Reconcile the session-surface feature with master's package reorg and simplifications: - Adopt master's folded usage (assistant/message.usage; standalone `usage` event dropped) and re-attach surface metadata (surfaceOp/sourceEventSeqs). - Add surface opts to master's new max-tokens assistant/message append. - Port surface columns onto the coordinator-refactored SQLite backend at its new path; drop the dead v1->v2 migration (bump-and-reject, no migration per pre-release policy). - Move the session-surface RFC into implemented/architecture/ and refresh its stale body (no migration, SESSION_FORMAT_VERSION=0, renamed package paths). - Update the core-data-structures catalog SessionEvent blocks for the two new surface fields; regenerate the cordis catalog. - Re-harvest ACP snapshot fixtures (keyless replay) to carry surface metadata.
dsh-invariants
Dev-mode event-contract invariants and session-log freeze. A pure-listener plugin (everything is a plugin) that asserts the harness event contract at runtime and, optionally, freezes logged session-event data so any code that mutates history throws instead of corrupting silently.
Off in production. Enable it in tests and the demos, where a contract violation should fail loudly. It costs nothing when not registered, and doubles as executable documentation of the event taxonomy — the assertions are the contract.
Plugin
A functional plugin — register the module namespace (this is what loading by name in cordis.yml does):
import type { Context } from 'cordis'
import * as Invariants from '@deepseek-ai/dsh-invariants'
declare const ctx: Context
await ctx.plugin(Invariants) // freeze on (default)
await ctx.plugin(Invariants, { freeze: false }) // assert contract, don't freeze
inject: ['sessions'] — it reads ctx.sessions.list() at apply time to rebuild trace state for sessions that already exist (so a hot reload mid-turn doesn't falsely reject the next event). It listens on session/created, session/event, and agent/status.
Config
| Key | Default | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
freeze |
true |
Deep-freeze each logged event's data so mutating a logged event throws. Set false to assert the contract without freezing. |
Invariants asserted
Session log (per session):
seqstrictly increases — the spine of replay equivalence.- turns pair and nest —
turn/startopens a turn,turn/endcloses the matching one; no overlapping turns. - steps nest in turns —
step/startopens a step in the open turn;step/endcloses the matching step. - chunks belong to an open step —
step/startprecedes itsassistant/chunks. - a
tool/resultneeds a priortool/call— but NOT the converse: atool/callmay have no result (a throwntools/executewaterfall ends the step with notool/result, which is legal).
Agent status (per agent):
- legal transitions only —
idle↔runningand(idle|running)→disposed. A no-op transition (setStatusdedups, so it never fires) and leaving the terminaldisposedstate are violations.
On any violation it throws InvariantError (code: 'INVARIANT').
Why runtime, not deep-readonly types
A DeepReadonly<SessionEvent> is high type-noise across every log consumer, and a plugin can cast straight through it. A dev-mode freeze plus these assertions catch real corruption at zero production cost and zero type noise. The always-on half of that defense — cloning derived messages so request/adapter mutation can't reach back into the log — lives in dsh-session's deriveMessages. This package is the dev-mode tripwire. See dev-mode invariants.
Seeded sessions
A seeded/forked session arrives with events already in its log (the Session constructor copies the seed without emitting session/event). On session/created the plugin replays the existing log through the checker and freezes those entries, so seeded history is held to the same contract.