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Session-projection seam. It owns ctx.sessionProjections, the registry that drives every registered projection unit over committed session events and serves finished whole values to carriers, currently the api-proxy history tail page and session/projection push frame. A domain registers pure mathematics; the framework owns the drive. The session-projection RFC records the design rationale.

Service: SessionProjectionRegistry (ctx key: sessionProjections)

Public API

  • ctx.sessionProjections.register(definition): () => void Register one domain's unit. Duplicate keys and invalid stateVersion throw; the registration is an effect on the calling fiber, so an unloaded domain plugin's key (with its cached cells) disappears from subsequent drives and snapshots — clients read that as capability absence.
  • ctx.sessionProjections.onChanged(listener): () => void Subscribe to the change feed: one call per unit whose state reference changed, per committed event, carrying the schema-validated view and the causing seq. Effect-tied like register.
  • ctx.sessionProjections.snapshot(session): ProjectionSnapshot One consistent synchronous cut over every registered unit — { asOfSeq, values } with asOfSeq = the seq of the last event every value reflects (-1 for an empty log).

Key Types

  • SessionProjectionMap — the single merge-extensible type table for the whole chain (host unit, wire block, React hook). Values are wire-JSON whole values; rendering belongs to the slot system, never this layer.
  • ProjectionDefinition<K, S>{ key, schema, init(), apply(state, event), view(state), stateVersion }: a state-driven computation unit of three pure synchronous functions plus declarations, never an opaque getter.

Contract

  • The framework drives, the domain computes. The registry subscribes to session/event once; every committed event passes every unit's apply eagerly. Domains hold no subscriptions. Cells ({state, observedSeq} per unit per session, WeakMap-keyed) build lazily — a unit registered after events flowed, or a read of a session predating the registration, folds init over the in-memory log on first touch.
  • Same-reference means no work. apply MUST return the same state reference for events that do not concern the unit; the drive gates the change feed on Object.is, so non-matching events cost one call and nothing downstream.
  • Whole-value event rule (load-bearing). A state-carrying log event MUST carry the complete post-change state, never a bare delta — it keeps every transition trivially cheap and every served value self-describing (last-wins for consumers).
  • Synchronous unit discipline. init/apply/view MUST be synchronous; carriers read snapshot() in the same tick as their page slice, which is what makes asOfSeq one consistent cut. An accidentally-async view returns a Promise, which fails the boundary schema.parse loudly.
  • State is plain JSON, stateVersion is its invalidation anchor. The persisted projection cache stores (sessionId, key, ver, seq, val) rows; bump stateVersion whenever the state shape or the fold semantics change so stale rows are discarded instead of forward-applied into garbage.
  • No wire vocabulary here. The registry exposes only the change feed and the snapshot read face; carriers (api-proxy) mint their own frames (session/projection) and blocks from them.
  • Optional seam. Domain plugins register under ctx.inject(['sessionProjections'], …) so headless assemblies without the registry stay unaffected; carriers use ctx.get('sessionProjections') and omit their block/frames entirely when the registry is absent.

Role

This is the interface-plus-drive package of the capability-seam split: domain host plugins (e.g. dsh-tool-todo) contribute units, carriers (dsh-host-apiproxy) consume the snapshot and change feed, and neither knows the other.

Model Experience

None, as the registry only computes client-facing read models of already-logged session state and touches no prompt, message, schema, stream, or tool result.

KV Cache effect

None; projections never assemble or send provider requests.

Known Limitations and Deferred Work

  • Every tail page carries every registered key — there is no per-key opt-out or lazy-key request shape yet; acceptable while values are UI-scale whole states (a todo list, a goal snapshot), revisit if a domain's value grows large.
  • Eager drive touches every unit per event — cheap by construction (whole-value rule, same-reference gate), but a hot path would justify per-unit event-type prefilters, addable without contract change.
  • Registry cells live in memory only — a restart rebuilds by folding the log on first touch; compositions that mount dsh-session-projection-cache seed that fold from persisted rows instead.
  • Synchronous unit discipline is only partially mechanical — the boundary schema.parse rejects a Promise-returning view, but an apply that blocks or reads torn non-session state is a review concern; the invariant companion documents why no runtime check exists.