fix(diary): detect same-size edits via content hash

The skip-if-unchanged check compared byte length only, so any in-place
edit preserving total length (typo fix "teh"→"the", word swap) was
silently dropped — a verbatim-storage violation: the user's actual
words never reached the palace.

Switch the gate to sha256(text). State entries gain a "content_hash"
field; the legacy size-only path is preserved when prev_hash is missing
so a post-upgrade run does not re-ingest every untouched diary.

Closes #925

mempalace/diary_ingest.py

@@ -120,11 +120,21 @@ def ingest_diaries(
             continue
         date_str = date_match.group(1)
 
-        # Skip if content hasn't changed
+        # Skip if content hasn't changed. Hash-based — size alone false-negatives
+        # on same-length edits (e.g. "teh" → "the"), silently dropping real edits.
         state_key = f"{wing}|{diary_path.name}"
-        prev_size = state.get(state_key, {}).get("size", 0)
+        prev_entry = state.get(state_key, {})
+        prev_hash = prev_entry.get("content_hash")
+        prev_size = prev_entry.get("size", 0)
         curr_size = len(text)
-        if curr_size == prev_size and not force:
+        curr_hash = hashlib.sha256(text.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()
+        if not force:
+            if prev_hash is not None:
+                if curr_hash == prev_hash:
+                    continue
+            elif curr_size == prev_size and prev_size > 0:
+                # Legacy state without content_hash: keep size-based skip so a
+                # post-upgrade run doesn't re-ingest every untouched diary.
                 continue
 
         now_iso = datetime.now(timezone.utc).isoformat()
@@ -184,6 +194,7 @@ def ingest_diaries(
 
             state[state_key] = {
                 "size": curr_size,
+                "content_hash": curr_hash,
                 "entry_count": len(entries),
                 "ingested_at": now_iso,
             }

tests/test_closets.py

@@ -605,6 +605,26 @@ class TestDiaryIngest:
         result = ingest_diaries(str(diary_dir), str(palace_dir))
         assert result["days_updated"] == 0
 
+    def test_ingest_detects_same_size_content_edit(self, tmp_path):
+        # Regression #925: the prior skip-check compared byte length only, so
+        # any in-place edit preserving total length (e.g. typo fix "teh"→"the")
+        # was silently dropped. Content-hash check must catch it.
+        diary_dir = tmp_path / "diaries"
+        diary_dir.mkdir()
+        diary_file = diary_dir / "2026-04-13.md"
+        original = "# 2026-04-13\n\n## 10:00 — Test\n\nThe quick brown fox jumps over.\n"
+        edited = "# 2026-04-13\n\n## 10:00 — Test\n\nTeh quick brown fox jumps over.\n"
+        assert len(original) == len(edited), "test setup: edited content must be same length"
+        diary_file.write_text(original)
+        palace_dir = tmp_path / "palace"
+
+        from mempalace.diary_ingest import ingest_diaries
+
+        ingest_diaries(str(diary_dir), str(palace_dir), force=True)
+        diary_file.write_text(edited)
+        result = ingest_diaries(str(diary_dir), str(palace_dir))
+        assert result["days_updated"] == 1, "same-size content edit must trigger re-ingest"
+
     def test_state_file_lives_outside_diary_dir(self, tmp_path):
         # Regression: the original implementation wrote
         # ``.diary_ingest_state.json`` *inside* the user's diary directory,