Opencode Session Debugging

OpenCode Session Debugging

Use this skill to investigate a broken OpenCode session from evidence first, then fix the responsible code only after the failure mechanism is pinned by a test.

Non-Negotiables

1. Inspect the latest OpenCode source before relying on OpenCode behavior.
2. Find every child session recursively. A parent transcript alone is incomplete evidence.
3. Build a timestamped timeline from transcripts, OpenCode logs, plugin logs, and background-task state.
4. Use git history and blame for the failing subsystem before changing code.
5. If a fix is needed, switch to work-with-pr: create a new worktree, write the failing test first, open a PR, and do not merge until all required gates pass.
6. Treat raw session.prompt and session.promptAsync paths as suspect until the shared prompt gate has been audited.

Phase 0: Capture Inputs

Accept any of these as the starting point:

• Session id, for example ses_...
• Session title
• Project directory where the session happened
• A symptom such as "background task completed and the session got corrupted"

If multiple inputs are present, use all of them. Do not ask for a narrower input when a search can disambiguate it.

Phase 1: Update OpenCode Source

Keep a current OpenCode checkout outside the target repository. Prefer an existing sibling checkout; otherwise clone into /tmp.

# Existing sibling checkout, when present
cd ../opencode
git fetch --all --prune
git pull --ff-only
git rev-parse HEAD

# Fresh temporary checkout, when needed
git clone https://github.com/sst/opencode /tmp/opencode-source
cd /tmp/opencode-source
git fetch --all --prune
git pull --ff-only
git rev-parse HEAD

Use this source to verify current session, prompt, logging, storage, and background-task behavior. Do not assume older OpenCode behavior still applies.

Phase 2: Locate the Session

Search by the strongest identifier first.

Prefer first-class session tools when they are available:

• session_info for one known session id
• session_read for transcript content
• session_search for title, directory, symptom, and message text
• session_list to find nearby sessions when only the directory or title is known

Fall back to direct file search when tool access is unavailable or incomplete.

By session id:

rg -n "ses_[A-Za-z0-9]+" ~/.claude/transcripts ~/.local/share/opencode 2>/dev/null
rg -n "TARGET_SESSION_ID" ~/.claude/transcripts ~/.local/share/opencode .opencode .omo 2>/dev/null

By title:

rg -n "TITLE_FRAGMENT" ~/.claude/transcripts ~/.local/share/opencode .opencode .omo 2>/dev/null

By directory:

rg -n "ABSOLUTE_PROJECT_DIRECTORY" ~/.claude/transcripts ~/.local/share/opencode .opencode .omo 2>/dev/null

Common evidence locations:

• ~/.claude/transcripts/*.jsonl
• ~/.local/share/opencode/log/*.log
• ~/.local/share/opencode
• Project .opencode/background-tasks
• Project .omo
• OS temp logs such as oh-my-opencode.log

Record exact paths and timestamps for every artifact used.

Phase 3: Recursively Find Child Sessions

For each discovered transcript, extract references to:

• sessionID, session_id, and ses_...
• call_omo_agent, task, delegate, and background-agent tool calls
• Background task ids and parent wake messages
• session.prompt, promptAsync, idle, error, compacting, and autocontinue events

Search each child session id again through transcripts and logs. Repeat until no new child ids appear. Return a parent-to-child tree with evidence paths.

Use this tree shape:

ses_parent <title or first prompt> [transcript path]
├─ ses_child_a via <task/call/background id> at <timestamp> [transcript path]
│  └─ ses_grandchild via <task/call/background id> at <timestamp> [transcript path]
└─ ses_child_b via <task/call/background id> at <timestamp> [transcript path]

Phase 4: Build the Failure Timeline

Create a timeline with absolute timestamps. Include:

• User prompts and assistant turns
• Background task creation, completion, output delivery, and cancellation
• Parent wake enqueue, dispatch, reservation, requeue, and skip events
• OpenCode session lifecycle events such as idle, error, compacting, and aborted process
• Any duplicate internal prompt or repeated assistant stream

For live or recently finished background tasks, prefer background_output to inspect task state before reading disk files. Use background_cancel only for an actually running stray task that is part of cleanup, and record why cancellation is safe.

Correlate this timeline with the latest OpenCode source. Label facts from runtime logs separately from inferences from source code.

Phase 5: Prompt Gate Audit

Session corruption often comes from internal prompt injection. Audit this invariant before changing code:

• Production code may call session.prompt or session.promptAsync only through the shared gate path.
• New internal message routes must use dispatchInternalPrompt or an equivalent gate.
• Suspect patterns: duplicate idle/error/completion edges, postDispatchHoldMs: 0, raw prompt fallback when no session state is found, and routes that restore no state when dispatch is skipped.
• Check src/shared/prompt-async-gate.ts, src/shared/prompt-async-route-audit.test.ts, and the route-specific tests for the failing subsystem.

Phase 6: History and Blame

Before changing code, run history searches for the failing mechanism:

git log --oneline -- path/to/suspect-file.ts
git log -S "suspect symbol or string" -- path/to/suspect-file.ts
git log -G "suspect regex" -- path/to/suspect-file.ts
git blame -L START,END path/to/suspect-file.ts

Use blame to identify the intent of the current behavior. Use git show on relevant commits and compare their tests to the current failure.

Phase 7: TDD Fix Workflow

If the evidence points to a code defect:

1. Invoke work-with-pr and create a fresh task worktree.
2. Write a regression test that fails without the fix.
3. Make the smallest code change that turns the test green.
4. Run focused tests, adjacent tests, typecheck, build, and the full suite when risk warrants it.
5. Open a PR to dev.
6. Do not merge until CI, review-work, Cubic, and GPT-5.2 xhigh PR review all pass. If a .omo/plans/*.md plan is part of the workflow, Momus may review that plan and must return [OKAY]; do not count Momus as a PR diff reviewer.
7. Remove the worktree only after the merge commit succeeds.

Report Template

Use this shape for the investigation report:

Root cause:
<one mechanism, tied to runtime evidence>

Evidence:
- Parent session: <path>
- Child sessions: <ids and paths>
- OpenCode source: <checkout path and commit>
- Timeline: <key timestamped events>
- History: <relevant commits and blame lines>

Fix:
- PR: <number or link>
- Test proving the bug: <test file and test name>
- Validation: <commands and results>

Blocked gates:
- <only include if a required gate could not run or did not pass>