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deepseek-harness/packages/support/invariants
Tianyi Cui 2be60b9a22 simplify(session): fold trace-only usage/error events into load-bearing events
The session event vocabulary carried two standalone trace-only events that
were not load-bearing as separate records. Fold their facts into nearby
load-bearing events and delete the standalone variants.

- Token usage now rides on `assistant/message` as an optional `usage` field —
  the assembled model output and its accounting travel together. The loop folds
  `assembler.usage` onto the append instead of emitting a separate `usage`
  event.
- The max-tokens path is the no-data-loss host: a step cut off with usage but
  EMPTY content (e.g. only a dropped tool call) previously emitted a standalone
  `usage`; it now records an empty-content `assistant/message { content: [],
  usage }`. `deriveMessages()` skips empty-content assistant messages, so the
  usage host never injects a spurious content-less assistant turn into the
  provider transcript. A step with neither content nor usage appends nothing.
- An operational error's step number now rides on `turn/end.reason` for
  `kind: 'error'` (`{ kind: 'error', step, message, code? }`) — the durable
  turn outcome ACP and resume already consume. `failTurn` sets the reason
  directly (no separate session `error` event). `agent/error` + logging are
  unchanged for live diagnostics.
- No format-version bump: pre-release, no persisted data, so per the format
  policy there is nothing to migrate or reject (the RFC's "refresh the format
  version" criterion over-reached). `version` stays 1.
- ACP fixtures + goldens re-recorded (keyless replay): dropped standalone
  usage/error lines, usage folded onto assistant/message, error step on
  turn/end.reason.

RFC moved proposed -> implemented with an implementation note recording the two
scope refinements.
2026-06-21 10:00:06 +08:00
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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):

  • seq strictly increases — the spine of replay equivalence.
  • turns pair and nestturn/start opens a turn, turn/end closes the matching one; no overlapping turns.
  • steps nest in turnsstep/start opens a step in the open turn; step/end closes the matching step.
  • chunks belong to an open stepstep/start precedes its assistant/chunks.
  • a tool/result needs a prior tool/call — but NOT the converse: a tool/call may have no result (a thrown tools/execute waterfall ends the step with no tool/result, which is legal).

Agent status (per agent):

  • legal transitions onlyidle↔running and (idle|running)→disposed. A no-op transition (setStatus dedups, so it never fires) and leaving the terminal disposed state 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.