Rules become findable: canon catalog, triggers, tiers, edges, retrieval, surfacing (milestone 307, steps 1–5) #131

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Rules were the only major record type with no retrieval and no just-in-time surface, so every rule had to be preloaded into every session of every project to be honoured. That single fact — not a discipline failure — is what made rule bloat the stable outcome: adding a rule taxed every session everywhere, so rules grew instead of multiplying, and a rule read once out of context had to carry its whole shape.

Design and reasoning: note #3026. Milestone 307, steps 1–5 (step 6 is the operator's own rulebook true-up, proposed in note #3061, and needs this deployed first).

What lands

Step 1 — a global area catalog. The eight standard names already existed as a tuple in services/systems.py, seeded only at project inception; ad-hoc create_system never consulted it, which is how three spellings of "CI & Release" reached one instance. A constant also cannot be a foreign key, so nothing outside a project could reference an area. Migration 0087 makes it a table; systems.canonical_id maps a project's System onto it. Association only — no System is renamed, record_systems is untouched.

Step 2 — the catalog reaches the moment a name is minted. One service function now holds the duplicate gate and the catalog lookup, called by both doors; the REST door previously had no gate at all (#2482). An exact slug hit is applied, a near miss is only offered. UI: a Shared area picker, a mapping review, and Settings → Admin → Areas.

Step 3 — rules gains when_to_apply, tier, arose_from_id, rule_systems, rule_relations (migration 0088). rule_brief replaces three hand-written payload dicts that had already diverged — none carried the timestamps the model always held, which is why a stale rule was indistinguishable from a live one at read time.

Step 4 — rules become findable by meaning (migration 0089). Document shape follows the measurement in note #2485, not intuition: trigger in the title and repeated in the body, and why structurally excluded — the function takes no such parameter.

Step 5 — surfacing. list_always_on_rules returns tier 1 only; get_applicable_rules additionally carries a conditional rule when the project works in an area it is tagged to; co_surfaces partners arrive with their other half; the write-path hook can notice a standing rule the session was never given.

Compatibility — the property to check first

Nothing stops binding. tier defaults to always_on, _valid_tier falls back to always_on, and a pre-0088 backup restores the same way. Every rule this instance already has keeps arriving exactly as it did. Asserted as the first case in tests/test_integration_rule_surfacing.py, against real Postgres — not reasoned about.

The re-tiering that makes any rule conditional is step 6, and it is a separate, reviewable pass.

After deploy

  • Migrations 00870089 are additive and were exercised in the integration lane against real Postgres.
  • First boot runs a rule-embedding backfill over the existing rules — in-process fastembed, in the background, and it never blocks request serving.
  • Plugin manifest bumped to 0.1.47 so the hook change reaches installed clients (#1040).
  • The interim payload is slightly larger, not smaller: every rule now carries tier and updated_at. Step 6's re-tiering is what turns that around.

Then: propose_canonical_mappings across the 8 projects that have Systems, followed by the step-6 backfill from note #3061.

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Rules were the only major record type with no retrieval and no just-in-time surface, so every rule had to be preloaded into every session of every project to be honoured. That single fact — not a discipline failure — is what made rule bloat the stable outcome: adding a rule taxed every session everywhere, so rules grew instead of multiplying, and a rule read once out of context had to carry its whole shape. Design and reasoning: note **#3026**. Milestone **307**, steps 1–5 (step 6 is the operator's own rulebook true-up, proposed in note **#3061**, and needs this deployed first). ## What lands **Step 1 — a global area catalog.** The eight standard names already existed as a tuple in `services/systems.py`, seeded only at project inception; ad-hoc `create_system` never consulted it, which is how three spellings of "CI & Release" reached one instance. A constant also cannot be a foreign key, so nothing outside a project could reference an area. Migration `0087` makes it a table; `systems.canonical_id` maps a project's System onto it. Association only — no System is renamed, `record_systems` is untouched. **Step 2 — the catalog reaches the moment a name is minted.** One service function now holds the duplicate gate *and* the catalog lookup, called by both doors; the REST door previously had no gate at all (#2482). An exact slug hit is applied, a near miss is only offered. UI: a Shared area picker, a mapping review, and Settings → Admin → Areas. **Step 3 — `rules` gains `when_to_apply`, `tier`, `arose_from_id`, `rule_systems`, `rule_relations`** (migration `0088`). `rule_brief` replaces three hand-written payload dicts that had already diverged — none carried the timestamps the model always held, which is why a stale rule was indistinguishable from a live one at read time. **Step 4 — rules become findable by meaning** (migration `0089`). Document shape follows the measurement in note #2485, not intuition: trigger in the title and repeated in the body, and `why` structurally excluded — the function takes no such parameter. **Step 5 — surfacing.** `list_always_on_rules` returns tier 1 only; `get_applicable_rules` additionally carries a conditional rule when the project works in an area it is tagged to; `co_surfaces` partners arrive with their other half; the write-path hook can notice a standing rule the session was never given. ## Compatibility — the property to check first **Nothing stops binding.** `tier` defaults to `always_on`, `_valid_tier` falls back to `always_on`, and a pre-0088 backup restores the same way. Every rule this instance already has keeps arriving exactly as it did. Asserted as the first case in `tests/test_integration_rule_surfacing.py`, against real Postgres — not reasoned about. The re-tiering that makes any rule conditional is step 6, and it is a separate, reviewable pass. ## After deploy - Migrations `0087`–`0089` are additive and were exercised in the integration lane against real Postgres. - First boot runs a **rule-embedding backfill** over the existing rules — in-process fastembed, in the background, and it never blocks request serving. - Plugin manifest bumped to **0.1.47** so the hook change reaches installed clients (#1040). - The interim payload is slightly *larger*, not smaller: every rule now carries `tier` and `updated_at`. Step 6's re-tiering is what turns that around. Then: `propose_canonical_mappings` across the 8 projects that have Systems, followed by the step-6 backfill from note #3061. CI green on `02c1e37` (run 4569), and on every one of the thirteen commits. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)
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feat(systems): the area vocabulary becomes a global table so a rule can point at one (#3027, milestone 307 step 1)
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The eight standard area names already existed — as STANDARD_SYSTEMS, a tuple in
services/systems.py that milestone 297 seeds at inception. A constant cannot be
a foreign key, so nothing outside a project could reference an area: systems.
project_id is NOT NULL, and a rule that spans projects would have to chain
itself to one project's row. And because the list only ever applied on the
inception-seed path, three spellings of one area reached this instance anyway
(CI & runners / CI and Release / CI & release).

- canonical_systems: global, no user_id — a shared project inherits the
  vocabulary instead of re-earning it. Migration 0087 seeds the same eight.
- systems.canonical_id: nullable, SET NULL. Association only — no System is
  renamed and record_systems is untouched, so no record's tags move.
- canonical_slug folds &/and, case and punctuation, so spelling variants map
  mechanically and a real difference ("CI & runners") becomes a proposal a
  human confirms. propose_mappings reports; set_system_canonical is the only
  writer.
- seed_standard_systems now reads the catalog and maps as it mints, so a
  project born standard never needs a reconciliation pass.
- Catalog writes are admin-only; reads are open — a global list anyone can
  extend stops being shared.
- backup: carried by SLUG, not id (ids are per-install). Restore reuses the
  target's own rows and only creates entries an admin added on the source; an
  unknown slug restores unmapped rather than failing.

Rule 22: STANDARD_SYSTEMS is removed, not deprecated. Rule 115: nothing seeded
names an app, repo or house convention. Design in note 3026.

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fix(systems): the bootstrap ask reads the catalog, so its test must supply one (#3027)
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CI caught the seam the promotion opened: the standard names now come from an
async catalog read, and the unit test patches systems_svc wholesale — so the
read raised, the fail-open swallowed it, and the ask shipped without the names
it is supposed to carry.

Stub standard_systems in that test, and assert the wiring rather than the
vocabulary: THAT the seeded set is these eight is migration 0087's business and
belongs in the inception integration test, against a real database.

Adds the case the promotion actually created — an unreachable or empty catalog
must still produce the ask. The names are an aid to the question, not the
question; degrading to a weaker nudge is fine, going silent is not.

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feat(systems): the catalog reaches the moment a name is minted, and gets a face (#3028, milestone 307 step 2)
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Step 1 found the reason the standard names never held, and it is sharper than
"prose doesn't fire": the list WAS real and it WAS seeded — but only on the
inception path, for a project with zero Systems. Ad-hoc create_system never
consulted it, which is how Forge minted "CI and Release" and Portal minted
"CI & release" after the constant already existed. This wires the vocabulary to
the moment that mints a name.

- services/systems.assess_system_name: the local duplicate gate AND the
  catalog lookup, in ONE service function both doors call. The gate lived only
  in the MCP tool, which is exactly how the web UI shipped without a check the
  agent surface enforced (#2482). REST now answers 409 with the System that
  already covers the area.
- An `exact` catalog hit is APPLIED (mechanical — the names differ only in
  spelling). An `overlap` is only OFFERED, on both doors: applying a judgment
  call silently is how a cross-project rule surfaces in the wrong project.
- canonical_systems.best_overlap is the ONE scorer behind the create-time
  offer and the review sweep, so the two surfaces can never name different
  areas for one System. It also takes the catalog the caller already holds,
  so the review is not an N+1.

UI (folded in from step 1 — rule 27, that step shipped with no human surface):
- SystemsSection: a Shared area picker on create and edit, the area on each
  card, and a collapsed review of proposals that appears only when there is
  something to decide. `exact` and `overlap` never share a style — one is
  mechanical, the other is the reviewer's judgment, and presenting them alike
  is how a wrong mapping gets waved through.
- Settings → Admin → Areas: the catalog itself, showing each entry's slug,
  because the slug is what decides whether two names are the same area and a
  rename moves it.
- A picker rather than a live matcher: reproducing the slug rule in TypeScript
  would give this feature two matchers to keep in step — the exact drift the
  catalog exists to end. The server stays authoritative.

tests/helpers.fake_system gains canonical_id=None: an unnamed attribute is an
auto-MagicMock and therefore truthy, which is the trap that helper exists for
(note 2109) and a nullable FK walks straight into it.

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test(systems): move the name-gate cases to the service the gate moved into (#3028)
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Two tests further down test_mcp_tool_systems.py still drove the gate through
the tool — `svc.list_systems` stubbed, the tool doing the normalising — so the
new `await systems_svc.assess_system_name(...)` hit an unstubbed MagicMock.

Stubbing them at the tool would have kept testing the wrong layer. The
normalisation cases belong with the logic, so they move to
tests/test_services_systems.py as real coverage of assess_system_name: case and
whitespace folding, exact-beats-overlap (and that an exact hit short-circuits
the lesser lookup), no invented match, fail-open on both arms, and silence for a
nameless system.

What stays the tool's job — rendering a duplicate, applying an exact area,
offering an overlap — is already covered at the top of that file.

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feat(rules): a rule can say when it applies, which area it is about, and what it belongs with (#3029, milestone 307 step 3, schema)
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A rule could not state its trigger, its area, or its siblings, so all three
were being written as prose instead: a System's charter restating rule text,
a `why` naming the note that caused it, and two halves of one shape merged
into a single row because either could surface without the other.

Migration 0088 adds the four fields those workarounds stood in for:

- `when_to_apply` — the trigger. Nullable in the DB and required at the
  service layer: existing rules have none and a migration cannot invent one.
- `tier` — always_on | conditional, defaulting to always_on. This migration
  therefore changes NOTHING about which rules bind; an install upgrades and
  every rule keeps arriving exactly as before. Getting that backwards is the
  one failure this milestone exists to prevent, so _valid_tier falls back to
  always_on rather than silently un-binding a rule with a typo'd tier.
- `arose_from_id` — the record that caused the rule, the edge notes and tasks
  already have. SET NULL: trashing the source does not repeal the rule.
- `rule_systems` / `rule_relations` — the canon tag and the typed edges
  (co_surfaces / overrides / elaborates), each earned from a workaround its
  absence forced.

rule_brief() replaces the THREE hand-written trim dicts that had already
diverged — two carried topic_id, one didn't, and none carried the timestamps
the model has held all along. That omission is why a rule written before the
capability it duplicates was indistinguishable at read time from one still
doing work. It now carries updated_at as a DATE: the question is "how old is
this", and a full stamp across the always-on set is ~2k characters for
precision nobody reads. The two callers select the ENTITY rather than a column
list, so rule_brief stays the single place deciding what a surfaced rule says.

Backup: both new tables carried, area tags by canonical SLUG (ids are
per-install). The rule-relation restore runs after ALL rules exist and after
the catalog, because an edge names two rules and a tag names a global row —
sections renumbered so the file reads in dependency order. A pre-0088 payload
restores with tier=always_on, i.e. binding exactly as when it was taken.

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feat(rules): both doors carry the trigger, the tier, the areas and the edges (#3029, milestone 307 step 3, surfaces)
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MCP and REST both gain when_to_apply / tier / system_ids / arose_from_id on
create and update, plus relate_rules / unrelate_rules for the typed edges, and
get_rule now returns a rule's areas and relations alongside it.

rule_detail() is a SERVICE function, not one per door. It started as a copy in
each — identical, and the prior-art hook flagged it immediately, which is the
same lesson rules_payload (#2858) already recorded: a second copy drifts. Both
doors call the one seam, so create, update and get cannot disagree about what a
rule looks like coming back.

The authoring guidance lands in create_rule's docstring rather than in a rule,
per rule 119 as the operator described it: this is behaviour every instance
should inherit, not one operator's preference. It states the test —

  ONE RULE = ONE THING YOU COULD VIOLATE. Rules that FAIL TOGETHER get linked
  with relate_rules(kind="co_surfaces"), never merged into one row.

— and names why merging loses: a merged rule cannot be cited, surfaced or
suppressed a clause at a time, and it grows without limit because adding to it
is always cheaper than adding a rule. create_project_rule says the same about
"overrides", which is what FabledCurator's 85/86 should have been instead of
near-copies that drift from their parent.

The tier arg carries the test itself: can you name the trigger WITHOUT naming a
system, an artifact type or a moment? If the honest answer is "whenever you are
working", it is always_on.

Tests: the applicable-rules cases fabricated raw tuples matching the old column
lists, so they move to the entity shape via fake_rule; new cases pin rule_brief
(a DATE not a stamp, the depth left to get_rule, no null keys) and that an
unknown tier falls back to BINDING. fake_rule gains when_to_apply / tier /
arose_from_id for the note-2109 reason the helper exists: unnamed, they would
be truthy MagicMocks. The tool tests stub the new rule_detail seam — they are
about argument forwarding and have no database.

The module header's "Sixteen tools" had been wrong for two milestones; the
registration count test is what actually catches that, so the header now says
so instead of carrying a number.

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feat(rules): the rule editor asks when it applies, and the list shows its age (#3029, milestone 307 step 3, UI)
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Rule 27 — the schema and both doors shipped with no human surface, so step 3
was not shippable until this.

RuleEditorSlideOver gains the trigger, the tier, the areas, and a read-only
view of the rule's edges. The tier is a radio pair carrying the test itself
rather than a bare toggle: can you name the trigger WITHOUT naming a system,
an artifact type or a moment? If the honest answer is "whenever you are
working", it is always on. It also says why conditional is not a demotion —
it costs nothing when irrelevant, which is what lets a rule be as long as it
needs to be. The relations block states the rule the whole milestone turns on:
rules that FAIL TOGETHER are linked, never merged.

RuleListPane shows the trigger and the LAST-CHANGED DATE on every row, and
marks conditional only — always_on is the default and badging every row would
say nothing. The date is the cheap triage the FabledCurator case wanted: a
rule whose age predates the capability it duplicates is visible at a glance
instead of needing a get_rule to find out.

ProjectRulesTab's inline create form gains the same two fields, because a
project rule bloats exactly the way a family one does — FabledCurator has 23
of them.

Two type fixes the new shapes forced, both worth keeping:
- toHeader() in the store: a list row is the server's rule_brief, so patching
  a list locally has to mirror every field it carries or the two disagree.
  There were two hand-built four-field literals doing that job.
- ApplicableRules.rules / .project_rules are now described AS RuleHeader
  rather than as two more hand-written shapes — the same builder produces
  them, so the same type should describe them.

groupByRulebookAndTopic skips a null-topic rule rather than widening
TopicGroup to accept one: a rule carries topic_id XOR project_id, so a null
topic in that list means something is wrong upstream, and a widened type would
hide it.

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fix(rules): the third row literal — fetchRules builds a list row too (#3029)
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vue-tsc caught what I missed: there were THREE places hand-building a rule
list row, not two. fetchRules mapped full rules down to the same four fields
in a spot far from the other two, so consolidating the pair I could see left
this one behind — which is precisely how the server side ended up with three
divergent trim dicts in the first place.

All three now go through toHeader.

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feat(rules): rules become findable by meaning (#3030, milestone 307 step 4)
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Rules were the only major record type with no vector, so `search` could never
return one and a rule could arrive only by being preloaded. That single fact is
what made every rule compete for one always-on budget.

THE DECISION THE TASK ASKED FOR, made explicitly: a sibling rule_embeddings
table, not a polymorphic embedding row. The ROW could have been generalised;
the SEARCH could not. semantic_search_notes is Note-specific scoping end to end
— the visibility clause, the supersession penalty, note_type/task_kind/system
filters — and a rule shares none of it, scoping instead by rulebook ownership
or project. Generalising the row while still needing two searches is the worst
of both: a key with referential integrity to neither table, on the path every
session start runs, to share four columns. What is genuinely common is
BEHAVIOUR — get_embedding, chunk_document, embedding_text, CHUNKER_VERSION —
and those are reused as-is. Sharing them is the DRY win; sharing the table
would have been the DRY costume.

The document shape is measured, not chosen (note 2485). That pass found the
snippet was the only discriminative record in the corpus — a 0.153
top-to-second gap against 0.010-0.023 — and that the cause was its SHAPE:
purpose stated twice in a short single-topic document. rule_document
reproduces it: the trigger in the title AND as the body's first line.

And it excludes `why`, which matters more than any of it. `why` is dated
incident narrative — rule 46's runs to 4,300 characters — and long multi-topic
prose is exactly what made sixteen dev-logs mutually indistinguishable. Adding
it would not give the vector more to work with; it would give every rule the
SAME thing to work with. rule_document takes no `why` parameter at all, so a
well-meaning caller cannot pass one.

A rule with no trigger degrades to title + statement — findable, less sharp.
That is an argument for backfilling triggers (step 6), not for padding the
document with whatever text is nearby.

search(content_type="rule") returns the rule WITH its why and how_to_apply:
they are its operational half, the session payload never carries them, and a
caller who went looking should not have to re-fetch. Writes re-index
fire-and-forget like notes; startup backfills in its own try block so neither
backfill can skip the other. rule_embeddings is derived, so it joins
note_embeddings in the backup's explicitly-NOT-included list.

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fix(rules): resolve the Rule forward ref for ruff and readers (#3030)
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F821: the quoted `"Rule"` in semantic_search_rules' return annotation
evaluates fine at runtime — a string inside a subscript is a value, not a name
lookup — but it points at nothing a reader or a type checker can follow, which
is what ruff is objecting to and it is right to.

A TYPE_CHECKING import resolves it at zero runtime cost, while the real import
stays inside the function so this module still does not pull in the rulebook
models. Placed after the import block, where isort wants the guard.

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feat(rules): tier 1 preloads, tier 2 arrives by area — and a split rule can no longer be read half-way (#3031, milestone 307 step 5)
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The payoff step: a rule stops having to be resident to be honoured.

- list_always_on_rules returns the ALWAYS-ON tier only. It is the session-start
  call, made before any project is in scope, so there is no area vocabulary to
  match a conditional rule against yet.
- get_applicable_rules carries a conditional rule when the project works in an
  area the rule is tagged to — resolved through systems.canonical_id, so the
  project's own NAME for the area is irrelevant, which is the entire reason the
  catalog exists. The gate is applied IN SQL, so `limit` counts rules that will
  actually surface rather than rules about to be dropped.
- Bindingness is a deterministic TAG match, never a similarity score (D7). The
  vector channel stays a suggestion, in search.

co_surfaced_partners is the fix that rule 144 never had. It was split off rule
46 and folded back the same day because "either rule could surface without the
other and miss exposing a project to what the entire shape is intended to be" —
correct, and merging was the only remedy available. Now a partner ARRIVES with
its other half even when nothing else selected it, tagged `via: co_surfaces` so
the payload says why. Two limits, both deliberate: only rules the caller owns,
because an edge is not a back door into someone else's rulebook; and a
project's suppressions are passed as exclusions, because an explicit mute is a
decision and an edge does not outrank it.

COMPATIBILITY, asserted first in the integration test rather than reasoned
about: a rule with no tier, no areas and no edges binds exactly as it did
before any of this existed. `tier` defaults to always_on, so an install
upgrades and every rule it already had keeps arriving. Getting that backwards
would silently stop enforcing rules people rely on, which is worse than any
amount of payload bloat.

Four unit tests were coupled to the ORDER of a mocked session's execute()
calls, so a new query broke them. Rather than pad the sequence and deepen that
coupling, the three post-query lookups are stubbed by name — they have their
own coverage, and the real wiring is proven against Postgres.

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fix(rules): import or_ in rulebooks — the tier gate used it unimported (#3031)
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NameError at runtime: the tier/area clause and co_surfaced_partners both build
an or_(), which rulebooks.py never imported. py_compile passes on this (it is
a name error, not a syntax error) and so did the whole unit suite.

Where it surfaced is the useful part. The unit tests mock the session, so the
project-areas query returns empty, `reachable` stays None, and the or_ branch
is never taken — they exercised the path that avoids the bug. Only the
integration lane, with a real project and real rows, went down the branch that
needed the name. Six integration tests caught it, including the inception one
that merely calls get_applicable_rules in passing.

A reminder about which lane proves what: mocking the thing that selects the
branch means the branch is untested by construction.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
feat(rules): the write path can notice a standing rule it was never given (#3031, milestone 307 step 5, hook arm)
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A conditional rule is not resident, so a session can be about to violate one it
was never handed. This arm notices: when what is being written resembles a
rule's trigger, the hint names it and says to read it before deciding it does
not apply.

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

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

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

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

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

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
bvandeusen merged commit 0e5aed58a9 into main 2026-08-26 17:12:40 -04:00
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Reference: bvandeusen/FabledScribe#131