A holder is now somebody who can prove it. Schema v11 stores a sha256 of a
per-holder token beside the directory row, so a copied database cannot replay
it and the plaintext is shown exactly once. The operator token mints and
revokes those tokens; a holder token reads that holder's own memories and
nothing else; naming somebody else without the operator token is refused with
both ids in the message.
The visibility rule was leaking before this: browse had none at all, and the
search rules short-circuited to the whole library whenever no holder was
named. The rule is now written out in five copies with one parameter carried
four times, and a test compares the copies so they cannot drift — semgrep
rejects an interpolated constant, so the copies are not a choice.
Eyes carry three states on purpose. NULL means the whole library, which is
what a process that owns the store is entitled to; a holder id means that
holder; the empty string means nobody, which is what a tokenless HTTP caller
is. Making NULL mean nobody instead would have forced every internal caller —
CLI, proofs, the compiler, the bench harnesses — to name eyes, contradicting
the rule that a local process reads as its own trusted principal.
The capability card answers "can this store answer my kind of question" before
anything is sent. It is derived from what the store holds, so it cannot
promise a modality the store lacks, and it carries no memory text, so it is
safe to read before trusting the store. HTTP, CLI and one MCP tool all serve
it without a token.
A memory used to have one state: present. A session could not be reloaded
without searching, nothing separated what a person said today from what the
store ingested a year ago, and two statements that disagree about a number
were both handed to the reader as if the store believed both.
Schema v10. Atoms gain session_id, importance, recall_count, last_recalled_at
and archived_at; two tables arrive beside them — consolidations (one watermark
per holder+scenario lane) and conflicts (a pair, the term they disagree on,
both values, and whether anyone has settled it). v_atoms_current now also
hides archived rows, and apply() drops the view before rebuilding it because
CREATE VIEW IF NOT EXISTS would keep the old body and ignore the archive.
Working memory is a read, not a store: `working <holder> <session>` returns
what that session recorded, in order, with no search involved. Consolidation
rolls a lane's new memories into one standing summary and moves the watermark
to the newest memory actually rolled up — not to the clock of the pass, which
made a second pass count the same memories twice. The archive rule is stated
in the command that runs it (recorded before N days, never returned by a
search, importance at or under a floor) rather than hidden in a decay formula
nobody measured; --dry-run names the victims first.
A conflict is recorded when a new memory repeats a label with a different
number in the same holder's same scenario. Retrieval drops the older side
while the conflict is open and both sides answer again once it is settled:
settling is not superseding, and a word-only disagreement is left alone
because a reworded sentence would fire on every paraphrase. Numbers are keyed
to both the memory's subject and the nearest preceding label, measured: the
two thermostat sentences share only their subject, so a nearest-word-only rule
found nothing.
Search now counts the memories it handed back, which is the only use estimate
the store has, and the archive rule reads it. The dense index applies the same
currency rules as the view, so an archived memory cannot stay findable through
one leg while the other hides it.
Two reads over HTTP (working, conflicts) and two tools over MCP
(working_set, memory_conflicts); curation stays with the operator because an
agent should not decide what its own past is worth. remember and supersede
carry a session id; importance does not cross MCP, because recall_count is
observed and importance is stated.
Gates: 366 passed; ruff clean; mypy 24 errors in 9 files, the recorded 9cb46c1
baseline, net 0; pyright 0 on the touched files; go build/vet/test and gofmt
clean; mcp_write_smoke PASS.
The store had a write path, a mount path and a search path, and the console
still showed a dashboard of counters. Nothing in the UI could ask what someone
knows, page through atoms, look at a wordless picture, forget one memory, or
mount a cartridge — so the mechanisms built in P0 were invisible.
Backend:
- senses.py: one function decides what this machine can perceive. /api/status
and doctor each computed it before, which is two truths. Picture atoms are now
counted by image_ref rather than by modality, so a screenshot crop from a PDF
counts and a picture whose bytes were deleted stops claiming it can be encoded.
- browse.py: GET /api/atoms pages newest-first through v_atoms_current with
modality/holder/source filters; GET /api/atoms/{id}/image serves the stored
bytes so a picture with no OCR text can be looked at.
- Deleted 8 HTTP routes nobody calls (4 benchmark, research modules, dense index,
visual-contradiction-proof, memory-map). Their functions stay: the CLI and the
proof checks use them. The surface is 30 routes, pinned as a set by a test so a
new unused route fails the suite.
Frontend: App.tsx (517 lines) became a 131-line shell plus seven panels that own
their own fetches, and lib/format.ts. types.ts now carries the memory dimensions
the backend has been sending since schema v2.
Two invented fields were rendering lies: AdapterPanel showed gpu_available and
probe_status, which AdapterLoadReport does not have — every machine looked GPU-less
including this one. The panel now shows only what the server says.
Proof: scripts/ui_smoke.sh starts the API on a fresh temp home, serves the built
UI from the same origin, and drives five interactions in a real browser — search
as somebody in a scenario, page and view a wordless picture, forget, mount, read
adapter states with reasons. It prints the mount refusal verbatim rather than
pretending the mount succeeded.
Gates: 263 pytest passed; ruff and mypy clean on the 8 touched backend files
(repo-wide mypy unchanged at 24 errors / 6 files); pyright 0 errors there;
go build/vet/test/gofmt clean; npm build + eslint clean; ui_smoke and
mcp_write_smoke both PASS.
ZacharyZhang-NY