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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 07bc51b890 feat(523): forge-connection tokens are stored sealed under SECRET_KEY, like the backup S3 secret
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The column becomes token_sealed (migration 0122 seals existing rows with a
frozen copy of the v1 key), every reader opens it through connection_token,
a row this instance cannot open is skipped with a warning, and Settings asks
for that token again.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-15 18:08:11 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 b45fc9efba feat(523): restore reads the backup tar; python -m scribe.restore brings a fresh instance back
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The restore route takes the tar as a raw body beside the JSON download.
scribe/restore.py reads either format, refuses a database that already
has an account (a restore re-creates everything with new ids, so into a
live instance it would duplicate rather than replace), has no size
limit, and says to restart so search indexes rebuild. An integration
test restores a written tar through the real restore_full_backup and
checks every id is remapped. docs/backups.md explains the file, why it
is uncompressed, both destinations, Fabled Archives as the worked
example, and restoring.

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2026-10-15 17:40:24 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 4248b450ea feat(523): the backup job - an hourly tick that runs at the chosen hour, Back up now, and the last 30 runs
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services/backup_job.py reads its config when it fires, so startup reads
nothing (#4181) and a changed hour needs no reschedule. A run is held to
a 60-minute deadline (a hung NFS mount would otherwise hold the lock and
skip every later backup), never runs twice at once, and keeps its outcome
- file, size, duration, or the reason in words - in the bounded
backup_runs setting, which no backup carries. summarise() gives the page
its verdict: overdue when on and no success for 26h.

Admin API: GET/PUT /api/admin/backups, POST /backups/check (tests unsaved
form values, 45s deadline), POST /backups/run (202, background).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-15 17:34:01 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 69dddb7551 feat(500): Settings shows the shipped reply shapes, what adjusts each, and how often each arrives
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Settings > General > Reply shapes. One menu row per shape (core, completion,
asks, plan): its title and when it arrives, how many of the operator's
preferences adjust it, and its deliveries over 30 days (in full / as a
reminder, "—" when the counts cannot be read). A verdict line leads. Opening a
row shows the shipped text, read-only because it is product, and the
preferences mounted on its moment; each opens in the rule editor, and "Adjust
this" opens a new preference already mounted on the shape's moment with a
starting trigger.

The rule editor takes an optional preset (kind, moments, trigger) and, opened
outside the Rules view, asks where a new record lives instead of dropping it.
GET /api/retrieval/reply-shapes now returns reply_shapes.overview: the
catalog plus mounted preferences (the same lookup that delivers them) and
counts from the reply_shape delivery rows. #5497 (step 5 of milestone 500).

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2026-10-09 16:19:45 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 6071007fe2 feat(500): one end-of-turn request - the completion-section check folds into the reply check
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The Stop hook sent the finished reply twice: scribe_report_check.sh checked a
task-closing reply for the completion sections in shell and reported to
/report-check, and scribe_reply_check.sh sent the same reply to /reply-rules
for the rule hold. Now the reply goes once. When the turn closed a task the
hook adds the close count and ids, and the server runs the section check
(services/report_check, the same three patterns) beside the reply hold,
folding both into one reason.

The report_check adherence log is still written for every checked reply
(milestone 409's number). A section hold marks the session, so its rewrite is
sent back once with rewrite:true to record how it came out, and is never held.
The block reason carries the completion shape's one line and points at
list_reply_shapes rather than at the skill. #5496 (step 4 of milestone 500).

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2026-10-09 15:38:17 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 eadb08c347 feat(500): reply shapes are delivered - the core every turn through the ledger, each slice at its moment, reply mounts before the reply (#5495)
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- Every turn (/api/plugin/retrieve, UserPromptSubmit): the core reply shape
  leads the payload - in full the first time, as its one-line reminder
  after that - followed by whatever is mounted on reply.report, under the
  shared rule ledger. Fresh keys come back as shape_keys.
- The ledger is <sid>.shapes.ids in scribe-priorart (scribe_shapes_file /
  _seen / _append), so the compaction sweep that clears every .ids ledger
  is what brings the full core back after one.
- At a moment (/api/plugin/moment): the slice for that reply - completion
  on work.finish, asks on reply.ask, plan on work.plan - ahead of the
  mounted rules. reachable_tools now lists tools reaching a shaped moment
  even on an install with nothing mounted.
- Scribe's own tools (attach_moment_rules): reply_shape in the response,
  in full, since that door has no ledger. enter_project carries the core
  for clients with no prompt hook.
- Telemetry: one AppLog row per delivery (plugin / reply_shape), each
  shape with full or pointer and the door (turn, hook, mcp).

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2026-10-09 14:45:25 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 a0390d9da7 feat(500): the reply shapes become server product content - a compact core and per-kind slices, each tied to its moment (#5493)
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services/reply_shapes.py is the single source of the default reply shapes:
the core (every reply, ~1,800 chars against a 2,200 budget) and three
slices - completion on work.finish, asks on reply.ask, plan on work.plan.
Read through list_reply_shapes (MCP, read-only) and GET
/api/retrieval/reply-shapes, one service behind both doors.

Nothing delivers them yet; that is step 3. The skill still carries its
copy until step 4 shrinks it to the long-form reference.

The software-only vocabulary guard moves into tests/helpers.py
(DEV_ONLY, dev_only_hits) rather than becoming a fourth copy.

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2026-10-09 14:29:44 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 201e09901b feat(family): the adoption ledger - assessment, the conflict order, owed->task, recheck, the adoption matrix (milestone 463 step 4, #4990)
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- services/family_adoption.py: assess one project against one canon idea by
  the four outcomes in order (exempt, variant, adopted, owed). Every outcome
  needs a reason and adopted needs evidence. The engine records the precedents
  itself: this idea's answers elsewhere, and this project's answers to the
  nearest ideas. The same answer given twice records nothing.
- owed files a task in the OWING project, tagged to the System matching the
  idea's canonical area, naming the gap and the reference for that project's
  language. The task follows the answer: adopted closes it, exempt or variant
  cancels it, owed again reopens it. Each move is logged on the task.
- the conflict order is enforced: every ground above the deciding one must
  say why it did not decide. The losing side is folded into the idea's note as
  a trap, an alternative or a condition branch, the version moves, and both
  rows are answered against the revision.
- recheck is derived (row version != idea version). family.revise moves the
  version when substance changes. undo covers a project's latest answer too.
- set_family_references names the reference implementations.
- MCP: get/list/assess adoption, resolve_family_conflict, revise_family_idea,
  set_family_references. Web: GET /api/family/matrix.
- UI: an adoption matrix on /family (platform filter, cell detail with reason,
  recheck and owed-task link) and the same matrix narrowed to one project on
  its Family tab. The decision log now reads project-level decisions.

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2026-10-06 11:05:00 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 8aacc1824c feat(family): the promotion engine - triggers, the three criteria, the decision log and undo (milestone 463 step 3, #4989)
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The agent promotes a family idea when all three criteria hold, and no person approves it. The criteria are product text: services/family.py states them, and the promote tool's docstring names every criterion the service enforces.

- Criteria: each one vetoes on its own when its reasoning is blank. Platform terms also needs an applies-when and a platform scope; proven also needs named evidence. A veto keeps the idea a candidate and is logged, so it becomes precedent.
- Precedent: every promotion stores the decisions on the nearest ideas by meaning, plus any the caller names.
- Promotion sets canon, the applicability test and the platform scope, and opens an unassessed ledger row for each member project the promoter can write. Re-promotion moves the version past every version the idea has held.
- Retire and undo: undo reverses only the latest idea-level decision, restores its recorded before-state, and logs itself with the undone decision as its precedent. Settled here: leaving canon closes the unassessed rows but keeps the judged ones, which read as needing a recheck after a re-promotion.
- Triggers open evaluations but never promote:
  - a cross-project lineage citation ("matching #N") on a note or task write;
  - a same-meaning record in another project on a shared platform, on create, at 0.80 (measured: the known pattern's builds scored 0.79-0.82, an unrelated project's best match 0.65);
  - a milestone closing on a platform.
  Each fails open and rides the response as family_hint.
- Doors: seven MCP tools, /api/family REST endpoints, and a Family page (nav, /family) showing the criteria, the ideas, and the decision log with undo and retire.
- utils/recordHref.ts holds the one copy of "where a record opens", now shared with LessonDetailView.

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2026-10-06 10:33:30 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 07d2542479 feat(family): platforms declared at inception and detected from bound repos (milestone 463 step 2, #4988)
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A project's platforms decide which family ideas reach it. This step makes membership answerable from every door:

- services/platforms.py: the global catalog (writes are admin-only and duplicate-gated by slug); pure marker detection; and membership reads and writes. Detection only ADDS, and only where nobody has answered. It never overrides a declared or rejected row and never removes one.
- coverage: the archive scan now carries every path, and the refresh runs detection fail-open.
- inception: a platforms choice (slugs, or null for unanswered). The list is the whole answer: members left out of it become rejected.
- MCP: list_platforms and set_project_platforms; enter_project and get_project carry the project's platforms.
- REST: /api/platforms (admin writes) and /api/projects/<id>/platforms.
- UI: a platforms checklist on the inception card, a Family tab on ProjectView, and a Platforms admin tab in Settings.

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2026-10-06 09:51:28 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 dfcf4df2e9 feat(moments): mount the corpus by proposal - a pass and an open-after-moment signal, both stopping at the operator (milestone 458 step 7, #4925)
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A rule written before moments existed is mounted on nothing. Step 7 records,
per (rule, moment), whether it belongs there and who said so:

- rule_moment_judgments (migration 0118, backup v23): suggested / confirmed /
  rejected, from a pass, the signal, or an edit. Moment "" is "no moment fits".
- The pass: rules_to_mount lists unjudged rules; propose_rule_moments records
  suggestions that mount nothing; rule_moment_proposals and
  judge_rule_moments put them to the operator. A confirm mounts, a reject is
  kept so the pair is never proposed again. Same service behind REST and a
  "Waiting on you" panel in Settings > Moments.
- Edits are judgments: set_rule_moments, the one mount write path, confirms
  what was added and rejects what was removed in the same transaction.
- The signal: scribe_moment.sh keeps a per-session acts ledger; when a rule
  is opened, scribe_record_opened.sh sends the last three minutes of it to
  /api/plugin/rule-opened. The acts resolve through the install's mappings;
  work.run and work.change are not evidence. Counted per distinct session
  with lesson_rules' evidence model, and once due the open returns one line
  asking the reader to offer the mount.
- scribe_session_end.sh removes the session's scribe-moment files.

Plugin 2026.10.05.2003.

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2026-10-05 16:03:53 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 b73a689849 feat(moments): the human door onto mounts, mappings and per-moment telemetry (milestone 458 step 6, #4924)
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Everything an agent can do with moments, a person can now see and change
in the app.

- Rule editor: a moment picker beside the trigger. Catalog moments are
  ticked; a named procedure's `skill.<name>` is typed and checked as the
  server checks it. `moments` is always sent, so unticking the last moment
  unmounts the rule.
- Settings, Moments section (General tab): for each moment, what it
  means, the actions that reach it on this install (shipped ones can be
  switched off, the install's own removed), how many rules are mounted on
  it, and deliveries and agent opens over the window. Below that: named
  procedures with mounts, switched-off defaults with Restore, and a form to
  add an action.
- retrieval_telemetry.moment_usage: per moment, `delivered`, `rules`,
  `opened` (agent pulls after the first delivery there; an upper bound, as
  by_source is) and `last_delivered_at`. No ratio, because a mount is a
  person's statement, not a ranker's guess. Guarded on its own, and also
  reported in retrieval_summary as `moment_usage`.
- rulebooks.mount_counts; mounted_moments now derives from it.
- GET /api/retrieval/moments carries `mounted` and `usage` (?days=).
  DELETE /moments/mappings also reads the mapping from query parameters,
  since the browser's DELETE sends no body.

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2026-10-05 14:42:30 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 c6cdfc2172 feat(moments): the reply moment holds a finished reply for one read (milestone 458 step 4b, #4922)
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The reply is the one act no tool call marks, and it is where "let me
know if it works" gets said. A new Stop hook (scribe_reply_check.sh)
sends the finished reply to POST /api/plugin/reply-rules, which checks
it twice:

- mounted: every unopened RULE on reply.report, plus reply.ask when the
  reply asks a question. Deterministic.
- semantic: the reply's head and tail against every rule's trigger, on a
  new ranked surface, reply_rule. It is the backstop for whatever the
  earlier arms missed. Its floor is its stop bar (default 0.80, budget
  1), with its own Settings dials. The new stop_only stage records
  surfacing for the rule that holds and nothing else, because nothing
  else reached anyone.

Following the operator's ruling from 456 step 8, a rule that holds blocks
once, in the server's words. The hook blocks only on a reason it was
given, so an unreachable instance never stops a session, and it never
holds the rewrite. The ledger is the act checkpoint's own, so a rule
holds a session once across both doors and the per-session cap counts
both.

The turn reader moved from the report check into scribe_defs.sh
(scribe_turn_facts / scribe_turn_fact), so the two Stop hooks read a
turn the same way. The output was checked identical on a real transcript.

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2026-10-05 12:30:07 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 78653130d6 feat(moments): mounted rules arrive when their moment happens, through every door (milestone 458 step 4a, #4922)
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A rule mounted on a moment now reaches the session when an act reaches
that moment, with no semantic match involved:

- run_moment_arm on the pipeline: a lookup, not a ranked search. Each
  line names the moment and the act that reached it ("at work.deliver,
  reached by `git push`"), so a misfire is visible where it lands and
  can be unmapped in-session. A repeat is cited, not quoted; fresh
  rules are recorded surfaced under source moment_rule with the moment
  in detail. No retrieval_logs row, as for the other lookups, so no
  latency is persisted for this arm.
- rule_scope: a rule's home clause, moved out of semantic_search_rules
  so the moment lookup scopes by the same one.
- rulebooks.rules_on_moments / mounted_moments.
- The plugin door: a catch-all PreToolUse hook (scribe_moment.sh). It
  keeps /moment-tools' answer on disk for five minutes, so a call to a
  tool that cannot reach a mounted rule sends nothing, and an install
  that has mounted nothing sends one request per window. It shares the
  rules ledger with the other arms and fails open silently.
- The MCP door: Scribe's own tools named by the shipped mappings carry
  moment_rules in their response, so a client without the plugin gets
  them too. The hook skips those tools. A guard pins the attach on
  every one.

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2026-10-05 12:21:45 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 cc26054437 feat(moments): rules mount on moments, through every rule door (milestone 458 step 3, #4921)
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rule_moments (migration 0117) records which moments a rule arrives at, by
catalog name, cascading with the rule. rule_detail, the one seam every
rule door already returns through, gains moments beside system_ids: None
leaves the mounts alone, a list replaces them. get_rule and both
list_rules doors read them back, batched per page.

All five MCP rule/preference writes and the three REST ones take moments
and validate them before their create or update. An unknown name is
refused with the catalog listed and leaves no half-made rule behind; a
parity test pins that ordering on every door.

Backup v22 carries the mounts as a join table remapped through the rule
map; a real-Postgres round trip checks they land on the restored rule.

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2026-10-05 11:03:51 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 cf3de5bae1 feat(moments): actions map onto moments, with in-session corrections (milestone 458 step 2, #4920)
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moment_actions.resolve(tool, input) names every moment a call reaches and
the action that reached it. One call can reach several: kubectl apply is
a run, a deliver and a reach outside the workspace. Command tools match by
how each segment of the line starts, with a word boundary; other tools by
field=value arguments. The MCP server prefix and case are ignored.

56 shipped defaults cover the harness tools, Scribe tools and common
command shapes. moment_mappings (migration 0116) holds what an install
adds and the defaults it switches off. A removal is a stored row, so an
upgrade does not switch the default back on.

Per the operator ruling, corrections happen in the session: map_action
and unmap_action (write tools) return now_reaches so the fix can be
confirmed in the same reply. list_moments now shows each moment's
actions on this install. REST mirrors both doors, recorded as human.
Backup v21 carries the mappings.

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2026-10-05 10:58:00 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 2ff7f2f34f feat(moments): the moment catalog rules will mount on, readable in-session (milestone 458 step 1, #4919)
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Fourteen generic moments of work (session.start, work.start … reply.ask)
plus the skill.<name> family, each with what it means and the kinds of
action that reach it, written for any kind of work rather than software
alone. The catalog is code because every install needs the same mount
points; which actions reach a moment is per-install data (step 2).

require_moment refuses an unknown name with the catalog listed, so a
typo cannot become a mount that never fires. list_moments (read-only)
and GET /api/retrieval/moments hand out the same catalog.

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2026-10-05 10:50:45 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 be62abf142 perf(retrieval): one embedding per query per plugin request (milestone 456 step 1, #4903)
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A single plugin request fans one query out to several ranked arms. The
operator message is searched by auto_inject, its reuse and lesson slots,
prompt_rule, the preference slot and rule_via_lesson, and each arm called
get_embedding on its own: up to six model calls for one vector.

- embeddings.query_embedding_memo(): a request-scoped ContextVar memo that
  get_embedding consults. Outside a scope the default is None, so every
  other caller is unchanged. A failed embedding is not remembered.
- memoized_query_embeddings decorates /retrieve, /tool-rules and
  /prior-art.
- get_embeddings (document chunks) is untouched.

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2026-10-05 07:55:06 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 d2ac7bf220 fix(lessons): a lesson's name is one claim on one line (#4797)
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#4797 "A lesson's what takes a whole narrative, and the narrative becomes
its name". `what` is the title every listing and menu prints. Nothing
enforced its documented "one line", so lessons written with the incident
in `what` printed up to ~1,500 characters as a menu line, buried the
claim, and diluted the trigger in the embedded title. That was 14 of the
39 lessons on this install.

- lessons.require_claim refuses a `what` over WHAT_MAX_CHARS (240) or
  running over several lines. The refusal says the story goes in
  `insight`.
- Both doors call it before writing:
  - MCP create_lesson / update_lesson;
  - REST create / update.
  An update checks only a NEW name, so a lesson stored with a long one can
  still take the edit that repairs it.
- lessons.claim_line is the display half. _menu_name shows an over-long
  stored name as its first sentence marked " …", because a door guard
  does not undo rows already stored and an unrepaired install would keep
  printing them.
- The tool docstrings state the bound.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 0a1bb68808 feat(rulings): system_usage_events is read back — per-System counts and a telemetry block (#4769)
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#4769 "Rulings are counted where someone will read them": milestone 444
step 4 wrote system_usage_events and nothing read it.

- retrieval_telemetry gains a `system_usage` block: surfacings and opens by
  source, distinct counts, and `by_system` naming the areas most shown.
  There is deliberately no pull-through ratio, because rulings travel in full
  in the line and opens are the exception.
- usage_for_systems (one GROUP BY) adds `usage` to the REST Systems list and
  detail, and to MCP get_system. MCP list_systems is unchanged.
- The Systems UI shows a "rulings shown N×" chip.
- rulings_pre_tool, rulings_write_path and mcp_get_system are now declared
  registry points; the registry guard covers their recorders.
- The Systems store merges a PATCH reply instead of replacing the row.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 556872c039 feat(rulings): a command or edit touching an area's files shows its rulings, once per session (milestone 444 step 4, #4757)
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A System's rulings (the Rulings section of its description) now reach the
work by path, not by similarity. Both PreToolUse arms resolve the files a
command or edit names to the Systems whose path_patterns cover them, and the
first touch in a session shows each area's rulings in one line; a repeat is
a one-line reference. A lookup, so no floor, no budget, no retrieval_logs row.

- services/system_rulings: parse_rulings, command_paths (reads and writes,
  relative to the repo root from any cwd; flags, URLs, globs skipped),
  rulings_for_paths
- /tool-rules takes root, cwd and seen_ruling_systems; /prior-art takes
  seen_ruling_systems; both return ruling_system_ids
- hooks share <sid>.rulings.ids (cleared on compaction by the ledger naming
  convention); the Bash hook sends the repo root and cwd
- system_usage_events (migration 0114): surfacings by source, pulls from
  get_system; carried by backup (v20) through the system map
- writing-records: rulings also arrive when the area's files are touched

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 a113c72b4f feat(systems): a System names its files — path patterns stored, validated and matched (milestone 444 step 3, #4756)
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A System gains path_patterns: globs relative to the repo root (* within one
directory, ** across any depth, a plain directory covering everything under
it). One service validates them for every door, so the web UI and MCP refuse
the same bad pattern with the same message. systems_for_paths resolves paths
to every active System that covers them, which step 4 (#4757) uses to deliver
an area's rulings when its files are touched.

- schema: systems.path_patterns JSONB NOT NULL default [] (migration 0113)
- service: normalize_path_patterns, path_matches, systems_for_paths
- routes + MCP create_system/update_system accept it; [] clears
- web UI: a Files field in the create and edit forms, patterns on the card
- backup carries it through export and restore
- using-scribe reflex 7: tagging work keeps a System's files current

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2026-10-02 22:55:26 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 cf4206469b feat(lessons): the web editor records which rule a lesson is an instance of (milestone 440, #4658)
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The lesson editor now asks the question the create tool asks, while the
writer still has the situation in mind. It offers three answers:
- an instance of a rule, ticked from the rules the lesson resembles;
- "No rule fits", with a required reason;
- leave it open.

The rules are fetched before the save from a new GET
/api/lessons/rule-candidates. It runs the same rule_candidates search the
create door replies with, and passes "search unavailable" through as null,
apart from "nothing resembles it".

An edit sends an answer only when it changed. Re-sending the same rules
would re-stamp their judgments. Worse, a shared editor who cannot see the
owner's rule would reject it by sending a list without it. Leaving a linked
lesson open sends rule_ids=[], which is what clears the links.

"Leave it open" is not offered once "no rule fits" is on file: the server
has no way to take that answer back except by naming a rule. When "no rule
fits" completes a convergence group, the editor says so in a toast, since
the page it goes to does not recompute it.

Guards check that the payload uses the names both routes read, that the
three answers are offered, that the candidates route sits above the id route
and keeps null apart from [], and that the editor reuses .rule-chip.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 6d3dca0af5 feat(lessons): convergence is named at the write — no-rule lessons that keep landing in one situation suggest a rule (milestone 440 step 5, #4634)
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When a lesson is answered "no rule fits" (create_lesson / update_lesson on
both doors), the response looks for other no-rule lessons it resembles and,
once there are CONVERGENCE_LESSONS (3) of them, carries `convergence`: the
members, their incidents and projects, and a hint to draft the missing rule
with create_rule (operator approval as always) and point each lesson at it —
or to leave them as lessons when no single choice is right every time.

- convergence_group is the pure bar: distinct LESSONS count, incidents never
  stand in for them (one broad lesson cannot trigger it), and a group whose
  sources all point at one incident is one event written up several times.
- convergence_for searches lessons by the new one's claim + trigger
  (trigger_title) at CONVERGENCE_THRESHOLD 0.65 — above the menu's "worth
  showing", below the duplicate gate's "same record" — then keeps the ones
  with a lesson_no_rule answer. Fail-open. No sweep, no timer (#4183).
- Defaults stated as defaults (rules 32, 115).
- Tests: the bar (pure), the search with stubs, the door, and the no-rule
  filter against Postgres; conftest stubs convergence_for for unit tests.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 dbbab859ce feat(lessons): soft links — a lesson and a rule arriving together in distinct situations are proposed as a link (milestone 440 step 3, #4637)
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When one hook response puts a lesson and a rule in front of the reader, the
pair is recorded as evidence on a SUGGESTED lesson_rule_links row; once the
pair has arrived together in PROPOSE_SITUATIONS (3) distinct situations, the
next co-arrival carries one line asking the reader to judge it with
judge_lesson_link. Nothing about surfacing changes: a suggested link carries
no rule anywhere (that is #4633, confirmed links only).

- lesson_rules: co_surfaced (fail-open; only pairs the reader could confirm —
  a lesson they may write, a rule they own; judged pairs gather nothing; one
  proposal per response; PROPOSE_COOLDOWN 6h between asks), plus the pure
  counting rules: situation_key, add_evidence, proposal_due, evidence_summary.
  A situation is the prompt on /retrieve (word tokens, sorted and
  de-duplicated, so trivial rewordings count once) and the FILE on
  /prior-art (every edit to one file is one situation).
- rules_for_lessons shows a suggested link's evidence counts.
- plugin_context: build_autoinject_hint returns lesson_ids,
  build_prompt_rule_hint returns shown_rule_ids, build_write_path_hint records
  its own pair; routes/plugin /retrieve records the prompt pair. Shown lines,
  repeats included: relevance makes a co-arrival, not the session ledger.
- Evidence lives in the existing evidence column — no migration, and backup
  already carries it.
- Tests: counting rules (unit), the recorder against Postgres (bar, repeat,
  judged pairs, ownership, cooldown, evidence kept on confirm); conftest stubs
  co_surfaced for unit tests.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 f7d8dc2e55 feat(lessons): judged when written — a new lesson is offered its rules, and "no rule fits" is an answer (milestone 440 step 2, #4631)
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"Which rule is this lesson an instance of?" now has three recorded answers:
a rule named (a confirmed link, #4630), no rule fits (new), or unjudged.

- Model + migration 0112: lesson_no_rule (lesson_id PK, CASCADE from the
  note; why; judged_at). A table rather than a key in notes.data, because
  that mirror is re-composed from the body on every edit and would erase it.
- Service (lesson_rules): set_no_rule rejects any confirmed link with the
  reason; a confirmation (set_lesson_rules or judge_link) deletes the answer;
  require_one_answer refuses both answers in one call before any write;
  judgments_for_lessons + attach_lesson_rules add rule_judgment (and no_rule)
  to every lesson payload; list_unjudged lists the open ones; rule_candidates
  searches rules with the lesson's claim + trigger at the explicit-search bar,
  None when the search could not run.
- MCP: create_lesson/update_lesson take no_rule; an unanswered create returns
  rule_candidates, rule_judgment and a rule_hint; list_lessons(unjudged=true).
- REST: the same on POST/PATCH /api/lessons and GET ?unjudged=1; create
  returns rule_candidates.
- Backup v19: a lesson_no_rule section, export (full and per-user) and import.
- Guidance: create_lesson docstring, writing-records.md in using-scribe (owner,
  pinned in test_guidance_ownership), create_rule docstring on linking the
  lessons a new rule governs. Plugin version minted.
- Tests: door units, integration for the three states, the rejection reason,
  scoping, cascade; backup registries.

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The link between a lesson (one concrete situation) and the rule that governs
it, with the operator's soft-then-hard design built into its state:
suggested while evidence accumulates, confirmed or rejected once judged. Only
confirmed will carry a rule in retrieval (#4633); rejected is kept so the pair
is never proposed again.

- models/lesson_rule_link.py + migration 0111: one row per (lesson, rule),
  CASCADE on both ends, indexed both ways, CHECK on state (rule 36), evidence
  JSONB and judged_at.
- services/lesson_rules.py: require_rules (validated before any write, so
  a bad id leaves nothing half-linked), set_lesson_rules (set-semantics;
  a dropped rule becomes rejected, not forgotten), judge_link, and the two
  reads. ACL: write on the lesson (share-aware), ownership of the rule; a
  reader sees only rules they own. Decorations are fail-open (#4286).
- MCP: create_lesson / update_lesson take rule_ids; get/create/update return
  `rules`; new judge_lesson_link tool. REST: the same on /api/lessons plus
  PUT /api/lessons/<id>/rules/<rule_id>. Rules: rule_detail carries `lessons`.
- Backup v18: export (full and user-scoped, both ends in scope), builder,
  importer; both column guards register the table.
- Tests: integration (states, set-semantics, judge, ACL all-or-nothing,
  cascade both ways, CHECK, one row per pair); unit (door wiring, judge
  registered, migration/model state agreement, backup skip and unjudged
  stays unjudged). conftest stubs the decorations for unit tests.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 4cf1c6f042 feat(shapes): the write-path hook suggests and no longer stamps (milestone 439 step 4)
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The hook used to land its evidence as `instance` rows, classified_by=hook —
a permanent verdict nobody read, and the source of the weak stamps that
poisoned two ledgers (#4608). Now the agent that wrote the code judges it at
the end of the turn, and the hook's evidence is what it is shown.

- shape_ledger.suggest_write_path_instances (was stamp_write_path_instances):
  same evidence and form gate, but it writes a PROPOSAL — proposed_snippet_id,
  basis "reference" (named) or "semantic" (resembles), score — and never a
  status. A judged row is left alone; a new shape gets an unclassified
  provisional row so the suggestion reaches the end-of-turn question as
  "looks like #N". By-name uses edges stay: a fact, not a verdict.
- The prior-art line says "looks like #N … when you judge this turn's
  shapes, say whether it is", and the result key is `suggested`.
- write_time_divergence takes `suggested`; _RESEMBLE_MIN re-documented as the
  suggestion bar and the weak-stamp line.
- reusing-code skill no longer says the pull stamps an instance.
- Tests moved to the new contract, plus a guard that nothing the hook does
  writes classified_by="hook".

Plugin version minted.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 f1fbdf746a feat(shapes): the agent judges what it wrote, at the end of the turn (milestone 439 steps 1-3)
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Recording used to be decided by machinery — the only "record it" prompt
fired when a same-named copy already existed (#2664), so a first instance of
a reusable piece was never asked about, and judgment arrived only through
audits. Now the question is asked where the knowledge is: the end of the
turn that wrote the code, of the agent that wrote it.

- Write hooks keep `<sid>.written.ids` (path, kind, name) for every
  definition a write names; a new file adds a `file` line for its stem — a
  candidate in any language without a framework rule (scribe_written_append).
- Stop hook scribe_shape_check.sh sends the ledger to GET
  /api/plugin/shape-check and blocks once, in the server's words, when
  anything is unjudged. Same discipline as the report check: never twice,
  never without a recorded check, another hook's loop left alone; the ledger
  is kept when the instance cannot be reached.
- shape_ledger.unjudged_shapes: no row, unclassified, scoped and hook stamps
  are unjudged; an agent/audit/import verdict is not. A snippet recorded at
  the shape answers for it until the refresh stamps it canonical.
- services/shape_check owns the reason text and records every outcome in
  app_logs (passed / blocked / judged_after_block / left_after_block).
- classify_shapes(repo=…) judges a shape the ledger has not synced yet via a
  provisional row under a bound repo; the sync confirms it, or vanishes and
  revives it with the verdict intact. An unbound repo is refused.

Plugin version minted.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 952e56ee75 feat(tasks): the hand-off — SessionEnd releases a session's claims; the practice is written down (milestone 381 step 4)
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Release is the mechanical half: scribe_session_end.sh sends the ending
session's id to /api/plugin/release-session, which releases the claims it
held. A tidy-up, not the guarantee (no SessionEnd on a crash; the lease
covers that), and skipped on /clear so SessionStart(clear) can still
hand the claimed work back.

Saying what happened is the half only the model can do. It is stated as a
practice where it is read: the using-scribe skill owns it ("Hand off before
this session's context stops existing", pinned in test_guidance_ownership),
the static context points at it for the wrap-up moment, and add_task_log's
docstring says a log claims the task. _INSTRUCTIONS is untouched.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 e46eea3b52 feat(tasks): SessionStart reads the claim — a compaction gets its work back (milestone 381 step 3)
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The claim now pays rent to the session that set it. The SessionStart hook
sends the host's `source` and the session id; the server renders a claim
section by source (task_claims.render_claims):

- compact / clear: the work this session had claimed, each with its two
  latest log entries, so a compacted session resumes from the record
  rather than from a count of open tasks.
- startup / clear: other sessions' live claims (may still be running) and
  in-progress tasks whose claim went quiet (abandoned mid-task).
- fork: the same, framed as "two sessions may now hold this".
- resume, or no source sent: nothing.

The task sidebar shows a live claim as "Being worked" and a dead one on
open work as "Went quiet", so the operator sees a session die mid-task.

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status is durable and nothing clears it, so in_progress cannot also mean
"someone is on this now". The claim is that second meaning, stored as who
and when so it dies on read rather than needing to be cleared.

- notes.claimed_by / claimed_at / claim_touched_at / claim_session (0110).
- The server stamps it on the write that is the work: reaching in_progress
  (update or create, via apply_status_transition) and a work log on an open
  task. done/cancelled/todo release it. Live while touched within
  CLAIM_LEASE (2h); dead on read past it, with no sweep.
- The plugin's PostToolUse hook on update_task/add_task_log binds the
  harness's session_id (GET /api/plugin/claim-session). It binds only to a
  live claim the caller holds; it cannot create one.
- to_dict carries `claim`. Plugin version minted.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 4ae18a9dd9 feat(snippets): a snippet has notes; when_to_use is the situation it is ranked on (#4378)
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A snippet had no field for prose, so what a session learned about one went
into when_to_use — the trigger joined onto every chunk it is embedded as. A
sweep found write-ups of up to 3 KB there, headings and all.

- notes: stored after the code under `## Notes`, parsed back from the body,
  carried by every path that rebuilds it (update, merge, un-merge). A
  snippet with no notes composes the body it always did.
- create/update_snippet (MCP) take notes and return trigger_advice when
  when_to_use is long, headed or multi-paragraph. Advice, not a refusal.
- Tool docs, the reusing-code skill and the editor hint describe the trigger
  as the situation and point the explanation at notes.
- Editor gains a Notes field; the detail view renders it as markdown.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 66e21a6c60 refactor(notes): a snippet's and lesson's stored title is its name; the trigger joins it only in the embedded document (milestone 427)
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The title was `subject — trigger` because the stored title WAS the
embedded one, and the join is what makes these kinds rank on the
situation they apply to (#2485). Every surface that shows a title then
showed the trigger too -- menus, lists and search rows ran to kilobytes.

- embeddings.document_title(title, note_type, data, body) joins the
  trigger from `data` (body fallback) at embed time. Idempotent: an
  un-migrated composed title comes out the same, never doubled. The
  embed path, the startup backfill and the dedup gate's semantic signal
  all use it, so the embedded text -- and every vector -- is unchanged.
- Writers store the subject: snippet create/update (service, REST, MCP)
  and lesson_document. Both compose_title helpers are removed.
- Readers: dedup takes `data`; the menus strip the embedded title from a
  passage; list rows project `when_to_use`, which SnippetListView reads.
- 0108 rewrites existing rows on an exact `' — ' || <own trigger>`
  suffix with raw SQL, leaving updated_at alone so the backfill does not
  re-embed the corpus for identical vectors. Downgrade recomposes.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5.5 574b27ae74 feat(plugin): auto-inject retrieves on the conversation, not the typed words alone (#4364)
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The prompt hook sent only the operator's message, so a mid-session
follow-up ("yes do that") named nothing a note, lesson or rule could
match. The hook now reads the tail of the last assistant reply from the
transcript and sends it as `ctx`; the notes and rule arms append it to a
short prompt (<= 280 chars), prompt first, capped at 600 chars. No model
tokens: it is embedding input, and the injected menu's budget is unchanged.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 62f3a485ad fix(usage): one seam attaches the surfaced-vs-opened chip, and the Knowledge browse uses it (#4230)
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`usage_for_notes` is named for notes and works on every note row, yet the chip
reached snippets and rules only. Notes had it nowhere. Lessons had it collected
and shown nowhere a person could reach, because #4196 taught `/api/lessons` to
attach it and `KnowledgeView` — the only lesson list in the UI — browses through
`/api/knowledge`, so `listLessons` still has no consumer.

The cause was not a missing line. SEVEN call sites carried their own copy of the
same few lines: two REST lists, two REST details, two MCP lists, one MCP detail.
Each read perfectly well alone, so "which doors attach usage?" had no answer
anywhere in the code — the same asymmetry test_system_tagging_door_parity.py
records for System tagging (#4249), where whichever door nobody exercised for a
kind is the one that never grew the feature.

`attach_usage(rows, key="id")` is now that answer, and all seven go through it.
A detail payload is a one-row list, so the single-record doors share the seam
rather than keeping a second shape beside it. Deliberately NO try/except: the
fail-open already lives in `usage_for_notes`, which reports through
`_report_failure("readout")` and returns the zero-filled map. Wrapping it again
would swallow the REPORT as well as the error, and a silently-swallowed readout
failure is exactly #2663 — every counter reading zero in production for weeks
while the writes landed fine.

`/api/knowledge` now attaches usage, which closes both holes at once: it is how
notes, lessons and processes are all browsed. `KnowledgeView` renders the badge
on the card footer, looking the advice up per row because the feed is mixed.

The advice moves to utils/deadWeight.ts. Canon #3460 says each caller owns its
own const, and that held while each caller showed ONE kind; a mixed feed would
need five of its own and the next surface another five. The canon's actual
invariant — advice is kind-specific and never baked into the badge — is kept:
it is still a prop. The three existing callers now read the same table, so the
sentence has one home rather than four. Recorded against #3460 so the next
reader is not left re-litigating it.

`_row_id` rejects bools explicitly: `int(True)` is 1, so a row carrying a flag
under the key would be credited with note #1's counts, and a wrong chip is worse
than no chip because it reads as a measurement. A row with no usable id is
skipped rather than failing the page.

Tests pin the PROPERTY, not one route: no door calls the aggregate directly
(AST, so a comment naming it is not a false positive), and every door that shows
usage reaches the seam. Plus the N+1 guard — one aggregate per page, asserted on
await_count, because the per-row version reads more naturally and is invisible
in review.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 43ed7f4db7 fix(access): tag a record as the user doing it, not as its owner (#4249)
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`set_record_systems` is not a dumb setter. It runs its own `can_write_note`
and then links only the Systems the given user can READ. Four of twenty
call sites handed it the record's owner instead of the acting user, which
did two quiet things at once: the access check became trivially true, since
an owner can always write their own record, and the System filter used the
owner's visibility rather than the actor's.

On a single-user install neither is observable. With a share it is an
editor acting with the owner's reach — the shape rule 47 exists to prevent,
and the same reasoning routes/notes.py already spells out for
`set_supersedes` two lines away.

This is NOT a permission change. Every one of the four sites establishes
the caller's write access first: routes/lessons.py and routes/snippets.py
call `can_write_note(uid, …)`, mcp/tools/processes.py does the same, and
mcp/tools/snippets.py reaches `set_record_systems` only after
`update_snippet` has raised PermissionError if the caller may not write. So
nobody gains or loses the ability to edit anything. What changes is whose
reach the tagging runs with, which is exactly the kind of difference that
survives review because every call site reads fine on its own.

The four:

  routes/lessons.py:243      owner_uid      -> uid
  routes/snippets.py:211     owner_uid      -> uid
  mcp/tools/snippets.py:486  note.user_id   -> uid
  mcp/tools/processes.py:196 note.user_id   -> uid

The last one was written earlier in this same session, an hour before the
sweep that found it, with a comment confidently explaining why the owner
was correct. That is the argument for the guard rather than for care: the
unified stance was known and still got it wrong at the next opportunity.

So the guard is the point again. `test_every_tagging_write_acts_as_the_caller`
walks every `set_record_systems` call in src/ and asserts the first argument
is a bare local named `uid` or `user_id` — an attribute access is a record's
owner by construction. Verified against `git show HEAD:` as well as the
working tree: clean now, four offenders on the code it replaces.

Reads are deliberately untouched. `list_record_systems(owner_uid, …)` gates
on reading the NOTE, which the caller can do anyway, so it returns the same
list either way; it is a different operation and churning it would add noise
without changing behaviour.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 e2e1ea3667 fix(systems): a record can be filed under a System from whichever door wrote it (#4249)
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A System tag is how `list_system_records` gathers an area's pile, so a
record that cannot be tagged is reachable by search and by nothing else.
`update_lesson` did not take `system_ids` while `create_lesson` did, which
made tagging available exactly once — at the moment of least information.
A lesson is usually written at the end of a piece of work, which is
precisely when that argument gets dropped, and after that the record could
never be filed at all.

Filling in the rest of the table found three more gaps, and the issue's own
generalisation was wrong. It read as "the REST door can do something the
MCP door cannot", on three instances in a row. In fact:

  * `create_preference` is the exact MIRROR of the lesson bug — update
    takes `system_ids`, create does not. The same capability missing from
    the opposite end of the same lifecycle.
  * `routes/notes.py` handled `system_ids` NOWHERE, while the MCP door
    handled both ends. That runs the opposite way round from the premise.
  * `create_process` / `update_process` took it at neither door, though a
    process is a note and has always been taggable in the data model.

The real pattern is that whichever door nobody exercised for a kind is the
one that never grew the parameter — which is a better statement of #4248
than the one recorded there, and is not something a reviewer reliably
notices, because each door is only ever read on its own.

Milestones are NOT a fifth gap. `RecordSystem.note_id` is a ForeignKey to
`notes.id` and milestones are their own table, so they cannot be tagged at
any door by construction. Pinned in the test so the next pass does not
re-open it.

So the guard is the point, not the four parameters. `update_lesson` alone
would have left the shape that produced it intact. The new test asserts the
TABLE — every kind taggable anywhere is taggable everywhere it is written —
and keys the registry-coverage check on the SIGNATURE rather than on a
grep, so a module that only names the argument in prose is not swept in and
no hand-kept skip list can go stale. A fifth kind fails there rather than
shipping half-wired, the same reasoning test_derived_mirror_generic_door.py
records for derived mirrors (#3734).

One inconsistency found and deliberately not changed here: for the same
operation `routes/tasks.py` scopes `set_record_systems` by the caller while
`routes/lessons.py` and `routes/snippets.py` scope it by the owner. The new
notes code follows tasks.py and says why in a comment (#47 — an editor-share
holder should tag from what they can see rather than inherit the owner's
reach). Recorded in #4249 rather than fixed as a drive-by.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 5fb41af9b0 feat(search): the agent's search can ask for every kind the corpus has (#4250)
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The engine took `note_type` and `task_kind` all along. What was missing was a
way to say them: the MCP tool's `content_type` knew `note`, `task` and `all`,
and `/api/search` knew the same two — so an agent could not ask "has this
snippet already been recorded" or "what lessons apply here" without searching
everything and reading past the rest. Browse offered nine kinds from the same
data.

The cause is that each door kept its own map. `_FACETS` in services/knowledge
is where a kind is declared, and #3161 made adding one a single edit by
generating the SQL filter, the Python predicate and the door's validation from
it — but the two search doors were written before that and never joined. So
this adds the third dialect, `search_filters_for`, and one composition over it,
`content_type_filters`, and both doors now derive instead of listing.

Two names keep a meaning of their own, and the docstrings say so: `all` is no
filter, and `note` is BROAD — any non-task, snippets and lessons included —
where the browse facet of the same name is narrow (`note_type == 'note'`).
They are left different deliberately; narrowing this one would stop returning
snippets to every caller that already asks this way.

An unrecognised kind is now refused rather than answered. Both doors used to
fall through: the MCP tool into a filter matching no row, the route into no
filter at all, so `?content_type=snippets` returned the whole corpus while
looking like a narrowed search. An empty result set is a claim — "the corpus
holds nothing like this" — and an agent acts on that claim by building the
thing it could not find, so a typo must not be able to make it.

The docstring is the agent-facing contract (#2846), and a test now holds it to
the table: every kind `_FACETS` declares has to appear in it, because a filter
an agent has not been told about is unreachable however well it is wired.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 edbc31f8ca feat(lessons): the kind whose whole question is "is this trigger right" was the one kind that could not see its own counts (#4196)
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The lesson slot has recorded surfaced-vs-opened since it shipped. Nothing
showed it. `get_lesson`'s REST door attached `usage` to the payload and no
view rendered it; the listing did not attach it at all, and neither MCP door
did.

#4196 asks when a lesson that keeps getting followed should become a rule, and
names the trap in the same breath: raw frequency cannot separate "this should
bind" from "this trigger is too broad", and the second is the commoner reading
by a wide margin. Surfaced-AND-opened can separate them. Neither question is
answerable by a reader who cannot see the numbers, which is why this is the
first step and not the threshold.

NO THRESHOLD IS PROPOSED HERE, deliberately. The corpus today is 10 lessons
with 7 recorded surfacings and 3 opens, over about fifteen hours of usage
data. A promotion rule fitted to that would be fitting noise — #3311's failure,
and the warning lesson #4228 was written to carry. `UsageBadge` already
declines to render a verdict under three surfacings for the same reason. So
#4196 stays open: its subject, the promotion path, is still unbuilt. What
lands is the evidence it needs.

  - REST `GET /api/lessons` and MCP `list_lessons` attach `usage` to every
    row, from one aggregate per page rather than a per-row read, which would
    be N+1 by construction. Every row carries the key zero-filled, so "never
    surfaced" is a state a reader can see rather than a missing field they
    have to interpret.
  - MCP `get_lesson` attaches it too, and reads it BEFORE recording its own
    pull. That door records a pull on every open — it has to, or the kind sits
    permanently at zero — which makes the order load-bearing in a way it is
    not for a kind that only counts. The REST detail door already ordered it
    this way; the two now agree about what the number means.
  - `LessonDetailView` renders `UsageBadge` (snippet #3460) rather than
    re-spelling the chip, with the advice keyed to this kind: a lesson that is
    repeatedly offered and never opened is usually keyed to a situation nobody
    is in, so it points at re-keying `when_to_apply`, not at deleting the
    claim.

Guards, in the two styles this pair of doors already uses: the MCP side driven
behaviourally through mocks, including the call ORDER for `get_lesson`; the
REST side on structure like its siblings in test_lesson_rest_door.py, because
the route is decorated and returns a Quart response. Rule 167's falsifier is
included.

KNOWN GAP, not fixed here: `KnowledgeView` is the only lesson LIST in the UI
and it reads `/knowledge`, not `/lessons` — so the REST listing change reaches
`frontend/src/api/lessons.ts::listLessons`, which currently has no consumer.
The agent-facing listing does reach a reader today.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 91bc0fb01e feat(plugin): a high-confidence rule is put in front of a command, not beside its result (#4214)
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Milestone 419 step 3, the pre-act checkpoint. Every rule surface in this
plugin returns `additionalContext`, which Claude Code delivers alongside the
tool RESULT — so the rule is read after the call is written and lands as
commentary on a decision already made. That is the milestone's central
finding, measured over a session with seven misses, three caught by the
operator and none by this system.

The action arm can now return a `deny` instead. The act does not run, the
rule's text can be read before the call exists, and the remedy is one
`get_rule` call after which the act may be re-submitted unchanged. Nothing
reaches the operator: a deny is a message to the model.

"CONSEQUENTIAL" IS DERIVED, NOT ENUMERATED. The obvious implementation lists
act kinds — a write to product code, a schema change, a bulk classification, a
merge. Every one of those is consequential because THIS operator wrote rules
about it, and shipping that list is this instance's corpus hard-coded into the
product (rule 115). So the corpus decides: an act is consequential when the
install's own rules speak to it above the checkpoint bar. A fresh install with
no rules never stops anything.

FOUR CONDITIONS, EACH PREVENTING A DIFFERENT WRONG. Above the bar; a rule and
never a preference (which claims no such force); the band's top hit only (the
ranker's confidence claim attaches to its first element); and only a rule the
session has NOT opened — `held` is observable from the get_rule PostToolUse
hook (#4100), not self-report.

WHY "NOT OPENED" RATHER THAN "NO OUTCOME RECORDED". An outcome can be
satisfied with one cheap call asserting compliance without producing any, and
a checkpoint dismissible that way manufactures exactly the compliance data
step 2 was built to measure. Reading a rule cannot be faked in that direction:
after `get_rule` the statement is in context, which is the whole of what was
wanted.

THE BAR IS MEASURED. `retrieval_telemetry(days=30)`: write_path_rule p90
0.7628 max 0.8817; pre_tool_rule p90 0.7373 max 0.8293. 0.80 is above p90 on
both and below max on both, so it selects from the top decile of an already
selective arm and is still reachable. It ships as a setting with a Settings
card, because a cosine distance in one model's geometry over one corpus cannot
transfer.

TWO GUARDS ON THE WORST CASE: at most one hold per rule and five per session,
so a mis-set floor degrades to a noisy session rather than one that cannot
proceed. The ledger lives in the swept directory and is named `.ids`, so the
existing compaction-clear guards cover it.

WRITES ARE NOT HELD, AND THAT IS THE OPERATOR'S DECISION RATHER THAN MINE.
`scribe_prior_art.sh` carries a tested property that it never returns a
permissionDecision — a recall aid may not stand in the way of a write. Three
of the milestone's seven misses were file edits and none are reachable from
the command side, so there is a live argument for extending this; that
argument is exactly why the boundary is now asserted by a test rather than
left to memory. The write-path arm computes and returns the same block so the
decision can be revisited with evidence; the hook ignores it, and a change of
mind is a hook edit rather than a feature.

Verified by lifting `checkpoint_for` and `_rule_band` out of source with `ast`
and exercising the shipped functions over 17 populations, by running the
ledger and deny envelope in bash (10 cases, including that a refused hold is
not written and that a garbled rule id fails closed), and by
scripts/check_plugin.py — which caught the unminted plugin version, 0300 ->
0426.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 95dc25eaab feat(lessons): a lesson is readable, writable and browsable by a human (#3734)
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Step 7's actual UI. Before this the frontend had zero lesson code — the kind
existed for agents only, which is rule 27 failing.

THE EDITOR ASKS FOR THE TRIGGER BY NAME, and leads with it. Three fields —
the trigger, the claim, the detail — never one markdown box. That is the
design step 1 settled, and the evidence is blunt: the snippet corpus carries
a trigger on every record with no guard anywhere, because a service composes
the title from a named parameter. What is at 100% is a named structured
field, not a writer remembering a convention. The trigger gets the most room,
its own explanation, and a save button that refuses without it and says why.

The form shows the composed title live, so the writer is agreeing to a
document they can read rather than one assembled out of sight. A 409 from the
duplicate gate is rendered as the record that already covers the moment, with
a link to improve it and an explicit override — not as a failure.

THE BROWSE VOCABULARY GAINS THE KIND, which #3161 warned this step not to get
wrong: a facet chip, a badge label, and routing to `/lessons/:id` rather than
the note editor, which cannot edit a trigger. The badge is neutral alongside
snippet and process — a hue would make the softest record in the corpus look
like the loudest, next to a rule that actually binds.

BOTH DIRECTIONS OF THE PROVENANCE. The detail page resolves `learned_from` to
titles rather than bare ids, because "#4181" tells a reader nothing about
whether it is worth opening. And `LessonsTaughtPanel` answers the reverse on
the record's own page — the direction the task body calls the one that gets
forgotten. It has no author to type it, which is exactly why it tends never
to get built. A component, not markup in the task editor, so the same panel
mounts on any record a lesson can cite instead of being written a second time
(#3207). Silent when empty: most records taught no lesson, and a panel that
says "None yet" everywhere is one people learn to skip.

GLOBAL-BY-DEFAULT IS MADE LEGIBLE. A lesson meeting you on a project it was
not written on reads as a bug unless the page says otherwise, so the origin
line says it as a property of the kind rather than as an apology.

Design system tokens throughout; no new raw hex. `--fs-error` rather than
`--fs-danger` — 31 uses against 1.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 d36d68a20f feat(lessons): the REST door a human can actually reach (#3734)
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Step 7, part two. Milestone 385 built the lesson kind through the MCP tools,
which is the agent's surface. The Vue app speaks REST, so a lesson was a
record a person could not create, read, edit or retire — rule 27 failing at
the door rather than in the view.

`/api/lessons` now offers list, create, read, update and trash, plus
`/api/lessons/taught-by/<id>` — the reverse of `learned_from`, which the task
body calls the direction that gets forgotten and arguably the more useful one:
a reader opening an old issue wants to know what was learned from it, and
until now the relation was only navigable from the lesson's side.

`lessons_taught_by` reads `data[taught_by]` through `path_exists`, the same
jsonpath dialect the snippet location lookup uses, so both reverse lookups hit
the GIN index (0070) the same way rather than scanning bodies. Share-aware via
`readable_notes_clause`: it renders beside a record the caller can already
see, so a lesson shared with them belongs there exactly as their own does.

THE TRIGGER IS REFUSED WHEN EMPTY, at create and at update. This is the one
place the door is not a thin wrapper, and it is deliberate: the service will
store a triggerless lesson quite happily — it saves, reads correctly in every
listing, and never surfaces. There is nothing to notice afterwards, because it
looks exactly like a lesson that works. Better to refuse it than to hand back
a record that looks finished. The refusal says why, so the next reader does
not take it for a nag and delete it.

`lesson_to_dict` moves into the service and the MCP tool's `_to_dict` becomes
an alias for it. Both doors now return one shape — a payload spelled once per
door answers the two of them differently the first time a field is added — and
both compose through `services/lessons.py`, so a lesson written from the web
ranks identically to one written by an agent. The document IS what ranks, so
that parity is the whole reason the door is thin.

The dedup gate matches the MCP path: two lessons under one trigger compete in
a single ranked list for one reserved slot, so a duplicate here displaces
rather than merely clutters.

NOT DONE YET: this is the door, not the UI. #3734 stays in_progress until the
Vue views, the router entries, the Knowledge browse badge and the both-ways
sources panel exist — rule 27 is about the operator being able to touch it.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 7038e41ec7 feat(rules): preferences are writable, and their drift arrives (#3895)
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Milestone 399 step 5. Steps 1-4 put preferences into the backend: a kind
column, an inverted write path, a third register in the injected block, a
delivery slot. Nothing the operator could touch. Rule 27 forbids leaving it
there, and here it matters more than usual, because the UI is the only
guard against the risk the milestone named up front — an agent misreads one
session, rewrites a preference, and follows the rewritten version forever
while the operator never sees the moment it changed.

Four things ship.

A preference is DISTINGUISHABLE. `kind` reaches the client (the server has
always sent it in rule_brief) and a preference carries a chip. Force is the
one thing a list of instructions must not leave the reader to infer, and a
row that renders identically to a rule teaches the opposite of both facts
about a preference: it does not bind, and a session may rewrite it.

A preference is WRITABLE. The editor gains the kind as a first-class choice
with the test beside it — what happens when someone does not do this — and
says plainly, when preference is chosen, that sessions rewrite these
without asking and every rewrite is kept.

DRIFT ARRIVES. `GET /api/rules/drift` returns one row per rewritten
preference carrying its latest rewrite: what it said, what it says now, and
the record named by `arose_from_id` that taught the change. Both texts ride
along so the list shows the diff without a call per row. The new pane sits
beside the staleness sweep, because drift belongs to no one rulebook, and
it answers a question the operator would not have thought to ask.

REVERSION IS ONE ACTION, and this is the carve-out worth arguing with.
Milestone 323 refused a one-click restore for rules — "a binding
instruction should not be revertible in one click", because a silent revert
erases the only record of why the rewrite happened. That reasoning turns on
the rewrite being the operator's own decision. A preference's is not: the
agent makes it mid-work without asking, so reverting is a veto over someone
else's edit rather than an undo of your own, and a veto costing more than a
shrug is not supervision. The route refuses anything but a preference (409),
and nothing is erased: the restore goes through update_rule, so it snapshots
too and the history GAINS the revert. An integration test pins that, because
it is the whole basis for the exception.

Tested against real Postgres — every claim is about which rows come back
and in what order, which a stand-in session cannot judge.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 6240652dce feat(retrieval): the operator can see what was tuned, and every write is recorded (#4102)
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The other half of the bargain in milestone 416 step 4. The model moves
these dials; this is what makes that reviewable rather than merely
automatic.

THE HOLE THIS CLOSES

Every retrieval floor is an ordinary settings key, and `/api/settings`
accepts any key at all. A floor written through it landed correctly and
recorded nothing — a tuning history with holes in it, which is worse
than no history because it reads as complete.

So the generic endpoint now routes registry-owned keys through
`set_dial` instead of writing them as plain rows. ROUTED, not refused:
refusing would only work for callers that had been updated, while this
way the form, a script, and an old client all leave the trail, and
there is no version of "forgot to use the other endpoint". Clearing a
control is written as an explicit set back to the shipped default,
because the operator reverting something is the single most important
move this history can record.

`set_dial` now also refuses to record a no-op. The Settings form
re-sends every field on every save, so without that one press of Save
would write six rows saying the operator set six dials to the numbers
they were already on — and a history nobody can skim is one nobody
reads.

WHAT THE OPERATOR GETS

`/api/retrieval/surfaces`, `/surfaces/<name>` and `/tuning-history`,
with `actor` fixed server-side rather than taken from the payload: a
payload-supplied actor would let a model claim to be the operator, and
"did I do this, or did the session?" is the first question this list
is asked.

In Settings: the five missing BUDGETS (until now only auto-inject had
one, so the only control over a noisy surface was to raise its bar —
which discards that surface's best candidates along with its worst),
and a "What has been tuned" panel showing each change, who made it, and
the reason given. The operator's own changes are marked.

The MCP tool demands a reason; these endpoints do not. That asymmetry
is deliberate and stated in routes/retrieval.py: the requirement exists
to make the MODEL read the records before moving a number on someone
else's behalf, and the operator is that someone — a mandatory
justification box on every control would be friction charged to the one
participant who owes no explanation.

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2026-09-17 11:36:22 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 ad26b3f458 feat(retrieval): the ledger records what was OPENED, not merely what was shown (#4100)
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Milestone 386 made a repeat REFERENCED rather than withheld, and the line it
chose says "You saw it earlier this session". Nothing ever checked that. The
arms emit a TEASER — title, trigger, get_rule(N) — so a session can be shown a
rule twenty times and never read a word of it, and a compaction summarises the
teaser away leaving nothing behind. The server was asserting something about
the reader's context it had no way to know.

Three states now, where there were two:

  never surfaced   "it is not in this session's loaded set"
  named, unopened  "Mentioned earlier this session but not opened — read it…"
  opened           "You opened it earlier this session; pull it… again"

The middle one is the honest one and the one that was missing. It keeps the
full invitation, because a session that skipped a teaser is in nearly the
position of one never shown it.

HOW "OPENED" BECOMES OBSERVABLE. A new PostToolUse hook watches the get_rule
call itself and appends to `<sid>.opened.ids`. PostToolUse does fire for MCP
tools — the event's own output schema carries `updatedMCPToolOutput`, which
would be meaningless otherwise — and the matcher is `mcp__.*__get_rule` so the
server segment, which varies by install, is not pinned.

This is NOT the self-report 386 rejected. That objection was to ASKING a model
whether it holds a rule, which is unverifiable. A tool call is an event the
harness reports whether anyone asks. Recording what a session DID and believing
what it SAYS about itself are different kinds of evidence.

Both ledgers clear together on compact/clear. Keeping `.opened.ids` across a
compaction would have the arms telling a freshly-summarised session "you opened
it earlier" about a rule now nowhere in its context — a more confident version
of the bug being removed. Same reader (scribe_rules_live) for both, so ageing,
last-entry-wins and the bare-id format are defined once.

Also closes two smoke-coverage holes the checker was reporting as SKIP: the new
recorder, and scribe_precompact_preserve.sh from #3680. The latter needed
STATIC_FLOOR to become a set — PreCompact's contract is inverted, its stdout
BECOMES the summarizer's instructions, so silence is its failure mode and a
generic read of it looks like a leak.

Step 2 of milestone 416, and a hard prerequisite for step 4: while suppression
keys on shown, widening k marks records "seen" faster than they are read, and
the ledger would degrade in proportion to the improvement.

Plugin minted 2026.09.16.1232 -> 2026.09.16.2102.

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2026-09-16 17:03:39 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 07bdbf1647 feat(rules)!: a rule cannot be created, or edited into, having no trigger (#4099)
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`when_to_apply` is not metadata. `rule_document` embeds a rule as
`{title} — {trigger}` / `When to apply: {trigger}\n\n{statement}`, the trigger
appearing twice so purpose dominates a short vector — the shape note 2485
measured on snippets (a 0.153 top-to-second gap against 0.010–0.023 for
everything else). Without one the document silently becomes title + statement:
a DIFFERENT shape, ranked against a corpus it does not match, with nothing to
report it. Every bar and every rank in the system assumes one shape.

`create_preference` has refused an empty trigger since it shipped. The two rule
creators defaulted it to "" — so the shape was enforced for the record kind
that guides and optional for the kind that binds.

The guard lives in the SERVICE, because both doors reach it: the MCP tools and
the frontend's fast path in routes/rulebooks.py. Written in either alone, the
other could still create a rule that never fires. The route keeps a matching
check for the STATUS CODE only (400, not the 404 it maps ValueError to).

update_rule refuses to EMPTY an existing trigger, checked after the mutation so
it covers `clear=[...]`, an emptied form input, and any route added later.
Deliberately asked as "did this edit remove one" rather than "does one exist":
a rule predating the guard has none, and refusing to save it would freeze
precisely the unreachable records that most need fixing.

Deliberately not following arose_from_id, which the human door exempts itself
from because provenance is about auditing what the AGENT changed. That reasoning
does not reach this field — a missing trigger is not a missing explanation, it
is a rule that does not work, and it fails an operator as badly as a session.

15 test fixtures across 6 files were creating rules with no trigger. They now
pass one; that they did not is the point — curation is not a guarantee.

Step 1 of milestone 416 "Retrieval stops guessing a bar". First because every
later step assumes one document shape, and it is much cheaper to guarantee
before a corpus grows than to backfill after.

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2026-09-16 14:45:32 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 aa94c73d9e feat(plugin): a directory says which project it belongs to, git repo or not (#4085)
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All six hooks scoped their requests one way: `git remote get-url origin`,
resolved server-side through the repo bindings. That key does not exist
outside a git repo, so a session in a plain directory was unscoped in every
hook at once — no project context, no prior-art scoping, no project rules —
and silently, because a missing remote is indistinguishable from a remote
nobody bound.

A `.scribe` file is the second key, read by the shared scribe_scope_query so a
directory scopes the same way everywhere:

    {"instance": "https://scribe.example.com", "project_id": 2, "project": "…"}

`instance` is why the file is not just a number: an id is a different project
on every Scribe, so a marker that travels — a copied directory, a shared
machine, a repo someone else clones — would otherwise scope the session to the
wrong project without a word. Compared host-only, and a mismatch drops the id:
no project beats the wrong project. A bare integer is accepted too, since it
is what a person writes by hand. The marker beats a git remote — someone put
the file there on purpose — which is also how a directory overrides its
binding.

Two things it found on the way:

  * An explicit project_id that did not resolve rendered NO message at all —
    the branch hung off `if project_id` as an `elif`, so a caller holding a
    pointer it believed in got a context that silently omitted the project it
    had asked for. Now reported.
  * The refusal reason was a global set inside a function every caller reads
    through `$( )`. The assignment died with the subshell, leaving the caller
    to read an unset variable under `set -u` — which aborts the hook and costs
    the whole session's SessionStart context, to fetch a warning about a file.
    It comes back through stdout with the id instead, and a test pins it.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 4e4020c040 feat(rules): move a rule between global and project scope, keeping its id, history, areas and edges (#4063)
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A rule's home is its reach: a rulebook topic makes it global, a project makes it
that project's. There was no way to change one, so a project rule decided to be
global could only be recreated and the original trashed — losing the id every
record cites, its edit history, its area tags and its relations.

- services.rulebooks.move_rule(rule_id, user_id, topic_id= | project_id=):
  exactly one destination (the model's CHECK), owned by the caller, not the
  rule's current home. A topic already holding a live rule with the same title
  is refused with a message naming that rule, instead of uq_rule_per_topic
  failing the commit. Someone else's rule reads as not found.
- Deliberately NOT done, and said in the docstring: no version (a version is
  what a rule said, milestone 323 decision 4), no duplicate gate (nothing new
  enters the corpus), no re-embed (retrieval reads the home at query time).
- Both doors: MCP move_rule, REST POST /api/rules/<id>/move (rule 33).
- UI: RuleHomePicker, one component in the rule editor (a global rule) and a
  project's rules tab (a project rule), so the two cannot drift on what a
  destination is.
- using-scribe names move_rule under "Where a new rule goes". Plugin
  2026.09.15.1626.

Milestone 414 step 3.

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2026-09-15 12:26:39 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 0bcd4b5540 feat(rules)!: retire rulebook subscriptions and per-project suppressions (#4052)
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A rule's home is its scope now: a rule in a rulebook topic is global, a rule on
a project applies to that project, and retrieval reads that directly (#4074).
A subscription had stopped changing anything a session received; a suppression
muted rules from a subscription. Operator, 2026-09-15: "we have global and
project scoped rules, we don't need the subscriptions now."

What goes, whole (rule 22):
- Migration 0101 drops project_rulebook_subscriptions, project_rule_suppressions
  and project_topic_suppressions, and strips subscribe_rulebooks (and 394's
  leftover exclude_always_on_rulebooks) from stored inception choices.
- Service, MCP and REST: subscribe/unsubscribe and the four suppress/unsuppress
  operations. The Subscribers checklist, the subscribe chips, the skip buttons
  and the Suppressed section in the rules UI.
- Inception asks two questions (design system, seed Systems). create_project and
  decide_project_inception lose subscribe_rulebooks.
- Backup v15 stops exporting the three sections; older archives still restore,
  the keys simply unread. Trash no longer hard-deletes suppression rows.

What changes meaning:
- get_applicable_rules is a project's LISTING: its own rules, plus the global
  rules tagged to an area it works in. Untagged global rules apply everywhere
  and arrive by retrieval, so they are not listed. A co_surfaces partner on a
  different project is not dragged in.
- list_rules(project_id) lists that project's own rules.
- rules_payload drops subscribed_rulebooks and suppressed_*; the handshake's
  brief form is project_rules alone.
- using-scribe's "Where a new rule goes" and inception sections, tool
  docstrings and docs say global vs project. Plugin 2026.09.15.1620.

Milestone 414 step 2.

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