aws / aws/bedrock-agentcore-sdk-python

bug: incorrect pagination in Memory Session Manager `list_messages`

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Description

## Problem

### Before PR #244

State events and conversational events were naturally separated by actorId:

```python
# create_session used a prefixed actorId
create_event(actorId="session_my-session-id", payload=[{"blob": ...}])

# create_agent used a prefixed actorId
create_event(actorId="agent_my-agent-id", payload=[{"blob": ...}])

# create_message used the regular actorId
create_event(actorId="my-actor-id", payload=[{"conversational": ...}])
```

So when list_messages called list_events with actorId="my-actor-id", it only got conversational events back. State events lived under different actorIds and were invisible to this query. max_results counted only
what mattered.

### After PR #244

Everything now uses the same actorId, with metadata distinguishing state events:

```python
# create_session — same actorId, metadata marks it as state
create_event(
actorId="my-actor-id", # ← same as messages now
metadata={"stateType": {"stringValue": "SESSION"}},
payload=[{"blob": ...}],
)

# create_agent — same actorId, metadata marks it as state
create_event(
actorId="my-actor-id", # ← same as messages now
metadata={"stateType": {"stringValue": "AGENT"}, "agentId": {"stringValue": "..."}},
payload=[{"blob": ...}],
)

# create_message — same actorId, no metadata
create_event(actorId="my-actor-id", payload=[{"conversational": ...}])
```

### Potential Issues

`list_messages` in `session_manager.py` fetches events without any metadata filter:

```python
events = self.memory_client.list_events(
memory_id=self.config.memory_id,
actor_id=self.config.actor_id,
session_id=session_id,
max_results=max_results, # ← this now includes state events in the count
)
```

Since all events share the same actorId now, this query returns both conversational AND state events. The API returned `max_results` events total, some of which were state events. Those get discarded by the converter, so the final list is shorter than what the caller asked for.

### Concrete example

A session with 1 session state event, 2 agent state events, and 20 conversational messages. Customer calls list_messages(limit=10):

1. `max_results` = limit + offset = 10
2. `list_events` returns 10 events: 3 state + 7 conversational
3. `events_to_messages` discards the 3 state events → 7 messages
4. Customer gets 7 messages, expected 10

Customer does not get a pagination token, so they assume 7 is all that exists, and doesn't know there are more.

### Acceptance Criteria
- [ ] customer should be given nextToken, or should always get maxResults exactly if more results exist.
- [ ] unit tests and/or integration verifying fix of the bug.

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