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RFC: Event-sourced sessions with derived message history

Status: implemented

Problem

The MVP requires strict event-based tracing with fully replayable sessions (严格的基于事件的trace、logging系统,session完全可回放).

Decision

A Session is an append-only log of typed SessionEvents — the single source of truth. The LLM message history is derived from the log (deriveMessages()); raw stream chunks are logged for token-level replay fidelity while the assembled assistant/message event is authoritative for derivation. Replay/fork = seed a new session with an existing log.

Appends are synchronous (the hot path never blocks on I/O); session/event is a sync notification; persistence plugins buffer write-behind and drain at the awaited session/flush checkpoint fired at every turn end.

Ordering contract: the loop appends to the session before emitting the corresponding Cordis event, and the agent/step-result waterfall runs before the assistant/message append so the log records what tool dispatch actually used (post-review fix; regression-tested).

Alternatives considered

A mutable message array with events fired as notifications — simpler, but state and log can diverge; with event-sourcing the log IS the state, so divergence is structurally impossible.

Consequences

  • Replay, trace, and telemetry are structurally guaranteed, not bolted on.
  • Persistence stays a plugin concern; the in-memory store ships in dsh-session.
  • The event vocabulary is merge-extensible (plugins add e.g. compaction events); session persistence froze its shape once the log became durable.
  • Derivation cost grows with log length — compaction (future plugin) is the intended mitigation, not log mutation.