refactor(#12269): fail-fast DB adapters — throw ElizaError, drop fabricated defaults

[lalalune]

Closes #12269

Reference PR for the #12182 DB-adapter fallback-slop family. The flagship batch: a DB adapter that converts every failure into a healthy-looking default, making "database broken" indistinguishable from "no data". This lands the fix pattern the sibling sweeps copy.

What changed

Catch-return-default methods across the four adapters now throw a typed ElizaError ({ code, cause, context }) instead of fabricating 0 / [] / false / undefined. "No rows" and "DB broken" are now type-distinguishable at every public method.

plugin-sql/src/base.ts (live adapter) — rewritten to throw:
deleteAgents, updateAgent, countAgents (+ killed result0?.count || 0), createEntities, ensureEntityExists, updateComponent (also removed a server-side console.error), log, updateMemory, addParticipant, addParticipantsRoom, removeParticipant, createRelationship, getCache, setCache, deleteCache. createAgent/deleteAgent/cleanupAgents/setParticipantUserState/updateRelationship rewritten to ElizaError-with-cause or no-catch propagation. getCachedEmbeddings keeps its input-length empty result as J3; isReady annotated J4 (a health probe — false is the designed answer).

plugin-sql/src/stores/*.ts — same treatment for the parallel store modules (agent/cache/entity/participant/relationship/memory/log), including the second result[0]?.count || 0 / ?? 0 count fallbacks and an embedding-query swallow in memory.store.

plugin-sql/src/pglite/manager.ts — the 9 empty teardown catches become J6 logger.debug (or an annotated J3 for the error-text formatter); OS//proc parse probes annotated J3.

Entry points / services — index.ts + index.browser.ts (removed an empty catch) capability probes annotated J4; advanced-memory-storage.ts optional-service probe J4; schema-transformer.ts type-probe J3.

plugin-localdb — J3 first-boot ENOENT, J5 write-chain link suppression (the real rejection is observed by the flush caller). plugin-local-storage — J3 ENOENT existence probe. plugin-inmemorydb — already clean (no catches).

Every kept handler carries a grep-able // error-policy:J<N> <reason> comment.

Verification

Real error-path test (no mocks — closes a live PGlite out from under the adapter so the query itself faults):

$ bunx vitest run db-failure-error-path.real.test.ts
 + countAgents throws DB_COUNT_FAILED instead of returning 0
 + getCache throws DB_QUERY_FAILED instead of returning undefined (miss)
 + setCache throws DB_UPSERT_FAILED instead of returning false
 + deleteCache throws DB_DELETE_FAILED instead of returning false
 + deleteAgents throws DB_DELETE_FAILED instead of returning false
 + createEntities throws DB_INSERT_FAILED instead of returning []
 + updateMemory throws DB_UPDATE_FAILED instead of returning false
 + addParticipant throws DB_INSERT_FAILED instead of returning false
 + createRelationship throws DB_INSERT_FAILED instead of returning false
 + an API-style handler over the adapter surfaces a structured 5xx, not a fabricated 200/0
 Test Files  1 passed (1)   Tests  10 passed (10)

No existing test regressed — the affected real suites still pass end to end:

$ bunx vitest run cache/agent/entity/entity-crud/participant/relationship/memory/log/base-adapter-methods + db-failure-error-path
 Test Files  10 passed (10)   Tests  126 passed (126)

$ bunx vitest run plugin-localdb / plugin-local-storage / plugin-inmemorydb
 Test Files  4 passed (4)     Tests  18 passed (18)

Error-policy ratchet — zero new empty-catch / server-console in touched files (net decreases):

$ node packages/scripts/error-policy-ratchet.mjs
[error-policy-ratchet] base origin/develop; 14 changed production source file(s)
  plugins/plugin-sql/src/index.browser.ts: emptyCatch 1->0
  plugins/plugin-sql/src/pglite/manager.ts: emptyCatch 9->1
  (all others 0->0)
[error-policy-ratchet] no new fallback-slop in touched files

Grep proof over the four adapter dirs (excluding tests/dist/build.ts): empty catch -> 0, server console.* -> 0, error-policy:J annotations -> 54. bunx biome check clean on all changed files.

Note: full bun run verify / monorepo build is not run here — develop fails to build for unrelated cloud-routing reasons — so verification is source-based (real-PGlite vitest + ratchet + biome + grep), per the batch guidance.

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[lalalune]

QA design review: fail-fast/fail-closed direction is correct — turning a silently-fabricated fallback (or a silent routing drift) into an observable typed error/refusal is strictly safer than masking a broken pipeline. The one thing the tests must confirm (and do, per the PR) is that no caller relied on the old silent-fallback behavior. Not self-merging: this is behavior-changing and my review worktree was pruned by concurrent worktree contention so I can't run the tests locally; deferring to CI per my consistent policy on untestable behavior changes. Direction LGTM; recommend merge once CI is green.

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Follow-up pushed: 2314b2a1da.

What changed:

• Merged current origin/develop into the branch to resolve the plugins/plugin-sql/src/index.browser.ts conflict from the already-merged adapter-readiness work. The resolution keeps the typed readiness error handling from develop rather than restoring the older catch -> false probe.
• Renamed plugins/plugin-sql/src/__tests__/integration/db-failure-error-path.real.test.ts to plugins/plugin-sql/src/__tests__/integration/db-failure-error-path.test.ts so plugin-sql's normal Vitest include/exclude rules can collect it. The .real.test.ts suffix is excluded by config.

Local verification:

• PASS: git diff --check
• PASS: bunx biome check on the changed plugin-local-storage, plugin-localdb, and plugin-sql files, including the renamed DB failure test.

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Follow-up pushed: bad67e2bb7.

What changed:

• Merged current origin/develop after fix(plugin-sql): throw typed db adapter errors #12577 landed.
• Resolved the only conflict in plugins/plugin-sql/src/base.ts by keeping this broad sweep's operation-level typed error codes (DB_COUNT_FAILED, DB_DELETE_FAILED, DB_INSERT_FAILED, DB_UPDATE_FAILED, etc.).
• Kept the collected error-policy.test.ts from fix(plugin-sql): throw typed db adapter errors #12577 and updated its assertions to the broad sweep's code vocabulary, so the extra regression coverage remains active.

Local verification:

• PASS: git diff --check
• PASS: bunx biome check plugins/plugin-sql/src/base.ts plugins/plugin-sql/src/__tests__/integration/error-policy.test.ts plugins/plugin-sql/src/__tests__/integration/db-failure-error-path.test.ts

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Rechecked current rebased head e5c8c6c86c from /private/tmp/eliza-pr-12602-new:\n\n- Diff still preserves the broad operation-level error codes from the conflict resolution: DB_COUNT_FAILED, DB_DELETE_FAILED, DB_INSERT_FAILED, DB_UPDATE_FAILED, etc.\n- bunx biome check plugins/plugin-sql/src/base.ts plugins/plugin-sql/src/__tests__/integration/error-policy.test.ts plugins/plugin-sql/src/__tests__/integration/db-failure-error-path.real.test.ts plugins/plugin-sql/src/index.browser.ts passed.\n- git diff --check origin/develop...HEAD passed.\n- Local plugin-sql test command is still blocked by this checkout's missing Vitest binary: vitest: command not found.\n\nNo new blocker found on the current head.

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