# ctx.sessions `SessionStore` — provided by `@deepseek-ai/dsh-session`. In-memory session store (`ctx.sessions`). Persistence is intentionally not implemented here — persistence plugins subscribe to `session/event` and flush on `session/flush` / dispose. [Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L577) ### ctx.sessions.create(id?, options?) ```ts website-api create(id?: SessionId, options?: CreateSessionOptions): Session ``` Create a session owned by the calling fiber: disposing that fiber stops event notification and removes the session from the store. `options.seed` populates the session with a copy of those events (replay/fork); `options.meta` attaches creation metadata (validated absolute `cwd`, `parentSession` lineage) as the immutable SessionHeader (the store fills `version`/`id`/`createdAt`). For an agent whose session must be torn down IN ORDER with its loop (so the loop's final flush is captured before the store attachment ends), do NOT use this — fold the session lifecycle into the agent's own effect via prepare + enter + announce (see `dsh-agent-loop`'s creation transaction). - `id` — the session id; omitted, the store mints `session-`. - `options` — seed events and/or creation metadata for the header. **Returns** the live session, already entered and announced. [Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L606) ### ctx.sessions.prepare(id?, options?) ```ts website-api prepare(id?: SessionId, options?: CreateSessionOptions): Session ``` Build a session WITHOUT entering it into the store — validate the id/cwd and construct the Session (with its immutable SessionHeader). Pairs with enter + announce: a caller that owns a composite `ctx.effect` (the agent factory) folds the session lifecycle into that ONE effect so a fiber unload tears the session + agent down as a single ORDERED chain rather than as racing sibling effects — which would remove the publication hooks before the loop's closing `session/flush`, dropping the closing events. - `id` — the session id; omitted, the store mints `session-`. - `options` — seed events and/or creation metadata for the header. **Returns** the constructed session, NOT yet in the store. [Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L635) ### ctx.sessions.enter(session) ```ts website-api enter(session: Session): () => void ``` Enter a prepared session into the store: install the module-private append publication hooks and add it to the store. Returns the DETACH disposer (hooks + store removal). Does NOT emit `session/created` — the caller yields this disposer inside its effect and THEN calls announce, so a throwing `session/created` listener rolls the attach back instead of leaking it. Re-checks the id for a duplicate: `prepare` and `enter` are public cross-package primitives and a caller may interleave arbitrary work (or another create) between them, so a stale prepared session must NOT overwrite a live store entry of the same id — its detach disposer would later delete the REAL session. The create convenience and the agent factory call the two back-to-back so they never trip this, but the public seam cannot assume that. - `session` — a `prepare`d session not yet in the store. **Returns** the detach disposer (publication hooks + store removal). When called from a synchronous `session/created` listener, removal and disposal wait until that creation dispatch unwinds. [Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L679) ### ctx.sessions.announce(session) ```ts website-api announce(session: Session): void ``` Emit `session/created` exactly once for an entered session (with the carrier enter captured). Separate from enter so the caller can yield the detach disposer first (rollback safety — see enter). - `session` — the entered session to announce to listeners. [Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L734) ### ctx.sessions.flush(session) ```ts website-api async flush(session: Session): Promise ``` Dispatch the awaited `session/flush` durability checkpoint for `session`, with the carrier captured at enter. THE flush entry point: the store owns the carrier, so callers (the loop's turn-end checkpoint, idle injection, teardown drains) must come through here rather than dispatch a raw `ctx.parallel('session/flush', …)` — one owner, one spelling, and the scoped-dispatch invariant can pin it. - `session` — the session whose buffered events must reach durable storage. **Returns** resolves when every flush listener has settled; after all settle, rejects with the first registered listener failure if any listener failed. [Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L786) ### ctx.sessions.get(id) ```ts website-api get(id: SessionId): Session | undefined ``` Look up a live session. - `id` — the session id to look up. **Returns** the session, or undefined when no live session has that id. [Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L818) ### ctx.sessions.list() ```ts website-api list(): Session[] ``` All live sessions, in creation order. **Returns** a fresh array; mutating it does not affect the store. [Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L826) ### ctx.sessions.fork(source, boundary?, childSessionId?) ```ts website-api fork(source: SessionForkSource, boundary?: number, childSessionId?: SessionId): Session ``` Create a live child session from a turn-enclosed prefix of a live source. `boundary` is an inclusive source event seq; omitted means the source's current last event. A non-empty selected slice must end at `turn/end`. - `source` — Live source session object or id. - `boundary` — Inclusive source event seq to fork through; omitted means the source's current last event, and omitted on an empty source forks an empty child. - `childSessionId` — Optional child session id; omitted delegates to `SessionStore`'s id policy. **Returns** The created live child session. [Source](https://github.com/deepseek-harness/deepseek-harness/blob/master/packages/core/session/src/index.ts#L843)