fix(session-reference): bind snapshots to prompts

docs/core-data-structures/core.md

@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ The process-local initiator carried by `ctx.agents` is the exact `Agent` above,
 
 ## Interception decisions
 
-Each `agent/*` interception waterfall returns a small, seam-specific typed union — the unified Decision idiom (the tool seams' `PreToolDecision`/`PostToolDecision` in [tools.md](tools.md) follow the same shape). A CC/Codex hook bridge maps its `permissionDecision`/`decision`/`continue`/`additionalContext` fields onto these; a native plugin returns them directly. Prompt and post-tool decisions share one model-facing context shape, `HookContext`, which is `inject()`ed as a `context/message` and therefore carries a REQUIRED `source` (a missing source would default to `{kind:'user'}` and mislabel plugin context as a user prompt). Its `content` reaches the model verbatim as a user-role message, while JSON `meta` persists plugin state without exposing it to the model. Both decisions carry `additionalContexts[]` so every entry preserves its own provenance and metadata. Continuation reasons are steering messages instead and deliberately use the narrower content/source shape.
+Each `agent/*` interception waterfall returns a small, seam-specific typed union — the unified Decision idiom (the tool seams' `PreToolDecision`/`PostToolDecision` in [tools.md](tools.md) follow the same shape). A CC/Codex hook bridge maps its `permissionDecision`/`decision`/`continue`/`additionalContext` fields onto these; a native plugin returns them directly. Prompt and post-tool decisions share one model-facing context shape, `HookContext`, which carries a REQUIRED `source` (a missing source would default to `{kind:'user'}` and mislabel plugin context as a user prompt). Its `content` reaches the model verbatim as user-role input, while JSON `meta` persists plugin state without exposing it to the model. Absent or `separate` placement becomes `context/message`; `prompt-prefix` placement is available to prompt and steering inbox attachments and bakes the context before the effective request in the same message. Both decisions carry `additionalContexts[]` so every entry preserves its own provenance, metadata, and placement. Continuation reasons are steering messages instead and deliberately use the narrower content/source shape.
 
 Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types.ts)
 
@@ -462,6 +462,12 @@ Source: [`packages/core/agent/src/types.ts`](../../packages/core/agent/src/types
 interface HookContext {
   content: ContentBlock[]
   source: MessageSource
+  /**
+   * Model placement. Absent or `separate` records an independent
+   * `context/message`; `prompt-prefix` prepends this context and a stable
+   * request delimiter to the same user-role message as its attached prompt.
+   */
+  placement?: 'separate' | 'prompt-prefix'
   /** Opaque JSON state retained in the session event but hidden from the model. */
   meta?: JsonValue
 }
@@ -471,12 +477,13 @@ interface HookContext {
 
 ```ts type-equiv
 /**
- * Prompt interception result. `allow.content` replaces the prompt and each
- * `additionalContexts` entry becomes a separate context message. `block`
- * records a durable `prompt/blocked` and ends the claimed prompt's zero-step
- * turn as rejected. An `allow` returned by a listener is authoritative: a
- * listener wrapping `next()` preserves downstream `content` and
- * `additionalContexts` unless it intentionally replaces them.
+ * Prompt interception result. `allow.content` replaces the prompt. Each
+ * `additionalContexts` entry follows its declared placement: separate context
+ * message by default, or a prefix inside the prompt's user-role message.
+ * `block` records a durable `prompt/blocked` and ends the claimed prompt's
+ * zero-step turn as rejected. An `allow` returned by a listener is
+ * authoritative: a listener wrapping `next()` preserves downstream `content`
+ * and `additionalContexts` unless it intentionally replaces them.
  */
 type PromptDecision =
   | { kind: 'allow'; content?: ContentBlock[]; additionalContexts?: HookContext[] }

docs/core-data-structures/session.md

@@ -8,6 +8,18 @@ Source: [`packages/core/session/src/types.ts`](../../packages/core/session/src/t
 
 The append-only event types. Merge-extensible: a plugin declares extra event types via declaration merging — e.g. the [compaction seam](compaction.md) adds `compact/start` / `compact/summary` / `compact/end`, and `@deepseek-ai/dsh-hook-protocol` adds log-only `hook/invoked` / `hook/result` provenance for a hook bridge. Like `compact/*`, these are NOT `SurfaceEventType`s (no `surfaceOp`). The generated [persistence log event catalog](../persistence-catalog.md) enumerates every member — core and merged — with its payload, surface badge, and declaration site.
 
+```ts type-equiv
+/** Shared payload for ordinary and steering prompt messages. */
+interface PromptMessageData {
+  /** Exact model-facing blocks, including any baked prompt-prefix contexts. */
+  content: ContentBlock[]
+  /** Producer provenance for the direct prompt. */
+  source: MessageSource
+  /** Present only when prompt-prefix contexts were baked into `content`. */
+  envelope?: PromptMessageEnvelope
+}
+```
+
 ```ts type-equiv
 /**
  * The merge-extensible, append-only source of truth for an agent interaction.
@@ -35,7 +47,7 @@ interface SessionEventMap {
   /** Closes step `step` of turn `turn`. */
   'step/end': { turn: number; step: number }
   /** A user-visible prompt (the queued message claimed for this turn). */
-  'user/message': { content: ContentBlock[]; source: MessageSource }
+  'user/message': PromptMessageData
   /**
    * Durable record of a prompt veto and its reason. It is log-only: the blocked
    * prompt never enters the model-visible surface, and its turn runs zero steps.
@@ -83,7 +95,7 @@ interface SessionEventMap {
    */
   'tool/result': { turn: number; step: number; callId: CallId; content: ContentBlock[]; isError: boolean; error?: { name: string; code: string }; meta?: unknown }
   /** Steering content injected between steps of a running turn. */
-  'steering/message': { turn: number; content: ContentBlock[]; source: MessageSource }
+  'steering/message': PromptMessageData & { turn: number }
   /** Whole-list snapshot; latest write wins on replay. Log-only UI state; never derived history. */
   'todo/write': { todos: TodoItem[] }
   /**
@@ -94,6 +106,8 @@ interface SessionEventMap {
 }
 ```
 
+`PromptMessageData.content` is always the exact model-facing content. When attached context declares `prompt-prefix` placement, AgentLoop concatenates its blocks, a `## My request:` delimiter, and the effective direct prompt into that array. The optional model-hidden `envelope` retains `displayContent` plus ordered prefix-context source/metadata descriptors, so transcript, title, and re-reference consumers can present the human prompt without changing reconstructable history. `displayPromptContent()` performs that selection and falls back to `content` for ordinary and older events.
+
 ### `OutOfBandSessionEventMap` — narrow late-append opt-in
 
 `SessionEventMap` membership alone does not authorize an event outside the agent loop's ordinary lifecycle. An event owner declaration-merges the same key into this empty marker map before `ctx.sessions.appendOutOfBand()` accepts it; the derived type additionally excludes every surface event. An accepted update joins an open turn or receives a balanced, flushed zero-step turn.
@@ -438,11 +452,11 @@ declare class Session {
 
 `Session.deriveMessages()` projects the event log into the `Message[]` the model sees — cached (each surface node projected once, when first seen; a surface rewrite rebuilds) and frozen (a fresh array per call over shared, deep-frozen messages, so mutating logged history through a projection is unrepresentable). `deriveEventMessage(event)` is the per-node pure function the fold applies — public so external reconstructors and the dev invariant project a log prefix with exactly the same rules and cannot disagree with the cache. The projection rules:
 
-- `user/message` → a user message.
+- `user/message` → a user message carrying exact `content`; an optional envelope remains log-only display metadata.
 - `assistant/message` → an assistant message with the event's provider/model provenance and optional adapter-private replay state. Raw `assistant/chunk` events are replay/UI data and are **skipped** in derivation (the assembled message is authoritative). An **empty-content** `assistant/message` is also skipped — a max-tokens step cut off with no content still records an `assistant/message` to host its usage/provenance, but a content-less assistant turn must not enter the provider transcript.
 - `tool/result` → a user message carrying a `tool-result` block.
 - `context/message` → a user-role message carrying its `content` verbatim at its chronological position. Optional JSON `meta` remains in the event log and is never rendered.
-- `steering/message` → a user-role message carrying its content verbatim at its chronological position.
+- `steering/message` → a user-role message carrying exact `content` at its chronological position; an optional envelope remains log-only display metadata.
 
 Everything else (`turn/*`, `step/*`, plugin-owned `llm/retry`) is structural and does not project into a message. Token accounting reads per-step `assistant/chunk { type: 'usage' }` records and treats `assistant/message.usage` as the committed-step fallback when no usage chunk exists; failed model-request attempts have no assistant message, so their usage chunk is the durable accounting record. An operational error's step number is on `turn/end.reason` for `kind: 'error'`, with normalized `LlmFailure` facts for a final model-request failure and message/code for other live errors. Because this unreleased format intentionally has no compatibility promise, seed/load validation rejects request headers without provider+model and assistant messages without provider/model provenance instead of guessing a route for historical data.