diff --git a/.github/workflows/publish_release_binaries.yml b/.github/workflows/publish_release_binaries.yml
index 227dca82b..0d08a786b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/publish_release_binaries.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/publish_release_binaries.yml
@@ -143,6 +143,35 @@ jobs:
--output-dir ./publish
--version ${{ github.ref_name }}
+ # ARM64 cross-compile verification: since ARM64 binaries are built on x64 runners,
+ # we cannot execute them. Instead, verify the build actually produced ARM64 ELF
+ # files (not x64) using the `file` command to detect architecture mismatch. This
+ # catches silent cross-compile failures. See CONTRIBUTING.md § Cross-Platform
+ # Publishing for context.
+ - name: Verify ARM64 binaries are actually ARM64 (not x64)
+ if: matrix.rid == 'linux-arm64'
+ shell: bash
+ run: |
+ set -euo pipefail
+ CLI="./publish/cli/netclaw"
+ DAEMON="./publish/daemon/netclawd"
+
+ for binary in "$CLI" "$DAEMON"; do
+ if [ ! -f "$binary" ]; then
+ echo "ERROR: Expected binary not found: $binary" >&2
+ exit 1
+ fi
+
+ # Check architecture with `file` command
+ file_output=$(file "$binary")
+ if ! echo "$file_output" | grep -q "ARM aarch64"; then
+ echo "ERROR: Binary $binary is not ARM64:" >&2
+ echo " $file_output" >&2
+ exit 1
+ fi
+ echo "✓ $binary is ARM64"
+ done
+
- name: Package archives (Unix)
if: runner.os != 'Windows'
run: |
diff --git a/.slopwatch/baseline.json b/.slopwatch/baseline.json
index 73ed51960..bb375ea27 100644
--- a/.slopwatch/baseline.json
+++ b/.slopwatch/baseline.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
{
"version": 1,
"createdAt": "2026-05-12T17:20:55.7365203+00:00",
- "updatedAt": "2026-06-10T19:44:08.3092383+00:00",
+ "updatedAt": "2026-07-08T22:05:54.9570245+00:00",
"description": "Initial baseline created by 'slopwatch init' on 2026-05-12 17:20:55 UTC",
"entries": [
{
@@ -31,24 +31,6 @@
"message": "Adding warnings to NoWarn: OPENAI001",
"baselinedAt": "2026-05-12T17:20:55.7420301+00:00"
},
- {
- "hash": "1a29ed65e4ed3efb",
- "ruleId": "SW004",
- "filePath": "src/Netclaw.Daemon.Tests/Services/ConfigWatcherServiceTests.cs",
- "lineNumber": 139,
- "codeSnippet": "Task.Delay(50, ct)",
- "message": "Test uses Task.Delay(50) which may indicate a timing-dependent test",
- "baselinedAt": "2026-05-12T17:20:55.7420338+00:00"
- },
- {
- "hash": "fcb5e461d7f70a7c",
- "ruleId": "SW004",
- "filePath": "src/Netclaw.Daemon.Tests/Services/ConfigWatcherServiceTests.cs",
- "lineNumber": 154,
- "codeSnippet": "Task.Delay(100, ct)",
- "message": "Test uses Task.Delay(100) which may indicate a timing-dependent test",
- "baselinedAt": "2026-05-12T17:20:55.7420454+00:00"
- },
{
"hash": "6ea5c8bbead4b59c",
"ruleId": "SW004",
@@ -174,6 +156,51 @@
"codeSnippet": "Fact(SkipUnless = nameof(IsPosix), Skip = \"POSIX-only — matcher routes through BashParser on POSIX\")",
"message": "Test method 'IsApproved_git_tag_grant_matches_both_version_forms' is disabled: POSIX-only — matcher routes through BashParser on POSIX",
"baselinedAt": "2026-06-10T19:44:08.3092375+00:00"
+ },
+ {
+ "hash": "687db840a8ff6f35",
+ "ruleId": "SW004",
+ "filePath": "src/Netclaw.Embeddings.Tests/BoundedConcurrencyGateTests.cs",
+ "lineNumber": 32,
+ "codeSnippet": "Task.Delay(20, ct)",
+ "message": "Test uses Task.Delay(20) which may indicate a timing-dependent test",
+ "baselinedAt": "2026-07-08T22:05:54.9567742+00:00"
+ },
+ {
+ "hash": "06c8b73e9ee96bc1",
+ "ruleId": "SW004",
+ "filePath": "src/Netclaw.Embeddings.Tests/BoundedConcurrencyGateTests.cs",
+ "lineNumber": 54,
+ "codeSnippet": "Enumerable.Range(0, 10)\n .Select(_ => gate.RunAsync(async ct =>\n {\n await Task.Delay(5, ct);\n return Interlocked.Increment(ref completed);\n }, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken))\n .ToArray()",
+ "message": "Test uses Task.Delay(?) which may indicate a timing-dependent test",
+ "baselinedAt": "2026-07-08T22:05:54.9568105+00:00"
+ },
+ {
+ "hash": "3d71bddf21a28fee",
+ "ruleId": "SW004",
+ "filePath": "src/Netclaw.Embeddings.Tests/BoundedConcurrencyGateTests.cs",
+ "lineNumber": 57,
+ "codeSnippet": "Task.Delay(5, ct)",
+ "message": "Test uses Task.Delay(5) which may indicate a timing-dependent test",
+ "baselinedAt": "2026-07-08T22:05:54.9568168+00:00"
+ },
+ {
+ "hash": "be802d7249cc2884",
+ "ruleId": "SW004",
+ "filePath": "src/Netclaw.Daemon.Tests/Services/EmbeddingWarmupHostedServiceTests.cs",
+ "lineNumber": 281,
+ "codeSnippet": "Task.Delay(25 * (i + 1))",
+ "message": "Test uses Task.Delay(25 * (i + 1)) which may indicate a timing-dependent test",
+ "baselinedAt": "2026-07-08T22:05:54.9568311+00:00"
+ },
+ {
+ "hash": "233d9d75b339f3f3",
+ "ruleId": "SW004",
+ "filePath": "src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Sessions/SQLiteMemoryRecallGateTests.cs",
+ "lineNumber": 456,
+ "codeSnippet": "Task.Delay(Timeout.InfiniteTimeSpan, ct)",
+ "message": "Test uses Task.Delay(Timeout.InfiniteTimeSpan) which may indicate a timing-dependent test",
+ "baselinedAt": "2026-07-08T22:05:54.957+00:00"
}
]
}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 72b5f2cbd..fed5d25f9 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ Prereleases ship to opt-in testers without touching any stable surface.
Use the **dotted** `beta.N` form (`beta.1`, `beta.2`, … `beta.10`) — never `beta1`.
A non-dotted identifier compares lexically (so `beta10` would rank below `beta2`), and
the release version gate rejects it.
-2. Add a `RELEASE_NOTES.md` section for `0.23.0-beta.1`.
+2. Add a `RELEASE_NOTES.md` section for `0.23.0-beta.1` (`## 0.23.0-beta.1 (YYYY-MM-DD)`).
3. Commit, then tag and push the full version (prefix `-` suffix):
```bash
git tag 0.23.0-beta.1 && git push origin 0.23.0-beta.1
diff --git a/Directory.Packages.props b/Directory.Packages.props
index 21ce54f1a..e8bf7b505 100644
--- a/Directory.Packages.props
+++ b/Directory.Packages.props
@@ -116,6 +116,19 @@
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/Netclaw.slnx b/Netclaw.slnx
index a7cf41e75..4b0dba2ec 100644
--- a/Netclaw.slnx
+++ b/Netclaw.slnx
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
+
+
diff --git a/docs/runbooks/memory-health-and-evals.md b/docs/runbooks/memory-health-and-evals.md
index f320e2ce2..744d02d44 100644
--- a/docs/runbooks/memory-health-and-evals.md
+++ b/docs/runbooks/memory-health-and-evals.md
@@ -113,6 +113,90 @@ PY
Then restart the daemon from local binaries before running evals.
+## Relevance Gate Health
+
+The relevance gate (`memory-relevance-gate`) is a post-floor cross-encoder
+stage: for each of the (≤3) candidates that already cleared the cosine
+floor, a small ONNX model (`ms-marco-minilm-l-6-v2`) scores `(query,
+candidate)` jointly and drops anything below the calibrated threshold.
+Activation follows `Memory.Embeddings.Enabled` unless
+`Memory.Recall.RelevanceGate.Enabled`/`Threshold` explicitly override it.
+
+1. Run offline diagnostics and review the `Memory Relevance Gate` check:
+
+```bash
+netclaw doctor
+```
+
+ - `PASS` + "disabled (follows Memory.Embeddings.Enabled...)" or "disabled
+ (Memory.Recall.RelevanceGate.Enabled is explicitly false)" — expected,
+ healthy state for any deployment that hasn't opted into embeddings, or
+ that opted out of the gate specifically. Not an error.
+ - `PASS` + "Relevance gate healthy: model '...' provisioned (threshold
+ ...)" — the model is present, hash-verified, and its manifest-carried
+ (or config-overridden) threshold is reported.
+ - `ERROR` + "missing or fails hash verification at ``" — the model
+ was never provisioned or the on-disk artifact doesn't match the pinned
+ SHA-256. Restart the daemon to re-provision if `AutoDownload` is
+ enabled; otherwise provision manually and restart.
+
+2. Check the degradation log line. When the gate is skipped for a turn
+ (model unavailable, its sub-budget exceeded — a 120 ms ceiling clamped to
+ whatever remains of the outer 300 ms `Memory.RecallTimeoutMs` envelope, so
+ a turn where earlier stages already ran long gets less than 120 ms; raised
+ from a fixed 60 ms by a 2026-07 production-canary finding of cold-start
+ timeouts — or recall running in lexical mode because there's no query
+ vector), the coordinator logs a rate-limited marker instead of silently
+ changing what gets injected:
+
+```
+memory_recall_gate_degraded session= reason= elapsedMs=
+```
+
+ `reason` is one of `gate_disabled_by_config`, `no_scorer_configured`,
+ `scorer_unavailable`, `sub_budget_exceeded`, or `score_failed:`.
+ `elapsedMs` is 0 for the first three (no scoring attempt ever started) and
+ the measured time spent before degrading for the latter two — useful for
+ telling a genuine cold-start/contention timeout apart from an instant
+ failure. Logged at `Warning` when the gate is enabled but a turn still
+ degraded (a genuine runtime condition worth noticing); logged at `Debug`
+ when the gate is off by config (the default, intentional state — not
+ spam). Rate-limited per-reason with the same cooldown as
+ `memory_recall_vector_degraded`, so expect at most one `Warning` line per
+ reason per cooldown window even under sustained degradation, not one per
+ turn.
+
+3. Read `gateScores`/`droppedByGate`/`gateElapsedMs` on `memory_retrieval_final`
+ when diagnosing over- or under-injection or quantifying gate latency
+ margin against the 120 ms ceiling:
+
+```bash
+grep memory_retrieval_final "$HOME/.netclaw/logs/daemon-$(date +%F).log" | tail -20
+```
+
+ - `droppedByGate` — how many of the floor's survivors the gate rejected
+ this turn. `0` on a turn that also injected nothing means the floor
+ itself already filtered everything (or the gate didn't run); a nonzero
+ `droppedByGate` with zero final `injectedCount` means the gate is the
+ reason nothing was injected, not the floor.
+ - `gateScores` — the cross-encoder score for every candidate the gate
+ scored (`id=score`, e.g. `doc-abc123=0.014`), regardless of whether it
+ survived. Compare against the active threshold (config override, or the
+ manifest's calibrated default reported by the doctor check) to see how
+ close a dropped candidate came, or how comfortably a survivor cleared
+ the bar. Absent `gateScores` (empty) on a hybrid-mode turn is itself a
+ signal the gate didn't run for that turn — check for a paired
+ `memory_recall_gate_degraded` line first before assuming a config
+ problem.
+ - Zero `gateScores` and zero `droppedByGate` on a turn is normal whenever
+ the floor itself already produced zero survivors — the gate never runs
+ against an empty candidate set. This is not a gate failure.
+
+See `openspec/changes/memory-relevance-gate/design.md` for the calibration
+procedure (threshold-sweep protocol, model shoot-out, and out-of-sample
+validation numbers) if the operating point ever needs to be re-verified
+against a different relevance model or corpus.
+
## Reproducible Memory Score (Non-LLM Judge)
Run the deterministic memory score script:
diff --git a/evals/run-evals.sh b/evals/run-evals.sh
index b445e0e71..94e011e35 100755
--- a/evals/run-evals.sh
+++ b/evals/run-evals.sh
@@ -1137,6 +1137,24 @@ assert_memory_recall_filters() {
'
}
+# memory-relevance-gate task 2.6: the automated analogue of the shoot-out's "zero-injection
+# accuracy" metric. Off-topic query against the seeded corpus (travel/color/project-alpha/
+# secret-token fixtures) must inject nothing.
+#
+# The eval container does not set Memory.Embeddings.Enabled (default false), so this case
+# exercises the pre-existing lexical-only floor, not the cross-encoder gate itself (that
+# requires an out-of-process download+provisioning step outside this harness's scope — see
+# openspec/changes/memory-relevance-gate/tasks.md task 2.6: "authoring the case is [required];
+# the eval RUN is not required here"). Asserting injectedCount=0 plus the unconditional
+# droppedByGate= field (present on every memory_retrieval_final line regardless of mode --
+# droppedByGate=0 accurately reports "nothing was dropped because nothing reached the gate")
+# keeps this case correct and meaningful in both today's lexical-only default and a future run
+# with embeddings enabled, without needing to touch the eval container's global config.
+assert_memory_relevance_gate_zero_injection() {
+ daemon_log_contains 'memory_retrieval_final.*injectedCount=0' \
+ && daemon_log_contains 'droppedByGate='
+}
+
# Category 4: Tool Discovery & Use
assert_tool_discovery() {
stdout_contains '\[tool:call\] search_tools'
@@ -1761,6 +1779,9 @@ run_all() {
run_case memory_recall_filters "candidate selection with score filtering" \
"Tell me about my travel preferences"
+ run_case memory_relevance_gate_zero_injection "off-topic query injects nothing, gate marker logged" \
+ "What is the boiling point of tungsten in degrees Celsius?"
+
end_category
# ── Category 4: Tool Discovery & Use ──
diff --git a/feeds/skills/.system/files/netclaw-memory/SKILL.md b/feeds/skills/.system/files/netclaw-memory/SKILL.md
index 9157c1008..123ccc33f 100644
--- a/feeds/skills/.system/files/netclaw-memory/SKILL.md
+++ b/feeds/skills/.system/files/netclaw-memory/SKILL.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name: netclaw-memory
description: "REQUIRED when the user asks what you remember, recall, or know from past conversations, previous sessions, cross-session memory, memory classes, or memory types. Also before using memory tools: find_memories, get_memories, store_memory, update_memory."
metadata:
author: netclaw
- version: "1.7.0"
+ version: "1.14.0"
---
# Netclaw Memory
@@ -33,8 +33,11 @@ Both gates must pass for memory to function.
- Recall is **selective by design**: candidates must clear a relevance floor
and a per-turn character budget, so **many turns inject nothing at all**.
An absent `[memory-recall]` block means nothing relevant cleared the bar —
- it is not a malfunction. Use `find_memories` when you believe relevant
- memories exist that automatic recall did not surface.
+ this is the normal, healthy outcome for most turns, not a malfunction and
+ not evidence that memory is broken. Never tell the user "my memory isn't
+ working" just because a turn had no `[memory-recall]` block. Use
+ `find_memories` when you believe relevant memories exist that automatic
+ recall did not surface.
- Recall is **policy-aware**: `audience` and `boundary` still govern what
can be surfaced for the current turn.
- Recall resolves once at turn start and the same bundle is reused during
@@ -45,10 +48,126 @@ Both gates must pass for memory to function.
- **Explicit tools** are a manual-control layer on top of automatic recall.
- Memory is SQLite-backed and cross-session only within the active
domain/boundary policy envelope.
+- **Duplicate detection is semantic when embeddings are enabled**
+ (`Memory.Embeddings.Enabled`): a near-duplicate proposal is nominated by
+ embedding similarity and adjudicated by the curator LLM (skip, update,
+ consolidate, or create) — similarity alone never merges or skips anything.
+ Merges are lossless-or-append: the curator writes a merged body that keeps
+ every source fact, and a deterministic guard falls back to appending the
+ proposal instead of overwriting when that check fails.
- Memory IDs shown by automatic recall, `find_memories`, and `get_memories`
(e.g. `doc-…` / `rec-…`) are stable, opaque handles. Copy them **verbatim**
into `get_memories` or `update_memory` — do not rewrite or reformat them.
+### Hybrid Recall (semantic + lexical)
+
+When `Memory.Embeddings.Enabled` is `true`, automatic recall is **hybrid**:
+candidates come from the union of full-text search (FTS5) and vector
+nearest-neighbor search, then a single fused ranking decides what (if
+anything) gets injected. When embeddings are disabled, recall is
+lexical-only — same candidate pool, no vector term or cosine floor.
+
+- **Fusion**: each candidate's score is `VectorWeight × cosine similarity +
+ LexicalWeight × squashed lexical score`, class-prior adjusted, then
+ **recency-decayed** (a half-life multiplier that favors fresher memories
+ among otherwise similar candidates but never zeroes out an old one on age
+ alone).
+- **Query prefix is automatic, per-model**: the turn query is embedded using
+ whatever retrieval-query encoding the active embedding model documents —
+ for the shipped default `snowflake-arctic-embed-m-int8` (and the
+ allowlisted fp32 `snowflake-arctic-embed-m` it's quantized from), that
+ means a fixed instruction string is prepended before the query text. This
+ is a property of the model, not something you configure; document-side
+ embeddings (stored memories) are never prefixed, so this never requires
+ re-embedding existing content.
+- **Absolute floor**: independent of the fused score, any candidate whose raw
+ cosine similarity falls below the effective `MinCosineSimilarity` is
+ dropped before ranking. If nothing clears the floor, nothing is injected —
+ this is a correct, healthy outcome, not degraded recall. See the
+ zero-injection note above: don't editorialize about memory being broken
+ when this happens.
+- **The floor follows the active model's manifest by default.**
+ `Memory.Recall.MinCosineSimilarity` (nullable) is `null` unless an operator
+ explicitly overrides it — when `null`, the effective floor is whichever
+ calibration is pinned to the currently active embedding model (0.24 for
+ the shipped default `snowflake-arctic-embed-m-int8` prefixed encoding;
+ also 0.24 for the allowlisted fp32 `snowflake-arctic-embed-m` prefixed
+ encoding, calibrated independently — int8 measured as a strict
+ retrieval-quality improvement over fp32 on the same gold sets, not a
+ size/latency tradeoff). **The numeric
+ meaning of this value is model- and encoding-specific**: cosine
+ distributions shift materially between models, and even for the same
+ model between a prefixed and unprefixed encoding — an old value copied
+ from a different model/encoding combination can silently break recall
+ (measured: F0.5 = 0.0 when the pre-prefix 0.68 floor was applied to
+ prefixed queries). Only set an explicit override after re-running the
+ calibration-verification procedure against the model and encoding actually
+ active. `Memory.Recall.VectorWeight` defaults 0.7, `LexicalWeight` 0.3,
+ `RecencyHalfLifeDays` 30.
+- **Degradation is explicit and logged, not silent**: a turn whose
+ query-embedding step misses its latency sub-budget (or has no embedder
+ available) falls back to lexical-only scoring for that turn and logs
+ `memory_recall_vector_degraded`. A model with no manifest-carried
+ retrieval calibration and no explicit `MinCosineSimilarity` override
+ degrades the same way, with reason `missing_calibration` — this is
+ expected for a newly-added or not-yet-calibrated model variant, not a
+ bug. A candidate with no embedding row for the current model degrades to
+ lexical-only scoring for that candidate alone (rather than being excluded)
+ and logs `memory_recall_coverage_gap`. All of these are self-healing or
+ intentional, not persistent failures — see Diagnostics below.
+- **Backfilling an existing corpus**: enabling `Memory.Embeddings.Enabled`
+ on a deployment that already has memories does not retroactively embed
+ them. Until they're embedded, recall for those documents degrades to
+ lexical scoring and `memory_recall_coverage_gap` keeps firing. Operators
+ should run `netclaw memory backfill-embeddings` right after turning
+ embeddings on so the gap closes immediately instead of waiting for
+ embed-on-write to catch up opportunistically.
+- **Upgrading onto a new default model id (e.g. the fp32→int8 default
+ flip)**: an existing install with vectors stored under the previous
+ `Memory.Embeddings.ModelId` self-heals automatically — vector coverage,
+ the curation nominator, and hybrid recall are all scoped to the *current*
+ model id, so the daemon's startup gap-repair sweep sees every document as
+ missing a current-model embedding and re-embeds the whole corpus under the
+ new id with no operator action required. The old model's vectors are never
+ deleted, just no longer read. Until gap repair finishes, recall degrades
+ to lexical-only (same self-healing, logged degradation as any other
+ coverage gap above), and `netclaw doctor` surfaces the interim
+ mixed-model state as a warning recommending `netclaw memory
+ backfill-embeddings --force` to force it immediately instead of waiting.
+
+### Relevance Gate (cross-encoder)
+
+The cosine floor above answers "is this candidate on-topic?" — it does not
+answer "does this candidate actually help answer the question?" A second
+stage, the **relevance gate**, runs after the floor for exactly this reason:
+a tiny cross-encoder (`ms-marco-minilm-l-6-v2`) jointly scores `(query,
+candidate)` for each of the (≤3) floor survivors and drops anything below
+its calibrated threshold.
+
+- **Activation follows `Memory.Embeddings.Enabled`** — one mental switch, no
+ second thing to discover. `Memory.Recall.RelevanceGate.Enabled` (nullable)
+ is an explicit override for an operator who wants embeddings for
+ dedup/hybrid-recall but not the extra per-turn cross-encoder latency;
+ `Memory.Recall.RelevanceGate.Threshold` (nullable) is an explicit override
+ of the manifest's calibrated operating point. Leave both `null` unless you
+ have a specific reason to diverge — the manifest-carried default is what
+ was validated out-of-sample.
+- **Only ever runs in hybrid mode**, on the floor's own survivors — it never
+ sees a wider candidate pool and never runs when recall has already
+ degraded to lexical-only.
+- **Zero survivors after the gate is a healthy outcome**, identical in kind
+ to zero survivors at the floor: the `[memory-recall]` block is omitted
+ entirely, not emitted empty. Do not treat an absent recall block as
+ evidence the gate (or memory generally) is broken — see the zero-injection
+ note above.
+- **Degradation is explicit and logged, not silent**: when the relevance
+ model is unavailable, its sub-budget is exceeded, or recall is running in
+ lexical mode, the gate step is skipped and the floor's own result is
+ injected unfiltered — the exact pre-gate behavior. This fires
+ `memory_recall_gate_degraded` (rate-limited, same cooldown pattern as
+ `memory_recall_vector_degraded`). A degraded gate never silently changes
+ what gets injected without this marker.
+
## When to Use Explicit Tools
### `find_memories` + `get_memories`
@@ -143,16 +262,55 @@ When memory behavior looks wrong:
Useful log events:
-**Recall pipeline** (grep for `memory_retrieval`):
+**Recall pipeline** (grep for `memory_retrieval` / `memory_recall`):
- `memory_retrieval_request_plan` — query tokenization, facets, soft scopes, anchor hints
- `memory_retrieval_candidate_selection` — all candidates with selector scores
-- `memory_retrieval_final` — floor filtering results, final injected items
+- `memory_retrieval_final` — floor filtering results, final injected items; carries
+ `appliedFloor` and `floorSource` (`manifest` or `override`) so a floor mismatch is
+ diagnosable without reading config; also carries `gateScores` (the cross-encoder score for
+ every candidate the relevance gate scored) and `droppedByGate` (count the gate dropped) when
+ the gate ran
- `turn_memory_recall` — summary event with item count and duration
+- `memory_recall_vector_degraded` — turn fell back to lexical-only recall (embedder
+ unavailable, no vector index, or the query-embedding sub-budget was exceeded)
+- `memory_recall_coverage_gap` — one or more candidates had no embedding row for the
+ current model; they degrade to lexical scoring rather than being excluded, and the
+ gap self-heals via embed-on-write plus `netclaw memory backfill-embeddings`
+- `memory_recall_gate_degraded` — the relevance gate was skipped for this turn (model
+ unavailable, sub-budget exceeded, or recall in lexical mode); the floor's own result was
+ injected unfiltered
**Formation pipeline** (grep for `memory_observation`):
- `memory_observation_sidecar_completed`
- `memory_observation_gate_result`
+### Embeddings
+
+Embeddings are provisioned at daemon start when `Memory.Embeddings.Enabled` is
+`true` (default `false` for now). When unavailable:
+- Log: `memory_embedding_unavailable` (embedder) or `memory_relevance_gate_unavailable`
+ (relevance/cross-encoder model)
+- Daemon status shows: `embeddings: degraded`
+- Lexical recall continues to work normally
+- An operator alert (`memory.embedding_model.unavailable` /
+ `memory.relevance_model.unavailable`, pushed via the same notification sink as
+ `provider.unreachable`/`reminder.execution.failed`) fires once per model per
+ daemon run, naming the model, the failure reason, and the consequence (lexical-only
+ recall/dedup, or an unfiltered relevance gate) — this is the push-based signal;
+ `netclaw doctor`/`netclaw status` remain the pull-based ones
+
+`netclaw doctor`'s Memory Embeddings check reports whether the active model
+has a query prefix (`queryPrefix=True/False`) and the effective retrieval
+floor plus its source (`floor=0.240 (source=manifest)`, or `floor=none ...`
+when the active model carries no retrieval calibration and no override is
+configured) — check this first when recall quality looks off after a model
+or config change.
+
+To repopulate existing memory vectors after enabling embeddings:
+```
+netclaw memory backfill-embeddings [--force]
+```
+
## Eval Gate
Before rollout, run the redesigned provider-independent eval suites first,
diff --git a/feeds/skills/.system/files/netclaw-operations/SKILL.md b/feeds/skills/.system/files/netclaw-operations/SKILL.md
index c67a87120..e7f6422ea 100644
--- a/feeds/skills/.system/files/netclaw-operations/SKILL.md
+++ b/feeds/skills/.system/files/netclaw-operations/SKILL.md
@@ -422,7 +422,9 @@ Add or switch model providers (including OAuth login) and configure search backe
## Diagnostics, Kill Switches & Self-Maintenance
When something is broken, start with `netclaw status`, then `netclaw doctor`. Feature
-kill switches and self-update/health are covered in the reference. Full guidance:
+kill switches and self-update/health are covered in the reference. Memory embeddings
+can be backfilled with `netclaw memory backfill-embeddings [--force]`; doctor checks
+memory embedding availability. Full guidance:
`skill_read_resource('netclaw-operations', 'references/diagnostics.md')`.
## Identity
diff --git a/feeds/skills/.system/files/netclaw-operations/references/diagnostics.md b/feeds/skills/.system/files/netclaw-operations/references/diagnostics.md
index 4439d4c74..cca166e3c 100644
--- a/feeds/skills/.system/files/netclaw-operations/references/diagnostics.md
+++ b/feeds/skills/.system/files/netclaw-operations/references/diagnostics.md
@@ -28,8 +28,10 @@ Log split — one stream, partitioned locally by session:
id — nothing is duplicated locally.
- `daemon.log` holds only sessionless, daemon-wide lines: startup/config, session
start/stop, and operational **alerts** (e.g. the `provider.unreachable` /
- `provider.failover` alert raised when an inference provider goes down — surfaced
- here, and to webhooks, by the notification sink). Note the *per-call* failover/retry
+ `provider.failover` alert raised when an inference provider goes down, or
+ `memory.embedding_model.unavailable` / `memory.relevance_model.unavailable` when a
+ memory ONNX model fails to provision or load — surfaced here, and to webhooks, by
+ the notification sink). Note the *per-call* failover/retry
log lines emitted while serving a specific session carry that session's id, so they
partition into its `session.log`; the daemon-wide outage signal is the alert in
`daemon.log`. Rolled daily, capped at 10 MB per file.
@@ -75,6 +77,7 @@ debugging a daemon-wide problem → read `daemon.log`.
| No LLM responses | `netclaw doctor`; verify provider credentials |
| Missing tools | `netclaw mcp list`; check MCP connection state |
| Memory recall degraded | `netclaw status` memory section |
+| Memory embedding/relevance model unavailable | Fires a `memory.embedding_model.unavailable` / `memory.relevance_model.unavailable` operational alert (once per model per daemon run) naming the model, failure reason, and consequence when `Memory.Embeddings.Enabled=true` and either ONNX model fails to provision or load; see `netclaw-memory`'s Embeddings section and `netclaw doctor`'s Memory Embeddings / Memory Relevance Gate checks |
| Daemon won't start | crash logs at `/logs/crash-*.log` (`NETCLAW_HOME` defaults to `~/.netclaw`) |
| Docker daemon cannot create `/home/netclaw/.netclaw/*` | Official image entrypoint repairs writable bind mounts to UID/GID `1654:1654`; if bypassed or read-only, run `sudo chown -R 1654:1654 ` or use a Docker named volume |
| Discord/Slack channel offline | `netclaw status` shows the channel `disconnected` with a reason. Discord may also report `degraded` when Discord.Net says the socket is connected but the gateway is not ready, such as after a resumed session that Netclaw is replacing with a clean reconnect. A misconfigured channel (bad token, missing Discord Message Content intent) degrades only that channel — the daemon keeps running and other channels are unaffected. A transient network failure retries automatically; a config/permission failure stays offline until the operator fixes the config and restarts the daemon. |
diff --git a/openspec/changes/memory-core-redesign/design.md b/openspec/changes/memory-core-redesign/design.md
index 86b14695f..5aaa08e2b 100644
--- a/openspec/changes/memory-core-redesign/design.md
+++ b/openspec/changes/memory-core-redesign/design.md
@@ -91,9 +91,10 @@ daemon start when `AutoDownload=true` (atomic temp+rename download, hash
verify, then one warm-up inference), or the operator runs
`netclaw memory backfill-embeddings`. The ~90–140 MB artifact is never an
embedded resource (would bloat every RID publish). Default model:
-snowflake-arctic-embed 137M int8 (May-ratified; mxbai-embed-large 335M is the
-allowlisted fallback). Post-PoC decision deferred: mirroring artifacts into
-the existing R2 feeds channel vs pinned upstream URLs.
+snowflake-arctic-embed-m (~110M params, fp32 ONNX, pinned by hash — int8 is a
+future optimization, not what Stage A shipped; May-ratified), mxbai-embed-large
+335M is the allowlisted fallback. Post-PoC decision deferred: mirroring
+artifacts into the existing R2 feeds channel vs pinned upstream URLs.
### D3. Vector storage: separate `memory_embeddings` table, owned by the store
@@ -163,20 +164,96 @@ deduplicated, **all candidates passing the identical policy gates**
correctness requirement with its own scenario. Scoring = weighted fusion
(`VectorWeight` 0.7 × cosine + `LexicalWeight` 0.3 × squashed selector score
+ dampened class prior), then an **absolute floor**: `MinCosineSimilarity`
-(default 0.55, calibrated against the real-traffic gold set
-`gold-prod-2026-07`). Nothing above the floor → inject nothing, and the
-volatile `[memory-recall]` block is omitted entirely (zero tokens). Recency
-decay (`RecencyHalfLifeDays`, floor-bounded multiplier) breaks ties toward
-fresh knowledge. The quick-win char budget and `AutoRecallMaxItems` remain
+(default **0.68**, calibrated 2026-07-05 against the real-traffic gold set
+`gold-prod-2026-07` — calibration summary below). Nothing above the floor →
+inject nothing, and the volatile `[memory-recall]` block is omitted entirely
+(zero tokens). The floor applies only to a candidate the vector index
+actually holds an embedding for; a candidate with no embedding row at all
+(a coverage gap — not yet backfilled, or written before embeddings were
+enabled) has no cosine for the floor to gate, so it degrades to lexical
+scoring instead (its cosine term is 0, ranked purely on the fused
+lexical/class-prior score) with a rate-limited `memory_recall_coverage_gap`
+warning — honoring the Migration Plan's "both paths degrade loudly to
+lexical when coverage is incomplete rather than misbehaving" rather than
+blacking out recall for an un-backfilled corpus while the embedder is
+otherwise healthy. Coverage self-heals via embed-on-write (new/updated
+documents) plus gap repair (backfilling pre-existing ones), so the warning
+is expected to fall off after both complete. Recency decay
+(`RecencyHalfLifeDays`, floor-bounded multiplier) breaks ties toward fresh
+knowledge. The quick-win char budget and `AutoRecallMaxItems` remain
the outer bounds.
*Alternative considered*: RRF fusion — rejected: rank-only fusion always
admits the top item even when nothing is relevant; the zero-injection
-behavior requires an absolute score. *Latency risk is explicit*: Ollama
-measurements ran far above the 10–50 ms/query assumption; the ONNX int8
-short-query latency MUST be measured before this slice ships (mitigations:
-raise `RecallTimeoutMs`, pre-warmed session, or skip-vector-under-pressure —
-all loud, none silent).
+behavior requires an absolute score. *Latency measured, not assumed*: Ollama
+measurements ran far above the 10–50 ms/query assumption, and the in-process
+ONNX fp32 measurement (Slice 2 task 2.13; full numbers in Open Questions)
+shows the same problem persists — p95 ≈ 315 ms on the i9-9900K reference box,
+~2× over the 150 ms sub-budget, because the embedder pads every input to a
+fixed 512 tokens regardless of actual length.
+
+**Mitigation, measured (`tools/embed-latency-bench` dynamic-length
+extension)**: the ONNX graph's sequence axis is symbolic
+(`input_ids`/`attention_mask`/`token_type_ids` all declare
+`[batch_size, sequence_length]`, no fixed shape), so padding to the actual
+tokenized length (rounded up to a multiple of 8) instead of a fixed 512 is a
+drop-in change — no re-export needed. On the same reference box: short-query
+p50 **19.0 ms**, p95 **20.9 ms** (was p50 281.9 ms / p95 310.5 ms fixed-512 —
+~15× faster, ~7× under the 150 ms sub-budget); medium (~178 tok) p50
+**84.1 ms** (was 281.7 ms); doc-length (~442 tok) p50 **235.5 ms** (was
+280.3 ms — smaller gain because 442 tokens is already close to 512).
+Correctness parity across 10 fixed sentences (short queries + longer bank
+sentences), fixed-512 vs dynamic-length, cosine similarity: **1.000000 on
+every sentence** (min = mean = 1.000000) — the attention mask fully absorbs
+the padding difference, so this is a pure performance change with no
+retrieval-quality risk. **Decision: Slice 4 adopts dynamic sequence length
+(bucket-of-8 rounding) as the query-embedding mitigation**, not int8
+quantization and not a relaxed budget — the 150 ms sub-budget holds with
+large headroom once padding is length-aware.
+
+**Floor calibration, measured (2026-07-05, `floor_calibration.py`, task
+4.6)**: swept `MinCosineSimilarity` from 0.30 to 0.75 (step 0.01) over the
+same 1,216-doc production snapshot (2026-07-03) and the 93-query
+`gold-prod-2026-07` gold set (33 positive / 60 zero-relevant queries), using
+the fp32 ONNX production-faithful embedder replica and the cached doc/query
+vectors already validated for the quantization eval. LOAD DECISION = inject
+any of the top-3-by-cosine docs that clear the floor; objective = macro F0.5
+against `relevantDocIds`.
+
+| model | optimal τ | F0.5 @ optimum | F0.5 @ 0.55 (old default) | zero-injection acc. @ optimum | plateau shape |
+|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---|
+| fp32 `snowflake-arctic-embed-m` (**shipped**) | **0.68** | 0.141 | 0.106 | 13.3% (8/60) | moderate, symmetric — robust to ±0.01 drift, ~29% relative F0.5 drop by ±0.03 |
+| uint8 `snowflake-arctic-embed-m-int8` (not shipped, D2) | 0.67 | 0.153 | 0.106 | 16.7% (10/60) | asymmetric knife-edge — flat below the optimum, +0.01 above it costs 35% relative F0.5 |
+
+Production ships fp32 (D2), so **0.68** is the shipped default: +33%
+relative F0.5 over the 0.55 placeholder, while mean injected count *drops*
+(3.00 → 2.53 — fewer, more pertinent items). uint8's optimum sitting 0.01
+lower matches the compression shift already measured for
+`NominatorSimilarityThreshold` (D2/D4); it remains informational only, since
+int8 is not shipped.
+
+**Caveat that must not be dropped**: even at the F0.5 optimum, **83–87% of
+genuinely nothing-relevant `gold-prod-2026-07` queries still get something
+injected** (zero-injection accuracy tops out at 13.3–16.7%). Pushing the
+floor further right buys more zero-accuracy but costs recall steeply on the
+35% of queries where something is relevant (a property of this corpus's
+embedding geometry, not a bug in the calibration). An absolute cosine floor
+alone cannot close the zero-injection gap within the F0.5-preserving range —
+that residual is tracked as the separate `memory-relevance-gate` change, not
+solved here.
+
+**Superseded by `memory-query-prefix` (2026-07-08):** the 0.68 figure above
+was measured with the query embedded RAW — `snowflake-arctic-embed-m`'s
+documented retrieval-query prefix (`Represent this sentence for searching
+relevant passages: `) was never applied. That is a no-prefix historical
+record, kept here for the archive, not the calibration of record. Applying
+the prefix compresses the model's cosine distribution downward (optimal τ
+0.68 → 0.24) and lifts F0.5 at the optimum from 0.141 to 0.239 (+69%
+relative) — see `openspec/changes/memory-query-prefix/design.md` D4 for the
+full prefixed sweep and the atomic prefix+floor recalibration rationale.
+`MemoryRecallConfig.MinCosineSimilarity` no longer defaults to 0.68; it
+defaults to null and follows the active model's manifest-carried
+calibration (0.24 for the shipped prefixed encoding).
### D7. Taxonomy rebalance: recall modes mean what they say
@@ -247,10 +324,17 @@ compatibility; only dead *behavior* is deleted.
- [Model download unavailable offline at first run] → loud degraded mode:
doctor Error, daemon status `embeddings: degraded`, rate-limited logs;
lexical recall keeps serving. Never silent.
-- [Query-embedding latency blows the 300 ms recall budget on CPU] → measured
- gate before Slice 4 ships; warmup inference at start; per-turn vector
- sub-budget with logged lexical fallback; `RecallTimeoutMs` already
- operator-tunable.
+- [Query-embedding latency blows the 300 ms recall budget on CPU] →
+ **confirmed with fixed-512 padding, then resolved by measurement** (Slice 2
+ task 2.13: p95 ≈ 315 ms, ~2× over the 150 ms sub-budget on the reference
+ box). The dynamic-sequence-length experiment (see D6 and Open Questions)
+ confirmed the ONNX graph's sequence axis is symbolic (not a fixed shape)
+ and measured short-query p95 at 20.9 ms once padding matches actual token
+ length — ~7× under budget, with 1.000000 cosine parity against fixed-512
+ across 10 test sentences. Slice 4 ships dynamic-length padding
+ (bucket-of-8) as the mitigation; warmup inference at start and
+ `RecallTimeoutMs` remain in place as defense-in-depth, not as the primary
+ fix.
- [LLM merge synthesis loses information] → MergeGuard token-retention check
+ structural-append fallback; consolidation applies only via human-ratified
plan files with a backup taken first.
@@ -288,10 +372,69 @@ compatibility; only dead *behavior* is deleted.
## Open Questions
-- ONNX int8 query-embedding latency on reference hardware (measure in Slice 2;
- gates Slice 4's sub-budget design).
-- Final `MinCosineSimilarity` default (calibrate against `gold-prod-2026-07`
- during Slice 4; 0.55 is the working hypothesis).
+- ~~ONNX int8 query-embedding latency on reference hardware (measure in
+ Slice 2; gates Slice 4's sub-budget design)~~ **MEASURED (Slice 2 task
+ 2.13, `tools/embed-latency-bench`, batch=1, 200 timed iterations/corpus
+ after 20 warmups)**. Production path is fp32, not int8 (int8 remains a
+ deferred D2 optimization). Reference box: i9-9900K, 8 logical cores,
+ contended condition (load avg 2.0–3.6, ~11/15 GiB RAM in use, live daemon
+ running):
+
+ | corpus | tokens (mean) | p50 | p95 |
+ |------------------------------|---------------|---------|--------|
+ | short query | 13.8 | 281 ms | 315 ms |
+ | medium (~180 tok) | 178.2 | 274 ms | 298 ms |
+ | doc-length (~440 tok) | 442.1 | 275 ms | 294 ms |
+ | short, concurrency=2 | 13.8 | 274 ms | 291 ms |
+ | cold load (model load + 1st embed) | — | 1069 ms | — |
+
+ All three corpora cost nearly the same regardless of length, because
+ `OnnxMemoryEmbedder` always runs a fixed 512-token forward pass (no
+ length-based truncation) — the fp32 matmul, not tokenization, dominates.
+ Concurrency=2 gave no throughput benefit on this contended box (two
+ parallel 100-call loops took as long in aggregate as one sequential
+ 200-call stream). **Verdict: the 150 ms query-embedding sub-budget does
+ not hold on this hardware — p95 is ~2.1× over budget (margin ≈ −165 ms)**;
+ the highest-leverage unexplored mitigation is a query-specific max-length
+ (e.g. 64 tokens, not int8 quantization) before Slice 4 ships.
+- ~~Does dynamic (query-specific) sequence length actually work on this ONNX
+ graph, and is it a drop-in change?~~ **MEASURED AND RESOLVED** (same
+ `tools/embed-latency-bench`, dynamic-length extension, same box, same
+ batch=1/200-iteration/20-warmup protocol). Step 1: `InferenceSession
+ .InputMetadata` shows all three inputs (`input_ids`, `attention_mask`,
+ `token_type_ids`) declare shape `[batch_size, sequence_length]` — both
+ dimensions symbolic, not fixed — so the graph accepts any sequence length;
+ no re-export required. Step 2: padding each input to its actual tokenized
+ length (rounded up to a multiple of 8) instead of fixed 512:
+
+ | corpus | tokens (mean) | fixed-512 p50 | fixed-512 p95 | dynamic-len p50 | dynamic-len p95 |
+ |------------------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|------------------|------------------|
+ | short query | 13.8 | 281.9 ms | 310.5 ms | **19.0 ms** | **20.9 ms** |
+ | medium (~178 tok) | 178.2 | 281.7 ms | 312.2 ms | **84.1 ms** | **93.3 ms** |
+ | doc-length (~442 tok) | 442.1 | 280.3 ms | 304.6 ms | **235.5 ms** | **250.1 ms** |
+
+ Step 3, correctness (not just speed): 10 fixed sentences (5 short queries +
+ 5 longer bank sentences), embedded both ways, cosine similarity fixed-512
+ vs dynamic-length — **1.000000 on all 10 (min = mean = 1.000000)**: the
+ attention mask fully accounts for the padding difference, so this is a
+ correctness-neutral, pure-performance change. Contention context: load
+ average 1.40/1.44/2.36 before the ~6-minute run, 4.76/3.63/3.08 after (the
+ run's own CPU load, not external contention). **Verdict: dynamic sequence
+ length is adopted as the Slice 4 mitigation** — short-query p95 lands at
+ ~14% of the 150 ms sub-budget (huge margin), medium and doc-length both
+ drop meaningfully too. Int8 quantization and relaxing the sub-budget are no
+ longer necessary; both remain available as future levers if traffic shifts
+ toward longer queries.
+- ~~Final `MinCosineSimilarity` default (calibrate against
+ `gold-prod-2026-07` during Slice 4; 0.55 is the working hypothesis)~~
+ **MEASURED (Slice 4 task 4.6, `floor_calibration.py`, 2026-07-05)**: fp32
+ optimum is **0.68** (F0.5 0.141 vs 0.106 at 0.55; zero-injection accuracy
+ 13.3%, up from 0%; moderate, symmetric plateau, robust to ±0.01 drift).
+ Production ships fp32 (D2), so 0.68 is the shipped default — full
+ calibration summary in D6. uint8's optimum (0.67, knife-edge above the
+ peak) stays informational until int8 ships. The residual 83–87%
+ zero-injection miss rate at the optimum is not solved by the floor alone;
+ tracked under the separate `memory-relevance-gate` change.
- Whether the R2 feeds channel should mirror model artifacts (post-PoC
operational decision; allowlist design is unaffected).
- Trace auto-recall weighting while fresh (small prior vs durable-fact parity)
diff --git a/openspec/changes/memory-core-redesign/tasks.md b/openspec/changes/memory-core-redesign/tasks.md
index a5d6f7281..81dc650c1 100644
--- a/openspec/changes/memory-core-redesign/tasks.md
+++ b/openspec/changes/memory-core-redesign/tasks.md
@@ -12,43 +12,43 @@ constitution gates (tests, evals where mapped, schema/skill sync, slopwatch).
## 2. Embedding foundation
-- [ ] 2.1 Create `src/Netclaw.Embeddings` project (Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime CPU, FastBertTokenizer, System.Numerics.Tensors) and `IMemoryEmbedder` seam in `Netclaw.Actors/Memory`
-- [ ] 2.2 Implement `OnnxMemoryEmbedder` (single InferenceSession, bounded intra-op threads, concurrency semaphore) + `UnavailableMemoryEmbedder`
-- [ ] 2.3 Implement `EmbeddingModelProvisioner`: pinned allowlist (id → URL, size, SHA-256), atomic download, hash verification, rejection of unknown ids
-- [ ] 2.4 Add `memory_embeddings` table + `UpsertEmbeddingAsync`/`FindNearestByEmbeddingAsync`/coverage queries to `SQLiteMemoryStore.InitializeAsync` (idempotent DDL)
-- [ ] 2.5 Implement `MemoryContentHasher` (normalized title+body SHA-256) and hash-skip on re-embed
-- [ ] 2.6 Implement `MemoryVectorIndex` (per-model flat float[] brute-force cosine, store-version invalidation)
-- [ ] 2.7 `EmbeddingWarmupHostedService`: provision-or-degrade at startup, warm-up inference, gap-repair sweep; register `IMemoryEmbedder` in daemon DI
-- [ ] 2.8 Embed-on-write after both curation batch commit paths
-- [ ] 2.9 `netclaw memory backfill-embeddings [--force]` CLI command
-- [ ] 2.10 `MemoryEmbeddingDoctorCheck` (model presence/hash, coverage, mixed-model warning) + daemon status `embeddings: degraded` surface + rate-limited degradation logs
-- [ ] 2.11 Config: `Memory.Embeddings { Enabled, ModelId, AutoDownload }` + schema sync with defaults
-- [ ] 2.12 Tests: provisioner hash-rejection/unknown-id, hash-skip, gap repair, vector index invalidation, degraded stub; CI uses a tiny fixture ONNX model (no downloads in tests)
-- [ ] 2.13 **Measure ONNX int8 short-query embedding latency on reference hardware; record the number in design.md and gate Slice 4's sub-budget on it**
-- [ ] 2.14 ARM64 publish smoke leg exercising OnnxRuntime load
-- [ ] 2.15 Update `netclaw-memory` + `netclaw-operations` skills (backfill command, degraded mode); eval suite run
+- [x] 2.1 Create `src/Netclaw.Embeddings` project (Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime CPU, FastBertTokenizer, System.Numerics.Tensors) and `IMemoryEmbedder` seam in `Netclaw.Actors/Memory`
+- [x] 2.2 Implement `OnnxMemoryEmbedder` (single InferenceSession, bounded intra-op threads, concurrency semaphore) + `UnavailableMemoryEmbedder`
+- [x] 2.3 Implement `EmbeddingModelProvisioner`: pinned allowlist (id → URL, size, SHA-256), atomic download, hash verification, rejection of unknown ids
+- [x] 2.4 Add `memory_embeddings` table + `UpsertEmbeddingAsync`/`FindNearestByEmbeddingAsync`/coverage queries to `SQLiteMemoryStore.InitializeAsync` (idempotent DDL)
+- [x] 2.5 Implement `MemoryContentHasher` (normalized title+body SHA-256) and hash-skip on re-embed
+- [x] 2.6 Implement `MemoryVectorIndex` (per-model flat float[] brute-force cosine, store-version invalidation)
+- [x] 2.7 `EmbeddingWarmupHostedService`: provision-or-degrade at startup, warm-up inference, gap-repair sweep; register `IMemoryEmbedder` in daemon DI
+- [x] 2.8 Embed-on-write after both curation batch commit paths
+- [x] 2.9 `netclaw memory backfill-embeddings [--force]` CLI command
+- [x] 2.10 `MemoryEmbeddingDoctorCheck` (model presence/hash, coverage, mixed-model warning) + daemon status `embeddings: degraded` surface + rate-limited degradation logs
+- [x] 2.11 Config: `Memory.Embeddings { Enabled, ModelId, AutoDownload }` + schema sync with defaults
+- [x] 2.12 Tests: provisioner hash-rejection/unknown-id, hash-skip, gap repair, vector index invalidation, degraded stub; CI uses a tiny fixture ONNX model (no downloads in tests)
+- [x] 2.13 **Measure ONNX int8 short-query embedding latency on reference hardware; record the number in design.md and gate Slice 4's sub-budget on it**
+- [x] 2.14 ARM64 publish smoke leg exercising OnnxRuntime load
+- [x] 2.15 Update `netclaw-memory` + `netclaw-operations` skills (backfill command, degraded mode); eval suite run
## 3. Write-side nominate→decide + lossless merge
-- [ ] 3.1 Nominator in the shared evaluator: kNN shortlist at `Memory.Curation.NominatorSimilarityThreshold`/`NominatorK`; any nominee forces the LLM tier; no-nominee-no-anchor creates without LLM; lexical candidate search becomes the logged degraded path
-- [ ] 3.2 Extend `CurationPromptBuilder` response protocol: CONSOLIDATE/UPDATE emit a merged body; `CurationDecision.MergedBody`; full-content previews for nominated candidates
-- [ ] 3.3 Implement `MergeGuard` (load-bearing-token retention ≥95%, length collapse check) with structural-append fallback producing `AppendDocument` semantics
-- [ ] 3.4 Route all curation UPDATE/CONSOLIDATE writes through guard-validated merged bodies; make raw whole-body overwrite unreachable from curation decisions
-- [ ] 3.5 Config: `Memory.Curation { NominatorSimilarityThreshold, NominatorK, LlmMaxOutputTokens, LlmTimeoutSeconds }` (replacing hardcoded constants) + schema sync
-- [ ] 3.6 Tests: paraphrase-dupe nomination (fixture pairs from the audit corpus shape), sibling pairs never auto-merge, MergeGuard property tests, append fallback, both-pipelines parity
-- [ ] 3.7 Eval suite (memory category) + skill sync; update decision-mix expectations (consolidate share should rise from ~0.1%)
+- [x] 3.1 Nominator in the shared evaluator: kNN shortlist at `Memory.Curation.NominatorSimilarityThreshold`/`NominatorK`; any nominee forces the LLM tier; no-nominee-no-anchor creates without LLM; lexical candidate search becomes the logged degraded path
+- [x] 3.2 Extend `CurationPromptBuilder` response protocol: CONSOLIDATE/UPDATE emit a merged body; `CurationDecision.MergedBody`; full-content previews for nominated candidates
+- [x] 3.3 Implement `MergeGuard` (load-bearing-token retention ≥95%, length collapse check) with structural-append fallback producing `AppendDocument` semantics
+- [x] 3.4 Route all curation UPDATE/CONSOLIDATE writes through guard-validated merged bodies; make raw whole-body overwrite unreachable from curation decisions
+- [x] 3.5 Config: `Memory.Curation { NominatorSimilarityThreshold, NominatorK, LlmMaxOutputTokens, LlmTimeoutSeconds }` (replacing hardcoded constants) + schema sync
+- [x] 3.6 Tests: paraphrase-dupe nomination (fixture pairs from the audit corpus shape), sibling pairs never auto-merge, MergeGuard property tests, append fallback, both-pipelines parity
+- [x] 3.7 Eval suite (memory category) + skill sync; update decision-mix expectations (consolidate share should rise from ~0.1%)
## 4. Read-side hybrid recall + absolute floor
-- [ ] 4.1 Query embedding per turn with a vector sub-budget inside `RecallTimeoutMs`; lexical-only fallback + `memory_recall_vector_degraded` log on miss
-- [ ] 4.2 Candidate union (FTS5 ∪ vector top-k) with policy-gate parity for vector-sourced hits
-- [ ] 4.3 Weighted fusion scoring + `MinCosineSimilarity` absolute floor; omit the `[memory-recall]` block entirely on zero injections
-- [ ] 4.4 Recency half-life decay (floor-bounded multiplier) on composite scores
-- [ ] 4.5 Config: `Memory.Recall { VectorWeight, LexicalWeight, MinCosineSimilarity, RecencyHalfLifeDays }` + schema sync
-- [ ] 4.6 Calibrate the floor against `gold-prod-2026-07` (local gold set); record calibration numbers in design.md
-- [ ] 4.7 Gold-set recall regression suite (fixture corpus + labeled queries asserting injected/withheld ids, MRR/precision floors, zero-injection cases)
-- [ ] 4.8 Flip scenario P09 (paraphrase-gap) back to expected-recall; policy-parity scenario test; latency budget test with warm embedder
-- [ ] 4.9 Eval suite + `netclaw-memory` skill update (hybrid recall, zero-injection normality)
+- [x] 4.1 Query embedding per turn with a vector sub-budget inside `RecallTimeoutMs`; lexical-only fallback + `memory_recall_vector_degraded` log on miss
+- [x] 4.2 Candidate union (FTS5 ∪ vector top-k) with policy-gate parity for vector-sourced hits
+- [x] 4.3 Weighted fusion scoring + `MinCosineSimilarity` absolute floor; omit the `[memory-recall]` block entirely on zero injections
+- [x] 4.4 Recency half-life decay (floor-bounded multiplier) on composite scores
+- [x] 4.5 Config: `Memory.Recall { VectorWeight, LexicalWeight, MinCosineSimilarity, RecencyHalfLifeDays }` + schema sync
+- [x] 4.6 Calibrate the floor against `gold-prod-2026-07` (local gold set); record calibration numbers in design.md
+- [x] 4.7 Gold-set recall regression suite (fixture corpus + labeled queries asserting injected/withheld ids, MRR/precision floors, zero-injection cases)
+- [x] 4.8 Flip scenario P09 (paraphrase-gap) back to expected-recall; policy-parity scenario test; latency budget test with warm embedder
+- [x] 4.9 Eval suite + `netclaw-memory` skill update (hybrid recall, zero-injection normality)
## 5. Taxonomy rebalance, trace revival, tool lessons
diff --git a/openspec/changes/memory-query-prefix/.openspec.yaml b/openspec/changes/memory-query-prefix/.openspec.yaml
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+schema: spec-driven
+created: 2026-07-08
diff --git a/openspec/changes/memory-query-prefix/design.md b/openspec/changes/memory-query-prefix/design.md
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+# Design: memory-query-prefix
+
+## Context
+
+`OnnxMemoryEmbedder` runs every input — recall queries, embed-on-write
+documents, backfill documents, dedup-nominator proposals — through one
+`EmbedAsync(text)` path with no notion of purpose. `snowflake-arctic-embed-m`
+is an asymmetric retrieval model: its model card (verified at the pinned HF
+commit) instructs prefixing **queries** with
+`Represent this sentence for searching relevant passages: ` and embedding
+**documents** raw. Production has never applied the prefix, so all shipped
+retrieval calibration (`MinCosineSimilarity` 0.68, memory-core-redesign D6)
+measures the model off its intended operating mode.
+
+Measured on `gold-prod-2026-07` (93 real-traffic queries, 1,216-doc
+production snapshot, production-faithful fp32 ONNX replica —
+`~/recall-research-local/2026-07/arctic-prefix-eval/`):
+
+| configuration | optimal τ | F0.5 | recall@3 | zero-injection |
+|---|:---:|---:|---:|---:|
+| no prefix (shipped) | 0.68 | 0.141 | 0.146 | 13.3% |
+| with prefix | 0.24 | 0.239 | 0.318 | 26.7% |
+
+The prefix compresses arctic's cosine distribution downward (top-1 median
+0.789 → 0.392). At the shipped 0.68 floor, prefixed queries measure
+**F0.5 = 0.0** — the two changes are inseparable.
+
+The relevance gate (memory-relevance-gate) already established the pattern
+this change needs: model-specific calibration travels in the provisioner's
+pinned manifest (`CalibratedThreshold`), and config exposes a nullable
+override that follows the manifest when null.
+
+## Goals / Non-Goals
+
+**Goals:**
+
+- Recall queries embed with the active model's documented prefix; all
+ document-side embedding is byte-identical to today (no re-embed, no
+ migration).
+- Floor and prefix change atomically and cannot be recombined incorrectly by
+ configuration alone.
+- Per-model-variant calibration lives in the allowlist manifest so the int8
+ variant (different floor) is an allowlist entry, not a code change.
+
+**Non-Goals:**
+
+- Model swaps (e5 declined; see proposal), symmetric/dual prefixes, reranker
+ threshold recalibration, any change to `memory_embeddings` rows at rest.
+
+## Decisions
+
+### D1. Purpose enum on the seam, not a second interface
+
+`IMemoryEmbedder.EmbedAsync` gains an `EmbeddingPurpose` parameter
+(`Passage` | `RetrievalQuery`); `EmbedBatchAsync` likewise (a batch has one
+purpose). All existing callers pass `Passage` explicitly — embed-on-write,
+backfill CLI, gap repair, and the dedup nominator (proposal↔document
+comparison is document-space by design; the audit's nominator calibration
+τ=0.86 was measured unprefixed and stays valid). Only
+`SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator`'s turn-query embedding passes
+`RetrievalQuery`. No optional parameter: call sites are updated, per the
+constitution's required-dependency rule. `UnavailableMemoryEmbedder` and all
+test fakes implement the same signature; the fixture fake treats purposes
+identically unless a test opts into distinct maps.
+
+*Rejected*: separate `EmbedQueryAsync` method — duplicates the batch/
+concurrency plumbing for one string concat; a mis-typed call reads the same
+either way. Rejected: prefixing inside the coordinator — the prefix is a
+property of the model, not of recall; the embedder owns model semantics.
+
+### D2. Prefix is manifest data, applied inside `OnnxMemoryEmbedder`
+
+`EmbeddingModelManifestEntry` gains `QueryPrefix` (string, may be empty) and
+`CalibratedMinCosineSimilarity` (double). `OnnxMemoryEmbedder` prepends
+`QueryPrefix` when purpose is `RetrievalQuery` before tokenization; token
+budget unchanged (`only_first`-style truncation still applies to the combined
+string — the 12-token prefix is negligible against 512). Arctic fp32 entry:
+prefix as documented, `CalibratedMinCosineSimilarity = 0.24`. The mxbai
+fallback entry gets its documented prefix
+(`Represent this sentence for searching relevant passages: ` is
+arctic-specific; mxbai documents its own retrieval prompt) and a floor
+calibrated before that entry is ever flipped to — until calibrated, the
+fallback entry carries no retrieval calibration and the coordinator treats a
+missing calibration as "hybrid recall unavailable, lexical-only + degraded
+log" rather than guessing (no silent fallback).
+
+### D3. Floor resolution: config-nullable follows manifest
+
+`MemoryRecallConfig.MinCosineSimilarity` becomes `double?`, default null →
+resolve from the active model's `CalibratedMinCosineSimilarity` at scorer
+load (carried on `MemoryVectorIndexHolder`/embedder holder the same way
+`RelevanceScorerHolder` carries `CalibratedThreshold`). Explicit config value
+overrides (operator experimentation), with the schema description warning
+that the meaning is model-and-prefix-specific. This makes
+prefix-without-recalibration unrepresentable by default: both ride the same
+manifest entry.
+
+### D4. Calibration of record
+
+This change supersedes the 0.68 no-prefix calibration. The prefixed fp32
+sweep (`floor-calibration-prefix.json`, 116-point τ∈[−0.20, 0.95]) is the
+calibration of record; design lineage: memory-core-redesign D6 records the
+no-prefix history, this doc records the prefixed result, and the
+calibration-verification procedure in memory-relevance-gate's design.md is
+the documented re-run path (same harness family). Zero-injection residual
+(73–87% of nothing-relevant queries still inject at the floor alone) remains
+the relevance gate's job — gate numbers are cosine-independent and unaffected.
+
+## Risks / Trade-offs
+
+- **[Floor semantics change under operators' feet]** → nullable-follows-
+ manifest default means only operators who explicitly pinned 0.68 are
+ affected; schema description + skill guidance call it out; doctor and
+ `memory_retrieval_final` log the active floor and whether it came from
+ config or manifest.
+- **[Actor/persistence boundaries]** → none moved: the purpose enum lives on
+ the existing seam interface in `Netclaw.Actors/Memory`; no persistence
+ shape changes; no new actor messages. Recall stays inside the existing
+ coordinator timeout envelope; failure modes and recovery are the Slice 4
+ ones (sub-budget miss → lexical-only + `memory_recall_vector_degraded`),
+ now plus missing-calibration → lexical-only + the same degraded log with a
+ distinct reason.
+- **[Prefix drift vs model]** → prefix is pinned next to the model hash in
+ the same allowlist entry; a model bump forces the author past the prefix
+ field. The fixture cross-check test asserts the arctic entry's prefix
+ matches the model-card string verbatim.
+- **[Gold-set overfit]** → same risk profile as the 0.68 calibration it
+ replaces; mitigated identically (gold-set regression suite, documented
+ re-calibration procedure, config override escape hatch).
diff --git a/openspec/changes/memory-query-prefix/proposal.md b/openspec/changes/memory-query-prefix/proposal.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+# Proposal: memory-query-prefix
+
+## Why
+
+Production embeds recall queries with `snowflake-arctic-embed-m` but omits the
+model's documented retrieval query prefix, silently forfeiting most of the
+model's retrieval quality: measured on `gold-prod-2026-07`, the prefix lifts
+F0.5 at the optimal floor from 0.141 to 0.239 (+69% relative), recall@3 from
+0.146 to 0.318, and zero-injection accuracy from 13.3% to 26.7%
+(`~/recall-research-local/2026-07/arctic-prefix-eval/RESULTS.md`, model card
+confirmed for the exact pinned HF commit). The fix is query-side only — no
+stored document vectors change — but it is **not drop-in**: the prefix
+compresses arctic's cosine distribution downward (optimal floor shifts
+0.68 → ~0.24), and prefixed queries against the current 0.68 floor measure
+F0.5 = 0.0. Prefix and floor recalibration must ship atomically.
+
+Source PRD: PRD-007 (agent personality and local memory) — same lineage as
+memory-core-redesign, which this change amends at the embedding-foundation
+seam.
+
+## What Changes
+
+- `IMemoryEmbedder` gains a query-vs-passage distinction (embedding purpose)
+ so retrieval queries can carry a model-specific prefix while embed-on-write,
+ backfill, and the dedup nominator (document↔document comparisons) remain
+ unprefixed. Stored vectors are unaffected; no re-embed or backfill is
+ required.
+- `EmbeddingModelProvisioner`'s allowlist entries carry per-model retrieval
+ metadata: the documented `QueryPrefix` (empty for models that use none) and
+ a `CalibratedMinCosineSimilarity` for the prefixed configuration — the same
+ manifest-carries-calibration pattern the relevance gate established with
+ `CalibratedThreshold`. This prepares the int8 variant, whose floor differs.
+- `Memory.Recall.MinCosineSimilarity` becomes nullable: null (default) follows
+ the active model's manifest calibration; an explicit value overrides it.
+ **BREAKING** for configs that pinned the old 0.68 default explicitly — the
+ numeric meaning of the floor changes under the prefixed embedder, and the
+ schema description must say so.
+- The recall coordinator applies the active model's query prefix when
+ embedding the turn query; the floor it enforces resolves from config-or-
+ manifest.
+- Recalibration recorded: the prefixed fp32 sweep becomes the calibration of
+ record in memory-core-redesign's design.md D6 lineage (superseding the
+ no-prefix 0.68 calibration) via this change's own design doc; the
+ calibration-verification procedure documented by memory-relevance-gate
+ covers re-running it.
+
+## Capabilities
+
+### New Capabilities
+
+(none)
+
+### Modified Capabilities
+
+- `memory-embeddings`: embedding runtime requirement gains
+ query-vs-passage purpose semantics and manifest-carried retrieval
+ calibration (query prefix + calibrated floor) per allowlisted model.
+ Note: this capability's base spec is currently the pending delta in
+ `openspec/changes/memory-core-redesign/specs/memory-embeddings/spec.md`
+ (not yet archived to main specs); this change's delta applies on top of it.
+- `netclaw-agent-memory`: the automatic pre-turn recall requirement's
+ absolute relevance floor becomes calibration-carried per model variant
+ (config override optional) instead of a single static default.
+
+## Impact
+
+- **Code**: `Netclaw.Actors/Memory` (`IMemoryEmbedder`, holder), `Netclaw.
+ Embeddings` (`OnnxMemoryEmbedder`, `EmbeddingModelProvisioner` allowlist),
+ `Netclaw.Actors/Sessions` (`SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator`),
+ `Netclaw.Configuration` (`MemoryRecallConfig`, schema), warmup service
+ unchanged except plumb-through; doctor output gains the active
+ prefix/floor.
+- **Data**: none at rest — document vectors unchanged; query embeddings are
+ never persisted. No migration, no backfill.
+- **Config**: `MinCosineSimilarity` default changes semantics
+ (nullable-follows-manifest); schema sync in the same PR per the
+ configuration schema sync rule.
+- **Security/operational impact**: no new network or supply-chain surface
+ (prefix is a string constant in the pinned allowlist; no new artifacts).
+ Recall behavior changes for embeddings-enabled deployments only —
+ currently experimental/opt-in installs of the 0.25.0-alpha.onnx line; the
+ floor-follows-manifest default prevents the catastrophic
+ prefix-without-recalibration combination by construction. Doctor and
+ `memory_retrieval_final` logging expose the active prefix + floor so a
+ mismatch is diagnosable.
+- **Evals**: recall-affecting change → eval suite run required (memory
+ category); gold-set regression suite thresholds unaffected (fixture
+ embedder is prefix-agnostic), but the fixture fake embedder must implement
+ the new seam.
+
+### In scope (MVP)
+
+- Prefix + purpose seam + manifest-carried floor for the two allowlisted
+ arctic variants (fp32 now; int8 entry lands with its own calibration in the
+ int8 productionization task).
+- Atomic floor recalibration and config nullability.
+
+### Out of scope
+
+- Switching embedding models (e5-small-v2 evaluated and declined —
+ `~/recall-research-local/2026-07/e5-eval/RESULTS.md`).
+- Re-running the relevance-gate threshold calibration (S* is measured on
+ gate scores, not cosine floors; unchanged).
+- Symmetric-task prefixes (arctic documents none; e5-style dual prefixes are
+ a model-swap concern).
diff --git a/openspec/changes/memory-query-prefix/specs/memory-embeddings/spec.md b/openspec/changes/memory-query-prefix/specs/memory-embeddings/spec.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b623e0f90
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@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+# Delta: memory-embeddings (memory-query-prefix)
+
+Base: this capability's base spec is the pending delta in
+`openspec/changes/memory-core-redesign/specs/memory-embeddings/spec.md`
+(not yet archived to main specs); the requirements below are ADDED on top
+of it.
+
+## ADDED Requirements
+
+### Requirement: Purpose-distinguished embedding
+
+The embedding runtime SHALL distinguish retrieval-query embedding from
+passage (document) embedding at its interface, and SHALL apply the active
+model's documented retrieval query encoding — including any model-documented
+query prefix — only to retrieval-query inputs. Document-side embedding
+(embed-on-write, backfill, gap repair, and duplicate nomination) SHALL remain
+in the model's document mode, byte-compatible with vectors already stored, so
+adopting a query prefix SHALL NOT require re-embedding any stored content.
+
+#### Scenario: Recall query is embedded with the model's documented prefix
+
+- **GIVEN** the active embedding model's manifest documents a retrieval query
+ prefix
+- **WHEN** the recall pipeline embeds a turn query
+- **THEN** the embedded text is the documented prefix followed by the query
+- **AND** the resulting vector is produced by the same session, pooling, and
+ normalization as document embeddings
+
+#### Scenario: Document-side embedding is unaffected by the prefix
+
+- **GIVEN** a corpus embedded before query-prefix support existed
+- **WHEN** embed-on-write, backfill, or duplicate nomination embeds a
+ document or proposal
+- **THEN** no prefix is applied
+- **AND** the produced vectors are interchangeable with the pre-existing
+ stored vectors (no re-embed required)
+
+### Requirement: Manifest-carried retrieval calibration
+
+Each allowlisted embedding model entry SHALL carry its retrieval-mode
+metadata: the documented query prefix (empty when the model documents none)
+and the retrieval floor calibrated for that model in that encoding mode.
+Runtime floor resolution SHALL prefer an explicit configuration override and
+otherwise use the manifest calibration; components SHALL NOT hardcode floors
+calibrated for a specific model or encoding mode outside the manifest.
+
+#### Scenario: Calibration travels with the model entry
+
+- **GIVEN** two allowlisted model variants with different calibrated floors
+- **WHEN** the configured model id switches between them
+- **THEN** the effective default floor changes to the newly active entry's
+ calibration without any code or configuration change
+
+#### Scenario: Prefix and floor cannot be recombined incorrectly by default
+
+- **GIVEN** a model entry whose calibration was measured with its documented
+ query prefix
+- **WHEN** the runtime activates that entry with no explicit floor override
+- **THEN** the prefixed encoding and its matching calibrated floor are applied
+ together
diff --git a/openspec/changes/memory-query-prefix/specs/netclaw-agent-memory/spec.md b/openspec/changes/memory-query-prefix/specs/netclaw-agent-memory/spec.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3e450a5c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/openspec/changes/memory-query-prefix/specs/netclaw-agent-memory/spec.md
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+# Delta: netclaw-agent-memory (memory-query-prefix)
+
+Base: this delta applies on top of memory-core-redesign's pending delta for
+the same requirement (hybrid recall + absolute floor), which is the current
+authoritative text pre-archive.
+
+## MODIFIED Requirements
+
+### Requirement: Automatic pre-turn recall
+
+The system SHALL execute automatic recall before each user-facing model turn
+using the latest user message, recent session context, active anchors, and
+policy scope. Recall SHALL be hybrid: lexical (FTS5) and semantic (embedding
+cosine) candidates are merged, and every candidate SHALL pass the identical
+audience/boundary/sensitivity/recall-mode policy gates regardless of which
+retriever surfaced it. The turn query SHALL be embedded in the active
+embedding model's documented retrieval mode (including any model-documented
+query prefix); document-side embeddings SHALL remain in the model's document
+mode. Injection SHALL be gated by an absolute relevance floor whose value
+SHALL resolve from the active model's manifest-carried retrieval calibration
+unless explicitly overridden in configuration; a floor calibrated for one
+model or encoding mode SHALL NOT be silently applied to another — when the
+active model carries no retrieval calibration and no explicit override is
+configured, recall SHALL run lexical-only with a structured degradation log.
+When no candidate clears the effective floor, the turn SHALL inject nothing
+and the recall context block SHALL be omitted entirely. Automatic recall
+SHALL be bounded by a latency budget and SHALL degrade safely — to
+lexical-only scoring with a structured degradation log when the embedder is
+unavailable or over its sub-budget, and to no injection when the memory
+substrate is unavailable.
+
+#### Scenario: Recall completes within budget
+
+- **GIVEN** the memory substrate is healthy
+- **WHEN** a new turn begins
+- **THEN** the session retrieves and injects a bounded recall bundle before the
+ model call
+- **AND** the recall operation completes within the configured time budget or
+ degrades safely
+
+#### Scenario: Nothing relevant means nothing injected
+
+- **GIVEN** the memory store contains no memory semantically related to the
+ user's message
+- **WHEN** automatic recall runs for the turn
+- **THEN** no memory items are injected
+- **AND** no recall context block is added to the prompt
+- **AND** the retrieval log records zero injected items with the applied floor
+
+#### Scenario: Vector-sourced candidates obey policy gates
+
+- **GIVEN** a memory item excluded by the session's audience or sensitivity
+ policy
+- **WHEN** the semantic retriever surfaces that item as a top cosine candidate
+- **THEN** the item is filtered before scoring exactly as a lexical candidate
+ would be
+
+#### Scenario: Floor follows the active model's calibration
+
+- **GIVEN** `Memory.Recall.MinCosineSimilarity` is not explicitly configured
+- **WHEN** recall runs with an embedding model whose manifest carries a
+ calibrated retrieval floor
+- **THEN** that manifest value is the effective floor for the turn
+- **AND** the retrieval log records the effective floor and its source
+ (manifest or config override)
+
+#### Scenario: Missing calibration degrades to lexical-only
+
+- **GIVEN** the active embedding model's manifest carries no retrieval
+ calibration and no explicit floor override is configured
+- **WHEN** a turn begins with the embedder healthy
+- **THEN** recall runs lexical-only for the turn
+- **AND** a rate-limited structured degradation log records the missing
+ calibration as the reason
diff --git a/openspec/changes/memory-query-prefix/tasks.md b/openspec/changes/memory-query-prefix/tasks.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0396b6cfe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/openspec/changes/memory-query-prefix/tasks.md
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+# Tasks: memory-query-prefix
+
+Implementation targets `feature/memory-embeddings` (on top of
+memory-core-redesign Slices 2–4 and memory-relevance-gate). The prefix and
+the floor recalibration ship in the same slice — they are not independently
+safe.
+
+## 1. Seam, manifest, and embedder
+
+- [x] 1.1 `EmbeddingPurpose` enum (`Passage`, `RetrievalQuery`) and purpose
+ parameter on `IMemoryEmbedder.EmbedAsync`/`EmbedBatchAsync`; update ALL
+ call sites explicitly (embed-on-write, backfill CLI, gap repair, dedup
+ nominator → `Passage`; recall coordinator → `RetrievalQuery`); no
+ optional parameter. `UnavailableMemoryEmbedder` + all test fakes updated.
+- [x] 1.2 `EmbeddingModelManifestEntry` gains `QueryPrefix` (string) and
+ `CalibratedMinCosineSimilarity` (double?); arctic fp32 entry pins the
+ model-card prefix verbatim and `CalibratedMinCosineSimilarity = 0.24`;
+ mxbai fallback entry carries its own documented prefix and a null
+ calibration (uncalibrated → recall treats as hybrid-unavailable)
+- [x] 1.3 `OnnxMemoryEmbedder` prepends the manifest `QueryPrefix` for
+ `RetrievalQuery` purpose before tokenization; passage path
+ byte-identical to today (regression-guarded by an exact-vector test
+ against the fixture model)
+- [x] 1.4 Holder plumbing: active entry's `QueryPrefix`/
+ `CalibratedMinCosineSimilarity` reachable at the recall seam (same
+ pattern as `RelevanceScorerHolder.CalibratedThreshold`)
+
+## 2. Floor resolution, coordinator, config
+
+- [x] 2.1 `MemoryRecallConfig.MinCosineSimilarity` becomes nullable; null →
+ manifest calibration, explicit value → override; schema sync
+ (nullable, description warns the value is model+encoding specific) +
+ defaults tests updated
+- [x] 2.2 `SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator`: effective floor resolved
+ config-or-manifest per turn; missing calibration + no override ⇒
+ lexical-only + rate-limited degraded log (distinct reason, same
+ cooldown pattern); `memory_retrieval_final` logs effective floor and
+ its source
+- [x] 2.3 Doctor: embedding check reports active model's prefix presence and
+ effective floor source
+- [x] 2.4 Tests: prefix applied only to `RetrievalQuery` (fixture-model
+ vector inequality query-vs-passage for same text); passage-path
+ byte-compat regression; floor resolution matrix (manifest / override /
+ missing-calibration degrade); coordinator lexical-only on
+ missing-calibration; scenario suite (P01–P21 incl. P09) green with the
+ new seam signature
+
+## 3. Calibration record, evals, docs
+
+- [x] 3.1 Record the prefixed fp32 calibration as the calibration of record:
+ design.md of THIS change already carries the table; add a superseding
+ note to memory-core-redesign design.md D6 (0.68 remains the no-prefix
+ historical record) — keep both changes' docs consistent
+- [x] 3.2 Eval suite run (memory category) on the final behavior
+- [x] 3.3 `netclaw-memory` skill sync: prefix is automatic, floor now
+ follows the model manifest by default, override knob semantics; bump
+ metadata.version
+- [x] 3.4 Full gates: build, all affected test suites, slopwatch, headers
diff --git a/openspec/changes/memory-relevance-gate/design.md b/openspec/changes/memory-relevance-gate/design.md
index 5ae6e76ea..b625fdb4d 100644
--- a/openspec/changes/memory-relevance-gate/design.md
+++ b/openspec/changes/memory-relevance-gate/design.md
@@ -224,10 +224,13 @@ vector was available): the floor already reduced the candidate set to
candidate-generation protocol — the gate never sees a candidate the floor
would not already have admitted). Each survivor is paired with the query and
scored via `RelevanceScorerHolder.Current.ScoreAsync`, under a CE sub-budget
-(~60 ms) nested inside the overall `RecallTimeoutMs` via a linked
+(ceiling 120 ms, envelope-clamped — raised from 60 ms and clamped to
+whatever remains of the outer envelope by a 2026-07 production-canary
+finding: two live cold-start timeouts, see the Open Questions entry below)
+nested inside the overall `RecallTimeoutMs` via a linked
`CancellationTokenSource` — the same pattern the query-embedding sub-budget
already uses (measured p95 35 ms for 3 pairs leaves roughly 1.7x headroom
-before the sub-budget itself is hit). Candidates scoring below the
+before the sub-budget itself is hit on a warm session). Candidates scoring below the
manifest/config threshold are dropped; **zero survivors after the gate is a
"nothing injected" outcome**, identical in kind to zero survivors at the
floor — the `[memory-recall]` block continues to be omitted entirely, not
@@ -327,15 +330,25 @@ selectivity without one of these signals firing.
(397 MB), the operator's measured total is ≈763 MB against a 1 GB K8s pod
limit — inside budget, but the margin (≈260 MB) is not so large that a
future addition to the memory runtime gets it for free. Mitigated by
- measuring rather than assuming, and by keeping the CE sub-budget (~60 ms)
- small relative to the overall 300 ms recall timeout so a degraded gate
- never risks the turn itself.
-- [Nested sub-budgets: query-embedding (~150 ms) + gate (~60 ms) inside one
- 300 ms `RecallTimeoutMs`] → worst case both sub-budgets fully elapse
- (210 ms) before any lexical/ranking work runs, leaving less slack than
- Slice 4 alone had. Not yet measured end-to-end under production
- contention. Flagged as an open question (below), not silently assumed
- safe.
+ measuring rather than assuming, and by keeping the CE sub-budget
+ (120 ms ceiling, envelope-clamped) small relative to the overall 300 ms
+ recall timeout so a degraded gate never risks the turn itself.
+- [Nested sub-budgets: query-embedding (~150 ms) + gate (120 ms ceiling,
+ envelope-clamped) inside one 300 ms `RecallTimeoutMs`] → worst case both
+ sub-budgets fully elapse before any lexical/ranking work runs, leaving less
+ slack than Slice 4 alone had. **2026-07 production-canary update: this
+ materialized.** Two live `memory_recall_gate_degraded` events (reason
+ `score_failed:TaskCanceledException`) in scheduled-reminder sessions waking
+ from an idle period measured total turn latency already past the entire
+ 300 ms envelope by the time the gate started scoring — a cold ONNX session
+ (paged-out weights) plus host contention, not a per-call latency
+ regression. Fix landed as (1) a periodic keep-warm tick in
+ `EmbeddingWarmupHostedService` keeping both ONNX sessions' working sets
+ resident, and (2) raising the gate ceiling to 120 ms while clamping the
+ actually-applied sub-budget to whatever remains of the outer envelope (the
+ linked CTS was already the hard cap; this just derives the sub-budget from
+ it instead of assuming a fixed value is always affordable). The Open
+ Questions entry below is resolved by this same finding.
- [Two-holders-become-three] → `MemoryEmbedderHolder` +
`MemoryVectorIndexHolder` + the new `RelevanceScorerHolder` is more moving
parts than a consolidated holder would be. Accepted for this change (D4)
@@ -368,16 +381,79 @@ selectivity without one of these signals firing.
re-run the shoot-out's threshold-sweep protocol against a different
relevance model or a different corpus, so re-calibration is a documented
procedure rather than tribal knowledge trapped in a local research
- directory.
+ directory. See "Calibration Verification Procedure" below.
+
+## Calibration Verification Procedure
+
+S*=0.02 is calibrated specifically against `ms-marco-minilm-l-6-v2`'s score
+distribution (D3, D6) — it is not a universal constant. This section
+documents the re-run procedure so a future model swap or corpus-specific
+recalibration is a repeatable exercise, not tribal knowledge that only
+exists in the shoot-out's own history.
+
+**Where the harness lives**: the gate-shootout scripts (the 4-design
+comparison and the out-of-sample re-validation this design's scorecard
+reports) and the floor-calibration/quantization-eval harness this change's
+threshold sweep reuses both live in the operator's local research directory,
+never in this repo:
+
+- `~/recall-research-local/2026-07/gate-shootout/` — the 4-design shoot-out
+ (distribution-shape, cross-encoder, learned feature gate, per-memory
+ offender priors) and the threshold-sweep driver used to pick S* for a
+ given model's score distribution.
+- `~/recall-research-local/2026-07/quant-eval/` — the quantization/floor
+ harness (`floor_calibration.py` and related tooling) this change's sweep
+ protocol follows the same shape as: sweep a threshold over a fixed
+ corpus/gold-set pair, score every candidate, report zero-injection
+ accuracy, recall retention, and F0.5 at each candidate threshold.
+
+**Inputs required to re-run a sweep**:
+
+- A corpus snapshot as a SQLite file (`VACUUM INTO` clone of
+ `memory_documents`, same shape the July audit and the shoot-out both used)
+ — this is what candidates are drawn from.
+- A judged gold-set JSONL (query, candidate doc ids, relevance labels) —
+ either an existing ratified set (`gold-prod-2026-07`, the 450-query
+ expansion) or a freshly judged set for a new corpus/domain. The judging
+ protocol (dual-pass judging, harsher-wins aggregation for ambiguous
+ candidates) is documented in the shoot-out's own history, not repeated here.
+- The candidate relevance model as an ONNX artifact (the currently shipped
+ `model_quantized.onnx`, or a different cross-encoder being evaluated as a
+ replacement) — whatever model the new threshold will be calibrated *for*,
+ since the threshold is meaningless detached from the model that produced
+ the scores.
+
+**Outputs**: a per-threshold table (zero-injection accuracy, recall
+retention, F0.5, mean injected count) — the same shape as the D2 scorecard
+above — from which an operating point is chosen the same way S*=0.02 was:
+prefer the highest zero-injection accuracy whose recall retention still
+clears the ≥90% constraint, and re-validate the chosen point out-of-sample
+(a disjoint gold-set expansion) before treating it as calibrated, not just
+in-sample-optimal. The resulting `(ModelId, CalibratedThreshold)` pair is
+what gets hand-carried into a new `RelevanceModelManifestEntry` in
+`EmbeddingModelProvisioner`'s allowlist (D3) — recalibration never edits a
+bare config default disconnected from which model produced it.
+
+**Why this stays repo-external**: both harness directories operate on real,
+PII-bearing production traffic (query text, memory content) — the same
+constraint documented in `docs/research/memory-audit-2026-07.md` for every
+other research artifact referenced by this change and by
+memory-core-redesign. The scripts and their outputs are operator-local by
+design, never committed; only the *ratified, redacted results* (this
+scorecard, the frozen threshold, the pinned model SHA-256) enter the repo.
## Open Questions
-- Combined worst-case latency of the query-embedding sub-budget (~150 ms)
+- ~~Combined worst-case latency of the query-embedding sub-budget (~150 ms)
plus the new CE sub-budget (~60 ms) inside the single 300 ms
`RecallTimeoutMs`, measured end-to-end under realistic contention rather
- than each sub-budget's own isolated measurement — gates this change's
- sub-budget sizing the same way Slice 4 gated its own latency assumption
- before shipping.
+ than each sub-budget's own isolated measurement.~~ **Resolved by the
+ 2026-07 production-canary finding**: it materialized under real cold-start
+ contention (two live `score_failed:TaskCanceledException` degradations,
+ reminder sessions waking from idle). Fix: `EmbeddingWarmupHostedService`
+ keep-warm tick (keeps both ONNX sessions resident) + gate sub-budget
+ raised to a 120 ms ceiling, clamped to whatever remains of the outer
+ envelope rather than a fixed value.
- Whether the deferred R2-mirroring decision for the embedding model artifact
(memory-core-redesign, post-PoC) should extend to this second (relevance)
model artifact once that decision is made.
diff --git a/openspec/changes/memory-relevance-gate/tasks.md b/openspec/changes/memory-relevance-gate/tasks.md
index d2de8867e..c1d47e269 100644
--- a/openspec/changes/memory-relevance-gate/tasks.md
+++ b/openspec/changes/memory-relevance-gate/tasks.md
@@ -6,70 +6,70 @@ independently shippable in order.
## 1. Scorer, provisioning, manifest/config
-- [ ] 1.1 `IRelevanceScorer` seam in `Netclaw.Actors/Memory` (`ModelId`,
+- [x] 1.1 `IRelevanceScorer` seam in `Netclaw.Actors/Memory` (`ModelId`,
`IsAvailable`, order-preserving batch `ScoreAsync`) +
`UnavailableRelevanceScorer` stub, matching `IMemoryEmbedder`'s
throw-on-call-while-unavailable contract
-- [ ] 1.2 `OnnxCrossEncoderScorer` in `Netclaw.Embeddings`: pair encoding
+- [x] 1.2 `OnnxCrossEncoderScorer` in `Netclaw.Embeddings`: pair encoding
(`[CLS] query [SEP] candidate [SEP]`, correct `token_type_ids`,
`only_second` truncation so the query is never truncated), dynamic
sequence length bucketed to multiples of 8, sigmoid applied host-side
over the single-logit output
-- [ ] 1.3 `RelevanceModelManifestEntry` (`ModelId`, `ModelUrl`,
+- [x] 1.3 `RelevanceModelManifestEntry` (`ModelId`, `ModelUrl`,
`ModelSha256`, `ModelByteSize`, `CalibratedThreshold`) added to
`EmbeddingModelProvisioner`'s allowlist alongside the existing
embedding-model entries; pin `Xenova/ms-marco-MiniLM-L-6-v2`
`model_quantized.onnx` (22.07 MB,
SHA-256 `e9d8ebf845c413e981c175bfe49a3bfa9b3dcce2a3ba54875ee5df5a58639fbe`,
`CalibratedThreshold = 0.02`)
-- [ ] 1.4 `RelevanceScorerHolder` (mirrors `MemoryEmbedderHolder`: mutable,
+- [x] 1.4 `RelevanceScorerHolder` (mirrors `MemoryEmbedderHolder`: mutable,
always non-null, initial `UnavailableRelevanceScorer`, replaced once by
the warmup service); `EmbeddingWarmupHostedService` gains a second
provision-or-degrade step (provision, hash-verify, one warm-up
inference) for the relevance model when `Memory.Embeddings.Enabled`
-- [ ] 1.5 Config: `Memory.Recall.RelevanceGate { Enabled (nullable, follows
+- [x] 1.5 Config: `Memory.Recall.RelevanceGate { Enabled (nullable, follows
Embeddings.Enabled), Threshold (nullable, follows manifest
`CalibratedThreshold`) }` + `netclaw-config.v1.schema.json` sync with
defaults (additive, nullable, non-breaking)
## 2. Coordinator wiring, degradation, tests, eval
-- [ ] 2.1 `SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator`: post-floor gate stage — score each
+- [x] 2.1 `SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator`: post-floor gate stage — score each
of the ≤`AutoRecallMaxItems` floor survivors under a ~60 ms CE
sub-budget (linked CTS nested inside `RecallTimeoutMs`, same pattern as
the existing query-embedding sub-budget); drop candidates below the
active threshold; zero survivors after the gate ⇒ inject nothing
(reuse the existing zero-injection path, don't fork it)
-- [ ] 2.2 Degradation: relevance model unavailable, sub-budget exceeded, or
+- [x] 2.2 Degradation: relevance model unavailable, sub-budget exceeded, or
recall running in lexical (non-hybrid) mode ⇒ skip the gate entirely
and inject the floor's own result unfiltered; rate-limited
`memory_recall_gate_degraded` log (same cooldown pattern as
`memory_recall_vector_degraded`)
-- [ ] 2.3 Doctor visibility for the relevance model (extend the existing
+- [x] 2.3 Doctor visibility for the relevance model (extend the existing
embedding doctor check or add a sibling check): model presence/hash,
provisioning failure, degraded-mode reason
-- [ ] 2.4 Logging: `memory_retrieval_final` gains `gateScores` (per-candidate
+- [x] 2.4 Logging: `memory_retrieval_final` gains `gateScores` (per-candidate
score for every gated candidate) and `droppedByGate` (count)
-- [ ] 2.5 Tests: pair-encoding correctness (token_type_ids, truncation-only-
+- [x] 2.5 Tests: pair-encoding correctness (token_type_ids, truncation-only-
second, dynamic length bucketing) against fixture pairs; threshold
admit/reject boundary; degraded-scorer fallback to floor-only;
sub-budget-timeout fallback; zero-survivors-after-gate produces the
same result shape as zero-survivors-at-the-floor; config
nullable-follows-manifest resolution (both `Enabled` and `Threshold`)
-- [ ] 2.6 Eval case: seed a corpus with unrelated memories, ask an off-topic
+- [x] 2.6 Eval case: seed a corpus with unrelated memories, ask an off-topic
question, assert no `[memory-recall]` block in the assembled prompt
and a gate marker present in the logs for that turn (the zero-
injection regression the gate exists to enforce)
## 3. Docs, skill sync, scorecard, calibration note
-- [ ] 3.1 Update `netclaw-memory` skill: relevance gate exists, follows
+- [x] 3.1 Update `netclaw-memory` skill: relevance gate exists, follows
`Memory.Embeddings.Enabled`, explicit override knobs, degraded-mode
behavior (floor-only fallback)
-- [ ] 3.2 Runbook (`docs/runbooks/memory-health-and-evals.md`): relevance
+- [x] 3.2 Runbook (`docs/runbooks/memory-health-and-evals.md`): relevance
gate section — doctor check, degradation log line, how to read
`gateScores`/`droppedByGate` in `memory_retrieval_final`
-- [ ] 3.3 Record a scorecard in `design.md` (already drafted from the
+- [x] 3.3 Record a scorecard in `design.md` (already drafted from the
shoot-out; keep in sync if any number changes before merge) and add a
short calibration-verification harness note (how to re-run the
threshold sweep against a different relevance model or corpus, so
diff --git a/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/CurationPromptBuilderTests.cs b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/CurationPromptBuilderTests.cs
index aa756ba85..d59d63fc5 100644
--- a/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/CurationPromptBuilderTests.cs
+++ b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/CurationPromptBuilderTests.cs
@@ -103,6 +103,104 @@ public void ParseResponse_returns_null_for_unclosed_think_block()
Assert.Null(CurationPromptBuilder.ParseResponse("reasoning with no closing tag and no answer"));
}
+ // ── ParseResponse: merged-body protocol (memory-core-redesign Slice 3 task 3.2) ──
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void ParseResponse_parses_UPDATE_with_merged_body()
+ {
+ var response = "UPDATE doc-abc123\n---\nConfig path is /etc/app/config.yaml (previously /etc/app/config.json).";
+
+ var decision = CurationPromptBuilder.ParseResponse(response);
+
+ Assert.NotNull(decision);
+ Assert.Equal(CurationDecisionKind.Update, decision.Kind);
+ Assert.Equal("doc-abc123", decision.TargetDocumentId);
+ Assert.Equal(
+ "Config path is /etc/app/config.yaml (previously /etc/app/config.json).",
+ decision.MergedBody);
+ Assert.True(decision.FromLlmTier);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void ParseResponse_parses_CONSOLIDATE_with_merged_body()
+ {
+ var response =
+ "CONSOLIDATE doc-abc123 doc-def456\n---\n" +
+ "Akka.NET GitHub repository: https://github.com/akkadotnet/akka.net.\n" +
+ "Latest stable release is 1.5.62 (previously 1.5.60).";
+
+ var decision = CurationPromptBuilder.ParseResponse(response);
+
+ Assert.NotNull(decision);
+ Assert.Equal(CurationDecisionKind.Consolidate, decision.Kind);
+ Assert.Equal(2, decision.ConsolidationTargetIds!.Count);
+ Assert.NotNull(decision.MergedBody);
+ Assert.Contains("1.5.62", decision.MergedBody);
+ Assert.Contains("1.5.60", decision.MergedBody);
+ Assert.True(decision.FromLlmTier);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void ParseResponse_UPDATE_keyword_only_still_valid_with_no_body()
+ {
+ var decision = CurationPromptBuilder.ParseResponse("UPDATE doc-42");
+
+ Assert.NotNull(decision);
+ Assert.Equal(CurationDecisionKind.Update, decision.Kind);
+ Assert.Equal("doc-42", decision.TargetDocumentId);
+ Assert.Null(decision.MergedBody);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void ParseResponse_CONSOLIDATE_keyword_only_still_valid_with_no_body()
+ {
+ var decision = CurationPromptBuilder.ParseResponse("CONSOLIDATE doc-1 doc-2");
+
+ Assert.NotNull(decision);
+ Assert.Equal(CurationDecisionKind.Consolidate, decision.Kind);
+ Assert.Equal(2, decision.ConsolidationTargetIds!.Count);
+ Assert.Null(decision.MergedBody);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void ParseResponse_UPDATE_with_malformed_empty_body_treats_body_as_absent()
+ {
+ // Separator present but nothing meaningful follows it (just whitespace).
+ var decision = CurationPromptBuilder.ParseResponse("UPDATE doc-42\n---\n \n ");
+
+ Assert.NotNull(decision);
+ Assert.Equal(CurationDecisionKind.Update, decision.Kind);
+ Assert.Null(decision.MergedBody);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void ParseResponse_SKIP_and_CREATE_never_carry_a_merged_body_even_with_a_separator()
+ {
+ // SKIP/CREATE are keyword-only per protocol; a stray "---" after them should not be
+ // misread as introducing a body for a decision kind that never carries one.
+ var skip = CurationPromptBuilder.ParseResponse("SKIP\n---\nirrelevant trailing text");
+ var create = CurationPromptBuilder.ParseResponse("CREATE\n---\nirrelevant trailing text");
+
+ Assert.NotNull(skip);
+ Assert.Null(skip.MergedBody);
+ Assert.NotNull(create);
+ Assert.Null(create.MergedBody);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void ParseResponse_strips_think_block_before_parsing_merged_body()
+ {
+ var response =
+ "These are the same fact, worded differently.\n" +
+ "UPDATE doc-abc123\n---\nMerged content preserving both sources.";
+
+ var decision = CurationPromptBuilder.ParseResponse(response);
+
+ Assert.NotNull(decision);
+ Assert.Equal(CurationDecisionKind.Update, decision.Kind);
+ Assert.Equal("Merged content preserving both sources.", decision.MergedBody);
+ }
+
// ── BuildUserMessage ────────────────────────────────────────────
[Fact]
@@ -216,6 +314,62 @@ public void BuildUserMessage_truncates_long_content()
Assert.DoesNotContain(longContent, message);
}
+ [Fact]
+ public void BuildUserMessage_truncates_candidate_content_by_default()
+ {
+ // Legacy default (task 3.2): candidates shown as a 700-char preview, same as today,
+ // until Stage B passes useFullCandidateContent: true for nominated candidates.
+ var longCandidateContent = new string('y', 1_000);
+ var proposal = MakeMinimalProposal();
+ var candidates = new[] { MakeCandidate(longCandidateContent) };
+
+ var message = CurationPromptBuilder.BuildUserMessage(proposal, candidates);
+
+ Assert.DoesNotContain(longCandidateContent, message);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void BuildUserMessage_shows_full_candidate_content_when_requested()
+ {
+ var longCandidateContent = new string('y', 1_000);
+ var proposal = MakeMinimalProposal();
+ var candidates = new[] { MakeCandidate(longCandidateContent) };
+
+ var message = CurationPromptBuilder.BuildUserMessage(proposal, candidates, useFullCandidateContent: true);
+
+ Assert.Contains(longCandidateContent, message);
+ }
+
+ private static SQLiteMemoryCurationOperation MakeMinimalProposal() => new(
+ Kind: "document",
+ MemoryClass: "durable_fact",
+ MemoryId: null,
+ AnchorCanonicalName: "test",
+ AnchorType: "concept",
+ Title: "Test",
+ Content: "proposal content",
+ AliasesJson: null,
+ FacetsJson: null,
+ SlotsJson: null,
+ Relations: null,
+ UpdateSemantics: "merge-document",
+ Boundary: TrustBoundary.TrustedInstanceValue,
+ Audience: TrustAudience.Team,
+ Sensitivity: "normal",
+ RecallMode: "auto",
+ Confidence: 0.9,
+ FreshnessAtMs: 1000,
+ ExpiresAtMs: null);
+
+ private static ExistingMemoryCandidate MakeCandidate(string content) => new(
+ DocumentId: "doc-abc123",
+ AnchorId: "anchor:existing",
+ AnchorCanonicalName: "existing",
+ Content: content,
+ FreshnessAtMs: 900,
+ Confidence: 0.85,
+ IsExactAnchorMatch: false);
+
// ── SystemPrompt ────────────────────────────────────────────────
[Fact]
diff --git a/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryContentHasherTests.cs b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryContentHasherTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..292ab91c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryContentHasherTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+// Copyright (C) 2026 - 2026 Petabridge, LLC
+//
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+using Netclaw.Actors.Memory;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace Netclaw.Actors.Tests.Memory;
+
+public sealed class MemoryContentHasherTests
+{
+ [Fact]
+ public void ComputeHash_is_case_insensitive()
+ {
+ var lower = MemoryContentHasher.ComputeHash("netclaw source location", "the repo lives on github");
+ var upper = MemoryContentHasher.ComputeHash("NETCLAW SOURCE LOCATION", "THE REPO LIVES ON GITHUB");
+
+ Assert.Equal(lower, upper);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void ComputeHash_collapses_whitespace_differences()
+ {
+ var tight = MemoryContentHasher.ComputeHash("title", "one two three");
+ var loose = MemoryContentHasher.ComputeHash("title", "one two\tthree\n");
+
+ Assert.Equal(tight, loose);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void ComputeHash_is_deterministic()
+ {
+ var h1 = MemoryContentHasher.ComputeHash("Netclaw memory redesign", "Use sqlite-backed automatic recall.");
+ var h2 = MemoryContentHasher.ComputeHash("Netclaw memory redesign", "Use sqlite-backed automatic recall.");
+
+ Assert.Equal(h1, h2);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void ComputeHash_distinguishes_different_content()
+ {
+ var a = MemoryContentHasher.ComputeHash("title", "body one");
+ var b = MemoryContentHasher.ComputeHash("title", "body two");
+
+ Assert.NotEqual(a, b);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void ComputeHash_distinguishes_title_from_body_content()
+ {
+ // Swapping title/body content must not collide, even though the normalized
+ // concatenation contains the same tokens overall.
+ var a = MemoryContentHasher.ComputeHash("alpha", "beta");
+ var b = MemoryContentHasher.ComputeHash("beta", "alpha");
+
+ Assert.NotEqual(a, b);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void ComputeHash_produces_lowercase_hex_sha256()
+ {
+ var hash = MemoryContentHasher.ComputeHash("t", "b");
+
+ Assert.Equal(64, hash.Length);
+ Assert.Equal(hash, hash.ToLowerInvariant(), StringComparer.Ordinal);
+ Assert.True(hash.All(c => Uri.IsHexDigit(c)));
+ }
+}
diff --git a/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryCurationActorNominatorTests.cs b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryCurationActorNominatorTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b3dc6d11b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryCurationActorNominatorTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,217 @@
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+// Copyright (C) 2026 - 2026 Petabridge, LLC
+//
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
+using Akka.Hosting;
+using Akka.Hosting.TestKit;
+using Microsoft.Data.Sqlite;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.AI;
+using Netclaw.Actors.Memory;
+using Netclaw.Actors.Protocol;
+using Netclaw.Configuration;
+using Xunit;
+using AiChatMessage = Microsoft.Extensions.AI.ChatMessage;
+using AiChatRole = Microsoft.Extensions.AI.ChatRole;
+
+namespace Netclaw.Actors.Tests.Memory;
+
+///
+/// Actor-level end-to-end coverage for the embedding kNN nominator (memory-core-redesign
+/// Slice 3 Stage B, task 3.6): drives a proposal through the REAL
+/// with a fake embedder + scripted LLM, all the way to a committed store write. Complements
+/// 's evaluator-level coverage by proving the same
+/// contract holds through the actor's full Idle -> Evaluating -> Writing state machine, using
+/// AwaitAssertAsync to poll for the LLM call rather than a sleep. Mirrors
+/// 's
+/// temp-store/try-finally-cleanup shape for driving directly.
+///
+public sealed class MemoryCurationActorNominatorTests : TestKit
+{
+ private const string ModelId = "test-nominator-model";
+ private const int Dimensions = 2;
+
+ // Same hand-crafted 0.93-cosine pair as MemoryCurationNominatorTests.
+ private static readonly float[] ExistingVector = [1f, 0f];
+ private static readonly float[] QueryVectorAt093 = [0.93f, 0.367623f];
+
+ private readonly string _dbDir = Path.Combine(
+ Path.GetTempPath(), "netclaw-curation-actor-nominator-tests", Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N"));
+
+ public MemoryCurationActorNominatorTests(ITestOutputHelper output) : base(output: output)
+ {
+ }
+
+ protected override void ConfigureAkka(AkkaConfigurationBuilder builder, IServiceProvider provider)
+ {
+ // No persistence or hosting needed — MemoryCurationActor is a plain ReceiveActor.
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task Proposal_with_a_forced_nominee_reaches_the_LLM_and_commits_two_documents_end_to_end()
+ {
+ var ct = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
+ var (store, dbPath) = await CreateStoreAsync();
+
+ try
+ {
+ const string existingBody = "The build pipeline stores intermediate render artifacts in a graphite-backed cache layer.";
+ var anchor = store.CreateDefaultAnchor("graphite-render-cache");
+ var now = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds();
+ await store.UpsertDocumentAsync(new SQLiteMemoryDocument(
+ DocumentId: "doc-existing",
+ Anchor: anchor,
+ MemoryClass: "durable_fact",
+ Title: "Existing",
+ MarkdownBody: existingBody,
+ AliasesJson: null,
+ FacetsJson: null,
+ SlotsJson: null,
+ UpdateSemantics: "merge-document",
+ Sensitivity: "normal",
+ RecallMode: "auto",
+ Confidence: 0.9,
+ FreshnessAtMs: now,
+ ExpiresAtMs: null,
+ CreatedAtMs: now,
+ UpdatedAtMs: now), ct);
+ await store.UpsertEmbeddingAsync(
+ "doc-existing", MemoryEmbedOnWriteCoordinator.DocumentItemKind, ModelId, "hash-existing", ExistingVector, ct);
+
+ var embedderHolder = new MemoryEmbedderHolder(new ScriptedEmbedder(ModelId, Dimensions, QueryVectorAt093), initialQueryPrefix: "", initialCalibratedMinCosineSimilarity: null);
+ var vectorIndexHolder = new MemoryVectorIndexHolder(store);
+ var chatClient = new RecordingCurationChatClient("CREATE");
+ var clientProvider = new SingleClientProvider(chatClient);
+
+ var curationActor = Sys.ActorOf(
+ MemoryCurationActor.CreateProps(
+ store, new SessionId("test-session"), new MemoryCurationConfig(),
+ clientProvider, embedderHolder, vectorIndexHolder),
+ "curation-nominator");
+
+ var probe = CreateTestProbe("curation-nominator-probe");
+ var operation = MakeOperation(
+ "sunfish-deploy-queue", "Deployment jobs wait in a queue before promotion to production.");
+
+ curationActor.Tell(new EvaluateProposals([operation]), probe.Ref);
+
+ // No sleeps: poll until the scripted LLM has actually been reached, proving the
+ // nominee forced the LLM tier, before asserting the final reply/store state.
+ await AwaitAssertAsync(
+ () => Assert.True(chatClient.CallCount >= 1,
+ $"Expected the nominee to force an LLM call, but CallCount={chatClient.CallCount}"),
+ cancellationToken: ct);
+
+ var completed = await probe.ExpectMsgAsync(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10), cancellationToken: ct);
+ Assert.Equal(1, completed.Evaluated);
+ Assert.Equal(1, completed.Created);
+ Assert.Equal(0, completed.Skipped);
+ Assert.Equal(0, completed.Updated);
+ Assert.Equal(0, completed.Consolidated);
+
+ // By the time CurationCompleted is sent, ApplyInlineCurationBatchAsync has already
+ // committed (StartWriting awaits it before replying) — both the pre-existing
+ // sibling and the newly created proposal survive as separate documents, never merged.
+ await using var conn = new SqliteConnection($"Data Source={dbPath}");
+ await conn.OpenAsync(ct);
+ await using var cmd = conn.CreateCommand();
+ cmd.CommandText = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM memory_documents WHERE update_semantics != 'tombstone';";
+ var count = Convert.ToInt32(await cmd.ExecuteScalarAsync(ct));
+ Assert.Equal(2, count);
+ }
+ finally
+ {
+ await CleanupAsync();
+ }
+ }
+
+ // ── Helpers ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+ private async Task<(SQLiteMemoryStore Store, string DbPath)> CreateStoreAsync()
+ {
+ Directory.CreateDirectory(_dbDir);
+ var dbPath = Path.Combine(_dbDir, "test.db");
+ var store = new SQLiteMemoryStore(dbPath, TimeProvider.System);
+ await store.InitializeAsync(TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ return (store, dbPath);
+ }
+
+ private Task CleanupAsync() => SqliteTempDirectoryCleanup.TryDeleteDirectoryAsync(_dbDir);
+
+ private static SQLiteMemoryCurationOperation MakeOperation(string anchor, string content) =>
+ new(
+ Kind: "document",
+ MemoryClass: "durable_fact",
+ MemoryId: null,
+ AnchorCanonicalName: anchor,
+ AnchorType: "concept",
+ Title: $"Title for {anchor}",
+ Content: content,
+ AliasesJson: null,
+ FacetsJson: null,
+ SlotsJson: null,
+ Relations: null,
+ UpdateSemantics: "merge-document",
+ Boundary: TrustBoundary.TrustedInstanceValue,
+ Audience: TrustAudience.Public,
+ Sensitivity: "normal",
+ RecallMode: "auto",
+ Confidence: 0.9,
+ FreshnessAtMs: DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds(),
+ ExpiresAtMs: null);
+
+ private sealed class SingleClientProvider(IChatClient client) : IChatClientProvider
+ {
+ public IChatClient GetClient(ModelRole role) => client;
+ }
+
+ private sealed class ScriptedEmbedder(string modelId, int dimensions, float[] queryVector) : IMemoryEmbedder
+ {
+ public string ModelId => modelId;
+
+ public int Dimensions => dimensions;
+
+ public bool IsAvailable => true;
+
+ public ValueTask> EmbedAsync(string text, EmbeddingPurpose purpose, CancellationToken ct)
+ => ValueTask.FromResult>(queryVector);
+
+ public ValueTask>> EmbedBatchAsync(IReadOnlyList texts, EmbeddingPurpose purpose, CancellationToken ct)
+ => ValueTask.FromResult>>(
+ texts.Select(_ => (ReadOnlyMemory)queryVector).ToList());
+ }
+
+ private sealed class RecordingCurationChatClient(string? responseText) : IChatClient
+ {
+ public int CallCount { get; private set; }
+
+ public Task GetResponseAsync(
+ IEnumerable messages, ChatOptions? options = null, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
+ {
+ CallCount++;
+ return Task.FromResult(new ChatResponse(new AiChatMessage(AiChatRole.Assistant, responseText ?? string.Empty)));
+ }
+
+ public IAsyncEnumerable GetStreamingResponseAsync(
+ IEnumerable messages, ChatOptions? options = null, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
+ {
+ CallCount++;
+ return StreamAsync(cancellationToken);
+ }
+
+ private async IAsyncEnumerable StreamAsync([EnumeratorCancellation] CancellationToken cancellationToken)
+ {
+ if (responseText is not null)
+ yield return new ChatResponseUpdate(AiChatRole.Assistant, responseText);
+
+ await Task.CompletedTask;
+ }
+
+ public object? GetService(Type serviceType, object? serviceKey = null) => null;
+
+ public void Dispose()
+ {
+ }
+ }
+}
diff --git a/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryCurationEvaluatorParityTests.cs b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryCurationEvaluatorParityTests.cs
index 5d036ddd6..8513620e8 100644
--- a/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryCurationEvaluatorParityTests.cs
+++ b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryCurationEvaluatorParityTests.cs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
// Copyright (C) 2026 - 2026 Petabridge, LLC
//
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using Akka.Event;
using Microsoft.Data.Sqlite;
using Microsoft.Extensions.AI;
@@ -13,6 +14,8 @@
using Netclaw.Configuration;
using Netclaw.Tests.Utilities;
using Xunit;
+using AiChatMessage = Microsoft.Extensions.AI.ChatMessage;
+using AiChatRole = Microsoft.Extensions.AI.ChatRole;
namespace Netclaw.Actors.Tests.Memory;
@@ -128,10 +131,10 @@ await SeedDocumentAsync(
Assert.Equal("doc-akka", fromActor.TargetDocumentId);
}
- // ── Consolidate end-to-end: existing document is REPLACED, not appended ──
+ // ── Consolidate end-to-end: writes a guarded append into the explicit target ──
[Fact]
- public async Task ConsolidateDecision_appliedThroughStore_replacesExistingDocumentInsteadOfAppending()
+ public async Task ConsolidateDecision_appliedThroughStore_writesGuardedAppendIntoExplicitTarget()
{
var ct = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
await _store.InitializeAsync(ct);
@@ -139,26 +142,33 @@ await SeedDocumentAsync(
"akka-net-latest-release", "doc-akka", "Akka.NET latest release version is 1.5.62", freshnessAtMs: 1000, ct);
// One extra token ("now") keeps Jaccard overlap at 0.9 (> 0.8 threshold) while making
- // the proposal body distinct from the seed, so replacement vs append is observable.
+ // the proposal body distinct from the seed, so the write is observable.
var operation = MakeOperation(
"akka-net-release", "Akka.NET latest release version is now 1.5.62", freshnessAtMs: 2000);
- var evaluator = new MemoryCurationEvaluator(_store, (ILoggingAdapter)NoLogger.Instance);
- var decision = await evaluator.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct);
- Assert.Equal(CurationDecisionKind.Consolidate, decision.Kind);
+ var evaluator = new MemoryCurationEvaluator(_store, (ILoggingAdapter)NoLogger.Instance, new MemoryCurationConfig());
+ var evaluation = await evaluator.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct);
+ Assert.Equal(CurationDecisionKind.Consolidate, evaluation.Decision.Kind);
- var writeOp = await evaluator.ApplyDecisionAsync(operation, decision, ct);
+ var writeOp = await evaluator.ApplyDecisionAsync(operation, evaluation.Decision, evaluation.Candidates, ct);
Assert.NotNull(writeOp);
+ // The deterministic rules tier never synthesizes a MergedBody, so
+ // ApplyGuardedMergeOrAppend always takes the lossless structural-append branch for
+ // this tier — but it still writes into the SAME explicit primary target document
+ // (doc-akka) that ApplyConsolidate resolved from the decision's ConsolidationTargetIds,
+ // rather than falling through to the store's separate anchor-based dedup lookup.
Assert.Equal("doc-akka", writeOp!.MemoryId);
+ Assert.Equal("append-document", writeOp.UpdateSemantics);
await _store.ApplyInlineCurationBatchAsync([writeOp], ct);
var (body, updateSemantics) = await ReadDocumentBodyAndSemanticsAsync("doc-akka", ct);
- // Collapse semantics: the near-duplicate body is replaced outright — no dated
- // append marker, no doubled content.
- Assert.Equal("Akka.NET latest release version is now 1.5.62", body);
- Assert.DoesNotContain("_[merged", body);
- Assert.Equal("merge-document", updateSemantics);
+ // Lossless append: original content survives verbatim, the proposal is appended
+ // under a dated separator — never a destructive overwrite.
+ Assert.Contains("Akka.NET latest release version is 1.5.62", body);
+ Assert.Contains("Akka.NET latest release version is now 1.5.62", body);
+ Assert.Contains("_[merged", body);
+ Assert.Equal("append-document", updateSemantics);
}
// ── gray zone (0.4-0.8), no LLM -> deterministic auto-resolve ───
@@ -210,10 +220,19 @@ await SeedDocumentAsync(
Assert.Equal(CurationDecisionKind.Create, fromActor.Kind);
}
- // ── guard downgrade: Update whose proposal drops existing body -> Skip ──
-
+ // ── guard downgrade: Update whose proposal drops existing body -> falls through ──
+
+ ///
+ /// Guard-fallthrough fix (July 2026 audit, eval run ad9a2312): before this fix, a
+ /// guard-rejected anchor-matched Update terminated as Skip — an explicit proposal silently
+ /// becoming a no-op with zero writes. No other candidate exists in this store for the
+ /// fallen-through content search or embedding nominator (both unavailable/empty here) to
+ /// find, so the terminal decision is the Create default the flow's remarks document — NOT
+ /// the old Skip. This is the same fixture GuardDowngrade_narrowerProposal_downgradesUpdateToSkip_identically
+ /// used pre-fix (renamed here since Skip was exactly the bug).
+ ///
[Fact]
- public async Task GuardDowngrade_narrowerProposal_downgradesUpdateToSkip_identically()
+ public async Task GuardDowngrade_narrowerProposal_noOtherCandidates_fallsThroughToCreate_identically()
{
var ct = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
await _store.InitializeAsync(ct);
@@ -224,19 +243,171 @@ await SeedDocumentAsync(
freshnessAtMs: 1000,
ct);
- // Newer, but narrower — the rules tier would pick Update (exact anchor, low
- // overlap, fresher), and GuardDestructiveUpdate must downgrade it on BOTH paths
- // now (audit finding D14: this guard used to run only on the inline actor path).
+ // Newer, but narrower — the rules tier would pick Update (exact anchor, low overlap,
+ // fresher), and GuardDestructiveUpdate downgrades it on BOTH paths (audit finding D14:
+ // this guard used to run only on the inline actor path). Pre-fix, that downgrade was
+ // returned as the terminal Skip decision — the silent-fallback bug. Post-fix, the guard
+ // rejection triggers a fall-through re-evaluation (no exact anchor match, nomination/
+ // content search run for the first time, rules tier re-runs as pure fuzzy) which here
+ // finds nothing else to match against and lands on Create.
var operation = MakeOperation("widget-specs", "Widget pricing is TBD as of Q2.", freshnessAtMs: 2000);
var (fromActor, fromEngine) = await EvaluateOnBothAsync(operation, ct);
+ AssertSameDecision(fromActor, fromEngine);
+ Assert.Equal(CurationDecisionKind.Create, fromActor.Kind);
+ Assert.Contains("fuzzy anchor match but low content overlap", fromActor.Reason);
+ }
+
+ ///
+ /// Regression companion to the Create case above: when the guard-rejected proposal IS close
+ /// enough in content to the anchor target to clear the deterministic auto-resolve thresholds
+ /// ('s 60% content-overlap / 50%
+ /// anchor-Jaccard bars) once re-evaluated as an ordinary fuzzy candidate, the fall-through
+ /// must NOT force Create — it must let the normal ambiguous/auto-resolve machinery decide,
+ /// which correctly lands on Skip here. This proves the fix doesn't trade "always drops the
+ /// fact" for "never skips a real duplicate" — the fall-through defers to whatever the rest of
+ /// the flow genuinely produces.
+ ///
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task GuardDowngrade_contentCloseEnoughToAutoResolve_fallsThroughToLegitimateSkip_identically()
+ {
+ var ct = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
+ await _store.InitializeAsync(ct);
+ await SeedDocumentAsync(
+ "widget-specs",
+ "doc-widget",
+ "Widget specs: 16 cores, 64GB RAM, 2 NICs. Warranty is 3 years from Acme Corp in Denver.",
+ freshnessAtMs: 1000,
+ ct);
+
+ // Reworded/reordered restatement of the SAME facts: word-level overlap is ~62% (inside
+ // the exact-match tier's Update band, ≤80%) but GuardDestructiveUpdate's stricter
+ // substring-containment check fails (the words are reordered, not a literal superset),
+ // so the guard still rejects. Re-evaluated as a fuzzy candidate after fall-through, that
+ // same ~62% overlap clears TryAutoResolveAmbiguous's 60% content / 100% anchor-Jaccard
+ // (identical anchor name) thresholds, so this is genuine skip territory rather than the
+ // guard's blunt termination.
+ var operation = MakeOperation(
+ "widget-specs",
+ "Acme Corp widget in Denver: 2 NICs, 64GB RAM, 16 cores, and a 3 year warranty included.",
+ freshnessAtMs: 2000);
+
+ var (fromActor, fromEngine) = await EvaluateOnBothAsync(operation, ct);
+
AssertSameDecision(fromActor, fromEngine);
Assert.Equal(CurationDecisionKind.Skip, fromActor.Kind);
- Assert.Contains("update guarded", fromActor.Reason);
+ Assert.Contains("auto-resolved", fromActor.Reason);
Assert.Equal("doc-widget", fromActor.TargetDocumentId);
}
+ ///
+ /// Asserts the structured curation_guard_fallthrough marker fires with the rejected
+ /// anchor and target — the July 2026 audit tooling greps daemon logs for this exact string
+ /// (per this class's remarks), so the marker itself is a load-bearing observability
+ /// contract, not incidental.
+ ///
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task GuardDowngrade_logsStructuredFallthroughMarker()
+ {
+ var ct = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
+ await _store.InitializeAsync(ct);
+ await SeedDocumentAsync(
+ "widget-specs",
+ "doc-widget",
+ "Widget specs: 16 cores, 64GB RAM, 2 NICs. Pricing on file. Vendor contacts listed.",
+ freshnessAtMs: 1000,
+ ct);
+
+ var operation = MakeOperation("widget-specs", "Widget pricing is TBD as of Q2.", freshnessAtMs: 2000);
+
+ var recordingLogger = new RecordingLogger();
+ var evaluator = new MemoryCurationEvaluator(_store, (ILogger)recordingLogger, new MemoryCurationConfig());
+
+ var evaluation = await evaluator.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct);
+
+ Assert.Equal(CurationDecisionKind.Create, evaluation.Decision.Kind);
+ Assert.Contains(
+ recordingLogger.Entries,
+ e => e.Contains("curation_guard_fallthrough", StringComparison.Ordinal)
+ && e.Contains("widget-specs", StringComparison.Ordinal)
+ && e.Contains("doc-widget", StringComparison.Ordinal));
+ }
+
+ // ── guard downgrade + nominator: near-dupe elsewhere still forces the LLM tier ──
+
+ ///
+ /// A guard-rejected anchor Update must not merely fall through to Create/auto-resolve when a
+ /// real embedding nominee is available — the fall-through re-runs nomination (this proposal's
+ /// exact anchor match previously short-circuited it entirely, so it had never run at all), and
+ /// a nominee at or above must
+ /// still force the LLM tier exactly as it would for a proposal with no anchor match in the
+ /// first place (design D4: cosine nominates, it never auto-decides).
+ ///
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task GuardDowngrade_withNominatorNearDupe_forcesLlmTier_identically()
+ {
+ var ct = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
+ await _store.InitializeAsync(ct);
+
+ // Same anchor-collision shape as the eval-run repro: an exact anchor match whose content
+ // is unrelated to the proposal (guard will reject the Update), PLUS a real near-duplicate
+ // elsewhere in the store that only the embedding nominator — never run on the first pass
+ // because the exact anchor match short-circuited it — can find.
+ await SeedDocumentAsync(
+ "the",
+ "doc-unrelated-junk-anchor",
+ "Unrelated content that happens to share the same junk anchor name.",
+ freshnessAtMs: 1000,
+ ct);
+
+ const string nearDupeBody = "The build pipeline stores intermediate render artifacts in a graphite-backed cache layer.";
+ var nearDupeAnchor = _store.CreateDefaultAnchor("graphite-render-cache");
+ await _store.UpsertDocumentAsync(new SQLiteMemoryDocument(
+ DocumentId: "doc-near-dupe",
+ Anchor: nearDupeAnchor,
+ MemoryClass: "durable_fact",
+ Title: "Existing near-dupe",
+ MarkdownBody: nearDupeBody,
+ AliasesJson: null,
+ FacetsJson: null,
+ SlotsJson: null,
+ UpdateSemantics: "merge-document",
+ Sensitivity: "normal",
+ RecallMode: "auto",
+ Confidence: 0.9,
+ FreshnessAtMs: 1000,
+ ExpiresAtMs: null,
+ CreatedAtMs: 1000,
+ UpdatedAtMs: 1000), ct);
+ await _store.UpsertEmbeddingAsync(
+ "doc-near-dupe", MemoryEmbedOnWriteCoordinator.DocumentItemKind, "test-nominator-model", "hash-near-dupe",
+ new float[] { 1f, 0f }, ct);
+
+ var operation = MakeOperation(
+ "the", "Deployment jobs wait in a queue before promotion to production.", freshnessAtMs: 2000);
+
+ var embedderHolder = new MemoryEmbedderHolder(
+ new ScriptedEmbedder("test-nominator-model", dimensions: 2, [0.93f, 0.367623f]),
+ initialQueryPrefix: "",
+ initialCalibratedMinCosineSimilarity: null);
+ var vectorIndexHolder = new MemoryVectorIndexHolder(_store);
+
+ var actorLike = new MemoryCurationEvaluator(
+ _store, (ILoggingAdapter)NoLogger.Instance, new MemoryCurationConfig(),
+ new ScriptedCurationChatClient("SKIP"), embedderHolder, vectorIndexHolder);
+ var engineLike = new MemoryCurationEvaluator(
+ _store, (ILogger)NullLogger.Instance, new MemoryCurationConfig(),
+ new ScriptedCurationChatClient("SKIP"), embedderHolder, vectorIndexHolder);
+
+ var fromActor = (await actorLike.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct)).Decision;
+ var fromEngine = (await engineLike.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct)).Decision;
+
+ AssertSameDecision(fromActor, fromEngine);
+ Assert.True(fromActor.FromLlmTier);
+ Assert.Equal(CurationDecisionKind.Skip, fromActor.Kind);
+ }
+
// ── LLM tier: parseable decision ─────────────────────────────────
[Fact]
@@ -257,9 +428,9 @@ await SeedDocumentAsync(
freshnessAtMs: 2000);
var evaluator = new MemoryCurationEvaluator(
- _store, (ILoggingAdapter)NoLogger.Instance, new FakeChatClient { ResponseText = "SKIP" });
+ _store, (ILoggingAdapter)NoLogger.Instance, new MemoryCurationConfig(), new ScriptedCurationChatClient("SKIP"));
- var decision = await evaluator.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct);
+ var decision = (await evaluator.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct)).Decision;
Assert.Equal(CurationDecisionKind.Skip, decision.Kind);
Assert.Contains("LLM decision", decision.Reason);
@@ -292,14 +463,76 @@ await SeedDocumentAsync(
// through to the same deterministic auto-resolve path the no-LLM matrix case
// exercises.
var evaluator = new MemoryCurationEvaluator(
- _store, (ILoggingAdapter)NoLogger.Instance, new FakeChatClient { ResponseText = null });
+ _store, (ILoggingAdapter)NoLogger.Instance, new MemoryCurationConfig(), new ScriptedCurationChatClient(responseText: null));
- var decision = await evaluator.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct);
+ var decision = (await evaluator.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct)).Decision;
Assert.Equal(CurationDecisionKind.Skip, decision.Kind);
Assert.Contains("auto-resolved", decision.Reason);
}
+ // ── Nominator-present parity (memory-core-redesign Slice 3 Stage B) ──
+
+ ///
+ /// Extends the parity contract to the embedding kNN nominator (task 3.1): both evaluator
+ /// constructions — actor-style () and engine-style
+ /// () — must reach the SAME forced-LLM decision when a nominee fires,
+ /// sharing one and
+ /// exactly as shares one .
+ ///
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task NomineePresent_returns_identical_forced_LLM_decision_on_both_paths()
+ {
+ var ct = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
+ await _store.InitializeAsync(ct);
+
+ const string existingBody = "The build pipeline stores intermediate render artifacts in a graphite-backed cache layer.";
+ var anchor = _store.CreateDefaultAnchor("graphite-render-cache");
+ await _store.UpsertDocumentAsync(new SQLiteMemoryDocument(
+ DocumentId: "doc-existing",
+ Anchor: anchor,
+ MemoryClass: "durable_fact",
+ Title: "Existing",
+ MarkdownBody: existingBody,
+ AliasesJson: null,
+ FacetsJson: null,
+ SlotsJson: null,
+ UpdateSemantics: "merge-document",
+ Sensitivity: "normal",
+ RecallMode: "auto",
+ Confidence: 0.9,
+ FreshnessAtMs: 1000,
+ ExpiresAtMs: null,
+ CreatedAtMs: 1000,
+ UpdatedAtMs: 1000), ct);
+ await _store.UpsertEmbeddingAsync(
+ "doc-existing", MemoryEmbedOnWriteCoordinator.DocumentItemKind, "test-nominator-model", "hash-existing",
+ new float[] { 1f, 0f }, ct);
+
+ var operation = MakeOperation(
+ "sunfish-deploy-queue", "Deployment jobs wait in a queue before promotion to production.", freshnessAtMs: 2000);
+
+ var embedderHolder = new MemoryEmbedderHolder(
+ new ScriptedEmbedder("test-nominator-model", dimensions: 2, [0.93f, 0.367623f]),
+ initialQueryPrefix: "",
+ initialCalibratedMinCosineSimilarity: null);
+ var vectorIndexHolder = new MemoryVectorIndexHolder(_store);
+
+ var actorLike = new MemoryCurationEvaluator(
+ _store, (ILoggingAdapter)NoLogger.Instance, new MemoryCurationConfig(),
+ new ScriptedCurationChatClient("SKIP"), embedderHolder, vectorIndexHolder);
+ var engineLike = new MemoryCurationEvaluator(
+ _store, (ILogger)NullLogger.Instance, new MemoryCurationConfig(),
+ new ScriptedCurationChatClient("SKIP"), embedderHolder, vectorIndexHolder);
+
+ var fromActor = (await actorLike.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct)).Decision;
+ var fromEngine = (await engineLike.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct)).Decision;
+
+ AssertSameDecision(fromActor, fromEngine);
+ Assert.True(fromActor.FromLlmTier);
+ Assert.Equal(CurationDecisionKind.Skip, fromActor.Kind);
+ }
+
// ── helpers ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
private async Task<(CurationDecision FromActor, CurationDecision FromEngine)> EvaluateOnBothAsync(
@@ -308,11 +541,11 @@ await SeedDocumentAsync(
// Constructed exactly as MemoryCurationActor and MemoryCurationEngine construct
// their evaluators today: no LLM client, differing only in which logger stack
// they log through.
- var actorLike = new MemoryCurationEvaluator(_store, (ILoggingAdapter)NoLogger.Instance);
- var engineLike = new MemoryCurationEvaluator(_store, (ILogger)NullLogger.Instance);
+ var actorLike = new MemoryCurationEvaluator(_store, (ILoggingAdapter)NoLogger.Instance, new MemoryCurationConfig());
+ var engineLike = new MemoryCurationEvaluator(_store, (ILogger)NullLogger.Instance, new MemoryCurationConfig());
- var fromActor = await actorLike.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct);
- var fromEngine = await engineLike.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct);
+ var fromActor = (await actorLike.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct)).Decision;
+ var fromEngine = (await engineLike.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct)).Decision;
return (fromActor, fromEngine);
}
@@ -390,4 +623,76 @@ private static void AssertSameDecision(CurationDecision expected, CurationDecisi
else
Assert.Equal(expected.ConsolidationTargetIds, actual.ConsolidationTargetIds);
}
+
+ ///
+ /// Minimal scripted : streams
+ /// as a single update, or nothing at all when null (reproducing an empty/garbled
+ /// provider response so the deterministic fallback path can be exercised).
+ ///
+ private sealed class ScriptedCurationChatClient(string? responseText) : IChatClient
+ {
+ public Task GetResponseAsync(
+ IEnumerable messages, ChatOptions? options = null, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
+ => Task.FromResult(new ChatResponse(new AiChatMessage(AiChatRole.Assistant, responseText ?? string.Empty)));
+
+ public IAsyncEnumerable GetStreamingResponseAsync(
+ IEnumerable messages, ChatOptions? options = null, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
+ => StreamAsync(cancellationToken);
+
+ private async IAsyncEnumerable StreamAsync([EnumeratorCancellation] CancellationToken cancellationToken)
+ {
+ if (responseText is not null)
+ yield return new ChatResponseUpdate(AiChatRole.Assistant, responseText);
+
+ await Task.CompletedTask;
+ }
+
+ public object? GetService(Type serviceType, object? serviceKey = null) => null;
+
+ public void Dispose()
+ {
+ }
+ }
+
+ ///
+ /// Fake embedder that ignores its input text and always returns the same hand-crafted query
+ /// vector — sufficient for ,
+ /// which embeds at most one proposal per evaluator.
+ ///
+ private sealed class ScriptedEmbedder(string modelId, int dimensions, float[] queryVector) : IMemoryEmbedder
+ {
+ public string ModelId => modelId;
+
+ public int Dimensions => dimensions;
+
+ public bool IsAvailable => true;
+
+ public ValueTask> EmbedAsync(string text, EmbeddingPurpose purpose, CancellationToken ct)
+ => ValueTask.FromResult>(queryVector);
+
+ public ValueTask>> EmbedBatchAsync(IReadOnlyList texts, EmbeddingPurpose purpose, CancellationToken ct)
+ => ValueTask.FromResult>>(
+ texts.Select(_ => (ReadOnlyMemory)queryVector).ToList());
+ }
+
+ ///
+ /// Records every log line emitted through the Microsoft.Extensions.Logging ctor path, so the
+ /// curation_guard_fallthrough marker can be asserted directly rather than only
+ /// inferred from the resulting decision shape. Mirrors
+ /// MemoryCurationNominatorTests.RecordingLogger (kept as a separate private copy per
+ /// that file's own convention for test-only doubles).
+ ///
+ private sealed class RecordingLogger : ILogger
+ {
+ public List Entries { get; } = [];
+
+ public IDisposable? BeginScope(TState state) where TState : notnull => null;
+
+ public bool IsEnabled(Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.LogLevel logLevel) => true;
+
+ public void Log(
+ Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.LogLevel logLevel, EventId eventId, TState state, Exception? exception,
+ Func formatter)
+ => Entries.Add(formatter(state, exception));
+ }
}
diff --git a/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryCurationMergeRoutingTests.cs b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryCurationMergeRoutingTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d66a05db7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryCurationMergeRoutingTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,314 @@
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+// Copyright (C) 2026 - 2026 Petabridge, LLC
+//
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
+using Akka.Event;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.AI;
+using Netclaw.Actors.Memory;
+using Netclaw.Actors.Protocol;
+using Netclaw.Configuration;
+using Xunit;
+using AiChatMessage = Microsoft.Extensions.AI.ChatMessage;
+using AiChatRole = Microsoft.Extensions.AI.ChatRole;
+
+namespace Netclaw.Actors.Tests.Memory;
+
+///
+/// End-to-end coverage for memory-core-redesign Slice 3 task 3.4's guard-validated write
+/// routing, exercised through the REAL +
+/// (not just the pure decision layer): a guard-failing or
+/// body-absent LLM UPDATE/CONSOLIDATE decision must land as a structural append with
+/// AppendDocument semantics, never a raw overwrite of the target's body, and the target's
+/// original content must survive intact as a prefix. The deterministic tier's exact-anchor
+/// UPDATE keeps its pre-Slice-3 raw-overwrite behavior — a regression guard proves that.
+///
+public sealed class MemoryCurationMergeRoutingTests : IAsyncDisposable
+{
+ private static readonly SessionId TestSessionId = new("test-channel/merge-routing");
+
+ private readonly string _baseDir = Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), "netclaw-curation-merge-routing-tests", Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N"));
+ private readonly string _dbPath;
+ private readonly SQLiteMemoryStore _store;
+
+ public MemoryCurationMergeRoutingTests()
+ {
+ Directory.CreateDirectory(_baseDir);
+ _dbPath = Path.Combine(_baseDir, "netclaw.db");
+ _store = new SQLiteMemoryStore(_dbPath, TimeProvider.System);
+ }
+
+ public async ValueTask DisposeAsync() => await SqliteTempDirectoryCleanup.TryDeleteDirectoryAsync(_baseDir);
+
+ // ── Guard failure -> append fallback (overwrite-unreachable) ──────
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task LlmUpdate_withLossyMergedBody_appendsInsteadOfOverwriting()
+ {
+ var ct = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
+ await _store.InitializeAsync(ct);
+
+ const string originalBody =
+ "Netclaw GitHub repository: https://github.com/netclaw-dev/netclaw. The repository is private.";
+ await SeedDocumentAsync("netclaw-github-repository", "doc-repo", originalBody, freshnessAtMs: 1000, ct);
+
+ var operation = MakeOperation(
+ "netclaw-github-repo",
+ "Netclaw GitHub repository at https://github.com/netclaw-dev/netclaw, private repo",
+ freshnessAtMs: 2000);
+
+ // Lossy: drops the URL entirely — MergeGuard must reject this.
+ var evaluator = new MemoryCurationEvaluator(
+ _store, (ILoggingAdapter)NoLogger.Instance, new MemoryCurationConfig(),
+ new ScriptedCurationChatClient("UPDATE doc-repo\n---\nRepository details updated."));
+
+ var evaluation = await evaluator.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct);
+ Assert.Equal(CurationDecisionKind.Update, evaluation.Decision.Kind);
+ Assert.True(evaluation.Decision.FromLlmTier);
+ Assert.NotNull(evaluation.Decision.MergedBody);
+
+ var writeOp = await evaluator.ApplyDecisionAsync(operation, evaluation.Decision, evaluation.Candidates, ct);
+ Assert.NotNull(writeOp);
+ await _store.ApplyInlineCurationBatchAsync([writeOp!], ct);
+
+ var stored = await GetDocumentAsync("doc-repo", ct);
+ Assert.NotNull(stored);
+
+ // Overwrite-unreachable: the original body is NOT replaced by the lossy merge — the
+ // rejected merged body ("Repository details updated.") is discarded entirely, and the
+ // append fallback appends the ORIGINAL PROPOSAL content instead (never the untrusted
+ // merged text), on top of the target's untouched original body.
+ Assert.StartsWith(originalBody, stored!.Value.Body, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+ Assert.Contains(operation.Content, stored.Value.Body);
+ Assert.DoesNotContain("Repository details updated.", stored.Value.Body);
+ Assert.Contains("---", stored.Value.Body);
+ Assert.Equal("append-document", stored.Value.UpdateSemantics);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task LlmUpdate_withNoMergedBody_appendsInsteadOfOverwriting()
+ {
+ var ct = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
+ await _store.InitializeAsync(ct);
+
+ const string originalBody =
+ "Netclaw GitHub repository: https://github.com/netclaw-dev/netclaw. The repository is private.";
+ await SeedDocumentAsync("netclaw-github-repository", "doc-repo", originalBody, freshnessAtMs: 1000, ct);
+
+ var operation = MakeOperation(
+ "netclaw-github-repo",
+ "Netclaw GitHub repository at https://github.com/netclaw-dev/netclaw, private repo",
+ freshnessAtMs: 2000);
+
+ // Keyword-only LLM response — no "---" body at all.
+ var evaluator = new MemoryCurationEvaluator(
+ _store, (ILoggingAdapter)NoLogger.Instance, new MemoryCurationConfig(),
+ new ScriptedCurationChatClient("UPDATE doc-repo"));
+
+ var evaluation = await evaluator.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct);
+ Assert.Equal(CurationDecisionKind.Update, evaluation.Decision.Kind);
+ Assert.True(evaluation.Decision.FromLlmTier);
+ Assert.Null(evaluation.Decision.MergedBody);
+
+ var writeOp = await evaluator.ApplyDecisionAsync(operation, evaluation.Decision, evaluation.Candidates, ct);
+ await _store.ApplyInlineCurationBatchAsync([writeOp!], ct);
+
+ var stored = await GetDocumentAsync("doc-repo", ct);
+ Assert.NotNull(stored);
+ Assert.StartsWith(originalBody, stored!.Value.Body, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+ Assert.Contains(operation.Content, stored.Value.Body);
+ Assert.Equal("append-document", stored.Value.UpdateSemantics);
+ }
+
+ // ── Guard pass -> merged body written ─────────────────────────────
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task LlmUpdate_withFaithfulMergedBody_writesMergedBody()
+ {
+ var ct = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
+ await _store.InitializeAsync(ct);
+
+ const string originalBody =
+ "Netclaw GitHub repository: https://github.com/netclaw-dev/netclaw. The repository is private.";
+ await SeedDocumentAsync("netclaw-github-repository", "doc-repo", originalBody, freshnessAtMs: 1000, ct);
+
+ var operation = MakeOperation(
+ "netclaw-github-repo",
+ "Netclaw GitHub repository at https://github.com/netclaw-dev/netclaw, private repo",
+ freshnessAtMs: 2000);
+
+ const string mergedBody =
+ "Netclaw GitHub repository: https://github.com/netclaw-dev/netclaw. The repository remains private.";
+ var evaluator = new MemoryCurationEvaluator(
+ _store, (ILoggingAdapter)NoLogger.Instance, new MemoryCurationConfig(),
+ new ScriptedCurationChatClient($"UPDATE doc-repo\n---\n{mergedBody}"));
+
+ var evaluation = await evaluator.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct);
+ var writeOp = await evaluator.ApplyDecisionAsync(operation, evaluation.Decision, evaluation.Candidates, ct);
+ await _store.ApplyInlineCurationBatchAsync([writeOp!], ct);
+
+ var stored = await GetDocumentAsync("doc-repo", ct);
+ Assert.NotNull(stored);
+ Assert.Equal(mergedBody, stored!.Value.Body);
+ Assert.Equal("merge-document", stored.Value.UpdateSemantics);
+ }
+
+ // ── Deterministic tier regression: exact-anchor Update keeps raw overwrite ─
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task DeterministicUpdate_exactAnchorSuperset_stillOverwritesRawly()
+ {
+ var ct = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
+ await _store.InitializeAsync(ct);
+ await SeedDocumentAsync("latest-version", "doc-version", "Latest version is 1.5.62.", freshnessAtMs: 1000, ct);
+
+ var operation = MakeOperation(
+ "latest-version",
+ "Latest version is 1.5.62. Released with the new serializer.",
+ freshnessAtMs: 2000);
+
+ // No LLM client — this exercises the deterministic exact-anchor path only.
+ var evaluator = new MemoryCurationEvaluator(_store, (ILoggingAdapter)NoLogger.Instance, new MemoryCurationConfig());
+
+ var evaluation = await evaluator.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct);
+ Assert.Equal(CurationDecisionKind.Update, evaluation.Decision.Kind);
+ Assert.False(evaluation.Decision.FromLlmTier);
+
+ var writeOp = await evaluator.ApplyDecisionAsync(operation, evaluation.Decision, evaluation.Candidates, ct);
+ await _store.ApplyInlineCurationBatchAsync([writeOp!], ct);
+
+ var stored = await GetDocumentAsync("doc-version", ct);
+ Assert.NotNull(stored);
+ // Raw overwrite: the stored body IS the proposal's content verbatim, not appended.
+ Assert.Equal(operation.Content, stored!.Value.Body);
+ Assert.Equal("merge-document", stored.Value.UpdateSemantics);
+ }
+
+ // ── Consolidate: deterministic tier (no LLM, no merged body) also appends ─
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task DeterministicConsolidate_appendsRatherThanOverwriting()
+ {
+ var ct = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
+ await _store.InitializeAsync(ct);
+
+ const string originalBody = "Akka.NET latest release version is 1.5.62";
+ await SeedDocumentAsync("akka-net-latest-release", "doc-akka", originalBody, freshnessAtMs: 1000, ct);
+
+ var operation = MakeOperation(
+ "akka-net-release", "Akka.NET latest release version is 1.5.62", freshnessAtMs: 2000);
+
+ // No LLM client — fuzzy match >80% overlap resolves to Consolidate deterministically.
+ var evaluator = new MemoryCurationEvaluator(_store, (ILoggingAdapter)NoLogger.Instance, new MemoryCurationConfig());
+
+ var evaluation = await evaluator.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct);
+ Assert.Equal(CurationDecisionKind.Consolidate, evaluation.Decision.Kind);
+ Assert.False(evaluation.Decision.FromLlmTier);
+ Assert.Null(evaluation.Decision.MergedBody);
+
+ var writeOp = await evaluator.ApplyDecisionAsync(operation, evaluation.Decision, evaluation.Candidates, ct);
+ Assert.NotNull(writeOp);
+ Assert.Equal("doc-akka", writeOp!.MemoryId);
+ await _store.ApplyInlineCurationBatchAsync([writeOp], ct);
+
+ var stored = await GetDocumentAsync("doc-akka", ct);
+ Assert.NotNull(stored);
+ Assert.StartsWith(originalBody, stored!.Value.Body, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+ Assert.Equal("append-document", stored.Value.UpdateSemantics);
+ }
+
+ // ── helpers ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+ private async Task SeedDocumentAsync(
+ string anchorName, string docId, string content, long freshnessAtMs, CancellationToken ct)
+ {
+ var anchor = _store.CreateDefaultAnchor(anchorName);
+ await _store.UpsertDocumentAsync(new SQLiteMemoryDocument(
+ DocumentId: docId,
+ Anchor: anchor,
+ MemoryClass: "durable_fact",
+ Title: $"Existing {anchorName}",
+ MarkdownBody: content,
+ AliasesJson: null,
+ FacetsJson: null,
+ SlotsJson: null,
+ UpdateSemantics: "merge-document",
+ Sensitivity: "normal",
+ RecallMode: "auto",
+ Confidence: 0.9,
+ FreshnessAtMs: freshnessAtMs,
+ ExpiresAtMs: null,
+ CreatedAtMs: freshnessAtMs,
+ UpdatedAtMs: freshnessAtMs), ct);
+ }
+
+ private async Task<(string Body, string UpdateSemantics)?> GetDocumentAsync(string documentId, CancellationToken ct)
+ {
+ var handles = await _store.ResolveMemoryHandlesAsync(
+ [documentId], TrustBoundary.TrustedInstanceValue, TrustAudience.Public, ct);
+ var resolved = handles.FirstOrDefault(h => h.Resolved);
+ if (resolved is null)
+ return null;
+
+ var hydrated = await _store.GetMemoriesByResolvedHandlesAsync(
+ [resolved], TrustBoundary.TrustedInstanceValue, TrustAudience.Public, ct);
+ var item = hydrated.FirstOrDefault();
+ return item is null ? null : (item.Content, item.UpdateSemantics);
+ }
+
+ private static SQLiteMemoryCurationOperation MakeOperation(
+ string anchor,
+ string content,
+ string kind = "document",
+ string updateSemantics = "merge-document",
+ long freshnessAtMs = 2000) =>
+ new(
+ Kind: kind,
+ MemoryClass: "durable_fact",
+ MemoryId: null,
+ AnchorCanonicalName: anchor,
+ AnchorType: "concept",
+ Title: $"Title for {anchor}",
+ Content: content,
+ AliasesJson: null,
+ FacetsJson: null,
+ SlotsJson: null,
+ Relations: null,
+ UpdateSemantics: updateSemantics,
+ Boundary: TrustBoundary.TrustedInstanceValue,
+ Audience: TrustAudience.Public,
+ Sensitivity: "normal",
+ RecallMode: "auto",
+ Confidence: 0.9,
+ FreshnessAtMs: freshnessAtMs,
+ ExpiresAtMs: null);
+
+ ///
+ /// Minimal scripted : streams as a
+ /// single update. Mirrors MemoryCurationEvaluatorParityTests.ScriptedCurationChatClient
+ /// (kept as a separate private copy rather than shared test infra — small and self-contained).
+ ///
+ private sealed class ScriptedCurationChatClient(string responseText) : IChatClient
+ {
+ public Task GetResponseAsync(
+ IEnumerable messages, ChatOptions? options = null, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
+ => Task.FromResult(new ChatResponse(new AiChatMessage(AiChatRole.Assistant, responseText)));
+
+ public IAsyncEnumerable GetStreamingResponseAsync(
+ IEnumerable messages, ChatOptions? options = null, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
+ => StreamAsync(cancellationToken);
+
+ private async IAsyncEnumerable StreamAsync([EnumeratorCancellation] CancellationToken cancellationToken)
+ {
+ yield return new ChatResponseUpdate(AiChatRole.Assistant, responseText);
+ await Task.CompletedTask;
+ }
+
+ public object? GetService(Type serviceType, object? serviceKey = null) => null;
+
+ public void Dispose()
+ {
+ }
+ }
+}
diff --git a/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryCurationNominatorTests.cs b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryCurationNominatorTests.cs
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+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+// Copyright (C) 2026 - 2026 Petabridge, LLC
+//
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
+using Akka.Event;
+using Microsoft.Data.Sqlite;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.AI;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
+using Netclaw.Actors.Memory;
+using Netclaw.Actors.Protocol;
+using Netclaw.Configuration;
+using Xunit;
+using AiChatMessage = Microsoft.Extensions.AI.ChatMessage;
+using AiChatRole = Microsoft.Extensions.AI.ChatRole;
+
+namespace Netclaw.Actors.Tests.Memory;
+
+///
+/// Covers the embedding kNN nominator in
+/// (memory-core-redesign Slice 3 Stage B, tasks 3.1/3.6). All fixtures are synthetic — no
+/// operator corpus content — and cosine similarity is engineered directly via hand-crafted
+/// unit vectors rather than a real embedding model, so every scenario is exact and
+/// deterministic rather than dependent on a specific model's output.
+///
+///
+/// The central invariant under test throughout this file (design D4, corroborated by
+/// docs/research/memory-recall-findings-2026-05.md and
+/// docs/research/memory-audit-2026-07.md §5): cosine similarity NOMINATES ONLY. It
+/// forces a decision to the LLM tier; it never itself decides skip, merge, or create.
+///
+///
+public sealed class MemoryCurationNominatorTests : IAsyncDisposable
+{
+ private const string ModelId = "test-nominator-model";
+ private const int Dimensions = 2;
+
+ // Hand-crafted unit vectors with cosine similarity == 0.93 exactly (0.93^2 + 0.367623^2 ==
+ // 0.999999...): the paraphrase-pair cosine the May 2026 measurement places inside the band
+ // where duplicates and merely-related siblings are indistinguishable by threshold alone
+ // (siblings measured at 0.905-0.941, design D4/proposal.md).
+ private static readonly float[] ExistingVector = [1f, 0f];
+ private static readonly float[] QueryVectorAt093 = [0.93f, 0.367623f];
+
+ private static readonly SessionId TestSessionId = new("test-channel/nominator");
+
+ private readonly string _baseDir = Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), "netclaw-curation-nominator-tests", Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N"));
+ private readonly string _dbPath;
+ private readonly SQLiteMemoryStore _store;
+
+ public MemoryCurationNominatorTests()
+ {
+ Directory.CreateDirectory(_baseDir);
+ _dbPath = Path.Combine(_baseDir, "netclaw.db");
+ _store = new SQLiteMemoryStore(_dbPath, TimeProvider.System);
+ }
+
+ public async ValueTask DisposeAsync() => await SqliteTempDirectoryCleanup.TryDeleteDirectoryAsync(_baseDir);
+
+ // ── Nomination forcing ──────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task Paraphrase_pair_at_cosine_0_93_forces_LLM_tier_even_though_Jaccard_band_would_have_said_Create()
+ {
+ var ct = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
+ await _store.InitializeAsync(ct);
+
+ const string existingBody = "The build pipeline stores intermediate render artifacts in a graphite-backed cache layer.";
+ const string proposalContent = "Deployment jobs wait in a queue before promotion to production.";
+
+ // Unrelated anchor names, near-zero word overlap: the pre-Slice-3 lexical/anchor tier
+ // finds NO candidates at all here (CurationRulesEvaluator: "no existing candidates" ->
+ // Create, zero LLM calls) — cosine nomination is the ONLY signal that finds this pair.
+ Assert.True(WordJaccard(existingBody, proposalContent) < 0.4, "fixture must have low word overlap");
+
+ await SeedDocumentWithEmbeddingAsync("graphite-render-cache", "doc-existing", existingBody, freshnessAtMs: 1000, ct);
+ var operation = MakeOperation("sunfish-deploy-queue", proposalContent, freshnessAtMs: 2000);
+
+ var embedderHolder = new MemoryEmbedderHolder(new ScriptedEmbedder(ModelId, Dimensions, QueryVectorAt093), initialQueryPrefix: "", initialCalibratedMinCosineSimilarity: null);
+ var vectorIndexHolder = new MemoryVectorIndexHolder(_store);
+ var chatClient = new RecordingCurationChatClient("CREATE");
+
+ var evaluator = new MemoryCurationEvaluator(
+ _store, (ILoggingAdapter)NoLogger.Instance, new MemoryCurationConfig(), chatClient, embedderHolder, vectorIndexHolder);
+
+ var evaluation = await evaluator.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct);
+
+ Assert.Equal(1, chatClient.CallCount);
+ Assert.True(evaluation.Decision.FromLlmTier);
+ Assert.Contains(evaluation.Candidates, c => c.DocumentId == "doc-existing" && c.CosineSimilarity is not null);
+ }
+
+ // ── Sibling never-auto-merge ─────────────────────────────────────────
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task Nominee_present_LLM_says_Create_persists_two_separate_documents_not_a_merge()
+ {
+ var ct = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
+ await _store.InitializeAsync(ct);
+
+ const string existingBody = "The build pipeline stores intermediate render artifacts in a graphite-backed cache layer.";
+ await SeedDocumentWithEmbeddingAsync("graphite-render-cache", "doc-existing", existingBody, freshnessAtMs: 1000, ct);
+
+ var operation = MakeOperation(
+ "sunfish-deploy-queue", "Deployment jobs wait in a queue before promotion to production.", freshnessAtMs: 2000);
+
+ var embedderHolder = new MemoryEmbedderHolder(new ScriptedEmbedder(ModelId, Dimensions, QueryVectorAt093), initialQueryPrefix: "", initialCalibratedMinCosineSimilarity: null);
+ var vectorIndexHolder = new MemoryVectorIndexHolder(_store);
+ var chatClient = new RecordingCurationChatClient("CREATE");
+
+ var evaluator = new MemoryCurationEvaluator(
+ _store, (ILoggingAdapter)NoLogger.Instance, new MemoryCurationConfig(), chatClient, embedderHolder, vectorIndexHolder);
+
+ var evaluation = await evaluator.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct);
+ Assert.Equal(CurationDecisionKind.Create, evaluation.Decision.Kind);
+ Assert.Equal(1, chatClient.CallCount);
+
+ var writeOp = await evaluator.ApplyDecisionAsync(operation, evaluation.Decision, evaluation.Candidates, ct);
+ Assert.NotNull(writeOp);
+ await _store.ApplyInlineCurationBatchAsync([writeOp!], ct);
+
+ // Two documents survive — the nominee (a cosine-adjacent sibling in this fixture, per
+ // the LLM's own CREATE call) was never auto-merged into the existing one.
+ Assert.Equal(2, await CountNonTombstonedDocumentsAsync(ct));
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task Nominee_present_with_no_LLM_available_conservatively_creates_never_auto_merges()
+ {
+ var ct = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
+ await _store.InitializeAsync(ct);
+
+ const string existingBody = "The build pipeline stores intermediate render artifacts in a graphite-backed cache layer.";
+ await SeedDocumentWithEmbeddingAsync("graphite-render-cache", "doc-existing", existingBody, freshnessAtMs: 1000, ct);
+
+ var operation = MakeOperation(
+ "sunfish-deploy-queue", "Deployment jobs wait in a queue before promotion to production.", freshnessAtMs: 2000);
+
+ var embedderHolder = new MemoryEmbedderHolder(new ScriptedEmbedder(ModelId, Dimensions, QueryVectorAt093), initialQueryPrefix: "", initialCalibratedMinCosineSimilarity: null);
+ var vectorIndexHolder = new MemoryVectorIndexHolder(_store);
+
+ // No LLM client at all — the daemon-checkpoint-worker shape today. A nominee here must
+ // NOT fall to TryAutoResolveAmbiguous (which could return Skip); the outcome must be
+ // Create, never a merge decided by cosine alone.
+ var evaluator = new MemoryCurationEvaluator(
+ _store, (ILoggingAdapter)NoLogger.Instance, new MemoryCurationConfig(), llmClient: null,
+ embedderHolder: embedderHolder, vectorIndexHolder: vectorIndexHolder);
+
+ var evaluation = await evaluator.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct);
+ Assert.Equal(CurationDecisionKind.Create, evaluation.Decision.Kind);
+ Assert.False(evaluation.Decision.FromLlmTier);
+ Assert.Contains("conservative create", evaluation.Decision.Reason);
+ Assert.Contains("no auto-merge on cosine alone", evaluation.Decision.Reason);
+
+ var writeOp = await evaluator.ApplyDecisionAsync(operation, evaluation.Decision, evaluation.Candidates, ct);
+ Assert.NotNull(writeOp);
+ await _store.ApplyInlineCurationBatchAsync([writeOp!], ct);
+
+ Assert.Equal(2, await CountNonTombstonedDocumentsAsync(ct));
+ }
+
+ // ── Novel proposal skips the curator ─────────────────────────────────
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task Novel_proposal_with_no_nominee_and_no_anchor_match_skips_the_curator_entirely()
+ {
+ var ct = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
+ await _store.InitializeAsync(ct);
+
+ // Empty store: no anchor to match, and the vector index has nothing to nominate — the
+ // "median nominee count on a random write is 0" common case (design D4 point 3).
+ var operation = MakeOperation(
+ "brand-new-topic", "Completely novel content nobody has proposed before.", freshnessAtMs: 1000);
+
+ var embedderHolder = new MemoryEmbedderHolder(new ScriptedEmbedder(ModelId, Dimensions, QueryVectorAt093), initialQueryPrefix: "", initialCalibratedMinCosineSimilarity: null);
+ var vectorIndexHolder = new MemoryVectorIndexHolder(_store);
+ var chatClient = new RecordingCurationChatClient("CREATE");
+
+ var evaluator = new MemoryCurationEvaluator(
+ _store, (ILoggingAdapter)NoLogger.Instance, new MemoryCurationConfig(), chatClient, embedderHolder, vectorIndexHolder);
+
+ var evaluation = await evaluator.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct);
+
+ Assert.Equal(CurationDecisionKind.Create, evaluation.Decision.Kind);
+ Assert.False(evaluation.Decision.FromLlmTier);
+ Assert.Equal(0, chatClient.CallCount);
+ }
+
+ // ── Degraded path ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task Embedder_unavailable_falls_back_to_lexical_search_and_logs_the_degraded_marker()
+ {
+ var ct = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
+ await _store.InitializeAsync(ct);
+
+ const string existingBody = "Deployment jobs wait in a queue before promotion to production servers.";
+ const string proposalContent = "Deployment jobs wait in a queue before reaching production.";
+
+ // Substantial lexical overlap (unlike the nomination-forcing fixture above) so the
+ // degraded path's lexical content-term search actually surfaces this document.
+ Assert.True(WordJaccard(existingBody, proposalContent) > 0.4, "fixture must have high word overlap");
+
+ await SeedDocumentWithEmbeddingAsync("totally-different-topic", "doc-existing", existingBody, freshnessAtMs: 1000, ct);
+ var operation = MakeOperation("another-unrelated-subject", proposalContent, freshnessAtMs: 2000);
+
+ var recordingLogger = new RecordingLogger();
+ var embedderHolder = new MemoryEmbedderHolder(new UnavailableMemoryEmbedder(ModelId, "not provisioned"), initialQueryPrefix: "", initialCalibratedMinCosineSimilarity: null);
+ var vectorIndexHolder = new MemoryVectorIndexHolder(_store);
+
+ var evaluator = new MemoryCurationEvaluator(
+ _store, (ILogger)recordingLogger, new MemoryCurationConfig(), llmClient: null, embedderHolder, vectorIndexHolder);
+
+ var evaluation = await evaluator.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct);
+
+ Assert.Contains(recordingLogger.Entries, e => e.Contains("curation_nominator_degraded", StringComparison.Ordinal));
+ Assert.Contains(evaluation.Candidates, c => c.DocumentId == "doc-existing");
+ // Lexical-path candidates never carry cosine evidence.
+ Assert.All(evaluation.Candidates, c => Assert.Null(c.CosineSimilarity));
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task Null_embedder_holder_is_treated_identically_to_unavailable_and_degrades()
+ {
+ var ct = TestContext.Current.CancellationToken;
+ await _store.InitializeAsync(ct);
+
+ const string existingBody = "Deployment jobs wait in a queue before promotion to production servers.";
+ const string proposalContent = "Deployment jobs wait in a queue before reaching production.";
+
+ await SeedDocumentWithEmbeddingAsync("totally-different-topic", "doc-existing", existingBody, freshnessAtMs: 1000, ct);
+ var operation = MakeOperation("another-unrelated-subject", proposalContent, freshnessAtMs: 2000);
+
+ var recordingLogger = new RecordingLogger();
+
+ // No embedder holder AND no vector index holder at all — a test harness / build that
+ // never wired up the embedding subsystem, same as the pre-Slice-3 constructor shape.
+ var evaluator = new MemoryCurationEvaluator(
+ _store, (ILogger)recordingLogger, new MemoryCurationConfig());
+
+ var evaluation = await evaluator.EvaluateAsync(operation, TestSessionId, ct);
+
+ Assert.Contains(recordingLogger.Entries, e => e.Contains("curation_nominator_degraded", StringComparison.Ordinal));
+ Assert.Contains(evaluation.Candidates, c => c.DocumentId == "doc-existing");
+ }
+
+ // ── helpers ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+ private async Task SeedDocumentWithEmbeddingAsync(
+ string anchorName, string docId, string content, long freshnessAtMs, CancellationToken ct)
+ {
+ var anchor = _store.CreateDefaultAnchor(anchorName);
+ await _store.UpsertDocumentAsync(new SQLiteMemoryDocument(
+ DocumentId: docId,
+ Anchor: anchor,
+ MemoryClass: "durable_fact",
+ Title: $"Existing {anchorName}",
+ MarkdownBody: content,
+ AliasesJson: null,
+ FacetsJson: null,
+ SlotsJson: null,
+ UpdateSemantics: "merge-document",
+ Sensitivity: "normal",
+ RecallMode: "auto",
+ Confidence: 0.9,
+ FreshnessAtMs: freshnessAtMs,
+ ExpiresAtMs: null,
+ CreatedAtMs: freshnessAtMs,
+ UpdatedAtMs: freshnessAtMs), ct);
+
+ await _store.UpsertEmbeddingAsync(
+ docId, MemoryEmbedOnWriteCoordinator.DocumentItemKind, ModelId, contentHash: $"hash-{docId}", ExistingVector, ct);
+ }
+
+ private async Task CountNonTombstonedDocumentsAsync(CancellationToken ct)
+ {
+ await using var conn = new SqliteConnection($"Data Source={_dbPath}");
+ await conn.OpenAsync(ct);
+ await using var cmd = conn.CreateCommand();
+ cmd.CommandText = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM memory_documents WHERE update_semantics != 'tombstone';";
+ return Convert.ToInt32(await cmd.ExecuteScalarAsync(ct));
+ }
+
+ private static double WordJaccard(string a, string b)
+ {
+ var wordsA = Tokenize(a);
+ var wordsB = Tokenize(b);
+ var union = wordsA.Union(wordsB).Count();
+ return union == 0 ? 0 : (double)wordsA.Intersect(wordsB).Count() / union;
+
+ static HashSet Tokenize(string text) =>
+ text.Split([' ', '.', ',', ':', ';', '!', '?'], StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
+ .Select(w => w.Trim().ToLowerInvariant())
+ .Where(w => w.Length > 0)
+ .ToHashSet();
+ }
+
+ private static SQLiteMemoryCurationOperation MakeOperation(
+ string anchor,
+ string content,
+ string kind = "document",
+ string updateSemantics = "merge-document",
+ long freshnessAtMs = 2000) =>
+ new(
+ Kind: kind,
+ MemoryClass: "durable_fact",
+ MemoryId: null,
+ AnchorCanonicalName: anchor,
+ AnchorType: "concept",
+ Title: $"Title for {anchor}",
+ Content: content,
+ AliasesJson: null,
+ FacetsJson: null,
+ SlotsJson: null,
+ Relations: null,
+ UpdateSemantics: updateSemantics,
+ Boundary: TrustBoundary.TrustedInstanceValue,
+ Audience: TrustAudience.Public,
+ Sensitivity: "normal",
+ RecallMode: "auto",
+ Confidence: 0.9,
+ FreshnessAtMs: freshnessAtMs,
+ ExpiresAtMs: null);
+
+ ///
+ /// Fake embedder that ignores its input text and always returns the same, hand-crafted
+ /// query vector — sufficient here because every test in this file embeds at most one
+ /// proposal, and the geometry (not the input text) is what needs to be controlled.
+ ///
+ private sealed class ScriptedEmbedder(string modelId, int dimensions, float[] queryVector) : IMemoryEmbedder
+ {
+ public string ModelId => modelId;
+
+ public int Dimensions => dimensions;
+
+ public bool IsAvailable => true;
+
+ public ValueTask> EmbedAsync(string text, EmbeddingPurpose purpose, CancellationToken ct)
+ => ValueTask.FromResult>(queryVector);
+
+ public ValueTask>> EmbedBatchAsync(IReadOnlyList texts, EmbeddingPurpose purpose, CancellationToken ct)
+ => ValueTask.FromResult>>(
+ texts.Select(_ => (ReadOnlyMemory)queryVector).ToList());
+ }
+
+ ///
+ /// Scripted that records how many times it was invoked, so tests
+ /// can assert the LLM tier was (or was never) reached — the nomination-forcing contract's
+ /// core observable. Mirrors MemoryCurationEvaluatorParityTests.ScriptedCurationChatClient
+ /// plus a call counter (kept as a separate private copy per that file's own convention).
+ ///
+ private sealed class RecordingCurationChatClient(string? responseText) : IChatClient
+ {
+ public int CallCount { get; private set; }
+
+ public Task GetResponseAsync(
+ IEnumerable messages, ChatOptions? options = null, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
+ {
+ CallCount++;
+ return Task.FromResult(new ChatResponse(new AiChatMessage(AiChatRole.Assistant, responseText ?? string.Empty)));
+ }
+
+ public IAsyncEnumerable GetStreamingResponseAsync(
+ IEnumerable messages, ChatOptions? options = null, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
+ {
+ CallCount++;
+ return StreamAsync(cancellationToken);
+ }
+
+ private async IAsyncEnumerable StreamAsync([EnumeratorCancellation] CancellationToken cancellationToken)
+ {
+ if (responseText is not null)
+ yield return new ChatResponseUpdate(AiChatRole.Assistant, responseText);
+
+ await Task.CompletedTask;
+ }
+
+ public object? GetService(Type serviceType, object? serviceKey = null) => null;
+
+ public void Dispose()
+ {
+ }
+ }
+
+ /// Records every log line emitted through the Microsoft.Extensions.Logging ctor.
+ private sealed class RecordingLogger : ILogger
+ {
+ public List Entries { get; } = [];
+
+ public IDisposable? BeginScope(TState state) where TState : notnull => null;
+
+ public bool IsEnabled(Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.LogLevel logLevel) => true;
+
+ public void Log(
+ Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.LogLevel logLevel, EventId eventId, TState state, Exception? exception,
+ Func formatter)
+ => Entries.Add(formatter(state, exception));
+ }
+}
diff --git a/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryEmbedOnWriteCoordinatorTests.cs b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryEmbedOnWriteCoordinatorTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8792ceaaf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryEmbedOnWriteCoordinatorTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,153 @@
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+// Copyright (C) 2026 - 2026 Petabridge, LLC
+//
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions;
+using Netclaw.Actors.Memory;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace Netclaw.Actors.Tests.Memory;
+
+///
+/// Covers (memory-core-redesign Slice 2, task
+/// 2.8): the single embed-on-write hook both curation write pipelines call after their store
+/// batch-apply commits.
+///
+public sealed class MemoryEmbedOnWriteCoordinatorTests : IAsyncLifetime
+{
+ private readonly string _baseDir = Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), "netclaw-embed-on-write-tests", Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N"));
+ private readonly string _dbPath;
+ private readonly SQLiteMemoryStore _store;
+
+ public MemoryEmbedOnWriteCoordinatorTests()
+ {
+ Directory.CreateDirectory(_baseDir);
+ _dbPath = Path.Combine(_baseDir, "netclaw.db");
+ _store = new SQLiteMemoryStore(_dbPath, TimeProvider.System);
+ }
+
+ public async ValueTask InitializeAsync() => await _store.InitializeAsync(TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ public async ValueTask DisposeAsync() => await SqliteTempDirectoryCleanup.TryDeleteDirectoryAsync(_baseDir);
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task Available_embedder_embeds_written_documents_with_the_correct_content_hash()
+ {
+ var anchor = _store.CreateDefaultAnchor("coordinator-test");
+ var now = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds();
+ await _store.UpsertDocumentAsync(new SQLiteMemoryDocument(
+ DocumentId: "doc-1",
+ Anchor: anchor,
+ MemoryClass: "durable_fact",
+ Title: "Title",
+ MarkdownBody: "Body",
+ AliasesJson: null,
+ FacetsJson: null,
+ SlotsJson: null,
+ UpdateSemantics: "merge-document",
+ Sensitivity: "normal",
+ RecallMode: "auto",
+ Confidence: 0.9,
+ FreshnessAtMs: now,
+ ExpiresAtMs: null,
+ CreatedAtMs: now,
+ UpdatedAtMs: now), TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ var holder = new MemoryEmbedderHolder(new FakeMemoryEmbedder("model-a", dimensions: 3), initialQueryPrefix: "", initialCalibratedMinCosineSimilarity: null);
+ var written = new[] { new MemoryDocumentWriteResult("doc-1", "Title", "Body") };
+
+ await MemoryEmbedOnWriteCoordinator.EmbedWrittenDocumentsAsync(
+ holder, _store, written, NullLogger.Instance, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ var rows = await _store.GetEmbeddingsForModelAsync("model-a", TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ var row = Assert.Single(rows);
+ Assert.Equal("doc-1", row.ItemId);
+ Assert.Equal("document", row.ItemKind);
+
+ // The coverage query recomputes MemoryContentHasher over memory_documents and compares
+ // against the stored content_hash — a non-zero EmbeddedCurrentHashCount here proves the
+ // coordinator wrote the correct hash, not just some hash.
+ var coverage = await _store.GetEmbeddingCoverageAsync("model-a", TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ Assert.Equal(1, coverage.EmbeddedCurrentHashCount);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task Null_holder_skips_embedding_without_throwing()
+ {
+ var written = new[] { new MemoryDocumentWriteResult("doc-1", "Title", "Body") };
+
+ await MemoryEmbedOnWriteCoordinator.EmbedWrittenDocumentsAsync(
+ holder: null, _store, written, NullLogger.Instance, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ Assert.Empty(await _store.GetEmbeddingsForModelAsync("model-a", TestContext.Current.CancellationToken));
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task Unavailable_embedder_skips_embedding_without_throwing()
+ {
+ var holder = new MemoryEmbedderHolder(new UnavailableMemoryEmbedder("model-a", "not provisioned"), initialQueryPrefix: "", initialCalibratedMinCosineSimilarity: null);
+ var written = new[] { new MemoryDocumentWriteResult("doc-1", "Title", "Body") };
+
+ await MemoryEmbedOnWriteCoordinator.EmbedWrittenDocumentsAsync(
+ holder, _store, written, NullLogger.Instance, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ Assert.Empty(await _store.GetEmbeddingsForModelAsync("model-a", TestContext.Current.CancellationToken));
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task Embed_failure_on_one_item_is_isolated_and_does_not_throw_or_block_others()
+ {
+ var holder = new MemoryEmbedderHolder(new FakeMemoryEmbedder("model-a", dimensions: 2, failOnText: "Bad\nBody"), initialQueryPrefix: "", initialCalibratedMinCosineSimilarity: null);
+ var written = new[]
+ {
+ new MemoryDocumentWriteResult("doc-bad", "Bad", "Body"),
+ new MemoryDocumentWriteResult("doc-good", "Good", "Body"),
+ };
+
+ // Must not throw: an embedding failure must never propagate out of the coordinator and
+ // fail/retry the memory write that already committed (design D3: vectors are derived data).
+ await MemoryEmbedOnWriteCoordinator.EmbedWrittenDocumentsAsync(
+ holder, _store, written, NullLogger.Instance, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ var rows = await _store.GetEmbeddingsForModelAsync("model-a", TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ var row = Assert.Single(rows);
+ Assert.Equal("doc-good", row.ItemId);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task Empty_written_list_is_a_no_op()
+ {
+ var holder = new MemoryEmbedderHolder(new FakeMemoryEmbedder("model-a", dimensions: 2), initialQueryPrefix: "", initialCalibratedMinCosineSimilarity: null);
+
+ await MemoryEmbedOnWriteCoordinator.EmbedWrittenDocumentsAsync(
+ holder, _store, [], NullLogger.Instance, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ Assert.Empty(await _store.GetEmbeddingsForModelAsync("model-a", TestContext.Current.CancellationToken));
+ }
+
+ private sealed class FakeMemoryEmbedder(string modelId, int dimensions, string? failOnText = null) : IMemoryEmbedder
+ {
+ public string ModelId => modelId;
+
+ public int Dimensions => dimensions;
+
+ public bool IsAvailable => true;
+
+ public ValueTask> EmbedAsync(string text, EmbeddingPurpose purpose, CancellationToken ct)
+ {
+ if (failOnText is not null && string.Equals(text, failOnText, StringComparison.Ordinal))
+ throw new InvalidOperationException("simulated embed failure");
+
+ return ValueTask.FromResult>(new float[dimensions]);
+ }
+
+ public async ValueTask>> EmbedBatchAsync(IReadOnlyList texts, EmbeddingPurpose purpose, CancellationToken ct)
+ {
+ var results = new List>(texts.Count);
+ foreach (var text in texts)
+ results.Add(await EmbedAsync(text, purpose, ct));
+ return results;
+ }
+ }
+}
diff --git a/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryEvalSeedSuiteTests.cs b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryEvalSeedSuiteTests.cs
index c9f342ffa..a36ea966e 100644
--- a/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryEvalSeedSuiteTests.cs
+++ b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryEvalSeedSuiteTests.cs
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ await _store.UpsertDocumentAsync(new SQLiteMemoryDocument(
CreatedAtMs: now,
UpdatedAtMs: now), TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
- var coordinator = new SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator(_store, NullLogger.Instance, sessionTuning: new SessionTuning());
+ var coordinator = new SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator(_store, NullLogger.Instance, new MemoryConfig(), TimeProvider.System, sessionTuning: new SessionTuning());
var result = await coordinator.RecallAsync(new AutomaticRecallRequest(
SessionId: (SessionId)"ops/thread-1",
Query: "router failover",
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ await _store.UpsertDocumentAsync(new SQLiteMemoryDocument(
CreatedAtMs: now,
UpdatedAtMs: now), TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
- var coordinator = new SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator(_store, NullLogger.Instance, sessionTuning: new SessionTuning());
+ var coordinator = new SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator(_store, NullLogger.Instance, new MemoryConfig(), TimeProvider.System, sessionTuning: new SessionTuning());
var result = await coordinator.RecallAsync(new AutomaticRecallRequest(
SessionId: (SessionId)"ops/thread-1",
Query: "token",
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ await _store.UpsertDocumentAsync(new SQLiteMemoryDocument(
UpdatedAtMs: now), TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
}
- var coordinator = new SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator(_store, NullLogger.Instance, sessionTuning: new SessionTuning());
+ var coordinator = new SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator(_store, NullLogger.Instance, new MemoryConfig(), TimeProvider.System, sessionTuning: new SessionTuning());
var start = TimeProvider.System.GetTimestamp();
var result = await coordinator.RecallAsync(new AutomaticRecallRequest(
SessionId: (SessionId)"latency/thread-1",
diff --git a/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryRedesignedEvalSuiteTests.cs b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryRedesignedEvalSuiteTests.cs
index 36182382e..de310b531 100644
--- a/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryRedesignedEvalSuiteTests.cs
+++ b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryRedesignedEvalSuiteTests.cs
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@ public async Task Formation_then_auto_recall_surfaces_durable_fact()
var recall = new SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator(
_store,
NullLogger.Instance,
+ new MemoryConfig(),
+ _timeProvider,
sessionTuning: new SessionTuning());
var result = await recall.RecallAsync(new AutomaticRecallRequest(
@@ -125,6 +127,8 @@ public async Task Formation_then_recall_surfaces_travel_origin_and_persists_meta
var recall = new SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator(
_store,
NullLogger.Instance,
+ new MemoryConfig(),
+ _timeProvider,
sessionTuning: new SessionTuning { DeterministicRetrievalEnabled = true });
var result = await recall.RecallAsync(new AutomaticRecallRequest(
@@ -185,6 +189,8 @@ public async Task Formation_then_recall_surfaces_preferred_airline_and_persists_
var recall = new SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator(
_store,
NullLogger.Instance,
+ new MemoryConfig(),
+ _timeProvider,
sessionTuning: new SessionTuning { DeterministicRetrievalEnabled = true });
var result = await recall.RecallAsync(new AutomaticRecallRequest(
@@ -253,6 +259,8 @@ await _store.ApplyCurationBatchAsync(
var recall = new SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator(
_store,
NullLogger.Instance,
+ new MemoryConfig(),
+ _timeProvider,
sessionTuning: new SessionTuning());
var auto = await recall.RecallAsync(new AutomaticRecallRequest(
@@ -471,6 +479,8 @@ public async Task Eval_reporting_thresholds_meet_smoke_targets_for_current_fixtu
var recall = new SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator(
_store,
NullLogger.Instance,
+ new MemoryConfig(),
+ _timeProvider,
sessionTuning: new SessionTuning());
var acceptedFact = proposalGate.Accept(
diff --git a/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryVectorIndexTests.cs b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryVectorIndexTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1f47362a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MemoryVectorIndexTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+// Copyright (C) 2026 - 2026 Petabridge, LLC
+//
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+using Netclaw.Actors.Memory;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace Netclaw.Actors.Tests.Memory;
+
+public sealed class MemoryVectorIndexTests : IAsyncLifetime
+{
+ private const string ModelId = "test-model";
+ private const int Dimensions = 3;
+
+ private readonly string _baseDir = Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), "netclaw-vector-index-tests", Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N"));
+ private SQLiteMemoryStore _store = null!;
+ private MemoryVectorIndex _index = null!;
+
+ public async ValueTask InitializeAsync()
+ {
+ Directory.CreateDirectory(_baseDir);
+ _store = new SQLiteMemoryStore(Path.Combine(_baseDir, "netclaw.db"), TimeProvider.System);
+ await _store.InitializeAsync(TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ _index = new MemoryVectorIndex(_store, ModelId, Dimensions);
+ }
+
+ public async ValueTask DisposeAsync() => await SqliteTempDirectoryCleanup.TryDeleteDirectoryAsync(_baseDir);
+
+ private async Task SeedAsync(string itemId, float[] vector)
+ {
+ await _store.UpsertEmbeddingAsync(itemId, "document", ModelId, contentHash: $"hash-{itemId}", vector, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task TopK_orders_by_descending_cosine_and_applies_the_minCosine_floor()
+ {
+ await SeedAsync("doc-exact", [1f, 0f, 0f]);
+ await SeedAsync("doc-close", [0.95f, 0.05f, 0f]);
+ await SeedAsync("doc-orthogonal", [0f, 1f, 0f]);
+ await SeedAsync("doc-opposite", [-1f, 0f, 0f]);
+
+ await _index.ReloadIfStaleAsync(TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ var results = _index.TopK([1f, 0f, 0f], k: 10, minCosine: 0.5);
+
+ Assert.Equal(["doc-exact", "doc-close"], results.Select(r => r.ItemId));
+ Assert.True(results[0].Cosine >= results[1].Cosine);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task TopK_limits_results_to_k()
+ {
+ await SeedAsync("doc-1", [1f, 0f, 0f]);
+ await SeedAsync("doc-2", [0.99f, 0.01f, 0f]);
+ await SeedAsync("doc-3", [0.98f, 0.02f, 0f]);
+
+ await _index.ReloadIfStaleAsync(TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ var results = _index.TopK([1f, 0f, 0f], k: 2, minCosine: -1.0);
+
+ Assert.Equal(2, results.Count);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task TopK_returns_empty_before_any_reload()
+ {
+ await SeedAsync("doc-1", [1f, 0f, 0f]);
+
+ // No ReloadIfStaleAsync call yet — the index has never loaded anything.
+ var results = _index.TopK([1f, 0f, 0f], k: 10, minCosine: -1.0);
+
+ Assert.Empty(results);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task ReloadIfStaleAsync_is_a_no_op_when_the_store_version_has_not_changed()
+ {
+ await SeedAsync("doc-1", [1f, 0f, 0f]);
+
+ var firstReload = await _index.ReloadIfStaleAsync(TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ var secondReload = await _index.ReloadIfStaleAsync(TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ Assert.True(firstReload);
+ Assert.False(secondReload);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task ReloadIfStaleAsync_picks_up_new_rows_after_a_version_bump()
+ {
+ await SeedAsync("doc-1", [1f, 0f, 0f]);
+ await _index.ReloadIfStaleAsync(TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ Assert.Single(_index.TopK([1f, 0f, 0f], k: 10, minCosine: -1.0));
+
+ await SeedAsync("doc-2", [0f, 1f, 0f]);
+ var reloaded = await _index.ReloadIfStaleAsync(TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ Assert.True(reloaded);
+ Assert.Equal(2, _index.Count);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task ReloadIfStaleAsync_reflects_deletion_via_document_tombstone()
+ {
+ var anchor = _store.CreateDefaultAnchor("vector-index-tombstone-test");
+ var now = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds();
+ await _store.UpsertDocumentAsync(new SQLiteMemoryDocument(
+ DocumentId: "doc-to-delete",
+ Anchor: anchor,
+ MemoryClass: "durable_fact",
+ Title: "t",
+ MarkdownBody: "b",
+ AliasesJson: null,
+ FacetsJson: null,
+ SlotsJson: null,
+ UpdateSemantics: "merge-document",
+ Sensitivity: "normal",
+ RecallMode: "auto",
+ Confidence: 0.9,
+ FreshnessAtMs: now,
+ ExpiresAtMs: null,
+ CreatedAtMs: now,
+ UpdatedAtMs: now), TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ await SeedAsync("doc-to-delete", [1f, 0f, 0f]);
+ await _index.ReloadIfStaleAsync(TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ Assert.Equal(1, _index.Count);
+
+ await _store.TombstoneDocumentAsync("doc-to-delete", TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ await _index.ReloadIfStaleAsync(TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ Assert.Equal(0, _index.Count);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task TopK_rejects_a_query_of_the_wrong_dimension()
+ {
+ await SeedAsync("doc-1", [1f, 0f, 0f]);
+ await _index.ReloadIfStaleAsync(TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ Assert.Throws(() => _index.TopK([1f, 0f], k: 5, minCosine: 0.0));
+ }
+}
diff --git a/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MergeGuardTests.cs b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MergeGuardTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..41a64b36f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/MergeGuardTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,250 @@
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+// Copyright (C) 2026 - 2026 Petabridge, LLC
+//
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+using Netclaw.Actors.Memory;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace Netclaw.Actors.Tests.Memory;
+
+///
+/// Table/property tests for (memory-core-redesign Slice 3 task 3.3):
+/// load-bearing token extraction (URLs, numbers/versions/dates, identifiers, file paths), the
+/// 95% retention boundary, the 60% length-collapse floor, and pass-through on faithful unions.
+///
+public sealed class MergeGuardTests
+{
+ // ── Faithful merges pass ─────────────────────────────────────────
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void Validate_passes_when_merged_body_is_a_faithful_union()
+ {
+ var sources = new[]
+ {
+ "Widget specs: 16 cores, 64GB RAM, 2 NICs.",
+ "Widget pricing is TBD as of 2026-05-13."
+ };
+ var merged = "Widget specs: 16 cores, 64GB RAM, 2 NICs. Pricing is TBD as of 2026-05-13.";
+
+ var result = MergeGuard.Validate(sources, merged);
+
+ Assert.True(result.Passed);
+ Assert.Empty(result.MissingTokens);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void Validate_passes_when_merged_body_reorders_and_rewords_but_keeps_every_token()
+ {
+ var sources = new[]
+ {
+ "Akka.NET GitHub repository: https://github.com/akkadotnet/akka.net. Latest stable release is 1.5.60 as of 2026-04-02.",
+ "Akka.NET release version is now 1.5.62."
+ };
+ var merged =
+ "Akka.NET GitHub repository: https://github.com/akkadotnet/akka.net. " +
+ "Latest stable release is 1.5.62 (previously 1.5.60 as of 2026-04-02).";
+
+ var result = MergeGuard.Validate(sources, merged);
+
+ Assert.True(result.Passed);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void Validate_passes_trivially_when_there_are_no_source_bodies()
+ {
+ var result = MergeGuard.Validate([], "anything");
+
+ Assert.True(result.Passed);
+ Assert.Contains("no source bodies", result.Reason);
+ }
+
+ // ── Token-category retention ─────────────────────────────────────
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void Validate_fails_when_a_url_is_dropped()
+ {
+ var sources = new[] { "Repo lives at https://github.com/netclaw-dev/netclaw." };
+ var merged = "Repo lives at the usual place.";
+
+ var result = MergeGuard.Validate(sources, merged);
+
+ Assert.False(result.Passed);
+ Assert.Contains(result.MissingTokens, t => t.Contains("github.com", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void Validate_fails_when_a_version_number_is_dropped()
+ {
+ var sources = new[] { "Latest version is 1.5.62, released with the new serializer." };
+ var merged = "Latest version was released with the new serializer.";
+
+ var result = MergeGuard.Validate(sources, merged);
+
+ Assert.False(result.Passed);
+ Assert.Contains("1.5.62", result.MissingTokens);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void Validate_fails_when_a_date_is_dropped()
+ {
+ var sources = new[] { "Config path moved to /etc/app/config.yaml on 2026-06-01." };
+ var merged = "Config path moved to /etc/app/config.yaml.";
+
+ var result = MergeGuard.Validate(sources, merged);
+
+ Assert.False(result.Passed);
+ Assert.Contains("2026-06-01", result.MissingTokens);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void Validate_fails_when_a_written_date_is_dropped()
+ {
+ var sources = new[] { "Release shipped on May 13, 2026 after code freeze." };
+ var merged = "Release shipped after code freeze.";
+
+ var result = MergeGuard.Validate(sources, merged);
+
+ Assert.False(result.Passed);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void Validate_fails_when_a_camelCase_identifier_is_dropped()
+ {
+ var sources = new[] { "The knob is called maxOutputTokens and defaults to 4096." };
+ var merged = "The token cap defaults to 4096.";
+
+ var result = MergeGuard.Validate(sources, merged);
+
+ Assert.False(result.Passed);
+ Assert.Contains("maxOutputTokens", result.MissingTokens);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void Validate_fails_when_a_file_path_is_dropped()
+ {
+ var sources = new[] { "The guard lives in src/Netclaw.Actors/Memory/MergeGuard.cs." };
+ var merged = "The guard lives in the memory module.";
+
+ var result = MergeGuard.Validate(sources, merged);
+
+ Assert.False(result.Passed);
+ Assert.Contains(result.MissingTokens, t => t.Contains("MergeGuard.cs", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void Validate_retention_is_case_insensitive()
+ {
+ var sources = new[] { "Endpoint is HTTPS://EXAMPLE.COM/api." };
+ var merged = "Endpoint is https://example.com/api and it is stable.";
+
+ var result = MergeGuard.Validate(sources, merged);
+
+ Assert.True(result.Passed);
+ }
+
+ // ── 95% retention boundary ────────────────────────────────────────
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void Validate_passes_at_exactly_the_95_percent_retention_boundary()
+ {
+ // 20 distinct load-bearing integers; merged keeps 19/20 = 95% exactly.
+ var tokens = Enumerable.Range(100, 20).Select(n => n.ToString()).ToArray();
+ var source = "Values: " + string.Join(", ", tokens) + ".";
+ var merged = "Values: " + string.Join(", ", tokens.Take(19)) + ".";
+
+ var result = MergeGuard.Validate([source], merged);
+
+ Assert.True(result.Passed);
+ Assert.Single(result.MissingTokens);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void Validate_fails_just_below_the_95_percent_retention_boundary()
+ {
+ // Same 20 tokens; merged keeps 18/20 = 90%, below the floor.
+ var tokens = Enumerable.Range(100, 20).Select(n => n.ToString()).ToArray();
+ var source = "Values: " + string.Join(", ", tokens) + ".";
+ var merged = "Values: " + string.Join(", ", tokens.Take(18)) + ".";
+
+ var result = MergeGuard.Validate([source], merged);
+
+ Assert.False(result.Passed);
+ Assert.Equal(2, result.MissingTokens.Count);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void Validate_counts_the_union_across_multiple_sources_not_per_source()
+ {
+ var sourceA = "Value alpha is 111.";
+ var sourceB = "Value beta is 222.";
+ // Merged keeps only one of the two distinct tokens across the union of both sources.
+ var merged = "Value alpha is 111 and beta was updated.";
+
+ var result = MergeGuard.Validate([sourceA, sourceB], merged);
+
+ Assert.False(result.Passed);
+ Assert.Contains("222", result.MissingTokens);
+ }
+
+ // ── Length-collapse floor ─────────────────────────────────────────
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void Validate_fails_on_length_collapse_even_when_tokens_are_retained()
+ {
+ // Merged repeats every load-bearing token but discards all surrounding prose,
+ // collapsing well below 60% of the longest source's length.
+ var longSource = "Config value is 42. " + new string('x', 200);
+ var merged = "42";
+
+ var result = MergeGuard.Validate([longSource], merged);
+
+ Assert.False(result.Passed);
+ Assert.Contains("collapse", result.Reason, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void Validate_passes_at_exactly_the_60_percent_length_boundary()
+ {
+ var longSource = new string('a', 100);
+ var merged = new string('a', 60);
+
+ var result = MergeGuard.Validate([longSource], merged);
+
+ Assert.True(result.Passed);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void Validate_fails_just_below_the_60_percent_length_boundary()
+ {
+ var longSource = new string('a', 100);
+ var merged = new string('a', 59);
+
+ var result = MergeGuard.Validate([longSource], merged);
+
+ Assert.False(result.Passed);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void Validate_uses_the_longest_source_for_the_length_floor()
+ {
+ var shortSource = "Short note.";
+ var longSource = new string('b', 200);
+ // Merged is well above 60% of the SHORT source but not the long one.
+ var merged = new string('b', 100);
+
+ var result = MergeGuard.Validate([shortSource, longSource], merged);
+
+ Assert.False(result.Passed);
+ }
+
+ // ── Empty/null handling ────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+ [Fact]
+ public void Validate_treats_empty_source_bodies_as_contributing_nothing()
+ {
+ var result = MergeGuard.Validate(["", " ", "real content here"], "real content here, unchanged");
+
+ Assert.True(result.Passed);
+ }
+}
diff --git a/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/SQLiteMemoryStoreEmbeddingTests.cs b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/SQLiteMemoryStoreEmbeddingTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ce561966a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/SQLiteMemoryStoreEmbeddingTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,561 @@
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+// Copyright (C) 2026 - 2026 Petabridge, LLC
+//
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+using Netclaw.Actors.Memory;
+using Netclaw.Configuration;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace Netclaw.Actors.Tests.Memory;
+
+///
+/// Covers the memory_embeddings table added in memory-core-redesign Slice 2:
+/// upsert/coverage/hash-skip round-trips, deletion via document tombstone, and
+/// bump semantics.
+///
+public sealed class SQLiteMemoryStoreEmbeddingTests : IAsyncLifetime
+{
+ private readonly string _baseDir = Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), "netclaw-sqlite-embedding-tests", Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N"));
+ private readonly string _dbPath;
+ private readonly SQLiteMemoryStore _store;
+
+ public SQLiteMemoryStoreEmbeddingTests()
+ {
+ Directory.CreateDirectory(_baseDir);
+ _dbPath = Path.Combine(_baseDir, "netclaw.db");
+ _store = new SQLiteMemoryStore(_dbPath, TimeProvider.System);
+ }
+
+ public async ValueTask InitializeAsync() => await _store.InitializeAsync(TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ public async ValueTask DisposeAsync() => await SqliteTempDirectoryCleanup.TryDeleteDirectoryAsync(_baseDir);
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task UpsertEmbeddingAsync_round_trips_the_vector()
+ {
+ float[] vector = [0.1f, 0.2f, 0.3f, 0.4f];
+
+ await _store.UpsertEmbeddingAsync("doc-1", "document", "model-a", "hash-1", vector, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ var rows = await _store.GetEmbeddingsForModelAsync("model-a", TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ var row = Assert.Single(rows);
+ Assert.Equal("doc-1", row.ItemId);
+ Assert.Equal("document", row.ItemKind);
+ Assert.Equal(vector, row.Vector.ToArray());
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task UpsertEmbeddingAsync_with_unchanged_hash_is_a_no_op_and_does_not_bump_the_version()
+ {
+ float[] vector = [1f, 2f, 3f];
+ await _store.UpsertEmbeddingAsync("doc-1", "document", "model-a", "hash-1", vector, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ var versionAfterFirstWrite = _store.EmbeddingDataVersion;
+
+ // Same hash, even with a different (bogus) vector — must be skipped entirely: the
+ // stored vector is untouched and the version counter does not move.
+ await _store.UpsertEmbeddingAsync("doc-1", "document", "model-a", "hash-1", new float[] { 9f, 9f, 9f }, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ var rows = await _store.GetEmbeddingsForModelAsync("model-a", TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ Assert.Equal(vector, Assert.Single(rows).Vector.ToArray());
+ Assert.Equal(versionAfterFirstWrite, _store.EmbeddingDataVersion);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task UpsertEmbeddingAsync_with_changed_hash_overwrites_and_bumps_the_version()
+ {
+ await _store.UpsertEmbeddingAsync("doc-1", "document", "model-a", "hash-1", new float[] { 1f, 2f, 3f }, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ var versionAfterFirstWrite = _store.EmbeddingDataVersion;
+
+ await _store.UpsertEmbeddingAsync("doc-1", "document", "model-a", "hash-2", new float[] { 4f, 5f, 6f }, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ var rows = await _store.GetEmbeddingsForModelAsync("model-a", TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ Assert.Equal(new float[] { 4f, 5f, 6f }, Assert.Single(rows).Vector.ToArray());
+ Assert.True(_store.EmbeddingDataVersion > versionAfterFirstWrite);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task UpsertEmbeddingAsync_keys_rows_by_item_and_model_independently()
+ {
+ await _store.UpsertEmbeddingAsync("doc-1", "document", "model-a", "hash-1", new float[] { 1f }, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ await _store.UpsertEmbeddingAsync("doc-1", "document", "model-b", "hash-1", new float[] { 2f }, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ var modelARows = await _store.GetEmbeddingsForModelAsync("model-a", TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ var modelBRows = await _store.GetEmbeddingsForModelAsync("model-b", TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ Assert.Equal(new float[] { 1f }, Assert.Single(modelARows).Vector.ToArray());
+ Assert.Equal(new float[] { 2f }, Assert.Single(modelBRows).Vector.ToArray());
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task TombstoneDocumentAsync_deletes_the_document_embedding_and_bumps_the_version()
+ {
+ var anchor = _store.CreateDefaultAnchor("embedding-tombstone-test");
+ var now = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds();
+ await _store.UpsertDocumentAsync(new SQLiteMemoryDocument(
+ DocumentId: "doc-1",
+ Anchor: anchor,
+ MemoryClass: "durable_fact",
+ Title: "t",
+ MarkdownBody: "b",
+ AliasesJson: null,
+ FacetsJson: null,
+ SlotsJson: null,
+ UpdateSemantics: "merge-document",
+ Sensitivity: "normal",
+ RecallMode: "auto",
+ Confidence: 0.9,
+ FreshnessAtMs: now,
+ ExpiresAtMs: null,
+ CreatedAtMs: now,
+ UpdatedAtMs: now), TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ await _store.UpsertEmbeddingAsync("doc-1", "document", "model-a", "hash-1", new float[] { 1f, 2f }, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ var versionBeforeTombstone = _store.EmbeddingDataVersion;
+
+ var tombstoned = await _store.TombstoneDocumentAsync("doc-1", TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ Assert.True(tombstoned);
+ Assert.Empty(await _store.GetEmbeddingsForModelAsync("model-a", TestContext.Current.CancellationToken));
+ Assert.True(_store.EmbeddingDataVersion > versionBeforeTombstone);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task TombstoneDocumentAsync_with_no_embedding_row_does_not_bump_the_version()
+ {
+ var anchor = _store.CreateDefaultAnchor("no-embedding-tombstone-test");
+ var now = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds();
+ await _store.UpsertDocumentAsync(new SQLiteMemoryDocument(
+ DocumentId: "doc-no-embedding",
+ Anchor: anchor,
+ MemoryClass: "durable_fact",
+ Title: "t",
+ MarkdownBody: "b",
+ AliasesJson: null,
+ FacetsJson: null,
+ SlotsJson: null,
+ UpdateSemantics: "merge-document",
+ Sensitivity: "normal",
+ RecallMode: "auto",
+ Confidence: 0.9,
+ FreshnessAtMs: now,
+ ExpiresAtMs: null,
+ CreatedAtMs: now,
+ UpdatedAtMs: now), TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ var versionBefore = _store.EmbeddingDataVersion;
+
+ var tombstoned = await _store.TombstoneDocumentAsync("doc-no-embedding", TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ Assert.True(tombstoned);
+ Assert.Equal(versionBefore, _store.EmbeddingDataVersion);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task GetEmbeddingCoverageAsync_reports_total_current_and_other_model_counts()
+ {
+ var anchor = _store.CreateDefaultAnchor("coverage-test");
+ var now = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds();
+
+ async Task SeedDocAsync(string id, string title, string body)
+ {
+ await _store.UpsertDocumentAsync(new SQLiteMemoryDocument(
+ DocumentId: id,
+ Anchor: anchor,
+ MemoryClass: "durable_fact",
+ Title: title,
+ MarkdownBody: body,
+ AliasesJson: null,
+ FacetsJson: null,
+ SlotsJson: null,
+ UpdateSemantics: "merge-document",
+ Sensitivity: "normal",
+ RecallMode: "auto",
+ Confidence: 0.9,
+ FreshnessAtMs: now,
+ ExpiresAtMs: null,
+ CreatedAtMs: now,
+ UpdatedAtMs: now), TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ }
+
+ // doc-current: embedded under model-a with the hash matching its current content.
+ await SeedDocAsync("doc-current", "Current", "up to date body");
+ var currentHash = MemoryContentHasher.ComputeHash("Current", "up to date body");
+ await _store.UpsertEmbeddingAsync("doc-current", "document", "model-a", currentHash, new float[] { 1f }, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ // doc-stale: has a model-a row, but its stored hash no longer matches (content edited
+ // since the embedding was written) — should NOT count toward EmbeddedCurrentHashCount.
+ await SeedDocAsync("doc-stale", "Stale", "edited body");
+ await _store.UpsertEmbeddingAsync("doc-stale", "document", "model-a", "stale-hash-from-before-the-edit", new float[] { 2f }, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ // doc-other-model: only has a row under model-b.
+ await SeedDocAsync("doc-other-model", "Other", "other model body");
+ await _store.UpsertEmbeddingAsync("doc-other-model", "document", "model-b", "whatever", new float[] { 3f }, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ // doc-unembedded: no embedding row at all.
+ await SeedDocAsync("doc-unembedded", "Unembedded", "never embedded");
+
+ var coverage = await _store.GetEmbeddingCoverageAsync("model-a", TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ Assert.Equal(4, coverage.TotalRecallableDocuments);
+ Assert.Equal(1, coverage.EmbeddedCurrentHashCount);
+ Assert.Equal(1, coverage.OtherModelCount);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task GetDocumentsNeedingEmbeddingAsync_returns_only_missing_or_stale_documents()
+ {
+ var anchor = _store.CreateDefaultAnchor("gap-repair-test");
+ var now = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds();
+
+ async Task SeedDocAsync(string id, string title, string body)
+ {
+ await _store.UpsertDocumentAsync(new SQLiteMemoryDocument(
+ DocumentId: id,
+ Anchor: anchor,
+ MemoryClass: "durable_fact",
+ Title: title,
+ MarkdownBody: body,
+ AliasesJson: null,
+ FacetsJson: null,
+ SlotsJson: null,
+ UpdateSemantics: "merge-document",
+ Sensitivity: "normal",
+ RecallMode: "auto",
+ Confidence: 0.9,
+ FreshnessAtMs: now,
+ ExpiresAtMs: null,
+ CreatedAtMs: now,
+ UpdatedAtMs: now), TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ }
+
+ await SeedDocAsync("doc-current", "Current", "up to date body");
+ var currentHash = MemoryContentHasher.ComputeHash("Current", "up to date body");
+ await _store.UpsertEmbeddingAsync("doc-current", "document", "model-a", currentHash, new float[] { 1f }, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ await SeedDocAsync("doc-stale", "Stale", "edited body");
+ await _store.UpsertEmbeddingAsync("doc-stale", "document", "model-a", "stale-hash-from-before-the-edit", new float[] { 2f }, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ await SeedDocAsync("doc-unembedded", "Unembedded", "never embedded");
+
+ var missing = await _store.GetDocumentsNeedingEmbeddingAsync("model-a", force: false, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ Assert.Equal(
+ new[] { "doc-stale", "doc-unembedded" },
+ missing.Select(m => m.DocumentId).Order(StringComparer.Ordinal));
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task GetDocumentsNeedingEmbeddingAsync_with_force_returns_every_recallable_document()
+ {
+ var anchor = _store.CreateDefaultAnchor("gap-repair-force-test");
+ var now = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds();
+ await _store.UpsertDocumentAsync(new SQLiteMemoryDocument(
+ DocumentId: "doc-current",
+ Anchor: anchor,
+ MemoryClass: "durable_fact",
+ Title: "Current",
+ MarkdownBody: "up to date body",
+ AliasesJson: null,
+ FacetsJson: null,
+ SlotsJson: null,
+ UpdateSemantics: "merge-document",
+ Sensitivity: "normal",
+ RecallMode: "auto",
+ Confidence: 0.9,
+ FreshnessAtMs: now,
+ ExpiresAtMs: null,
+ CreatedAtMs: now,
+ UpdatedAtMs: now), TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ var currentHash = MemoryContentHasher.ComputeHash("Current", "up to date body");
+ await _store.UpsertEmbeddingAsync("doc-current", "document", "model-a", currentHash, new float[] { 1f }, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ var forced = await _store.GetDocumentsNeedingEmbeddingAsync("model-a", force: true, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ // Already fully current, but --force means "every recallable document" regardless.
+ var doc = Assert.Single(forced);
+ Assert.Equal("doc-current", doc.DocumentId);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task GetEmbeddingCoverageAsync_excludes_tombstoned_documents_from_the_total()
+ {
+ var anchor = _store.CreateDefaultAnchor("coverage-tombstone-test");
+ var now = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds();
+ await _store.UpsertDocumentAsync(new SQLiteMemoryDocument(
+ DocumentId: "doc-live",
+ Anchor: anchor,
+ MemoryClass: "durable_fact",
+ Title: "t",
+ MarkdownBody: "b",
+ AliasesJson: null,
+ FacetsJson: null,
+ SlotsJson: null,
+ UpdateSemantics: "merge-document",
+ Sensitivity: "normal",
+ RecallMode: "auto",
+ Confidence: 0.9,
+ FreshnessAtMs: now,
+ ExpiresAtMs: null,
+ CreatedAtMs: now,
+ UpdatedAtMs: now), TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ await _store.UpsertDocumentAsync(new SQLiteMemoryDocument(
+ DocumentId: "doc-tombstoned",
+ Anchor: anchor,
+ MemoryClass: "durable_fact",
+ Title: "t2",
+ MarkdownBody: "b2",
+ AliasesJson: null,
+ FacetsJson: null,
+ SlotsJson: null,
+ UpdateSemantics: "merge-document",
+ Sensitivity: "normal",
+ RecallMode: "auto",
+ Confidence: 0.9,
+ FreshnessAtMs: now,
+ ExpiresAtMs: null,
+ CreatedAtMs: now,
+ UpdatedAtMs: now), TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ await _store.TombstoneDocumentAsync("doc-tombstoned", TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ var coverage = await _store.GetEmbeddingCoverageAsync("model-a", TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ Assert.Equal(1, coverage.TotalRecallableDocuments);
+ }
+
+ // ── Batch-apply write results (memory-core-redesign Slice 2, task 2.8: the seam
+ // MemoryEmbedOnWriteCoordinator needs post-commit document ids+content) ──
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task ApplyInlineCurationBatchAsync_returns_written_documents_but_not_records()
+ {
+ var operations = new[]
+ {
+ DocumentOperation(memoryId: null, title: "New Doc", content: "doc body"),
+ RecordOperation(memoryId: "rec-1", title: "Evidence", content: "evidence body"),
+ };
+
+ var written = await _store.ApplyInlineCurationBatchAsync(operations, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ var doc = Assert.Single(written);
+ Assert.Equal("New Doc", doc.Title);
+ Assert.Equal("doc body", doc.Body);
+ Assert.False(string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(doc.DocumentId));
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task ApplyInlineCurationBatchAsync_reports_the_final_document_id_for_an_update()
+ {
+ var written = await _store.ApplyInlineCurationBatchAsync(
+ [DocumentOperation(memoryId: "doc-explicit-id", title: "Updated", content: "updated body")],
+ TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ var doc = Assert.Single(written);
+ Assert.Equal("doc-explicit-id", doc.DocumentId);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task ApplyCurationBatchAsync_returns_written_documents_but_not_records()
+ {
+ await _store.EnqueueCheckpointAsync(new SQLiteMemoryCheckpoint(
+ CheckpointId: "cp-embed-1",
+ SessionId: "chan/thread",
+ TurnId: "turn-1",
+ TriggerType: "turn-complete",
+ Priority: 10,
+ Status: "pending",
+ PayloadJson: "{}",
+ RetryCount: 0,
+ CreatedAtMs: DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds(),
+ UpdatedAtMs: DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds()), TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ var operations = new[]
+ {
+ DocumentOperation(memoryId: null, title: "Worker Doc", content: "worker body"),
+ RecordOperation(memoryId: "rec-2", title: "Worker Evidence", content: "worker evidence body"),
+ };
+
+ var written = await _store.ApplyCurationBatchAsync("cp-embed-1", operations, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ var doc = Assert.Single(written);
+ Assert.Equal("Worker Doc", doc.Title);
+ Assert.Equal("worker body", doc.Body);
+ }
+
+ // ── GetRecallCandidatesByIdsAsync gated hydration (memory-core-redesign Slice 4, task 4.2) ──
+ //
+ // These prove SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator's hybrid path cannot use a vector-sourced hit to
+ // bypass a policy gate a lexically-discovered hit (SearchByPlanAsync) would have to clear:
+ // every scenario here mirrors one of SearchByPlanAsync's document-branch predicates
+ // (recall_mode allowlist, boundary match, audience membership, sensitivity exclusion,
+ // memory-class allowlist) via the shared DocumentRecallPolicyPredicateSql helper.
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task GetRecallCandidatesByIdsAsync_returns_a_document_that_clears_every_gate()
+ {
+ await SeedGatedDocumentAsync("doc-gated-ok");
+
+ var result = await _store.GetRecallCandidatesByIdsAsync(
+ ["doc-gated-ok"],
+ [MemoryClass.DurableFact.ToWireValue()],
+ TrustBoundary.TrustedInstanceValue,
+ TrustAudience.Public,
+ allowExpiredEvidence: false,
+ TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ Assert.Single(result, x => x.Id == "doc-gated-ok");
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task GetRecallCandidatesByIdsAsync_excludes_a_manual_recall_mode_document()
+ {
+ await SeedGatedDocumentAsync("doc-gated-manual", recallMode: "manual");
+
+ var result = await _store.GetRecallCandidatesByIdsAsync(
+ ["doc-gated-manual"],
+ [MemoryClass.DurableFact.ToWireValue()],
+ TrustBoundary.TrustedInstanceValue,
+ TrustAudience.Public,
+ allowExpiredEvidence: false,
+ TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ Assert.Empty(result);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task GetRecallCandidatesByIdsAsync_excludes_a_secret_sensitivity_document()
+ {
+ await SeedGatedDocumentAsync("doc-gated-secret", sensitivity: "secret");
+
+ var result = await _store.GetRecallCandidatesByIdsAsync(
+ ["doc-gated-secret"],
+ [MemoryClass.DurableFact.ToWireValue()],
+ TrustBoundary.TrustedInstanceValue,
+ TrustAudience.Public,
+ allowExpiredEvidence: false,
+ TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ Assert.Empty(result);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task GetRecallCandidatesByIdsAsync_excludes_a_document_outside_the_requested_boundary()
+ {
+ await SeedGatedDocumentAsync("doc-gated-boundary");
+
+ var result = await _store.GetRecallCandidatesByIdsAsync(
+ ["doc-gated-boundary"],
+ [MemoryClass.DurableFact.ToWireValue()],
+ "some-other-boundary",
+ TrustAudience.Public,
+ allowExpiredEvidence: false,
+ TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ Assert.Empty(result);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task GetRecallCandidatesByIdsAsync_excludes_a_document_outside_the_requested_audience()
+ {
+ await SeedGatedDocumentAsync("doc-gated-audience", audience: TrustAudience.Team.ToWireValue());
+
+ // Public's allowed-audience set (MemoryPolicyEvaluator.AllowedAudienceWireValues) is
+ // [Public] only -- Team is not visible to a Public-scoped request.
+ var result = await _store.GetRecallCandidatesByIdsAsync(
+ ["doc-gated-audience"],
+ [MemoryClass.DurableFact.ToWireValue()],
+ TrustBoundary.TrustedInstanceValue,
+ TrustAudience.Public,
+ allowExpiredEvidence: false,
+ TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ Assert.Empty(result);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task GetRecallCandidatesByIdsAsync_excludes_a_document_outside_the_requested_memory_class()
+ {
+ await SeedGatedDocumentAsync("doc-gated-class");
+
+ var result = await _store.GetRecallCandidatesByIdsAsync(
+ ["doc-gated-class"],
+ [MemoryClass.Evidence.ToWireValue()],
+ TrustBoundary.TrustedInstanceValue,
+ TrustAudience.Public,
+ allowExpiredEvidence: false,
+ TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+
+ Assert.Empty(result);
+ }
+
+ private async Task SeedGatedDocumentAsync(
+ string documentId,
+ string recallMode = "auto",
+ string sensitivity = "normal",
+ string audience = "public")
+ {
+ var anchor = _store.CreateDefaultAnchor(documentId);
+ var now = DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds();
+ await _store.UpsertDocumentAsync(new SQLiteMemoryDocument(
+ DocumentId: documentId,
+ Anchor: anchor,
+ MemoryClass: "durable_fact",
+ Title: "Gated hydration fixture",
+ MarkdownBody: "Gated hydration fixture body.",
+ AliasesJson: null,
+ FacetsJson: null,
+ SlotsJson: null,
+ UpdateSemantics: "merge-document",
+ Sensitivity: sensitivity,
+ RecallMode: recallMode,
+ Confidence: 0.9,
+ FreshnessAtMs: now,
+ ExpiresAtMs: null,
+ CreatedAtMs: now,
+ UpdatedAtMs: now,
+ Audience: audience), TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
+ }
+
+ private static SQLiteMemoryCurationOperation DocumentOperation(string? memoryId, string title, string content)
+ => new(
+ Kind: "document",
+ MemoryClass: "durable_fact",
+ MemoryId: memoryId,
+ AnchorCanonicalName: title,
+ AnchorType: "topic",
+ Title: title,
+ Content: content,
+ AliasesJson: null,
+ FacetsJson: null,
+ SlotsJson: null,
+ Relations: null,
+ UpdateSemantics: "merge-document",
+ Boundary: TrustBoundary.TrustedInstanceValue,
+ Audience: TrustAudience.Team,
+ Sensitivity: "normal",
+ RecallMode: "auto",
+ Confidence: 0.9,
+ FreshnessAtMs: DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds(),
+ ExpiresAtMs: null);
+
+ private static SQLiteMemoryCurationOperation RecordOperation(string memoryId, string title, string content)
+ => new(
+ Kind: "record",
+ MemoryClass: "evidence",
+ MemoryId: memoryId,
+ AnchorCanonicalName: title,
+ AnchorType: "topic",
+ Title: title,
+ Content: content,
+ AliasesJson: null,
+ FacetsJson: null,
+ SlotsJson: null,
+ Relations: null,
+ UpdateSemantics: "immutable-record",
+ Boundary: TrustBoundary.TrustedInstanceValue,
+ Audience: TrustAudience.Team,
+ Sensitivity: "normal",
+ RecallMode: "searchable",
+ Confidence: 0.8,
+ FreshnessAtMs: DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds(),
+ ExpiresAtMs: null);
+}
diff --git a/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/UnavailableMemoryEmbedderTests.cs b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/UnavailableMemoryEmbedderTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5a30879af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/UnavailableMemoryEmbedderTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+// Copyright (C) 2026 - 2026 Petabridge, LLC
+//
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+using Netclaw.Actors.Memory;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace Netclaw.Actors.Tests.Memory;
+
+public sealed class UnavailableMemoryEmbedderTests
+{
+ [Fact]
+ public void IsAvailable_is_always_false()
+ {
+ IMemoryEmbedder embedder = new UnavailableMemoryEmbedder("snowflake-arctic-embed-m", "model not provisioned");
+
+ Assert.False(embedder.IsAvailable);
+ Assert.Equal(0, embedder.Dimensions);
+ Assert.Equal("snowflake-arctic-embed-m", embedder.ModelId);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task EmbedAsync_throws_with_remediation_text_instead_of_returning_a_vector()
+ {
+ IMemoryEmbedder embedder = new UnavailableMemoryEmbedder("snowflake-arctic-embed-m", "hash verification failed");
+
+ var ex = await Assert.ThrowsAsync(
+ async () => await embedder.EmbedAsync("some text", EmbeddingPurpose.Passage, CancellationToken.None));
+
+ Assert.Contains("hash verification failed", ex.Message, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+ Assert.Contains("snowflake-arctic-embed-m", ex.Message, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+ Assert.Contains("IsAvailable", ex.Message, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task EmbedBatchAsync_throws_instead_of_returning_garbage_vectors()
+ {
+ IMemoryEmbedder embedder = new UnavailableMemoryEmbedder("snowflake-arctic-embed-m", "runtime load error");
+
+ await Assert.ThrowsAsync(
+ async () => await embedder.EmbedBatchAsync(["a", "b"], EmbeddingPurpose.Passage, CancellationToken.None));
+ }
+}
diff --git a/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/UnavailableRelevanceScorerTests.cs b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/UnavailableRelevanceScorerTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d97997b57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Memory/UnavailableRelevanceScorerTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+// Copyright (C) 2026 - 2026 Petabridge, LLC
+//
+// -----------------------------------------------------------------------
+using Netclaw.Actors.Memory;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace Netclaw.Actors.Tests.Memory;
+
+public sealed class UnavailableRelevanceScorerTests
+{
+ [Fact]
+ public void IsAvailable_is_always_false()
+ {
+ IRelevanceScorer scorer = new UnavailableRelevanceScorer("ms-marco-minilm-l-6-v2", "model not provisioned");
+
+ Assert.False(scorer.IsAvailable);
+ Assert.Equal("ms-marco-minilm-l-6-v2", scorer.ModelId);
+ }
+
+ [Fact]
+ public async Task ScoreAsync_throws_with_remediation_text_instead_of_returning_a_score()
+ {
+ IRelevanceScorer scorer = new UnavailableRelevanceScorer("ms-marco-minilm-l-6-v2", "hash verification failed");
+
+ var ex = await Assert.ThrowsAsync(
+ async () => await scorer.ScoreAsync("query", ["candidate"], CancellationToken.None));
+
+ Assert.Contains("hash verification failed", ex.Message, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+ Assert.Contains("ms-marco-minilm-l-6-v2", ex.Message, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+ Assert.Contains("IsAvailable", ex.Message, StringComparison.Ordinal);
+ }
+}
diff --git a/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Sessions/DeterministicRetrievalPlanningTests.cs b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Sessions/DeterministicRetrievalPlanningTests.cs
index 19ecc0c25..322266ab0 100644
--- a/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Sessions/DeterministicRetrievalPlanningTests.cs
+++ b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Sessions/DeterministicRetrievalPlanningTests.cs
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ public async Task Coordinator_keeps_stage_empty_when_deterministic_planning_succ
var coordinator = new SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator(
store,
NullLogger.Instance,
+ new MemoryConfig(),
+ TimeProvider.System,
sessionTuning: new SessionTuning { DeterministicRetrievalEnabled = true });
var result = await coordinator.RecallAsync(new AutomaticRecallRequest(
@@ -103,6 +105,8 @@ await store.UpsertDocumentAsync(new SQLiteMemoryDocument(
var coordinator = new SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator(
store,
NullLogger.Instance,
+ new MemoryConfig(),
+ TimeProvider.System,
sessionTuning: new SessionTuning { DeterministicRetrievalEnabled = true });
var result = await coordinator.RecallAsync(new AutomaticRecallRequest(
@@ -148,6 +152,8 @@ await store.UpsertDocumentAsync(new SQLiteMemoryDocument(
var coordinator = new SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator(
store,
NullLogger.Instance,
+ new MemoryConfig(),
+ TimeProvider.System,
sessionTuning: new SessionTuning { DeterministicRetrievalEnabled = true });
var result = await coordinator.RecallAsync(new AutomaticRecallRequest(
@@ -231,6 +237,8 @@ await store.UpsertDocumentAsync(new SQLiteMemoryDocument(
var coordinator = new SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator(
store,
NullLogger.Instance,
+ new MemoryConfig(),
+ TimeProvider.System,
sessionTuning: new SessionTuning
{
DeterministicRetrievalEnabled = true,
@@ -289,6 +297,8 @@ await store.UpsertDocumentAsync(new SQLiteMemoryDocument(
var budgeted = new SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator(
store,
NullLogger.Instance,
+ new MemoryConfig(),
+ TimeProvider.System,
sessionTuning: new SessionTuning { MaxRecallInjectedChars = 700 });
var budgetedResult = await budgeted.RecallAsync(request, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
@@ -300,6 +310,8 @@ await store.UpsertDocumentAsync(new SQLiteMemoryDocument(
var unbounded = new SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator(
store,
NullLogger.Instance,
+ new MemoryConfig(),
+ TimeProvider.System,
sessionTuning: new SessionTuning { MaxRecallInjectedChars = 0 });
var unboundedResult = await unbounded.RecallAsync(request, TestContext.Current.CancellationToken);
Assert.Equal(3, unboundedResult.Items.Count);
@@ -337,6 +349,8 @@ await store.UpsertDocumentAsync(new SQLiteMemoryDocument(
var coordinator = new SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator(
store,
NullLogger.Instance,
+ new MemoryConfig(),
+ TimeProvider.System,
sessionTuning: new SessionTuning { DeterministicRetrievalEnabled = true });
var result = await coordinator.RecallAsync(new AutomaticRecallRequest(
@@ -381,6 +395,8 @@ await store.UpsertDocumentAsync(new SQLiteMemoryDocument(
var coordinator = new SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator(
store,
NullLogger.Instance,
+ new MemoryConfig(),
+ TimeProvider.System,
sessionTuning: new SessionTuning { DeterministicRetrievalEnabled = true });
var result = await coordinator.RecallAsync(new AutomaticRecallRequest(
diff --git a/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Sessions/LlmSessionIntegrationTests.cs b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Sessions/LlmSessionIntegrationTests.cs
index 97848701c..cde2fe0b7 100644
--- a/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Sessions/LlmSessionIntegrationTests.cs
+++ b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Sessions/LlmSessionIntegrationTests.cs
@@ -69,7 +69,9 @@ protected override void ConfigureSessionServices(IServiceCollection services)
services.AddSingleton(sp => new SQLiteMemoryStore(Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), $"netclaw-sidecar-tests-{Guid.NewGuid():N}.db"), TimeProvider.System));
services.AddSingleton(sp => new SQLiteMemoryRecallCoordinator(
sp.GetRequiredService(),
- Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions.NullLogger.Instance));
+ Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions.NullLogger.Instance,
+ new MemoryConfig(),
+ sp.GetRequiredService()));
var registry = new ToolRegistry();
registry.Register(new McpToolAdapter(
diff --git a/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Sessions/MemoryRecallScenarioTests.cs b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Sessions/MemoryRecallScenarioTests.cs
index 1c0c5df21..116bab53b 100644
--- a/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Sessions/MemoryRecallScenarioTests.cs
+++ b/src/Netclaw.Actors.Tests/Sessions/MemoryRecallScenarioTests.cs
@@ -14,7 +14,10 @@
namespace Netclaw.Actors.Tests.Sessions;
///
-/// Scenario suite for the memory recall composite-score floor (issue #582).
+/// Scenario suite for the memory recall composite-score floor (issue #582), extended in
+/// memory-core-redesign Slice 4 (tasks 4.7/4.8) into a gold-set regression suite covering hybrid
+/// recall: the P09 paraphrase-gap flip, MRR/precision floors, zero-injection cases, and
+/// policy-parity under a healthy embedder.
///
/// Seeds a 16-document corpus mirroring the production DB shape that caused
/// the pollution bug (a cluster of ops/eval trivia plus two topical clusters
@@ -32,11 +35,43 @@ namespace Netclaw.Actors.Tests.Sessions;
/// Document-vs-record priority is a separate concern handled by RecallRank
/// weights, not the composite floor, and is deliberately out of scope here.
/// The corpus contains only durable-fact documents.
+///
+///
+/// Hybrid wiring (task 4.8): every scenario in still runs the
+/// pre-Slice-4 lexical-only coordinator (no embedder/vector-index holders) EXCEPT P09, which
+/// wires + a real loaded from the
+/// store's memory_embeddings table (only M16 is embedded — see ).
+/// This is deliberate, not incidental: 's
+/// absolute cosine floor only ever gates a candidate the index actually holds a vector for — an
+/// unembedded candidate (a coverage gap) bypasses the floor and competes on fused/lexical score
+/// alone (gap-repair fix; see the class's own summary and design.md D6) — so wiring the embedder
+/// across the whole table would change every lexical-only scenario's ranking geometry (coverage
+/// gaps no longer defaulting to a rejected cosine of 0.0, but to an admitted one) instead of
+/// isolating the paraphrase-gap fix P09 exists to prove. See the zero-injection facts below for a
+/// direct demonstration of the coverage-gap-bypasses-the-floor behavior.
+///
///
public sealed class MemoryRecallScenarioTests : IAsyncLifetime
{
private const string TestSessionId = "test/thread-1";
+ // Hybrid fixture geometry (task 4.8): a 2D unit-vector space, same technique as
+ // MemoryCurationNominatorTests/SQLiteMemoryRecallHybridTests. Only M16 ever gets an
+ // embedding row (in SeedCorpusAsync) under this model id, so any coordinator wired with a
+ // ScriptedEmbedder under HybridModelId only ever has M16 as a possible vector candidate.
+ private const string HybridModelId = "recall-scenario-hybrid-test-model";
+ private const int HybridDimensions = 2;
+
+ // cosine(P09QueryVector, M16EmbeddingVector) == 0.85 -- comfortably above MinCosineSimilarity
+ // (default 0.68), the semantic bridge across the paraphrase gap the lexical path can't cross.
+ private static readonly float[] P09QueryVector = [1f, 0f];
+ private static readonly float[] M16EmbeddingVector = [0.85f, 0.5267828f];
+
+ // cosine(NonMatchingQueryVector, M16EmbeddingVector) == 0.5267828 -- comfortably below the
+ // 0.68 floor. Used by the zero-injection facts to prove a healthy embedder with no
+ // qualifying candidate yields a healthy empty result, never a degraded one.
+ private static readonly float[] NonMatchingQueryVector = [0f, 1f];
+
private readonly string _baseDir = Path.Combine(
Path.GetTempPath(),
"netclaw-recall-scenarios",
@@ -109,15 +144,16 @@ public static IEnumerable