A task's kind is correctable — the Kind select stops lying (#3129)

.forgejo/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ on:
       - "alembic/**"
       - "alembic.ini"
       - "Dockerfile"
+      - "assets/**"
+      - "fable-mcp/**"
       # The plugin ships straight from this repo — installs fetch it via
       # .claude-plugin/marketplace.json, NOT from the image. So a push here is
       # the release, with no build step in between. Omitting these paths meant
@@ -277,21 +279,6 @@ jobs:
         env:
           UV_PROJECT_ENVIRONMENT: /opt/venv
         run: uv sync --locked --extra dev
-      # Standing answers to the checks carried by rules 81 and 79 — two facts
-      # about THIS runner that conditional rules assert as fact, and that
-      # otherwise need a throwaway job to confirm (#3237). Printing them on
-      # every integration run makes the next rulebook sweep a log read.
-      # Rule 80's evidence is the container listing the next step already
-      # prints. Every command is guarded: a diagnostic that can break the lane
-      # it observes is worse than no diagnostic.
-      - name: Runner facts (rules 79 and 81)
-        run: |
-          echo "--- rule 81: which shell runs a run: step ---"
-          readlink -f /bin/sh || echo "/bin/sh: not a symlink"
-          ps -p $$ -o comm= || true
-          echo "--- rule 79: is a service reachable by its hostname yet? ---"
-          getent hosts postgres \
-            || echo "no — 'postgres' does not resolve; the bridge-IP lookup is still required"
       - name: Integration suite (resolve service IP, migrate, test)
         run: |
           set -eux
@@ -302,9 +289,8 @@ jobs:
           PG_IP=$(docker inspect -f '{{range .NetworkSettings.Networks}}{{.IPAddress}}{{end}}' "$PG")
           test -n "$PG_IP"
           export DATABASE_URL="postgresql+asyncpg://scribe:ci_integration@${PG_IP}:5432/scribe_test"
-          # Wait for Postgres to accept connections. The run: shell is dash
-          # (/bin/sh -> /usr/bin/dash on this Debian-based image, confirmed by
-          # the step above) — no bash /dev/tcp, so use Python.
+          # Wait for Postgres to accept connections (busybox sh — the runner
+          # default — has no bash /dev/tcp, so use Python).
           /opt/venv/bin/python - "$PG_IP" <<'PY'
           import socket, sys, time
           for _ in range(30):
@@ -341,14 +327,6 @@ jobs:
       packages: write
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v6
-        with:
-          # Rule 149 asks for this on any job deriving the version NAME. The
-          # name here comes from HEAD's commit TIME, which a depth-1 clone
-          # already has — but the rule states it unconditionally because the
-          # failure it guards is silent (a too-low value, every lane green),
-          # and a later change to how the name is derived would inherit the
-          # landmine rather than the guard.
-          fetch-depth: 0
 
       - name: Generate image tags and version
         id: tags
@@ -361,27 +339,7 @@ jobs:
         # the runner log on commit 2a374d9.
         run: |
           TAGS="${{ env.IMAGE }}:${{ github.sha }}"
-
-          # THREE VALUES, NEVER FOLDED TOGETHER (rule 149). Until 2026-08-31
-          # BUILD_VERSION was the CHANNEL — "dev" / "main" / the tag — so the
-          # image self-reported {"version":"main"}, a channel name where a
-          # build identifier belongs. That cost a debugging session: with the
-          # deploy misbehaving, nothing on the running instance could say
-          # which commit was serving it.
-
-          # 1. ORDERING KEY — BUILD time, monotonic by construction. Minutes
-          #    since 2020-01-01. Never a commit count (not monotonic across
-          #    branches) and never commit time (goes DOWN when an older
-          #    commit is rebuilt).
-          BUILD_KEY=$(( ( $(date -u +%s) - 1577836800 ) / 60 ))
-
-          # 2. NAME — COMMIT time, so the same source reports the same string
-          #    on every lane and the channel is the only thing that differs.
-          COMMIT_TS=$(git log --format=%ct -1 HEAD)
-          BUILD_NAME=$(date -u -d "@$COMMIT_TS" +%Y.%m.%d.%H%M)
-
-          # 3. CHANNEL — its own value. Never a suffix, never a segment.
-          CHANNEL="dev"
+          BUILD_VERSION="dev"
           case "${{ github.ref }}" in
             refs/heads/dev)
               TAGS="$TAGS,${{ env.IMAGE }}:dev"
@@ -390,17 +348,15 @@ jobs:
               # main IS the production line: publish :latest (plus the :<sha>
               # set above). No separate :main tag.
               TAGS="$TAGS,${{ env.IMAGE }}:latest"
-              CHANNEL="stable"
+              BUILD_VERSION="main"
               ;;
             refs/tags/*)
               TAGS="$TAGS,${{ env.IMAGE }}:latest,${{ env.IMAGE }}:${{ github.ref_name }}"
-              CHANNEL="stable"
+              BUILD_VERSION="${{ github.ref_name }}"
               ;;
           esac
           echo "value=$TAGS" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          echo "build_name=$BUILD_NAME" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          echo "build_key=$BUILD_KEY" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          echo "channel=$CHANNEL" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          echo "build_version=$BUILD_VERSION" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
 
       - name: Free disk space
         # Self-hosted runner housekeeping. Two-step cleanup:
@@ -430,15 +386,7 @@ jobs:
           push: true
           provenance: false
           tags: ${{ steps.tags.outputs.value }}
-          # All three, plus the commit — rule 145: the registry's identity for
-          # a build (:<sha>) and the artifact's identity for itself must
-          # agree, and they can only be checked against each other if the
-          # artifact says which commit it is.
-          build-args: |
-            BUILD_VERSION=${{ steps.tags.outputs.build_name }}
-            BUILD_KEY=${{ steps.tags.outputs.build_key }}
-            BUILD_CHANNEL=${{ steps.tags.outputs.channel }}
-            BUILD_COMMIT=${{ github.sha }}
+          build-args: BUILD_VERSION=${{ steps.tags.outputs.build_version }}
           # Registry-backed layer cache. Pull from :cache to prime
           # BuildKit, push updated layers back to :cache so the next
           # build starts warm even if the runner's local cache was

Dockerfile

@@ -41,29 +41,10 @@ COPY alembic/ alembic/
 # Ensure Python finds the source tree (where static files live) before site-packages
 ENV PYTHONPATH=/app/src
 
-# THREE VALUES, NEVER FOLDED TOGETHER (rule 149), plus the commit.
-#
-# BUILD_VERSION is the NAME (YYYY.MM.DD.HHMM, from COMMIT time) — the same
-#   string on every lane for the same source, so it answers "is this the same
-#   code?" rather than "which lane built it?".
-# BUILD_KEY is the ORDERING KEY (minutes since 2020-01-01, from BUILD time) —
-#   the only value anything may compare to decide what is newer.
-# BUILD_CHANNEL is its own field. Never a suffix, never a segment of the name.
-# BUILD_COMMIT lets the artifact's self-report be checked against the :<sha>
-#   it was published under (rule 145).
-#
-# Each defaults to empty rather than to a placeholder, EXCEPT the name: a
-# local build genuinely has no ordering key or channel, and the endpoint says
-# so by omitting them. Inventing values would make a local image claim a
-# position in an update order it is not part of.
+# Version is injected at build time via --build-arg BUILD_VERSION=YY.MM.DD.N
+# Falls back to "dev" for local / untagged builds
 ARG BUILD_VERSION=dev
-ARG BUILD_KEY=
-ARG BUILD_CHANNEL=
-ARG BUILD_COMMIT=
 ENV APP_VERSION=$BUILD_VERSION
-ENV APP_BUILD_KEY=$BUILD_KEY
-ENV APP_CHANNEL=$BUILD_CHANNEL
-ENV APP_COMMIT=$BUILD_COMMIT
 
 EXPOSE 5000
 CMD ["sh", "-c", "alembic upgrade head && hypercorn 'scribe.app:create_app()' --bind 0.0.0.0:5000 --keep-alive 600"]

Makefile

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.PHONY: build up down logs health migrate lint typecheck test fmt mint-plugin
+.PHONY: build up down logs health migrate lint typecheck test fmt
 
 # --- Docker ---
 
@@ -36,12 +36,3 @@ test:
 
 # Run all checks in one shot (mirrors what CI does)
 check: lint typecheck test
-
-# --- Plugin ---
-
-# Run this after changing anything under plugin/ or .claude-plugin/, BEFORE
-# committing. The plugin ships straight from git with no build step, so its
-# version is minted here rather than stamped by CI; the lane fails if you
-# forget, but this is what makes remembering cheap.
-mint-plugin:
-	python3 scripts/mint_plugin_version.py

alembic/versions/0092_note_verification.py

@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
-"""a note can carry its own check — verify_with, expires_when, verified_at
-(milestone 317 step 1)
-
-Revision ID: 0092
-Revises: 0091
-Create Date: 2026-08-28
-
-The sibling of 0090, which gave rules the same three columns. Same
-distinction, one table over:
-
-A NORM is a decision — no truth value, and it changes only when its author
-changes it, which they know they did. A CONSTRAINT is a fact about someone
-else's software, and nobody is present when it goes false.
-
-Notes hold far more constraints than rules do, and hold them for longer. A
-cross-project reference note asserting what a signing service does on a
-duplicate upload, or how a forge numbers its CI runs, is believed by every
-project that reads it, and there is nothing in the record that says when
-anyone last looked. `note_supersessions` only fires once a human has read
-the note, disagreed, and written the correction — which is the case where
-the note was already believed.
-
-Three nullable columns:
-
-- `verify_with` — how to tell whether this is still true. A command, a path,
-  a URL, a query. Prose is allowed; something runnable is better.
-- `expires_when` — the STATE under which it stops being true. Deliberately
-  not a date: constraints do not expire on a schedule, they expire when the
-  world underneath them moves.
-- `verified_at` — when the check last passed. NULL means never checked, and
-  sorts FIRST in the sweep: unexamined outranks examined-long-ago.
-
-WHICH ROWS THESE ARE FOR. `notes` is one table holding notes, tasks,
-snippets and processes, so these columns land on all of them. Only non-task,
-non-snippet records are OFFERED them (milestone 317 decisions 1 and 2, gated
-at the service in step 2): a task's decay is its status, and a snippet
-already carries a richer, location-aware verdict in `data.verification`. The
-columns exist on the other rows and stay null there; a gate that lives in
-the schema would have meant a partial index or a CHECK across three columns
-to express something the write path can say in two lines.
-
-All three optional, because most notes should set none of them — the whole
-value of the sweep is that its output is short. A null `verify_with` is not
-an omission; it is the honest marker of "this one is a decision, and there
-is nothing to go and check."
-
-No CHECK constraint is involved, so rule 36 does not apply. Nothing is
-backfilled: a migration cannot invent a check.
-"""
-import sqlalchemy as sa
-from alembic import op
-
-revision = "0092"
-down_revision = "0091"
-branch_labels = None
-depends_on = None
-
-
-def upgrade() -> None:
-    op.add_column("notes", sa.Column("verify_with", sa.Text(), nullable=True))
-    op.add_column("notes", sa.Column("expires_when", sa.Text(), nullable=True))
-    op.add_column(
-        "notes",
-        sa.Column("verified_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True), nullable=True),
-    )
-    # No index, for 0090's reason — the sweep runs when a human asks, never on
-    # a request path — but the margin is thinner here and worth naming. `rules`
-    # is hundreds of rows; `notes` is thousands and grows with every session.
-    #
-    # Still a sequential scan's job at this size, and an index on
-    # (verified_at) filtered to `verify_with IS NOT NULL` would be maintained
-    # on every note write to serve one operator-initiated query. If step 3's
-    # live acceptance measures otherwise, add it there against a real plan
-    # rather than guessing here.
-
-
-def downgrade() -> None:
-    op.drop_column("notes", "verified_at")
-    op.drop_column("notes", "expires_when")
-    op.drop_column("notes", "verify_with")

alembic/versions/0093_rule_versions.py

@@ -1,83 +0,0 @@
-"""rules gain an edit history — rule_versions (milestone 323 step 1)
-
-Revision ID: 0093
-Revises: 0092
-Create Date: 2026-08-29
-
-The sibling `note_versions` has had for a long time. A note's every meaningful
-edit is snapshotted, and the design-system note calls that history "the
-changelog". A RULE — which binds behaviour on every session that loads it —
-had nothing: an edit destroyed what it used to say, with no record anywhere.
-
-Rescoping rule 79 on 2026-08-29 is what surfaced it. The superseded statement
-had to be hand-copied into a task log to survive the edit (#3237), which is
-not a process, it is a person remembering. The more consequential record had
-the weaker protection.
-
-Three things are deliberately NOT copied from note_versions, and each is a
-guard that exists there for a reason that does not hold here:
-
-- **No pruning, and no MAX_VERSIONS.** That cap defends against note autosave
-  filling every slot. Rules have no autosave; every edit is a deliberate
-  update_rule. A rule is edited a handful of times in its life, and capping
-  invites losing the one edit somebody needed.
-- **No pin columns.** `pin_kind`/`pin_label` exist so a note's version can
-  survive that pruning. With nothing pruning, a pin protects a row that was
-  never at risk.
-- **No minimum interval.** 300 seconds between snapshots is also an autosave
-  defence; here it would only ever discard a second deliberate edit.
-
-`user_id` is the ACTOR rather than the owner, and is SET NULL rather than
-CASCADE: deleting a user must not erase the history of the rules they edited.
-The edit still happened and the rule still binds because of it.
-
-No CHECK constraint, so rule 36 does not apply. Nothing is backfilled — a
-migration cannot invent the text a rule used to have, and inventing "the
-current text, as of now" would be worse than an empty history, because it
-would look like a record of an edit that never occurred.
-"""
-import sqlalchemy as sa
-from alembic import op
-
-revision = "0093"
-down_revision = "0092"
-branch_labels = None
-depends_on = None
-
-
-def upgrade() -> None:
-    op.create_table(
-        "rule_versions",
-        sa.Column("id", sa.BigInteger(), primary_key=True),
-        sa.Column(
-            "rule_id",
-            sa.BigInteger(),
-            sa.ForeignKey("rules.id", ondelete="CASCADE"),
-            nullable=False,
-        ),
-        sa.Column(
-            "user_id",
-            sa.BigInteger(),
-            sa.ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="SET NULL"),
-            nullable=True,
-        ),
-        sa.Column("title", sa.Text(), nullable=False, server_default=""),
-        sa.Column("statement", sa.Text(), nullable=False, server_default=""),
-        sa.Column("why", sa.Text(), nullable=True),
-        sa.Column("how_to_apply", sa.Text(), nullable=True),
-        sa.Column("when_to_apply", sa.Text(), nullable=True),
-        sa.Column("tier", sa.Text(), nullable=True),
-        sa.Column("verify_with", sa.Text(), nullable=True),
-        sa.Column("expires_when", sa.Text(), nullable=True),
-        sa.Column("created_at", sa.DateTime(timezone=True), nullable=False),
-    )
-    # The only query this table serves is "the history of THIS rule, newest
-    # first" — unlike 0092's columns, which are read by an operator-initiated
-    # sweep over the whole set. Every read here is keyed on rule_id, so the
-    # index earns its write cost immediately rather than on a hunch.
-    op.create_index("ix_rule_versions_rule_id", "rule_versions", ["rule_id"])
-
-
-def downgrade() -> None:
-    op.drop_index("ix_rule_versions_rule_id", table_name="rule_versions")
-    op.drop_table("rule_versions")

alembic/versions/0094_rule_usage_events.py

@@ -1,86 +0,0 @@
-"""add rule_usage_events — was a surfaced rule ever read? (milestone 333 step 1)
-
-Revision ID: 0094
-Revises: 0093
-Create Date: 2026-09-02
-
-The sibling `note_usage_events` has had since 0071, and the third rule-side
-table to arrive after `rule_embeddings` and `rule_versions` — each one added
-because the rule side kept inheriting machinery built for notes and getting
-the weaker version of it.
-
-WHAT IT MEASURES. The write-path standing-rule arm is the only retrieval
-surface in Scribe whose usefulness cannot be observed, and — not coincidentally
-— the only one that has never declined to fire. Over 30 days it took 296 calls,
-returned something on every one, and cleared its threshold 100% of the time,
-while every other surface declines most of the time (#3311). That is either a
-perfectly tuned surface or a bar it cannot fail to clear, and `retrieval_logs`
-cannot tell them apart: it records what the ranker scored, never whether the
-hint was any use.
-
-WHY NOT A rule_id COLUMN ON note_usage_events. The row shares no note-specific
-fields and the aggregate readout is the same shape, which is the strongest case
-for sharing that note #3163 admits. What decides against it is identity at
-RESTORE: `note_usage_events`'s importer maps `note_id` through `note_id_map`
-and drops what does not resolve. A rule id parked in that column would come
-back from a backup silently reattached to whatever note took that number —
-telemetry not merely lost but wrong, and wrong in a way nothing downstream
-could detect. `rule_versions` made the same call for the same reason.
-
-FK-free on `rule_id` and `user_id`, matching note_usage_events, retrieval_logs
-and app_logs — and deliberately unlike `rule_versions`, which does carry FKs.
-The difference is what the row is for: a version belongs to a rule's history
-and dies with it; telemetry outlives the row it describes. Deleting a rule must
-not erase the evidence that it was surfaced forty times and opened never, since
-that evidence is exactly the case for having deleted it.
-
-No CHECK on `event`, matching the note twin. Rule 36 governs adding a value to
-a column that is already gated; it does not require gating one that never was,
-and a two-member enum whose members are written by two functions in one module
-is not where that discipline earns its cost.
-
-Downgrade drops the table outright. The data is purely observational — nothing
-reads it for correctness, so losing it costs history and no behaviour.
-"""
-from alembic import op
-import sqlalchemy as sa
-
-
-revision = "0094"
-down_revision = "0093"
-branch_labels = None
-depends_on = None
-
-
-def upgrade() -> None:
-    op.create_table(
-        "rule_usage_events",
-        # BigInteger throughout where the note twin uses Integer: rules.id is
-        # BigInteger, so rule_id must be, and a high-churn append-only table is
-        # a poor place to discover an id ceiling.
-        sa.Column("id", sa.BigInteger(), primary_key=True),
-        sa.Column(
-            "created_at",
-            sa.DateTime(timezone=True),
-            nullable=False,
-            server_default=sa.text("now()"),
-        ),
-        sa.Column("user_id", sa.BigInteger(), nullable=True),
-        sa.Column("rule_id", sa.BigInteger(), nullable=False),
-        sa.Column("event", sa.Text(), nullable=False),
-        sa.Column("source", sa.Text(), nullable=False),
-    )
-    # Every readout is "these rule ids, split by event", so the composite is the
-    # one that actually gets used; the others serve pruning and per-user views.
-    op.create_index(
-        "ix_rule_usage_rule_event", "rule_usage_events", ["rule_id", "event"]
-    )
-    op.create_index("ix_rule_usage_created_at", "rule_usage_events", ["created_at"])
-    op.create_index("ix_rule_usage_user_id", "rule_usage_events", ["user_id"])
-
-
-def downgrade() -> None:
-    op.drop_index("ix_rule_usage_user_id", table_name="rule_usage_events")
-    op.drop_index("ix_rule_usage_created_at", table_name="rule_usage_events")
-    op.drop_index("ix_rule_usage_rule_event", table_name="rule_usage_events")
-    op.drop_table("rule_usage_events")

alembic/versions/0095_retrieval_log_suppressed_count.py

@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
-"""add retrieval_logs.suppressed_count — tell a ranker decline from a repeat (#3497)
-
-Revision ID: 0095
-Revises: 0094
-Create Date: 2026-09-03
-
-`result_count == 0` has always meant "this surface said nothing", which is the
-right number for "was the hint any use" and the wrong one for tuning a
-threshold. It folds together two unrelated events:
-
-  - the ranker found nothing above the bar — the ONLY evidence a threshold is
-    set too high; and
-  - the ranker found something the session had already been shown — a decline
-    that says nothing whatever about the bar.
-
-The rule arms filter in Python after the search, so they can count the second
-kind exactly. The note arms pass `exclude_ids` INTO semantic_search_notes, so
-the dropped rows never come back and there is nothing to count.
-
-NULLABLE, AND THE NULL IS THE POINT. A surface that does not measure
-suppression stores NULL, not 0, and the readout renders it as "not measured"
-rather than "none". Defaulting to 0 would make an unmeasured surface look like
-a perfectly clean one — the exact substitution of an artifact for a
-measurement that #3311 made and that #3497 exists to correct. Doing it again,
-in the migration that fixes it, would be its own small joke.
-
-No backfill for the same reason: existing rows genuinely do not know, and
-saying so is the honest state. `retrieval_logs` is not restored from backup,
-so no importer changes.
-
-Downgrade drops the column. Purely observational — nothing reads it for
-correctness.
-"""
-from alembic import op
-import sqlalchemy as sa
-
-
-revision = "0095"
-down_revision = "0094"
-branch_labels = None
-depends_on = None
-
-
-def upgrade() -> None:
-    op.add_column(
-        "retrieval_logs",
-        sa.Column("suppressed_count", sa.Integer(), nullable=True),
-    )
-
-
-def downgrade() -> None:
-    op.drop_column("retrieval_logs", "suppressed_count")

alembic/versions/0096_retrieval_log_best_available_score.py

@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-"""add retrieval_logs.best_available_score — the score the bar rejected (#3670)
-
-Revision ID: 0096
-Revises: 0095
-Create Date: 2026-09-08
-
-`cleared_threshold` was documented as the number to read FIRST — "a surface
-that clears its bar on nearly every call is either well-tuned or too loose,
-and p10 says which". It was never a measurement. The search applies the
-threshold before returning, so every returned result cleared the bar by
-construction and a call with no results has no `top_score` to compare:
-the condition is true exactly when `result_count > 0`.
-
-`zero_result_calls + cleared_threshold == calls` held on all nineteen
-source/window readings ever taken. It was `calls - zero_result_calls`
-wearing a name that promised a second opinion, and a reading procedure was
-built on top of it that asked the reader to compare a number against itself.
-
-THE MISSING NUMBER, and the reason this is a column rather than a deletion.
-The question the table exists to answer is "is the bar in the right place",
-and that question is only answerable from the calls that returned NOTHING:
-how close did the best rejected candidate come? A bar at 0.72 turning away
-a stream of 0.71s is set too high by a hair. A bar turning away 0.30s is
-doing its job. Those two are indistinguishable today — both render as a
-zero-result call — and no arrangement of the existing columns separates
-them, because the losing score is discarded inside the search.
-
-So the searches now rank without the bar and apply it in Python, which
-costs nothing (the rows were already ordered by distance, and the qualifying
-set is provably identical — above-threshold rows sort first), and the best
-score seen becomes observable.
-
-NULLABLE, AND UNBACKFILLED, for the reason 0095 spells out: a row written
-before this shipped genuinely does not know what its best rejected candidate
-scored, and saying so is the honest state. A 0.0 default would read as "the
-corpus had nothing remotely relevant" — an artifact standing in for a
-measurement, which is the whole defect this milestone corrects.
-
-`retrieval_logs` is not restored from backup, so no importer changes.
-
-Downgrade drops the column. Purely observational — nothing reads it for
-correctness.
-"""
-from alembic import op
-import sqlalchemy as sa
-
-
-revision = "0096"
-down_revision = "0095"
-branch_labels = None
-depends_on = None
-
-
-def upgrade() -> None:
-    op.add_column(
-        "retrieval_logs",
-        sa.Column("best_available_score", sa.Float(), nullable=True),
-    )
-
-
-def downgrade() -> None:
-    op.drop_column("retrieval_logs", "best_available_score")

frontend/src/App.vue

@@ -7,20 +7,12 @@ import { useTheme } from "@/composables/useTheme";
 import { useShortcuts } from "@/composables/useShortcuts";
 import { useAuthStore } from "@/stores/auth";
 import { useSettingsStore } from "@/stores/settings";
-import { apiPut } from "@/api/client";
-import { fetchVersion } from "@/api/version";
+import { apiGet, apiPut } from "@/api/client";
 
 useTheme();
 
 const router = useRouter();
-// THREE states, not two (#3127 checklist 12). `null` is "not answered yet" and
-// renders nothing; a string renders; `appVersionFailed` renders its own thing.
-// This used to default to the literal "dev" and swallow the error, which meant
-// an instance that could not answer was indistinguishable from a local build
-// that genuinely reports "dev" — a blank standing in for `unknown`, in the one
-// readout whose whole job is to say what is running.
-const appVersion = ref<string | null>(null);
-const appVersionFailed = ref(false);
+const appVersion = ref("dev");
 const authStore = useAuthStore();
 const settingsStore = useSettingsStore();
 const { showShortcuts, toggleShortcuts, closeShortcuts } = useShortcuts();
@@ -127,12 +119,10 @@ onMounted(async () => {
     startAppServices();
   }
   try {
-    appVersion.value = (await fetchVersion()).version;
+    const data = await apiGet<{ version: string }>("/api/version");
+    appVersion.value = data.version;
   } catch {
-    // Not silent any more: the footer says it could not find out, rather than
-    // showing a version it never received. The full readout (version, channel,
-    // commit, build) lives in Settings → Config.
-    appVersionFailed.value = true;
+    // silent — version display is non-critical
   }
 });
 
@@ -161,10 +151,7 @@ onUnmounted(() => {
       <div id="main-content" class="app-content">
         <router-view />
       </div>
-      <footer class="app-footer">
-        <span v-if="appVersion">v{{ appVersion }}</span>
-        <span v-else-if="appVersionFailed">version unknown</span>
-      </footer>
+      <footer class="app-footer">v{{ appVersion }}</footer>
     </div>
 
     <!-- Keyboard shortcuts overlay -->

frontend/src/api/client.ts

@@ -52,121 +52,41 @@ export function apiErrorMessage(e: unknown, fallback: string): string {
   return fallback;
 }
 
-/**
- * How long an ordinary JSON call may wait before it is declared failed.
- *
- * Rule 156: a wait with no deadline is a bug. `fetch`'s own default is to wait
- * as long as the browser will, which is not a deadline — it is the absence of
- * one, and it renders as a spinner that never resolves. There is no state a
- * surface can show for "pending forever" that is not a lie.
- *
- * 30s is chosen to be longer than anything healthy: it has to clear a cold
- * embedding call and a list view under connection-pool contention (#2384 had
- * /api/projects fanning 25 concurrent sessions at a 15-connection pool), so
- * tripping it means something is genuinely wrong rather than merely busy. Slow
- * BY DESIGN is a different case and passes its own value — see the callers in
- * SettingsView that do.
- */
-const DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MS = 30_000;
-
-/** HTTP 408. Not a status any Scribe route returns, so it unambiguously means
- *  "the client gave up" rather than anything the server said. */
-const CLIENT_TIMEOUT_STATUS = 408;
-
-/**
- * How long a STREAM may take to answer with its headers.
- *
- * Streams are the one case a wall-clock deadline would break: a long-lived SSE
- * connection is *supposed* to stay open, and `AbortSignal.timeout` would kill
- * it mid-flight along with the body. But that does not exempt them from rule
- * 156 — it relocates the deadline. Two different waits are involved:
- *
- *   connect — the server answering with headers. CAN fail to answer, so it
- *             carries this deadline, cleared the moment headers arrive.
- *   stream  — the body, open indefinitely on purpose. Its failure mode is
- *             going quiet, which a timeout cannot tell from being idle; that
- *             is what reconnection and Last-Event-ID are for, not this.
- *
- * Reading the connect as exempt because "the stream is long-lived" is the easy
- * mistake here, and it leaves an unreachable server looking like a quiet one.
- */
-const STREAM_CONNECT_TIMEOUT_MS = 15_000;
-
-/**
- * A signal that aborts if headers do not arrive in time, plus the `settle` to
- * call once they do. After `settle()` the returned signal never fires, so the
- * stream body runs unbounded — which is the intent.
- */
-function connectDeadline(base: AbortSignal): { signal: AbortSignal; settle: () => void } {
-  const gate = new AbortController();
-  const timer = setTimeout(
-    () => gate.abort(new DOMException("stream did not connect in time", "TimeoutError")),
-    STREAM_CONNECT_TIMEOUT_MS,
-  );
-  return {
-    signal: AbortSignal.any([base, gate.signal]),
-    settle: () => clearTimeout(timer),
-  };
-}
-
-export interface RequestOpts {
-  /** Override the deadline. Pass one when the call is slow BY DESIGN. */
-  timeoutMs?: number;
-}
-
-/**
- * The one place a request is actually made — every verb below goes through
- * here, so the deadline cannot be forgotten by adding a sixth.
- *
- * EXPIRY SURFACES AS AN `ApiError`, which is rule 156's second half: the
- * failure has to arrive in the shape the caller already handles. A bare
- * `DOMException: TimeoutError` would reach `apiErrorMessage(e, fallback)` as
- * an object with no `body`, so every catch site in the app would report its
- * generic fallback and the timeout would be invisible in the very situation it
- * exists to expose. Rethrowing as `ApiError` means ~330 existing call sites
- * report it correctly without being touched.
- *
- * Only a TIMEOUT is converted. A deliberate cancellation aborts with
- * `AbortError` and is left alone — a caller that cancelled its own request
- * does not want it reported as a server failure.
- */
-async function request<T>(path: string, init: RequestInit, opts?: RequestOpts): Promise<T> {
-  const timeoutMs = opts?.timeoutMs ?? DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MS;
-  let res: Response;
-  try {
-    res = await fetch(path, { ...init, signal: AbortSignal.timeout(timeoutMs) });
-  } catch (e) {
-    if (e instanceof DOMException && e.name === "TimeoutError") {
-      throw new ApiError(CLIENT_TIMEOUT_STATUS, {
-        error: `The server did not answer within ${Math.round(timeoutMs / 1000)}s.`,
-      });
-    }
-    throw e;
-  }
+export async function apiGet<T>(path: string): Promise<T> {
+  const res = await fetch(path);
   return handleResponse<T>(res, path);
 }
 
-/** JSON body headers — the three write verbs sent an identical literal each. */
-const JSON_HEADERS = { "Content-Type": "application/json" };
-
-export function apiGet<T>(path: string, opts?: RequestOpts): Promise<T> {
-  return request<T>(path, {}, opts);
+export async function apiPost<T>(path: string, body: unknown): Promise<T> {
+  const res = await fetch(path, {
+    method: "POST",
+    headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
+    body: JSON.stringify(body),
+  });
+  return handleResponse<T>(res, path);
 }
 
-export function apiPost<T>(path: string, body: unknown, opts?: RequestOpts): Promise<T> {
-  return request<T>(path, { method: "POST", headers: JSON_HEADERS, body: JSON.stringify(body) }, opts);
+export async function apiPut<T>(path: string, body: unknown): Promise<T> {
+  const res = await fetch(path, {
+    method: "PUT",
+    headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
+    body: JSON.stringify(body),
+  });
+  return handleResponse<T>(res, path);
 }
 
-export function apiPut<T>(path: string, body: unknown, opts?: RequestOpts): Promise<T> {
-  return request<T>(path, { method: "PUT", headers: JSON_HEADERS, body: JSON.stringify(body) }, opts);
+export async function apiPatch<T>(path: string, body: unknown): Promise<T> {
+  const res = await fetch(path, {
+    method: "PATCH",
+    headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
+    body: JSON.stringify(body),
+  });
+  return handleResponse<T>(res, path);
 }
 
-export function apiPatch<T>(path: string, body: unknown, opts?: RequestOpts): Promise<T> {
-  return request<T>(path, { method: "PATCH", headers: JSON_HEADERS, body: JSON.stringify(body) }, opts);
-}
-
-export function apiDelete(path: string, opts?: RequestOpts): Promise<void> {
-  return request<void>(path, { method: "DELETE" }, opts);
+export async function apiDelete(path: string): Promise<void> {
+  const res = await fetch(path, { method: "DELETE" });
+  return handleResponse<void>(res, path);
 }
 
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -301,14 +221,7 @@ export function apiSSEStream(
   }
 
   const done = (async () => {
-    // Bounded connect, unbounded stream — see STREAM_CONNECT_TIMEOUT_MS.
-    const connect = connectDeadline(combinedSignal);
-    let res: Response;
-    try {
-      res = await fetch(path, { headers, signal: connect.signal });
-    } finally {
-      connect.settle();
-    }
+    const res = await fetch(path, { headers, signal: combinedSignal });
     if (!res.ok) {
       let body: Record<string, unknown> = {};
       try {
@@ -405,19 +318,11 @@ export async function apiStreamPost(
   body: unknown,
   onChunk: (data: Record<string, unknown>) => void
 ): Promise<void> {
-  // Bounded connect, unbounded stream — see STREAM_CONNECT_TIMEOUT_MS.
-  const connect = connectDeadline(new AbortController().signal);
-  let res: Response;
-  try {
-    res = await fetch(path, {
-      method: "POST",
-      headers: JSON_HEADERS,
-      body: JSON.stringify(body),
-      signal: connect.signal,
-    });
-  } finally {
-    connect.settle();
-  }
+  const res = await fetch(path, {
+    method: "POST",
+    headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
+    body: JSON.stringify(body),
+  });
   if (!res.ok) {
     let errBody: Record<string, unknown> = {};
     try {

frontend/src/api/rulebooks.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-import type { RecordUsage } from "@/types/usage";
-
 import { apiGet, apiPost, apiPatch, apiDelete } from "@/api/client";
 
 /** How a rule reaches a session (milestone 307). */
@@ -98,13 +96,6 @@ export interface RuleHeader {
    * A date (YYYY-MM-DD), or the literal "never".
    */
   last_verified?: string;
-  /**
-   * Surfaced-vs-opened counts from `rule_usage_events` (milestone 333).
-   * Zero-filled by the list route, so a rule predating the table reads as
-   * "never surfaced" rather than as a missing field — which for a while is
-   * every rule on every install.
-   */
-  usage?: RecordUsage;
 }
 
 export interface ApplicableRules {
@@ -237,49 +228,6 @@ export async function unrelateRules(relationId: number): Promise<void> {
   return apiDelete(`/api/rule-relations/${relationId}`);
 }
 
-/**
- * One entry in a rule's edit history.
- *
- * Each entry holds the text the edit REPLACED, not the text it introduced —
- * so the newest entry is what the rule said before its most recent change,
- * and what that change produced is the rule as it stands now. Read the other
- * way round, every diff comes out backwards.
- *
- * The listing form omits the long fields; open one to get them.
- */
-export interface RuleVersion {
-  id: number;
-  rule_id: number;
-  /** Who made the edit. Null when that account has since been deleted. */
-  user_id: number | null;
-  title: string;
-  created_at: string;
-  statement?: string;
-  why?: string;
-  how_to_apply?: string;
-  when_to_apply?: string;
-  tier?: string;
-  verify_with?: string;
-  expires_when?: string;
-}
-
-export async function listRuleVersions(ruleId: number): Promise<RuleVersion[]> {
-  const data = await apiGet<{ versions: RuleVersion[] }>(
-    `/api/rules/${ruleId}/versions`,
-  );
-  return data.versions;
-}
-
-export async function getRuleVersion(
-  ruleId: number, versionId: number,
-): Promise<RuleVersion> {
-  return apiGet<RuleVersion>(`/api/rules/${ruleId}/versions/${versionId}`);
-}
-
-// No restoreRuleVersion, deliberately (milestone 323). Putting an old wording
-// back goes through updateRule, which snapshots what it replaces — so the
-// undo stays visible in the history like any other edit.
-
 export async function deleteRule(id: number): Promise<void> {
   return apiDelete(`/api/rules/${id}`);
 }

frontend/src/api/snippets.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-import type { RecordUsage } from "@/types/usage";
-
 import { apiGet, apiPost, apiPatch, apiDelete } from "@/api/client";
 
 /** One canonical location of a reusable thing. A snippet that unifies several
@@ -52,11 +50,15 @@ export interface Snippet {
   owner?: string | null;
 }
 
-/** Kept as a name because every consumer here says "snippet usage" — but it IS
- *  the shared shape, since rules answer the same question off their own table
- *  (milestone 333). The reasoning lives on `RecordUsage`; duplicating the four
- *  fields here is how the two drift. */
-export type SnippetUsage = RecordUsage;
+/** How often a record was put in front of an agent versus actually opened.
+ *  A high `surfaced_count` with `pull_count: 0` is dead weight — it occupies a
+ *  slot in every future auto-inject menu while never being used. */
+export interface SnippetUsage {
+  surfaced_count: number;
+  pull_count: number;
+  last_surfaced_at: string | null;
+  last_pulled_at: string | null;
+}
 
 /** Result of the last drift check — does the recorded location and code still
  *  match source? The check runs agent-side (Scribe has no checkout); this is the

frontend/src/api/version.ts

@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-import { apiGet } from "./client";
-
-/**
- * What `/api/version` answers — the client's half of `build_version_payload`
- * (`src/scribe/routes/api.py`), which is where the reasoning for the shape is
- * written down.
- *
- * EVERY FIELD BUT `version` IS OPTIONAL, and an absent one means "this build
- * does not know", not "empty". A local build has no ordering key and no
- * channel, and the server says so by omitting the keys rather than sending
- * `""` — emitting a placeholder would let it claim a position in an update
- * order it is not part of.
- *
- * So a renderer must read ABSENCE, never falsiness. `build` is a number and
- * `0` is a legitimate ordering key, so `v.build || "unknown"` would report a
- * real value as unknown; `v.build ?? "unknown"` is the correct form.
- */
-export interface VersionPayload {
-  /** The NAME — `YYYY.MM.DD.HHMM` from commit time. Answers "is this the same code?" */
-  version: string;
-  /** The ORDERING KEY — minutes since 2020-01-01, from build time. Absent on a local build. */
-  build?: number;
-  /** `dev` / `main` / a tag. Its own field, never folded into the name. */
-  channel?: string;
-  /** The commit the artifact was published under, so its claim can be checked against the registry. */
-  commit?: string;
-}
-
-/**
- * SHORTER than the client's 30s default, deliberately.
- *
- * This readout answers "what is running?" during an incident, which is exactly
- * when the server may be the thing that is unwell — and it is one static field
- * off a route that does no work, so a healthy instance answers it immediately.
- * Waiting the full default before saying so would leave a person staring at
- * "still loading" for half a minute in the moment they are trying to find out
- * whether the instance is alive at all. Eight seconds clears a slow-but-alive
- * instance and tells them something quickly when it is not.
- */
-const VERSION_TIMEOUT_MS = 8000;
-
-export function fetchVersion(): Promise<VersionPayload> {
-  return apiGet<VersionPayload>("/api/version", { timeoutMs: VERSION_TIMEOUT_MS });
-}

frontend/src/assets/components.css

@@ -351,29 +351,3 @@
 
 .required { color: var(--fs-error); }
 .field-hint { margin: 0.3rem 0 0; font-size: 0.8rem; color: var(--fs-text-tertiary); }
-
-/* --- usage badge ----------------------------------------------------------
-   "surfaced N×, opened M×" on a list row, for any record kind the retrieval
-   surfaces can choose: snippets and notes from note_usage_events, rules from
-   rule_usage_events. Promoted here from SnippetListView's scoped block when
-   the rule list needed the same chip (milestone 333 step 5) — a second scoped
-   copy is how the ninth duplicated CSS family starts (#3207).
-
-   Geometry and colour only. A view keeps its own spacing as a scoped
-   remainder, the way it does for every other recipe in this file. */
-.usage-tag {
-  font-size: 0.7rem;
-  padding: 0.1rem 0.4rem;
-  border-radius: 4px;
-  white-space: nowrap;
-  font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
-  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-text-tertiary) 15%, transparent);
-  color: var(--fs-text-tertiary-fg);
-}
-
-/* Dead weight is a nudge, not an error — it warns in the warning colour rather
-   than the danger one, because the record isn't broken, just unearned. */
-.usage-tag.usage-dead {
-  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-warning) 18%, transparent);
-  color: var(--fs-warning-fg);
-}

frontend/src/assets/editor-shared.css

@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
   border: 1px solid var(--fs-error);
   border-radius: var(--fs-radius-sm);
   font-size: 0.85rem;
-  color: var(--fs-error-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-error);
 }
 .diff-view {
   border: 1px solid var(--fs-border-color);
@@ -147,11 +147,11 @@
 }
 .diff-delete {
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-error) 12%, transparent);
-  color: var(--fs-error-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-error);
 }
 .diff-insert {
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-success) 12%, transparent);
-  color: var(--fs-success-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-success);
 }
 .diff-equal {
   color: var(--fs-text-tertiary);

frontend/src/assets/theme.css

@@ -12,13 +12,6 @@
    file used to read, and it is deliberate: the light palette was never specified
    by any rule, so it is recorded as a departure rather than as the default.
 
-   The -fg tokens are a badge's TEXT colour, added because the ladder used its
-   raw hue as text on a 12% tint of the same hue — measured 1.60-2.97:1 on the
-   dark palette against the kit's AA floor of 4.5. Each is the hue mixed toward
-   --fs-text-primary until it clears 4.5:1 worst-case over surface-raised and
-   surface-hover in BOTH modes. Mixing toward that token is what makes one
-   declaration cover both: it inverts, so the text follows the mode.
-
    Only 12 tokens differ between modes. Everything else — spacing, type, motion,
    radius, and every derived colour — is stated once, because a value built with
    var() resolves where it is USED, not where it is written.
@@ -31,7 +24,6 @@
   --fs-accent-faint: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 8%, transparent);  /* The faintest accent wash */
   --fs-accent-deep: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 70%, black);  /* The accent, darkened */
   --fs-accent-wash: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 22%, transparent);  /* Heaviest accent tint */
-  --fs-accent-fg: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 45%, var(--fs-text-primary));  /* Accent TEXT on an accent tint */
   --fs-gradient-cta: linear-gradient(135deg, var(--fs-accent), var(--fs-accent-deep));
   --fs-glow-cta: 0 2px 10px color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 35%, transparent);
   --fs-glow-cta-hover: 0 4px 24px color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 65%, transparent);
@@ -86,13 +78,10 @@
   /* priority */
   --fs-priority-low: var(--fs-info);
   --fs-priority-low-bg: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-priority-low) 12%, transparent);
-  --fs-priority-low-fg: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-priority-low) 45%, var(--fs-text-primary));  /* Badge TEXT for low priority — the readable partner of the -bg tint */
   --fs-priority-medium: var(--fs-warning);
   --fs-priority-medium-bg: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-priority-medium) 12%, transparent);
-  --fs-priority-medium-fg: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-priority-medium) 55%, var(--fs-text-primary));  /* Badge TEXT for medium priority */
   --fs-priority-high: var(--fs-error);
   --fs-priority-high-bg: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-priority-high) 12%, transparent);
-  --fs-priority-high-fg: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-priority-high) 55%, var(--fs-text-primary));  /* Badge TEXT for high priority */
 
   /* radius */
   --fs-radius-sm: 4px;  /* pills, tags, code spans */
@@ -103,11 +92,8 @@
 
   /* semantic */
   --fs-success: var(--fs-action-primary);
-  --fs-success-fg: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-success) 45%, var(--fs-text-primary));  /* Success TEXT on a success tint */
   --fs-warning: #8B6F1E;
-  --fs-warning-fg: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-warning) 50%, var(--fs-text-primary));  /* Warning TEXT on a warning tint */
   --fs-error: #C04A1F;
-  --fs-error-fg: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-error) 50%, var(--fs-text-primary));  /* Error TEXT on an error tint */
   --fs-info: #3D5A6E;
   --fs-destructive: #6B2118;  /* irreversible — deliberately not the error colour */
 
@@ -130,16 +116,12 @@
   /* status */
   --fs-status-todo: var(--fs-border-color);
   --fs-status-todo-bg: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-status-todo) 12%, transparent);
-  --fs-status-todo-fg: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-status-todo) 40%, var(--fs-text-primary));  /* Badge TEXT for a not-started task */
   --fs-status-in-progress: var(--fs-accent);
   --fs-status-in-progress-bg: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-status-in-progress) 12%, transparent);
-  --fs-status-in-progress-fg: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-status-in-progress) 45%, var(--fs-text-primary));  /* Badge TEXT for a task underway */
   --fs-status-done: var(--fs-success);
   --fs-status-done-bg: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-status-done) 12%, transparent);
-  --fs-status-done-fg: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-status-done) 50%, var(--fs-text-primary));  /* Badge TEXT for a completed task */
   --fs-overdue: var(--fs-error);
   --fs-status-cancelled: var(--fs-text-tertiary);  /* set aside, not failed */
-  --fs-status-cancelled-fg: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-status-cancelled) 60%, var(--fs-text-primary));  /* Badge TEXT for a cancelled task */
 
   /* surface */
   --fs-surface-page: #14171A;  /* page bg, deepest surface */
@@ -152,9 +134,7 @@
   /* text */
   --fs-text-primary: #E8E4D8;  /* body, headings, labels — inverts by mode */
   --fs-text-secondary: #C2BFB4;
-  --fs-text-secondary-fg: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-text-secondary) 90%, var(--fs-text-primary));  /* Secondary TEXT on a secondary tint (barely moves; no exceptions) */
   --fs-text-tertiary: #9C9A92;
-  --fs-text-tertiary-fg: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-text-tertiary) 55%, var(--fs-text-primary));  /* Tertiary TEXT on a tertiary tint */
   --fs-text-on-action: #E8E4D8;  /* text on a filled colour — NOT mode-dependent */
 
   /* type */

frontend/src/assets/viewer-shared.css

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
   border-color: var(--fs-accent);
 }
 .ctx-crumb-project {
-  color: var(--fs-accent-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-accent);
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 10%, transparent);
   border: 1px solid color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 30%, transparent);
   text-decoration: none;

frontend/src/components/AppHeader.vue

@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ router.afterEach(() => {
   background: var(--fs-accent-soft);
 }
 .nav-link.router-link-active {
-  color: var(--fs-accent-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-accent);
   font-weight: 500;
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 25%, transparent);
   box-shadow: 0 0 16px color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 30%, transparent);
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ router.afterEach(() => {
   font-weight: 500;
   text-transform: uppercase;
   letter-spacing: 0.05em;
-  color: var(--fs-accent-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-accent);
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 15%, transparent);
   padding: 0.1rem 0.35rem;
   border-radius: var(--fs-radius-sm);

frontend/src/components/DiffView.vue

@@ -137,12 +137,12 @@ function markerFor(type: DiffLine['type']): string {
 
 .diff-delete {
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-error) 12%, transparent);
-  color: var(--fs-error-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-error);
 }
 
 .diff-insert {
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-success) 12%, transparent);
-  color: var(--fs-success-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-success);
 }
 
 .diff-equal {

frontend/src/components/HistoryPanel.vue

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import { ref, computed, onMounted } from "vue";
 import { apiGet, pinNoteVersion, unpinNoteVersion } from "@/api/client";
 import DiffView from "@/components/DiffView.vue";
-import { computeDiff, type DiffLine } from "@/utils/diff";
+import type { DiffLine } from "@/composables/useAssist";
 import { fmtStamp } from "@/utils/dateFormat";
 
 interface NoteVersion {
@@ -33,8 +33,28 @@ const loadingDetail = ref(false);
 
 const diff = computed<DiffLine[]>(() => {
   if (!selectedVersion.value?.body) return [];
+  const a = props.currentBody;
+  const b = selectedVersion.value.body;
 
-  return computeDiff(props.currentBody, selectedVersion.value.body);
+  const aLines = a.split('\n');
+  const bLines = b.split('\n');
+  const m = aLines.length, n = bLines.length;
+  const dp: number[][] = Array.from({ length: m + 1 }, () => new Array(n + 1).fill(0));
+  for (let i = m - 1; i >= 0; i--)
+    for (let j = n - 1; j >= 0; j--)
+      dp[i][j] = aLines[i] === bLines[j]
+        ? dp[i+1][j+1] + 1
+        : Math.max(dp[i+1][j], dp[i][j+1]);
+  const result: DiffLine[] = [];
+  let i = 0, j = 0;
+  while (i < m && j < n) {
+    if (aLines[i] === bLines[j]) { result.push({ type: 'equal', text: aLines[i++] }); j++; }
+    else if (dp[i+1][j] >= dp[i][j+1]) result.push({ type: 'delete', text: aLines[i++] });
+    else result.push({ type: 'insert', text: bLines[j++] });
+  }
+  while (i < m) result.push({ type: 'delete', text: aLines[i++] });
+  while (j < n) result.push({ type: 'insert', text: bLines[j++] });
+  return result;
 });
 
 async function loadVersions() {

frontend/src/components/InlineAssistPanel.vue

@@ -227,11 +227,11 @@ const markers: Record<DiffLine["type"], string> = {
 .iap-diff-equal  { color: var(--fs-text-tertiary); }
 .iap-diff-delete {
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-error) 10%, transparent);
-  color: var(--fs-error-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-error);
 }
 .iap-diff-insert {
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-success) 10%, transparent);
-  color: var(--fs-success-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-success);
 }
 
 .iap-diff-marker {

frontend/src/components/KindBadge.vue

@@ -1,79 +0,0 @@
-<script setup lang="ts">
-/**
- * A task's KIND, shown on a list row — issue, spike, or a legacy plan.
- *
- * Sibling of PriorityBadge, and shaped like it on purpose: same geometry, and
- * the same rule that the DEFAULT value renders nothing. `work` is most tasks,
- * so badging it would put a chip on nearly every row and say nothing — the
- * same reason RuleListPane marks only `conditional`.
- *
- * Kind is not status. A task can be an in-progress issue or a done spike;
- * this answers "what kind of work is this", never "how is it going".
- */
-import type { TaskKind } from "@/types/note";
-
-const props = defineProps<{ kind?: TaskKind | null }>();
-
-const LABELS: Record<string, string> = {
-  issue: "Issue",
-  spike: "Spike",
-  plan: "Plan",
-};
-
-const TITLES: Record<string, string> = {
-  issue: "Corrective work — something was broken",
-  spike: "Time-boxed investigation — the output is an answer, not a change",
-  plan: "Legacy plan-task; plans are milestones now",
-};
-</script>
-
-<template>
-  <span
-    v-if="props.kind && LABELS[props.kind]"
-    :class="['kind-badge', `kind-${props.kind}`]"
-    :title="TITLES[props.kind]"
-  >{{ LABELS[props.kind] }}</span>
-</template>
-
-<style scoped>
-.kind-badge {
-  display: inline-block;
-  padding: 0.15rem 0.5rem;
-  border-radius: 12px;
-  font-size: 0.75rem;
-  /* 500, not the 600 StatusBadge and PriorityBadge use. The house style
-     allows two weights, 400 and 500 — those two predate the constraint and
-     copying them would spread it. */
-  font-weight: 500;
-  text-transform: uppercase;
-  letter-spacing: 0.025em;
-  white-space: nowrap;
-}
-
-/* Issue and spike are opposite in character — corrective vs exploratory — so
-   they are split by TEMPERATURE, warm against cool, which survives being
-   small and stays distinguishable without relying on reading the word.
-   Neither uses the accent: one accent per app, and kind is not one of the
-   places it is allowed.
-   The text is the hue mixed toward --fs-text-primary rather than the raw
-   semantic colour. Raw fails the contrast floor on the dark palette —
-   measured: warning on its own 12% tint is 2.97:1, well under AA's 4.5.
-   Mixing toward the text token also makes these follow the mode for free,
-   since that token inverts. Measured both ways: issue 5.23:1 dark / 6.68:1
-   light, spike 5.33:1 / 9.26:1. */
-.kind-issue {
-  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-warning) 14%, var(--fs-surface-raised));
-  color: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-warning) 60%, var(--fs-text-primary));
-}
-.kind-spike {
-  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-info) 14%, var(--fs-surface-raised));
-  color: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-info) 50%, var(--fs-text-primary));
-}
-/* Retired since 0066 — deliberately hue-free so a legacy row reads as
-   archival rather than as a fourth active kind competing for attention. */
-.kind-plan {
-  background: var(--fs-surface-raised);
-  color: var(--fs-text-tertiary);
-  font-style: italic;
-}
-</style>

frontend/src/components/MarkdownToolbar.vue

@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ const groups = [
 
 .md-btn.active {
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 14%, transparent);
-  color: var(--fs-accent-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-accent);
   box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 35%, transparent);
 }
 

frontend/src/components/NoteSweepPane.vue

@@ -1,198 +0,0 @@
-<script setup lang="ts">
-/**
- * The staleness sweep for NOTES: notes that assert a fact, oldest first.
- *
- * Sibling of RuleSweepPane, not a shared component — the two read differently
- * enough that merging them would mean a prop for every difference (a rule has
- * a tier and a statement; a note has a project and opens at a route). What
- * they share is the SHAPE of the judgement, and that is worth copying
- * deliberately rather than abstracting: the ordering carries urgency, "never"
- * is categorically different from a date, and a failed check writes nothing.
- *
- * Lives in the Knowledge view rather than beside the rules sweep (operator's
- * call, milestone 317 step 4): notes stay where notes live. The cost, accepted
- * knowingly, is that there is no single screen showing every record anyone has
- * left unconfirmed — /rules keeps its own.
- */
-import { onMounted, ref } from "vue";
-import { apiGet, apiPost } from "@/api/client";
-import { useToastStore } from "@/stores/toast";
-
-interface DueNote {
-  id: number;
-  title: string;
-  project_id: number | null;
-  verify_with: string;
-  expires_when: string;
-  last_verified: string | null;
-  days_since_verified: number | null;
-}
-
-const emit = defineEmits<{ "open-note": [id: number] }>();
-
-const toast = useToastStore();
-const rows = ref<DueNote[]>([]);
-const loading = ref(false);
-const neverOnly = ref(false);
-const busyId = ref<number | null>(null);
-
-async function reload() {
-  loading.value = true;
-  try {
-    const p = new URLSearchParams();
-    if (neverOnly.value) p.set("never_only", "1");
-    const data = await apiGet<{ notes: DueNote[] }>(
-      `/api/notes/due-for-verification?${p}`,
-    );
-    rows.value = data.notes;
-  } catch {
-    toast.show("Could not load the sweep", "error");
-  } finally {
-    loading.value = false;
-  }
-}
-
-async function verify(id: number, stillTrue: boolean) {
-  busyId.value = id;
-  try {
-    await apiPost(`/api/notes/${id}/verify`, { still_true: stillTrue });
-    if (stillTrue) {
-      // It has been confirmed, so it leaves the list — the sweep shows what
-      // still needs looking at, and leaving it in place would invite a second
-      // stamp nobody earned.
-      rows.value = rows.value.filter((r) => r.id !== id);
-      toast.show("Recorded — checked today");
-    } else {
-      // It stays. A failed check writes nothing on purpose: the note is wrong
-      // rather than in a state worth recording, so it keeps its place until
-      // someone corrects, supersedes, or unhooks it.
-      toast.show("Recorded as no longer true — the note keeps its place here");
-    }
-  } catch {
-    toast.show("Could not record that", "error");
-  } finally {
-    busyId.value = null;
-  }
-}
-
-onMounted(reload);
-defineExpose({ reload });
-</script>
-
-<template>
-  <section class="sweep">
-    <header>
-      <h2>Due for verification</h2>
-      <p class="lede">
-        Notes that assert a fact about something outside your control — what a
-        service does, how a tool behaves. Most notes are decisions and never
-        appear here; they have no truth value to go stale.
-      </p>
-    </header>
-
-    <div class="filters">
-      <label class="filter">
-        <input v-model="neverOnly" type="checkbox" @change="reload" />
-        <span>Never checked only</span>
-      </label>
-    </div>
-
-    <p v-if="loading" class="state">Loading…</p>
-
-    <!-- An empty sweep is GOOD NEWS and must not read like a broken page. -->
-    <p v-else-if="!rows.length" class="state empty">
-      Nothing to check.
-      {{ neverOnly
-        ? "Every note that carries a check has been confirmed at least once."
-        : "No note carries a check yet — add one to a note that asserts a fact." }}
-    </p>
-
-    <ol v-else class="rows">
-      <li v-for="n in rows" :key="n.id" class="row">
-        <div class="row-head">
-          <button class="row-title" @click="emit('open-note', n.id)">{{ n.title }}</button>
-          <span class="age" :class="{ unchecked: n.days_since_verified === null }">
-            {{ n.days_since_verified === null
-              ? "never checked"
-              : `${n.days_since_verified}d ago` }}
-          </span>
-        </div>
-
-        <dl class="check">
-          <dt>Check</dt>
-          <dd>{{ n.verify_with }}</dd>
-          <template v-if="n.expires_when">
-            <dt>Ends when</dt>
-            <dd>{{ n.expires_when }}</dd>
-          </template>
-        </dl>
-
-        <div class="actions">
-          <button :disabled="busyId === n.id" @click="verify(n.id, true)">Still true</button>
-          <button :disabled="busyId === n.id" @click="verify(n.id, false)">No longer true</button>
-        </div>
-      </li>
-    </ol>
-
-    <p v-if="rows.length" class="footnote">
-      Record a result only after actually running the check. “No longer true” stores nothing
-      on purpose — the note is wrong rather than in a state worth recording, so it keeps its
-      place here until you correct it, supersede it, or remove its check.
-    </p>
-  </section>
-</template>
-
-<style scoped>
-.sweep { display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: var(--fs-space-3); }
-h2 { margin: 0; font-size: 1.05rem; }
-.lede {
-  margin: 0.35rem 0 0;
-  max-width: 62ch;
-  font-size: 0.85rem;
-  color: var(--fs-text-secondary);
-  line-height: 1.5;
-}
-
-.filters { display: flex; gap: var(--fs-space-5); align-items: center; flex-wrap: wrap; }
-.filter { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: var(--fs-space-2); font-size: 0.82rem; color: var(--fs-text-secondary); }
-.filter input[type="checkbox"] { accent-color: var(--fs-accent); }
-
-.state { margin: 0; font-size: 0.9rem; color: var(--fs-text-secondary); }
-.state.empty { color: var(--fs-text-tertiary); }
-
-.rows { list-style: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: var(--fs-space-3); }
-.row {
-  background: var(--fs-surface-raised);
-  border-radius: var(--fs-radius-md);
-  padding: var(--fs-space-3);
-}
-.row-head { display: flex; align-items: baseline; gap: var(--fs-space-2); flex-wrap: wrap; }
-.row-title {
-  background: none; border: none; padding: 0; cursor: pointer;
-  font-family: Fraunces, serif; font-style: italic; font-size: 1.02rem;
-  color: var(--fs-text-primary); text-align: left;
-}
-.row-title:hover { text-decoration: underline; }
-/* The ORDER carries urgency — the top of this list is the least-confirmed
-   thing in the corpus. No red/amber ramp: it would restate the ordering and
-   force an invented "stale after N days" threshold. "Never" is marked because
-   it is categorically DIFFERENT from a date, not a worse one. */
-.age { margin-left: auto; font-size: 0.78rem; color: var(--fs-text-secondary); font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; }
-.age.unchecked { font-style: italic; color: var(--fs-text-tertiary); }
-
-.check { display: grid; grid-template-columns: auto 1fr; gap: 0.15rem var(--fs-space-3); margin: var(--fs-space-3) 0 0; }
-.check dt { font-size: 0.7rem; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.05em; color: var(--fs-text-tertiary); }
-.check dd { margin: 0; font-size: 0.82rem; color: var(--fs-text-primary); min-width: 0; overflow-wrap: anywhere; }
-
-.actions { display: flex; gap: var(--fs-space-2); margin-top: var(--fs-space-3); }
-.actions button {
-  cursor: pointer; font: inherit; font-size: 0.78rem;
-  background: var(--fs-surface-page); color: var(--fs-text-primary);
-  border: 1px solid var(--fs-border-color); border-radius: var(--fs-radius-md);
-  padding: 0.25rem 0.6rem;
-}
-.actions button:hover:not(:disabled) { background: var(--fs-surface-hover); }
-.actions button:disabled { opacity: var(--fs-disabled-opacity); cursor: default; }
-
-.footnote { margin: 0; max-width: 62ch; font-size: 0.78rem; color: var(--fs-text-tertiary); line-height: 1.45; }
-</style>

frontend/src/components/PriorityBadge.vue

@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@ import type { TaskPriority } from "@/types/task";
 
 const props = defineProps<{
   priority: TaskPriority;
-  /** Dense surfaces — see StatusBadge. */
-  compact?: boolean;
 }>();
 
 const labels: Record<TaskPriority, string> = {
@@ -18,7 +16,7 @@ const labels: Record<TaskPriority, string> = {
 <template>
   <span
     v-if="props.priority !== 'none'"
-    :class="['priority-badge', `priority-${props.priority}`, { compact }]"
+    :class="['priority-badge', `priority-${props.priority}`]"
   >
     {{ labels[props.priority] }}
   </span>
@@ -30,28 +28,20 @@ const labels: Record<TaskPriority, string> = {
   padding: 0.15rem 0.5rem;
   border-radius: 12px;
   font-size: 0.75rem;
-  /* 500 is the heaviest the house style goes — 400 and 500 only. */
-  font-weight: 500;
+  font-weight: 600;
   text-transform: uppercase;
   letter-spacing: 0.025em;
 }
-.compact {
-  padding: 1px 7px;
-  border-radius: 8px;
-  font-size: 0.7rem;
-  text-transform: none;
-  letter-spacing: normal;
-}
 .priority-low {
   background: var(--fs-priority-low-bg);
-  color: var(--fs-priority-low-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-priority-low);
 }
 .priority-medium {
   background: var(--fs-priority-medium-bg);
-  color: var(--fs-priority-medium-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-priority-medium);
 }
 .priority-high {
   background: var(--fs-priority-high-bg);
-  color: var(--fs-priority-high-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-priority-high);
 }
 </style>

frontend/src/components/ProjectDesignTab.vue

@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ watch(() => [props.projectId, props.designSystemId], run);
 }
 
 .pdt-clean {
-  color: var(--fs-status-done-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-status-done);
 }
 
 .pdt-summary {
@@ -206,12 +206,12 @@ watch(() => [props.projectId, props.designSystemId], run);
 
 .pdt-tag.unknown {
   background: var(--fs-priority-high-bg);
-  color: var(--fs-priority-high-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-priority-high);
 }
 
 .pdt-tag.local {
   background: var(--fs-priority-medium-bg);
-  color: var(--fs-priority-medium-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-priority-medium);
 }
 
 .pdt-tag.superseded {

frontend/src/components/ProjectStatusBadge.vue

@@ -1,71 +0,0 @@
-<script setup lang="ts">
-/**
- * A PROJECT's lifecycle state as a pill — active, paused, completed, archived.
- *
- * Deliberately not StatusBadge. That component is typed to TaskStatus and
- * speaks a different vocabulary; these two only ever shared a CSS class name,
- * which is what made them look like one shape that had drifted (#3132).
- *
- * Extracted because ProjectView and ProjectListView really were spelling the
- * same pill twice, with the differences you get from two hands rather than
- * two intentions: 0.68rem against 0.7rem, a 14% tint against 15%, one with a
- * border and one without.
- */
-const props = defineProps<{ status: string }>();
-
-const LABELS: Record<string, string> = {
-  active: "Active",
-  paused: "Paused",
-  completed: "Completed",
-  archived: "Archived",
-};
-
-const label = (s: string) => LABELS[s] ?? s;
-</script>
-
-<template>
-  <span :class="['project-status', `project-status--${props.status}`]">
-    {{ label(props.status) }}
-  </span>
-</template>
-
-<style scoped>
-.project-status {
-  font-size: 0.7rem;
-  font-weight: 500;
-  text-transform: uppercase;
-  letter-spacing: 0.04em;
-  padding: 0.15rem 0.5rem;
-  border-radius: var(--fs-radius-pill);
-  flex-shrink: 0;
-  white-space: nowrap;
-}
-
-/* Text is the hue mixed toward --fs-text-primary, not the raw hue. Both old
-   spellings painted the hue on a 15% tint of itself, which measured 1.61-2.39:1
-   against AA's 4.5 — the same defect the status and priority ladders had, and
-   invisible to the token checker because the background was an inline
-   color-mix rather than a `-bg` token. The checker was widened alongside this.
-   Measured worst-case over raised and hover in both modes: active 4.82:1,
-   paused 4.63:1, completed 4.78:1, archived 4.84:1.
-   No new design tokens: four values used by one component are the kind of
-   growth Scribe's own design-system note warns about ("if this system grows
-   past a handful of tokens, that is worth noticing rather than
-   accommodating"). The derivation is stated once, here. */
-.project-status--active {
-  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-success) 15%, transparent);
-  color: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-success) 45%, var(--fs-text-primary));
-}
-.project-status--paused {
-  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-warning) 15%, transparent);
-  color: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-warning) 55%, var(--fs-text-primary));
-}
-.project-status--completed {
-  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 15%, transparent);
-  color: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 45%, var(--fs-text-primary));
-}
-.project-status--archived {
-  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-text-tertiary) 15%, transparent);
-  color: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-text-tertiary) 55%, var(--fs-text-primary));
-}
-</style>

frontend/src/components/StatusBadge.vue

@@ -4,16 +4,13 @@ import type { TaskStatus } from "@/types/task";
 const props = defineProps<{
   status: TaskStatus;
   clickable?: boolean;
-  /** Dense surfaces — smaller, unshouted. The canon (#2960) names compact a
-      VARIANT of this component rather than a reason to re-spell it. */
-  compact?: boolean;
 }>();
 
 defineEmits<{ click: [] }>();
 
 const labels: Record<TaskStatus, string> = {
   todo: "Todo",
-  in_progress: "In progress",
+  in_progress: "In Progress",
   done: "Done",
   cancelled: "Cancelled",
 };
@@ -21,7 +18,7 @@ const labels: Record<TaskStatus, string> = {
 
 <template>
   <span
-    :class="['status-badge', `status-${props.status}`, { clickable, compact }]"
+    :class="['status-badge', `status-${props.status}`, { clickable }]"
     @click="clickable ? $emit('click') : undefined"
     :role="clickable ? 'button' : undefined"
     :tabindex="clickable ? 0 : undefined"
@@ -36,37 +33,25 @@ const labels: Record<TaskStatus, string> = {
   padding: 0.15rem 0.5rem;
   border-radius: 12px;
   font-size: 0.75rem;
-  /* 500 is the heaviest the house style goes — 400 and 500 only. */
-  font-weight: 500;
+  font-weight: 600;
   text-transform: uppercase;
   letter-spacing: 0.025em;
 }
-/* Text comes from the -fg tokens, which are the hue mixed toward
-   --fs-text-primary until they clear AA. The old spelling darkened the hue
-   with `#000 15%` — a light-mode instinct that made these WORSE on the dark
-   palette, where the surface is already near-black, and a literal besides. */
 .status-todo {
-  background: var(--fs-status-todo-bg);
-  color: var(--fs-status-todo-fg);
+  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-status-todo-bg) 78%, var(--fs-status-todo) 22%);
+  color: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-status-todo) 85%, #000 15%);
 }
 .status-in_progress {
-  background: var(--fs-status-in-progress-bg);
-  color: var(--fs-status-in-progress-fg);
+  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-status-in-progress-bg) 78%, var(--fs-status-in-progress) 22%);
+  color: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-status-in-progress) 85%, #000 15%);
 }
 .status-done {
-  background: var(--fs-status-done-bg);
-  color: var(--fs-status-done-fg);
+  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-status-done-bg) 78%, var(--fs-status-done) 22%);
+  color: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-status-done) 85%, #000 15%);
 }
 .status-cancelled {
-  background: var(--fs-status-todo-bg);
-  color: var(--fs-status-cancelled-fg);
-}
-.compact {
-  padding: 1px 7px;
-  border-radius: 8px;
-  font-size: 0.7rem;
-  text-transform: none;
-  letter-spacing: normal;
+  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-surface-raised) 78%, var(--fs-text-tertiary) 22%);
+  color: var(--fs-text-tertiary);
 }
 .clickable {
   cursor: pointer;

frontend/src/components/SystemsSection.vue

@@ -554,8 +554,8 @@ async function confirmDelete() {
 /* The two bases must never look alike — one is mechanical, the other is the
    reviewer's judgment, and that difference is the whole decision. */
 .area-basis { font-size: 0.68rem; border-radius: var(--fs-radius-sm); padding: 0.05rem 0.4rem; }
-.area-basis--exact { background: var(--fs-status-done-bg); color: var(--fs-status-done-fg); }
-.area-basis--overlap { background: var(--fs-priority-medium-bg); color: var(--fs-priority-medium-fg); }
+.area-basis--exact { background: var(--fs-status-done-bg); color: var(--fs-status-done); }
+.area-basis--overlap { background: var(--fs-priority-medium-bg); color: var(--fs-priority-medium); }
 
 .area-offer {
   display: flex;
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ async function confirmDelete() {
   font-weight: 500;
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 12%, transparent);
   border: 1px solid color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 30%, transparent);
-  color: var(--fs-accent-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-accent);
   border-radius: 999px;
   padding: 0.05rem 0.45rem;
   flex-shrink: 0;
@@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ async function confirmDelete() {
   font-weight: 500;
   text-transform: uppercase;
   letter-spacing: 0.04em;
-  color: var(--fs-text-tertiary-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-text-tertiary);
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-text-tertiary) 12%, transparent);
   border-radius: 999px;
   padding: 0.05rem 0.45rem;

frontend/src/components/TagInput.vue

@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ function focusInput() {
   border-radius: 999px;
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 15%, transparent);
   border: 1px solid var(--fs-accent);
-  color: var(--fs-accent-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-accent);
   font-size: 0.8rem;
   white-space: nowrap;
 }

frontend/src/components/TaskCard.vue

@@ -0,0 +1,238 @@
+<script setup lang="ts">
+import type { Task, TaskStatus } from "@/types/task";
+import StatusBadge from "@/components/StatusBadge.vue";
+import PriorityBadge from "@/components/PriorityBadge.vue";
+import TagPill from "@/components/TagPill.vue";
+import { relativeTime } from "@/composables/useRelativeTime";
+import { renderPreview } from "@/utils/markdown";
+
+const props = defineProps<{
+  task: Task;
+  compact?: boolean;
+  projectTitle?: string;
+}>();
+const emit = defineEmits<{
+  "tag-click": [tag: string];
+  "status-toggle": [id: number, status: TaskStatus];
+}>();
+
+const statusCycle: Record<TaskStatus, TaskStatus> = {
+  todo: "in_progress",
+  in_progress: "done",
+  done: "todo",
+  cancelled: "todo",
+};
+
+const statusDotClass: Record<TaskStatus, string> = {
+  todo: "dot-todo",
+  in_progress: "dot-in-progress",
+  done: "dot-done",
+  cancelled: "dot-cancelled",
+};
+
+const statusTitle: Record<TaskStatus, string> = {
+  todo: "Todo — click to mark In Progress",
+  in_progress: "In Progress — click to mark Done",
+  done: "Done — click to mark Todo",
+  cancelled: "Cancelled — click to mark Todo",
+};
+
+function cycleStatus() {
+  emit("status-toggle", props.task.id, statusCycle[props.task.status!]);
+}
+
+
+function isOverdue(): boolean {
+  if (!props.task.due_date || props.task.status === "done") return false;
+  const today = new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 10);
+  return props.task.due_date < today;
+}
+</script>
+
+<template>
+  <router-link :to="`/tasks/${task.id}`" :class="['task-card', { compact }]">
+
+    <!-- Compact: single row -->
+    <template v-if="compact">
+      <button
+        :class="['status-dot', statusDotClass[task.status!]]"
+        :title="statusTitle[task.status!]"
+        @click.prevent.stop="cycleStatus"
+      ></button>
+      <PriorityBadge :priority="task.priority!" />
+      <span class="task-title-compact">{{ task.title || "Untitled" }}</span>
+      <span v-if="projectTitle" class="project-crumb">{{ projectTitle }}</span>
+      <div class="task-tags-compact">
+        <TagPill
+          v-for="tag in task.tags?.slice(0, 2)"
+          :key="tag"
+          :tag="tag"
+          @click.stop="emit('tag-click', tag)"
+        />
+      </div>
+      <span v-if="task.due_date" :class="['due-compact', { overdue: isOverdue() }]">
+        {{ task.due_date }}
+      </span>
+    </template>
+
+    <!-- Full: original layout -->
+    <template v-else>
+      <div class="task-top">
+        <StatusBadge
+          :status="task.status!"
+          clickable
+          @click.prevent.stop="cycleStatus"
+        />
+        <PriorityBadge :priority="task.priority!" />
+        <h3 class="task-title">{{ task.title || "Untitled" }}</h3>
+      </div>
+      <div v-if="task.body" class="task-preview prose" v-html="renderPreview(task.body)"></div>
+      <div class="task-meta">
+        <span v-if="task.due_date" :class="['due-date', { overdue: isOverdue() }]">
+          Due: {{ task.due_date }}
+        </span>
+        <TagPill
+          v-for="tag in task.tags"
+          :key="tag"
+          :tag="tag"
+          @click.stop="emit('tag-click', tag)"
+        />
+        <span class="timestamp">{{ relativeTime(task.updated_at) }}</span>
+      </div>
+    </template>
+
+  </router-link>
+</template>
+
+<style scoped>
+.task-card {
+  display: block;
+  padding: 1rem;
+  border-radius: var(--fs-radius-lg);
+  text-decoration: none;
+  color: inherit;
+  background: var(--fs-surface-raised);
+  box-shadow: 0 1px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.06), 0 0 0 1px color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 6%, transparent);
+  transition: box-shadow 0.2s, transform 0.18s ease;
+}
+.task-card:hover {
+  box-shadow: 0 4px 16px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.10), 0 0 0 1px color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 14.0%, transparent);
+  transform: translateY(-2px);
+}
+
+/* Compact single-row layout */
+.task-card.compact {
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: 0.5rem;
+  padding: 0.45rem 0.85rem;
+}
+
+/* Status dot */
+.status-dot {
+  flex-shrink: 0;
+  width: 12px;
+  height: 12px;
+  border-radius: 50%;
+  border: none;
+  cursor: pointer;
+  padding: 0;
+  transition: transform 0.1s, opacity 0.1s;
+}
+.status-dot:hover {
+  transform: scale(1.25);
+  opacity: 0.8;
+}
+.dot-todo {
+  background: var(--fs-status-todo);
+  border: 2px solid var(--fs-status-todo);
+  background: transparent;
+  border: 2px solid var(--fs-text-tertiary);
+}
+.dot-in-progress {
+  background: var(--fs-status-in-progress);
+}
+.dot-done {
+  background: var(--fs-status-done);
+}
+.dot-cancelled {
+  background: var(--fs-status-cancelled);
+}
+
+.task-title-compact {
+  font-size: 0.9rem;
+  font-weight: 500;
+  flex: 1;
+  min-width: 0;
+  overflow: hidden;
+  text-overflow: ellipsis;
+  white-space: nowrap;
+}
+.project-crumb {
+  font-size: 0.75rem;
+  color: var(--fs-text-tertiary);
+  background: var(--fs-surface-raised);
+  border: 1px solid var(--fs-border-color);
+  border-radius: var(--fs-radius-sm);
+  padding: 0.1rem 0.4rem;
+  white-space: nowrap;
+  flex-shrink: 0;
+}
+.task-tags-compact {
+  display: flex;
+  gap: 0.25rem;
+  flex-shrink: 0;
+}
+.due-compact {
+  font-size: 0.75rem;
+  color: var(--fs-text-tertiary);
+  white-space: nowrap;
+  flex-shrink: 0;
+}
+.due-compact.overdue {
+  color: var(--fs-error);
+  font-weight: 600;
+}
+/* Full layout */
+.task-top {
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: 0.5rem;
+  margin-bottom: 0.25rem;
+}
+.task-title {
+  margin: 0;
+  font-size: 1.1rem;
+  flex: 1;
+  min-width: 0;
+  overflow: hidden;
+  text-overflow: ellipsis;
+  white-space: nowrap;
+}
+.task-preview {
+  margin: 0 0 0.5rem;
+  color: var(--fs-text-secondary);
+  font-size: 0.9rem;
+  max-height: 7.5em;
+  overflow: hidden;
+}
+.task-meta {
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: 0.5rem;
+  flex-wrap: wrap;
+}
+.due-date {
+  font-size: 0.8rem;
+  color: var(--fs-text-secondary);
+}
+.due-date.overdue {
+  color: var(--fs-overdue);
+  font-weight: 600;
+}
+.timestamp {
+  margin-left: auto;
+  font-size: 0.75rem;
+  color: var(--fs-text-tertiary);
+}
+</style>

frontend/src/components/UsageBadge.vue

@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-<script setup lang="ts">
-/**
- * "N/M used" on a list row — surfaced vs opened, for any record kind.
- *
- * Extracted from SnippetListView when the rule list needed the same chip
- * (milestone 333 step 5). The counts read identically for both; what differs
- * is the ADVICE, which is why that is a prop. A snippet surfaced repeatedly
- * and never opened should probably go; a rule in the same position may simply
- * have a `when_to_apply` that fires on the wrong thing, and telling an
- * operator to delete it would be the wrong nudge half the time.
- */
-import type { RecordUsage } from "@/types/usage";
-
-const props = defineProps<{
-  usage?: RecordUsage | null;
-  /** What to suggest when this record looks like dead weight. Appended to the
-   *  tooltip; kind-specific, because the remedies are. */
-  deadWeightAdvice: string;
-  /** What the record is called in the tooltip's own sentence. */
-  noun?: string;
-}>();
-
-/** Offered repeatedly and never opened. Three rather than one because one or
- *  two surfacings is noise — the record may simply not have come up in a
- *  relevant context yet. */
-const isDeadWeight = () =>
-  !!props.usage && props.usage.pull_count === 0 && props.usage.surfaced_count >= 3;
-
-/** "" renders nothing. A record nobody has surfaced yet gets no badge at all:
- *  "0/0" would read as a verdict when it is an absence of evidence — and on a
- *  freshly-migrated install that is every row. */
-const label = () => {
-  const u = props.usage;
-  if (!u || u.surfaced_count === 0) return "";
-  return `${u.pull_count}/${u.surfaced_count} used`;
-};
-
-const title = () => {
-  const u = props.usage;
-  if (!u) return "";
-  const last = u.last_pulled_at
-    ? `Last opened ${new Date(u.last_pulled_at).toLocaleDateString()}.`
-    : "Never opened.";
-  const verdict = isDeadWeight() ? ` ${props.deadWeightAdvice}` : "";
-  return (
-    `Surfaced to an agent ${u.surfaced_count}×, opened in full ` +
-    `${u.pull_count}×. ${last}${verdict}`
-  );
-};
-</script>
-
-<template>
-  <span
-    v-if="label()"
-    class="usage-tag"
-    :class="{ 'usage-dead': isDeadWeight() }"
-    :title="title()"
-  >{{ label() }}</span>
-</template>
-
-<!-- The look lives in components.css (canon). Nothing scoped here on purpose:
-     a view that needs different spacing keeps that as its own remainder. -->

frontend/src/components/VersionHistorySection.vue

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import { ref, computed } from "vue";
 import { apiGet } from "@/api/client";
 import DiffView from "@/components/DiffView.vue";
-import { computeDiff, type DiffLine } from "@/utils/diff";
+import type { DiffLine } from "@/composables/useAssist";
 
 interface NoteVersion {
   id: number;
@@ -31,7 +31,25 @@ const loadingDetail = ref(false);
 
 const diff = computed<DiffLine[]>(() => {
   if (!selectedVersion.value?.body) return [];
-  return computeDiff(props.currentBody, selectedVersion.value.body);
+  const aLines = props.currentBody.split("\n");
+  const bLines = selectedVersion.value.body.split("\n");
+  const m = aLines.length, n = bLines.length;
+  const dp: number[][] = Array.from({ length: m + 1 }, () => new Array(n + 1).fill(0));
+  for (let i = m - 1; i >= 0; i--)
+    for (let j = n - 1; j >= 0; j--)
+      dp[i][j] = aLines[i] === bLines[j]
+        ? dp[i + 1][j + 1] + 1
+        : Math.max(dp[i + 1][j], dp[i][j + 1]);
+  const result: DiffLine[] = [];
+  let i = 0, j = 0;
+  while (i < m && j < n) {
+    if (aLines[i] === bLines[j]) { result.push({ type: "equal", text: aLines[i++] }); j++; }
+    else if (dp[i + 1][j] >= dp[i][j + 1]) result.push({ type: "delete", text: aLines[i++] });
+    else result.push({ type: "insert", text: bLines[j++] });
+  }
+  while (i < m) result.push({ type: "delete", text: aLines[i++] });
+  while (j < n) result.push({ type: "insert", text: bLines[j++] });
+  return result;
 });
 
 function formatDate(iso: string): string {

frontend/src/components/WorkspaceNoteEditor.vue

@@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ defineExpose({ reload: loadProjectNotes });
 
 .note-tag-pill {
   font-size: 0.58rem;
-  color: var(--fs-accent-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-accent);
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 10%, transparent);
   border-radius: 999px;
   padding: 0 0.3rem;
@@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ defineExpose({ reload: loadProjectNotes });
 .btn-tag-suggestion.applied {
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 15%, transparent);
   border-color: var(--fs-accent);
-  color: var(--fs-accent-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-accent);
 }
 
 .link-suggest-strip {

frontend/src/components/WorkspaceTaskPanel.vue

@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ import { RouterLink } from "vue-router";
 import { apiGet, apiPatch, apiPost, apiDelete } from "@/api/client";
 import { useToastStore } from "@/stores/toast";
 import TaskLogSection from "@/components/TaskLogSection.vue";
-import KindBadge from "@/components/KindBadge.vue";
-import type { TaskKind } from "@/types/note";
 import { renderMarkdown } from "@/utils/markdown";
 import { Trash2, X } from "lucide-vue-next";
 import { relativeTimeOrDate } from "@/composables/useRelativeTime";
@@ -30,7 +28,6 @@ interface Task {
   due_date: string | null;
   updated_at: string;
   body?: string;
-  task_kind?: TaskKind;
 }
 
 const tasks = ref<Task[]>([]);
@@ -245,7 +242,6 @@ defineExpose({ reload: loadAll });
               <button :class="['status-dot', `status-${task.status}`]" :title="`${task.status} — click to cycle`" @click="cycleStatus(task, $event)">{{ STATUS_ICON[task.status] ?? '○' }}</button>
               <span v-if="task.priority && task.priority !== 'none'" :class="['priority-dot', PRIORITY_CLASS[task.priority] ?? '']"></span>
               <span class="task-title" :class="{ done: task.status === 'done' }">{{ task.title }}</span>
-              <KindBadge :kind="task.task_kind" />
               <span v-if="task.due_date" :class="['task-due', { overdue: isRowOverdue(task) }]">{{ task.due_date }}</span>
               <span class="task-age">{{ relativeTimeOrDate(task.updated_at) }}</span>
             </li>
@@ -271,7 +267,6 @@ defineExpose({ reload: loadAll });
               <button :class="['status-dot', `status-${task.status}`]" :title="`${task.status} — click to cycle`" @click="cycleStatus(task, $event)">{{ STATUS_ICON[task.status] ?? '○' }}</button>
               <span v-if="task.priority && task.priority !== 'none'" :class="['priority-dot', PRIORITY_CLASS[task.priority] ?? '']"></span>
               <span class="task-title" :class="{ done: task.status === 'done' }">{{ task.title }}</span>
-              <KindBadge :kind="task.task_kind" />
               <span v-if="task.due_date" :class="['task-due', { overdue: isRowOverdue(task) }]">{{ task.due_date }}</span>
               <span class="task-age">{{ relativeTimeOrDate(task.updated_at) }}</span>
             </li>
@@ -286,7 +281,7 @@ defineExpose({ reload: loadAll });
       <div v-if="activeTask" class="task-detail">
         <div class="detail-header">
           <RouterLink :to="`/tasks/${activeTask.id}/edit`" target="_blank" class="btn-text btn-edit-task" title="Open full editor">Edit ↗</RouterLink>
-          <span :class="['status-cycler', `status-${activeTask.status}`]" @click="cycleStatus(activeTask, $event)" title="Click to cycle status">
+          <span :class="['status-badge', `status-${activeTask.status}`]" @click="cycleStatus(activeTask, $event)" title="Click to cycle status">
             {{ STATUS_ICON[activeTask.status] ?? "○" }} {{ activeTask.status.replace("_", " ") }}
           </span>
           <template v-if="deleteConfirmPending">
@@ -424,8 +419,8 @@ defineExpose({ reload: loadAll });
   border-radius: 10px;
   text-transform: capitalize;
 }
-.ms-status-active { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 15%, transparent); color: var(--fs-accent-fg); }
-.ms-status-completed { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-success) 15%, transparent); color: var(--fs-success-fg); }
+.ms-status-active { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 15%, transparent); color: var(--fs-accent); }
+.ms-status-completed { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-success) 15%, transparent); color: var(--fs-success); }
 
 .task-items {
   list-style: none;
@@ -501,10 +496,7 @@ defineExpose({ reload: loadAll });
   flex-shrink: 0;
 }
 
-/* An interactive CYCLER, not a chip: it is clickable, outlined and
-   transparent. It shared a name with the task chip and was never the same
-   shape (#3132). */
-.status-cycler {
+.status-badge {
   padding: 0.2rem 0.55rem;
   border-radius: 12px;
   font-size: 0.75rem;
@@ -516,8 +508,8 @@ defineExpose({ reload: loadAll });
   user-select: none;
   margin-left: auto;
 }
-.status-cycler.status-in_progress { border-color: var(--fs-accent); color: var(--fs-accent-fg); background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 10%, transparent); }
-.status-cycler.status-done { border-color: var(--fs-success); color: var(--fs-success-fg); background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-success) 10%, transparent); }
+.status-badge.status-in_progress { border-color: var(--fs-accent); color: var(--fs-accent); background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 10%, transparent); }
+.status-badge.status-done { border-color: var(--fs-success); color: var(--fs-success); background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-success) 10%, transparent); }
 
 .btn-edit-task { margin-left: 0.25rem; }
 .btn-edit-task:hover { text-decoration: underline; }

frontend/src/components/rules/RuleEditorSlideOver.vue

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ import { computed, ref, watch, onMounted } from "vue";
 import { useRulebooksStore } from "@/stores/rulebooks";
 import { useCanonicalSystemsStore } from "@/stores/canonicalSystems";
 import type { RuleTier } from "@/api/rulebooks";
-import RuleHistoryPanel from "@/components/rules/RuleHistoryPanel.vue";
 
 const props = defineProps<{ ruleId: number | null; topicId: number | null }>();
 const emit = defineEmits<{ close: [] }>();
@@ -257,17 +256,6 @@ watch(() => props.ruleId, load);
         How to apply
         <textarea v-model="howToApply" rows="4" placeholder="When / where this kicks in." />
       </label>
-
-      <!-- Only on an existing rule: a rule being created has no past, and an
-           "Edit history — none" line on a blank form reads as a broken panel.
-           Keyed on ruleId so switching rules reloads rather than showing the
-           previous rule's history under the new one's text. -->
-      <RuleHistoryPanel
-        v-if="!isCreating && ruleId !== null"
-        :key="ruleId"
-        :rule-id="ruleId"
-        :current="store.currentRule"
-      />
     </aside>
   </div>
 </template>

frontend/src/components/rules/RuleHistoryPanel.vue

@@ -1,274 +0,0 @@
-<script setup lang="ts">
-/**
- * What a rule USED TO SAY — inside the slide-over, where a rule is read in
- * full. Not on the list row: a history entry point there would compete with
- * the row's actual job.
- *
- * A SIBLING OF HistoryPanel.vue, NOT A REUSE OF IT, and the reason is in its
- * props: `noteId` + `currentBody`, a `NoteVersion` carrying tags and pin
- * columns, a fetch of /api/notes/…, a `restore` emit, and pin/unpin buttons.
- * Every one of those is note-shaped. Rules have no tags, no pins, and
- * deliberately no restore, and a rule's text is EIGHT fields rather than one
- * body — which changes the central question from "what changed" to "which
- * fields moved".
- *
- * What was genuinely shared is shared: DiffView.vue takes DiffLine[] and
- * nothing note-shaped, and the LCS walk now lives in utils/diff.ts, which
- * this file uses rather than copying a fourth time (#3207).
- */
-import { computed, onMounted, ref, watch } from "vue";
-import DiffView from "@/components/DiffView.vue";
-import { computeDiff } from "@/utils/diff";
-import {
-  listRuleVersions, getRuleVersion, type Rule, type RuleVersion,
-} from "@/api/rulebooks";
-import { useToastStore } from "@/stores/toast";
-
-const props = defineProps<{ ruleId: number; current: Rule | null }>();
-
-const toast = useToastStore();
-const versions = ref<RuleVersion[]>([]);
-const selected = ref<RuleVersion | null>(null);
-const expanded = ref(false);
-const loading = ref(false);
-const loadingDetail = ref(false);
-
-// The eight TEXT fields a version carries, in the order the editor shows
-// them. Narrowed to its own type rather than `keyof RuleVersion`, which would
-// also admit id/rule_id/user_id/created_at — none of which is text a reader
-// compares, and all of which would widen every lookup below to `number`.
-// Labels rather than column names: a reader is deciding whether to open a
-// row, and "How to apply" reads where "how_to_apply" has to be decoded.
-type TextField =
-  | "title" | "statement" | "when_to_apply" | "tier"
-  | "why" | "how_to_apply" | "verify_with" | "expires_when";
-
-const FIELDS: Array<[TextField, string]> = [
-  ["title", "Title"],
-  ["statement", "Statement"],
-  ["when_to_apply", "When to apply"],
-  ["tier", "Tier"],
-  ["why", "Why"],
-  ["how_to_apply", "How to apply"],
-  ["verify_with", "Check"],
-  ["expires_when", "Ends when"],
-];
-
-/**
- * Which fields this edit moved.
- *
- * A version holds the text the edit REPLACED, so the edit is the step from
- * this row to the NEXT NEWER state — the version above it in the list, or,
- * for the newest row, the rule as it stands now. Comparing against the row
- * below instead would attribute every change to the wrong edit.
- */
-function changedFields(index: number): string[] {
-  const before = versions.value[index];
-  // `Rule` carries all eight as required strings; a RuleVersion carries them
-  // only once opened, which is what the undefined check below is about.
-  const after: Pick<Rule, TextField> | RuleVersion | null =
-    index === 0 ? props.current : versions.value[index - 1] ?? null;
-  if (!before || !after) return [];
-  return FIELDS
-    .filter(([key]) => {
-      // A listing row carries only the title; the rest arrive when opened.
-      // Undefined means NOT LOADED, which is not the same as unchanged — so a
-      // field nobody has fetched is claimed as neither.
-      const a = before[key];
-      const b = after[key];
-      if (a === undefined || b === undefined) return false;
-      return (a ?? "") !== (b ?? "");
-    })
-    .map(([, label]) => label);
-}
-
-/** True when this edit rewrote or removed the rule's check.
- *
- * Worth its own marker because editing `verify_with` silently drops
- * `verified_at` (milestone 312) — the moment a rule re-entered the staleness
- * sweep. That happens nowhere a reader can see it, and this row is the only
- * surface that can say when it happened. */
-function checkChanged(index: number): boolean {
-  return changedFields(index).includes("Check");
-}
-
-const diff = computed(() => {
-  if (!selected.value || selected.value.statement === undefined) return [];
-  const now = props.current?.statement ?? "";
-  return computeDiff(now, selected.value.statement);
-});
-
-function stamp(iso: string): string {
-  return iso.slice(0, 10);
-}
-
-async function load() {
-  loading.value = true;
-  try {
-    versions.value = await listRuleVersions(props.ruleId);
-  } catch {
-    toast.show("Could not load this rule's history", "error");
-  } finally {
-    loading.value = false;
-  }
-}
-
-async function open(v: RuleVersion) {
-  if (selected.value?.id === v.id) {
-    selected.value = null;
-    return;
-  }
-  loadingDetail.value = true;
-  try {
-    const full = await getRuleVersion(props.ruleId, v.id);
-    // Merged back into the list so `changedFields` can compare against real
-    // text once a neighbour has been opened, instead of staying blind.
-    const at = versions.value.findIndex((x) => x.id === v.id);
-    if (at >= 0) versions.value[at] = { ...versions.value[at], ...full };
-    selected.value = versions.value[at] ?? full;
-  } catch {
-    toast.show("Could not open that version", "error");
-  } finally {
-    loadingDetail.value = false;
-  }
-}
-
-onMounted(load);
-watch(() => props.ruleId, () => { selected.value = null; load(); });
-</script>
-
-<template>
-  <section class="history">
-    <button class="toggle" :aria-expanded="expanded" @click="expanded = !expanded">
-      <span>Edit history</span>
-      <span class="count">{{ versions.length || "none" }}</span>
-    </button>
-
-    <div v-if="expanded" class="body">
-      <p v-if="loading" class="state">Loading…</p>
-
-      <!-- Never reworded is the ordinary case, and must not read as a fault. -->
-      <p v-else-if="!versions.length" class="state empty">
-        This rule has never been reworded. Nothing was recorded before the history
-        existed, so an older rule starts empty too.
-      </p>
-
-      <template v-else>
-        <p class="lede">
-          Each entry is what the rule said <em>before</em> that edit. The wording it
-          was changed to is the rule as it stands above.
-        </p>
-        <ol class="rows">
-          <li v-for="(v, i) in versions" :key="v.id" class="row">
-            <button
-              class="row-head"
-              :class="{ open: selected?.id === v.id }"
-              @click="open(v)"
-            >
-              <span class="when">{{ stamp(v.created_at) }}</span>
-              <span class="fields">
-                {{ changedFields(i).join(", ") || "opened to compare" }}
-              </span>
-              <span v-if="checkChanged(i)" class="check-moved">check reset</span>
-            </button>
-
-            <div v-if="selected?.id === v.id" class="detail">
-              <p v-if="loadingDetail" class="state">Loading…</p>
-              <template v-else>
-                <p v-if="checkChanged(i)" class="warn">
-                  This edit changed the rule's check, which cleared its verification
-                  stamp — the rule went back to the top of the staleness sweep here.
-                </p>
-                <dl class="fields-list">
-                  <template v-for="[key, label] in FIELDS" :key="key">
-                    <template v-if="key !== 'statement' && v[key]">
-                      <dt>{{ label }}</dt>
-                      <dd>{{ v[key] }}</dd>
-                    </template>
-                  </template>
-                </dl>
-                <h4>Statement</h4>
-                <DiffView v-if="diff.length" :diff="diff" />
-                <p v-else class="state">The statement did not change in this edit.</p>
-              </template>
-            </div>
-          </li>
-        </ol>
-      </template>
-    </div>
-  </section>
-</template>
-
-<style scoped>
-.history { border-top: 1px solid var(--fs-border-color); padding-top: var(--fs-space-3); }
-
-.toggle {
-  display: flex; align-items: center; gap: var(--fs-space-2); width: 100%;
-  background: none; border: none; padding: 0; cursor: pointer;
-  font: inherit; font-size: var(--fs-size-body-sm); color: var(--fs-text-secondary);
-}
-.toggle:hover { color: var(--fs-text-primary); }
-.count {
-  margin-left: auto; font-size: var(--fs-size-tiny); color: var(--fs-text-tertiary);
-  font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
-}
-
-.body { margin-top: var(--fs-space-3); display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: var(--fs-space-3); }
-.state { margin: 0; font-size: var(--fs-size-body-sm); color: var(--fs-text-secondary); }
-.state.empty { color: var(--fs-text-tertiary); }
-.lede {
-  margin: 0; max-width: 62ch; font-size: var(--fs-size-tiny);
-  color: var(--fs-text-tertiary); line-height: var(--fs-leading-body);
-}
-
-.rows { list-style: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: var(--fs-space-2); }
-.row { background: var(--fs-surface-raised); border-radius: var(--fs-radius-md); }
-
-.row-head {
-  display: flex; align-items: baseline; gap: var(--fs-space-3); width: 100%;
-  background: none; border: none; cursor: pointer; text-align: left;
-  padding: var(--fs-space-2) var(--fs-space-3);
-  font: inherit; font-size: var(--fs-size-body-sm); color: var(--fs-text-primary);
-}
-.row-head:hover { background: var(--fs-surface-hover); border-radius: var(--fs-radius-md); }
-.when {
-  font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; color: var(--fs-text-secondary);
-  font-size: var(--fs-size-tiny);
-}
-.fields { color: var(--fs-text-primary); min-width: 0; overflow-wrap: anywhere; }
-
-/* A TINT, not the solid token. `--fs-warning-fg` is defined as "warning text
-   ON A WARNING TINT" — painting it over solid `--fs-warning` is the same-hue
-   contrast failure #3141 records. The 12% mix is how theme.css builds its own
-   `-bg` pairs, and it keeps the value a resolvable var() rather than a raw hex
-   that check_design_tokens.py cannot see at all. */
-.check-moved {
-  margin-left: auto; flex: none;
-  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-warning) 12%, transparent);
-  color: var(--fs-warning-fg);
-  border-radius: var(--fs-radius-pill);
-  padding: 0.1rem 0.5rem;
-  font-size: var(--fs-size-tiny); letter-spacing: var(--fs-tracking-tiny);
-}
-
-.detail {
-  padding: 0 var(--fs-space-3) var(--fs-space-3);
-  display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: var(--fs-space-2);
-}
-.warn {
-  margin: 0; font-size: var(--fs-size-tiny); line-height: var(--fs-leading-body);
-  color: var(--fs-warning-fg);
-  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-warning) 12%, transparent);
-  border-radius: var(--fs-radius-sm); padding: var(--fs-space-2);
-}
-.fields-list { display: grid; grid-template-columns: auto 1fr; gap: 0.15rem var(--fs-space-3); margin: 0; }
-.fields-list dt {
-  font-size: var(--fs-size-tiny); text-transform: uppercase;
-  letter-spacing: var(--fs-tracking-tiny); color: var(--fs-text-tertiary);
-}
-.fields-list dd {
-  margin: 0; font-size: var(--fs-size-body-sm);
-  color: var(--fs-text-primary); min-width: 0; overflow-wrap: anywhere;
-}
-h4 { margin: var(--fs-space-2) 0 0; font-size: var(--fs-size-tiny); color: var(--fs-text-tertiary); }
-</style>

frontend/src/components/rules/RuleListPane.vue

@@ -1,16 +1,5 @@
 <script setup lang="ts">
 import type { RuleHeader } from "@/api/rulebooks";
-import UsageBadge from "@/components/UsageBadge.vue";
-
-/** The dead-weight nudge for a RULE — two remedies, not one, which is the
- *  whole reason this advice is per-kind. A snippet nobody opens should
- *  probably go. A rule nobody opens may be perfectly good and simply firing on
- *  the wrong thing, so "delete it" would be the wrong nudge half the time and
- *  the operator has to be the one who picks. */
-const RULE_DEAD_WEIGHT =
-  "Kept arriving without being read. Either its trigger fires on the wrong " +
-  "work — reword “when to apply” so it says when — or it is not wanted here. " +
-  "Until one or the other, it takes a slot in every write it matches.";
 
 defineProps<{ topicId: number; rules: RuleHeader[] }>();
 const emit = defineEmits<{
@@ -39,7 +28,6 @@ const emit = defineEmits<{
               ? 'Asserts a fact nobody has confirmed yet'
               : `Check last passed ${r.last_verified}`"
           >{{ r.last_verified === "never" ? "unverified" : `checked ${r.last_verified}` }}</span>
-          <UsageBadge :usage="r.usage" :dead-weight-advice="RULE_DEAD_WEIGHT" />
         </div>
         <div class="statement">{{ r.statement }}</div>
         <div v-if="r.when_to_apply || r.updated_at" class="meta">

frontend/src/composables/useAssist.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import { ref, computed, watch, type Ref } from "vue";
-import { computeDiff, type DiffLine } from "@/utils/diff";
 import { apiPost, apiPut, apiDelete, apiSSEStream, type SSEStreamHandle } from "@/api/client";
 import { useToastStore } from "@/stores/toast";
 import {
@@ -10,16 +9,17 @@ import {
 export type AssistState = "idle" | "streaming" | "review";
 export type ScopeMode = "document" | "section";
 
-// Re-exported: this composable was where DiffLine lived before the diff
-// moved to a shared util, and every consumer still imports the type from here.
-export type { DiffLine };
-
 export interface AssistTarget {
   text: string;
   startOffset: number;
   endOffset: number;
 }
 
+export interface DiffLine {
+  type: 'equal' | 'delete' | 'insert';
+  text: string;
+}
+
 export interface NoteDraft {
   id: number;
   note_id: number;
@@ -31,6 +31,27 @@ export interface NoteDraft {
   updated_at: string;
 }
 
+function computeDiff(a: string, b: string): DiffLine[] {
+  const aLines = a.split('\n');
+  const bLines = b.split('\n');
+  const m = aLines.length, n = bLines.length;
+  const dp: number[][] = Array.from({ length: m + 1 }, () => new Array(n + 1).fill(0));
+  for (let i = m - 1; i >= 0; i--)
+    for (let j = n - 1; j >= 0; j--)
+      dp[i][j] = aLines[i] === bLines[j]
+        ? dp[i+1][j+1] + 1
+        : Math.max(dp[i+1][j], dp[i][j+1]);
+  const result: DiffLine[] = [];
+  let i = 0, j = 0;
+  while (i < m && j < n) {
+    if (aLines[i] === bLines[j]) { result.push({ type: 'equal', text: aLines[i++] }); j++; }
+    else if (dp[i+1][j] >= dp[i][j+1]) result.push({ type: 'delete', text: aLines[i++] });
+    else result.push({ type: 'insert', text: bLines[j++] });
+  }
+  while (i < m) result.push({ type: 'delete', text: aLines[i++] });
+  while (j < n) result.push({ type: 'insert', text: bLines[j++] });
+  return result;
+}
 
 export function useAssist(body: Ref<string>, noteId?: Ref<number | null>, projectId?: Ref<number | null>) {
   const toast = useToastStore();

frontend/src/stores/notes.ts

@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@ export const useNotesStore = defineStore("notes", () => {
     project_id?: number | null;
     milestone_id?: number | null;
     note_type?: string;
-    verify_with?: string;
-    expires_when?: string;
   }): Promise<Note> {
     try {
       return await apiPost<Note>("/api/notes", data);
@@ -44,11 +42,7 @@ export const useNotesStore = defineStore("notes", () => {
 
   async function updateNote(
     id: number,
-    data: Partial<Pick<
-      Note,
-      "title" | "body" | "tags" | "project_id" | "milestone_id" | "note_type"
-      | "verify_with" | "expires_when"
-    >>
+    data: Partial<Pick<Note, "title" | "body" | "tags" | "project_id" | "milestone_id" | "note_type">>
   ): Promise<Note> {
     try {
       const note = await apiPut<Note>(`/api/notes/${id}`, data);

frontend/src/types/note.ts

@@ -34,15 +34,6 @@ export interface Note {
   is_task: boolean;
   note_type: NoteType;
   task_kind?: TaskKind;
-  // The note's own check (milestone 317). Empty on almost every note — that
-  // is the normal case: a note with no `verify_with` is a DECISION, and there
-  // is nothing to go and check. Only a note asserting a fact about something
-  // outside the operator's control carries one. `verified_at` null while
-  // `verify_with` is set means NOBODY HAS EVER CONFIRMED IT, which is the
-  // state the sweep ranks first.
-  verify_with?: string;
-  expires_when?: string;
-  verified_at?: string | null;
   systems?: System[];
   arose_from_id?: number | null;
   created_at: string;

frontend/src/types/usage.ts

@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * How often a record was put in front of an agent, and how often one then
- * opened it in full.
- *
- * One shape for every record kind the retrieval surfaces can choose. Snippets
- * and notes are counted in `note_usage_events`; rules in `rule_usage_events`,
- * which is a separate table because a note id and a rule id are different
- * namespaces resolved through different maps at restore (milestone 333). The
- * TABLES are separate for that reason; the READOUT is the same question, so
- * the client type is one.
- *
- * A high `surfaced_count` with `pull_count: 0` is dead weight — it occupies a
- * slot in every future menu while never being used. What to DO about that
- * differs by kind, which is why the advice is a prop on the badge rather than
- * a property of this type: a snippet nobody opens should probably be deleted,
- * while a rule nobody opens may just be mis-triggered.
- */
-export interface RecordUsage {
-  surfaced_count: number;
-  pull_count: number;
-  last_surfaced_at: string | null;
-  last_pulled_at: string | null;
-}

frontend/src/utils/diff.ts

@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Line diff — one copy, for every surface that shows what changed.
- *
- * WHY THIS FILE EXISTS. The same LCS walk was written out three times:
- * privately in `useAssist.ts`, and again inside `HistoryPanel.vue` and
- * `VersionHistorySection.vue`. The three were character-identical apart from
- * quote style — nobody had diverged them on purpose, they were simply copied
- * because `computeDiff` was never exported. Milestone 323 needed a fourth
- * consumer (a rule's edit history), and a fourth copy is the cost #3207
- * records: a fix or an improvement now has to be found in N places by someone
- * who does not know N.
- */
-
-export interface DiffLine {
-  type: "equal" | "delete" | "insert";
-  text: string;
-}
-
-/**
- * Diff `a` against `b`, line by line.
- *
- * `delete` lines come from `a`, `insert` lines from `b` — so the caller
- * decides which side reads as "before" by which argument it passes. Every
- * caller here passes the CURRENT text as `a` and the older text as `b`, so a
- * deletion is what the old version had and an insertion is what replaced it.
- *
- * O(m·n) in time and memory: fine for a note or a rule, and deliberately not
- * generalised further, since nothing here diffs a file of thousands of lines.
- */
-export function computeDiff(a: string, b: string): DiffLine[] {
-  const aLines = a.split("\n");
-  const bLines = b.split("\n");
-  const m = aLines.length, n = bLines.length;
-  const dp: number[][] = Array.from({ length: m + 1 }, () => new Array(n + 1).fill(0));
-  for (let i = m - 1; i >= 0; i--)
-    for (let j = n - 1; j >= 0; j--)
-      dp[i][j] = aLines[i] === bLines[j]
-        ? dp[i + 1][j + 1] + 1
-        : Math.max(dp[i + 1][j], dp[i][j + 1]);
-  const result: DiffLine[] = [];
-  let i = 0, j = 0;
-  while (i < m && j < n) {
-    if (aLines[i] === bLines[j]) { result.push({ type: "equal", text: aLines[i++] }); j++; }
-    else if (dp[i + 1][j] >= dp[i][j + 1]) result.push({ type: "delete", text: aLines[i++] });
-    else result.push({ type: "insert", text: bLines[j++] });
-  }
-  while (i < m) result.push({ type: "delete", text: aLines[i++] });
-  while (j < n) result.push({ type: "insert", text: bLines[j++] });
-  return result;
-}

frontend/src/views/DashboardView.vue

@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
 <script setup lang="ts">
 import { ref, onMounted } from "vue";
 import { apiGet } from "@/api/client";
-import KindBadge from "@/components/KindBadge.vue";
-import type { TaskKind } from "@/types/note";
 import { relativeTime } from "@/composables/useRelativeTime";
 
-interface TaskRow { id: number; title: string; status: string; priority: string; task_kind?: TaskKind }
+interface TaskRow { id: number; title: string; status: string; priority: string }
 interface MilestoneBlock { id: number; title: string; progress_pct: number; open_tasks: TaskRow[] }
 interface ActiveProject {
   id: number; title: string; color: string | null; last_activity: string;
@@ -101,7 +99,6 @@ onMounted(async () => {
               >
                 <span class="task-mark">{{ t.status === 'in_progress' ? '▸' : '○' }}</span>
                 <span class="task-title">{{ t.title }}</span>
-                <KindBadge :kind="t.task_kind" />
                 <span v-if="t.priority !== 'none'" class="task-pri" :class="`pri-${t.priority}`">{{ t.priority }}</span>
               </router-link>
             </div>
@@ -117,7 +114,6 @@ onMounted(async () => {
               >
                 <span class="task-mark">{{ t.status === 'in_progress' ? '▸' : '○' }}</span>
                 <span class="task-title">{{ t.title }}</span>
-                <KindBadge :kind="t.task_kind" />
                 <span v-if="t.priority !== 'none'" class="task-pri" :class="`pri-${t.priority}`">{{ t.priority }}</span>
               </router-link>
             </div>

frontend/src/views/DesignSystemsView.vue

@@ -1427,12 +1427,12 @@ textarea.input {
 
 .spec-status.violated {
   background: var(--fs-priority-high-bg);
-  color: var(--fs-priority-high-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-priority-high);
 }
 
 .spec-status.missing {
   background: var(--fs-priority-medium-bg);
-  color: var(--fs-priority-medium-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-priority-medium);
 }
 
 .sheet {

frontend/src/views/GraphView.vue

@@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ onUnmounted(() => {
 .tag-chip {
   font-size: 0.7rem;
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 15%, transparent);
-  color: var(--fs-accent-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-accent);
   border-radius: 999px;
   padding: 0.1rem 0.4rem;
 }
@@ -928,7 +928,7 @@ onUnmounted(() => {
 }
 .peek-linked-item:hover {
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 8%, var(--fs-surface-raised));
-  color: var(--fs-accent-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-accent);
 }
 
 .peek-linked-type {

frontend/src/views/KnowledgeView.vue

@@ -2,11 +2,6 @@
 import { ref, computed, watch, onMounted, onUnmounted, nextTick } from "vue";
 import { useRouter } from "vue-router";
 import { apiGet } from "@/api/client";
-import type { TaskKind, TaskStatus, TaskPriority } from "@/types/note";
-import KindBadge from "@/components/KindBadge.vue";
-import NoteSweepPane from "@/components/NoteSweepPane.vue";
-import StatusBadge from "@/components/StatusBadge.vue";
-import PriorityBadge from "@/components/PriorityBadge.vue";
 import GraphView from "@/views/GraphView.vue";
 import {
   FileText,
@@ -14,7 +9,6 @@ import {
   Workflow,
   Search,
   Share2,
-  ShieldCheck,
   ChevronLeft,
   ChevronRight,
   X,
@@ -26,7 +20,7 @@ const router = useRouter();
 
 interface KnowledgeItem {
   id: number;
-  note_type: "note" | "task" | "process" | "snippet";
+  note_type: "note" | "task" | "process";
   title: string;
   snippet: string;
   tags: string[];
@@ -41,44 +35,12 @@ interface KnowledgeItem {
   status?: string;
   priority?: string;
   due_date?: string;
-  task_kind?: TaskKind;
+  task_kind?: "work" | "plan";
 }
 
-// ─── The facet vocabulary ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-// Mirrors services/knowledge._FACETS, which is where it is defined for real.
-// A facet spans BOTH typing axes — a record TYPE (note / process / snippet) or
-// a task KIND (`task` for any, else issue / spike) — because that is what this
-// feed actually holds.
-//
-// `plan` is still a valid facet at the API, for the 90 legacy plan-tasks, but
-// it has no chip: retired in 0066, it kept a chip of its own for longer than
-// `issue` — 17% of every task here — went without one (#3128). Those rows are
-// still reachable under Tasks, wearing a Plan badge.
-type Facet = "" | "note" | "task" | "issue" | "spike" | "snippet" | "process";
-
-// The facets that select TASKS. Kinds are subsets of `task`, so any of them
-// means the duplicate report should be comparing tasks.
-const TASK_FACETS = new Set<Facet>(["task", "issue", "spike"]);
-
-const FACET_CHIPS: [Exclude<Facet, "">, string][] = [
-  ["note", "Notes"],
-  ["task", "Tasks"],
-  ["issue", "Issues"],
-  ["spike", "Spikes"],
-  ["snippet", "Snippets"],
-  ["process", "Processes"],
-];
-
-// ─── View mode ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-// The sweep is cross-cutting — a note that has gone false does not care which
-// facet it sits under — so it REPLACES the browse list rather than filtering
-// it. Filtering would mean the answer depended on which chip was active, which
-// is the under-reporting the sweep exists to prevent (milestone 317 step 4).
-const sweepActive = ref(false);
-
 // ─── Filter state ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
-const activeType = ref<Facet>("");
+const activeType = ref<"" | "note" | "task" | "plan" | "process">("");
 const activeTag = ref("");
 const sortMode = ref<"modified" | "created" | "alpha" | "type">("modified");
 const searchQuery = ref("");
@@ -104,10 +66,9 @@ const dupGroups = ref<DupGroup[]>([]);
 const dupSuggestion = ref("");
 const dupLoading = ref(false);
 const dupChecked = ref(false);
-// The report follows the type filter: viewing tasks — under ANY task facet,
-// including a single kind — checks tasks. Everything else checks notes, the
-// kind with the most to find.
-const dupKind = computed(() => (TASK_FACETS.has(activeType.value) ? "task" : "note"));
+// The report follows the type filter: viewing tasks checks tasks. Anything
+// else (all / plan / process) checks notes — the kind with the most to find.
+const dupKind = computed(() => (activeType.value === "task" ? "task" : "note"));
 
 async function loadDuplicates() {
   dupLoading.value = true;
@@ -131,11 +92,8 @@ watch(dupKind, () => { dupChecked.value = false; dupGroups.value = []; });
 
 // ─── Type counts ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
-// One number per facet, plus the grand total. Partial because the server sends
-// a key only for a facet it has rows for. Kinds are subsets of `task` and are
-// deliberately absent from `total` — including them would count an issue twice.
-type KnowledgeCounts = Partial<Record<Exclude<Facet, "">, number>> & { total: number };
-const typeCounts = ref<KnowledgeCounts>({ total: 0 });
+interface KnowledgeCounts { note: number; task: number; plan: number; process: number; total: number }
+const typeCounts = ref<KnowledgeCounts>({ note: 0, task: 0, plan: 0, process: 0, total: 0 });
 
 async function fetchCounts() {
   try {
@@ -272,10 +230,6 @@ function onSearchInput() {
 }
 
 watch([activeType, sortMode], () => resetAndReobserve());
-// Closing the sweep remounts the feed, and with it the scroll sentinel — a
-// fresh element the old observer is not watching. Without this the list loads
-// its first page and then never loads another.
-watch(sweepActive, (open) => { if (!open) resetAndReobserve(); });
 watch(activeTag, () => { fetchCounts(); resetAndReobserve(); });
 
 // ─── Today bar ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -316,18 +270,9 @@ function isOverdue(item: KnowledgeItem): boolean {
   return new Date(item.due_date) < new Date(new Date().toDateString());
 }
 
-// Each record kind opens in ITS OWN editor. A snippet used to fall through to
-// /notes/:id, whose save is a plain PATCH of the body — which left the snippet's
-// derived `data` mirror describing the previous version (#3128). The service now
-// recomposes the mirror either way, so this is no longer the guard; it is simply
-// that the note editor cannot edit a snippet's signature, language or locations,
-// and offering it as the way in was always wrong. Processes stay here on
-// purpose: they have no editor of their own and the note editor knows the type.
 function openItem(item: KnowledgeItem) {
   if (item.note_type === 'task') {
     router.push(`/tasks/${item.id}`);
-  } else if (item.note_type === 'snippet') {
-    router.push(`/snippets/${item.id}`);
   } else {
     router.push(`/notes/${item.id}`);
   }
@@ -431,14 +376,14 @@ onUnmounted(() => {
             <span v-if="typeCounts.total > 1" class="filter-count">{{ typeCounts.total }}</span>
           </button>
           <button
-            v-for="[val, label] in FACET_CHIPS"
+            v-for="[val, label, key] in ([['note','Notes','note'],['task','Tasks','task'],['plan','Plans','plan'],['process','Processes','process']] as [string,string,string][])"
             :key="val"
             class="filter-btn"
             :class="{ active: activeType === val }"
-            @click="activeType = val"
+            @click="activeType = (val as '' | 'note' | 'task' | 'plan' | 'process')"
           >
             <span class="filter-btn-label">{{ label }}</span>
-            <span v-if="(typeCounts[val] ?? 0) > 1" class="filter-count">{{ typeCounts[val] }}</span>
+            <span v-if="typeCounts[key as keyof KnowledgeCounts] > 1" class="filter-count">{{ typeCounts[key as keyof KnowledgeCounts] }}</span>
           </button>
         </div>
 
@@ -484,15 +429,6 @@ onUnmounted(() => {
             <Share2 :size="16" />
             Graph
           </button>
-          <button
-            class="btn-ghost btn-compact"
-            :class="{ active: sweepActive }"
-            title="Notes that assert a fact about something outside your control, least-recently-confirmed first. Most notes are decisions and never appear."
-            @click="sweepActive = !sweepActive"
-          >
-            <ShieldCheck :size="16" />
-            Due
-          </button>
           <button
             class="btn-ghost btn-compact"
             :disabled="dupLoading"
@@ -503,12 +439,6 @@ onUnmounted(() => {
           </button>
         </div>
 
-        <!-- The sweep replaces the feed. It is not a facet: a facet answers
-             "show me this kind", and this answers "show me what nobody has
-             confirmed" — a question the type chips cannot narrow without
-             under-reporting it. -->
-        <NoteSweepPane v-if="sweepActive" @open-note="(id) => router.push(`/notes/${id}`)" />
-
         <!-- Near-duplicate report. A proposal surface only: unlike snippets
              (which merge losslessly), notes are never merged — the right fix is
              supersession, extraction into a reference note, or leaving parallel
@@ -546,12 +476,6 @@ onUnmounted(() => {
           </template>
         </div>
 
-        <!-- The whole feed stands down while the sweep is open: two answers
-             to two different questions on one screen is neither. Wrapped
-             rather than given an extra v-if branch, because the scroll
-             sentinel lives inside the grid and the observer must not be left
-             holding a ref to something that never renders. -->
-        <template v-if="!sweepActive">
         <!-- Loading / empty -->
         <div v-if="loading && items.length === 0" class="knowledge-empty">Loading…</div>
         <div v-else-if="!loading && items.length === 0" class="knowledge-empty">
@@ -573,14 +497,7 @@ onUnmounted(() => {
               <span v-if="item.note_type === 'note'">Note</span>
               <span v-else-if="item.note_type === 'task'">{{ item.task_kind === 'plan' ? 'Plan' : 'Task' }}</span>
               <span v-else-if="item.note_type === 'process'">Process</span>
-              <span v-else-if="item.note_type === 'snippet'">Snippet</span>
             </span>
-            <!-- Kind sits BESIDE the type badge, not inside it: the type badge
-                 speaks the vocabulary of this view's type filter (note / task /
-                 plan / process), and kind is the other axis. `plan` is passed
-                 as null because the badge to the left already says it — two
-                 chips reading "Plan" would look like two facts. -->
-            <KindBadge :kind="item.task_kind === 'plan' ? null : item.task_kind" />
 
             <div class="k-card-body">
               <div class="k-card-title">{{ item.title }}</div>
@@ -588,12 +505,14 @@ onUnmounted(() => {
               <!-- Task specifics -->
               <div v-if="item.note_type === 'task'" class="k-card-task">
                 <div class="task-badges">
-                  <StatusBadge v-if="item.status" :status="item.status as TaskStatus" compact />
-                  <PriorityBadge
+                  <span class="status-badge" :class="`status--${item.status}`">
+                    {{ item.status === 'in_progress' ? 'in progress' : item.status }}
+                  </span>
+                  <span
                     v-if="item.priority && item.priority !== 'none'"
-                    :priority="item.priority as TaskPriority"
-                    compact
-                  />
+                    class="priority-badge"
+                    :class="`priority--${item.priority}`"
+                  >{{ item.priority }}</span>
                 </div>
                 <span
                   v-if="item.due_date"
@@ -625,7 +544,6 @@ onUnmounted(() => {
             <span v-if="contentFetching" class="sentinel-loading">Loading…</span>
           </div>
         </div>
-        </template>
       </div>
 
       <!-- Graph panel -->
@@ -827,7 +745,7 @@ onUnmounted(() => {
 }
 .filter-btn.active .filter-count {
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 20%, transparent);
-  color: var(--fs-accent-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-accent);
 }
 .filter-tag { font-size: 0.78rem; }
 
@@ -955,14 +873,6 @@ onUnmounted(() => {
 .badge--note   { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 15%, transparent); color: #7A6DA8; }
 .badge--task   { background: rgba(212,160,23,0.15); color: #fbbf24; }
 .badge--plan   { background: rgba(99,102,241,0.18); color: #818cf8; }
-/* Snippet and process are NEUTRAL on purpose. Both were unstyled — and the
-   snippet had no label either, so all 90 of them rendered an empty chip in
-   this feed (#3128). Giving them hues would put a third and fourth colour
-   beside KindBadge's warm/cool pair on the same card; a record type that
-   isn't an alarm reads better as plain. Standard body pair, so the contrast
-   is the one the palette already guarantees. */
-.badge--snippet,
-.badge--process { background: var(--fs-surface-raised); color: var(--fs-text-secondary); }
 
 .k-card-body { flex: 1; padding-right: 40px; }
 .k-card-title {
@@ -1008,7 +918,7 @@ onUnmounted(() => {
   border-radius: 4px;
   white-space: nowrap;
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-text-secondary) 15%, transparent);
-  color: var(--fs-text-secondary-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-text-secondary);
 }
 
 /* ── Task card ──────────────────────────────────────────── */
@@ -1022,7 +932,26 @@ onUnmounted(() => {
   gap: 5px;
   flex-wrap: wrap;
 }
+.status-badge {
+  font-size: 0.7rem;
+  padding: 1px 7px;
+  border-radius: 8px;
+  font-weight: 500;
+}
+.status--todo { background: var(--fs-status-todo-bg); color: var(--fs-status-todo); }
+.status--in_progress { background: var(--fs-status-in-progress-bg); color: var(--fs-status-in-progress); }
+.status--done { background: var(--fs-status-done-bg); color: var(--fs-status-done); }
+.status--cancelled { background: var(--fs-status-todo-bg); color: var(--fs-status-todo); text-decoration: line-through; }
 
+.priority-badge {
+  font-size: 0.7rem;
+  padding: 1px 7px;
+  border-radius: 8px;
+  font-weight: 500;
+}
+.priority--low { background: var(--fs-priority-low-bg); color: var(--fs-priority-low); }
+.priority--normal { background: var(--fs-priority-medium-bg); color: var(--fs-priority-medium); }
+.priority--high { background: var(--fs-priority-high-bg); color: var(--fs-priority-high); }
 
 .task-due {
   font-size: 0.78rem;

frontend/src/views/NoteEditorView.vue

@@ -34,14 +34,6 @@ const tags = ref<string[]>([]);
 const projectId = ref<number | null>(null);
 const milestoneId = ref<number | null>(null);
 const noteType = ref<NoteType>("note");
-
-// The note's own check (milestone 317). Offered only for a plain note: a
-// task's decay is its status, and a snippet has verify_snippet — the service
-// refuses both, so the form must not ask for what the save would reject.
-const verifyWith = ref("");
-const expiresWhen = ref("");
-const verifiedAt = ref<string | null>(null);
-const canCarryCheck = computed(() => noteType.value === "note");
 const dirty = ref(false);
 const saving = ref(false);
 const showPreview = ref(false);
@@ -206,41 +198,6 @@ let savedTags: string[] = [];
 let savedProjectId: number | null = null;
 let savedMilestoneId: number | null = null;
 let savedNoteType: NoteType = "note";
-let savedVerifyWith = "";
-let savedExpiresWhen = "";
-
-/** The write, in one place. Three call sites (save, create, auto-save) each
- *  spelled this out, so every new field had to be added three times — which is
- *  how one of them ends up not carrying it. */
-function payload() {
-  return {
-    title: title.value,
-    body: body.value,
-    tags: tags.value,
-    project_id: projectId.value,
-    milestone_id: milestoneId.value,
-    note_type: noteType.value,
-    // "" clears the check: the REST door reads an empty string as NULL
-    // (NULLABLE_NOTE_TEXT), which is how a cleared form input says "remove
-    // this" without needing the MCP door's explicit `clear` list.
-    verify_with: canCarryCheck.value ? verifyWith.value : "",
-    expires_when: canCarryCheck.value ? expiresWhen.value : "",
-  };
-}
-
-/** What the form last agreed with the server about — the other half of the
- *  same list, and for the same reason. */
-function snapshot() {
-  savedTitle = title.value;
-  savedBody = body.value;
-  savedTags = [...tags.value];
-  savedProjectId = projectId.value;
-  savedMilestoneId = milestoneId.value;
-  savedNoteType = noteType.value;
-  savedVerifyWith = verifyWith.value;
-  savedExpiresWhen = expiresWhen.value;
-  dirty.value = false;
-}
 
 function markDirty() {
   dirty.value =
@@ -249,9 +206,7 @@ function markDirty() {
     JSON.stringify(tags.value) !== JSON.stringify(savedTags) ||
     projectId.value !== savedProjectId ||
     milestoneId.value !== savedMilestoneId ||
-    noteType.value !== savedNoteType ||
-    verifyWith.value !== savedVerifyWith ||
-    expiresWhen.value !== savedExpiresWhen;
+    noteType.value !== savedNoteType;
 }
 
 function onBodyUpdate(newVal: string) {
@@ -269,10 +224,12 @@ onMounted(async () => {
       projectId.value = store.currentNote.project_id ?? null;
       milestoneId.value = store.currentNote.milestone_id ?? null;
       noteType.value = (store.currentNote.note_type as NoteType) || "note";
-      verifyWith.value = store.currentNote.verify_with || "";
-      expiresWhen.value = store.currentNote.expires_when || "";
-      verifiedAt.value = store.currentNote.verified_at ?? null;
-      snapshot();
+      savedTitle = title.value;
+      savedBody = body.value;
+      savedTags = [...tags.value];
+      savedProjectId = projectId.value;
+      savedMilestoneId = milestoneId.value;
+      savedNoteType = noteType.value;
     }
   } else {
     // New note: read type from query param
@@ -303,11 +260,31 @@ async function save() {
   const finalBody = body.value;
   try {
     if (isEditing.value) {
-      await store.updateNote(noteId.value!, { ...payload(), body: finalBody });
-      snapshot();
+      await store.updateNote(noteId.value!, {
+        title: title.value,
+        body: finalBody,
+        tags: tags.value,
+        project_id: projectId.value,
+        milestone_id: milestoneId.value,
+        note_type: noteType.value,
+      });
+      savedTitle = title.value;
+      savedBody = body.value;
+      savedTags = [...tags.value];
+      savedProjectId = projectId.value;
+      savedMilestoneId = milestoneId.value;
+      savedNoteType = noteType.value;
+      dirty.value = false;
       toast.show("Note saved");
     } else {
-      const note = await store.createNote({ ...payload(), body: finalBody });
+      const note = await store.createNote({
+        title: title.value,
+        body: finalBody,
+        tags: tags.value,
+        project_id: projectId.value,
+        milestone_id: milestoneId.value,
+        note_type: noteType.value,
+      });
       dirty.value = false;
       toast.show("Note created");
       router.push(`/notes/${note.id}`);
@@ -344,8 +321,18 @@ async function doAutoSave() {
   saving.value = true;
   const finalBody = body.value;
   try {
-    await store.updateNote(noteId.value!, { ...payload(), body: finalBody });
-    snapshot();
+    await store.updateNote(noteId.value!, {
+      title: title.value, body: finalBody, tags: tags.value,
+      project_id: projectId.value, milestone_id: milestoneId.value,
+      note_type: noteType.value,
+    });
+    savedTitle = title.value;
+    savedBody = body.value;
+    savedTags = [...tags.value];
+    savedProjectId = projectId.value;
+    savedMilestoneId = milestoneId.value;
+    savedNoteType = noteType.value;
+    dirty.value = false;
     toast.show("Auto-saved");
   } catch {
     // Silent
@@ -509,41 +496,6 @@ onUnmounted(() => assist.clearSelection());
             </select>
           </div>
 
-          <!-- The note's own check (milestone 317). Shown only for a plain
-               note: the service refuses a check on a task or a snippet, so
-               offering the fields there would be a form whose save fails. -->
-          <template v-if="canCarryCheck">
-            <div class="sb-field">
-              <div class="sb-label-row">
-                <span class="sb-label">Check</span>
-                <span v-if="verifyWith" class="check-age" :class="{ unchecked: !verifiedAt }">
-                  {{ verifiedAt ? `checked ${verifiedAt.slice(0, 10)}` : "never checked" }}
-                </span>
-              </div>
-              <!-- Phrased as the question that decides, not as a field name.
-                   "Verify with" would get filled in on every note; "could this
-                   become false without anyone editing it?" gets filled in on
-                   the few that can. -->
-              <textarea
-                v-model="verifyWith"
-                class="sb-textarea"
-                rows="2"
-                placeholder="How would someone check this is still true? Leave empty unless this note could become false without anyone editing it."
-                @input="markDirty"
-              ></textarea>
-            </div>
-            <div v-if="verifyWith" class="sb-field">
-              <label class="sb-label">Ends when</label>
-              <textarea
-                v-model="expiresWhen"
-                class="sb-textarea"
-                rows="2"
-                placeholder="What state ends it? A state, not a date — “when the forge numbers runs per workflow”, not “in six months”."
-                @input="markDirty"
-              ></textarea>
-            </div>
-          </template>
-
           <!-- Link Suggestions -->
           <div v-if="linkSuggestions.length > 0" class="sb-field link-suggest-field">
             <div class="sb-label-row">
@@ -726,7 +678,7 @@ onUnmounted(() => assist.clearSelection());
   flex-direction: column;
 }
 
-.sb-select, .sb-input, .sb-textarea {
+.sb-select, .sb-input {
   width: 100%;
   padding: 5px 8px;
   border-radius: var(--fs-radius-sm);
@@ -738,27 +690,9 @@ onUnmounted(() => assist.clearSelection());
   outline: none;
   transition: border-color 0.15s;
 }
-.sb-select:focus, .sb-input:focus, .sb-textarea:focus {
+.sb-select:focus, .sb-input:focus {
   border-color: var(--fs-accent);
 }
-.sb-textarea {
-  resize: vertical;
-  line-height: 1.4;
-  box-sizing: border-box;
-}
-/* No red/amber ramp, matching RuleSweepPane: a colour scale would restate the
-   sweep's ordering and force an invented "stale after N days" threshold.
-   "Never" is marked because it is categorically different from a date, not a
-   worse one — it means nobody has ever confirmed the claim. */
-.check-age {
-  font-size: 0.7rem;
-  color: var(--fs-text-secondary);
-  font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
-}
-.check-age.unchecked {
-  font-style: italic;
-  color: var(--fs-text-tertiary);
-}
 
 /* Link Suggestions */
 .link-suggest-field { gap: 0.4rem; }

frontend/src/views/NoteViewerView.vue

@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ async function convertToTask() {
 }
 .badge-note {
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 12%, transparent);
-  color: var(--fs-accent-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-accent);
   border: 1px solid color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 25%, transparent);
 }
 .badge-task {

frontend/src/views/ProjectListView.vue

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 import { ref, computed, onMounted } from "vue";
 import { useRouter } from "vue-router";
 import { apiGet, apiPost, apiErrorMessage } from "@/api/client";
-import ProjectStatusBadge from "@/components/ProjectStatusBadge.vue";
 import { emptyChoices, type InceptionChoices } from "@/api/inception";
 import InceptionCard from "@/components/InceptionCard.vue";
 import { useToastStore } from "@/stores/toast";
@@ -110,6 +109,13 @@ async function createProject() {
   }
 }
 
+function statusLabel(status: Project["status"]): string {
+  if (status === "active") return "Active";
+  if (status === "paused") return "Paused";
+  if (status === "completed") return "Completed";
+  if (status === "archived") return "Archived";
+  return status;
+}
 
 function truncate(text: string | null, max = 120): string {
   if (!text) return "";
@@ -204,7 +210,9 @@ function overallPct(project: Project): { total: number; pct: number } {
       >
         <div class="card-header">
           <span class="project-title">{{ project.title }}</span>
-          <ProjectStatusBadge :status="project.status" />
+          <span
+            :class="['status-badge', `status-${project.status}`]"
+          >{{ statusLabel(project.status) }}</span>
         </div>
         <p v-if="project.goal" class="project-goal">
           <span class="field-label">Goal:</span> {{ truncate(project.goal) }}
@@ -422,6 +430,28 @@ function overallPct(project: Project): { total: number; pct: number } {
   word-break: break-word;
 }
 
+.status-badge {
+  font-size: 0.7rem;
+  font-weight: 500;
+  text-transform: uppercase;
+  letter-spacing: 0.04em;
+  padding: 0.15rem 0.45rem;
+  border-radius: 999px;
+  flex-shrink: 0;
+  white-space: nowrap;
+}
+.status-active {
+  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-success) 15%, transparent);
+  color: var(--fs-success);
+}
+.status-completed {
+  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 15%, transparent);
+  color: var(--fs-accent);
+}
+.status-archived {
+  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-text-tertiary) 15%, transparent);
+  color: var(--fs-text-tertiary);
+}
 
 .project-goal {
   font-size: 0.875rem;

frontend/src/views/ProjectView.vue

@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@ import { useTasksStore } from "@/stores/tasks";
 import { relativeTime } from "@/composables/useRelativeTime";
 import { renderMarkdown } from "@/utils/markdown";
 import ShareDialog from "@/components/ShareDialog.vue";
-import KindBadge from "@/components/KindBadge.vue";
-import ProjectStatusBadge from "@/components/ProjectStatusBadge.vue";
-import type { TaskKind } from "@/types/note";
 import ProjectDesignTab from "@/components/ProjectDesignTab.vue";
 import ProjectRulesTab from "@/components/rules/ProjectRulesTab.vue";
 import SystemsSection from "@/components/SystemsSection.vue";
@@ -77,7 +74,6 @@ interface NoteItem {
   due_date?: string | null;
   updated_at: string;
   milestone_id?: number | null;
-  task_kind?: TaskKind;
 }
 
 const route = useRoute();
@@ -697,7 +693,9 @@ async function confirmDelete() {
       <div class="project-header">
         <div class="title-row">
           <input v-model="editTitle" type="text" class="project-title-input" placeholder="Project title" />
-          <ProjectStatusBadge :status="project.status" />
+          <span :class="['status-badge', `status-${project.status}`]">
+            {{ project.status.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + project.status.slice(1) }}
+          </span>
         </div>
         <p v-if="project.goal" class="project-goal">{{ project.goal }}</p>
         <p v-if="project.summary?.last_activity" class="project-activity">
@@ -1048,7 +1046,6 @@ async function confirmDelete() {
                         :class="['task-card', `pri-${task.priority || 'none'}`]"
                       >
                         <span class="task-title">{{ task.title || "Untitled" }}</span>
-                        <KindBadge :kind="task.task_kind" />
                         <div class="task-card-footer">
                           <div v-if="task.priority !== 'none' || task.due_date" class="task-meta">
                             <span v-if="task.priority && task.priority !== 'none'" :class="['priority-dot', `dot-pri-${task.priority}`]" :title="task.priority"></span>
@@ -1080,7 +1077,6 @@ async function confirmDelete() {
                         :class="['task-card', `pri-${task.priority || 'none'}`]"
                       >
                         <span class="task-title">{{ task.title || "Untitled" }}</span>
-                        <KindBadge :kind="task.task_kind" />
                         <div class="task-card-footer">
                           <div v-if="task.priority !== 'none' || task.due_date" class="task-meta">
                             <span v-if="task.priority && task.priority !== 'none'" :class="['priority-dot', `dot-pri-${task.priority}`]" :title="task.priority"></span>
@@ -1112,7 +1108,6 @@ async function confirmDelete() {
                         class="task-card task-card-done"
                       >
                         <span class="task-title">{{ task.title || "Untitled" }}</span>
-                        <KindBadge :kind="task.task_kind" />
                         <div v-if="task.due_date" class="task-meta">
                           <span class="due-date">{{ task.due_date }}</span>
                         </div>
@@ -1239,6 +1234,19 @@ async function confirmDelete() {
 .project-title-input:focus { border-bottom-color: var(--fs-accent); }
 .project-title-input::placeholder { color: var(--fs-text-tertiary); font-weight: 400; }
 
+.status-badge {
+  font-size: 0.68rem;
+  font-weight: 500;
+  text-transform: uppercase;
+  letter-spacing: 0.05em;
+  padding: 0.18rem 0.55rem;
+  border-radius: 999px;
+  flex-shrink: 0;
+}
+.status-active   { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-success) 14%, transparent); color: var(--fs-success); border: 1px solid color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-success) 30%, transparent); }
+.status-paused    { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-warning) 14%, transparent); color: var(--fs-warning); border: 1px solid color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-warning) 30%, transparent); }
+.status-completed { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 14%, transparent); color: var(--fs-accent); border: 1px solid color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 30%, transparent); }
+.status-archived  { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-text-tertiary) 14%, transparent); color: var(--fs-text-tertiary); border: 1px solid color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-text-tertiary) 30%, transparent); }
 
 .project-goal {
   font-size: 1rem;
@@ -1287,8 +1295,8 @@ async function confirmDelete() {
 
 .stat-todo      { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-text-tertiary) 8%, transparent); color: var(--fs-text-secondary); border-color: var(--fs-border-color); }
 .stat-inprogress { background: color-mix(in srgb, #3b82f6 10%, transparent); color: #3b82f6; border-color: color-mix(in srgb, #3b82f6 28%, transparent); }
-.stat-done      { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-success) 10%, transparent); color: var(--fs-success-fg); border-color: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-success) 28%, transparent); }
-.stat-notes     { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 8%, transparent); color: var(--fs-accent-fg); border-color: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 22%, transparent); }
+.stat-done      { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-success) 10%, transparent); color: var(--fs-success); border-color: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-success) 28%, transparent); }
+.stat-notes     { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 8%, transparent); color: var(--fs-accent); border-color: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 22%, transparent); }
 
 /* ── Pattern-library coverage card ───────────────────────────── */
 .coverage-card {
@@ -1471,7 +1479,7 @@ async function confirmDelete() {
 .tab-btn.active .tab-count {
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 12%, transparent);
   border-color: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 30%, transparent);
-  color: var(--fs-accent-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-accent);
 }
 
 /* ── Tasks view ──────────────────────────────────────────────── */
@@ -1707,7 +1715,7 @@ async function confirmDelete() {
   border-radius: 3px;
   margin-left: auto;
 }
-.col-add-btn:hover { color: var(--fs-accent-fg); background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 10%, transparent); }
+.col-add-btn:hover { color: var(--fs-accent); background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 10%, transparent); }
 
 .kanban-cards { display: flex; flex-direction: column; gap: 0.3rem; }
 

frontend/src/views/SettingsView.vue

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import type { User } from "@/types/auth";
 import PaginationBar from "@/components/PaginationBar.vue";
 import TagInput from "@/components/TagInput.vue";
 import { fmtDate, fmtLogStamp } from "@/utils/dateFormat";
-import { fetchVersion, type VersionPayload } from "@/api/version";
 
 const store = useSettingsStore();
 const authStore = useAuthStore();
@@ -86,7 +85,6 @@ const kbWritePathEnabled = ref(true);
 // code embeddings sit on a much higher similarity floor than prose, so 0.55 let
 // unrelated code through (#2223). Shares top-k, not the threshold.
 const kbWritePathThreshold = ref("0.68");
-const kbRuleHintThreshold = ref("0.72");
 // Near-duplicate report floors, one per record kind (services/dedup.py).
 // Snippets are single-chunk, so their floor sits below the 0.90 write-time
 // gate and catches what it lets through. Notes/tasks are scored at chunk
@@ -149,17 +147,12 @@ async function saveKbInject() {
   // Same `|| default` reasoning: falling back to 0 would surface every
   // snippet in the corpus on every edit, which is the failure this knob fixes.
   const wpT = Math.min(1, Math.max(0, Number(kbWritePathThreshold.value) || 0.68));
-  // Same `|| default` reasoning again, and it bites harder here: a rule hint
-  // fires on every write, so a fallback of 0 would attach a standing rule to
-  // every edit in the session.
-  const rhT = Math.min(1, Math.max(0, Number(kbRuleHintThreshold.value) || 0.72));
   kbInjectThreshold.value = String(t);
   kbInjectTopK.value = String(k);
   kbDupThresholdSnippet.value = String(dupSnip);
   kbDupThresholdNote.value = String(dupNote);
   kbDupThresholdTask.value = String(dupTask);
   kbWritePathThreshold.value = String(wpT);
-  kbRuleHintThreshold.value = String(rhT);
   savingKbInject.value = true;
   kbInjectSaved.value = false;
   try {
@@ -172,10 +165,6 @@ async function saveKbInject() {
       // measurements that split them.
       kb_writepath_enabled: kbWritePathEnabled.value ? 'true' : 'false',
       kb_writepath_threshold: String(wpT),
-      // A THIRD corpus with a third bar — see RULEHINT_DEFAULT_THRESHOLD
-      // in services/plugin_context.py for why rules cannot share the
-      // code threshold any more than code could share the prose one.
-      kb_rulehint_threshold: String(rhT),
       kb_duplicate_threshold_snippet: String(dupSnip),
       kb_duplicate_threshold_note: String(dupNote),
       kb_duplicate_threshold_task: String(dupTask),
@@ -198,47 +187,7 @@ const changingPassword = ref(false);
 const invalidatingSessions = ref(false);
 const exporting = ref(false);
 const restoring = ref(false);
-// Backup, export and restore walk the whole store, so they are slow BY DESIGN
-// and the client's ordinary 30s default would cut them off mid-work. They are
-// still bounded: rule 156 asks for a deadline, not a short one, and "no ceiling
-// at all" is what leaves a restore that died server-side spinning forever.
-const BULK_TRANSFER_TIMEOUT_MS = 10 * 60 * 1000;
-
-function bulkDeadline(): AbortSignal {
-  return AbortSignal.timeout(BULK_TRANSFER_TIMEOUT_MS);
-}
-
-// ── What's running (#3127 checklist 12) ─────────────────────────────────
-// Three states kept apart, because collapsing any two of them is the defect
-// this readout exists to remove: `null` + no error = not asked yet (the Config
-// tab has not been opened); a payload = answered, with each ABSENT field shown
-// as "unknown"; `versionError` = the fetch itself failed, which is its own
-// thing and must never render as a blank or as a plausible-looking value.
-const versionInfo = ref<VersionPayload | null>(null);
-const versionLoading = ref(false);
-const versionError = ref("");
-const commitCopied = ref(false);
-
-async function loadVersionPanel() {
-  if (versionLoading.value) return;
-  versionLoading.value = true;
-  versionError.value = "";
-  try {
-    versionInfo.value = await fetchVersion();
-  } catch (e) {
-    versionInfo.value = null;
-    versionError.value = apiErrorMessage(e, "Could not reach the instance to ask what it is running.");
-  } finally {
-    versionLoading.value = false;
-  }
-}
-
-async function copyCommit() {
-  if (!versionInfo.value?.commit) return;
-  await copyToClipboard(versionInfo.value.commit);
-  commitCopied.value = true;
-  setTimeout(() => { commitCopied.value = false; }, 2000);
-}
+const appVersion = ref('dev');
 const restoreFileInput = ref<HTMLInputElement | null>(null);
 
 // Migrate stored "admin" → "config"; unknown tabs fall back to "general"
@@ -252,7 +201,6 @@ function _loadTabContent(tab: string) {
     else if (tab === "logs") loadLogsPanel();
     else if (tab === "groups") loadGroupsPanel();
     else if (tab === "areas") canonStore.fetchCatalog(true);
-    else if (tab === "config" && !versionInfo.value) loadVersionPanel();
   }
   if (tab === "apikeys") { fetchApiKeys(); }
 }
@@ -606,6 +554,10 @@ function toggleProfileWorkDay(day: string) {
 function emptyTagsFetch(): Promise<string[]> { return Promise.resolve([]) }
 
 onMounted(async () => {
+  try {
+    const v = await apiGet<{ version: string }>('/api/version')
+    appVersion.value = v.version
+  } catch { /* non-critical */ }
   await store.fetchSettings();
   newEmail.value = authStore.user?.email ?? "";
 
@@ -621,9 +573,6 @@ onMounted(async () => {
     kbInjectTopK.value = allSettings.kb_autoinject_top_k;
   }
   kbWritePathEnabled.value = allSettings.kb_writepath_enabled !== "false";
-  if (allSettings.kb_rulehint_threshold !== undefined) {
-    kbRuleHintThreshold.value = allSettings.kb_rulehint_threshold;
-  }
   if (allSettings.kb_writepath_threshold !== undefined) {
     kbWritePathThreshold.value = allSettings.kb_writepath_threshold;
   }
@@ -778,7 +727,7 @@ async function exportData(scope: "user" | "full") {
   exporting.value = true;
   try {
     const url = scope === "full" ? "/api/admin/backup" : "/api/admin/backup?scope=user";
-    const res = await fetch(url, { signal: bulkDeadline() });
+    const res = await fetch(url);
     if (!res.ok) {
       const body = await res.json().catch(() => ({ error: `Error ${res.status}` }));
       throw new Error((body as Record<string, string>).error || `Error ${res.status}`);
@@ -803,7 +752,7 @@ const exportingNotes = ref(false);
 async function exportNotes(format: "markdown" | "json") {
   exportingNotes.value = true;
   try {
-    const res = await fetch(`/api/export?format=${format}`, { signal: bulkDeadline() });
+    const res = await fetch(`/api/export?format=${format}`);
     if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Error ${res.status}`);
     const blob = await res.blob();
     const ext = format === "json" ? "json" : "zip";
@@ -1032,7 +981,6 @@ async function handleRestoreFile(event: Event) {
       method: "POST",
       headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
       body: JSON.stringify(data),
-      signal: bulkDeadline(),
     });
     if (!res.ok) {
       const body = await res.json().catch(() => ({ error: `Error ${res.status}` }));
@@ -1469,29 +1417,6 @@ async function deleteUser(userId: number) {
             location, not by resemblance.
           </p>
         </div>
-        <div class="field">
-          <label for="kb-rulehint-threshold">Standing-rule confidence threshold (0–1)</label>
-          <input
-            id="kb-rulehint-threshold"
-            v-model="kbRuleHintThreshold"
-            type="number"
-            min="0"
-            max="1"
-            step="0.01"
-            class="fs-input input"
-            style="max-width: 8rem"
-          />
-          <p class="field-hint">
-            The same hint can mention a standing rule whose trigger resembles what's
-            being written — only rules marked <em>conditional</em>, since always-on
-            ones are already loaded. Stricter again than the threshold above, because
-            there are far fewer rules than snippets: with a small set, something
-            always ranks first, so the bar has to carry more of the judgement.
-            Raise it if rules keep arriving unread; lower it if a rule you needed
-            never showed up. Settings → check the pull-through in
-            <code>retrieval_telemetry</code> to see which is happening.
-          </p>
-        </div>
         <!-- A design system belongs to a PROJECT, and the picker for it lives on
              the project. There was a setting here that designated the system
              this install's own interface was built from; it only ever described
@@ -2184,48 +2109,6 @@ async function deleteUser(userId: number) {
     <!-- ── Admin ── -->
     <div v-if="authStore.isAdmin" v-show="activeTab === 'config'" class="settings-grid">
 
-      <section class="settings-section full-width">
-        <h2>What's running</h2>
-        <p class="section-desc">
-          The build serving this page. Paste the commit into a <code>:sha</code> image
-          lookup to check the registry and the app agree about what was published.
-        </p>
-
-        <div v-if="versionLoading" class="state-msg">Reading the ledger&hellip;</div>
-        <div v-else-if="versionError" class="error-msg">
-          {{ versionError }}
-          <button class="btn-ghost btn-compact version-retry" @click="loadVersionPanel">Try again</button>
-        </div>
-        <dl v-else-if="versionInfo" class="version-grid">
-          <dt>Version</dt>
-          <dd class="version-value">{{ versionInfo.version }}</dd>
-
-          <dt>Channel</dt>
-          <dd :class="versionInfo.channel === undefined ? 'version-unknown' : 'version-value'">
-            {{ versionInfo.channel ?? "unknown" }}
-          </dd>
-
-          <dt>Commit</dt>
-          <dd v-if="versionInfo.commit" class="version-value version-commit">
-            <span class="version-sha">{{ versionInfo.commit }}</span>
-            <button class="btn-ghost btn-compact" @click="copyCommit">
-              {{ commitCopied ? "Copied" : "Copy" }}
-            </button>
-          </dd>
-          <dd v-else class="version-unknown">unknown</dd>
-
-          <dt>Build</dt>
-          <!-- The ordering key, kept because its ABSENCE is the diagnostic one:
-               no key means this build is not part of any update order, which is
-               what a local or hand-built image looks like. `??` not `||` — 0 is
-               a legitimate key. -->
-          <dd :class="versionInfo.build === undefined ? 'version-unknown' : 'version-value'">
-            {{ versionInfo.build ?? "unknown" }}
-          </dd>
-        </dl>
-        <div v-else class="empty-msg">Nothing asked yet.</div>
-      </section>
-
       <section class="settings-section full-width">
         <h2>Application URL</h2>
         <p class="section-desc">
@@ -2849,7 +2732,7 @@ async function deleteUser(userId: number) {
   background: var(--fs-surface-raised);
 }
 .sidebar-item.active {
-  color: var(--fs-accent-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-accent);
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 8%, transparent);
   border-left-color: var(--fs-accent);
   font-weight: 500;
@@ -2885,45 +2768,6 @@ async function deleteUser(userId: number) {
   letter-spacing: 0.07em;
   color: var(--fs-text-tertiary);
 }
-/* What's running — a definition list of instance facts. Spacing/geometry only;
-   colour and type come from the tokens. */
-.version-grid {
-  display: grid;
-  grid-template-columns: max-content 1fr;
-  gap: 0.4rem 1rem;
-  margin: 0;
-  align-items: baseline;
-}
-.version-grid dt {
-  font-size: 0.8rem;
-  color: var(--fs-text-secondary);
-}
-.version-grid dd {
-  margin: 0;
-  font-size: 0.875rem;
-  font-family: var(--fs-font-mono);
-  color: var(--fs-text-primary);
-}
-/* An absent field reads as absent — never as a blank, and never styled to look
-   like a value it does not have (#3127 checklist 12). */
-.version-grid dd.version-unknown {
-  font-family: inherit;
-  font-style: italic;
-  color: var(--fs-text-tertiary);
-}
-.version-commit {
-  display: flex;
-  align-items: center;
-  gap: 0.5rem;
-  flex-wrap: wrap;
-}
-.version-sha {
-  overflow-wrap: anywhere;
-}
-.version-retry {
-  margin-left: 0.5rem;
-}
-
 .section-desc {
   margin: 0 0 1rem;
   font-size: 0.875rem;
@@ -3255,7 +3099,7 @@ async function deleteUser(userId: number) {
   border-radius: var(--fs-radius-sm);
 }
 .role-admin {
-  color: var(--fs-accent-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-accent);
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 15%, transparent);
 }
 .role-user {
@@ -3335,9 +3179,9 @@ async function deleteUser(userId: number) {
   text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.05em;
   padding: 0.1rem 0.35rem; border-radius: var(--fs-radius-sm);
 }
-.cat-audit { color: var(--fs-accent-fg); background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 15%, transparent); }
-.cat-usage { color: var(--fs-success-fg); background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-success) 15%, transparent); }
-.cat-error { color: var(--fs-error-fg); background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-error) 15%, transparent); }
+.cat-audit { color: var(--fs-accent); background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 15%, transparent); }
+.cat-usage { color: var(--fs-success); background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-success) 15%, transparent); }
+.cat-error { color: var(--fs-error); background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-error) 15%, transparent); }
 .method-tag {
   display: inline-block;
   font-size: 0.65rem; font-weight: 500; font-family: monospace;
@@ -3502,8 +3346,8 @@ async function deleteUser(userId: number) {
   padding: 0.15rem 0.4rem;
   border-radius: 4px;
 }
-.role-owner { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-warning) 15%, transparent); color: var(--fs-warning-fg); }
-.role-member { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-text-tertiary) 15%, transparent); color: var(--fs-text-tertiary-fg); }
+.role-owner { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-warning) 15%, transparent); color: var(--fs-warning); }
+.role-member { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-text-tertiary) 15%, transparent); color: var(--fs-text-tertiary); }
 
 .members-empty {
   color: var(--fs-text-tertiary);
@@ -3684,7 +3528,7 @@ async function deleteUser(userId: number) {
 .day-btn.active {
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 15%, transparent);
   border-color: var(--fs-accent);
-  color: var(--fs-accent-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-accent);
   font-weight: 500;
 }
 

frontend/src/views/SharedWithMeView.vue

@@ -242,9 +242,9 @@ onMounted(async () => {
   border-radius: 4px;
   white-space: nowrap;
 }
-.perm-viewer  { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-text-tertiary) 15%, transparent); color: var(--fs-text-tertiary-fg); }
-.perm-editor  { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 15%, transparent); color: var(--fs-accent-fg); }
-.perm-admin   { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-warning) 15%, transparent); color: var(--fs-warning-fg); }
+.perm-viewer  { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-text-tertiary) 15%, transparent); color: var(--fs-text-tertiary); }
+.perm-editor  { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 15%, transparent); color: var(--fs-accent); }
+.perm-admin   { background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-warning) 15%, transparent); color: var(--fs-warning); }
 
 .empty-msg {
   margin: 0;

frontend/src/views/SnippetDetailView.vue

@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ async function confirmDelete() {
   font-family: var(--fs-font-mono);
   font-size: 0.82rem;
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 12%, transparent);
-  color: var(--fs-accent-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-accent);
   padding: 0.08rem 0.35rem;
   border-radius: var(--fs-radius-sm);
   word-break: break-all;

frontend/src/views/SnippetListView.vue

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import {
   type SnippetListItem,
 } from "@/api/snippets";
 import { useToastStore } from "@/stores/toast";
-import UsageBadge from "@/components/UsageBadge.vue";
 
 const router = useRouter();
 const toast = useToastStore();
@@ -199,6 +198,23 @@ function languageOf(tags: string[]): string {
   return tags.find((t) => t && t !== "snippet") ?? "";
 }
 
+/** A snippet that has been offered repeatedly and never opened. The threshold
+ *  is 3 rather than 1 because one or two surfacings is noise — the record may
+ *  simply not have come up in a relevant context yet. */
+function isDeadWeight(s: SnippetListItem): boolean {
+  const u = s.usage;
+  return !!u && u.pull_count === 0 && u.surfaced_count >= 3;
+}
+
+/** Short badge text, or "" to render nothing. A record nobody has surfaced yet
+ *  gets no badge at all: "0 / 0" would read as a verdict when it's an absence
+ *  of evidence. */
+function usageBadge(s: SnippetListItem): string {
+  const u = s.usage;
+  if (!u || u.surfaced_count === 0) return "";
+  return `${u.pull_count}/${u.surfaced_count} used`;
+}
+
 /** Short label for the drift verdict, or "" when there's nothing to say.
  *  An expired verdict is reported as "unchecked" whatever it used to say —
  *  it was about code that is no longer in the record. */
@@ -238,13 +254,22 @@ function driftTitle(s: SnippetListItem): string {
   return v.detail ? `${when}: ${what}. ${v.detail}` : `${when}: ${what}.`;
 }
 
-/** The dead-weight nudge for a SNIPPET, passed to the shared badge. Kept here
- *  rather than inside the component because the remedy is kind-specific — a
- *  rule in the same position gets different advice (milestone 333 step 5). */
-const SNIPPET_DEAD_WEIGHT =
-  "Offered repeatedly without ever being opened — consider rewriting its " +
-  "“when to reach for it” so it says when, or deleting it. It takes a slot " +
-  "in every future auto-inject menu.";
+function usageTitle(s: SnippetListItem): string {
+  const u = s.usage;
+  if (!u) return "";
+  const last = u.last_pulled_at
+    ? `Last opened ${new Date(u.last_pulled_at).toLocaleDateString()}.`
+    : "Never opened.";
+  const verdict = isDeadWeight(s)
+    ? " Offered repeatedly without ever being opened — consider rewriting its" +
+      " “when to reach for it” so it says when, or deleting it. It takes a slot" +
+      " in every future auto-inject menu."
+    : "";
+  return (
+    `Surfaced to an agent ${u.surfaced_count}×, opened in full ` +
+    `${u.pull_count}×. ${last}${verdict}`
+  );
+}
 </script>
 
 <template>
@@ -431,7 +456,14 @@ const SNIPPET_DEAD_WEIGHT =
           <span v-if="driftBadge(s)" class="drift-tag" :title="driftTitle(s)">
             {{ driftBadge(s) }}
           </span>
-          <UsageBadge :usage="s.usage" :dead-weight-advice="SNIPPET_DEAD_WEIGHT" />
+          <span
+            v-if="usageBadge(s)"
+            class="usage-tag"
+            :class="{ 'usage-dead': isDeadWeight(s) }"
+            :title="usageTitle(s)"
+          >
+            {{ usageBadge(s) }}
+          </span>
           <span v-if="s.shared" class="shared-tag" :title="`Shared by ${s.owner ?? 'another user'} — a suggestion, not your own record`">
             by {{ s.owner ?? "another user" }}
           </span>
@@ -678,7 +710,7 @@ const SNIPPET_DEAD_WEIGHT =
   flex-shrink: 0;
   white-space: nowrap;
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-accent) 15%, transparent);
-  color: var(--fs-accent-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-accent);
 }
 
 .snippet-when {
@@ -707,7 +739,7 @@ const SNIPPET_DEAD_WEIGHT =
   border-radius: 4px;
   white-space: nowrap;
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-text-tertiary) 15%, transparent);
-  color: var(--fs-text-tertiary-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-text-tertiary);
 }
 
 .dup-action {
@@ -722,7 +754,24 @@ const SNIPPET_DEAD_WEIGHT =
   border-radius: 4px;
   white-space: nowrap;
   background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-error) 15%, transparent);
-  color: var(--fs-error-fg);
+  color: var(--fs-error);
+}
+
+.usage-tag {
+  font-size: 0.7rem;
+  padding: 0.1rem 0.4rem;
+  border-radius: 4px;
+  white-space: nowrap;
+  font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
+  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-text-tertiary) 15%, transparent);
+  color: var(--fs-text-tertiary);
+}
+
+/* Dead weight is a nudge, not an error — it warns in the warning colour rather
+   than the danger one, because the record isn't broken, just unearned. */
+.usage-tag.usage-dead {
+  background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-warning) 18%, transparent);
+  color: var(--fs-warning);
 }
 
 /* Header + select-mode */

plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "scribe",
   "description": "Scribe system-of-record for Claude Code: MCP tools over your notes/tasks/projects/rules, a session-start push channel that surfaces your always-on rules + active-project context, process-skills (writing-plans, systematic-debugging, verification, brainstorming, reusing-code), and your saved Scribe Processes auto-surfaced as skills (/scribe:sync). Replaces superpowers + file-memory with one app-backed plugin.",
-  "version": "2026.09.09.0408",
+  "version": "0.1.47",
   "author": {
     "name": "Bryan Van Deusen"
   },

plugin/README.md

@@ -78,13 +78,8 @@ On install you'll be asked for:
 
 ## Notes
 
-- **Do not hand-edit `version` in `.claude-plugin/plugin.json`.** It is minted
-  from the clock — run `python3 scripts/mint_plugin_version.py` (or `make
-  mint-plugin`, where `make` is installed) after changing anything under
-  `plugin/`, and commit the result. The installer decides whether to refresh the cache it
-  executes from by comparing that string, so content that ships without a new
-  version reaches the repo and stops there (#2209). CI fails the lane if you
-  forget.
+- Set a `version` bump in `.claude-plugin/plugin.json` per release so clients
+  pick up changes.
 - The session-start, auto-inject and prior-art hooks need only a **read**-scoped
   key; the MCP tools need **write** scope to create/update. Every hook is a GET
   for that reason — a read key cannot POST.

plugin/hooks/hooks.json

@@ -33,15 +33,6 @@
             "command": "bash \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/scribe_prior_art.sh\""
           }
         ]
-      },
-      {
-        "matcher": "Bash",
-        "hooks": [
-          {
-            "type": "command",
-            "command": "bash \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/scribe_tool_rules.sh\""
-          }
-        ]
       }
     ],
     "PostToolUse": [

plugin/hooks/scribe_after_write.sh

@@ -175,16 +175,6 @@ while IFS= read -r rel_path; do
       derive_seen=$(tr '\n' ',' < "$derivefile" 2>/dev/null | sed 's/,$//' | jq -sRr '@uri' 2>/dev/null) || derive_seen=""
       [ -n "$derive_seen" ] && derive_exclude_q="&exclude_derive=${derive_seen}"
     fi
-    # The rules marker the SessionStart hook stored, handed back so the server
-    # can say whether those rules moved since (milestone 323). Nothing stored
-    # means nothing sent, which the server reads as silence rather than as a
-    # mismatch — an install that never reached /api/plugin/context must not
-    # start claiming its rules changed.
-    etag_q=""
-    if [ -f "$state_dir/${safe_sid}.rules_etag" ]; then
-      held=$(jq -sRr '@uri' < "$state_dir/${safe_sid}.rules_etag" 2>/dev/null) || held=""
-      [ -n "$held" ] && etag_q="&rules_etag=${held}"
-    fi
     if [ -n "$path_enc" ]; then
       # 8s, not the pre-write hook's 5: this hook runs AFTER the tool, so it
       # gates nothing the session is waiting on, and the first prior-art call
@@ -194,7 +184,7 @@ while IFS= read -r rel_path; do
       reached=1
       body=$(curl -fsS --max-time 8 \
         -H "Authorization: Bearer ${token}" \
-        "${url%/}/api/plugin/prior-art?path=${path_enc}&code=${code_enc}${repo_q}${exclude_q}${sync_exclude_q}${derive_exclude_q}${shapes_q}${etag_q}" 2>/dev/null) || { body=""; reached=0; }
+        "${url%/}/api/plugin/prior-art?path=${path_enc}&code=${code_enc}${repo_q}${exclude_q}${sync_exclude_q}${derive_exclude_q}${shapes_q}" 2>/dev/null) || { body=""; reached=0; }
       # A call that was owed and didn't come back is said, once per outage
       # (#2932) — shared marker with the pre-write hook, so one outage is one
       # line however the code was written.

plugin/hooks/scribe_session_context.sh

@@ -55,53 +55,6 @@ here=$(CDPATH= cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd) || exit 0
 event=$(cat 2>/dev/null || true)
 source=$(printf '%s' "$event" | jq -r '.source // empty' 2>/dev/null) || source=""
 
-# --- The rule ledger outlives the context it describes (#3749) ---
-#
-# scribe_prior_art.sh and scribe_tool_rules.sh record every rule id they have
-# named in <state>/<sid>.rules.ids and hand it back as exclude_rule_ids, so a
-# rule is named once per session and then goes quiet. That is right while the
-# session still HOLDS what it was told, and wrong the moment it does not.
-#
-# A compaction summarizes the earlier injections away and does not touch the
-# filesystem, so the rule ends up absent from context AND still excluded —
-# unreachable for the rest of the session. The banner below tells the model to
-# re-pull its ALWAYS-ON rules, but a rule an arm surfaced is conditional and is
-# not in that set, so it has no other way back. The rules most likely to be in
-# this state are the ones that fire most often, which is to say the ones that
-# apply most.
-#
-# The session id survives a compaction — the etag marker further down is
-# rewritten on `compact` and keyed by session_id, which is only meaningful if
-# the id is stable — so the stale ledger is genuinely found again, not orphaned.
-#
-# CLEARED ON THE SOURCES THAT DESTROY CONTEXT, AND ONLY THOSE:
-#
-#   compact  CLEAR — summarized away; the file survived.
-#   clear    CLEAR — context wiped.
-#   startup  nothing to do: a new session id means a new, empty file.
-#   resume   KEEP. The context was genuinely restored, so the ledger still
-#            describes what the session holds. Clearing here would re-surface
-#            every rule after a restore that lost nothing — the mirror error.
-#   fork     KEEP, and the answer is the same whichever way forks are keyed: a
-#            fork carries the conversation, so if it inherits the id the ledger
-#            is accurate, and if it gets a new one the file is empty anyway.
-#
-# ONLY the rules ledger. The same directory holds .ids / .sync.ids /
-# .derive.ids for the note arms. Whether a surfaced NOTE should return after a
-# compaction is a different question with a different answer, and leaving those
-# alone is a decision rather than an oversight.
-case "$source" in
-  compact|clear)
-    sid=$(printf '%s' "$event" | jq -r '.session_id // empty' 2>/dev/null) || sid=""
-    if [ -n "$sid" ]; then
-      safe_sid=$(printf '%s' "$sid" | tr -c 'A-Za-z0-9._-' '_')
-      # Best-effort, like every other filesystem touch in these hooks: a ledger
-      # that cannot be removed costs a repeated exclusion, never a session.
-      rm -f "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/scribe-priorart/${safe_sid}.rules.ids" 2>/dev/null || true
-    fi
-    ;;
-esac
-
 out=""
 # Append $1 to $out, separated by a horizontal rule when $out already has content.
 append() { if [ -n "$out" ]; then out="${out}"$'\n\n---\n\n'"$1"; else out="$1"; fi; }
@@ -156,28 +109,6 @@ if [ -n "$url" ] && [ -n "$token" ] && command -v curl >/dev/null 2>&1; then
     -H "Authorization: Bearer ${token}" \
     "${url%/}/api/plugin/context${q}" 2>/dev/null) || body=""
   [ -n "$body" ] && dyn=$(printf '%s' "$body" | jq -r '.context // empty' 2>/dev/null)
-  # Stash the rules marker for the write-path hook (milestone 323). THIS is
-  # where it has to be captured: the model receives one from
-  # list_always_on_rules too, but a hook cannot see an MCP tool's result. Stored
-  # under the same state dir the prior-art hook already uses, keyed by session,
-  # so "changed since" means since THIS session loaded its rules.
-  #
-  # Written on `compact` as well as `startup`, and that is correct rather than
-  # convenient: a compact tells the session to re-pull its rules, so the marker
-  # should describe the set it is about to hold. It is also why this cannot
-  # cover the compaction case — see the table in services/plugin_context.py.
-  if [ -n "$body" ]; then
-    etag=$(printf '%s' "$body" | jq -r '.rules_etag // empty' 2>/dev/null) || etag=""
-    if [ -n "$etag" ]; then
-      sid=$(printf '%s' "$event" | jq -r '.session_id // empty' 2>/dev/null) || sid=""
-      safe_sid=$(printf '%s' "${sid:-nosession}" | tr -c 'A-Za-z0-9._-' '_')
-      etag_dir="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/scribe-priorart"
-      # Best-effort throughout: a marker that cannot be stored costs a hint,
-      # never the session.
-      mkdir -p "$etag_dir" 2>/dev/null \
-        && printf '%s' "$etag" > "$etag_dir/${safe_sid}.rules_etag" 2>/dev/null || true
-    fi
-  fi
   [ -z "$dyn" ] && status="> ⚠️ Scribe: live rules/project context could not be loaded this session (instance unreachable or request failed). The standing guidance above still applies — pull rules with \`list_always_on_rules()\` and project context with \`enter_project()\` as needed."
 elif [ -n "$url" ] && [ -z "$token" ]; then
   status="> ⚠️ Scribe: live context disabled this session — the API key is not configured (Scribe base URL is). Set it with \`/plugin\` → Scribe → configure, or export SCRIBE_TOKEN. Tools still work; pull rules with \`list_always_on_rules()\` and project context with \`enter_project()\`."

plugin/hooks/scribe_static_context.md

@@ -21,16 +21,6 @@ for the operator's work, and as your own working memory across sessions.
   compaction — call `list_always_on_rules()` (and `enter_project()` when a
   project is in scope) BEFORE acting. When a loaded rule and a default habit
   disagree, the rule wins; if no rule speaks to it, ask rather than assume.
-- **What you loaded is not all of the rules.** Only the always-on tier arrives
-  that way; conditional rules are RETRIEVED, and one you were never handed
-  binds exactly as hard. So before a consequential act, `search` for a rule
-  about it (`content_type="rule"`) rather than concluding from an empty
-  loaded set that nothing applies. "I was not told" is not the same as "there
-  is no rule," and only one of those is checkable.
-  This bites hardest on which TOOL to reach for — curling an API that has an
-  MCP client, standing up a local stack, running a suite CI owns. Those feel
-  like mechanics rather than decisions, so they raise no doubt and generate no
-  query; the moment you are most confident is the moment to look.
 - **Recall before acting** — before you answer anything about the operator's
   work or start a task, `search` Scribe first; assume a related note, task, or
   decision already exists. Concretely, reach for recall whenever a request

plugin/hooks/scribe_tool_rules.sh

@@ -1,116 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Scribe — PreToolUse rule arm for ACTIONS (#3476).
-#
-# The sibling of scribe_prior_art.sh. That hook is registered on Write|Edit and
-# asks "what is recorded about the file being written". This one asks "does a
-# standing rule speak to the command about to be run" — the question nothing
-# could ask before, and the reason every rule about which tool to reach for had
-# to live in the always-on preload instead.
-#
-# WHY A HOOK AND NOT AN INSTRUCTION. A reflex generates no query (note #3089):
-# you reach for `curl` confidently, with no moment of doubt, so a surface that
-# waits to be asked never fires. Here nothing is asked — the tool call IS the
-# query, and the reflex has to become a tool call before it can do anything.
-#
-# SILENT ON OUTAGE, deliberately, unlike the prior-art hook. A write is
-# occasional; a Bash call is not, and an "instance did not answer" line before
-# every command is the noise that gets a channel muted. scribe_prior_art.sh
-# still speaks for both when the instance is down.
-#
-# Env:
-#   SCRIBE_URL / SCRIBE_TOKEN override for the settings.json dogfooding path.
-
-command -v jq   >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 0
-command -v curl >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 0
-
-# PreToolUse delivers { session_id, cwd, tool_name, tool_input: {...}, ... }
-event=$(cat 2>/dev/null || true)
-tool_name=$(printf '%s' "$event" | jq -r '.tool_name // empty' 2>/dev/null) || exit 0
-session_id=$(printf '%s' "$event" | jq -r '.session_id // empty' 2>/dev/null) || session_id=""
-event_cwd=$(printf '%s' "$event" | jq -r '.cwd // empty' 2>/dev/null) || event_cwd=""
-
-[ -n "$tool_name" ] || exit 0
-
-# The action, as text. `.command` is Bash's field; the fallbacks let the matcher
-# in hooks.json widen to other tools without this script changing — which is the
-# whole reason the server side takes a name and a string rather than a schema.
-command_text=$(printf '%s' "$event" | jq -r '
-  .tool_input.command //
-  .tool_input.url //
-  .tool_input.prompt //
-  empty' 2>/dev/null) || command_text=""
-
-[ -n "$command_text" ] || exit 0
-
-# shellcheck source=plugin/hooks/scribe_defs.sh
-. "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/scribe_defs.sh"
-
-# scribe_config, not a hand-rolled pair of parameter expansions: it also treats
-# an UNEXPANDED `${...}` placeholder as unset, which would otherwise be sent as
-# a garbage Bearer token and 401 on every call (#2198's class).
-scribe_config || exit 0
-
-# Bounded before encoding: a heredoc or a pasted script can be enormous, and
-# the verb and its target — the part a rule is about — sit at the front. The
-# server bounds it again; this keeps a huge payload off the wire in the first
-# place. `head -c`, never `cut -c`: cut truncates each LINE and caps nothing.
-command_text=$(printf '%s' "$command_text" | head -c 2000)
-
-# -sRr, never -rR: jq -R without -s reads LINE BY LINE, so a multi-line command
-# would encode per line and join with raw newlines — an invalid URL.
-cmd_enc=$(printf '%s' "$command_text" | jq -sRr '@uri' 2>/dev/null) || exit 0
-tool_enc=$(printf '%s' "$tool_name" | jq -sRr '@uri' 2>/dev/null) || exit 0
-
-repo_q=""
-lookup_dir=${event_cwd:-${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-$PWD}}
-repo_remote=$(git -C "$lookup_dir" remote get-url origin 2>/dev/null || true)
-if [ -n "$repo_remote" ]; then
-  repo_enc=$(printf '%s' "$repo_remote" | jq -sRr '@uri' 2>/dev/null) || repo_enc=""
-  [ -n "$repo_enc" ] && repo_q="&repo=${repo_enc}"
-fi
-
-# THE SHARED SESSION LEDGER, and the thing most worth getting right here.
-#
-# scribe_prior_art.sh keeps the rules it has already named in
-# <state>/<sid>.rules.ids and passes them as exclude_rule_ids. This hook reads
-# and appends to that SAME file rather than keeping its own: 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.
-#
-# The directory keeps the prior-art name on purpose — renaming it would orphan
-# every live session's state for a cosmetic gain.
-state_dir="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/scribe-priorart"
-mkdir -p "$state_dir" 2>/dev/null || true
-rulefile=""
-rule_exclude_q=""
-if [ -n "$session_id" ]; then
-  safe_sid=$(printf '%s' "$session_id" | tr -c 'A-Za-z0-9._-' '_')
-  rulefile="$state_dir/${safe_sid}.rules.ids"
-  if [ -f "$rulefile" ]; then
-    rule_seen=$(tr '\n' ',' < "$rulefile" 2>/dev/null | sed 's/,$//')
-    [ -n "$rule_seen" ] && rule_exclude_q="&exclude_rule_ids=${rule_seen}"
-  fi
-fi
-
-# `|| exit 0` here, unlike the prior-art hook: there is no local arm whose
-# finding would be discarded, and an outage line before every command is worse
-# than silence. See the header.
-body=$(curl -fsS --max-time 5 \
-  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${token}" \
-  "${url%/}/api/plugin/tool-rules?tool=${tool_enc}&command=${cmd_enc}${repo_q}${rule_exclude_q}" 2>/dev/null) || exit 0
-
-context=$(printf '%s' "$body" | jq -r '.context // empty' 2>/dev/null) || exit 0
-[ -n "$context" ] || exit 0
-
-# Remember what was named so it is not repeated this session.
-if [ -n "$rulefile" ]; then
-  printf '%s' "$body" | jq -r '(.rule_ids // [])[]?' 2>/dev/null >> "$rulefile" || true
-fi
-
-jq -cn --arg ctx "$context" '{
-  hookSpecificOutput: {
-    hookEventName: "PreToolUse",
-    additionalContext: $ctx
-  }
-}' 2>/dev/null || true
-exit 0

plugin/skills/using-scribe/SKILL.md

@@ -56,31 +56,10 @@ Two constraints on *how* that's achieved:
    re-deriving it or opening a duplicate. When a project is in scope, pass its
    `project_id` so results stay scoped.
 
-2. **Standing rules are binding — and the ones you were handed are not all of
-   them.** Load the resident set via `list_always_on_rules()` at session start
-   (see "Do this first"); treat every one as binding. Pull a rule's full
-   statement with `get_rule(id)` when it's about to bite. When a project is in
-   scope, `enter_project(id)` also returns its applicable rules.
-
-   Rules come in two tiers. **Always-on** rules are delivered — they arrive
-   whether or not you ask. **Conditional** rules are RETRIEVED, and one binds
-   just as hard for never having been handed to you. So before a consequential
-   act, `search(content_type="rule")` on what you are about to do. An empty
-   loaded set is not evidence that no rule applies; it is only evidence that
-   none was pushed, and those are different claims.
-
-   The tier split exists because delivery does not scale: every resident rule
-   costs tokens in every session forever, so a rulebook that grows past a few
-   dozen either stops growing or stops fitting. Retrieval is what lets the
-   rulebook keep growing — but retrieval only fires if something asks.
-
-   **Ask hardest where you feel most certain.** Rules about which TOOL to reach
-   for — use the forge's MCP client rather than curling its API, don't stand up
-   a local stack, don't run the suite CI owns — govern moves that feel like
-   mechanics rather than decisions. A reflex raises no doubt, so it generates
-   no query, so the rule that would have stopped it is never retrieved. That is
-   the failure this instruction exists to prevent, and confidence is its only
-   warning sign.
+2. **Standing rules are binding.** Load them via `list_always_on_rules()` at
+   session start (see "Do this first"); treat every one as binding. Pull a
+   rule's full statement with `get_rule(id)` when it's about to bite. When a
+   project is in scope, `enter_project(id)` also returns its applicable rules.
 
 3. **Update over duplicate.** When recording, prefer updating an existing
    note/rule/task over creating a new one. Search first; revise what's there.
@@ -117,25 +96,7 @@ Two constraints on *how* that's achieved:
    not restraint. Only a record genuinely about no particular area goes
    untagged.
 
-8. **Name the record, never just its number.** Whenever you refer to a Scribe
-   record — in a message to the operator, a commit message, a task body, a
-   work-log — write the id *and* its title: `#3244 "the staleness signal"`,
-   `milestone 323 "rule versioning"`. Not `#3244`.
-
-   You have the record open; the operator does not. A bare id reads as
-   complete to you and as homework to them — they have to look it up to know
-   what their own conversation is about, or guess. Scribe's own duplicate gate
-   already writes `id 412: "debounce helper"` for exactly this reason; match
-   it everywhere else.
-
-   The first mention in a message carries the title; later mentions of the
-   same record can use the bare id. If you don't know the title, look it up
-   before citing the number — an id you can't name is one you haven't checked.
-   This matters most in the places read later by someone with even less
-   context than the operator has now: commit messages, task bodies, and any
-   record that cites another.
-
-9. **State updates in place; chronicles don't.** A dev-log records what
+8. **State updates in place; chronicles don't.** A dev-log records what
    *happened* — write it once, never rewrite it. A durable finding (how a
    subsystem works, a measured number) lives in that System's **reference
    note** ("«System» — reference"), which you UPDATE as facts change — safe,
@@ -145,48 +106,6 @@ Two constraints on *how* that's achieved:
    re-measurement, a reversed decision), pass the old id in `supersedes` so the
    stale record is demoted and labelled rather than left competing.
 
-10. **A few notes assert a FACT, and those can carry their own check.**
-   Supersession only fires once somebody has read a note and disagreed — which
-   is the case where it was already believed. A note asserting something about
-   *someone else's* software — what a service does on a duplicate upload, how a
-   forge numbers its CI runs, what an updater compares — can instead carry
-   `verify_with` (how to check it) and `expires_when` (the STATE that ends it:
-   "when the forge numbers runs per workflow", never "in six months").
-   `notes_due_for_verification` lists them least-recently-confirmed first, with
-   never-checked at the top; `mark_note_verified` records what you found, and
-   `still_true=False` deliberately writes nothing — a note whose check failed
-   is wrong rather than in a state worth recording, so it keeps its place.
-
-   **The test is one question: could this note become false without anyone
-   editing it?** If no, leave both fields empty. That is the normal case, and
-   an empty `verify_with` is the positive marker for "this is a decision, there
-   is nothing to go and check" — not an unfinished record. The sweep is only
-   worth reading while almost nothing is on it, so a check added out of
-   tidiness costs the whole surface, not just that note.
-
-   **The sharper form of the same test: is the thing this note describes yours
-   to change?** If yes it is a decision — editing your own software is how it
-   changes, and you will know you did it. Measured against a real corpus, every
-   note that earned a check was about somebody ELSE's software: a signing
-   service, a forge, a hub, an SDK, a model, a dependency set.
-
-   **Three that look like candidates and are not:**
-   - **Resume pointers and "current state" notes.** They go stale fastest of
-     anything, which is exactly why they tempt — but the cure is to update or
-     delete them, not to schedule a check. A sweep full of pointers is a sweep
-     nobody reads.
-   - **Measurements of your own system.** They go false because you changed
-     something, and you knew. A measurement earns a check only when what it
-     measures is outside your control.
-   - **A decision that RESTS on somebody else's behaviour.** The decision is
-     still a decision. Put the check on the note asserting the fact, and link
-     the decision to it.
-
-   Not for tasks — a task's decay is its status, and a done issue records what
-   happened rather than asserting something that can go false. Not for snippets
-   either: `verify_snippet` compares the recorded location and code against the
-   repo, which is richer and already wired to drift detection.
-
 ## Stay inside the active project's scope
 
 Once a project is in scope — you called `enter_project`, or the working repo is

scripts/bump_fable_mcp_version.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Bump the patch segment of fable-mcp/pyproject.toml version and stage the file.
+# Usage: called automatically by the Claude Code pre-commit hook, or manually.
+set -euo pipefail
+
+REPO_ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
+FILE="$REPO_ROOT/fable-mcp/pyproject.toml"
+
+current=$(grep '^version = ' "$FILE" | sed 's/version = "\(.*\)"/\1/')
+major=$(echo "$current" | cut -d. -f1)
+minor=$(echo "$current" | cut -d. -f2)
+patch=$(echo "$current" | cut -d. -f3)
+new_version="$major.$minor.$((patch + 1))"
+
+sed -i "s/^version = \"$current\"/version = \"$new_version\"/" "$FILE"
+git -C "$REPO_ROOT" add "$FILE"
+echo "fable-mcp: $current → $new_version"

scripts/check_design_tokens.py

@@ -90,59 +90,6 @@ def style_source(path: pathlib.Path) -> str:
     return CSS_COMMENT.sub(" ", css)
 
 
-# A rule that paints text with a colour token AND its own -bg tint of the same
-# token. The pair looks harmonious and is close to illegible: a 12% tint of a
-# hue sits near the surface, so the hue as text on it lands around 2:1 against
-# an AA floor of 4.5. Measured across the whole Scribe ladder in 2026-08:
-# every one of the six pairs failed on the dark palette, worst 1.60:1.
-#
-# The fix is always the same and always available — the token's `-fg` sibling,
-# which is the hue mixed toward --fs-text-primary far enough to clear AA. So
-# this FAILS rather than reports: unlike a raw literal, there is nothing to
-# weigh up.
-SAME_TOKEN_PAIR = re.compile(
-    r"color\s*:\s*var\(\s*(--fs-[\w-]+?)\s*\)"          # color: var(--fs-X)
-    r"|background(?:-color)?\s*:\s*var\(\s*(--fs-[\w-]+?)-bg\s*\)"
-)
-
-
-def same_hue_text_on_tint(css: str) -> tuple[list[str], list[str]]:
-    """Tokens used as TEXT on a tint of themselves, within one rule block.
-
-    TWO SPELLINGS of the same background, because the first version of this
-    check only knew the first and missed four live instances:
-
-      background: var(--fs-X-bg)                       the token
-      background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--fs-X) N%, transparent)   inline
-
-    The inline form is what the project-status pills used, and it is the more
-    dangerous of the two — it does not even name a `-bg` token, so nothing
-    about it looks like the pattern until you measure it.
-
-    Returned separately because they were paid down separately — the token
-    form first (7 badge pairs), then the inline form (46 sites across 18
-    files, 26 of them --fs-accent). Both are clean now, so BOTH gate. The
-    split is kept because the two spellings need different error text: one
-    names a -bg token you can search for, the other names nothing at all.
-    """
-    token_form, inline_form = [], []
-    for body in re.findall(r"\{([^{}]*)\}", css):
-        # (?<![-\w]) or `border-color`, `border-left-color` and `outline-color`
-        # all match as if they were text. They are not: a border is a non-text
-        # graphic and its floor is 3:1, not 4.5. Without this the check reported
-        # seven rules that were already correct — and a check that cries wolf on
-        # correct code is one that gets muted.
-        fg = set(re.findall(r"(?<![-\w])color\s*:\s*var\(\s*(--fs-[\w-]+?)\s*\)", body))
-        bg_tok = set(re.findall(r"background(?:-color)?\s*:\s*var\(\s*(--fs-[\w-]+?)-bg\s*\)", body))
-        bg_inl = set(re.findall(
-            r"background(?:-color)?\s*:\s*color-mix\([^;]*?var\(\s*(--fs-[\w-]+?)\s*\)[^;]*?\)",
-            body,
-        ))
-        token_form.extend(sorted(fg & bg_tok))
-        inline_form.extend(sorted(fg & (bg_inl - bg_tok)))
-    return token_form, inline_form
-
-
 def main() -> int:
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
     parser.add_argument("--sheet", default="frontend/src/assets/theme.css")
@@ -170,8 +117,6 @@ def main() -> int:
     )
 
     unresolved: list[tuple[pathlib.Path, str]] = []
-    same_hue_hits: list[tuple[pathlib.Path, str]] = []
-    inline_tint_hits: list[tuple[pathlib.Path, str]] = []
     superseded_hits: list[tuple[pathlib.Path, str, str]] = []
     literal_count = 0
 
@@ -195,12 +140,6 @@ def main() -> int:
 
         literal_count += len(HEX_LITERAL.findall(css))
 
-        tok_hits, inl_hits = same_hue_text_on_tint(css)
-        for tok in tok_hits:
-            same_hue_hits.append((path, tok))
-        for tok in inl_hits:
-            inline_tint_hits.append((path, tok))
-
     if unresolved:
         print(f"FAIL — {len(unresolved)} unresolvable var() reference(s).")
         print("  These render as the fallback if given one, or as nothing at all.")
@@ -223,37 +162,12 @@ def main() -> int:
             print(f"    {path}: {literal} -> {token}")
         print()
 
-    if same_hue_hits:
-        print(f"FAIL — {len(same_hue_hits)} rule(s) paint text with a token on a "
-              f"tint of that same token.")
-        print("  A 12% tint sits near the surface, so the hue as text on it lands "
-              "around 2:1 against AA's 4.5.")
-        print("  Use the token's -fg sibling, which is mixed toward "
-              "--fs-text-primary until it clears the floor.\n")
-        for path, tok in same_hue_hits:
-            print(f"    {path}: color: var({tok}) on var({tok}-bg) -> var({tok}-fg)")
-        print()
-    else:
-        print("OK — no text painted with a token on a tint of its own -bg.\n")
-
-    if inline_tint_hits:
-        print(f"FAIL — {len(inline_tint_hits)} rule(s) paint text with a token on an "
-              f"INLINE color-mix tint of that same token.")
-        print("  Identical defect to the block above, spelled without a -bg token —")
-        print("  which is what let it hide: nothing about it LOOKS like the pattern.")
-        print("  Use the token's -fg sibling.\n")
-        for path, tok in inline_tint_hits:
-            print(f"    {path}: color: var({tok}) on an inline tint -> var({tok}-fg)")
-        print()
-    else:
-        print("OK — no text painted with a token on an inline tint of itself.\n")
-
     if args.report_literals:
         print(f"REPORT — {literal_count} raw colour literal(s) in component CSS.")
         print("  Advisory: a literal is a value stated outside the system, so it "
               "cannot follow a palette change.\n")
 
-    return 1 if (unresolved or same_hue_hits or inline_tint_hits) else 0
+    return 1 if unresolved else 0
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":

scripts/check_plugin.py

@@ -13,20 +13,9 @@ separate defects have reached a live install through that path:
     install, because `plugin.json`'s version wasn't bumped and the installer
     compares versions to decide whether to refresh its cache.
 
-Both were fixed. The second was fixed TWICE — once by bumping the number, and
-then properly, by removing the class it came from: `plugin.json`'s version is
-no longer a value anybody chooses. `scripts/mint_plugin_version.py` derives it
-from the clock (`make mint-plugin`), and `check_version_is_minted` below fails
-the lane when shipped content moved and the version did not.
-
-State exactly what that did and did not remove, because a rationale that
-overstates its own control is how the control gets trusted past its limit, and
-because the paragraph this replaces was itself read that way. Gone: having to
-remember which NUMBER to write, and the whole question of whether a chosen
-number was the right one. Not gone: the mint still has to be RUN, and
-forgetting to run it is still possible. What changed is that forgetting is now
-LOUD — a red lane on the batch that forgot, instead of a silent no-op found
-weeks later when somebody says "I don't think it updated" (#2220).
+The rule for the second one was already written down and was still missed. A
+written rule that depends on being remembered during a long session is not a
+control; this is.
 
 shellcheck and jq are NOT in `ci-python` (verified against CI-runner's Dockerfile
 and scripts/install-common.sh, not from memory — rule #37). CI installs both
@@ -42,15 +31,8 @@ itself loudly, because a check that quietly no-ops is the failure mode this
 whole file exists to prevent.
 
 Usage:
-    python3 scripts/check_plugin.py                # all checks
-    python3 scripts/check_plugin.py --no-version   # on `main` only — see below
-
-`--no-version` exists for ONE case. The version is measured against
-`origin/main`, so on `main` itself the comparison is against itself and answers
-nothing; the syntax, pattern and marker checks are the only ones that mean
-anything there. It is NOT a way past a red lane — see
-`check_version_is_minted`, whose whole design is shaped by keeping this flag
-out of anyone's muscle memory.
+    python3 scripts/check_plugin.py            # all checks
+    python3 scripts/check_plugin.py --no-version   # skip the bump check
 """
 from __future__ import annotations
 
@@ -61,90 +43,16 @@ import re
 import shutil
 import subprocess
 import sys
-from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
 from pathlib import Path
 
 ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
-
-# The shape contract is ONE definition, shared with the script that mints it —
-# a checker carrying its own copy of the format would drift from the minter
-# and pass values the minter can no longer produce. Explicit path insert
-# because this file runs both as `python3 scripts/check_plugin.py` (which puts
-# `scripts/` on the path, not the root) and as an import from the test suite.
-sys.path.insert(0, str(ROOT))
-from scripts.mint_plugin_version import VERSION_RE  # noqa: E402
-
 PLUGIN_DIR = ROOT / "plugin"
 HOOKS_DIR = PLUGIN_DIR / "hooks"
 MANIFEST = PLUGIN_DIR / ".claude-plugin" / "plugin.json"
 
-# ── What ships, and what decides what it says about itself ─────────────────
-#
-# ONE definition (#3127 §3, milestone 334 step 2). It has TWO consumers that
-# need different granularities, and conflating them is the bug:
-#
-#   the workflow's `paths:` trigger   whole paths   should CI run at all?
-#   the version check                 paths MINUS   should the version
-#                                     the manifest  have moved?
-#                                     `version`
-#
-# The second one is why this is not just a tuple of paths. `plugin.json` lives
-# INSIDE `plugin/`, so a version bump is itself a change to the shipped set —
-# and a check that reads the set naively then treats the bump as its own
-# justification. Any bump passes, no bump fails, and it has proved nothing.
-# `shipped_content_changed` below is the exclusion-aware reader.
-#
-# The exclusion is that ONE FIELD, never the whole file: `plugin.json` also
-# carries description, mcpServers and userConfig, all of which reach an
-# install and all of which matter. Excluding the file wholesale would mean a
-# userConfig-only edit computes an unchanged version and never refreshes —
-# #2209 again with a narrower trigger.
-SHIPPED_PATHS = ("plugin", ".claude-plugin")
-
-# Files that decide what a published artifact SAYS ABOUT ITSELF — kept as a
-# table so the next artifact is a one-line addition rather than a third
-# bespoke guard (#3127 §3). The membership test is NOT "is this copied into
-# the artifact?" but "can changing this file change the published bytes, or
-# what the artifact says about itself?" — FC learned that twice in four days
-# (#3156, #3202), and a deriver is never in the COPY list.
-#
-# Note what is absent: a CHECKER does not belong here. Whatever validates a
-# version decides whether the lane goes red, not what any artifact reports,
-# so `check_plugin.py` itself is not a deriver, while the script that mints
-# the plugin version is.
-DERIVERS: dict[str, tuple[str, ...]] = {
-    # The "Generate image tags and version" step computes the server image's
-    # name, ordering key and channel (#3298).
-    ".forgejo/workflows/ci.yml": ("server-image",),
-    # Decides the plugin's version FORMAT, so it decides what every future
-    # manifest says about itself (milestone 334 step 3).
-    "scripts/mint_plugin_version.py": ("plugin",),
-}
-
-
-def version_relevant_paths() -> tuple[str, ...]:
-    """Everything a change to which must produce a NEW plugin version.
-
-    Wider than `SHIPPED_PATHS`, and #3127 §3's asymmetry is why it has to be:
-
-        A change to how the VERSION is computed is compared against nothing at
-        all. Left out, the published artifact goes on reporting the OLD value
-        indefinitely.
-
-    Concretely — change the mint script's format string, change nothing else,
-    and a diff over the shipped paths alone reports "no content change, the
-    version need not move". The manifest then keeps a value in the old format
-    forever and nothing ever says so. The mint script reaches no install and
-    belongs here anyway; that is #3156's exact shape.
-
-    A CHECKER is deliberately not here. Whatever validates the version decides
-    whether the lane goes red, not what any artifact reports — so this file is
-    absent from its own set, and that is not an oversight.
-    """
-    return SHIPPED_PATHS + tuple(
-        path for path, artifacts in DERIVERS.items() if "plugin" in artifacts
-    )
-
+# Paths whose contents reach an install. Keep in step with the workflow's
+# `paths:` filter — a path that ships but isn't checked here is the gap again.
+SHIPPED = ("plugin", ".claude-plugin")
 
 failures: list[str] = []
 
@@ -235,6 +143,8 @@ def check_patterns() -> None:
             ok(f"{rel}: no known-bad patterns")
 
 
+# --- the version bump ------------------------------------------------------
+
 # --- shellcheck ------------------------------------------------------------
 
 def check_shellcheck() -> None:
@@ -305,16 +215,6 @@ SMOKE_EVENTS: dict[str, str] = {
          "tool_input": {"file_path": "src/x.py",
                         "new_string": f"def {_ABSENT_SYM}():\n    pass\n"}}
     ),
-    # The pre-tool rule arm (#3476). A real Bash call, and one whose whole
-    # point is that it looks harmless: reaching for curl against the forge API
-    # is the reflex the arm exists to catch. With no instance it must stay
-    # SILENT — it is deliberately not an OUTAGE_SPEAKER, because a Bash call is
-    # not occasional and an outage line before every command gets the channel
-    # muted.
-    "scribe_tool_rules.sh": json.dumps(
-        {"session_id": "smoke", "cwd": ".", "tool_name": "Bash",
-         "tool_input": {"command": "curl -s https://example.invalid/api/v1/runs"}}
-    ),
     "scribe_sync_processes.sh": json.dumps({"source": "startup"}),
     "scribe_session_context.sh": json.dumps({"source": "startup"}),
     # The after-write hook (#2901) diffs the working tree; on CI's clean
@@ -491,213 +391,80 @@ def _git(*args: str) -> tuple[int, str]:
     return proc.returncode, (proc.stdout or proc.stderr).strip()
 
 
-def manifest_text(ref: str | None = None) -> str | None:
-    """The manifest's RAW TEXT at `ref`, or in the working tree when ref is None.
-
-    Split out from `manifest_version` because the exclusion below needs every
-    field except one, not the one field.
-    """
+def manifest_version(ref: str | None = None) -> str | None:
+    """The manifest version at `ref`, or in the working tree when ref is None."""
     if ref is None:
         try:
-            return MANIFEST.read_text()
-        except OSError:
+            return json.loads(MANIFEST.read_text()).get("version")
+        except Exception:
             return None
     rel = MANIFEST.relative_to(ROOT).as_posix()
     code, out = _git("show", f"{ref}:{rel}")
-    return out if code == 0 else None
-
-
-def manifest_version(ref: str | None = None) -> str | None:
-    """The manifest version at `ref`, or in the working tree when ref is None."""
-    text = manifest_text(ref)
-    if text is None:
+    if code != 0:
         return None
     try:
-        return json.loads(text).get("version")
+        return json.loads(out).get("version")
     except Exception:
         return None
 
 
-# Distinct from None, which is a legitimate "this manifest does not exist".
-_UNREADABLE = object()
+def check_version_bump(base: str = "origin/main") -> None:
+    """If shipped plugin content differs from `base`, the version must too.
 
-
-def manifest_differs_beyond_version(a: str | None, b: str | None) -> bool:
-    """Do two `plugin.json` texts differ in anything OTHER than `version`?
-
-    THE exclusion, and it is kept pure — no git, no filesystem — because this
-    is the half worth testing hard and it needs no repository to exercise.
-
-    Compares PARSED objects rather than text, so reformatting, key reordering
-    and whitespace do not read as content changes. `version` is dropped from
-    both sides; everything else counts, which is what keeps a userConfig-only
-    or mcpServers-only edit demanding a new version.
-
-    Unreadable input answers True. The conservative direction is "demand a new
-    version": a spurious bump costs one cache refresh, while a missed one is
-    #2209 — the fix reaches the repo and stops there.
-    """
-    def without_version(text: str | None):
-        if text is None:
-            return None
-        try:
-            data = json.loads(text)
-        except Exception:
-            return _UNREADABLE
-        if not isinstance(data, dict):
-            return _UNREADABLE
-        return {k: v for k, v in data.items() if k != "version"}
-
-    left, right = without_version(a), without_version(b)
-    if left is _UNREADABLE or right is _UNREADABLE:
-        return True
-    return left != right
-
-
-def shipped_content_changed(base: str) -> tuple[bool | None, list[str]]:
-    """Has anything that REACHES AN INSTALL changed against `base`?
-
-    Returns `(changed, paths)`. `changed` is **None** when the question could
-    not be answered — a caller must never read that as "no", which is the
-    distinction #2663 cost weeks of zeroed telemetry to learn.
-
-    The manifest is special-cased, not excluded: if it is the ONLY thing that
-    moved and the only difference is `version`, nothing that reaches an
-    install has changed. Any other manifest field, or any other file, counts.
-
-    Reads `version_relevant_paths`, which is the shipped set PLUS the files
-    that decide the version — see there for why the deriver has to be in it.
-    """
-    code, out = _git("diff", "--name-only", base, "--", *version_relevant_paths())
-    if code != 0:
-        return None, []
-    paths = [p for p in out.splitlines() if p.strip()]
-    if not paths:
-        return False, []
-
-    rel_manifest = MANIFEST.relative_to(ROOT).as_posix()
-    if paths == [rel_manifest]:
-        return manifest_differs_beyond_version(
-            manifest_text(), manifest_text(base)
-        ), paths
-    return True, paths
-
-
-def check_version_is_minted(base: str = "origin/main") -> None:
-    """THE control (#3127 checklist 4), replacing "somebody remembers".
-
-    The checklist asks, of any hand-set component: *say what happens the
-    release somebody forgets it.* This is the answer — the lane goes red,
-    deterministically, because CI can compute whether the value should have
-    moved. Its predecessor could only ask "did the number move at all", which
-    any bump satisfied and which therefore proved nothing.
-
-    Four verdicts:
-
-      content changed, version did not   FAIL — this is #2209, exactly
-      version not in canonical shape     FAIL — see below
-      version implausibly in the future  FAIL — a bad clock or a hand-edit
-      version moved, content did not     pass, and say so
-
-    THE LAST ROW IS NOT A FAILURE, DELIBERATELY. A needless re-mint costs one
-    cache refresh and nothing else. Failing the lane over a harmless act is how
-    a check earns a `--no-version` in somebody's muscle memory and stops
-    running at all — which is the failure mode this whole file exists to
-    prevent. The implication that matters is one-directional: content changed
-    IMPLIES version moved.
-
-    A malformed version is worth failing on even though the installer would
-    accept it. `K4` returns the manifest string verbatim, and `H == "unknown"`
-    sets `forceOverwrite`, so a broken value either sorts as a normal string
-    or reinstalls the plugin every single session (#3325). Neither is loud.
-
-    Stated against the BASE BRANCH rather than the last commit, as its
-    predecessor was: a per-commit rule would demand a fresh mint from every
-    commit in a batch, when what matters is that whatever reaches an install
-    differs from what is cached. One mint per batch, which is also how a person
-    would do it.
+    Stated against the BASE BRANCH rather than the last commit on purpose. A
+    per-commit rule would demand a bump from every commit in a batch; what
+    actually matters is that whatever reaches an install carries a version the
+    installer can tell apart from the one already cached. One bump per batch,
+    which is also how a human would do it.
     """
     code, _ = _git("rev-parse", "--verify", base)
     if code != 0:
         # Do NOT pass silently — a check that quietly no-ops is how this class
         # of bug survives in the first place.
         fail(
-            f"cannot resolve {base}, so the minted-version check could not run. "
+            f"cannot resolve {base}, so the version-bump check could not run. "
             f"Fetch it first — `git fetch --depth=1 origin main:refs/remotes/"
             f"origin/main` is enough, since this diffs two trees and needs no "
             f"common ancestor — or pass --no-version deliberately."
         )
         return
 
-    here = manifest_version()
+    code, changed = _git("diff", "--name-only", base, "--", *SHIPPED)
+    if code != 0:
+        fail(f"git diff against {base} failed: {changed}")
+        return
+    if not changed.strip():
+        ok(f"no shipped plugin changes against {base} — version bump not required")
+        return
+
+    here, there = manifest_version(), manifest_version(base)
     if here is None:
         fail(f"could not read a version from {MANIFEST.relative_to(ROOT)}")
         return
-    if not VERSION_RE.match(here):
-        fail(
-            f"the manifest version is {here!r}, which is not YYYY.MM.DD.HHMM.\n"
-            f"        One shape for every version in the family (#3127 checklist "
-            f"10), zero-padded so the midnight case renders 2026.01.05.0000.\n"
-            f"        Run `make mint-plugin`."
-        )
-        return
-
-    minted = datetime.strptime(here, "%Y.%m.%d.%H%M").replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc)
-    # A day of slack: the mint happens on a workstation and the lane runs
-    # later, so a *small* skew is ordinary. A value further out than that is
-    # a wrong clock or a typed year, and it makes the version lie about when
-    # it was minted.
-    if minted > datetime.now(timezone.utc) + timedelta(days=1):
-        fail(
-            f"the manifest version {here} is in the future. Either the clock "
-            f"that minted it is wrong, or it was typed by hand."
-        )
-        return
-
-    changed, paths = shipped_content_changed(base)
-    if changed is None:
-        fail(f"git diff against {base} failed, so the version check could not run")
-        return
-
-    there = manifest_version(base)
     if there is None:
         ok(f"no manifest on {base} — treating as a new plugin (version {here})")
         return
-
-    if changed and here == there:
-        files = "\n          ".join(paths)
+    if here == there:
+        files = "\n          ".join(changed.splitlines())
         fail(
-            f"plugin content changed but the version is still {here}.\n"
-            f"        The installer decides whether to refresh its cache by "
-            f"comparing this string, so an unchanged version means these edits "
-            f"reach the repo and stop there — the marketplace clone updates, the "
-            f"cache that actually executes does not (#2209, #1040, #2220).\n"
-            f"        Run `make mint-plugin`.\n"
+            f"plugin content changed but the manifest version is still {here}.\n"
+            f"        The installer compares versions to decide whether to refresh "
+            f"its cache, so an unchanged version means these edits reach the repo "
+            f"and stop there — the marketplace clone updates, the cache that "
+            f"actually executes does not (issue #2209).\n"
+            f"        Bump `version` in {MANIFEST.relative_to(ROOT)}.\n"
             f"        Changed:\n          {files}"
         )
-    elif changed:
-        ok(f"plugin content changed and the version was minted {there} -> {here}")
-    elif here != there:
-        # Not a failure — see the docstring. Named rather than silent, because
-        # the uninteresting cause (minted twice) and the interesting one (the
-        # version-relevant set is too narrow to see what actually changed)
-        # produce the same line, and only a person can tell them apart.
-        ok(
-            f"the version moved {there} -> {here} with no version-relevant "
-            f"change — harmless, unless something DID change that the set "
-            f"cannot see"
-        )
     else:
-        ok(f"nothing version-relevant changed against {base} — no mint required")
+        ok(f"plugin content changed and version moved {there} -> {here}")
 
 
 def main() -> int:
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
     parser.add_argument("--no-version", action="store_true",
-                        help="skip the minted-version check; for `main`, where "
-                             "it would be measured against itself")
+                        help="skip the manifest version-bump check")
     parser.add_argument("--base", default="origin/main",
-                        help="branch the version is measured against")
+                        help="branch the version bump is measured against")
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
     if not HOOKS_DIR.is_dir():
@@ -711,7 +478,7 @@ def main() -> int:
     check_local_prior_art_needs_no_instance()
     check_session_context_reports_its_version()
     if not args.no_version:
-        check_version_is_minted(args.base)
+        check_version_bump(args.base)
 
     print()
     if failures:

scripts/mint_plugin_version.py

@@ -1,144 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-"""Mint the plugin's version — `YYYY.MM.DD.HHMM`, UTC, zero-padded.
-
-Run this whenever you change something under `plugin/` or `.claude-plugin/`,
-before you commit:
-
-    make mint-plugin        # or: python3 scripts/mint_plugin_version.py
-
-WHY A SCRIPT AND NOT A BUILD STEP. `plugin/` is not in the Docker image.
-Installs fetch it straight from this git repo via `.claude-plugin/
-marketplace.json`, so **a push IS the release** — there is no build between
-you committing and a user fetching, and therefore no moment at which CI could
-stamp a version in. Every other artifact in the family derives its version
-during a build (note #3127 §2). This one has no build to derive during.
-
-WHICH CLOCK, AND WHY IT DIFFERS FROM THE SERVER IMAGE — the divergence is
-deliberate, and it lives one directory away from its opposite, so it is
-exactly what a later "let's make these consistent" change would collapse:
-
-    server image   name from COMMIT time, ordering key from BUILD time
-                   (two lanes building one source must report one string;
-                   a rebuild of an older commit must not go backwards)
-    plugin         one value, from MINT time
-
-§2's reason for commit time is that two lanes build one source. The plugin has
-one lane and no build, so that reason does not reach it and paying its cost
-buys nothing. What is given up is reproducibility-from-history: you cannot
-recompute this value later, only verify that it moved when it had to.
-
-That trade is acceptable ONLY because of what #3325 established by reading the
-installer's code: the refresh test is `P.version === H`, plain string
-equality, with no ordering comparison anywhere. Where a comparator ORDERS, an
-unreproducible version is dangerous — nothing can check it is right. Where it
-only tests equality, "did it change when it should have" is the entire
-specification, and `check_plugin.py` checks that completely.
-
-The manifest is rewritten with a surgical replacement of the `version` line
-rather than `json.dump`, because its formatting and key order are not this
-script's to decide and a whole-file reformat would make every mint an
-unreadable diff.
-"""
-from __future__ import annotations
-
-import argparse
-import json
-import re
-import sys
-from datetime import datetime, timezone
-from pathlib import Path
-
-ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
-MANIFEST = ROOT / "plugin" / ".claude-plugin" / "plugin.json"
-
-# Four dot-separated numeric fields, zero-padded, and nothing else — one shape
-# for every human-readable version in the family (#3127 checklist 10). The
-# padding is load-bearing for the midnight case the checklist names by hand:
-# 2026.01.05.0000, which an unpadded `%-H%M` would render as `0` and silently
-# shorten. Harmless while nothing orders these, wrong the moment anything does.
-VERSION_RE = re.compile(r"^\d{4}\.\d{2}\.\d{2}\.\d{4}$")
-VERSION_FORMAT = "%Y.%m.%d.%H%M"
-
-# The `version` line, captured so its surroundings survive byte-for-byte.
-VERSION_LINE_RE = re.compile(r'^(\s*"version"\s*:\s*")([^"]*)(".*)$', re.M)
-
-
-def mint(now: datetime | None = None) -> str:
-    """The version for this moment. UTC, always.
-
-    The conversion is not decoration: `strftime` renders whatever offset the
-    datetime carries, so without it two people minting the same instant in
-    different zones produce different strings — and the string IS the
-    artifact's identity. A naive datetime is read as UTC rather than as the
-    machine's zone, because that is this function's stated contract and
-    guessing the host's offset is how the bug comes back by another route.
-    """
-    moment = now or datetime.now(timezone.utc)
-    if moment.tzinfo is None:
-        moment = moment.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc)
-    return moment.astimezone(timezone.utc).strftime(VERSION_FORMAT)
-
-
-def rewrite(text: str, version: str) -> str:
-    """`text` with its `version` value replaced, and everything else untouched.
-
-    Raises rather than falling back to a JSON round-trip: a manifest this
-    cannot match is one whose shape changed, and quietly reformatting the file
-    to cope would be a much larger edit than the caller asked for.
-    """
-    # Counted BEFORE substituting, not via subn's return: a capped `subn`
-    # reports the replacements it made, so a manifest with two `version` lines
-    # would look like a clean single match while the second one — the real one,
-    # perhaps — kept its old value.
-    matches = VERSION_LINE_RE.findall(text)
-    if len(matches) != 1:
-        raise ValueError(
-            f"expected exactly one `version` line in the manifest, found {len(matches)}"
-        )
-    return VERSION_LINE_RE.sub(
-        lambda m: f"{m.group(1)}{version}{m.group(3)}", text, count=1
-    )
-
-
-def main() -> int:
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Mint the plugin's version.")
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "--check", action="store_true",
-        help="print the version that WOULD be minted and change nothing",
-    )
-    args = parser.parse_args()
-
-    version = mint()
-    if args.check:
-        print(version)
-        return 0
-
-    try:
-        text = MANIFEST.read_text()
-    except OSError as exc:
-        print(f"cannot read {MANIFEST.relative_to(ROOT)}: {exc}", file=sys.stderr)
-        return 1
-
-    try:
-        previous = json.loads(text).get("version")
-    except Exception:
-        previous = None
-
-    if previous == version:
-        # Same minute. Not an error — the value is already correct for now, and
-        # failing here would turn "I ran it twice" into a problem to solve.
-        print(f"plugin version already {version} (same minute) — unchanged")
-        return 0
-
-    try:
-        MANIFEST.write_text(rewrite(text, version))
-    except ValueError as exc:
-        print(f"{MANIFEST.relative_to(ROOT)}: {exc}", file=sys.stderr)
-        return 1
-
-    print(f"plugin version {previous} -> {version}")
-    return 0
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    raise SystemExit(main())

scripts/pre_commit_fable_mcp.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Claude Code PreToolUse hook for Bash.
+# Reads the tool input JSON from stdin; if the command is a git commit
+# and fable-mcp files (other than pyproject.toml) are staged, bumps
+# the fable-mcp patch version before the commit proceeds.
+#
+# Exits 0 always so it never blocks the commit.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+REPO_ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
+
+input=$(cat)
+command=$(echo "$input" | python3 -c "
+import sys, json
+data = json.load(sys.stdin)
+# Claude Code sends {tool_input: {command: ...}}
+ti = data.get('tool_input', data)
+print(ti.get('command', ''))
+" 2>/dev/null || echo "")
+
+# Only act on git commit commands
+if ! echo "$command" | grep -qE "git commit"; then
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+cd "$REPO_ROOT"
+
+# Check if fable-mcp files other than pyproject.toml are staged
+fable_staged=$(git diff --cached --name-only 2>/dev/null \
+  | grep "^fable-mcp/" \
+  | grep -v "^fable-mcp/pyproject.toml$" \
+  || true)
+
+if [ -n "$fable_staged" ]; then
+  bash "$REPO_ROOT/scripts/bump_fable_mcp_version.sh"
+fi
+
+exit 0

src/scribe/mcp/server.py

@@ -30,46 +30,6 @@ from quart import Quart
 #     duplicate gate, the untagged-record systems_hint) act in-band in tool
 #     responses, at the moment they apply.
 # Grow one of those, not this block.
-# BUDGET: ~1980 of the client's ~2048-char cap (#2562). Everything below is
-# competing for the last ~68 characters, so an addition here is a trade, never
-# an append.
-#
-# Milestone 317 (a note's own verify_with / expires_when, and the sweep over
-# them) was DECLINED a line, deliberately, by the operator — not overlooked.
-# The reasoning, so it is not re-litigated blind: this is a map, and its own
-# closing line says each tool's description carries the full contract. The
-# sweep is a curation act, not a session-start reflex like enter_project or
-# list_always_on_rules. Spending the last of the budget on it would leave the
-# map unable to grow for something more central later.
-#
-# The accepted cost: an agent that never opens create_note's docstring never
-# learns the field exists. Guidance lives in the create_note / update_note
-# docstrings and the using-scribe skill instead.
-#
-# Milestone 333 step 3 (2026-09-04) bought the HOW bullet's second clause —
-# search(content_type="rule") before a consequential act — by TRADING OUT
-# "Processes are saved procedures (follow verbatim)" and "Deletes are
-# trash-recoverable". Recorded so the trade is not silently reversed:
-#   - Both were already in test_instruction_surfaces_agree's DISPLACED_TOPICS
-#     and already stated on a delivered surface, so nothing fell off: the
-#     process reflex is in every scribe-proc-* skill listing (each says the
-#     process governs and is followed verbatim), and trash recovery is in the
-#     delete_*/list_trash/restore docstrings, which is where per-tool guidance
-#     belongs by this block's own doctrine.
-#   - What it bought is not per-tool guidance and has nowhere else to live at
-#     session-start altitude. Rules were retrievable only by RESIDENCY: the
-#     always-on preload put them in front of the agent, and nothing told a
-#     session to go looking for one it had not been handed. The tier split is
-#     therefore load-bearing on ANY install (rule 115): a delivered rule costs
-#     tokens in every session forever, so a rulebook that only delivers cannot
-#     grow past what one session can hold, and every rule worth keeping has to
-#     become resident to bind at all. Retrieval is what lets it keep growing —
-#     and retrieval fires only if something asks, which nothing told a session
-#     to do. A tool-choice reflex asks least of all (#3476, #161).
-#   - This states the PULL for conditional rules, exactly as the surrounding
-#     line states it for always-on ones. Rule 119 makes these surfaces the
-#     specification, so the same sentence lands on all three session-start
-#     surfaces, and test_instruction_surfaces_agree pins it.
 _INSTRUCTIONS = """
 Scribe is the operator's self-hosted second brain and system of record — and
 yours: recall from it before acting, record as you go. Keep no parallel copy
@@ -88,13 +48,13 @@ Hierarchy: Project -> Milestone -> Task/Note. The map, by purpose:
   active project_id to stay in scope.
 - WHERE work happens: Systems. Tag records with system_ids as you write;
   create_system when the area is unmodelled.
-- HOW: rules bind. list_always_on_rules() at start; before a consequential
-  act, search(content_type="rule") — the resident set is not all of them.
+- HOW: rules are binding — list_always_on_rules() at session start.
 - UI: the project's design system is binding — resolve_design_system /
   get_design_system_stylesheet before hand-writing a value.
 - REUSE: search snippets before writing a helper; record what you build with
   create_snippet; classify shapes against canon (classify_shapes) — a
-  consumer map is rows, never prose.
+  consumer map is rows, never prose. Processes are saved procedures (follow
+  verbatim). Deletes are trash-recoverable.
 
 A task is a note with status (*_note vs *_task tools).
 Creates are duplicate-gated: a near-match BLOCKS and returns the existing
@@ -160,13 +120,6 @@ _READ_ONLY_TOOLS = frozenset({
     # prefix, so the completeness test below cannot derive it — the same
     # reason `enter_project` is spelled out above.
     "retrieval_telemetry",
-    # The note staleness sweep (milestone 317). A pure read — mark_note_verified
-    # is the write, and it is deliberately NOT here. Spelled out for
-    # retrieval_telemetry's reason: `notes_due_for_verification` matches none of
-    # the prefixes the completeness test derives from, so nothing would have
-    # prompted this decision. `rules_due_for_verification` is in the same
-    # position and is NOT listed — see #3191.
-    "notes_due_for_verification",
 })
 
 # Read-SHAPED tools that must NOT be reachable with a read key — a getter that

src/scribe/mcp/tools/milestones.py

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ async def get_milestone(milestone_id: int) -> dict:
     return {
         "milestone": out,
         "steps": [t.to_dict() for t in steps],
-        **rulebooks_svc.rules_payload(applicable, user_id=uid, source="get_milestone"),
+        **rulebooks_svc.rules_payload(applicable),
     }
 
 
@@ -137,23 +137,11 @@ async def delete_milestone(milestone_id: int) -> dict:
     """Move a milestone to the trash (recoverable). Its tasks go with it as one batch.
     Restore via restore(batch_id)."""
     uid = current_user_id()
-    # Read the title BEFORE the delete: afterwards the row is trashed and the
-    # confirmation could only echo the number back. A deletion the operator
-    # cannot recognise is one they cannot tell was the wrong one.
-    # Fail-open: the title is a COURTESY on top of the delete, so a lookup
-    # that errors must not stop the delete happening. Same posture the
-    # staleness marker takes — a decoration may never break its payload.
-    try:
-        doomed = await milestones_svc.get_milestone(uid, milestone_id)
-        title = getattr(doomed, "title", "") if doomed else ""
-    except Exception:
-        title = ""
     batch = await trash_svc.delete(uid, "milestone", milestone_id)
     if batch is None:
         raise ValueError(f"milestone {milestone_id} not found")
-    return {"deleted": milestone_id, "title": title, "deleted_batch_id": batch,
-            "message": f'Milestone {milestone_id} ("{title}") and its tasks '
-                       f"moved to trash. Restore with restore('{batch}')."}
+    return {"deleted_batch_id": batch,
+            "message": f"Milestone {milestone_id} + its tasks moved to trash. Restore with restore('{batch}')."}
 
 
 def register(mcp) -> None:

src/scribe/mcp/tools/notes.py

@@ -103,23 +103,10 @@ async def create_note(
     project_id: int = 0,
     system_ids: list[int] | None = None,
     supersedes: list[int] | None = None,
-    verify_with: str = "",
-    expires_when: str = "",
     force: bool = False,
 ) -> dict:
     """Create a new note in Scribe.
 
-    WHAT ELSE COULD HOLD THIS? A note is the right home when the answer is
-    "nothing": it records what you know, nobody owes anything on it, and
-    nothing enforces it. Otherwise —
-    - someone has to DO something -> create_task. A note titled "we should…"
-      is a task nobody will ever see again.
-    - future sessions must OBEY it -> create_rule. The test is whether
-      ignoring it would be a mistake, not merely uninformed.
-    - reusable code with a place in a repo -> create_snippet. The location is
-      what lets it be found from the file someone is about to edit.
-    - a procedure followed start to finish -> create_process.
-
     Args:
         title: Note title (required).
         body: Markdown content. Supports [[wikilinks]] to other notes by title.
@@ -136,33 +123,6 @@ async def create_note(
             arrives labelled when it does surface. This records a CLAIM, not a
             verdict: it never says the older note was wrong, only that it is no
             longer the current answer.
-        verify_with: HOW TO CHECK this note is still true. Leave empty for
-            almost every note — that is the normal case, not an unfinished
-            one.
-            A note is a NORM or a CONSTRAINT. A norm is a decision ("we derive
-            versions from commit time"): it has no truth value and changes only
-            when its author changes it, which they know they did. A CONSTRAINT
-            asserts a fact about someone else's software ("AMO refuses to
-            re-sign a version", "this forge numbers CI runs per repository"),
-            and it goes false with nobody watching. Only constraints get a
-            check.
-            The test, in one question: COULD THIS NOTE BECOME FALSE WITHOUT
-            ANYONE EDITING IT? If no, leave this empty. Sharper still: is the
-            thing this note describes YOURS TO CHANGE? If yes it is a
-            decision. Measured against a real corpus, every note that earned a
-            check was about somebody else's software.
-            Three that look like candidates and are not: a resume pointer or
-            "current state" note (goes stale fastest, but the cure is to
-            update it, not to check it); a measurement of your own system (it
-            goes false because you changed something, and you knew); and a
-            decision that RESTS on someone else's behaviour (check the note
-            asserting the fact, not the decision).
-            A command, a path, a URL, a query. Prose is allowed; something
-            runnable is better.
-        expires_when: The STATE that ends it — deliberately not a date.
-            "When Forgejo issues run numbers per workflow rather than per
-            repository", not "in six months". Constraints expire when the
-            ground moves, not on a schedule.
         force: Bypass the near-duplicate gate. By default, if a title- or
             meaning-similar note already exists in the same project, creation is
             BLOCKED and the existing note's id is returned so you update it
@@ -190,8 +150,6 @@ async def create_note(
         body=body,
         tags=tags,
         project_id=project_id or None,
-        verify_with=verify_with,
-        expires_when=expires_when,
     )
     if system_ids:
         await systems_svc.set_record_systems(uid, note.id, system_ids)
@@ -216,9 +174,6 @@ async def update_note(
     project_id: int = 0,
     system_ids: list[int] | None = None,
     supersedes: list[int] | None = None,
-    verify_with: str = "",
-    expires_when: str = "",
-    clear: list[str] | None = None,
 ) -> dict:
     """Update an existing Scribe note. Only explicitly provided fields are changed.
 
@@ -233,27 +188,6 @@ async def update_note(
         supersedes: Replace the ids of earlier notes this one replaces
             (set-semantics). None = leave unchanged; [] = clear all. See
             create_note for when to reach for it.
-        verify_with: How to check this note is still true. Almost every note
-            should leave this empty — that is the normal, finished state, not
-            a gap: an empty check is the marker for "this is a decision, there
-            is nothing to go and check". See create_note for the full
-            norm-vs-constraint test; the short form is "could this become
-            false without anyone editing it?".
-        expires_when: The STATE that ends it, not a date.
-        clear: Names of fields to UNSET — "verify_with", "expires_when".
-            Needed because "" means "leave this alone" here, so there is no
-            value that removes a field: an agent updating a body must not
-            silently wipe a check it was not asked about. A note that stops
-            being a constraint is cleared by naming the field, which cannot
-            happen by accident.
-
-    Rewriting `verify_with` drops the note's verification stamp: a stamp
-    certifies a particular check, and carrying it across a rewrite would vouch
-    for something nobody has looked at.
-
-    A task and a snippet are both REFUSED a check, with a message saying where
-    to go instead — a task's decay is its status, and a snippet has
-    verify_snippet.
     """
     uid = current_user_id()
     fields: dict = {}
@@ -265,13 +199,7 @@ async def update_note(
         fields["tags"] = tags
     if project_id:
         fields["project_id"] = project_id
-    if verify_with:
-        fields["verify_with"] = verify_with
-    if expires_when:
-        fields["expires_when"] = expires_when
-    note = await notes_svc.update_note(
-        uid, note_id, clear=clear or (), **fields
-    )
+    note = await notes_svc.update_note(uid, note_id, **fields)
     if note is None:
         raise ValueError(f"note {note_id} not found")
     if system_ids is not None:
@@ -324,113 +252,11 @@ async def find_duplicate_records(kind: str = "note", threshold: float = 0.0) ->
 async def delete_note(note_id: int) -> dict:
     """Move a Scribe note to the trash (recoverable). Restore via restore(batch_id)."""
     uid = current_user_id()
-    # Read the title BEFORE the delete: afterwards the row is trashed and the
-    # confirmation could only echo the number back. A deletion the operator
-    # cannot recognise is one they cannot tell was the wrong one.
-    # Fail-open: the title is a COURTESY on top of the delete, so a lookup
-    # that errors must not stop the delete happening. Same posture the
-    # staleness marker takes — a decoration may never break its payload.
-    try:
-        loaded = await notes_svc.get_note_for_user(uid, note_id)
-        title = getattr(loaded[0], "title", "") if loaded else ""
-    except Exception:
-        title = ""
     batch = await trash_svc.delete(uid, "note", note_id)
     if batch is None:
         raise ValueError(f"note {note_id} not found")
-    return {"deleted": note_id, "title": title, "deleted_batch_id": batch,
-            "message": f'Note {note_id} ("{title}") moved to trash. '
-                       f"Restore with restore('{batch}')."}
-
-
-async def notes_due_for_verification(
-    older_than_days: int = 0, project_id: int = 0, never_only: bool = False,
-) -> dict:
-    """Which notes assert a FACT that nobody has confirmed lately.
-
-    A corpus of notes holds two kinds of thing. Most are DECISIONS or records
-    of what happened — they have no truth value and cannot rot. A few assert a
-    fact about someone else's software: what a signing service does on a
-    duplicate upload, how a forge numbers its CI runs, what an updater
-    compares. Those go false silently, with nobody present, and a
-    cross-project reference note keeps being read as current by every project
-    that cites it.
-
-    This lists the second kind, oldest verification first, NEVER-CHECKED AT
-    THE TOP — a note nobody has ever confirmed is a claim with no evidence
-    behind it at all. Each row carries `verify_with` in full, because you are
-    about to go and run it, plus `expires_when` and `days_since_verified`.
-
-    Reach for it when curating, when a note's claim just contradicted what you
-    observed, or periodically. Then, per row: run the check, and call
-    mark_note_verified with what you found.
-
-    Notes with no `verify_with` never appear, and that is correct — they are
-    decisions, and there is nothing to go and check. Do not "fix" their
-    absence by giving them checks: this list is only worth reading while
-    everything on it genuinely can go false.
-
-    Args:
-        older_than_days: only notes last verified longer ago than this.
-            Never-checked notes always qualify — they are the most overdue
-            thing there is. 0 = no age filter.
-        project_id: narrow to one project. 0 = every project. Unlike the rules
-            sweep, this filter is safe: a note belongs to at most one project
-            outright, with none of the subscription and always-on paths that
-            would make a project filter UNDER-report a rule.
-        never_only: only notes nobody has ever verified.
-    """
-    uid = current_user_id()
-    notes = await notes_svc.notes_due_for_verification(
-        uid,
-        older_than_days=older_than_days,
-        project_id=project_id or None,
-        never_only=never_only,
-    )
-    return {
-        "notes": [notes_svc.verification_row(n) for n in notes],
-        "total": len(notes),
-    }
-
-
-async def mark_note_verified(note_id: int, still_true: bool = True) -> dict:
-    """Record that you ran a note's check — and what it said.
-
-    Call this AFTER actually running the note's `verify_with`, never on the
-    strength of the claim sounding plausible. A stamp nobody earned is worse
-    than no stamp: it moves the note to the bottom of the sweep and buys the
-    claim another long silence.
-
-    `still_true=False` writes NOTHING. A note whose check failed is not in a
-    special state to be recorded — it is WRONG, and the honest next moves are
-    to correct it, supersede it, or find out why. So it stays at the top of
-    the sweep until someone deals with it, and the response tells you what the
-    note said would end it.
-
-    Args:
-        note_id: the note whose check you ran.
-        still_true: True if the check passed. False if the fact it asserts is
-            no longer true — say so, that is the outcome worth having.
-    """
-    uid = current_user_id()
-    note = await notes_svc.mark_note_verified(note_id, uid, still_true)
-    if note is None:
-        raise ValueError(
-            f"note {note_id} not found, not writable by you, or carries no "
-            f"verify_with (nothing to verify is not the same as verified)"
-        )
-    data = notes_svc.verification_row(note)
-    data["verified"] = bool(still_true)
-    if not still_true:
-        data["next"] = (
-            "This note is no longer true and is still being read as current "
-            "by anything that cites it. Correct it with update_note, write "
-            "the replacement with create_note(supersedes=[...]), or clear its "
-            "check with update_note(clear=[\"verify_with\"]) if it has stopped "
-            "asserting a fact at all. It stays at the top of "
-            "notes_due_for_verification until one of those happens."
-        )
-    return data
+    return {"deleted_batch_id": batch,
+            "message": f"Note {note_id} moved to trash. Restore with restore('{batch}')."}
 
 
 def register(mcp) -> None:
@@ -441,7 +267,5 @@ def register(mcp) -> None:
         update_note,
         find_duplicate_records,
         delete_note,
-        notes_due_for_verification,
-        mark_note_verified,
     ):
         mcp.tool(name=fn.__name__)(fn)

src/scribe/mcp/tools/processes.py

@@ -54,12 +54,6 @@ async def create_process(
 ) -> dict:
     """Create a stored process (a reusable saved prompt).
 
-    FOLLOWED, OR READ? A process is invoked deliberately and worked through
-    start to finish. If it should apply whether or not anyone invokes it, it
-    is a rule (create_rule) — that is the whole difference between a procedure
-    and a standing instruction. If it is knowledge to consult rather than
-    steps to execute, it is a note (create_note).
-
     AUTHOR IT AS A SHAPE, NOT A SCRIPT. A process's value is the accumulated
     procedure — the steps, the taxonomy, the quality bar, the failure modes
     worth guarding. It must not force anything the invoking conversation

src/scribe/mcp/tools/projects.py

@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ async def enter_project(project_id: int) -> dict:
         ],
         "design_system": design_system,
         "milestone_summary": milestone_summary,
-        **rulebooks_svc.rules_payload(applicable, user_id=uid, source="enter_project"),
+        **rulebooks_svc.rules_payload(applicable),
         "open_tasks": [
             {
                 "id": t.id, "title": t.title, "status": t.status,
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ async def get_project(project_id: int) -> dict:
     applicable = await rulebooks_svc.get_applicable_rules(
         project_id=project_id, user_id=uid,
     )
-    data.update(rulebooks_svc.rules_payload(applicable, user_id=uid, source="get_project"))
+    data.update(rulebooks_svc.rules_payload(applicable))
     return data
 
 

src/scribe/mcp/tools/rulebooks.py

@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ from scribe.mcp._context import current_user_id
 from scribe.services import dedup as dedup_svc
 from scribe.services import rulebooks as rulebooks_svc
 from scribe.services import trash as trash_svc
-from scribe.services.rule_usage import record_rule_pulled, record_rule_surfaced
 
 
 # ── Rulebook CRUD ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -123,9 +122,8 @@ async def delete_rulebook(rulebook_id: int, confirmed: bool = False) -> dict:
             "confirmed_required": True,
         }
     batch = await trash_svc.delete(uid, "rulebook", rulebook_id)
-    return {"deleted": rulebook_id, "title": rb.title, "deleted_batch_id": batch,
-            "message": f'Rulebook {rulebook_id} ("{rb.title}") moved to trash. '
-                       f"Restore with restore('{batch}')."}
+    return {"deleted": rulebook_id, "deleted_batch_id": batch,
+            "message": f"Moved to trash. Restore with restore('{batch}')."}
 
 
 # ── Topic CRUD ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -194,9 +192,8 @@ async def delete_topic(topic_id: int, confirmed: bool = False) -> dict:
             "confirmed_required": True,
         }
     batch = await trash_svc.delete(uid, "topic", topic_id)
-    return {"deleted": topic_id, "title": topic.title, "deleted_batch_id": batch,
-            "message": f'Topic {topic_id} ("{topic.title}") moved to trash. '
-                       f"Restore with restore('{batch}')."}
+    return {"deleted": topic_id, "deleted_batch_id": batch,
+            "message": f"Moved to trash. Restore with restore('{batch}')."}
 
 
 # ── Rule CRUD ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -265,25 +262,7 @@ async def list_always_on_rules(project_id: int = 0) -> dict:
     """
     uid = current_user_id()
     rules = await rulebooks_svc.list_always_on_rules(uid, project_id=project_id)
-    # AMBIENT source: the resident set, handed over whole. No ranker chose
-    # these, so they must not land in the pull-through numerator's denominator
-    # — but they must land SOMEWHERE, or the largest rule surface in the
-    # product stays the one surface its own scoreboard cannot see (#3473).
-    record_rule_surfaced(
-        user_id=uid,
-        rule_ids=[r.id for r in rules],
-        source="list_always_on_rules",
-    )
-    return {
-        "rules": [_rule_summary(r) for r in rules],
-        "total": len(rules),
-        # A marker for the set you are now holding. It is not for you to read:
-        # the write-path hook carries it back and is told if these rules have
-        # moved since. Deliberately NOT on rules_payload's applicable_rules —
-        # that is a DIFFERENT set (subscription-derived), and one key name
-        # over two sets is how a comparison starts reporting phantom changes.
-        "rules_etag": rulebooks_svc.rules_etag(rules),
-    }
+    return {"rules": [_rule_summary(r) for r in rules], "total": len(rules)}
 
 
 async def get_rule(rule_id: int) -> dict:
@@ -298,11 +277,6 @@ async def get_rule(rule_id: int) -> dict:
     rule = await rulebooks_svc.get_rule(rule_id, uid)
     if rule is None:
         raise ValueError(f"rule {rule_id} not found")
-    # THE pull that matters. The write-path rule arm's own message ends "Read
-    # it with get_rule(N)", so this is the exact action the hint asks for and
-    # the only evidence that one landed. Recorded after the access check, so a
-    # refused read is not counted as a pull.
-    record_rule_pulled(user_id=uid, rule_id=int(rule.id), source="mcp_get_rule")
     return await rulebooks_svc.rule_detail(uid, rule)
 
 
@@ -315,61 +289,6 @@ async def create_rule(
 ) -> dict:
     """Create a new rule in a rulebook (a SHARED rule — keep it general).
 
-    PROPOSE RULES READILY, AND WRITE ONE WHEN THE OPERATOR SAYS YES. Noticing
-    that something has hardened into a standing instruction is valuable work,
-    and a session that notices it and says nothing has thrown the observation
-    away. So raise it whenever you see one. The single step that belongs
-    between noticing and writing is the operator's yes: a rule binds every
-    future session, and they are the person it binds.
-
-    Their yes is also the only moment the rule is reliably IN FRONT of them.
-    After the write it may not be again for months — a conditional rule is not
-    read aloud at session start, and a project-scoped one does not appear in
-    an unfiltered list_rules() at all. So the proposal is the review.
-
-    When the operator asks for a rule in so many words, that IS the yes —
-    write it and move on. The loop below is for the rule you thought of.
-
-    A PROPOSAL CARRIES FOUR THINGS, and the fourth is the one that decides it:
-
-      1. WHAT it would require — the statement, in the words it would carry,
-         not a gloss of them. The operator is agreeing to text.
-      2. INTENT — what it changes about how work gets done, and what goes
-         wrong today without it. "Be careful about X" is not an intent; the
-         behaviour that would differ tomorrow is.
-      3. WHY NOW — the incident, observation or decision behind it. Pass that
-         record as arose_from_id, and say it in the conversation too: the
-         field is for the reader six months out, the sentence is for the
-         person deciding.
-      4. HOW IT WOULD BE ENFORCED — a test, a CI check, a hook, a schema
-         constraint, a duplicate gate, a review step... or nothing, in which
-         case say so plainly: "nothing — this is prose a session has to
-         remember." Answer this one honestly and it will sometimes dissolve
-         the rule, which is the point rather than a side effect. What a test
-         can assert should BE that test; a rule is what remains when nothing
-         mechanical can hold the thing. A rulebook grows by default and
-         shrinks only on purpose, so a question that prevents a rule is worth
-         more than any question that improves one's wording.
-
-    THEN CLOSE WITH A QUESTION THEY CAN ANSWER IN ONE WORD. Offer three
-    answers, and make the middle one the easy one:
-
-      * "Approve it AS WRITTEN" — you create it with the statement exactly as
-        shown. This is what makes element 1 load-bearing: they approved TEXT,
-        so that text is what gets stored, verbatim.
-      * "LET'S TALK ABOUT IT" — the wording, the scope, the tier, whether it
-        wants to be a rule at all. Most good rules arrive this way, so treat
-        this answer as the expected one rather than a setback.
-      * "NO" — let it go. If the observation is still worth keeping, it is a
-        note (create_note): recorded, findable, and binding on nobody.
-
-    Where the interface offers structured choices, ask it that way — a
-    question with named options is answered in a click, while the same
-    question inside a paragraph is answered by scrolling past. Where it does
-    not, write the three options out as three options. Either way ask once
-    and let the answer stand; re-raising a declined proposal argues a rule
-    into existence, which is the thing this whole loop exists to prevent.
-
     A rulebook rule is shared by every project that gets the rulebook: an
     always_on rulebook binds ALL your projects; a subscribed rulebook binds the
     projects that opt in. So a rulebook rule must read as a general standard —
@@ -488,23 +407,6 @@ async def create_project_rule(
     the rule is returned in get_project's applicable_rules (under
     project_rules) and in list_rules(project_id=...).
 
-    PROPOSE, THEN WRITE ON A YES — create_rule's opening carries the whole
-    loop: the four things a proposal states (what it would require, its
-    intent, why now, and how it would be enforced) and the one-word question
-    that closes it (approve as written / talk about it / no). All of it
-    applies here unchanged. Reach for that loop MORE readily on this surface,
-    not less: a project rule stays out of an unfiltered list_rules(), and a
-    conditional one stays out of session start too, so the operator's yes is
-    the one moment this rule is certain to have been seen by the person it
-    binds.
-
-    Check first whether a rule is the right shape at all — create_rule's
-    opening asks that question and it applies identically here. A visual
-    standard is a design system; a procedure is a process (create_process);
-    reusable code is a snippet (create_snippet). Each of those is structure a
-    tool can resolve, render and check, where a rule is only prose someone
-    has to remember and apply.
-
     ONE RULE = ONE THING YOU COULD VIOLATE — see create_rule. A rule that
     STRICTENS or REPLACES an inherited one is not a fresh rule: write it, then
     relate_rules(kind="overrides") to the rule it supersedes, so the pair stays
@@ -639,73 +541,6 @@ async def update_rule(
     return await rulebooks_svc.rule_detail(uid, rule, system_ids)
 
 
-async def rule_history(rule_id: int, version_id: int = 0) -> dict:
-    """What a rule USED TO SAY, newest change first.
-
-    Read this before you argue with a rule, and before you rewrite one. A
-    rule that has been reworded may have been reworded for a reason you are
-    about to rediscover the hard way — and the wording it replaced is often
-    the fastest way to see what the current one is guarding against. The
-    rescoping of rule 79 is the case this exists for: the superseded
-    statement had to be hand-copied into a task log to survive the edit.
-
-    EACH ENTRY HOLDS THE TEXT THE EDIT REPLACED, not the text it introduced.
-    So "what did this say before the most recent change?" is the first entry,
-    and the text the change PRODUCED is the rule as it stands now — read that
-    with get_rule. Pair the two and you have the diff.
-
-    An empty history is ordinary and means the rule has never been reworded,
-    not that its history was lost. Nothing is written before milestone 323,
-    so a rule edited before then starts empty too.
-
-    Args:
-        rule_id: The rule whose history to read.
-        version_id: 0 (default) lists the history — when each change
-            happened, by whom, and the title as it then stood. Pass an id
-            from that list to read that snapshot IN FULL. The list omits
-            statement and why on purpose: a rule's statement runs to
-            thousands of characters, and a history carrying every field would
-            cost more to read than the answer is worth.
-
-    There is deliberately no restore. Putting an old wording back is a
-    decision, so it goes through update_rule — which snapshots what it
-    replaces, leaving the undo visible in the history like any other edit. A
-    one-click revert would erase the only record of why the rewrite happened.
-    """
-    uid = current_user_id()
-    if version_id:
-        version = await rulebooks_svc.get_rule_version(rule_id, version_id, uid)
-        if version is None:
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"version {version_id} not found on rule {rule_id}"
-            )
-        return version.to_dict(include_text=True)
-
-    versions = await rulebooks_svc.list_rule_versions(rule_id, uid)
-    if versions is None:
-        raise ValueError(f"rule {rule_id} not found")
-    # Fail-open, like the deletes: a missing title must not turn a readable
-    # history into an error.
-    try:
-        rule = await rulebooks_svc.get_rule(rule_id, uid)
-    except Exception:
-        rule = None
-    return {
-        "rule_id": rule_id,
-        "title": rule.title if rule else "",
-        "versions": [v.to_dict(include_text=False) for v in versions],
-        "total": len(versions),
-        # Said in-band because an empty list is the ordinary case and reads
-        # like a missing feature otherwise.
-        "note": (
-            "Each entry holds the text the edit REPLACED. The current wording "
-            "is on the rule itself — get_rule(%d)." % rule_id
-            if versions else
-            "This rule has never been reworded."
-        ),
-    }
-
-
 async def delete_rule(rule_id: int, confirmed: bool = False) -> dict:
     """Move a rule to the trash (recoverable). Requires confirmed=True."""
     uid = current_user_id()
@@ -721,9 +556,8 @@ async def delete_rule(rule_id: int, confirmed: bool = False) -> dict:
             "confirmed_required": True,
         }
     batch = await trash_svc.delete(uid, "rule", rule_id)
-    return {"deleted": rule_id, "title": rule.title, "deleted_batch_id": batch,
-            "message": f'Rule {rule_id} ("{rule.title}") moved to trash. '
-                       f"Restore with restore('{batch}')."}
+    return {"deleted": rule_id, "deleted_batch_id": batch,
+            "message": f"Moved to trash. Restore with restore('{batch}')."}
 
 
 # ── Subscriptions ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -991,6 +825,5 @@ def register(mcp) -> None:
         suppress_topic_for_project, unsuppress_topic_for_project,
         exclude_always_on_rulebook, include_always_on_rulebook,
         rules_due_for_verification, mark_rule_verified,
-        rule_history,
     ):
         mcp.tool(name=fn.__name__)(fn)

src/scribe/mcp/tools/search.py

@@ -112,7 +112,6 @@ async def search(
         return await _search_rules(uid, q, limit)
     is_task = {"note": False, "task": True}.get(content_type)  # None => any
     t0 = time.perf_counter()
-    report: dict = {}
     raw = await semantic_search_notes(
         uid, q, limit=limit, is_task=is_task,
         project_id=project_id or None,
@@ -120,14 +119,12 @@ async def search(
         # An explicit search reaches everything the operator may read, including
         # records shared with them one-to-one.
         scope="read",
-        report=report,
     )
     record_retrieval(
         user_id=uid, source="mcp_search", query=q,
         threshold=DEFAULT_SIMILARITY_THRESHOLD, limit=limit,
         project_id=project_id or None, is_task=is_task, results=raw,
         duration_ms=(time.perf_counter() - t0) * 1000.0,
-        best_available=report.get("best_available_score"),
     )
     owners = await owner_names_for(
         {int(note.user_id) for _s, note in raw if note.user_id != uid}
@@ -161,54 +158,17 @@ async def retrieval_telemetry(days: int = 30) -> dict:
     hand-probing the live instance, which is how the last such decision had to
     be made.
 
-    Three readouts, from the three tables built for them:
+    Two readouts, from the two tables built for them:
 
     `sources` — per retrieval surface (`auto_inject`, `write_path`,
     `mcp_search`, …), from `retrieval_logs`: `calls`, `zero_result_calls`,
-    `near_misses`, the `top_score` spread (p10/p50/p90/min/max),
-    `avg_result_count` and `p90_duration_ms`.
+    `cleared_threshold` (how often the best hit beat the threshold in force for
+    that call), the `top_score` spread (p10/p50/p90/min/max), `avg_result_count`
+    and `p90_duration_ms`. THE number to read first is `cleared_threshold`
+    against `calls`, with the spread beside it: a surface that clears its bar
+    on nearly every call is either well-tuned or too loose, and p10 says which.
 
-    THE NUMBER TO READ FIRST IS `near_misses.p90`, AGAINST THE THRESHOLD IN
-    FORCE FOR THAT SURFACE. It is measured on the calls the BAR turned away —
-    zero-result calls, minus the ones whose zero was a repeat the reader had
-    already been shown — using the best score the ranker reached before the bar
-    rejected it. So it is the one figure here that says something the bar
-    cannot make true by construction, and `max` is always below the threshold:
-    an above-bar candidate nobody excluded would have been returned. A bar at 0.72 turning away a stream of 0.71s is set too
-    high by a hair and the surface is losing hits it should have had. The same
-    bar turning away 0.30s is working, and the corpus simply had nothing. Both
-    render as a zero-result call, and nothing else in this readout tells them
-    apart.
-
-    `near_misses` is `null` when no declining call in the window measured it —
-    rows written before #3670 shipped cannot know. That is "not measured", not
-    "nothing came close"; a 0.0 there would be a claim about the corpus
-    invented out of a caller's silence.
-
-    THERE IS NO `cleared_threshold` ANY MORE, and if you remember one, that
-    memory is of a tautology (#3670). The search applies the bar before
-    returning, so every returned result cleared it by construction and a call
-    with no results has no score to compare: the field was true exactly when
-    `result_count > 0`, i.e. it was `calls - zero_result_calls` under a name
-    that promised a second opinion. `zero_result_calls + cleared_threshold ==
-    calls` held on all nineteen readings ever taken. The reading procedure
-    built on it — "clears its bar on nearly every call" — asked you to compare
-    a number with itself.
-
-    CHECK `suppression` BEFORE CONCLUDING ANYTHING FROM `zero_result_calls`. A
-    zero-result call is two different events wearing one number: the ranker
-    found nothing above the bar, or it found only what this session had already
-    been shown. Just the first is evidence about the bar. `suppression` splits
-    them where the surface can tell — `zero_because_already_shown` comes off
-    `zero_result_calls` to leave the true ranker declines.
-
-    `suppression` is `null` when NO row in the window reported it, and that is
-    "not measured here", NOT "none suppressed". Surfaces that pass their
-    exclusions into the search never see what was dropped, so they cannot say.
-    Do not read a null as a zero: reading an artifact as a measurement is how
-    this surface got mis-scoped once already (#3311, #3497).
-
-    `usage` — NOTES ONLY, from `note_usage_events`, at the per-note grain
+    `usage` — from `note_usage_events`, at the per-note grain
     `retrieval_logs` cannot be indexed at: `surfaced` (ranked surfacings — a
     scored surface CHOSE the record), `ambient` (the rest), `pulled` split into
     `pulled_by_agent` / `pulled_by_human`, the distinct-note counts, and
@@ -222,84 +182,6 @@ async def retrieval_telemetry(days: int = 30) -> dict:
     tuned against — only by a pull the agent made. Aggregating across the
     mcp_/rest_ prefix would silently answer the wrong one.
 
-    `usage["by_source"]` — THE number to tune a threshold against, because the
-    top-level `pull_through` is a corpus average and averages the surfaces
-    together. Per surface: `notes_surfaced`, `notes_pulled`, `pull_through`,
-    and `ambient: true` on surfaces whose surfacings were not scored choices
-    (their ratio is null — "surfaced often, opened never" is not a judgment
-    about a record nothing chose). Read it as: of the distinct notes THIS
-    surface put in front of the agent, how many did the agent then open?
-
-It is an UPPER BOUND per surface: a pull records the door it came
-    through, not the surface that led there, so a note surfaced by two surfaces
-    and opened once counts for both — attribution would need the session
-    identity #2085 declined to invent. `by_source_failed: true` means that one
-    query failed while the rest of the readout stood.
-
-    `rule_usage` — the same question for RULES, from `rule_usage_events`:
-    `surfaced` and `ambient`, `pulled` split into `pulled_by_agent` /
-    `pulled_by_human`, the distinct-rule counts, and `pull_through` on the same
-    definition (agent pulls over RANKED surfacings).
-
-    A SEPARATE BLOCK, not folded into `usage`, and reading it as one number
-    with that is the mistake to avoid. The corpora differ by orders of
-    magnitude — a few dozen eligible rules against thousands of notes — so a
-    blended ratio would be the note ratio with noise on it and would hide the
-    rule arm entirely.
-
-    `surfaced` VS `ambient` IS THE READING THAT MATTERS HERE. `surfaced` counts
-    rules a ranker chose — today only the write-path arm — and those are claims
-    a pull can settle. `ambient` counts BULK DELIVERIES: the SessionStart
-    preload, `list_always_on_rules`, and the `rules_payload` surfaces
-    (`enter_project`, `get_project`, `get_milestone`, `start_planning`,
-    `get_task`), which hand over the whole applicable set at once with nobody
-    choosing anything. A large `ambient` says the resident set is big and
-    arrives often — never that it is useful, and never that it is read.
-
-    `pull_through` therefore divides by `surfaced` alone. Fold the preload in
-    and growing the always-on set would depress the arm's measured precision
-    while trimming it would flatter it, for reasons having nothing to do with
-    the arm. To judge the PRELOAD instead, compare `ambient` against pulls of
-    those same rules over time: a resident set surfaced thousands of times and
-    opened never is the dead-weight signal, one tier up.
-
-    Read it against `sources["write_path_rule"]`. That arm was once believed
-    never to decline — the reading that scoped #3311 — but it was the arm's
-    `retrieval_logs` row being written only on calls that FOUND something, so
-    the zeros were missing rather than absent (#3497). Measured since, it
-    declines the large majority of its calls like any other surface.
-
-    EVERY COUNTER BLOCK CARRIES ITS OWN COVERAGE — `complete_from` and
-    `covers_window`. `complete_from` is when the number became trustworthy:
-    for one source, its first recorded row; for a section that sums several,
-    the LATEST of theirs, because a total is complete only once every
-    contributor was being written. `covers_window: false` means the window
-    reaches back further than the recording does, so the count is a fraction
-    of the period it appears to describe.
-
-    READ IT BEFORE COMPARING TWO NUMBERS, and especially before comparing
-    across a deploy. A counter added last week, read over a 30-day window,
-    reports a real count against an imagined denominator — and the result is
-    a plausible fraction rather than an obvious zero, which is what makes it
-    dangerous. That reading cost milestone #379 five steps aimed at a defect
-    that did not exist.
-
-    `covers_window` is null, never false, when nothing was ever recorded:
-    "no measurement" is not "partial measurement", the same distinction
-    `suppression`'s null carries a few paragraphs up.
-
-    A SOURCE SHOWING `calls: 0` WAS RECORDING AND MADE NO CALLS. `sources`
-    lists every source the table has ever held, not only those active in the
-    window, so a surface that stopped firing stays visible rather than
-    disappearing — being absent is reserved for a source that has never
-    recorded at all. Its score fields are null, not zero: the calls are a
-    real observation, the distribution is not one.
-
-    `rule_usage_failed: true` means that read failed while the rest of the
-    readout stood. The counts are still present so a caller can render, but
-    they are zeros meaning "could not find out", not "nothing happened" — do
-    not report a pull-through from a block carrying that flag.
-
     Scoped to your own telemetry — a retrieval log records what your agent
     asked for, query text included, and is not a shared record kind.
 

src/scribe/mcp/tools/snippets.py

@@ -115,13 +115,6 @@ async def create_snippet(
     """Record a shape in the project's pattern library, so every later
     instance starts from it instead of re-deriving it.
 
-    IS THE SHAPE THE POINT, OR THE ADVICE? A snippet is code with a LOCATION —
-    that is what lets it surface from the file someone is about to edit. If
-    what wants recording is a standing instruction about how to work, it is a
-    rule (create_rule); a procedure followed start to finish is a process
-    (create_process); what you LEARNED rather than what to copy is a note
-    (create_note).
-
     Reach for this the FIRST time any shape is built — a component, a control,
     a route handler, a service class, a helper, a test scaffold — not only
     when something is judged "reusable": the builder of the first instance
@@ -494,19 +487,9 @@ async def delete_snippet(snippet_id: int) -> dict:
     that should survive, prefer merge_snippets — that keeps the call sites.
     """
     uid = current_user_id()
-    # Read before deleting so the confirmation can NAME what went — an id
-    # alone leaves the operator unable to tell which snippet this was.
-    # Fail-open: the title is a COURTESY on top of the delete, so a lookup
-    # that errors must not stop the delete happening. Same posture the
-    # staleness marker takes — a decoration may never break its payload.
-    try:
-        doomed = await snippets_svc.get_snippet(uid, snippet_id)
-        title = getattr(doomed, "title", "") if doomed else ""
-    except Exception:
-        title = ""
     if not await snippets_svc.delete_snippet(uid, snippet_id):
         raise ValueError(f"snippet {snippet_id} not found")
-    return {"deleted": True, "id": snippet_id, "title": title}
+    return {"deleted": True, "id": snippet_id}
 
 
 async def merge_snippets(target_id: int, source_ids: list[int]) -> dict:

src/scribe/mcp/tools/tasks.py

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ async def get_task(task_id: int) -> dict:
         applicable = await rulebooks_svc.get_applicable_rules(
             project_id=note.project_id, user_id=uid,
         )
-        data.update(rulebooks_svc.rules_payload(applicable, user_id=uid, source="get_task"))
+        data.update(rulebooks_svc.rules_payload(applicable))
     data.update(await access_svc.describe_provenance(uid, note))
     # Same reasoning as get_note's record_pulled, and this is the tool where it
     # matters MOST: auto-inject ranks kind-blind over a corpus that is
@@ -135,13 +135,6 @@ async def create_task(
 ) -> dict:
     """Create a new task in Scribe.
 
-    IS ANYTHING ACTUALLY OWED? A task carries a status and someone is on the
-    hook to move it. If nothing is owed — you are recording what you learned,
-    decided or observed — that is a note (create_note), and filing it here
-    leaves a to-do nobody will ever close. If the work is an ARC of several
-    steps toward one goal, start_planning makes the milestone that holds
-    them; a task is one step, not the plan.
-
     Args:
         title: Task title (required).
         body: Markdown description / notes for the task.
@@ -330,9 +323,7 @@ async def start_planning(project_id: int, title: str) -> dict:
     Reach for this when the work has an ARC — several steps toward one goal,
     worth tracking as a unit. Work without one (a fix, a one-file change, a
     question answered) is a task, not a plan: create_task, drive its status, and
-    record progress with add_task_log. A design or decision you are RECORDING
-    rather than executing is a note (create_note) — a plan nobody is going to
-    work through is a document filed in the place reserved for open work. A milestone holding a single step is
+    record progress with add_task_log. A milestone holding a single step is
     ceremony, and it leaves the project with a plan that never meant anything.
 
     Creates a MILESTONE that IS the plan: its `body` is seeded with a design
@@ -364,23 +355,11 @@ async def delete_task(task_id: int) -> dict:
     """Move a Scribe task (or plan) to the trash (recoverable). Sub-tasks go with it.
     Restore via restore(batch_id)."""
     uid = current_user_id()
-    # Read the title BEFORE the delete: afterwards the row is trashed and the
-    # confirmation could only echo the number back. A deletion the operator
-    # cannot recognise is one they cannot tell was the wrong one.
-    # Fail-open: the title is a COURTESY on top of the delete, so a lookup
-    # that errors must not stop the delete happening. Same posture the
-    # staleness marker takes — a decoration may never break its payload.
-    try:
-        loaded = await notes_svc.get_note_for_user(uid, task_id)
-        title = getattr(loaded[0], "title", "") if loaded else ""
-    except Exception:
-        title = ""
     batch = await trash_svc.delete(uid, "task", task_id)
     if batch is None:
         raise ValueError(f"task {task_id} not found")
-    return {"deleted": task_id, "title": title, "deleted_batch_id": batch,
-            "message": f'Task {task_id} ("{title}") moved to trash. '
-                       f"Restore with restore('{batch}')."}
+    return {"deleted_batch_id": batch,
+            "message": f"Task {task_id} moved to trash. Restore with restore('{batch}')."}
 
 
 def register(mcp) -> None:

src/scribe/models/__init__.py

@@ -28,13 +28,11 @@ from scribe.models.invitation import InvitationToken  # noqa: E402, F401
 from scribe.models.embedding import NoteEmbedding, RuleEmbedding  # noqa: E402, F401
 from scribe.models.retrieval_log import RetrievalLog  # noqa: E402, F401
 from scribe.models.note_usage import NoteUsageEvent  # noqa: E402, F401
-from scribe.models.rule_usage import RuleUsageEvent  # noqa: E402, F401
 from scribe.models.project import Project  # noqa: E402, F401
 from scribe.models.milestone import Milestone  # noqa: E402, F401
 from scribe.models.task_log import TaskLog  # noqa: E402, F401
 from scribe.models.note_draft import NoteDraft  # noqa: E402, F401
 from scribe.models.note_version import NoteVersion  # noqa: E402, F401
-from scribe.models.rule_version import RuleVersion  # noqa: E402, F401
 from scribe.models.note_supersession import NoteSupersession  # noqa: E402, F401
 from scribe.models.group import Group, GroupMembership  # noqa: E402, F401
 from scribe.models.share import NoteShare, ProjectShare  # noqa: E402, F401

src/scribe/models/embedding.py

@@ -51,11 +51,7 @@ class RuleEmbedding(Base):
     """One embedding vector per CHUNK of a rule (milestone 307, note 3026).
 
     A SIBLING of NoteEmbedding rather than a generalisation of it, decided
-    deliberately. The reasoning below turned out to be the only written
-    statement of a rule Scribe applies to every record type, so it is now also
-    NOTE 3163 — "When a record type earns its own table" — with the worked
-    cases and the cost of leaving `notes`. Read that before splitting a record
-    type off; this stays here because it is where the decision was made.
+    deliberately:
 
     - The embedding ROW could have been made polymorphic. The SEARCH could not.
       `semantic_search_notes` is a long function of Note-specific scoping —

src/scribe/models/note.py

@@ -94,40 +94,9 @@ class Note(Base, TimestampMixin, SoftDeleteMixin):
     # name/language/signature/locations live here so they can be INDEXED. The
     # body keeps the same facts in readable markdown and remains what gets
     # embedded; this is a mirror for querying, not the source of truth for
-    # display — and it is DERIVED, so every path that writes a snippet's body
-    # rewrites it too (services/snippets.recompose_data, called from
-    # notes.update_note). 0070 left it NULL on existing rows and
-    # snippets.backfill_snippet_data filled them at startup; readers still fall
-    # back to parsing the body when it is absent (snippet_fields).
+    # display. NULL on every row written before migration 0070, so readers fall
+    # back to parsing the body (see services/snippets.snippet_fields).
     data: Mapped[dict | None] = mapped_column(JSONB, nullable=True)
-    # The three fields that tell a CONSTRAINT apart from a NORM (milestone
-    # 317, migration 0092) — the same trio `rules` carries, and for the same
-    # reason. A norm is a decision: no truth value, changes only when its
-    # author changes it. A constraint asserts a fact about someone else's
-    # software and goes false with nobody watching. Only constraints get a
-    # check.
-    #
-    # `verify_with` is how to check it is still true; `expires_when` is the
-    # STATE that ends it, deliberately not a date — constraints expire when
-    # the ground moves, not on a schedule. `verified_at` NULL means never
-    # checked and sorts FIRST in the sweep: unexamined outranks
-    # examined-long-ago.
-    #
-    # These sit on `notes`, so every kind of row in this table has them, but
-    # only non-task, non-snippet records are OFFERED them (gated in
-    # services/notes.py). A task's decay is its status — a done issue records
-    # what happened and cannot go false — and a snippet already carries a
-    # richer, location-aware verdict in `data.verification`. On those rows
-    # these stay null, which is also what they mean.
-    #
-    # Most notes should leave all three empty. A null `verify_with` is not a
-    # gap; it is the marker for "this is a decision, there is nothing to go
-    # and check", and the sweep is only worth reading while that holds.
-    verify_with: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(Text, nullable=True)
-    expires_when: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(Text, nullable=True)
-    verified_at: Mapped[datetime | None] = mapped_column(
-        DateTime(timezone=True), nullable=True
-    )
 
     __table_args__ = (
         Index("ix_notes_tags", "tags", postgresql_using="gin"),
@@ -168,14 +137,6 @@ class Note(Base, TimestampMixin, SoftDeleteMixin):
             "is_task": self.is_task,
             "note_type": self.note_type or "note",
             "task_kind": self.task_kind,
-            # Serialized unconditionally, like every other field a given row
-            # kind may not use (recurrence, started_at, the task fields). The
-            # DERIVED "last_verified" label is the one that appears only when
-            # a check exists — a raw projection of the row should not make a
-            # client branch on which keys are present.
-            "verify_with": self.verify_with or "",
-            "expires_when": self.expires_when or "",
-            "verified_at": iso(self.verified_at),
             "created_at": iso(self.created_at),
             "updated_at": iso(self.updated_at),
         }

src/scribe/models/retrieval_log.py

@@ -42,26 +42,8 @@ class RetrievalLog(Base):
     # False=notes, NULL=any.
     is_task: Mapped[bool | None] = mapped_column(Boolean, nullable=True)
     result_count: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(Integer, nullable=False, default=0)
-    # How many scored hits this call DROPPED because the session had already
-    # been shown them. NULLABLE, and the null is load-bearing: it means "this
-    # surface does not report suppression", which must not read as "nothing was
-    # suppressed". `result_count == 0` alone conflates two different events —
-    # the ranker found nothing above threshold, and the ranker found something
-    # the reader already had — and only the first says a threshold is too high.
-    # Reading a zero as a ranker decline is how #3311 mis-scoped a milestone;
-    # an unmeasured value that renders as 0 is the same mistake with a nicer
-    # face, so surfaces that filter INSIDE the search leave this null.
-    suppressed_count: Mapped[int | None] = mapped_column(Integer, nullable=True)
     top_score: Mapped[float | None] = mapped_column(Float, nullable=True)
     min_score: Mapped[float | None] = mapped_column(Float, nullable=True)
-    # The best score the ranker COULD have offered, before the threshold — as
-    # against `top_score`, which is the best it DID offer. They are equal on
-    # any call that returned something, and only this one exists on a call
-    # that returned nothing, which is the only place a bar can be judged from
-    # (#3670). Null means the caller did not measure it, never "nothing was
-    # close": a 0.0 there would read as a corpus with no relevant records at
-    # all, which is an artifact standing in for a measurement.
-    best_available_score: Mapped[float | None] = mapped_column(Float, nullable=True)
     # [{"id": int, "score": float, "rank": int}, ...], highest-first.
     result_ids: Mapped[list] = mapped_column(JSONB, nullable=False, default=list)
     duration_ms: Mapped[float | None] = mapped_column(Float, nullable=True)
@@ -85,7 +67,6 @@ class RetrievalLog(Base):
             "project_id": self.project_id,
             "is_task": self.is_task,
             "result_count": self.result_count,
-            "suppressed_count": self.suppressed_count,
             "top_score": self.top_score,
             "min_score": self.min_score,
             "result_ids": self.result_ids,

src/scribe/models/rule_usage.py

@@ -1,95 +0,0 @@
-from sqlalchemy import BigInteger, Index, Text
-from sqlalchemy.orm import Mapped, mapped_column
-
-from scribe.models import Base
-from scribe.models.base import CreatedAtMixin, iso
-
-SURFACED = "surfaced"
-PULLED = "pulled"
-
-
-class RuleUsageEvent(Base, CreatedAtMixin):
-    """One row per time a rule was SURFACED to the agent, or PULLED in full.
-
-    The sibling `note_usage_events` has had since 2026-07, third in the line
-    after `rule_embeddings` and `rule_versions` — and, like those, it exists
-    because the rule side kept inheriting machinery built for notes and
-    quietly getting the weaker version of it.
-
-    WHY RULES NEED THEIR OWN AND CANNOT SHARE THE NOTE TABLE. Not squeamishness
-    about a polymorphic column — the row shares no note-specific fields and the
-    aggregate readout is the same shape, which is the strongest case for
-    sharing that note #3163 admits. What decides it is IDENTITY AT RESTORE. A
-    note id and a rule id are different namespaces resolved through different
-    maps, and `note_usage_events`'s importer maps `note_id` through
-    `note_id_map` and drops what does not resolve. A rule id parked in that
-    column would come back from a backup silently reattached to whatever note
-    happened to take that number — telemetry that is not merely lost but wrong,
-    and wrong in a way nothing downstream could detect.
-
-    WHAT THIS MEASURES, AND WHY IT DID NOT EXIST. The write-path standing-rule
-    arm is the only retrieval surface in Scribe whose usefulness cannot be
-    observed — and, not coincidentally, the only one that has never declined to
-    fire (#3311: 296 calls, zero zero-result, 100% clearing its threshold).
-    `retrieval_logs` gives it scores; scores say what the ranker thought, never
-    whether the hint landed. Without a pull counter no install can tune the arm
-    from evidence, only from the shape of a histogram.
-
-    Deliberately FK-FREE on `rule_id` and `user_id`, matching `note_usage_events`,
-    `retrieval_logs` and `app_logs` — and diverging from `rule_versions`, which
-    does carry FKs. The difference is what the row is FOR: a version is part of
-    a rule's history and dies with it, while telemetry outlives the row it
-    describes. Deleting a rule must not erase the evidence that it was surfaced
-    forty times and opened never, because that evidence is precisely the case
-    for having deleted it.
-
-    Cells left deliberately empty (note #3163's step 3): no share ACL — rules
-    have none of their own; no soft delete — nothing restores a telemetry row,
-    and the table is append-only; no embedding — an event is not a document.
-    """
-
-    __tablename__ = "rule_usage_events"
-
-    # BigInteger throughout, where the note twin uses Integer. `rule_id` has to
-    # be, since `rules.id` is BigInteger — and once one column is, matching the
-    # rest costs nothing and keeps the row uniform. A high-churn append-only
-    # telemetry table is a poor place to discover an id ceiling.
-    id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(BigInteger, primary_key=True)
-    user_id: Mapped[int | None] = mapped_column(BigInteger, nullable=True)
-    rule_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(BigInteger, nullable=False)
-
-    # 'surfaced' | 'pulled'
-    event: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(Text, nullable=False)
-
-    # Which surface produced it. A CONVENTION, not a fixed vocabulary, and the
-    # note twin's comment explains why this one deliberately does not enumerate
-    # its members: the previous such list went stale, naming a source nothing
-    # wrote while omitting ones that existed, and a half-true enumeration reads
-    # as authoritative in exactly the way that misleads (#2476).
-    # `grep -rn record_rule_pulled\|record_rule_surfaced src/` is the
-    # authoritative list, and unlike a comment it cannot drift.
-    #
-    # The mcp_/rest_ prefix split is load-bearing here for the same reason it is
-    # for notes, and more so: "is this rule dead weight?" is served by any pull,
-    # but "did that injected hint land?" — the question this arm exists to
-    # answer — is served by AGENT pulls only. Never aggregate across the prefix
-    # without saying why.
-    source: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(Text, nullable=False)
-
-    __table_args__ = (
-        # Every readout is "these rule ids, split by event" — a covering
-        # composite beats separate single-column indexes for it.
-        Index("ix_rule_usage_rule_event", "rule_id", "event"),
-        Index("ix_rule_usage_created_at", "created_at"),
-        Index("ix_rule_usage_user_id", "user_id"),
-    )
-
-    def to_dict(self) -> dict:
-        return {
-            "id": self.id,
-            "created_at": iso(self.created_at),
-            "user_id": self.user_id,
-            "rule_id": self.rule_id,
-            "event": self.event,
-            "source": self.source,
-        }

src/scribe/models/rule_version.py

@@ -1,91 +0,0 @@
-from datetime import datetime
-
-from sqlalchemy import BigInteger, ForeignKey, Text
-from sqlalchemy.orm import Mapped, mapped_column
-
-from scribe.models import Base
-from scribe.models.base import CreatedAtMixin, iso
-
-
-class RuleVersion(Base, CreatedAtMixin):
-    """One snapshot of a rule's text, taken before an edit overwrote it.
-
-    THE SIBLING NOTES ALREADY HAD. `note_versions` has existed for a long
-    time, and the design-system note calls its history "the changelog". Rules
-    — which BIND BEHAVIOUR on every session that loads them — had nothing, so
-    an edit destroyed what the rule used to say. Rescoping rule 79 on
-    2026-08-29 meant hand-copying the superseded statement into a task log to
-    keep it (#3237). The more consequential record had the weaker protection.
-
-    `CreatedAtMixin`, not `TimestampMixin`: a version is an EVENT. It is
-    written once and never updated, so an `updated_at` on it would be a column
-    that can only ever lie.
-
-    WHAT IS DELIBERATELY DIFFERENT FROM NoteVersion (milestone 323):
-
-    - `user_id` is the ACTOR — who made the edit — where NoteVersion's is the
-      owner, because `update_note` passes an owner-scoped id. For an audit
-      trail over a binding instruction, "who changed this" is the question
-      being asked, and a rule is editable by anyone with rulebook access.
-    - No `pin_kind` / `pin_label`. Those exist so a note's version can survive
-      autosave pruning. Nothing prunes here, so a pin would protect a row that
-      was never at risk.
-    - TEXT ONLY. A rule's Systems and its typed relations are edges with their
-      own lifecycle; folding them in would make one word, "version", mean two
-      different things — the rule's wording, and the rule's place in the
-      graph. `verified_at` is likewise absent: it is a stamp about a check,
-      not a property of the text, and step 2's snapshot is taken before
-      update_rule clears it precisely so the history shows the check that was
-      in force when this wording was written.
-    """
-
-    __tablename__ = "rule_versions"
-
-    id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(BigInteger, primary_key=True)
-    rule_id: Mapped[int] = mapped_column(
-        BigInteger, ForeignKey("rules.id", ondelete="CASCADE"), index=True
-    )
-    # The actor. SET NULL rather than CASCADE: deleting a user must not erase
-    # the history of the rules they edited — the edit still happened, and the
-    # rule is still binding because of it. NoteVersion cascades because a
-    # note's versions belong to its owner; a rule's belong to the rule.
-    user_id: Mapped[int | None] = mapped_column(
-        BigInteger, ForeignKey("users.id", ondelete="SET NULL"), nullable=True
-    )
-
-    title: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(Text, default="")
-    statement: Mapped[str] = mapped_column(Text, default="")
-    why: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(Text, nullable=True)
-    how_to_apply: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(Text, nullable=True)
-    when_to_apply: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(Text, nullable=True)
-    tier: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(Text, nullable=True)
-    verify_with: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(Text, nullable=True)
-    expires_when: Mapped[str | None] = mapped_column(Text, nullable=True)
-
-    def to_dict(self, include_text: bool = True) -> dict:
-        """The row. `include_text=False` gives the listing form.
-
-        A rule's `statement` and `why` run to thousands of characters — rule
-        149's `why` alone is longer than most notes — so a history LIST that
-        carried every field would be unreadable and expensive. The listing
-        answers "when, and by whom"; opening one answers "and what did it
-        say". Same split NoteVersion makes with `include_body`.
-        """
-        out: dict = {
-            "id": self.id,
-            "rule_id": self.rule_id,
-            "user_id": self.user_id,
-            "title": self.title,
-            "created_at": iso(self.created_at),
-        }
-        if include_text:
-            out.update({
-                "statement": self.statement,
-                "why": self.why or "",
-                "how_to_apply": self.how_to_apply or "",
-                "when_to_apply": self.when_to_apply or "",
-                "tier": self.tier or "",
-                "verify_with": self.verify_with or "",
-                "expires_when": self.expires_when or "",
-            })
-        return out

src/scribe/routes/api.py

@@ -10,61 +10,6 @@ async def health():
     return jsonify({"status": "ok"})
 
 
-def build_version_payload() -> dict:
-    """What build is this, separated into the values that answer different
-    questions (rule 149).
-
-    UNTIL 2026-08-31 THIS RETURNED THE CHANNEL. `BUILD_VERSION` in CI was
-    literally "dev" / "main" / the tag, so a running instance reported
-    `{"version": "main"}` — a channel name sitting where a build identifier
-    belongs. The cost was concrete: with a deploy misbehaving, nothing on the
-    instance could say which commit was serving it, and the one endpoint whose
-    job that is answered with the name of a branch.
-
-    The three values, and why they are three:
-
-    - `version` — the NAME, `YYYY.MM.DD.HHMM` from COMMIT time. Answers "is
-      this the same code?", so two channels carrying one commit report the
-      same string.
-    - `build` — the ORDERING KEY, minutes since 2020-01-01 from BUILD time.
-      Answers "may this be installed over that?". The ONLY value anything may
-      compare; it is monotonic by construction, which neither a commit count
-      (branches diverge) nor a commit time (rebuilds go backwards) is.
-    - `channel` — its own field, never folded into the name.
-
-    Plus `commit`, so the artifact's claim about itself can be checked against
-    the `:<sha>` it was published under (rule 145).
-
-    ABSENT RATHER THAN EMPTY when unknown. A local build has no ordering key
-    and no channel, and saying so is honest; emitting `""` or a placeholder
-    would let it claim a position in an update order it is not part of. A
-    reader must treat a missing `build` as "cannot be ordered", not as zero.
-    """
-    payload: dict = {"version": os.environ.get("APP_VERSION", "dev")}
-
-    # Reported verbatim, never validated against an enum — a build claiming
-    # something unexpected is better shown than dropped (rule 149).
-    for key, env in (("channel", "APP_CHANNEL"), ("commit", "APP_COMMIT")):
-        value = (os.environ.get(env) or "").strip()
-        if value:
-            payload[key] = value
-
-    raw_key = (os.environ.get("APP_BUILD_KEY") or "").strip()
-    if raw_key:
-        try:
-            # An INTEGER, not a string. A string ordering key is how a
-            # comparison silently becomes lexicographic — "9" > "10" — which
-            # is the same class of fault as folding the channel in: it reads
-            # fine and orders wrong.
-            payload["build"] = int(raw_key)
-        except ValueError:
-            # A malformed key is omitted rather than passed through: a reader
-            # that cannot order is correct, one that orders on garbage is not.
-            pass
-
-    return payload
-
-
 @api.route("/version")
 async def version():
-    return jsonify(build_version_payload())
+    return jsonify({"version": os.environ.get("APP_VERSION", "dev")})

src/scribe/routes/knowledge.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-"""Unified Knowledge endpoint — every record kind in one queryable feed."""
+"""Unified Knowledge endpoint — notes, tasks, plans, and processes in one queryable feed."""
 import logging
 
 from quart import Blueprint, jsonify, request
@@ -6,18 +6,12 @@ from quart import Blueprint, jsonify, request
 from scribe.auth import get_current_user_id, login_required
 from scribe.routes.utils import parse_pagination
 from scribe.services.access import label_shared_items
-from scribe.services.knowledge import FACET_TYPES
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 knowledge_bp = Blueprint("knowledge", __name__, url_prefix="/api/knowledge")
 
-# Derived from the service's facet table, never re-listed here. This set was a
-# hand-kept copy and had drifted three kinds behind it: it admitted `plan`
-# (retired in 0066) and rejected `issue` (shipped in 0065, 435 rows) and
-# `snippet` — so the browse surface could not filter to the kinds it was
-# already rendering badges for (#3128).
-_VALID_TYPES = FACET_TYPES
+_VALID_TYPES = {"note", "task", "plan", "process"}
 _VALID_SORTS = {"modified", "created", "alpha", "type"}
 
 
@@ -27,9 +21,7 @@ async def list_knowledge():
     """Return paginated knowledge objects with optional filtering.
 
     Query params:
-      type        — a facet from services.knowledge._FACETS: a record type
-                    (note|process|snippet) or a task kind (task for any,
-                    else work|issue|spike|plan). Omit for all.
+      type        — one of note|task|plan|process (omit for all)
       tags        — comma-separated tag filter (AND logic)
       sort        — modified|created|alpha|type (default: modified)
       q           — search query (semantic when provided, keyword fallback)
@@ -135,7 +127,7 @@ async def get_knowledge_batch():
 @knowledge_bp.route("/tags", methods=["GET"])
 @login_required
 async def list_knowledge_tags():
-    """Return all tags used across knowledge objects, narrowed to one facet."""
+    """Return all tags used across knowledge objects (excludes tasks)."""
     uid = get_current_user_id()
     note_type = request.args.get("type", "").strip().lower() or None
 

src/scribe/routes/notes.py

@@ -19,10 +19,7 @@ from scribe.services.notes import (
     get_note_for_user,
     get_or_create_note_by_title,
     list_notes,
-    mark_note_verified,
-    notes_due_for_verification,
     update_note,
-    verification_row,
 )
 from scribe.services.note_drafts import upsert_draft, get_draft, delete_draft
 from scribe.services import dedup as dedup_svc
@@ -115,8 +112,6 @@ async def create_note_route():
             priority=priority,
             due_date=due_date,
             note_type=note_type,
-            verify_with=data.get("verify_with"),
-            expires_when=data.get("expires_when"),
         )
     except ValueError as e:
         return jsonify({"error": str(e)}), 400
@@ -253,14 +248,7 @@ async def update_note_route(note_id: int):
     owner_uid = note_obj.user_id
     data = await request.get_json()
     fields = {}
-    for key in (
-        "title", "body", "description", "parent_id", "project_id",
-        "milestone_id", "status", "priority", "note_type",
-        # A cleared form input arrives as "" and the service reads that as
-        # NULL (NULLABLE_NOTE_TEXT), so this door expresses "remove the check"
-        # with its own idiom and needs no `clear` list (milestone 317).
-        "verify_with", "expires_when",
-    ):
+    for key in ("title", "body", "description", "parent_id", "project_id", "milestone_id", "status", "priority", "note_type"):
         if key in data:
             fields[key] = data[key]
     if "due_date" in data:
@@ -502,62 +490,3 @@ async def graph_route():
     shared_tags = request.args.get("shared_tags", "false").lower() == "true"
     graph = await build_note_graph(uid, project_id=project_id, include_shared_tags=shared_tags)
     return jsonify(graph)
-
-
-# ── The staleness sweep (milestone 317) ──────────────────────────────────────
-# The web half of notes_due_for_verification / mark_note_verified. Same
-# contract as the MCP door and the rules routes beside it — the service holds
-# the behaviour, these two just parse and serialise.
-
-@notes_bp.route("/due-for-verification", methods=["GET"])
-@login_required
-async def notes_due_route():
-    """Notes that carry a check, oldest verification first, never-checked top.
-
-    Query params: older_than_days, project_id, never_only. A note with no
-    `verify_with` never appears — it is a decision, not a fact.
-    """
-    uid = get_current_user_id()
-    args = request.args
-    try:
-        older = int(args.get("older_than_days", 0) or 0)
-        project = int(args.get("project_id", 0) or 0)
-    except ValueError:
-        return jsonify({"error": "older_than_days and project_id must be integers"}), 400
-    try:
-        notes = await notes_due_for_verification(
-            uid,
-            older_than_days=older,
-            project_id=project or None,
-            never_only=args.get("never_only", "").lower() in ("1", "true", "yes"),
-        )
-    except ValueError as exc:
-        # A 400, not a silently narrowed result: a filter that quietly answers
-        # a different question is the failure this whole surface exists to
-        # catch.
-        return jsonify({"error": str(exc)}), 400
-    return jsonify({
-        "notes": [verification_row(n) for n in notes],
-        "total": len(notes),
-    })
-
-
-@notes_bp.route("/<int:note_id>/verify", methods=["POST"])
-@login_required
-async def mark_note_verified_route(note_id: int):
-    """Record that the note's check was run. Body: {"still_true": bool}.
-
-    `still_true: false` writes nothing — a note whose check failed is wrong,
-    not in a recordable state — so it keeps its place at the top of the sweep.
-    """
-    data = await request.get_json() or {}
-    uid = get_current_user_id()
-    still_true = bool(data.get("still_true", True))
-    note = await mark_note_verified(note_id, uid, still_true)
-    if note is None:
-        return jsonify({
-            "error": "note not found, not writable by you, or carries no verify_with"
-        }), 404
-    payload = verification_row(note)
-    payload["verified"] = still_true
-    return jsonify(payload)

src/scribe/routes/plugin.py

@@ -101,46 +101,6 @@ async def autoinject_retrieve():
     return jsonify(result)
 
 
-@plugin_bp.get("/tool-rules")
-@login_required
-async def pre_tool_rules():
-    """Standing rules for the plugin's PreToolUse hook on ACTIONS (#3476).
-
-    Answers "does a recorded rule speak to the command about to be run?" — the
-    sibling of /prior-art, which can only answer that question about a code
-    write. Rules about which tool to reach for (don't curl the forge, don't
-    stand up a stack, don't run the suite locally) had no retrieval surface at
-    all before this, which is why they all had to live in the resident preload.
-
-    Titles + trigger only, never the statement: the hint says a rule may apply
-    and hands over `get_rule(id)`. One rule at most (RULEHINT_LIMIT), and empty
-    most of the time.
-
-    Query:
-        tool (str)              — the tool about to run, e.g. `Bash`. Used in
-                                  the hint's wording, not in the search: a
-                                  rule is about the action, not the harness.
-        command (str)           — the command about to run; the semantic query.
-                                  Absent or blank → empty, no search.
-        repo (optional)         — working repo remote, resolved to the bound
-                                  project exactly as /retrieve and /prior-art.
-        exclude_rule_ids (opt)  — comma-separated rule ids already surfaced
-                                  this session. SHARED with /prior-art's
-                                  ledger on purpose: one session keeps one
-                                  list, so a rule named by either arm is not
-                                  re-offered by the other.
-    """
-    tool = (request.args.get("tool") or "tool").strip()
-    command = request.args.get("command") or ""
-    project_id, _repo, _unbound = await _project_scope()
-    exclude_rule_ids = _int_list(request.args.get("exclude_rule_ids"))
-    result = await plugin_ctx_svc.build_tool_rule_hint(
-        g.user.id, tool, command,
-        project_id=project_id, exclude_rule_ids=exclude_rule_ids,
-    )
-    return jsonify(result)
-
-
 @plugin_bp.get("/prior-art")
 @login_required
 async def write_path_prior_art():
@@ -178,11 +138,6 @@ async def write_path_prior_art():
                              or `canon:<snippet_id>`) already named this
                              session by the ledger arm (#2900); its own
                              channel, like the two above.
-        rules_etag (opt)   — the marker the session was given when it loaded
-                             its always-on rules (milestone 323). Sent back
-                             so the server can say whether those rules have
-                             MOVED since. Absent means the hook has nothing
-                             stored, which is silence, not a mismatch.
         shapes (opt)       — comma-separated `kind:name` definitions the hook
                              found in (or enclosing) the payload, kind being
                              css|sym. The shape ledger's write-path feed
@@ -202,7 +157,6 @@ async def write_path_prior_art():
         p.strip() for p in (request.args.get("exclude_derive") or "").split(",") if p.strip()
     ]
     exclude_rule_ids = _int_list(request.args.get("exclude_rule_ids"))
-    rules_etag = (request.args.get("rules_etag") or "").strip()
     shapes = _parse_shapes(request.args.get("shapes") or "")
     api_key = getattr(g, "api_key", None)
     may_stamp = api_key is None or getattr(api_key, "scope", "") == "write"
@@ -214,7 +168,6 @@ async def write_path_prior_art():
         repo_key=repo_bindings_svc.normalize_repo_key(repo) if repo else "",
         exclude_derive=exclude_derive,
         exclude_rule_ids=exclude_rule_ids,
-        rules_etag=rules_etag,
     )
     return jsonify(result)
 

src/scribe/routes/rulebooks.py

@@ -10,9 +10,6 @@ from quart import Blueprint, jsonify, request
 from scribe.auth import get_current_user_id, login_required
 import scribe.services.rulebooks as rulebooks_svc
 from scribe.services.trash import delete as trash_delete
-from scribe.services.rule_usage import (
-    empty_rule_usage, record_rule_pulled, usage_for_rules,
-)
 
 rulebooks_bp = Blueprint("rulebooks", __name__, url_prefix="/api")
 
@@ -139,24 +136,13 @@ async def list_rules():
     except ValueError:
         return jsonify({"error": "rulebook_id, topic_id, project_id must be integers"}), 400
 
-    uid = get_current_user_id()
     rows = await rulebooks_svc.list_rules(
-        user_id=uid,
+        user_id=get_current_user_id(),
         rulebook_id=rulebook_id,
         topic_id=topic_id,
         project_id=project_id,
     )
-    items = [r.to_dict() for r in rows]
-    # One aggregate for the whole page — a per-row lookup here would be N+1 by
-    # construction, the same reason the snippet list does it this way. Every
-    # row gets the key, zero-filled, so the UI renders "never surfaced" rather
-    # than having to treat a missing field as a state. That matters more here
-    # than for snippets: every rule on every install predates this table, so
-    # for a while the zero-filled shape IS the common case.
-    usage = await usage_for_rules([int(it["id"]) for it in items])
-    for it in items:
-        it["usage"] = usage.get(int(it["id"]), empty_rule_usage())
-    return jsonify({"rules": items})
+    return jsonify({"rules": [r.to_dict() for r in rows]})
 
 
 @rulebooks_bp.post("/rulebook-topics/<int:topic_id>/rules")
@@ -196,11 +182,6 @@ async def get_rule(rule_id: int):
     rule = await rulebooks_svc.get_rule(rule_id, uid)
     if rule is None:
         return jsonify({"error": "rule not found"}), 404
-    # `rest_` rather than `mcp_`, and the prefix is load-bearing: "is this rule
-    # dead weight?" is served by any pull, but "did that injected hint land?"
-    # — the question this arm exists to answer — is served by AGENT pulls only.
-    # A person clicking through the rule list says nothing about the hint.
-    record_rule_pulled(user_id=uid, rule_id=int(rule.id), source="rest_rule")
     return jsonify(await rulebooks_svc.rule_detail(uid, rule))
 
 
@@ -225,42 +206,6 @@ async def update_rule(rule_id: int):
     return jsonify(await rulebooks_svc.rule_detail(uid, rule, data.get("system_ids")))
 
 
-@rulebooks_bp.get("/rules/<int:rule_id>/versions")
-@login_required
-async def list_rule_versions(rule_id: int):
-    """A rule's edit history, newest first.
-
-    Listing form only — a rule's `statement` and `why` run to thousands of
-    characters, so a history list carrying every field would be unreadable
-    and expensive to send. Open one for the text.
-    """
-    uid = get_current_user_id()
-    versions = await rulebooks_svc.list_rule_versions(rule_id, uid)
-    if versions is None:
-        return jsonify({"error": "rule not found"}), 404
-    return jsonify({
-        "versions": [v.to_dict(include_text=False) for v in versions],
-    })
-
-
-@rulebooks_bp.get("/rules/<int:rule_id>/versions/<int:version_id>")
-@login_required
-async def get_rule_version(rule_id: int, version_id: int):
-    """One snapshot in full — what the rule said before that edit."""
-    uid = get_current_user_id()
-    version = await rulebooks_svc.get_rule_version(rule_id, version_id, uid)
-    if version is None:
-        return jsonify({"error": "version not found"}), 404
-    return jsonify(version.to_dict(include_text=True))
-
-
-# NO restore route, deliberately (milestone 323). A note version can be
-# restored; a binding instruction should not be revertible in one click.
-# Putting a rewrite back goes through update_rule, which takes its own
-# snapshot and leaves the undo in the history like any other edit — a silent
-# revert would erase the only record of why the rewrite happened.
-
-
 @rulebooks_bp.post("/rules/<int:rule_id>/relations")
 @login_required
 async def relate_rules(rule_id: int):

src/scribe/routes/search.py

@@ -44,20 +44,17 @@ async def search_route():
     project_id = request.args.get("project_id", type=int)
 
     t0 = time.perf_counter()
-    report: dict = {}
     results = await semantic_search_notes(
         uid, q, limit=limit, is_task=is_task, threshold=_REST_SEARCH_THRESHOLD,
         project_id=project_id, system_id=system_id,
         # The user typed this, so it reaches everything they may read.
         scope="read",
-        report=report,
     )
     record_retrieval(
         user_id=uid, source="rest_search", query=q,
         threshold=_REST_SEARCH_THRESHOLD, limit=limit,
         project_id=project_id, is_task=is_task, results=results,
         duration_ms=(time.perf_counter() - t0) * 1000.0,
-        best_available=report.get("best_available_score"),
     )
     owners = await owner_names_for(
         {int(note.user_id) for _s, note in results if note.user_id != uid}

src/scribe/services/background.py

@@ -6,63 +6,20 @@ write that never errors and never lands (the #2663 GC footgun). This module is
 the one place that gets the pattern right: strong references in ``_pending``,
 discarded on completion, with failures logged at WARNING instead of vanishing.
 
-``retrieval_telemetry`` predates this module and keeps its own copy, because
-its canary is a genuinely different shape — one process-wide flag and no
-AppLog row. ``note_usage`` and ``rule_usage`` share ``report_telemetry_failure``
-below. New fire-and-forget callers use ``spawn`` rather than writing another
-copy of the strong-reference dance.
+``note_usage`` and ``retrieval_telemetry`` predate this module and carry their
+own copies with bespoke canary semantics; new fire-and-forget callers use this
+instead of writing a fourth copy.
 """
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import asyncio
 import logging
-import traceback
 from collections.abc import Coroutine
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 _pending: set[asyncio.Task] = set()
 
-# Sites that have already dropped their once-per-process AppLog row, keyed
-# "<subsystem>:<site>". A readout can run on every list render — without this,
-# a broken table turns the error log into a firehose that buries the finding it
-# exists to surface.
-_reported: set[str] = set()
-
-
-async def report_telemetry_failure(subsystem: str, site: str) -> None:
-    """Make a swallowed telemetry failure visible. Call from an except block.
-
-    WARNING to the process log every time; one AppLog error row per process per
-    (subsystem, site) so the admin UI shows the outage without host access.
-
-    THIS IS NOT DECORATION. #2663 is the record of a telemetry subsystem running
-    at zero for weeks — every counter reading empty, indistinguishable from
-    "nobody uses this" — because every failure went to ``logger.debug``. A
-    subsystem whose failures are all invisible cannot report its own death.
-
-    The AppLog write is itself guarded: when the database is down it fails too,
-    and that is fine. The WARNING already said so, and a canary must never take
-    down the surface it watches.
-    """
-    logger.warning("%s telemetry %s failed", subsystem, site, exc_info=True)
-    key = f"{subsystem}:{site}"
-    if key in _reported:
-        return
-    _reported.add(key)
-    try:
-        from scribe.services.logging import log_error
-
-        await log_error(
-            endpoint=subsystem,
-            error_type=f"{subsystem}_{site}_failed",
-            error_message=f"{subsystem} telemetry {site} is failing; "
-            "usage counters will read zero until this is fixed",
-            traceback=traceback.format_exc(),
-        )
-    except Exception:
-        logger.debug("%s canary write failed", subsystem, exc_info=True)
-
 
 def spawn(coro: Coroutine, *, site: str) -> None:
     """Schedule ``coro`` fire-and-forget; ``site`` names it in failure logs.

src/scribe/services/backup.py

@@ -9,10 +9,8 @@ from scribe.models.note import Note
 from scribe.models.note_draft import NoteDraft
 from scribe.models.note_supersession import NoteSupersession
 from scribe.models.note_version import NoteVersion
-from scribe.models.rule_version import RuleVersion
 from scribe.models.design_system import DesignSystem, DesignToken
 from scribe.models.note_usage import NoteUsageEvent
-from scribe.models.rule_usage import RuleUsageEvent
 from scribe.models.canonical_system import CanonicalSystem
 from scribe.models.rulebook import RuleRelation, rule_systems as rule_systems_t
 from scribe.models.code_shape import CodeShape, CodeShapeEvent, CodeShapeUse
@@ -52,23 +50,8 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 # ones (reference/hook) travel too, cheaply, and the next refresh refreshes them.
 # v10 (2026-08) added projects.inception + project_rulebook_exclusions
 # (milestone 297): the WHY a project inherits what it does, and its opt-outs.
-# v11 (2026-08) added the note verification trio — notes.verify_with /
-# expires_when / verified_at (milestone 317).
-# v12 (2026-08) closed #3182: the nine Note columns that had been missing for
-# years (note_type, task_kind, arose_from_id, data, description, the
-# recurrence pair, started_at, completed_at), plus milestones.body — which IS
-# the plan — and repo_bindings.ref. Until v12 a restore reported success and
-# handed back a corpus with every snippet and process flattened into a plain
-# note, every issue and spike into `work`, and every plan reduced to a title.
-# _COLUMN_EXCLUSIONS and its guard landed with it, so the next such column
-# fails the build instead.
-# v13 (2026-08) added rule_versions — a rule's edit history (milestone 323).
-# v14 (2026-09) added rule_usage_events — the rule twin of note_usage_events
-# (milestone 333). Carrying it is the WHOLE REASON the table is separate: the
-# note importer maps note_id through note_id_map, so a rule id parked there
-# would restore attached to whatever note took that number.
 # Bump when the serialized schema changes.
-BACKUP_VERSION = 14
+BACKUP_VERSION = 10
 
 # Every table this backup carries, by its REAL name. Paired with _NOT_INCLUDED
 # below, these two lists must together account for the entire schema — which is
@@ -94,14 +77,6 @@ _BACKED_UP = [
     "canonical_systems",
     # v10 (2026-08): a rule's area tag and its typed edges (milestone 307).
     "rule_systems", "rule_relations",
-    # v13 (2026-08): a rule's edit history (milestone 323). note_versions has
-    # always travelled; its sibling has no excuse not to.
-    "rule_versions",
-    # v14 (2026-09): rule usage telemetry (milestone 333). Same argument
-    # note_usage_events makes for itself — pull-through is only ever
-    # accumulated, so a restore that dropped it would silently reset the
-    # measurement to zero while everything still looked fine.
-    "rule_usage_events",
 ]
 
 # Tables intentionally NOT in the backup, surfaced in the payload so the gap is
@@ -133,88 +108,6 @@ _NOT_INCLUDED = [
 ]
 
 
-# Columns a backed-up table deliberately does NOT export, per table. Paired
-# with the column-coverage guard in tests/test_services_backup.py, this is
-# _NOT_INCLUDED's shape one level down — and it exists because the table guard
-# could not see the failure it was written to stop.
-#
-# #2293 was six whole tables missing. #3182 was NINE COLUMNS missing from a
-# table that had been "covered" for years: note_type and task_kind, so every
-# snippet and process restored as a plain note and every issue and spike as
-# `work`; arose_from_id, so every provenance edge vanished; the recurrence
-# pair, so recurring tasks stopped recurring; milestones.body, which IS the
-# plan; repo_bindings.ref, the branch a ledger follows. Every one arrived the
-# same way — a column added to the model and the migration, both of which fail
-# loudly, and then never added to the serialiser, which fails silently.
-#
-# So: a new column on a backed-up table now fails the build unless it is either
-# exported or named here with a reason. "I forgot" is no longer expressible.
-_COLUMN_EXCLUSIONS: dict[str, set[str]] = {
-    # Trash is not exported at all, so neither is the batch id that groups a
-    # deletion for restore(). Uniform across every soft-deletable table.
-    "users": set(),
-    "projects": {
-        "deleted_at", "deleted_batch_id",
-        # Credentials-adjacent, same reasoning as api_keys and
-        # forge_connections: a restored project falls back to keyring-by-host
-        # resolution, which is the documented unpinned behaviour (#2778).
-        "forge_connection_id",
-    },
-    "milestones": {"deleted_at", "deleted_batch_id"},
-    "notes": {"deleted_at", "deleted_batch_id"},
-    "task_logs": set(),
-    "note_drafts": set(),
-    "note_versions": set(),
-    "settings": set(),
-    "rulebooks": {"deleted_at", "deleted_batch_id"},
-    "rulebook_topics": {"deleted_at", "deleted_batch_id"},
-    "rules": {"deleted_at", "deleted_batch_id"},
-    "systems": {
-        "deleted_at", "deleted_batch_id",
-        # Travels as `canonical_slug`: the catalog is global and its ids are
-        # per-install, so an id would restore pointing at whatever area
-        # happened to land on that number.
-        "canonical_id",
-        "created_at", "updated_at",
-    },
-    "canonical_systems": {
-        "deleted_at", "deleted_batch_id",
-        # Matched on SLUG at restore, so a target install that already seeded
-        # the standard vocabulary reuses its own rows rather than colliding.
-        "id", "created_at", "updated_at",
-    },
-    # Edge tables: the id is regenerated on insert, and the pair IS the row.
-    "record_systems": {"id", "created_at"},
-    "note_supersessions": {"id", "created_at"},
-    "rule_relations": {"id", "created_at"},
-    "note_usage_events": {"id"},
-    # Same as the note twin: the surrogate key is re-issued on insert.
-    "rule_usage_events": {"id"},
-    "design_systems": {"deleted_at", "deleted_batch_id", "created_at", "updated_at"},
-    "design_tokens": {"deleted_at", "deleted_batch_id", "created_at", "updated_at"},
-    "repo_bindings": {"id", "created_at", "updated_at"},
-    # Everything travels. A version row IS the audit trail, so a column left
-    # behind is a fact about a binding instruction that no longer exists
-    # anywhere.
-    "rule_versions": set(),
-    # Serialised via the model's own to_dict(), so a column reaches the backup
-    # the moment it reaches that method — and the guard still catches one that
-    # reaches neither.
-    "code_shapes": {
-        # The PROPOSER's standing suggestion for an unclassified row, not a
-        # judgment: "looks like an instance of #N", or "repeats with no canon".
-        # Every refresh recomputes it and a judgment clears it, so carrying it
-        # would restore stale machine guesses over a tree the proposer has not
-        # seen. Same reasoning as code_shape_consumers in _NOT_INCLUDED —
-        # derived data is regenerated, never restored.
-        "proposed_snippet_id", "proposal_basis", "proposal_score",
-        "proposal_group", "proposed_at", "proposed_sha",
-    },
-    "code_shape_events": set(),
-    "code_shape_uses": set(),
-}
-
-
 def _dt(val: str | None) -> datetime:
     return datetime.fromisoformat(val) if val else datetime.now(timezone.utc)
 
@@ -333,17 +226,6 @@ def _usage_event_rows(rows) -> list[dict]:
     ]
 
 
-def _rule_usage_event_rows(rows) -> list[dict]:
-    return [
-        {
-            "user_id": r.user_id, "rule_id": r.rule_id, "event": r.event,
-            "source": r.source,
-            "created_at": r.created_at.isoformat() if r.created_at else None,
-        }
-        for r in rows
-    ]
-
-
 def _code_shape_rows(rows) -> list[dict]:
     return [r.to_dict() for r in rows]
 
@@ -358,13 +240,7 @@ def _code_shape_use_rows(rows) -> list[dict]:
 
 def _repo_binding_rows(rows) -> list[dict]:
     return [
-        # `ref` is the branch this binding's ledger follows (#2873). Without
-        # it a restored binding silently falls back to the default branch, and
-        # the shape ledger starts accounting for a different tree (#3182).
-        {
-            "user_id": r.user_id, "project_id": r.project_id,
-            "repo_key": r.repo_key, "ref": r.ref,
-        }
+        {"user_id": r.user_id, "project_id": r.project_id, "repo_key": r.repo_key}
         for r in rows
     ]
 
@@ -406,11 +282,6 @@ def _milestone_rows(rows) -> list[dict]:
         {
             "id": m.id, "user_id": m.user_id, "project_id": m.project_id,
             "title": m.title, "description": m.description, "status": m.status,
-            # THE PLAN. A milestone IS the plan (0066) and `body` is its
-            # design and intent; `description` is only the one-line summary.
-            # Dropping this restored every plan as a title with no reasoning
-            # behind it (#3182).
-            "body": m.body,
             "order_index": m.order_index,
             "created_at": m.created_at.isoformat(),
             "updated_at": m.updated_at.isoformat(),
@@ -423,45 +294,12 @@ def _note_rows(rows) -> list[dict]:
     return [
         {
             "id": n.id, "user_id": n.user_id, "title": n.title, "body": n.body,
-            "description": n.description,
             "tags": n.tags or [], "parent_id": n.parent_id,
             "project_id": n.project_id, "milestone_id": n.milestone_id,
             "status": n.status, "priority": n.priority,
             "due_date": n.due_date.isoformat() if n.due_date else None,
             "created_at": n.created_at.isoformat(),
             "updated_at": n.updated_at.isoformat(),
-            # WHAT KIND OF RECORD THIS IS — both typing axes (#3182). Missing
-            # until now, which meant a restore reported success and handed back
-            # a corpus with every snippet and process flattened into a plain
-            # note and every issue and spike into `work`. Nothing recomputes
-            # these; the vocabulary is simply gone.
-            "note_type": n.note_type,
-            "task_kind": n.task_kind,
-            # Provenance — which record caused this one. Re-mapped in the
-            # second pass beside parent_id, never here: the value is an id in
-            # the SOURCE database.
-            "arose_from_id": n.arose_from_id,
-            # The queryable mirror. The only one of these that would self-heal
-            # (backfill_snippet_data rebuilds it from the body at startup), but
-            # a restore should not hand back a corpus that needs a restart to
-            # become searchable by location.
-            "data": n.data,
-            # Lifecycle: when the work actually started and finished, and the
-            # recurrence rule that makes a task come back. Without these a
-            # restored recurring task simply stops recurring.
-            "started_at": n.started_at.isoformat() if n.started_at else None,
-            "completed_at": n.completed_at.isoformat() if n.completed_at else None,
-            "recurrence_rule": n.recurrence_rule,
-            "recurrence_next_spawn_at": (
-                n.recurrence_next_spawn_at.isoformat()
-                if n.recurrence_next_spawn_at else None
-            ),
-            # The verification trio (milestone 317, migration 0092). Operator
-            # judgment — "somebody checked this fact, and this is when" —
-            # which nothing can recompute.
-            "verify_with": n.verify_with,
-            "expires_when": n.expires_when,
-            "verified_at": n.verified_at.isoformat() if n.verified_at else None,
         }
         for n in rows
     ]
@@ -504,23 +342,6 @@ def _note_version_rows(rows) -> list[dict]:
     ]
 
 
-def _rule_version_rows(rows) -> list[dict]:
-    """A rule's edit history. Sibling of _note_version_rows, and it travels for
-    the same reason: a version is the only record of what a binding
-    instruction used to say, and nothing can recompute it."""
-    return [
-        {
-            "id": rv.id, "rule_id": rv.rule_id, "user_id": rv.user_id,
-            "title": rv.title, "statement": rv.statement, "why": rv.why,
-            "how_to_apply": rv.how_to_apply, "when_to_apply": rv.when_to_apply,
-            "tier": rv.tier, "verify_with": rv.verify_with,
-            "expires_when": rv.expires_when,
-            "created_at": rv.created_at.isoformat(),
-        }
-        for rv in rows
-    ]
-
-
 def _setting_rows(rows) -> list[dict]:
     return [{"user_id": s.user_id, "key": s.key, "value": s.value} for s in rows]
 
@@ -602,9 +423,6 @@ async def export_full_backup() -> dict:
         note_versions = (await session.execute(
             select(NoteVersion).order_by(NoteVersion.note_id, NoteVersion.id)
         )).scalars().all()
-        rule_versions = (await session.execute(
-            select(RuleVersion).order_by(RuleVersion.rule_id, RuleVersion.id)
-        )).scalars().all()
         settings = (await session.execute(select(Setting))).scalars().all()
         systems = (await session.execute(select(System))).scalars().all()
         canonical_systems = (await session.execute(
@@ -629,9 +447,6 @@ async def export_full_backup() -> dict:
         )).scalars().all()
         design_tokens = (await session.execute(select(DesignToken))).scalars().all()
         usage_events = (await session.execute(select(NoteUsageEvent))).scalars().all()
-        rule_usage_events = (
-            await session.execute(select(RuleUsageEvent))
-        ).scalars().all()
         repo_bindings = (await session.execute(select(RepoBinding))).scalars().all()
         code_shapes = (await session.execute(select(CodeShape))).scalars().all()
         code_shape_events = (await session.execute(
@@ -672,7 +487,6 @@ async def export_full_backup() -> dict:
         "task_logs": _task_log_rows(task_logs),
         "note_drafts": _note_draft_rows(note_drafts),
         "note_versions": _note_version_rows(note_versions),
-        "rule_versions": _rule_version_rows(rule_versions),
         "settings": _setting_rows(settings),
         "rulebooks": _rulebook_rows(rulebooks),
         "rulebook_topics": _topic_rows(topics),
@@ -691,7 +505,6 @@ async def export_full_backup() -> dict:
         "design_systems": _design_system_rows(design_systems),
         "design_tokens": _design_token_rows(design_tokens),
         "note_usage_events": _usage_event_rows(usage_events),
-        "rule_usage_events": _rule_usage_event_rows(rule_usage_events),
         "repo_bindings": _repo_binding_rows(repo_bindings),
         "note_supersessions": _note_supersession_rows(supersessions),
         "code_shapes": _code_shape_rows(code_shapes),
@@ -810,22 +623,6 @@ async def export_user_backup(user_id: int) -> dict:
             .join(CanonicalSystem, CanonicalSystem.id == rule_systems_t.c.canonical_id)
             .where(rule_systems_t.c.rule_id.in_(_rule_ids))
         )).all() if _rule_ids else []
-        # Scoped through the RULE, not the version's user_id. That column is
-        # the ACTOR (milestone 323), so filtering on it would carry the
-        # versions this user wrote on someone ELSE's rule and drop the ones
-        # someone else wrote on theirs — the opposite of a per-user export.
-        rule_versions = (await session.execute(
-            select(RuleVersion).where(RuleVersion.rule_id.in_(_rule_ids))
-            .order_by(RuleVersion.rule_id, RuleVersion.id)
-        )).scalars().all() if _rule_ids else []
-        # Scoped through the RULE for the same reason the versions above are,
-        # and it is worth restating because the column that looks right is
-        # wrong: `user_id` here is whoever the arm fired FOR, not who owns the
-        # rule. Filtering on it would carry this user's surfacings of someone
-        # ELSE's rule and drop the ones fired for someone else on theirs.
-        rule_usage_events = (await session.execute(
-            select(RuleUsageEvent).where(RuleUsageEvent.rule_id.in_(_rule_ids))
-        )).scalars().all() if _rule_ids else []
         rule_relations = (await session.execute(
             select(RuleRelation).where(
                 RuleRelation.from_rule_id.in_(_rule_ids),
@@ -874,7 +671,6 @@ async def export_user_backup(user_id: int) -> dict:
         "task_logs": _task_log_rows(task_logs),
         "note_drafts": _note_draft_rows(note_drafts),
         "note_versions": _note_version_rows(note_versions),
-        "rule_versions": _rule_version_rows(rule_versions),
         "settings": _setting_rows(settings),
         "rulebooks": _rulebook_rows(rulebooks),
         "rulebook_topics": _topic_rows(topics),
@@ -893,7 +689,6 @@ async def export_user_backup(user_id: int) -> dict:
         "design_systems": _design_system_rows(design_systems),
         "design_tokens": _design_token_rows(design_tokens),
         "note_usage_events": _usage_event_rows(usage_events),
-        "rule_usage_events": _rule_usage_event_rows(rule_usage_events),
         "repo_bindings": _repo_binding_rows(repo_bindings),
         "note_supersessions": _note_supersession_rows(supersessions),
         "code_shapes": _code_shape_rows(code_shapes),
@@ -952,29 +747,11 @@ async def _restore_v1(data: dict) -> dict:
                 body=n_data.get("body", ""),
                 tags=n_data.get("tags", []),
                 parent_id=None,  # patched below
-                arose_from_id=None,  # patched below, same reason
-                description=n_data.get("description"),
-                note_type=n_data.get("note_type") or "note",
-                task_kind=n_data.get("task_kind") or "work",
-                data=n_data.get("data"),
-                started_at=_dt_or_none(n_data.get("started_at")),
-                completed_at=_dt_or_none(n_data.get("completed_at")),
-                recurrence_rule=n_data.get("recurrence_rule"),
-                recurrence_next_spawn_at=_dt_or_none(
-                    n_data.get("recurrence_next_spawn_at")
-                ),
                 status=n_data.get("status"),
                 priority=n_data.get("priority"),
                 due_date=_d(n_data.get("due_date")),
                 created_at=_dt(n_data.get("created_at")),
                 updated_at=_dt(n_data.get("updated_at")),
-                verify_with=n_data.get("verify_with"),
-                expires_when=n_data.get("expires_when"),
-                # _dt_or_none, NOT _dt: an absent stamp must stay absent. _dt
-                # substitutes now(), which would restore every never-checked
-                # note as checked at the moment of the restore — inverting the
-                # one signal the sweep reads.
-                verified_at=_dt_or_none(n_data.get("verified_at")),
             )
             session.add(note)
             await session.flush()
@@ -982,25 +759,14 @@ async def _restore_v1(data: dict) -> dict:
                 note_id_map[old_id] = note.id
             stats["notes"] += 1
 
-        # Patch the two note->note edges now that every note has a new id.
-        # Both are ids in the SOURCE database, so writing either straight into
-        # the constructor would point at whatever record happens to hold that
-        # number here — a restore that succeeds and silently re-parents (#3182).
-        # An edge whose target did not survive the import is left NULL rather
-        # than guessed at.
+        # Patch parent_id now that all notes have new IDs
         for n_data in data.get("notes", []):
             old_id = n_data.get("id")
-            if not old_id or old_id not in note_id_map:
-                continue
-            note_row = await session.get(Note, note_id_map[old_id])
-            if note_row is None:
-                continue
             old_parent = n_data.get("parent_id")
-            if old_parent and old_parent in note_id_map:
-                note_row.parent_id = note_id_map[old_parent]
-            old_origin = n_data.get("arose_from_id")
-            if old_origin and old_origin in note_id_map:
-                note_row.arose_from_id = note_id_map[old_origin]
+            if old_id and old_parent and old_id in note_id_map and old_parent in note_id_map:
+                note_row = await session.get(Note, note_id_map[old_id])
+                if note_row:
+                    note_row.parent_id = note_id_map[old_parent]
 
         for s_data in data.get("settings", []):
             mapped_user_id = user_id_map.get(s_data.get("user_id", 0))
@@ -1030,11 +796,10 @@ async def _restore_v2(data: dict) -> dict:
         "rulebook_subscriptions": 0, "rule_suppressions": 0,
         "topic_suppressions": 0, "rulebook_exclusions": 0,
         "systems": 0, "record_systems": 0, "design_systems": 0,
-        "design_tokens": 0, "note_usage_events": 0, "rule_usage_events": 0,
-        "repo_bindings": 0,
+        "design_tokens": 0, "note_usage_events": 0, "repo_bindings": 0,
         "note_supersessions": 0, "code_shapes": 0, "code_shape_events": 0,
         "code_shape_uses": 0, "canonical_systems": 0,
-        "rule_systems": 0, "rule_relations": 0, "rule_versions": 0,
+        "rule_systems": 0, "rule_relations": 0,
     }
 
     async with async_session() as session:
@@ -1094,7 +859,6 @@ async def _restore_v2(data: dict) -> dict:
                 project_id=mapped_pid,
                 title=m_data.get("title", ""),
                 description=m_data.get("description"),
-                body=m_data.get("body"),
                 status=m_data.get("status", "active"),
                 order_index=m_data.get("order_index", 0),
                 created_at=_dt(m_data.get("created_at")),
@@ -1107,7 +871,6 @@ async def _restore_v2(data: dict) -> dict:
 
         # 4a. Notes — first pass (no parent_id yet)
         notes_with_parents: list[tuple[int, int]] = []  # (new_note_id, old_parent_id)
-        notes_with_origins: list[tuple[int, int]] = []  # (new_note_id, old_arose_from_id)
         for n_data in data.get("notes", []):
             mapped_uid = user_id_map.get(n_data.get("user_id", 0))
             if mapped_uid is None:
@@ -1118,17 +881,6 @@ async def _restore_v2(data: dict) -> dict:
                 body=n_data.get("body", ""),
                 tags=n_data.get("tags", []),
                 parent_id=None,
-                arose_from_id=None,  # patched below, same reason as parent_id
-                description=n_data.get("description"),
-                note_type=n_data.get("note_type") or "note",
-                task_kind=n_data.get("task_kind") or "work",
-                data=n_data.get("data"),
-                started_at=_dt_or_none(n_data.get("started_at")),
-                completed_at=_dt_or_none(n_data.get("completed_at")),
-                recurrence_rule=n_data.get("recurrence_rule"),
-                recurrence_next_spawn_at=_dt_or_none(
-                    n_data.get("recurrence_next_spawn_at")
-                ),
                 project_id=project_id_map.get(n_data["project_id"]) if n_data.get("project_id") else None,
                 milestone_id=milestone_id_map.get(n_data["milestone_id"]) if n_data.get("milestone_id") else None,
                 status=n_data.get("status"),
@@ -1136,35 +888,21 @@ async def _restore_v2(data: dict) -> dict:
                 due_date=_d(n_data.get("due_date")),
                 created_at=_dt(n_data.get("created_at")),
                 updated_at=_dt(n_data.get("updated_at")),
-                verify_with=n_data.get("verify_with"),
-                expires_when=n_data.get("expires_when"),
-                # _dt_or_none — see the note on the other restore path.
-                verified_at=_dt_or_none(n_data.get("verified_at")),
             )
             session.add(note)
             await session.flush()
             note_id_map[n_data["id"]] = note.id
             if n_data.get("parent_id"):
                 notes_with_parents.append((note.id, n_data["parent_id"]))
-            if n_data.get("arose_from_id"):
-                notes_with_origins.append((note.id, n_data["arose_from_id"]))
             stats["notes"] += 1
 
-        # 4b. Patch the note->note edges. Deferred for the same reason
-        # parent_id always has been: these are ids in the SOURCE database
-        # (#3182). An edge whose target did not survive stays NULL.
+        # 4b. Patch parent_id
         for new_note_id, old_parent_id in notes_with_parents:
             new_parent_id = note_id_map.get(old_parent_id)
             if new_parent_id:
                 note_row = await session.get(Note, new_note_id)
                 if note_row:
                     note_row.parent_id = new_parent_id
-        for new_note_id, old_origin_id in notes_with_origins:
-            new_origin_id = note_id_map.get(old_origin_id)
-            if new_origin_id:
-                note_row = await session.get(Note, new_note_id)
-                if note_row:
-                    note_row.arose_from_id = new_origin_id
 
         # 5. TaskLogs
         for tl_data in data.get("task_logs", []):
@@ -1403,32 +1141,6 @@ async def _restore_v2(data: dict) -> dict:
             ))
             stats["rule_relations"] += 1
 
-        # A rule's edit history (milestone 323). Must come after the rules
-        # themselves — rule_id_map is only populated above — and both ids are
-        # ids in the SOURCE database, which is #3182's arose_from_id trap.
-        for rv in data.get("rule_versions", []):
-            mapped_rid = rule_id_map.get(rv.get("rule_id", 0))
-            if mapped_rid is None:
-                continue
-            # Unlike NoteVersion, an unmappable user does NOT drop the row.
-            # user_id is the ACTOR and is nullable by design: the column is
-            # SET NULL precisely so history outlives the account that wrote
-            # it. Skipping here would delete the record the FK preserves.
-            session.add(RuleVersion(
-                rule_id=mapped_rid,
-                user_id=user_id_map.get(rv.get("user_id") or 0),
-                title=rv.get("title", ""),
-                statement=rv.get("statement", ""),
-                why=rv.get("why"),
-                how_to_apply=rv.get("how_to_apply"),
-                when_to_apply=rv.get("when_to_apply"),
-                tier=rv.get("tier"),
-                verify_with=rv.get("verify_with"),
-                expires_when=rv.get("expires_when"),
-                created_at=_dt(rv.get("created_at")),
-            ))
-            stats["rule_versions"] += 1
-
         # 15. Systems
         for sy_data in data.get("systems", []):
             mapped_uid = user_id_map.get(sy_data.get("user_id", 0))
@@ -1533,25 +1245,6 @@ async def _restore_v2(data: dict) -> dict:
             ))
             stats["note_usage_events"] += 1
 
-        # The rule twin — and the reason it is a separate table at all.
-        # Resolved through rule_id_map, NOT note_id_map. A rule id run through
-        # the note map would either drop (best case) or land on whatever note
-        # took that number, producing telemetry that is wrong rather than
-        # missing and that nothing downstream could detect (milestone 333).
-        # Must come after the rules themselves; rule_id_map is populated there.
-        for ev in data.get("rule_usage_events", []):
-            mapped_rid = rule_id_map.get(ev.get("rule_id", 0))
-            if mapped_rid is None:
-                continue
-            session.add(RuleUsageEvent(
-                user_id=user_id_map.get(ev.get("user_id") or 0),
-                rule_id=mapped_rid,
-                event=ev.get("event", ""),
-                source=ev.get("source", ""),
-                created_at=_dt(ev.get("created_at")),
-            ))
-            stats["rule_usage_events"] += 1
-
         # 20. Repo bindings — small, but losing them means every bound repo
         # quietly stops loading its project at session start.
         for rb_data in data.get("repo_bindings", []):
@@ -1562,7 +1255,6 @@ async def _restore_v2(data: dict) -> dict:
             session.add(RepoBinding(
                 user_id=mapped_uid, project_id=mapped_pid,
                 repo_key=rb_data.get("repo_key", ""),
-                ref=rb_data.get("ref"),
             ))
             stats["repo_bindings"] += 1
 

src/scribe/services/dashboard.py

@@ -39,13 +39,8 @@ def _open_order():
 
 
 def _task_row(n: Note) -> dict:
-    # task_kind rides along so a dashboard row can show WHAT KIND of work it
-    # is, not just how it is going. Omitting it made the kind badge render
-    # nothing here while working everywhere else — the badge was correct and
-    # the payload was short, which reads as "no issues in this list" rather
-    # than as a missing field.
     return {"id": n.id, "title": n.title, "status": n.status,
-            "priority": n.priority or "none", "task_kind": n.task_kind}
+            "priority": n.priority or "none"}
 
 
 async def _safe(coro, empty):

src/scribe/services/embeddings.py

@@ -344,52 +344,6 @@ def chunk_document(title: str | None, body: str | None) -> list[str]:
     return chunks
 
 
-async def _claim_parent_row(session, id_column, row_id: int, label: str) -> bool:
-    """Lock the record a vector belongs to BEFORE rewriting that vector (#3262).
-
-    An embedding write and a cascading delete of the same record take the same
-    two row locks in OPPOSITE orders. The embedder deletes the old chunk rows
-    and then, on INSERT, needs the foreign key's lock on the parent; a delete
-    of the parent — or of the rulebook, topic or project above it — locks the
-    parent first and cascades down into the chunk rows. That is a cycle, and
-    Postgres breaks it by killing one side at random: sometimes the embedding
-    write, which is swallowed and invisible, and sometimes the operator's
-    delete, which surfaces as a 500 on an operation that should have worked.
-
-    Claiming the parent first REMOVES the cycle rather than narrowing it.
-    Either the embedder arrives first and the delete waits its turn behind it,
-    or the delete already holds the row and NOWAIT makes the embedder lose at
-    once. The embedder is the side that should lose: a skipped refresh costs a
-    stale vector until the next write or the startup backfill, and the other
-    outcome costs a person their request.
-
-    FOR KEY SHARE, not FOR UPDATE — it is precisely the lock the INSERT's
-    foreign key would take anyway, so it conflicts with a delete of the parent
-    and with nothing else. An ordinary edit of the same record, or a second
-    refresh racing this one, is unaffected.
-
-    Returns False when the row is locked or already gone; the caller skips.
-    """
-    try:
-        held = (await session.execute(
-            select(id_column)
-            .where(id_column == row_id)
-            # BOTH flags: SQLAlchemy spells the four Postgres row locks as a
-            # read/key_share pair, and key_share alone is FOR NO KEY UPDATE —
-            # which would make two refreshes of one record fight each other.
-            .with_for_update(read=True, key_share=True, nowait=True)
-        )).scalar_one_or_none()
-    except Exception:
-        # LockNotAvailable: this record is being deleted right now. Not an
-        # error — the delete wins by design.
-        logger.debug("Skipping embedding for %s %d — row is being deleted", label, row_id)
-        return False
-    if held is None:
-        logger.debug("Skipping embedding for %s %d — row is gone", label, row_id)
-        return False
-    return True
-
-
 async def upsert_note_embedding(
     note_id: int, user_id: int, title: str | None, body: str | None
 ) -> None:
@@ -426,8 +380,6 @@ async def upsert_note_embedding(
 
     try:
         async with async_session() as session:
-            if not await _claim_parent_row(session, Note.id, note_id, "note"):
-                return
             await session.execute(
                 delete(NoteEmbedding).where(NoteEmbedding.note_id == note_id)
             )
@@ -448,23 +400,6 @@ async def upsert_note_embedding(
         logger.warning("Failed to persist embedding for note %d", note_id, exc_info=True)
 
 
-# Both searches rank WITHOUT the threshold and apply it in Python, so the best
-# rejected score stays observable (#3670). The qualifying set is provably
-# unchanged: rows arrive ordered by distance ascending, so every above-bar row
-# sorts ahead of every below-bar one, and an over-fetch that used to return N
-# above-bar rows returns the same N plus some losers. What changes is only that
-# the losers are now visible instead of discarded inside the query.
-#
-# That visibility is the entire point. A bar can only be judged from the calls
-# it TURNED AWAY — a 0.72 bar rejecting a stream of 0.71s is set too high by a
-# hair, one rejecting 0.30s is working — and those two are indistinguishable
-# from any arrangement of the columns that survive the filter.
-#
-# `report` is how the score gets out without changing what a search RETURNS.
-# Eight of the eleven call sites want hits and nothing else; the three that
-# write telemetry pass a dict and read `best_available_score` back out of it.
-
-
 async def semantic_search_notes(
     user_id: int,
     query: str,
@@ -479,19 +414,12 @@ async def semantic_search_notes(
     scope: str = "own",
     demote_superseded: bool = True,
     system_id: int | None = None,
-    report: dict | None = None,
 ) -> list[tuple[float, Note]]:
     """Return up to *limit* (score, note) pairs most relevant to *query*.
 
     Scores are cosine similarities in [-1, 1]; only notes at or above
     *threshold* are returned, sorted highest-first.
 
-    Pass `report` (an empty dict) to learn what the threshold turned away:
-    the function sets `report["best_available_score"]` to the highest score
-    anything reached, or None when the corpus offered nothing at all. It is
-    the only figure that survives a call returning nothing, and therefore the
-    only one a bar can be judged from (#3670).
-
     `note_type` narrows to a record kind, or several (e.g. "snippet", or
     ("snippet", "note")), for callers that want prior art rather than everything
     embedded.
@@ -537,6 +465,7 @@ async def semantic_search_notes(
     # Distance ceiling equivalent to the similarity floor. Clamp to the valid
     # cosine-distance range [0, 2] so a threshold of, say, -1 doesn't produce a
     # nonsensical ceiling.
+    max_distance = min(2.0, max(0.0, 1.0 - threshold))
     distance = NoteEmbedding.embedding.cosine_distance(query_vec)
 
     try:
@@ -611,10 +540,11 @@ async def semantic_search_notes(
             fetch = limit * _CHUNK_OVERFETCH * (
                 _SUPERSESSION_OVERFETCH if demote_superseded else 1
             )
-            # NO threshold predicate — see the note above this function. The
-            # bar is applied after the collapse, where the rejected scores can
-            # still be seen.
-            stmt = stmt.order_by(distance.asc()).limit(fetch)
+            stmt = (
+                stmt.where(distance <= max_distance)
+                .order_by(distance.asc())
+                .limit(fetch)
+            )
             rows = list((await session.execute(stmt)).all())
     except Exception:
         logger.warning("Failed to query note embeddings", exc_info=True)
@@ -633,11 +563,6 @@ async def semantic_search_notes(
             continue
         seen.add(int(note.id))
         scored.append((1.0 - float(dist), note))
-    # The best score anything reached, bar or no bar. Recorded BEFORE the
-    # filter because a call that returns nothing is exactly when it matters.
-    if report is not None:
-        report["best_available_score"] = scored[0][0] if scored else None
-    scored = [pair for pair in scored if pair[0] >= threshold]
     if not demote_superseded:
         return scored[:limit]
     return await _apply_supersession_penalty(scored, limit)
@@ -741,8 +666,6 @@ async def upsert_rule_embedding(
     replacement is atomic per rule so a concurrent read sees the old chunk set
     or the new one, never a mixture.
     """
-    from scribe.models.rulebook import Rule  # runtime import: see TYPE_CHECKING above
-
     doc_title, doc_body = rule_document(title, statement, when_to_apply)
     chunks = chunk_document(doc_title, doc_body)
     try:
@@ -765,8 +688,6 @@ async def upsert_rule_embedding(
 
     try:
         async with async_session() as session:
-            if not await _claim_parent_row(session, Rule.id, rule_id, "rule"):
-                return
             await session.execute(
                 delete(RuleEmbedding).where(RuleEmbedding.rule_id == rule_id)
             )
@@ -791,16 +712,9 @@ async def semantic_search_rules(
     limit: int = 5,
     threshold: float = _SIMILARITY_THRESHOLD,
     tier: str | None = None,
-    report: dict | None = None,
 ) -> list[tuple[float, "Rule"]]:
     """Return up to *limit* (score, rule) pairs most relevant to *query*.
 
-    Pass `report` (an empty dict) to learn what the threshold turned away:
-    the function sets `report["best_available_score"]` to the highest score
-    anything reached, or None when the corpus offered nothing at all. It is
-    the only figure that survives a call returning nothing, and therefore the
-    only one a bar can be judged from (#3670).
-
     Scoped by OWNERSHIP — a rule is the caller's if they own its rulebook or
     its project. Deliberately not filtered to what currently BINDS a given
     project: this answers "is there a rule about this", which a person asking
@@ -808,17 +722,10 @@ async def semantic_search_rules(
     is the surfacing question, and it has its own machinery
     (get_applicable_rules) rather than a second, subtly different copy here.
 
-    `tier` narrows to one tier, and NONE is the ordinary case. The write-path
-    and pre-tool hints deliberately pass nothing: an always-on rule is already
-    in the session, but being in a list from turn zero is not the same as being
-    in front of the reader when the action it governs is taken, and filtering
-    on tier made a whole class of rules permanently ineligible for the one
-    mechanism that surfaces a rule AT the moment. Relevance is the threshold's
-    job; see the block above RULEHINT_LIMIT in services/plugin_context.py for
-    the argument and for what the resulting scores are being read against.
-
-    Pass a tier when a caller genuinely wants one class — a listing, an audit,
-    a UI that renders the tiers apart. Not to approximate relevance.
+    `tier` narrows to one tier. The write-path hint passes "conditional",
+    because an always-on rule is ALREADY in the session — surfacing it again as
+    a suggestion is pure noise, and noise on a hint that fires on every write
+    is how a hint gets ignored.
 
     Collapses to best-chunk-per-rule like the note search, so a long rule split
     across chunks competes once rather than crowding the results with itself.
@@ -836,6 +743,7 @@ async def semantic_search_rules(
         logger.debug("Rule search skipped — embedder unavailable")
         return []
 
+    max_distance = min(2.0, max(0.0, 1.0 - threshold))
     distance = RuleEmbedding.embedding.cosine_distance(query_vec)
 
     try:
@@ -849,8 +757,7 @@ async def semantic_search_rules(
                 .outerjoin(Project, Rule.project_id == Project.id)
                 .where(
                     Rule.deleted_at.is_(None),
-                    # No threshold predicate — see the note above
-                    # semantic_search_notes. Applied below, after the collapse.
+                    distance <= max_distance,
                     # topic_id XOR project_id, so exactly one arm can match.
                     or_(
                         Rulebook.owner_user_id == user_id,
@@ -873,9 +780,7 @@ async def semantic_search_rules(
         if rule.id not in best or score > best[rule.id][0]:
             best[rule.id] = (score, rule)
     ranked = sorted(best.values(), key=lambda pair: pair[0], reverse=True)
-    if report is not None:
-        report["best_available_score"] = ranked[0][0] if ranked else None
-    return [pair for pair in ranked if pair[0] >= threshold][:limit]
+    return ranked[:limit]
 
 
 async def backfill_rule_embeddings() -> None:

src/scribe/services/knowledge.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-"""Knowledge service — one query across every record kind Scribe holds.
+"""Knowledge service — unified query across notes, tasks, plans, and processes.
 
 ACL (rules #47/#78, decision note 2094): these queries were owner-only until
 2026-07-25, which meant a record shared with you could be opened by id but never
@@ -265,94 +265,22 @@ def _note_to_item(note: Note) -> dict:
     return item
 
 
-# What each type facet MEANS, once, for every arm that has to know.
-#
-# The vocabulary spans BOTH typing axes — `note_type` for non-task records and
-# `task_kind` for tasks — so a facet cannot be a filter on one column, which is
-# why this is a table rather than a chain of ifs. Each entry is
-# (is_task, the value pinned on that axis); None pins nothing, i.e. every task.
-#
-# It is a table because the alternative had already gone wrong. The predicate
-# was written three times — a SQL if-chain, a Python if-chain over semantic
-# candidates, and a ternary computing the `is_task` pre-filter — and the three
-# only agreed by luck. Adding `issue` to the SQL arm alone (the obvious edit,
-# and the one #3128 was about to make) would have set the pre-filter to
-# is_task=False, handed the Python arm a candidate set containing no tasks at
-# all, and returned an empty semantic half for the Issues facet forever, with
-# nothing red anywhere. A new facet is now one row here.
-#
-# `plan` is retired (0066) but kept: 90 legacy plan-tasks exist and a facet
-# they answer to costs one line. It simply has no chip in the UI any more.
-_FACETS: dict[str, tuple[bool, str | None]] = {
-    "task": (True, None),
-    "work": (True, "work"),
-    "issue": (True, "issue"),
-    "spike": (True, "spike"),
-    "plan": (True, "plan"),
-    "note": (False, "note"),
-    "process": (False, "process"),
-    "snippet": (False, "snippet"),
-}
-
-# The non-task record types, for the counts query. Derived so it cannot drift
-# from the table above.
-NON_TASK_FACETS = tuple(
-    value for _is_task, value in _FACETS.values() if not _is_task and value
-)
-
-# The whole vocabulary, for the door's request validation — public so the route
-# validates against the same table the query reads instead of a hand-kept copy.
-FACET_TYPES = frozenset(_FACETS)
-
-
-# An unrecognised facet resolves to "a non-task note whose note_type is that
-# string" — which matches nothing, since no row stores an unknown type. That is
-# the behaviour the old if-chain had by falling through, and it is the right
-# one: a typo should return an empty list, never the whole corpus.
-def _facet(note_type: str) -> tuple[bool, str | None]:
-    return _FACETS.get(note_type, (False, note_type))
-
-
-def facet_is_task(note_type: str | None) -> bool | None:
-    """The `is_task` pre-filter a facet implies — None when it spans both.
-
-    Used to narrow the semantic candidate set before it is fetched. Reads the
-    same table `_apply_type_filter` and `matches_facet` read, so the pre-filter
-    can no longer disagree with the predicate it is meant to anticipate.
-    """
-    if not note_type:
-        return None
-    return _facet(note_type)[0]
-
-
-def matches_facet(note, note_type: str | None) -> bool:
-    """The Python dialect of `_apply_type_filter`, for candidates the vector
-    search has already fetched — there is no query left to narrow.
-
-    Generated from the same table, so this is a translation rather than a
-    second implementation. Note the `not note.is_task` arm: the hand-written
-    version omitted it and was saved only by the upstream pre-filter.
-    """
-    if not note_type:
-        return True
-    is_task, value = _facet(note_type)
-    if is_task:
-        return note.is_task and (value is None or note.task_kind == value)
-    return not note.is_task and note.note_type == value
-
-
 def _apply_type_filter(stmt, note_type: str | None):
-    """Apply the type facet to a Note select. Trashed rows are always excluded."""
+    """Apply the type facet to a Note select.
+
+    'task' = any task (status not null); 'plan' = a task with task_kind='plan';
+    any other non-empty type = a non-task note of that note_type; None = all.
+
+    Trashed rows (deleted_at set) are always excluded.
+    """
     stmt = stmt.where(Note.deleted_at.is_(None))
-    if not note_type:
-        return stmt
-    is_task, value = _facet(note_type)
-    if is_task:
-        stmt = stmt.where(Note.status.isnot(None))
-        if value is not None:
-            stmt = stmt.where(Note.task_kind == value)
-        return stmt
-    return stmt.where(Note.status.is_(None)).where(Note.note_type == value)
+    if note_type == "task":
+        return stmt.where(Note.status.isnot(None))
+    if note_type == "plan":
+        return stmt.where(Note.status.isnot(None)).where(Note.task_kind == "plan")
+    if note_type:
+        return stmt.where(Note.note_type == note_type).where(Note.status.is_(None))
+    return stmt
 
 
 async def query_knowledge(
@@ -367,7 +295,7 @@ async def query_knowledge(
     locations: dict[str, str] | None = None,
     verification: str = "",
 ) -> tuple[list[dict], int]:
-    """Query knowledge objects with filters.
+    """Query knowledge objects (non-task notes) with filters.
 
     `project_id` narrows to one project (None = every project).
 
@@ -496,7 +424,7 @@ async def _semantic_knowledge_search(
             INTERACTIVE_SEARCH_THRESHOLD,
             semantic_search_notes,
         )
-        is_task_filter = facet_is_task(note_type)
+        is_task_filter = True if note_type in ("task", "plan") else (False if note_type else None)
         import time as _time
         _t0 = _time.perf_counter()
         candidates = await semantic_search_notes(
@@ -526,7 +454,11 @@ async def _semantic_knowledge_search(
         for _score, note in candidates:
             if note.deleted_at is not None:
                 continue
-            if not matches_facet(note, note_type):
+            if note_type == "task" and not note.is_task:
+                continue
+            elif note_type == "plan" and (not note.is_task or note.task_kind != "plan"):
+                continue
+            elif note_type and note_type not in ("task", "plan") and note.note_type != note_type:
                 continue
             if tags and not all(t in (note.tags or []) for t in tags):
                 continue
@@ -582,40 +514,51 @@ async def get_knowledge_counts(user_id: int, tags: list[str] | None = None) -> d
     search would surface."""
     visible = browsable_notes_clause(user_id)
     async with async_session() as session:
-        def _scoped(stmt):
-            stmt = stmt.where(visible).where(Note.deleted_at.is_(None))
-            for tag in tags or []:
-                stmt = stmt.where(Note.tags.contains([tag]))
-            return stmt
-
-        # One grouped query per typing axis. The task half used to be a count
-        # for 'task' plus a second count for 'plan', which is why 'issue' —
-        # 17% of every task here — had no number to show: each kind needed its
-        # own query and nobody added one. Grouping by task_kind counts every
-        # kind, including ones added later, for the same two round-trips.
-        non_task = _scoped(
+        # Count non-task types
+        stmt = (
             select(Note.note_type, func.count(Note.id))
+            .where(visible)
             .where(Note.status.is_(None))
-            .where(Note.note_type.in_(NON_TASK_FACETS))
-        ).group_by(Note.note_type)
-        counts = {t: n for t, n in (await session.execute(non_task)).all()}
+            .where(Note.deleted_at.is_(None))
+            .where(Note.note_type.in_(["note", "process"]))
+            .group_by(Note.note_type)
+        )
+        if tags:
+            for tag in tags:
+                stmt = stmt.where(Note.tags.contains([tag]))
+        rows = list((await session.execute(stmt)).all())
+        counts = {row[0]: row[1] for row in rows}
 
-        by_kind = _scoped(
-            select(Note.task_kind, func.count(Note.id))
+        # Count tasks separately (is_task = status IS NOT NULL)
+        task_stmt = (
+            select(func.count(Note.id))
+            .where(visible)
             .where(Note.status.isnot(None))
-        ).group_by(Note.task_kind)
-        kind_counts = {k: n for k, n in (await session.execute(by_kind)).all()}
+            .where(Note.deleted_at.is_(None))
+        )
+        if tags:
+            for tag in tags:
+                task_stmt = task_stmt.where(Note.tags.contains([tag]))
+        task_count: int = (await session.execute(task_stmt)).scalar_one()
+        counts["task"] = task_count
 
-    # Kinds are SUBSETS of 'task' and are deliberately left out of the total —
-    # adding them would count every task twice.
-    counts["task"] = sum(kind_counts.values())
-    for kind, value in _FACETS.items():
-        if value[0] and value[1] is not None:
-            counts[kind] = kind_counts.get(kind, 0)
+        # Plans are a subset of tasks (task_kind='plan'); counted for the facet
+        # but NOT added to total to avoid double-counting against "task".
+        plan_stmt = (
+            select(func.count(Note.id))
+            .where(visible)
+            .where(Note.status.isnot(None))
+            .where(Note.task_kind == "plan")
+            .where(Note.deleted_at.is_(None))
+        )
+        if tags:
+            for tag in tags:
+                plan_stmt = plan_stmt.where(Note.tags.contains([tag]))
+        counts["plan"] = (await session.execute(plan_stmt)).scalar_one()
 
-    for t in NON_TASK_FACETS:
+    for t in ("note", "task", "plan", "process"):
         counts.setdefault(t, 0)
-    counts["total"] = counts["task"] + sum(counts[t] for t in NON_TASK_FACETS)
+    counts["total"] = sum(counts[t] for t in ("note", "task", "process"))
     return counts
 
 

src/scribe/services/note_usage.py

@@ -30,13 +30,13 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 
 import asyncio
 import logging
+import traceback
 
 from sqlalchemy import case, func, select
 
 from scribe.models import async_session
 from scribe.models.note_usage import PULLED, SURFACED, NoteUsageEvent
 from scribe.models.base import iso
-from scribe.services.background import report_telemetry_failure
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -46,19 +46,37 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 # never lands. The done-callback discard keeps the set from growing.
 _pending: set[asyncio.Task] = set()
 
+# Sites that already dropped their once-per-process AppLog row. The readout
+# runs on every snippet list render — without this, a broken table would turn
+# the error log into a firehose that buries the finding it exists to surface.
+_reported: set[str] = set()
+
 
 async def _report_failure(site: str) -> None:
-    """This subsystem's canary, now the shared one.
+    """Make a swallowed telemetry failure visible. Called from an except block.
 
-    The per-site dedup, the WARNING and the single AppLog row all moved to
-    `background.report_telemetry_failure` unchanged when `rule_usage` needed
-    the identical behaviour — two hand-kept copies of a thing whose whole job
-    is to be reliable is the wrong number. `retrieval_telemetry` deliberately
-    still has its own: its canary is a different shape (one process-wide flag,
-    no AppLog row), so repointing it would change behaviour rather than
-    consolidate it.
+    WARNING to the process log every time; one AppLog error row per process per
+    site so the admin UI shows the outage without host access. The AppLog write
+    is itself guarded — when the whole database is down it fails too, and that
+    is fine: the WARNING already said so, and a canary must never take down the
+    surface it watches.
     """
-    await report_telemetry_failure("note_usage", site)
+    logger.warning("note usage telemetry %s failed", site, exc_info=True)
+    if site in _reported:
+        return
+    _reported.add(site)
+    try:
+        from scribe.services.logging import log_error
+
+        await log_error(
+            endpoint="note_usage",
+            error_type=f"note_usage_{site}_failed",
+            error_message=f"note usage telemetry {site} is failing; "
+            "usage counters will read zero until this is fixed",
+            traceback=traceback.format_exc(),
+        )
+    except Exception:
+        logger.debug("note usage canary write failed", exc_info=True)
 
 
 async def _insert_events(rows: list[dict]) -> None:

src/scribe/services/notes.py

@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import logging
 import re
-from collections.abc import Iterable
 from datetime import date, datetime, timezone
 
 from sqlalchemy import func, or_, select, text
@@ -10,52 +9,6 @@ from scribe.models.note import Note, TaskKind, TaskPriority, TaskStatus
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
-# The fields `snippets.parse_snippet_fields` reads. Writing any of them can
-# change what a snippet's derived `data` mirror should say, so update_note
-# recomposes the mirror when one moves. Kept here as a set of NAMES rather
-# than imported, because it describes update_note's own `fields` dict, not the
-# parser's signature.
-_PARSED_FROM_BODY = frozenset({"title", "body", "tags"})
-
-
-# Text fields where EMPTY MEANS NULL (milestone 317). The sweep's whole signal
-# is `verify_with IS NULL` = "this is a decision, there is nothing to go and
-# check". An empty string that is not NULL makes a norm look like a constraint
-# nobody has verified, forever — and it would sit at the top of the sweep,
-# since never-checked sorts first. Sibling of rulebooks.NULLABLE_RULE_TEXT.
-NULLABLE_NOTE_TEXT = ("verify_with", "expires_when")
-
-
-def guard_check_fields(status: str | None, note_type: str | None) -> None:
-    """Raise unless a record in this shape may carry verify_with/expires_when.
-
-    Stated as an INVARIANT over the resulting record rather than a filter on
-    which fields a caller passed, so it also catches the sideways route: a
-    checked note being turned into a task, which no per-field gate would see.
-
-    Raises rather than dropping silently, for minted_kind's reason (#3129) — a
-    silently-corrected write is the defect that reasoning exists to end, and a
-    caller putting a check on the wrong record has an idea an error corrects
-    and a default hides. Lives at the service, not either door, so REST and MCP
-    cannot come to disagree about it.
-    """
-    if status is not None:
-        raise ValueError(
-            "a task cannot carry verify_with/expires_when: a task's decay is "
-            "its status, and a done issue records what happened rather than "
-            "asserting something that can later go false. Put the check on the "
-            "note the fact lives in, or clear the check before making this a "
-            "task."
-        )
-    if note_type == "snippet":
-        raise ValueError(
-            "a snippet already has a check: verify_snippet(), which compares "
-            "the recorded location and code against the repo and expires its "
-            "own verdict when the code moves. verify_with/expires_when are the "
-            "free-text form, for prose notes that assert a fact about "
-            "something outside the repo."
-        )
-
 
 def embed_note(note) -> None:
     """Refresh a note's embedding, fire-and-forget.
@@ -76,10 +29,6 @@ def embed_note(note) -> None:
     exceptions are swallowed because a record that saved must not fail on its
     index refresh. No running loop (unit tests, scripts) is an ordinary case,
     not an error.
-
-    Detaching also means this task races anything that deletes the note out
-    from under it. That is not handled here: `upsert_note_embedding` claims
-    the note's row before touching its vectors, and loses if it can't (#3262).
     """
     try:
         import asyncio
@@ -152,16 +101,7 @@ async def create_note(
     task_kind: str = "work",
     arose_from_id: int | None = None,
     data: dict | None = None,
-    verify_with: str | None = None,
-    expires_when: str | None = None,
 ) -> Note:
-    # Empty means empty (NULLABLE_NOTE_TEXT), then the invariant. Both run
-    # before anything is written, so an illegal shape never reaches the table.
-    verify_with = verify_with or None
-    expires_when = expires_when or None
-    if verify_with or expires_when:
-        guard_check_fields(status, note_type)
-
     # Validate status/priority here so the MCP create_task path (which passes
     # them straight through) can't persist an out-of-enum value that the REST
     # route would have rejected — there's no DB CHECK on notes.status.
@@ -205,8 +145,6 @@ async def create_note(
             task_kind=task_kind,
             arose_from_id=arose_from_id,
             data=data,
-            verify_with=verify_with,
-            expires_when=expires_when,
         )
         session.add(note)
         await session.commit()
@@ -459,20 +397,7 @@ def minted_kind(kind: str) -> str:
     raise ValueError(f"kind must be one of {MINTABLE_KINDS}, got {kind!r}")
 
 
-async def update_note(
-    user_id: int, note_id: int, clear: Iterable[str] = (), **fields: object,
-) -> Note | None:
-    """Partial update. `clear` names fields to UNSET; **fields carries values.
-
-    Clearing is explicit and separate because a nullable field cannot be
-    emptied by passing it: the MCP door reads "" as "leave this alone", so an
-    agent filling two fields does not wipe the others, and a note that stops
-    being a constraint genuinely needs its check removed. Naming the field is
-    the one form that cannot happen by accident. The REST door, where a
-    cleared form input arrives as "", reaches the same place through the
-    NULLABLE_NOTE_TEXT normalisation below — two idioms, one outcome.
-    (Same shape as rulebooks.update_rule, milestone 312 step 2.)
-    """
+async def update_note(user_id: int, note_id: int, **fields: object) -> Note | None:
     async with async_session() as session:
         result = await session.execute(
             select(Note).where(Note.id == note_id, Note.user_id == user_id)
@@ -484,10 +409,6 @@ async def update_note(
         old_body = note.body
         old_title = note.title
         old_tags = list(note.tags or [])
-        check_before = note.verify_with
-        for key in clear:
-            if key in NULLABLE_NOTE_TEXT:
-                setattr(note, key, None)
         for key, value in fields.items():
             if not hasattr(note, key):
                 continue
@@ -517,44 +438,7 @@ async def update_note(
                     )
             elif key == "tags" and isinstance(value, list):
                 value = _normalize_tags(value)
-            elif key in NULLABLE_NOTE_TEXT:
-                value = value or None
-            elif key == "verified_at":
-                # Not settable here. A stamp says somebody performed THIS
-                # check, so it is written by the verification path and by a
-                # restore, never by an ordinary edit that could mint one for a
-                # check nobody ran.
-                continue
             setattr(note, key, value)
-        # The invariant, over the RESULTING record rather than over what was
-        # passed — which is what catches a checked note being turned into a
-        # task. Raised before commit, so nothing is persisted.
-        if note.verify_with or note.expires_when:
-            guard_check_fields(note.status, note.note_type)
-        # A stamp certifies A CHECK, not a record. Rewrite or remove the check
-        # and the old stamp certifies something that no longer exists, so it is
-        # dropped and the note re-enters the sweep. The safe direction: a note
-        # wrongly listed as due costs one look; a note wrongly vouched for
-        # costs exactly what the sweep exists to catch.
-        if note.verify_with != check_before:
-            note.verified_at = None
-        # A snippet's `data` is DERIVED from its body — so a write that moves
-        # the body through this generic door must move the mirror with it
-        # (#3128). Without this, PATCH /api/notes/<snippet_id> {body} left the
-        # mirror behind, and snippet_fields PREFERS the mirror: the row went on
-        # reporting its old repo/path/symbol to prior-art recall while showing
-        # its new body. `update_snippet` composes the mirror itself and passes
-        # it explicitly, so an explicit `data` always wins — the caller that
-        # knows the field set beats the one that can only re-read the body.
-        if "data" not in fields and not _PARSED_FROM_BODY.isdisjoint(fields):
-            # Imported here, not at module scope: services/snippets.py calls
-            # back into this module (update_snippet -> update_note), so a
-            # top-level import is a cycle.
-            from scribe.services.snippets import (
-                SNIPPET_NOTE_TYPE, recompose_data,
-            )
-            if note.note_type == SNIPPET_NOTE_TYPE:
-                note.data = recompose_data(note)
         # Auto-set lifecycle timestamps on status transitions
         if "status" in fields:
             _now = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
@@ -603,154 +487,6 @@ async def update_note(
 # permanent deletion. Both are reachable; neither is spelled `delete_note`.
 
 
-# ── The sweep (milestone 317 step 3) ─────────────────────────────────────────
-#
-# A SIBLING of rulebooks.rules_due_for_verification, not a shared
-# implementation, and deliberately so (note 3163). The row could have been
-# shared; the QUERY cannot. That sweep scopes by rulebook ownership XOR project
-# ownership because rules have no sharing ACL at all — no rule_shares, no
-# can_read_rule. A note scopes by the note ACL, which is a different question
-# with a different answer. What IS common — how a stamp reads, how old it is —
-# lives in services/verification.py and is imported by both.
-
-async def notes_due_for_verification(
-    user_id: int,
-    older_than_days: int = 0,
-    project_id: int | None = None,
-    never_only: bool = False,
-) -> list[Note]:
-    """Notes that carry a check, oldest verification first, never-checked top.
-
-    THE QUERY THE COLUMNS EXIST FOR. `verify_with` and `expires_when` are
-    storage; this is what turns them into something that gets acted on.
-    Without it, note decay is caught only when a human reads the note and
-    disagrees — which is the case where the note was already believed.
-
-    Ordered `verified_at` ASC **NULLS FIRST**: never-checked outranks
-    checked-long-ago, because a note nobody has ever confirmed is a claim with
-    no evidence behind it at all. Postgres sorts NULLs LAST on ASC by default,
-    so this is explicit — and getting it wrong would not error, it would
-    silently invert the one signal the sweep exists to carry.
-
-    Notes with no `verify_with` never appear. Not an omission: they are
-    decisions, there is nothing to go and check, and listing them would dilute
-    the result until nobody reads it.
-
-    Scoped with `browsable_notes_clause`, NOT the read scope (decision note
-    2094): a sweep is a passive surface, and a record shared one-to-one must
-    not arrive in one unasked.
-
-    Deliberately NOT filtered to non-task, non-snippet records even though the
-    write path (step 2) permits a check on nothing else. A row in that state
-    would be a row in an ILLEGAL state, and this is the one surface that could
-    tell somebody about it. Hiding it here to match the invariant would make
-    the sweep agree with a database it had stopped describing.
-
-    Args:
-        user_id: whose notes.
-        older_than_days: only notes last verified longer ago than this.
-            Never-checked notes always qualify — they are the most overdue
-            thing there is. 0 = no age filter. Negative raises: it would mean
-            "everything", which is a different question than the one asked,
-            answered silently.
-        project_id: narrow to one project. None = every project.
-        never_only: only notes that have never been verified.
-    """
-    from datetime import timedelta
-
-    from scribe.services.access import browsable_notes_clause
-
-    if older_than_days < 0:
-        raise ValueError(
-            f"older_than_days must be >= 0, got {older_than_days}. A negative "
-            f"window silently means 'everything', which is not what any caller "
-            f"of a staleness sweep is asking."
-        )
-
-    async with async_session() as session:
-        # One statement, not a fetch-then-filter: the ordering below is the
-        # database's, so it cannot disagree with itself across two halves.
-        stmt = (
-            select(Note)
-            .where(
-                browsable_notes_clause(user_id),
-                Note.deleted_at.is_(None),
-                Note.verify_with.is_not(None),
-            )
-        )
-        if project_id is not None:
-            stmt = stmt.where(Note.project_id == project_id)
-        if never_only:
-            stmt = stmt.where(Note.verified_at.is_(None))
-        elif older_than_days > 0:
-            cutoff = datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(days=older_than_days)
-            stmt = stmt.where(
-                or_(Note.verified_at.is_(None), Note.verified_at < cutoff)
-            )
-        stmt = stmt.order_by(Note.verified_at.asc().nullsfirst(), Note.id)
-        return list((await session.execute(stmt)).scalars().all())
-
-
-def verification_row(note: Note) -> dict:
-    """One row of the sweep — the CHECK in full, unlike a listing.
-
-    The opposite call from a browse: here the caller is about to go and run the
-    check, so the text they need IS the payload rather than the bloat.
-    """
-    from scribe.services.verification import (
-        days_since_verified,
-        last_verified_label,
-    )
-
-    return {
-        "id": note.id,
-        "title": note.title,
-        "project_id": note.project_id,
-        "verify_with": note.verify_with or "",
-        "expires_when": note.expires_when or "",
-        "last_verified": last_verified_label(note),
-        "days_since_verified": days_since_verified(note),
-    }
-
-
-async def mark_note_verified(
-    note_id: int, user_id: int, still_true: bool = True,
-) -> Note | None:
-    """Stamp a note as verified — or, when the check FAILED, refuse to.
-
-    The asymmetry is the design: passing writes a stamp, failing writes
-    nothing. There is no "verified false" state, because a note whose check
-    failed is not a note in a special condition — it is a note that is WRONG,
-    and the honest resolutions are to correct it, supersede it, or find out
-    why. Recording the failure as a flag would let it sit there being false
-    with the sweep quietly satisfied that somebody had looked.
-
-    So a failed check leaves `verified_at` untouched and the note stays at the
-    top of the sweep until someone actually deals with it.
-
-    Write access, not read (rules 47/78): stamping is a mutation, and an
-    editor-share holder may make it while a viewer may not.
-
-    Returns None when the note is not found, not writable, or carries no
-    `verify_with` — nothing to verify is a different answer from verified.
-    """
-    from scribe.services.access import can_write_note
-
-    async with async_session() as session:
-        note = (await session.execute(
-            select(Note).where(Note.id == note_id, Note.deleted_at.is_(None))
-        )).scalars().first()
-        if note is None or not note.verify_with:
-            return None
-        if not await can_write_note(user_id, note_id):
-            return None
-        if still_true:
-            note.verified_at = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
-            await session.commit()
-            await session.refresh(note)
-        return note
-
-
 async def get_all_tags(user_id: int, q: str | None = None) -> list[str]:
     async with async_session() as session:
         if q:

src/scribe/services/planning.py

@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ async def start_planning(user_id: int, project_id: int, title: str) -> dict:
 
     return {
         "milestone": milestone.to_dict(),
-        **rulebooks_svc.rules_payload(applicable, user_id=user_id, source="start_planning"),
+        **rulebooks_svc.rules_payload(applicable),
         "project_goal": getattr(project, "goal", "") or "",
         "open_task_count": open_count,
     }

src/scribe/services/plugin_context.py

@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ from scribe.services import snippets as snippets_svc
 from scribe.services.access import label_shared_items, owner_names_for
 from scribe.services.embeddings import semantic_search_notes, semantic_search_rules
 from scribe.services.note_usage import record_surfaced
-from scribe.services.rule_usage import record_rule_surfaced
 from scribe.services.supersession import superseded_ids
 from scribe.services.retrieval_telemetry import record_retrieval
 from scribe.services.settings import get_setting
@@ -86,117 +85,6 @@ WRITEPATH_THRESHOLD_KEY = "kb_writepath_threshold"
 WRITEPATH_DEFAULT_ENABLED = True
 WRITEPATH_DEFAULT_THRESHOLD = 0.68
 
-# The standing-rule arm (milestone 307) gets its own bar — the split #2223 made
-# one surface down, now made for the THIRD corpus. It inherited 0.68 above, and
-# that number was measured against code-vs-note-PROSE. It was never re-derived
-# for code-vs-RULE-TEXT.
-#
-# THE STRUCTURAL ARGUMENT, which is the only kind admissible here (rule 115).
-# Two facts hold on any install, including one with six rules and no telemetry:
-#
-#   1. The eligible corpus is SMALL — every rule an install owns, still only
-#      a few dozen documents against thousands of notes. A top-k over a small
-#      pool always returns something, so "the best match cleared the bar"
-#      drifts from "a good match exists" toward "N things were ranked". A bar
-#      calibrated for best-of-thousands is cleared by best-of-forty as
-#      arithmetic rather than relevance.
-#      This argument WEAKENED when the arms stopped filtering to one tier
-#      (see the note on that below): a larger pool makes clearing the bar
-#      mean more, not less. The threshold was deliberately left where it was
-#      anyway — moving two variables at once would make the resulting
-#      distribution unreadable, and this one errs toward silence on purpose.
-#   2. Rules are short imperative technical English — a far more HOMOGENEOUS
-#      corpus than note prose. #2223 measured the floor for code against prose
-#      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 is below where this
-#      corpus's noise sits.
-#
-# WHY 0.72 AND NOT A NUMBER OFF A HISTOGRAM. The exact offset between prose's
-# floor and rule-text's is not derivable in general — it depends on how an
-# install writes its rules — so the default errs deliberately toward SILENCE
-# rather than toward recall, on an asymmetry that is itself structural: this
-# hint fires on EVERY write. A missed rule is recoverable, because the rule 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 surface is lost along
-# with the true positives it would have carried. The arm's own comment already
-# says "noise on a hint that fires on every write is how a hint gets ignored".
-#
-# TUNE IT FROM YOUR OWN INSTANCE, which is now possible: `retrieval_telemetry`
-# reports `rule_usage.pull_through` (milestone 333 step 3). Raise this if rules
-# arrive unread; lower it if rules you needed never arrived. What would RETIRE
-# it: a cross-encoder rerank (#1038), which would make a similarity bar the
-# wrong control entirely.
-RULEHINT_THRESHOLD_KEY = "kb_rulehint_threshold"
-RULEHINT_DEFAULT_THRESHOLD = 0.72
-
-# ONE rule per write, not two — and this is deliberately NOT a knob.
-#
-# With a corpus this small, top-k does as much damage as the threshold: k=2
-# over a few dozen candidates means the second line is almost always the
-# second-best noise, arriving with the same confident framing as the first.
-# Halving k halves that regardless of where the bar sits.
-#
-# It also BOUNDS the blast radius of widening the pool (below): with k=1 a
-# wider corpus can change WHICH rule surfaces and how often one does, but it
-# can never make a single hint longer. The loudness of one hint and the
-# eligibility of a rule are separate controls, and only one of them moved.
-#
-# It stays a constant because it is a decision about how LOUD one hint may be,
-# not a per-install tuning question. The hint already carries prior art, shape
-# signals and staleness; rules are the fourth voice in it, and a fourth voice
-# that speaks twice is where a reader stops reading. Nothing suggests an
-# operator wants this different, and a knob nobody turns is a knob that only
-# adds a way to misconfigure the surface (rule 25 cuts both ways).
-RULEHINT_LIMIT = 1
-
-# WHY THE ARMS NO LONGER FILTER TO ONE TIER (#3702).
-#
-# Both arms used to pass `tier="conditional"`, on the reasoning that an
-# always-on rule is already in the session, so surfacing it again is pure
-# noise. That reasoning conflates two different things:
-#
-#   PRESENT IN CONTEXT  — the rule was delivered at session start.
-#   SALIENT AT THE MOMENT  — the rule is in front of the reader when the
-#                            action it governs is about to be taken.
-#
-# A rule handed over in a list at turn zero is present while a session writes
-# a config value three hundred turns later. It is not surfaced. So the filter
-# did not merely skip a redundant hint — it made a whole class of rules
-# permanently ineligible for the only mechanism that puts a rule in front of
-# an agent AT the moment, and the more important a rule is, the more likely
-# it was in that class.
-#
-# The deeper defect is that the filter was doing the THRESHOLD's job. Whether
-# a rule belongs in this hint is a relevance question, and a similarity bar is
-# the control for relevance. A categorical exclusion standing in for a
-# relevance judgment cannot be tuned, cannot be measured, and cannot be wrong
-# in a way anybody notices.
-#
-# THIS IS A MEASURED CHANGE, NOT A SETTLED ONE. The old comment's fear is
-# real — a hint that fires on every write and says obvious things teaches the
-# reader to skip the block, and the surface is then lost along with its true
-# positives. That fear had simply never been checked. `retrieval_logs` already
-# records top_score, result_count and the query for every call, so the
-# evidence now arrives on its own:
-#
-#   - rules clear the bar often and at high scores  -> the fear was justified,
-#     the filter was a crude proxy for a bar set too low, and the WORK IS THE
-#     BAR. Any reinstated filter should then carry a measured reason.
-#   - rules clear rarely, in a thin band near the bar -> the filter was never
-#     the right instrument and relevance was always sufficient.
-#
-# Only the eligibility moved. The bar and k=1 were both left exactly where
-# they were, so the resulting distribution has one cause.
-
-# How much of a command reaches the embedding (#3476). A shell call is not a
-# file: most are short, and the ones that are not are usually a heredoc or a
-# pasted script whose bulk says nothing about which rule applies. The VERB AND
-# ITS TARGET sit at the front — `curl https://git.fabledsword.com/api/...`,
-# `docker compose up`, `git checkout -b` — and that head is the whole signal.
-# Sending the tail as well would push it out of a 512-token window and let a
-# heredoc's prose decide the match.
-_TOOL_QUERY_CHARS = 400
-
 # Minimum SUBSTANCE (non-whitespace chars) a payload must carry before the
 # semantic arm will run at all — the cheap half of the operator's #89 idea
 # ("a sliding scale between number of characters and semantic threshold").
@@ -463,7 +351,6 @@ async def _reserve_slot_for_reuse(
 
     top_k = cfg["top_k"]
     _t0 = time.perf_counter()
-    _rep: dict = {}
     reuse = await semantic_search_notes(
         user_id, query,
         limit=1,
@@ -472,7 +359,6 @@ async def _reserve_slot_for_reuse(
         exclude_ids=exclude_ids | {int(n.id) for _s, n in kept},
         note_type=_REUSE_KINDS,
         scope="browse",
-        report=_rep,
     )
     # A real semantic query competing for a menu slot — logged like the scored
     # arm it displaces. Before this, the hit it PUSHED OUT was in
@@ -483,7 +369,6 @@ async def _reserve_slot_for_reuse(
         user_id=user_id, source="reuse_slot", query=query,
         threshold=cfg["threshold"], limit=1, project_id=project_id,
         is_task=None, results=reuse,
-        best_available=_rep.get("best_available_score"),
         duration_ms=(time.perf_counter() - _t0) * 1000.0,
     )
     # Verify the kind rather than trusting the query that asked for it, and
@@ -533,7 +418,6 @@ async def build_autoinject_hint(
         return empty
 
     t0 = time.perf_counter()
-    _rep_ai: dict = {}
     hits = await semantic_search_notes(
         user_id, q,
         limit=cfg["top_k"],
@@ -545,13 +429,11 @@ async def build_autoinject_hint(
         # still appear is a collaborator's note inside a shared project — legible
         # only because the line below names its owner.
         scope="browse",
-        report=_rep_ai,
     )
     record_retrieval(
         user_id=user_id, source="auto_inject", query=q,
         threshold=cfg["threshold"], limit=cfg["top_k"],
         project_id=(project_id or None), is_task=None, results=hits,
-        best_available=_rep_ai.get("best_available_score"),
         duration_ms=(time.perf_counter() - t0) * 1000.0,
     )
     if not hits:
@@ -808,19 +690,10 @@ async def get_writepath_config(user_id: int) -> dict:
         threshold = WRITEPATH_DEFAULT_THRESHOLD
     threshold = min(1.0, max(0.0, threshold))
 
-    try:
-        rule_threshold = float(await get_setting(
-            user_id, RULEHINT_THRESHOLD_KEY, str(RULEHINT_DEFAULT_THRESHOLD)))
-    except (TypeError, ValueError):
-        rule_threshold = RULEHINT_DEFAULT_THRESHOLD
-    rule_threshold = min(1.0, max(0.0, rule_threshold))
-
     return {
         **cfg,
         "enabled": enabled_raw.strip().lower() in ("true", "1", "yes", "on"),
         "threshold": threshold,
-        # Its own bar, for a third corpus — see RULEHINT_DEFAULT_THRESHOLD.
-        "rule_threshold": rule_threshold,
     }
 
 
@@ -835,7 +708,6 @@ async def build_write_path_hint(
     repo_key: str = "",
     exclude_derive: list[str] | None = None,
     exclude_rule_ids: list[int] | None = None,
-    rules_etag: str = "",
 ) -> dict:
     """Prior-art hint for the plugin's PreToolUse hook on Write/Edit.
 
@@ -978,7 +850,6 @@ async def build_write_path_hint(
         # Pulled-and-seen ids stay in the query (as evidence) but never in
         # the menu — the dedup contract holds, the resemblance still lands.
         pulled_seen = seen & set(pulled)
-        _rep_wp: dict = {}
         hits = await semantic_search_notes(
             user_id, query,
             limit=remaining + len(pulled_seen),
@@ -1002,40 +873,12 @@ async def build_write_path_hint(
             # Same reasoning as auto-inject: nobody asked for this, so it takes
             # the browse scope and never surfaces a one-to-one direct share.
             scope="browse",
-            report=_rep_wp,
         )
         resembles = {
             int(note.id): float(score) for score, note in hits
             if int(note.id) in pulled
         }
-        shown = [(s, n) for s, n in hits if int(n.id) not in seen]
-        # WHAT THIS ARM WITHHELD AFTER THE SEARCH ANSWERED, and the reason
-        # `best_available_score` cannot always be reported here (#3739 again,
-        # from the side its fix did not reach).
-        #
-        # This arm is the one note arm that filters TWICE. `exclude_ids` takes
-        # `seen - pulled_seen` into the search, but the pulled-and-seen ids stay
-        # in the query deliberately — `resembles` above needs them — and are
-        # dropped in the line above instead. So the score the search reported is
-        # PRE that drop while the row's `result_count` is POST it, and a record
-        # the session had already been shown could be logged as something the
-        # BAR turned away. Live proof on the first read after #3739 shipped:
-        # write_path's near-miss max was 0.822 while the lowest score it ever
-        # RETURNED was 0.6857 — a "rejection" that beat every acceptance.
-        #
-        # The suppression column cannot rescue it the way it does for the rule
-        # arms: this arm's count would be PARTIAL, covering only the drops made
-        # here and not the ones `exclude_ids` made inside the search, and a
-        # partial number under a name that reads as complete is the substitution
-        # this whole milestone exists to stop.
-        #
-        # So the honest answer is null — "not measured on this call" — whenever
-        # this filter removed anything, because then the bar is not the only
-        # thing that turned something away and the reported score may belong to
-        # a record we withheld ourselves. Calls where nothing was dropped keep
-        # reporting it, which is most of them.
-        withheld_here = len(hits) - len(shown)
-        hits = shown[:remaining]
+        hits = [(s, n) for s, n in hits if int(n.id) not in seen][:remaining]
         record_retrieval(
             user_id=user_id, source="write_path", query=query,
             threshold=cfg["threshold"], limit=remaining,
@@ -1043,9 +886,6 @@ async def build_write_path_hint(
             # recording it as a notes-only retrieval would misdescribe the
             # candidate set the threshold is being tuned against.
             project_id=scope_project, is_task=None, results=hits,
-            best_available=(
-                None if withheld_here else _rep_wp.get("best_available_score")
-            ),
             duration_ms=(time.perf_counter() - t0) * 1000.0,
         )
         if hits:
@@ -1111,74 +951,7 @@ async def build_write_path_hint(
             derive = [d for d in found if d.get("key") not in skip]
         except Exception:
             logger.warning("write-time derive check failed", exc_info=True)
-    staleness: list[str] = []
-    # ── Have the rules moved under this session? (milestone 323) ───────
-    #
-    # THE CARRIER IS THE POINT. This hook already fires before a write — the
-    # moment acting on a stale rule actually costs something — and the check
-    # is one comparison against a marker the session already holds. No
-    # payload, no extra round trip, and nothing said when nothing moved.
-    #
-    # WHAT THIS CANNOT SEE, and a reader who finds an etag here will assume
-    # otherwise:
-    #
-    #   what goes wrong                                    | caught?
-    #   ---------------------------------------------------|--------
-    #   another session edits a rule mid-flight             | yes
-    #   the session is misremembering a rule read hours ago | yes
-    #   compaction summarised the rules out of context      | NO
-    #
-    # The third is the most common and this 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.
-    #
-    # Fails open, like every other arm here: a staleness hint must never
-    # break a write.
-    if rules_etag:
-        try:
-            current = await rulebooks_svc.list_always_on_rules(
-                user_id, project_id=project_id or 0,
-            )
-            if rulebooks_svc.rules_etag(current) != rules_etag:
-                moved = rulebooks_svc.rules_moved_since(current, rules_etag)
-                held = rulebooks_svc.etag_count(rules_etag)
-                bits = []
-                if moved:
-                    named = ", ".join(
-                        f"#{r.id} \u201c{r.title}\u201d" for r in moved[:3]
-                    )
-                    more = len(moved) - 3
-                    bits.append(
-                        f"{named}" + (f", and {more} more" if more > 0 else "")
-                    )
-                # A DELETED rule moves no timestamp and leaves no row to name,
-                # so the count is the only thing that can report the one change
-                # that takes an instruction OUT of force.
-                if held is not None and held != len(current):
-                    delta = len(current) - held
-                    bits.append(
-                        f"{abs(delta)} rule(s) {'added' if delta > 0 else 'no longer in force'}"
-                    )
-                if bits:
-                    staleness.append(
-                        "Your loaded rules have changed since this session "
-                        "started — " + "; ".join(bits) + ". Re-read them with "
-                        "list_always_on_rules() before relying on the set you "
-                        "are holding."
-                    )
-        except Exception:
-            logger.debug("write-path rules-etag arm failed", exc_info=True)
-
-    # The guard sits BELOW the staleness arm on purpose. A rules change is
-    # unconditional news — it does not become less true because this
-    # particular write happened to match no prior art — and this arm is one
-    # indexed query, only when the session actually sent a marker.
-    #
-    # The standing-rule arm further down is deliberately left on the far side
-    # of this guard: that one runs a SEMANTIC search, and moving it here would
-    # run an embedding query on every write in the session. Its gating is a
-    # separate question from this one (see the note on #3244).
-    if not staleness and not synced and not menu and not stamped and not divergence and not derive:
+    if not synced and not menu and not stamped and not divergence and not derive:
         return empty
 
     owners = await owner_names_for({
@@ -1197,9 +970,7 @@ async def build_write_path_hint(
     for marker, item in menu:
         rendered.append((item, marker, _owner_of(item), _foreign_language(item, target_lang)))
 
-    # Seeded with the staleness line, which is decided above the early
-    # return and so cannot wait for this list to exist.
-    lines: list[str] = list(staleness)
+    lines: list[str] = []
     sync_note_ids: list[int] = []
     if synced:
         # The sync framing (#2708). Deliberately imperative about the record —
@@ -1284,18 +1055,10 @@ async def build_write_path_hint(
     rule_ids: list[int] = []
     try:
         already = set(exclude_rule_ids or [])
-        # Timed like the notes arm above. Without this the rule row was the one
-        # source in the whole readout reporting a null p90_duration_ms (#3311)
-        # — a gap that reads as "this surface is somehow not measurable" rather
-        # than "nobody passed the number".
-        rule_t0 = time.perf_counter()
-        _rep_wpr: dict = {}
         hits = await semantic_search_rules(
-            user_id, code or path, limit=RULEHINT_LIMIT,
-            threshold=cfg["rule_threshold"],
-            report=_rep_wpr,
+            user_id, code or path, limit=2,
+            threshold=cfg["threshold"], tier="conditional",
         )
-        rule_ms = (time.perf_counter() - rule_t0) * 1000.0
         fresh = [(score, rule) for score, rule in hits if rule.id not in already]
         for _score, rule in fresh:
             trigger = (rule.when_to_apply or "").strip()
@@ -1306,55 +1069,15 @@ async def build_write_path_hint(
                   "does not apply; it is not in this session's loaded set."
             )
             rule_ids.append(rule.id)
-        # 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, which is the
-        # grain "was this hint ever acted on" needs and the grain a JSONB
-        # result_ids array cannot be indexed at.
-        #
-        # This comment used to say rule ids had nowhere to go — that
-        # note_usage_events remaps ids on restore, so a rule id there would
-        # return attached to whatever note took that number. That is still
-        # true of the NOTE table, and it is exactly why rule_usage_events is
-        # its own (milestone 333 step 1). The gap it described is closed.
-        #
-        # THE CALL LOG IS UNCONDITIONAL; THE SURFACING LOG IS NOT, and the
-        # asymmetry is the correction #3497 exists to make. Both used to sit
-        # inside an `if fresh:`, which is how this arm came to report
-        # `zero_result_calls: 0` and `cleared_threshold: 133/133` — not a
-        # perfectly tuned surface but one structurally unable to record its
-        # own misses. #3311 read that artifact as a measurement and a whole
-        # milestone was scoped on it. A call that found nothing is the ONLY
-        # evidence a threshold is set too high, and it is the row every note
-        # surface has always written (write_path: 421 zeroes of 613 calls;
-        # auto_inject: 114 of 326). A SURFACING is different in kind: nothing
-        # was shown, so no such event occurred, and its log stays guarded.
-        #
-        # `results=fresh`, not `hits`: the note arms pass their exclusions
-        # INTO semantic_search_notes, so what they log is already
-        # post-exclusion. semantic_search_rules takes no such parameter and
-        # this filter is where the equivalent happens — logging `hits` would
-        # quietly make this row mean something other than every other row in
-        # the same readout.
-        record_retrieval(
-            user_id=user_id, source="write_path_rule", query=code or path,
-            threshold=cfg["rule_threshold"], limit=RULEHINT_LIMIT,
-            project_id=project_id,
-            is_task=None, results=fresh, duration_ms=rule_ms,
-            best_available=_rep_wpr.get("best_available_score"),
-            # What the ranker found and this session had already been told.
-            # Without it a zero row cannot say whether the bar was too high or
-            # the reader was simply ahead of it — and only the first is a
-            # reason to move the threshold.
-            suppressed=len(hits) - len(fresh),
-        )
         if fresh:
-            # `rule_ids` is `fresh`, i.e. AFTER exclude_rule_ids. A rule the
-            # session already holds was considered and not shown, and counting
-            # it would inflate the denominator with claims the agent never saw
-            # — which reads as a precision problem this arm does not have.
-            record_rule_surfaced(
-                user_id=user_id, rule_ids=rule_ids, source="write_path_rule",
+            # retrieval_logs, NOT note_usage_events: that table's ids are
+            # remapped on a backup restore, so a rule id there would return
+            # attached to whatever note took that number. This one is never
+            # restored, and `source` already separates the surfaces.
+            record_retrieval(
+                user_id=user_id, source="write_path_rule", query=code or path,
+                threshold=cfg["threshold"], limit=2, project_id=project_id,
+                is_task=None, results=fresh,
             )
     except Exception:
         logger.debug("write-path rule arm failed", exc_info=True)
@@ -1372,117 +1095,6 @@ async def build_write_path_hint(
     }
 
 
-async def build_tool_rule_hint(
-    user_id: int,
-    tool_name: str,
-    command: str,
-    *,
-    project_id: int = 0,
-    exclude_rule_ids: list[int] | None = None,
-) -> dict:
-    """Standing rules that may apply to the ACTION about to be taken (#3476).
-
-    The sibling of the write-path rule arm, and the surface that was missing.
-    That arm is keyed on `code or path`, so a rule can only be retrieved at the
-    moment of a code WRITE. 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 therefore unreachable at the moment it mattered, and residency
-    in the always-on preload was the only surface it had.
-
-    WHY A MECHANICAL TRIGGER AND NOT AN INSTRUCTION. Note #3089's finding is
-    that a reflex generates no query: you reach for `curl` confidently, with no
-    moment of doubt, so any surface that waits to be asked never fires. Here
-    nothing has to be asked — the tool call IS the query, and the reflex has to
-    become a tool call before it can do anything.
-
-    Deliberately TOOL-AGNOSTIC: takes a name and a string. The hook decides
-    which tools it watches, so widening the matcher is a `hooks.json` edit with
-    no change here.
-
-    CONDITIONAL ONLY, exactly as the write-path arm — an always-on rule is
-    already resident and repeating it is noise. That filter is also the
-    transition this arm exists to enable: re-tier a rule to `conditional` and
-    it starts arriving here instead of in every session's preamble.
-
-    Fails open and returns an empty context on any error: a recall aid may
-    never break the operator's action.
-    """
-    out: dict = {"context": "", "rule_ids": []}
-    command = (command or "").strip()
-    if not command:
-        return out
-
-    try:
-        cfg = await get_writepath_config(user_id)
-        if not cfg.get("enabled"):
-            return out
-
-        # The command text is the query. A long heredoc or a pasted script
-        # would otherwise push the meaningful head of the command out of the
-        # embedding window, so it is bounded — the verb and its target sit at
-        # the front, which is the part a rule is about.
-        query = command[:_TOOL_QUERY_CHARS]
-
-        t0 = time.perf_counter()
-        _rep_ptr: dict = {}
-        hits = await semantic_search_rules(
-            user_id, query, limit=RULEHINT_LIMIT,
-            threshold=cfg["rule_threshold"],
-            report=_rep_ptr,
-        )
-        duration_ms = (time.perf_counter() - t0) * 1000.0
-
-        already = set(exclude_rule_ids or [])
-        fresh = [(score, rule) for score, rule in hits if rule.id not in already]
-
-        # Logged BEFORE the early return, for the reason spelled out at length
-        # on the write-path arm above: a call that found nothing is the only
-        # evidence a threshold is too high, and an arm that logs only the calls
-        # it liked reports a flawless clear-rate however badly it is tuned.
-        # This arm shipped with the same defect inherited from its sibling, and
-        # it mattered more here — a surface with no rows at all cannot be told
-        # apart from a hook that never fired, which is precisely the silent
-        # failure the arm was built to stop.
-        record_retrieval(
-            user_id=user_id, source="pre_tool_rule", query=query,
-            threshold=cfg["rule_threshold"], limit=RULEHINT_LIMIT,
-            project_id=project_id,
-            is_task=None, results=fresh, duration_ms=duration_ms,
-            best_available=_rep_ptr.get("best_available_score"),
-            # See the sibling arm. It matters more here: this arm fires on every
-            # Bash call, so a long session excludes its way to an all-zero row
-            # and the threshold looks wrong when nothing about it is.
-            suppressed=len(hits) - len(fresh),
-        )
-        if not fresh:
-            return out
-
-        lines: list[str] = []
-        rule_ids: list[int] = []
-        for _score, rule in fresh:
-            trigger = (rule.when_to_apply or "").strip()
-            lines.append(
-                f"Standing rule that may apply to this {tool_name} call — "
-                f"“{rule.title}”"
-                + (f" ({trigger})" if trigger else "")
-                + f". Read it with get_rule({rule.id}) before deciding it "
-                  "does not apply; it is not in this session's loaded set."
-            )
-            rule_ids.append(rule.id)
-
-        # RANKED, not ambient: this arm chose what it showed, so a pull can
-        # settle whether the choice was any good. `rule_usage.RANKED_SOURCES`
-        # carries the same name.
-        record_rule_surfaced(
-            user_id=user_id, rule_ids=rule_ids, source="pre_tool_rule",
-        )
-        out["context"] = "\n".join(lines)
-        out["rule_ids"] = rule_ids
-    except Exception:
-        logger.debug("pre-tool rule arm failed", exc_info=True)
-    return out
-
-
 def _derive_line(path: str, derive: list[dict]) -> str:
     """The ledger's word on the names being written (#2900): a duplicate
     family to derive, or a canon to reuse — said at the write."""
@@ -1596,10 +1208,7 @@ async def build_session_context(
             its normalized key — triggers a one-line "bind this repo" hint so
             the binding is self-healing.
 
-    Returns {"context": str, "rule_count": int, "project": dict | None,
-    "rules_etag": str}. The etag is for the HOOK, not for the model — the
-    hook stores it and hands it back on each write so the server can say
-    whether these rules have moved since the session loaded them.
+    Returns {"context": str, "rule_count": int, "project": dict | None}.
     `context` is markdown ready to drop into `additionalContext`; it is capped
     at _MAX_CHARS with an explicit truncation note so the hook can pass it
     through verbatim.
@@ -1608,24 +1217,6 @@ async def build_session_context(
     # exclusion (milestone 297) takes a rulebook out of this block, and is
     # named below so the departure is visible rather than silent.
     rules = await rulebooks_svc.list_always_on_rules(user_id, project_id=project_id)
-    # AMBIENT source, and the one that matters most: this is the preload — the
-    # block every session opens with, chosen by nobody, paid for every turn.
-    #
-    # It emitted nothing until 2026-09-03, which made the resident set's cost
-    # certain and its usefulness unfalsifiable at the same time (#3473). Note
-    # #3089 is the argument this measurement finally lets someone test: that a
-    # rule arriving with thirty others, none of them relevant, is read as
-    # preamble rather than as a claim — so presence is not surfacing, and a
-    # tier-1 set can grow without anybody noticing it stopped working.
-    #
-    # Recorded even when the hook truncates the block below: the rules WERE
-    # delivered, and counting only the untruncated ones would quietly shrink
-    # the denominator exactly where the set is too big to read.
-    record_rule_surfaced(
-        user_id=user_id,
-        rule_ids=[r.id for r in rules],
-        source="session_start",
-    )
     excluded = (
         await rulebooks_svc.excluded_always_on_rulebooks(user_id, project_id)
         if project_id else []
@@ -1726,12 +1317,4 @@ async def build_session_context(
     if len(context) > _MAX_CHARS:
         context = context[:_MAX_CHARS].rstrip() + "\n\n…(truncated — call list_always_on_rules())"
 
-    return {
-        "context": context,
-        "rule_count": len(rules),
-        "project": project_dict,
-        # Computed from the rules THIS payload was built from, not re-queried:
-        # the marker has to describe the set the session is actually holding,
-        # and a second query could disagree with the first.
-        "rules_etag": rulebooks_svc.rules_etag(rules),
-    }
+    return {"context": context, "rule_count": len(rules), "project": project_dict}

src/scribe/services/retrieval_telemetry.py

@@ -27,10 +27,6 @@ from scribe.models import async_session
 from scribe.models.base import iso
 from scribe.models.note import Note
 from scribe.models.note_usage import PULLED, SURFACED, NoteUsageEvent
-from scribe.models.rule_usage import PULLED as RULE_PULLED
-from scribe.models.rule_usage import SURFACED as RULE_SURFACED
-from scribe.models.rule_usage import RuleUsageEvent
-from scribe.services.rule_usage import is_ambient
 from scribe.models.retrieval_log import RetrievalLog
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -55,26 +51,12 @@ def _build_payload(
     is_task: bool | None,
     results: list[tuple[float, Note]],
     duration_ms: float | None,
-    suppressed: int | None = None,
-    best_available: float | None = None,
 ) -> dict:
     """Reduce a retrieval call to a flat, JSON-safe RetrievalLog payload.
 
     Pure and synchronous (no DB, no event loop) so it is unit-testable and safe
     to run inline before scheduling the write. `results` is the
     `(score, Note)` list from semantic_search_notes, already highest-first.
-
-    `suppressed` is how many scored hits the caller dropped because the session
-    had already been shown them, and it stays None for callers that cannot
-    know. See the column's comment: None means "not measured here", which is a
-    different fact from 0 and must never render as one.
-
-    `best_available` is the highest score the ranker reached BEFORE the
-    threshold, and it carries the same null discipline for a sharper reason: it
-    is the only field that still says something on a call that returned
-    nothing, so a 0.0 standing in for "not measured" would read as "the corpus
-    held nothing remotely relevant" — a claim about the corpus invented out of
-    a caller's silence.
     """
     items = [
         {"id": int(note.id), "score": round(float(score), 5), "rank": rank}
@@ -90,12 +72,8 @@ def _build_payload(
         "project_id": project_id,
         "is_task": is_task,
         "result_count": len(items),
-        "suppressed_count": (None if suppressed is None else int(suppressed)),
         "top_score": (scores[0] if scores else None),
         "min_score": (scores[-1] if scores else None),
-        "best_available_score": (
-            None if best_available is None else round(float(best_available), 5)
-        ),
         "result_ids": items,
         "duration_ms": (round(duration_ms, 2) if duration_ms is not None else None),
     }
@@ -133,8 +111,6 @@ def record_retrieval(
     is_task: bool | None,
     results: list[tuple[float, Any]],
     duration_ms: float | None = None,
-    suppressed: int | None = None,
-    best_available: float | None = None,
 ) -> None:
     """Fire-and-forget: record one retrieval call.
 
@@ -160,8 +136,6 @@ def record_retrieval(
             is_task=is_task,
             results=results,
             duration_ms=duration_ms,
-            suppressed=suppressed,
-            best_available=best_available,
         )
     except Exception:
         logger.debug("retrieval telemetry payload build failed", exc_info=True)
@@ -188,145 +162,36 @@ def record_retrieval(
 
 def _bucket(rows: list) -> dict:
     """A score readout a human can act on, from one aggregate row."""
-    (calls, zero, p10, p50, p90, lo, hi, avg_n, dur,
-     measured, supp_calls, supp_zero,
-     miss_calls, miss_p50, miss_p90, miss_max) = rows
+    calls, zero, cleared, p10, p50, p90, lo, hi, avg_n, dur = rows
     return {
         "calls": int(calls or 0),
         # A call that returned nothing is not a low-scoring call — it is a
         # different failure (nothing indexed, filter too narrow), and averaging
         # it into the score distribution would hide both.
         "zero_result_calls": int(zero or 0),
-        # `cleared_threshold` USED TO LIVE HERE and it was a tautology (#3670).
-        # The search applies the bar before returning, so every returned result
-        # cleared it by construction and a call with nothing has no score to
-        # compare — the condition was true exactly when `result_count > 0`.
-        # `zero_result_calls + cleared_threshold == calls` held on all nineteen
-        # readings ever taken. It was `calls - zero_result_calls` wearing a name
-        # that promised a second opinion, and the docstring built a reading
-        # procedure on it that asked the reader to compare a number with itself.
-        # Its replacement is `near_misses` below, which the bar cannot fix by
-        # construction because it is measured on the calls the bar REJECTED.
-        # Of the zeros above, which were the RANKER declining and which were
-        # the reader having seen it already? `zero_result_calls` cannot say,
-        # and only the first kind is evidence about the threshold.
-        #
-        # None — not a zeroed dict — when no row in the window reported it. A
-        # surface that filters inside the search genuinely does not know, and
-        # rendering that as `{"calls": 0}` would state a measurement nobody
-        # made. That substitution is the whole of #3311.
-        "suppression": (
-            None if not int(measured or 0) else {
-                "measured_calls": int(measured or 0),
-                "calls_with_suppression": int(supp_calls or 0),
-                # Subtract from zero_result_calls for the true ranker declines.
-                "zero_because_already_shown": int(supp_zero or 0),
-            }
-        ),
+        # How often the best hit actually cleared the threshold in force for
+        # that call. THE precision-adjacent number: a surface that clears its
+        # bar on almost every call is either well-tuned or too loose, and the
+        # score spread below says which.
+        "cleared_threshold": int(cleared or 0),
         "top_score": {
             "p10": _round(p10), "p50": _round(p50), "p90": _round(p90),
             "min": _round(lo), "max": _round(hi),
         },
-        # WHAT THE BAR TURNED AWAY, and the only figure here a threshold can
-        # actually be tuned from. Measured over the calls that returned
-        # NOTHING, on the best score the ranker reached before the filter.
-        #
-        # Read `p90` against the threshold in force. A bar at 0.72 rejecting a
-        # stream of 0.71s is set too high by a hair and the surface is losing
-        # hits it should have had; the same bar rejecting 0.30s is doing its
-        # job and the corpus simply had nothing. Both render as a zero-result
-        # call, and nothing else in this readout separates them.
-        #
-        # None — not a zeroed block — when no declining call in the window
-        # measured it. Old rows predate the column, and a 0.0 would assert that
-        # the corpus held nothing relevant, which is a claim about the corpus
-        # invented out of a caller's silence.
-        "near_misses": (
-            None if not int(miss_calls or 0) else {
-                "measured_calls": int(miss_calls or 0),
-                "p50": _round(miss_p50),
-                "p90": _round(miss_p90),
-                "max": _round(miss_max),
-            }
-        ),
         "avg_result_count": _round(avg_n),
         "p90_duration_ms": _round(dur, 1),
     }
 
 
-# The aggregate row Postgres would have returned for a source with no rows in
-# the window: nothing counted, nothing scored. Positional, matching the SELECT
-# `_bucket` unpacks — calls, zero, p10, p50, p90, min, max, avg_n,
-# dur, measured, supp_calls, supp_zero, miss_calls, miss_p50, miss_p90,
-# miss_max. The counts are 0 because zero calls is a real observation;
-# everything else is None because a distribution nobody sampled has no value,
-# and rendering it as 0.0 would state one.
-_NO_ROWS_IN_WINDOW = [0, 0, None, None, None, None, None, None, None,
-                      0, 0, 0, 0, None, None, None]
-
-
 def _round(v, places: int = 4):
     return None if v is None else round(float(v), places)
 
 
-async def _complete_from(session, model, user_id) -> dict[str, Any]:
-    """When each source in `model` started being recorded, and the instant the
-    WHOLE table is complete from. Returns {source: earliest_row, "*": latest}.
-
-    THE GRAIN IS THE SOURCE, and that is the whole point. `retrieval_logs` has
-    rows going back months, so a table-level "earliest row" says months and
-    tells a reader their window is fully covered — while a source added last
-    week has a week of rows and a counter that silently means something else.
-    Per-source is the only grain at which partial coverage is visible.
-
-    THE AGGREGATE USES THE LATEST, NOT THE EARLIEST. A number that sums several
-    sources is complete only once EVERY contributor was recording, so "*" is a
-    max over the sources, not a min. Taking the min here would reproduce the
-    exact reading this exists to prevent: the oldest source vouching for the
-    youngest.
-
-    All-time, deliberately unfiltered by the window — a query bounded by
-    `since` can only ever report something at or after `since`, which answers
-    nothing.
-    """
-    rows = (
-        await session.execute(
-            select(model.source, func.min(model.created_at))
-            .where(model.user_id == user_id)
-            .group_by(model.source)
-        )
-    ).all()
-    out: dict[str, Any] = {src: ts for src, ts in rows if ts is not None}
-    stamps = list(out.values())
-    out["*"] = max(stamps) if stamps else None
-    return out
-
-
-def _coverage(complete_from, since) -> dict:
-    """The two keys every counter block carries, from one timestamp.
-
-    `covers_window` is None — never False — when nothing was ever recorded.
-    "No rows at all" is not "partial coverage", it is no measurement, and the
-    null convention #3497 established for `suppression` holds here for the
-    same reason: absent must not read as a verdict.
-    """
-    return {
-        # iso() already returns None for an unset value (#2845) — the guard
-        # belongs on covers_window, which is a verdict, not a serialisation.
-        "complete_from": iso(complete_from),
-        "covers_window": (
-            None if complete_from is None else complete_from <= since
-        ),
-    }
-
-
 async def retrieval_summary(user_id: int | None, *, days: int = 30) -> dict:
     """What the retrieval telemetry says, per surface, over a window.
 
-    Three aggregates side by side, each read from the table built for it — NOT
-    a join. `usage` is notes, `rule_usage` is rules, and they stay apart
-    because a few dozen eligible rules blended into thousands of notes is the
-    note ratio with noise on it (milestone 333). `NoteUsageEvent`'s own docstring is explicit that the two are
+    Two aggregates side by side, each read from the table built for it — NOT a
+    join. `NoteUsageEvent`'s own docstring is explicit that the two are
     complements ("RetrievalLog tunes the threshold, this tunes the corpus") and
     that RetrievalLog's JSONB `result_ids` "can't be indexed at" the per-note
     grain. So the score distribution comes from `retrieval_logs` on its indexed
@@ -334,12 +199,6 @@ async def retrieval_summary(user_id: int | None, *, days: int = 30) -> dict:
     it was built for. Reading each from its own table is both cheaper and more
     honest than correlating them through JSONB.
 
-    `usage["by_source"]` is the one join, and it stays INSIDE
-    `note_usage_events` — surfaced rows against pulled rows on note_id. That
-    answers "of the notes this surface chose, how many were opened", which the
-    top-level ratio averages away. It does not cross into `retrieval_logs`, so
-    the sentence above still holds.
-
     Scoped to one user's own telemetry. There is no sharing model for a
     retrieval log — it records what THIS user's agent asked for, including the
     query text — so an owner filter is the whole access rule here rather than a
@@ -355,77 +214,23 @@ async def retrieval_summary(user_id: int | None, *, days: int = 30) -> dict:
         "since": iso(since),
         "sources": {},
         "usage": {},
-        "rule_usage": {},
         "read_failed": False,
     }
 
-    zero = case((RetrievalLog.result_count == 0, 1), else_=0)
-    # THE NEAR-MISS POPULATION: calls that returned nothing BECAUSE THE BAR
-    # TURNED SOMETHING AWAY, and recorded what it was. Three conditions, and
-    # the third was missing for one deploy (#3739).
-    #
-    # Zero-result only: on a call that returned something,
-    # `best_available_score` equals `top_score` and adds nothing.
-    #
-    # Non-null only: rows written before #3670 genuinely do not know, and must
-    # not read as scoreless declines.
-    #
-    # AND NOT A REPEAT. A zero-result call is two unrelated events — the ranker
-    # found nothing above the bar, or it found only what this session had
-    # already been shown — and just the first says anything about the bar. That
-    # is the whole of #3497, and #3670 reintroduced the conflation one level up:
-    # the rule arms filter exclusions in PYTHON, after the search, so a rule
-    # that cleared the bar and was dropped as a repeat still reported a high
-    # `best_available_score` on a zero-result row. Live proof, first read after
-    # deploy: pre_tool_rule's near-miss max was 0.7457 while the lowest score it
-    # ever RETURNED was 0.7204 — a "rejection" that outscored acceptances.
-    #
-    # The NULL arm is principled, not permissive: `suppressed_count IS NULL`
-    # means the caller passed its exclusions INTO the search, which is exactly
-    # the case where the reported score is already post-exclusion and cannot be
-    # contaminated. Note arms stay measured; rule arms get cleaned.
-    #
-    # Deliberately conservative: a call carrying both a repeat and a lower
-    # genuine miss is dropped whole, losing that point. It undercounts; it
-    # cannot corrupt — the right way round for a number read against a bar.
-    #
-    # This also makes `near_misses.max < threshold` true BY CONSTRUCTION. An
-    # above-bar candidate that was not excluded would have been returned, so
-    # its call is not in this population at all.
-    declined = (
-        (RetrievalLog.result_count == 0)
-        & (RetrievalLog.best_available_score.isnot(None))
-        & (
-            RetrievalLog.suppressed_count.is_(None)
-            | (RetrievalLog.suppressed_count == 0)
-        )
-    )
-    miss = case((declined, 1), else_=0)
-    # `best_available_score` only for those rows; NULL elsewhere, and
-    # percentile_cont ignores NULLs, so the distribution is over the declines
-    # alone without a second pass over the table.
-    miss_score = case((declined, RetrievalLog.best_available_score), else_=None)
-    # Three sums rather than one, because "not measured" and "measured as zero"
-    # are different answers and a single counter cannot hold both.
-    measured = case((RetrievalLog.suppressed_count.isnot(None), 1), else_=0)
-    supp_calls = case((RetrievalLog.suppressed_count > 0, 1), else_=0)
-    supp_zero = case(
-        ((RetrievalLog.result_count == 0) & (RetrievalLog.suppressed_count > 0), 1),
+    cleared = case(
+        (
+            (RetrievalLog.threshold.isnot(None))
+            & (RetrievalLog.top_score.isnot(None))
+            & (RetrievalLog.top_score >= RetrievalLog.threshold),
+            1,
+        ),
         else_=0,
     )
+    zero = case((RetrievalLog.result_count == 0, 1), else_=0)
 
     def pct(p: float):
         return func.percentile_cont(p).within_group(RetrievalLog.top_score.asc())
 
-    # Assigned inside the try below; named here so the readout can tell
-    # "this query failed" from "this window has no rows" (#2663).
-    by_source_rows = None
-    rule_rows = None
-    distinct_rules_surfaced = distinct_rules_pulled = 0
-    # None means the coverage read did not happen — distinct from a table with
-    # no rows, which is {"*": None}. Same reason `read_failed` exists.
-    note_complete = rule_complete = None
-
     try:
         async with async_session() as session:
             rows = (
@@ -434,6 +239,7 @@ async def retrieval_summary(user_id: int | None, *, days: int = 30) -> dict:
                         RetrievalLog.source,
                         func.count().label("calls"),
                         func.sum(zero).label("zero"),
+                        func.sum(cleared).label("cleared"),
                         pct(0.1), pct(0.5), pct(0.9),
                         func.min(RetrievalLog.top_score),
                         func.max(RetrievalLog.top_score),
@@ -441,13 +247,6 @@ async def retrieval_summary(user_id: int | None, *, days: int = 30) -> dict:
                         func.percentile_cont(0.9).within_group(
                             RetrievalLog.duration_ms.asc()
                         ),
-                        func.sum(measured).label("measured"),
-                        func.sum(supp_calls).label("supp_calls"),
-                        func.sum(supp_zero).label("supp_zero"),
-                        func.sum(miss).label("miss_calls"),
-                        func.percentile_cont(0.5).within_group(miss_score.asc()),
-                        func.percentile_cont(0.9).within_group(miss_score.asc()),
-                        func.max(miss_score),
                     )
                     .where(
                         RetrievalLog.created_at >= since,
@@ -456,34 +255,8 @@ async def retrieval_summary(user_id: int | None, *, days: int = 30) -> dict:
                     .group_by(RetrievalLog.source)
                 )
             ).all()
-            log_complete = await _complete_from(session, RetrievalLog, user_id)
             for row in rows:
-                source = row[0]
-                bucket = _bucket(list(row[1:]))
-                # Per SOURCE, not per table: retrieval_logs goes back months
-                # while any individual arm may be days old, and the table's
-                # age would vouch for an arm that has barely started.
-                bucket.update(_coverage(log_complete.get(source), since))
-                out["sources"][source] = bucket
-
-            # A source with rows in the table but NONE in this window would
-            # otherwise be absent from the readout — and absent is exactly how
-            # a source that never existed renders, so a surface that WAS
-            # recording and went silent is unreadable (#3720). That is #2663
-            # one level up: the failure that looks like the correct answer.
-            #
-            # Zero here is a real measurement, not a manufactured one. The
-            # all-time query proves the source was recording, and it made no
-            # calls across a window it fully covers — which is why no
-            # `covers_window` special case is needed: a source whose first row
-            # fell after `since` would have that row IN the window and already
-            # hold a bucket, so anything reaching here began before it.
-            for src, first_row in log_complete.items():
-                if src == "*" or first_row is None or src in out["sources"]:
-                    continue
-                quiet = _bucket(list(_NO_ROWS_IN_WINDOW))
-                quiet.update(_coverage(first_row, since))
-                out["sources"][src] = quiet
+                out["sources"][row[0]] = _bucket(list(row[1:]))
 
             # The corpus side, at its own grain. `ambient` mirrors
             # note_usage.usage_for_notes: an ambient surfacing was not a scored
@@ -510,7 +283,6 @@ async def retrieval_summary(user_id: int | None, *, days: int = 30) -> dict:
                     .group_by(NoteUsageEvent.event, NoteUsageEvent.source)
                 )
             ).all()
-            note_complete = await _complete_from(session, NoteUsageEvent, user_id)
 
             # Distinct-note counts need their OWN queries, and this is not
             # fussiness: count(distinct note_id) per (event, source) group
@@ -538,142 +310,6 @@ async def retrieval_summary(user_id: int | None, *, days: int = 30) -> dict:
                     )
                 )
             ).scalar_one()
-
-            # Per-source pull-through, at the NOTE grain (#3311).
-            #
-            # The `urows` query above already groups by source and the loop
-            # below then throws the source away, so until now this readout
-            # could say what the corpus's overall pull-through was and nothing
-            # about WHICH surface earned it. The data was always here; only
-            # the aggregation discarded it.
-            #
-            # It cannot be had by grouping the PULLED rows by source: a pull
-            # records the door it came through (`mcp_get_note`), not the
-            # surface that put the record in front of the agent. Correlating
-            # those within a session is what #2085 ruled out — there is no
-            # session identity server-side and inventing one would mean
-            # threading a client-supplied token through every read path. The
-            # note grain answers the question without one: of the distinct
-            # notes surface X chose, how many did an agent open in this window?
-            #
-            # Guarded separately from the reads above, on #2663's actual
-            # lesson. That outage was a NOVEL SQL SHAPE the database rejected
-            # inside a broad except. This join is the novel shape here, and a
-            # failure in it must not take down two readouts that already work.
-            try:
-                pulled_ids = (
-                    select(NoteUsageEvent.note_id)
-                    .where(
-                        NoteUsageEvent.created_at >= since,
-                        NoteUsageEvent.user_id == user_id,
-                        NoteUsageEvent.event == PULLED,
-                        # autoescape because `_` is a LIKE wildcard: a bare
-                        # like("mcp_%") also matches "mcpX…". The Python half
-                        # of this readout uses str.startswith and has no such
-                        # hazard; this is the SQL half's version of it.
-                        NoteUsageEvent.source.startswith("mcp_", autoescape=True),
-                    )
-                    .distinct()
-                    .subquery()
-                )
-                surfaced_pairs = (
-                    select(NoteUsageEvent.source, NoteUsageEvent.note_id)
-                    .where(
-                        NoteUsageEvent.created_at >= since,
-                        NoteUsageEvent.user_id == user_id,
-                        NoteUsageEvent.event == SURFACED,
-                    )
-                    .distinct()
-                    .subquery()
-                )
-                # DISTINCT on (source, note_id) FIRST, which is what lets the
-                # outer aggregate be a plain count(): the pairs are already
-                # unique, so the left join cannot multiply them and no
-                # count(DISTINCT) is needed to undo damage that never happens.
-                by_source_rows = (
-                    await session.execute(
-                        select(
-                            surfaced_pairs.c.source,
-                            func.count().label("notes_surfaced"),
-                            func.count(pulled_ids.c.note_id).label("notes_pulled"),
-                        )
-                        .select_from(
-                            surfaced_pairs.outerjoin(
-                                pulled_ids,
-                                pulled_ids.c.note_id == surfaced_pairs.c.note_id,
-                            )
-                        )
-                        .group_by(surfaced_pairs.c.source)
-                    )
-                ).all()
-            except Exception:
-                logger.warning("per-source pull-through read failed", exc_info=True)
-                by_source_rows = None
-
-            # Rules, at their own grain and in their own block (milestone 333).
-            #
-            # Guarded separately from the reads above for the reason `by_source`
-            # is: this table is NEW, 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.
-            #
-            # The queries themselves are the note block's shapes, not novel
-            # ones — a group-by on two indexed columns and two count(distinct).
-            # The distinct counts need their own queries for the same reason
-            # the note ones do: count(distinct rule_id) per group cannot be
-            # summed across groups without double-counting a rule two sources
-            # both touched.
-            try:
-                rule_rows = (
-                    await session.execute(
-                        select(
-                            RuleUsageEvent.event,
-                            RuleUsageEvent.source,
-                            func.count().label("n"),
-                        )
-                        .where(
-                            RuleUsageEvent.created_at >= since,
-                            RuleUsageEvent.user_id == user_id,
-                        )
-                        .group_by(RuleUsageEvent.event, RuleUsageEvent.source)
-                    )
-                ).all()
-                rule_complete = await _complete_from(
-                    session, RuleUsageEvent, user_id,
-                )
-                # The rows carry `source`, so the ranked/ambient split is done
-                # below rather than in SQL — the bulk surfaces started emitting
-                # on 2026-09-03 (#3473), so there IS an ambient class now.
-                #
-                # `distinct_rules_surfaced` deliberately counts BOTH classes. It
-                # answers "how many distinct rules did this install put in front
-                # of an agent at all", which is the denominator for dead weight
-                # — and a rule delivered by the preload a hundred times and
-                # never opened is the most important case that question has.
-                distinct_rules_surfaced = (
-                    await session.execute(
-                        select(func.count(func.distinct(RuleUsageEvent.rule_id)))
-                        .where(
-                            RuleUsageEvent.created_at >= since,
-                            RuleUsageEvent.user_id == user_id,
-                            RuleUsageEvent.event == RULE_SURFACED,
-                        )
-                    )
-                ).scalar_one()
-                distinct_rules_pulled = (
-                    await session.execute(
-                        select(func.count(func.distinct(RuleUsageEvent.rule_id)))
-                        .where(
-                            RuleUsageEvent.created_at >= since,
-                            RuleUsageEvent.user_id == user_id,
-                            RuleUsageEvent.event == RULE_PULLED,
-                        )
-                    )
-                ).scalar_one()
-            except Exception:
-                logger.warning("rule usage read failed", exc_info=True)
-                rule_rows = None
-                distinct_rules_surfaced = distinct_rules_pulled = 0
     except Exception:
         logger.warning("retrieval summary read failed", exc_info=True)
         out["read_failed"] = True
@@ -714,124 +350,5 @@ async def retrieval_summary(user_id: int | None, *, days: int = 30) -> dict:
         round(usage["pulled_by_agent"] / usage["surfaced"], 4)
         if usage["surfaced"] else None
     )
-
-    # The same question, per surface — which is the one the top-level ratio
-    # cannot answer. A corpus average of 0.05 is compatible with one surface
-    # earning its noise and another producing none, and tuning a threshold
-    # needs to know which.
-    #
-    # UPPER BOUND, and say so where it will be read: a pull records the door,
-    # not the surface that led to it, so a note surfaced by two surfaces and
-    # opened once counts as pulled for both. Attribution would need the session
-    # identity #2085 declined to invent. The bound is still decisive in the
-    # direction that matters — a surface reading near zero here is not being
-    # flattered by the double-count.
-    if by_source_rows is None:
-        usage["by_source"] = {}
-        # Distinct from an empty window, for the same reason `read_failed` is.
-        usage["by_source_failed"] = True
-    else:
-        by_source: dict[str, dict] = {}
-        for source, n_surfaced, n_pulled in by_source_rows:
-            n_surfaced, n_pulled = int(n_surfaced or 0), int(n_pulled or 0)
-            ambient = source in AMBIENT_SOURCES
-            by_source[source] = {
-                "notes_surfaced": n_surfaced,
-                "notes_pulled": n_pulled,
-                # None rather than a number on an ambient surface: nothing
-                # CHOSE those records, so "surfaced often, opened never" is not
-                # a judgment about them. The counts stay visible; the ratio
-                # that would be misread does not.
-                "pull_through": (
-                    None if ambient or not n_surfaced
-                    else round(n_pulled / n_surfaced, 4)
-                ),
-                "ambient": ambient,
-            }
-        usage["by_source"] = by_source
-
-    # The SECTION's coverage, from the latest source to start recording — a
-    # figure that sums several sources is complete only once every one of them
-    # was being written. `_complete_from` computes that as "*".
-    usage.update(_coverage((note_complete or {}).get("*"), since))
     out["usage"] = usage
-
-    # ── Rules, deliberately a SEPARATE block ────────────────────────────
-    #
-    # Not folded into `usage`, for two reasons and the second is the one that
-    # bites. The corpora differ by orders of magnitude — a few dozen eligible
-    # rules against thousands of notes — so one blended ratio would be the note
-    # ratio with a little noise on it, and the rule arm's own behaviour would
-    # be undetectable inside it. And `usage` is what existing callers already
-    # read: silently changing what it counts would move a number people have
-    # been comparing across windows, without telling them it now measures
-    # something else.
-    #
-    # `ambient` now carries the bulk deliveries — the SessionStart preload,
-    # `list_always_on_rules`, and every `rules_payload` surface (#3473). Before
-    # they emitted, this block had no ambient key and said the absence was a
-    # fact about the data. It was, and it was also the thing that made the
-    # always-on set impossible to judge: the largest rule surface in the
-    # product was the one surface its own scoreboard could not see.
-    #
-    # READ THE TWO SEPARATELY, ALWAYS. `surfaced` is a claim a ranker made and
-    # a pull can settle. `ambient` is a delivery nobody chose, so a high count
-    # says the set is large and resident, never that it is useful.
-    rule_usage = {
-        "surfaced": 0, "ambient": 0,
-        "pulled": 0, "pulled_by_agent": 0, "pulled_by_human": 0,
-        "distinct_rules_surfaced": int(distinct_rules_surfaced or 0),
-        "distinct_rules_pulled": int(distinct_rules_pulled or 0),
-    }
-    if rule_rows is None:
-        # The FLAG is added, the shape is kept — matching `by_source_failed`
-        # one block up. A caller that renders this must not have to choose
-        # between crashing on a missing key and quietly showing zeros it has no
-        # right to: the keys let it render, and the flag tells it the zeros are
-        # "we could not find out" rather than "nothing happened" (#2663).
-        rule_usage["rule_usage_failed"] = True
-    else:
-        for event, source, n in rule_rows:
-            n = int(n)
-            if event == RULE_SURFACED:
-                # One definition of ranked-vs-ambient, imported rather than
-                # restated — the per-rule badge readout reads the same
-                # predicate, and two spellings of "what counts as surfaced" is
-                # precisely the uneven wiring #3246 found across this system.
-                if is_ambient(source):
-                    rule_usage["ambient"] += n
-                else:
-                    rule_usage["surfaced"] += n
-            elif event == RULE_PULLED:
-                rule_usage["pulled"] += n
-                # Same split, and it carries MORE weight here than for notes.
-                # The arm's whole claim is "this rule may apply to what you are
-                # writing", and only an agent opening it says the claim landed.
-                # A person browsing the rule list says nothing about the hint.
-                if source.startswith("mcp_"):
-                    rule_usage["pulled_by_agent"] += n
-                else:
-                    rule_usage["pulled_by_human"] += n
-
-    # None, not 0.0, when nothing was surfaced — matching the note block. A
-    # ratio of zero asserts "we showed rules and none were 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.
-    #
-    # RANKED SURFACINGS ONLY in the denominator, and this is the load-bearing
-    # line of the whole change. Pull-through asks "was that hint any use", and
-    # only a surface that CHOSE what it showed can be judged by it. Folding the
-    # preload in would divide the same pulls by a number that grows with every
-    # session and every rule added to the resident set — so enlarging the
-    # always-on set would DEPRESS the arm's measured precision, and trimming it
-    # would flatter it, neither for any reason to do with the arm. The ambient
-    # count sits beside it, unaveraged, and is read as size rather than skill.
-    rule_usage["pull_through"] = (
-        round(rule_usage["pulled_by_agent"] / rule_usage["surfaced"], 4)
-        if rule_usage["surfaced"] else None
-    )
-    rule_usage.update(_coverage((rule_complete or {}).get("*"), since))
-    out["rule_usage"] = rule_usage
-
     return out

src/scribe/services/rule_usage.py

@@ -1,295 +0,0 @@
-"""Rule usage telemetry — did a surfaced rule ever get read?
-
-The sibling of `note_usage`, for the one retrieval surface in Scribe that
-could not be measured at all.
-
-Two event streams, deliberately independent:
-
-  - SURFACED: the write-path standing-rule arm put this rule in front of the
-    agent, unbidden, during a write.
-  - PULLED: someone then opened it in full (`get_rule`, or the REST detail
-    route).
-
-WHY THIS ARM AND NOT ANOTHER. Every other surface declines most of the time —
-`write_path` returns nothing on 78% of calls, `reuse_slot` on 79%, auto-inject
-on 39%. The rule arm APPEARED never to have returned nothing (#3311), and this
-docstring used to put that forward as the puzzle worth measuring: "either a
-perfectly tuned surface or a bar it cannot fail to clear".
-
-It was neither, and the correction belongs here rather than being quietly
-deleted. The arm wrote its `retrieval_logs` row only on calls that FOUND
-something (#3497), so `zero_result_calls` sat at 0 and `cleared_threshold` at
-`calls` because of the shape of the code — at any threshold whatsoever. A
-statistic that could not vary was read as a finding about the corpus. It is the
-#2663 failure mode one level up: there the broken readout was a zero, here it
-was a hundred percent, which is far better camouflage.
-
-The reason to measure this arm survives the correction, and is stronger for it.
-`retrieval_logs` records what the ranker scored, never whether the hint was any
-use, so even an honest clear-rate would not settle the question. The ratio these
-two streams produce is the missing half, and without it any threshold change is
-a number picked off a histogram.
-
-Design notes, mirroring `note_usage`:
-  - Writes are fire-and-forget through `background.spawn`, so telemetry never
-    adds latency to — or can break — the surface it observes. This module does
-    NOT carry its own copy of the strong-reference dance; `background` is the
-    one place that gets it right, and a fourth copy is how one of them drifts.
-  - Failures degrade, but never SILENTLY. `report_telemetry_failure` logs at
-    WARNING and drops one AppLog row per process per site. #2663 is the record
-    of this exact subsystem class running at zero for weeks — indistinguishable
-    from "nobody uses this" — because every failure went to `logger.debug`.
-  - Reads (`usage_for_rules`) are awaited and aggregated in one round-trip for
-    a whole page, never per row.
-
-AMBIENT VS RANKED. The note twin splits ranked surfacings from ambient ones
-because `enter_project` and the skill sync put records in front of the agent
-without choosing them, and counting those as surfacings makes recency read as
-popularity (#2477). Rules have exactly that shape: the SessionStart preload,
-`list_always_on_rules`, and every `rules_payload` surface hand over the whole
-applicable set at once, chosen by nobody.
-
-Until 2026-09-03 those bulk surfaces emitted nothing, and this module said so —
-"an empty `AMBIENT_SOURCES` would be machinery pretending to a distinction the
-data does not yet contain". True as far as it went, but it had a consequence
-worth naming, because it is the reason the bucket exists now: the always-on
-set's token cost was certain and its usefulness was UNFALSIFIABLE, permanently
-and by construction. The one surface whose value was actually in question was
-the one surface exempt from the scoreboard that judges every other.
-
-They emit now. The split is the readout-level change the old note promised — a
-`case()`, no migration, because `event` and `source` are plain Text with no
-CHECK constraint. `source` stays granular so a reader can still tell the
-preload from `enter_project` from the ranked arm.
-
-WHY THIS NAMES THE RANKED SOURCES AND THE TWIN NAMES THE AMBIENT ONES. A
-deliberate divergence, on the failure mode rather than on symmetry. Both shapes
-fail silently when someone adds a surface and forgets the list, so the question
-is which list changes more often — and here it is emphatically the ambient one:
-there are TWO ranked rule sources (the write-path arm and the pre-tool arm)
-against the seven bulk ones the preload alone contributes. Ranked sources are
-added when somebody builds a ranker, which is rare and deliberate; bulk ones
-appear whenever a surface hands rules over, which is most of them. Naming the
-rare, slow-moving half means a newly-added bulk surface defaults to
-`ambient`, which merely under-counts it, instead of defaulting to `ranked`,
-which would quietly pad the pull-through denominator with surfacings nobody
-chose and make the arm look imprecise. Same argument #3191 and #3430 make
-against hand-kept lists: keep the list that must be remembered as short and as
-slow-moving as possible.
-"""
-from __future__ import annotations
-
-import logging
-
-from sqlalchemy import case, func, select
-
-from scribe.models import async_session
-from scribe.models.base import iso
-from scribe.models.rule_usage import PULLED, SURFACED, RuleUsageEvent
-from scribe.services.background import report_telemetry_failure, spawn
-
-logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
-
-# The surfaces that CHOSE the rules they showed. Everything else is ambient —
-# see the module docstring for why the rare half is the half that gets named.
-#
-# Membership is the whole definition of the pull-through denominator: a ranked
-# surfacing is a claim ("this rule may apply to what you are doing") that a pull
-# can confirm or refute, while an ambient one is a delivery nobody decided on.
-# Add a source here only when a ranker picked it.
-RANKED_SOURCES = ("write_path_rule", "pre_tool_rule")
-
-
-def is_ambient(source: str) -> bool:
-    """Was this surfacing a bulk delivery rather than a ranked choice?
-
-    One definition, read by both the per-rule badge readout and the aggregate
-    in `retrieval_telemetry` — the two used to be able to disagree about what
-    "surfaced" counted, which is the class of drift #3246 found across the
-    rules system.
-
-    Sync and pure, per the service canon (#2860), but deliberately PUBLIC where
-    that canon says such helpers stay `_private`. The departure is the point:
-    a module-private copy in each caller is exactly the second definition this
-    exists to prevent.
-    """
-    return source not in RANKED_SOURCES
-
-
-async def _report_failure(site: str) -> None:
-    await report_telemetry_failure("rule_usage", site)
-
-
-async def _insert_events(rows: list[dict]) -> None:
-    """Persist usage rows. Best-effort: failures degrade, visibly."""
-    try:
-        async with async_session() as session:
-            session.add_all([RuleUsageEvent(**row) for row in rows])
-            await session.commit()
-    except Exception:
-        await _report_failure("write")
-
-
-def _schedule(rows: list[dict]) -> None:
-    if not rows:
-        return
-    spawn(_insert_events(rows), site="rule_usage_write")
-
-
-def record_rule_surfaced(
-    *, user_id: int | None, rule_ids: list[int] | set[int], source: str
-) -> None:
-    """Fire-and-forget: record that these rules were shown to the agent.
-
-    Takes the whole delivery at once — one insert per surfacing event, not per
-    rule — because a hint is a single decision and its rows should land
-    together.
-
-    Record what was actually SHOWN, never what was considered. For the ranked
-    arm that means the post-filter hits: it drops what the session already
-    holds (`exclude_rule_ids`) before it speaks, and a rule considered and not
-    shown was not surfaced. Counting those would inflate the denominator with
-    claims the agent never saw, which reads as a precision problem the arm does
-    not have.
-
-    Bulk surfaces pass their whole delivered set, which is the same rule read
-    from the other end — everything in a preload IS shown. `source` is what
-    separates the two afterwards (see `RANKED_SOURCES`); this function does not
-    care which kind it is recording.
-    """
-    try:
-        rows = [
-            {
-                "user_id": user_id,
-                "rule_id": int(rid),
-                "event": SURFACED,
-                "source": source,
-            }
-            for rid in rule_ids
-        ]
-    except Exception:
-        logger.debug("rule usage payload build failed", exc_info=True)
-        return
-    _schedule(rows)
-
-
-def record_rule_pulled(*, user_id: int | None, rule_id: int, source: str) -> None:
-    """Fire-and-forget: record that a rule was opened in full.
-
-    A PULL is somebody choosing to open one record. `list_always_on_rules` and
-    `enter_project` are NOT pulls — they are bulk resident loads that hand over
-    every applicable rule at once, and counting them would swamp the signal
-    with the very ambient delivery the ratio exists to distinguish from.
-    """
-    try:
-        rows = [
-            {
-                "user_id": user_id,
-                "rule_id": int(rule_id),
-                "event": PULLED,
-                "source": source,
-            }
-        ]
-    except Exception:
-        logger.debug("rule usage payload build failed", exc_info=True)
-        return
-    _schedule(rows)
-
-
-def empty_rule_usage() -> dict:
-    """The zero readout — what a rule with no recorded events looks like.
-
-    Callers render this shape unconditionally, so a rule predating the table
-    reads as "never surfaced, never pulled" rather than as a missing key. That
-    distinction matters more here than for notes: every rule in an install
-    predates this table, so for a while "no events" is the normal state and it
-    must not look like a broken readout.
-
-    `surfaced_count` is RANKED surfacings only; `ambient_count` is the bulk
-    deliveries (see `RANKED_SOURCES`). The split is what keeps the badge's
-    "shown often, opened never → dead weight" reading honest: every rule in an
-    always-on set is delivered every session, so an unsplit counter would rank
-    the resident set as the most-surfaced rules in the install purely for being
-    resident.
-    """
-    return {
-        "surfaced_count": 0,
-        "ambient_count": 0,
-        "pull_count": 0,
-        "last_surfaced_at": None,
-        "last_pulled_at": None,
-    }
-
-
-async def usage_for_rules(rule_ids: list[int]) -> dict[int, dict]:
-    """Aggregate usage for a set of rules: {rule_id: {counts + timestamps}}.
-
-    One GROUP BY for the whole page rather than a query per row — this feeds a
-    list view, so the per-row shape would be N+1 by construction. Rules with no
-    events come back with `empty_rule_usage()`, so the caller never has to tell
-    "no events" from "not in the result".
-    """
-    ids = [int(r) for r in rule_ids]
-    out: dict[int, dict] = {rid: empty_rule_usage() for rid in ids}
-    if not ids:
-        return out
-
-    # Classified in SQL so the group stays small: per rule we get at most
-    # (surfaced-ranked, surfaced-ambient, pulled) rather than a row per distinct
-    # source. ONE labelled expression, bound to a variable and reused in the
-    # GROUP BY — a second `case()` instance there renders its own expanding-IN
-    # bind names under asyncpg, so the database sees two DIFFERENT expressions
-    # and rejects the query with a GroupingError. The note twin carries the
-    # same warning for the same reason, and #2663 is what it cost: the
-    # rejection was swallowed and every counter read zero in production while
-    # the writes were landing fine.
-    ambient = case(
-        (RuleUsageEvent.source.notin_(RANKED_SOURCES), True),
-        else_=False,
-    ).label("ambient")
-    try:
-        async with async_session() as session:
-            rows = (
-                await session.execute(
-                    select(
-                        RuleUsageEvent.rule_id,
-                        RuleUsageEvent.event,
-                        func.count().label("n"),
-                        func.max(RuleUsageEvent.created_at).label("last_at"),
-                        ambient,
-                    )
-                    .where(RuleUsageEvent.rule_id.in_(ids))
-                    .group_by(
-                        RuleUsageEvent.rule_id,
-                        RuleUsageEvent.event,
-                        ambient,
-                    )
-                )
-            ).all()
-    except Exception:
-        # A telemetry readout must not be able to break the list it decorates —
-        # but it must say it failed, or a broken readout is indistinguishable
-        # from a corpus nobody uses (#2663).
-        await _report_failure("readout")
-        return out
-
-    for rule_id, event, n, last_at, is_amb in rows:
-        slot = out.get(int(rule_id))
-        if slot is None:
-            continue
-        if event == SURFACED and is_amb:
-            slot["ambient_count"] = int(n)
-        elif event == SURFACED:
-            slot["surfaced_count"] = int(n)
-            slot["last_surfaced_at"] = iso(last_at)
-        elif event == PULLED:
-            # Pulls are pulls regardless of what surfaced the rule — "did
-            # anyone ever open this?" does not depend on how it was found. Both
-            # halves accumulate, so this ADDS rather than assigns: a rule can
-            # now be pulled after a ranked hint and after a preload, and the
-            # split arrives as two rows.
-            slot["pull_count"] = slot["pull_count"] + int(n)
-            latest = iso(last_at)
-            if latest and (slot["last_pulled_at"] or "") < latest:
-                slot["last_pulled_at"] = latest
-    return out