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fix(memory): deleting a memory leaves a similar memory's derived data alone - #461
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… alone The cascading delete found MEMORY.md/USER.md lines, journal lines, summaries and insight evidence by loose word overlap, so deleting one of two similar memories also stripped the other's. Fact evidence now goes by fact id only, and a text line stays when a remaining current memory says it as well or better, or names a remaining memory's id. The same guard applies when a memory becomes disputed or superseded. Closes #456
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Check name Status Explanation Description Check Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled. Title check The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preserving derived data for similar memories when one memory is deleted. Linked Issues check Issue #456requires deletion cleanup to preserve data supported by a remaining current memory and to remove fact evidence only by fact ID.origins.Erasedcompares deleted and remaining memories, pre…Out of Scope Changes check The changes stay within issue #456. They update the deletion cascade, shared matching logic, workspace cleanup, disputed or superseded cleanup, focused tests, API documentation, and the changelog. The…Full details: Linked Issues check
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#456requires deletion cleanup to preserve data supported by a remaining current memory and to remove fact evidence only by fact ID.origins.Erasedcompares deleted and remaining memories, preserves stronger or tied sibling matches, and handles written memory IDs and quoted text._cascaderemoves fact evidence byrefonly and applies the predicate to other evidence, summaries, journal lines, and workspace files. The added tests cover sibling data, mixed evidence, IDs, quotes, and disputed or superseded paths. The PR also reports a real-run check with sibling lines and evidence preserved.
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#456. They update the deletion cascade, shared matching logic, workspace cleanup, disputed or superseded cleanup, focused tests, API documentation, and the changelog. The disputed and superseded changes apply the same sibling-preservation rule to the linked defect. No unrelated change is demonstrated.
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A rabbit watched the memories part,
And checked each line with careful heart.
A sibling’s words could still remain,
While deleted traces left the lane.
Fact IDs helped sort what was true,
Then workspace cleanup followed through.
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- Line 206: Update _NAMES_ID to match only parenthesized memory-reference forms,
and update __call__ to ignore a matched ID when that number also appears in the
deleted memory text. Add a regression case to
test_a_line_a_remaining_memory_says_as_well_stays for ordinary text containing
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A line is kept for naming a remaining memory only when it writes a
reference like "(memory 7)", and never for a number the deleted words
themselves say ("phone has memory 7 GB").
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- Line 227: Update `_own` and `_repeats` so each numeric exclusion remains
associated with its deleted wording and is applied only when that wording
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A deleted wording's own numbers no longer excuse a reference in a line that repeats another deleted wording, and a quoted part of a line is still judged when the line also names a remaining memory.
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What and why
Closes #456.
erase()(#436) found a deleted memory's derived data by word overlap: three in five of its words. When a similar memory still existed, that also removed the other memory's MEMORY.md line, its user-model insight evidence (even when that evidence pointed at the other memory by id) and matching journal and summary lines.origins.Erased(line)is true when a deleted wordingsays()the line and no remaining current memory says it as well or better (share of that memory's words in the line, ties go to the remaining memory). A line that names a remaining memory's id in a written reference ((memory 7),(id: 7),[fact #7]) always stays, unless the deleted wording itself says that number (e.g. "phone has memory 7 GB"). Each quoted part of a line is also weighed on its own, so a journal line likeI used to remember "A", but now "B"still goes when either A or B is deleted. With no similar memory left it is the same word match as before, so the #436 tests pass unchanged.The same guard now covers a memory that becomes disputed or superseded (
_out_of_prompts): it no longer takes the newer memory's MEMORY.md line with it.#453 (superseded-memory expiry by @wpyaoxueros) calls
erase()on a replaced memory whose replacement is, by definition, a close sibling: that is how this bug was found.erase()'s signature and return value are unchanged, so #453 gets the fix without changes. Its own edits are inerase()'s first lines, and this PR only touches_cascadeand below.How I tested it
tests/memory/test_erase_siblings.pywith near-duplicate wording: "lives in Pune" deleted while "moved from Pune to Bengaluru" stays, and "drives a red Honda City" deleted while "sold her red Honda City and now rides a blue Ather" stays. It covers MEMORY.md and USER.md lines, journal lines (including the quoted "used to remember" form), summaries, fact evidence by id, chat-message evidence quotes, a line naming a remaining memory's id, and the disputed and superseded paths. All 3 tests fail onmainand pass here.test_correct_then_delete_leaves_nothing_derivedpasses unchanged.2589 passed, 2 skipped.ruff check sentient tests packaging: clean.Real test
Setup: a fresh engine with its own
SENTIENT_HOMEand a random token on port 8787, first frommain(d128200), then from this branch, driven over REST by the same script. Chats usedclaude-code/sonnet.fast(memory saves, the user-model refresh) and embeddings ran onollama_chat/qwen3:8b, holding the shared Ollama lock.Steps:
memory_rememberboth times, giving memories 1Maya lives in Pune.and 2Maya drives a red Honda City..POST /api/memorieswith a stand-in, thenPUT /api/memories/{id}to word it as the user would on the Memory screen. This gave 3Maya moved from Pune to Bengaluruand 4Maya sold her red Honda City and now rides a blue Ather, all fourcurrent. Both steps are needed because the save path itself rightly replaces the older of such a pair in place.PUT /api/memories/workspace/memoryand/userwith a line for each memory, in the shape the nightly upkeep writes.POST /api/user-model/refreshon qwen3:8b made 2 real insights, citing facts 3 and 4. I also added 3 inferred insights by SQL in the shape a refresh writes (kind: fact, quote = the memory's words): one with only the Ather memory as evidence, and two mixed ones (Pune with Bengaluru, Honda with Ather).DELETE /api/memories/2, thenDELETE /api/memories/1. Then readGET /api/memories/workspace,GET /api/user-modeland thefactsanduser_insightstables.On main (the bug):
On this branch:
GET /api/user-modelshowed the same insights and evidence as the DB. The engine log had no tracebacks and no "cleaning up after memory ... failed".Not covered in the real run: journal lines and summaries. Making them needs a full dreaming run and a summarised chat, so the unit tests cover them with the same wording.
Merge Danger
Door: two-way. Deletes now remove less derived text than before, never more. Nothing is migrated.
Blast Radius: small. The trade-off: a line that a remaining memory says equally well now stays even if it also mentions the deleted memory. A journal line with quotes is still judged by its quoted parts.
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pytestpasses locally for what I touchedruff check sentient testsis cleandocs/API.mdupdated (the delete cascade note in section 7)changes/(changes/456.fixed.md)Summary by CodeRabbit