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Discover the session history
Resolve the session your human partner named using the tools and information available in this environment. Your knowledge can suggest where to look; verify the result against the actual history.
Use the harness's exposed session tools, configured storage, local help, documentation, or bounded filesystem inspection. Measure files before reading their content and follow context-safety.md. Inspect archives or indexes when the environment points to them. A supplied usable path does not need another search.
Confirm identity using the available session id, working directory, timestamps, and matching conversation content. Recency alone is not confirmation. Distinguish the requested session from its children and unrelated candidates. Ask for a missing identifying fact when the available evidence cannot distinguish them.
For each filesystem source, obtain its full absolute path from the environment, with home-directory shorthand and variables expanded. Use that same path in the case record and in the discovery answer you give your human partner.
Establish the record meanings needed for the requested investigation from observed records or documentation. Distinguish human messages from injected messages, tool results, and a parent agent's dispatch. Match tool calls to their results. Establish usage-counter semantics before calculating totals. Do not infer a format from another harness or turn a missing field into a zero.
Record the exact sources, relevant field meanings, supporting record locations, associated sessions, rejected plausible candidates, and unresolved information in the case file. Subsequent readers use that record rather than repeating discovery. If history is missing, inaccessible, or ambiguous, state the specific limitation and ask for the missing path, export, or identifying detail.