diff --git a/CONTEXT.md b/CONTEXT.md
index 0a9e9dce5..4dc786b81 100644
--- a/CONTEXT.md
+++ b/CONTEXT.md
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ Session; others aggregate elsewhere, such as worktree resolution on its Project.
 **Durable Session event stream**:
 One Session Aggregate's durable Event log, read back over SSE. `after` is an exclusive sequence
 taken from a durable envelope or a sync marker, `follow` continues into live Events, and a single
-`log.synced` marker separates replay from live. Retention remains unestablished.
+`log.synced` marker separates replay from live. The sequence is not contiguous, the log has no
+retention policy, and persistence is a server option that is off by default.
 _Avoid_: session events (ambiguous with the live stream)
 
 **Live event stream**:
diff --git a/docs/ROADMAP.md b/docs/ROADMAP.md
index 662f22d12..d2dc51893 100644
--- a/docs/ROADMAP.md
+++ b/docs/ROADMAP.md
@@ -70,7 +70,11 @@ is revisited at each boundary.
   The pin therefore stays a deliberate snapshot, refreshed under receipt at milestone boundaries.
 - **`v2.session.log` resume guarantees** — the pinned document exposes `after` as an optional
   string, and the generated surface stays faithful to it; ADR-0013 forbids importing the narrower
-  type upstream's implementation decodes. Retention and replay guarantees are unestablished.
+  type upstream's implementation decodes. Replay mechanics and retention are established and
+  carried by canon. What stays open is the wire behaviour nothing upstream pins: no server-level
+  test covers this route, so the status a malformed `after` answers, and whether an idle `follow`
+  connection survives an intermediary, are settled only by this repository's own live tests.
+  Upstream has no production caller that passes `after`, so this SDK is the path's first consumer.
 - **OpenAPI projection fidelity** — the pinned document loses detail upstream's implementation
   carries. Confirmed losses are reported upstream
   ([anomalyco/opencode#44911](https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/44911), restored by the
diff --git a/docs/architecture/client-runtime.md b/docs/architecture/client-runtime.md
index 9572f4aee..fd7ead99d 100644
--- a/docs/architecture/client-runtime.md
+++ b/docs/architecture/client-runtime.md
@@ -270,9 +270,19 @@ local server launcher. Protocol and generated-model rules live in
   disposes the live response so cancellation interrupts platform response-stream reads that do not
   observe an async read token; disposal-induced I/O failures remain caller cancellation.
 - The SDK never auto-reconnects. A live-stream consumer refreshes authoritative state and
-  resubscribes after failure. Durable continuation is requested explicitly through
-  `v2.session.log`'s `after` parameter; persistence, retention, and replay guarantees remain
-  unestablished (research doc 02, `docs/ROADMAP.md`).
+  resubscribes after failure.
+- Durable continuation is requested explicitly through `v2.session.log`'s `after` parameter, an
+  exclusive aggregate sequence read from a durable envelope or from the sync marker. One
+  `log.synced` marker reports the watermark the replay was captured at; it is a boundary rather
+  than a durable event, and under `follow` the events committed while that replay was in flight
+  arrive after it. Sequences are not contiguous, so a gap is ordinary and no count is derived from
+  two of them. A cursor past the aggregate's tail is accepted rather than refused and then
+  suppresses live delivery until the aggregate overtakes it, so a cursor travels only within one
+  server's lifetime.
+- That log has no retention policy: nothing expires, prunes, or caps it, compaction and revert
+  rewrite projections rather than the log, and rows are deleted only with their session.
+  Persistence is itself a server option that is off unless the server was started with it, so a
+  default server answers a replay with the marker alone (`docs/ROADMAP.md`).
 - The SSE event name is a framing signal. An ordinary payload uses the default `message` name;
   the operation's declared failure event materializes its cause through generated metadata and
   throws; any other explicit name is refused. Unknown payload and cause discriminators remain
diff --git a/docs/guide/streaming.md b/docs/guide/streaming.md
index d13825ef4..22d2c3ca3 100644
--- a/docs/guide/streaming.md
+++ b/docs/guide/streaming.md
@@ -93,10 +93,12 @@ With `Follow = True`, read through any replayed events until that marker arrives
 then delivers live events committed after the attachment boundary. The marker is a transition
 boundary, not a durable event to save as the next `After` value.
 
-> **📎 A note on guarantees**: `after` is a *request*, not a durability promise. How much history
-> the server persists or retains, and for how long, is upstream's business and is not something
-> this SDK can state on its behalf. The stream does not promise replay after a server restart.
-> Treat a returned gap as possible and reconcile with ordinary reads. See the canonical
+> **📎 A note on guarantees**: replay depends on the server. Persistence is a server option that is
+> off unless the server was started with it, so a default server answers with the marker alone.
+> When it is on, nothing expires or prunes the log and entries live until their session is deleted.
+> Sequences are not contiguous, so treat a gap as ordinary rather than as loss. Carry a cursor only
+> within one server's lifetime: a cursor past the log's tail is accepted rather than refused and
+> then suppresses live delivery until the log overtakes it. See the canonical
 > [server-sent events rules](../architecture/client-runtime.md#server-sent-events).
 
 ## 🧩 Unknown events do not break your consumer