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.
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.