A review of the p2-1 record found seven places where the prose had drifted
away from the reports it cites. None were product defects; all were record
keeping, and record keeping is what a memory system is judged on.
The quantization row mis-transcribed nine latencies, and the two worst made
dimension truncation look twice as fast as the full scan when the report
measures six percent. The extrapolation table scaled latency by atoms and
bytes by vectors under one heading that named neither switch. The picture
index stats existed only in prose, so the harness now reads the index shape
off the artifact and times the encoder on a sample, which reproduces the
hand-timed build within seven percent. The dense arms named a store that
holds no vectors, so the report names the store the vectors came from and
refuses to run where a dense leg would rank an empty index.
The frozen baseline was migrated in place by the product CLI while the
picture index was built, so its pinned mtime, digest and schema version are
re-pinned and the step that moved it is named. The sqlite_vec import added
two mypy errors; the fix is the missing stub declaration, not an inline
ignore, and the count is back to the recorded baseline of twenty-four.
copy_store() moved into bench/scratch.py: systems.py had reached 512 lines
and bench/filesize_check fails anything over 500. The move is behaviour
identical, so the scale reports keep the commit stamp they were generated
against — the code they describe is complete at that commit.
The product fuses a sparse page, a dense vector leg, and a picture leg that
only speaks when the words come back thin. Two of the three are off by
default, and until now no committed artifact said why.
bench/leg_check.py asks the frozen suite's 300 answerable queries as their
own holder, once per configuration, and prints recall, first-hit quality,
latency and per-modality recall in one table. The picture index and the
CLIP snapshot are 48 minutes of encoding, so they are carried in rather
than rebuilt per row; the harness refuses to run a leg whose snapshot is
missing instead of quietly scoring nothing.
The numbers that came back:
- words only, 10 atoms: recall@10 0.832, MRR 0.683, p50 64ms
- words only, the configured 24: 0.848, 0.688, 69ms
- words only, page 30: 0.855, 0.690, 67ms
- dense leg on: 0.845 / 0.858, MRR down, p50 469ms / 411ms
- picture leg available: 0.815 / 0.825, MRR 0.553 / 0.551, p50 148ms / 164ms
So both defaults stay off, and the acceptance bar (recall@10 >= 0.90) is
not met by the product path yet: 0.858 is the best measured row, the
in-repo counterpart at holder scope is 0.866. The loss concentrates in
picture golds, and the current CLIP leg pays more in dilution than it
returns there.
CHECKLIST p2-1 and p0-3.7 now quote the committed reports (DENSE.md,
QUANT.md, SCALE.md, TERMS.md) instead of scratch scripts.