continue

Identity

Names: dev.continue; short alias continue.
Native format: continue-session-json, sessions/<sessionId>.json; the separate catalog is discovery only.
Session ID: Persisted sessionId, no namespace.
Compaction: At the pin, conversationSummary summarizes the history prefix up to and including its containing item. Map replaces.throughId to that item’s last context projection. The summary is not an extra assistant message.
Notes: Each persisted promptLogs[] item identifies an inference with a derived key. modelProvider is a provider; modelTitle and chatModelTitle are labels, not model IDs. Prompt logs do not prove exact request context. ContextItem arrays in tool state remain raw unless explicit tool-message content records rendering. Current mode, tools and totals are tail snapshots; totals are cumulative session usage.

Position basis

Record family	Position basis	Commit boundary
transcript	array-index	document
current-state	snapshot	document

Use only positions established by the stated format and mapping evidence. Current-state rows without transcript positions form the snapshot tail. A protocol commit boundary takes precedence over physical EOF; uncommitted bytes are not a gap.

Destinations

continue: native facts without a standard field

Fact	Native name	Destination
Remaining source facts	The native row or item used for this projection	`native.record` on the record for this source value, or `native.blob` for its whole-value blob. Preserve native JSON text columns as strings. Use a separate vendor record when several source rows feed one projection. ASR-035 applies to unsafe numbers.
Unpaired result identity	The result’s native call-ID field named above	`tool_result.nativeCallId`, verbatim
Request diagnostics	One `promptLogs[]` item	`inference` `_meta` `dev.continue/promptLog`, complete item
Editor and rule state	`contextItems`, `editorState`, `appliedRules`, `reasoning.active/startAt/endAt`	kept as native members of `dev.continue/source`; no extra flattened keys

Links

Entity keys and links: GUI ChatHistoryItemWithMessageId.message.id is native. Core ChatMessage can lack it and uses capture-scoped position. toolCallStates[].toolCall takes precedence over message.toolCalls; toolCall.id joins explicit tool-message toolCallId. Duplicate IDs do not join by order.
Lineage: No native inter-session parent, child, copy or root contract is qualified. Generic fields that look like parent pointers remain source evidence.

Usage

Select one report per native accounting identity only when this entry establishes that identity. Keep unjoinable or overlapping reports as native evidence. Declare when semantic coverage is incomplete. Schema defaults and placeholder zeros are not reported usage. Backend inclusion rules require evidence; do not infer them from a model name.

Lane and unassigned facts

Facts without established session ownership use manifest _meta["dev.continue/unassigned"] with the common shape. A selection may keep these facts with any subset of sessions, including an empty subset, but must not imply that a session owns them. State the selection policy in the export report.

Losses

Declare every applicable loss under ASR-157. Missing model rendering, accounting joins, lineage or exact context boundaries remain losses when this entry does not qualify them. Unknown ownership is not itself lost data. Omitted unassigned facts use a documented vendor loss or report, not a new core category.

Evidence

Basis: source-verified at Continue commit 5522c6f44ca0ac3528b37244818fbfa39b5af470 (core/util/history.ts, sessionSlice and conversationCompaction), with authored tests. No package version or end-to-end runtime capture is established. Evidence applies only to the named formats and explicit mappings above. A real capture covers only the behavior that was exercised. A writer probe run without a model covers persistence only, not model or tool execution. Authored tests do not qualify an agent version. Unlisted formats and link mappings remain unqualified.

Observations from 2026-10-27

observed, version 1.5.47: CLI 1.5.47 retained history items, toolCallStates and result content in three runs. The public fixture covers one read/edit/shell-test session with four tool call/result pairs. It supplies no fork or compaction evidence. Preserve each whole history item in native.record or native.blob. The ctx conversion produced 3 streams and 54 records, with 0 errors, 3 notices, 0 gaps and 0 unidentified inputs under validator-v0.1.2. These counts describe the selected output; an empty bundle qualifies no source format. The separately retained sanitized native fixture has capture@1.5.47 evidence for one read/edit/shell-test session only. The other runs remain observed evidence. Whole native records use native.record or native.blob, with JSON text columns preserved as strings. The exporter’s own bookkeeping for serialization, partitioning and message keys belongs in the exporter namespace (rs.ctx for ctx), not in a provider metadata destination. These runs add no evidence for unexercised approvals, lineage links, compaction boundaries or exact request context.

{
  "name": "dev.continue",
  "aliases": [
    "continue"
  ],
  "namespace": {
    "rule": "none"
  },
  "positions": [
    {
      "family": "transcript",
      "basis": "array-index",
      "boundary": "document"
    },
    {
      "family": "current-state",
      "basis": "snapshot",
      "boundary": "document"
    }
  ],
  "formats": [
    {
      "id": "continue-session-json",
      "evidence": [
        0,
        2,
        3
      ]
    }
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "label": "source",
      "revision": "5522c6f44ca0ac3528b37244818fbfa39b5af470",
      "scope": "format-and-explicit-mappings"
    },
    {
      "label": "authored",
      "scope": "converter-tests-only"
    },
    {
      "label": "observed",
      "version": "1.5.47",
      "date": "2026-10-27",
      "scope": "CLI session history JSON under .continue/sessions; Three successful sessions; public fixture is the third read/edit/shell-test run.",
      "limitations": "CLI 1.5.47 retained history items, toolCallStates and result content in three runs. The public fixture covers one read/edit/shell-test session with four tool call/result pairs. It supplies no fork or compaction evidence. Preserve each whole history item in native.record or native.blob.",
      "validation": {
        "streams": 3,
        "records": 54,
        "errors": 0,
        "notices": 3,
        "gaps": 0,
        "unidentifiedSources": 0
      },
      "validator": "validator-v0.1.2",
      "converter": "ctx-asr-authentic-captures-4"
    },
    {
      "label": "capture",
      "version": "1.5.47",
      "date": "2026-10-27",
      "scope": "one sanitized CLI read/edit/shell-test session; no fork, child, approval or compaction claim",
      "fixture": "https://github.com/ctxrs/ctx/tree/fdae33de7931ff230c8aef12ad14760099552dcd/tests/fixtures/provider-history/authentic-headless/v1",
      "records": 22,
      "toolPairs": 4
    }
  ],
  "destinations": {
    "promptLog": {
      "schema": {},
      "evidence": [
        0
      ]
    }
  },
  "mappings": [
    {
      "native": "complete native row or event",
      "destination": "native.record or native.blob",
      "scope": "CLI session history JSON under .continue/sessions",
      "evidence": [
        2
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Introduction

Format

Records

Trust

Extending and conforming

Agent registry

continue

continue

Identity

Position basis

Destinations

continue: native facts without a standard field

Links

Usage

Lane and unassigned facts

Losses

Evidence

Observations from 2026-10-27

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​Identity

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​Destinations

​continue: native facts without a standard field

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​Usage

​Lane and unassigned facts

​Losses

​Evidence

​Observations from 2026-10-27

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Identity

Position basis

Destinations

continue: native facts without a standard field

Links

Usage

Lane and unassigned facts

Losses

Evidence

Observations from 2026-10-27