After turn/start was appended, nothing guaranteed a matching turn/end: a throw
from a boundary emit (agent/turn-start, agent/step-start, the normal-path
agent/turn-end) escaped runTurn, and the outer runLoop backstop logged an
error but never appended turn/end — leaving an unbalanced turn that replay,
telemetry, and the invariants plugin all assume is impossible.
runTurn is restructured around idempotent finalizers that satisfy the four
traps a naive finally would hit:
- closeStep()/closeTurn(emit) are guarded (stepOpen/turnEnded) so they run at
most once; the agent/step-end and agent/error emits are contained so a
throwing listener can't strand the turn open.
- failTurn() records the single error event + reason and emits agent/error
exactly once (errorReported guard) — no double-logging when the outer catch
also runs (e.g. a step error followed by a throwing turn-end listener).
- the catch closes an open step BEFORE turn/end (invariants reject turn/end
while a step is open), and rethrows ONLY pre-turn throws (turnStarted false),
where no turn/end is owed, so the backstop still nets them.
- disposal precedence: reason stays disposed only when disposed AND no error
was reported; otherwise the error reason wins.
Tests (with the invariants plugin loaded as a balance oracle): throwing
turn-start (one error, one turn/end, no step), throwing step-start (step/end
before turn/end), throwing agent/error on a step-error path (balanced, loop
survives), disposal mid-turn (reason disposed, no error event), a pre-turn
turn/start-append throw (rethrown to the backstop, no turn/end owed), and a
step error + throwing turn-end listener (error logged exactly once). Verified
all six fail against a simulated finalizer bypass. dsh-invariants added as an
agent-loop devDependency (test-only oracle; no package cycle).
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