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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 8be555d6dd feat(telemetry): tell a ranker decline from a repeat before the observation window opens (#3497)
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Making the rule arms log every call exposed a second ambiguity in the same
row. `result_count == 0` is two unrelated events wearing one number:

  - the ranker found nothing above the bar — the only evidence a threshold is
    set too high; and
  - the ranker found only what this session had already been shown — which
    says nothing whatever about the bar.

A long session excludes its way into the second, so the arm reads worse the
longer it runs correctly. Rows written now carry the ambiguity permanently,
which is why this lands before any watch period rather than after.

`retrieval_logs.suppressed_count` (0095, nullable) holds what the caller
dropped as already-shown. Both rule arms report it; they filter in Python and
always know. The note arms pass exclusions INTO semantic_search_notes and
never see what was dropped, so they store NULL.

THE NULL IS LOAD-BEARING. It means "not measured here", and the readout
renders it as `suppression: null` rather than a zeroed dict. Defaulting to 0
would let an unmeasured surface read as a perfectly clean one — the same
substitution of an artifact for a measurement that #3311 made. No backfill,
for the same reason: existing rows genuinely do not know.

`retrieval_telemetry`'s `sources` gains `suppression` with `measured_calls`,
`calls_with_suppression` and `zero_because_already_shown`; subtract the last
from `zero_result_calls` for the true ranker declines. The MCP tool docstring
says to read the two together and warns against reading the null as a zero.

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2026-09-03 21:12:38 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 154a5de13e fix(telemetry): both rule arms logged only their hits, so the clear-rate could only read 100% (#3497)
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`write_path_rule` reported `zero_result_calls: 0` and `cleared_threshold:
133/133` — a perfect record no other surface comes near (`write_path` 421
zeroes of 613, `reuse_slot` 124/199, `auto_inject` 114/326). #3311 read that
as a measurement and milestone 333 was scoped on it.

It was an artifact. Both arms called `record_retrieval` inside a guard on
having results — the write-path arm behind `if fresh:`, the pre-tool arm
below `if not fresh: return out` — so a call that found nothing wrote no row.
The statistic was a fact about the shape of the code, true at any threshold
whatsoever.

The call log moves out of the guard in both arms. The surfacing log stays in
it: nothing was shown, so no surfacing occurred. `results=fresh` is kept
deliberately — the note arms pass exclusions into `semantic_search_notes`, so
what they log is already post-exclusion, and logging `hits` here would make
this row mean something other than every other row in the same readout.

The defect bites hardest on the pre-tool arm, which fires on every Bash call:
with no rows at all, a ranker that declined is indistinguishable from a hook
that never fired — the silent failure the arm exists to stop.

Tests cover both arms behaviourally (found nothing; found only what the
session already held; searched nothing at all, which must stay silent) plus a
structural guard, because this was one level of indentation and it appeared
independently in two places.

#3311 and the `rule_usage` docstring corrected rather than quietly rewritten.

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2026-09-03 06:57:13 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 2ee24b9d2b feat(rules): rules before tools — a PreToolUse arm keyed on the action (#3476)
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The only just-in-time rule surface was registered on `Write|Edit` and queried
with `code or path`, so a rule could be retrieved at the moment of a code
write and nowhere else. Every rule about which tool to reach for — don't curl
the forge, don't stand up a stack, don't run the suite locally, don't branch —
was unreachable exactly when it mattered, and residency in the always-on
preload was the only surface it had. That is the pressure that grew the
resident set to 31 against #3089's ceiling of ~23; it was never a judgment
anybody made.

A reflex generates no query, so an instruction to check the rules cannot catch
one. A mechanical trigger can: the tool call IS the query, and a reflex has to
become a tool call before it can do anything.

`build_tool_rule_hint` is deliberately tool-agnostic — a name and a string —
so widening the matcher later is a hooks.json edit with no server change. The
hook starts on Bash, which is where the action reflexes live.

The two pre-tool arms share ONE session ledger of already-named rules
(`<state>/<sid>.rules.ids`). Two ledgers would mean a rule named by one arm
gets re-offered by the other, and the hint that fires most often is exactly
the one that must not repeat itself. A test asserts both scripts build the
same path, and another checks the shell hook and the Python route agree on
every query-arg name (rule 33) — a rename there fails silently, looking like
a surface that never finds anything rather than a broken one.

Deliberately silent on outage, unlike the prior-art hook: a write is
occasional, a Bash call is not, and an outage line before every command is
what gets a channel muted.

`tier="conditional"` matches the write arm and is the transition point — an
always-on rule is already resident, so re-tier one and it starts arriving here
instead of in every session's preamble. `pre_tool_rule` joins RANKED_SOURCES:
this arm chose what it showed, so a pull can settle whether the choice landed.

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2026-09-02 23:31:22 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 8b9b3a1d9b feat(telemetry): the preload emits, and the always-on set stops being unfalsifiable (#3473)
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The ranked rule arm became measurable in M333. The preload did not — and
that is the surface whose value is actually in question. `list_always_on_rules`,
the SessionStart block and every `rules_payload` caller handed rules over
wholesale and emitted nothing, so the resident set's token cost was certain
and its usefulness could not be tested even in principle.

Bulk deliveries now record as AMBIENT, beside the ranked count and never
inside pull-through. Folding them in would mean growing the always-on set
depressed the arm's measured precision and trimming it flattered the arm,
neither for any reason to do with the arm.

`RANKED_SOURCES` inverts the note twin's `AMBIENT_SOURCES` deliberately: there
is one ranked rule source and this change adds seven bulk ones, so naming the
rare half makes a forgotten surface default to ambient — under-counting it —
rather than padding the denominator with surfacings nobody chose.

Two lookalike call sites are deliberately left silent, with a test to keep
them that way: the write-path etag arm and `rules_etag_for` read the rules to
build or compare a MARKER and show nobody anything.

No migration — `event` and `source` are plain Text with no CHECK (rule 36
does not apply). Snippet #2858 updated to the new `rules_payload` contract.

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2026-09-02 23:06:40 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 238510080e feat(retrieval): the standing-rule arm gets its own bar, and asks for one rule not two (#3318)
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Milestone 333 step 4 — the split #2223 made one surface down, now made for the
third corpus. The arm inherited WRITEPATH_DEFAULT_THRESHOLD = 0.68, a number
measured against code-vs-note-PROSE and never re-derived for code-vs-RULE-TEXT.

THE DEFAULT IS ARGUED STRUCTURALLY, NOT READ OFF A HISTOGRAM (rule 115). Two
facts hold on any install, including one with six rules and no telemetry:

- The eligible corpus is tiny — conditional rules only, a handful to a few
  dozen against thousands of notes. A top-k over forty candidates always
  returns something, so "the best match cleared the bar" stops meaning "a good
  match exists". A bar calibrated for best-of-thousands is cleared by
  best-of-forty as arithmetic, not relevance.
- Rules are short imperative technical English, far more homogeneous than note
  prose. #2223 put the code-vs-prose floor at 0.55-0.63 and set 0.68 above it;
  a more homogeneous corpus has a HIGHER floor, so 0.68 is not merely
  inherited, it sits below where this corpus's noise lives.

0.72 errs deliberately toward silence on an asymmetry that is also structural:
this hint fires on EVERY write. A missed rule is recoverable — it is still in
Scribe and the agent can search it. A hint that cries wolf is not: it teaches
the reader to skip the whole block, and the true positives go with it. The
arm's own comment already said "noise on a hint that fires on every write is
how a hint gets ignored".

Pinned as an INEQUALITY, not a value: test_the_rule_bar_defaults_above_the_code_bar
asserts RULEHINT > WRITEPATH, so tuning the number stays free while inverting
the relationship — which would silently reinstate #3311 — does not.

RULEHINT_LIMIT = 1, and deliberately not a knob. With a corpus this small, k=2
means the second line is almost always the second-best noise wearing the same
confident framing as the first; halving k halves that regardless of the bar.
It stays a constant because it is a decision about how loud one hint may be,
not a per-install tuning question — and a knob nobody turns only adds a way to
misconfigure the surface.

Reachable from Settings, no restart (rule 25), with copy that says which way to
move it and points at retrieval_telemetry's rule pull-through — which step 3
made readable — to tell "arriving unread" from "never arrived".

Every config stand-in in the suite gained the key, not just the one that
noticed. The arm reads `rule_threshold` while BUILDING its search arguments, so
a missing key raises inside its fail-open except and turns the arm into a
silent no-op — indistinguishable from it running and finding nothing. That is
the same vacuous-pass shape that bit step 2, one layer down (rule 33).

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2026-09-02 18:05:00 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 8901c904a9 feat(telemetry): retrieval_telemetry reports rule pull-through where it reported nothing (#3317)
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Milestone 333 step 3, the read half. Steps 1 and 2 built the table and filled
it; until now nothing read it, and `usage` — sourced entirely from
note_usage_events — described notes only while `sources` happily listed a
write_path_rule row above it. A reader takes the aggregate as covering
everything named above it. It did not.

A SEPARATE `rule_usage` BLOCK, not folded into `usage`. Two reasons, and the
second is the one that bites: the corpora differ by orders of magnitude, so a
blended ratio would be the note ratio with noise on it and the rule arm would
stay invisible inside it; and `usage` is what existing callers already read and
compare across windows, so silently changing what it counts would move a number
nobody was told had changed meaning. There is a test asserting rule events stay
out of the note block.

No `ambient` key, unlike the twin. Nothing surfaces a rule un-ranked —
list_always_on_rules and enter_project hand rules over wholesale but emit no
event — so there is no ambient class to subtract. The absence is a fact about
the data, not an oversight, and it returns when a bulk loader starts emitting.

Guarded separately, like `by_source`. This table did not exist a commit ago,
and an instance running upgraded code against un-migrated schema would
otherwise take down two readouts that work perfectly in order to report a third
that cannot. On failure the FLAG is added and the SHAPE is kept — a caller must
not have to choose between crashing on a missing key and quietly rendering
zeros it has no right to.

`pull_through` is None rather than 0.0 on an empty window, matching the note
block. A ratio of zero asserts "rules were shown and none opened"; with an
empty numerator and denominator that is a claim the data does not support, and
it is the reading that would make a brand-new install look like a broken one.

Also fixed, from #3311: the rule arm never timed its search, so it was the one
source in the readout reporting a null p90_duration_ms — a gap that reads as
"this surface is somehow not measurable" rather than "nobody passed the
number".

Both docstrings updated in the same change. The tool's is the agent-facing
contract (rule 119) and it explicitly said rule surfacings were absent and had
"no usage counter at all". Leaving that would have had a reader conclude the
arm has zero pull-through rather than a separate one.

Tests are integration for the reason the block above them is: real GROUP BYs
and count(distinct) against a table a commit old, in a module whose one
production outage was a SQL shape the database rejected inside a broad except.
A mock would agree with whatever the code does, including nothing.

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2026-09-02 17:25:11 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 8f7f447fda feat(telemetry): the rule arm records what it showed, and get_rule records the read (#3316)
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Milestone 333 step 2. Step 1 built the table; a counter nobody calls reads zero
and looks exactly like a surface nobody uses, which is #2663's shape.

SURFACED — the standing-rule arm in build_write_path_hint, beside the
record_retrieval it already made. Two tables, and the split is not arbitrary:
retrieval_logs is one row per CALL keyed on the score distribution a threshold
is tuned from; rule_usage_events is one row per RULE per event, the grain "was
this hint ever acted on" needs and the grain a JSONB result_ids array cannot be
indexed at.

The comment there said rule ids had nowhere to go — that note_usage_events
remaps ids on restore, so a rule id would return attached to whatever note took
that number. Still true of the NOTE table, and precisely why step 1 built its
own. Rewritten to say the gap is closed rather than leaving a stale rationale
that would have someone re-derive the same dead end.

Records `fresh`, i.e. AFTER exclude_rule_ids. A rule the session already holds
was considered and not shown; counting it would inflate the denominator with
claims the agent never saw, and the ratio would then fall for a reason that has
nothing to do with whether hints land.

PULLED — two doors, both after their access check so a refused read is not a
pull. mcp_get_rule is the one that matters: the arm's own message ends "Read it
with get_rule(N)", so that call is the exact action a landed hint produces.
rest_rule carries the other prefix, and the prefix is load-bearing — "is this
rule dead weight?" is served by any pull, "did that injected hint land?" by
agent pulls only.

NOT a pull: rule_history. It loads the rule for its title and its own output
says "The current wording is on the rule itself — get_rule(N)", so counting it
would credit a read of the history as a read of the rule and double-count
anyone who then follows that pointer. list_always_on_rules and enter_project
are likewise bulk resident loads, not somebody choosing to open one record.

tests/test_rule_usage_wiring.py is cross-cutting on purpose: the surfaced end
is in plugin_context, the pull end in two other modules, and "both ends meet"
is a property no module-shaped file asserts. It covers the exclusion boundary,
that a failing recorder cannot break the write, that a refused read records
nothing, and two completeness guards — every door records, and the bulk loaders
still do not.

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2026-09-02 17:15:03 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 efabba58dd fix(rules): the staleness signal must not wait for prior art to match (#3244)
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CI caught two things, and the first is the feature not working rather than a
test being wrong.

THE SIGNAL WAS GATED ON A COINCIDENCE. build_write_path_hint returns early
when no prior art, stamp, divergence or derive matched, and that guard sat
ABOVE the new arm — so a session whose rules had changed was told only if the
file it happened to be editing also matched something else. A staleness
signal that fires on that coincidence is not a staleness signal. The arm now
runs above the guard, collecting into its own list that `lines` is seeded
from, and the guard accounts for it.

The standing-rule arm (milestone 307) is deliberately LEFT below that guard,
and this is a finding rather than a fix: it has the same gating and probably
should not, but it runs a SEMANTIC search, so lifting it would put an
embedding query on every write in every session. That is a cost decision, not
a bug fix, and not this task's to make.

THE MARKER MUST NOT BREAK THE PAYLOAD IT DECORATES. rules_etag is computed on
the SessionStart path, where `max()` raising costs the whole context payload
— every rule title, the project, all of it — to save a hint. A row with no
usable timestamp is now skipped and a set with none degrades to a count-only
marker, which still catches a rule added or deleted and only loses edits.
That is the right way round to lose information. CI found it because
build_session_context's tests pass MagicMock rules and `max()` over those
raises TypeError.

Also: list_always_on_rules on an install with no always-on rulebooks returns
`rules_etag: "empty|0"`. Its exact-dict test is updated rather than loosened
— the key being present on an empty install is the behaviour, not noise.

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2026-08-30 13:10:04 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 5c9bb40777 feat(rules): a session is told when its rules move under it (#3244, milestone 323 step 5)
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The rules payload carries a marker; the write-path hook hands it back; the
server says which rules moved. Nothing is said when nothing moved.

THE COUNT IS NOT DECORATION. max(updated_at) alone cannot see a DELETED rule
— it moves no timestamp — and that is the single change that takes an
instruction OUT of force, which is the one a session most needs to hear
about. The marker is `<max updated_at>|<count>`, and a deletion is reported
through the count because there is no row left to name.

THE HOOK IS THE CARRIER because it already fires before a write, which is the
moment acting on a stale rule costs something. One comparison, no payload,
no extra round trip.

WHERE THE MARKER IS CAPTURED, and it could not be anywhere else: the
SessionStart hook, from /api/plugin/context. The model also receives one from
list_always_on_rules, but a hook cannot see an MCP tool's result — so the
value the write path compares has to be stored where a shell script can
reach it. Keyed by session id in the state dir the prior-art hook already
uses, so "changed since" means since THIS session loaded its rules.

NOT ON rules_payload, against the task's letter. Those are applicable_rules —
a different, subscription-derived set. One key name over two sets is how a
comparison starts reporting phantom changes, and the write path compares
against the always-on set.

WHAT IT CANNOT SEE is stated in both the service and the write-path arm as a
table, because a reader who finds an etag will assume it covers staleness
generally:

  another session edits a rule mid-flight             | caught
  the session is misremembering a rule read hours ago | caught
  compaction summarised the rules out of context      | NOT caught

The third is the most common, and the marker is blind to it — the etag was in
context too and went with the rules. The SessionStart nudge is that case's
only mechanism and must not be softened because this shipped. A test asserts
both modules still explain that.

Instance-agnostic (rule 115): an install with no rules produces a stable
marker rather than an error, and "no rules" reads as a state rather than as a
change. An unreadable or absent marker reports nothing — a signal that cries
wolf is worse than none, because it trains a reader to skip the line that
will one day be true. The arm fails open like every other arm on this hook.

The delivery is tested through the real build_write_path_hint rather than the
helper alone: the feature IS a line arriving in a session, and the arithmetic
being right proves nothing about that.

Live acceptance is deploy-gated and not yet recorded on the task.

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2026-08-30 13:02:00 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 02c1e37620 feat(rules): the write path can notice a standing rule it was never given (#3031, milestone 307 step 5, hook arm)
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A conditional rule is not resident, so a session can be about to violate one it
was never handed. This arm notices: when what is being written resembles a
rule's trigger, the hint names it and says to read it before deciding it does
not apply.

A SUGGESTION, and the plan was wrong about why it could be more. It claimed the
hook "already resolves a path to an area" — it does not, and nothing in Scribe
maps a path to a System or a canonical area (build_write_path_hint resolves
paths against snippet LOCATIONS, a different index; the learned-alias idea
belongs to another project). Correction logged on the task. Rather than invent
path→area inference to make a stale claim true, the arm does what D7 already
decided and what this surface already IS: tags bind at enter_project, meaning
suggests here. The header of the hook says NEVER BLOCKS; dressing a hint up as
binding would have been the actual mistake.

CONDITIONAL RULES ONLY. An always-on rule is already in the session, so
re-offering it is noise — and noise on a hint that fires on every write is how
a hint gets ignored.

Telemetry goes to retrieval_logs, NOT note_usage_events, and that is a
correctness call rather than a preference: note_usage ids are REMAPPED on a
backup restore, so a rule id written there would come back attached to whatever
note took that number — silently corrupting the evidence the next true-up is
supposed to read. retrieval_logs is never restored and `source` already
separates surfaces. record_retrieval's `results` type widened to match what it
actually needs (an `.id`), instead of passing a Rule to something annotated Note.

The rule dedup gets its OWN state file and query parameter, like the three
channels before it — #2708's lesson was that one shared channel lets a hint of
one class silence a different class that had never been shown. Plugin version
bumped: a hook change clients cannot see did not ship (#1040).

The stub is autouse in conftest rather than added to forty-odd call sites: the
arm loads an embedding model, and every existing test that stubs the NOTES
search would otherwise pull a real model in through the one arm it had no way
to know about.

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2026-08-26 16:35:36 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Fable 5 8664d8ad14 feat(ledger): the consumer map surfaces — every css row carries used_by on list_shapes, flag="unused-css" (the map's negative space, surfaced never deleted), derive groups and the write-path family carry consumers, the derive line says "used by N template(s)", coverage payload unused_css + the standing block; docs, SKILL, plugin 0.1.44; the two step-2 tests expected 5 edges where fan-out makes 6 (milestone 302 step 3, #2936)
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bvandeusenandClaude Fable 5 85111442a6 feat(ledger): CSS derive families are names, never bodies — name floor 2 for css, dup: grouping sym-only; derive line says "repeated name" and dismisses scoped-css; plugin 0.1.41 (note #2917)
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2026-08-23 00:21:17 -04:00
bvandeusenandClaude Fable 5 2324c15418 feat(write-path): the derive arm — the hint names a duplicate family (no canon) or a canon elsewhere for the shapes being written; exclude_derive channel (#2900, milestone 299 step 2)
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shape_ledger.write_time_derive asks the ledger what it knows about each
named (kind, symbol): a derive-grouped family (identical body / same name
in N other files) -> "derive it now, do not add a copy"; a canonical row
at another path -> "canon #N at <path>, reuse". Judged rows at the path and
the canon own file stay silent. Rendered by _derive_line beside the
divergence line; keyed (group id / canon:<id>) on a third per-session dedup
channel in the hook (.derive.ids -> exclude_derive=).

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bvandeusenandClaude Fable 5 ff5f6438c4 feat(inception): always-on exclusions reach every rule surface — list_always_on_rules(project_id), get_applicable_rules, rules_payload.excluded_always_on, session context, exclude/include tools (#2880, milestone 297 step 2)
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A project that opted out of an always-on rulebook at inception must not see
it anywhere: list_always_on_rules(project_id=) and the subscription-derived
set skip it (an exclusion is total), get_applicable_rules / rules_payload
carry `excluded_always_on` as the seventh key so the departure is visible
wherever the rules are, and the SessionStart block built for a bound project
names it ("Excluded for this project by its inception decision …"). MCP:
list_always_on_rules takes project_id; exclude_always_on_rulebook /
include_always_on_rulebook mirror suppress/unsuppress (owner-only; the
rulebook must be always_on — subscribed rulebooks are left by unsubscribing).

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bvandeusenandClaude Fable 5 efc650390e fix(plugin-context): the empty write-path payload carries the divergence key too
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bvandeusenandClaude Fable 5 d74a244b3a feat(ledger): divergence readout — button B where button A is canon, shape history, and judged-shape recheck (#2793, milestone 294 step 7)
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Every judgment now goes through one helper that remembers the fingerprint
judged (classified_sha) and writes a code_shape_events row; the sync writes
vanished / reappeared / drifted events and flags recheck_at when a body
moves under an instance/variant. The refresh flags diverges_from on shapes
new since the previous computation that sit where one canon dominates the
judged siblings of their directory+kind and were not proposed as that canon
(a first seed flags nothing); the write-path hint asks the same question
in-band for the shapes the hook names. list_shapes(flag=divergence|recheck),
shape_history(project_id, path, symbol) (read-only), coverage line/payload/
card carry divergent + recheck. Backup v8 carries the history. Plugin 0.1.36.

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bvandeusenandClaude Fable 5 475f0857c9 feat(ledger): write-path stamping — a pulled canon the session then instantiates lands as a hook instance row (#2791, milestone 294 step 5)
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The prior-art hook now names the shapes being written (shapes=kind:name —
every definition in the payload, or the one enclosing an Edit found by
walking the file upward) and the server stamps them as instance rows when
the session PULLED a snippet inside PULL_WINDOW that the payload references
by symbol or that the semantic arm scored for this very payload.
classified_by=hook, evidence in reason; never overrides a judgment or a
canonical row, overridable by classify_shapes. Offered-but-unopened stamps
nothing. Pulled-and-already-seen snippets stay in the semantic query as
evidence without re-entering the deduped menu. A brand-new shape gets a
provisional row the next sync confirms or vanishes. Read-scoped keys get
the hint, never the stamp. Plugin 0.1.34.

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bvandeusenandClaude Fable 5 3162332a13 feat(prior-art): edit-time record-sync nudge — the sync class (#2708)
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A snippet recorded AT the exact file being edited is not a reuse
suggestion — it IS the record of the file being changed. The write-path
hint now renders those as their own SYNC class: 'snippet #N records this
file — updating the record is part of the edit (update_snippet /
verify_snippet)'. Nearby and semantic hits stay the reuse menu.

The two classes dedup on separate per-session channels (exclude_ids vs
exclude_sync_ids, .ids vs .sync.ids in the hook), so a reuse hint shown
early in a session can no longer silence the record-sync nudge when the
recorded file itself is edited later. Sync surfacing is measured under
its own note_usage source (write_path_sync) — its pull-through rate is
the scoreboard for whether edit-time sync actually happens, per decision
#2707 (no forge connection; records stay current in the session that has
the context). Plugin 0.1.31.

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bvandeusenandClaude Fable 5 9c68faa0bd feat(processes): composition contract — the process is the skeleton, the conversation supplies the parameters
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Extends #2582's fix per the operator's direction: a stored Process must
incorporate the context it was triggered with, not displace it. No new
plumbing needed — the live context is already in the session; what was
missing is the stated contract. get_process now carries it: live
constraints/scope/focus fold into the procedure and override its
defaults where they disagree; a clarify step asks only what the
conversation has NOT already answered (confirm interpretations, don't
re-ask); stated concerns become lenses the procedure applies, not text
it discards. The sync-generated skill stubs state the short form.

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bvandeusenandClaude Fable 5 66c4fd1b88 fix(sync): process-skill triggers invoke by name only — resemblance offers, never substitutes
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Scribe issue #2582: the sync wrote "Use when {title}-type work is
requested" into every generated process skill, so a bespoke live prompt
that merely resembled a stored Process got the Process's canned
procedure — and inherited approvals embedded in its body (the Drift
Audit's fan-out opt-in) that the conversation never granted. Observed
live: an explicit systems-review request with its own constraints was
answered with the Drift Audit clarify menu recommending ~15 parallel
auditors.

New trigger contract, both variants: follow verbatim only when invoked
by name; on mere resemblance the live instructions govern — offer the
process, ask before following, and never inherit embedded approvals the
operator hasn't granted in this conversation.

(The Drift Audit process record itself was also rewritten to a
sequential in-context walk — data change, live already, recorded in
the same issue.)

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bvandeusen 2d1e26f38f feat(telemetry): ambient surfacings count, apart — enter_project and the skill sync emit
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#2477, option (a) as decided, with the readout changed in the same commit.

## The two silent surfaces

enter_project returns open tasks + recent notes on every project entry —
probably the largest surfacing by volume — and emitted nothing, so the pulls
it caused floated unattributed and the surfaced:pulled ratio ran against a
denominator missing its biggest contributor. Now source "enter_project".

build_process_manifest installs every reachable Process as an auto-surfacing
skill on the operator's machine — its own docstring calls it the most
consequential passive surface Scribe has — and emitted nothing, so a Process
matched on every relevant turn and never opened was indistinguishable from
one never installed. Now source "process_skill_sync": the honest event is
"installed", which is a surfacing in effect since the description sits in
front of the model each session.

## The readout, same commit — the condition option (a) carried

Both surfaces are AMBIENT: top-N-by-recency and install-everything are not
ranked choices. Pooling them into surfaced_count would make a note's number
dominated by "recently updated in a project you opened", and dead-weight
detection would read that as popularity — the wrong number read confidently,
which is the corrupts-data tier the survey ranked above everything else.

So usage_for_notes splits: surfaced_count stays RANKED-ONLY (every existing
consumer's reading — "surfaced often, never pulled → dead weight" — keeps
meaning what it meant), and ambient_count is new. Classified in SQL via a
CASE on AMBIENT_SOURCES so the group count stays three rows per note, not one
per distinct source. Pulls stay pooled: "did anyone ever open this?" does not
depend on how it was found.

#1038 and #2085 read agent pulls and ranked surfacings; both are unaffected
by ambient volume, which is the point.

Refs #2477
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bvandeusen 45ba4aab25 fix(telemetry): the two invisible retrievals log, and /api/search takes scope
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#2463, the remaining findings (finding 3 landed with f11a547).

## The reuse slot logs (source: reuse_slot)

A real semantic query competing for an auto-inject menu slot, and the ledger
was asymmetric: the scored hit it DISPLACED was in retrieval_logs, the query
that displaced it was not — so the slot could never be evaluated against what
it replaced. #1038 and #2085 are gated on this ledger being complete.

## Browse search logs (source: browse_search)

The human's main search surface, and it logged nothing — so retrieval_logs
claimed the web's search was /api/search. Measured while fixing: /api/search
has ZERO frontend consumers; the web UI searches through /api/knowledge
exclusively. The table wasn't just under-describing the UI, it was describing
a surface the UI never touches.

The task's check — does folding human queries into the corpus skew the
precision signal thresholds are tuned against? — is answered by the source
column: distinct values (browse_search, reuse_slot beside the existing four)
mean tuning includes or excludes human traffic deliberately rather than by
accident. Same resolution as the mcp_/rest_ split in note_usage_events.

## /api/search takes project_id (and logs it)

The route logged project_id=None unconditionally while the MCP tool insists
the agent pass the active project. Now optional, default global: with no
frontend consumer, this route serves API callers, and an API caller states
its scope explicitly — the default-scope UI decision the task flagged is moot
until a UI actually consumes the route, which is recorded rather than guessed.

Refs #2463
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bvandeusen f20c019f2a feat(supersession): demote what a later note overtook, and label it
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Step 3 of #278. First step with visible effect.

## Where the demotion happens, and why not in SQL

Applied AFTER the pgvector fetch, over an over-fetched candidate set, not as
part of the ORDER BY.

Ordering by `distance + penalty` would be exact and would turn an indexed
top-k into a scan-and-sort of every embedded note — the HNSW index from
migration 0067 can only serve a raw-distance ordering. So the query fetches
3x the requested rows by raw distance and the re-rank happens in Python.

Demoting after a LIMIT k with no over-fetch would have been theatre: the cut
already happened, so a superseded record pushed down still sits in the results
and the live record that should have replaced it was never fetched.

The cost is stated in the code: a live record outside the over-fetch window
cannot be promoted in. With a 0.05 penalty against neighbours ~0.014 apart,
that needs the true answer more than three ranks down, which no observed query
approaches.

## Demote, never hide — enforced in three places

The penalty applies to the RANKING score, not to the relevance threshold. The
floor decides whether a record is relevant at all; the penalty decides which
relevant record comes first. Applying it to the floor would drop a superseded
record out of the results entirely, which is the one thing this must not do.

It is small on purpose. Supersession is a claim about SOME of a record's
content, so one that strongly answers a question nothing else answers still
surfaces — just behind anything comparable that is current. Its test asserts
both bounds, the upper one citing the operator's constraint rather than an
optimisation.

And every test here that could be satisfied by dropping a record instead
asserts the record is still present.

## The dedup gate opts out

A superseded record is still a duplicate of what you are about to write — the
claim is that it is no longer current, not that it is gone. Demoting it there
would let the same note be recorded a second time, and the second copy would be
the one nothing warns about.

## The label

Auto-inject marks a superseded line SUPERSEDED with a pointer to check the
later record. One query for the whole menu. An agent handed stale material with
nothing marking it acts on it with full confidence, which is worse than never
having surfaced it — the ranking is only half the fix.

Fails open: a supersession lookup error returns unpenalised results rather than
none, because unpenalised ranking is the behaviour that shipped for months and
a broken search is not.

Refs #278
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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 da2383b079 fix(retrieval): verify the reserved slot's kind instead of trusting the query
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CI caught six failures on f8522fb. Five were fixtures; one was a real
assumption.

THE REAL ONE: _reserve_slot_for_reuse trusted that a query filtered by
note_type could only return reuse kinds. It now checks _record_kind on the way
in. That slot exists FOR snippets and processes — one silently spent on
something else is worse than no slot at all, because the resulting line is
indistinguishable from one that earned its place on score.

THE FIXTURES, all the same shape: MagicMock notes with is_task left to
auto-create. It is truthy, and _record_kind reads task-ness FIRST — so every
mock snippet in three test modules was rendering as "task". Two of those
fixtures already carried a comment explaining this exact hazard about `.data`;
the same reasoning applies to `.is_task` and nobody had needed it until the
menu started naming kinds.

One assertion was genuinely stale rather than broken: test_write_path_trigger
pinned note_type == "snippet", which was the behaviour the widening replaced.
Updated to the new contract, including the task_kind="issue" filter that keeps
the open to-do list out.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 f8522fb28f fix(retrieval): give reuse a slot, and let experience reach the write path
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Two mirror-image scoping mistakes, neither deliberate (#2246).

AUTO-INJECT let every kind compete on raw cosine. That is fatal rather than
merely imperfect here, because Scribe's project records are ABOUT software
work: a task titled "surface snippets before the agent writes code" is a
near-perfect lexical match for "write a function…" while answering none of it.
Measured live, a prompt asking for a helper returned three records about
BUILDING the retrieval system and zero snippets. Snippets are ~0.5% of the
corpus, and the ratio worsens as the project record grows — which is the
direction Scribe is meant to grow, so no threshold tuning fixes it.

Now the best snippet or process takes the LAST slot when none won on score.
Deliberately NOT held to the margin band: that band measures distance from the
top overall score, and the top score is the very thing snippets lose to. It
still must clear the configured threshold, so a weak snippet cannot buy the
slot — silence stays the default. Skipped entirely when reuse already won,
so the fix is invisible in the case it isn't needed.

WRITE-PATH was snippets-only — the same mistake inverted. An issue recording
"we tried this and it deadlocked" could never reach the moment that code was
about to be written, though it is arguably the better prior art: it says what
NOT to do. Widened to snippets plus recorded experience.

That needed a filter the search layer couldn't express. "Experience" is issues
plus dev-logs, which differ on is_task, so neither note_type nor is_task alone
covers it. semantic_search_notes gains task_kind, which restricts TASKS to the
given kinds while leaving non-task notes untouched — so note_type=("snippet",
"note") + task_kind="issue" yields snippets, fixed problems and durable notes,
without the open to-do list. note_type now accepts a sequence too.

Non-snippet hits are labelled with their kind, because an unlabelled issue on
that menu reads as "here is code to reuse", the opposite of what it says.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 731ca284c3 feat(design-systems): give a design system a way to reach the session
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Storing a design system never made a session aware of one. Rules get pushed
into every session by the SessionStart hook and returned by enter_project; a
design system had neither, so its standards were reachable only by an agent
that already knew to call resolve_design_system — the same silent failure as a
token nobody declares.

That gap was invisible while the operator's visual standards also lived in a
rulebook. Retiring that rulebook (which is what this unblocks) would have
deleted design guidance from every session with nothing to say so.

- services/design_systems.design_context() — the delivery side. Guidance is
  chain-merged ANCESTOR-FIRST: a child system holds only what it CHANGES, so
  its own guidance describes a departure from a house style it never restates,
  and the leaf alone is a fragment. Tokens are summarised (count + group
  names), not listed — a hundred declarations would crowd out the context they
  are meant to inform.
- enter_project returns `design_system`, null when the project has none.
- The SessionStart context gains a Design system block with pointers to the
  values, alongside the always-on rules.
- server.py's entity list gains Design system, including the negative: do NOT
  record one as a rulebook, because a token kept as prose cannot be resolved,
  inherited, rendered or checked.
- The rulebook-tier passage used "a design-system rulebook" as its worked
  example of a subscribed rulebook — it now teaches the opposite, plus a new
  "is this a rule at all?" test pointing at design systems, processes and
  snippets.
- using-scribe gains a section on building UI against the project's system.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 390846a3d5 fix(write-path): disclose cross-language prior art instead of hiding it
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Closes #2244. Retrieval matches on concept, and concepts are language-agnostic:
asking about a TypeScript union-find scores 0.72-0.73 against a PYTHON snippet,
comfortably over the 0.68 bar. That is useful — a different-language solution
gives you the shape even when the code isn't reusable — but the menu line said
nothing about it, so the reader either dismissed a good structural reference or
pasted Python into a .ts file.

Worth noting this predates the concept-query change: raw TS code already matched
the Python snippet at 0.73, because the embedder reads identifiers and structure
semantically rather than syntactically. The fail state has been shipping quietly;
#2242 only made it an intended use rather than an accident.

- knowledge._note_to_item projects `language` from the data mirror, same shape as
  the existing verification projection — a plain column read, no body parsing.
- The semantic arm carries language through on the item it builds; it is the arm
  where these arise, since a snippet recorded AT the path you're editing is
  almost never in another language.
- _prior_art_line folds it into the marker: [similar 0.72 · python]. Together
  with the score rather than after the title, because the two jointly are the
  judgement being offered.
- One explanatory line is added to the menu, and only when something on it is
  actually tagged.

Two deliberate calls:

LABEL, DON'T FILTER. A stricter threshold for foreign-language hits would
suppress exactly the shape-borrowing this exists for. They were never the
problem; their being undisclosed was.

ONLY CLAIM A MISMATCH YOU CAN ESTABLISH. _foreign_language returns "" when either
side is unknown — unrecognised extension, or a snippet with no recorded language.
A wrong "· python" is worse than no tag. Same-language hits stay unlabelled, so
the common case keeps a clean line and the preamble stays off the menu entirely.
Operator-typed language names fold through an alias table first (py/python3 →
python, tsx → typescript, c++ → cpp); unrecognised names pass through lowercased,
which still makes an unknown-but-equal pair compare equal.

Trap found while building: _note() in the tests is a MagicMock, so `note.data`
auto-created a truthy mock that would have rendered its repr into a menu line.
Both test helpers now set data = None explicitly.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 57781770c3 feat(write-path): query snippets by concept, not by raw code
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Implements #2242, from the operator's question: would it make more sense to
search by the concept of the snippet than by the code itself?

It would, measurably. A snippet's embedded text is f"{title}\n{body}", and a
snippet's body is composed markdown — When to use / Signature / Location, then
the fenced code — so `when_to_use` appears TWICE in the vector and the document
is prose-forward. The semantic arm was interrogating it with raw code carrying
no prose at all. Measured on the deployed instance against snippet #2222:

  query built from            score   best unrelated   separation
  raw code body               0.743   0.630            0.11
  name + docstring            0.823   0.602            0.22
  hand-written concept prose  0.835   0.583            0.25

A 12-word description beats a near-verbatim reimplementation of the function,
and code-as-query RAISES the noise floor. It's also the cleanest explanation for
the fragment miss recorded on #2223: a short excerpt carries almost no prose to
match a document that is mostly prose.

So build the query from what the code says it's FOR — declarations plus the
first docstring / JSDoc / leading comment block — shaped as "name(params) — what
it does", mirroring a snippet's own title, which is the form that measured 0.823.

Server-side rather than in the hook: no manifest bump, so installed 0.1.20
plugins get this immediately; multi-language parsing in bash would be miserable;
and it's unit-testable here.

Two rules worth calling out, both measured rather than chosen:

- NO DOC, NO REWRITE. A bare identifier is not a concept and scored 0.671 vs the
  code body's 0.743. Separation from noise is identical either way (0.113), but
  the absolute drops under the 0.68 bar, so preferring a bare name would convert
  a comfortable hit into a miss. Undocumented code keeps the raw payload.
- The 48-char floor still judges the RAW payload, before the rewrite. A concept
  query is allowed to be shorter than the floor — that is the point, the best
  queries are short — but a sub-floor edit stays silent even with a docstring.
  Applying the floor after extraction would discard the best queries.

Regex, not a parser: this is on a PreToolUse critical path and an Edit's
new_string is rarely a valid module, so a miss must cost only a fallback. Every
unrecognised language (Vue SFC, config files) degrades to exactly the previous
behaviour.

Telemetry now logs the concept query rather than the code, since retrieval_logs
is what the threshold gets tuned from and the two aren't comparable.

0.68 is left alone: signal rises to 0.82 while noise FALLS to 0.58, so the bar
sits mid-gap instead of near the edge. To be re-measured against the deployed
instance rather than assumed.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 1fb883b72f fix(write-path): give the semantic arm its own threshold + a payload floor
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Closes #2223. The write-path prior-art trigger's semantic arm shared
auto-inject's 0.55 threshold, which was tuned on prose. Code embeddings
sit on a much higher similarity floor — any two Python-shaped payloads
share keywords, indentation and structure — so 0.55 landed INSIDE the
noise band. Measured against the live instance:

  near-duplicate of a recorded helper   0.73-0.74   true positive
  unrelated colour math / Vue SFC / CSS 0.55-0.63   false positive
  `x = 1`                               0.58        false positive

6 of 8 probe payloads produced a nudge; 4 were noise. The margin gate
couldn't help — _AUTOINJECT_BAND is relative to the top hit, so with a
single hit it never engages.

Two gates are now the write-path arm's own:

- kb_writepath_threshold, default 0.68 — above every measured false
  positive, still 0.05 below both true positives. Auto-inject keeps
  0.55; it was tuned on prose and is not implicated. The comment this
  replaces explicitly reserved the split for when telemetry showed the
  surfaces wanted different values, so this is the change it described,
  not a reversal of it.
- WRITEPATH_MIN_CODE_CHARS = 48 non-whitespace chars, below which the
  semantic arm doesn't run at all. Whitespace is excluded so a deeply
  indented one-liner can't pass on padding. 48 sits under the smallest
  plausible reusable helper (~60) and well over a degenerate edit, so it
  errs toward keeping recall — precision is the threshold's job. This is
  the cheap half of the operator's #89 idea; the full length<->threshold
  curve stays open there, since they asked to brainstorm it rather than
  have a scale invented for them.

top_k stays shared — "how many titles at once" means the same thing on
both surfaces.

The existing tests were passing `code="x"` / `code="def f(): ..."` into
the semantic arm, i.e. exactly the payloads the floor now drops, so the
gate tests were never exercising a realistic payload. They now use a
REAL_CODE fixture, plus new coverage for the floor (trivial payload,
padding, place-arm unaffected, real helper passes) and a guard on the
constant itself.

Settings UI carries the new knob with the reasoning in its hint, and the
write-path checkbox no longer claims it shares the threshold.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 2b85443dd1 feat(snippets): usage signal — was a surfaced record ever actually pulled?
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retrieval_logs answers "what did the ranker return, at what scores" — the
right substrate for tuning a threshold. It cannot answer the question the
snippet corpus actually needs: did anyone open this? A snippet nobody
opens is not neutral. It takes a slot in every future auto-inject menu and
crowds out something useful.

Adds note_usage_events (migration 0071): one row per note per event,
either 'surfaced' (we put its title in front of an agent) or 'pulled'
(someone opened it in full), tagged with which surface produced it.

Closes the gap #2082 recorded against this work. The write-path PLACE arm
carries no score, so it has no home in retrieval_logs — folding it in
would corrupt the score distribution that table exists to capture. The
result was that the arm firing on the STRONGEST claim ("there is already a
canonical helper in this exact file") was the one arm nobody could
measure. Both arms now emit usage events under distinct sources, so their
pull-through rates are finally comparable.

Deliberate departures from the task as written:

- Not in-session correlation. The original framing was "correlate
  result_ids against a later get_note in the same session." There is no
  session identity server-side — the MCP endpoint is stateless and the
  hooks send no session id — and adding one would mean threading an
  opaque client-supplied token through every read path. Two independent
  counters answer the question without it: surfaced 40×, pulled 0 is dead
  weight regardless of how those events distribute across sessions.

- Pulls record at the ENTRY POINTS (MCP tools, REST detail route), not in
  snippets_svc.get_snippet, which update and merge also reach. Counting
  those would inflate precisely the number meant to say "someone chose to
  look at this."

- get_note records for every note kind, not just snippets. The auto-inject
  menu surfaces tasks and processes too; scoping this to snippets would
  pin those at zero pulls forever and make them read as dead weight next
  to snippets that merely had a counter.

Surfaced in the Snippets list as an "N/M used" badge, warning-toned once a
record has been offered 3+ times and never opened, with the tooltip saying
what to do about it (usually: its "when to reach for it" doesn't say
when). No badge at all below one surfacing — "0/0" reads as a verdict when
it's an absence of evidence. Also returned from MCP list_snippets so the
agent can see dead weight without opening the UI.

Telemetry keeps the retrieval_telemetry contract throughout: writes are
fire-and-forget, reads degrade to zeroes, and no path can raise into the
surface it observes.

Refs #2085

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bvandeusen e0328f2b1c feat(plugin): write-path trigger — offer prior art before code is rewritten
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The milestone headline. Auto-inject fires on the operator's prompt; the
moment reuse is actually lost is later, when the agent decides mid-task to
write a helper. A PreToolUse hook on Write|Edit now fires there.

Channel: `additionalContext` with NO permissionDecision, so the note reaches
Claude beside the tool result and the write is never blocked — a recall aid
must not be able to stop the operator's work. Plain stdout would have been
invisible to the model, and deny/ask would have made a nudge into a gate.

Two arms, different in kind:
- BY PLACE — a snippet recorded at this path (or its directory) is prior art
  by definition, not resemblance, so it is neither scored nor thresholded.
  This is what #2083's reverse lookup was built to answer.
- BY MEANING — semantic search restricted to snippets (new `note_type` filter
  on semantic_search_notes) over the code about to be written.
Place ranks first; the top-k cap spans both arms.

Gates carried over from milestone 93 verbatim: threshold, margin, session
dedup, titles-never-bodies. Own `source='write_path'` in retrieval_logs so
precision is tunable separately — the docstring records that the place arm
is unlogged and hands that to #2085.

Its own on/off in Settings but the SAME threshold/top-k: one "how loud may
Scribe be" knob is easier to reason about than two that drift, and splitting
them later is then a data-backed change rather than a guess.

Details worth keeping: the hook sends a REPO-RELATIVE path because that is
how locations are recorded; the git remote resolves to a project and is never
used as the location `repo` filter (different namespaces, would silently
match nothing); the endpoint stays a GET because a read-scoped API key cannot
POST and every other hook depends on that.

plugin.json 0.1.17 -> 0.1.18. Refs #2082, milestone #232.
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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 8977bed28d feat(inject): label the record kind on each auto-inject menu line
Every injected hit rendered identically, so a recorded snippet was
indistinguishable from a stray dev-log in the one place prior art most
needs to stand out. Each line now carries its kind — [snippet],
[process], [task], [issue], [note] — and the header says "records"
rather than "notes", which it can no longer claim.

Task-ness wins over note_type in the marker: "there's an open issue
about this" is the more useful thing to know at a glance.

Still title-first: the marker is metadata already on the ORM object,
so no extra query and no bodies (#2084).

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 ef1dbdfc86 feat(acl): unify the retrieval scopes; mark shared rows in Knowledge browse
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Closes #2092 and the Knowledge-browse provenance gap.

The two halves of a hybrid search disagreed: the keyword half honoured shares
while the semantic half was pinned to NoteEmbedding.user_id, so a shared record
was findable by wording and invisible by meaning — the case a semantic search
exists to serve. semantic_search_notes now scopes on Note via a `scope`
parameter, and each of its five callers declares which kind of act it is:

  mcp/tools/search.py     read    the agent asked
  routes/search.py        read    the user typed it
  knowledge.py (semantic) read    matches the keyword half beside it
  plugin_context.py       browse  nobody asked; never a one-to-one share
  dedup.py                own     a verdict that blocks a write must not hinge
                                  on another person's notes

That last one is the reason this isn't a single global widening: the dedup gate
returns "update the existing one instead", so matching a stranger's record would
refuse a legitimate create and point at something the caller can't edit. Scope
defaults to "own" so a caller that forgets is wrong in the safe direction, and an
unknown scope raises rather than falling back — a typo there would be a
data-exposure bug.

Auto-inject keeps the browse scope, which still admits a collaborator's note via
a shared project. Its menu line is the only provenance an agent sees, so a
foreign hit now reads: #12 "Title" (0.71) - shared by alex, treat as a
suggestion. MCP and REST search results carry shared/owner too.

Knowledge browse: the feed hydrates cards from /api/knowledge/batch rather than
the list route, so both paths label rows now, and KnowledgeView shows "by
<owner>" on records the viewer doesn't own.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 5 04b58ce01e feat(acl): shared records are search-only and always labelled as someone else's
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Narrows the b7d6fc7 widening per the operator's call, and fixes a regression it
introduced. Decision recorded as note 2094.

Two scopes now, deliberately different:

  readable_notes_clause  — everything the ACL permits, including records reached
                           only via a direct/group note share. For EXPLICIT acts:
                           a search the caller typed, a fetch by id.
  browsable_notes_clause — the caller's own records plus anything in a project
                           they can reach. For PASSIVE surfaces: browse lists,
                           facet counts, the process->skill manifest.

The split is a trust boundary. Anything appearing unasked — in your own list,
your own counts, or as a skill installed on your machine — reads as material you
endorsed. A one-off someone shared with you hasn't earned that standing, so it
waits until you go looking. This also dissolves the shared-Process problem by
construction rather than by special case: the manifest is a passive surface, so a
directly-shared Process is never installed as an auto-surfacing skill.

Regression fix (#2093): b7d6fc7 widened the list queries but left the fetch path
owner-only, so on the MCP path a record could be listed and then not opened —
get_snippet raised not-found, get_process couldn't resolve, and the manifest
emitted stubs whose get_process call would fail. snippets.get_snippet and
notes.resolve_process now resolve the read scope. delete_snippet gained an
explicit can_write_note guard, since being able to SEE a shared snippet must not
imply being able to bin it.

Provenance, so nothing arrives looking like the operator's own work:
- access.describe_provenance / label_shared_items add shared/owner/permission;
  labelling costs no query when everything is the caller's own.
- MCP: get_snippet, list_snippets, get_process and list_processes carry it, and
  get_process now says outright NOT to follow a shared process verbatim — its
  follow-as-written contract was the sharpest instance of the problem.
- The skill stub for a shared Process names its author and asks for a go-ahead,
  instead of describing it as "the operator's saved Scribe process".
- Policy stated once in the MCP _INSTRUCTIONS and the reusing-code skill: a
  shared record is that person's suggestion, weigh it, attribute it, ask before
  adopting it.
- UI: shared snippets show "by <owner>" in the list and a notice above the code
  in the detail view, reusing SharedWithMeView's vocabulary.

Plugin 0.1.15 -> 0.1.16 (skill text changed).

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 4.8 8126db3203 feat(plugin): knowledge auto-inject (Path A) — title-first per-turn awareness
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New UserPromptSubmit hook (scribe_autoinject.sh) + GET /api/plugin/retrieve that
surface the TITLES (never bodies) of the few notes clearing four anti-bloat
gates: a per-user confidence threshold (stricter than pull search), a margin
gate, per-session dedup (exclude_ids), and a top-k ceiling. Each retrieval is
logged to retrieval_logs as source=auto_inject so the threshold can be tuned
from data. Per-user config (enable / threshold / top-k) is DB-backed via
/api/settings with a Settings UI card; defaults enabled, threshold 0.55,
top-k 3 (conservative — tune once auto_inject telemetry accrues).

Scribe: project 2, milestone 93, task 1033.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 4.8 33f9a0a4d4 feat(plugin): Phase 4 — Scribe Processes auto-surface as local skills
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#755 Phase 4. Saved Scribe Processes (DRY pass, Drift Audit, …) now surface as
auto-triggered Claude Code skills instead of pull-only get_process calls.

Design correction vs the plan: stubs live in the USER's ~/.claude/skills/, NOT
plugin/skills/_instance/. The plugin is git-cloned and identical per install, so
instance-specific generated files can't ride in it; personal skills are
live-detected within the session (verified via claude-code-guide). MCP prompts
were the alternative but are pull-only (no relevance auto-surface), so skills are
the right primitive.

- backend: GET /api/plugin/processes manifest (services/plugin_context.
  build_process_manifest) — {name, slug, description} per Process; description is
  the auto-surface trigger (title + preview); slugs deduped, blanks skipped.
- plugin: scribe_sync_processes.sh writes ~/.claude/skills/scribe-proc-<slug>/
  SKILL.md (body = "call get_process(name), follow verbatim") and PRUNES stale
  scribe-proc-* stubs. Fail-open + silent; a transient fetch failure never wipes
  existing stubs. Runs as a 2nd SessionStart hook + via the /scribe:sync command.
- plugin.json 0.1.7 → 0.1.8; README updated.
- tests: build_process_manifest (render, slug dedupe, blank-title skip, preview
  truncation). Sync script's write+prune validated in isolation (plugin/** is not
  CI-covered): correct stubs created, stale pruned, unrelated skills untouched.

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 4.8 8fe571e175 feat(plugin): resolve session project from git remote, not a pinned project_id
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The SessionStart hook asked for a project_id via plugin userConfig, which pins
one install to a single project — wrong for an operator working across many
repos/projects. Resolve the active project server-side from the working repo's
git remote instead (a stable identifier, not a dir-name guess).

- repo_bindings table (migration 0064) + RepoBinding model: (user, repo_key) ->
  project, FKs CASCADE.
- services/repo_bindings: normalize_repo_key collapses ssh/https/scp/creds/port/
  .git to host/owner/repo; resolve/set/list/delete.
- GET /api/plugin/context takes ?repo=<remote>; unbound repo -> a "bind this
  repo" hint with a ready bind_repo() call. project_id kept as manual override.
- MCP tools: bind_repo / list_repo_bindings / unbind_repo.
- Hook sends ?repo=$(git remote get-url origin) URL-encoded; all project_id
  handling removed. plugin.json drops the project_id userConfig (0.1.2 -> 0.1.3).
- Tests: normalize equivalence classes + unbound-hint rendering.

Refs task 755 (Scribe-as-plugin push channel).

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bvandeusenandClaude Opus 4.8 3ab16fcbdb feat(plugin): add /api/plugin/context push-channel endpoint + dogfood hook
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Phase 1 of plan #755 (Scribe-as-plugin). Gives Scribe its own session-start
push channel so always-on rules + active-project context surface without being
asked — the gap behind 'I have to prompt for everything'.

- services/plugin_context.build_session_context: renders always-on rule titles
  grouped by topic (under the 10k additionalContext cap; full text stays one
  list_always_on_rules/get_rule call away) + optional project goal/open-task
  count + a recall/update-over-create reflex line. Capped at 9000 chars.
- routes/plugin GET /api/plugin/context (login_required already accepts Bearer
  fmcp_ keys; read scope suffices).
- tests: titles-not-statements, project scoping, length cap (pure mocks).
- scripts/scribe_session_context.sh: dogfood SessionStart hook, fail-open,
  reads url+token from .mcp.json. Superseded in Phase 2 by the plugin-bundled
  hook using userConfig.

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