How to tell if session loaded?

Where do you see that in the docs? That should be eradicated. The Session library is pretty much a straight port of the CI3 one, so it should be pretty much what you're used to.

The session is not started until you load it the first time. Calling the session() helper command will automatically start it if it isn't already started.

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