Bind this crate's own store as a driver (#18 §A3)

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Issue #18 §A3 — "MemoryProvider becomes the only in-tree memory surface."

The gap

Every storage implementation in this workspace was reachable through MemoryProvider except the one this crate ships:

implementation	bound as a driver
bundled TinyCortex engine	✅ adapters/tinycortex
Supermemory / Mem0 / Cognee	✅ adapters/remote
tinymemory_core::store::UnifiedMemory	❌ concrete type only

That last one is the store OpenHuman actually uses. create_memory returning Box<dyn Memory> is exactly the bypass §A3 names.

This did not need the crate split

Worth recording, because it was mis-diagnosed that way — including by me, on a pre-§C1 measurement.

After §C1 landed, zero files in core/ name the tinycortex crate outside the seam, so §A3's first clause is already satisfied:

$ git grep -lE '(^|[^_a-zA-Z])tinycortex::' -- 'core/src/*.rs' | grep -v '^core/src/engine/'
(nothing)

27 files remain engine-coupled, and all 27 are rusqlite-only — that is §D2's concern (make the heavy deps optional), not §A3's. And nothing structural was missing: UnifiedMemory already implements the contract's Memory, and MemoryTraitProvider already wraps any Memory into a provider. This is the one-line composition the adapters have been doing all along.

What changed

• NAMESPACE_DRIVER_ID reserved as Embedded. Deliberately not reusing tinycortex: they are two different engines that happen to share a class, and a host that bound one has not bound the other. The name matches what effective_memory_backend_name has always returned, so status output does not gain a third vocabulary for one store.
• create_memory_provider() returns Arc<dyn MemoryProvider>; bind_as_provider() binds a store the caller already holds, so no path has to construct a second one against the same directory.
• The provider advertises the mandatory three and nothing else, because that is what Memory can express. UnifiedMemory does more internally (trees, chunks, entities), but those reach callers through concrete APIs rather than optional family accessors, so advertising them would be a claim audit_provider correctly rejects. Widening it is §C3's shape of work.

It immediately exposed a real contract violation

Pointing the conformance suite at the store failed on the first round trip:

namespace: session not preserved
  left: None
 right: Some("session-1")

memory_docs has a session_id column and list selects it. get did not — it hardcoded session_id: None. The two readers disagreed about the same row: list a namespace and the session is there, fetch that exact key and it is gone. Silent, and invisible until this store was held to the same standard as the adapters. get now selects the column it was already writing.

This is the §E1 suite doing the job it was built for, one crate over from where it was aimed.

Tests

core/src/store/factories_provider_test.rs mirrors the adapters' conformance_test.rs: the full suite, a retention probe, audit_provider, the driver id, and registry admission.

The retention probe is deliberate. The suite tolerates a driver that refuses a write, so without it a store that silently kept nothing would pass vacuously — which is not hypothetical, a broken double slipped through exactly that way earlier in this issue's work.

tinymemory-conformance is added as a dev-dependency only; it depends on tinymemory-api alone, so there is no cycle.

Validation

Command	Result
cargo fmt --all -- --check	clean
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features	clean
cargo test --workspace	1211 passed, 0 failed (core 798 → 803)

Merge order

Independent. No submodule change — the vendor/ gitlinks are byte-identical to main.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added support for exposing the core memory store through the standard memory provider interface.
  • Registered the built-in namespace store for embedded driver discovery.
  • Added provider conformance validation and capability checks.

• Bug Fixes

  • Restored stored session IDs when retrieving memory entries.

• Tests

  • Added coverage verifying provider behavior, persistence, namespace identification, and driver registration.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The core store now exposes UnifiedMemory through MemoryProvider, preserves session_id values, registers the namespace driver, and adds provider conformance tests.

Changes

Memory provider integration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Namespace driver registration src/registry/mod.rs	Adds the public NAMESPACE_DRIVER_ID constant and registers the namespace driver as a built-in embedded driver.
Provider factories and session mapping core/src/store/memory_trait.rs, core/src/store/factories.rs	Adds factories for creating or binding a MemoryProvider. UnifiedMemory::get now returns the stored session_id.
Provider conformance validation core/Cargo.toml, core/src/store/mod.rs, core/src/store/factories_provider_test.rs	Adds the conformance dependency, test module wiring, and tests for provider behavior, retention, capabilities, namespace binding, and registry admission.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 89774

This PR exposes the embedded store through the provider registry and preserves session data on reads, with no expected runtime impact from the functional changes. Merge readiness is currently held back because the added tests broadly suppress Clippy guardrails; that suppression should be removed or explicitly accepted, and the registry documentation should be updated.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MemoryFactory
  participant MemoryTraitProvider
  participant UnifiedMemory
  participant SQLiteStore
  MemoryFactory->>UnifiedMemory: create configured memory
  MemoryFactory->>MemoryTraitProvider: bind memory with NAMESPACE_DRIVER_ID
  MemoryTraitProvider->>UnifiedMemory: execute provider operations
  UnifiedMemory->>SQLiteStore: read and write memory records
  SQLiteStore-->>UnifiedMemory: return records with session_id

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Poem

A rabbit hops through stored lore,
A namespace guards the door.
Providers carry memories bright,
Session IDs return just right.
Tests thump softly: all is sound,
In SQLite burrows underground.

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How this change flows

1 changed behaviour across 10 relationships. 6 surrounding behaviours are shown (60 graph nodes walked). 34 further behaviours left out to keep the diagram readable.

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