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Check name Status Explanation Description Check Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled. Title check The title clearly summarizes the main changes: deterministic ordering for same-timestamp memory rows and watermark-based upkeep that prevents skipped records. Linked Issues check Issue #236requires deterministic ordering for same-timestamp rows, a profile-upkeep watermark, and regression tests. The PR addsrowidor ID tie-breaks to message, fact, and summary reads. `after_w…Out of Scope Changes check The changed code stays connected to issue #236. Chat compression applies the same composite message watermark. Additional ordering fixes address the issue's request to check related `ORDER BY created_…
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- Line 844: In the profile read flow, update the watermark writes guarded by
new_facts and new_summaries to run unconditionally after each read, using
next_watermark with the existing starting watermark and result collection so
empty reads preserve their watermark. Add a regression test for an empty read
followed by an insert at the same timestamp, verifying the inserted row is not
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…ep by (time, id) Rows saved in the same clock tick (Windows moves its clock every 15.6 ms) share a timestamp. Ordering of messages, facts and summaries now breaks ties by rowid or id. Profile upkeep and chat compression keep a watermark of the newest timestamp read plus the ids read at it (store.db.after_watermark / next_watermark), so a row saved in the same tick after a read is picked up next time instead of skipped. Closes #236
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- Line 845: Update the bounded summary query in update_profile to order by the
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🟠 Major · Recover legacy timestamp cursors before compression advances them · loop.py:1515-1517
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftRecover legacy timestamp cursors before compression advances them
A pre-upgrade
sessions.context_uptovalue is a plain timestamp.after_watermark()intentionally turns that value intocreated_at > context_upto. Therefore, compression excludes unread messages created at exactly the legacy timestamp.If a later compression run reads newer messages and updates
context_upto, the omitted messages remain permanently unread. Handle the legacy timestamp in the compression consumer with an explicit recovery policy before advancing the cursor. Do not changeafter_watermark()globally: the helper cannot know which same-timestamp messages the old compression run already folded, so an unconditional inclusive read could fold messages twice. The consumer must migrate or replay the legacy boundary while preserving the folded-message state.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Closes #236
Summary
Rows saved at the same moment share a
created_at/updated_at. Two fixes:Tie-breaks. Every place that orders messages, facts or summaries by time now breaks ties by
rowid(orfacts.id): the chat's outside-content classification,messages_between(history time search), the memory graph, user-model facts and summaries, and profile upkeep's fact and summary reads.recent_messagesalready had it (#235).Watermarks (
store.db.after_watermark/next_watermark): the mark is the newest timestamp read plus the ids read at it, not the wall clock.context_upto, or the 30-day starting point) still means "strictly newer", so existing data keeps working.profile_last_runstill decides when upkeep runs. It no longer decides what upkeep reads.user_model.last_refresh_atwith> since) and the evolution session review (activity_at).Evidence
Tests (
tests/test_same_timestamp.py) freezenow_isoso every row shares one timestamp:assert 1 == 2, nothing folded)updated is False)recent_messages,messages_between)The old
clock_passesworkaround intest_profile_upkeep_appends_without_clobberingis removed: it waited out the clock tick to dodge exactly this bug. Full suite: 1358 passed, 2 skipped; ruff clean.Real test. Engine from this branch on its own fresh
SENTIENT_HOME(port 8787), driven over REST andWS /ws, with claude-code/sonnet as primary and qwen3:8b as fast (Ollama lock held).POST /api/memoriesin concurrent pairs. Upkeep run 1 loggedfacts_considered: 23(one write was an UPDATE). It savedprofile_facts_mark = {"at": "07:10:21.926067", "ids": [23]}, the newest fact it read, not the run's clock time (07:13:09.304617).POST /api/memories/import, 10 held facts), then approved them in one burst (POST /api/memories/review/approve-all).07:10:21.926067, the same timestamp as fact 23, which upkeep had already read). The other was stamped exactly at run 1's time (07:13:09.304617). This is what a fact saved in the same tick right after upkeep's read looks like. Old code (updated_at > '07:13:09.304617') skips both.GET /api/skills/evolution-log):{"learned_appended": 9, "facts_considered": 11, ...}. 11 = 9 approved long-term facts (fact 26 is short-term, which upkeep skips by design) + both same-tick facts. The new mark is{"at": "07:23:39.329581", "ids": [24]}. Across runs 23 + 11 = 34 = every active long-term fact, none read twice.evolution.profile_update_hours: 1and rewindprofile_last_runby 2 h between runs so upkeep would run again. The machine was on battery, somodels.background_on_battery: truewas needed for upkeep's model call.chat.sendfollowed by a burst of 12chat.steeron one socket, run twice. In run 2, steers 05 and 06 were stored with the samecreated_at(07:28:45.712675, rowids 20 and 21).GET /api/sessions/{id}/messages, read 3 times, returnedsteer 01 ... steer 12in send order every time, in both runs.Note: on this Windows machine, Python's clock had microsecond resolution, so same-timestamp rows were rarer through the API than #236 assumed (the concurrent fact writes all got distinct timestamps). They still happened in the steer burst.
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Door: mostly two-way. No schema change, and the two new meta keys are ignored by older builds. One catch:
sessions.context_uptonow holds JSON for chats this build compresses. If you roll back, an older build comparescreated_at > '{"at": ...', which is never true, so it stops compressing those chats (they keep their existing summary; nothing is lost). Clearingcontext_uptoon those rows fixes it.Blast Radius: memory upkeep. Profile upkeep, chat compression and the order of a few internal history reads change; chat, tasks and the API contract are unchanged.
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