Commit the Mac LongMemEval-S harness and preregistration byte-exact (#274)

[seathatflowsinourveins]

Scope

• Commits the Mac LongMemEval-S retrieval harness, preregistration (A1-A16), eligible-question manifest and the agentmemory 0.9.29 lock into blueprints/memory-stack/longmemeval/, byte-exact, so the workstation can draft amendment A17 and run the confirmatory C3/C4 rerun against files in Git (host request [mac-coordinator] other: commit the memory-stack LongMemEval harness and preregistration for the NativeStack rerun #274).
• Base commit: 5af288d968b39a1a083a908ddad0ff74c4681534
• Lane: lane:foundation
• Owned paths touched: blueprints/memory-stack/longmemeval/**, docs/decisions/2026-09-25-longmemeval-frozen-npm-lock.md, manifests/evidence.json (hot-file protocol re-registration only, rebased onto current main).

SOTA sources

• LongMemEval (MIT, Di Wu) at 9e0b455f4ef0e2ab8f2e582289761153549043fc: the official repository lme_harness.py imports at run time (not vendored). README.md in the added directory maps each file to this pin.
• Dataset: Hugging Face xiaowu0162/longmemeval-cleaned at revision 98d7416c24c778c2fee6e6f3006e7a073259d48f, longmemeval_s_cleaned.json, sha256 d6f21ea9d60a0d56f34a05b609c79c88a451d2ae03597821ea3d5a9678c3a442, 277,383,467 bytes; fetched by hash at run time, never committed (MIT on its dataset card).
• docs/lanes.md "Hot-file protocol": followed to rebase onto main and re-register this branch's files in manifests/evidence.json without hand-merging it.
• Source of record for PREREGISTRATION.md only: the private agent-ecosystem repository at 2c3e09b, evals/longmemeval/PREREGISTRATION.md (blob f5c475db), the owner's own prior work. Every other copied file comes from the Mac run directory or its parent bench directory, as the directory's README.md "Files" table records per file; the two reconstructed/ files have no live source, and the README says how they were rebuilt.

Evidence-class table

Claim	Evidence class	Command / receipt
Each of the 13 copied files is byte-identical to its source	source_review	sha256 and cmp of PREREGISTRATION.md against agent-ecosystem@2c3e09b, and of the other 12 against the Mac run and bench directories; sources per file in the directory's README.md "Files" table. README.md, .gitignore, SHA256SUMS and the decision record were written for this PR, and reconstructed/* has no live source
SHA256SUMS matches the files in the directory	source_review	shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS (exit 0)
The harness and summarizer run --help from a clean clone with no Mac-only path	local_integration	clean git clone + isolated HOME, official LongMemEval checked out at 9e0b455f4, .venv-official (Python 3.11.16); all 6 files exit 0
manifests/evidence.json re-registration is internally consistent	local_integration	python3 scripts/validate.py, python3 scripts/component_matrix.py --check-equivalent --write (no diff), python3 scripts/new_host_grand_list.py --write (no diff)
No secret or personal path was introduced	local_integration	Gitleaks via adoption/tools/gitleaks-guarded-macos dir . (exit 0, no leaks found) for secrets; the private-content scan in python3 scripts/validate.py (its PRIVATE_CONTENT patterns, passed) for home paths and similar private strings
No arm, model or embedding server ran for this commit	none new	n/a — this PR transfers files only; the Mac's descriptive C3 results are unchanged in convergence.json

Local commands run

$ git fetch origin && git rebase origin/main   # hot-file protocol; conflict in manifests/evidence.json resolved
  by taking origin/main's copy and re-registering this branch's 19 files with host_receipts.register_file
$ python3 scripts/component_matrix.py --write   -> {"flip_rule_violations": 0, "rows": 32, "status": "written"}, exit 0
$ python3 scripts/new_host_grand_list.py --write -> {"status": "written", "layers": 32, "winners": 66}, exit 0
$ python3 scripts/validate.py                   -> {"components": 69, "hashed_files": 7160, "profiles": 4, "receipts": 159, "status": "passed"}, exit 0
$ python3 scripts/validate_catalogs.py          -> {"repository_entries": 154, "unique_catalog_repositories": 148, ...}, exit 0
$ git diff --check origin/main...HEAD           -> exit 0, no output
$ (cd blueprints/memory-stack/longmemeval && shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS)  -> 17 files, all OK, exit 0
$ adoption/tools/gitleaks-guarded-macos dir . --config .gitleaks.toml --max-target-megabytes 2 --redact --no-banner
  -> "no leaks found", exit 0
$ python3 -m unittest                           -> full suite as CI's "Test validation failure modes" step runs it;
  Ran 6453 tests, OK (skipped=861), 557.85 s, exit 0
$ env -i HOME=<isolated> PATH=/usr/bin:/bin <.venv-official python> {lme_harness.py,lme_harness.v1.py,lme_harness.v2.py,
  reconstructed/lme_harness.v1a.py,reconstructed/lme_harness.v3pre.py,lme_summarize.py} --help
  -> all 6 exit 0, from a clean clone of this branch with an isolated HOME holding only LongMemEval@9e0b455f4

Decision record

docs/decisions/2026-09-25-longmemeval-frozen-npm-lock.md — why the agentmemory lock and package.json are stored as *.frozen rather than under their npm names.

Not transferred

Copied faithfully from the directory's README.md ("Not committed, and why"):

• The dataset and the official oracle file (data/): fetched by sha256 at run time, as [mac-coordinator] other: commit the memory-stack LongMemEval harness and preregistration for the NativeStack rerun #274 asks.
• Run outputs: result rows (results*/, 470 rows per complete arm), the official runner's logs (about 291 MB each, holding dataset text), run logs (logs/; one holds an absolute home path), embedding caches (cache/, about 660 MB), model weights (models/) and the Python venv. [mac-coordinator] other: commit the memory-stack LongMemEval harness and preregistration for the NativeStack rerun #274 does not ask for them.
• The two reports and their JSON: not requested. convergence.json carries their figures, and the summarizer here reproduces both byte for byte.
• The two Codex reviews the preregistration cites, prereg-review-codex.md (A1-A7) and harness-review-codex.md (A10), and their event-stream logs: they fail this repository's private-content scan (a home path; the logs also hold session identifiers), so they cannot be committed byte-exact.
• lme_summarize.v1.py (e01b78bc885e9458d0b95f5d851c45d1b63d2b897eec8b15884c1ed1b594a91f) and lme_summarize.v2.py (29f2f0b7fa5e7c426c8b14f37ebd910c9b19e9a82aa8a15e18de5feef9caa200), the copies A13 and A14 keep: neither produced a recorded report.
• run_tail.sh (9e30e42ec09832d336d8a9d5b1a736fbfe466c9675e9602659a76f609980423f): it was superseded at 22:38 while still waiting and never ran an arm.
• The inline launch commands: the A0 and A1 official runs, the arm chains started at 18:55, 18:57, 20:32 and 21:37, the embed server started at 21:35 and the proxy started at 22:38. They exist only in the coordinator session's transcript, with home paths; the directory's README arm table gives each one's time and arms.
• Later preregistration revisions: the Mac's current file adds A16.1-A16.3 (sha256 a9b1db335eee1ff99d1883e048bcd8e443ca2afee3505a34fd874dd1ef412d5b, 37,885 bytes), and its first 33,527 bytes are PREREGISTRATION.md here. [mac-coordinator] other: commit the memory-stack LongMemEval harness and preregistration for the NativeStack rerun #274 asks for the A1-A16 revision. The workstation should draft amendment A17 knowing that these three further amendments already exist, written before any VelaNext run, on the Mac and in the private agent-ecosystem repository, but not in this repository.
• Binaries: the ai-memory build, the iii engine and node_modules/, pinned above (by hash, in the directory's README).

Host evidence

Not applicable: this PR does not add or change files under evidence/hosts/. No host receipt accompanies it because no component ran: the PR transfers files and checks --help, and scripts/host_receipts.py record refuses a use receipt whose commands are only help or version calls (docs/contributing-evidence.md section 2). The mac-coordinator's receipts for component runs belong to #276 and #379.

Checklist

• New/changed GitHub Actions are pinned to a full commit SHA with a version comment (no floating tags). (none added/changed)
• New/changed workflows declare top-level permissions: contents: read (or a narrower, explicitly justified addition). (none added/changed)
• No secrets are printed, logged or committed; no new required secret was added without a documented owner.
• No new paid hosting, subscription or billing surface was introduced.
• Peer-owned untracked files and worktrees were preserved (not deleted, moved or overwritten).

Review requested

• An Opus review ran at head 291f7daa: a read-only Opus subagent of the mac-coordinator session, on the same host and account, in a fresh clone. It is not cross-family. Its verdict and findings are in a PR comment.
• The GPT-6 cross-family review ran from the workstation at 291f7daa. Its verdict was needs_changes, with one medium and one low finding, both README-only: the frozen harness's forced cleanup kills listeners it does not own, and a byte-identity claim also covered the reconstructed files. Commit 87e120f4 adds a shared-host warning and narrows the claim. It also folds in the Opus decision-record nit. No frozen file changed.
• Requested: a GPT-6 re-check at 87e120f4. This PR merges only after that verdict, once the branch is updated from main under the hot-file protocol.

Host request: #274

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[seathatflowsinourveins]

Opus review of head 291f7daa: approve with nits

The mac-coordinator session ran this as a read-only Opus subagent, on the same host and account, in a fresh clone of the branch. It is not independent across model families. The GPT-6 cross-family review is still requested (see the end of this comment).

#274 acceptance holds.

• All four items are present.
• The SHA256SUMS line for PREREGISTRATION.md is 1f3ca9d5…c11c2. shasum -a 256 -c and sha256sum --check --strict both report 17/17 OK.
• Byte identity was reproduced on this Mac with cmp (0 for each):
  • PREREGISTRATION.md against agent-ecosystem@2c3e09b;
  • the 7 run-directory files and the 3 drivers;
  • the agentmemory lock pair.
• The README's quoted hashes all match their files: the Mac's current a9b1db33… preregistration (whose first 33,527 bytes equal the committed file), summarizer v1/v2, run_tail.sh and the dataset (d6f21ea9…, 277,383,467 bytes).
• --help from a clean clone, with a fake HOME holding only LongMemEval@9e0b455f: all six harness and summarizer entry points exit 0. The controls fail as documented.
• manifests/evidence.json adds 19 entries (7141 → 7160), none removed or changed.
• validate.py, validate_catalogs.py, component_matrix.py --check and new_host_grand_list.py --check all exit 0.
• osv-scanner 2.6.0 --no-resolve reproduces the decision record: under npm names, exactly the two advisories; under .frozen names, no package sources found.

Findings and what was done

Severity	Finding	Action
should-fix	PR body, SOTA sources: 2c3e09b was named as the source for "the preregistration and harness". Only 6 of the 15 files are in that tree, and some there are different revisions.	Fixed in the body: 2c3e09b is the source of PREREGISTRATION.md only. The other files are per the README Files table.
should-fix	PR body, evidence row 1 claimed "every committed file" is byte-identical, "see table below", and no table followed.	Fixed: "each of the 13 copied files". It points to the README table and names the files with no live source.
nit	The secrets row cited only Gitleaks.	Fixed: it also cites the PRIVATE_CONTENT scan in scripts/validate.py.
nit	The unittest line had no total.	Fixed: 6453 tests, OK (skipped=861).
nit	docs/decisions/2026-09-25-longmemeval-frozen-npm-lock.md lines 65–66 say the inventory's excluded list admits only deliberately vulnerable fixtures. It also holds three captured dvc.lock copies. The deciding reason is that dependency-review (and Socket and Scorecard) read package-lock.json by name whatever the inventory says. The Socket app is also missing from the overturn list.	Pending. It will go in one follow-up commit (with re-registration), batched with the next item.
nit	README.md publishes private-repository details beyond the four items: a PR number, two commit ids, the existence of a v4 harness and the session's edit history. It is accurate and quotes no file contents.	Pending the owner's decision: keep, or drop the PR number and commit ids. README.md is listed in SHA256SUMS, so an edit also updates that line and its registration.

The coordinator also corrected one line the review didn't flag. The "Not transferred" item said A16.1–A16.3 were "uncommitted". They are committed in the private agent-ecosystem repository, just not in this repository.

Requested: the GPT-6 cross-family review from the workstation, at head 291f7daa. If the pending nit commit lands, its delta covers only the decision-record wording, possibly the README, and the matching SHA256SUMS and evidence.json lines. No copied file changes. This PR merges only after the GPT-6 verdict, and after a fresh hot-file check against main.

[seathatflowsinourveins]

GPT-6 cross-family review at 291f7daa: VERDICT: needs_changes (1 medium, 1 low)

Setup: gpt-6-astra, effort max, read-only, run from the workstation (session mac-memory-layer-plan). It tested behaviour rather than only reading.

[medium] blueprints/memory-stack/longmemeval/lme_harness.py:451: slot cleanup kills listeners without checking ownership. Starting an agentmemory arm can terminate unrelated services on the host.

• The pre-start cleanup at :479 is unconditional, and :457 sends SIGKILL.
• Probe: the original function with mocked lsof and os.kill returned kill calls=[(424242, 9)] for an unrelated listener. No real process was signalled.
• Fix direction: keep the frozen bytes, since this PR is a byte-exact transfer. Add a README warning not to run lme_harness.py directly on a shared host, and put the ownership guard or isolated execution path in the workstation rerun's own code (amendment A17), not in the frozen file.

[low] README.md:301: the blanket "The files match the Mac originals" claim also covers the two reconstructed files (reconstructed/lme_harness.v1a.py, reconstructed/lme_harness.v3pre.py). Narrow it to the 13 copied files.

Verified:

• sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS exits 0. All 17 entries match their file contents, their sizes and manifests/evidence.json. The PREREGISTRATION.md digest is 1f3ca9d554cff24dc785c35f275335027a831dd386f460890f8a3082a07c11c2, and amendments A1 to A16 are present.
• The manifests hold exactly 470 full-track and 419 official-track ids. The dataset digest d6f21ea9…, recall_all@5 and the embedder identities agree with the records. The metric calls the pinned official evaluator.
• Arm provenance:
  • B1, B2 and D1 map to v1a. Removing the six documented A8 lines from v1 reproduces v1a byte for byte.
  • C1, C2 and D2 map to v2.
  • C3 maps to v3-pre followed by v3.
  • Both reconstructions are labelled.
• The agentmemory 0.9.29 and iii-sdk 0.11.2 lock entries match their registry integrity fields. The decision record's advisories match their published records.
• No /Users/ paths, emails or credential patterns appear. Gitleaks: no leaks. validate.py passes with 7,160 files hashed, and git diff --check is clean.

Not established here: python3 lme_harness.py --help exits 1 in a bare environment (env -i, no numpy). The dependencies are documented, but a passing --help was not independently reproduced, and there is no dry-run mode.

For the workstation rerun (A17), not blockers for this PR:

• The runner selects the old 19b6429 build; the rerun needs the official v2.4.0 control.
• The summarizer implements A1 to A14 at α 0.05, not A15.2's 0.0333.
• The Mac drivers are non-portable.
• The MiniLM downloads were not revision-pinned.

[seathatflowsinourveins]

Fix commit 87e120f4 for the GPT-6 review at 291f7daa. The delta covers only README.md, SHA256SUMS (the README line), the decision record and 3 manifests/evidence.json entries. No frozen file changed, and shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS gives 17/17 OK.

• [medium] listener kills: added a README warning under the top bullets, verified against the frozen code. lme_harness.py and reconstructed/lme_harness.v3pre.py send SIGKILL to every listener on a slot's REST, stream and engine ports, before the slot starts and at teardown. With the default four slots those are 3611–3612, 3711–3712, 3811–3812, 3911–3912 and 49634/49734/49834/49934; the engine ports are in the dynamic range. lme_harness.v1.py, lme_harness.v2.py and reconstructed/lme_harness.v1a.py run pkill -f and then pkill -9 -f on the agentmemory index path. The warning says not to run them on a shared host, and that the ownership guard or isolated path belongs in the A17 rerun's own code.
• [low] README claim: the Verifying table now claims byte identity for the 13 copied files only. The two reconstructed/ files are pinned by SHA256SUMS with their provenance.
• Opus nit, decision record: the excluded-list alternative is now rejected for the real reason. dependency-review reads package-lock.json by name, whatever the inventory says, and fails on high severity. The record also notes this is the first non-fixture file hidden by renaming, and adds the Socket app to the overturn list.

Checks at 87e120f4, all exit 0:

• validate.py and validate_catalogs.py;
• component_matrix.py --check (32 rows) and new_host_grand_list.py --check;
• git diff --check;
• 220 targeted tests (lockfile coverage, adoption docs consistency, verdict review gate, workflow security coverage): OK, 1 skipped;
• Gitleaks on the changed files: no leaks.

Still open, pending the owner: whether the README keeps the private-repository PR number and commit ids. Before merging, the branch will be updated from main under the hot-file protocol, since main moved one commit and touched manifests/evidence.json. The trial merge is clean.

[seathatflowsinourveins]

GPT-6 cross-family re-check at 87e120f4: VERDICT: accept. No new findings.

• [medium] Resolved. README.md:21 warns against running the harness on a shared host, and it assigns the ownership guard or isolated execution path to A17's own code. The frozen code confirms both claims:
  • v3 and v3-pre am_teardown SIGKILL every listener on the stated ports;
  • v1, v1a and v2 am_reap run pkill -f and then pkill -9 -f on the agentmemory index path.
• [low] Resolved. README.md:315 limits byte identity to the 13 copied files and names the two reconstructions separately.
• Decision-record edit: accurate and sourced. The OSV exclusion needs a fixture reason and existing evidence, and dependency-review keeps fail-on-severity: high.

Verified at 87e120f4:

• The diff from 291f7daa changes 4 files. All 16 non-README checksum-listed files are byte-identical, and only the README line of SHA256SUMS changed.
• sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS: 17/17 OK.
• All 19 relevant manifests/evidence.json entries match.
• validate.py passes (7,160 files).

It merges in a main-free window of the token lane's queue, which the workstation will relay. The README owner question (private agent-ecosystem ids) stays with the user.