feat(agent): versioned ConversationState serialization contract

[LukasParke]

Problem

ConversationState round-trips through JSON.stringify/parse (how every durable-store consumer uses it — serverless cold-start resume, SQLite state stores), but there were no helpers, no version field, and no forward-compat guarantee on messages item shapes. Fine within one SDK version; unsafe for long-lived production stores. (agent-monorepo wikillm FRICTION #4; the #1 committed core item in the feature-parity plan.)

Change

• version?: 1 on ConversationState (optional so legacy blobs stay assignable — absence means v1); createInitialState stamps version: 1
• New exports (package root + /conversation-state subpath):
  • serializeConversationState(state) — JSON with version guaranteed present
  • deserializeConversationState(json) — parse + shape validation; undefined/1 accepted and normalized; other versions throw UnsupportedStateVersionError({found, supported}); malformed shape throws InvalidStateError naming the field
  • CONVERSATION_STATE_VERSION constant
• Documented compat policy: additive within a major; migrations live in deserializeConversationState on version bump; consumers treat the JSON as opaque
• StateAccessor / ModelResult save path unchanged — these are opt-in helpers formalizing what consumers already do

Tests

6 new cases: fresh + rich round-trips (incl. awaiting_client_tools + pendingToolCalls from #64), version-less legacy fixture loads, version: 2 fails loudly, malformed shapes fail loudly, serialize injects version. Suite: 30 files / 321 tests green.

Changeset: minor. Plan: agent-monorepo planning/sdk-fix-plan.md PR-6 (sequenced after #64 as planned).

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[LukasParke]

Both findings addressed:

1. 🟡 JSDoc stolen by inserted constant — CONVERSATION_STATE_VERSION moved above the doc block; createInitialState keeps its API documentation.

2. 🟡 Timestamps not validated — deserializeConversationState now validates createdAt/updatedAt as numbers (all five required fields checked), with field-naming error messages matching the others. Two new malformed-shape assertions added (missing createdAt, string updatedAt).

Suite: 30 files / 321 tests, typecheck + biome green.

[perry-the-pr-reviewer]

Perry's Review

Verdict: 🔁 Needs changes

CI lint is red — Biome flags 4 formatting issues across conversation-state.ts and the new test file. Everything else (typecheck, unit tests, e2e) is green.

Findings

Blocker: lint failure (CI red)

biome check src tests fails with 2 errors (4 formatting violations):

1. conversation-state.ts:90 — UnsupportedStateVersionError constructor params should be multi-line per Biome's print width rule.
2. conversation-state.ts:200 — throw new UnsupportedStateVersionError(version, [CONVERSATION_STATE_VERSION]) should be multi-line.
3. conversation-state-serialization.test.ts:27 — it("...") should use single quotes (it('...')).
4. conversation-state-serialization.test.ts:145 — toEqual([1]) should be multi-line.

Fix: run Biome's auto-formatter on the agent package (biome check --write against src and tests).

Suggestion: version check ordering in deserializeConversationState

The version check runs after createdAt/updatedAt validation. A version-2 blob with missing timestamps throws InvalidStateError instead of the more informative UnsupportedStateVersionError. Moving the version check before the field validations would give consumers a clearer signal when they encounter a future-version blob, regardless of whether the other fields happen to be valid.

What's good

• Clean, well-documented serialization contract. The version?: number optional field with "absence means v1" semantics is the right backwards-compat strategy.
• UnsupportedStateVersionError with {found, supported} metadata is well-designed for programmatic error handling.
• Test coverage is thorough: round-trip, legacy fixture, version-mismatch, malformed shapes, and version injection all covered.
• The describeType helper produces actionable error messages.

Devin review notes

Devin flagged two issues that are both false positives in the current code:

• "JSDoc stolen by inserted constant" — CONVERSATION_STATE_VERSION has its own JSDoc, and createInitialState's JSDoc sits directly above the function. Association is intact.
• "Missing createdAt/updatedAt validation" — the code at lines 181-189 validates both fields. Devin likely reviewed an earlier revision.

[perry-the-pr-reviewer]

💡 Suggestion: The version check runs after createdAt/updatedAt validation. A version-2 blob with missing timestamps would throw InvalidStateError instead of the more informative UnsupportedStateVersionError. Consider moving the version check before the field validations so unsupported-version blobs fail fast with the correct error type.

Suggested change

	const version = obj['version'];
	const version = obj['version'];
	if (version !== undefined && version !== CONVERSATION_STATE_VERSION) {
	if (typeof version !== 'number') {
	throw new InvalidStateError(
	`ConversationState field "version" must be a number when present (got ${describeType(version)})`,
	);
	}
	throw new UnsupportedStateVersionError(version, [
	CONVERSATION_STATE_VERSION,
	]);
	}

This block would move above the id / messages / status / createdAt / updatedAt checks.

▶ Prompt for agents

In deserializeConversationState (packages/agent/src/lib/conversation-state.ts), move the version check block (currently at line 193) to before the id/messages/status/createdAt/updatedAt field validation checks. This ensures that blobs with unsupported versions throw UnsupportedStateVersionError before any field-level validation runs.

[LukasParke]

Done in 00d21a5 — version check now runs before the structural field validations, with a comment explaining why. Added a test: a version-2 blob with a completely different shape (conversationId/history instead of v1 fields) still throws UnsupportedStateVersionError.

[perry-the-pr-reviewer]

🔴 Blocker — lint failure: Biome wants this constructor split across multiple lines (print width exceeded). CI lint is red because of this and 3 other formatting issues. Run Biome's auto-formatter (biome check --write) on the agent package to auto-fix all 4 violations.

▶ Prompt for agents

Run Biome's auto-formatter (biome check --write) on the agent package in the typescript-agent repo to fix the 4 Biome formatting violations: (1) UnsupportedStateVersionError constructor at conversation-state.ts:90 should be multi-line, (2) throw new UnsupportedStateVersionError at conversation-state.ts:200 should be multi-line, (3) it("...") at conversation-state-serialization.test.ts:27 should use single quotes, (4) toEqual([1]) at conversation-state-serialization.test.ts:145 should be multi-line. Commit and push the formatting fix.

[LukasParke]

Fixed in fbbfb80 (biome check --write on src+tests); lint is green as of that commit.