events` (the tool-todo access pattern; non-agent callers rejected), render only surface-type message events, and return ordinary `tool/result`s — recalled bytes land at the context tail, logged, so reconstructability holds with no special casing. There is no new storage and no sidecar index: the session log stores the content, `compact/summary.shadowedRange` and `shadowedSeqs` identify what each checkpoint replaced, and the tools read both. The tool schemas and the package's one system-prompt section are static strings; checkpoint ids reach the model only through footers. The transcript renderer moves from `compact-basic` into `dsh-session`, shared by summarizer and tools.
### Cache and cost
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## Acceptance criteria
- Auto-compaction over a long session yields `[stubs…][state][tail]` after every completed pass; prior stubs stay byte-identical across passes; committed stubs never fall inside a later region; the superseded state checkpoint folds without a tombstone, renders labeled, and stays reachable and searchable through the two-hop chain.
- Every checkpoint's surface text ends with the deterministic footer; footers round-trip through replay byte-identically; the state checkpoint's provenance records its wider input range.
- Every checkpoint's surface text ends with the deterministic footer; footers round-trip through replay byte-identically; the state checkpoint's `shadowedRange` records its wider input range.
- Nothing commits before all summaries exist and the guard passes on like-for-like accounting; a guard failure commits nothing and does not fail the turn; a mid-commit kill resumed at the next pre-step completes the pass with the state region committed unconditionally, merge base read from the log; a legacy head checkpoint is adopted as state-class.
- `history_read` renders any logged checkpoint's span under budget with a working cursor; `history_search` covers every shadowed span with checkpoint-id snippets and coverage metadata, asserted in particular by finding content that exists only in a span shadowed by a superseded state checkpoint — the regression pin for trailing-slice reachability; both reject non-agent callers and never-existing ids or orphaned `compact/start` with typed errors; recalled content appears as ordinary `tool/result`s; request-reconstruction invariants pass over sessions with compaction plus recall; one keyless snapshot scenario covers compact-then-recall end to end; tool schemas and the prompt section are byte-identical across passes.
- On the long-horizon bench suite: task success does not regress against `compact-basic` at equal budgets; a handoff-fidelity probe (restate K known decisions and constraints after a pass) scores no worse; recall usage frequency and hit usefulness are reported per run via the dsh bench report pipeline, alongside the stub-directory attention measurement and cache-hit telemetry.