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🔗 Linked Issue

Closes #1270

🏷️ PR Type

  • type:bug — Bug fix

📝 Summary

📂 Changes

File Change
plugin/pi/index.ts Require the host ID, verify a resumed reservation’s project owner, end its effective ID, and clear a successful pending reservation.
plugin/pi/test/native-tool-contract.test.mjs Cover foreign/missing IDs, effective-ID targeting after resume, pending-marker cleanup, shutdown deduplication, and foreign-project reservation refusal.
plugin/pi/README.md Document host-only native end and direct/manual alternative.

🧪 Test Plan

  • Test-first corrections: observed RED for resumed effective-ID targeting, pending cleanup, foreign-project refusal, registration-conflict race, ambiguous end, and unconfirmed raw-host end. Already-ended reconciliation was added as a targeted positive/negative test without a retained RED.
  • Exact HEAD 49f1c53c: focused 2/2, native-tool 55/55, full Pi 209/209, independent verifier and diff check green. Four Pi files +351/-16 (367 lines), under 400.
  • Conflict-free merged tree 667fff55 with post-fix(pi): keep agent writes on native tools during init #1476 main 9dad41ba: full Pi 211/211 on rerun; an initial run had an intermittent health-probe assertion (indeterminate vs refused) and is not presented as green. Tests used disposable HOME/Pi/Engram/npm-cache paths.
  • Fresh GitHub CI and CodeRabbit review of this exact HEAD before merge.

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Native review of exact committed candidate 49f1c53c approved and acknowledged as review-f093af4889aad211. Earlier GitHub CI Unit Tests failed at the unchanged SQLite busy-timeout timing assertion; the focused test passed 10/10 in disposable isolation. Fresh CI on this HEAD is pending and must pass before merge.

✅ Contributor Checklist

  • Linked approved issue feat(sessions): add authoritative bindings for concurrent agents #1270.
  • Exactly one type:* label (type:bug) applied.
  • Focused and affected package test commands/outcomes recorded.
  • Additional local checks recorded; CI pending.
  • Docs updated with behavior.
  • Conventional commit; no Co-Authored-By trailer.
  • Four changed paths comply with transient-artifact policy; total 367 changed lines, below 400.

💬 Notes for Reviewers

CodeRabbit findings at previous HEADs were addressed in bounded work units. 49f1c53c reconciles an exact-ID, same-project 409 already-ended response without replaying /end; it also refuses explicit raw host-ID end without confirmed local registration. Both keep generic direct/manual MCP independent. The suggestion to move Pi-private host-ID and session-entry policy into core Go would cross package boundaries and is outside this Pi slice. Pi 0.1.17 source is merged but not published to npm; Go remains pinned to published 0.1.16. The required Closes #1270 will prematurely close the umbrella on partial merge; maintainers will reopen it immediately.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • The Pi-native session-ending tool accepts only a nonempty ID matching the current Pi session; other IDs are rejected without an end request.
    • For resumed conversations, a matching host-session request ends the associated persisted session. Pending sessions are verified as belonging to the local project before ending and remain pending if the end request fails or its outcome is uncertain.
    • If the service confirms that the exact pending session has already ended, the tool can reconcile its status without sending another end request.
  • Documentation
    • Clarified that independent sessions must be ended through a separate direct client.

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Walkthrough

The Pi-native mem_session_end tool now accepts only a nonempty string matching the current Pi host session ID. A contract test checks rejection of a foreign session without an end request. The README documents the restriction.

Changes

Pi session-end validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Validate session-end identity
plugin/pi/index.ts, plugin/pi/test/native-tool-contract.test.mjs, plugin/pi/README.md
The tool rejects IDs that are missing, empty, non-string, or different from the current host session ID. The test checks that a foreign session produces an error without a POST request to end it. The README describes the restriction and the direct-client alternative for independent sessions.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: gentleman-programming, alan-thegentleman

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 49f1c

The session-end change has no established blocking issue. The reconciliation test could more explicitly check registration in each case, but that improvement need not hold the merge.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 49f1c

The native end operation is more restrictive and no new security failure was established. Residual risk remains around recovery and shutdown behavior that could not be fully verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The changed native operation is scoped to the current Pi host session and its project-owned effective session, rather than accepting an arbitrary supplied session ID.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Foreign or uncertain registration cannot authorize the explicit end request; a registration-conflict race is covered by a test that expects no end request.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Explicit end distinguishes a confirmed null response from uncertain transport delivery when updating pending state; the inspected shutdown path uses a separate best-effort result.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Verify the service’s end-response contract and consider aligning shutdown’s ownership and delivery checks with explicit end, without treating the inspected shutdown behavior as a proven PR regression.
🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The PR implements a Pi-specific #1270 slice. mem_session_end rejects missing, empty, and foreign host IDs. It resolves resumed effective IDs, checks pending project ownership, preserves reservations… Implement the remaining #1270 binding contract and transport conformance tests, or link this change to a narrower issue that matches the Pi-specific session-end scope.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 14.29% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 7 functions across 3 files. (1 skipped: 1… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
✅ Passed checks (3 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The Pi session-end implementation, contract tests, preflight update, and README documentation support the #1270 session-attribution objective. No unrelated change is demonstrated.
Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preventing Pi-native session ending from targeting a foreign runtime session.
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Explanation

The PR implements a Pi-specific #1270 slice. mem_session_end rejects missing, empty, and foreign host IDs. It resolves resumed effective IDs, checks pending project ownership, preserves reservations after uncertain delivery, and clears them after confirmed delivery. The PR does not implement the remaining #1270 contract for authoritative bindings on all session-attributed writes, binding stability across compaction and resume, fail-closed missing bindings, lease lifecycle rules, or reusable transport conformance tests.

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Docstring coverage is 14.29% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 7 functions across 3 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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🟡 Minor · End the effective session ID from mem_session_end. · index.ts:1642-1654

plugin/pi/index.ts:1642-1654
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

End the effective session ID from mem_session_end.

The tool must accept the current host ID, but it must resolve the effective ID before sending the end request. After resume registration creates a distinct ID, the current code ends the raw host session instead of the registered session. The registered session can remain open until shutdown, and the request bypasses shutdown coordination.

🐛 Suggested fix
-      const endedSessionID = sessionId;
+      const endedSessionID = effectiveSessionID(ctx, sessionId);
...
-      return endedSessionID === sessionId && (hasKnownSession(endedSessionID) || hasSessionRegistrationInFlight(endedSessionID))
+      return (hasKnownSession(endedSessionID) || hasSessionRegistrationInFlight(endedSessionID))
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Review comment at @plugin/pi/index.ts around lines 1642 - 1654:
In the mem_session_end flow, derive endedSessionID from the effective session
for the current host session rather than using sessionId directly. Use that
resolved ID for the end request and let the
hasKnownSession/hasSessionRegistrationInFlight check route it through
endRegisteredSessionOnce without requiring it to equal sessionId.

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- Around line 1642-1654: In the mem_session_end flow, derive endedSessionID from
the effective session for the current host session rather than using sessionId
directly. Use that resolved ID for the end request and let the
hasKnownSession/hasSessionRegistrationInFlight check route it through
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- Around line 1648-1650: Move the persisted-session ownership check and
effective-session end decision out of the Pi adapter branch using
registeredSessionProjects, sessionRegistrationProjects, and persistedPending.
Keep Pi-specific host-ID parsing in the adapter, then call a core Go API that
applies the ownership and end rules and return its result.
- Around line 1649-1650: Update the session-end authorization flow using
localOwner and waitForSessionRegistration so a pending
sessionRegistrationProjects entry cannot authorize ending a session after
registration fails. After registration settles, require confirmed ownership
before endRegisteredSessionOnce calls end(), and ensure a
session_project_conflict cannot send the end request.
- Around line 1661-1663: In mem_session_end, skip appending the pending: false
EFFECTIVE_SESSION_ENTRY when engramFetchResult reports transportFailure.outcome
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if (persistedPending) {
const localOwner = registeredSessionProjects.get(endedSessionID) || sessionRegistrationProjects.get(endedSessionID);
if (!appendEntry || !owner || owner !== (localOwner || (project !== "unknown" ? project : undefined))) {

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Move project-ownership policy out of the Pi adapter.

This branch decides whether a persisted session may be ended from local project state. Keep Pi-specific host-ID parsing in the adapter. Put the ownership and effective-session end rule behind a core Go API so the adapter calls the core operation and returns its result. As per path instructions, “Adapters stay thin: parse input, call the core Go API/tool, return. No business logic, no external runtime deps.”

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Move the persisted-session ownership check and effective-session end decision
out of the Pi adapter branch using registeredSessionProjects,
sessionRegistrationProjects, and persistedPending. Keep Pi-specific host-ID
parsing in the adapter, then call a core Go API that applies the ownership and
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- Around line 1661-1662: Update the persistedPending recovery branch around
ensureSession to handle HTTP 409 session_already_ended as terminal only when its
session_id matches endedSessionID and the persisted owner matches the confirmed
local project. Persist pending: false without reopening or re-registering the
session, and continue to fail closed on any ownership mismatch.
- Line 1681: Update the host-ID end handling around endedSessionID and sessionId
so both end branches require confirmed registration before ending a session;
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const result = await registeredTools.get("mem_session_end").execute("end", { id: runtimeID }, undefined, undefined, ctx);
assert.equal(result.isError, success ? undefined : true);
assert.equal(entries.at(-1).data.pending, !success);
assert.equal(calls.filter((path) => path.endsWith("/end") || path.includes(":resume:")).length, 0);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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Assert one /sessions request for each reconciliation case.

The aggregate no-end assertion already fails if any iteration sends /end; retaining calls does not allow a later /end to pass. Reset calls per iteration when adding a case-local /sessions assertion. Each fresh sandbox loads a new module graph, so mem_session_end calls ensureSession and sends one /sessions request for every case.

♻️ Suggested fix
       responseID = response;
       owner = markerOwner;
+      calls.length = 0;
       const entries = [{ type: "custom", customType: "engram-effective-session", data: {
         runtimeID, effectiveID, pending: true, project: owner,
       } }];
...
         const result = await registeredTools.get("mem_session_end").execute("end", { id: runtimeID }, undefined, undefined, ctx);
         assert.equal(result.isError, success ? undefined : true);
         assert.equal(entries.at(-1).data.pending, !success);
         assert.equal(calls.filter((path) => path.endsWith("/end") || path.includes(":resume:")).length, 0);
+        assert.equal(calls.filter((path) => path === "/sessions").length, 1);
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In the reconciliation test, reset calls for each case and assert that the case
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`/end` or `:resume:` request occurs.

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