fix(cli): pending drain confirms before it posts; a daemon 4xx reads as a request error (#498, #499) - #509
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Operator->>CLI: Run pending drain
CLI->>PendingQueue: peek pending requests
PendingQueue-->>CLI: Return filtered plan
CLI-->>Operator: Print plan and require --yes
Operator->>CLI: Run with --yes
CLI->>Daemon: Post queued mine requests
Daemon-->>CLI: Return success or request error
CLI-->>Operator: Exit with drain result
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Real-process probe (not just unit tests)Scratch $ mempalace pending drain
mempalace pending drain — 2 queued mine request(s) would be posted
wing 2g (1)
convos /home/jp/.claude/projects/-home-jp-Projects-2g/a.jsonl
wing memorypalace (1)
session /home/jp/.claude/projects/-home-jp-Projects-mp/b.jsonl
Nothing has been posted. Re-run with --yes to drain the queue.
$ echo $?
0
$ wc -l < ~/.mempalace/pending/2026-09-17.jsonl
5 # queue untouched — the plan did not claim, rename or consume anything⭐ 5 raw lines in, "2" in the plan. That is the whole point of $ mempalace replay
mempalace replay: renamed to `mempalace pending drain` — it drains the pending
MINE queue, it does not replay history (#498).
mempalace pending drain — 2 queued mine request(s) would be posted
… # the alias inherits the guard, it is not a back door
$ mempalace pending ; echo $?
mempalace pending: choose an action (drain). See `mempalace pending --help`.
64 # a verb group with no action is a bad argumentIncluded because the #459 lesson on this repo was that the unit tests were blind to a defect the |
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Oracle's pre-read found the sharper half of #501, and it is not the part the issue describes. `cmd_diary` had NO sub-dispatch: `write` returned and EVERY other action fell through to the read path. So a verb registered in argparse but unhandled here would run a read, print a plausible listing and exit 0 — a confidently wrong answer that no crash-shaped check would catch. Measured on this branch before the guard: action "bogus-verb" called mempalace_diary_read and exited 0. Dispatch is now a table, and the three action bodies are separate helpers (_diary_agents / _diary_write / _diary_read), so a missing verb cannot fall through to a different one. An unknown or missing action is a usage error, exit 64, matching the `cmd_pending` shape in #509. Splitting the helpers also took cmd_diary back under the C901 ceiling it had just crossed — a real decomposition rather than a noqa. The agent-name guard now lives inside _diary_write and nowhere else. That is the #501 bug proper: it ran ahead of the action branch, so every action demanded an identity that only `write` uses. Exit codes now follow the #44 header contract for this command: a read or `agents` that ran and selected nothing exits 1, counted AFTER the client-side --topic/--since narrowing, with the message still printed first. `diary read` on an empty diary previously exited 0; its test is updated rather than deleted. NOT changed, and the lead should know why: daemon-unreachable still exits 1 via _fail_daemon. The ruling said #499's PR moves it to 2 and lands first — #509's diff does not touch _fail_daemon. Its two exit(64)s are a new daemon-4xx "refusal, never an outage" helper and cmd_pending's unknown action. So "daemon unreachable -> 2" is a cross-cutting change to a helper shared with cmd_why / cmd_tags / cmd_graph / cmd_list that no PR in this wave currently owns; taking it here would collide with #509's cli.py edits. The tests assert it through a single labelled constant so the flip is one line. Same for `_fail_client` (exit 2) on a missing --agent for write: pinned by a pre-existing test, shared by every command, left alone. Mutations, re-run against the refactored structure with the failure list itself positive-controlled: remove the write guard WHOLESALE -> 2 (both write-refusal tests; every read/agents test still passes, which is the other direction the ruling asked for) remove the unknown-action error -> 3 drop agents from the table -> 12 point `read` at the agents handler-> 21 remove read no-results exit 1 -> 4 remove agents no-results exit 1 -> 1 Tests: 8 more (3 dispatch incl. "does not silently read" asserting the tool was never called, 1 that every known verb still routes, 4 no-results exit codes incl. filtered-to-nothing and the non-empty mirror). Full suite 7407 passed, 82 skipped. ruff check + ruff format --check clean; formatting touched only my own lines. check-docs clean. Part of #501
…--yes (#498) `mempalace replay` took no arguments, printed no description, and re-posted every request in `~/.mempalace/pending/*.jsonl` to the daemon as mine jobs. Reproduced 2026-09-17: a session reading it as "replay history" queued twelve mines against production. The name promised a read; the command performed a write. Three changes, and the third is the one that makes the first two honest: * `pending drain` is the primary verb. It says what it drains. * Nothing is posted without `--yes`. The default is a plan. * The plan comes from `pending_queue.peek()`, which reproduces the drain's own filter chain rather than counting lines. That last point is the whole risk of this fix. `replay` de-duplicates per file, skips unparseable lines, and DROPS legacy whole-directory requests without posting them. A preview counting raw lines would promise twelve and post nine — the same "the report disagrees with what happened" defect the command was filed for, reintroduced by its own fix. `peek` is therefore read-only by construction and tested against `replay` directly: the planned list must equal the posted list, not merely resemble it. `peek` cannot reuse `replay` with a no-op poster, because `replay` claims each file by renaming it before reading a line — a dry run that is not dry. `replay` stays as a warning alias, because a cron entry and scripts call it. It inherits the guard rather than routing around it, so it is not a back door to the old behaviour. Also switches these paths from `return` to `sys.exit`: `main` discards a handler's return value, so the old `return 1` never reached the shell and a wholly failed drain still exited 0 — reproduced against origin/main with the real binary and filed separately as #508. Verified: the `--yes` guard is mutation-tested (removing it kills 6 tests, including "it posts nothing"), and the migrated #456 background-flag guard still bites (flipping `background=True` kills 2, including the measured lock-starvation incident). Part of #498 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
) `mempalace list --wing 2g --room diary --limit 2` printed palace daemon unreachable at http://familiar:8085 — see mempalace status for diagnostics (daemon REST /list failed (400): Bad Request) while the daemon was up and answering. Every 4xx fell into the same `DaemonError` bucket as a refused connection, so the error was named for the layer that noticed rather than the layer that failed — and it sent the operator to check daemon health instead of their own argument. The daemon was never the problem and it already said so: GET /list?wing=2g&room=diary -> 400 {"detail": {"error": "room 'diary' is not in the canonical set", "valid_rooms": ["architecture", ...]}} The message the operator needed was on the wire; the client discarded it and substituted a guess about the daemon's health. So the fix is not to write a better message — it is to stop throwing away the one that arrived. `DaemonRequestError` subclasses `DaemonError`, so every existing handler keeps working unchanged; the new `except` clauses are additive and sit in front of the outage clauses. 404/401/403 still return `None`, because a missing route on an older daemon is a fallback signal, not a user error. Per `cli.py`'s documented contract (#44) a bad argument is 64 — not 2 ("palace unavailable"), which is what this printed, and not 1. Measured with the real binary against the live daemon: OLD exit=1 palace daemon unreachable at http://familiar:8085 — see mempalace status for diagnostics (daemon REST /list failed (400): Bad Request) NEW exit=64 daemon rejected the request (400): room 'diary' is not in the canonical set (valid: architecture, decisions, discoveries, planning, problems, references, sessions) The status is carried as a field rather than baked into the message, so a renderer composes `(400)` once instead of depending on how the string was built. Note what this does NOT fix: `diary` is a room that exists — 12,216 drawers in the `2g` wing alone, and 79,753 across eight non-canonical rooms — and the daemon refuses to list it. That is a daemon-side defect, reported separately; this commit only ensures the client relays the refusal instead of misattributing it. Part of #499 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…498, #499) seq 149, `commit: HEAD` (the squash commit does not exist yet), `fork_pr: 509` filled in from what `gh pr create` returned rather than guessed. Three renderers re-run; `check-docs.sh` exits clean. The one advisory it prints — upstream PR #459 CLOSED vs docs OPEN — reproduces with this branch stashed, so it is inherited: the checker resolves a bare `#459` written in an older entry's prose (our fork's issue) against MemPalace/mempalace, where that number is a closed PR. Part of #498 Part of #499 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 11711-11721: Register the --json/-j and --quiet/-q output flags on
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| p_pending_drain = pending_sub.add_parser( | ||
| "drain", | ||
| help="Re-post queued mine requests to the daemon (plan only without --yes)", | ||
| description=_PENDING_DESC, | ||
| ) | ||
| p_pending_drain.add_argument( | ||
| "--yes", | ||
| "-y", | ||
| action="store_true", | ||
| help="Actually post the queued requests (without this, only a plan is printed)", | ||
| ) |
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Fix: mempalace pending drain --json fails with an argparse error.
p_pending_drain only registers --yes/-y. p_pending has nested subparsers, so the later propagation loop that adds --json/--quiet to every top-level subparser skips it, and that omission is never compensated on the drain leaf.
Every other two-level command in this file re-registers --json/--quiet on its leaf subparser for this exact reason (see _add_drawer_output_flags, and the for _leaf in (p_hallway_list, p_hallway_delete) block). cmd_pending_drain branches its entire output shape and exit-code path on getattr(args, "json", False), so JSON output is a documented capability of this command.
mempalace --json pending drain still works, because the top-level parser consumes --json before the subcommand token. But mempalace pending drain --json — the placement every other subcommand in this CLI supports — fails with "unrecognized arguments: --json" before cmd_pending_drain ever runs. No test exercises this path through real argv; the existing JSON tests build argparse.Namespace directly and skip the parser.
Register --json/--quiet on p_pending_drain the same way the hallway leaves do:
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p_pending_drain.add_argument(
"--yes",
"-y",
action="store_true",
help="Actually post the queued requests (without this, only a plan is printed)",
)
+ p_pending_drain.add_argument(
+ "--json", "-j", dest="json", action="store_true", default=False, help=argparse.SUPPRESS
+ )
+ p_pending_drain.add_argument(
+ "--quiet", "-q", dest="quiet", action="store_true", default=False, help=argparse.SUPPRESS
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| p_pending_drain = pending_sub.add_parser( | |
| "drain", | |
| help="Re-post queued mine requests to the daemon (plan only without --yes)", | |
| description=_PENDING_DESC, | |
| ) | |
| p_pending_drain.add_argument( | |
| "--yes", | |
| "-y", | |
| action="store_true", | |
| help="Actually post the queued requests (without this, only a plan is printed)", | |
| ) | |
| p_pending_drain = pending_sub.add_parser( | |
| "drain", | |
| help="Re-post queued mine requests to the daemon (plan only without --yes)", | |
| description=_PENDING_DESC, | |
| ) | |
| p_pending_drain.add_argument( | |
| "--yes", | |
| "-y", | |
| action="store_true", | |
| help="Actually post the queued requests (without this, only a plan is printed)", | |
| ) | |
| p_pending_drain.add_argument( | |
| "--json", "-j", dest="json", action="store_true", default=False, help=argparse.SUPPRESS | |
| ) | |
| p_pending_drain.add_argument( | |
| "--quiet", "-q", dest="quiet", action="store_true", default=False, help=argparse.SUPPRESS | |
| ) |
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In `@mempalace/cli.py` around lines 11711 - 11721, Register the --json/-j and
--quiet/-q output flags on the p_pending_drain leaf parser, matching the
existing hallway leaf configuration, so mempalace pending drain --json is
accepted and cmd_pending_drain receives the expected boolean attributes.
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Oracle's pre-read found the sharper half of #501, and it is not the part the issue describes. `cmd_diary` had NO sub-dispatch: `write` returned and EVERY other action fell through to the read path. So a verb registered in argparse but unhandled here would run a read, print a plausible listing and exit 0 — a confidently wrong answer that no crash-shaped check would catch. Measured on this branch before the guard: action "bogus-verb" called mempalace_diary_read and exited 0. Dispatch is now a table, and the three action bodies are separate helpers (_diary_agents / _diary_write / _diary_read), so a missing verb cannot fall through to a different one. An unknown or missing action is a usage error, exit 2 via `_fail_client`, matching argparse's own parse-error code so the same user mistake does not split across two codes on the accident of whether the subparser happens to be registered. 64 is reserved for "the daemon rejected a well-formed request" (#514). `_fail_client` rather than a bare print because it emits a JSON document under --json, which a hand-rolled stderr print does not — a --json caller got prose and no document. Splitting the helpers also took cmd_diary back under the C901 ceiling it had just crossed — a real decomposition rather than a noqa. The agent-name guard now lives inside _diary_write and nowhere else. That is the #501 bug proper: it ran ahead of the action branch, so every action demanded an identity that only `write` uses. Exit codes now follow the #44 header contract for this command: a read or `agents` that ran and selected nothing exits 1, counted AFTER the client-side --topic/--since narrowing, with the message still printed first. `diary read` on an empty diary previously exited 0; its test is updated rather than deleted. NOT changed, and the lead should know why: daemon-unreachable still exits 1 via _fail_daemon. The ruling said #499's PR moves it to 2 and lands first — daemon-4xx "refusal, never an outage" helper and cmd_pending's unknown action. So "daemon unreachable -> 2" is a cross-cutting change to a helper shared with cmd_why / cmd_tags / cmd_graph / cmd_list that no PR in this wave currently owns; taking it here would collide with #509's cli.py edits. The tests assert it through a single labelled constant so the flip is one line. Same for `_fail_client` (exit 2) on a missing --agent for write: pinned by a pre-existing test, shared by every command, left alone. Mutations, re-run against the refactored structure with the failure list itself positive-controlled: remove the write guard WHOLESALE -> 2 (both write-refusal tests; every read/agents test still passes, which is the other direction the ruling asked for) remove the unknown-action error -> 4 (incl. the --json shape) drop agents from the table -> 12 point `read` at the agents handler-> 21 remove read no-results exit 1 -> 4 remove agents no-results exit 1 -> 1 Tests: 8 more (3 dispatch incl. "does not silently read" asserting the tool was never called, 1 that every known verb still routes, 4 no-results exit codes incl. filtered-to-nothing and the non-empty mirror). Full suite 7407 passed, 82 skipped. ruff check + ruff format --check clean; formatting touched only my own lines. check-docs clean. Part of #501
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#501) (#510) * fix(diary): read and enumerate the diary without a configured identity `diary read` refused without --agent/MEMPALACE_AGENT_NAME, and answered "No diary entries" to every name a reader could guess — while `list --wing 2g` plainly showed diary-room drawers (AUTO-SAVE, COMPACTION). The entries were reachable only by a name nobody could know. Root cause, measured against the production daemon 2026-09-17 by read-only MCP calls: diary_read(agent_name="claude-code", wing="2g") -> 3 AUTO-SAVE entries diary_read(agent_name="team-lead", wing="2g") -> 0 diary_read(agent_name="2g-c6", wing="2g") -> 0 The hook's diary path never consults identity.txt or MEMPALACE_AGENT_NAME. clients/hook.py passes `agent_name=harness` — its own `--harness` command-line flag, one of claude-code / codex / gemini-cli — and tool_diary_write lowercases that into the `agent` metadata key. So the writer is the HARNESS, the reader was being asked for an identity that plays no part in the write, and no configured identity would ever have matched. (a) agent_name is now optional on tool_diary_read. Omitted, it keys on the drawers: room=diary, optionally one wing, newest first, --limit and --since honoured. Every row carries its own `agent` and `wing` — without that a mixed listing still cannot tell the reader which --agent to ask for next, which was the actual dead end. (b) New tool_diary_agents / `mempalace diary agents [--wing W]` lists the agent names present with a count and newest timestamp each, sorted busiest-first. Since the name is the harness, enumeration is the only reliable way to learn it. (c) The L0 identity banner said "No identity configured. Create ~/.mempalace/identity.txt" — true, and read by the reporter as "the diary is unavailable". It now says the identity affects WRITES only (the author stamped on `diary write`) and that reads need none, naming both `diary read --wing` and `diary agents`. Rendered only when identity.txt is absent, so it costs nothing when configured. Only `write` still requires an agent name; a mutation reverting that gate fails seven tests. Scans are bounded at _DIARY_SCAN_LIMIT and the payload carries `truncated`/`scanned`, so a capped count is reported as a lower bound rather than as a total. The cap is not incidental: the palace daemon runs at its 2 GB cgroup ceiling (palace-daemon#256, anon 2014.9/2048 MB), so an unbounded metadata sweep is a memory hazard, not merely slow. diary_agents reads metadata only, never documents. A real-CLI probe refuted the first version of the graceful-degradation guard. A daemon whose mempalace predates this change rejects an OMITTED agent_name at schema validation, before dispatch: -32602: Missing required parameter 'agent_name' for tool mempalace_diary_read which arrives as a DaemonError, not as the tool-error envelope the guard was watching — so it would never have fired. Both shapes are handled now, and the rewrite is conditional on our having omitted the agent, so a genuine agent_name complaint still reaches the reader intact. Mocks were green on the wrong path; the binary caught it. Docs: the tool surface goes 49 -> 50, updated in the ten places that state it (FORK_CHANGELOG's "Tool surface is 49" is a historical record of that moment and is deliberately unchanged). mcp-tools.md gains a diary_agents section, and its diary_read section was stale in two further ways this corrects: agent_name was marked Required **Yes** and `wing` was undocumented. Tests: 43 new, counted with the collector rather than by hand — 16 tool-level (9 agent-less read: wing scoping, newest-first, per-row writer, blank-agent-is-not-an-error; 7 agents: counts, sorting, latest-per-agent, empty palace, truncation both ways), 23 CLI (11 identity-less read: payload shape, renderers, filters, both old-daemon degradation shapes and the pass-through; 10 agents incl. exit-code rows; 2 wiring probes), 4 banner. Ten mutations run, every one killed at least one test; the wiring deletion matrix is in the PR body. Full suite 7399 passed, 82 skipped. ruff check + ruff format --check clean. Part of #501 Fixes #501 * docs(fork-changes): identity-less diary read + diary agents (#501) Entry seq 149 with `commit: HEAD` and `fork_pr: 510` (verified that `pulls/510` resolves — #501 is the issue and belongs in the trailer, not in fork_pr). All three renderers re-run; check-docs reports docs clean. Also corrects the tool-count claim in five plugin manifests. The first pass updated only `*.md` and missed every `.json`, because the grep's --include encoded an assumption the check does not share; check-docs 7/7 found the six remaining drifts. Counts verified by parsing the TOOLS dict on both sides — base 49 keys, this branch 50 — not by grepping for a number. `FORK_CHANGELOG.md`'s historical "Tool surface is 49" describes the surface at that moment and is deliberately unchanged. Part of #501 * fix(diary): dispatch on the action explicitly; contract exit codes Oracle's pre-read found the sharper half of #501, and it is not the part the issue describes. `cmd_diary` had NO sub-dispatch: `write` returned and EVERY other action fell through to the read path. So a verb registered in argparse but unhandled here would run a read, print a plausible listing and exit 0 — a confidently wrong answer that no crash-shaped check would catch. Measured on this branch before the guard: action "bogus-verb" called mempalace_diary_read and exited 0. Dispatch is now a table, and the three action bodies are separate helpers (_diary_agents / _diary_write / _diary_read), so a missing verb cannot fall through to a different one. An unknown or missing action is a usage error, exit 2 via `_fail_client`, matching argparse's own parse-error code so the same user mistake does not split across two codes on the accident of whether the subparser happens to be registered. 64 is reserved for "the daemon rejected a well-formed request" (#514). `_fail_client` rather than a bare print because it emits a JSON document under --json, which a hand-rolled stderr print does not — a --json caller got prose and no document. Splitting the helpers also took cmd_diary back under the C901 ceiling it had just crossed — a real decomposition rather than a noqa. The agent-name guard now lives inside _diary_write and nowhere else. That is the #501 bug proper: it ran ahead of the action branch, so every action demanded an identity that only `write` uses. Exit codes now follow the #44 header contract for this command: a read or `agents` that ran and selected nothing exits 1, counted AFTER the client-side --topic/--since narrowing, with the message still printed first. `diary read` on an empty diary previously exited 0; its test is updated rather than deleted. NOT changed, and the lead should know why: daemon-unreachable still exits 1 via _fail_daemon. The ruling said #499's PR moves it to 2 and lands first — daemon-4xx "refusal, never an outage" helper and cmd_pending's unknown action. So "daemon unreachable -> 2" is a cross-cutting change to a helper shared with cmd_why / cmd_tags / cmd_graph / cmd_list that no PR in this wave currently owns; taking it here would collide with #509's cli.py edits. The tests assert it through a single labelled constant so the flip is one line. Same for `_fail_client` (exit 2) on a missing --agent for write: pinned by a pre-existing test, shared by every command, left alone. Mutations, re-run against the refactored structure with the failure list itself positive-controlled: remove the write guard WHOLESALE -> 2 (both write-refusal tests; every read/agents test still passes, which is the other direction the ruling asked for) remove the unknown-action error -> 4 (incl. the --json shape) drop agents from the table -> 12 point `read` at the agents handler-> 21 remove read no-results exit 1 -> 4 remove agents no-results exit 1 -> 1 Tests: 8 more (3 dispatch incl. "does not silently read" asserting the tool was never called, 1 that every known verb still routes, 4 no-results exit codes incl. filtered-to-nothing and the non-empty mirror). Full suite 7407 passed, 82 skipped. ruff check + ruff format --check clean; formatting touched only my own lines. check-docs clean. Part of #501
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One entry file at seq 152 from --next-seq after the rebase, commit: HEAD + fork_pr: 512. The two pre-rebase docs commits were dropped rather than replayed: the seq had to be renumbered anyway (main holds 149 from #505, 150 from #509, 151 from #510), and the rendered artefacts conflict by construction — re-running the renderers is the fix, never a hand-merge. Part of #500 and #502 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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#509 landed between this branch's review and its rebase, and it solved half of the same problem in the shared layer: DaemonRequestError carries `status` and `detail`, and `_daemon_error_detail` extracts the daemon's own explanation from an HTTPError body. `_window_daemon_get` was parsing that body itself. Now it calls `_daemon_error_detail`. This is not only DRY — it fixes an observable defect. FastAPI's `detail` can be a string OR a dict, and the room validator answers {"error": "room 'nope' is not in the canonical set", "valid_rooms": ["diary", "sessions", ...]} which is exactly the guidance the operator needs. The inline `json.loads(...)` this replaces would stringify that dict, printing a Python repr and discarding the options — the #499 defect reintroduced one layer down, in a verb written after #499 was filed. Two documentation corrections while here, both things that had become false rather than things that were always wrong: - the docstring named `_get_daemon_rest`, which #509 renamed to `_call_daemon_rest`. - it did not say how this helper relates to #509's. It does now: #509 deliberately KEEPS the 404/401/403 collapse to None because its callers fall back to MCP. These two verbs cannot — they are daemon-strict, so they must tell the operator which of the three happened. That residual difference is the only reason this helper still exists, and it is the thing to check before anyone consolidates the two. Tests: one more (36), mutation-verified — reverting to inline parsing fails it while the other 35 pass, so it is evidence rather than decoration. Full suite 7468 passed. Part of #500 and #502 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* feat(cli): `mempalace window` and `mempalace source` (#500, #502) Two daemon-strict read verbs over palace-daemon >= 1.10.0's /window and /source (palace-daemon#283). mempalace window --wing W --from TS --to TS [--room R] [--limit N] [--cursor C] [--source-file F] [--format json] mempalace source --file <transcript.jsonl> [--wing W] [--format json] #500: `search --since` filters a RANKED search, so inside a window you get whatever scores highest rather than the sequence -- a 2g session kept landing on the same three high-scoring drawers. `list` is insertion-ordered with no time filter, so against a 201K-drawer wing a date is ~200 pages away. #502: search hits carry source_file and the natural next question, "the drawers from THAT file in order", had no command. SEMANTICS ARE THE PALACE'S EXISTING ONES. --from inclusive, --to exclusive, wall-clock, and a drawer with no filed_at excluded while a bound is active -- the same contract `list --since` and `search --since` use, because the daemon parses the bounds by CALLING mempalace.date_window.parse_window rather than with a second implementation. What changed is that it is evaluated in SQL instead of in Python after fetching every row. EXIT CODES, resolved against cli.py's #44 contract and now written into its header table, because the interesting rows look alike from outside: 0 drawers returned 1 the window ran and matched nothing -- a real answer 2 daemon lacks the route (404), naming the minimum daemon version 2 credentials rejected (401/403), naming PALACE_API_KEY 2 transport failure / timeout / 5xx 64 daemon rejected a well-formed request (400/422), carrying the daemon's own message The 401/403 row needed a new HTTP helper rather than the existing _get_daemon_rest, which collapses 404, 401 and 403 all into None. Reusing it would report a key mismatch as "deploy a newer daemon" -- a refusal naming the wrong reason, which cli.py's own _resolve_palace_or_refuse docstring calls out as a defect family. _window_daemon_get keeps the status code and reads FastAPI's `detail` from the body, because a 4xx surfaced from e.reason alone would say "Bad Request" where the daemon said "since must be an ISO date string". MY OWN AUTH TEST WAS NOT EVIDENCE, and a mutation run caught it. It asserted `"key" in err`, and the scripted detail was "invalid api key" -- so the word came from the mock, and the test passed even with the 401 branch routed away entirely. The detail is now neutral ("nope") and the assertion is on the CLI's own wording (PALACE_API_KEY), plus a 403 case and a mirror test that a 5xx does NOT claim an auth problem, so the two branches are distinguishable in both directions. Wiring is checked at all three layers and the probes are verified to fail INDEPENDENTLY (mutation-run, per Oracle PART 22 on #485): deleting the dispatch entry kills the dispatch test and the real-CLI probe while the --help smoke still passes; renaming the parser kills the help tests while the dispatch test still passes. 9 of 10 guard mutants killed on the first pass; the tenth was the auth test above, now killed by two tests. END-TO-END, against a real daemon on a scratch postgres (not production) plus the real production daemon for the 404 path: window --wing probe exit 0, 4 drawers in filed order window --from .. --to .. exit 0, 2 drawers, "excluded: 1 drawer(s) ... have no filed_at" source --file probe.jsonl exit 0, chunks 0,1,10 -- NUMERIC, not lexical empty window exit 1 --from yesterday exit 64, carrying the shared parser's own message verbatim wrong PALACE_API_KEY exit 2, "check PALACE_API_KEY", and NOT the version message vs production daemon 1.9.x exit 2, "daemon lacks /window -- deploy palace-daemon >= 1.10.0" That last one is the real older-daemon case: GET /window on production returns 404 today (read-only probe), so the message was verified against the condition it describes rather than a simulation of it. And exit 2 alone would not have proven the 404 branch fired -- a transport failure is also 2 -- so the message was read, not just the code. Tests: tests/test_cli_window_source.py, 35 cases -- three-layer wiring, every exit-code row, the auth-vs-version distinction in both directions, flags reaching the daemon as query params, absent flags NOT sent as empty strings (an empty room= filters for the empty room, not "no filter"), the excluded count and the ordering surfaced to the user, cursor continuation, and one probe of the real binary against a closed port. Full suite: 7391 passed. Part of #500 and #502 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(fork-changes): window and source verbs (#500, #502) One entry file at seq 152 from --next-seq after the rebase, commit: HEAD + fork_pr: 512. The two pre-rebase docs commits were dropped rather than replayed: the seq had to be renumbered anyway (main holds 149 from #505, 150 from #509, 151 from #510), and the rendered artefacts conflict by construction — re-running the renderers is the fix, never a hand-merge. Part of #500 and #502 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * refactor(cli): window/source reuse #509's daemon-detail extractor #509 landed between this branch's review and its rebase, and it solved half of the same problem in the shared layer: DaemonRequestError carries `status` and `detail`, and `_daemon_error_detail` extracts the daemon's own explanation from an HTTPError body. `_window_daemon_get` was parsing that body itself. Now it calls `_daemon_error_detail`. This is not only DRY — it fixes an observable defect. FastAPI's `detail` can be a string OR a dict, and the room validator answers {"error": "room 'nope' is not in the canonical set", "valid_rooms": ["diary", "sessions", ...]} which is exactly the guidance the operator needs. The inline `json.loads(...)` this replaces would stringify that dict, printing a Python repr and discarding the options — the #499 defect reintroduced one layer down, in a verb written after #499 was filed. Two documentation corrections while here, both things that had become false rather than things that were always wrong: - the docstring named `_get_daemon_rest`, which #509 renamed to `_call_daemon_rest`. - it did not say how this helper relates to #509's. It does now: #509 deliberately KEEPS the 404/401/403 collapse to None because its callers fall back to MCP. These two verbs cannot — they are daemon-strict, so they must tell the operator which of the three happened. That residual difference is the only reason this helper still exists, and it is the thing to check before anyone consolidates the two. Tests: one more (36), mutation-verified — reverting to inline parsing fails it while the other 35 pass, so it is evidence rather than decoration. Full suite 7468 passed. Part of #500 and #502 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Follow-up on the same PR, applying nebula's measurement from the issue
thread. The first pass fixed `head -1` and matched state words as whole
words; that was not enough, and I could prove it only after running the
check with REAL upstream states.
Two corrections to my own verification first, because they are why this
was nearly missed:
* My "no new false positives" run used a stub that returned a state for
ONE pr number and nothing for the rest, so every other PR was skipped.
"Clean" there proved nothing. With real `gh` the fix ADDED a warning.
* The control line nebula cited (FORK_CHANGELOG.md L246) is blank in this
tree — the measurement was taken on another branch. Found by content
instead: it is L358 here, and L356 is a worse case nebula predicted but
could not see.
Measured with real states, before this commit:
NEW script: 2 warnings (MemPalace#1377, #459)
OLD script: 1 warning (MemPalace#1377)
Both causes are the same defect from the other end. `head -1` decided
WHICH lines are read; this decides WHAT counts as a claim on a line.
#459 README.md:297 and FORK_CHANGELOG.md:356 are the heading "purge /
prune / mined share one open-and-refuse sequence", linking commit
`459efab`. There is no #459 on either line — `/459` matched inside
the COMMIT HASH, and "open-and-refuse" supplied a whole-word "open".
A right boundary does not help: `/459` is followed by `e`.
MemPalace#1377 FORK_CHANGELOG.md:81 was MY OWN changelog entry, quoting the
control sentence verbatim. The entry documenting the defect
reproduced it — the `self-quoting-retraction` shape from the #503
spec, which is how #511 went green and then warned again once its
own entry landed.
So, three rules now:
* `/pull/$n`, never a bare `/$n`. A commit hash is not a PR reference.
* A state word must appear in a CLAIM SHAPE — a parenthesised marker
"(OPEN)", or a copula "is/was/stays/remains/now [still] open". Checked
against all 13 cases in this repo: every real claim kept (#23 "is still
OPEN", #168 "stays open", MemPalace#665/MemPalace#1087 "(OPEN)", MemPalace#1094 "(open upstream"),
every prose case dropped ("open-and-refuse", "open the drawers",
"opencode", "openai-compat", "reopened").
* The entry for this change does not quote its own control sentence. It
states a MERGED claim for MemPalace#1377, which is what MemPalace#1377 is.
Result with real `gh` on the repo itself: both the base script and this one
report zero PR-state warnings. The base's cleanliness is incidental — its
`head -1` happens to land on a line without a claim, and moved there only
because #509/#512/this entry changed the changelog. This one is clean for a
reason.
shellcheck findings 4 -> 2 (both remaining are pre-existing warnings; both
former ERRORS are gone).
Tests: 5 more (state word without a claim; nebula's "open the drawers" with
the PR alone on the line, since the real one is spared only incidentally by
a second PR sharing it; a commit hash is not a PR reference; a /pull/ URL
still counts; a parenthesised marker is still a claim). 16 total, and two
more mutations verified with the target-exists assertion:
claim shape -> bare word -> 3 tests
/pull/N -> /N -> 2 tests
One test asserted something the check cannot do — a PR referenced only by
URL is never examined, because the number list is harvested from `#NNNN`
alone. Pre-existing and out of scope; the test now says so rather than
pretending to cover it.
Full suite 7448 passed, 82 skipped. check-docs passes on itself.
Part of #516
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Follow-up on the same PR, applying nebula's measurement from the issue
thread. The first pass fixed `head -1` and matched state words as whole
words; that was not enough, and I could prove it only after running the
check with REAL upstream states.
Two corrections to my own verification first, because they are why this
was nearly missed:
* My "no new false positives" run used a stub that returned a state for
ONE pr number and nothing for the rest, so every other PR was skipped.
"Clean" there proved nothing. With real `gh` the fix ADDED a warning.
* The control line nebula cited (FORK_CHANGELOG.md L246) is blank in this
tree — the measurement was taken on another branch. Found by content
instead: it is L358 here, and L356 is a worse case nebula predicted but
could not see.
Measured with real states, before this commit:
NEW script: 2 warnings (MemPalace#1377, #459)
OLD script: 1 warning (MemPalace#1377)
Both causes are the same defect from the other end. `head -1` decided
WHICH lines are read; this decides WHAT counts as a claim on a line.
#459 README.md:297 and FORK_CHANGELOG.md:356 are the heading "purge /
prune / mined share one open-and-refuse sequence", linking commit
`459efab`. There is no #459 on either line — `/459` matched inside
the COMMIT HASH, and "open-and-refuse" supplied a whole-word "open".
A right boundary does not help: `/459` is followed by `e`.
MemPalace#1377 FORK_CHANGELOG.md:81 was MY OWN changelog entry, quoting the
control sentence verbatim. The entry documenting the defect
reproduced it — the `self-quoting-retraction` shape from the #503
spec, which is how #511 went green and then warned again once its
own entry landed.
So, three rules now:
* `/pull/$n`, never a bare `/$n`. A commit hash is not a PR reference.
* A state word must appear in a CLAIM SHAPE — a parenthesised marker
"(OPEN)", or a copula "is/was/stays/remains/now [still] open". Checked
against all 13 cases in this repo: every real claim kept (#23 "is still
OPEN", #168 "stays open", MemPalace#665/MemPalace#1087 "(OPEN)", MemPalace#1094 "(open upstream"),
every prose case dropped ("open-and-refuse", "open the drawers",
"opencode", "openai-compat", "reopened").
* The entry for this change does not quote its own control sentence. It
states a MERGED claim for MemPalace#1377, which is what MemPalace#1377 is.
Result with real `gh` on the repo itself: both the base script and this one
report zero PR-state warnings. The base's cleanliness is incidental — its
`head -1` happens to land on a line without a claim, and moved there only
because #509/#512/this entry changed the changelog. This one is clean for a
reason.
shellcheck findings 4 -> 2 (both remaining are pre-existing warnings; both
former ERRORS are gone).
Tests: 5 more (state word without a claim; nebula's "open the drawers" with
the PR alone on the line, since the real one is spared only incidentally by
a second PR sharing it; a commit hash is not a PR reference; a /pull/ URL
still counts; a parenthesised marker is still a claim). 16 total, and two
more mutations verified with the target-exists assertion:
claim shape -> bare word -> 3 tests
/pull/N -> /N -> 2 tests
One test asserted something the check cannot do — a PR referenced only by
URL is never examined, because the number list is harvested from `#NNNN`
alone. Pre-existing and out of scope; the test now says so rather than
pretending to cover it.
Full suite 7448 passed, 82 skipped. check-docs passes on itself.
Part of #516
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) (#520) * fix(check-docs): examine every mention of a PR, not just the first Step 4 did `grep … | head -1` per document, so only the FIRST line mentioning a PR number contributed to that document's claimed state. The check answered "does the first mention agree?" rather than "do all mentions agree?", and a drifted claim appearing after a correct one was invisible. Reproduced on the real repo before fixing: appending PR MemPalace#1377 is still open upstream. to the end of README.md, with MemPalace#1377 MERGED upstream, left check-docs reporting "✓ all 245 PR references match upstream state". The control was confirmed reachable BEFORE its silence was trusted: the appended line is in the instrument's own match set (line 477 of 5 matches), while `head -1` selects line 30 — which mentions MemPalace#1377 and claims nothing. A control that is present but never looked at produces "did not fire" for the wrong reason, and that reads identically to "no drift". Three defects, now one scan: - Only the first line was read. Every matching line is now, with the multi-PR commentary skip applied per LINE rather than zeroing a whole document's claims. - No right boundary. The claim scan used (#$n|/$n), so `#45` matched `#452` and `/45` matched `/459efab`, while the commentary scan beside it used [^0-9] — the two loops could read different lines and reach a conclusion neither line supported. One scan, one regex, anchored on a non-digit or end of line. - State words matched as substrings. "opencode", "openai-compat" and "reopened" all contain "open" and were read as a claim of OPEN. Latent while one line per doc was examined; amplified the moment every line is. Measured differentially over the whole repo with every PR stubbed MERGED: 7 findings before, 7 after — and five different ones in each direction. removed (false positives): #45 read off a line about #452 #56 "OpenCode adapter smoke test" #463 "openai-compat embedding" MemPalace#1567 ".opencode/opencode.json" MemPalace#2062 v3.8.0 sync line found (never examined): #23 "PR #23 is still OPEN but" #168 "#168 itself stays open" MemPalace#665 "*Upstream:* [PR MemPalace#665] (OPEN)" MemPalace#1087 "(OPEN)" MemPalace#1094 "(open upstream, jp-authored)" The unchanged total is the trap: a reader checking whether the count moved would conclude nothing had. Also removes both shellcheck errors in the file (SC1087 — `$n[` read as array indexing) and adds none; the two remaining warnings are pre-existing. Known limit, asserted in a test rather than left implicit: when one clean line claims the true state and another claims a different one, drift cannot be distinguished from history, and the PR is skipped. MemPalace#1024 in FORK_CHANGELOG.md is exactly that shape — "pushed to the open MemPalace#1024 PR branch (squash-merged upstream)" alongside an authoritative "(MERGED)" — and is correct documentation of a MERGED PR. It is the only such pair in the repo, which is why flagging disagreement was rejected. Tests: 11 new in tests/test_check_docs_pr_state.py, driving the real script over a fixture tree with a stubbed `gh` (no network, no shared API quota). Four guards mutation-verified, each mutation asserting its target exists so a mutation that fails to apply reports loudly instead of as "nothing to guard": restore head -1 -> 3 tests remove the word boundary -> 2 remove the commentary skip -> 1 drop the right boundary -> 1 Three of those tests were not evidence when first written and were rebuilt: the harness sliced output between step headings while findings go to stderr (so every "no finding" assertion passed vacuously); the commentary test claimed a state the MERGED branch ignores; and the boundary test used a number the check never queried. Each now fails under the old behaviour. check-docs passes on itself. Full suite 7443 passed, 82 skipped. Part of #516 Fixes #516 * fix(check-docs): a state WORD is not a state CLAIM; /pull/N, not /N Follow-up on the same PR, applying nebula's measurement from the issue thread. The first pass fixed `head -1` and matched state words as whole words; that was not enough, and I could prove it only after running the check with REAL upstream states. Two corrections to my own verification first, because they are why this was nearly missed: * My "no new false positives" run used a stub that returned a state for ONE pr number and nothing for the rest, so every other PR was skipped. "Clean" there proved nothing. With real `gh` the fix ADDED a warning. * The control line nebula cited (FORK_CHANGELOG.md L246) is blank in this tree — the measurement was taken on another branch. Found by content instead: it is L358 here, and L356 is a worse case nebula predicted but could not see. Measured with real states, before this commit: NEW script: 2 warnings (MemPalace#1377, #459) OLD script: 1 warning (MemPalace#1377) Both causes are the same defect from the other end. `head -1` decided WHICH lines are read; this decides WHAT counts as a claim on a line. #459 README.md:297 and FORK_CHANGELOG.md:356 are the heading "purge / prune / mined share one open-and-refuse sequence", linking commit `459efab`. There is no #459 on either line — `/459` matched inside the COMMIT HASH, and "open-and-refuse" supplied a whole-word "open". A right boundary does not help: `/459` is followed by `e`. MemPalace#1377 FORK_CHANGELOG.md:81 was MY OWN changelog entry, quoting the control sentence verbatim. The entry documenting the defect reproduced it — the `self-quoting-retraction` shape from the #503 spec, which is how #511 went green and then warned again once its own entry landed. So, three rules now: * `/pull/$n`, never a bare `/$n`. A commit hash is not a PR reference. * A state word must appear in a CLAIM SHAPE — a parenthesised marker "(OPEN)", or a copula "is/was/stays/remains/now [still] open". Checked against all 13 cases in this repo: every real claim kept (#23 "is still OPEN", #168 "stays open", MemPalace#665/MemPalace#1087 "(OPEN)", MemPalace#1094 "(open upstream"), every prose case dropped ("open-and-refuse", "open the drawers", "opencode", "openai-compat", "reopened"). * The entry for this change does not quote its own control sentence. It states a MERGED claim for MemPalace#1377, which is what MemPalace#1377 is. Result with real `gh` on the repo itself: both the base script and this one report zero PR-state warnings. The base's cleanliness is incidental — its `head -1` happens to land on a line without a claim, and moved there only because #509/#512/this entry changed the changelog. This one is clean for a reason. shellcheck findings 4 -> 2 (both remaining are pre-existing warnings; both former ERRORS are gone). Tests: 5 more (state word without a claim; nebula's "open the drawers" with the PR alone on the line, since the real one is spared only incidentally by a second PR sharing it; a commit hash is not a PR reference; a /pull/ URL still counts; a parenthesised marker is still a claim). 16 total, and two more mutations verified with the target-exists assertion: claim shape -> bare word -> 3 tests /pull/N -> /N -> 2 tests One test asserted something the check cannot do — a PR referenced only by URL is never examined, because the number list is harvested from `#NNNN` alone. Pre-existing and out of scope; the test now says so rather than pretending to cover it. Full suite 7448 passed, 82 skipped. check-docs passes on itself. Part of #516 * docs(fork-changes): renumber to seq 157 after the #511/#522 rebase Rebased onto 4c6a8d0. `--next-seq` re-run after the final fetch says 157; taken from the tool rather than assumed. Generated artefacts re-rendered from main's side, never hand-merged. Part of #516
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Three issues, one defect seen at three layers: the transport threw away the status, so the renderers could not tell a refusal from an outage, so each call site invented its own answer. #518 — 401/403 are 64, 404 stays 2 ----------------------------------- `_call_daemon_rest` and `_patch_daemon_rest` returned None for 404, 401 and 403 alike. Measured on 7ed80f0 against a stub daemon, --json: verb closed 401 403 404 status 2 2 2 2 all "palace daemon stats 2 2 2 2 unreachable", no `code` wings 2 2 - 2 key in any payload A wrong PALACE_API_KEY was indistinguishable from an old daemon, and both were reported as an outage — sending the operator to check whether the daemon was running when the fix is one line of config. `doctor` was worse: it reported `unreachable @ …: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'`, leaking the AttributeError into the user-facing line. After, same probes: verb closed 401 403 404 status/stats/ 2 daemon_unreachable 64 auth_... 64 auth_... 2 daemon_un... wings/list/ cypher window/source 2 daemon_unavailable 64 auth_... 64 auth_... 2 route_missing 404 still returns None deliberately: six call sites read None as "fall back to MCP", and a missing route is unavailability FOR THAT VERB. The routing is centralised in `_fail_daemon` rather than left to each site's except order. AST over the eight `_call_daemon_rest` consumers: only five catch DaemonRequestError before DaemonError. Raising alone would have fixed those five and silently left `_fast_hits`, `cmd_status` and `cmd_doctor` at 2 — "fixed one of two paths, reads as success". #521 — option C, everywhere --------------------------- Every daemon-failure JSON now carries `error` (prose), `code` (branchable key), `source`, and `status` when an HTTP exchange produced it. `error` holds prose in every writer, so the 20+ readers that print `.error` are unaffected; `code` is additive. The issue names three writers. An AST scan finds 37 error-emitting `_emit_json` dict literals in 15 shapes; the two daemon conventions account for 11 of them (3 `{error,message}` + 8 `{error,source}`) — and none of those 11 is `_fail_daemon` itself, which builds its dict then `.update()`s and so is invisible to any literal scan despite having 31 call sites. A change covering the 11 and not `_fail_daemon` would have been cosmetic. `message` is kept on the window family as a duplicate of `error` for one release, DEPRECATED in the docstring and in the header contract: the readers #512 created read it. `_window_route_failed`'s 401/403 moves 2 -> 64. #512 chose 2 there deliberately — its docstring argues an auth failure must not carry the DEPLOY message — and that argument was about the MESSAGE, which is unchanged. Cited rather than absorbed. `_window_daemon_get` is NOT folded. The decision rule was pre-registered: fold only if lossless. It is not — the helper returns a result for every non-2xx (400/422/5xx included) while `_call_daemon_rest` raises, so folding means rewriting `_window_route_failed` from result-driven to exception-driven, not deleting a wrapper. #508 — main() propagates an exit code ------------------------------------- Does NOT reproduce on 7ed80f0: #509 fixed the symptom by switching the drain path to sys.exit. The dispatcher still discarded, so the trap was live for the next handler that returned a code. Not one line, and the obvious version is harmful. AST: exactly one dispatch handler returns non-None — `cmd_sync`, returning a SyncReport. Measured: `sys.exit(<non-int>)` exits 1 after printing repr() to stderr, so `sys.exit(dispatch[...](args))` would turn a SUCCESSFUL `mempalace sync` into a failure with the report on stderr. A mutation to that naive form kills three tests. `True` is an int, so the guard excludes bool too. Tests ----- 21 new across two files, plus 10 existing tests retargeted (every one of them a 401/403 assertion; no 404 test moved, which was the pre-registered invariant). Seven mutations, each asserting its target applied first: restore the 404/401/403 collapse -> 7 drop the centralised refusal routing -> 5 revert window 401/403 to 2 -> 2 drop `code` from _fail_daemon -> 1 drop #508 propagation -> 4 drop the bool guard -> 1 the naive sys.exit one-liner -> 3 Header contract updated: what decides 2 vs 64 on a 4xx is who could not proceed, not the status number, and the JSON shape is stated where the exit codes are. Full suite 7526 passed, 82 skipped. ruff check + format clean. Sighting for the drain: tests/test_chroma_collection_lock.py:: test_concurrent_writers_serialize failed once under full-suite load and passes 3/3 in isolation; my diff contains no chroma/lock/thread reference. Closes #518 Closes #521 Part of #508
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Three issues, one defect at three layers: **the transport discarded the HTTP status, so the renderers could not tell a refusal from an outage, so every call site invented its own answer.**
## The two composition pairs
**Pair 1 — producer/consumer at the transport.** `_call_daemon_rest` (producer) × its **8** assignment consumers, enumerated by AST. They handle `None` in **three** shapes, not one:
```
is None _fast_hits, cmd_list, cmd_graph, cmd_stats,
_gather_bulk_move_matches, cmd_status (6)
isinstance(x,dict) cmd_wings (1)
no guard at all cmd_doctor — data.get() raises AttributeError
into a blanket except and renders as an outage (1)
```
An `is None` scan finds **6 of 8**. `cmd_doctor` proves the issue without any code change: a 401 made it print `✗ daemon unreachable @ …: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'`.
**Pair 2 — writer/reader at the rendering layer.** `_fail_daemon` / `_exit_daemon_request_error` / `_window_route_failed` / `_fail_daemon_unavailable` (writers) × the `--json` callers that branch on the payload (readers). Both halves are executed together in `tests/test_cli_daemon_error_contract.py`.
## #518 — 401/403 are 64, 404 stays 2
Execution table, real binary, `--json`, stub daemon per status (base = `mempalace` at `7ed80f03` in a throwaway tree; head = this branch; `mempalace.__file__` printed for both arms first, because an editable install silently resolves `PYTHONPATH` to the main checkout):
| verb | closed port | 401 | 403 | 404 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| **base** — status / stats / wings / list / cypher / window / source | `2 (no code)` | `2 (no code)` | `2 (no code)` | `2 (no code)` |
| **head** — status / stats / wings / list | `2 daemon_unreachable` | **`64 auth_failed`** | **`64 auth_failed`** | `2 daemon_unreachable` |
| **head** — cypher | `2 daemon_unreachable` | **`64 auth_failed`** | **`64 read_only`** (deliberate: `/cypher`'s 403 is the read-only transaction, SQLSTATE 25006, not the credential) | `2 daemon_unreachable` |
| **head** — window / source | `2 daemon_unavailable` | **`64 auth_failed`** | **`64 auth_failed`** | `2 route_missing` |
Base is uniform: every status, every verb, exit 2, no branchable key. That is the defect — a wrong `PALACE_API_KEY` and an old daemon were the same event.
**404 still returns `None` deliberately.** Six call sites read `None` as "fall back to MCP", and a missing route is unavailability *for that verb*.
**The routing is centralised in `_fail_daemon`, not left to each site's `except` order.** Only 5 of the 8 consumers catch `DaemonRequestError` before `DaemonError`; raising alone would have fixed those five and silently left `_fast_hits`, `cmd_status` and `cmd_doctor` at 2 — the "fixed one of two paths, reads as success" shape.
`_window_route_failed`'s 401/403 moves 2 → 64. #512 chose 2 there **deliberately** — its docstring argues an auth failure must not carry the *deploy* message. That argument is about the message, which is unchanged; cited rather than absorbed.
## #521 — option C, applied everywhere
`{error: <prose>, code: <key>, source: "daemon", status?: int}`. `error` holds prose in **every** writer, so the 20+ readers that print `.error` are unaffected; `code` is additive. The window family keeps `message` as a duplicate for one release, deprecated in the docstring and the header contract.
**The population is not the three writers the issue names.** AST over `cli.py`: **37** error-emitting `_emit_json` dict literals in **15** shapes. The two daemon conventions account for **11** (3 × `{error,message}`, 8 × `{error,source}`) — and **none of those 11 is `_fail_daemon`**, which builds its dict then `.update()`s and is invisible to any literal scan despite **31** call sites. A change covering the 11 and not `_fail_daemon` would have been cosmetic. The 11 also mix *kinds*: `cmd_cypher`'s is `{"error": "missing required positional QUERY", "source": "cli"}`, a client-input error that must not acquire a daemon `code`.
**`_window_daemon_get` is not folded**, by a rule pre-registered before the outcome was visible: fold only if lossless. It is not — the helper returns a result for *every* non-2xx (400/422/5xx included) while `_call_daemon_rest` raises, so folding means rewriting `_window_route_failed` from result-driven to exception-driven, not deleting a wrapper. `test_a_transport_failure_exits_2` is **unmodified** (verified by AST body-compare against the base); the shape guard was updated to pin the union, which makes it strictly stronger — it now fails both on a fold that drops the key and on one that drops the deprecated `message`.
## #508 — rides along, but not as one line
**It does not reproduce on main.** #509 fixed the symptom by switching the drain path to `sys.exit`; measured with a *seeded* queue against a closed port, `pending drain` exits **1**. My first control used an empty queue and exited 0 for the wrong reason, which would have made "still 0" meaningless.
The dispatcher still discarded, leaving the trap live. **The obvious fix is harmful**: AST finds exactly one dispatch handler returning non-None — `cmd_sync`, returning a `SyncReport` — and `sys.exit(<non-int>)` exits **1** after printing `repr()` to stderr, so `sys.exit(dispatch[...](args))` would turn a *successful* `mempalace sync` into a failure with the report on stderr. A mutation to that naive form kills three tests. `True` is an `int`, so the guard excludes `bool` as well.
## Tests
**21 new** across two files, **10 existing retargeted** — every one a 401/403 assertion. **No 404 test moved**, which was the pre-registered invariant (`scratch/refuted-claims-provenance/lucid-518-521-prereg.md`, written before any fix code). The 404 assertion is unchanged; the combined test was split because two of its three codes now differ.
Seven mutations, each asserting its target string applied before the result counted:
| mutation | tests killed |
|---|---|
| restore the 404/401/403 collapse | 7 |
| drop the centralised refusal routing | 5 |
| revert window 401/403 to 2 | 2 |
| drop `code` from `_fail_daemon` | 1 |
| drop the #508 propagation | 4 |
| drop the bool guard | 1 |
| the naive `sys.exit` one-liner | 3 |
A closed `code` set is asserted from the source, so a new writer with an undocumented key fails rather than reaching a caller that cannot branch on it.
Header contract updated: on a 4xx, what decides 2 vs 64 is **who could not proceed**, not the status number — and the JSON shape is stated where the exit codes are.
Full suite **7543 passed, 82 skipped**. `ruff check` + `ruff format --check` clean. check-docs clean.
**Sighting for the drain:** `tests/test_chroma_collection_lock.py::test_concurrent_writers_serialize` failed once under full-suite load and passes 3/3 in isolation; this diff contains no chroma/lock/thread reference.
Closes #518
Closes #521
Part of #508
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Two related failures in
cli.py, both of the same shape: a command whose report disagreed with what actually happened. Neither crashed.Off
main@4ac6abf9. Two commits, split by issue.#498 —
replayperformed a write while its name promised a readmempalace replaytook no arguments, printed no description, and re-posted every request in~/.mempalace/pending/*.jsonlto the daemon as mine jobs. Reproduced 2026-09-17: a session reading it as "replay history" queued twelve mines against production.pending drainis the primary verb, and its help says it drains the pending mine queue.--yes. The default is a plan.That third point is the actual risk in this fix, and it is why
pending_queue.peek()exists.replayde-duplicates per file, skips unparseable lines, and drops legacy whole-directory requests without posting them. A preview that counted raw lines would promise twelve and post nine — the same defect the command was filed for, reintroduced by its own fix. Sopeekreproduces the drain's filter chain and is tested againstreplaydirectly:planned == posted, not "resembles".peekcannot be "replaywith a no-op poster", becausereplayclaims each file by renaming it before it reads a line — a dry run that is not dry.replaystays as a warning alias (a cron entry and scripts call it) and inherits the guard rather than routing around it.#499 — a 400 from the daemon was reported as the daemon being down
The daemon was up, answering, and already explaining itself:
Every 4xx shared a bucket with a refused connection, so the error was named for the layer that noticed rather than the layer that failed — and it sent the operator to check daemon health instead of their own argument. The fix is not a better message; it is to stop discarding the one that arrived.
DaemonRequestErrorsubclassesDaemonError, so existing handlers keep working and the newexceptclauses are purely additive. 404/401/403 still fall through toNone— a missing route on an older daemon is a fallback signal, not a user error. Exit 64 percli.py's own contract (#44), not 2 ("palace unavailable").Measured with the real binary against the live daemon:
exit=1·palace daemon unreachable at http://familiar:8085 — see mempalace status for diagnostics (daemon REST /list failed (400): Bad Request)exit=64·daemon rejected the request (400): room 'diary' is not in the canonical set (valid: architecture, decisions, discoveries, planning, problems, references, sessions)What this deliberately does not fix
diaryis a room that exists — 12,216 drawers in the2gwing alone, and 79,753 across eight non-canonical rooms (8.6% of 923,681) — and/listrefuses to show any of them.validate_room_or_raisechecks canonicality, and its own docstring says that check is there as typo protection for search. Applied to a list filter it makes real data unreachable.That is daemon-side. This PR only ensures the client relays the refusal instead of misattributing it; the daemon fix is raised separately so the two land on their own merits.
Also found, filed separately: #508
main()discards every handler's return value (dispatch[args.command](args)), soreturn 1never reached the shell — a fully failed drain printedfailed=1and exited 0. Reproduced againstorigin/mainwith the real binary. These paths nowsys.exit(...), which removes both live instances; the structural cause survives and is #508's.Verification
ruff checkandruff format --checkclean.--helpsmoke and a dispatch probe (a--helpsmoke alone is blind to a deleted dispatch entry),peekread-only,planned == posted.--yesguard → 6 tests fail, including "it posts nothing";background=True→ 2 fail, including the measured lock-starvation incident (mempalace replayandmine --daemonPOST /mine synchronously (nobackground), so a replay drains one request per lock gap #456);Closes #498
Closes #499
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New Features
pending drainto preview pending requests before posting.--yesis provided; previews show the exact items and count that will be processed.replaycommand remains available as a warning alias.Bug Fixes
Documentation