Continue an agent conversation across requests with a persistent session

Goal

Continue the correct conversation state across calls while isolating users’ records.

Steps

1. Define session ID creation, ownership, expiration, and deletion rules. [openai-sessions] [openai-context]
2. Create a stable conversation ID with session=SQLiteSession("conversation_123", "conversations.db"); authorize session IDs when storage is shared. [openai-sessions] [openai-context]
3. Call await Runner.run(agent, user_input, session=session) each turn; use RunConfig(session_settings=SessionSettings(limit=...)) to bound history. [openai-sessions] [openai-context]
4. Delete expired sessions under a retention policy and minimize stored conversation data. [openai-sessions] [openai-context]
5. Run a multi-turn test for two isolated users and confirm each sees only its own history. [openai-sessions] [openai-context]

How to verify

Multi-turn tests should preserve each user’s context and reject cross-user session access.

Troubleshooting

If history is missing or mixed, verify session-ID ownership and backend persistence before changing prompts.