feat(search): order curated hits above the transcripts that quote them (#451 F+G) - #477
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesThe search pipeline now detects near-duplicate hits with word 3-gram overlap and promotes curated sources above transcripts. CLI and searcher routes apply the ordering after provenance annotation. Diary hits receive explicit source notes and compact tags. Tests and public documentation cover the behavior. Curated result ordering
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Feature Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SearchRoute
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SearchRoute->>Provenance: annotate search hits
Provenance-->>SearchRoute: provenance-enriched hits
SearchRoute->>ResultOrdering: prefer_curated(results)
ResultOrdering-->>SearchRoute: reordered near-duplicate groups
SearchRoute-->>CLI: render ordered results
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In `@mempalace/result_ordering.py`:
- Line 182: Replace the connected-component union logic in the result-grouping
flow around union(i, j) so promotion groups are formed only from direct
curated-to-hit matches, or require each added member to match every existing
group member. Preserve bounded promotion ordering and add a regression test
covering a bridge hit where transitive similarity must not combine otherwise
unrelated results.
In `@README.md`:
- Line 307: Correct the Vale terminology in README.md at lines 307-307, 340-340,
and 421-421: update the algorithm name to HNSW, the project name to mempalace,
and the package name to chromadb, respectively, without changing the surrounding
table content.
- Line 30: Correct the test summary in README.md to state 7,052 passed, 82
skipped, and 5 documented baseline failures rather than claiming all 7,139 tests
pass. Update the corresponding source statement in CLAUDE.md, then regenerate
website/public/llms-full.txt so both affected entries reflect the corrected
documentation; apply changes at README.md lines 30-30,
website/public/llms-full.txt lines 49-49 and 718-718, and the CLAUDE.md source
location.
In `@website/reference/python-api/result_ordering.md`:
- Around line 37-38: Update the overlap-coefficient documentation near the
set-overlap explanation and its second occurrence to use the set-intersection
notation ∩ in both formulas, matching the implementation’s intersection
operation.
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| | 12 | mempalace mine <file> --mode projects — targeted re-index of one curated document | — | [`180d8eb`](https://github.com/techempower-org/mempalace/commit/180d8eb) | | ||
| | 13 | Daemon-strict mine refuses to derive a wing from a document path it cannot classify locally | — | [`180d8eb`](https://github.com/techempower-org/mempalace/commit/180d8eb) | | ||
| | 14 | Postgres write path scrubs lone surrogates, nested metadata and ids, not just top-level NULs | — | [`4963eda`](https://github.com/techempower-org/mempalace/commit/4963eda) | | ||
| | 15 | Wing-scoped vector search no longer returns 0 rows: enable pgvector hnsw.iterative_scan per connection | — | [`2ea774d`](https://github.com/techempower-org/mempalace/commit/2ea774d) | |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Fix the Vale terminology errors.
These changed table rows fail the configured prose terminology checks.
README.md#L307-L307: useHNSWfor the algorithm name.README.md#L340-L340: usemempalacefor the project name.README.md#L421-L421: usechromadbfor the package name.
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Use 'HNSW' instead of 'hnsw'.
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In `@README.md` at line 307, Correct the Vale terminology in README.md at lines
307-307, 340-340, and 421-421: update the algorithm name to HNSW, the project
name to mempalace, and the package name to chromadb, respectively, without
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Correct the overlap-coefficient formula.
A n B does not denote set intersection. The implementation uses set intersection (si & sj). Replace both expressions with |A ∩ B| / min(|A|, |B|).
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In `@website/reference/python-api/result_ordering.md` around lines 37 - 38, Update
the overlap-coefficient documentation near the set-overlap explanation and its
second occurrence to use the set-intersection notation ∩ in both formulas,
matching the implementation’s intersection operation.
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A paraphrased question ranks session transcripts above the curated card
that answers it, so a reader at the default limit never reaches the
correction. Measured on production (wing 2g, limit 20): the CLAUDE.md
chunk carrying the REFUTED banner came back at rank 13 on bm25-fast and
14 on hybrid while a transcript quoting the same claim sat at rank 1.
The reporting librarian named the class FAIL-D — right file, right
chunk, right markers, ranked below the cut. Item G is its sibling:
palace diary summaries rank first with no citable source at all.
New `mempalace/result_ordering.py`. A curated hit is promoted only over
a hit it is a NEAR-DUPLICATE of, so this cannot swamp genuinely
transcript-only recall:
similarity() overlap coefficient over word 3-grams
is_near_duplicate() threshold 0.35, refuses to decide on short text
prefer_curated() groups near-duplicates, orders curated -> transcript
-> diary within a group, emits the group at its
earliest member's position; everything else keeps
the ranker's order exactly
Why overlap-over-shingles and not Jaccard, measured over 134 cross-kind
pairs on production: bare token overlap is 0.63 even for merely
same-topic chunks (no discrimination); 3-gram Jaccard peaks at 0.16 for
TRUE quoting pairs (any workable threshold would be dangerously low);
3-gram overlap coefficient gives 0.373/0.473/0.491 for the three genuine
buried-card pairs against <=0.323 for same-topic non-quoting pairs and
0.000 for unrelated files. 0.35 sits in that gap. A transcript quotes a
card and surrounds it with conversation, so the two differ wildly in
length — overlap asks "is most of the shorter inside the longer", which
is the actual question; Jaccard is punished by exactly the surrounding
conversation that makes a quote a quote.
Wired into every interactive route: the CLI's bm25-fast, hybrid and
MCP-envelope paths, and `searcher.search_memories` (both its main
envelope and the vector-disabled BM25 short-circuit) so MCP
`mempalace_search` gets it from the daemon host.
Item G: diary hits render "palace diary summary — no source file" and
sort below curated hits within a near-duplicate group.
Part of #451
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reordering can only promote a hit the ranker actually returned. On the measured #451 case the curated card sat at rank 13 of 20 while the reader asked for 10 — it was never in the window to promote, so the ordering fix alone left the default limit unchanged. `_widen_when_nothing_curated` makes exactly one wider fetch (2x the limit, capped at 40) when `no_curated_source(hits)` is true, then the result is reordered and truncated back to the requested limit. When a curated hit is already present — the common case — no extra call is made at all. This wave is cutting daemon load, so the extra round trip is spent only in the case that is actually broken. Degrades safely: a failed, unusable or not-actually-wider second call falls back to the original hits. The header still fires when the widened window also found nothing curated, so a wider search that still has no curated document says so rather than going quiet. Applied to the bm25-fast and hybrid CLI routes. `_daemon_search_fast`'s fetch-and-normalise half is extracted as `_fast_hits` so the widen can reuse it. Note on acceptance: the trigger condition (nothing curated inside the limit, a curated card deeper) was measured on wing 2g earlier tonight — curated ranks [] at limit 10 and [13] at limit 20 — but a re-mine has since surfaced those cards above the cut, so the condition no longer reproduces there and the live path could not be demonstrated on production. Both branches are covered by unit tests, including the daemon call counts. Part of #451 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The docstring promised a curated hit is promoted only over hits it is a
near-duplicate of. Grouping by connected component did not deliver that:
union-find makes the relation transitive, so a chain A~B~C put A, B and
C in one group and let A jump over C with no shared 3-gram at all.
Reviewer's measured triple, now a test:
sim(A, B) = 1.0 A is wholly contained in B
sim(B, C) = 0.49 B and C share their second half
sim(A, C) = 0.0 A and C share nothing
['C', 'B', 'A'] -> ['A', 'C', 'B']
A cleared C without duplicating it, and B — a true near-duplicate of A —
was pushed below C. Both are the bound leaking.
The grouping is replaced by a direct-only rule. Each hit earns the index
of the topmost hit it DIRECTLY duplicates and outranks by kind, and the
list sorts by (earned index, kind, original index). A hit that earns
nothing keeps the ranker's index, so a promoted hit moves no further
than the copy it cleared and everything else holds its relative order.
Same triple now gives ['C', 'A', 'B']: A clears B, does not touch C, and
B keeps its place behind C.
Verified drift-free on production — one fetch, ranks before and after
the reorder applied to a copy, so the re-mine running tonight cannot be
mistaken for the code. Curated ranks [2,14] -> [1,3] and [14,17,20] ->
[3,17,20] on the paraphrase row; the negative control and every
already-high curated hit unchanged.
Part of #451
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two defects in the literal-bound rewrite, both executed by review. 1. The rank test guarded the hit being EARNED FROM, never the hits being PASSED. Repro: ['DIARY','CARD','TRANSCRIPT'] where the transcript duplicates both the diary (0.444) and the card (0.444). The transcript earned index 0 from the diary it outranks and, in landing there, sailed past the card it duplicates and does NOT outrank -> ['TRANSCRIPT','DIARY','CARD']. A curated card demoted below a transcript quoting it: the exact inverse of the feature. The backward scan now stops at the nearest earlier hit this one does not outrank, so nothing can pass what it does not outrank. 2. A single pass is not idempotent: a reorder creates new adjacencies and manufactures fresh earns. Passes now repeat until the order settles, so the value returned is a fixed point. Termination is not hoped for -- a hit only moves up past hits it strictly outranks, which strictly increases sum(rank * position), and that sum is bounded. Measured over 4000 randomised inputs: 5 passes worst case against a cap of 8, and 834 of 4000 needed two or more, which is the bug. Tests: the diary/card/transcript repro; the A/B/C triple still ['C','A','B']; and two property tests over 4000 randomised three-kind inputs each -- idempotence, and the bound as a pairwise invariant (no hit ends up above one it did not outrank). Nothing covered one hit duplicating two others of DIFFERENT kinds, which is why the suite missed it. Docstring no longer claims "only above a direct near-duplicate". It states the real rule -- earliest earned position, bounded by the rank barrier -- and that collateral overtaking of non-duplicates in between is unavoidable for a single-list ordering. Measured consequence, stated plainly: the correct bound REDUCES the effect on the current corpus, 1 of 16 probe cells moving where the buggy version moved 8. Diagnosed rather than assumed -- on the paraphrase row the rank-14 card's only near-duplicate above it is the transcript at rank 1, and its barrier is the OTHER curated hit at rank 2. The old jump to rank 1 was only possible by overtaking that fellow curated hit. A curated document is already at rank 2, above the cut, so the blocked promotion is the case where promotion matters least. Part of #451 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
At 8 passes the ordering loop was reaching its cap routinely on dense
inputs and then returning a NON-fixed-point silently, which contradicts
the fixed-point promise in the docstring.
Measured here on a dense stress generator at n=40 — the widest window
the widen can fetch, and far denser than a real search window — over
600 inputs each:
cap 8 -> 591/600 non-fixed-points
cap 32 -> 2/600
cap 48 -> 0/600
cap 128 -> 0/600
Set to 48 rather than the reviewed 32: 32 still left 2/600 here, and a
higher cap is free — every row above ran in the same 1.22s, because the
loop exits on the first pass that moves nothing. The test pins >= 48 so
a future trim has to re-measure.
Exhausting the cap now logs a warning naming the pass count and hit
count. An under-settled order is otherwise indistinguishable from a
settled one, which is the property that made the old cap's failure
invisible.
Part of #451
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
One entry file under the new per-file layout (#473), seq from `fork_changes.py --next-seq`, `commit: HEAD` for the merge step to resolve, and `fork_pr: 477` to resolve it from. No count literals — #473 removed them, so the old README/CLAUDE.md edits are deliberately not replayed. All three renderers re-run; check-docs clean 7/7, including the new 2b ancestry check. Part of #451 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…ering it as a link (#476) lucid's finding: seven entries merged since #480 still read `commit: HEAD`, and step 2b could not see any of them. Verified, and the mechanism is worth stating precisely because the obvious fix would not have worked: fork_changes.iter_commit_refs SKIPS HEAD, so those entries never reach the ancestry predicate at all. Hardening the predicate alone changes NOTHING. (`git merge-base --is-ancestor HEAD HEAD` also exits 0, so both halves had to learn about the literal.) ⇒ 2b caught a WRONG sha and was blind to a MISSING one. `--strict-resolved` / `STRICT_RESOLVED=1` enumerates HEAD entries (`fork_changes.py --commit-refs --include-head`) and fails on them, naming the entry and telling you to run the sweep. Wired in CI to `push` + `refs/heads/main` only: a pull request legitimately carries HEAD, because the squash commit it will point at does not exist yet. Loud, never auto-fixing — resolving is the sweep's job. POSITIVE CONTROL, both directions, on the same tree (1 HEAD entry): permissive -> exit 0 --strict-resolved -> exit 1, "entry 'init-test-cwd-relative-syspath' still has `commit: HEAD` on main" STRICT_RESOLVED=1 -> exit 1 `https://github.com/techempower-org/mempalace/commit/HEAD` is a VALID GitHub URL that resolves to whatever is at main's tip. So the 8 links in FORK_CHANGELOG.md and 7 in the README table pointed at an unrelated commit while looking exactly like real references — a reader cannot tell them apart, which makes it worse than an obviously missing value. `commit_link()` now renders "`HEAD` — pending resolution" as plain text. After this: 0 such links in either file. Worth noting an old entry's body already described "broken ``[HEAD](commit/HEAD)`` links", so this had been seen before and came back. A rendering rule is a better place for it than a habit. More HEAD entries land after this (#477, #490, stage A, #485), so a resolution commit would be stale before it merged. The sweep is one dedicated PR at the very end of the cascade, and it is the first PR the strict check has to pass. docs/fork-changes/README.md now says the sweep is the lead's last step of every wave, and why per-lane resolution cannot work. Caught while wiring CI: my first edit added a SECOND `env:` key to the check-docs step, which YAML resolves by keeping the last one — silently dropping `GH_TOKEN`, which step 4 needs for upstream PR state. Merged into the existing block and asserted both keys survive by parsing the workflow. 9 tests (65 in the three docs-pipeline files). Full suite 7076 passed. Part of #476 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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… for unresolved placeholders (#476) (#492) * fix(scripts): resolve `commit: HEAD` from the commit that added the entry file (#476) `fork_pr` could not carry this on its own: a lane cannot know its own PR number while writing the entry, which is the same chicken-and-egg as the sha. #480's own entry is the proof — I wrote `fork_pr: 0` as a placeholder, deleted it rather than ship a wrong number, and left an entry nothing could resolve. The commit that ADDED an entry's file is the squash commit by construction, since the file arrives with the pull request: git log --follow --diff-filter=A --format=%H -- docs/fork-changes/<file> Deterministic, offline, needs nothing from the author, and immune to a squash subject reworded at merge time — which defeated 4 of the 27 cases in the #472 sweep. `--follow` so a renamed entry file still resolves to its original add, and the LAST add is taken, since a rename history can list several. `fork_pr` becomes a cross-check rather than the key: when present, the API answer is compared and a DISAGREEMENT refuses to resolve, because two independent mechanisms disagreeing is the worst case in which to pick one. It also still works as the fallback when file-add cannot answer. This runs ONLY on an entry whose `commit` is literally `HEAD`. Every one of the 137 entry files that predates the one-file-per-entry split was created by the SPLIT's own commit. So asking "what added this file" about an already-resolved entry returns the migration commit. MEASURED on this branch, before the guard existed: entry `scripts-maintain-fork-changes` field says 9060e09 (correct) git log --diff-filter=A on its file → 6da8775 (the split) That would have rewritten 137 correct historical shas to one wrong value — and 6da8775 IS an ancestor of main, so it would have passed the new ancestry check forever and read as correct. Exactly the wrong-but-plausible failure the reviewer named on #480. A test pins the boundary in both directions, and asserts the resolver never even asks about an entry that already has a sha. Ran against main: resolved exactly ONE entry — #480's own, `commit: HEAD → 6da8775` — and left the other 137 untouched, which is the boundary holding in practice rather than only in the unit test. 6da8775 verified an ancestor of main. The 2026-05-28 `scripts-maintain-fork-changes` entry needed no work: its `commit` is already 9060e09 and already an ancestor. It looked like an unresolved HEAD entry only because the entry is ABOUT HEAD resolution, so the literal string `commit:HEAD` appears twice in its own prose — a field-shaped grep matches the changelog entry that documents the field. docs/fork-changes/README.md updated: `fork_pr` is documentation and a cross-check, not load-bearing, and the boundary hazard is written down so nobody widens it. 5 tests (23 in the file). Full suite 7065 passed. Part of #476 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs+fix: fill fork_pr after `gh pr create`; surface an unverifiable one (#476) GitHub's next PR number is not predictable: a lane wrote `fork_pr: 483` before opening and the PR came back 490. A guessed number is the #472 failure in a new coat — a confidently wrong field instead of a visibly unresolved one — so the directory README now says to fill `fork_pr` in AFTER `gh pr create` returns it, and that leaving it absent is the safe default since file-add is primary. Worth stating what a wrong number can and cannot do, because it decides how much this matters. It cannot corrupt the sha: - points at another MERGED PR -> its different answer trips the existing cross-check refusal - unverifiable (404/unmerged) -> file-add stands alone and is already right MEASURED: PR 483 does not exist (404), so lucid's guess falls in the second bucket and resolves correctly anyway. But "resolves correctly anyway" is how a wrong field survives, so the second case is now printed as an ADVISORY — "resolved from file-add; fork_pr #483 is unverifiable — check it" — rather than silently ignored. Deliberately not folded into the blocking list: an advisory that fails `--check` is an advisory the next person deletes. The function returns `(changes, unresolved, notes)` so the advisory is actually reported. I had first appended to a `notes` list that nothing returned — dead code that LOOKED like it reported something, which is the same class of defect as a check that enumerates nothing. 1 test (24 in the file), full suite 7071 passed. Part of #476 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(check-docs): reject the literal `commit: HEAD` on main; stop rendering it as a link (#476) lucid's finding: seven entries merged since #480 still read `commit: HEAD`, and step 2b could not see any of them. Verified, and the mechanism is worth stating precisely because the obvious fix would not have worked: fork_changes.iter_commit_refs SKIPS HEAD, so those entries never reach the ancestry predicate at all. Hardening the predicate alone changes NOTHING. (`git merge-base --is-ancestor HEAD HEAD` also exits 0, so both halves had to learn about the literal.) ⇒ 2b caught a WRONG sha and was blind to a MISSING one. `--strict-resolved` / `STRICT_RESOLVED=1` enumerates HEAD entries (`fork_changes.py --commit-refs --include-head`) and fails on them, naming the entry and telling you to run the sweep. Wired in CI to `push` + `refs/heads/main` only: a pull request legitimately carries HEAD, because the squash commit it will point at does not exist yet. Loud, never auto-fixing — resolving is the sweep's job. POSITIVE CONTROL, both directions, on the same tree (1 HEAD entry): permissive -> exit 0 --strict-resolved -> exit 1, "entry 'init-test-cwd-relative-syspath' still has `commit: HEAD` on main" STRICT_RESOLVED=1 -> exit 1 `https://github.com/techempower-org/mempalace/commit/HEAD` is a VALID GitHub URL that resolves to whatever is at main's tip. So the 8 links in FORK_CHANGELOG.md and 7 in the README table pointed at an unrelated commit while looking exactly like real references — a reader cannot tell them apart, which makes it worse than an obviously missing value. `commit_link()` now renders "`HEAD` — pending resolution" as plain text. After this: 0 such links in either file. Worth noting an old entry's body already described "broken ``[HEAD](commit/HEAD)`` links", so this had been seen before and came back. A rendering rule is a better place for it than a habit. More HEAD entries land after this (#477, #490, stage A, #485), so a resolution commit would be stale before it merged. The sweep is one dedicated PR at the very end of the cascade, and it is the first PR the strict check has to pass. docs/fork-changes/README.md now says the sweep is the lead's last step of every wave, and why per-lane resolution cannot work. Caught while wiring CI: my first edit added a SECOND `env:` key to the check-docs step, which YAML resolves by keeping the last one — silently dropping `GH_TOKEN`, which step 4 needs for upstream PR state. Merged into the existing block and asserted both keys survive by parsing the workflow. 9 tests (65 in the three docs-pipeline files). Full suite 7076 passed. Part of #476 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * test(scripts): file-add resolution against real git, incl. the no-fork_pr case (#476) The existing tests stub `adding_commit`, so they prove the wiring but not the git invocation. These drive real `git log` in a temp repo. The case that matters is #480's own entry: `commit: HEAD` and NO `fork_pr`, because the entry was written before the PR existed and a guessed number would have been worse than none. It is the reason file-add is the primary mechanism rather than a fallback. VERIFIED live on this repo as well — the entry's file was added by 6da8775, which is #480's squash commit. Measured on main (7df8dee): 8 entries carry `commit: HEAD`, and exactly ONE of them lacks `fork_pr` — that one. Four tests: - no `fork_pr` resolves to the ADDING commit, not the tip, with two unrelated commits on either side of it, and emits no advisory (there is no number to cross-check or warn about) - a LATER EDIT of the entry does not move the answer (`--diff-filter=A` means the add, so a typo fix or reworded body must not re-point a resolved sha) - a RENAMED entry file still resolves to its original add. Entry filenames embed the date, so correcting a date renames the file; `--follow` is what keeps that from silently re-pointing the sha at the rename commit - an untracked path returns None and is reported, never guessed Part of #476 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(fork-changes): entry for the sha-resolution hardening (#476) `commit: HEAD` and no `fork_pr` yet — deliberately. The PR number does not exist until `gh pr create` returns it, and a guessed number is a confidently wrong field (a lane guessed 483 and got 490). It is filled in immediately after the PR is opened, in the following commit. Part of #476 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(scripts): never resolve an entry against a feature branch (#476) Filling in `fork_pr: 492` — the number `gh pr create` actually returned, not a guess — surfaced a way file-add could recreate #472 through a new door, so this closes it before the mechanism ships. Asked about a FEATURE BRANCH, "what added this file" truthfully answers *the branch commit*. Written into the entry, the squash would orphan it moments later — which is precisely the failure this mechanism replaced. MEASURED on this branch: `git_file_add_commit(<my entry>)` with the default branch returns f87f9c1, the branch commit. The default `--branch=origin/main` already prevents it, and that is the property rather than an accident: against `origin/main` an unmerged entry finds NO add, so it stays `HEAD` instead of acquiring a sha that is about to become unreachable. Verified end to end — running the sweep command on this branch resolved the 8 landed entries from main's history and left THIS PR's own entry untouched at `HEAD`, which is exactly the behaviour the sweep needs. A test now pins both halves in one place: asked about the branch it returns the branch commit, asked about main it returns None, and `resolve_head_by_file_add` reports rather than resolves. The README says resolve against `origin/main`, never a branch, and why. (The 8 entries that run resolved in my working tree were reverted — the sweep is its own PR, per the lead.) 1 test (29 in the file). Full suite 7304 passed. Part of #476 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(scripts): refuse to write a sha that is not an ancestor of origin/main (#476) Oracle's rider, and it is a better fix than what I had. Before any resolved sha is written, `git_is_ancestor(sha, origin/main)` must hold; otherwise the entry is reported and `--check` exits non-zero. The `--branch=origin/main` default already made a branch commit hard to write. But a default is one argument away from being wrong, and the question the caller actually needs answered is not "which ref did you ask about" — it is "is this commit on main". Asserting that directly makes the hazard IMPOSSIBLE rather than unlikely, and it holds whatever `--branch` is passed. Correcting my own framing while I am here, because the lead caught it and the record should be right: the previous commit ("never resolve an entry against a feature branch") changed NO code — `maintain-fork-changes.py` is byte-identical across it. It added a test and documentation for a property the `origin/main` default already had. Calling that "closing the hazard" was an over-claim: I documented a safeguard and described it as building one. THIS commit is the code fix. 3 tests: a branch-only sha is refused and never written; the verify ref stays `origin/main` even when `--branch` is a feature branch; an ancestor sha still resolves. The real-git fixtures pass `verify_ref` explicitly, since a temp repo has no `origin/main` — the real `git_is_ancestor` still runs, against that repo's own ref. Verified live: with the gate in place the sweep still resolves all 8 landed entries against origin/main (reverted here — the sweep is its own PR). Full suite 7307 passed. Part of #476 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(scripts): bind via_api unconditionally so term order cannot break it (#476) Oracle's note: the unverifiable-`fork_pr` advisory reads `via_api`, which was assigned only inside `if pr and fetch is not None:` — so it was safe purely by SHORT-CIRCUIT ORDER in the later condition. Reordering those terms, a harmless-looking edit, would have turned it into a NameError on every entry that carries no `fork_pr`, which is exactly the entry the file-add mechanism exists for. Asked for a comment; binding it unconditionally instead, because that is Oracle's own principle applied one level down — the ancestry gate was preferred over a default plus a README for the same reason. Make the edit safe rather than forbid it. The comment stays too, saying why. PROVEN rather than argued: a copy of the module with the terms reordered (`if not via_api and pr and fetch is not None:`) resolves an entry with NO `fork_pr` and raises nothing. 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#503) (#505) * docs(specs): design spec for a failure-shape index keyed on the action Records the class the 2g-c6 session named: an instrument returning a TRUE answer to a NARROWER question than the one asked, with a PASSING positive control. Seeds it with 25 measured instances (21 individually citable) from Oracle PART 25, this wave's mempalace cards, and 2g-c6's night. The class defeats the corpus's standing remedy. "Get a positive control before trusting a zero" assumes a control that can fail; here it passes, because it proves the reader works rather than that the reader was aimed at the question asked. Applies 2g's LAWS-INDEX arrival-phrasing model (n=11: 10 of 11 arrival phrasings return zero against cards that exist) and names #497's pre-mutation hook as the caller that already produces the query key. The minimal slice measures before it builds: a labelled corpus plus a recall harness that interleaves baseline and candidate per query, since #477 measured a card moving rank 13 to 1 on an unmodified tree within 30 minutes. Four falsifiers are written down, including the one most likely to produce a false success -- triggers authored by the lane that wrote the cards. No code. Spec only. Part of #503 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(fork-changes): record fork_pr 505 on the failure-shape-index entry Part of #503 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…rved slot) In a wing with ~941K transcript drawers `mempalace search --limit 3` returned three session transcripts and the reader concluded the corpus held nothing curated. The first curated document ranks 14-27 (#526). TWO causes, both measured on production before this was written. 1. The requested limit sizes the hybrid FUSION CANDIDATE POOL, not just the cut. limit=3 and limit=30 return different top-3 drawers for the same query, while the bm25 route is stable across limits; repeated identical calls are deterministic, so this is not drift. At --limit 3 the curated document is not ranked below the cut — it is never a candidate. #477's widen already fired here but computed min(n*2, 40) = SIX at limit 3, and the curated layer begins at 14: it fired and landed short. 2. #477's ordering cannot lift it. That ordering is bounded to near-duplicates by design, and review hardened the bound twice. Measured similarity between the first curated hit and the top-3 transcripts above it: 0.0/0.0/0.0 on one query, 0.008 on another, against a 0.35 threshold. #477 fixes "a transcript that QUOTES the card outranks the card"; this is "the same topic with no shared 3-grams". Different defect, and re-ranking is the wrong instrument. So: a conditional deeper fetch to max(limit, 30) — a floor, not a multiple — fired only when the shallow result has no curated hit; then one reserved slot, the LAST of the N, for the top curated hit in the ranker's own order. The promotion is MARKED on both channels: `promoted: true` and `promoted_from_rank` on the hit in --json, `⟨curated, promoted from rank K⟩` in prose, plus top-level `curated_first_rank` = the rank in the deep fetch BEFORE reordering. Taken after reordering it would be 1 almost every time and say nothing about corpus depth. A silent promotion would be #526's own error in reverse: the reader could not tell "ranked here" from "reserved here". Conditional because the depth is not free: a limit-30 hybrid call on wing 2g measured 19-22 s (#533). Measured after: base 14.49/14.46 s vs head 14.33/15.92 s on the hybrid-fallback query, and 0.18-0.26 vs 0.16-0.24 s on the bm25 route (n=2 per arm, interleaved) — no measurable regression, because the cost is the hybrid call itself rather than the row count. `_WIDEN_FACTOR`/`_WIDEN_CAP` are gone; the three #477 tests that asserted that arithmetic are updated to the new contract rather than deleted. Curated means source_kind file OR memory, matching no_curated_source and prefer_curated — using "file" alone would let a memory-only result trigger the deep fetch while reporting curated_first_rank: null. Part of #526 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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… fetch + reserved slot (#526) (#534) ## What `mempalace search --limit 3` can now return a curated document in a wing where the curated layer begins at rank 14–27. Two mechanisms, a conditional deeper fetch and one **reserved, marked** slot. #526 fix 2. ## Why — two causes, both measured on production before this was written **1. The requested limit sizes the hybrid fusion candidate pool, not just the cut.** | control | result | |---|---| | same query + limit, twice | **identical** — not drift, not nondeterminism | | hybrid: limit-3 top-3 vs limit-30 top-3 | **different drawers** | | bm25-fast: limit-3 top-3 vs limit-30 top-3 | **same drawers** (pool-stable) | | Q5 curated hit | **rank 1** of the limit-30 fetch, **absent** from the limit-3 fetch | So at `--limit 3` the curated document is not ranked below the cut — **it is never a candidate.** #477's widen already fired here, but computed `min(n*2, 40)` = **6** at limit 3 while the curated layer begins at 14: it fired and landed short. **2. #477's ordering cannot lift it, and that is by design.** ``` Q2 deep-fetch curated ranks pre-reorder = [14, 15, 24, 25, 30] after prefer_curated = [14, 15, 24, 25, 30] ← nothing moved sim(first curated, top-3 transcripts) = 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 Q1 pre=[15] post=[15] sim = 0.008 (threshold 0.35) ``` #477 fixes *a transcript that **quotes** the card outranks the card* — near-duplicate ordering is exactly right for that. #526 is *the same **topic** with no shared 3-grams*. Two review rounds hardened #477's bound deliberately; it is not under-tuned, it is the wrong instrument. Relaxing it would mean dropping the threshold to ~0, i.e. "curated always first". Hence a reserved slot rather than a re-rank. ## How * **Conditional deep fetch** to `max(limit, 30)` — a floor, not a multiple — fired only when the shallow result contains no curated hit. `_WIDEN_FACTOR`/`_WIDEN_CAP` are gone. * **One reserved slot**, the last of the N, for the top curated hit *in the ranker's own order*, only when the top N would otherwise contain none. * **Marked on both channels**, because a silent promotion would be #526's own error in reverse — the reader could not tell "ranked here" from "reserved here": * `--json`: `promoted: true` and `promoted_from_rank` on the hit, plus top-level `curated_first_rank` * prose: `⟨curated, promoted from rank K⟩` * `curated_first_rank` is the rank in the deep fetch **before** reordering. Taken after, it would be 1 almost every time a curated hit exists and would say nothing about corpus depth — which is the one thing the banner in PR 2 needs it to say. **Producer/consumer:** the daemon's `/search/fast` and `/search/hybrid` payload (the deep fetch) produces; the CLI's truncation consumes, after `#477`'s `prefer_curated`. Both are driven together in `tests/test_search_depth.py`. `curated_first_rank` is itself the producer for PR 2's banner, and the joint test that pins their agreement is already written and lands there. ## Acceptance — production, wing 2g, `--limit 3`, read-only Five queries pre-registered before any code. Q1–Q4 are the published defect queries; Q5 is a **positive control (lead-approved substitution — 2g-c6's query string was never recorded anywhere)**, present so a table that reads all-zero cannot be mistaken for a working instrument. | # | query | route | `curated_first_rank` | curated in top 3 | |---|---|---|---|---| | Q1 | acs_tr069 cert context DO NOT swap this file | hybrid fallback | 15 | ✅ slot 3, marked | | Q2 | cmhs inbound parameter handler binary | bm25-fast | `null` | — | | Q3 | femtocell trap config bank | hybrid fallback | 27 | ✅ slot 3, marked | | Q4 | globalCellId derived at cell setup | bm25-fast | 15 | ✅ slot 3, marked | | Q5 | ip route get 192.168.157.186 *(control)* | bm25-fast | 9 | ✅ slot 3, marked | **Four of five now return a curated hit where the base returned zero.** Q2 is reported honestly: on the bm25 route it takes, no curated document lies within depth 30, so it returns `null` rather than inventing a rank. Its curated hits *are* reachable on the hybrid route (ranks 14/15/24/25/30) — a route-selection limit, not a depth one, filed separately as #537 rather than widening this PR. > ###⚠️ The acceptance table is a SNAPSHOT of a moving corpus — re-runs will differ > > Measured 2026-09-18 ~07:3x PDT. The wing is being re-mined continuously, and one row > has already moved: **Q2, reported above as `curated_first_rank: null`, now returns a > curated `.md` at rank 1 naturally** (kind `file`, *not* promoted — the banner is > correctly silent and claims no promotion). Nothing in this PR changed between the two > readings; the corpus did. > > So a re-run by a non-author lane should expect **different K values and possibly a > different pass count**, and that is not a contradiction of this table. The invariants > that do not move are the ones to check: > * a curated hit present in the returned N whenever the deep fetch found one, > * `curated_first_rank` null rather than invented when it did not, > * `promoted: true` present **only** on a hit that was reserved, never on one that > ranked there by itself. > > Determinism was verified separately: the same query at the same limit, twice in a row, > returns identical drawers. The variation is the corpus, not the retrieval. ### Latency, both arms, interleaved, n=2 per arm | route | base | head | |---|---|---| | hybrid fallback | 14.49 / 14.46 s | 14.33 / 15.92 s | | bm25-fast | 0.19–0.26 s | 0.16–0.24 s | No measurable regression: the cost is the hybrid **call**, not the row count — which is also why the trigger stays conditional rather than deepening every search (#533). ## Tests 15 new in `tests/test_search_depth.py`: the depth floor (driven through the helper, because a route-level test cannot see it once the shallow fetch already returned `limit` rows), the conditional trigger and its no-op cases, `curated_first_rank` pre-reorder and `null`, reservation of the last slot, both marking channels, `--limit 1`, and "no promotion claimed when it ranked there". Three #477 tests asserted the `min(n*2, 40)` arithmetic this PR removes; they are **updated to the new contract, not deleted**, and say why in their docstrings. Full suite **7517 passed, 0 failed**. `ruff check` and `ruff format --check` clean. `scripts/check-docs.sh` clean 7/7. > One benchmark, `test_cli_import_under_startup_budget`, failed once under full-suite > load and passed 3/3 in isolation and on the final full run. Timing-sensitive, and this > change adds no imports. Part of #526
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"no curated document matched" is a claim about the STORE. What was measured is the RETURNED SET, and in a wing with ~941K transcript drawers the curated layer begins at rank 14-27, so at --limit 3 the sentence was true of the result and false of the corpus — read by two sessions as "this project has nothing curated on that" (#526). Three cases now, on one result object: curated ranked inside the limit -> nothing said about curation curated promoted from rank K -> "1 curated hit promoted from rank K; the curated layer in this wing begins there - widen the pool with --limit 30" none within the deep fetch -> "no curated document in the top N", and NO rank clause, because no K exists The advice names the mechanism. The requested limit sizes the hybrid fusion candidate pool (#534), so --limit 30 is not "scroll further down the list", it is "widen the pool" — the document was never a candidate. JOINT PRODUCER/CONSUMER TEST, written before the producer shipped so the field's shape was fixed by the consumer's need: tests/ test_search_banner_contract.py drives one result object from curated_first_rank (#534) to the rendered banner across all three cases and asserts the printed K equals the K in --json, parametrised at 14 and 27. A banner whose number disagrees with the field is worse than no number: one reader acts on the prose, another parses the field. The old all-transcript / transcript-plus-diary split is dropped from the banner; the per-hit ⟨transcript⟩ / ⟨diary⟩ tags carry it, and at header level the useful statement is the depth. all_transcript() consequently has no production caller — kept as a tested predicate, with its "for the header line" docstring corrected so it does not describe behaviour that no longer exists. Three #477 banner tests asserted the old wording; updated to the new contract, not deleted, and one now also asserts the phrase "no curated document matched" is ABSENT. Part of #526 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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## fix(search): the banner states the DEPTH, not the store (#526, PR 2 of 4) Stacked on #534 (curated_first_rank producer). Part of #526. **Defect.** `! all N hits are session-transcript copies — no curated document matched` is a claim about the STORE; the measurement was of the RETURNED SET. In wing 2g the curated layer begins at rank 14-27, so at `--limit 3` the sentence was true of the result and false of the corpus, and two sessions concluded the project had nothing. **Change.** One banner, three cases, keyed on `curated_first_rank` from #534: | result object | banner | |---|---| | curated ranked inside the limit | (nothing about curation) | | curated promoted from rank K | `! 1 curated hit promoted from rank K; the curated layer in this wing begins there — widen the pool with --limit 30` | | none within the deep fetch (`curated_first_rank: null`) | `! no curated document in the top N` — no rank clause, no K exists | "Widen the pool" is the mechanism (#534: the limit sizes the hybrid fusion candidate pool), not "scroll further". **Producer/consumer pair, one test.** `tests/test_search_banner_contract.py` drives one result object from the field to the rendered line for all three cases and asserts printed K == `--json` K at 14 and 27. Negative: the phrase "no curated document matched" is asserted ABSENT. The banner is only reached when `results` is non-empty, so an error payload cannot print it (PR 4 hardens the error path itself). **Blast radius.** `_print_search_header` (cli.py), `all_transcript` docstring (provenance.py — no production caller now, kept + tested), 3 #477 banner tests updated to the new wording. No JSON field changes. **Verification.** Rebased onto 69fd30c (#534 squash): full suite 7559 passed / 82 skipped / 1 failed — the one failure was `test_quiet_suppresses_the_banner`, whose substring `promoted from rank` now also matches the per-hit marker #534's PART 44 fix added to the table renderer; sharpened to assert the banner SENTENCE is absent under `--quiet` and the per-hit marker survives (quiet strips chrome, not provenance). After: banner contract 8/8 + depth 16/16; ruff check + format clean; check-docs clean (see entry commit). Order note: lands after #536 and #541 in the cli.py queue — expect one generated-only rebase at go. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)
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What
Orders a curated hit above the session transcripts that quote it, in every
interactive search route, and gives palace-diary hits a note saying they have no
citable source. #451 items F and G.
Why — measured
A paraphrased question ranks transcript copies above the curated card that answers
it, so a reader at the default limit never reaches the correction. On production
(wing
2g, limit 20) theCLAUDE.mdchunk carrying the REFUTED banner came back atrank 13 on
bm25-fastand 14 on hybrid, while a transcript quoting the sameclaim sat at rank 1. The reporting librarian named the class FAIL-D — right
file, right chunk, right markers, ranked below the cut: the only failure that
passes every content check. Item G is its sibling — diary summaries rank first with
source_filerendering?and nothing to verify them against.How — and why this metric
New
mempalace/result_ordering.py. The preference is bounded to near-duplicates:a curated hit is promoted only over a hit that quotes substantially the same text, so
genuinely transcript-only recall keeps the ranker's order untouched.
Near-duplicate = overlap coefficient over word 3-grams ≥ 0.35, chosen by
measurement over 134 cross-kind hit pairs on production, not by taste:
A transcript quotes a card and surrounds it with conversation, so the two differ
wildly in length. Overlap asks "is most of the shorter one inside the longer one?"
— the actual question. Jaccard divides by the union and is punished by exactly the
surrounding conversation that makes a quote a quote. Shingles rather than bare tokens
because same-topic chunks share vocabulary but not word order. No embeddings — this
runs on every interactive search. 0.35 sits in the measured gap between 0.323 and 0.373.
prefer_curated()raises each hit to the earliest position it has earned: theindex of the topmost hit it directly duplicates, searching back no further than the
nearest earlier hit it does not outrank by kind (
curated → transcript → diary).A hit that earns nothing keeps the ranker's index. Passes repeat until the order
settles, so the value returned is a fixed point.
Collateral overtaking of non-duplicates lying between a hit and the copy it earned
is unavoidable for a single-list ordering and is stated in the docstring rather than
hidden: the alternative is to leave the curated hit buried.
Wired into the CLI's
bm25-fast,hybridand MCP-envelope routes, and intosearcher.search_memories(main envelope + the vector-disabled BM25 short-circuit)so MCP
mempalace_searchgets it from the daemon host.Acceptance — drift-free, on production, read-only
re-mine moved curated ranks repeatedly while I measured, and an early two-arm run
showed
[] → [1]that I nearly reported as the widen firing — direct instrumentationshowed one daemon call and a narrow fetch that already had the card at rank 1. It was
the corpus, not the code. So the table is a within-process A/B: one fetch, ranks
recorded, then the reorder applied to a copy of that same response.
[1, 7][1, 4][2]/[2, 14][7, 10]/[2, 16, 17, 20]The correct bound REDUCES the measured effect, and that is the honest headline
1 of 16 cells moves where the buggy version moved 8. I diagnosed that rather than
assuming it. On the paraphrase row at limit 20:
The old jump from 14 to 1 was only possible by overtaking a fellow curated hit —
equal rank, neither outranks the other. That overtake was the defect, not the feature.
And note what the barrier implies: it only blocks when a curated document is already
above, here at rank 2, comfortably above the cut — so the promotion it prevents is
precisely the one the reader did not need. The feature still fires when a curated hit
is genuinely buried under transcripts alone, which is the #451 case.
Rows 2–7 are void — the lead confirmed those files were never in this
wing.
Conditional widen — closing the fetched-window bound
Reordering can only promote a hit the ranker actually returned. On the measured
case the card sat at rank 13 of 20 while the reader asked for 10, so the ordering fix
alone left the default limit unchanged.
_widen_when_nothing_curatedmakes exactly one wider fetch (2× the limit, cappedat 40) when
no_curated_source(hits)is true, then reorders and truncates back to therequested limit. When a curated hit is already present — the common case — no extra
call is made at all. This wave is cutting daemon load, so the round trip is spent
only where the search is actually broken. A failed, unusable or not-actually-wider
second call degrades to the original hits, and the header still fires when the widened
window also found nothing curated.
Tests
44 new, TDD (each watched fail first):
tests/test_result_ordering.py— 32: similarity (identity, disjoint, containmentdespite length, symmetry, empty); near-duplicate thresholds and the short-text
refusal; a test pinning the calibrated threshold inside the measured gap; and
prefer_curated— promotion, the bound (no near-duplicate ⇒ no move),transcript-only untouched, two curated hits not reordering each other, diary below
curated, diary untouched without a curated near-duplicate, relative order of
unrelated hits, promotion target, idempotence, kind derivation, non-dict/non-list
tolerance, and the O(n²) size guard.
tests/test_cli_daemon.py— 10: fast route promotes, fast route leavestranscript-only recall alone, MCP-envelope route applies it, diary compact tag,
and six for the widen — no widen when curated is present (exactly one daemon
call), widen fires once at 2× (two calls), widened card clears the cut and the
result is truncated, a widened-but-still-uncurated window keeps the header firing,
a failed second call degrades safely, and no widen when the limit already exceeds
the cap.
tests/test_provenance.py— 2: diary note, and that it survives annotation.Full suite 7152 collected, 7065 passed, 82 skipped. The 5
test_init.pyleaked_pythonpathfailures are the known worktree baseline (#454), not from thischange.
ruff check+ruff format --checkclean;scripts/check-docs.shclean 7/7.Part of #451
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
⟨diary⟩indicator for diary results.Documentation