feat(profiles): persist Enter session profile selection and wire lifecycle

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Review size: this slice changes 98 code lines in extensions/gentle-ai.ts plus 601 test lines and 13 doc lines. GitHub's Files tab shows the cumulative diff with the chain until it merges; review only commits 5e1c79ff5 and ec90de8dc. size:exception requested from @barbatdev in #1064.

Why it is not split further: the production change is small (98 lines); the size comes from the public-SDK lifecycle tests. They are the only proof that Enter persistence, fork/tree/reload/new serialization and the stale-ctx fix hold on the real runtime, so they ship with the code they pin.

Summary

Part of #1064, slice 3b-i, PR 5c (Enter wiring). Builds on authority from 5b and keeps #1824's live-orchestrator behavior.

• Enter (case "apply"): re-applied on top of feat(profiles): apply and snapshot the live orchestrator at selection (#1064) #1824. It appends the session record, publishes only the returned state, then calls switchLiveOrchestrator only while that exact snapshot is still current. The notification keeps feat(profiles): apply and snapshot the live orchestrator at selection (#1064) #1824's wording ("Shared defaults were not written: the global routing, pins, and materialized stores are untouched. Set as global default with a.") and adds the persistence result: persisted in this session or not yet persisted.
• Failures: an append failure or unavailable authority reports a warning and applies no live model or thinking change.
• Lifecycle hooks: session_start starts the integration; session_before_fork / session_before_tree wait for a pending Enter; session_tree (merged into the existing handler) and session_shutdown revalidate or detach.
• Stale-ctx fix: /gentle:profiles now closes its panel loop instead of reusing a command ctx made stale by a reload or session replacement that ran while Enter awaited. The draft had this bug; the public-SDK tests caught it.
• Docs: docs/readme-reference.md Enter row, an outcome table, and the restoration rules (replaces "resuming in another process requires selecting it again").

Issue

Part of #1064

PR type

• New feature (type:feature)

Changes

Commit	Change
5e1c79ff5	extensions/gentle-ai.ts, tests/session-profile-extension.test.ts (new), tests/gentle-ai.test.ts (Enter tests use a real persisted session), docs/readme-reference.md.
ec90de8dc	CodeRabbit follow-up: an Enter skipped by a reload or session replacement while queued no longer notifies through the stale ctx.

Test adjustments versus the draft

• The extension fixture drives the panel with arrow keys in store order. In the current panel j/k scroll the detail pane.
• Flushed in-memory sessions: the published append controller (feat(profiles): add session profile append controller with failure quarantine #1948/feat(profiles): add session profile controller lifecycle seams #1984) returns append-not-corroborated, so Enter adopts nothing and reports that authority is unavailable. The (true, true) preflush case and the in-memory fork cases now assert that published behavior.

Test plan

Verified on top of #1991 (60cf7a4ea), commit ec90de8dc:

• Enter test in tests/gentle-ai.test.ts: RED (no session record persisted) before the wiring, GREEN after.
• tests/session-profile-*.test.ts: 222 pass, 0 fail, 0 skipped.
• tests/gentle-ai.test.ts: 119 pass, 0 fail.
• tests/gentle-agents*.test.ts: pass; registered reasoning and revocation use live SDK host… failed once under a combined run and passes in isolation. The same flake appears on the parent branch.
• node scripts/check-types.mjs: 186 recorded diagnostics, no regressions.
• Native review (RDD): not run on this slice.

Chain Context

Field	Value
Chain	#1064 slice 3b-i: session profile persistence
Tracker PR	Not needed
Position	5c
Base	main (fork PRs cannot stack bases; rebased as the chain lands)
Depends on	#1991
Follow-up	#1993 clear + unreadable-record warning
Review budget	712 changed lines, of which 601 are tests.

main
 └─ #1918 decoder
   └─ #1919 encoder + replay
     └─ #1922 disk reader
       └─ #1948 append controller
         └─ #1984 lifecycle seams
           └─ #1990 lifecycle integration
             └─ #1991 authority + launch gating
               └─ #1992 Enter wiring                               📍 this PR
                 └─ #1993 clear + unreadable-record warning

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds session-profile records and disk corroboration, then connects persistence outcomes to profile selection, routing authority, and session lifecycle handling. It also adds tests and documentation for record validation, append failures, fork transitions, and restoration.

Changes

Session Profile Persistence

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Profile record format and replay lib/session-profile-persistence.ts, lib/model-routing-authority.ts, tests/session-profile-persistence.test.ts, docs/session-profile-format.md	The v1 codec validates bind and clear payloads, normalizes routes, and selects the newest applicable family entry during replay. Tests and documentation cover these formats and rules.
Active-branch disk corroboration lib/session-profile-disk-reader.ts, tests/session-profile-disk-reader*.test.ts, docs/session-profile-format.md	The disk reader checks the selected active-branch record against its JSONL record. It reports absent, semantic profile results, or indeterminate outcomes when the source or record cannot be corroborated.
Append outcomes and authority lib/session-profile-append-controller.ts, tests/session-profile-append-controller*.test.ts	The append controller tracks branch changes and reports persisted, not-persisted, append-failed-preserved, or indeterminate outcomes. Tests cover preflush selections, failed appends, and changed or unreadable history.
Fork evidence and lifecycle integration lib/session-profile-append-controller.ts, lib/session-profile-integration.ts, tests/session-profile-append-controller-fork.test.ts, tests/session-profile-integration.test.ts	Fork preparations and handoffs validate copied branch history and transfer failure evidence. The integration serializes pending selections and manages attachments across session lifecycle events.
Profile selection and routing authority extensions/gentle-ai.ts, extensions/gentle-agents.ts, lib/session-profile-authority.ts, tests/session-profile-extension.test.ts, tests/session-profile-authority.test.ts, tests/gentle-ai.test.ts, tests/gentle-agents.test.ts, docs/readme-reference.md	Profile selection publishes session outcomes and changes the live orchestrator only while the selected binding remains current. Agent request paths require available session-profile authority, and lifecycle hooks coordinate pending selection with transitions.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ProfilesPanel
  participant Integration as Session profile integration
  participant Controller as Append controller
  participant DiskReader as Disk reader
  participant BindingStore
  participant Orchestrator
  ProfilesPanel->>Integration: Submit profile selection
  Integration->>Controller: Append profile record
  Controller->>DiskReader: Check active branch record against disk
  DiskReader-->>Controller: Return corroboration outcome
  Controller-->>Integration: Return selection outcome
  Integration->>BindingStore: Publish profile authority
  Integration->>Orchestrator: Apply routing if the binding remains current

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to b951b

Profile persistence is largely sound, with two edge cases. A profile selection reported as failed could later take effect silently. A reload during a pending selection could also surface an error instead of closing the panel cleanly. Both are small fixes and are worth addressing before or shortly after merge.

Pre-merge checks | 4 | 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 26.44% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 87 functions across 19 files. (2 skipped:…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

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Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main changes: persisting Enter-based session-profile selection and adding lifecycle wiring.

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Docstring coverage is 26.44% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 87 functions across 19 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @extensions/gentle-ai.ts:
- Around line 4260-4295: Guard the final notification after
runCurrentSessionProfileSelection with isCommandContextActive(ctx), so it is
skipped when the command context has become stale; leave the selection and its
other notifications unchanged.

Review comments at @lib/session-profile-append-controller.ts:
- Line 442: In the `appendEntry` path, add `entry.id` to `s.untrusted` before
returning `unavailable("append-not-corroborated")` when the new record is not
corroborated; apply the same update in the `catch` branch. Keep the existing
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📒 Files selected for processing (21)

• docs/readme-reference.md
• docs/session-profile-format.md
• extensions/gentle-agents.ts
• extensions/gentle-ai.ts
• lib/model-routing-authority.ts
• lib/session-profile-append-controller.ts
• lib/session-profile-authority.ts
• lib/session-profile-disk-reader.ts
• lib/session-profile-integration.ts
• lib/session-profile-persistence.ts
• tests/gentle-agents.test.ts
• tests/gentle-ai.test.ts
• tests/session-profile-append-controller-fork.test.ts
• tests/session-profile-append-controller-pi.test.ts
• tests/session-profile-append-controller.test.ts
• tests/session-profile-authority.test.ts
• tests/session-profile-disk-reader-pi.test.ts
• tests/session-profile-disk-reader.test.ts
• tests/session-profile-extension.test.ts
• tests/session-profile-integration.test.ts
• tests/session-profile-persistence.test.ts

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