A max-tokens response that included a tool call persisted assembler-transformed
content next to replay metadata projected from the untransformed native message,
so the next request died in history reconstruction with INVALID_REPLAY_STATE and
the session stayed permanently stuck.
Write side: the finish chunk's replayState becomes a typed ReplayEnvelope —
opaque response-level metadata plus optional per-block entries aligned with the
emitted block sequence. BlockAssembler computes one keep/drop decision for
blocks and entries together, so stored metadata always describes stored content
and retained blocks keep their signatures. pi-ai splits its state into a
version-2 response half and per-block signature entries.
Read side: durable content is authoritative. toPiAssistant degrades any
unusable state — foreign kind, other versions (including the flat v1 form
already on disk), malformed metadata, or content/block mismatches — to the
existing provider-neutral conversion with an onReplayDegrade diagnostic instead
of failing the request, which un-bricks sessions poisoned before this change.
Covered by assembler and replay unit tests, an agent-loop continuation
regression, keyless real-composition continuation tests (native pruned-envelope
replay and legacy flat-state degrade), and the authored keyless snapshot
scenario max-tokens-continue through the assembled ACP app.
Yichen Jiang
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