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deepseek-harness/packages/api/session-controller

Session Controller

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@deepseek-ai/dsh-api-session-controller owns the Host ctx.sessionController service and the generated Client ctx.remote.session namespace. It serves Session list, search, creation, model selection, rename, fork, prompt, attachment, queue, cancellation, message-aligned history, live log following, and Host-wide control state.

History pages carry records: ordinary records contain a raw SessionWireEvent, while consecutive same-block assistant/chunk deltas use the Session package's lossless packed-row encoding. SessionEventStream expands packed rows member-for-member before publishing a page to the Client Session object layer, so replay still observes every original event and sequence number. Follow frames remain raw individual events. Tool arguments, result content, failures, and tool/result.data.meta pass through unchanged; the controller does not resolve a Tool definition, run a presenter, or attach UI data.

Each endpoint states its activation policy. List, search, attachment, history pages, and log following can inspect persistence without activating an Agent; queue mutation and cancellation require the corresponding live state; model, rename, and prompt commands may explicitly resume an ordinary Session. Create and fork are the only operations that create a new Agent. The service applies one preset-aware resume policy and subagent ownership fence to its own methods and to the Typert Agent and Session lookups used by other Remote namespaces.

The Client adapter exposes SessionEventStream, a Gateway RemoteJournalStream bound to one ordinary or direct-subagent address. It opens follow before the initial page, publishes only contiguous replace, prepend, and append changes, and repairs reconnect or sequence gaps through a tail page. A business, persistence, or unresolved continuity failure terminates the stream, while only physical carrier loss selects automatic resumption. SessionControlStream is a Gateway RemoteSnapshotStream; every generation opens with a complete process-local baseline, so reconnect replaces queue, jobs, and projection state instead of treating transient values as durable events.

Model Experience

None, as invoked Agent commands own any model-visible effect.

KV Cache effect

No direct effect; model requests remain owned by the Agent and LLM packages.

Known Limitations and Deferred Work

  • Control baselines represent process-local state and therefore cannot reconstruct jobs after a Host restart.
  • A failed follow resumption remains visible to the caller instead of retrying indefinitely.