feat(profiles): add session profile controller lifecycle seams by noxsystems · Pull Request #1984 · Gentleman-Programming/gentle-shell

noxsystems · 2026-10-09T13:49:45Z

Review size (size:exception, agreed with @barbatdev): this slice changes 358 code lines (345 added / 13 removed, all in the controller) plus 617 test lines. The tests are what make this slice reviewable on its own. GitHub's Files tab shows the cumulative diff with #1918/#1919/#1922/#1948 until they merge; review only commit cf0457661.

Why it is not split further: captureForkEvidence, detach and attach share one invariant: failed-append quarantine and copied-path uncertainty must survive reload and fork. Shipping one seam without the others would leave a window where a fork or reattach drops quarantine and adopts a failed "ghost" entry. The tests stay with the code because they pin that invariant.

Summary

Part of #1064, slice 3b-i, PR 4b (lifecycle seams). Builds on the append controller from #1948.

captureForkEvidence: captures quarantine and copied-path uncertainty so a forked session starts with the same evidence, without restoring unwritten activation.
detach / attach: let the controller survive reload. Quarantine and uncertainty carry over; callbacks are never transferred to the new session.
Reuses the shared isSessionProfileFamilyEntry and hasSessionProfileCandidateMetadata predicates from feat(profiles): add session profile append controller with failure quarantine #1948 instead of duplicating them.
Out of scope: authority publication, Enter persistence wiring, UI/status/launch, fsync durability, history repair.

Issue

Part of #1064

PR type

New feature (type:feature)

Changes

Commit	Change
`cf0457661`	`lib/session-profile-append-controller.ts`, `tests/session-profile-append-controller-fork.test.ts` (new), `tests/session-profile-append-controller-pi.test.ts`, `tests/session-profile-append-controller.test.ts`.

Test plan

Verified on top of #1948 (b6d3e8a9b), commit cf0457661:

tests/session-profile-append-controller*.test.ts: 91 pass, 0 fail, 0 skipped.
tests/session-profile-*.test.ts: 168 pass, 0 fail, 0 skipped.
node scripts/check-types.mjs: 186 recorded diagnostics, no regressions.
Native review (RDD): not run on this slice.

Chain Context

Field	Value
Chain	#1064 slice 3b-i: session profile persistence
Tracker PR	Not needed
Position	4b
Base	`main` (fork PRs cannot stack bases; rebased as #1918/#1919/#1922/#1948 land)
Depends on	#1948
Follow-up	Authority publication and Enter persistence wiring
Review budget	975 changed lines (`size:exception`), of which 617 are tests.

main
 └─ #1918 decoder: record format, readSessionProfileEntry
   └─ #1919 encoder + replaySessionProfileBranch
     └─ #1922 readSessionProfileDisk: on-disk corroboration
       └─ #1948 append controller + failure quarantine
         └─ PR 4b lifecycle seams                                 📍 this PR

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New Features
- Session profiles can now be bound or cleared within a session, with status reflecting whether changes have been saved.
- Saved profiles follow the active session branch, including when a session is forked.
- Profile recovery checks session history against saved data; uncertain or invalid records won’t silently restore an older profile.
Documentation
- Added guidance on session-profile formats, replay behavior, and disk verification.

Part of Gentleman-Programming#1064 (slice 3b-i, codec). Standalone decoder for the gentle-pi.session-profile/v1 custom entry: closed origin set, own-property checks, one invalid route invalidates the whole snapshot, unknown fields ignored, prototype keys kept as own data. No Pi API, disk access, Enter, startup or routing changes. Chain: main -> [this] decoder -> encoder + active-branch replay (next). Out of scope: encoder, replay, disk-reader corroboration, Enter wiring.

…dicate Export isSafeAgentName from model-routing-authority and use it in the session profile decoder instead of probing normalizeModelConfig. Assert constructor and prototype keys stay own data in the hostile-keys test. Addresses the two CodeRabbit comments on Gentleman-Programming#1918.

Part of Gentleman-Programming#1064 (slice 3b-i, codec). Adds createSessionProfileBind and createSessionProfileClear (explicit user selections only, typed undefined model/thinking omitted, effort stays strict) and replaySessionProfileBranch: the newest profile-family entry on a caller-supplied, already disk-corroborated active branch is terminal, including invalid and unsupported, and never revives an older binding. Still no disk access, Pi API, Enter or routing changes. Chain: main -> decoder (previous) -> [this] encoder + replay. Depends on: feat/1064-3b-i-1-codec-decoder. Out of scope: disk-reader corroboration, Enter wiring, guards.

Part of Gentleman-Programming#1064 (slice 3b-i, disk reader). readSessionProfileDisk reads the session's public active branch and JSONL file, selects the newest profile-family entry (excluding known failed append IDs) and admits it only when the record on disk is byte-identical; otherwise it returns one indeterminate reason without record contents. No writes, fallback, cache, ancestry repair or fsync; a missing file never restores a memory-only profile. Verified against a real SessionManager session file. Chain: main -> decoder (Gentleman-Programming#1918) -> encoder + replay (Gentleman-Programming#1919) -> [this]. Depends on: Gentleman-Programming#1919. Out of scope: append controller, authority publication, Enter wiring.

…arantine Refs Gentleman-Programming#1064

Address CodeRabbit review on Gentleman-Programming#1948: the controller, disk reader and persistence codec each kept their own copy of the session-profile family prefix check, and the controller re-implemented the reader's own-key candidate metadata check. Export isSessionProfileFamilyEntry from the codec and hasSessionProfileCandidateMetadata from the reader, and use them everywhere.

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The change adds session-profile v1 bind and clear payloads, branch replay, and a read-only disk corroboration reader. It adds a controller for append outcomes and fork handoffs, with tests for persistence, recovery, branch selection, and attachment behavior.

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Session profile persistence

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Profile payloads and replay `lib/session-profile-persistence.ts`, `lib/model-routing-authority.ts`, `docs/session-profile-format.md`, `tests/session-profile-persistence.test.ts`	Adds v1 bind and clear payload creation and validation, model-routing snapshot normalization, and replay that selects the newest profile-family entry. The documentation describes payload, replay, and disk-reader contracts.
Disk-backed profile reads `lib/session-profile-disk-reader.ts`, `tests/session-profile-disk-reader.test.ts`, `tests/session-profile-disk-reader-pi.test.ts`	Adds a read-only reader that selects an eligible active-branch entry and verifies it against JSONL data. Tests cover result statuses, malformed or mismatched data, branch selection, and session-manager behavior.
Append authority and attachment lifecycle `lib/session-profile-append-controller.ts`, `tests/session-profile-append-controller.test.ts`, `tests/session-profile-append-controller-pi.test.ts`	Adds bind and clear append outcome tracking based on branch stability and disk evidence. Tests cover preflush state, append failures, recovery, quarantine, and detach/attach behavior.
Fork evidence and handoff `lib/session-profile-append-controller.ts`, `tests/session-profile-append-controller-fork.test.ts`	Adds fork-path evidence capture, one-time handoffs, and destination validation during attachment. Tests cover fork boundaries, copied-record changes, and rejected handoffs.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SessionProfileAppendController
  participant SessionManager
  participant readSessionProfileDisk
  participant SessionJSONL
  SessionProfileAppendController->>SessionManager: invoke append callback
  SessionManager->>SessionProfileAppendController: expose updated branch
  SessionProfileAppendController->>readSessionProfileDisk: verify selected profile record
  readSessionProfileDisk->>SessionJSONL: read session file
  SessionJSONL->>readSessionProfileDisk: return JSONL records
  readSessionProfileDisk->>SessionProfileAppendController: return corroboration result

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to cf045

The new session-profile controller looks mergeable. One test claims to cover a mismatched on-disk record but never creates that condition. Add that setup so the case is actually checked.

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An append reported as append-not-corroborated was adopted as persisted once the disk recovered, silently changing routing after Enter reported failure. The controller now marks the scope uncertain so only a fresh explicit, corroborated bind or clear recovers. Refs Gentleman-Programming#1064

Refs Gentleman-Programming#1064

Adds captureForkEvidence, detach and attach so failed-append quarantine and copied-path uncertainty survive reload and fork without restoring unwritten activation or transferring callbacks. Refs Gentleman-Programming#1064

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Review comments at @tests/session-profile-append-controller.test.ts:
- Around line 191-195: Add a `"mismatch"` setup branch in both fault loops near
the existing missing, corrupt, and wrong-session branches, altering the on-disk
old record so it retains its ID but has different content. This should make the
reader detect `selected-record-mismatch` before append; preserve the second
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coderabbitai · 2026-10-09T19:07:36Z

+  if (fault === "missing") f.text = undefined;
+  if (fault === "corrupt") f.text = "{";
+  if (fault === "unreadable") f.text = "unreadable";
+  if (fault === "wrong-session")
+   f.text = JSON.stringify({ type: "session", id: "wrong" });


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Add setup for the "mismatch" fault case.

Both fault loops list "mismatch". Neither loop has a branch that sets up that fault. In the "mismatch" case, the disk text stays the valid file that the earlier bind("old") wrote. The test then only covers selected-record-missing for the new unwritten record. The "missing" case covers a missing file. No case puts a disk record with the same ID but different content in front of the controller.

The test name says the established mismatched-disk case has coverage. It does not. Corrupt the old record on disk so the reader returns selected-record-mismatch before the append. In the second loop, the later f.save() repairs the corrupted record, so the recovery assertions still apply.

🧪 Proposed setup for the mismatch fault (apply in both loops)

if (fault === "unreadable") f.text = "unreadable"; + if (fault === "mismatch") + f.text = f.text!.replace('"name":"old"', '"name":"tampered"'); if (fault === "wrong-session") f.text = JSON.stringify({ type: "session", id: "wrong" });

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AMG-Repo and others added 6 commits October 7, 2026 22:22

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…arantine Refs Gentleman-Programming#1064

barbatdev added type:feature New feature size:exception labels Oct 9, 2026

This was referenced Oct 9, 2026

feat(profiles): support session-bound active profiles without global routing mutation #1064

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feat(profiles): add session profile lifecycle integration adapter #1990

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feat(profiles): persist Enter session profile selection and wire lifecycle #1992

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noxsystems force-pushed the feat/1064-3b-i-5-lifecycle-seams branch from b2d8e54 to 5955baf Compare October 9, 2026 17:48

noxsystems added 2 commits October 9, 2026 12:59

test(profiles): cover a throwing post-append stability recheck

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Refs Gentleman-Programming#1064

feat(profiles): add session profile controller lifecycle seams

cf04576

Adds captureForkEvidence, detach and attach so failed-append quarantine and copied-path uncertainty survive reload and fork without restoring unwritten activation or transferring callbacks. Refs Gentleman-Programming#1064

noxsystems force-pushed the feat/1064-3b-i-5-lifecycle-seams branch from 5955baf to cf04576 Compare October 9, 2026 19:04

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