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Implements #247: an agent-owned, versioned conversation journal scoped by user, workspace, and session, backed by private SQLite event storage. Runtime records user input, provider responses, typed tool results, interaction references, and turn outcomes; workspace checkpoints and rollback link to journal cursors. Context assembly now uses deterministic stable/dynamic/conversation sections, reports content-free context metrics, and no longer injects graph context automatically.

The PR also preserves provider history codecs and rejects mismatched continuation bindings. A follow-up fix keeps legacy Action results textual in native projections while validating correlated native replies. Interfaces consume runtime display projections rather than independently writing user/final-answer events.

Requirement coverage

Covers R101–R105, R107, R113, R114, and R191. AgentEngine migration remains #238; structured compaction remains #248.

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  • PASS: Python 3.12 full suite with Chromium enabled — 816 tests, including browser session/auth tests.
  • PASS: focused conversation-history and streaming suites on Python 3.12 and 3.13 — 22 tests each.
  • PASS: Python 3.13 make check, make lint, make docs-check, make tui-test, and offline agent, subagent, and TUI acceptance.
  • PASS: independent review finding reproduced, fixed, regression-tested, and confirmed resolved.
  • PASS: commits GPG-signed and locally verified.

Refs #247

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  • New Features
    • Conversation history is saved and restored across sessions, including structured model responses and tool results. Legacy conversations are imported when needed.
    • Rolling back workspace history restores the conversation branch captured at that point while preserving other branches.
    • Provider requests retain validated tool-call context, and context-usage estimates are tracked separately from provider-reported input totals.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Saved conversations are protected from being overwritten by stale session transcripts. Provider continuation mismatches are reported and pause continuation rather than being silently reused.

Final-head review fixes (d20fbf7)

  • PASS — Reproduced and fixed two additional Codex findings: legacy replacement branch selection and replacement entries now commit in one transaction; context history metrics retain only journal entries whose exact message objects survive preflight or overflow compaction.
  • PASS — The 41 conversation-history and context-compaction tests pass on Python 3.12 and 3.13. make check, make lint, and make docs-check pass on Python 3.12; the signed commit verifies locally.
  • BLOCKED — A full local 842-test run did not pass (4 failures, 32 errors). Failures include sandbox denial when update tests access ~/.kyrozen/update.lock; the final-head CI run is pending and will be the authoritative full-suite result.

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The change adds a private, versioned conversation journal backed by the existing events table. Runtime recording, provider and display projections, context metrics, and workspace-history checkpoints now use journal entries. Rollback selects a saved conversation branch while retaining abandoned entries.

Changes: Canonical conversation journal

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Journal model and persistence
openkyrozen/agent/conversation.py, openkyrozen/persistence/events.py, openkyrozen/persistence/store.py, openkyrozen/agent/__init__.py, tests/test_conversation_history.py, docs/architecture.md, docs/superpowers/plans/*
Adds scoped, versioned journal entries and transactional persistence with expected-head checks. Generic event listings exclude journal entries. The documentation describes journal ownership, privacy, and legacy import.
Runtime recording and session integration
openkyrozen/agent/runtime.py, openkyrozen/agent/loop.py, openkyrozen/agent/executor.py, openkyrozen/agent/delegation_runtime.py, openkyrozen/providers/calls.py, openkyrozen/interfaces/{cli,tui,web}/*, tests/test_{conversation_history,interaction,server,streaming,tui_protocol}.py
Records user inputs, model responses, tool results, and turn outcomes. Sessions and chat interfaces load and refresh transcripts from runtime history.
Workspace checkpoints and rollback
openkyrozen/workspace/history.py, openkyrozen/workspace/history_service.py, openkyrozen/persistence/history.py, tests/test_history.py, tests/test_conversation_history.py, tests/test_interaction.py, docs/history-and-rollback.md
Links workspace history nodes to journal heads. Rollback appends a branch selection and restoration events; legacy nodes can receive journal checkpoints.
Provider projection and context accounting
openkyrozen/agent/prompts.py, openkyrozen/agent/action_rounds.py, openkyrozen/agent/context.py, openkyrozen/agent/compaction.py, tests/test_conversation_history.py, tests/test_context_compaction.py, tests/test_dynamic_tools.py, docs/providers.md
Builds provider messages from active journal entries and tracks context-history metrics. Prompt handling refreshes tool inventories and carries model replies and tool results across action rounds. Native model responses and tool replies are preserved during compaction.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant AgentRuntime
  participant Provider
  participant ToolExecutor
  participant EventsRepository
  AgentRuntime->>Provider: Send provider request
  Provider-->>AgentRuntime: Return model response
  AgentRuntime->>EventsRepository: Append model.response
  AgentRuntime->>ToolExecutor: Dispatch tool call
  ToolExecutor->>EventsRepository: Append tool.result
  AgentRuntime->>EventsRepository: Append turn.outcome
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Long conversations containing native tool history can be rejected even when older messages could be compacted safely. Fix that path before merging; also strengthen the provider-restart test.

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- Around line 34-35: Update the legacy reconciliation guard in `chat()` so it
does not call `reconcile_legacy` when `short_term_memory` matches the retained
tail of `conversation.display_messages()`. Preserve reconciliation for other
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- Around line 482-486: Update the context-preparation flow using
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- Around line 472-486: Update _build_messages to recover when provider_messages
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Test provider identity independently of model identity.

The provider-restart assertion still runs with "changed-model", so it can pass on the model mismatch. Both providers also use the same _continuation_id.

Restore "selected-model" and assign a different _continuation_id to the replacement provider before the restart assertion. For this ordinary provider, _build_messages passes provider_identity(provider) to provider_messages, so the test will then isolate provider identity. This is a test-coverage improvement, not a current production failure.

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