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description: "Pure adjacent Session format planning, lossless JSON snapshots, header-only migration, and physical codec dispatch."
kind: "package-library"
@deepseek-ai/dsh-session-format
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Summary
dsh-session-format lets persistence code restore a current Session directly or compose a unique sequence of adjacent whole-artifact migrations. It snapshots every durable input and output as detached lossless JSON, validates exact version progress, and keeps header-only listing separate from body reads. Physical framing, compression, immutable generation naming, exclusive publication, and Cordis lifecycle behavior remain outside this pure library.
Table of Contents
- Use this package
- Understand the implementation
- Further Exploration
- Model Experience
- Known Limitations and Deferred Work
- Dev Note
Use this package
When to use it
Use this library from persistence or format-catalog code that must classify a physical Session header, restore current logical values, or compose released adjacent migrations. It is not a Cordis plugin and has no profile mount row. No runtime invariant companion is published because every operation validates its borrowed artifact before returning and retains no cross-call mutable state.
Entry point
const catalog = createSessionFormatCatalog({ currentVersion, codecs, encodeCurrentArtifact, migrations, restoreCurrent, restoreCurrentHeader })
const descriptor = catalog.readHeader(physicalHeader)
createSessionFormatCatalog() accepts one frozen decoder per supported version, the current format's encoder, one migration per adjacent version pair, and current artifact and header restorers. inspectVersion() reads only the physical version for directional dispatch. readHeader() returns a current, migration-required, unsupported, or malformed descriptor without reading events. Each edge validates its target header before the final current-header restorer runs. Body readers call decodeArtifact() or decodeRecoverableArtifact(), then migrate(); writers call encodeCurrent() only with a validated current artifact. Frozen v0/v1 codec exports retain their format-specific packChunks option without adding that historical control to the current writer or common decoder interface.
The recoverable decoder returns the accepted logical prefix. A codec may drop one malformed or sequence-gapped row and its uncommitted suffix, but a later decoded turn/end makes the original issue fatal.
Understand the implementation
Implementation internals — click to expand
The chain validates unique gap-free ordering at construction. A current artifact bypasses every migration callback and passes through only the current restorer. An old artifact runs each adjacent whole-document function in memory; only the caller decides whether and how to publish the final result. | File | Role | |---|---| | [`src/chain.ts`](src/chain.ts) | Adjacent plan construction and current bypass | | [`src/catalog.ts`](src/catalog.ts) | Physical version dispatch and header classification | | [`src/json.ts`](src/json.ts) | Detached lossless JSON snapshots and common coordinate checks |Further Exploration
- Released v0 to v1 edge — frozen historical decoding and identity conversion.
- Static catalog — first-party codec and migration assembly.
- JSONL persistence — durable framing and generation publication.
Model Experience
Session restoration
What the model sees
Nothing directly. Consumers reconstruct model history from the validated current artifact through deriveMessages().
Token effect
Zero direct tokens.
KV Cache effect
No direct effect. A migration that changes current history can change the cache identity owned by request reconstruction.
Known Limitations and Deferred Work
- Whole-artifact memory use — supported migrations materialize the complete logical Session; streamed transformation is deferred until measured artifacts require it.
- Adjacent integer versions only — the library does not expose spans, stable event identities, or a general reference-rewrite algebra.