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feat(doctor): nag when per-project DBs are on pre-v1.x schema (#589) - #599

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Closes #589.

What lands

Extends aelf doctor with a per-project-DB schema check that mirrors the existing #557 auto-capture-hook nag pattern. When pre-v1.x per-project DBs (no origin column on beliefs) are detected under ~/.aelfrice/projects/*/memory.db, the doctor report appends a legacy-schema per-project DBs detected block listing each with row count + idle days. aelf migrate is unhidden from argparse.SUPPRESS so the fix line is discoverable.

Operator decisions (resolved on the issue before this branch was claimed):

  1. Scan scope: global — enumerates ~/.aelfrice/projects/*/memory.db, not current-project-only.
  2. Unhide aelf migrate: yescli.py:4014 help=argparse.SUPPRESS → real help string.
  3. Auto-migrate on doctor: no — doctor stays read-only by convention. Auto-migration tracked separately as feat(doctor|cli): auto-migrate (or prompt-to-migrate) on detected legacy schema #593.
  4. Cleanup of dormant DBs: out of scope — tracked as feat(doctor|cli): prune dormant per-project DBs #594.

What you get

$ aelf doctor
...
auto-capture hooks not installed (v2.1+, #529). missing: aelf-stop-hook
fix: re-run 'aelf setup' to wire transcript-ingest, ...

legacy-schema per-project DBs detected (pre-v1.x, no `origin` column).
  /Users/.../.aelfrice/projects/abef1bfc27c1/memory.db (26,566 beliefs, idle 15d)
  /Users/.../.aelfrice/projects/2e7ed55e017a/memory.db (35,332 beliefs, idle 16d)
  ...
fix: `aelf migrate --from <path> --apply` per DB to copy beliefs into the current project's modern-schema DB.

Block is quiet when zero legacy DBs are found (parity with #557 quietness rules).

Atomic commits

test(doctor): legacy-schema detector tests (#589)
feat(doctor): _check_legacy_schema_dbs + DoctorReport field (#589)
feat(doctor): _format_legacy_schema_section + format_report wire (#589)
feat(cli): unhide aelf migrate (#589)
docs(install): document legacy-schema doctor block (#589)
docs(changelog): unreleased entry for #589 legacy-schema doctor nag

All signed.

Acceptance criteria

  • aelf doctor enumerates per-project DBs and identifies any with beliefs rows but no origin column
  • Report appends a legacy-schema per-project DBs detected block listing each with row count + idle days
  • Block quiet when zero legacy DBs are found (parity with Claude not using aelf to remember checkpoints, only knows to use it to remember user preferences. #557 quietness rules)
  • aelf migrate unhidden from argparse
  • Documented in docs/INSTALL.md § "Hooks installed by aelf setup" (parallel to v2.1 hook docs)
  • Test: tests/test_doctor.py::test_legacy_schema_detected — temp legacy DB → block present; modern DB → block absent

Out of scope

Verification

uv run pytest -x -q → 3287 passed, 53 skipped (62.68s). Targeted: 25 doctor tests, all green. Discretion grep on github/main..HEAD clean.

Summary by Sourcery

Add aelf doctor support for detecting legacy per-project databases using a pre-v1.x schema and surface a migration hint via a visible aelf migrate command.

New Features:

  • Extend aelf doctor to scan per-project SQLite databases for legacy schemas lacking the origin column and include findings in the doctor report when present.
  • Expose the aelf migrate subcommand in the CLI help to guide users in migrating legacy per-project databases.

Enhancements:

  • Augment the doctor report format with a legacy-schema section listing affected per-project databases with belief row counts and idle days.

Documentation:

  • Document the new legacy-schema detection behavior of aelf doctor and how to migrate affected databases in INSTALL.md.
  • Update the changelog with the new legacy-schema detection feature and the visibility change for aelf migrate.

Tests:

  • Add tests covering legacy-schema detection logic, doctor report rendering of the legacy-schema block, quiet behavior when no legacy databases exist or the projects directory is missing, and inclusion of idle-day metadata in the report.

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Extends aelf doctor to scan all per-project SQLite DBs for a legacy pre-v1.x schema (no origin column on beliefs) and adds a new report section plus docs and CLI help to surface and remediate these DBs via aelf migrate.

Sequence diagram for aelf doctor legacy-schema DB detection

sequenceDiagram
    actor User
    participant CLI as aelf_cli
    participant Doctor as doctor_diagnose
    participant LegacyScanner as _check_legacy_schema_dbs
    participant SQLite as sqlite3

    User->>CLI: invoke aelf doctor
    CLI->>Doctor: diagnose(aelfrice_projects_dir=None)
    Doctor->>LegacyScanner: _check_legacy_schema_dbs(projects_dir=_AELFRICE_PROJECTS_DIR)

    alt projects_dir exists
        loop for each projects_dir/*/memory.db
            LegacyScanner->>SQLite: connect(file:memory.db?mode=ro)
            SQLite-->>LegacyScanner: connection or error
            alt connection ok
                LegacyScanner->>SQLite: PRAGMA table_info(beliefs)
                SQLite-->>LegacyScanner: beliefs columns
                alt beliefs table missing
                    LegacyScanner-->>LegacyScanner: skip DB
                else beliefs table present
                    alt origin column present
                        LegacyScanner-->>LegacyScanner: skip DB (modern schema)
                    else origin column absent
                        LegacyScanner->>SQLite: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM beliefs
                        SQLite-->>LegacyScanner: row_count
                        alt row_count > 0
                            LegacyScanner-->>LegacyScanner: compute idle_days from mtime
                            LegacyScanner-->>Doctor: append LegacySchemaDB(path,row_count,idle_days)
                        else row_count == 0
                            LegacyScanner-->>LegacyScanner: skip empty DB
                        end
                    end
                end
            else connection error
                LegacyScanner-->>LegacyScanner: skip unreadable DB
            end
        end
    else projects_dir missing
        LegacyScanner-->>Doctor: []
    end

    Doctor-->>CLI: DoctorReport with legacy_schema_dbs
    CLI->>CLI: format_report(report)
    CLI->>CLI: _format_legacy_schema_section(report,lines)
    alt legacy_schema_dbs nonempty
        CLI-->>User: text report including legacy-schema per-project DBs block
    else no legacy_schema_dbs
        CLI-->>User: text report without legacy-schema block
    end
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Class diagram for DoctorReport legacy schema tracking

classDiagram
    class LegacySchemaDB {
      +Path path
      +int row_count
      +int idle_days
    }

    class DoctorReport {
      +list~LegacySchemaDB~ legacy_schema_dbs
      +list~CommandFinding~ findings
      +list~str~ missing_auto_capture_hooks
      +list~str~ missing_runtime_deps
      +list~str~ hook_failures_tail
      +property broken
      +property ok
    }

    DoctorReport "1" o-- "*" LegacySchemaDB
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File-Level Changes

Change Details Files
Add legacy-schema per-project DB detection and reporting to aelf doctor.
  • Introduce _AELFRICE_PROJECTS_DIR as the default per-project state root and a LegacySchemaDB dataclass to capture path, row count, and idle days for flagged DBs.
  • Extend DoctorReport with a legacy_schema_dbs field and plumb an optional aelfrice_projects_dir argument through diagnose() for testability.
  • Implement _check_legacy_schema_dbs to scan ~/.aelfrice/projects/*/memory.db read-only, detect DBs with a beliefs table missing the origin column and at least one row, and compute idle days based on file mtime.
  • Update diagnose() to invoke _check_legacy_schema_dbs and format_report() to call _format_legacy_schema_section, which appends a quiet-when-empty nag block listing each legacy DB with row count and idle days plus a aelf migrate fix line.
src/aelfrice/doctor.py
Add tests covering legacy-schema detection behavior and report formatting.
  • Add helper functions to build legacy, modern, and empty per-project memory.db SQLite files with controlled beliefs schemas and row counts.
  • Test _check_legacy_schema_dbs to ensure legacy DBs with rows are flagged, modern DBs and empty legacy DBs are skipped, and missing project directories return an empty list without errors.
  • Test diagnose() + format_report() integration to verify the legacy-schema block appears with aelf migrate and paths when legacy DBs exist, is absent when only modern DBs exist, and includes idle-days text in the rendered output.
tests/test_doctor.py
Expose aelf migrate in the CLI and document the new doctor behavior.
  • Change the aelf migrate subparser help from argparse.SUPPRESS to a user-facing description that explains its role in copying beliefs from a legacy per-project DB into the current one.
  • Document the legacy-schema detection behavior, sample output, quietness rules, and aelf migrate --from ... [--apply] workflow in docs/INSTALL.md.
  • Add a CHANGELOG entry describing the new aelf doctor legacy-schema detection, output format, quiet behavior, and the newly visible aelf migrate command.
src/aelfrice/cli.py
docs/INSTALL.md
CHANGELOG.md

Assessment against linked issues

Issue Objective Addressed Explanation
#589 Extend aelf doctor to scan per-project DBs (e.g. ~/.aelfrice/projects/*/memory.db) and detect legacy schemas where the beliefs table exists, has rows, and lacks the origin column, storing results in the doctor report and remaining quiet when no such DBs exist.
#589 Add a legacy-schema per-project DBs detected section to the aelf doctor output that lists each legacy DB with its path, belief row count, and idle days, and includes a fix line referencing aelf migrate, with the block omitted when no legacy DBs are found.
#589 Make the aelf migrate subcommand visible in the CLI help and document the new legacy-schema doctor behavior in the installation/docs, with tests covering detection and report formatting behavior.

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Hey - I've left some high level feedback:

  • In _check_legacy_schema_dbs you broadly swallow any exception (both on connect and during queries); consider narrowing the exception types or at least logging/debug-logging failures so corrupted or unreadable DBs are diagnosable instead of silently skipped.
  • The glob('*/memory.db') scan in _check_legacy_schema_dbs assumes a single-level project ID directory layout; if that ever changes, this will quietly stop detecting some DBs, so it might be safer to either make the pattern configurable or explicitly validate the directory structure before scanning.
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## Overall Comments
- In `_check_legacy_schema_dbs` you broadly swallow any exception (both on connect and during queries); consider narrowing the exception types or at least logging/debug-logging failures so corrupted or unreadable DBs are diagnosable instead of silently skipped.
- The `glob('*/memory.db')` scan in `_check_legacy_schema_dbs` assumes a single-level project ID directory layout; if that ever changes, this will quietly stop detecting some DBs, so it might be safer to either make the pattern configurable or explicitly validate the directory structure before scanning.

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This PR is now behind main. Rebase locally so your commit signatures stay intact:

git fetch origin && git checkout 'feat/issue-589-legacy-schema-doctor-nag' && git rebase origin/main
# resolve conflicts if any, then
git push --force-with-lease

Auto-rebase was removed because the bot has no signing key; rebasing as the bot strips author signatures and the required_signatures rule on main then blocks the merge. See #341.

TDD-first: add test_legacy_schema_detected, test_legacy_schema_report_block_present,
test_legacy_schema_report_quiet_when_zero, test_legacy_schema_quiet_when_projects_dir_missing,
and test_legacy_schema_idle_days_in_report against the not-yet-implemented
_check_legacy_schema_dbs function. Tests fail at import until the next commit
lands the implementation.
Add LegacySchemaDB dataclass, _AELFRICE_PROJECTS_DIR constant, and
_check_legacy_schema_dbs() that enumerates ~/.aelfrice/projects/*/memory.db,
opens each read-only, checks PRAGMA table_info(beliefs) for the `origin`
column, and flags DBs with rows but no origin column as pre-v1.x legacy.
Empty DBs and DBs with the modern schema are silently skipped. Connection
errors skip silently (doctor is read-only diagnostic).

Wire into DoctorReport.legacy_schema_dbs field and populate it in
diagnose() alongside missing_auto_capture_hooks. Add aelfrice_projects_dir
kwarg to diagnose() so tests can redirect the scan path away from the
user's real ~/.aelfrice/projects.
Add _format_legacy_schema_section() mirroring the #557
_format_missing_auto_capture_section() pattern: quiet when
legacy_schema_dbs is empty, otherwise appends a nag block listing each
flagged DB with row count and idle days, plus the fix: line pointing at
`aelf migrate`. Wire the call into format_report() adjacent to the
existing _format_missing_auto_capture_section() call.
Replace help=argparse.SUPPRESS with a real one-line help string so
the subcommand appears in `aelf --help` output. `aelf doctor` now
points users at `aelf migrate` when legacy-schema DBs are detected;
the command must be discoverable from `--help` for that fix line to
be actionable.
Add a 'Legacy-schema detection' subsection under 'Hooks installed by
aelf setup' showing the nag-block format, when it fires (quiet for
zero matches), and the aelf migrate invocation to resolve each flagged
DB. Parallel to the v2.1 hook-docs paragraph added by #557.
Add [Unreleased] ### Added bullet documenting the new legacy-schema
per-project DB scan in aelf doctor and the aelf migrate unhide.
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Recommendation: approve. Rebased onto current github/main and force-pushed; CI is re-running on the new SHAs (5b67fdcef74142). Once required checks land green, this is a clean FF.

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Tests

  • 5 new test functions cover detection, block-present, block-quiet-when-zero, quiet-when-projects-dir-missing, and idle-days-in-report. The AC's "before vs after migration" pair is covered structurally by detected + quiet_when_zero (both states tested against the same harness shape).
  • Full pytest after rebase: 3295 passed, 53 skipped (60s).

Verification

  • git merge-base --is-ancestor github/main HEAD → true.
  • All 6 commits SSH-signed (G).
  • Discretion grep on diff vs main: clean (0 hits / 424 lines).

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Releasing claim. The FF push to main (git push github HEAD:main) needs the new required-check set to land green first — branch protection rejected my pre-CI push attempt with "5 of 5 required status checks are expected." Whoever picks this up next can re-claim, verify checks green, and git push github github/feat/issue-589-legacy-schema-doctor-nag:main.

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