diff --git a/packages/api/session-controller/src/history/controller.ts b/packages/api/session-controller/src/history/controller.ts
index 15c49c6a4b..d090f0a3f7 100644
--- a/packages/api/session-controller/src/history/controller.ts
+++ b/packages/api/session-controller/src/history/controller.ts
@@ -30,12 +30,12 @@ export class HistoryController {
   }
 
   /**
-   * Read a passive history page at an exact event cut.
-   * @param request - Session identity and optional historical cut and page window.
+   * Read a passive page of Session events at an exact cut.
+   * @param request - Session identity and optional cut and page window.
    * @param signal - read cancellation.
    * @returns a page at the supplied cut, or the observed log end when omitted.
    */
-  async history(request: SessionPageRequest, signal: AbortSignal): Promise<SessionEventsPage> {
+  async events(request: SessionPageRequest, signal: AbortSignal): Promise<SessionEventsPage> {
     const spec = resolveHistoryRequest(request)
     try {
       return await this.usingObservation({ sessionId: addressId(request.address), projection: request.address.kind === 'subagent' }, signal, (observation) => {
diff --git a/packages/api/session-controller/src/index.ts b/packages/api/session-controller/src/index.ts
index 43d002e9b8..94d08c77e3 100644
--- a/packages/api/session-controller/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/api/session-controller/src/index.ts
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ export class SessionController extends TypertRemoteService {
    */
   @Remote('page')
   page(request: SessionPageRequest, signal: AbortSignal): Promise<SessionEventsPage> {
-    return this.historyController.history(request, signal)
+    return this.historyController.events(request, signal)
   }
 
   /**
@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ export class SessionController extends TypertRemoteService {
    */
   @Remote
   events(request: SessionPageRequest, signal: AbortSignal): Promise<SessionEventsPage> {
-    return this.historyController.history(request, signal)
+    return this.historyController.events(request, signal)
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/packages/api/session-controller/tests/history-controller.host.spec.ts b/packages/api/session-controller/tests/history-controller.host.spec.ts
index 2f39beb128..e3592ddbad 100644
--- a/packages/api/session-controller/tests/history-controller.host.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/api/session-controller/tests/history-controller.host.spec.ts
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ describe('HistoryController passive reads', () => {
       message: createMessage({ role: 'assistant', content: [{ type: 'text', text: 'latest' }], source: { kind: 'model', provider: 'p', model: 'm' } }),
       stream: [],
     }, { surfaceOp: 'append' })
-    const page = await f.history.history({ address: f.address }, f.abort.signal)
+    const page = await f.history.events({ address: f.address }, f.abort.signal)
     expect(page.cursor).toBe(f.session.seq - 1)
     expect(page.records.at(-1)?.event.seq).toBe(f.session.seq - 1)
   })
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ describe('HistoryController passive reads', () => {
     const f = await fixture()
     // A cross-realm or opaque source may reject with the code alone; the message falls back.
     vi.spyOn(f.ctx.sessionQuery, 'observeSession').mockRejectedValue({ code: 'SESSION_QUERY_ABORTED' })
-    await expect(f.history.history({ address: f.address }, f.abort.signal)).rejects.toMatchObject({
+    await expect(f.history.events({ address: f.address }, f.abort.signal)).rejects.toMatchObject({
       code: 'gateway/cancelled', message: 'Session read was cancelled',
     })
   })
diff --git a/packages/api/session-controller/tests/transport.host.spec.ts b/packages/api/session-controller/tests/transport.host.spec.ts
index c35d2f7055..66c7bdb606 100644
--- a/packages/api/session-controller/tests/transport.host.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/api/session-controller/tests/transport.host.spec.ts
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ describe('Session history and Web follow', () => {
       { version: SESSION_FORMAT_VERSION, id: corruptId, createdAt: 1, cwd: '/workspace', isSeeded: false },
       [event('fixture/start', SessionSeq(0)), event('fixture/gap', SessionSeq(2))],
     )
-    await expect(corrupt.history.history({
+    await expect(corrupt.history.events({
       address: { kind: 'session', sessionId: corruptId }, throughSeq: 1,
     }, signal())).rejects.toMatchObject({ code: 'SESSION_QUERY_CORRUPT_SESSION' })
     for (const maxMessages of [0, 0.5]) {
@@ -675,7 +675,7 @@ describe('Session history and Web follow', () => {
         events: [],
       }),
     }) as never)
-    await expect(first.history.history({ address, throughSeq: -1 }, signal()))
+    await expect(first.history.events({ address, throughSeq: -1 }, signal()))
       .rejects.toMatchObject({ code: 'session/not-found' })
 
     const second = await setup()
@@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ describe('Session history and Web follow', () => {
         events: [],
       }),
     }) as never)
-    await expect(second.history.history({ address, throughSeq: -1 }, signal()))
+    await expect(second.history.events({ address, throughSeq: -1 }, signal()))
       .rejects.toMatchObject({ code: 'session/not-found' })
   })
 
@@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ describe('Session history and Web follow', () => {
       isSeeded: false,
     }
     cold(ordinaryBench.ctx, ordinaryHeader, [event('turn/start', SessionSeq(0), { turn: 1 })])
-    await expect(ordinaryBench.history.history({
+    await expect(ordinaryBench.history.events({
       address: { kind: 'session', sessionId: ordinaryId },
       throughSeq: 0,
     }, signal())).resolves.toMatchObject({
@@ -730,18 +730,18 @@ describe('Session history and Web follow', () => {
     }
     const missing = await setup()
     cold(missing.ctx, childHeader, [])
-    await expect(missing.history.history({ address: childAddress, throughSeq: -1 }, signal()))
+    await expect(missing.history.events({ address: childAddress, throughSeq: -1 }, signal()))
       .rejects.toMatchObject({ code: 'subagent/catalog-diagnostic', details: { reason: 'corrupt' } })
 
     const corrupt = await setup()
     cold(corrupt.ctx, childHeader, [event('subagent/descriptor', SessionSeq(0), { version: 'bad' })])
-    await expect(corrupt.history.history({ address: childAddress, throughSeq: 0 }, signal()))
+    await expect(corrupt.history.events({ address: childAddress, throughSeq: 0 }, signal()))
       .rejects.toMatchObject({ code: 'subagent/catalog-diagnostic', details: { reason: 'corrupt' } })
 
     const ordinaryChild = await setup()
     const { origin: _origin, ...ordinaryChildHeader } = childHeader
     cold(ordinaryChild.ctx, ordinaryChildHeader, [])
-    await expect(ordinaryChild.history.history({ address: childAddress, throughSeq: -1 }, signal()))
+    await expect(ordinaryChild.history.events({ address: childAddress, throughSeq: -1 }, signal()))
       .rejects.toMatchObject({ code: 'subagent/unauthorized' })
   })
 
@@ -791,7 +791,7 @@ describe('Session history and Web follow', () => {
     const session = ordinary.ctx.sessions.create(SessionId('projected'), { meta: { cwd: '/workspace' } })
     session.append('turn/start', { turn: 1 })
     const ordinarySnapshot = vi.spyOn(ordinary.ctx.sessionProjections, 'snapshot')
-    const ordinaryPage = await ordinary.history.history({
+    const ordinaryPage = await ordinary.history.events({
       address: { kind: 'session', sessionId: session.id },
       throughSeq: 0,
     }, signal())
@@ -808,7 +808,7 @@ describe('Session history and Web follow', () => {
       mode: 'continuable', provider: 'test', label: 'child',
     }))
     const childSnapshot = vi.spyOn(child.ctx.sessionProjections, 'snapshot')
-    const page = await child.history.history({
+    const page = await child.history.events({
       address: {
         kind: 'subagent',
         parentSessionId,