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ZacharyZhang-NY dc9cfb5a30 Give memories a working tier, a long-term tier, and a record of what disagrees
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.
2026-10-09 07:13:11 -04:00
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bench — the measurement harness

Everything here measures the product as it is. No arm may read a benchmark gold label.

run order

python -m bench.fetch_corpus      # 19 GB of third-party material -> bench/corpus + ~/ely_eye_bench_data
python -m bench.build_sets        # freeze the 6 query sets -> bench/sets/
python -m bench.validate_sets     # schema + gold + scope + modality checks (b-2 gate)
python -m bench.fetch_models      # dense + rerank models used by the ablation arms
python -m bench.ingest_baseline   # the unmodified product ingesting the whole corpus (16 -> 8 workers)
python -m bench.run               # five-arm ablation + latency/scale -> bench/reports/BASELINE.md
python -m pytest bench/tests -q   # metric definitions, hand-computed

bench/runs/ and bench/corpus/ are gitignored; bench/corpus/manifest.jsonl is tracked so the corpus is reproducible from the manifest alone.

the arms (b-3)

arm what it is
bm25_only the product's sparse signal alone
dense_only the product's dense signal alone (product flag is off today)
graph_only the product's graph signal alone — atom.relations is never populated, so it is a constant
no_rerank the product's exact 0.55 / 0.35 / 0.10 fusion
fusion_rerank the same fusion plus a cross-encoder rerank, the upper bound of the current design

python -m bench.run also drives the unmodified RetrievalService.search over the merged database and reports its latency plus how far its top-10 differs from the fast BM25 path.

known environment artifact

pi-lens' pyright reports Import "bench.sets_common" could not be resolved (and the same for bench.metrics, bench.systems, ely_eye.*, cv2, onnxruntime, pypdf.errors) even though every one of those imports works. It is not a repo defect:

  • effective_config on any bench file returns 0 config file(s) with resolvedCwd at the repo root, so neither pyproject.toml [tool.pyright] nor pyrightconfig.json (both of which carry extraPaths: [".", "backend/src"]) is being read by that runner.
  • Runtime proof, run from the repo root with .venv active:
.venv/bin/python -c "import bench.sets_common, bench.metrics, bench.systems, bench.run, bench.ingest_baseline, \
bench.build_mmlongbench, ely_eye.config, ely_eye.db, cv2, onnxruntime, pypdf.errors; print('runtime proof OK')"

Treat that command as the check of record for import health; treat pyright's type findings (it has caught real defects here: an AtomRunner typo, missing strict=True on zip, dict[str, object] over-narrowing) as separate and worth fixing.

The pi-lens mypy cascade also replays stale findings after a fix: it attributes another file's lines to whichever file was edited last (e.g. bench/fetch_models.py:107: "object" has no attribute "encode", where line 107 of that file is a Path call and the quoted text is from bench/systems.py). The check of record is a fresh-cache run, which has passed on every current file:

rm -rf /tmp/mypycache && .venv/bin/python -m mypy --cache-dir /tmp/mypycache bench/   # Success: no issues found
.venv/bin/python -m ruff check bench/                                                  # All checks passed
.venv/bin/python -m pytest bench/tests -q                                              # all green

corpus facts that constrain the numbers

  • 50,789 sources / 5,308 queries (2,928 answerable, 2,380 unanswerable), all third-party.
  • Video-MME ships mp4s for 129 of 900 videos; the set uses those 129 (387 questions).
  • Video-MME has no temporal gold, so its gold region is the whole video — recorded in the set manifest.
  • ScreenSpot-v2 boxes are [x, y, w, h], verified against 755 image headers (xywh in bounds 1271/1272).
  • CodeSearchNet docstrings appear verbatim inside the code, so the query text is stripped before ingest or BM25 gets a free exact match.
  • The product keys a source by {stem[:48]}_{sha256[:16]}, so identical bytes in two sets collapse to one product source; ingest_report.json reports shared_source_ids.