* fix: add file-level locking to prevent multi-agent duplicate drawers
Root cause: when multiple agents mine simultaneously, both pass
file_already_mined() check, both delete+insert the same file's
drawers, creating duplicates or losing data.
Fix: mine_lock() in palace.py — cross-platform file lock (fcntl on
Unix, msvcrt on Windows). Both miner.py and convo_miner.py now lock
per-file during the delete+insert cycle and re-check after acquiring
the lock.
Tested:
- Lock acquires and releases correctly
- Second agent blocks until first releases (0.25s wait)
- 33/33 existing tests pass
- Cross-platform: fcntl (macOS/Linux), msvcrt (Windows)
Based on v3.2.0 tag.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: strip system tags, hook output, and Claude UI chrome from drawers
normalize.py now strips before filing:
- <system-reminder>, <command-message>, <command-name> tags
- <task-notification>, <user-prompt-submit-hook>, <hook_output> tags
- Hook status messages (CURRENT TIME, Checking verified facts, etc.)
- Claude Code UI chrome (ctrl+o to expand, progress bars, etc.)
- Collapsed runs of blank lines
This noise was going straight into drawers, wasting storage space
and polluting search results. strip_noise() runs on all normalized
output regardless of input format (JSONL, JSON, plain text).
689/689 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat: add closet layer — searchable index pointing to drawers
The closet architecture was always part of MemPalace's design but
never shipped in the public codebase. This adds it.
Palace now has TWO collections:
- mempalace_drawers — full verbatim content (unchanged)
- mempalace_closets — compact AAAK-style index entries
How it works:
- When mining, each file gets a closet alongside its drawers
- Closet contains extracted topics, entities, quotes as pointers
- Closets pack up to 1500 chars, topics never split mid-entry
- Search hits closets first (fast, small), then hydrates the
full drawer content for matching files
- Falls back to direct drawer search if no closets exist yet
Files changed:
- palace.py: get_closets_collection(), build_closet_text(),
upsert_closet(), CLOSET_CHAR_LIMIT
- miner.py: process_file() now creates closets after drawers
- searcher.py: search_memories() tries closet-first search,
hydrates drawers, falls back to direct search
Backwards compatible — existing palaces without closets continue
to work via the fallback path. Closets are created on next mine.
689/689 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: enforce atomic topics in closets, extract richer pointers
- upsert_closet replaced by upsert_closet_lines: checks each topic
line individually against CLOSET_CHAR_LIMIT. If adding one line
WHOLE would exceed the limit, starts a new closet. Never splits
mid-topic.
- build_closet_lines returns a list of atomic lines (not joined text)
- Richer extraction: section headers, more action verbs, up to 3
quotes, up to 12 topics per file
- Each line is complete: topic|entities|→drawer_refs
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: add CLOSETS.md — closet layer overview
Cherry-picked the docs portion of 67e4ac6 to accompany the closet
feature. Test coverage for closets is omnibus with tests for entity
metadata and BM25 (see PR targeting those features) and will land
together in a follow-up.
Co-Authored-By: MSL <232237854+milla-jovovich@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat: entity metadata + diary ingest + BM25 hybrid search
Three features that close the gap between the architecture docs
and the actual codebase:
1. Entity metadata on drawers and closets
- _extract_entities_for_metadata() pulls names from known_entities.json
+ proper nouns appearing 2+ times
- Stamped as "entities" field in ChromaDB metadata
- Enables filterable search by person/project name
2. Day-based diary ingest (diary_ingest.py)
- ONE drawer per day, upserted as the day grows
- Closets pack topics atomically, never split mid-topic
- Tracks entry count in state file, only processes new entries
- Usage: python -m mempalace.diary_ingest --dir ~/summaries
3. BM25 hybrid search in searcher.py
- _bm25_score() keyword matching complements vector similarity
- _hybrid_rank() combines both signals (60% vector, 40% BM25)
- Catches exact name/term matches that embeddings miss
- Applied to both closet-first and direct drawer search paths
689/689 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: add tests for mine_lock, closets, entity metadata, BM25, diary
Trimmed version of Milla's omnibus test_closets.py to only cover
features present in this PR stack (#784 lock, #788 closets, this
PR's entity/BM25/diary). Strip-noise tests will land with #785;
tunnel tests will land with the tunnels PR.
16/16 pass.
Co-Authored-By: MSL <232237854+milla-jovovich@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat: explicit cross-wing tunnels for multi-project agents
Adds active tunnel creation alongside passive tunnel discovery.
Passive tunnels (existing): rooms with the same name across wings.
Explicit tunnels (new): agent-created links between specific
locations. "This API design in project_api relates to the database
schema in project_database."
New functions in palace_graph.py:
- create_tunnel() — link two wing/room pairs with a label
- list_tunnels() — list all explicit tunnels, filter by wing
- delete_tunnel() — remove a tunnel by ID
- follow_tunnels() — from a room, find all connected rooms in
other wings with drawer content previews
New MCP tools:
- mempalace_create_tunnel
- mempalace_list_tunnels
- mempalace_delete_tunnel
- mempalace_follow_tunnels
Tunnels stored in ~/.mempalace/tunnels.json (persists across
palace rebuilds). Deduplicated by endpoint pair.
689/689 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: add TestTunnels for cross-wing tunnel operations
Appended from Milla's omnibus test_closets.py — covers create,
list, delete, dedup, and follow_tunnels behavior. 21/21 pass.
Co-Authored-By: MSL <232237854+milla-jovovich@users.noreply.github.com>
* feat(search): drawer-grep returns best-matching chunk + neighbors
When a closet hit leads to a source file with many drawers, grep each
chunk for query terms and return the BEST-MATCHING chunk + 1 neighbor
on each side, instead of dumping the whole file truncated at
MAX_HYDRATION_CHARS. Result now includes drawer_index and
total_drawers so callers can request adjacent drawers explicitly.
Extracted from Milla's commit 935f657 which bundled drawer-grep with
closet_llm (deferred pending LLM_ENDPOINT refactor) and fact_checker
(separate PR). Ported only the searcher.py change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat: offline fact checker against entity registry + knowledge graph
fact_checker.py verifies text for contradictions against locally stored
entities and KG facts. Catches similar-name confusion (Bob vs Bobby),
relationship mismatches (KG says husband, text says brother), and
stale facts (KG valid_from/valid_to).
No hardcoded facts. No network calls. Reads:
- ~/.mempalace/known_entities.json
- KnowledgeGraph SQLite
Usage:
from mempalace.fact_checker import check_text
issues = check_text("Bob is Alice's brother", palace_path)
# CLI
python -m mempalace.fact_checker "text" --palace ~/.mempalace/palace
Extracted from Milla's commit 935f657 which bundled this with
closet_llm (deferred) and drawer-grep (PR #791). Ported only
fact_checker.py — verified no network / API imports.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat: optional LLM-based closet regeneration — bring-your-own endpoint
Adds mempalace/closet_llm.py as an OPTIONAL path for richer closet
generation. Regex closets remain the default and cover the local-first
promise; users who want LLM-quality topics can bring their own endpoint.
Configuration (env or CLI flag):
LLM_ENDPOINT — OpenAI-compatible base URL (required)
LLM_KEY — bearer token (optional; local inference skips this)
LLM_MODEL — model name (required)
Works with Ollama, vLLM, llama.cpp servers, OpenAI, OpenRouter, and any
other provider that speaks OpenAI-compatible /chat/completions. Zero new
dependencies — uses stdlib urllib.
Replaces the original Anthropic-SDK-hardcoded version of this module
from Milla's branch (commit 935f657). Same prompt, same parsing, same
regenerate_closets flow; only the transport was generalised so the
feature doesn't lock users into a specific vendor or require API keys
for core memory operations (CLAUDE.md, "Local-first, zero API").
Includes 13 unit tests covering config resolution, request shape,
auth-header omission when no key is set, code-fence stripping, and
missing-config error path. All mocked — zero network calls in tests.
Co-Authored-By: MSL <232237854+milla-jovovich@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(search): hybrid closet+drawer retrieval — closets boost, never gate (#795)
* Fix: set cosine distance metadata on all collection creation sites
ChromaDB defaults HNSW index to L2 (Euclidean) distance, but
MemPalace scoring uses 1-distance which requires cosine (range 0-2).
Add metadata={"hnsw:space": "cosine"} to the 4 production and 3 test
call sites that were missing it.
Closes#218
* fix: sync version.py to 3.2.0
Commit 6614b9b bumped pyproject.toml to 3.2.0 but missed
mempalace/version.py, breaking test_version_consistency on
every PR's CI. This syncs them.
* refactor: extract locked filing block to keep mine_convos under C901
Adding the per-file lock + double-checked file_already_mined() in the
previous commit pushed mine_convos cyclomatic complexity from 25 to 26,
just over ruff's max-complexity threshold. Hoist the locked critical
section into _file_chunks_locked() so the outer loop stays within
budget. No behavior change.
* style: ruff format mempalace/palace.py
Add blank lines after inline imports in mine_lock. Pure formatting.
* fix(normalize): make strip_noise verbatim-safe and scope it to Claude Code JSONL
The initial strip_noise() regressed on three fronts when audited against
adversarial user content — each verified with executable repros against
the cherry-picked code:
1. `<tag>.*?</tag>` with re.DOTALL span-ate across messages: one
stray unclosed <system-reminder> anywhere in a session merged with
the next closing tag, silently deleting everything between them
(including full assistant replies).
2. `.*\(ctrl\+o to expand\).*\n?` nuked entire lines of user prose
whenever a user happened to document the TUI shortcut.
3. `Ran \d+ (?:stop|pre|post)\s*hook.*` with IGNORECASE ate the
second sentence from "our CI has a stop hook ... Ran 2 stop hooks
last week" — legitimate user commentary.
These are unambiguous violations of the project's "Verbatim always"
design principle.
Fixes:
- All tag patterns are now line-anchored (`(?m)^(?:> )?<tag>`) and their
body forbids crossing a blank line (`(?:(?!\n\s*\n)[\s\S])*?`), so a
dangling open tag cannot eat neighboring messages.
- `_NOISE_LINE_PREFIXES` are line-anchored and case-sensitive — user
prose mentioning "CURRENT TIME:" mid-sentence is preserved.
- Hook-run chrome requires `(?m)^`, explicit hook names (Stop,
PreCompact, PreToolUse, etc.), and no IGNORECASE.
- "… +N lines" is line-anchored.
- "(ctrl+o to expand)" only matches Claude Code's actual collapsed-
output chrome shape `[N tokens] (ctrl+o to expand)`; a bare
parenthetical in user prose stays intact.
Scope:
- `strip_noise()` is no longer called on every normalization path.
Only `_try_claude_code_jsonl` invokes it, per-extracted-message — so
Claude.ai exports, ChatGPT exports, Slack JSON, Codex JSONL, and
plain text with `>` markers pass through fully verbatim. Per-message
application also makes span-eating structurally impossible.
Tests:
- 15 new tests in test_normalize.py pin the boundary: 6 guard user
content that must survive (each of the adversarial repros), 9 assert
real system chrome is still stripped. All pass; full suite 702 pass
(2 failures are the unrelated pre-existing version.py bug, cleared
by #820).
Known limitation (not fixed here): convo_miner.py does not delete
drawers on re-mine, so transcripts mined before this PR keep noise-
filled drawers until the user manually erases + re-mines. Proper fix
needs a schema-version field on drawer metadata + re-mine trigger —
out of scope for this PR.
* feat(normalize): auto-rebuild stale drawers via NORMALIZE_VERSION schema gate
Without this, the strip_noise improvement only helps new mines. Every
user who had already mined Claude Code JSONL sessions would keep their
noise-polluted drawers forever, because convo_miner's file_already_mined
skip short-circuits before re-processing.
Adds a versioned schema gate so upgrades propagate silently:
- palace.NORMALIZE_VERSION=2 — bumped when the normalization pipeline
changes shape (this PR's strip_noise is the v1→v2 bump).
- file_already_mined now returns False if the stored normalize_version
is missing or less than current, triggering a rebuild on next mine.
- Both miners stamp drawers with the current normalize_version.
- convo_miner now purges stale drawers before inserting fresh chunks
(mirrors miner.py's existing delete+insert), extracted into
_file_convo_chunks helper to keep mine_convos under ruff's C901 limit.
User experience: upgrade mempalace, run `mempalace mine` as usual, old
noisy drawers get silently replaced with clean ones. No erase needed,
no "you need to rebuild" changelog footgun.
Tests:
- test_file_already_mined_returns_false_for_stale_normalize_version —
pins the version gate contract for missing/v1/current.
- test_add_drawer_stamps_normalize_version — fresh project-miner drawers
carry the field.
- test_mine_convos_rebuilds_stale_drawers_after_schema_bump — end-to-end
proof that a pre-v2 palace gets silently cleaned on next mine, with
orphan drawers purged and NOT skipped.
Existing test_file_already_mined_check_mtime updated to include the
new field; all other tests unaffected.
* fix: stop hooks from making agents write in chat — save tokens
The save hook and precompact hook were telling the agent to write
diary entries, add drawers, and add KG triples IN THE CHAT WINDOW.
Every line written stays in conversation history and retransmits on
every subsequent turn — ~$1/session in wasted tokens.
Fix: hooks now say "saved in background, no action needed" and use
decision: allow instead of block. The agent continues working without
interruption. All filing happens via the background pipeline.
Also updated hooks README with:
- Known limitation: hooks require session restart after install
- Updated cost section: zero tokens, background-only
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: use microsecond timestamp and full content hash in diary entry ID (#819)
* fix: remove unused import 'main' from mempalace/__init__.py
Removed the 'main' import from `mempalace/__init__.py` and updated
`pyproject.toml` to point the script entry point directly to
`mempalace.cli:main`. This ensures the CLI remains functional while
improving code hygiene.
Co-authored-by: igorls <4753812+igorls@users.noreply.github.com>
* merge: full hardened stack + rewrite fact_checker around actual KG API
Merges the full hardened stack (up through #791 drawer-grep) and turns
fact_checker from "dead code hidden behind bare except" into an
actually-working offline contradiction detector with tests.
## Dead paths the PR body advertised but the code never executed
Both buried by a single outer ``except Exception: pass``:
* ``kg.query(subject)`` — ``KnowledgeGraph`` has no ``query()`` method;
it has ``query_entity()``. The attribute error was silently swallowed
and the entire KG branch always returned ``[]``. Now using
``kg.query_entity(subject, direction="outgoing")`` with proper
handling of the ``predicate``/``object``/``current``/``valid_to``
fields the real API returns.
* ``KnowledgeGraph(palace_path=palace_path)`` — the constructor's only
kwarg is ``db_path``. Passing ``palace_path`` raised TypeError,
silently swallowed. Now computing the db_path correctly from
``<palace>/knowledge_graph.sqlite3``, matching the convention the
MCP server already uses.
## Contradiction logic rewritten
The previous ``if kg_pred in claim and fact.object not in claim`` only
fired when text used the SAME predicate word as the KG fact — the exact
opposite of the stated use case ("Bob is Alice's brother" when KG says
husband" would NOT have fired). Replaced with a proper parse → lookup
→ compare pipeline:
* ``_extract_claims`` parses two surface forms ("X is Y's Z" and
"X's Z is Y") into ``(subject, predicate, object)`` triples.
* ``_check_kg_contradictions`` pulls the subject's outgoing facts
and flags two classes:
- ``relationship_mismatch`` when a current KG fact matches the
same ``(subject, object)`` pair but with a different predicate.
- ``stale_fact`` when the exact triple exists but is
``valid_to``-closed in the past.
* Stale-fact detection is now implemented (the PR body claimed it;
the old code silently didn't implement it).
## Performance fix — O(n²) → O(mentioned × n)
``_check_entity_confusion`` previously computed Levenshtein for every
pair of registered names on every ``check_text`` call. For 1,000
registered names that's ~500K edit-distance calls per hook invocation.
Now we first identify which registry names actually appear in the text
(single regex scan), then only compute edit distance between mentioned
and unmentioned names. Pinned by a test that asserts <200ms on a 500-
name registry with zero mentions.
Also: when *both* similar names are mentioned in the text, we no
longer flag them — the user clearly knows they're different people.
## Shared entity-registry loader
``mempalace/miner.py`` already had an mtime-cached loader for
``~/.mempalace/known_entities.json``. fact_checker had a duplicate
implementation that leaked file handles and ignored caching. Extended
miner's cache to expose both the flat set (``_load_known_entities``)
and the raw category dict (``_load_known_entities_raw``); fact_checker
now imports the latter. No more double disk reads, no more handle leak.
## Tests — 24 cases in tests/test_fact_checker.py
All three detection paths + both dead-code regressions:
* ``test_kg_init_uses_db_path_not_palace_path_kwarg`` — pins the
correct KG constructor signature so the ``palace_path=`` bug can't
come back.
* ``test_relationship_mismatch_detected`` — the headline example from
the PR body now actually fires.
* ``test_stale_fact_detected`` — valid_to-closed triple is flagged.
* ``test_current_fact_same_triple_is_not_flagged`` — no false positive
on a still-valid match.
* ``test_performance_bounded_by_mentioned_names`` — 500-name registry,
zero mentions, <200ms. Regression for the O(n²) blowup.
* ``test_no_false_positive_when_both_names_mentioned`` — Mila and
Milla in the same text is fine.
* Plus claim extraction, flatten_names shapes, CLI exit code, empty
text handling, missing-palace graceful fallback, registry-dict
shape support.
785/785 suite pass. ruff + format clean on CI-pinned 0.4.x.
* Optimize entity detection with regex caching and pre-compilation
- Use functools.lru_cache to cache compiled patterns for entity names.
- Pre-compile static pronoun patterns into a single regex.
- Remove redundant .lower() calls in score_entity loop.
Co-authored-by: igorls <4753812+igorls@users.noreply.github.com>
* docs: fix stale milla-jovovich org URLs in website and plugin manifests (#787)
Follow-up to #766 which covers version.py, pyproject.toml, README,
CHANGELOG, and CONTRIBUTING. These 11 files still had the old org
name in URLs:
- website/ (VitePress config + 6 docs pages)
- .claude-plugin/ (plugin.json repository, README marketplace command)
- .codex-plugin/ (plugin.json URLs, README links)
Author name fields are intentionally unchanged.
* test: make diary state path assertion platform-neutral
The Windows CI job failed on:
assert '/.mempalace/state/' in str(state_path)
because Windows uses ``\`` as the path separator, so the substring
never matches. The behavior under test (state file lives outside the
diary dir, under ``~/.mempalace/state/``) is already correct on both
platforms — only the assertion was Unix-only.
Switch to ``state_path.parent`` comparisons that work on any OS.
* test: serialize mine_lock concurrency test with multiprocessing
The macOS CI job failed ``test_lock_blocks_concurrent_access`` because
``fcntl.flock`` on BSD/macOS is per-*process*, not per-FD: two threads
in the same process both acquire even when they open their own file
descriptors. The test passed on Linux (per-FD flock) and Windows
(per-FD ``msvcrt.locking``) but was never actually exercising the
lock's real contract.
``mine_lock`` is designed to serialize multi-*agent* access — i.e.,
separate processes, not threads. Switch the test to
``multiprocessing.get_context('spawn')`` with a module-level worker
(so the spawn pickles cleanly) so it:
1. reflects the actual use case (one lock per mining process);
2. passes on all three OSes without flock-semantics branching;
3. catches real regressions (a broken lock would now let both
processes through, exactly what we care about).
Hold time bumped to 0.3s and the "wait until p1 acquires" delay to
0.2s to tolerate spawn's higher startup latency on macOS/Windows.
* test: verify mine_lock via disjoint critical-section intervals
The previous revision used multiprocessing but still relied on timing
("second process waited at least N seconds") which flakes on CI where
spawn overhead eats into the hold window. Linux CI observed the second
process report a 0.088s wait — below the 0.1s threshold — even though
the lock behavior was correct; spawn was just slow enough that the
first process had nearly finished holding when the second got past
its own spawn.
Switch to effect-based verification: each worker logs its
[enter_time, exit_time] inside the critical section, and the test
asserts the two intervals are disjoint after sorting. A broken lock
would produce overlapping intervals regardless of spawn latency; a
working lock cannot.
Also removed the mp.Queue since we no longer pass timing data back.
* Fix: ruff format with CI-pinned version (0.4.x)
* fix: README audit — 42 TDD tests + hall detection + 7 claim fixes (#835)
* fix: README audit — match every claim to shipped code + add hall detection
TDD audit: wrote 42 tests verifying README claims against codebase.
Fixed all 7 failures:
1. Tool count: 19 → 29 (10 tools were undocumented)
2. Added tool table rows for tunnels, drawer management, system tools
3. Version badge: 3.1.0 → 3.2.0
4. dialect.py file reference: "30x lossless" → "AAAK index format for closet pointers"
5. Wake-up token cost: "~170 tokens" → "~600-900 tokens" (matches layers.py)
6. pyproject.toml version in project structure: v3.0.0 → v3.2.0
7. Hall detection: added detect_hall() to miner.py — drawers now tagged
with hall metadata so palace_graph.py can build hall connections
New code:
- miner.py: detect_hall() — keyword scoring against config hall_keywords,
writes hall field to every drawer's metadata
- tests/test_hall_detection.py — 12 TDD tests (written before code)
- tests/test_readme_claims.py — 42 TDD tests verifying README accuracy
859/859 tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: resolve ruff lint — unused imports and variables
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* style: ruff format with CI-pinned 0.4.x
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: use conftest fixtures in hall tests for Windows compat
Windows CI fails with NotADirectoryError when ChromaDB tries to
write HNSW files in short-lived TemporaryDirectory. Use conftest
palace_path and tmp_dir fixtures instead — same pattern as all
other tests that touch ChromaDB.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: address Igor's review — convo_miner halls, cached config, markdown typo
TDD: wrote tests for convo_miner hall metadata and config caching
BEFORE verifying the code changes.
1. README markdown typo: extra ** in wake-up token row (line 195)
2. convo_miner.py: added _detect_hall_cached() — conversation
drawers now get hall metadata (was missing, Igor caught it)
3. miner.py + convo_miner.py: cached hall_keywords at module level
so config.json isn't re-read per drawer during bulk mine
4. New tests: TestConvoMinerWritesHalls, TestDetectHallCaching
861/861 tests pass. ruff clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* fix(website): update vitepress base url for custom domain
* chore(release): bump version strings to 3.3.0 and curate CHANGELOG
Prepare develop for the 3.3.0 release cycle.
Version bumps:
- mempalace/version.py: 3.2.0 -> 3.3.0
- pyproject.toml: 3.2.0 -> 3.3.0
- README.md: pyproject.toml label and shields.io badge
- uv.lock: mempalace 3.0.0 -> 3.3.0 (also fills in resolved dev/extras)
CHANGELOG.md:
- Close out the stale [Unreleased] section as [3.2.0] - 2026-04-12
(v3.2.0 was tagged on that date but the release flip was never made)
- Add a fresh [Unreleased] - v3.3.0 section covering the 49 commits
since v3.2.0: closet layer, BM25 hybrid search, entity metadata,
diary ingest, cross-wing tunnels, drawer-grep, offline fact checker,
LLM-based closet regen, hall detection, cosine-distance fix,
multi-agent locking, README audit, etc.
- Adopt Keep a Changelog + SemVer framing
- Add version compare reference links at the bottom
- Fix stale milla-jovovich/mempalace preamble URL to MemPalace/mempalace
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* fix: parse Claude.ai privacy export with messages key and sender field (#677)
The privacy-export branch in _try_claude_ai_json only checked for the
"chat_messages" key, missing exports that use "messages" instead. It
also only read the "role" field while real privacy exports use "sender".
Both gaps caused the file to fall through to plain-text, producing a
single giant drawer.
Changes:
- Accept "messages" alongside "chat_messages" in the conversation-object
guard and inner extraction.
- Accept "sender" alongside "role" as the author field.
- Fall back to a top-level "text" key when content blocks are empty.
- Produce one transcript per conversation instead of concatenating all
conversations into a single blob.
- Extract shared logic into _collect_claude_messages helper.
- Add 6 regression tests covering each variant.
* style: apply ruff format to normalize.py
* fix: guard against null text field in Claude.ai export parsing
item.get("text", "").strip() crashes when "text" is explicitly null
in the JSON (legal and observed in some exports). Use
(item.get("text") or "").strip() and add a regression test.
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Co-authored-by: Igor Lins e Silva <4753812+igorls@users.noreply.github.com>
When external tools write to the palace database (CLI mining, scripts), the MCP server's cached ChromaDB collection becomes stale — its HNSW index doesn't know about new vectors. Develop already invalidates on inode changes (catches rebuilds) but not on mtime changes (misses in-place writes).
This PR:
- Adds st_mtime tracking alongside st_ino in _get_client; invalidates the cached client on either change.
- Adds the mempalace_reconnect MCP tool for explicit cache flush.
Original author: @jphein (#663). Original approval: @Ari4ka.
Skips test_missing_db_invalidates_cache on Windows (ChromaDB holds chroma.sqlite3 open).
* fix: register 0-chunk files to prevent re-processing on every mine (#654)
mine_convos() has three early-exit paths (OSError, content too short,
zero chunks) that skip writing anything to ChromaDB. Since
file_already_mined() checks for the presence of a document with a
matching source_file, these files are re-read and re-processed on
every subsequent run.
Add _register_file() that upserts a lightweight sentinel document
(room="_registry", ingest_mode="registry") so file_already_mined()
returns True on future runs.
Note: Bug 2 from the issue (drawers_added counter always 0) was
already resolved upstream via the switch from collection.add() to
collection.upsert().
* fix: resolve macOS path symlink in test + remove unused variable
* fix: return "general" room from process_file error paths (#586)
process_file() returned (0, None) for already-mined, unreadable, and
too-short files. In --dry-run mode the caller always enters the
room_counts branch, so None ended up as a dict key and crashed the
summary printer with "unsupported format string passed to
NoneType.__format__".
Returning "general" instead of None makes the function contract
explicit: it always yields (int, str). This matches the consensus
fix discussed in the issue thread.
* style: apply ruff format to test_miner.py
* fix: allow Unicode in sanitize_name() — Latvian, CJK, Cyrillic names (#637)
_SAFE_NAME_RE was ASCII-only ([a-zA-Z0-9]), rejecting valid Unicode
names like "Jānis" or "太郎". Changed to \w which matches Unicode
word characters (letters, digits, underscore) in Python 3.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: tighten Unicode regex, add sanitize_name tests
Use [^\W_] for first/last char to allow Unicode letters/digits but
reject leading/trailing underscores (Copilot feedback). Add 7 tests
covering Latvian, CJK, Cyrillic, path traversal, and edge cases.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Note from code review: (1) silent exception swallow on migration failure means caller proceeds with potentially corrupt DB — consider returning a boolean or re-raising in a follow-up. (2) No blob length validation before int.from_bytes — malformed rows could produce wrong seq_id values. Both are edge cases; the fix is still valuable for the common chromadb 0.6→1.5 migration path.
* refactor: add stage-1 backend abstraction seam
Introduce the first upstreamable storage seam for MemPalace without
bringing in the PostgreSQL spike or any benchmark artifacts.
This change adds a small backend package with:
- BaseCollection as the minimal collection contract
- ChromaBackend/ChromaCollection as the default implementation
It then routes the main runtime collection consumers through that seam:
- palace.py
- searcher.py
- layers.py
- palace_graph.py
- mcp_server.py
- miner.status()
Behavioral constraints kept for stage 1:
- ChromaDB remains the only backend and the default path
- no config/env backend selection yet
- no PostgreSQL code
- no benchmark or research files
- existing tests stay unchanged
Important compatibility details:
- read paths now call the seam with create=False so they still surface
the existing 'no palace found' behavior instead of silently creating
empty collections
- write paths keep create=True semantics through palace.get_collection()
- layers/searcher retain a chromadb module attribute so the existing
mock-based tests can keep patching PersistentClient unchanged
- ChromaBackend only creates palace directories on create=True, which
preserves mocked read-path tests that use fake read-only paths
Verification:
- python3 -m py_compile mempalace/backends/__init__.py mempalace/backends/base.py mempalace/backends/chroma.py mempalace/palace.py mempalace/searcher.py mempalace/layers.py mempalace/palace_graph.py mempalace/mcp_server.py mempalace/miner.py
- pytest -q # 529 passed, 106 deselected
* refactor: clean up stage-1 seam compatibility shims
Tighten the stage-1 backend abstraction branch after review.
This follow-up does three small things:
- keep the chromadb compatibility hook in searcher.py and layers.py,
but express it through the backends.chroma module so it no longer
reads like an accidental unused import
- fix the palace_graph.py helper alias to avoid the local name collision
flagged by ruff (imported helper vs local _get_collection wrapper)
- preserve the existing mock-based test patch points unchanged while
keeping the new backend seam intact
Why this matters:
- the direct form looked like a
dead import in review, even though it was intentionally preserving the
existing test seam ( and
)
- palace_graph.py had a real lint issue ( redefinition) that was
small but worth fixing before a public PR
Verification:
- /opt/homebrew/bin/ruff check mempalace/backends/__init__.py mempalace/backends/base.py mempalace/backends/chroma.py mempalace/palace.py mempalace/searcher.py mempalace/layers.py mempalace/palace_graph.py mempalace/mcp_server.py mempalace/miner.py
- pytest -q tests/test_layers.py tests/test_searcher.py
- pytest -q # 529 passed, 106 deselected
* docs: explain backend shim imports in search paths
Add short code comments in searcher.py and layers.py explaining why the
module-level `chromadb` alias remains after the stage-1 backend seam
refactor.
The alias is intentional: it preserves the existing mock patch points used
by the current test suite (`mempalace.searcher.chromadb.PersistentClient`
and `mempalace.layers.chromadb.PersistentClient`) while the runtime logic
now flows through the backend abstraction.
This keeps the public PR easier to review because the apparent "unused
import" now has an explicit reason next to it.
Verification:
- /opt/homebrew/bin/ruff check mempalace/searcher.py mempalace/layers.py
- pytest -q tests/test_layers.py tests/test_searcher.py
* refactor: reuse a default backend instance in palace helper
Tighten the stage-1 backend seam by promoting the default Chroma backend
adapter to a module-level singleton in `mempalace/palace.py`.
This keeps the stage-1 scope unchanged — Chroma is still the only backend
wired in this branch — but avoids constructing a fresh `ChromaBackend()`
object on every `get_collection()` call. The backend is stateless today,
so this is a readability/cleanup change rather than a behavioral one.
Why this helps:
- makes `palace.get_collection()` read like a real default factory instead
of an inline constructor call
- keeps the stage-1 branch a little cleaner before opening the public PR
- does not widen the backend surface or change any config/runtime behavior
Verification:
- python3 -m py_compile mempalace/palace.py
- pytest -q tests/test_miner.py tests/test_layers.py tests/test_searcher.py
- pytest -q # 529 passed, 106 deselected
* fix: harden read-only seam behavior and update seam tests
Preserve the stage-1 backend abstraction while closing the real read-path
regression surfaced in PR review.
What changed:
- make ChromaBackend.get_collection(create=False) fail fast when the palace
directory does not exist instead of letting PersistentClient create it as a
side effect
- update miner.status() to call get_collection(..., create=False) so status
keeps the historical 'No palace found' behavior
- remove the temporary chromadb shim aliases from layers.py and searcher.py
now that the tests patch the seam directly
- add focused tests for the new backends package, including ChromaCollection
delegation and ChromaBackend create=True/create=False behavior
- retarget layer/searcher tests to patch the backend seam instead of patching
chromadb.PersistentClient inside production modules
- add a regression test that status() does not create an empty palace when the
target path is missing
Verification:
- ruff check .
- uv run pytest -q
- uv run pytest -q tests/test_backends.py tests/test_cli.py tests/test_mcp_server.py tests/test_layers.py tests/test_searcher.py tests/test_miner.py
Notes:
- the separate benchmark/slow/stress layer was started as a soak but not used
as the merge gate for this PR branch
* refactor: drop duplicate mcp collection cache declaration
Remove a redundant `_collection_cache = None` assignment in
`mempalace/mcp_server.py` left over after the stage-1 backend seam refactor.
This does not change behavior; it only trims review noise in the MCP server
module after the read-path hardening pass.
Verification:
- ruff check mempalace/mcp_server.py
- uv run pytest -q tests/test_mcp_server.py
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Co-authored-by: Sergey Kuznetsov <sergey@iterudit.com>
On Windows, projects containing git-submodule junctions or dev-drive
reparse points cause iterdir() to list the entry successfully but
Path.is_dir() to raise OSError when it calls stat() internally.
Reproducer: any Windows project with a submodule checked out as a
junction (e.g. skills/pr-perfect) crashes mempalace init with:
OSError: [WinError 448] The path cannot be traversed because it
contains an untrusted mount point
Fix: wrap every is_dir() call in detect_rooms_from_folders with
try/except OSError so the scanner skips inaccessible entries and
continues rather than aborting.
Covers both the top-level pass and the one-level-deep nested pass.
Two new tests mock the OSError on specific paths and verify the
function returns correct rooms from the remaining accessible entries.
Addresses Issue #333: AI agents prepending system prompts to search queries
causes embedding retrieval to collapse (89.8% → 1.0% R@10).
Mitigation approach (減災):
- New query_sanitizer.py with 4-stage pipeline:
Step 1: passthrough for short queries (≤200 chars)
Step 2: question extraction (finds ? sentences) → ~85-89% recovery
Step 3: tail sentence extraction → ~80-89% recovery
Step 4: tail truncation fallback → ~70-80% recovery
Worst case without sanitizer: 1.0% (catastrophic)
Worst case with sanitizer: ~70-80% (survivable)
- mcp_server.py: tool_search applies sanitizer before ChromaDB query
- MCP schema: query description warns agents not to include prompts
- New 'context' parameter separates background info from search intent
- Sanitizer metadata included in response when triggered
22 new tests covering all pipeline stages and real-world scenarios.
Made-with: Cursor
The initialize handler hardcoded protocolVersion "2024-11-05", which
causes newer MCP clients (e.g. Claude Code) to reject the connection
when they negotiate "2025-11-25" or later.
Echo the client's requested version if it is in the supported set,
otherwise fall back to the latest supported version. This keeps
backwards compatibility with older clients while allowing newer ones
to connect.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Merged both the PR's benchmark suite additions (psutil dep, pytest
markers, --ignore=tests/benchmarks) and upstream's coverage changes
(pytest-cov, --cov-fail-under=30, coverage config) so both coexist.
Co-authored-by: factory-droid[bot] <138933559+factory-droid[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
_patch_mcp_server had palace_path removed from its signature but the
assertion body still referenced it, causing NameError at runtime and
F821 from ruff.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add tests for config, convo_miner, spellcheck, knowledge_graph
- Fix Windows PermissionError in test cleanup (chromadb file locks)
- Add UTF-8 encoding to split_mega_files, entity_registry, hooks_cli
- Fix mcp_server parse_known_args logging for unknown args
- Set coverage threshold to 85 in pyproject.toml and CI
- Reset all version files to 3.0.11
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
MCP tool_add_drawer:
- Make drawer_id content-based: hash full content instead of
content[:100] + timestamp. Same content → same ID, eliminating
TOCTOU race conditions
- Switch from col.add() to col.upsert() so re-filing with updated
content updates the existing drawer
miner.add_drawer:
- Switch from collection.add() to collection.upsert() so re-mining
a modified file updates instead of silently failing
- Remove the try/except catching 'already exists' — upsert handles
this naturally
Findings: #11 (HIGH — add ignores updates), #6 (MEDIUM — TOCTOU),
#13 (MEDIUM — non-deterministic IDs)
Includes test infrastructure from PR #131.
92 tests pass.
Add/expand tests for normalize (39%→97%), searcher (39%→100%),
layers (28%→97%), split_mega_files (34%→72%).
Fix mcp_server.py parse_args→parse_known_args to prevent SystemExit
when imported during pytest (CI was crashing on all test jobs).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Run ruff format on all benchmark files (fixes CI lint job)
- Fix check_regression() substring ambiguity: ordered keyword matching
so "latency_improvement_pct" is correctly classified as higher-is-better
- Update stale comments in conftest.py referencing wrong fixture
- Add pytest addopts to skip benchmark/slow/stress markers by default
Igor Lins e Silva