diff --git a/packages/memory-host-sdk/src/host/batch-upload.ts b/packages/memory-host-sdk/src/host/batch-upload.ts
index efe4aa7000a..9b5b91531df 100644
--- a/packages/memory-host-sdk/src/host/batch-upload.ts
+++ b/packages/memory-host-sdk/src/host/batch-upload.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import {
   normalizeBatchBaseUrl,
   type BatchHttpClientConfig,
 } from "./batch-utils.js";
-import { hashText } from "./internal.js";
+import { hashText } from "./hash.js";
 import { withRemoteHttpResponse } from "./remote-http.js";
 
 export async function uploadBatchJsonlFile(params: {
diff --git a/packages/memory-host-sdk/src/host/embedding-chunk-limits.ts b/packages/memory-host-sdk/src/host/embedding-chunk-limits.ts
index 5c8cf9020f3..0156b97ef77 100644
--- a/packages/memory-host-sdk/src/host/embedding-chunk-limits.ts
+++ b/packages/memory-host-sdk/src/host/embedding-chunk-limits.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ import { estimateUtf8Bytes, splitTextToUtf8ByteLimit } from "./embedding-input-l
 import { hasNonTextEmbeddingParts } from "./embedding-inputs.js";
 import { resolveEmbeddingMaxInputTokens } from "./embedding-model-limits.js";
 import type { EmbeddingProvider } from "./embeddings.js";
-import { hashText, type MemoryChunk } from "./internal.js";
+import { hashText } from "./hash.js";
+import type { MemoryChunk } from "./internal.js";
 
 export function enforceEmbeddingMaxInputTokens(
   provider: EmbeddingProvider,
diff --git a/packages/memory-host-sdk/src/host/hash.ts b/packages/memory-host-sdk/src/host/hash.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..458a6b48ed2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/memory-host-sdk/src/host/hash.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+import crypto from "node:crypto";
+
+export function hashText(value: string): string {
+  return crypto.createHash("sha256").update(value).digest("hex");
+}
diff --git a/packages/memory-host-sdk/src/host/internal.ts b/packages/memory-host-sdk/src/host/internal.ts
index 228bb3fffdc..1a97e100ffd 100644
--- a/packages/memory-host-sdk/src/host/internal.ts
+++ b/packages/memory-host-sdk/src/host/internal.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ import {
   type MemoryMultimodalSettings,
 } from "./multimodal.js";
 
+export { hashText } from "./hash.js";
+import { hashText } from "./hash.js";
+
 export type MemoryFileEntry = {
   path: string;
   absPath: string;
@@ -204,10 +207,6 @@ export async function listMemoryFiles(
   return deduped;
 }
 
-export function hashText(value: string): string {
-  return crypto.createHash("sha256").update(value).digest("hex");
-}
-
 export async function buildFileEntry(
   absPath: string,
   workspaceDir: string,
diff --git a/packages/memory-host-sdk/src/host/session-files.ts b/packages/memory-host-sdk/src/host/session-files.ts
index d2a1116189e..3eb3af5a8e1 100644
--- a/packages/memory-host-sdk/src/host/session-files.ts
+++ b/packages/memory-host-sdk/src/host/session-files.ts
@@ -4,10 +4,7 @@ import { stripInboundMetadata } from "../../../../src/auto-reply/reply/strip-inb
 import { isUsageCountedSessionTranscriptFileName } from "../../../../src/config/sessions/artifacts.js";
 import { resolveSessionTranscriptsDirForAgent } from "../../../../src/config/sessions/paths.js";
 import { redactSensitiveText } from "../../../../src/logging/redact.js";
-import { createSubsystemLogger } from "../../../../src/logging/subsystem.js";
-import { hashText } from "./internal.js";
-
-const log = createSubsystemLogger("memory");
+import { hashText } from "./hash.js";
 
 export type SessionFileEntry = {
   path: string;
@@ -62,6 +59,11 @@ export function sessionPathForFile(absPath: string): string {
   return path.join("sessions", path.basename(absPath)).replace(/\\/g, "/");
 }
 
+async function logSessionFileReadFailure(absPath: string, err: unknown): Promise<void> {
+  const { createSubsystemLogger } = await import("../../../../src/logging/subsystem.js");
+  createSubsystemLogger("memory").debug(`Failed reading session file ${absPath}: ${String(err)}`);
+}
+
 function normalizeSessionText(value: string): string {
   return value
     .replace(/\s*\n+\s*/g, " ")
@@ -174,7 +176,7 @@ export async function buildSessionEntry(absPath: string): Promise<SessionFileEnt
       ...(generatedByDreamingNarrative ? { generatedByDreamingNarrative: true } : {}),
     };
   } catch (err) {
-    log.debug(`Failed reading session file ${absPath}: ${String(err)}`);
+    void logSessionFileReadFailure(absPath, err);
     return null;
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/memory-host-sdk/host/batch-upload.ts b/src/memory-host-sdk/host/batch-upload.ts
index 0ec99290205..1b64202f9b6 100644
--- a/src/memory-host-sdk/host/batch-upload.ts
+++ b/src/memory-host-sdk/host/batch-upload.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import {
   normalizeBatchBaseUrl,
   type BatchHttpClientConfig,
 } from "./batch-utils.js";
-import { hashText } from "./internal.js";
+import { hashText } from "./hash.js";
 import { withRemoteHttpResponse } from "./remote-http.js";
 
 export async function uploadBatchJsonlFile(params: {
diff --git a/src/memory-host-sdk/host/embedding-chunk-limits.ts b/src/memory-host-sdk/host/embedding-chunk-limits.ts
index 5c8cf9020f3..0156b97ef77 100644
--- a/src/memory-host-sdk/host/embedding-chunk-limits.ts
+++ b/src/memory-host-sdk/host/embedding-chunk-limits.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ import { estimateUtf8Bytes, splitTextToUtf8ByteLimit } from "./embedding-input-l
 import { hasNonTextEmbeddingParts } from "./embedding-inputs.js";
 import { resolveEmbeddingMaxInputTokens } from "./embedding-model-limits.js";
 import type { EmbeddingProvider } from "./embeddings.js";
-import { hashText, type MemoryChunk } from "./internal.js";
+import { hashText } from "./hash.js";
+import type { MemoryChunk } from "./internal.js";
 
 export function enforceEmbeddingMaxInputTokens(
   provider: EmbeddingProvider,
diff --git a/src/memory-host-sdk/host/hash.ts b/src/memory-host-sdk/host/hash.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..458a6b48ed2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/memory-host-sdk/host/hash.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+import crypto from "node:crypto";
+
+export function hashText(value: string): string {
+  return crypto.createHash("sha256").update(value).digest("hex");
+}
diff --git a/src/memory-host-sdk/host/internal.ts b/src/memory-host-sdk/host/internal.ts
index 20e1d14aeef..a84e18bcb06 100644
--- a/src/memory-host-sdk/host/internal.ts
+++ b/src/memory-host-sdk/host/internal.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ import {
   type MemoryMultimodalSettings,
 } from "./multimodal.js";
 
+export { hashText } from "./hash.js";
+import { hashText } from "./hash.js";
+
 export type MemoryFileEntry = {
   path: string;
   absPath: string;
@@ -204,10 +207,6 @@ export async function listMemoryFiles(
   return deduped;
 }
 
-export function hashText(value: string): string {
-  return crypto.createHash("sha256").update(value).digest("hex");
-}
-
 export async function buildFileEntry(
   absPath: string,
   workspaceDir: string,
diff --git a/src/memory-host-sdk/host/session-files.ts b/src/memory-host-sdk/host/session-files.ts
index 37cbc4970d4..057ef91562b 100644
--- a/src/memory-host-sdk/host/session-files.ts
+++ b/src/memory-host-sdk/host/session-files.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import fsSync from "node:fs";
 import fs from "node:fs/promises";
 import path from "node:path";
 import { stripInternalRuntimeContext } from "../../agents/internal-runtime-context.js";
@@ -10,14 +11,11 @@ import {
   isUsageCountedSessionTranscriptFileName,
 } from "../../config/sessions/artifacts.js";
 import { resolveSessionTranscriptsDirForAgent } from "../../config/sessions/paths.js";
-import { loadSessionStore } from "../../config/sessions/store-load.js";
 import { isExecCompletionEvent } from "../../infra/heartbeat-events-filter.js";
 import { redactSensitiveText } from "../../logging/redact.js";
-import { createSubsystemLogger } from "../../logging/subsystem.js";
 import { isCronRunSessionKey } from "../../sessions/session-key-utils.js";
-import { hashText } from "./internal.js";
+import { hashText } from "./hash.js";
 
-const log = createSubsystemLogger("memory");
 const DREAMING_NARRATIVE_RUN_PREFIX = "dreaming-narrative-";
 // Keep the historical one-line-per-message export shape for normal turns, but
 // wrap pathological long messages so downstream indexers never ingest a single
@@ -55,6 +53,11 @@ export type SessionTranscriptClassification = {
   cronRunTranscriptPaths: ReadonlySet<string>;
 };
 
+type SessionTranscriptStoreEntry = {
+  sessionFile?: unknown;
+  sessionId?: unknown;
+};
+
 function isCheckpointTranscriptFileName(fileName: string): boolean {
   return fileName.endsWith(".jsonl") && fileName.includes(".checkpoint.");
 }
@@ -169,7 +172,7 @@ export function loadSessionTranscriptClassificationForSessionsDir(
   sessionsDir: string,
 ): SessionTranscriptClassification {
   const storePath = path.join(sessionsDir, "sessions.json");
-  const store = loadSessionStore(storePath);
+  const store = readSessionTranscriptClassificationStore(storePath);
   const dreamingTranscriptPaths = new Set<string>();
   const cronRunTranscriptPaths = new Set<string>();
   for (const [sessionKey, entry] of Object.entries(store)) {
@@ -190,6 +193,20 @@ export function loadSessionTranscriptClassificationForSessionsDir(
   };
 }
 
+function readSessionTranscriptClassificationStore(
+  storePath: string,
+): Record<string, SessionTranscriptStoreEntry> {
+  try {
+    const parsed = JSON.parse(fsSync.readFileSync(storePath, "utf-8")) as unknown;
+    if (!parsed || typeof parsed !== "object" || Array.isArray(parsed)) {
+      return {};
+    }
+    return parsed as Record<string, SessionTranscriptStoreEntry>;
+  } catch {
+    return {};
+  }
+}
+
 export function loadDreamingNarrativeTranscriptPathSetForAgent(
   agentId: string,
 ): ReadonlySet<string> {
@@ -236,6 +253,11 @@ export function sessionPathForFile(absPath: string): string {
   return path.join("sessions", path.basename(absPath)).replace(/\\/g, "/");
 }
 
+async function logSessionFileReadFailure(absPath: string, err: unknown): Promise<void> {
+  const { createSubsystemLogger } = await import("../../logging/subsystem.js");
+  createSubsystemLogger("memory").debug(`Failed reading session file ${absPath}: ${String(err)}`);
+}
+
 function normalizeSessionText(value: string): string {
   return value
     .replace(/\s*\n+\s*/g, " ")
@@ -528,7 +550,7 @@ export async function buildSessionEntry(
       ...(generatedByCronRun ? { generatedByCronRun: true } : {}),
     };
   } catch (err) {
-    log.debug(`Failed reading session file ${absPath}: ${String(err)}`);
+    void logSessionFileReadFailure(absPath, err);
     return null;
   }
 }