verify-session-lifecycle SKILL.md skillA

verify-session-lifecycle from coder/agent-tty is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add coder/agent-tty/verify-session-lifecycle@git:20261103.71d1b0c

Pins git:20261103.71d1b0c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
coder/agent-tty
Path
.agents/skills/verify-session-lifecycle/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
9
Latest version
git:20261103.71d1b0c, committed Nov 3, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 29, 2026
Size
98,814 bytes
Repository stars
30
License
Apache-2.0

TLA+ model check of the agent-tty session lifecycle when several agent-tty processes use one Home at the same time - create, the session host (start-up, resize, destroy, SIGTERM shutdown, exit), reconcileSession (list, inspect, destroy, gc), gc and destroy (with and without --force). Use it before you change src/host/lifecycle.ts, src/host/programGroup.ts, the start-up, shutdown or exit path of src/host/hostMain.ts, src/host/manifestWriter.ts, src/cli/commands/gc.ts…

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Verify the session lifecycle (TLA+)

Many agents share one Home (`~/.agent-tty` by default). Each agent-tty command is its own process, and they all read and write the same `session.json` files with no lock. A test runs one order of those steps. This check runs every order of them in a small model of one session, and it reports any order that breaks a rule below.

The model is `model/SessionLifecycle.tla`. Each action in it is one indivisible step of the real code: one file read, the rename that makes a manifest write visible, one `rm`, one unlink, a process start or end, or a block of synchronous code with no `await` in it. Every action has a comment that names the code it stands for.

The tool is TLC, the TLA+ model checker, pinned to release 1.7.4 by sha256. The question here is "can these steps happen in a bad order", and a model checker answers that for every order. No verifier runs on this TypeScript code across processes.

## The rules
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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add coder/agent-tty/verify-session-lifecycle@sha256:3fa89b5da5fb0318

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261103.71d1b0c, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (98814 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
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Source

GitHub

coder/agent-tty · 30 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_easbkf2wwrnfmipm
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=coder/agent-tty/verify-session-lifecycle
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3fa89b5da5fb03186aad8b05bf7a43a7d049199ea719a0f5809e00d2799a3fc0

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