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What this is (phase 1 of #7770)

Two things, layered:

  1. AfterTurn — the first act-capable lifecycle hook point in
    ironclaw_hooks: fires once after a turn's run reaches a terminal state.
    Privileged-only (Builtin/Trusted; Installed/SelfAuthored rejected at
    install time AND denied by the new DecisionKind::Lifecycle in the trust
    matrix). Dispatch rides the existing registry/poison/failure-policy/telemetry
    machinery, each hook bounded by a 5s timeout.
  2. Memory curation ("dreaming") as its first consumer, wired end to end
    behind config: every N completed conversation turns, the agent runs with no
    user present, re-reads the standing memory document, and tidies it — merging
    duplicates, resolving superseded facts. Output is the rewritten document plus
    a schema-validated report. Off by default: [memory] curation_interval_turns
    absent = the hook is never registered.

This PR began as a bespoke AfterTurnCurationPort (see the earlier history);
review pointed out that a hook point is the right home, #7770 designed it, and
the port is now deleted — ironclaw_memory carries no hook vocabulary.

The load-bearing guard

Hook-started background work runs UNBOUND (no conversation, no reply target,
#7562), and the AfterTurn point never fires for unbound runs — enforced
centrally in the runner's context derivation, not left to hook implementations.
Without this, every curation pass would fire the point that schedules the next
pass, forever. Pinned three ways: unit tests on the derivation (both unbound
profiles), and the integration scenario asserting the pass's model was called
exactly its scripted count.

Semantic note for reviewers

The point fires for ANY terminal state of an ordinary actor-bearing run — not
only Completed — with completed as a context flag. Curation checks the flag
and only counts successes; a future "notify on failure" hook needs exactly the
runs curation ignores. Actorless runs never fire it (nothing to attribute
follow-on work to).

Also in here

  • UnboundTurnSubmission gained narrowing-only limits (TurnLimits): unbound
    runs previously always inherited the profile's 1024-iteration budget and no
    wall clock. Fine for a user waiting on a panel; wrong for an unwatched chore.
    Existing callers (suggestions, OpenAI-compat) explicitly defaulted — no
    behavior change. The curation pass declares 6 model calls / 12 capability
    calls / 90s.
  • Composition additions kept to +7 net LOC (assembly lives in a factory in
    ironclaw_assistant); the mass-gate ceiling and
    COMPOSITION_ABSOLUTE_SRC_LOC moved together with a dated rationale.
  • Concurrency: memory writes are CAS, so a pass racing a live conversation
    loses the write rather than clobbering it — a lost curation pass, never a
    lost memory. That is what makes this safe without batch-atomic memory ops.

Open decision, deliberately not hacked (→ follow-up issue)

Skip-and-note when memory writes would gate (auto-approve off): NOT implemented,
because no read-only "would this capability gate for this scope" query exists —
gate composition happens only inside authorize_dispatch_with_trust at dispatch
time, and approximating it in a product service would duplicate the authorizer
(stage-collapsing). The clean fix is a GateOutcome that skips the capability
for unbound runs instead of aborting; // DECISION #7770 marks the site.

Live validation (2026-08-21)

Beyond the deterministic suites: a live end-to-end run on an isolated home
(~/.ironclaw-reborn-pr7765, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, interval 2). Proven against a
real model: the pass fired exactly once after the 2nd completed turn; ran as
the user under the curation prompt on the unbound lane; consolidated two
wordings of one fact into a correct merged line ("User never sweetens their
tea — they always take it without sugar."), read its own write back to verify,
and a fresh conversation recalled it through the always-on lane. No recursion,
no gating, no interference with user turns.

The live-only finding: the pass initially died at model_call_limit (6)
before emitting its structured report — a real model spends calls a scripted
one does not (three writes for one, a fumbled read). Fixed in-PR: ceiling
raised to 10 with the evidence recorded at the constant, and the prompt now
states the call budget and exact finishing sequence.

Test Strategy

  • Hooks crate: install-time trust rejection, dispatch ordering, panic
    poisons only the offending binding, timeout recorded as failure, no-binding
    no-op.
  • Runner: context derivation — ordinary completed turn fires; both unbound
    profiles never; actorless never; non-Completed terminal states fire with
    completed == false.
  • Product policy: every-Nth-turn, per-owner counters, completed == false
    never counts, owner-scoped caller, three memory tools only, structured report
    required, idempotent pass id, failed submission swallowed, zero interval
    clamped.
  • Integration (group_memory, both new scenarios green in the full suite):
    end-to-end pass execution — deterministic pass-thread id pinned as contract,
    scripted rewrite lands in the standing document, read back through a later
    conversation's always-on lane under the same user (which is also the scope
    assertion), old wording gone; and below-threshold negative.
  • Architecture suite: green, including the composition mass gate and
    tests/CLAUDE.md count pins.

Known pre-existing failure on main, unrelated: trace_capture::tests:: capture_skips_when_policy_missing_or_disabled (verified against clean main).

Refs #7770 (phase 1), #7276. Related: #7562/#7634 (unbound turns).

serrrfirat and others added 2 commits August 20, 2026 11:46
…#7276)

Memory only ever grew. Writes accumulate, nothing prunes, and the standing
document has a byte budget, so redundancy crowds out what matters. No human
reads the file, so the decay is invisible.

This adds the Hermes-shaped answer: every N completed user turns, the agent
runs with no user present, re-reads its standing memory, and tidies it —
merging duplicates, resolving superseded facts, tightening wording. Its
output is the edits plus a structured report; nothing is sent to anyone.

Buildable now because unbound turns landed (#7562/#7634): a run with no
conversation and no reply target. The pass is submitted through the same
`UnboundTurnService` door OpenAI-compat and subagent spawn already use.

Shape. The loop tier owns only the observation ("an ordinary user turn
completed, under this scope") and reports it through a port; every policy
decision lives in the product tier. The port vocabulary sits in
`ironclaw_loop_contracts` rather than the runner because WS1.7 deliberately
removed `ironclaw_turn_runner` as a production dependency of
`ironclaw_assistant`, and this must not reverse that.

The load-bearing guard: an unbound run NEVER triggers curation. A pass is
itself unbound, so triggering on unbound completion would let each pass
schedule its successor — an unbounded background loop running the model
against a user's memory forever. Pinned by test, both unbound profiles.

Also fixed along the way: `UnboundTurnSubmission` had no way to declare
limits, so it always inherited the profile's 1024-iteration budget and no
wall clock. Fine for a user waiting on a panel, wrong for an unwatched
background chore — an unconverged pass would burn tokens against a user's
memory until that ceiling, and nobody would notice. Added narrowing-only
limits (existing callers unchanged, explicitly defaulted) and the pass
declares 6 model calls / 12 capability calls / 90s.

Safety properties pinned by tests: the pass acts as the owner and never as
an operator-config caller; it gets the three memory capabilities and nothing
else; its id doubles as the idempotency key so a crash-retry converges on
the same pass; a failed submission is swallowed at debug (post-terminal
background path — info!/warn! would corrupt the REPL).

Concurrency is safe without batch-atomic memory ops: memory writes are
compare-and-swap, so a pass racing a live conversation loses the write
rather than clobbering it. The failure mode is a lost curation pass, never
a lost memory.

Not wired into composition yet — no deployment runs this. Wiring, the
gate-behavior decision (unbound runs abort on approval gates, so users with
auto-approve off need skip-not-abort), and an integration scenario follow.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The extension-specificity gate scans generic code for concrete extension
names; "with slack for one retry" tripped it on the English word. Reworded
rather than allowlisted — the allowlist is for pre-existing debt, not for
new code that can simply say something else.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added scheduled memory curation after completed conversation turns.
    • Memory providers can define curation prompts, tools, cadence, and model-call limits.
    • Added validated configuration for customizing curation intervals.
    • Added secure after-turn lifecycle hooks with timeout and failure isolation.
    • Added safeguards to run curation only for eligible completed turns.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Preserved configured turn limits for background and suggestion turns.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for cadence thresholds, document updates, retries, failures, and hook isolation.

Walkthrough

Adds privileged AfterTurn dispatch, provider-declared memory curation, configurable cadence, bounded unbound submissions, runtime wiring, and integration tests. It also updates compatibility fixtures, coverage records, and composition size baselines.

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After-turn memory curation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Hook contracts and dispatcher
crates/loop/ironclaw_hooks/...
Adds the privileged AfterTurn hook point, terminal-run context, lifecycle trust rules, deterministic dispatch, timeout handling, panic isolation, and failure reporting.
Executor and runtime wiring
crates/loop/ironclaw_turn_runner/...
Derives eligible contexts, creates per-run dispatchers, and dispatches hooks after terminal exit application.
Memory contracts and curation service
crates/contracts/..., crates/extensions/..., crates/kernel/..., crates/product/ironclaw_assistant/...
Adds scheduled memory-pass declarations, validation, prompt-asset resolution, bounded UnboundTurnSubmission limits, cadence tracking, and deterministic pass IDs.
Configuration and composition
crates/app/ironclaw_config/..., crates/app/ironclaw_cli/..., crates/app/ironclaw_composition/...
Adds optional curation cadence configuration and wires provider-declared after-turn operations into runtime construction.
Integration and compatibility coverage
tests/integration/..., tests/support/..., crates/app/ironclaw_architecture_tests/..., scripts/ci/...
Adds curation scenarios and updates runtime fixtures, gateway routing, parity checks, coverage inventories, and size baselines.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90+ minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fa752

This PR adds post-turn lifecycle dispatch and scheduled memory rewriting, but the current head still has concrete readiness risks: some configured curation paths can silently disable themselves, lifecycle hooks can be skipped or cancelled before completion handling, and a composition budget check is failing in CI. These issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TurnRunExecutor
  participant HookDispatcher
  participant MemoryScheduledOpRunner
  participant UnboundTurnService
  participant TurnCoordinator
  participant MemoryProvider
  TurnRunExecutor->>HookDispatcher: dispatch eligible terminal turn
  HookDispatcher->>MemoryScheduledOpRunner: process AfterTurn context
  MemoryScheduledOpRunner->>MemoryProvider: use declared prompt, tools, and cadence
  MemoryScheduledOpRunner->>UnboundTurnService: submit bounded curation pass
  UnboundTurnService->>TurnCoordinator: create owner-scoped unbound turn
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  • nearai/ironclaw#5465: Extends related ScopeRegistryGateway scope-routing behavior with thread-ID prefix registration and fallback resolution.

Suggested reviewers: benkurrek, henrypark133

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653-688: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Assert non-default limits through prepared-context storage.

This test uses Default::default(), so it passes if accept_and_submit drops or replaces caller limits. Submit distinct limits and read back the prepared context to assert all three persisted values. Add an execution-layer test that proves those declarations constrain the run.

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In `@crates/product/ironclaw_assistant/src/unbound_turn.rs` around lines 653 -
688, Update accept_and_submit_forwards_declared_output_contract to submit
distinct non-default limits, then retrieve the prepared context and assert all
three limit values are preserved. Add an execution-layer test demonstrating that
these declared limits constrain the run, using the nearest meaningful
caller-level seam.

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Inline comments:
In `@crates/loop/ironclaw_turn_runner/src/turn_run_executor.rs`:
- Around line 181-182: Update the architectural-exemption comment for
after_turn_curation to use the required format: retain the category and reason,
and replace the issue reference with an active plan reference matching “plan
`#NNNN`”.

In `@crates/loop/ironclaw_turn_runner/tests/after_turn_curation.rs`:
- Around line 53-115: Extend the after-turn curation tests to exercise
RebornTurnRunExecutor::apply_exit with a recording AfterTurnCurationPort,
verifying that a completed bound run invokes the port with the expected signal
and that an unbound run does not invoke it. Keep the existing direct
curation_signal_for_completed_run unit tests, but add coverage through the
executor caller seam.

In `@crates/product/ironclaw_assistant/src/memory_curation.rs`:
- Around line 137-151: The CurationPassSubmitter::submit_pass implementation
currently converts UnboundTurnError into String, losing structured error
categories. Change the trait and its UnboundTurnService implementation to return
a typed UnboundTurnError or a local thiserror error, preserving the source error
and adding context through typed error conversion instead of
map_err(error.to_string()).
- Around line 262-274: Update the curation pass identity around the epoch
calculation in the signal-handling method: stop using counters.len(), which
counts owners rather than passes, and derive or persist a stable per-trigger
pass identity using the specialized TurnRunId domain type carried by
AfterTurnCurationSignal. Ensure consecutive intervals for the same owner produce
distinct pass keys and add coverage asserting that behavior without re-deriving
internal identifiers from strings.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@crates/product/ironclaw_assistant/src/unbound_turn.rs`:
- Around line 653-688: Update
accept_and_submit_forwards_declared_output_contract to submit distinct
non-default limits, then retrieve the prepared context and assert all three
limit values are preserved. Add an execution-layer test demonstrating that these
declared limits constrain the run, using the nearest meaningful caller-level
seam.
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Comment thread crates/loop/ironclaw_turn_runner/src/turn_run_executor.rs Outdated
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#[test]
fn a_completed_user_turn_is_a_curation_trigger() {
let state = run_state(
TurnStatus::Completed,
RunProfileId::interactive_default(),
actor(),
);

let signal = curation_signal_for_completed_run(&state).expect("an ordinary completed turn");

assert_eq!(signal.tenant_id.as_str(), "tenant-a");
assert_eq!(
signal.user_id.as_str(),
"user-a",
"curation is scoped to the acting human, whose memory it would curate"
);
}

/// THE guard. A curation pass runs unbound; if its completion triggered
/// curation, every pass would schedule the next one forever.
#[test]
fn an_unbound_run_never_triggers_curation() {
for profile in [
RunProfileId::unbound_default(),
RunProfileId::unbound_structured(),
] {
let state = run_state(TurnStatus::Completed, profile.clone(), actor());
assert!(
curation_signal_for_completed_run(&state).is_none(),
"{profile:?} must not trigger curation: a pass would schedule its own successor"
);
}
}

/// Memory is scoped to a human owner. A trigger-fired or host-initiated run has
/// no actor, so there is no memory to curate and nothing to scope a pass to.
#[test]
fn a_run_without_an_actor_is_not_a_trigger() {
let state = run_state(
TurnStatus::Completed,
RunProfileId::interactive_default(),
None,
);

assert!(curation_signal_for_completed_run(&state).is_none());
}

/// Only a run that actually finished. A failed or cancelled turn says nothing
/// about whether memory needs tidying, and counting it would drift the interval.
#[test]
fn a_non_completed_run_is_not_a_trigger() {
for status in [
TurnStatus::Failed,
TurnStatus::Cancelled,
TurnStatus::Running,
] {
let state = run_state(status, RunProfileId::interactive_default(), actor());
assert!(
curation_signal_for_completed_run(&state).is_none(),
"{status:?} must not trigger curation"
);
}
}

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Test the executor path that invokes the port.

These tests call curation_signal_for_completed_run directly. They do not prove that RebornTurnRunExecutor::apply_exit invokes AfterTurnCurationPort after a completed bound run, or skips it for an unbound run. Add a caller-level executor test with a recording port.

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In `@crates/loop/ironclaw_turn_runner/tests/after_turn_curation.rs` around lines
53 - 115, Extend the after-turn curation tests to exercise
RebornTurnRunExecutor::apply_exit with a recording AfterTurnCurationPort,
verifying that a completed bound run invokes the port with the expected signal
and that an unbound run does not invoke it. Keep the existing direct
curation_signal_for_completed_run unit tests, but add coverage through the
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Found three correctness issues in the memory-curation mechanism.

Findings: 🔴 High 2 · 🟠 Medium 1

🔴 High · Generate a distinct ID for every curation interval

Inline on crates/product/ironclaw_assistant/src/memory_curation.rs:273. See the inline comment for details.

🔴 High · Make the curation rewrite conditional on the document it read

Inline on crates/product/ironclaw_assistant/prompts/memory_curation.md:14. See the inline comment for details.

🟠 Medium · Do not count scheduled fires as user turns

Inline on crates/loop/ironclaw_turn_runner/src/after_turn_curation.rs:34. See the inline comment for details.

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let Ok(counters) = self.counters.lock() else {
return;
};
counters.len() as u64

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🔴 High · Generate a distinct ID for every curation interval

`counters.len()` is the number of owners, not the number of passes. For a single owner it stays at 1 after the first run, so every later Nth turn sends the same public/idempotency key; the unbound accept path treats that key as the prepared-context thread and replays the old run instead of starting a new curation pass. Derive the key from the triggering run (or maintain a per-scope sequence) and test two intervals produce distinct IDs.

If it does not exist or is empty, make no edits and report that.
2. Decide whether it needs work. It usually does not. A pass that changes
nothing is a good outcome, not a failed one.
3. If it does, rewrite it once with the memory write tool and report what you

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🔴 High · Make the curation rewrite conditional on the document it read

This asks the model for a full rewrite but does not require the conditional patch path. A normal `append:false` write carries no expected version/content; its CAS reads the document afresh immediately before writing, so a user update made after curation read `MEMORY.md` is accepted as the new base and then overwritten by the stale rewrite. Require a full-document `old_string`/`new_string` patch (or an expected-version write) so the curation pass loses the race instead.

debug!("after-turn curation: unbound run; not a curation trigger");
return None;
}
let actor = state.actor.as_ref()?;

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🟠 Medium · Do not count scheduled fires as user turns

Trusted scheduled fires retain their creator as `TurnActor` and run under the non-unbound `scheduled_trigger` profile, so they pass these guards and consume an interval (then launch a write-capable curation pass) even though no user conversation turn occurred. Gate on an interactive product origin—not actor presence alone—and add a scheduled-trigger-with-actor regression.

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Actionable comments posted: 2

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Inline comments:
In `@crates/product/ironclaw_assistant/src/memory_curation.rs`:
- Around line 262-263: Update the counter-key construction in the memory
curation flow around count_and_check to use a typed owner-scope key containing
TenantId and UserId instead of a formatted String; adjust count_and_check and
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Memory vocabulary belongs with the memory contract. "Curation" means
nothing outside memory, and the signal exists only to decide whether a
user's memory needs tidying — putting it in ironclaw_loop_contracts made
the loop-contracts crate carry a memory concept it has no stake in.

Both tiers already depend on ironclaw_memory (the runner for after-turn
recording, the product tier for the memory service), so this pulls in no
new edge; it only puts the type where its domain lives.

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Bound the owner counter map.

Every distinct tenant/user key creates a permanent HashMap entry. The map never evicts inactive owners, so a long-lived multi-tenant process can retain unbounded owner IDs and counter slots.

Use a bounded or expiring owner-counter cache. Test behavior with many inactive owners.

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Log only a sanitized submission category. UnboundTurnError formats free-form reason values, and submit_pass logs that text. Return a typed category and log only that category, plus an opaque invocation ID when needed. This enforces the AGENTS.md invariant that product logs contain no backend details, host paths, secrets, or user content.

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Design decision: the bespoke AfterTurnCurationPort in this PR is transitional. Epic #7770 adds a first-class AfterTurn hook point to ironclaw_hooks (phase 1), and this PR's curation service rebases onto it — the port types get deleted, the 10 tests carry over. Holding this as draft until that lands.

serrrfirat and others added 3 commits August 20, 2026 15:35
Adds `HookPointSpec::AfterTurn`, a privileged-only hook point that fires
once after a turn's run reaches a terminal state — the seam for work about
the turn as a whole rather than about one model call, capability
invocation, or checkpoint.

- `AfterTurnHookContext` (`points/turn.rs`) carries tenant/user/agent/
  project plus a `completed` flag. `user_id` is non-optional and there is
  deliberately no `unbound` field: the dispatch call site never fires this
  point for unbound runs, because hook-started background work runs
  unbound and firing on unbound completion would let each background pass
  schedule its own successor forever. Observing background runs stays with
  `EventTriggered` + `LoopCompleted`, which is observer-only.
- `PrivilegedAfterTurnHook` takes no sink: an AfterTurn hook may hold its
  own collaborators and start follow-on work as a side effect. The
  sealed-return-type law stays scoped to points untrusted tiers can reach.
- `install_after_turn` rejects `Installed` and `SelfAuthored` at install
  time; `install_observer` rejects the point outright.
- `dispatch_after_turn` mirrors the observer dispatch shape (ordered
  snapshot, poison handling, failure policy, telemetry) with a 5s per-hook
  timeout, and never propagates a hook failure to the caller.
- New `DecisionKind::Lifecycle` (three in-crate consumers, all updated):
  act-capable but fails isolated, since the run it observes is already
  terminal.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…rt deleted

#7765 landed memory curation on a bespoke `AfterTurnCurationPort` because no
general lifecycle seam existed yet. The `AfterTurn` hook point now exists, so
the port is deleted and curation becomes one privileged hook among others.

- `ironclaw_memory` sheds `src/curation.rs` entirely: memory carries no
  hook-framework vocabulary and no bespoke port.
- `ironclaw_turn_runner` gains `after_turn_hooks::after_turn_hook_context`,
  which keeps the two guards centrally so no hook has to remember them: an
  unbound run never fires the point (hook-started background work runs
  unbound, so firing on unbound completion would let each pass schedule its
  own successor forever), and an actorless run never fires it (nothing to
  attribute follow-on work to).
- The executor's `after_turn_curation` field becomes
  `after_turn_hooks: Option<Arc<HookDispatcher>>` with `with_after_turn_hooks`.
  The 5s bound survives as an OUTER backstop around the whole dispatch; the
  dispatcher already bounds each hook.
- Semantic widening: the point fires for ANY terminal state of an ordinary
  actor-bearing run, not just `Completed`. Hooks that only want successes read
  `ctx.completed` — which `MemoryCurationService` does, first thing, because a
  failed turn says nothing about whether memory needs tidying and counting it
  would drift the interval.
- `MemoryCurationService` implements `PrivilegedAfterTurnHook`; every policy
  decision (interval, per-owner counters, pass building, idempotency key)
  is unchanged. `ironclaw_assistant` takes a normal `ironclaw_hooks`
  dependency — products→loops, the edge it already has via `ironclaw_loop_host`.
- `AfterTurnHookContext::new` added: the struct is `#[non_exhaustive]` and the
  call site is outside `ironclaw_hooks`, so a struct literal is unavailable.

The dispatcher is un-wired (`None`) after this commit; composition follows.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phase 1 of #7770 ends where it should: the `AfterTurn` point has a live
consumer. Composition registers the memory-curation hook, so after every Nth
completed turn the agent goes off on its own and tidies the user's standing
memory document (#7276).

- `[memory].curation_interval_turns` (`ironclaw_config`): opt-in, serde-default
  absent. Absent means the hook is NEVER REGISTERED — disabled is expressed by
  not wiring, never by a sentinel, so a written `0` is rejected at parse time
  rather than clamped downstream into "after every turn". Config-only, no env
  override: that matches `provider`/`admin_overrides`, and only the mem0
  connection fields carry an env convention.
- `ironclaw_assistant::memory_curation::after_turn_curation_dispatcher` owns the
  assembly — which hook, at which phase (`Telemetry`: the run is already
  terminal, so it enforces nothing), under which trust class (`Builtin`), behind
  the stable `HookId::for_builtin` path. Composition calls it; per AGENTS.md the
  wiring root does not own module policy. Its own small dispatcher, not the
  per-run middleware one: `after_turn` fires once per run from a
  process-lifetime `Arc`.
- `DefaultPlannedRuntimeParts::after_turn_hook_dispatcher_factory` is a factory,
  not a ready dispatcher, because the `UnboundTurnService` the hook submits
  through is built from the coordinator the same function builds. Handed
  `AfterTurnHookDeps` once, after those exist; may still decline.
- Two conditions gate registration in composition: an operator asked for an
  interval AND a memory provider resolved. A pass over a document no provider
  backs would submit a run whose only three tools do not exist.

Gate posture (#7770's skip-and-note) is deliberately NOT implemented; a
`DECISION #7770:` comment at the submission site records why. No read-only
"would this capability gate for this scope" query exists: the answer needs the
descriptor's effects and origin-gate matrix, the run's `ApprovalPolicy`, the
`TrustDecision`, grants, and leases composed inside
`authorize_dispatch_with_trust` at dispatch time, with an origin that does not
exist until the run is executing. Approximating it from
`ApprovalSettingsProvider::global_auto_approve` alone would duplicate gate
composition in a product service. The seam that is actually missing is at the
gate strategy: a `GateOutcome` that skips the capability for the model instead
of aborting the unbound run.

Tests: two group scenarios drive the wired path end to end — the pass's thread
id is its idempotency key and therefore deterministic, which is what lets the
harness script the background pass's model at all. The positive scenario runs N
ordinary turns and asserts the tidied text reaches a LATER conversation's prompt
under the same user's own memory lane; the negative asserts an empty pass script
below the interval and then corroborates it by crossing the interval one turn
later, so "empty" cannot be latency. Both falsified by moving the interval.
`with_memory_curation_interval()` on the group builder mirrors production's
opt-in exactly; the wiring-parity tripwire and composition mass gate move with
the new field.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@serrrfirat serrrfirat changed the title feat(memory): periodic memory-curation pass ("dreaming") — first slice feat(hooks): AfterTurn lifecycle point + memory curation as its first consumer (#7770 phase 1) Aug 20, 2026

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In `@crates/app/ironclaw_composition/src/input.rs`:
- Around line 422-430: Update with_memory_curation_interval_turns and the
associated memory_curation_interval_turns storage to reject zero at the API
boundary, using NonZeroU32 for the field and builder input or returning a typed
validation error before storing the value. Preserve the unset state as disabled
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In `@crates/app/ironclaw_composition/src/runtime.rs`:
- Around line 3776-3781: Update the curation hook installation flow near the
inspect_err call so configured installation failures propagate as a contextual
RebornRuntimeError instead of being discarded by ok(). Preserve None only when
curation is explicitly disabled, and retain the existing debug logging if
compatible with the propagated error path.

In `@crates/loop/ironclaw_hooks/src/registry.rs`:
- Around line 157-163: Update HookRegistry::insert to reject AfterTurn bindings
unless their trust class is Builtin or Trusted, ensuring both
HookRegistry::from_bindings and HookDispatcherBuilder::insert_binding enforce
the restriction before dispatch. Add raw-binding regression tests covering
rejected Installed and SelfAuthored AfterTurn bindings.

In `@crates/loop/ironclaw_turn_runner/src/turn_run_executor.rs`:
- Around line 49-55: Update dispatch_after_turn and its executor call so the
aggregate deadline cannot preempt run_after_turn_hook’s per-hook timeout and
failure recording. Preserve HookFailureRecord creation, binding poisoning, and
invocation of later hooks after an individual timeout. Add an executor-level
regression covering a timed-out hook followed by a survivor hook.
- Around line 570-584: Add executor-seam coverage around the caller containing
the after_turn_hooks dispatch (the turn execution path using
after_turn_hook_context): verify an eligible run dispatches the after-turn hook,
while an unbound run does not. Keep the existing after_turn_hook_context unit
tests, and exercise dispatch through the executor rather than testing only the
context helper.

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`@tests/integration/group_memory/scenario_memory_curation_below_threshold_never_fires.rs`:
- Around line 92-107: Strengthen curation integration assertions: in
tests/integration/group_memory/scenario_memory_curation_below_threshold_never_fires.rs:92-107,
verify no curation run is submitted after turns one and two, then confirm the
run triggered by turn three was submitted using deterministic run state rather
than only curation_llm.captured_requests() or wait_for_pass_to_start(). In
tests/integration/group_memory/scenario_memory_curation_rewrites_standing_document.rs:131-141,
await the curation run’s terminal state before asserting that no successor run
was submitted.

In `@tests/integration/support/group.rs`:
- Around line 1374-1398: Update into_group’s after_turn_hook_dispatcher_factory
setup to register the curation dispatcher only when both
memory_curation_interval_turns and the resolved memory provider are available,
matching production activation. Preserve the provider dependency in the factory
closure, and replace the .ok() conversion around after_turn_curation_dispatcher
with ? so invalid settings such as interval 0 propagate from into_group instead
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You have a small, hard budget of tool calls. The sequence is: read the
document, then AT MOST one write, then the result tool — nothing else. Do not
re-read after writing, do not write twice, do not "fix up" a write with another
write. Every extra call risks exhausting the budget before your report, and a

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printf '%s\n' '--- capability invocation limit enforcement ---'
rg -n -C 12 \
  'max_capability_invocations|max_model_calls|capability_invocations|invocation.*limit|limit.*invocation|Capability.*Budget|budget.*capability' \
  crates/kernel crates/loop crates/product crates/app \
  --glob '*.rs' --glob '*.md' \
  | head -n 2200

printf '%s\n' '--- all host-runtime memory output constructors ---'
rg -n -C 8 \
  'write_response_output|MemoryServiceWriteResponse|MemoryWriteStatus|status.*Written|content_length|replacements' \
  crates/kernel/ironclaw_host_runtime crates/extensions/packages/memory-native \
  --glob '*.rs' \
  | head -n 1800

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set -euo pipefail

printf '%s\n' '--- curation-specific enforcement scan ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
roots = [
    Path("crates/product/ironclaw_assistant"),
    Path("crates/kernel/ironclaw_host_runtime"),
    Path("crates/extensions/packages/memory-native"),
    Path("crates/loop/ironclaw_agent_loop"),
    Path("crates/loop/ironclaw_turn_runner"),
]
terms = ("memory_curation", "MEMORY_CURATION", "MEMORY_WRITE_CAPABILITY_ID",
         "max_capability_invocations", "capability_invocations_made",
         "write_once", "write count", "write_count", "already_written")
for root in roots:
    for path in root.rglob("*"):
        if path.suffix not in (".rs", ".md"):
            continue
        try:
            text = path.read_text()
        except Exception:
            continue
        hits = [(i, line) for i, line in enumerate(text.splitlines(), 1)
                if any(term in line for term in terms)]
        if hits:
            print(f"\n### {path}")
            for i, line in hits:
                print(f"{i}: {line[:240]}")
PY

printf '%s\n' '--- capability budget charging and dispatch boundary ---'
sed -n '1460,1575p' crates/loop/ironclaw_agent_loop/src/executor/capabilities.rs
sed -n '1640,1745p' crates/loop/ironclaw_agent_loop/src/executor/capabilities.rs
sed -n '80,130p' crates/loop/ironclaw_agent_loop/src/executor/budget.rs

printf '%s\n' '--- evidence invariant ---'
cat .claude/rules/tool-evidence.md

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

printf '%s\n' '--- applicable canonical guidance ---'
for f in AGENTS.md CLAUDE.md crates/AGENTS.md crates/CLAUDE.md \
         crates/product/AGENTS.md crates/product/CLAUDE.md \
         crates/product/ironclaw_assistant/AGENTS.md \
         crates/product/ironclaw_assistant/CLAUDE.md \
         crates/loop/AGENTS.md crates/loop/CLAUDE.md; do
  if [ -f "$f" ]; then
    echo "### $f"
    rg -n -C 3 \
      'side-effect|authoritative|evidence|write|capabilit|model-visible|host-mediated|boundary|data|durable' \
      "$f" | head -n 250
  fi
done

printf '%s\n' '--- unbound submission and limit application ---'
sed -n '620,735p' crates/product/ironclaw_assistant/src/unbound_turn.rs
rg -n -C 10 \
  'submission\.limits|UnboundTurnSubmission|accept_and_submit|max_capability_invocations' \
  crates/product/ironclaw_assistant/src/unbound_turn.rs \
  crates/product/ironclaw_assistant/src \
  --glob '*.rs' | head -n 1000

printf '%s\n' '--- concise static boundary verifier ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
cur = Path("crates/product/ironclaw_assistant/src/memory_curation.rs").read_text()
host = Path("crates/kernel/ironclaw_host_runtime/src/first_party_tools/memory.rs").read_text()
loop = Path("crates/loop/ironclaw_agent_loop/src/executor/budget.rs").read_text()
print("curation tools:", cur[cur.index("fn curation_tools"):cur.index("fn curation_tools")+500].replace("\n", " "))
print("curation limit:", [x.strip() for x in cur.splitlines() if "max_capability_invocations:" in x])
print("host write dispatch arms:", host.count("MEMORY_WRITE_CAPABILITY_ID =>"))
print("loop checks total invocation limit:", "capability_invocations_made() >= policy.max_capability_invocations" in loop)
print("curation-specific write-limit symbols:",
      any(x in cur or x in host or x in loop
          for x in ("MEMORY_CURATION_MAX_WRITES", "memory_writes_made",
                    "write_count", "already_written")))
PY

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Enforce one ironclaw.memory.write per curation run outside the prompt. The runtime currently limits total capability invocations only; it has no curation-specific write counter, so multiple writes can reach MemoryToolGuard. Add a typed per-run write budget enforced before dispatch, including retries, and return a model-visible failure after the first write. Add a production-caller test that attempts two writes and asserts that only the first reaches the backend and its evidence is preserved. This violates .claude/rules/tool-evidence.md and AGENTS.md's side-effect boundary.

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In `@crates/product/ironclaw_assistant/prompts/memory_curation.md` around lines 47
- 50, The memory curation flow currently limits total tool calls but not
curation-specific writes, allowing multiple ironclaw.memory.write invocations.
Add a typed per-run write budget checked before dispatch, counting retries, and
return a model-visible failure after the first write; update the production
caller test to attempt two writes and verify only the first reaches the backend
while preserving its evidence.

Source: Coding guidelines

serrrfirat and others added 3 commits August 22, 2026 01:06
…s, trust-gated, cost-floored

A memory provider can now declare its own recurring upkeep in its manifest
instead of the host hardcoding which provider gets which background work.
The provider names the work and the cadence; the host keeps the clock, the
invocation envelope, and the authority.

    [[memory.scheduled_ops]]
    trigger = "after_turn"
    interval_turns = 10
    pass = { prompt = "prompts/memory_curation.md", tools = ["ironclaw.memory.read", "ironclaw.memory.write"], max_model_calls = 10 }

Contracts tier only — nothing dispatches or invokes these yet.

`MemoryScheduledTrigger` is a closed host-owned vocabulary with exactly one
v0 entry; an unrecognized token fails the parse rather than being dropped,
because a silently ignored trigger presents as a provider whose declared
upkeep simply never runs. `MemoryScheduledOpKind` is tagged by which key the
entry declares, and `tool = "..."` is RECOGNIZED and REJECTED with its own
message rather than falling through to an unknown-field error, so a manifest
written against the eventual schema fails with intent. Both keys or neither
are errors too. The wire shape and the parsed shape are separate types, so
`MemoryScheduledOp` cannot be built from a manifest without clearing every
per-op rule.

Three bounds, each with its reason in a doc comment and a test:

- `interval_turns >= 2` (`MIN_SCHEDULED_OP_INTERVAL_TURNS`) — a manifest
  declares work that runs on someone else's deployment at their expense, so
  it must not be able to demand per-turn invocation. `NonZeroU32` makes
  "every 0 turns" unrepresentable before the floor even applies.
- `pass.max_model_calls <= 16` (`MAX_SCHEDULED_PASS_MODEL_CALLS`) — a pass is
  unwatched background spend with nobody reading the transcript. The #7770
  live test put the realistic curation need at 10.
- At most one op per trigger — the host holds one interval counter per
  trigger per owner, so a second op has no well-defined cadence.

Two rules need the whole manifest and land in
`ironclaw_extension_registry::v3::validate_memory_scheduled_ops`, beside the
existing `[admin_configuration]` cross-check and for the same reason — only
that layer sees `[[tools]]` and the requested trust class next to `[memory]`:

- A pass's `tools` must be ids the SAME manifest declares. Declaration is
  selection, never authority: a memory provider must not schedule passes
  wielding another extension's tools.
- Only a first-party/system manifest may declare a pass op at all. A pass is
  a manifest-authored prompt running with write tools, as every user, on a
  schedule — a strictly larger grant than a model-chosen tool call, so it
  gets the same default-deny wall as the after-turn hook tiers. Host-bundled
  alone is not enough, pinned by a test that refuses a third-party-trust
  manifest from a host-bundled source.

`scheduled_ops` is serde-defaulted and empty when absent, so every manifest
written before it existed parses unchanged and schedules nothing
(`memory_manifest_without_scheduled_ops_still_parses`,
`scheduled_ops_absent_in_an_older_manifest_means_none`). `pass.prompt` reuses
`guidance_doc`'s validated bundled-asset ref type; asset RESOLUTION stays
host-side and fail-closed.

The §11.2.3 contracts size ceiling moves 10_841 -> 11_451 for the declaration
family and its inline tests, count read from the ratchet's own failure
message.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…, opt-in stays

The declaration replaces the hardwired layer (#7664 addendum v2):

- memory-native's manifest declares its curation as `[[memory.scheduled_ops]]`
  (after_turn, recommended cadence 10, pass over its own three memory tools,
  max_model_calls 10 — the live-test calibration). The curation prompt moves
  into the package beside the guidance doc, exported through the same asset
  table, resolved host-side fail-closed.
- `MemoryCurationService` dies; `MemoryScheduledOpRunner` is built FROM the
  resolved declaration (prompt text, tool ids, model-call ceiling), keeping
  the policy that was already pinned: per-owner counters, completed-only
  counting, the `memory-curation-` pass-id prefix as contract, the submitter
  seam, debug-only failure swallowing. The tool-op arm is
  unreachable-by-construction (leg A parse-rejects it) and says so explicitly.
- Composition's native-only gate arm dies: the gate is now "did the bound
  provider declare an op" — a configured interval against a provider that
  declares nothing stays a startup error naming the provider.

OPT-IN preserved (owner decision, 2026-08-22): the declaration ARMS upkeep —
validated shape, resolved prompt, recommended cadence — and
`[memory].curation_interval_turns` ENABLES it. Omitted = nothing runs,
exactly as before this change; a manifest cannot switch on background token
spend for a deployment that never asked. The config floor (>= 2) is now
enforced at parse, where the operator can read why.

Leg B built by a subagent (session-limited mid-flight), completed and
re-verified from the worktree; opt-in flip + config validation + marker
resolution by the orchestrator.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…tion-dream

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3760-3798: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

resolved_memory_provider.is_some() filter still silently disables curation.

A prior review flagged this exact filter as a silent-disable path and it remains unresolved. memory_lifecycle reflects the build-time declared binding, while resolved_memory_provider is a separate resolution performed here. If the lifecycle declares an after_turn op and an interval is configured, but resolved_memory_provider unexpectedly comes back None, .filter(|_| resolved_memory_provider.is_some()) turns the hook wiring into None with no error. Startup succeeds while curation never runs — the exact outcome the surrounding comments (and scheduled_after_turn_interval_override) say must fail the build instead.

Replace the filter with an explicit check that returns RebornRuntimeError::MalformedConfig when a declared+configured curation pass has no resolved provider instance, matching the pattern already used a few lines above for the mismatched-declaration case.

🛡️ Proposed fix
-    let memory_scheduled_op_hook_wiring = match memory_lifecycle
-        .scheduled_op(ironclaw_extension_contracts::memory::MemoryScheduledTrigger::AfterTurn)
-        .filter(|_| resolved_memory_provider.is_some())
-        // Opt-in: an armed declaration with no configured interval stays
-        // dormant. The declared `interval_turns` is the provider's
-        // RECOMMENDED cadence for the config key, not an activation.
-        .filter(|_| memory_scheduled_op_interval_override.is_some())
-    {
+    if memory_scheduled_op_interval_override.is_some()
+        && memory_lifecycle
+            .scheduled_op(ironclaw_extension_contracts::memory::MemoryScheduledTrigger::AfterTurn)
+            .is_some()
+        && resolved_memory_provider.is_none()
+    {
+        return Err(RebornRuntimeError::MalformedConfig {
+            reason: "the bound memory provider declares an after_turn scheduled op and an \
+                     interval is configured, but no memory provider instance was constructed; \
+                     curation would never run"
+                .to_string(),
+        });
+    }
+    let memory_scheduled_op_hook_wiring = match memory_lifecycle
+        .scheduled_op(ironclaw_extension_contracts::memory::MemoryScheduledTrigger::AfterTurn)
+        // Opt-in: an armed declaration with no configured interval stays
+        // dormant. The declared `interval_turns` is the provider's
+        // RECOMMENDED cadence for the config key, not an activation.
+        .filter(|_| memory_scheduled_op_interval_override.is_some())
+    {
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In `@crates/app/ironclaw_composition/src/runtime.rs` around lines 3760 - 3798,
Replace the resolved_memory_provider.is_some() filter in
memory_scheduled_op_hook_wiring with an explicit validation: when
memory_lifecycle declares the AfterTurn operation and
memory_scheduled_op_interval_override is configured but no provider resolves,
return RebornRuntimeError::MalformedConfig. Preserve the existing hook wiring
for valid resolved providers and follow the nearby mismatched-declaration
validation pattern.

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Inline comments:
In `@crates/product/ironclaw_assistant/src/memory_scheduled_ops.rs`:
- Around line 306-314: Resolve the scheduled pass output contract once during
`from_declaration`, propagate any `OutputContract::try_json_schema` failure so
startup fails, and store the resulting contract on `ResolvedPass`. Update
`build_pass_submission` and the `on_turn` dispatch path to reuse this stored
contract without rebuilding or swallowing errors at dispatch time.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@crates/app/ironclaw_composition/src/runtime.rs`:
- Around line 3760-3798: Replace the resolved_memory_provider.is_some() filter
in memory_scheduled_op_hook_wiring with an explicit validation: when
memory_lifecycle declares the AfterTurn operation and
memory_scheduled_op_interval_override is configured but no provider resolves,
return RebornRuntimeError::MalformedConfig. Preserve the existing hook wiring
for valid resolved providers and follow the nearby mismatched-declaration
validation pattern.
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Comment on lines +306 to +314
fn build_pass_submission(
pass: &ResolvedPass,
ctx: &AfterTurnHookContext,
) -> Result<UnboundTurnSubmission, String> {
let output = OutputContract::try_json_schema(
SCHEDULED_PASS_OUTPUT_NAME,
scheduled_pass_report_schema(),
)
.map_err(|error| format!("scheduled pass report schema is invalid: {error}"))?;

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Validate the report contract at factory build time, not per dispatch.

scheduled_pass_report_schema() is a constant. OutputContract::try_json_schema therefore fails deterministically or never. The failure path at Line 455 swallows it at debug! and returns, so a malformed constant disables every pass for every owner with nothing surfacing it.

after_turn_scheduled_op_dispatcher_factory already guards the analogous case for the hook install: it installs once eagerly so "an install that cannot succeed must fail the deployment's startup rather than go quiet at the first terminal run, where nothing would report it." Apply the same posture to the output contract.

Build it once in from_declaration and store it on ResolvedPass. Startup then fails loud, and the per-dispatch path loses a fallible step.

♻️ Proposed fix: resolve the contract at construction
 struct ResolvedPass {
     prompt: String,
     tools: Vec<CapabilityId>,
     max_model_calls: NonZeroU32,
+    /// Built once at construction so a malformed host-owned schema fails the
+    /// deployment's startup instead of going quiet at every terminal run.
+    output: OutputContract,
 }
         let op = match &declared.op {
-            MemoryScheduledOpKind::Pass(pass) => ResolvedOp::Pass(ResolvedPass {
-                prompt: prompt.to_string(),
-                tools: pass.tools.clone(),
-                max_model_calls: pass.max_model_calls,
-            }),
+            MemoryScheduledOpKind::Pass(pass) => {
+                let output = OutputContract::try_json_schema(
+                    SCHEDULED_PASS_OUTPUT_NAME,
+                    scheduled_pass_report_schema(),
+                )
+                .map_err(|error| {
+                    format!("scheduled pass report schema is invalid: {error}")
+                })?;
+                ResolvedOp::Pass(ResolvedPass {
+                    prompt: prompt.to_string(),
+                    tools: pass.tools.clone(),
+                    max_model_calls: pass.max_model_calls,
+                    output,
+                })
+            }
         };
-    fn build_pass_submission(
-        pass: &ResolvedPass,
-        ctx: &AfterTurnHookContext,
-    ) -> Result<UnboundTurnSubmission, String> {
-        let output = OutputContract::try_json_schema(
-            SCHEDULED_PASS_OUTPUT_NAME,
-            scheduled_pass_report_schema(),
-        )
-        .map_err(|error| format!("scheduled pass report schema is invalid: {error}"))?;
-        let public_id = Self::pass_id(ctx);
-        Ok(UnboundTurnSubmission {
+    fn build_pass_submission(
+        pass: &ResolvedPass,
+        ctx: &AfterTurnHookContext,
+    ) -> UnboundTurnSubmission {
+        let public_id = Self::pass_id(ctx);
+        UnboundTurnSubmission {

The on_turn arm then collapses to a direct build with no swallowed error:

         let submission = match &self.op {
-            ResolvedOp::Pass(pass) => match Self::build_pass_submission(pass, ctx) {
-                Ok(submission) => submission,
-                Err(reason) => {
-                    debug!("memory scheduled op: could not build pass: {reason}");
-                    return;
-                }
-            },
+            ResolvedOp::Pass(pass) => Self::build_pass_submission(pass, ctx),
         };
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In `@crates/product/ironclaw_assistant/src/memory_scheduled_ops.rs` around lines
306 - 314, Resolve the scheduled pass output contract once during
`from_declaration`, propagate any `OutputContract::try_json_schema` failure so
startup fails, and store the resulting contract on `ResolvedPass`. Update
`build_pass_submission` and the `on_turn` dispatch path to reuse this stored
contract without rebuilding or swallowing errors at dispatch time.

…ive-test v2 finding

The declared-op live re-test (2026-08-23, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, fresh isolated
home): the pass reached its structured report — the model_call_limit death
from the first live test is fixed — but the model's FIRST write omitted
append:false, transiently duplicating the document before it self-corrected
with a proper replace two calls later. The prompt asked for one write; it
never said which KIND. Now it does, with the consequence spelled out.

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Live validation v2 (2026-08-23) — the declared-op path, post-scheduled_ops train. Fresh isolated home, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, opt-in exercised as an operator would ([memory] curation_interval_turns = 2; the manifest ARMS, config ENABLES — owner decision).

The headline question answered: the pass now finishes. v1's failure was terminal model_call_limit before the report. v2's pass — running under the prompt resolved from native's manifest asset, tools and ceiling from the declaration — did read → write → verify-read → structured report, well inside the raised budget. The report is durably persisted (structured-finalizations/memory-curation-…), the pass id prefix held as contract, and a fresh conversation recalls the consolidated fact through the always-on lane.

New live-only finding, fixed in bbc33383cc: the model's first write omitted append: false, transiently duplicating the document before it self-corrected with a proper replace. The prompt demanded one write but never said which kind — now it does, with the consequence spelled out. (Also observed: the report said changed: false because final content equaled initial content — honest about the end state, silent about the round-trip; acceptable, noted for the record.)

Worth stating what two rounds of live testing have each caught that the scripted suites structurally cannot: a budget death and an argument omission — both real-model behaviors under our real prompt. The deterministic suites verify the machinery; the live runs verify the instruction. Both instruments stay in the loop.

CI: 34/34 green on the reshaped train (declaration schema → dispatcher → opt-in wiring → main merge).

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AfterTurn and the curation consumer are well-isolated. Two gaps worth addressing: terminal-failure fallback paths skip the AfterTurn dispatch, and curation silently no-ops when the declared provider fails to resolve.

Optional follow-ups:

  • crates/loop/ironclaw_turn_runner/src/turn_run_executor.rs:624 — AfterTurn is dispatched only from the successful apply_with_supplemental_model_usage branch of apply_exit. Fix: Have record_exit_failure return the recorded TurnRunState and route both the normal and every successful fallback terminalization…
  • crates/app/ironclaw_composition/src/runtime.rs:3792 — memory_scheduled_op_hook_wiring gates on .filter(|_| resolved_memory_provider.is_some()), so when the bound provider declares an after_turn scheduled op and [memory].curation_interval_turns is set but the… Fix: Move the provider-resolution gate into scheduled_after_turn_interval_override so a configured interval against a provider that cannot…

Checks: cargo +1.96 check --tests -p ironclaw_hooks -p ironclaw_turn_runner -p ironclaw_assistant -p ironclaw_extension_contracts: exit 0, no warnings; cargo +1.96 test -p ironclaw_hooks --lib: 309 passed, 0 failed; cargo +1.96 test -p ironclaw_turn_runner --test after_turn_hook_context --test turn_run_executor: 12 + 7 passed, 0 failed

Conflict resolutions, both sides kept throughout:
- turn_run_executor: after_turn hook dispatcher factory (ours) +
  await_edge_settler run-start sweep (main, #7818); the sweep-test helper
  adapts to this branch's generalized ExecutorTestHostFactory, and the
  claimed-run builders unify into one claimed_run_full over the actor,
  profile, and provenance axes.
- unbound_turn: declared limits (ours) + require_no_approval (main, #7812).
  The scheduled curation pass declares require_no_approval: false —
  its surface is already narrowed to the manifest's declared tools, and
  silently dropping an approval-gated declared tool would break the pass
  invisibly; parking visibly is the better failure (comment at the site).
- composition budget: re-measured the merged tree per the pair hazard —
  42479 (ours) / 42371 (main) -> 42732 measured, ceiling+observed+mirrored
  COMPOSITION_ABSOLUTE_SRC_LOC move together.
- curation rewrite scenario: reader assertions follow #7001's byte-stable
  prefix contract (memory context now rides the conversation tail), matching
  main's own always-on recall scenario: assert_model_request_contains.

Verified: cargo check --workspace --tests clean; clippy clean; fmt clean;
turn_runner executor tests, ironclaw_assistant lib (537), architecture
tests, and the reborn_group_memory e2e group all pass; composition budget
gate OK (mass 42732/42732, dispatch 844/845 effective).
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47-54: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Write-once constraint is prompt-only; no code-level backstop shown.

The instructions cap writes at one, but nothing in the reviewed files enforces this outside the model's own compliance. A model that ignores the instruction can issue two writes and both reach MemoryToolGuard as long as the overall capability-call budget (max_model_calls / max_capability_calls) is not exhausted. This repeats a prior finding that was not marked addressed.

Add a typed per-run write counter enforced before dispatch (fail closed after the first ironclaw.memory.write), and add a caller-level test that attempts two writes in one curation run and asserts only the first reaches the backend.

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In `@crates/extensions/packages/memory-native/prompts/memory_curation.md` around
lines 47 - 54, Add a typed per-run write counter before ironclaw.memory.write
dispatch, enforcing a fail-closed limit of one write per curation run and
preventing subsequent calls from reaching MemoryToolGuard or the backend. Add a
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Inline comments:
In `@crates/app/ironclaw_composition/src/memory_provider_factory.rs`:
- Around line 520-524: Update the cadence contract comments near
scheduled_after_turn_interval_override and the related documentation around the
curation decision to state that declaring an after_turn operation only
establishes eligibility; curation remains inactive unless
[memory].curation_interval_turns is configured to a non-zero value. Clarify that
None means no configured interval and therefore no curation, while a non-zero
configured interval enables it.

In `@crates/app/ironclaw_composition/src/runtime.rs`:
- Around line 3793-3864: Remove the silent `.filter(|_|
resolved_memory_provider.is_some())` from `memory_scheduled_op_hook_wiring`.
Explicitly validate that a declared after-turn operation with a valid
`memory_scheduled_op_interval_override` has a resolved memory provider, and
return `RebornRuntimeError::MalformedConfig` when `resolved_memory_provider` is
absent; only construct the hook after this validation succeeds.

In `@crates/loop/ironclaw_turn_runner/src/runtime.rs`:
- Around line 363-364: Replace the String error in AfterTurnHookWiring with a
thiserror-based AfterTurnHookWiringError that preserves the concrete failure
source. Update the after-turn hook composition and
DefaultPlannedRuntimeBuildError::AfterTurnHooks mapping to propagate this typed
error with context instead of erasing it.

In `@crates/loop/ironclaw_turn_runner/src/turn_run_executor.rs`:
- Around line 50-62: Remove the fixed AFTER_TURN_HOOK_DISPATCH_TIMEOUT executor
backstop and move aggregate timeout ownership into
HookDispatcherFactory/dispatch_after_turn, or derive a validated bound from the
factory that always exceeds the sequential per-hook budget. Ensure a hung hook
with an inner timeout at least as large as the executor limit is classified as
timed out and poisoned before dispatch_after_turn returns, and add a regression
covering that behavior.

---

Duplicate comments:
In `@crates/extensions/packages/memory-native/prompts/memory_curation.md`:
- Around line 47-54: Add a typed per-run write counter before
ironclaw.memory.write dispatch, enforcing a fail-closed limit of one write per
curation run and preventing subsequent calls from reaching MemoryToolGuard or
the backend. Add a caller-level test that attempts two writes in one run and
verifies only the first is dispatched.
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Comment on lines +520 to +524
/// The DECLARATION decides whether scheduled upkeep happens at all: a provider
/// that declares an `after_turn` op gets one, a provider that declares none
/// gets nothing. Config is an override of the cadence, not a switch — `Ok(None)`
/// here means "no override, use the declared interval", `Ok(Some)` means "the
/// operator set a different one".

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the cadence contract comments.

scheduled_after_turn_interval_override(None, ...) returns Ok(None). Lines 726-736 confirm that this leaves curation inactive. These comments instead state that a declared operation runs and that None uses its declared cadence. State that the declaration establishes eligibility, while a configured non-zero [memory].curation_interval_turns enables curation.

PR objective: "[memory].curation_interval_turns controls whether the operation is enabled."

Also applies to: 721-724

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In `@crates/app/ironclaw_composition/src/memory_provider_factory.rs` around lines
520 - 524, Update the cadence contract comments near
scheduled_after_turn_interval_override and the related documentation around the
curation decision to state that declaring an after_turn operation only
establishes eligibility; curation remains inactive unless
[memory].curation_interval_turns is configured to a non-zero value. Clarify that
None means no configured interval and therefore no curation, while a non-zero
configured interval enables it.

Comment on lines +3793 to +3864
// Scheduled memory upkeep (#7276 / #7664): the bound provider's
// DECLARATION arms it — validated shape, resolved prompt, recommended
// cadence — and `[memory].curation_interval_turns` ENABLES it (owner
// decision, 2026-08-22: background model spend stays opt-in; a manifest
// must not switch on token cost for a deployment that never asked).
// Config set while the bound provider declares nothing is a startup
// error, not a degraded mode — that deployment would believe memory is
// being tidied while nothing runs
// (`scheduled_after_turn_interval_override` carries the reasoning).
let memory_scheduled_op_interval_override =
crate::memory_provider_factory::scheduled_after_turn_interval_override(
memory_curation_interval_turns,
&memory_lifecycle,
local_runtime
.map(|local_runtime| local_runtime.memory_service_resolver.resolved_binding())
.as_ref(),
)
.map_err(|reason| RebornRuntimeError::MalformedConfig { reason })?;
// Which hook, at which phase, under which trust class is decided by the
// crate that owns the dispatcher, so this is one call into it.
let memory_scheduled_op_hook_wiring = match memory_lifecycle
.scheduled_op(ironclaw_extension_contracts::memory::MemoryScheduledTrigger::AfterTurn)
.filter(|_| resolved_memory_provider.is_some())
// Opt-in: an armed declaration with no configured interval stays
// dormant. The declared `interval_turns` is the provider's
// RECOMMENDED cadence for the config key, not an activation.
.filter(|_| memory_scheduled_op_interval_override.is_some())
{
None => None,
Some(declared) => {
// The prompt was resolved fail-closed at bundle construction, so a
// declared op always has one here. Treat its absence as the
// configuration error it would be rather than scheduling a pass
// with an empty instruction.
let prompt = local_runtime
.and_then(|local_runtime| {
local_runtime
.memory_scheduled_pass_prompts
.iter()
.find(|(trigger, _)| *trigger == declared.trigger)
.map(|(_, prompt)| prompt.clone())
})
.ok_or_else(|| RebornRuntimeError::MalformedConfig {
reason: "the bound memory provider declares an after_turn scheduled op whose \
prompt asset did not resolve"
.to_string(),
})?;
let declared = declared.clone();
Some(Box::new(
move |deps: ironclaw_turn_runner::runtime::AfterTurnHookDeps| {
let submitter = Arc::new(ironclaw_assistant::UnboundTurnService::new(
deps.thread_service,
deps.coordinator,
deps.thread_scope.agent_id,
deps.thread_scope.project_id,
));
// Fail closed: the bound provider declared this work. If the
// hook cannot install, swallowing it would leave a
// deployment that believes memory is being tidied while
// nothing ever runs — a difference nothing surfaces later.
// The build carries this out as a startup error instead.
ironclaw_assistant::memory_scheduled_ops::after_turn_scheduled_op_dispatcher_factory(
submitter,
&declared,
&prompt,
memory_scheduled_op_interval_override,
)
},
)
as ironclaw_turn_runner::runtime::AfterTurnHookWiring)
}
};

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Silent-disable path from a past review is still present.

memory_scheduled_op_hook_wiring uses .filter(|_| resolved_memory_provider.is_some()). resolved_memory_provider is the constructed MemoryService instance; memory_scheduled_op_interval_override is validated only against resolved_binding(), a separate value. If those two disagree — binding resolves to a provider that declares after_turn and the interval passes validation, but resolve_provider() independently returns None for that same binding — curation silently goes dormant instead of failing the build. Path instructions require failing loud instead of a let-filter that swallows this mismatch into None.

Confirm whether this divergence is reachable given how scheduled_after_turn_interval_override and resolve_provider both consume resolved_binding(); if it is, fail the build explicitly instead of filtering to None.

As per path instructions, "Fail loud: flag silent-failure patterns — ... let-else returning None to swallow failures."

#!/bin/bash
# Description: Inspect whether resolved_binding() and resolve_provider() can diverge.
fd -a memory_provider_factory.rs | xargs -I{} sed -n '1,400p' {}
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In `@crates/app/ironclaw_composition/src/runtime.rs` around lines 3793 - 3864,
Remove the silent `.filter(|_| resolved_memory_provider.is_some())` from
`memory_scheduled_op_hook_wiring`. Explicitly validate that a declared
after-turn operation with a valid `memory_scheduled_op_interval_override` has a
resolved memory provider, and return `RebornRuntimeError::MalformedConfig` when
`resolved_memory_provider` is absent; only construct the hook after this
validation succeeds.

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Comment on lines +363 to +364
pub type AfterTurnHookWiring =
Box<dyn FnOnce(AfterTurnHookDeps) -> Result<HookDispatcherFactory, String> + Send>;

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Use a typed wiring error.

Result<HookDispatcherFactory, String> erases the failure type and source chain before DefaultPlannedRuntimeBuildError::AfterTurnHooks receives it. Define an AfterTurnHookWiringError with thiserror and preserve the source when the composition maps its concrete failure.

This violates the Rust error invariant: use thiserror error types and map errors with context.

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In `@crates/loop/ironclaw_turn_runner/src/runtime.rs` around lines 363 - 364,
Replace the String error in AfterTurnHookWiring with a thiserror-based
AfterTurnHookWiringError that preserves the concrete failure source. Update the
after-turn hook composition and DefaultPlannedRuntimeBuildError::AfterTurnHooks
mapping to propagate this typed error with context instead of erasing it.

Source: Coding guidelines

Comment on lines +50 to +62
/// Outer bound on the whole `after_turn` hook dispatch. The dispatcher owns the
/// real budget: it bounds each hook individually and classifies a hook that
/// overruns as a timeout failure, poisoning that binding. This is only a
/// backstop against a dispatcher-level surprise, so the scheduler worker stays
/// bounded no matter what.
///
/// It must therefore be STRICTLY LARGER than (the dispatcher's per-hook
/// timeout x a plausible hook count), never equal to it: an outer cancel that
/// lands at the same instant as the inner one takes the whole dispatch away
/// mid-classification, so the slow hook is neither recorded nor poisoned and
/// repeats its full budget on every later run. At the recorder's scale (30s)
/// against a 5s per-hook bound, the dispatcher gets to finish and classify.
const AFTER_TURN_HOOK_DISPATCH_TIMEOUT: std::time::Duration = std::time::Duration::from_secs(30);

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Move the aggregate timeout into the dispatcher.

The fixed 30-second timeout cannot satisfy this contract for every HookDispatcherFactory. A valid factory can configure a per-hook timeout of 30 seconds or more, or install enough hooks that sequential per-hook budgets exceed 30 seconds. In either case, this timeout cancels dispatch_after_turn before the dispatcher records the timeout and poisons the binding.

Make the dispatcher own the aggregate budget, or expose validated dispatch limits from the factory. Add a regression with an inner timeout at least as large as the executor bound and a hung hook. Verify that the hook is classified and poisoned before the executor returns.

This violates the hook invariant that a timing-out hook is poisoned for the rest of the current run.

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In `@crates/loop/ironclaw_turn_runner/src/turn_run_executor.rs` around lines 50 -
62, Remove the fixed AFTER_TURN_HOOK_DISPATCH_TIMEOUT executor backstop and move
aggregate timeout ownership into HookDispatcherFactory/dispatch_after_turn, or
derive a validated bound from the factory that always exceeds the sequential
per-hook budget. Ensure a hung hook with an inner timeout at least as large as
the executor limit is classified as timed out and poisoned before
dispatch_after_turn returns, and add a regression covering that behavior.

Source: Coding guidelines

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The AfterTurn point, its trust gating and the unbound-recursion guard hold up well. The blocker is in the curation consumer.

Optional follow-ups:

  • crates/product/ironclaw_assistant/src/memory_scheduled_ops.rs:40 — The curation pass does a read-modify-write of the standing memory document across a model round trip and then writes the whole document back with `append. Fix: Make the pass's rewrite conditional on the document it read.
  • crates/loop/ironclaw_turn_runner/src/turn_run_executor.rs:656 — AfterTurn is dispatched only when the primary exit applier returns Ok(state). Fix: Route every terminalization path through a single after-turn seam.

Checks: cargo +1.98.0 test -p ironclaw_hooks -p ironclaw_turn_runner -p ironclaw_assistant -p ironclaw_extension_contracts — exit 0; cargo +1.98.0 test -p ironclaw_integration_tests --test reborn_group_memory (SKIP_FRONTEND_BUILD via --config env) — 18 passed, including both new curation scenarios…; cargo +1.98.0 test -p ironclaw_config -p ironclaw_extension_registry -p ironclaw_host_runtime --lib — 508…

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One conflict: the contracts size-ceiling ratchet in
`reborn_dependency_boundaries.rs`. Both sides raised the SAME row — main to
11_451 for `[[memory.scheduled_ops]]` (#7765), this branch to 11_092 for the
`connect_link` validation module. Taking either side alone would have been
wrong in a way CI would not necessarily explain: mine drops main's headroom,
main's drops mine.

Resolved by keeping BOTH rationales — the row genuinely grew twice, for two
independent reasons, and each delta deserves its own line — and by setting the
number to the count this test reports for the merged tree: 11_633.

Worth recording that the deltas do not sum. 11_451 + 251 would be 11_702; the
measured value is 11_633. Adding them would have left 69 lines of unearned
headroom in a ratchet whose entire job is to make growth deliberate.

Verification on the merged tree: cargo test -p ironclaw_architecture_tests
--test reborn_dependency_boundaries -> 42 passed, 0 failed;
-p ironclaw_extension_contracts --lib -> 537 passed; -p ironclaw_assistant
--lib -> 174 passed; -p ironclaw_extension_host --lib -> 493 passed; all 0
failed.

Refs #7897

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… consumer (nearai#7770 phase 1) (nearai#7765)

* feat(memory): periodic memory-curation pass ("dreaming"), first slice (nearai#7276)

Memory only ever grew. Writes accumulate, nothing prunes, and the standing
document has a byte budget, so redundancy crowds out what matters. No human
reads the file, so the decay is invisible.

This adds the Hermes-shaped answer: every N completed user turns, the agent
runs with no user present, re-reads its standing memory, and tidies it —
merging duplicates, resolving superseded facts, tightening wording. Its
output is the edits plus a structured report; nothing is sent to anyone.

Buildable now because unbound turns landed (nearai#7562/nearai#7634): a run with no
conversation and no reply target. The pass is submitted through the same
`UnboundTurnService` door OpenAI-compat and subagent spawn already use.

Shape. The loop tier owns only the observation ("an ordinary user turn
completed, under this scope") and reports it through a port; every policy
decision lives in the product tier. The port vocabulary sits in
`ironclaw_loop_contracts` rather than the runner because WS1.7 deliberately
removed `ironclaw_turn_runner` as a production dependency of
`ironclaw_assistant`, and this must not reverse that.

The load-bearing guard: an unbound run NEVER triggers curation. A pass is
itself unbound, so triggering on unbound completion would let each pass
schedule its successor — an unbounded background loop running the model
against a user's memory forever. Pinned by test, both unbound profiles.

Also fixed along the way: `UnboundTurnSubmission` had no way to declare
limits, so it always inherited the profile's 1024-iteration budget and no
wall clock. Fine for a user waiting on a panel, wrong for an unwatched
background chore — an unconverged pass would burn tokens against a user's
memory until that ceiling, and nobody would notice. Added narrowing-only
limits (existing callers unchanged, explicitly defaulted) and the pass
declares 6 model calls / 12 capability calls / 90s.

Safety properties pinned by tests: the pass acts as the owner and never as
an operator-config caller; it gets the three memory capabilities and nothing
else; its id doubles as the idempotency key so a crash-retry converges on
the same pass; a failed submission is swallowed at debug (post-terminal
background path — info!/warn! would corrupt the REPL).

Concurrency is safe without batch-atomic memory ops: memory writes are
compare-and-swap, so a pass racing a live conversation loses the write
rather than clobbering it. The failure mode is a lost curation pass, never
a lost memory.

Not wired into composition yet — no deployment runs this. Wiring, the
gate-behavior decision (unbound runs abort on approval gates, so users with
auto-approve off need skip-not-abort), and an integration scenario follow.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(memory): avoid an extension name in curation comments

The extension-specificity gate scans generic code for concrete extension
names; "with slack for one retry" tripped it on the English word. Reworded
rather than allowlisted — the allowlist is for pre-existing debt, not for
new code that can simply say something else.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(memory): move the curation contract into ironclaw_memory

Memory vocabulary belongs with the memory contract. "Curation" means
nothing outside memory, and the signal exists only to decide whether a
user's memory needs tidying — putting it in ironclaw_loop_contracts made
the loop-contracts crate carry a memory concept it has no stake in.

Both tiers already depend on ironclaw_memory (the runner for after-turn
recording, the product tier for the memory service), so this pulls in no
new edge; it only puts the type where its domain lives.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(hooks): add privileged AfterTurn lifecycle point

Adds `HookPointSpec::AfterTurn`, a privileged-only hook point that fires
once after a turn's run reaches a terminal state — the seam for work about
the turn as a whole rather than about one model call, capability
invocation, or checkpoint.

- `AfterTurnHookContext` (`points/turn.rs`) carries tenant/user/agent/
  project plus a `completed` flag. `user_id` is non-optional and there is
  deliberately no `unbound` field: the dispatch call site never fires this
  point for unbound runs, because hook-started background work runs
  unbound and firing on unbound completion would let each background pass
  schedule its own successor forever. Observing background runs stays with
  `EventTriggered` + `LoopCompleted`, which is observer-only.
- `PrivilegedAfterTurnHook` takes no sink: an AfterTurn hook may hold its
  own collaborators and start follow-on work as a side effect. The
  sealed-return-type law stays scoped to points untrusted tiers can reach.
- `install_after_turn` rejects `Installed` and `SelfAuthored` at install
  time; `install_observer` rejects the point outright.
- `dispatch_after_turn` mirrors the observer dispatch shape (ordered
  snapshot, poison handling, failure policy, telemetry) with a 5s per-hook
  timeout, and never propagates a hook failure to the caller.
- New `DecisionKind::Lifecycle` (three in-crate consumers, all updated):
  act-capable but fails isolated, since the run it observes is already
  terminal.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* refactor(memory): curation rides the AfterTurn hook point, bespoke port deleted

nearai#7765 landed memory curation on a bespoke `AfterTurnCurationPort` because no
general lifecycle seam existed yet. The `AfterTurn` hook point now exists, so
the port is deleted and curation becomes one privileged hook among others.

- `ironclaw_memory` sheds `src/curation.rs` entirely: memory carries no
  hook-framework vocabulary and no bespoke port.
- `ironclaw_turn_runner` gains `after_turn_hooks::after_turn_hook_context`,
  which keeps the two guards centrally so no hook has to remember them: an
  unbound run never fires the point (hook-started background work runs
  unbound, so firing on unbound completion would let each pass schedule its
  own successor forever), and an actorless run never fires it (nothing to
  attribute follow-on work to).
- The executor's `after_turn_curation` field becomes
  `after_turn_hooks: Option<Arc<HookDispatcher>>` with `with_after_turn_hooks`.
  The 5s bound survives as an OUTER backstop around the whole dispatch; the
  dispatcher already bounds each hook.
- Semantic widening: the point fires for ANY terminal state of an ordinary
  actor-bearing run, not just `Completed`. Hooks that only want successes read
  `ctx.completed` — which `MemoryCurationService` does, first thing, because a
  failed turn says nothing about whether memory needs tidying and counting it
  would drift the interval.
- `MemoryCurationService` implements `PrivilegedAfterTurnHook`; every policy
  decision (interval, per-owner counters, pass building, idempotency key)
  is unchanged. `ironclaw_assistant` takes a normal `ironclaw_hooks`
  dependency — products→loops, the edge it already has via `ironclaw_loop_host`.
- `AfterTurnHookContext::new` added: the struct is `#[non_exhaustive]` and the
  call site is outside `ironclaw_hooks`, so a struct literal is unavailable.

The dispatcher is un-wired (`None`) after this commit; composition follows.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(memory): wire curation through composition behind [memory] config

Phase 1 of nearai#7770 ends where it should: the `AfterTurn` point has a live
consumer. Composition registers the memory-curation hook, so after every Nth
completed turn the agent goes off on its own and tidies the user's standing
memory document (nearai#7276).

- `[memory].curation_interval_turns` (`ironclaw_config`): opt-in, serde-default
  absent. Absent means the hook is NEVER REGISTERED — disabled is expressed by
  not wiring, never by a sentinel, so a written `0` is rejected at parse time
  rather than clamped downstream into "after every turn". Config-only, no env
  override: that matches `provider`/`admin_overrides`, and only the mem0
  connection fields carry an env convention.
- `ironclaw_assistant::memory_curation::after_turn_curation_dispatcher` owns the
  assembly — which hook, at which phase (`Telemetry`: the run is already
  terminal, so it enforces nothing), under which trust class (`Builtin`), behind
  the stable `HookId::for_builtin` path. Composition calls it; per AGENTS.md the
  wiring root does not own module policy. Its own small dispatcher, not the
  per-run middleware one: `after_turn` fires once per run from a
  process-lifetime `Arc`.
- `DefaultPlannedRuntimeParts::after_turn_hook_dispatcher_factory` is a factory,
  not a ready dispatcher, because the `UnboundTurnService` the hook submits
  through is built from the coordinator the same function builds. Handed
  `AfterTurnHookDeps` once, after those exist; may still decline.
- Two conditions gate registration in composition: an operator asked for an
  interval AND a memory provider resolved. A pass over a document no provider
  backs would submit a run whose only three tools do not exist.

Gate posture (nearai#7770's skip-and-note) is deliberately NOT implemented; a
`DECISION nearai#7770:` comment at the submission site records why. No read-only
"would this capability gate for this scope" query exists: the answer needs the
descriptor's effects and origin-gate matrix, the run's `ApprovalPolicy`, the
`TrustDecision`, grants, and leases composed inside
`authorize_dispatch_with_trust` at dispatch time, with an origin that does not
exist until the run is executing. Approximating it from
`ApprovalSettingsProvider::global_auto_approve` alone would duplicate gate
composition in a product service. The seam that is actually missing is at the
gate strategy: a `GateOutcome` that skips the capability for the model instead
of aborting the unbound run.

Tests: two group scenarios drive the wired path end to end — the pass's thread
id is its idempotency key and therefore deterministic, which is what lets the
harness script the background pass's model at all. The positive scenario runs N
ordinary turns and asserts the tidied text reaches a LATER conversation's prompt
under the same user's own memory lane; the negative asserts an empty pass script
below the interval and then corroborates it by crossing the interval one turn
later, so "empty" cannot be latency. Both falsified by moving the interval.
`with_memory_curation_interval()` on the group builder mirrors production's
opt-in exactly; the wiring-parity tripwire and composition mass gate move with
the new field.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(memory): review round — per-trigger pass identity, conversation-only triggers, fail-closed install

Six review findings on nearai#7765 (epic nearai#7770 phase 1).

- **Pass identity was the number of OWNERS, not passes.** The curation pass id
  was `…-{counters.len()}`, which for one user is forever `1`: every interval
  after the first reused the same public id and idempotency key, so the unbound
  accept door REPLAYED the first pass instead of running a new one — the
  document would be curated exactly once, ever, with nothing surfacing it.
  `AfterTurnHookContext` now carries `run_id` (the terminal run that fired the
  point), the runner threads it through, and the pass id is
  `memory-curation-{tenant}-{user}-{run_id}`: distinct per trigger, and
  replayed as-is by a crash-retry of the same trigger, with no durable counter.
- **Scheduled-trigger fires and subagent children no longer count.** A trusted
  fire keeps its creator as `TurnActor` and runs a non-unbound profile, so it
  passed both original guards and could launch a write-capable pass with no
  user present. The derivation is now an ALLOWLIST of conversation profiles
  (`reborn-planned-default`, `interactive_default`, `default`); the
  denylist shape failed open for every profile added later.
- **Curation install fails closed.** `AfterTurnHookDispatcherFactory` returns
  `Result` and the runtime build propagates it as
  `DefaultPlannedRuntimeBuildError::AfterTurnHooks`. Declining is expressed by
  supplying no factory, never by a swallowed error that leaves a deployment
  believing memory is being tidied.
- **A zero interval is unrepresentable downstream.** Config already rejected
  `curation_interval_turns = 0`; `NonZeroU32` now carries through the input
  builder into `MemoryCurationService`, and the clamp is gone.
- **Typed error and typed counter key.** `CurationPassSubmitter::submit_pass`
  returns `UnboundTurnError`; counters key on a `(TenantId, UserId)` struct.
- `// arch-exempt:` on the executor's hook field uses the enforced
  `plan #NNNN` form.

Tests: distinct-vs-converging pass ids; scheduled-trigger and subagent profiles
yield no context, planned-default does; the executor actually dispatches at the
seam (recording hook over a completed bound run, and never for an unbound one);
`accept_and_submit` journals the declared `TurnLimits`. The two curation
scenarios script the pass by owner-scoped thread PREFIX — a new test-support
`register_scope_script_prefix_for_test` — because a per-run pass id is not
knowable before the triggering turn runs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(ci): panic-free interval const + QA harness field the sweep missed

Two breaks, one class: struct call sites in test bins the local
verification set never compiled.

- The production panic baseline scans syntactically, so the compile-time
  `match … unreachable!()` NonZeroU32 constructor counted as a new panic.
  Replaced with `NonZeroU32::MIN.saturating_add(9)` — const, panic-free,
  and the comment says why the odd spelling exists.
- `reborn_parity_qa/binary_e2e.rs` initializes DefaultPlannedRuntimeParts
  and needed the new `after_turn_hook_dispatcher_factory` field (None: QA
  replay drives no lifecycle hooks).

Verified with `cargo check --workspace --tests` — the command that
covers every bin, which the per-crate verification lists did not.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(filesystem): satisfy the Rust 1.98 chunks_exact_to_as_chunks lint

Rust stable 1.98 rolled through CI today and its new clippy lint fails
every branch on decode_embedding_blob's chunks_exact. as_chunks is the
better code anyway: const chunk size yields [u8; 4] directly, so the
per-element indexing disappears. Behavior pinned by the existing vector
tests.

Not this branch's code — the same fix goes to main in its own PR so
every other open branch stops failing too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(lints): complete the Rust 1.98 clippy migration

Full-workspace sweep under 1.98 (the toolchain CI now runs), on top of the
vector.rs fix already on this branch:

- result_large_err: GoogleCredentialError boxes its Recovery projection
  (one variant, nine sites' worth of warnings); agent_loop's batch error
  boxes its host error; turn_runner boxes only HostFinalizationFailed's
  payload — DriverError stays unboxed because five match sites destructure
  it by pattern, and it is not the oversized member.
- chunks_exact_to_as_chunks: the two UTF-16 decoders in coding/text.rs.
- useless_format in a trace_commons test.

All private types or contained call sites; no public API changes beyond
the boxed variant payloads inside their own crates.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(lints): last two 1.98 sites — map_or_identity, test-support large errors

The tracing-syntax architecture test's map_or(len, |end| end) becomes
unwrap_or; db_write_measurement's error enum boxes its DbProbeError
payloads (test-support only, ~5 construction sites).

Full-workspace clippy --tests under 1.98: clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(hooks): Lifecycle-vs-Effect rationale + amend the side-effect invariant

Approach-audit disposition on nearai#7770 (accepted findings ST3/SP3):

- trust.rs documents why Lifecycle is not a duplicate of Effect: Effect is
  permitted for Installed/SelfAuthored by default — the third-party class
  for post-durable-fact event hooks — while turn completion must not carry
  that default. Folding them would silently widen who may react to a
  finished turn.
- The hooks contract's side-effect invariant now names mediated
  prepared-context turn submission as a sanctioned route for Lifecycle
  hooks, instead of the code silently diverging from a list written before
  unbound turns existed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(memory): audit round 2 — fail-closed curation gate, per-run hook dispatcher

Second approach audit on nearai#7765 (nearai#7770 phase 1). Six accepted findings plus
the documentation gaps they exposed.

Fail closed on a provider that cannot curate. Composition registered curation
whenever an interval was configured and any memory provider resolved, but a
pass REPLACES the standing document and a bound third-party provider may
reject that write outright — a deployment would spawn passes forever that all
fail, with nothing surfacing it. `curation_interval_for_binding` now gates on
the resolved binding and turns a configured-but-unservable curation into a
startup error naming the provider and how to disable it. Nothing in a manifest
declares "supports standing-document replacement" (`[memory].lifecycle` is
about read/record hooks), so the gate is the native binding, with the missing
declaration named in the comment as the seam for nearai#7664.

Hook poison is run-scoped by contract, so the executor now holds a per-run
dispatcher FACTORY instead of one process-lifetime dispatcher: a panic or
timeout is barred for the run it happened in and retried on the next, instead
of disabling curation until restart. The curation SERVICE stays one long-lived
instance — its per-owner counters must accumulate across runs — and each fresh
dispatcher installs a binding over that same service.

Blocked states no longer dispatch. `after_turn_hook_context` requires
`TurnStatus::is_terminal()`: a gated-then-resumed turn fired the point twice,
once while still running.

Also: tier-specific `install_builtin_after_turn` / `install_trusted_after_turn`
replace the trust-class-parameterized installer (an invalid tier is now
unrepresentable, not rejected at runtime); the executor's outer dispatch bound
moves 5s -> 30s so it can never preempt the dispatcher's own per-hook timeout
classification; the unused default-interval constant is deleted and its "ten
matches Hermes" rationale moved to the config field a deployer reads; the
hooks consumer inventory gains `ironclaw_assistant`; and `points/turn.rs` now
states plainly that the point fires only for exits the executor applies —
scheduler failure terminalization does not dispatch it, tracked as a follow-up
on nearai#7770.

Composition budget 42198 -> 42316 (both records, dated): +7 wiring, +109 for
the fail-closed gate and its tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(hooks): enforce the after_turn tier gate in the registry, and close the review gaps

CodeRabbit round three on nearai#7765.

`HookRegistry::insert` now refuses `Installed` / `SelfAuthored` bindings at
`HookPointSpec::AfterTurn`, alongside the phase-vs-trust gate it already
carries. The tier-split installers encoded the restriction, but raw bindings
reach the registry through `from_bindings` and the public builder's
`insert_binding`, which bypass them — the point is act-capable, so an
untrusted binding there would surface as a malformed binding mid-dispatch
instead of an install-time refusal.

The dispatcher's per-hook `after_turn` budget becomes injectable
(`HookDispatcherBuilder::with_after_turn_timeout`, defaulting to
`AFTER_TURN_HOOK_TIMEOUT`), which is what makes the timeout-race regression
affordable: the executor-seam test wedges one hook against a millisecond
budget and proves the hook ordered after it still runs, that the wedged one is
recorded as a Timeout failure, and that the already-terminal run is unaffected.
That asymmetry — outer backstop strictly larger than per-hook budget times hook
count — was fixed earlier but never pinned.

Executor-seam coverage also gains the two non-success terminal states: a FAILED
and a CANCELLED conversation run each dispatch exactly once with
`ctx.completed == false`.

The below-threshold curation scenario no longer rests on a single empty
reading, which a queued-but-unstarted pass would also produce. After crossing
the interval it now requires EXACTLY ONE pass — one pass's worth of model calls
and no more — which is what makes the earlier zero real rather than latency.

The group harness mirrors production's two-part activation gate: curation wires
only when an interval AND a bound memory provider are present, not from the
interval alone.

Version claims in two comments are reworded to name the lint rather than a
toolchain release nobody can verify offline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* chore(composition): re-measure the mass budget after the main merge

The merge combined main's composition growth (notification inbox nearai#7697,
subagent slice nearai#7788) with this branch's curation wiring; the two
ceilings merged textually without a git conflict while the sum exceeded
both — the gate caught exactly the case it exists for. Ceiling and the
mirrored COMPOSITION_ABSOLUTE_SRC_LOC move together to the measured
42479, dated rationale in the toml. No composition code changes here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(memory): give the curation pass report headroom — live-test finding

The 2026-08-21 live test (DeepSeek-V4-Flash, isolated home, interval 2)
proved the machinery end to end — the pass fired exactly once, acted as
the user, consolidated two wordings of one fact into a correct merged
line, and read its own write back to verify — and then terminated
`Failed { model_call_limit }` before emitting its structured report. A
real model spends calls a scripted one does not: three writes where the
prompt asks for one, plus a fumbled read.

Two changes, both evidence-backed:
- MEMORY_CURATION_MAX_ITERATIONS 6 -> 10. The ceiling still hard-stops
  an unconverged pass; it now leaves room for the report after ordinary
  real-model imperfection.
- The prompt's Finishing section states the budget and the exact
  sequence (read -> at most one write -> result tool), and says plainly
  that a pass dying unreported is worse than a pass changing nothing.

The scripted integration scenario hands the model exactly three replies
and structurally cannot see this failure mode; the constants comment
records the live evidence so the next tuner knows where 10 came from.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(extension-contracts): declare [[memory.scheduled_ops]] — pass ops, trust-gated, cost-floored

A memory provider can now declare its own recurring upkeep in its manifest
instead of the host hardcoding which provider gets which background work.
The provider names the work and the cadence; the host keeps the clock, the
invocation envelope, and the authority.

    [[memory.scheduled_ops]]
    trigger = "after_turn"
    interval_turns = 10
    pass = { prompt = "prompts/memory_curation.md", tools = ["ironclaw.memory.read", "ironclaw.memory.write"], max_model_calls = 10 }

Contracts tier only — nothing dispatches or invokes these yet.

`MemoryScheduledTrigger` is a closed host-owned vocabulary with exactly one
v0 entry; an unrecognized token fails the parse rather than being dropped,
because a silently ignored trigger presents as a provider whose declared
upkeep simply never runs. `MemoryScheduledOpKind` is tagged by which key the
entry declares, and `tool = "..."` is RECOGNIZED and REJECTED with its own
message rather than falling through to an unknown-field error, so a manifest
written against the eventual schema fails with intent. Both keys or neither
are errors too. The wire shape and the parsed shape are separate types, so
`MemoryScheduledOp` cannot be built from a manifest without clearing every
per-op rule.

Three bounds, each with its reason in a doc comment and a test:

- `interval_turns >= 2` (`MIN_SCHEDULED_OP_INTERVAL_TURNS`) — a manifest
  declares work that runs on someone else's deployment at their expense, so
  it must not be able to demand per-turn invocation. `NonZeroU32` makes
  "every 0 turns" unrepresentable before the floor even applies.
- `pass.max_model_calls <= 16` (`MAX_SCHEDULED_PASS_MODEL_CALLS`) — a pass is
  unwatched background spend with nobody reading the transcript. The nearai#7770
  live test put the realistic curation need at 10.
- At most one op per trigger — the host holds one interval counter per
  trigger per owner, so a second op has no well-defined cadence.

Two rules need the whole manifest and land in
`ironclaw_extension_registry::v3::validate_memory_scheduled_ops`, beside the
existing `[admin_configuration]` cross-check and for the same reason — only
that layer sees `[[tools]]` and the requested trust class next to `[memory]`:

- A pass's `tools` must be ids the SAME manifest declares. Declaration is
  selection, never authority: a memory provider must not schedule passes
  wielding another extension's tools.
- Only a first-party/system manifest may declare a pass op at all. A pass is
  a manifest-authored prompt running with write tools, as every user, on a
  schedule — a strictly larger grant than a model-chosen tool call, so it
  gets the same default-deny wall as the after-turn hook tiers. Host-bundled
  alone is not enough, pinned by a test that refuses a third-party-trust
  manifest from a host-bundled source.

`scheduled_ops` is serde-defaulted and empty when absent, so every manifest
written before it existed parses unchanged and schedules nothing
(`memory_manifest_without_scheduled_ops_still_parses`,
`scheduled_ops_absent_in_an_older_manifest_means_none`). `pass.prompt` reuses
`guidance_doc`'s validated bundled-asset ref type; asset RESOLUTION stays
host-side and fail-closed.

The §11.2.3 contracts size ceiling moves 10_841 -> 11_451 for the declaration
family and its inline tests, count read from the ratchet's own failure
message.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(memory): scheduled ops drive curation — native declares its pass, opt-in stays

The declaration replaces the hardwired layer (nearai#7664 addendum v2):

- memory-native's manifest declares its curation as `[[memory.scheduled_ops]]`
  (after_turn, recommended cadence 10, pass over its own three memory tools,
  max_model_calls 10 — the live-test calibration). The curation prompt moves
  into the package beside the guidance doc, exported through the same asset
  table, resolved host-side fail-closed.
- `MemoryCurationService` dies; `MemoryScheduledOpRunner` is built FROM the
  resolved declaration (prompt text, tool ids, model-call ceiling), keeping
  the policy that was already pinned: per-owner counters, completed-only
  counting, the `memory-curation-` pass-id prefix as contract, the submitter
  seam, debug-only failure swallowing. The tool-op arm is
  unreachable-by-construction (leg A parse-rejects it) and says so explicitly.
- Composition's native-only gate arm dies: the gate is now "did the bound
  provider declare an op" — a configured interval against a provider that
  declares nothing stays a startup error naming the provider.

OPT-IN preserved (owner decision, 2026-08-22): the declaration ARMS upkeep —
validated shape, resolved prompt, recommended cadence — and
`[memory].curation_interval_turns` ENABLES it. Omitted = nothing runs,
exactly as before this change; a manifest cannot switch on background token
spend for a deployment that never asked. The config floor (>= 2) is now
enforced at parse, where the operator can read why.

Leg B built by a subagent (session-limited mid-flight), completed and
re-verified from the worktree; opt-in flip + config validation + marker
resolution by the orchestrator.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(memory): the curation prompt demands an explicit append:false — live-test v2 finding

The declared-op live re-test (2026-08-23, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, fresh isolated
home): the pass reached its structured report — the model_call_limit death
from the first live test is fixed — but the model's FIRST write omitted
append:false, transiently duplicating the document before it self-corrected
with a proper replace two calls later. The prompt asked for one write; it
never said which KIND. Now it does, with the consequence spelled out.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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