fix(session): gate terminal session-end write behind an explicit final flag

[DanielCarmingham]

Problem

Claude Code fires Stop at the end of every assistant turn, not only at genuine session end, and the Stop hook posts the same {sessionId} payload to the same POST /agentmemory/session/end endpoint as the real SessionEnd hook. api::session::end writes endedAt + status:"completed" on every one of those posts, so every live session looks terminated after its first turn — the source of the phantom "abandoned session" diagnostics in #745.

Two things worth stating explicitly, because the obvious fix is wrong:

• event::session::ended has no publisher anywhere in src/ — it's a dead subscriber, so "the terminal write lives elsewhere" is false.
• The per-turn and genuine-end payloads were byte-identical, so the server could not tell the two callers apart. Deleting the terminal write outright would mean nothing ever marks a session completed, which makes the "active over 24h" diagnostic worse, not better.

Fix

Add an optional final?: boolean to the session/end request body. The kv.update(endedAt, status:"completed") write runs only when body.final === true (strict equality, so non-boolean values can't coerce into a terminal write). The event::session::stopped fan-out stays unconditional, so summarize / graph-extraction / consolidation keep running every turn exactly as before.

Callers updated to send final: true at genuine end only: the SessionEnd hook (session-end.ts, with plugin/scripts/session-end.mjs rebuilt via npx tsdown since it's a compiled artifact), the CLI, the viewer, the OpenCode capture plugin, the Pi integration, and the Hermes integration. An older plugin whose SessionEnd hook predates the flag simply never marks the session completed — strictly better than marking it completed every turn, and it self-heals on plugin update.

Tests

Trigger-level tests that a final-less post leaves the session active with no endedAt while still firing the stop fan-out, and that final: true writes the terminal state; a hermes-plugin test pins final: true on its genuine end path.

Full suite: 1719 passed / 1 skipped. tsc --noEmit unchanged at the 30 pre-existing errors (none in touched files).

Closes #745.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Session-ending actions now correctly mark sessions as completed.
  • Per-turn stop events no longer accidentally close active sessions.
  • Only an explicit final: true request completes a session.

• Documentation

  • Clarified when the session-ending API permanently terminates a session.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for final and non-final session-ending requests and lifecycle events.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The session-end API now completes sessions only when it receives final: true. Genuine termination callers send this flag, while per-turn calls remain active. Tests and documentation reflect the new behavior.

Changes

Session finality

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Gate terminal session metadata src/triggers/api.ts, test/session-end-final-flag.test.ts, test/session-end-triggers-graph.test.ts	The API writes completion metadata only for strict boolean final: true. The stopped event remains unconditional. Tests cover missing, valid, and non-boolean values.
Mark genuine termination callers integrations/hermes/__init__.py, integrations/pi/index.ts, plugin/..., src/hooks/..., src/cli.ts, src/viewer/index.html	Genuine session-end requests now include final: true. The per-turn stop hook documents why it omits the flag.
Align contract and integration validation README.md, test/hermes-plugin.test.ts, test/integration.test.ts	Documentation and integration tests describe and validate the final-session request format.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to a89cb

The PR limits terminal session completion writes to explicit final-session requests while preserving per-turn processing; it is merge-ready after normal checks with no actionable merge-blocking risk remaining.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant SessionEndAPI
  participant KVStore
  participant StoppedEvent
  Caller->>SessionEndAPI: POST session/end
  alt final is true
    SessionEndAPI->>KVStore: Set status completed and endedAt
  end
  SessionEndAPI->>StoppedEvent: Emit session stopped

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check	⚠️ Warning	The PR prevents premature completed-state writes, but it leaves src/hooks/stop.ts and its plugin artifact calling /agentmemory/session/end on every stop. It also does not provide a Codex-specific fina…	Remove the session/end call from the Claude Code stop hook and generated artifact, or guard it to agents without a dedicated SessionEnd hook. Provide a Codex-specific path that sends final: true so Codex sessions can still close.
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 12 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main change: terminal session-end writes now require an explicit final flag.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The API change, genuine session-end caller updates, documentation, and tests directly support the final-flag session lifecycle behavior. No unrelated code changes are evident.

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The PR prevents premature completed-state writes, but it leaves src/hooks/stop.ts and its plugin artifact calling /agentmemory/session/end on every stop. It also does not provide a Codex-specific finalization path. Therefore, it does not fully satisfy #745's requirement to separate per-turn Stop handling from genuine session termination while preserving Codex support.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/triggers/api.ts`:
- Around line 669-683: Remove the implementation comments describing the
final-state gate and lifecycle fan-out, and replace the inline condition with a
descriptive local named isFinalSessionEnd. Preserve the strict final === true
check and existing terminal-write behavior.

Apply the same fix in `@src/cli.ts` around lines 2895 - 2897: Covers explanatory
per-turn comments in the stop hook.

In `@test/session-end-final-flag.test.ts`:
- Around line 3-5: Update the Vitest setup in the session-end final-flag test to
mock the iii-sdk module, including the SDK TriggerAction.Void method used by
src/triggers/api.ts and the required KV methods used by the test helpers mockSdk
and mockKV. Keep the existing logger mock unchanged.

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Mock iii-sdk through Vitest.

src/triggers/api.ts imports and calls the runtime TriggerAction.Void() from iii-sdk. The local mockSdk() and mockKV() helpers do not mock this module. Add vi.mock("iii-sdk") with the required SDK and KV method mocks.

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In `@test/session-end-final-flag.test.ts` around lines 3 - 5, Update the Vitest
setup in the session-end final-flag test to mock the iii-sdk module, including
the SDK TriggerAction.Void method used by src/triggers/api.ts and the required
KV methods used by the test helpers mockSdk and mockKV. Keep the existing logger
mock unchanged.

Source: Coding guidelines

[DanielCarmingham]

Comments trimmed in a89cb78 — kept why the check is a strict === true and why a missing flag is the safe backward-compatible path, dropped the narration.

On the Vitest mock: declining, with the same reasoning as #1285. The local mockSdk/mockKV helpers are this repository's dominant test pattern (53 files define them; 2 files mock iii-sdk, both via importOriginal to keep the real TriggerAction).

More to the point, the concern does not apply here: test/session-end-final-flag.test.ts registers event::session::stopped and asserts the fan-out fires, so it executes src/triggers/api.ts:698 and the real TriggerAction.Void() on every run. All 7 cases pass. Mocking the module would replace a real call that currently works with a stub — weaker coverage, not stronger.