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Closes #1506 · Closes #1496 (documentation direction)

What & why

Settles #1496's design-review question — can message identity be an explicit ingress-assigned auto-increment id instead of a content-derived hash? — as a dedicated architecture doc, the message-granularity sibling of SESSION-IDENTITY.md. Recorded conclusion: message identity stays content-derived; the question was really about the join key, not the id.

New files:

• MESSAGE-IDENTITY.md — design record (EN)
• MESSAGE-IDENTITY.zh-CN.md — design record (ZH)

Recorded points:

• The mNNNNN ledger already IS a session-scoped auto-increment, never-reused id (kernel contract); the content hash (byRaw: hash → ref) is the per-turn join that re-pins the ledger onto the host's freshly re-serialized array — content bytes are the only key stable across the five surveyed hosts (codex, claude-code, pi, omp, hermes) × four lanes (anthropic chat, openai chat, responses, google).
• Handled ≠ authored ≠ stored: the join runs on the ingress array, which the host authors from private storage every turn; per-host round-trip survey; plugin mode is a bounded exception (agent-executed compress round-trips bili-minted tool results/markers), not a counterexample.
• No lane offers a writable message-level id field: anthropic/openai chat have none; Responses input[].id is provider-namespaced ([Bug] Responses ACP round 2 生成 66 字符 message id，导致 Codex 后续请求持续 400 #242: 66-char minted id > 64-char cap → Codex Desktop rollout replay → upstream 400 every turn; fix: scope Responses ingress id healing to Bili's msg-proxy namespace #1475: renaming rs_*/fc_* opaque ids → Copilot 400, reasoning id ↔ encrypted_content replay pairing; healing confined to msg-proxy-* by sanitizeResponsesInputIds). Field present ≠ writable.
• Single-message bytes stable, array prefix unstable (folds; 模型切换后压缩块跨模型失配，新模型收到 61.3 万 token 全量上下文 #1001/detectUnannouncedHistoryRewrite 误判 1 条消息的侧边辅助请求（如 WebSearch），导致 Ref 映射表被洗空、编号雪崩耗尽（m99999）及 363 万 Token 溢出 #1075 host rewrites; Anonymous prefix-affinity bakes OpenAI inline system message into chain identity — dynamic system prompts fork the session every turn (cross-protocol asymmetry) #1148/[Bug] opencode system-context reconcile：每次 AGENTS.md 编辑使 Responses 会话 key 里的 instructions 指纹漂移，压缩状态被重置（master 现存） #1102/fix: detect silent fold loss when resent history ids drift from compressed blocks (#1195) #1247 fork/regenerate/edit; [bug] #388 的侧请求隔离只认「输出预算 ≤ 200」，1 条消息的审查请求冲掉 remembered 快照，长会话里 plugin 路径的 compress 全败（Requested range(s) cannot be anchored） #1307 side requests). Failure-mode asymmetry: position-join failure = misattribution (silent corruption — [bug] #388 的侧请求隔离只认「输出预算 ≤ 200」，1 条消息的审查请求冲掉 remembered 快照，长会话里 plugin 路径的 compress 全败（Requested range(s) cannot be anchored） #1307's 163/163, whose original ≤2 count guard was a pure positional heuristic); hash-join failure = non-recognition (self-healing perf loss).
• The hash doubles as a change detector (foldCoverage 使用pi 压缩后就提示prompt is too long #1195, detectUnannouncedHistoryRewrite 模型切换后压缩块跨模型失配，新模型收到 61.3 万 token 全量上下文 #1001, fork adoption Design: tree-shaped prefix affinity — forked branches inherit the shared prefix's compression state #629) — an explicit assigned id would silently lose the same-bytes-different-content signal.
• The hash axiom's own bug ([Bug] prune silently drops a new user message whose text matches an already-folded one (content-hash id collision) #1476 same-bytes collision) was fixed by keeping the hash: kernel fix(#457): strip model-emitted render tags from plugin-mode openai/anthropic wires #459 instance renumbering + plugin 模式 openai SSE：混合文本字段 chunk 因单字段纯标签 echo 被整体丢弃（丢失同 chunk 真实输出） #463 lastPassIds echo discrimination; and the colliding message was a USER message — exactly the class that cannot carry a persistent ingress-assigned id.
• Tags are derived views (egress render / ingress strip, idempotent re-render); tag-echo incidents (偶尔重复输出 <acp tokens="177" type="text">m00155</acp> #206/release v0.1.4 #14/[bug] #644 follow-up (post-#646, v0.1.97): typo'd render-tag echo (<acip …) bypasses the strip regex and passes through as a 43-char degenerate end_turn turn — agent stalls mid-orchestration until manual nudge #673) prove the marker-into-storage channel is real but dirty — strippable noise, never identity ([bug] 插件透传会剥掉工具调用参数里的 render tag（arguments 流挂了 tag-echo 过滤器） #1039 arguments byte-exact invariant).
• strict-echo reasoning ([bug] compress 保护区过滤在完整性调整之后挖洞，导致 assistant tool-call 消息缺 reasoning_content（DeepSeek 思考模式 400） #684; history DeepSeek thinking mode: residual "reasoning_content must be passed back" 400 on the first post-fold request (0.1.109 / acp-kernel 0.0.69) — the forwarded body is not persisted #762/[Bug] #762's strict-echo repair is chat-completions-only: Responses-wire requests still 400 with reasoning_content_missing after a compress fold #1479/fix: extend strict-echo repair to the Responses wire (#1479) #1482) documented as the one upstream-mandated content round-trip, handled as a repairable shape constraint, never identity.
• Future rule: a genuinely stable client-side message id, if one ever appears, may join as an additional hint only — never replace the hash base.

Plus one cross-reference line each in README.md / README.zh-CN.md, next to the existing SESSION-IDENTITY pointer.

Behavior changes

None — docs only.

Tests

None (docs only). No code touched — typecheck/test/build structurally unaffected (CI runs them regardless). Every code-level claim in the doc was verified against current master before writing: session.state.messageRefs.byRaw consumers (src/server.ts, src/fork-adoption.ts, src/preflight.ts, src/decompress-shared.ts, src/image-compress.ts), drift detection (src/session.ts: foldCoverage / detectUnannouncedHistoryRewrite / REWRITE_MIN_INCOMING_TOTAL), tag-echo-filter header (#206/#673/#1039 invariant block), src/util.ts systemToUser, src/strict-echo.ts, src/loop/adapter-responses.ts sanitizeResponsesInputIds + RESPONSES_ITEM_ID_MAX=64, devlog/2026-08-25_responses-id-length (#242).

Config surface

None.

Rebased onto current master (516f987). Single commit; diff = 4 files, +346/−0, every line related to this doc.

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Branch: 2026-09-27_message-identity-docs (3ba2137)

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[bot] 🏷 Review of PR #1509 (2026-09-27_message-identity-docs) — completed, one defect found and fixed directly on the branch. Mergeable.

① Issue direction (#1496)

The doc settles #1496's real question correctly: the mNNNNN ref ledger already is a session-scoped never-reused auto-increment id (kernel contract, AGENTS.md §2), so the open question was never "where do ids come from" but "what re-pins the ledger onto the host's freshly re-serialized array at turn N+1?" Answering that with content bytes as the join key is the right layering — and the failure-mode asymmetry argument (position join fails → silent misattribution, cf. #1307; hash join fails → non-recognition, self-healing) is the decisive one. Direction: sound.

② Regression review

Docs-only PR: MESSAGE-IDENTITY.md (+187), MESSAGE-IDENTITY.zh-CN.md (+156), two README cross-reference lines next to the existing SESSION-IDENTITY pointers. No src/, no config surface, no wire/persistence/behavior change — nothing to regress. Master moved 6 commits past the PR base (516f987 → a1a9dba, #1503/#1497 family); none of them touch any of the four files, and git merge-tree against current master reports a clean merge. No rebase needed.

③ Claim verification (doc vs. code, checked against master)

All code-level claims verified accurate:

• session.state.messageRefs (byRaw: hash→ref, byRef: ref→hash) — src/session.ts:647 ✓
• foldCoverage (使用pi 压缩后就提示prompt is too long #1195) / detectUnannouncedHistoryRewrite (模型切换后压缩块跨模型失配，新模型收到 61.3 万 token 全量上下文 #1001) — src/session.ts:730 / :697 ✓
• sanitizeResponsesInputIds semantics (deletes bili-minted msg-proxy-* assistant message ids → replay full message; shortens over-long foreign ids to msg-fix-<hashId>; everything else untouched) + RESPONSES_ITEM_ID_MAX = 64 — src/loop/adapter-responses.ts:29, :56–71 ✓
• [Bug] Responses ACP round 2 生成 66 字符 message id，导致 Codex 后续请求持续 400 #242 history: msg-proxy-2-<54-char upstream id> = 66 chars > 64 cap, Codex Desktop stored+replayed it, upstream 400'd every turn; [Fix] 限制 Responses round-2 重映射 message ID 长度 #243 remap via hashId() → 28 chars total — devlog/2026-08-25_responses-id-length/REQ.md + src/util.ts:37 (sha256 hex, sliced to 16) ✓
• strict-echo: isStrictReasoningEcho / normalizeStrictEchoReasoning (src/strict-echo.ts:13/:35), reasoning-pair-violated warnings (src/server.ts:2455/:2523) ✓
• tag-echo-filter header carries the 偶尔重复输出 <acp tokens="177" type="text">m00155</acp> #206/[bug] #644 follow-up (post-#646, v0.1.97): typo'd render-tag echo (<acip …) bypasses the strip regex and passes through as a 43-char degenerate end_turn turn — agent stalls mid-orchestration until manual nudge #673 typo-set handling and the [bug] 插件透传会剥掉工具调用参数里的 render tag（arguments 流挂了 tag-echo 过滤器） #1039 byte-exact tool-args invariant block (src/loop/tag-echo-filter.ts:1–30) ✓
• README pointers placed exactly beside the SESSION-IDENTITY.md references, EN+ZH mirrored ✓

One factual error found and fixed: both docs stated REWRITE_MIN_INCOMING_TOTAL = 5; the constant is 10 — at the PR base and on current master (src/session.ts:688, introduced as 10 in babc437/#1075; there is no = 5 anywhere in its history). Fixed in place on the branch:

fix: MESSAGE-IDENTITY review — REWRITE_MIN_INCOMING_TOTAL is 10, not 5 (#1509)  (3ba21378, pushed)
MESSAGE-IDENTITY.md       | 2 +-
MESSAGE-IDENTITY.zh-CN.md | 2 +-

The PR is now two linear commits (docs + this labeled review fix); diff stays 4 files, no whitespace churn.

④ Tests / ⑤ Diff cleanliness

No test surface touched; CI was fully green on the previous head (full matrix: ubuntu/windows test suites, all real-client e2e lanes, hermetic registry, version-guard) and re-runs on the new head — a markdown-only delta cannot affect it. Diff is clean: every line serves the PR's purpose.

Note: the earlier sibling PR #1506 (same title, superseded) is referenced by Closes #1506 in this body and will close automatically on merge — nothing to do manually.

Verdict: mergeable once CI goes green on head 3ba21378. No behavior changes introduced (pure documentation); no config surface touched.

中文摘要:审查了 MESSAGE-IDENTITY 文档 PR(#1509),逐条核对了文档中的代码级论断(全部属实),发现并直接在分支上修正了一处事实错误——REWRITE_MIN_INCOMING_TOTAL 实为 10 而非文档所写的 5(中英文档各一行),diff 干净、CI 绿、与 master 无冲突,可以合并。

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来自 #2375（修 #2374）review 的一条文档协同提示：该 PR 合入后，本 PR 里「be confined to bili's own msg-proxy-* prefix」一句（你的分支约 line 90）会过期——入口治愈的 assistant-message 删除分支将另外认识历史的 marker-* 命名空间（pre-WC-015 版本铸出的毒 rollout 在入口自愈），而 >64 字符的改写分支仍只认 msg-proxy-*（#1474 不变）。更新该段时请带上这个两分支区分。不在 #2375 里动这个文件，避免与正在重写的文档 PR 撞车。

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[bot] 🏷 Conflict wake-up handled — verdict: superseded, nothing pushed (do not rescue).

The system flagged PR #1509 dirty vs base. Verified via API: mergeable: False | state: dirty | head: 3ba21378 | base: 516f987b; master has since moved to 2495ad25d (#2332 merge). Investigating why it went dirty turned out to matter more than resolving it:

Root cause — the PR's content already landed on master as a revised edition. A rewritten version of this exact design record was committed straight to master between my review (master was then a1a9dba0, which did NOT contain the file) and now (intro commit visible through the #1713 merge):

	PR head 3ba21378	master 2495ad25d
Title	"content hashes as the cross-turn join key"	"why content hashes are the cross-turn join key"
Size	187 lines (EN)	166 lines (EN)
Implementation anchors	kernel package paths (acp-kernel/src/wire/message-id.ts, refs.ts, prune.ts)	host-side anchors (session.state.messageRefs, src/server.ts, foldCoverage/detectUnannouncedHistoryRewrite)
README pointer	our 2-line EN + 1-line ZH insertions	its own pointer sentence already in place (README.md:~498, README.zh-CN.md:388)

Same document, same conclusion for #1496 (identity stays content-derived; the real question is the cross-turn join key) — but the master edition is tighter and its anchors match the post-#2092 in-repo-kernel reality better than the PR's. I also checked the one defect I'd fixed in the PR (REWRITE_MIN_INCOMING_TOTAL = 10, not 5): the master rewrite drops that passage entirely, so no stale value survives on master (code still reads 10 at src/session.ts:1080 ✓).

Why I did not rebase+push: replaying 3ba21378 onto 2495ad25d yields add/add conflicts on both doc files plus overlapping README pointer hunks. Every resolution is wrong: take master's side → the PR diff becomes empty (nothing left to merge); take ours → regresses master's improved doc. Per the conflict-wake-up policy (分支已废弃/PR 已无需合并 → 回复说明即可,不要硬救), I left the remote untouched — PR head is still 3ba21378, no commits pushed anywhere. (Transparency: my first rebase attempt in this session ran against a stale local worktree checkout of old master, which merely fast-forwarded locally; it touched no remote.)

Recommendation: close PR #1509 without merging (superseded by the direct-to-master landing). Issue #1496 is already closed (2026-09-27T13:39Z). No other open PR races on these files. Close/merge stays yours.

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七问:

1. 是什么问题:系统转发 PR docs: MESSAGE-IDENTITY — content hashes as the cross-turn join key (#1496) #1509 与 master 冲突(dirty),按流程应 rebase→解冲突→push。
2. 什么原因导致的:我 review 之后、唤醒之前,同一份设计记录的修订版被直接落到了 master(fix(#1712): blank decompress range fields = omitted; stop advertising range args where CCR cannot arm #1713 合并窗口引入;review 时 master a1a9dba0 尚无此文件)——PR 分支变成了一份已被取代的旧版内容,冲突是必然结果。
3. 怎么修复的:不修。逐一验证后判定 PR 已被 master 上的修订版全面覆盖(结论相同、锚点更新、README 指针已就位);两种解冲突方向要么使 PR 变空、要么回退 master 的改进文档,均不可取,故刻意不 push。
4. 是否回归问题:无——零提交推送,master 与远端 PR 状态均未动。
5. 是否破坏缓存:不涉及(无任何代码变更)。
6. 是否改了设计方向:无;master 落地版与 PR 的设计结论一致([design review] 消息身份层:content-hash 是否可被显式自增 id 取代?请复核 #1496 答案不变),仅措辞与实现锚点改进。
7. 是否引入新配置:不涉及。

收工判定:无需合并——建议直接关闭 PR #1509(superseded);我没有、也不应代劳关闭。