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…odes Fixes MemMachine#1540. On the event backend, expand_context was silently inert: EventMemory fetched and materialized the expanded segment windows, but LongTermMemory._search_scored_event read only the seed segment's _episode_uid and score from each window, and the response schema has no context field - so responses were byte-identical for expand_context 0 and 5 while every request paid the LATERAL fetch. The declarative backend, by contrast, folds neighbor episodes into the returned list (_unify_scored_anchored_episode_contexts). This brings the event backend to parity: - Each scored window now contributes the episodes its segments belong to (chronological within the window, the seed's episode as nucleus). - Windows are unified best-score-first with the same fill algorithm as the declarative backend: taken whole while they fit within num_episodes_limit, then filled by weighted index-proximity to the nucleus (forward recall preferred) until the limit is met; an episode keeps the score of the first window that contributed it. - The unified context is returned chronologically, matching the declarative backend's ordering contract for expanded results. - expand_context is clamped to num_episodes_limit - 1 (declarative parity). expand_context == 0 behavior is unchanged (score-ordered seeds, exactly as before). Reranked configurations gain the same folding on top of reranker-scored windows. Tests: end-to-end via the in-memory event-backend wiring (neighbors returned, chronological order, limit respected) and unit tests for the window-to-episode-uid extraction and the unification algorithm (whole-context fit, overflow proximity with forward preference, first-window score retention). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
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expansion tests actually discriminate Self-review of the two commits above turned up one defect and one hole. Defect: the quota clamp `min(max(0, expand_context), num_episodes_limit - 1)` goes negative when `num_episodes_limit == 0` -- reachable, since `SearchMemoriesSpec.top_k` carries no lower bound. `EventMemory._query` then derives `max_backward_segments = -1 // 3 = -1` and hands the segment store a negative window, which the SegmentStorePartition contract does not define: the SQLAlchemy store happens to short-circuit on `<= 0`, the in-memory store computes an empty slice and drops the seed. Apply the floor last so the clamp can only ever produce a non-negative window. Hole: neither end-to-end test could tell the fix from its absence -- both pass unmodified against the pre-fix `long_term_memory.py`. `FakeEmbedder` maps text to `[len(text), -len(text)]`, so under cosine every document scores exactly 1.0 against every query; all seven timeline episodes become seeds of equal rank, ties keep insertion order (which is chronological), and `num_episodes_limit=7` returns all seven with or without expansion. The "expansion adds episodes" assertion compared a limit-2 search against a limit-7 one, so the limit alone explained the difference. Embed on a keyword instead: only `tl-3` matches the query, so `tl-4` and `tl-5` -- which score zero -- can reach the result only through the expansion. The tests now pin the exact window (`[tl-3, tl-4, tl-5]`, chronological, each keeping the window's score), the clamp against an oversized `expand_context`, and the non-negative window above. All three fail against the code they cover. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PVtg6Zea292Pb9L7GXnTJp
The tests added in the previous commit discriminate, but they pin an outcome: an exact episode list (`[tl-3, tl-4, tl-5]`) and exact score values. Both are properties of the fixture's ranking and of the backward/forward split `expand_context // 3`, neither of which the fix claims -- change the split or the scoring and the tests fail while the behaviour under test is still correct. Restate them as the contract. Each episode now gets its own similarity from an explicit search rank, with the match's four timeline neighbours ranked last, so: - no correct top-k can return those neighbours, and any nonzero window around the match reaches at least one of them whatever the split. The assertion is "expansion returned a neighbour the search itself would not", plus chronological order and the episode limit. - the clamp is asserted on the call made to the segment store (0 <= backward + forward <= limit - 1, over several limit/expand_context pairs) rather than on which episodes come back. - `expand_context == 0` is asserted as "matches only, best score first", without naming them. Exact lists and score values stay in the unit tests, which own the fill algorithm and the score-retention rule and are meant to track them. All three expansion tests still fail against the code they cover. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PVtg6Zea292Pb9L7GXnTJp
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Two conflicts, both resolved by keeping each side: - `database_manager.py`: speedkick (MemMachine#1552) factored the engine keywords into `_sql_engine_kwargs` and added asyncpg's command/connect timeouts, exactly where this branch adds `enable_sqlite_foreign_keys` and its inline keyword building. Kept speedkick's helper as the keyword source and this branch's pragma hook on the constructed engine. - `test_event_backend_wiring.py`: `import logging` (this branch) against `import math` (speedkick, from MemMachine#1547). Kept both. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PVtg6Zea292Pb9L7GXnTJp
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…odes (speedkick) (MemMachine#1547) * fix(event-backend): make expand_context return timeline-neighbor episodes Fixes MemMachine#1540. On the event backend, expand_context was silently inert: EventMemory fetched and materialized the expanded segment windows, but LongTermMemory._search_scored_event read only the seed segment's _episode_uid and score from each window, and the response schema has no context field - so responses were byte-identical for expand_context 0 and 5 while every request paid the LATERAL fetch. The declarative backend, by contrast, folds neighbor episodes into the returned list (_unify_scored_anchored_episode_contexts). This brings the event backend to parity: - Each scored window now contributes the episodes its segments belong to (chronological within the window, the seed's episode as nucleus). - Windows are unified best-score-first with the same fill algorithm as the declarative backend: taken whole while they fit within num_episodes_limit, then filled by weighted index-proximity to the nucleus (forward recall preferred) until the limit is met; an episode keeps the score of the first window that contributed it. - The unified context is returned chronologically, matching the declarative backend's ordering contract for expanded results. - expand_context is clamped to num_episodes_limit - 1 (declarative parity). expand_context == 0 behavior is unchanged (score-ordered seeds, exactly as before). Reranked configurations gain the same folding on top of reranker-scored windows. Tests: end-to-end via the in-memory event-backend wiring (neighbors returned, chronological order, limit respected) and unit tests for the window-to-episode-uid extraction and the unification algorithm (whole-context fit, overflow proximity with forward preference, first-window score retention). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]> * style: ruff format Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]> * fix(event-backend): clamp expand_context above zero, and make the expansion tests actually discriminate Self-review of the two commits above turned up one defect and one hole. Defect: the quota clamp `min(max(0, expand_context), num_episodes_limit - 1)` goes negative when `num_episodes_limit == 0` -- reachable, since `SearchMemoriesSpec.top_k` carries no lower bound. `EventMemory._query` then derives `max_backward_segments = -1 // 3 = -1` and hands the segment store a negative window, which the SegmentStorePartition contract does not define: the SQLAlchemy store happens to short-circuit on `<= 0`, the in-memory store computes an empty slice and drops the seed. Apply the floor last so the clamp can only ever produce a non-negative window. Hole: neither end-to-end test could tell the fix from its absence -- both pass unmodified against the pre-fix `long_term_memory.py`. `FakeEmbedder` maps text to `[len(text), -len(text)]`, so under cosine every document scores exactly 1.0 against every query; all seven timeline episodes become seeds of equal rank, ties keep insertion order (which is chronological), and `num_episodes_limit=7` returns all seven with or without expansion. The "expansion adds episodes" assertion compared a limit-2 search against a limit-7 one, so the limit alone explained the difference. Embed on a keyword instead: only `tl-3` matches the query, so `tl-4` and `tl-5` -- which score zero -- can reach the result only through the expansion. The tests now pin the exact window (`[tl-3, tl-4, tl-5]`, chronological, each keeping the window's score), the clamp against an oversized `expand_context`, and the non-negative window above. All three fail against the code they cover. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PVtg6Zea292Pb9L7GXnTJp * test(event-backend): assert the expansion contract, not a ranking The tests added in the previous commit discriminate, but they pin an outcome: an exact episode list (`[tl-3, tl-4, tl-5]`) and exact score values. Both are properties of the fixture's ranking and of the backward/forward split `expand_context // 3`, neither of which the fix claims -- change the split or the scoring and the tests fail while the behaviour under test is still correct. Restate them as the contract. Each episode now gets its own similarity from an explicit search rank, with the match's four timeline neighbours ranked last, so: - no correct top-k can return those neighbours, and any nonzero window around the match reaches at least one of them whatever the split. The assertion is "expansion returned a neighbour the search itself would not", plus chronological order and the episode limit. - the clamp is asserted on the call made to the segment store (0 <= backward + forward <= limit - 1, over several limit/expand_context pairs) rather than on which episodes come back. - `expand_context == 0` is asserted as "matches only, best score first", without naming them. Exact lists and score values stay in the unit tests, which own the fill algorithm and the score-retention rule and are meant to track them. All three expansion tests still fail against the code they cover. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PVtg6Zea292Pb9L7GXnTJp --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
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…odes (speedkick) (MemMachine#1547) * fix(event-backend): make expand_context return timeline-neighbor episodes Fixes MemMachine#1540. On the event backend, expand_context was silently inert: EventMemory fetched and materialized the expanded segment windows, but LongTermMemory._search_scored_event read only the seed segment's _episode_uid and score from each window, and the response schema has no context field - so responses were byte-identical for expand_context 0 and 5 while every request paid the LATERAL fetch. The declarative backend, by contrast, folds neighbor episodes into the returned list (_unify_scored_anchored_episode_contexts). This brings the event backend to parity: - Each scored window now contributes the episodes its segments belong to (chronological within the window, the seed's episode as nucleus). - Windows are unified best-score-first with the same fill algorithm as the declarative backend: taken whole while they fit within num_episodes_limit, then filled by weighted index-proximity to the nucleus (forward recall preferred) until the limit is met; an episode keeps the score of the first window that contributed it. - The unified context is returned chronologically, matching the declarative backend's ordering contract for expanded results. - expand_context is clamped to num_episodes_limit - 1 (declarative parity). expand_context == 0 behavior is unchanged (score-ordered seeds, exactly as before). Reranked configurations gain the same folding on top of reranker-scored windows. Tests: end-to-end via the in-memory event-backend wiring (neighbors returned, chronological order, limit respected) and unit tests for the window-to-episode-uid extraction and the unification algorithm (whole-context fit, overflow proximity with forward preference, first-window score retention). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]> * style: ruff format Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]> * fix(event-backend): clamp expand_context above zero, and make the expansion tests actually discriminate Self-review of the two commits above turned up one defect and one hole. Defect: the quota clamp `min(max(0, expand_context), num_episodes_limit - 1)` goes negative when `num_episodes_limit == 0` -- reachable, since `SearchMemoriesSpec.top_k` carries no lower bound. `EventMemory._query` then derives `max_backward_segments = -1 // 3 = -1` and hands the segment store a negative window, which the SegmentStorePartition contract does not define: the SQLAlchemy store happens to short-circuit on `<= 0`, the in-memory store computes an empty slice and drops the seed. Apply the floor last so the clamp can only ever produce a non-negative window. Hole: neither end-to-end test could tell the fix from its absence -- both pass unmodified against the pre-fix `long_term_memory.py`. `FakeEmbedder` maps text to `[len(text), -len(text)]`, so under cosine every document scores exactly 1.0 against every query; all seven timeline episodes become seeds of equal rank, ties keep insertion order (which is chronological), and `num_episodes_limit=7` returns all seven with or without expansion. The "expansion adds episodes" assertion compared a limit-2 search against a limit-7 one, so the limit alone explained the difference. Embed on a keyword instead: only `tl-3` matches the query, so `tl-4` and `tl-5` -- which score zero -- can reach the result only through the expansion. The tests now pin the exact window (`[tl-3, tl-4, tl-5]`, chronological, each keeping the window's score), the clamp against an oversized `expand_context`, and the non-negative window above. All three fail against the code they cover. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PVtg6Zea292Pb9L7GXnTJp * test(event-backend): assert the expansion contract, not a ranking The tests added in the previous commit discriminate, but they pin an outcome: an exact episode list (`[tl-3, tl-4, tl-5]`) and exact score values. Both are properties of the fixture's ranking and of the backward/forward split `expand_context // 3`, neither of which the fix claims -- change the split or the scoring and the tests fail while the behaviour under test is still correct. Restate them as the contract. Each episode now gets its own similarity from an explicit search rank, with the match's four timeline neighbours ranked last, so: - no correct top-k can return those neighbours, and any nonzero window around the match reaches at least one of them whatever the split. The assertion is "expansion returned a neighbour the search itself would not", plus chronological order and the episode limit. - the clamp is asserted on the call made to the segment store (0 <= backward + forward <= limit - 1, over several limit/expand_context pairs) rather than on which episodes come back. - `expand_context == 0` is asserted as "matches only, best score first", without naming them. Exact lists and score values stay in the unit tests, which own the fill algorithm and the score-retention rule and are meant to track them. All three expansion tests still fail against the code they cover. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PVtg6Zea292Pb9L7GXnTJp --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
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test_expand_context_zero_returns_matches_in_score_order cannot fail against the pre-fix code: at expand_context=0 the new clamp is the identity and the if expand_context > 0: branch is not taken, and the source change is purely additive, so pre- and post-fix execute the same statements. The other two expansion tests do discriminate; the description's "all three expansion tests fail against the code they cover" is two. Same on #1541.
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…odes (speedkick) (MemMachine#1547) * fix(event-backend): make expand_context return timeline-neighbor episodes Fixes MemMachine#1540. On the event backend, expand_context was silently inert: EventMemory fetched and materialized the expanded segment windows, but LongTermMemory._search_scored_event read only the seed segment's _episode_uid and score from each window, and the response schema has no context field - so responses were byte-identical for expand_context 0 and 5 while every request paid the LATERAL fetch. The declarative backend, by contrast, folds neighbor episodes into the returned list (_unify_scored_anchored_episode_contexts). This brings the event backend to parity: - Each scored window now contributes the episodes its segments belong to (chronological within the window, the seed's episode as nucleus). - Windows are unified best-score-first with the same fill algorithm as the declarative backend: taken whole while they fit within num_episodes_limit, then filled by weighted index-proximity to the nucleus (forward recall preferred) until the limit is met; an episode keeps the score of the first window that contributed it. - The unified context is returned chronologically, matching the declarative backend's ordering contract for expanded results. - expand_context is clamped to num_episodes_limit - 1 (declarative parity). expand_context == 0 behavior is unchanged (score-ordered seeds, exactly as before). Reranked configurations gain the same folding on top of reranker-scored windows. Tests: end-to-end via the in-memory event-backend wiring (neighbors returned, chronological order, limit respected) and unit tests for the window-to-episode-uid extraction and the unification algorithm (whole-context fit, overflow proximity with forward preference, first-window score retention). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]> * style: ruff format Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]> * fix(event-backend): clamp expand_context above zero, and make the expansion tests actually discriminate Self-review of the two commits above turned up one defect and one hole. Defect: the quota clamp `min(max(0, expand_context), num_episodes_limit - 1)` goes negative when `num_episodes_limit == 0` -- reachable, since `SearchMemoriesSpec.top_k` carries no lower bound. `EventMemory._query` then derives `max_backward_segments = -1 // 3 = -1` and hands the segment store a negative window, which the SegmentStorePartition contract does not define: the SQLAlchemy store happens to short-circuit on `<= 0`, the in-memory store computes an empty slice and drops the seed. Apply the floor last so the clamp can only ever produce a non-negative window. Hole: neither end-to-end test could tell the fix from its absence -- both pass unmodified against the pre-fix `long_term_memory.py`. `FakeEmbedder` maps text to `[len(text), -len(text)]`, so under cosine every document scores exactly 1.0 against every query; all seven timeline episodes become seeds of equal rank, ties keep insertion order (which is chronological), and `num_episodes_limit=7` returns all seven with or without expansion. The "expansion adds episodes" assertion compared a limit-2 search against a limit-7 one, so the limit alone explained the difference. Embed on a keyword instead: only `tl-3` matches the query, so `tl-4` and `tl-5` -- which score zero -- can reach the result only through the expansion. The tests now pin the exact window (`[tl-3, tl-4, tl-5]`, chronological, each keeping the window's score), the clamp against an oversized `expand_context`, and the non-negative window above. All three fail against the code they cover. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PVtg6Zea292Pb9L7GXnTJp * test(event-backend): assert the expansion contract, not a ranking The tests added in the previous commit discriminate, but they pin an outcome: an exact episode list (`[tl-3, tl-4, tl-5]`) and exact score values. Both are properties of the fixture's ranking and of the backward/forward split `expand_context // 3`, neither of which the fix claims -- change the split or the scoring and the tests fail while the behaviour under test is still correct. Restate them as the contract. Each episode now gets its own similarity from an explicit search rank, with the match's four timeline neighbours ranked last, so: - no correct top-k can return those neighbours, and any nonzero window around the match reaches at least one of them whatever the split. The assertion is "expansion returned a neighbour the search itself would not", plus chronological order and the episode limit. - the clamp is asserted on the call made to the segment store (0 <= backward + forward <= limit - 1, over several limit/expand_context pairs) rather than on which episodes come back. - `expand_context == 0` is asserted as "matches only, best score first", without naming them. Exact lists and score values stay in the unit tests, which own the fill algorithm and the score-retention rule and are meant to track them. All three expansion tests still fail against the code they cover. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PVtg6Zea292Pb9L7GXnTJp --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
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…odes (speedkick) (MemMachine#1547) * fix(event-backend): make expand_context return timeline-neighbor episodes Fixes MemMachine#1540. On the event backend, expand_context was silently inert: EventMemory fetched and materialized the expanded segment windows, but LongTermMemory._search_scored_event read only the seed segment's _episode_uid and score from each window, and the response schema has no context field - so responses were byte-identical for expand_context 0 and 5 while every request paid the LATERAL fetch. The declarative backend, by contrast, folds neighbor episodes into the returned list (_unify_scored_anchored_episode_contexts). This brings the event backend to parity: - Each scored window now contributes the episodes its segments belong to (chronological within the window, the seed's episode as nucleus). - Windows are unified best-score-first with the same fill algorithm as the declarative backend: taken whole while they fit within num_episodes_limit, then filled by weighted index-proximity to the nucleus (forward recall preferred) until the limit is met; an episode keeps the score of the first window that contributed it. - The unified context is returned chronologically, matching the declarative backend's ordering contract for expanded results. - expand_context is clamped to num_episodes_limit - 1 (declarative parity). expand_context == 0 behavior is unchanged (score-ordered seeds, exactly as before). Reranked configurations gain the same folding on top of reranker-scored windows. Tests: end-to-end via the in-memory event-backend wiring (neighbors returned, chronological order, limit respected) and unit tests for the window-to-episode-uid extraction and the unification algorithm (whole-context fit, overflow proximity with forward preference, first-window score retention). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]> * style: ruff format Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]> * fix(event-backend): clamp expand_context above zero, and make the expansion tests actually discriminate Self-review of the two commits above turned up one defect and one hole. Defect: the quota clamp `min(max(0, expand_context), num_episodes_limit - 1)` goes negative when `num_episodes_limit == 0` -- reachable, since `SearchMemoriesSpec.top_k` carries no lower bound. `EventMemory._query` then derives `max_backward_segments = -1 // 3 = -1` and hands the segment store a negative window, which the SegmentStorePartition contract does not define: the SQLAlchemy store happens to short-circuit on `<= 0`, the in-memory store computes an empty slice and drops the seed. Apply the floor last so the clamp can only ever produce a non-negative window. Hole: neither end-to-end test could tell the fix from its absence -- both pass unmodified against the pre-fix `long_term_memory.py`. `FakeEmbedder` maps text to `[len(text), -len(text)]`, so under cosine every document scores exactly 1.0 against every query; all seven timeline episodes become seeds of equal rank, ties keep insertion order (which is chronological), and `num_episodes_limit=7` returns all seven with or without expansion. The "expansion adds episodes" assertion compared a limit-2 search against a limit-7 one, so the limit alone explained the difference. Embed on a keyword instead: only `tl-3` matches the query, so `tl-4` and `tl-5` -- which score zero -- can reach the result only through the expansion. The tests now pin the exact window (`[tl-3, tl-4, tl-5]`, chronological, each keeping the window's score), the clamp against an oversized `expand_context`, and the non-negative window above. All three fail against the code they cover. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PVtg6Zea292Pb9L7GXnTJp * test(event-backend): assert the expansion contract, not a ranking The tests added in the previous commit discriminate, but they pin an outcome: an exact episode list (`[tl-3, tl-4, tl-5]`) and exact score values. Both are properties of the fixture's ranking and of the backward/forward split `expand_context // 3`, neither of which the fix claims -- change the split or the scoring and the tests fail while the behaviour under test is still correct. Restate them as the contract. Each episode now gets its own similarity from an explicit search rank, with the match's four timeline neighbours ranked last, so: - no correct top-k can return those neighbours, and any nonzero window around the match reaches at least one of them whatever the split. The assertion is "expansion returned a neighbour the search itself would not", plus chronological order and the episode limit. - the clamp is asserted on the call made to the segment store (0 <= backward + forward <= limit - 1, over several limit/expand_context pairs) rather than on which episodes come back. - `expand_context == 0` is asserted as "matches only, best score first", without naming them. Exact lists and score values stay in the unit tests, which own the fill algorithm and the score-retention rule and are meant to track them. All three expansion tests still fail against the code they cover. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PVtg6Zea292Pb9L7GXnTJp --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
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…odes (speedkick) (MemMachine#1547) * fix(event-backend): make expand_context return timeline-neighbor episodes Fixes MemMachine#1540. On the event backend, expand_context was silently inert: EventMemory fetched and materialized the expanded segment windows, but LongTermMemory._search_scored_event read only the seed segment's _episode_uid and score from each window, and the response schema has no context field - so responses were byte-identical for expand_context 0 and 5 while every request paid the LATERAL fetch. The declarative backend, by contrast, folds neighbor episodes into the returned list (_unify_scored_anchored_episode_contexts). This brings the event backend to parity: - Each scored window now contributes the episodes its segments belong to (chronological within the window, the seed's episode as nucleus). - Windows are unified best-score-first with the same fill algorithm as the declarative backend: taken whole while they fit within num_episodes_limit, then filled by weighted index-proximity to the nucleus (forward recall preferred) until the limit is met; an episode keeps the score of the first window that contributed it. - The unified context is returned chronologically, matching the declarative backend's ordering contract for expanded results. - expand_context is clamped to num_episodes_limit - 1 (declarative parity). expand_context == 0 behavior is unchanged (score-ordered seeds, exactly as before). Reranked configurations gain the same folding on top of reranker-scored windows. Tests: end-to-end via the in-memory event-backend wiring (neighbors returned, chronological order, limit respected) and unit tests for the window-to-episode-uid extraction and the unification algorithm (whole-context fit, overflow proximity with forward preference, first-window score retention). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]> * style: ruff format Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]> * fix(event-backend): clamp expand_context above zero, and make the expansion tests actually discriminate Self-review of the two commits above turned up one defect and one hole. Defect: the quota clamp `min(max(0, expand_context), num_episodes_limit - 1)` goes negative when `num_episodes_limit == 0` -- reachable, since `SearchMemoriesSpec.top_k` carries no lower bound. `EventMemory._query` then derives `max_backward_segments = -1 // 3 = -1` and hands the segment store a negative window, which the SegmentStorePartition contract does not define: the SQLAlchemy store happens to short-circuit on `<= 0`, the in-memory store computes an empty slice and drops the seed. Apply the floor last so the clamp can only ever produce a non-negative window. Hole: neither end-to-end test could tell the fix from its absence -- both pass unmodified against the pre-fix `long_term_memory.py`. `FakeEmbedder` maps text to `[len(text), -len(text)]`, so under cosine every document scores exactly 1.0 against every query; all seven timeline episodes become seeds of equal rank, ties keep insertion order (which is chronological), and `num_episodes_limit=7` returns all seven with or without expansion. The "expansion adds episodes" assertion compared a limit-2 search against a limit-7 one, so the limit alone explained the difference. Embed on a keyword instead: only `tl-3` matches the query, so `tl-4` and `tl-5` -- which score zero -- can reach the result only through the expansion. The tests now pin the exact window (`[tl-3, tl-4, tl-5]`, chronological, each keeping the window's score), the clamp against an oversized `expand_context`, and the non-negative window above. All three fail against the code they cover. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PVtg6Zea292Pb9L7GXnTJp * test(event-backend): assert the expansion contract, not a ranking The tests added in the previous commit discriminate, but they pin an outcome: an exact episode list (`[tl-3, tl-4, tl-5]`) and exact score values. Both are properties of the fixture's ranking and of the backward/forward split `expand_context // 3`, neither of which the fix claims -- change the split or the scoring and the tests fail while the behaviour under test is still correct. Restate them as the contract. Each episode now gets its own similarity from an explicit search rank, with the match's four timeline neighbours ranked last, so: - no correct top-k can return those neighbours, and any nonzero window around the match reaches at least one of them whatever the split. The assertion is "expansion returned a neighbour the search itself would not", plus chronological order and the episode limit. - the clamp is asserted on the call made to the segment store (0 <= backward + forward <= limit - 1, over several limit/expand_context pairs) rather than on which episodes come back. - `expand_context == 0` is asserted as "matches only, best score first", without naming them. Exact lists and score values stay in the unit tests, which own the fill algorithm and the score-retention rule and are meant to track them. All three expansion tests still fail against the code they cover. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PVtg6Zea292Pb9L7GXnTJp --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
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…odes (speedkick) (MemMachine#1547) * fix(event-backend): make expand_context return timeline-neighbor episodes Fixes MemMachine#1540. On the event backend, expand_context was silently inert: EventMemory fetched and materialized the expanded segment windows, but LongTermMemory._search_scored_event read only the seed segment's _episode_uid and score from each window, and the response schema has no context field - so responses were byte-identical for expand_context 0 and 5 while every request paid the LATERAL fetch. The declarative backend, by contrast, folds neighbor episodes into the returned list (_unify_scored_anchored_episode_contexts). This brings the event backend to parity: - Each scored window now contributes the episodes its segments belong to (chronological within the window, the seed's episode as nucleus). - Windows are unified best-score-first with the same fill algorithm as the declarative backend: taken whole while they fit within num_episodes_limit, then filled by weighted index-proximity to the nucleus (forward recall preferred) until the limit is met; an episode keeps the score of the first window that contributed it. - The unified context is returned chronologically, matching the declarative backend's ordering contract for expanded results. - expand_context is clamped to num_episodes_limit - 1 (declarative parity). expand_context == 0 behavior is unchanged (score-ordered seeds, exactly as before). Reranked configurations gain the same folding on top of reranker-scored windows. Tests: end-to-end via the in-memory event-backend wiring (neighbors returned, chronological order, limit respected) and unit tests for the window-to-episode-uid extraction and the unification algorithm (whole-context fit, overflow proximity with forward preference, first-window score retention). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]> * style: ruff format Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]> * fix(event-backend): clamp expand_context above zero, and make the expansion tests actually discriminate Self-review of the two commits above turned up one defect and one hole. Defect: the quota clamp `min(max(0, expand_context), num_episodes_limit - 1)` goes negative when `num_episodes_limit == 0` -- reachable, since `SearchMemoriesSpec.top_k` carries no lower bound. `EventMemory._query` then derives `max_backward_segments = -1 // 3 = -1` and hands the segment store a negative window, which the SegmentStorePartition contract does not define: the SQLAlchemy store happens to short-circuit on `<= 0`, the in-memory store computes an empty slice and drops the seed. Apply the floor last so the clamp can only ever produce a non-negative window. Hole: neither end-to-end test could tell the fix from its absence -- both pass unmodified against the pre-fix `long_term_memory.py`. `FakeEmbedder` maps text to `[len(text), -len(text)]`, so under cosine every document scores exactly 1.0 against every query; all seven timeline episodes become seeds of equal rank, ties keep insertion order (which is chronological), and `num_episodes_limit=7` returns all seven with or without expansion. The "expansion adds episodes" assertion compared a limit-2 search against a limit-7 one, so the limit alone explained the difference. Embed on a keyword instead: only `tl-3` matches the query, so `tl-4` and `tl-5` -- which score zero -- can reach the result only through the expansion. The tests now pin the exact window (`[tl-3, tl-4, tl-5]`, chronological, each keeping the window's score), the clamp against an oversized `expand_context`, and the non-negative window above. All three fail against the code they cover. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PVtg6Zea292Pb9L7GXnTJp * test(event-backend): assert the expansion contract, not a ranking The tests added in the previous commit discriminate, but they pin an outcome: an exact episode list (`[tl-3, tl-4, tl-5]`) and exact score values. Both are properties of the fixture's ranking and of the backward/forward split `expand_context // 3`, neither of which the fix claims -- change the split or the scoring and the tests fail while the behaviour under test is still correct. Restate them as the contract. Each episode now gets its own similarity from an explicit search rank, with the match's four timeline neighbours ranked last, so: - no correct top-k can return those neighbours, and any nonzero window around the match reaches at least one of them whatever the split. The assertion is "expansion returned a neighbour the search itself would not", plus chronological order and the episode limit. - the clamp is asserted on the call made to the segment store (0 <= backward + forward <= limit - 1, over several limit/expand_context pairs) rather than on which episodes come back. - `expand_context == 0` is asserted as "matches only, best score first", without naming them. Exact lists and score values stay in the unit tests, which own the fill algorithm and the score-retention rule and are meant to track them. All three expansion tests still fail against the code they cover. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PVtg6Zea292Pb9L7GXnTJp --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
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…odes (speedkick) (MemMachine#1547) * fix(event-backend): make expand_context return timeline-neighbor episodes Fixes MemMachine#1540. On the event backend, expand_context was silently inert: EventMemory fetched and materialized the expanded segment windows, but LongTermMemory._search_scored_event read only the seed segment's _episode_uid and score from each window, and the response schema has no context field - so responses were byte-identical for expand_context 0 and 5 while every request paid the LATERAL fetch. The declarative backend, by contrast, folds neighbor episodes into the returned list (_unify_scored_anchored_episode_contexts). This brings the event backend to parity: - Each scored window now contributes the episodes its segments belong to (chronological within the window, the seed's episode as nucleus). - Windows are unified best-score-first with the same fill algorithm as the declarative backend: taken whole while they fit within num_episodes_limit, then filled by weighted index-proximity to the nucleus (forward recall preferred) until the limit is met; an episode keeps the score of the first window that contributed it. - The unified context is returned chronologically, matching the declarative backend's ordering contract for expanded results. - expand_context is clamped to num_episodes_limit - 1 (declarative parity). expand_context == 0 behavior is unchanged (score-ordered seeds, exactly as before). Reranked configurations gain the same folding on top of reranker-scored windows. Tests: end-to-end via the in-memory event-backend wiring (neighbors returned, chronological order, limit respected) and unit tests for the window-to-episode-uid extraction and the unification algorithm (whole-context fit, overflow proximity with forward preference, first-window score retention). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]> * style: ruff format Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]> * fix(event-backend): clamp expand_context above zero, and make the expansion tests actually discriminate Self-review of the two commits above turned up one defect and one hole. Defect: the quota clamp `min(max(0, expand_context), num_episodes_limit - 1)` goes negative when `num_episodes_limit == 0` -- reachable, since `SearchMemoriesSpec.top_k` carries no lower bound. `EventMemory._query` then derives `max_backward_segments = -1 // 3 = -1` and hands the segment store a negative window, which the SegmentStorePartition contract does not define: the SQLAlchemy store happens to short-circuit on `<= 0`, the in-memory store computes an empty slice and drops the seed. Apply the floor last so the clamp can only ever produce a non-negative window. Hole: neither end-to-end test could tell the fix from its absence -- both pass unmodified against the pre-fix `long_term_memory.py`. `FakeEmbedder` maps text to `[len(text), -len(text)]`, so under cosine every document scores exactly 1.0 against every query; all seven timeline episodes become seeds of equal rank, ties keep insertion order (which is chronological), and `num_episodes_limit=7` returns all seven with or without expansion. The "expansion adds episodes" assertion compared a limit-2 search against a limit-7 one, so the limit alone explained the difference. Embed on a keyword instead: only `tl-3` matches the query, so `tl-4` and `tl-5` -- which score zero -- can reach the result only through the expansion. The tests now pin the exact window (`[tl-3, tl-4, tl-5]`, chronological, each keeping the window's score), the clamp against an oversized `expand_context`, and the non-negative window above. All three fail against the code they cover. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PVtg6Zea292Pb9L7GXnTJp * test(event-backend): assert the expansion contract, not a ranking The tests added in the previous commit discriminate, but they pin an outcome: an exact episode list (`[tl-3, tl-4, tl-5]`) and exact score values. Both are properties of the fixture's ranking and of the backward/forward split `expand_context // 3`, neither of which the fix claims -- change the split or the scoring and the tests fail while the behaviour under test is still correct. Restate them as the contract. Each episode now gets its own similarity from an explicit search rank, with the match's four timeline neighbours ranked last, so: - no correct top-k can return those neighbours, and any nonzero window around the match reaches at least one of them whatever the split. The assertion is "expansion returned a neighbour the search itself would not", plus chronological order and the episode limit. - the clamp is asserted on the call made to the segment store (0 <= backward + forward <= limit - 1, over several limit/expand_context pairs) rather than on which episodes come back. - `expand_context == 0` is asserted as "matches only, best score first", without naming them. Exact lists and score values stay in the unit tests, which own the fill algorithm and the score-retention rule and are meant to track them. All three expansion tests still fail against the code they cover. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PVtg6Zea292Pb9L7GXnTJp --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
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…odes (speedkick) (MemMachine#1547) * fix(event-backend): make expand_context return timeline-neighbor episodes Fixes MemMachine#1540. On the event backend, expand_context was silently inert: EventMemory fetched and materialized the expanded segment windows, but LongTermMemory._search_scored_event read only the seed segment's _episode_uid and score from each window, and the response schema has no context field - so responses were byte-identical for expand_context 0 and 5 while every request paid the LATERAL fetch. The declarative backend, by contrast, folds neighbor episodes into the returned list (_unify_scored_anchored_episode_contexts). This brings the event backend to parity: - Each scored window now contributes the episodes its segments belong to (chronological within the window, the seed's episode as nucleus). - Windows are unified best-score-first with the same fill algorithm as the declarative backend: taken whole while they fit within num_episodes_limit, then filled by weighted index-proximity to the nucleus (forward recall preferred) until the limit is met; an episode keeps the score of the first window that contributed it. - The unified context is returned chronologically, matching the declarative backend's ordering contract for expanded results. - expand_context is clamped to num_episodes_limit - 1 (declarative parity). expand_context == 0 behavior is unchanged (score-ordered seeds, exactly as before). Reranked configurations gain the same folding on top of reranker-scored windows. Tests: end-to-end via the in-memory event-backend wiring (neighbors returned, chronological order, limit respected) and unit tests for the window-to-episode-uid extraction and the unification algorithm (whole-context fit, overflow proximity with forward preference, first-window score retention). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]> * style: ruff format Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]> * fix(event-backend): clamp expand_context above zero, and make the expansion tests actually discriminate Self-review of the two commits above turned up one defect and one hole. Defect: the quota clamp `min(max(0, expand_context), num_episodes_limit - 1)` goes negative when `num_episodes_limit == 0` -- reachable, since `SearchMemoriesSpec.top_k` carries no lower bound. `EventMemory._query` then derives `max_backward_segments = -1 // 3 = -1` and hands the segment store a negative window, which the SegmentStorePartition contract does not define: the SQLAlchemy store happens to short-circuit on `<= 0`, the in-memory store computes an empty slice and drops the seed. Apply the floor last so the clamp can only ever produce a non-negative window. Hole: neither end-to-end test could tell the fix from its absence -- both pass unmodified against the pre-fix `long_term_memory.py`. `FakeEmbedder` maps text to `[len(text), -len(text)]`, so under cosine every document scores exactly 1.0 against every query; all seven timeline episodes become seeds of equal rank, ties keep insertion order (which is chronological), and `num_episodes_limit=7` returns all seven with or without expansion. The "expansion adds episodes" assertion compared a limit-2 search against a limit-7 one, so the limit alone explained the difference. Embed on a keyword instead: only `tl-3` matches the query, so `tl-4` and `tl-5` -- which score zero -- can reach the result only through the expansion. The tests now pin the exact window (`[tl-3, tl-4, tl-5]`, chronological, each keeping the window's score), the clamp against an oversized `expand_context`, and the non-negative window above. All three fail against the code they cover. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PVtg6Zea292Pb9L7GXnTJp * test(event-backend): assert the expansion contract, not a ranking The tests added in the previous commit discriminate, but they pin an outcome: an exact episode list (`[tl-3, tl-4, tl-5]`) and exact score values. Both are properties of the fixture's ranking and of the backward/forward split `expand_context // 3`, neither of which the fix claims -- change the split or the scoring and the tests fail while the behaviour under test is still correct. Restate them as the contract. Each episode now gets its own similarity from an explicit search rank, with the match's four timeline neighbours ranked last, so: - no correct top-k can return those neighbours, and any nonzero window around the match reaches at least one of them whatever the split. The assertion is "expansion returned a neighbour the search itself would not", plus chronological order and the episode limit. - the clamp is asserted on the call made to the segment store (0 <= backward + forward <= limit - 1, over several limit/expand_context pairs) rather than on which episodes come back. - `expand_context == 0` is asserted as "matches only, best score first", without naming them. Exact lists and score values stay in the unit tests, which own the fill algorithm and the score-retention rule and are meant to track them. All three expansion tests still fail against the code they cover. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PVtg6Zea292Pb9L7GXnTJp --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
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…odes (#1541) * fix(event-backend): make expand_context return timeline-neighbor episodes (speedkick) (#1547) * fix(event-backend): make expand_context return timeline-neighbor episodes Fixes #1540. On the event backend, expand_context was silently inert: EventMemory fetched and materialized the expanded segment windows, but LongTermMemory._search_scored_event read only the seed segment's _episode_uid and score from each window, and the response schema has no context field - so responses were byte-identical for expand_context 0 and 5 while every request paid the LATERAL fetch. The declarative backend, by contrast, folds neighbor episodes into the returned list (_unify_scored_anchored_episode_contexts). This brings the event backend to parity: - Each scored window now contributes the episodes its segments belong to (chronological within the window, the seed's episode as nucleus). - Windows are unified best-score-first with the same fill algorithm as the declarative backend: taken whole while they fit within num_episodes_limit, then filled by weighted index-proximity to the nucleus (forward recall preferred) until the limit is met; an episode keeps the score of the first window that contributed it. - The unified context is returned chronologically, matching the declarative backend's ordering contract for expanded results. - expand_context is clamped to num_episodes_limit - 1 (declarative parity). expand_context == 0 behavior is unchanged (score-ordered seeds, exactly as before). Reranked configurations gain the same folding on top of reranker-scored windows. Tests: end-to-end via the in-memory event-backend wiring (neighbors returned, chronological order, limit respected) and unit tests for the window-to-episode-uid extraction and the unification algorithm (whole-context fit, overflow proximity with forward preference, first-window score retention). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]> * style: ruff format Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]> * fix(event-backend): clamp expand_context above zero, and make the expansion tests actually discriminate Self-review of the two commits above turned up one defect and one hole. Defect: the quota clamp `min(max(0, expand_context), num_episodes_limit - 1)` goes negative when `num_episodes_limit == 0` -- reachable, since `SearchMemoriesSpec.top_k` carries no lower bound. `EventMemory._query` then derives `max_backward_segments = -1 // 3 = -1` and hands the segment store a negative window, which the SegmentStorePartition contract does not define: the SQLAlchemy store happens to short-circuit on `<= 0`, the in-memory store computes an empty slice and drops the seed. Apply the floor last so the clamp can only ever produce a non-negative window. Hole: neither end-to-end test could tell the fix from its absence -- both pass unmodified against the pre-fix `long_term_memory.py`. `FakeEmbedder` maps text to `[len(text), -len(text)]`, so under cosine every document scores exactly 1.0 against every query; all seven timeline episodes become seeds of equal rank, ties keep insertion order (which is chronological), and `num_episodes_limit=7` returns all seven with or without expansion. The "expansion adds episodes" assertion compared a limit-2 search against a limit-7 one, so the limit alone explained the difference. Embed on a keyword instead: only `tl-3` matches the query, so `tl-4` and `tl-5` -- which score zero -- can reach the result only through the expansion. The tests now pin the exact window (`[tl-3, tl-4, tl-5]`, chronological, each keeping the window's score), the clamp against an oversized `expand_context`, and the non-negative window above. All three fail against the code they cover. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PVtg6Zea292Pb9L7GXnTJp * test(event-backend): assert the expansion contract, not a ranking The tests added in the previous commit discriminate, but they pin an outcome: an exact episode list (`[tl-3, tl-4, tl-5]`) and exact score values. Both are properties of the fixture's ranking and of the backward/forward split `expand_context // 3`, neither of which the fix claims -- change the split or the scoring and the tests fail while the behaviour under test is still correct. Restate them as the contract. Each episode now gets its own similarity from an explicit search rank, with the match's four timeline neighbours ranked last, so: - no correct top-k can return those neighbours, and any nonzero window around the match reaches at least one of them whatever the split. The assertion is "expansion returned a neighbour the search itself would not", plus chronological order and the episode limit. - the clamp is asserted on the call made to the segment store (0 <= backward + forward <= limit - 1, over several limit/expand_context pairs) rather than on which episodes come back. - `expand_context == 0` is asserted as "matches only, best score first", without naming them. Exact lists and score values stay in the unit tests, which own the fill algorithm and the score-retention rule and are meant to track them. All three expansion tests still fail against the code they cover. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PVtg6Zea292Pb9L7GXnTJp --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]> * test(event-backend): pin expand_context as a window of segments Review on #1541: every wiring fixture uses PassthroughSegmenter, the one configuration in which segments and episodes cannot come apart, so the window-to-episode fold was exercised through search_scored only where it is trivially one-to-one; and expand_context is spent in segments (EventMemory splits it into the segment store's backward/forward window) while the API describes it in episodes. The unit stays segments. EventMemory and the segment store know segments, not episodes; windowing by true episodes would need new store operations, and the passthrough segmenter already gives the declarative backend's behavior, one segment per episode. A splitting segmenter trades that for chunked retrieval: the same window then reaches fewer episodes, the ones its segments belong to. The clamp comment says so, since the clamp bounds episodes as well as segments (a segment belongs to one episode). The new wiring test runs the timeline fixture under both segmenters at expand_context=3, limit 4, with TextSegmenter(max_chunk_length=9) splitting every episode into three segments. Episodes keep the score of the first window that contributed them, so the episodes at the match's score are the match's own window: three neighbours under passthrough, one under the splitting segmenter for any backward/forward split, and the fold dedups one episode's segments into it. It fails against the pre-fix long_term_memory.py (no neighbours at all). _make_ltm_with_metric becomes _make_ltm(embedder, episodes, *, segmenter) so the test can build self-contained stores per segmenter; the three metric tests pass their FakeEmbedder explicitly. Mechanical. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
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Copy of #1541 based on
speedkickinstead ofmain— themaincommits cherry-pick cleanly. See #1540 for the bug report; #1541 carries the closing reference.Problem
On the event backend,
expand_contextwas silently inert on the search path:EventMemory.queryfetched and materialized the expanded segment windows (a LATERAL query per direction), butLongTermMemory._search_scored_eventread only the seed segment's_episode_uidand score from each window, and the response schema has no context field. Responses were byte-identical forexpand_context0 and 5, while every request paid for the expansion.Fix
Bring the event backend to parity with the declarative backend's context handling (
DeclarativeMemory._unify_scored_anchored_episode_contexts):_episode_uid, so segment-space windows map directly onto episode-space context; with the passthrough segmenter this is 1:1 timeline neighbors.)num_episodes_limit, then filled by weighted index-proximity to the nucleus (forward recall preferred over backward, same weighting as declarative) until the limit is met. An episode keeps the score of the first window that contributed it.expand_contextis clamped tonum_episodes_limit - 1(declarative parity).expand_context == 0behavior is unchanged — score-ordered seed episodes exactly as before, so existing callers see no difference unless they pass the parameter. Reranked configurations gain the same folding on top of reranker-scored windows (which already consumed the segments for scoring).Follow-up self-review (third and fourth commits)
Two things the first two commits got wrong:
expand_contextcould go negative. The quota clampmin(max(0, expand_context), num_episodes_limit - 1)is-1whennum_episodes_limit == 0, whichSearchMemoriesSpec.top_kallows (no lower bound).EventMemory._querythen derivesmax_backward_segments = -1and asks the segment store for a negative window — undefined by theSegmentStorePartitioncontract; the SQLAlchemy store happens to short-circuit on<= 0, the in-memory store computes an empty slice and drops the seed. The floor is now applied last.long_term_memory.py.FakeEmbeddermaps text to[len(text), -len(text)], so under cosine every document scores exactly 1.0 against every query: all seven timeline episodes are seeds of equal rank, ties keep insertion order (chronological), andnum_episodes_limit=7returns all seven with or without expansion. The "expansion adds episodes" assertion compared a limit-2 search against a limit-7 one, so the limit alone explained the difference.The expansion tests now give each episode its own similarity from an explicit search rank, with the match's four timeline neighbours ranked last. That lets them assert the contract rather than an outcome — an exact episode list or exact score values would be pinned to the fixture's ranking and to the
expand_context // 3split, neither of which the fix claims:0 <= backward + forward <= limit - 1, over several limit/expand_contextpairs) rather than on which episodes come back.expand_context == 0is asserted as "matches only, best score first", without naming them.Exact lists and score values stay in the unit tests, which own the fill algorithm and the score-retention rule. All three expansion tests fail against the code they cover.
Tests
End-to-end through the in-memory event-backend wiring: expansion returns neighbor episodes beyond the plain matches, contiguous on the timeline, chronologically ordered, and never exceeding
num_episodes_limit.Unit tests for the window→episode-uid extraction (dedup, nucleus identification) and the unification algorithm (whole-context fit, overflow proximity with forward preference, first-window score retention).
The expansion tests fail against the pre-fix
long_term_memory.py; the unit tests cover the window→episode-uid extraction and the unification algorithm directly.ruff(pinned 0.15.14) format + check clean;ty check packages/serverreports no diagnostics from the touched files. Episodic + server test suites pass on this branch (528 passed, 1 skipped).🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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