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RFC: Fold the persistence interface into dsh-session

Status: rejected — the separate persistence interface package is the intended modular capability seam for durable backends. Folding it into dsh-session would reduce package count at the cost of a cleaner backend boundary.

Problem

dsh-session-persistence is an interface package whose main concepts are already owned by dsh-session: SessionHeader, SessionEvent, SessionId, session/event, and session/flush. The package adds the abstract SessionPersistence service, the shared write coordinator, and contract helpers. Backend packages depend on it, and agent-loop has to optionally find a sibling service for resume.

The capability-seam split made sense when persistence was a new swappable backend design. After the mutable summary was removed, the interface package mostly wraps the session log's own storage concern. Keeping it separate may be more ceremony than clarity.

Proposal

Move the abstract SessionPersistence service, the coordinator, and persistence contract helpers into dsh-session. Keep JSONL and SQLite as separate backend packages that register the session-owned service. This preserves backend swappability while deleting one support package and one cross-package seam.

The implementing PR should update the capability seams guidance with the exception: persistence is not like bash or LLM because its vocabulary and lifecycle events are already the session package's core domain.

Acceptance criteria

  • @deepseek-ai/dsh-session-persistence is removed as a package.
  • dsh-session exports the persistence service type, coordinator, and contract helpers.
  • JSONL and SQLite backend packages depend on dsh-session directly.
  • agent-loop resume uses the session-owned service key.
  • Session persistence, shared persistence write coordinator, and package docs explain why backend implementations remain separate.

What we give up

dsh-session becomes heavier: it owns both the in-memory log and the persistence interface. That is the trade. If third-party persistence backends were already a public ecosystem, the separate interface package would be a cleaner SDK boundary; pre-release, the extra package looks like abstraction before there is an external consumer.