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Summary

  • sessionStorage now subscribes to the existing onSessionSwitch signal and resets the cached session-file pointer when the active session actually changes.
  • Project.sessionFile is resolved once and cached for the life of the process. Every CLI path that changes the active session resets it by hand straight afterwards — sessionRestore.ts, /clear and print.ts all call resetSessionFilePointer right after switchSession, and its docstring says that is when to call it. The v2 SDK cannot: unstable_v2_createSession hands back a session object and the switch happens inside sendMessage, leaving an embedder no moment to hook. A second session created in one process therefore went on writing into the first session's file.

Impact

  • user-facing impact: data loss for v2 SDK embedders that create more than one session per process. Records carried their own sessionId, so nothing looked wrong until something tried to resume the newer session: resolveSessionFilePath found no file for it, the resume came back with zero prior messages, and the conversation was gone. Measured in an embedder: one project directory, one .jsonl, and inside it three sessions' records — 3979, 917 and 348 — while two of the three had no file of their own. An interrupt resumed the newest and silently started from nothing.
  • developer/maintainer impact: the listener is registered once, from getProject(), and uses the already-exported onSessionSwitch hook, so no new plumbing. It resets only on a real change, because v2 calls switchSession before every turn with the id it already has and resetting each time would drop buffered entries and re-resolve the same path for nothing. resetProjectForTesting re-reads the session the pointer belongs to, since the listener outlives the singleton it resets and cannot be unsubscribed from there. The CLI paths that already call resetSessionFilePointer keep working — the extra reset is a no-op once the pointer has moved.

Testing

  • I ran the required local preflight, with one documented exception below.

  • exact commands and results:

    • bun install --frozen-lockfile — ok
    • bun run lint:any-budget — ok (current=778, baseline=779)
    • bun run smoke — ok (CLI + SDK bundles, reports 0.31.0)
    • bun run deadcode — ok (knip: configuration hints only)
    • bun run typecheck — ok
    • bun run typecheck:type-tests — ok
    • node bin/openclaude --version — ok
    • NODE_DISABLE_COMPILE_CACHE=1 node bin/openclaude --version — ok
    • bun run test:provider — 1702 pass / 1 fail, identical to clean main 88a2286b down to the counts. The failure is pre-existing: Claude stream watchdog > falls back when the top-level stream iterator never settles.
    • npm run test:provider-recommendation — ok
    • git fetch https://github.com/Twigpine/openclaude.git main then bun run security:pr-scan -- --base FETCH_HEAD --head HEAD — ok
  • focused tests: bun test ./src/utils/sessionStorage.sessionSwitch.test.ts — 2 pass, 0 fail. The first test asserts a second session in one process writes to its own transcript; the second asserts that switching to the id already in use keeps the file it has. Negative control: with sessionStorage.ts reverted to main, the first test fails with the second session's transcript holding zero records, and the second still passes.

  • documented skipped checks, platform limitations, or verified pre-existing failures:

    bun run check could not be run to completion, and the cause is in main, not in this PR. Its test:full step stops making progress and spins a single core indefinitely. Two runs on a clean checkout of main at 88a2286b with no modifications were left for 4h30m and 2h53m (16512s and 14864s of CPU) and never finished. bun test --feature=UNATTENDED_RETRY --timeout 15000 over the whole suite also never finished and recorded zero timed-out tests, which is consistent with a synchronous spin reached only after state accumulates across test files rather than one slow test. Every segment of the suite passes on its own, and all segments together take about nine minutes, so the stalled runs consumed roughly 27x the suite's entire work without completing. I did not isolate the file: the stall occurs where bun test writes only to stdout, which is block-buffered when redirected, so the last visible output is unrelated to where execution stopped. Happy to open this as a separate issue with the measurements.

    The steps inside check that do finish — lint:any-budget, smoke, deadcode — were run individually and pass (above). The unit suite was covered by running it in segments and comparing failure sets against the base:

    tree unique failing tests
    clean main 88a2286b 104
    this branch 105

    The one extra entry is not caused by this change: GitHub 429 stops when every pooled credential is cooling down, in src/services/api/openaiShim/requestExecutor.test.ts, which this PR does not touch. It is flaky — running the src/services segment three times on clean main with no changes, it passed twice and failed on the third run; in isolation it passes 3/3. Every other failing test is identical to the base set.

    For context on the 104: they are dominated by environment-dependent tests rather than real breakage — CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR overrides, expandTilde on win32, fastMode gates, Anthropic attribution, and the four scripts/openclaude-bin-compile-cache.test.ts launcher failures. All of them reproduce on the clean base above. Unrelated, but worth flagging: some tests write into the real user config directory (~/.openclaude/backups/) instead of a temporary one.

Notes

  • provider/model path tested: none — this is provider-independent session storage. The tests drive switchSession and recordTranscript directly, with no network and no provider key.

  • screenshots attached (if UI changed): n/a, no UI change.

  • follow-up work or known limitations: this fixes where records are written. It does not change resolveSessionFilePath's behaviour for transcripts already interleaved by the old code; such a file keeps every session's records, and only the session whose id the file is named for resolves to it.

    It also does not make OVERLAPPING turns safe, raised in review and confirmed: one process-wide Project caches sessionFile while session ids are context-scoped, so a turn still in flight in another context can append through a pointer the newer session resolved. Before this change the pointer never moved at all, which is the bug fixed here and loses a whole transcript; after it, the remaining exposure is interleaving between concurrent v2 sessions. Making Project's transcript state context-scoped is the real fix and belongs in its own PR with its own concurrency tests.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Transcript records now remain associated with the correct session when switching between sessions, preventing entries from appearing in another session’s transcript.
    • Switching back to the same session preserves its existing transcript, so previously recorded entries remain available.
    • New transcript entries are saved to the active session’s transcript after a session switch, keeping records separated across sessions.

Project.sessionFile is resolved once and cached for the life of the
process. Every CLI path that changes the active session resets it by
hand straight afterwards - sessionRestore.ts, /clear and print.ts all
call resetSessionFilePointer right after switchSession, and its own
docstring says that is when to call it.

The v2 SDK cannot: unstable_v2_createSession hands back a session object
and the switch happens inside sendMessage, leaving the embedder no moment
to hook. So a second session created in one process went on writing into
the FIRST session's file. Its records carried their own sessionId, so
nothing looked wrong until something tried to resume it -
resolveSessionFilePath found no file, the resume came back with zero
prior messages, and the conversation was gone.

Measured in an embedder: one project directory, one .jsonl, and inside it
three sessions' records - 3979, 917 and 348 - while two of the three had
no file of their own. An interrupt resumed the newest and silently
started from nothing.

Subscribing to the existing onSessionSwitch signal resets the pointer
only on a real change, because v2 calls switchSession before every turn
with the id it already has and resetting each time would drop buffered
entries and re-resolve the same path for nothing.

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806-817: Non-blocking: the concurrency limitation is already known and tracked.

The listener resets the process-wide Project.sessionFile when the session ID changes. Overlapping SDK turns in different contexts can still write to another session's file. The PR description states this limitation and defers the fix to follow-up work. The earlier review comment on this topic is therefore a duplicate.

The subscription lifecycle is correct. followSessionSwitches is idempotent through unsubscribeSessionSwitch. resetProjectForTesting unsubscribes and clears pointerSessionId, so the next getProject() registers a fresh listener. Calling a stale unsubscribe after sessionSwitched.clear() is harmless.


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Session storage resets its cached transcript-file pointer when the session ID changes. Tests check transcript isolation across different session IDs, record retention after switching to the same ID, and behavior after test-state listeners are reset.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Session switch handling
src/utils/sessionStorage.ts
A listener registered when the Project singleton is created resets its cached file pointer when the session ID changes. Test reset cleanup removes the listener and clears its remembered session ID.
Transcript behavior tests
src/utils/sessionStorage.sessionSwitch.test.ts
Tests check transcript contents after different-ID and same-ID switches, including after test-state listeners are reset. Setup and cleanup isolate persistence and process state.

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Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: chioarub, jatmn, euxaristia

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Sequential session switches are covered, but overlapping SDK turns can still place records in the wrong transcript. Resolve or explicitly accept that data-integrity risk before merging.

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  • observed — Modified behavior in src/utils/sessionStorage.sessionSwitch.test.ts: Adds imports for session state, transcript storage, test isolation, filesystem operations, and shared mutation locking.
  • observed — Modified behavior in src/utils/sessionStorage.sessionSwitch.test.ts: Adds session-switch test documentation, fixed session IDs and timestamp, and variables for saving process state during setup and cleanup.
  • observed — Modified behavior in src/utils/sessionStorage.sessionSwitch.test.ts: Adds helpers to construct user messages and read session IDs from a transcript, returning an empty list when the file is missing and skipping blank or unparsable lines.
  • observed — Modified behavior in src/utils/sessionStorage.sessionSwitch.test.ts: Adds isolated test setup with persistence enabled and a temporary workspace; cleanup flushes storage, restores saved session, configuration, environment, and persistence state, removes the workspace, and releases the shared lock.
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let sessionSwitchRegistered = false
/** The session the cached file pointer belongs to. */
let pointerSessionId: string | null = null

/**
* Follow switchSession with the file pointer.
*
* `Project.sessionFile` is resolved once and cached for the life of the
* process. Every CLI path that changes the active session resets it by hand
* immediately afterwards — sessionRestore.ts, /clear, print.ts all call
* resetSessionFilePointer right after switchSession, and its own docstring
* says that is when to call it.
*
* The v2 SDK does not, because it cannot: `unstable_v2_createSession` hands
* back a session object and the switch happens inside sendMessage, with no
* moment the embedder could hook. So a second session created in one process
* went on writing into the FIRST session's file. Its records carried its own
* sessionId, so nothing looked wrong until something tried to resume it:
* `resolveSessionFilePath` found no file, the resume came back with zero
* prior messages, and the conversation was gone.
*
* Measured in an embedder (2026-09-30): one project directory, one .jsonl,
* and inside it three sessions' records — 3979, 917 and 348 — while two of
* the three had no file of their own. An interrupt resumed the newest and
* silently started from nothing.
*
* Only on a real change: v2 calls switchSession before EVERY turn with the id
* it already has, and resetting the pointer each time would drop buffered
* entries and re-resolve the same path for nothing.
*/
function followSessionSwitches(): void {
if (sessionSwitchRegistered) return
sessionSwitchRegistered = true
pointerSessionId = getSessionId()
onSessionSwitch(sessionId => {
if (sessionId === pointerSessionId) return
pointerSessionId = sessionId
// Lazily re-resolved from the new session id on the next write. An
// existing file is appended to, not replaced — a resume lands back in the
// conversation it came from.
project?.resetSessionFile()
})
}

function getProject(): Project {
if (!project) {
project = new Project()
followSessionSwitches()

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Isolate transcript state per SDK context.

sendMessage() runs in an AsyncLocalStorage context, but getProject() returns one process-wide Project. When session B calls switchSession(), the global signal clears that singleton's sessionFile. If B then resolves its file while session A is still processing, A's later recordTranscript() still reads session A from its context but Project.appendEntry() uses B's cached file. Records can therefore be written to the wrong session file, and resuming a session can miss those records.

Make the Project transcript state context-scoped, including sessionFile and pendingEntries. The single process-wide pointerSessionId listener cannot provide isolation for overlapping SDK turns.

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Review comment at @src/utils/sessionStorage.ts around lines 775 - 822:
Update getProject and followSessionSwitches so Project transcript state,
including sessionFile and pendingEntries, is isolated per SDK AsyncLocalStorage
context; replace the process-wide Project and pointerSessionId switch handling
with context-scoped state so overlapping turns cannot write to another session’s
transcript.

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Review follow-up. The test showed that the second session's records do not
leak into the first session's file, but not that the first session still
holds its own - so a change that dropped them both would have passed.

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Thanks — I checked the mechanism and the finding is correct, so let me be precise about what it does and does not mean for this PR.

appendEntry compares its sessionId argument against getSessionId(). When they differ it resolves the file per session via getExistingSessionFile(sessionId), which is safe. But getSessionId() is context-scoped, so inside session A's context it returns A, isCurrentSession is true, and the append goes to this.sessionFile — which, with overlapping turns, can be the file session B resolved. That is the hazard described, and it is real.

What it is not is something this PR introduces. The hazard comes from one process-wide Project holding a cached sessionFile while session ids are context-scoped:

  • before this change the pointer was resolved once and never moved, so it was correct for the first session and wrong for every later one — which is the bug being fixed, and it loses the whole transcript rather than interleaving it;
  • after this change it follows the active session, so it is correct for the session that switched most recently and can be wrong for a turn still in flight in another context.

So the change fixes the sequential case, which is broken today in a way that silently empties a resumed conversation, and it does not claim to make overlapping turns safe. Context-scoping Project's transcript state — sessionFile and pendingEntries both, as you say — is a larger change to a singleton that a lot of call sites reach through, and it deserves its own PR with its own concurrency tests rather than being folded in here. I would rather not widen this one to a refactor of Project; happy to open an issue for it, or to take it on separately if a maintainer prefers that order.

I have added this to the PR's known limitations so it is not lost.

One note on the suggested direction, in case it saves someone time later: resetSessionFile() clears pendingEntries as well as the path, and simply preserving that buffer across a switch would be worse, not better — those entries belong to the session that buffered them, so carrying them forward would flush them into the next session's file. Doing this properly means flushing them to their own session on the way out, which is another reason it is not a small edit.

The trivial comment on the test is applied in 9413d0c: the first session's own records are now asserted, not just the absence of the second session's.

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Verified on head 9413d0c. I ran the focused test file (2 pass) and the negative control against main's sessionStorage.ts (the first test fails, the second session's transcript is empty), so the test is red-first.

The mechanism is correct:

  • switchSession writes state before emitting (src/bootstrap/state.ts:541-554), so the listener re-resolves against the new id.
  • v2 calls switchSession with the id it already has before every turn (src/entrypoints/sdk/v2.ts:365). The same-id guard is what keeps those turns from dropping buffered entries.
  • regenerateSessionId() does not emit the signal, but its call sites are covered: the clear path resets the pointer explicitly (src/commands/clear/conversation.ts:220), and the query path calls switchSession immediately after (src/entrypoints/sdk/query.ts:674-678), which the listener follows.
  • Dropping pendingEntries on a real switch matches what resetSessionFilePointer already did on the CLI paths (src/utils/sessionStorage.ts:2217), so no behavior change there.

Of CodeRabbit's two comments: the retention assertion it asked for is in this head, and the major one is the overlapping-turn hazard the Notes already scope out (pre-existing: one process-wide Project with context-scoped session ids).

One robustness gap in the test wiring:

sessionSwitchRegistered is set once and never cleared, but resetStateForTests() clears the signal's listeners (src/bootstrap/state.ts:1044). Test files share one bun process, so any test that creates the Project singleton and later calls resetStateForTests() leaves this module believing it is registered while its listener is gone. Pointer-following then silently stops, and the sessionSwitch tests will fail confusingly in a full-suite run. resetProjectForTesting() re-reads pointerSessionId but cannot revive the listener. onSessionSwitch returns an unsubscribe function: resetProjectForTesting() could call it, clear the flag, and let the next getProject() re-register. A stale unsubscribe on a cleared signal is a no-op, so that also heals the resetStateForTests() case.

Review follow-up. resetStateForTests() calls sessionSwitched.clear(),
which drops every listener at once. Remembering only "I am subscribed"
left this module believing it still followed switches while its listener
was gone, and since test files share one bun process that silently
stopped pointer-following for every test afterwards - failing the switch
tests in a full-suite run and nowhere else.

onSessionSwitch returns an unsubscribe function, so resetProjectForTesting
now gives the subscription up and forgets it, and the next getProject()
registers afresh. A stale unsubscribe against an already-cleared signal is
a no-op, which heals the resetStateForTests() case as well as its own.

The added test reproduces that order: create the Project, clear the
signal, let the file's own setup run again, then check a second session
still gets its own transcript. With the unsubscribe neutralised it is the
only test that fails.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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serafkul commented Oct 6, 2026

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Thank you for verifying it to that depth — the regenerateSessionId() call sites and the resetSessionFilePointer precedent for dropping pendingEntries are both things I had not traced, and they are the two places this could have been wrong.

The robustness gap is real and fixed in 262d801, the way you described: onSessionSwitch's return value is kept, resetProjectForTesting() calls it and forgets it, and the next getProject() registers afresh. You are right that this also covers resetStateForTests() — a stale unsubscribe against a cleared signal is a no-op.

I added a test for that order rather than only the fix, since the failure it prevents appears in a full-suite run and nowhere else: create the Project, clear the signal under NODE_ENV=test as another file would, let this file's own setup run again, then check a second session still writes to its own transcript. Neutralising the unsubscribe makes it the only failing test in the file; with it, three pass.

Preflight re-run at this head: lint:any-budget, smoke, deadcode, both typechecks, the launcher in both modes, test:provider-recommendation and security:pr-scan all pass. test:provider is 1702 pass / 1 fail with the pre-existing Claude stream watchdog failure, identical to clean main. bun run check still cannot finish here for the reason in the PR body.

One thing I should flag myself: CI has not run on this PR at all — only CodeRabbit has reported. #2252 got the full matrix, so I assume this one is waiting on a maintainer to approve workflows for a fork. Happy to do anything that helps there.

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