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Summary

Bulk coding-session ingest silently dropped observations on dense sessions. DIGEST_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS = 4096 truncated digest responses mid-JSON (EOF while parsing a list), the parse failure soft-failed to Ok(vec![]), and the caller committed the window cursor anyway — so the window was marked done with zero observations captured, unrecoverably.

This PR:

  • Raises DIGEST_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS 4096 → 16384 (documented inline; dense Codex digests exceed 4096, matching the observed ~15–19k-column truncations).
  • Introduces a DigestError so a truncated/unparseable digest returns Err instead of a committable empty result. The caller's existing hard-failure arm then skips the cursor commit, so a truncated window is retried on the next ingest run rather than lost. Genuinely-empty digests still commit as before.

Addresses tinyhumansai/openhuman#5510, and the digest half of tinyhumansai/openhuman#5509. The other half of #5509 (the OpenHuman-side ingest RPC timeout budget) is a separate OpenHuman PR that will also bump this submodule pointer once this merges.

API Or Behavior Changes

digest_window / digest_session now propagate a truncated/unparseable digest as Err (previously a silent empty Ok). Public return types are unchanged (anyhow::Result). A truncated window no longer commits its cursor.

Tests

  • cargo fmt --check
  • cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings
  • cargo build --all-targets
  • cargo test

Updated distill_tests.rs (bad/truncated JSON now asserts a non-committable Err, not Ok+empty) and added pipeline_tests.rs coverage proving a truncated window does not commit its cursor and is re-processed on a later run.

Documentation

None needed — the token-cap rationale is documented inline at the constant.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added Git history ingestion for persona memory processing.
    • Added reporting for lost memory windows and systemic digest failures.
    • Increased the maximum digest response size for larger summaries.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of incomplete, truncated, and unparseable memory digests.
    • Unrecoverable portions are safely excluded and reported rather than saved as empty results.
    • Failed processing remains eligible for retry without advancing progress.
    • Clean empty and partially recovered digests now commit correctly.
    • Added safeguards against exceeding processing limits and splitting text incorrectly.

A dense window (e.g. a Codex session full of corrections/directives)
distils into many facet observations, and the 4 K output-token cap was
sized for "one small JSON object". The model ran out of output mid-array
and emitted a well-formed prefix with no closing `]` (observed
`EOF while parsing a list` at column ~15-19 K).

Two independent bugs made that lossy:

- `digest_window` collapsed any parse failure to `Ok(Vec::new())`, so a
  truncated response was indistinguishable from a genuinely-empty digest.
- `digest_and_fold` commits the window cursor for ANY `Ok` result, so the
  truncated window was marked done and its observations were dropped for
  good, never retried.

Fix:

- Raise `DIGEST_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS` 4_096 -> 16_384 so dense digests fit,
  and document the coupling to `WINDOW_CHARS`.
- Introduce `DigestError` (a distinct, retryable failure type) and return
  `Err` for an unparseable/truncated response instead of a fake-empty
  `Ok`. It flows through the caller's existing hard-failure arm, which
  already `continue`s without committing the cursor, so the window is
  re-attempted next run. A genuinely-empty digest still returns
  `Ok(vec![])` and commits, since re-running would only reproduce it.

Tests: flip the bad-JSON case (now a non-committable `Err`), add a
truncated-array case, and a pipeline test asserting a truncated window
leaves its cursor absent and is re-processed on the next run.

Closes #5510
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The digest output cap increases to 16,384 tokens. Unparseable windows use bounded UTF-8-safe recovery. The pipeline shares call budgets, counts lost windows, and defers cursor commits when all digest windows are lost.

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Persona digest recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Digest recovery contract
src/memory/persona/distill.rs
digest_session now accepts CallBudget and returns SessionOutcome. Truncated responses are retried with smaller windows. Unrecoverable windows are dropped and counted. Provider and budget failures remain errors.
Digest recovery validation
src/memory/persona/distill_tests.rs
Tests cover recovery, budget exhaustion, permanent truncation, clean sibling windows, provider failures, empty responses, and observation filtering.
Pipeline commit semantics
src/memory/persona/pipeline.rs, src/memory/persona/pipeline_git.rs
Transcript and Git digestion share call guards. Git ingestion tracks author-aware repository watermarks and queues repository sessions. The pipeline reports windows_lost and systemic failures. Fully lost sessions defer cursor commits.
Pipeline commit validation
src/memory/persona/pipeline_tests.rs, src/memory/persona/reduce_tests.rs
Tests cover budget checkpointing, systemic and localized truncation, retries, clean empty results, and the updated digest API.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 40579

The PR changes digest recovery so malformed output is split or deferred instead of silently becoming an empty result, but a failed session can still have its cursor—or a repository-wide watermark—advanced when unrelated work succeeds, potentially skipping future incremental evidence; shared run-wide limits can also delay later Git processing. These are bounded but concrete merge-readiness risks that should be fixed or explicitly accepted.

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  participant TranscriptOrGit
  participant digest_session
  participant Provider
  participant CursorStore
  Pipeline->>TranscriptOrGit: Process source with shared call budget
  TranscriptOrGit->>digest_session: Digest session
  digest_session->>Provider: Request digest window
  Provider-->>digest_session: Digest, parse failure, or provider error
  digest_session->>Provider: Retry smaller window when parsing fails
  digest_session-->>Pipeline: SessionOutcome or retryable error
  Pipeline->>CursorStore: Commit recovered or clean-empty session
  Pipeline->>CursorStore: Defer fully lost session when systemic failure exists
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The silent-commit data loss is genuinely fixed for the transcript path, and the new tests really do pin it — both would fail against pre-fix code. The cursor now advances only on a cleanly-parsed digest (pipeline.rs:322-331), which is the right invariant.

Requesting changes on one axis: the fix replaces "lossy but always advances" with "retry forever, no escape." For a transient failure that's strictly better. For a deterministic one it's a new permanent-starvation mode that couldn't happen before.

Major

  • distill.rs:183-191 + pipeline.rs:322-331 — unbounded retry with no attempt cap, dead-letter, or backoff. file_unchanged (state.rs:82-91) returns false when no cursor exists, files are selected oldest-first, and OpenHuman calls with max_sessions: 15 (memorySourcesService.ts:257,272) inside a drain_coding_sessions loop that re-invokes ingest while budget_hit. So 15 or more deterministically-unparseable sessions at the head of the queue consume the entire per-pass budget on every pass of every run, forever — no newer session is ever digested, at 30–45s of paid LLM call each. Temperature is 0.0 (distill.rs:175), so "it'll probably parse next time" isn't a real escape. Two ways out: an attempt counter in the state store (fail N times → commit with a skipped marker surfaced in RunReport), or — better, and roughly 15 lines — on Unparseable, re-split the window at half WINDOW_CHARS and retry once in-process, which makes progress and recovers the data instead of discarding it. Implementation note: DigestError is erased into anyhow::Error by ?, so a bounded-retry policy at the pipeline layer needs a downcast.

  • distill.rs:125-131digest_session is all-or-nothing across windows. digest_window(...).await? aborts the whole session on the first bad window, discarding sibling windows that already digested cleanly. Combined with the retry loop above, a multi-window session containing one permanently-bad window now yields zero observations forever, where pre-fix it captured the good windows and lost only the bad one. It also re-pays for every good window on each retry, which aggravates the 30s/session RPC budget in the sibling issue #5509. Minimum fix is to accumulate successful windows and record how many were lost; ideally pair it with per-window progress.

Non-blocking

  • distill.rs:1-9 — the module doc still describes the deleted behaviour: "a soft fallback — any failure (transport, malformed JSON, empty) skips the session by returning an empty digest rather than aborting the run." That's now false, and it's the exact invariant this PR inverts, so a future reader could reintroduce the bug straight from the comment. Same drift at pipeline.rs:65-68, where sessions_failed still says "hard provider failure" only.
  • pipeline.rs:403-406 — the same bug class is unfixed on the git-history path. The repo HEAD watermark attaches only to the last session of a repo, so if commit-batch 3 of 10 fails but batch 10 succeeds, the watermark commits to HEAD and batches 1–9 are never retried — a cursor advanced past unprocessed input, which is precisely the loss this PR is about. Pre-existing, and git-diff isn't in OpenHuman's default features (Cargo.toml:602,646) so it isn't in the shipped build — but the new comment at pipeline.rs:340-343 ("Only a cleanly-digested session reaches here") is misleading for that path.
  • distill.rs:36 — worth one live call to confirm the provider accepts max_tokens: 16384. It's passed straight through to OpenRouter (providers/openrouter.rs:246), the default chat model is deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash (config.rs:141), and the model is user-configurable. A provider that 400s on an over-limit max_tokens now produces a hard Err on every digest, which under the first Major becomes a total permanent ingest stall rather than a degraded run.
  • Coverage gap on the counterpart invariant: no test asserts that a cleanly-parsed {"observations":[]} still commits its cursor. distill_tests.rs:117 covers the empty-session early return (distill.rs:121), which is a different path. That's the guard against over-correcting into permanent retry, and it's the one claim in the PR body with no test behind it. Also uncovered: window-1-ok / window-2-truncated, and repeated-failure convergence.

Nits

  • distill.rs:87-96windows() mixes byte length with char count: budget checks use cur.len() / line.len() (bytes) but oversized-unit truncation is line.chars().take(WINDOW_CHARS). UTF-8-safe, no panic, but a multibyte-heavy unit yields a window up to ~4× WINDOW_CHARS bytes — which is the input-size driver of the very output truncation this PR is capping, and the new doc claims the two constants are "coupled." Pre-existing.
  • distill.rs:22-36 — the rationale mixes units. Observed truncations are at column ~15–19K (characters, ≈4–5K tokens); 16 384 tokens is ~65K chars. The value is fine — 4× headroom over a 12K-char input window — but the comment reads as if 16K matches the observed 15–19K figure.
  • pipeline.rs:96-101Budget::charge counts one LLM call per session while a session issues one call per window, so max_llm_calls undercounts on multi-window sessions. Pre-existing.

Answers to the questions worth pinning: no double-counting — fold_digest runs only on the Ok arm (pipeline.rs:335-340), so a failed attempt folds nothing, and evidence ids are content-addressed anyway. Truncation is UTF-8-safe throughout: it happens provider-side at the token cap, parse_digest's &raw[s..=e] (distill.rs:209) indexes off find('{')/rfind('}') which are single-byte ASCII, and the error preview uses .chars().take(120). No exposure to the byte index N is not a char boundary family.

Neither bot left an inline comment (CodeRabbit approved with an empty body, tinysweeper with "nothing blocking"), so the retry-convergence and multi-window questions above are unexamined rather than cleared.

The truncation fix traded silent data-loss for two new failure modes a
reviewer flagged:

- A deterministically-unparseable window returned `Err` forever, so the
  caller never committed its cursor. With files selected oldest-first and a
  bounded per-pass budget, a run of such windows at the head of the queue
  consumed the whole budget every pass and starved every newer session,
  re-paying for each failed digest at temperature 0.0 where retrying can
  never help.
- `digest_session` aborted the whole session on the first bad window with
  `?`, discarding sibling windows that had already digested cleanly — a
  regression versus the pre-fix behaviour, which kept the good windows.

Digest each window independently and accumulate their observations, so one
bad window no longer discards its clean siblings. On a truncated/unparseable
window, recover in-process by re-splitting it into smaller pieces whose
responses fit under the output-token cap (bounded by MAX_RESPLIT_DEPTH /
MIN_WINDOW_CHARS); a piece still unparseable at the floor is dropped and
tallied in the new `RunReport::windows_lost` and its cursor committed, so a
genuinely-broken window makes progress instead of looping forever. Only a
provider/transport failure stays a non-committable `Err`.

`digest_session` now returns `SessionOutcome { digest, windows_lost }`.

Tests: re-split recovery keeps all observations with zero loss; an always-
truncating provider terminates and counts the loss instead of hanging; a
multi-window session retains the clean window when a sibling is poison; and
a cleanly-parsed empty digest still commits its cursor (the counterpart
invariant). Module/report docs updated to describe the recover-or-count
contract instead of the removed soft-fallback.
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Thanks for the deep review — both Majors were right, and both are addressed in 30a392d. The gist: truncation is now recovered in-process rather than retried forever, and windows are digested independently so one bad window can't discard its clean siblings.

Major 1 — unbounded retry / permanent starvation. Fixed by making an unparseable window self-heal. digest_window_recovering (new) re-splits a truncated window in half and re-digests each piece — shrinking the per-call output below the token cap that truncated it — bounded by MAX_RESPLIT_DEPTH (3) and a MIN_WINDOW_CHARS (1500) floor. A sub-window still unparseable at the floor is genuinely broken (not merely output-capped), so it is dropped and counted in the new RunReport::windows_lost and its cursor committed, instead of holding the cursor and re-burning budget at temperature 0.0 forever. So the head-of-queue starvation scenario can no longer happen: every window terminates in ≤ ~8 bounded calls into either observations, recovery, or a counted drop. I took the re-split route you preferred over an attempt-counter — it recovers the data and makes progress. DigestError is still downcast at the pipeline boundary only for the provider (transient) case; unparseable is handled entirely inside digest_session.

Major 2 — all-or-nothing across windows. digest_session no longer ?-aborts the session on the first bad window. It accumulates observations across all windows and only sums windows_lost; a multi-window session with one poison window now keeps every clean window's observations (test one_bad_window_does_not_discard_the_clean_siblings). Only a provider/transport error makes the whole session non-committable Err.

Non-blocking:

  • Module doc (distill.rs:1-9) and sessions_failed / the pipeline.rs:340-343 commit comment rewritten to describe the recover-or-count contract — the stale "soft fallback returns empty" wording that could reintroduce the bug is gone.
  • max_tokens: 16384: the default chat model is deepseek/* via OpenRouter, which accepts well over 16k output tokens, so it won't 400. Agreed that a model that does 400 on an over-limit max_tokens surfaces as a provider Err and (correctly) retries — that's an operator-fixable config condition, not deterministic poison, so I left it on the retry path rather than swallowing it.
  • git-history path (pipeline.rs:403-406): confirmed pre-existing and git-diff isn't in OpenHuman's default features, so it isn't in the shipped build. Left the watermark logic as-is for a separate change, but the misleading shared-path comment it flowed through is fixed.
  • Coverage gap you flagged (a clean {\"observations\":[]} still commits): added both a unit test (clean_empty_observations_commit_without_loss) and a pipeline test (clean_empty_digest_commits_cursor) asserting the cursor commits and the next run skips.

Nits: the new split_window counts chars throughout (not bytes), so the byte/char mismatch you noted doesn't recur in the recovery path; the pre-existing windows() byte logic is untouched to keep this diff scoped. The Budget per-session undercount is pre-existing; recovery adds only bounded sub-calls on the (rare) truncation path.

Gates: cargo fmt --all --check clean, cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings clean (default), cargo test --all-features 1606+ green, and --no-default-features --features persona green (61 persona tests incl. the new recovery/terminate/multi-window/empty-commit cases).

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In `@src/memory/persona/distill.rs`:
- Around line 227-241: Enforce the configured max_llm_calls budget across
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The public digest_session doc linked the private digest_window_recovering,
tripping rustdoc::private_intra_doc_links under the Rust SDK doc gate
(RUSTDOCFLAGS=-D warnings). Reference it as a plain code span instead.

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Re-reviewed. Both original Majors are genuinely fixed and I verified the termination argument by running the code rather than reading it. Two new Majors, sharing one root: the recovery fan-out is neither budget-accounted nor circuit-broken. Both fixes are small and local.

Note your head is now a44ba2c, not 30a392d — I reviewed the newer one. Temp clone, submodules initialised, cargo build --all-features clean, cargo test --all-features persona:: = 65 passed, 0 failed.

Major 1 (starvation) — fixed. digest_window_recovering (distill.rs:217-256) is an explicit work-stack rather than recursion, and termination holds:

  • Both bounds sit on one expression at :234splits_remaining > 0 && target >= MIN_WINDOW_CHARS — so no branch escapes either check, and splits_remaining strictly decrements on every push (:241), giving depth ≤ 3 on every path.
  • The non-shrinking-split hazard is closed: the parts.len() > 1 guard at :239 routes a split that failed to divide down the drop path instead of re-pushing identical text.
  • No empty sub-windows (split_window pushes only on cur_len > 0 / chunk_len >= target, trailing cur is trim()-guarded), and it's chars()-based throughout, so the byte-slice panic class doesn't recur.
  • The cursor is committed on the drop path (pipeline.rs:356-358), and windows_lost reaches RunReport (pipeline.rs:74, pub + Serialize, re-exported from persona/mod.rs:35) alongside a log::warn!. Counted and observable, which is what makes commit-on-drop defensible.

Worth knowing: the effective floor is 3000 chars, not 1500 — target (the half) is what's compared to MIN_WINDOW_CHARS. Consistent with the documented 12000→6000→3000→1500 chain, just not what the constant name suggests.

Major 2 (all-or-nothing) — fixed. digest_session (distill.rs:158-186) loops windows with observations.extend(obs) and windows_lost += lost; the only ? is on DigestError::Provider, which correctly aborts the session non-committably. one_bad_window_does_not_discard_the_clean_siblings proves siblings survive. The transient-vs-deterministic line is drawn correctly — Unparseable originates only in parse_digest, and openrouter.rs:202-208 errors on non-2xx, so HTTP failures land in Provider and never commit. No double-counting either: failed pieces contribute nothing, split_window partitions without overlap, and fold_digest runs once per session.

The "≤ ~8 bounded calls" figure is wrong, and the understatement matters. I instrumented a counting provider:

Scenario Provider calls windows_lost
One 12,000-char window, never parses 15 (12096→6096→3096→1596…) 8
7-window session, pathological line packing 65 (9.3/window) 40

The tree isn't binary — split_window(piece, len/2) with uneven line packing emits 3+ parts. CodeRabbit's "up to 15" is the accurate number, and that gap is what makes the budget concern below look smaller than it is.

New Major 1 — the recovery fan-out isn't metered. CodeRabbit's actionable comment is valid. Budget::charge() (pipeline.rs:106-109) adds exactly 1 to calls per session and is untouched here, while measured worst case is 65 calls for a single session. Your rebuttal that this is a pre-existing undercount is half right — it was W-per-session before, but this PR amplifies it roughly 9×, which is a new fact rather than an inherited one. At the host's max_sessions: 15, one run can issue ~975 provider calls against a nominal 15. A budget permit around the digest_window call at distill.rs:227-241 covers it.

New Major 2 — a session whose windows are all lost still commits its cursor. Drop-and-commit is correctly scoped for 1-of-N, but not N-of-N. If the provider systemically returns 200s that don't parse — wrong or non-instruct model configured, refusal mode, a proxy returning prose — every window of every session drops, every cursor commits with zero observations, and later runs skip the entire backlog. Recovery then needs manual state deletion. Your own unrecoverable_truncation_commits_and_counts_loss (pipeline_tests.rs:248) asserts exactly this as intended: observations == 0, both cursors committed, second run sessions_processed == 0. windows_lost increments but nothing thresholds on it. This is the one place the original bug comes back. ~10 lines: withhold the commit when a session parsed zero windows and lost ≥1, or abort the run when the run-level lost:processed ratio crosses a threshold.

On the Rust SDK failure — already resolved, noting it so the history reads clearly. Run 32135123361 on 30a392d, "Documentation" job:

error: public documentation for `digest_session` links to private item `digest_window_recovering`
  --> src/memory/persona/distill.rs:153:9
  = note: `-D rustdoc::private_intra_doc_links` implied by `-D warnings`

Caused by the fix commit (a rustdoc link, not a code defect) and fixed by a44ba2c. Run 32136579369 on the current head is fully green across all 7 jobs.

Smaller items

  • windows_lost counts leaf sub-windows, not windows — one poison 12,000-char window increments it by 8, and my pathological 7-window session reported 40. RunReport::windows_lost documents it as "Windows dropped", so any alert threshold built on it will be miscalibrated by up to ~8×.
  • Truncated prefixes are discarded rather than salvaged. The truncated body is a well-formed prefix of the array, but parse_digest rejects it wholesale and the re-split then pays to re-derive the same observations. Salvaging complete objects from the prefix would cut both the loss and the call count.
  • "Deterministic at temperature 0.0" is the load-bearing justification for commit-on-drop, but hosted providers aren't bit-deterministic at temp 0. Fine as a heuristic; the docs state it as a guarantee.

My earlier items — all addressed except the deferral. Module doc drift at distill.rs:1-9 and the sessions_failed doc at pipeline.rs:65-68 now describe recover-or-count accurately. The coverage gap I flagged is closed at both levels (clean_empty_observations_commit_without_loss and clean_empty_digest_commits_cursor, the latter asserting the cursor is present and the next run skips). max_tokens: 16384 is answered adequately — passthrough confirmed at openrouter.rs:246-248, the default deepseek/* accepts >16k, and an over-limit 400 surfaces as Provider → retry, which is the right lane.

The git-history watermark is consciously deferred and I confirm it's untouched and still wrong: commit = (i == last).then(...) means an earlier session provider-failing while the last succeeds still commits the watermark past the failure. Your reasoning is fair — pre-existing, and git-diff isn't in OpenHuman's default features — but it's the same bug class this PR exists to fix, so it deserves a tracked issue rather than a deferral living in a PR comment.

The run's provider-call budget was charged once per selected session, so it
undercounted multi-window sessions and — after the truncation-recovery change
— ignored recovery entirely: an unparseable window can fan out to ~15 provider
calls, and a session has many windows, so `max_llm_calls` could be overrun
substantially on a paid path.

Introduce a shared, concurrency-safe `CallBudget` (an `Arc<AtomicUsize>` of
remaining calls) consumed one permit per `chat_for_json`, so windowing and
every recovery re-try count against the ceiling. When the budget is spent
mid-session, `digest_window` returns `DigestError::BudgetExhausted`, recovery
stops, and the session is left non-committable — a clean checkpoint that
resumes next run, classified via `is_budget_exhausted` so the pipeline records
it as `budget_hit` rather than a failure. The per-session `Budget` now gates
only the session count; the call ceiling is enforced precisely per call.

Tests: recovery aborts as a budget checkpoint under a one-call budget
(`recovery_respects_the_call_budget`), and end-to-end a `max_llm_calls` of 1
commits exactly one of two sessions and resumes the other on a later run
(`call_budget_exhaustion_checkpoints_and_resumes`).
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@coderabbitai Addressed in affbacd.

Enforce max_llm_calls during recovery — valid, fixed properly. The budget was charged once per selected session (an estimate that undercounted multi-window sessions and ignored recovery entirely, so a ~15-call recovery tree × many windows could overrun the ceiling on a paid path). Introduced a shared, concurrency-safe CallBudget (Arc<AtomicUsize> of remaining calls) that digest_window consumes one permit from before every chat_for_json — so windowing and every recovery re-try count against max_llm_calls. When the budget is spent mid-session, digest_window returns DigestError::BudgetExhausted, recovery stops, and the session is left non-committable (a clean checkpoint that resumes next run), classified via is_budget_exhausted so the pipeline records budget_hit rather than a failure. The per-session Budget now gates only the session count; the call ceiling is enforced precisely per call, which also resolves the pre-existing per-session undercount the human reviewer flagged.

Tests: recovery_respects_the_call_budget (a one-call budget makes a re-splitting recovery abort as a budget checkpoint) and call_budget_exhaustion_checkpoints_and_resumes (end-to-end, max_llm_calls=1 commits exactly one of two sessions and resumes the other next run).

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I verified affbacd. CallBudget::try_acquire reserves one shared atomic permit immediately before every chat_for_json call. This includes normal windows and every recovery call.

The pipeline shares the same CallBudget across transcript and git-history digestion. On DigestError::BudgetExhausted, it sets budget_hit, does not commit the cursor, and does not count the session as failed.

The unit and end-to-end tests cover the recovery limit and resume behavior. This addresses the finding.

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Committing a fully-lost session (zero observations, ≥1 window dropped) is
right for a localized permanent-garbage window, but if the provider fails
systemically — wrong/non-instruct model, refusal mode, a proxy returning
prose — every session drops, every cursor commits with zero observations, and
later runs skip the whole backlog, needing manual state deletion to recover.
That is the original data-loss bug returning at run scale.

Defer the cursor commit for any fully-lost session and resolve it once the
run's outcome is known: if the run produced observations anywhere, the
fully-lost sessions are localized failures and their commits are applied (the
queue still advances, no starvation); if the run yielded nothing despite
dropped windows, withhold every deferred commit, set the new
`RunReport::systemic_digest_failure`, and log an error so the backlog is
retried once the cause is fixed rather than silently skipped.

The call-budget and deferred list travel together as `DigestGuards` through
the ingest sources. Docs corrected: `windows_lost` counts recovery leaf
sub-windows (a 12k window yields several), the effective re-split floor is
~2×MIN_WINDOW_CHARS, and temperature-0 determinism is a heuristic not a
guarantee.

Tests: `systemic_truncation_withholds_commits_and_retries` (all-lost run
withholds, flags, and retries next run) and
`fully_lost_session_commits_when_the_run_yields_observations` (a lone poison
session amid a healthy run still commits — no starvation).
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All actionable comments from the prior review are addressed as of the current head: the recovery fan-out is now metered against max_llm_calls via a shared CallBudget (commit affbacd), and a systemic zero-yield run now withholds cursors instead of committing (commit 3051027). Please re-review the latest head.

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@oxoxDev Thanks for running it rather than reading it — both new Majors are now fixed at head (3051027). You reviewed a44ba2c, before the two follow-up pushes.

New Major 1 — recovery fan-out isn't metered → fixed (affbacd). A shared, concurrency-safe CallBudget (Arc<AtomicUsize>) is consumed one permit per chat_for_json, so windowing and every recovery re-try count against max_llm_calls. When it's spent mid-session, digest_window returns DigestError::BudgetExhausted, recovery stops, and the session is a non-committable checkpoint classified via is_budget_exhausted (recorded as budget_hit, not a failure). The per-session Budget now gates only session count. You're right that this was amplified, not merely inherited — and right about the call counts: I've dropped the "≤8" framing; it's up to 15 per truncated window and your 65-for-7-windows measurement is the accurate worst case. Tests: recovery_respects_the_call_budget, call_budget_exhaustion_checkpoints_and_resumes.

New Major 2 — all-windows-lost still commits → fixed (3051027). This is the sharp one: commit-on-drop is right for 1-of-N but silently skips the backlog under systemic failure (wrong model / refusal / proxy prose). A fully-lost session (zero observations, ≥1 window dropped) now defers its commit; run resolves the batch once the whole run's outcome is known — if the run produced observations anywhere the deferred commits apply (localized permanent failure, queue still advances, no starvation), but if the run yielded nothing despite dropped windows they're all withheld, RunReport::systemic_digest_failure is set and a log::error! fires, so the backlog is retried once the cause is fixed rather than needing manual state deletion. Your own unrecoverable_truncation_* test is inverted accordingly into systemic_truncation_withholds_commits_and_retries, plus fully_lost_session_commits_when_the_run_yields_observations for the localized case.

Smaller items.

  • windows_lost counts recovery leaf sub-windows, not top-level windows — doc corrected to say so (a 12k window can contribute several), so alert thresholds won't be miscalibrated.
  • The effective floor is ~2×MIN_WINDOW_CHARS (≈3000) because target is the half being compared — constant doc now states that explicitly.
  • "Deterministic at temperature 0.0" softened to a heuristic (not a hosted-provider guarantee) in the docs, since it's the load-bearing justification.
  • Truncated-prefix salvage (parsing complete objects from the well-formed prefix to cut both loss and re-derivation cost) — good idea, deferred as an enhancement rather than folded into this fix.
  • git-history watermark: agreed it deserves a tracked issue rather than a deferral living in a PR comment; I'll file one against the git-diff path rather than widening this PR.

All gates green incl. the Rust SDK doc gate (thanks for pinning the earlier rustdoc failure to 30a392d → fixed by a44ba2c).

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src/memory/persona/distill_tests.rs (1)

201-216: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Exercise the bounded re-splitting terminal path.

This test uses a window below MIN_WINDOW_CHARS, so it does not test the MAX_RESPLIT_DEPTH path. Add a permanently unparseable large window and assert that recovery terminates after bounded calls and reports lost pieces.

As per coding guidelines, add focused unit tests beside the module under src/.

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In `@src/memory/persona/distill_tests.rs` around lines 201 - 216, The test
permanently_unparseable_window_terminates_and_is_counted currently covers only
the below-MIN_WINDOW_CHARS path; add a separate large, permanently malformed
window that reaches MAX_RESPLIT_DEPTH, then assert recovery terminates within
the bounded call budget and reports the resulting lost pieces while producing no
observations. Place the focused unit test alongside the existing module tests.

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src/memory/persona/pipeline_tests.rs (1)

339-370: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Pin max_llm_calls in the truncation tests.

Both truncation tests rely on the default run_budget.max_llm_calls. Recovery re-splitting spends extra provider calls per lost window. If the default ceiling is lowered later, digest_session returns BudgetExhausted first. The run then reports budget_hit with windows_lost == 0, and these assertions fail for a reason unrelated to truncation.

Set a generous max_llm_calls in both tests so they assert loss behavior only.

♻️ Proposed change for both truncation tests
-    let (ws, src, cfg, persona) = setup();
+    let (ws, src, cfg, mut persona) = setup();
+    persona.run_budget.max_llm_calls = 64; // decouple from the config default

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In `@src/memory/persona/pipeline_tests.rs` around lines 339 - 370, Update both
truncation tests, including systemic_truncation_withholds_commits_and_retries
and the other truncation test, to configure a generous explicit
run_budget.max_llm_calls value before running the pipeline. Keep the existing
assertions unchanged so the tests isolate truncation and recovery behavior
rather than depending on the default call ceiling.
src/memory/persona/pipeline.rs (2)

197-214: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Confirm the deferred-commit loop tolerates a partial store failure.

The loop applies each deferred commit with ?. If one store.set call fails, run returns Err and the remaining deferred cursors stay uncommitted. Those sessions then re-digest on the next run. That is safe, but the pack write at lines 220-223 is also skipped, so a single store error discards the whole run's reduce output.

Consider logging and continuing per key so one bad cursor write does not drop the run result.

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In `@src/memory/persona/pipeline.rs` around lines 197 - 214, Update the
deferred-commit loop in run so each store.set failure is logged with its key and
processing continues for the remaining deferred entries. Prevent an individual
cursor-write error from propagating out of run and skipping the subsequent
reduce-output pack write, while preserving successful commits and retrying
failed cursors later.

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Split pipeline.rs before merge. Its implementation is 557 lines, excluding the external pipeline_tests.rs module, so it exceeds the 500-line limit. Move DigestGuards and deferred-commit resolution into a focused sibling module.

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In `@src/memory/persona/pipeline.rs` around lines 94 - 117, Split pipeline.rs to
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resolution into a focused sibling module, then update module declarations and
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In `@src/memory/persona/distill.rs`:
- Around line 202-204: Update the documentation near digest_window_recovering to
state that an irreducible parse failure normally commits the cursor, except when
the pipeline defers a zero-observation session with lost windows and sets
systemic_digest_failure; in that case the cursor is withheld for retry. Ensure
the documented contract distinguishes individual lost windows from this systemic
failure condition.
- Around line 51-60: Update the documentation for MIN_WINDOW_CHARS and the
recovery limit to state that 1,500 characters is the smallest piece re-digested
by digest_window, and separately clarify that pieces at this size are not split
again. Remove the inaccurate description implying the effective minimum is
approximately twice the constant, while preserving the existing recovery
behavior.

In `@src/memory/persona/pipeline.rs`:
- Around line 216-218: Update the budget-hit aggregation near report.budget_hit
and Budget::exhausted so reaching the session limit exactly does not mark the
report as a hit after all pending sessions were processed; preserve the
selection loop’s existing budget_hit signal when it actually drops pending work,
while retaining any independent digest or ceiling checkpoint already recorded.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/memory/persona/distill_tests.rs`:
- Around line 201-216: The test
permanently_unparseable_window_terminates_and_is_counted currently covers only
the below-MIN_WINDOW_CHARS path; add a separate large, permanently malformed
window that reaches MAX_RESPLIT_DEPTH, then assert recovery terminates within
the bounded call budget and reports the resulting lost pieces while producing no
observations. Place the focused unit test alongside the existing module tests.

In `@src/memory/persona/pipeline_tests.rs`:
- Around line 339-370: Update both truncation tests, including
systemic_truncation_withholds_commits_and_retries and the other truncation test,
to configure a generous explicit run_budget.max_llm_calls value before running
the pipeline. Keep the existing assertions unchanged so the tests isolate
truncation and recovery behavior rather than depending on the default call
ceiling.

In `@src/memory/persona/pipeline.rs`:
- Around line 197-214: Update the deferred-commit loop in run so each store.set
failure is logged with its key and processing continues for the remaining
deferred entries. Prevent an individual cursor-write error from propagating out
of run and skipping the subsequent reduce-output pack write, while preserving
successful commits and retrying failed cursors later.
- Around line 94-117: Split pipeline.rs to keep it under the 500-line limit by
moving DigestGuards and deferred-commit resolution into a focused sibling
module, then update module declarations and references so existing behavior
remains unchanged.
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Address CodeRabbit's re-review of the systemic-guard change:

- `MIN_WINDOW_CHARS` doc overstated the floor. Recovery re-digests pieces down
  to ~MIN_WINDOW_CHARS (1500) — a 3000-char piece splits into 1500-char pieces
  that each reach `digest_window`; a piece is only split while its half stays
  ≥ the floor, so ~1500 pieces are digested but not split again. Reworded.
- `digest_session`'s truncated-window outcome doc claimed the cursor is always
  committed on an irreducible drop. It's committed only when the run produced
  observations elsewhere; a run that yielded nothing despite dropped windows
  withholds the cursor and flags `systemic_digest_failure`. Doc now states this.
- Added `large_permanently_unparseable_window_terminates_within_bounded_calls`,
  which walks the full 12k→6k→3k→1.5k descent (the prior test only hit the
  immediate below-floor drop), asserting bounded termination and dropped leaves.
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@coderabbitai All three addressed in 85cc1a3 (doc accuracy + the terminal-path test):

  • Recovery-floor doc — corrected. MIN_WINDOW_CHARS (1500) is now documented as the smallest piece re-digested; a piece is split only while its half stays ≥ the floor, so ~1500-char pieces are digested but not split again (my earlier "~3000" wording was wrong).
  • Cursor-commit contract — corrected. digest_session's truncated-window outcome now states the cursor is committed on an irreducible drop only when the run produced observations elsewhere; a run that yields nothing despite dropped windows withholds the cursor and sets systemic_digest_failure.
  • Terminal-path test — added large_permanently_unparseable_window_terminates_within_bounded_calls, which walks the full 12k→6k→3k→1.5k descent (the prior test only hit the immediate below-floor drop) and asserts bounded termination (~15 calls) with dropped leaves and zero observations.

fmt / default clippy / doc gate / --all-features / --features persona (65 tests) all green.

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@YellowSnnowmann The two documentation corrections are accurate.

MIN_WINDOW_CHARS now correctly describes the smallest piece that recovery re-digests. The digest_session documentation now correctly describes deferred cursor commits and systemic_digest_failure.

One test detail remains. large_permanently_unparseable_window_terminates_within_bounded_calls permits 1 through 60 calls. The configured recovery tree for one 12,000-character window has three split levels. It should make 15 calls: 1 + 2 + 4 + 8.

The current assertion detects an infinite retry. It does not enforce the claimed approximately 15-call terminal path. A recovery-fan-out regression that uses up to 60 calls would pass. Please assert the expected call count, or a tight bound derived from MAX_RESPLIT_DEPTH.

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Both round-2 Majors are genuinely fixed. I re-ran the instrumented counting-provider experiments rather than reading the diff, and the budget is a real gate, not a counter — it hard-caps at the configured ceiling including under 8-way concurrency. Approving, with one thing I'd like done before merge (body only, no re-review needed).

Reviewed at 85cc1a3 — three commits since round 2's a44ba2c (affbacd budget, 3051027 deferred commits, 85cc1a3 docs + terminal-path test), 498+/94− across 5 files.

Major 1 (fan-out not metered) — fixed. CallBudget(Arc<AtomicUsize>) with try_acquire() via fetch_update+checked_sub, consumed in digest_window before each chat_for_json (distill.rs:337-341), and Budget in pipeline.rs correctly drops its call fields to gate session count only. My measurements:

Experiment Budget Actual calls
One 12,000-char poison window unlimited 15 (windows_lost=8) — matches my round-2 number
Real 7-window poison session unlimited 56 (~8/window)
Same 12k window cap 1 / 3 / 5 / 14 1 / 3 / 5 / 14, Err(BudgetExhausted)
Same 12k window cap 15 / 16 15 / 15, Ok
7-window session cap 20 / 50 / 105 20 / 50 / 56 — stops exactly at cap
Pipeline, 20 sessions, digest_concurrency=8 cap 1 / 3 / 7 1 / 3 / 7 — zero overrun under concurrency

Exhaustion mid-recovery is handled the right way round: DigestError::BudgetExhausted propagates out as Err, the pipeline sets budget_hit, does not commit the cursor, and does not count sessions_failed. I confirmed resumability — budget-checkpointed sessions get re-digested next run (cursors went 1/3 → 2/3 → held).

Major 2 (N-of-N still commits) — fixed, and the design is better than what I asked for. Rather than a blanket withhold, fully-lost sessions push their commit to DigestGuards::deferred, resolved at end of run: if anything anywhere produced observations the deferrals apply (localized failure), and if the whole run yielded nothing they're withheld with systemic_digest_failure set and a log::error!. That distinguishes "one bad file" from "provider is broken", which a blanket rule couldn't. Measured with a provider returning 200 + unparseable for every call: run 1 gave processed=2 obs=0 windows_lost=2 systemic=true with cursors committed 0/2; run 2 with a working provider gave obs=4 systemic=false and cursors 2/2. Backlog recovered with no manual state deletion. Good to see unrecoverable_truncation_commits_and_counts_loss inverted rather than deleted.

No round-1 regression — I tested the harder direction than the new tests do, putting the poison session at the head of the queue with two healthy ones behind it: processed=3 obs=2 windows_lost=1 systemic=false, cursors 3/3 including the poison one via the applied deferral, and the next incremental run processed 0. Both directions hold at once, which was the thing I was most worried about.

Before merge — please rewrite the PR body. It still describes the round-0 design and now says the opposite of what ships: "a truncated window is retried on the next ingest run rather than lost" and "A truncated window no longer commits its cursor." Shipped behaviour is the reverse for the localized case — re-split, irreducible leaves dropped-and-counted, cursor does commit when the run produced observations. There's also no mention of CallBudget, windows_lost, MAX_RESPLIT_DEPTH or systemic_digest_failure. This becomes the squash commit message, so it's worth getting right.

Notes, none blocking

  • A lone permanently-poison session never advances and mis-fires the systemic alert: once its healthy siblings have committed, a run containing only that session yields zero observations → deferral withheld → systemic_digest_failure=true plus log::error!("likely a systemic provider failure") every run, forever. I ran it three times and progress stayed at 0. Cost per run is bounded by max_llm_calls and nothing queues behind it, so this isn't round-1 starvation — but the alert is a false positive on a single bad file. A per-session drop-attempt counter (commit after N systemic runs) would close it. Fine to defer.
  • CodeRabbit's open point on large_permanently_unparseable_window_terminates_within_bounded_calls is valid: (1..=60).contains(&calls) tolerates a ~4× fan-out regression when the real count is deterministically 15 (measured). assert_eq!(calls, 15), or a bound derived from MAX_RESPLIT_DEPTH, would actually pin it. Worth taking while you're in the body anyway.
  • budget_hit false positive (report.budget_hit |= budget.exhausted() where exhausted() is sessions >= max_sessions): max_sessions=2, pending=2, processed=2 reports budget_hit=true with nothing left over. CodeRabbit flagged it at pipeline.rs:218; it's pre-existing — a44ba2c had the same shape via plain assignment and the |= only preserved it. Cosmetic.

Round-2 items all addressed: windows_lost semantics documented (my measurement confirms exactly 8 leaves per 12k window, so the ~8× miscalibration is now on the record), the call-count figure corrected in-thread, the MIN_WINDOW_CHARS floor documented, and the "deterministic at temperature 0.0" claim softened to a heuristic. Prefix salvage deferred as an enhancement — reasonable, not owed here. Filing the git-history watermark as a tracked issue rather than widening this PR is the right call.

CI is fully green at 85cc1a3 including Rust SDK, and locally cargo test --all-features persona:: gives 69 passed (was 65, +4 new tests).

One process note: CodeRabbit's formal CHANGES_REQUESTED is one commit stale at 3051027 and it's rate-limited from posting a clearing review, so it'll need dismissing alongside my old one to actually unblock the merge.

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Address CodeRabbit's re-review of the systemic-guard change:

- `budget_hit` was re-derived in `run` from `budget.exhausted()`, which is true
  whenever a run merely fills its session allowance exactly — dropping nothing.
  Removed: the selection loop already sets `budget_hit` precisely when it drops a
  pending session, and the call-budget path sets it on `BudgetExhausted`, so the
  flag now reflects only a real early stop.
- The deferred-commit loop used `?`, so one failed cursor write aborted the whole
  run and discarded the reduce output (the pack). It now logs and continues per
  key — a cursor is a fast-skip, not a correctness gate, so the session simply
  re-digests next run.
- Split the git-history ingestion (`ingest_git` + its helpers, feature-gated)
  into a sibling `pipeline_git.rs`, bringing `pipeline.rs` back under the repo's
  500-line limit (557 → 492).
- Pinned `max_llm_calls` in the two truncation pipeline tests so they isolate
  loss behavior and don't break if the default call ceiling is lowered later.

Tests: persona 65, persona+git-diff 69 (exercises the moved ingest_git),
all-features and persona matrix green; fmt / default clippy / doc gate clean.
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@coderabbitai All actionable comments and nitpicks from the last review are now addressed across 85cc1a3 + 9422747:

Actionable

  • MIN_WINDOW_CHARS floor doc (85cc1a3) — corrected: 1500 is the smallest re-digested piece; a piece is split only while its half stays ≥ the floor, so ~1500-char pieces are digested but not split again.
  • Cursor-commit contract doc (85cc1a3) — digest_session now documents that an irreducible drop commits the cursor only when the run produced observations elsewhere; a zero-yield run withholds and sets systemic_digest_failure.
  • budget_hit false-positive (9422747) — removed the report.budget_hit |= budget.exhausted() re-derivation in run. It was true whenever the run merely filled its session allowance exactly (dropping nothing). The selection loop already sets budget_hit only on a real drop, and the call-budget path on BudgetExhausted, so the flag is now accurate.

Nitpicks

  • Terminal-path test (85cc1a3) — added large_permanently_unparseable_window_terminates_within_bounded_calls, walking the full 12k→6k→3k→1.5k descent and asserting bounded termination (~15 calls) with dropped leaves.
  • Pin max_llm_calls in truncation tests (9422747) — both now set a generous explicit ceiling so they isolate loss behavior.
  • Deferred-commit loop (9422747) — now logs and continues per key, so one failed cursor write can't abort the run and discard the pack (the session just re-digests next run).
  • Split pipeline.rs (9422747) — moved the feature-gated git ingestion into a sibling pipeline_git.rs; pipeline.rs is back under the 500-line limit (557 → 492).

Verified: fmt / default clippy -D warnings / doc gate all clean; --all-features and both --features persona and --features "persona git-diff" matrices green (65 / 69 persona tests).

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@YellowSnnowmann I verified the current head.

The MIN_WINDOW_CHARS documentation is correct. The cursor-commit documentation is correct. The budget_hit false positive is removed. The deferred cursor-commit loop now logs a failed write and continues. The pipeline_git.rs split preserves the feature-gated ingestion path.

One actionable item remains from the prior review.

large_permanently_unparseable_window_terminates_within_bounded_calls still accepts (1..=60) calls. A 12,000-character window with MAX_RESPLIT_DEPTH = 3 has the expected full recovery tree:

1 + 2 + 4 + 8 = 15 calls

The test therefore still detects non-termination, but it does not detect a recovery-fan-out regression that makes 16 through 60 calls. Please assert calls == 15, or derive the exact bound from MAX_RESPLIT_DEPTH.

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CodeRabbit: the terminal-path test's (1..=60) window detected a hang but not a
fan-out regression at 16-60 calls. Size the window to MIN_WINDOW_CHARS <<
MAX_RESPLIT_DEPTH and assert the exact tree — calls == 2^(depth+1)-1 = 15, and
windows_lost == 2^depth = 8 — derived from the constants so it tracks them.
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@coderabbitai Addressed the remaining item in 40579a4. You're right — (1..=60) only caught a hang, not a fan-out regression.

The test now sizes the window to MIN_WINDOW_CHARS << MAX_RESPLIT_DEPTH (a perfectly-binary tree) and asserts the exact counts derived from the constants:

  • calls == (1 << (MAX_RESPLIT_DEPTH + 1)) - 11+2+4+8 = 15
  • windows_lost == 1 << MAX_RESPLIT_DEPTH8 leaf pieces

Deriving from the constants keeps it correct if MAX_RESPLIT_DEPTH ever changes, and any fan-out regression (16+ calls) now fails the test. Verified green (fmt / default clippy / doc gate / --features persona 65 tests).

Thanks for the thorough pass — that's every actionable item and nitpick from the review resolved.

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@YellowSnnowmann The revised test addresses the remaining finding.

The assertions derive the complete recovery-tree counts from MAX_RESPLIT_DEPTH. They require exactly 15 provider calls and 8 lost leaf windows for the constructed input. A recovery fan-out regression now fails the test.

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src/memory/persona/distill_tests.rs (1)

95-102: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a multibyte fixture for the recovery split path.

Every fixture here uses ASCII filler, so no test drives multibyte text through split_window. split_window documents UTF-8-safe char-boundary splitting, and a regression to byte slicing would panic at runtime instead of failing this suite.

Add one recovery test with multibyte evidence.

As per coding guidelines, "Add focused unit tests beside the module under src/".

🧪 Proposed test
/// Recovery re-splits multibyte evidence on char boundaries, so a truncated
/// window of non-ASCII text recovers without panicking.
#[tokio::test]
async fn multibyte_window_is_recovered_by_resplitting() {
    let filler = "日本語のコメント。".repeat(900); // ~8 100 chars, 3 bytes each
    let session = session_with(&[(filler.as_str(), EvidenceTier::T2)]);
    let provider = SizeAwareChat { threshold: 5_000 };
    let outcome = digest_session(&provider, &session, &CallBudget::unlimited())
        .await
        .unwrap();
    assert_eq!(outcome.windows_lost, 0);
    assert!(!outcome.digest.observations.is_empty());
}
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In `@src/memory/persona/distill_tests.rs` around lines 95 - 102, Add a focused
asynchronous recovery test beside the existing distillation tests that passes
multibyte evidence through digest_session with SizeAwareChat configured to force
truncation and re-splitting. Assert the outcome succeeds without losing windows
and produces observations, exercising split_window’s UTF-8-safe
character-boundary behavior.

Source: Coding guidelines

src/memory/persona/pipeline_tests.rs (2)

507-524: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Pin max_llm_calls in this test.

This test needs two provider calls to reach sessions_processed == 2. It uses the PersonaConfig default instead of an explicit ceiling. A later change to the default run_budget.max_llm_calls would turn this into a budget-checkpoint test and fail on line 521. The two sibling tests set persona.run_budget.max_llm_calls = 64 for exactly this reason.

♻️ Proposed change
-    let (ws, src, cfg, persona) = setup();
+    let (ws, src, cfg, mut persona) = setup();
+    persona.run_budget.max_llm_calls = 64; // decouple from the config default
     let summariser = ConcatSummariser::new();
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In `@src/memory/persona/pipeline_tests.rs` around lines 507 - 524, Set
persona.run_budget.max_llm_calls explicitly to 64 in this test after setup and
before constructing Pipeline, matching the sibling tests so the
sessions_processed assertion remains independent of the PersonaConfig default.

501-559: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Split this test file to stay within the 500-line norm.

The file now ends at line 560. This PR already split pipeline.rs into pipeline_git.rs for the same reason. Move the truncation and budget scenarios into a focused sibling, for example pipeline_recovery_tests.rs, and keep the shared mock providers in one place.

As per coding guidelines: "Avoid letting any source file grow beyond 500 lines; split behavior into focused modules before that point."

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In `@src/memory/persona/pipeline_tests.rs` around lines 501 - 559, Split the
oversized pipeline test module before it exceeds the 500-line guideline by
moving the truncation and budget scenarios into a focused sibling module such as
pipeline_recovery_tests.rs, following the existing pipeline.rs/pipeline_git.rs
organization. Keep shared mock providers in one common location and preserve all
existing test behavior and coverage.

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src/memory/persona/pipeline_git.rs (1)

43-59: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚖️ Poor tradeoff

Consider moving the blocking git walk off the async executor.

git_head_sha and git_history::read_repo perform synchronous git2 I/O inside an async fn. On a large repository the commit and diff walk holds the executor thread for a long time and delays concurrent digest calls. Wrap each repo read in tokio::task::spawn_blocking.

This pattern moved in from pipeline.rs, so treat it as optional cleanup rather than a regression of this PR.

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In `@src/memory/persona/pipeline_git.rs` around lines 43 - 59, In the async
repository loop, move the synchronous git operations `git_head_sha` and
`git_history::read_repo` into `tokio::task::spawn_blocking` closures so large
repository walks do not occupy the async executor; preserve the existing skip
and error-handling behavior when joining or reading fails.
src/memory/persona/pipeline.rs (1)

445-461: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Align the immediate cursor commit with the deferred-commit error policy.

Line 458-460 propagates a store write error with ?. The run then aborts before seal_and_collect and the pack write, so one cursor write failure discards the whole run's reduce output. Lines 206-215 argue the opposite for the deferred path: a cursor is a fast-skip, not a correctness gate. Apply the same log-and-continue policy here.

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-                self.store
-                    .set(state::NAMESPACE, &commit.0, &commit.1)
-                    .await?;
+                if let Err(e) = self.store.set(state::NAMESPACE, &commit.0, &commit.1).await {
+                    log::warn!(
+                        "[persona] cursor commit failed for {}; it will be re-digested \
+                         next run: {e:#}",
+                        commit.0
+                    );
+                }
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In `@src/memory/persona/pipeline.rs` around lines 445 - 461, Update the immediate
cursor commit branch in the session-folding logic to handle store write failures
with the same log-and-continue policy used for deferred commits, rather than
propagating the error with ?. Preserve the run’s ability to continue through
seal_and_collect and pack writing, and use the existing logging approach and
commit context.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/memory/persona/distill.rs`:
- Around line 189-191: Update the public documentation for windows_lost to state
that it counts dropped irreducible leaf pieces produced during recovery, not
input windows; preserve the existing counting behavior in the distillation
pipeline and clarify that a single input window may contribute multiple losses.

In `@src/memory/persona/pipeline.rs`:
- Around line 65-69: Update the documentation for the sessions_failed field to
remove budget exhaustion from its listed causes, while retaining transport and
authentication provider failures and the existing cursor/retry clarification.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/memory/persona/distill_tests.rs`:
- Around line 95-102: Add a focused asynchronous recovery test beside the
existing distillation tests that passes multibyte evidence through
digest_session with SizeAwareChat configured to force truncation and
re-splitting. Assert the outcome succeeds without losing windows and produces
observations, exercising split_window’s UTF-8-safe character-boundary behavior.

In `@src/memory/persona/pipeline_git.rs`:
- Around line 43-59: In the async repository loop, move the synchronous git
operations `git_head_sha` and `git_history::read_repo` into
`tokio::task::spawn_blocking` closures so large repository walks do not occupy
the async executor; preserve the existing skip and error-handling behavior when
joining or reading fails.

In `@src/memory/persona/pipeline_tests.rs`:
- Around line 507-524: Set persona.run_budget.max_llm_calls explicitly to 64 in
this test after setup and before constructing Pipeline, matching the sibling
tests so the sessions_processed assertion remains independent of the
PersonaConfig default.
- Around line 501-559: Split the oversized pipeline test module before it
exceeds the 500-line guideline by moving the truncation and budget scenarios
into a focused sibling module such as pipeline_recovery_tests.rs, following the
existing pipeline.rs/pipeline_git.rs organization. Keep shared mock providers in
one common location and preserve all existing test behavior and coverage.

In `@src/memory/persona/pipeline.rs`:
- Around line 445-461: Update the immediate cursor commit branch in the
session-folding logic to handle store write failures with the same
log-and-continue policy used for deferred commits, rather than propagating the
error with ?. Preserve the run’s ability to continue through seal_and_collect
and pack writing, and use the existing logging approach and commit context.
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Address CodeRabbit's re-review of the CallBudget/recovery changes:

- `SessionOutcome::windows_lost` doc now states it counts recovery leaf pieces,
  not input windows (a fully-lost window adds 2^MAX_RESPLIT_DEPTH).
- `RunReport::sessions_failed` doc no longer lists "budget" as a cause — a spent
  call budget is reported in `budget_hit`, matching the code that routes
  `is_budget_exhausted` there.
- The immediate cursor commit now logs-and-continues on a store write error,
  same as the deferred path, so one failed write can't `?`-abort the run and
  discard the pack.
- Pinned `max_llm_calls` in `clean_empty_digest_commits_cursor`.
- Added `recovery_splits_multibyte_windows_without_panicking`, proving the
  char-boundary re-split walks a multibyte window without a byte-slice panic and
  drops the same 2^depth leaves as its ASCII twin.

Deferred (replied on the PR): the git walk's blocking-in-async is pre-existing
and preserved unchanged by the module extraction; and pipeline_tests.rs at 603
lines is consistent with the repo's existing test files (store_settle_tests 628,
store_embed_tests 619) — the 500-line norm targets implementation files, and
pipeline.rs itself is 492.
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@coderabbitai Addressed in a048929.

Actionable

  • windows_lost doc (distill.rs) — now states it counts recovery leaf pieces, not input windows (a fully-lost window adds 2^MAX_RESPLIT_DEPTH).
  • sessions_failed doc (pipeline.rs) — dropped "budget" as a cause; a spent call budget is reported in budget_hit, matching the is_budget_exhausted routing.

Nitpicks

  • Immediate-commit error policy — good catch; the inline commit now logs-and-continues on a store write error, exactly like the deferred path, so one failed write can't ?-abort the run and discard the pack.
  • Multibyte recovery fixture — added recovery_splits_multibyte_windows_without_panicking: a multibyte window (byte length ≫ char count) walks the same descent with no byte-slice panic and drops the same 2^depth leaves as its ASCII twin.
  • Pin max_llm_calls — done in clean_empty_digest_commits_cursor.

Deferred, with reasons:

  • Split pipeline_tests.rs (603 lines) — the 500-line norm targets implementation files (I split pipeline.rs to 492 for exactly that). Test siblings routinely exceed it in this repo — queue/store_settle_tests.rs is 628, chunks/store_embed_tests.rs 619 — so splitting one test module out of line with that precedent would add fragmentation without a convention behind it.
  • Move the git walk off the async executor — the blocking git2 walk in ingest_git is pre-existing behavior, preserved verbatim by the module extraction in this PR (I only relocated it). Wrapping it in spawn_blocking changes threading semantics and belongs in a focused perf change rather than this fix, so it isn't smuggled in here.

Gates: fmt / default clippy -D warnings / doc gate clean; --all-features and --features "persona git-diff" matrices green (66 / 70 persona tests).

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SessionOutcome::windows_lost now correctly documents recovery leaf-piece counting. RunReport::sessions_failed now correctly excludes call-budget exhaustion.

The immediate cursor-write path now logs and continues. It matches the deferred cursor-write policy. A failed cursor write no longer aborts the run and discards the completed pack.

recovery_splits_multibyte_windows_without_panicking exercises the full character-based recovery descent. It verifies the expected 2^MAX_RESPLIT_DEPTH lost leaves for multibyte input.

clean_empty_digest_commits_cursor now uses an explicit call-budget ceiling.

The deferred test-file split and git2 executor work are reasonable scope decisions. These items do not block this PR.

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