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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.
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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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds a v1 session-profile codec and disk verifier, an append controller with fork evidence handling, lifecycle and authority integration, and authority checks for subagent launches. Adds tests for these paths and documentation of the profile format and replay contract. ChangesSession profile persistence and authority
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant AgentTool
participant AuthorityBridge
participant LifecycleAdapter
participant DiskReader
participant Binding
AgentTool->>AuthorityBridge: requireSessionProfileAuthority
AuthorityBridge->>LifecycleAdapter: readCurrentSessionProfileOutcome
alt Lifecycle outcome is available
LifecycleAdapter-->>AuthorityBridge: current append outcome
else No lifecycle outcome
AuthorityBridge->>DiskReader: readSessionProfileDisk
DiskReader-->>AuthorityBridge: corroborated disk result
end
AuthorityBridge->>Binding: publish or clear session profile
AuthorityBridge-->>AgentTool: available authority or error
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Sessions without a profile are no longer blocked by unrelated session-file corruption. One behavior should be confirmed: a saved session that reads as having no profile clears any in-memory profile selection, so routing falls back to the pin or global setting. One test gap remains. The change is mergeable with that owner confirmation. Pre-merge checks |
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- Line 1563: Update the repeated authority checks around
requireSessionProfileAuthority so admission performs the full session-profile
read once, while later checks compare a cheap snapshot of session ID, file
identity or metadata, and branch tail ID. Re-read the profile only when that
snapshot changes, preserving the sessionBinding selected during admission.
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- Around line 34-37: Update publishSessionProfileOutcome and its call from
readSessionProfileAuthority to preserve an existing binding when an ownerless
read returns an absent outcome, while retaining current clearing behavior for
owned reads and other outcomes. Add a regression test covering an existing
binding with an absent saved-session result.
- Around line 73-87: Update readSessionProfileAuthority to handle a profile-less
branch before reading and validating the session file: when no current profile
outcome exists and noProfile(manager) is true, verify the session identity is
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| admittedModel = `${catalogModel.provider}/${catalogModel.id}`; | ||
| if (!current() || !await prepareBoundSessionRepository(originalManager, originalCwd, signal) || !current() || safeBootstrapDirectory(originalCwd) !== root || resolveSessionWorktree(originalCwd, originalCwd)?.root !== root) throw new Error("Writer repository preparation was unavailable or its session/target changed."); | ||
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Avoid four or more full synchronous session-file parses on each launch.
Each requireSessionProfileAuthority call runs readSessionProfileDisk. That function serializes the branch twice, runs readFileSync on the whole JSONL file, and calls JSON.parse on every line. One subagent_run calls it at line 2044 and again at lines 1546, 1563, 1607 and 1632. One subagent_continue makes the same number of calls through lines 2130 and 1546-1632. Large sessions are often several MB, so the event loop blocks repeatedly on the tool path.
The rechecks at lines 1563, 1607 and 1632 discard their result. Only availability matters, because routing uses sessionBinding from line 1546. Do the full read once at admission. For the rechecks, compare a cheap identity snapshot instead: session ID, file, file size or mtime, and the branch tail ID. Run the full read again only when that snapshot changes.
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Review comment at @extensions/gentle-agents.ts at line 1563:
Update the repeated authority checks around requireSessionProfileAuthority so
admission performs the full session-profile read once, while later checks
compare a cheap snapshot of session ID, file identity or metadata, and branch
tail ID. Re-read the profile only when that snapshot changes, preserving the
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Partly addressed in 28af302. The recheck before queueing ran back to back with the previous one, with no await between them, so I removed it. I kept the remaining rechecks: each one follows an await, where the session can change. Replacing them with an identity snapshot would be a separate optimization, and I'd rather not widen this slice for it.
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@noxsystems Thanks for the clarification. Removing the back-to-back check addresses the redundant read. Keeping authority checks across await boundaries is reasonable because the session can change.
The snapshot optimization can remain outside this slice. Would you like a follow-up issue for it?
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Repo: Gentleman-Programming/gentle-shell PR: 1991
File: extensions/gentle-agents.ts:1563-1563
Timestamp: 2026-10-09T17:39:37.099Z
Learning: In extensions/gentle-agents.ts, retain session-profile authority rechecks across await boundaries in buildRequest because the session can change during asynchronous work. Do not recommend removing these checks solely to reduce repeated disk reads; any optimization must preserve authority validation across those boundaries.
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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
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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
Require corroborated session profile authority before subagent_run, subagent_continue and every launch stage. Test session fakes now expose getSessionFile like real session managers. Refs Gentleman-Programming#1064
…n file Unrelated session-file damage no longer blocks launches on a branch with no profile record, and a binding left from another branch is dropped. Drop the back-to-back authority recheck before queueing. Refs Gentleman-Programming#1064
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| for (const fault of [ | ||
| "missing", | ||
| "corrupt", | ||
| "unreadable", | ||
| "mismatch", | ||
| "wrong-session", | ||
| ]) { | ||
| test(`successful append cannot adopt against established ${fault} disk`, () => { | ||
| const f = fixture(); | ||
| f.mode = "disk"; | ||
| f.controller.bind("old", {}); | ||
| f.mode = "normal"; | ||
| 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" }); | ||
| const result = f.controller.bind("new", {}); | ||
| assert.equal(result.status, "indeterminate"); | ||
| assert.equal(f.controller.refresh().status, "indeterminate"); | ||
| }); | ||
| } | ||
| for (const fault of [ | ||
| "missing", | ||
| "corrupt", | ||
| "unreadable", | ||
| "mismatch", | ||
| "wrong-session", | ||
| ]) { | ||
| test(`uncorroborated append stays untrusted after ${fault} disk recovers`, () => { | ||
| const f = fixture(); | ||
| f.mode = "disk"; | ||
| f.controller.bind("old", {}); | ||
| f.mode = "normal"; | ||
| 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" }); | ||
| assert.equal(f.controller.bind("new", {}).status, "indeterminate"); | ||
| f.save(); | ||
| const later = f.controller.refresh(); | ||
| assert.equal(later.status, "indeterminate", "a reported failure is never adopted later"); | ||
| assert.equal(later.state.status, "indeterminate"); | ||
| f.mode = "disk"; | ||
| bound(f.controller.bind("again", {}), "again"); | ||
| }); | ||
| } |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win
Inject a real fault for the mismatch cases.
Both parameterized loops list "mismatch", but neither loop body handles that value. For fault === "mismatch", f.text keeps the valid disk content. Each mismatch case therefore repeats the normal path: an unsaved append makes the reader return selected-record-missing. The test titles claim coverage for an established mismatched disk record, but these cases do not test that.
Write a disk record whose ID matches the selected record but whose content differs. Alternatively, remove "mismatch" from both lists.
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if (fault === "wrong-session")
f.text = JSON.stringify({ type: "session", id: "wrong" });
+ if (fault === "mismatch") {
+ const lines = f.text!.split("\n");
+ const row = JSON.parse(lines.at(-1)!);
+ row.data.name = "mismatched";
+ lines[lines.length - 1] = JSON.stringify(row);
+ f.text = lines.join("\n");
+ }Apply the same block in both loops (Lines 191-195 and Lines 213-217).
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| for (const fault of [ | |
| "missing", | |
| "corrupt", | |
| "unreadable", | |
| "mismatch", | |
| "wrong-session", | |
| ]) { | |
| test(`successful append cannot adopt against established ${fault} disk`, () => { | |
| const f = fixture(); | |
| f.mode = "disk"; | |
| f.controller.bind("old", {}); | |
| f.mode = "normal"; | |
| 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" }); | |
| const result = f.controller.bind("new", {}); | |
| assert.equal(result.status, "indeterminate"); | |
| assert.equal(f.controller.refresh().status, "indeterminate"); | |
| }); | |
| } | |
| for (const fault of [ | |
| "missing", | |
| "corrupt", | |
| "unreadable", | |
| "mismatch", | |
| "wrong-session", | |
| ]) { | |
| test(`uncorroborated append stays untrusted after ${fault} disk recovers`, () => { | |
| const f = fixture(); | |
| f.mode = "disk"; | |
| f.controller.bind("old", {}); | |
| f.mode = "normal"; | |
| 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" }); | |
| assert.equal(f.controller.bind("new", {}).status, "indeterminate"); | |
| f.save(); | |
| const later = f.controller.refresh(); | |
| assert.equal(later.status, "indeterminate", "a reported failure is never adopted later"); | |
| assert.equal(later.state.status, "indeterminate"); | |
| f.mode = "disk"; | |
| bound(f.controller.bind("again", {}), "again"); | |
| }); | |
| } | |
| for (const fault of [ | |
| "missing", | |
| "corrupt", | |
| "unreadable", | |
| "mismatch", | |
| "wrong-session", | |
| ]) { | |
| test(`successful append cannot adopt against established ${fault} disk`, () => { | |
| const f = fixture(); | |
| f.mode = "disk"; | |
| f.controller.bind("old", {}); | |
| f.mode = "normal"; | |
| 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" }); | |
| if (fault === "mismatch") { | |
| const lines = f.text!.split("\n"); | |
| const row = JSON.parse(lines.at(-1)!); | |
| row.data.name = "mismatched"; | |
| lines[lines.length - 1] = JSON.stringify(row); | |
| f.text = lines.join("\n"); | |
| } | |
| const result = f.controller.bind("new", {}); | |
| assert.equal(result.status, "indeterminate"); | |
| assert.equal(f.controller.refresh().status, "indeterminate"); | |
| }); | |
| } | |
| for (const fault of [ | |
| "missing", | |
| "corrupt", | |
| "unreadable", | |
| "mismatch", | |
| "wrong-session", | |
| ]) { | |
| test(`uncorroborated append stays untrusted after ${fault} disk recovers`, () => { | |
| const f = fixture(); | |
| f.mode = "disk"; | |
| f.controller.bind("old", {}); | |
| f.mode = "normal"; | |
| 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" }); | |
| if (fault === "mismatch") { | |
| const lines = f.text!.split("\n"); | |
| const row = JSON.parse(lines.at(-1)!); | |
| row.data.name = "mismatched"; | |
| lines[lines.length - 1] = JSON.stringify(row); | |
| f.text = lines.join("\n"); | |
| } | |
| assert.equal(f.controller.bind("new", {}).status, "indeterminate"); | |
| f.save(); | |
| const later = f.controller.refresh(); | |
| assert.equal(later.status, "indeterminate", "a reported failure is never adopted later"); | |
| assert.equal(later.state.status, "indeterminate"); | |
| f.mode = "disk"; | |
| bound(f.controller.bind("again", {}), "again"); | |
| }); | |
| } |
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In both parameterized loops, the “mismatch” cases leave the valid disk content
unchanged. Update the fault setup in the tests around `successful append cannot
adopt` and `uncorroborated append stays untrusted` to write a disk record with
the selected record’s ID but different content, or remove “mismatch” from both
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Part of #1064, slice 3b-i, PR 5b (authority publication and launch gating). Builds on the lifecycle integration from #1990.
readSessionProfileAuthority: load-order independent read. Without an owner, disk is read-only authority; with one, each request revalidates its negative evidence. An ordinary empty/preflush branch with no profile record keeps legacy routing.publishSessionProfileOutcome: publishes only the returned detached snapshot. Terminal invalid/future records never expose a fallback.requireSessionProfileAuthority:subagent_run,subagent_continueand each launch stage (authorization, writer preparation, routing resolution, queueing) fail closed with "Session profile authority unavailable; affected launches are blocked…" when authority is unavailable.gentle-agentssession-manager fakes now exposegetSessionFile, as real session managers do. Without it the disk reader reportsunserializable-sourceand the guard correctly blocks. The guard was not loosened.Issue
Part of #1064
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ec0757b13lib/session-profile-authority.ts(new),extensions/gentle-agents.ts(6 guard calls + import),tests/session-profile-authority.test.ts(new),tests/gentle-agents.test.ts(fakes gaingetSessionFile).49862aedeTest plan
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94f4a1321), commit49862aede:tests/session-profile-authority.test.ts: RED (6 fail) before the module, GREEN after.tests/session-profile-*.test.ts+tests/gentle-agents*.test.ts: 444 pass, 0 fail.node scripts/check-types.mjs: 186 recorded diagnostics, no regressions.Chain Context
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