[FEATURE]: Add explicit hidden or ephemeral sessions for plugin background tasks #40863

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Describe the enhancement you want to request

Plugins sometimes need to run LLM tasks in the background without exposing those tasks as normal user conversations.

I built a local long-term memory plugin that uses this pattern:

1. Wait for a user session to become idle.
2. Create a child session with parentID.
3. Send a constrained consolidation prompt.
4. Read and persist the result.
5. Delete the child session.

This works, but it relies on child sessions being excluded from user-facing root session lists. parentID represents hierarchy; it does not explicitly guarantee that a session is hidden, temporary, or automatically cleaned up.

A child session can still appear in unfiltered session queries and may remain orphaned if the process exits before cleanup.

I would like to propose an explicit opt-in property when creating a session, for example:

client.session.create({
  body: {
    title: "memory-consolidation",
    parentID,
    hidden: true,
    ephemeral: true,
  },
})

Possible semantics:

hidden: true excludes the session from normal user-facing session lists and pickers.
Hidden sessions remain accessible by exact ID and through an explicit includeHidden query option.
ephemeral: true allows automatic cleanup after completion, cancellation, process restart, or a configurable TTL.
parentID remains independent from visibility and lifetime.
Existing session behavior remains unchanged unless these options are enabled.

This would support background use cases such as:

memory consolidation;
indexing and context extraction;
automated summaries;
evaluation or validation passes;
plugin-managed background agents.

I have a working plugin and end-to-end tests demonstrating that child sessions can execute prompts, remain absent from root session listings, return structured results, and be deleted after completion.

Related discussions include #19999 and #20849, but this request is intentionally narrower: it concerns only session visibility and lifecycle for plugin-created background tasks.

I am happy to contribute documentation and tests first, or an implementation after the maintainers confirm the preferred API and semantics.