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On main since #238 merged and 0.24.0 was published (2026-10-29): context-manager's part of anima-research/agent-framework#291, one record and a presentation index ("window") per agent.

  • The window index as a chronicle append-log state per manager; strategyMessageView = merge → window → filter → holds; legacy mode is the live merged record (byte-identical compiles until a host presents, checked against base by probe); presentRows, retractRows, ordinalOf, indexLength, windowMode, windowStatusOf, branchSequenceOf, ranged getUnpresentedMessages; the write-down ends with its header, so a cut-short one reads as legacy and is finished by the next call.
  • onPresented and onRetracted strategy hooks; autobiographical drops the summaries over rows that leave the window and re-folds.
  • Fold journal format 4 keyed by window ordinal (memberSequences beside it), the windowed anchor as an ordinal, derive/branchAt carrying the window, removals tombstoned in the removing manager's own window (every other reader's window repairs through retractAbsentRows/retractRemoved, which agent-framework's presentation calls — a reader that doesn't still gives the removed row an ordinal and reads it as 'absent'), a batched write-down through chronicle's identity AppendMany (one presentation point per batch).
  • The branch keeps main's version (0.24.1, since main's 0.24.1 release was merged in); the release is cut with npm version minor as 0.25.0 (the published 0.24.x has derive but none of the window APIs; agent-framework's presentation floor is ^0.25.0). Declares chronicle ^0.6.0 (the presentation chronicle, for the batched append) and membrane ^0.8.0.

Design, decisions, the two reviews and the fix waves: anima-research/agent-framework#291.

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Companion PRs, merge order (CONTRIBUTING: cross-repo companions declared with the order). The presentation set ships as four PRs, each released at the next minor the registry gives it, each floor commit landing once its dependency is on npm: chronicle anima-research/chronicle#62 (→ 0.6.0, the batched append) → context-manager #350 (→ 0.25.0, declares chronicle ^0.6.0) → agent-framework anima-research/agent-framework#844 (→ 0.31.0, declares context-manager ^0.25.0 and chronicle ^0.6.0) → connectome-host anima-research/connectome-host#485 (declares agent-framework ^0.31.0). Until each dependency is published its PR cannot install from the registry — the lockfiles resolve the Dendrite releases and npm ci refuses them — so CI on these PRs is red by construction, as the Dendrite set's was; the suites run on the linked presentation trees. The lockfiles are regenerated at each floor commit.

tel-0s and others added 19 commits October 24, 2026 23:42
The store's record keeps every row in the order it arrived. Once agents
share a slot, or one merges another's (the persistent subconscious), that
order differs from what each agent's requests carried: a row another agent
stored mid-turn sits inside the turn in the record. agent-framework #291
separates the two: each manager gets a window index, the rows its agent
was shown in the order it was shown them, and every strategy read and
compile follows it.

The index is a Chronicle append-log state, <namespace>/presentation,
registered at the first presentation: a header, one item per presented row
id, and tombstones for rows taken out, each item stamped with the sequence
and id of the record that wrote it. An item's ordinal never moves, so a
row taken out leaves a hole and a row presented again takes a new ordinal
at the end. The listing position a strategy reads is named apart from the
ordinal: it shifts when a row before it leaves the window.

strategyMessageView is now merge, then the window (presentedMessageView in
window-index.ts), then the filter, then the holds. Until a host presents a
row on a branch the manager is in legacy mode: the window is the merged
record itself, read live, and nothing is written, so a reader merging
another slot keeps seeing it grow and every compile is what it was. The
first presentRows writes the window down as it stands (every row of the
record, in record order) and from then on it grows only by presentation.
The presented listing keeps the strategies' memo contract: the same array
while the window is unchanged (an unpresented write leaves it the same
array, and a window that is the whole record in record order is the
store's own listing), a new array of the store's own objects when it
changes, never one changed in place. The index is read again whenever the
state's head offset moves, which covers another handle's write, a branch
switch and a restart.

New on ContextManager: presentRows, retractRows (with undone for an undone
turn's rows), presentationMode, ordinalOf, indexLength, presentedLength,
getPresentedMessages, getUnpresentedMessages and lastPresentedSequence. A
body goes whole, named by the id addMessage returned. presentRows refuses,
writing nothing, an unknown id, a row already in the window, a row named
twice and a later shard named without its first.

Compile provenance looked a raw body up by a binary search on sequence,
which the first reordered window breaks. attributeEntries now takes
positionOf, which MessageStoreView gains as an optional read: the window
answers it by sequence in legacy mode and from its own positions after.
Compile's attribution and noteRequestSent read the window before the
filter in place of the merged record, so once a host presents, a noted row
the window doesn't hold vouches for nothing.

Tests: compile-provenance's lookup tests now answer positions (the #273
counts hold; the wrong-answer case is rewritten from sequences to
positions). New window-index tests: legacy mode is the store's own listing
and writes nothing; a two-slot reader keeps the live merge, then compiles
byte for byte the same across its bootstrap and, as a positive control,
in window order after a reordering presentation; a reordered window with
sharded bodies is attributed body by body, and under a filter places its
runs without reading a stored message (it fails with the old sequence
lookup); refusals write nothing; array identity; length/getTail/getFrom
over the window; ordinals across retract and re-present; reopen and
branch switch; and thinking binding over the window. Full suite 3077 pass
(3066 before, plus these 11). Not yet: derive carrying the index for a
strategy with a manifest, branchAt at the presenting record, onPresented,
and fold-journal members as ordinals.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A strategy's onNewMessage ran when a row was stored, inside the add. With a
window per manager that is the wrong moment once a host presents rows: a
stored row isn't in the window yet, so the autobiographical strategy rebuilt
its chunks over a view without it, and a row presented later never started
its background compression. Decision 3 on agent-framework #291 keeps the
store-time work where it is (sharding, mending, holds, the history indexes)
and moves onNewMessage to presentation, as onPresented.

ContextStrategy.onPresented(rows, ctx) is called with the rows that entered
the window, in window order, every shard of a body, over a view that holds
them. In legacy mode the window is the record, so the manager calls it from
inside each add, at the point onNewMessage ran: after a holdCompression hold
is placed and before addMessage returns. Once a host presents rows on a
branch, a stored row isn't heard at its add, and presentRows calls the hook
once per call, after the rows are in the window and before it returns. It is
fire and forget with the #288 discipline: a throw or rejection is logged,
naming the rows, the rows stay presented, and the manager's own work around
the call still fails the call. The first presentRows, which writes the
legacy window down, enters no new row and calls nothing; a row presented
again after retractRows is heard again; an auxiliary slot's row is heard
when a host presents it. Rows presented while the strategy isn't initialized
wait for it and are heard in one call once it is, those still in the
window. Hold placement stays at the add in both modes.

A strategy without onPresented hears each row through onNewMessage at the
same points, so a host strategy written against onNewMessage alone keeps
hearing rows once its host presents. Passthrough and windowed passthrough
keep their no-op onNewMessage and define no onPresented, so a subclass that
overrides onNewMessage, as several tests and agent-framework's do, still
hears every row. The autobiographical strategy's chunk rebuild and drain
move to onPresented (the same work at the same point in legacy mode); its
onNewMessage stays for callers that drive it directly. autoTickOnNewMessage
keeps its name. WindowIndex.present now also returns the rows that entered.

Tests: on-presented.test.ts holds the presented-mode siblings of the #288
suite (inside presentRows, window order, after the hold placed at the add,
whole bodies, nothing from the bootstrap or a retraction, a re-presented row
heard again, throws and rejections logged, the onNewMessage fallback, an
auxiliary row, the manager's own failure, rows presented while the strategy
initializes, passthrough and windowed doing nothing), a legacy-mode
onPresented strategy heard inside the add, and the autobiographical
strategy: with a legacy positive control, a presented-mode manager rebuilds
nothing and starts no compression at the adds, presentRows rebuilds once and
starts the drain, and no unpresented row reaches the summarizer or the
compile. The #288 suite runs unchanged in legacy mode; its header says so.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The fold journal kept a layout's members as store sequences and refused a
layout whose members didn't ascend. Once a host presents rows out of record
order (agent-framework #291), a compile's view is in window order, its
sequences needn't ascend, and acceptRound refused every such compile.

A rendered layout now says what its members count. While the window is the
record (legacy mode) they are store sequences, as before. Once rows are
presented on the compile's branch they are the rows' window-index ordinals,
which ascend in window order and don't move when a row leaves the window.
RenderedLayout is v 3, with keyedBy and memberSequences, parallel to
members. Receipts take a run's bounds from memberSequences, so
FoldSpanBound.sequence stays a store sequence and the receipt format doesn't
change. WindowIndex.ordinals() gives a compile every ordinal from one
reading of the index.

The journal writes a layout keyed by sequence as accepted-layout format 3,
as before, and one keyed by ordinal as format 4, so a host that never
presents writes exactly what it wrote. A layout is never compared with a
record of the other format: the first acceptance in the other format writes
a baseline, once per namespace and branch, and warns once. Both formats'
receipts and links are read, so that baseline links to the receipts before
it and the branch's history stays listed. A delta chain that mixes formats
doesn't rebuild. The member encoders are renamed encodeMembers and
decodeMembers, and the shape refusal now names what members count and asks
for one sequence per member.

Tests: the layout literals and the shape-refusal test move to v 3, with
three more refusals (a sequence dropped or added, members that count
something else); the encoder test follows its rename; the unreadable-record
test gains a chain that mixes formats. New: a window presented out of record
order is accepted, its members are its ordinals and receipt bounds are
store sequences (the build before this change refuses it); a branch recorded
by sequence starts again from exactly one baseline at its first
presentation, across a restart, and keeps listing its format-3 receipts,
while a compile made before the presentation and accepted after it is
recorded by sequence; a row retracted or removed leaves the members without
moving the others, and one presented again arrives; the autobiographical
strategy writes a receipt over a reordered window.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ndow

Windowed passthrough kept its window start as a store sequence and sent
every row stored at it or after. Once a host presents rows, the window is
the agent's index, in the order rows were presented, and a sequence no
longer says where it starts: a row stored before it and presented later
is in the agent's window but outside a sequence window. agent-framework
#291 moves the anchor to an index ordinal, which counts the window before
the view filter and never moves.

In legacy mode nothing changes: the anchor is a sequence, select and
renderAsNewest compare sequences, and the slot holds { anchor } as it
always has, so a host that never presents compiles and stores what it
did. On a branch where rows are presented, the anchor is an ordinal and
rows are compared by their ordinals. A re-anchor records the ordinal of
the row the window now starts at, and the slot becomes
{ anchor, ordinal, v: 2 }. anchor stays a sequence at or before the head,
the one setAnchor was given or that of the row the window starts at, so a
release that reads only it still loads the slot.

A sequence anchor, persisted by an earlier release or set before the
first presentation, is converted lazily, per branch, when the branch is
read in presented mode. It becomes the ordinal of the first row in the
window stored at that sequence or after, or the next ordinal when none
is. The index is first written down in record order, so the window at
the conversion is the one the sequence gave. A load stays read-only, and
the slot is written as an ordinal by the next move only. Branches made
before the upgrade, and children of derive, carry their own slots, and
each is converted where it is read. A persisted ordinal past the
branch's index length resets to 0 with a warning, as a sequence past the
head does. On a branch in legacy mode an ordinal names nothing, so the
sequence beside it is used: a derived child without the parent's index
reads the slot that way.

setAnchor(sequence) converts the same way at the call. The tune-out
coordinator's currentSequence() therefore maps to the index length, and
every row presented from then on is in the window, wherever the record
has it. A sequence equal to the anchor's still changes nothing, so the
coordinator setting a tune-out's start again at a restart keeps the
window. setAnchorOrdinal(ordinal) and getAnchorOrdinal() are new, for a
host that keeps its places by ordinal. setAnchorOrdinal throws in legacy
mode and for an ordinal outside 0..indexLength.

The strategy reads the index through StrategyContext.window, a new
optional WindowIndexView: mode, ordinals, length, ordinalFrom(sequence)
and sequenceFrom(ordinal). The manager gives its own, live. A context
built by hand without one reads as legacy mode. WindowIndex gains
ordinalFrom and sequenceFrom to answer the last two. derivationManifest
and the rendering-frontier methods are unchanged. The index stays out of
the manifest, as the manager owns it (CM-5).

Tests: windowed-anchor.test.ts (12). It covers legacy writes of
{ anchor }; a v1 slot converting to the same window at the first
presentation and written as v2 only by the next move; an earlier
release's slot converted on each branch where it is read, and left as it
is; setAnchor(currentSequence()) mapping to the index length and keeping
rows presented after, with c stored before the anchor's sequence; a row
presented after the anchor's row in the window, in compile and
renderAsNewest; an ordinal that its sequence would convert elsewhere,
read back as the ordinal on reopen; re-anchor by ordinal, with a
retracted row before it not moving the window; the ordinal counted
before the view filter; setAnchorOrdinal's refusals; ordinal-past-length
and sequence-past-head resets; a raw branch switch; and a derived child
sending the parent's window from a v2 slot. Two mutations were checked:
comparing by sequence in presented mode fails 2 tests, and ignoring a
persisted ordinal on load fails 2. The listed ported tests
(view-composition, render-as-newest, system-changes,
live-image-accounting) run in legacy mode and pass unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… window

A window index is per branch, so a branch made from another has to start
with the window as it stood at the branch point, and a row that leaves the
record has to leave the window without moving any other row's ordinal.

derive() now lists the window index among the states the manager owns, next
to its slots and context log. Both shipped derivation manifests name their
states by id, so before this a derived manager under the autobiographical or
windowed strategy started in legacy mode, and a windowed child that wrote
its own index read its parent's anchor ordinal against it. At the head the
child starts from its parent's reading of the window
(WindowIndex.seedFrom), as its message store starts from the parent's
listing: the reading is copied, and taken only while it is current and of
the record the child's chain ends at. From atSequence the child reads the
window as it stood then, which names only rows stored by then, since rows
are stored before they are presented. A parent with no window written by the
checkpoint gives a child in legacy mode. fork() already carried the index;
reopenDerived() reads it from the branch. Neither changes.

branchAt() finds a row of an auxiliary slot too, through the merged view,
where it threw before. Once a host presents rows on the branch, a row is in
the window only from the write that presented it, so for a row the window
holds the branch is cut at that write, the latest over its body's shards.
The new branch's window then holds the row and every row presented before
it. A row the window doesn't hold, and every row in legacy mode, is cut at
its own sequence, as before.

A row removed with removeMessage or removeMessages now leaves the window as
a tombstone (WindowIndex.retractRemoved), written from
handleMessageStoreEvent. The store's removeRange event names the range by
its ends, so removeMessages reads the range's ids from the slot before
removing it. They are not probed afterwards by asking the merged record:
that would also take out a row of a slot the manager no longer merges, for
good. In legacy mode nothing is written. A tombstone that can't be written
is logged and the removal stands. A removal through another manager on the
same slot isn't heard; a host takes that row out with retractRows, which
takes a row the store no longer holds by its id.

Tests: window-index-branches.test.ts (15). It covers a derived child at the
head with the parent's window, ordinals and arrivals under a manifest that
names nothing, and the two diverging after; no read of the index to create
or use that child; a cold atSequence child cut before and after a
presentation; a legacy parent's child staying legacy; reopenDerived after a
restart; a removal on a fork; branchAt at the presenting write, after a
body's last shard, at the own sequence of an unpresented row, and on an
auxiliary row; and removal tombstones, a range around another slot's row
and an unpresented row, legacy removal, another manager's removal, and a
failed tombstone. windowed-anchor.test.ts gains a child reopened before it
re-anchors, whose window differs by ordinal and by sequence. The derived
windowed test now checks the inherited ordinal. derive.test.ts checks the
index id is inherited. thinking-binding.test.ts gains the presented-mode
sibling of the same-slot interleave. Mutations checked: leaving the index
out of stateIds fails 6 tests, no seed fails 1, branchAt at the own
sequence fails 3, primary-slot lookup 1, no body extension 1, no tombstone
on remove 3, none on removeRange 1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…cut-short one is finished

Review findings CM-A, CM-C and CM-D (fix-wave item FW-CM-1).

The first presentRows on a branch writes the window down: one index item
per stored row, one record each, until the store can append several items
in one record. The header came first and the mode was "the index holds an
item", so a write-down that failed partway, or lost its tail to a crash
before the store synced, left the manager in presented mode with a
truncated window. Every compile then sent only the rows written so far, the
rest read as arrived and not presented, a retried presentRows([]) wrote
nothing, and the state survived a reopen (CM-A).

The header is now the write-down's last item, and the mode, the ordinals,
the listing, the unpresented rows, indexLength and presentedAt all key on
it having been read. An index without one is a write-down cut short: the
manager stays in legacy mode, its window still the whole record, and the
next presentRows or retractRows finishes it before doing its own work. It
writes only the rows not yet in the index, in record order after the ones
that are, then the header, so no row is written twice; a row it wrote that
has since been removed from the record, which legacy mode writes nothing
for, is taken out first. Legacy mode still writes nothing until the first
presentRows or retractRows.

retractRows([]) now writes nothing in either mode. Before, in legacy mode
it wrote the window down, switching the manager to presented mode without
saying so, so a later own write no longer reached the compile (CM-C). A
retract that names a row in legacy mode still writes the window down
first; the method doc and the changelog now call that a mode switch.

The header's format is now compared on read (CM-D). A header naming
another format, or items this version can't read with no header to say
whose they are (another format's write-down cut short, now that the header
comes last), is another version's index: the window reads as the record,
with one warning per reading, and presentRows and retractRows throw rather
than append this format's items to that log. INDEX_FORMAT stays 1: the
items are unchanged, and an index written header-first by an earlier
build of this branch reads as complete.

Tests: window-index.test.ts gains "writing the window down" (5). A
write-down failed at each of its five items stays legacy with the whole
record, also after a reopen, and the next presentRows([]) finishes it with
each row once, ordinals 0..4 and the header last, and survives a reopen; a
row removed meanwhile is taken out, and naming it to retractRows is
refused; retractRows([]) writes nothing in legacy and presented mode, and
a retract naming a row in legacy mode writes the window down then the
tombstone; a retract finishes a cut-short write-down; a format-2 header,
and an unreadable item with no header, read as the record with one
warning, and presentRows and retractRows throw writing nothing. All five
fail at 20c69af. Mutations checked: no tombstone for a removed row fails 1,
letting a cut-short write-down's id through retract's unknown-id check
fails 1, a headerless unreadable index read as ours fails 1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…s own sequence

Review findings CM-Q, CM-R, CM-U, CM-V and CM-W (fix-wave item FW-CM-2).

branchAt cuts a presented row at the write that presented it, so the new
branch's window holds it. For a row the write-down presented (the first
presentRows on a branch, which a host makes at boot), that write comes
after every row stored before the upgrade, so the cut kept all of them in
the new branch's record as arrivals not presented, and kept the strategy
state written after the row: a rollback by branchAt kept the rows it rolled
back, and a windowed anchor set after the row compiled the branch to
nothing (CM-Q). Such a row was in the window from its own write, as every
row was in legacy mode. It is now cut at its own sequence, a body at its
last shard's. The new branch has no index, or a cut-short start of one, and
is in legacy mode with the record up to the row as its window, which is
what a branch made before the write-down gives. WindowIndex gains
presentedByWriteDown(id): the row's ordinal is below the header's, which
the write-down writes last. A row taken out and presented again holds a
later ordinal and still cuts at the write that presented it again; so does
every row of an index an earlier build of this branch wrote header first.

derive({ atSequence }) cuts where it is told, so a cut at a presented
row's own sequence leaves that row out of the child's window (CM-R). The
contract is now written down on DeriveContextOptions.atSequence, on
derive, in the README and in the branch-at changelog fragment: give a
presentation boundary, such as currentSequence() read after a presentRows.
The fragment names agent-framework's inspectAgentContext and
inherit.atSequence callers, which pass a row's own sequence today.

removeMessages read the window before removing, outside any guard, so an
index read that threw refused the removal; it now logs and removes,
leaving the range's ordinals issued until a retractRows (CM-V). A removal
whose context-log propagation throws now still writes its tombstone, in a
finally (the one-line half of CM-U).

Tests: window-index-branches.test.ts gains nine (CM-W). Write-down then
branchAt(a1) over u1,a1,u2,a2,u3,a3 gives a legacy branch with record and
compile [u1,a1] and no arrivals, at a1's own sequence, while a row
presented after the write-down still cuts at its presenting write; a
written-down row retracted and presented again cuts at its new presenting
write; a written-down sharded body cuts after its last shard, whole; rows
of a cut-short write-down finished later each cut at their own sequence;
windowed passthrough with an anchor set after a1 in legacy mode compiles
[u1,a1] on branchAt(a1); derive at u2's own sequence lists u2 as an
arrival, at the boundary after its presentation holds it; removeMessages
over a presented body tombstones each shard and moves no other ordinal; a
removal the context log throws on still tombstones; an index read that
throws before a range removal is logged once and the removal stands. Six
fail on fa8bd05; the derive contract, the re-presented row and the body
removal pass there by design. The reviewer's probes (cm5 probe1, probe3)
now give the legacy cut. Mutations checked: presentedByWriteDown ignoring
the header fails 5, a written-down body cut at its head fails 1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…instead of refusing it

Review findings CM-B and CM-S (fix-wave item FW-CM-3).

Each row presented is one index record, so a presentRows that failed
partway through a sharded body, or a crash before the store synced, left
the body's first shards in the window and the rest out; so does a derive
cut between a body's shard presentations. From then on the compile sent
the body truncated, getUnpresentedMessages listed the missing shards,
presenting those was refused as a later shard named without its first,
naming the head was refused as in the window already, and since
presentRows checks every id before writing, every other row of the same
call was refused with them: a host presenting its arrived rows at each
turn start was stuck on every turn. The only way out was retractRows then
presentRows, which moved the whole body to new ordinals (CM-B). The
derived child had the same stuck state (CM-S).

Naming such a body now completes it. Its first shard's id, or the first
shard the window lacks (the one getUnpresentedMessages lists first, with
the rest after it), presents only the shards it lacks, in body order, at
the end of the window; the shards in it keep their ordinals, and the
strategy hears only the shards that entered. A later shard is taken this
way only in presented mode and only when every shard before it is in the
window. A later shard of a body the window holds none of, a row named
twice, and a body already whole are still refused. getUnpresentedMessages
also lists the missing shards of an undone turn's body that a cut-short
redo left partly in the window, so presenting the unpresented ids
completes that one too. A row presented between the cut-short call and
the completion stays between the two runs, and compile provenance then
reports neither run complete. The presentRows doc, getUnpresentedMessages,
derive, retractRows, attributeEntries and the window-index changelog
fragment say so.

A presentRows cut short by a failed write now tells the strategy
(onPresented, or onNewMessage per row) the rows it got in before it
throws. Before, those rows were in the window but the strategy never
heard of them, since no later call presents them again. The
on-presented changelog fragment and the hook's doc say so. A failure
to tell the strategy there is logged, and the write's own error is the
one thrown.

Tests: window-index.test.ts gains "a body partly in the window" (4). A
3-shard body cut short after shard 0 compiles [a, p0] incomplete,
presenting getUnpresentedMessages() ([p1, p2]) is accepted with
ordinals after the head's, the head keeps its ordinal, the strategy
hears [p0] then [p1, p2], each shard is written once, provenance reports
the body complete, and the whole body is then refused by either name.
p2 after a missing p1, a later shard of an unpresented body, [doc, b, p1]
(named twice) and [doc, doc] are refused writing nothing, and a row
presented before the completion splits the body into two incomplete
runs. An undone body's cut-short redo lists [p1, p2], and [doc, p1, p2]
completes it. A child derived two records into a body's presentation
holds [u, p0, p1], and its presentRows([doc]) completes the body with
the ordinals kept. All four fail on 11bf65e. The reviewers' probes
(cm1-review p2-partial-body, cm-integration p1-partial-body, cm5 probe1
S3) now complete the body. Mutations checked: unpresented ignoring a
partly presented undone body fails 1, present writing every row of a
name fails 2, no hearing for a cut-short call fails 2, a later shard
taken without its earlier shards in the window fails 1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…or sets a strategy stops the calls after it

Review findings CM-E, CM-I and CM-J (fix-wave item FW-CM-4).

presentRows calls a strategy with only onNewMessage once per row. The
loop took the strategy and checked close() once, at its start, so a row's
hook that closed the manager or set a strategy (detaching this one) still
had the rows after it delivered to the strategy it let go, against
notifyPresented's own "after close() nothing reaches the strategy". In
legacy mode each add was its own call and checked this per row; the
presented-mode batch lost it (CM-E). The loop now checks before each row
after the first: once the manager is closed, the strategy is replaced, or
an initialization has started, the rest go where a call made then sends
them: nowhere after close(), to wait for the initialization (and so to a
replacement after its initialize), or straight to a replacement that has
no initialize and so is initialized already.

Docs: onPresented's context holds the rows unless the manager's view
filter leaves them out, and the rows given still include such a row
(CM-I). Rows that wait for an initialization wait for the manager's
strategy, so one set meanwhile hears them after its own initialize (the
doc line CM-H asked for). onNewMessage says a hook that closes the
manager or sets a strategy stops the calls after it. The on-presented
fragment says the same, and a new .changed fragment says a subclass of
AutobiographicalStrategy or KnowledgeStrategy that overrides onNewMessage
is no longer called, since the base class now has onPresented, and that
such a strategy's failure log now reads "Strategy onPresented failed
for" (CM-J). The optional forwarding to an overridden onNewMessage is not
built: no such subclass exists in any repo here.

Tests: on-presented.test.ts gains four, for a strategy with only
onNewMessage in presented mode: row 1's hook calls close(), and rows 2
and 3 are not heard while the presentation stands with every ordinal;
it calls setStrategy(next) with a gated initialize, and the old strategy
hears nothing more while next hears [b, c] only once it has initialized;
next has no initialize, and it hears [b, c] before presentRows returns;
it re-initializes its own strategy, and b and c wait and reach it after.
All four fail on 9b101d9. The reviewer's probe (cm3-dispatch
p1-close-in-fallback) now hears no row after close. Mutations checked:
no closed check fails 1, no replaced-strategy check fails 1, no
initialization check fails 1, dropping the rest instead of handing them
on fails 3.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…erted anchor, and accept a v2 layout

Review findings CM-AB, CM-L, CM-Y, CM-M, CM-N, CM-P, CM-K, CM-T and CM-H
(fix-wave item FW-CM-5).

The manager's public reads used "presentation" for the agent's window
beside acceptRound's `presentation`, which is the fold journal's word for
how a provider round carried a compile (CM-AB). Before agent-framework
builds on them, the window's mode, newest row and state are named by the
window: presentationMode() is windowMode(), the PresentationMode type is
WindowMode, lastPresentedSequence() is newestWindowSequence(), and the
index state is `<namespace>/window`, not `<namespace>/presentation`.
presentRows, retractRows, ordinalOf and indexLength keep their names. No
release has the old names or state, so nothing reads them. newestWindowSequence
now says it is the newest stored row's sequence, not the write that
presented it nor where the window reached, and points to currentSequence()
after a presentRows and to ordinals for those. presentRows and acceptRound
each say the other's word is not theirs.

A sequence anchor that windowed passthrough converts to an ordinal on a
branch in presented mode was kept in memory only, until the next move. A
reload converted the sequence again against the window as it stood then,
and once a row stored before it had been presented again (a retract and a
redo), the reload started the window after that row: a change of window
with no move (CM-L). The conversion is now written to the slot when it is
made, by the compile, renderAsNewest or getAnchorOrdinal() that made it. A
preview (dryRun) converts for itself and writes nothing, as its contract
asks. An anchor of 0 is not written: it converts to the whole window
whenever it is converted, and a branch with no slot would otherwise gain a
record at its first compile. A write that fails is logged and the compile
stands.

setAnchor's early return keeps the window only while the anchor hasn't
moved since: after a re-anchor the anchor holds the sequence of the row
the window starts at, so a tune-out's start set again is converted again
(CM-K). The setAnchor doc and the windowed-anchor fragment said otherwise;
they now say so, and that a host keeps such a place by ordinal
(indexLength() at the start, then setAnchorOrdinal). The behaviour is
unchanged, pending the plan's decision.

acceptRound refused a layout without keyedBy, so a provenance an earlier
release's compile returned (RenderedLayout v 2) couldn't be accepted after
the upgrade (CM-Y). The journal now reads such a layout as keyed by
sequence, each member its own sequence, which it was, and records it in
format 3. A keyedBy it doesn't know is still refused. The fold-journal
fragment now names the RenderedLayout type change (v 3, keyedBy and
memberSequences, in legacy mode too), and "byte for byte" in the
window-index fragment and window-index.ts is the compiled messages, not
the provenance.

Docs: the rollback bullet says what an older release does with a branch
whose newest record is format 4: it lists none of its receipts, and its
first acceptance there starts the branch's receipt history again unlinked,
so every later release lists only receipts from there (CM-M). FoldChange,
FoldLayoutRun and FoldSpanBound say a run is consecutive in the window's
order, its bounds its first and last messages and not a sequence range
(CM-N), and the fragment says the same. ordinalOf, WindowIndexView.ordinals()
and the window-index fragment say an id can outlive its row after a
removal through another manager, until retractRows takes it out (CM-T).
The onPresented doc line CM-H asked for was written in FW-CM-4 and stands.
presentedByWriteDown no longer mentions an index written header first: no
build writes one under the new state id.

Tests: windowed-anchor.test.ts gains two. A legacy tune-out start past
every row, the boot presentRows([]), a compile that converts it, b
retracted and presented again and c presented: a reload keeps the ordinal
and sends b, c; and the same with the conversion made by
getAnchorOrdinal() and the window read through renderAsNewest (the
reviewer's lazy probe). Both fail on the build before at their reload
assertions. The two conversion tests that asserted the slot is left as it
is until the next move now assert it is written when converted, on each
branch where it is read, and that a dryRun compile writes nothing; the
branch-switch test asserts an anchor of 0 writes no slot. The
ordinal-past-length test puts b's sequence beside the bad ordinal and
asserts the window is a, b (CM-P). fold-journal.test.ts gains a v 2 layout
accepted as a format-3 baseline and compared with v 3 layouts and another
v 2, which the build before refuses. Tests that read the renamed methods
or the index state id follow the rename. Mutations checked: no conversion
write fails 4, no v 2 reading fails 1, no anchor reset on a bad ordinal
fails 1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ighth catch-up's context-manager main (#335 observer, #339, #213, #156)

No conflicts. Build and suite follow once the rig is free.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
retractRows took rows out of the window and told the strategy nothing, so
the autobiographical strategy kept an undone turn's rows inside its
summaries: the compile went on showing them folded, and a redo, which
presents them again at the end of the window, rendered them twice, raw there
and inside the summary at their old place (the cm-integration TAG2..TAG5
probe on agent-framework #291), and the next open refused the store
(StoreTopologyError: the summary owned leaves the window no longer held
together). Undo on the window (AF-4) needs the strategy to hear the rows
go, so this is CM-6, ahead of it.

ContextStrategy.onRetracted(rows, ctx, { undone, removed }) is called with
the rows that left, in window order, every shard of a body, over a view
that no longer holds them. retractRows calls it once per call, after the
tombstones and before it returns, with undone as given; a row the store no
longer holds, taken out by its id, isn't given. Once a host presents, a
removal through the manager (removeMessage, removeMessages) calls it with
the rows as they were before they went, removed: true; the manager now reads
a single removed row first, as it read a range. In legacy mode a removal
calls nothing, so a strategy that folded the row keeps it (#291 question
14's answer). Fire and forget under #288's rules, as onPresented: a throw or
rejection is logged naming the rows, the rows stay out, and the manager's
own work around the call still fails retractRows. A tombstone write cut
short tells the strategy the rows it took out before it. Calls made while
the strategy initializes wait in retractedUnheard and are made in order once
it has, before the rows presented meanwhile; a row presented again since is
still given, and one the initialized branch holds at the ordinal it left (a
branch made before it left), or any row on a branch in legacy mode, is left
out. A row that leaves and is presented again before the strategy
that folded it hears it go (both inside one initialization, or across a
crash between the tombstone and the strategy's write) is still covered at
its old place, and the open's topology audit names it. WindowIndex.retract and retractRemoved return the rows taken out with
their ordinals and take a cutShort callback; a legacy-mode retract writes
the window down before its tombstones, the same items in the same order.

AutobiographicalStrategy (and KnowledgeStrategy) let go of what covers a
row that left: each L1 with it among its sources is dropped with every
summary above it, as the open drops a summary whose sources are gone, and
the summaries left without a parent render and merge again; each chunk
record holding it gives it up and is compressed again over the rows it
keeps, one left with none removed; merges queued over a dropped summary go;
the summaries, records and queue are written at once, with one warning; the
chunks are rebuilt, the merge check runs, and with autoTickOnNewMessage the
drain starts. An L1 or a merge in flight over such a row writes nothing when
it lands. Passthrough and windowed passthrough define no hook.

Tests: on-retracted.test.ts holds the hook's suite (once per call, window
order, whole bodies, legacy retract and removal, removal through the
manager and through another one, throws and rejections logged, calls queued
across an initialization and their branch filter, passthrough and windowed
unchanged) and the autobiographical port of the probe (no summary covers an
undone row, the compile omits it, a redo renders every row once, the drop
survives a reopen, a presented-mode removal unfolds and a legacy one
doesn't, an L1 and a merge in flight discarded). on-presented.test.ts's
"retractRows calls nothing" now says retractRows calls onRetracted once with
undone, and still nothing of onPresented's. The legacy byte-identity probe
is unchanged base to head, and a presented-mode probe differs only for the
autobiographical strategy, only after the first retract.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…hor slot kept

agent-framework's presentation (#291, AF-2 to AF-7) asks the window
questions the manager answered only in part, or not at all. This is CM-7.

windowStatusOf(id) says where a row stands with the manager's window,
before the view filter, as the new exported WindowStatus type: 'absent'
when no slot the manager merges holds it, 'in' for every held row in
legacy mode and for a row the window holds, 'undone' for an undone turn's
row, and 'out' otherwise. 'out' is exactly what getUnpresentedMessages()
lists, so an undone shard of a body a redo cut short left partly in the
window is 'out', the rest of the body being due. A row removed through
another manager reads 'absent' while this manager's ordinalOf still gives
its ordinal (CM-T), which is how AF-7 picks the rows to take out of each
other window and leaves a branch that still holds them alone. It looks a
row up by its sequence, not whole, and writes nothing. WindowIndex.isUndone
(internal) reads the undone set it rests on.

branchSequenceOf(messageId) is branchPointOf made public: the sequence
branchAt cuts at, without making the branch, for AF-7's rollback and
offline accounting. branchAt calls it and cuts where it did; the error for
an unknown id is the same.

getUnpresentedMessages({ afterSequence }) lists only the rows stored after
the sequence, found by a binary search over the merged record, so AF-2's
calls at each start, boundary, end and store fan-out walk the rows stored
since rather than the whole record. It gives the rows the whole listing
gives with a greater sequence; a cut inside a body reads the body's shards
before the cut to say whether it is partly in the window.

resetHeadWindow(text, { metadata }) stores the transition with the host's
metadata (its audience stamp, for HOST-1), and once a host presents rows on
the branch it presents the transition before resetting the head window to
start at it. Before, in presented mode, it stored an unstamped row and
anchored the head window on a row outside the window. A presentation that
fails, or whose strategy hook closes the manager, sets a strategy or moves
the branch, rejects naming the stored message without resetting. In legacy
mode nothing more is written.

CM-O: windowed passthrough read a slot of any v by its anchor, and the next
move wrote v2 over it. A slot naming a v other than 2 now loads as no
anchor, with a warning; one naming a later version than 2 is never written
over, so the anchor's moves on that branch are kept in memory only (one
warning per branch load) and that version reads back what it wrote. Any
other v is written over by the next move.

Tests: window-status.test.ts (windowStatusOf in legacy and presented mode,
removal through another manager, the partial undone body; branchSequenceOf
against branchAt for a legacy row, a written-down row, a later row, a body
stored as shards and an auxiliary row; the ranged listing against the whole
one at every cut; resetHeadWindow's metadata and presentation, a failed
presentation, and the autobiographical head window in presented mode) and
three windowed-anchor.test.ts cases for slots of other versions, a later
one surviving every kind of move byte for byte. Each fails with its rule
taken out of the build. The legacy byte-identity probe and CM-6's
presented-mode probe are unchanged from CM-6's head.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…a window

A removal through a manager takes the row out of that manager's window,
but another manager whose window holds the row, on the same slot or
merging it as an auxiliary one, never hears it go: the row leaves its
listing and its compile, while its ordinal stays issued (CM-T). A host
could take such a row out only with retractRows, which throws for an id
the window doesn't hold, writes the window down in legacy mode, and takes
a row out even on a branch whose record still holds it. agent-framework's
cross-manager retract after a removal and its boot pass over removals no
live manager heard (#291, AF-7) need a repair that does none of that. This
is CM-8.

retractRemoved(ids) takes out each named row the window holds and no
slot the manager merges holds any more on the store's branch, a tombstone
at its ordinal, so no other ordinal moves, and returns the ids taken out,
in window order. Every other id is passed over: one the window doesn't
hold, and one the record still holds, such as a row a branch made before
the removal keeps. retractAbsentRows() takes out every row the window
holds that the record no longer does, for the boot pass and for a removal
whose own tombstone couldn't be written. Neither writes anything in legacy
mode: they never write the window down, nor finish a write-down cut
short, and they write nothing to an index in another version's format.
The strategy isn't told (onRetracted), since the store holds no row to
give it. A row of an auxiliary slot the manager no longer merges reads as
removed; both doc comments say so. WindowIndex.retractAbsent(record) is
the new internal read, and retractRemoved reuses WindowIndex.retractRemoved.
The private removal path is renamed retractOnRemoval, and the ids check
that retractRows and presentRows make is shared with retractRemoved.

Tests: retract-removed.test.ts (a co-manager's removals of single rows,
a range and a body stored as shards, taken out in window order with every
other ordinal kept and the next presentation at the next ordinal; the
manager's own removal whose tombstone failed; a write that fails partway;
the dropped auxiliary slot; only the named ids the window holds and the
record lacks; a branch made before the removal passed over; legacy mode,
a write-down cut short and another version's index written nothing; the
strategy told nothing; ids checked; a closed manager refused). Each rule
fails its test with the rule taken out of the build.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…presentation point

Each item the window index wrote was a record of its own. The write-down
of a 50,000-row store was 50,001 records (about 3.9 s and 15 MB of log on
one machine, and 0.6 s more at every reopen), a presentation of n rows was
n records, and a write that failed or a crash partway could leave a body
partly in the window. agent-framework's presentation doesn't become
mandatory on that (#291, answer 4: AF-6 waits on CH-4 and this). This is
CM-9.

WindowIndex.write appends several items as one record, at one sequence,
through chronicle's appendManyToStateJsonWithIdentity (CH-4, chronicle
b58a30a) where the store has it: the write-down, the rows of one
presentRows call, and the tombstones of one retractRows, retractRemoved
or retractAbsentRows call or of one removal. Each item still carries the
record's at and by, so every read is as it was. The store keeps or loses
the record whole, so a write that throws has written nothing: a
write-down leaves legacy mode as it was, a presentRows enters no row and
tells the strategy nothing, a retract takes nothing out. One item is one
record through the single form, as before, so a store whose window writes
are all single rows keeps chronicle's MANIFEST at version 1. The method is
asked for at each write. On a chronicle without it every item is one
record, as before, and the header-last write-down, the finishing of one
cut short and the completion of a body left partly in the window all stand
for it and for the indexes it wrote; one cut short there is finished in
one record here. A batch whose first ordinal isn't where the reading ends
drops the reading, so the next read takes the store's.

A batch is one presentation point, as the wave-1 answer said: every item
of it has the same at, and chronicle cuts only between records, so
branchAt and branchSequenceOf of any row a presentRows call presented cut
after the whole call, and derive({ atSequence }) takes the call whole or
not at all. branchPointOf needs no new code for it. Its doc says so, and
so do those of presentRows, retractRows, retractRemoved, branchAt,
branchSequenceOf, derive, onPresented and onRetracted, the module comment
and the README. A host that wants a cut at one row, as at each of an
agent's own rows, presents it in a call of its own.

Breaking (changelog.d/291-window-batches.breaking.md): the first batched
record moves the store's MANIFEST to version 2, which chronicle releases
from before batched appends refuse to open. The pending window-index and
branch-at fragments describe the batched writes, the batch rule and the
measured write-down. package.json's chronicle range stays ^0.4.0: no
published chronicle carries the batched append, and CI's strict lockfile
can't name one, so the range moves to the release that does, with its
lockfile, as a dependency bump.

Tests: window-batches.test.ts: one record per write, and the MANIFEST at
version 1 until a write of two items; a 600-row write-down and a workload
of presentations out of record order, an undone turn, a range removal, a
removal through another manager with its repair, and a redo, the same
window batched and per item, items, ordinals, listings, statuses and
compile, before and after a reopen; branchAt and derive at a batch; a
failed batch writes nothing, for a write-down, a presentation, a retract
and a repair; a per-item write-down cut short, finished in one record.
Each fails on the code before. The tests that pin a write cut short
partway (window-index, window-index-branches, window-status,
retract-removed) run it on the per-item path, by hiding the batched form
on the store handle (test/_harness/index-writes.ts), since only there can
it happen. The branchAt test whose a and c were presented in one call now
pins the batch rule, and a per-item twin keeps the old cut.
bench/window/write-down-bench.mjs measures the write-down both ways and
checks the two leave the same items, ordinals and presented rows.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…lizeOnStoreBranch

Every manager on a store follows its branch, but only the manager that moved
it, through switchBranch() or fork(), initialized its strategy again. After a
host's own store.switchBranch, or a move through one of several managers on
the store, every other manager's AutobiographicalStrategy refused each
compile ("requires reinitialization for the current branch generation")
until a restart, and a switchBranch() on each manager in turn could not
repair it, since each switch starts a branch generation of its own and
leaves the managers before it stale again (J-AF1).

ContextManager.reinitializeOnStoreBranch() initializes the strategy on the
branch the store is on at the generation it observes there, so any number of
managers on one store can call it after one move, in any order or at once,
and all of them end valid. It writes nothing to the record; the window index
follows the store on its own, so a branch made before the write-down reads
'legacy' and presentRows([]) writes it down. Its recovery contract is
switchBranch()'s, and a superseded call rejects with
InitializationSupersededError naming the branch it followed. agent-framework
calls it on every other live manager after a branch move (FW-AF-1).

FW-CM-2.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…emotes a summary a moved row splits

A removal through one manager unfolded only that manager's summaries. The
repair calls for the other windows, retractRemoved and retractAbsentRows,
told the strategy nothing, and retractRows passed over an id the store no
longer held, because onRetracted took only stored rows. So every other
autobiographical reader kept compiling a summary of the removed row, and a
30-row range removed through one resident left the other with 7 of 9 chunk
records naming no row and its compression halted (FAIL-CLOSED). A manager's
own removal whose tombstone failed told nothing either (J-CM1). The
autobiographical strategy only ever used the ids.

onRetracted's info now carries `ids`, every row that left in the call, in
window order, with `rows` the ones the manager can give. retractRemoved and
retractAbsentRows tell the strategy by ids alone with `removed: true`, also
for the rows a per-item write took out before it failed; retractRows tells
the ids the store no longer holds in a second call of their own, with
`removed: true`; a removal through the manager tells every row the window
held whether or not its tombstone could be written, from ordinals read
before the write. The queue kept while the strategy initializes carries ids
and tells a row whose branch record no longer holds it, as well as one that
left the branch's window. AutobiographicalStrategy.onRetracted folds `ids`
into windowLost, so in presented mode a removal unfolds the summaries of
every reader the host repairs (DQ-7). The "tell the strategy nothing" test
pinned the gap and is replaced by folding-reader tests: two residents on one
slot, a single row and a 30-row range removed through A, B repaired with
retractRemoved and, separately, retractAbsentRows; the own-removal
tombstone-failure twin; a KnowledgeStrategy case; and a queued call told on
a branch whose window still holds the row but whose record lacks it.

A row that left the window and was presented again before the folding
strategy heard it go (both inside one initialization, or across a crash
between the tombstone and the strategy's writes) made the next open throw
StoreTopologyError (DQ-8). Once a host presents, under topologyPolicy
'reject', the open now demotes each summary the audit names instead: it is
dropped with every summary above it, an L1's chunk record is compressed
again over its longest run of rows the window holds together, and its other
rows are chunked again where the window holds them. Legacy mode, 'report' and
audit-only opens are unchanged. windowLost shares its drop with the open
(unfold), and keeps a row that is back in the window in a record that holds
it beside one of its rows that didn't leave, so a record made over it at its
new place gets no hole.

windowStatusOf scanned the whole body for a shard in the window, so the
first shard of a body a per-item retract cut short after its tombstone read
'out' while getUnpresentedMessages left it out, and a redo of it appended the
head after its own later shards (J-CM6). It now scans the shards before the
row only, and presentRows of such a body takes its later shards out and
presents the body whole at the end, in one write, telling the strategy they
left and then that the body entered.

The batch-cut test now branches at the first row of the call, which per-row
semantics would cut to [u, r] (J-CM7). compression-head-as-of empties a
leftover store directory before using it (J-CM11). The window-index,
on-presented, on-retracted, retract-removed and window-status fragments say
what the code does: the repair calls are retractRemoved and
retractAbsentRows, the partial-write callbacks happen on a chronicle without
the batched append, and a write the store refuses writes nothing, the index
being read again after any throw (J-CM10).

The chronicle range is now ^0.5.0, the release that will carry the batched
identity append, so an install can no longer resolve the silent per-row
write-down (DQ-6). Installs and the lock file resolve only once chronicle
0.5.0 is published; a breaking fragment says so.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…inth catch-up

This brings in 33 commits from context-manager main through the -main
branch. They include #314 (renderAsNewest gives null only for a message the
next compile doesn't send, and it no longer releases a timed-out hold),
#342 (merge runs, settled summaries and the topology repair), #347
(membrane ^0.8.0), the 0.22.1 and 0.23.0 releases, and the revert of
#335's context observer.

There were four conflict hunks in three files.

package.json: both sides changed the dependencies, so the result keeps
both. It has this branch's @animalabs/chronicle ^0.5.0 and main's
@animalabs/membrane ^0.8.0. package-lock.json merged without a conflict
and is main's lock with membrane 0.8. It still resolves chronicle 0.4.0,
as on this branch before the merge, so npm ci still waits for chronicle
0.5.0 to be published.

src/context-manager.ts, the renderAsNewest doc: main's #314 text, which
says a null means the next compile doesn't send the message and that the
render releases no hold. This branch adds one clause to it: a row the
agent hasn't been presented yet also comes back null, so present a row
before rendering it. The code took main's removal of
expireCompressionHolds() without a conflict.

src/context-manager.ts, the noteRequestSent doc: main's sentence that a
render releases no hold, plus this branch's clause that, once a host
presents rows, a row the agent's window doesn't hold matches nothing.

src/strategies/autobiographical.ts, the private fields: both sides added
one, so the result keeps both. They are this branch's _spanLeftWindow
(onRetracted) and main's mergePicksDeferred (#342).

The observer revert merged without a conflict and is main's. observer.ts,
its test and fixture, ContextManagerConfig.observer,
StrategyContext.observer, the compile wrapper, OVER_BUDGET_STAGES, the
observer exports and the README section all go. open() keeps the slots
record as the -main branch has it. Every presentation API stays as it
was: the window index and its batched write-down, presentRows,
retractRows, retractRemoved, retractAbsentRows, windowStatusOf,
branchSequenceOf, ranged getUnpresentedMessages, resetHeadWindow,
onPresented, onRetracted, and reinitializeOnStoreBranch. No hunk was
either/or.

Suite: npm run build is clean. node --test dist/test/*.test.js gives
2963/2963 pass, and node --test dist/test/adaptive/*.test.js gives
500/500 pass, against the linked chronicle at its own ninth catch-up
(ad1aaea), which has the batched append. An earlier run, made while that
tree was in the middle of its merge with a binary that had no
appendManyToStateJsonWithIdentity, skipped the 10 batch-only tests by
name, with nothing failing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…e elsewhere with setStrategy(getStrategy())

Main published 0.23.0 (3c15344) without the window APIs, and the ninth
catch-up brought that version number onto this branch, so the ^0.23.0
that agent-framework and connectome-host declare for the presentation
release resolves main's 0.23.0, which has no presentRows, retractRows or
windowStatusOf, and an install fails at load (H-2). package.json and the
lock's two root version fields now read 0.24.0. The ranges stay as the
merge left them, chronicle ^0.5.0 and membrane ^0.8.0, the release set's
membrane; the lock is not regenerated (it still resolves chronicle 0.4.0
until 0.5.0 is published). No fragment or README text names 0.23.0 as
the window release.

reinitializeOnStoreBranch() had no consumer: agent-framework follows a
branch move on every other manager with #353's setStrategy(getStrategy()),
and the reviewer's probe showed the two calls give the same compiles and
window modes after a direct store switch, after another manager's switch,
and with every manager following at once; only the superseded error
differed, naming the branch (CM-3). The method, its `followed` wording in
InitializationSupersededError, its test file, its fragment and its README
sentence are removed. The class, switchBranch() and branch-generation docs
and the strategy's load comment name setStrategy(getStrategy()) instead,
and setStrategy() says what the call does with the strategy the manager
already holds: it detaches nothing, selects no branch, starts no
generation and writes nothing, and on a branch made before the write-down
the window reads 'legacy' until presentRows([]).

test/follow-store-branch.test.ts carries the removed file's cases over to
setStrategy(getStrategy()), with a superseded call rejecting with no
branch named, a case that the call detaches nothing, and a check that the
manager has no reinitializeOnStoreBranch().

F3 (H-2, CM-3).

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…nth catch-up

Main's 28 commits (0.23.1, request-overhead pricing and calibration,
recovering thinking-wrapped compression) arrive through the Dendrite
branch's eleventh catch-up. The only conflicts are the version field in
package.json and package-lock.json: the Dendrite branch followed main to
0.23.1, this branch stays the presentation release, 0.24.0 (the number is
provisional on #291's release order; dependency-ranges pins it in
agent-framework). The chronicle floor ^0.5.0 is this branch's and stands.

Build and tests follow chronicle's presentation rebuild.

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…e takes a view of its own

The twelfth round's one context-manager change, for agent-framework's shared
forks: DeriveContextOptions.viewFilter, in place of the parent's filter.

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Eleventh catch-up and the twelfth round merged into this branch: feat/dendrite-fork-main b99f72c (main 47e904b, 0.23.1) → 6c87ad7 (version-only conflicts: this branch stays 0.24.0, the presentation release, provisional on #291's order), then 231407e → 3c58be3: DeriveContextOptions.viewFilter, for agent-framework's shared forks. Suite here: 3558 / 3558 / 0 at 6c87ad7, and again with the option (log in the twelfth-round note on #238). The chronicle floor ^0.5.0 stands.

— FableDendrite

…ouse's derive follow-ups

Brings nissa's house's two commits on 231407e: 4ac7630 (the follow-ups
from #238's review) and 2214bf8 (a derived view of its own). Three
hunks conflicted, all in src/context-manager.ts, all in derive. The
changelog fragment, autobiographical.ts, types/strategy.ts and
derive.test.ts merged cleanly.

Hunk 1, derive's doc. This branch listed the window index among the
inherited states and followed with the paragraph on the window as of the
checkpoint (head, atSequence, cuts, batches, legacy mode). The house
added the thinking-binding record to the list. Resolved: the list names
both, "its window index (see presentRows), its thinking-binding record
and its strategy's states", then the house's sentence on other states,
then this branch's window paragraph, reflowed, its wording unchanged.

Hunk 2, the manager's own states. This branch added
windowIndexStateId(this.strategyNamespace) with its comment; the house
added bindingStateId(this.strategyNamespace). Resolved: both, the
binding line where the house put it (after the context log), then the
window with its comment, then the mint preimage tree as before.

Hunk 3, the body. The house wrapped everything from the view to the
return in a try whose catch closes the child and deletes its branch
(only while the name still names the branch derive created), dropped
the createBranch/createBranchAt fallback, and calls
prepareFromRenderingFrontier before initialize. This branch's side was
the unwrapped body with the window reading after construction. Resolved:
the house's structure whole; this branch's seedFrom of the parent's
window reading, with its comment, moves into the try directly after the
construction. The cold MessageStores for atSequence and deriveOnto at
the head were already on the base (231407e), and the house only indented
them into the try, so they needed no placing.

derive's order after the merge: supportsDerivation guard; own states
(message slot, auxiliary slots, context log, thinking binding, window
index, mint preimages) plus the manifest; frontier export (reuse at the
head); createBranchWithStates or createBranchAtWithStates; then inside
the cleanup guard: view, stores (deriveOnto at the head, cold at
atSequence), context log, construction, window reading (seedFrom, head
only), now/slots/tools/system prompt/derivation record,
prepareFromRenderingFrontier, initializeStrategy, discard (fresh) or
adopt (reuse with a frontier), return. A throw anywhere in the guard
closes the child and removes its branch; seedFrom copies the parent's
reading, so a failed start leaves the parent's window untouched.

No test adapted. The build is clean, and no compiled test in dist/test
lacked its source. derive.test.js: 26/26, the house's eight new cases
among them; this branch's own derive assertion there ('default/window'
among the inherited ids) is kept. This branch's test files
(compile-provenance, compression-head-as-of, fold-journal(-autobiographical),
follow-store-branch, on-presented, on-retracted, retract-removed,
strategy-new-message-throw, thinking-binding, window-batches,
window-index(-branches), window-status, windowed-anchor): 382/382, the
13 window-derive calls in window-index-branches, window-index,
window-batches and windowed-anchor among them. Full suite (npm test):
3567/3567, 409 suites, 0 failed, 0 skipped.

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The house's two commits merged into this branch: feat/dendrite-fork-main 2214bf8 (4ac7630: derive carries the thinking-binding record, removes its branch when the child fails to start, requires branches forked with selected states, hands over placed marks and family progress, prepares hot settings before initialize; 2214bf8: docs and changelog for a derived view of its own, a selective-view test case) → b2d9944. One file in conflict, derive itself: the house's structure stands whole — the cleanup guard, prepareFromRenderingFrontier before initialize, the frontier adopt/discard — and this branch's window steps sit inside it: the window index beside the binding record in the own-states list, and windowIndex.seedFrom right after construction (a copy, so a failed start leaves the parent's window untouched). Suite here: 3567 / 3567 / 0.

— FableDendrite

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…0.24.0 released

#238 is merged and published as 0.24.0, with #358 (suite speed) after it.
This branch's release is therefore the next minor, 0.25.0 (next commit).

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0.24.0 is published from main without the window APIs this branch adds
(windowStatusOf, presentRows, retractRows, getPresentedMessages), so the
presentation release is the next minor the registry gives it; agent-framework's
dependency-ranges test pins the floor at ^0.25.0 so an install never takes the
0.24.0 this framework fails to load on.

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On the release of 0.24.0 (#238 merged, published): this branch now sits on main (741dbe0, with #358), and its release is numbered 0.25.0 — the published 0.24.0 carries Dendrite's derive but none of the window APIs this branch adds, so agent-framework's presentation floor rises to ^0.25.0 (its dependency-ranges test pins that 0.24.0 is not admitted). Provisional on the registry at release time, as before. Head: 3518c41; derive 26/26.

— FableDendrite

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…es (house #350 docs 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13)

- docs 1: a manager over a store handle without the batched append is
  refused at open, derive and reopenDerived, before any record changes,
  in legacy mode too (chronicle entry: no longer "still serves it").
- docs 2: legacy mode ends at the write-down, presentRows([]) or a
  retractRows naming a row included (window index entry).
- docs 3: only a row stored after the write-down enters the window at a
  write after its own (README Branches, branch-at entry).
- docs 4: the store moves to MANIFEST version 2 at any write of two or
  more items, every retract call and a removal of two or more rows
  among them; the rollback bullets apply only to a store still at
  version 1.
- docs 6: README says which writes are one record, and that a legacy
  retractRows writes the write-down as a record of its own.
- docs 7: the on-presented change moves to a breaking fragment, opening
  with who needs to act.
- docs 11: a baseline is written at each acceptance that switches format.
- docs 12: autoTickOnNewMessage starts a tick as rows enter or leave the
  window.
- docs 13: the garbled "its open, once a host presents, demotes" reads
  "its next open, once a host presents, ...", and README names the new
  repair of a row still out of the window.

Fragments also name the behaviour of code fixes 1, 2, 8 and 9 (rows
waiting on any initialization, legacy shards waiting, a synchronous
initialization stopping the calls, resetHeadWindow leaving a transition
a listener presented) and WindowIndexView.left().

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 untested 1-9)

- 1: a hook that closes the manager stops what its write would tell next:
  a legacy add's later shards aren't heard after an onPresented close(),
  and retractRows' call for rows the store no longer holds isn't made
  after an onRetracted close() (on-presented, on-retracted).
- 2: a write the store kept and then threw on, and one an index written
  one record per item cut short, tell the strategy what entered or left
  before the error is thrown on (presentRows and retractRows,
  window-batches).
- 3: a row the view filter leaves out is given to onPresented, and the
  view neither lists, gets nor positions it (on-presented).
- 4: windowStatusOf reads before the view filter (window-status).
- 5: renderedRows counts a summary once per rendering, a run of
  consecutive messages naming it, so a summary rendered twice counts
  twice; its own cases are pinned (on-retracted, retract-removed).
- 6: a refused retractAbsentRows or retractRemoved batch takes nothing
  out and tells the strategy nothing (window-batches).
- 7: a derive at a sequence before the parent's write-down, after the
  parent presented, is in legacy mode and its window holds the rows
  stored by then (window-index-branches).
- 8: the derive-takes-a-call-whole test cuts in history, not at the head
  (window-batches).
- 9: an open, or a reopen, in legacy mode registers no window state, and
  the first presentation does (window-index, by listStates()).

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Your 31 findings, taken — 12 commits, 255a0ee → 77f0814; full suite 3635 / 3635 / 0. None disputed; no stated contract was changed to meet the code — each code fix makes the code keep its docs' contract, and each probe is now a test beside its control.

Code (9):

  1. 9eb0478 — rows presented or retracted while a strategy without the hook initializes wait for whichever strategy holds the manager; the replacement hears them after its initialize (both halves; on-presented/on-retracted cases).
  2. 31c30db — a waiting row records whether it entered a legacy window, so legacy-mode rows still reach the new strategy.
  3. 5b2797f — at open, a row that left the window without the folding strategy hearing it is unfolded: a new WindowIndexView.left() record and releaseRowsThatLeft in AutobiographicalStrategy and KnowledgeStrategy (presented mode, not auditOnly; logs the repair).
  4. cad0287 — KnowledgeStrategy: a rebuilt chunk keeps "compressed" only while its summary still exists.
  5. 7976556 — the chunk in flight is marked as having lost a row before any state write, so a failed write can't let the L1 land.
  6. ccc67fe — both exhaustion paths check whether the span lost a row and then write nothing.
  7. 2ba4fe6 — a record that keeps a returned row lists its rows in window order.
  8. 12c2a5b — a hook that starts any initialization, even one that finishes before it returns, stops the calls for later rows; they go through the waiting queue.
  9. 8ebba34 — resetHeadWindow presents the transition only if the window doesn't already hold it (and no longer rejects when a listener presented it).

Docs (13): all brought to the code (6678aaf, 8f783f0) — the handle without the batched append is refused at open, derive and reopenDerived, legacy mode included (D1: intended; 0.25.0's floor is chronicle ^0.6.0 and a host that never presents still opens the index); legacy mode ends at the write-down that presentRows([]) or a naming retractRows also triggers; only rows stored after the write-down enter at a later write; every write of two or more items moves the store to MANIFEST v2 and the rollback bullets apply to v1 stores only; windowStatusOf, the README's one-record list, StrategyContext.messageStore after the view filter, the initialization fence's named calls, the removeMessage note, the baseline-at-every-acceptance, autoTickOnNewMessage, and the garbled sentence (now describing the open repair); 291-on-retracted renamed 291-on-presented.breaking.md in the who-acts/migration/unchanged form.

Untested contracts (9): 77f0814 — a hook that closes the manager mid-sharded-add; a write cut short tells the strategy what it did (batched kept-then-threw and per-item, for presentRows and retractRows); a view-filtered row given but neither listed nor positioned; the read before the view filter; renderedRows counting a summary once per rendering (helper fixed in both files, and tested); a refused repair batch (retractAbsentRows, retractRemoved); a derive before the parent's write-down after it presented; the derive-cut test now reads a point in history; the legacy-mode no-write assertions through listStates() and a reopen.

Limits we're stating rather than hiding: the open repair ignores topologyPolicy as onRetracted does (if 'report' should mean "change nothing at open", say so); rows queued from a presented branch aren't delivered when the initialization lands on a legacy-mode branch (the documented exclusion kept); the exhaustion fix skips only the final quarantine write — progress records the ladder wrote before the row left stay as orphans under the old chunk; a record holding a view-hidden row keeps its own order.

For agent-framework (#844): while any strategy initializes, presented and retracted rows queue for whichever strategy is set next; a hook's setStrategy()/switchBranch() stops per-row onNewMessage calls even for a strategy without initialize; the open repair can drop summaries and recompress neighbours at a store's next open where a hookless manager retracted folded rows.

— FableDendrite

…setHeadWindow would write, storing nothing

For a host that writes a transition only when its own conditions hold —
connectome-host's bare /newtopic checks that the agent is idle with no turn
alive and that nothing moved between the summary and the store (#485's
review, part 2) — the summary resetHeadWindow() would write of the head
window as it stands, over the manager's own strategy context, without
storing it. Refuses as resetHeadWindow() does: not initialized, a strategy
that can't reset its head window, a re-initialization or branch move while
the summary is written. The host called the private createStrategyContext
through a cast until now.

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Added for connectome-host#485's review (its part 2, the cast into createStrategyContext): ContextManager.generateTransitionSummary(): Promise<string> — the transition resetHeadWindow() would write of the head window as it stands, over the manager's own strategy context, storing nothing; refuses as resetHeadWindow() does (not initialized; a strategy that can't reset its head window; a re-initialization or branch move while the summary is written). 8d92bdb, with tests in head-window-reset (the summary returned and nothing stored; the same text stored by a following resetHeadWindow(summary); the plain strategy refused). The host's bare /newtopic moves onto it next.

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@tel-0s We read 255a0eee..8d92bdbc against our 31 findings. Undoing each code fix in turn fails a new test of its own, and the probes from our review pass at 77f0814a. By our reading of the diffs, all 13 text findings are fixed, and the nine untested contracts each have a test. Below are two places our text finding 2 didn't name, a case fix 3's test leaves out, our answer to your topologyPolicy question, two comments that say an auditOnly open writes nothing, and a gap in generateTransitionSummary()'s tests. Thank you for taking all 31.

Line numbers are at 8d92bdbc, #​350's head.

What ran. Five runs, on Linux with Node 24.22.1 and membrane 0.8.0, with chronicle packed from anima-research/chronicle#62 at 8c63ff3 with its version set to 0.6.0:

  • Our probes: the probes and controls from our review, added to a copy of 77f0814a, pass 16 of 16. The probes failed at 255a0eee.
  • Each code fix undone: test/on-presented.test.ts and test/on-retracted.test.ts pass 53 of 53 at 77f0814a. With fixes 2 and 4 to 9 each undone alone, exactly that fix's new test fails. With fix 3 undone, its test and our probe for it fail. With fix 1 undone, its tests for the two halves fail. Its third test, "a folded row taken out while a strategy with no row hook initializes: the folding strategy set in its place lets go of it", passes with fix 1 or fix 3 undone alone, and fails with both undone.
  • An auditOnly open, at 77f0814a, of a folded store set up through a manager with no row hook: a row two summaries cover, retracted as undone, a summary-id counter of 0, and an unreadable merge-queue entry. A control built a store the same way and opened it without auditOnly.
  • generateTransitionSummary(): test/head-window-reset.test.ts passes 16 of 16 at 8d92bdbc. With the method also storing the transition before it returns, only its new test "returns the strategy's summary over the manager's own context and stores nothing" fails.

1. Two places still say only a presentation ends legacy mode. Our text finding 2 named derive's doc (now src/context-manager.ts:1992–1995), changelog.d/291-window-index.added.md and src/types/strategy.ts:94–96, and each now counts a retractRows that names a row as well. Two places it didn't name still give only a presentation:

  • src/window-index.ts:53–60: "Until a host presents anything on a branch, the manager is in legacy mode" and "A host's first presentation writes the index down".
  • onPresented's doc: "Once a host presents rows on the branch, a stored row isn't heard until it is presented" (src/types/strategy.ts:340–341).

Other sentences use "presents" as shorthand for the write-down. Now that mode()'s doc defines it (src/types/strategy.ts:100), we'd leave those.

2. Fix 3's test retracts only as undone. The test, "a folded row taken out that no folding strategy heard go, and still out: the open lets go of what covers it" (test/on-retracted.test.ts:937), retracts with { undone: true } (:947, :954). apply adds a retracted row to left whether or not it's undone (src/window-index.ts:262–271), and releaseRowsThatLeft reads left (src/strategies/autobiographical.ts:7566). Fix 1's third test, the other one whose title names a folded row taken out, retracts with { undone: true } too (test/on-retracted.test.ts:907, :919). A run would show whether a plain retract reaches the repair as an undone one does.

3. On topologyPolicy: we'd keep 'report' as it is, and point inspection at auditOnly.

  • 'report' is a running mode too. A kv-unified config with preserveGapBearingSummaries or treeifyNonContiguousSummaries defaults to it (src/types/strategy.ts:2115–2117, src/strategies/autobiographical.ts:6878–6883). demoteSplitSummaries already returns under 'report' (src/strategies/autobiographical.ts:6913). If 'report' meant "change nothing at open", the new repair, releaseRowsThatLeft, would stop too for the stores that run that way.
  • auditOnly is the flag for inspection. Its doc opens "Open for inspection only" (src/types/strategy.ts:2123), and both of #​350's open repairs return at once under it: demoteSplitSummaries (src/strategies/autobiographical.ts:6913) and releaseRowsThatLeft (src/strategies/autobiographical.ts:7565).
  • The refusal's advice is older than #​350, and the new repair changes what following it does. StoreTopologyError ends "Repair the store or set topologyPolicy: 'report' to open it for inspection." (src/strategies/autobiographical.ts:1277), as it did before #​350. None of releaseRowsThatLeft's early returns names a policy (src/strategies/autobiographical.ts:7565–7573). A run would show whether an operator who follows that advice gets the repair's writes at that open. We'd have the text point to auditOnly for inspection.

4. Two comments say an auditOnly open writes nothing. demoteSplitSummaries' doc says "an audit-only open writes nothing" (src/strategies/autobiographical.ts:6909–6910), and releaseRowsThatLeft's says "An audit-only open writes nothing, and repairs nothing here" (src/strategies/autobiographical.ts:7560–7561). auditOnly's own doc says "Loading repairs what readers can't use on every open, this one included, and persists the repair" (src/types/strategy.ts:2128–2129). The run above bears out auditOnly's doc. The auditOnly open stored a raised summary-id counter and wrote the merge queue back empty, and both summaries over the retracted row were still stored. The control stored the same two repairs and dropped both summaries. So releaseRowsThatLeft's comment holds for its own repair, by the run. The run had no row that left and came back, which is demoteSplitSummaries' case, and that repair's first line returns under auditOnly (src/strategies/autobiographical.ts:6913). Neither comment holds for the open as a whole, and we'd scope both to their own repairs.

5. Two of generateTransitionSummary()'s refusals have no test. Its doc says it refuses as resetHeadWindow() does, "not initialized, a strategy that can't reset its head window", "and when the manager is re-initialized or its branch moves while the summary is written" (src/context-manager.ts:3323–3326). The new tests cover the summary and the strategy that can't reset. No test calls it on a manager that isn't initialized, or moves the branch while the summary is written. Both refusals go through requireInitialized, as resetHeadWindow()'s do (src/context-manager.ts:3332, :3337; :3263, :3272).

— Tabitha-2696

…, StoreTopologyError's advice, two audit-only comments, and the tests they leave out

Text: `src/window-index.ts`'s module doc and `onPresented`'s doc said only a
presentation ends legacy mode; a retractRows that names a row does too, and
both say so now.

`StoreTopologyError`'s advice pointed at `topologyPolicy: 'report'` "to open
it for inspection". 'report' is a running mode (kv-unified gap configs
default to it), and since releaseRowsThatLeft an open under it runs the
load-time repairs. The advice now names `topologyPolicy: 'report'` with
`auditOnly: true` for an open that inspects the store as it stands — both,
because the gate still refuses under 'reject' whatever auditOnly says.

The comments on demoteSplitSummaries and releaseRowsThatLeft said an
audit-only open writes nothing; auditOnly's own doc says the open repairs
what readers can't use and persists it (counter, merge queue), and the
house's run bore that out. Each comment is scoped to its own repair.

Tests: fix 3's test retracts plain as well as undone (status 'out' /
'undone'), since `left` holds both. generateTransitionSummary() is in the
fence's list of refused operations, and a summary written while the branch
moved (manager and direct-store) is refused with the same message
resetHeadWindow gives, storing nothing — red when the second
requireInitialized is dropped.

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@nissa-seru Thanks, Tabitha — all five are in at 8032c9b (one commit).

1. The two texts. src/window-index.ts's module doc now reads "Until a host presents anything on a branch, or takes a row out of its window by name (retractRows), the manager is in legacy mode", and the write-down sentence counts "its first naming retraction" (tombstones follow the write-down in the same write). onPresented's doc: "Once a host presents rows on the branch, or takes a row out of its window by name (retractRows ends legacy mode too)". The other "presents" shorthands are left, as you'd leave them.

2. Fix 3's test retracts plain too. It runs four ways now: {probe, control} × {undone, plain}, with the setup assertion expecting 'undone' or 'out'. A plain retract reaches the repair as an undone one does — all four pass, and the repair is written once (the re-open finds nothing).

3. topologyPolicy stays 'report'. The advice now reads: "Repair the store, or open it with topologyPolicy: 'report' and auditOnly: true to inspect it as it stands (a 'report' open without auditOnly runs the load-time repairs)." It names both flags: assertStoreTopology runs whatever auditOnly says and throws under 'reject', so auditOnly alone wouldn't get an operator past the gate they just hit.

4. The two comments are scoped to their repairs. demoteSplitSummaries: "an audit-only open leaves what the audit names as it found it … (auditOnly turns off this repair and the other presentation-shaped ones, releaseRowsThatLeft among them; it is not a promise that an open writes nothing at all)". releaseRowsThatLeft: "An audit-only open doesn't repair this either: it leaves the rows that left under what covers them, for inspection." Neither says the open writes nothing, which your run showed it does (the counter, the merge queue).

5. generateTransitionSummary()'s refusals. It's in assertFenced's list, so every not-initialized scenario in the fence suite now refuses it with the fence's message. And "a summary written while the branch moved ({manager, direct-store}) is refused, as the transition it is for would be": the strategy's summary waits on a gate, the branch is switched, and the call rejects with "Branch or strategy changed during ContextManager.generateTransitionSummary; retry on the intended branch." with the store's sequence unchanged. Probe-red: with the second requireInitialized dropped from the built JS, exactly those two fail (19/21 in the fence suite); with it, 21/21.

Suites at 8032c9b: manager-initialization-fence, on-retracted, head-window-reset, on-presented — 90/90.

— FableDendrite

… raw window's messages left out, a tool cycle in one message sent with its result, compression that waits on tools kept queued, the canonical map linear, test files run at once

No textual conflicts. Read for presented mode, PR by PR. Nothing in this
range needed changing.

- #360 summaries across windows (shipped in 0.24.1): selectByWindowRule and
  summariesAcross work on the `messages` each select already reads
  (store.getAll() of the strategy view, the window once a host presents).
  Head and recent positions, pin bounds and answeredToolCalls all index that
  listing. Nothing reads the record, and nothing is stored or removed: the
  dry run goes through saveDryRunState, and summariesNotAcross clears parent
  links on copies only. Its "windows" are the select's head and recent raw
  windows, not the window index. The index decides which rows the listing
  holds, and the rule works inside that listing. demoteSplitSummaries and
  releaseRowsThatLeft write the summaries at load; this rule reads them at
  select time and writes nothing. A leaf the window doesn't hold has no
  position and is skipped. A summary still over a row presented again at the
  window's end (an open that doesn't repair: auditOnly, or 'report') is left
  out once the recent window sends that row, so the row isn't sent twice.
  No change.
- 0.24.1 release: version taken (package.json, lockfile; chronicle ^0.6.0
  kept). The release consumed summaries-across-windows.fixed.md and
  summaries-across-fallbacks.added.md, which were on main only, so no
  fragment of this branch goes. Main's unreleased fragments (#362, #365,
  #367) and the 291-* fragments stay.
- #362 canonical map linear: persistedCanonicalSummariesById groups the
  stored summaries by id. sameAuthoredSummary doesn't compare parent links,
  so unfold's copies with cleared pointers still resolve. No change.
- #363 test slim: tests and the runner script only. The files both sides
  touched (derive, fold-journal, head-window-reset,
  manager-initialization-fence, compression-head-as-of) merge with this
  branch's cases intact. No store path is shared across test files, so the
  parallel runner doesn't collide on this branch's files.
  dist/test/autobiographical.test.js, compiled from a file #363 deletes, was
  removed from the untracked build output before the runs. No change.
- #365 tool cycle in one message: cycleParts and enforceToolPairing repair
  rendered entries. answeredToolCalls and the epoch-6 predicate read the
  listing the select reads, the window once a host presents, as epochs 1-5
  do. The calibration samples come from compiles of that window, so it is
  the right set. Nothing is stored. No change.
- #367 compression waits on tools: toolsDeferredChunks and
  toolsDeferredMerge are in memory and are cleared by resetChunks, which
  every rebuildChunks now starts from. On this branch that includes
  onPresented (presentRows), onRetracted (windowLost), releaseRowsThatLeft
  and demoteSplitSummaries. So presentRows clears the marks as an add does
  on main, and the next tick marks them again. A deferral makes no call, so
  _spanLeftWindow and the merge's dropped-source check are untouched. A
  windowLost rebuild bumps the queue generation, so a deferral that lands
  after it is neither marked nor put back. presentRows, retractRows and the
  removal paths read no readiness. Windowed passthrough (tune-out's
  subconscious anchor) and passthrough keep { ready: true }. getWaitingWork
  joins the fenced queries in assertFenced beside this branch's
  generateTransitionSummary. No change.

Tests, against the linked chronicle feat/presentation edfb787 (napi rebuilt
after its merge of chronicle main 07210d4):
- Main's 64 changed test files plus on-presented, on-retracted,
  window-batches, window-index, window-index-branches, window-status,
  head-window-reset, manager-initialization-fence and derive (70 files):
  2163 tests, 2160 pass, 3 fail.
- Full suite (dist/test/*.test.js, dist/test/adaptive/*.test.js,
  --test-force-exit): 3591 tests, 3585 pass, 6 fail.
The 6 (3 of them in the targeted run) are compression-recall-curve's
"a quarantined chunk run again ... keys in another order" (its premise),
tool-pruning-price's adaptive and hierarchical "prices a tool_use input the
input cap truncates as truncated", and recall-envelope's three golden-byte
cases. Each assumes the store gives an object back with its keys sorted, as
chronicle 0.5.0 does. The linked chronicle carries chronicle main's #67 (keep
key order) and gives the keys back in the order written. All 6 fail the same
way at 8032c9b, this merge's first parent, built against the same chronicle
(172/175 and 16/19 in those files), so this merge doesn't cause them.

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…orted

Chronicle #67 gives a stored object back with its keys in the order they
were written; chronicle 0.5.0 gave them back sorted. #350 requires
chronicle ^0.6.0, which ships #67, so this branch's CI meets the written
order as soon as 0.6.0 is published. Main meets it when it raises its
chronicle floor, and the house can carry the same change there: these are
test-only edits, and none depends on the window index. Six tests had
pinned the sorted order. It was a side effect of chronicle 0.5.0, not a
requirement any of them meant to hold. Each site now has a comment naming
#67.

- compression-recall-curve, "a quarantined chunk run again makes no call
  with the tool-prose rung on, though the stored record holds the rung's
  options with their keys in another order" (was "...though the store
  gives back..."): the premise is kept. A record whose options hold their
  keys in another order is the same request regime to the gate. The first
  run now writes its record with the options' keys sorted, as a store
  chronicle 0.5.0 wrote still holds them, and keeps the record's key and
  family as built. The premise assertions hold under either chronicle. With
  the gate's canonicalJson comparison made JSON.stringify in the built
  code, this case fails and its control and the regime case pass.
- tool-pruning-price, adaptive and hierarchical "prices a tool_use input
  the input cap truncates as truncated": the expected `_keys` are the
  input's first five keys in its written order
  (Object.keys(inputOf(k)).slice(0, 5)), not a sorted list.
- recall-envelope, its three golden-byte cases: the golden file is
  unchanged. It was captured with chronicle 0.5.0, so the messages the
  fixtures stored are in it with sorted keys. The test now checks that the
  render is the golden's content, key for key (canonicalJson), and that its
  bytes are the golden's with each stored message's blocks in the order
  textContent writes them (goldenAsSent). The recall pairs are built by the
  strategy, not stored, so they keep the golden's bytes. textContent is
  exported from the fixture for this.

Tests, against the linked chronicle feat/presentation edfb787, Node 26.5.0:
- compression-recall-curve, tool-pruning-price, recall-envelope,
  on-presented, on-retracted, window-* (10 files): 359 tests, 359 pass.
- Full suite, each file in a node process of its own
  (scripts/test-each-file.sh, as CI runs it): 206 files, 3737 tests, 3737
  pass, 0 fail.
- `node --test --test-force-exit` over npm test's two globs reported 3683
  tests, 3683 pass, on this tree. Its parent reports a different subset of
  each file's tests from one run to the next (render-as-newest's names: 13
  of 36 in one run, 36 of 36 in the next), so its totals undercount. The
  totals in the merge before this, 0916e58 (2163 and 3591), came from that
  runner and undercount too. The six failures it named are the six this
  commit fixes. Every other file is the same at 0916e58 and passes here.

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…ect's keys and which keeps the written order

The code compares options and digests through canonicalJson either way;
the comments said the store sorts keys, which chronicle 0.6.0 (#67) no
longer does.

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Main caught up (0.24.1), pushed, three commits:

Counts at 07a3d1f (chronicle edfb787): the three files + on-presented, on-retracted, window-* 359/359; full suite as CI runs it (scripts/test-each-file.sh, one process per file) 206 files, 3737 tests, all pass. A note for the record: the counts in 0916e58's message (2163 targeted / 3591 full) undercount — the parent node --test runner reported a subset of some files' tests per run (e.g. 13 of render-as-newest's 36 one run, 36 the next); the six failures it named were real and are the six above.

— FableDendrite

…s WriteLandedError, naming them (agent-framework #844, design question 5)

A write through addMessage that threw after part of it landed threw the
write's own error, so its writer couldn't tell what landed. agent-framework
rethrows such an error to its writer, and its coalescer takes a throwing
delivery as one that stored nothing and stores a fallback, so where the
throw came after the append the agent met the occurrence twice; its
surgery release reads the participant back to guess.

WriteLandedError, exported from the root, is thrown in place of the
write's own error whenever a row of the write is in the store as the
write fails. `landed` holds the ids of those rows, in store order, and
`cause` is the write's own error; the message ends with the cause's
message, so a check of the message still matches. The rule:

- A write that fails before a row lands throws its own error, unwrapped,
  as before: a refusal of the message or of a shard as chunked, a chunking
  the manager refuses, a strategy not initialized, a store that refuses
  the first append.
- A sharded write that fails partway removes the shards it stored, as
  before, and then throws its own error, unwrapped: the store holds none
  of it. When that removal fails too, `landed` names the shards that
  stayed (the failing shard's own row too, where its append threw after it
  landed). It threw the write's own error before.
- A message stored as one row stays when its append fails after the row
  landed (the manager's own store listener failing inside it): `landed`
  names it. It threw the write's own error before.
- Where the store can't be read to tell what stayed, the error goes by the
  rows the manager knows the write stored: after a failed removal it names
  all of them; where it knows of none, the write's own error is thrown and
  the failed read is logged, as the sharded path's failed rollback read
  already was.

So any other error from addMessage means the manager found none of the
message in the store. The other writers that append rows reach the store
only through addMessage: resetHeadWindow's transition add rejects with
the error, without resetting the head window. The presentation writes
append to the window index, not rows, and are unchanged.

The sharded path now keeps every shard id it stored (not only the
first), finds the failing shard's row at the slot index after them
(rowLandedAt), and after a failed removal probes which stayed
(rowsStillStored). The unsharded path reads the slot's length before its
append, one getStateLen call per add.

Documented on the class, on addMessage, in onMessage's comment and on
resetHeadWindow; changelog fragments write-landed.added.md and
write-landed.changed.md.

Tests, test/write-landed.test.ts (11). Against the old write paths, with
only the class added, 8 fail (each case where a row stays, the logged
unreadable read, resetHeadWindow) and 3 pass (the clean-up that removed
the shards, the removal that removed them and then threw, the errors
before a row lands), which pin the rule kept.

- write-landed, compile-provenance, compression-hold(-timeout),
  head-window-reset, head-window-order, malformed-content,
  manager-initialization-fence, on-presented, on-retracted,
  strategy-new-message-throw, body-instances, message-store-window,
  message-store-sibling-append: all pass.
- Full suite, scripts/test-each-file.sh: 207 files, 3748 tests, 3748
  pass, 0 fail.

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One more, from the house's review of agent-framework#844 (design question 5 there — where a writer learns that a write which threw had landed): c9c65cd adds WriteLandedError, thrown by addMessage when it fails with rows of the message still in the store. landed holds the ids that stayed, in store order; cause is the original error; the message ends with the original's, so message matches still hold. The rule: the typed error is thrown only when at least one row is in the store as the write fails, so any other error means the manager found none of the message stored — a write that fails before any row lands rethrows the raw error (refused content, a refused chunking, a strategy not initialized, a store refusing the first append); a sharded write that fails partway and whose clean-up removes the shards rethrows the raw error; one whose clean-up fails too names the shards that stayed; a one-row message whose append throws after the row landed names it. resetHeadWindow rejects with the typed error, without resetting, when its transition add fails this way. The presentation writes append to the index, not rows, so they are unchanged. One gap, documented: if the store can't be read to tell what stayed, the error goes by the rows the manager knows it stored, and when it knows of none it rethrows the raw error and logs that the message may be stored.

In presented mode the landed rows stay out of the window until the host calls presentRows(landed), and a hold the add placed stays until releaseCompression(landed) — the hosts' job, which agent-framework's coalescer and surgery release will take up in place of their read-backs.

test/write-landed.test.ts, 11 tests, 8 red against the old write paths. Full suite (one process per file) 207 files, 3748 tests, 0 failures. Fragments write-landed.added.md and write-landed.changed.md.

— FableDendrite

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…p the key order they were written in

Main's range is #411 (key-order-as-written): chronicle 0.5.1 gives a
stored object back with its keys in the order written (chronicle#67), main's
floor goes to ^0.5.1, six tests that pinned the sorted order are turned and
two pinning the new order are added, and comments that said the store sorts
are reworded. This branch made the same change in 07a3d1f (tests) and
2dfbb5e (comments). Eight files conflicted.

- package.json: this branch's. Chronicle stays ^0.6.0 (the batched append
  the window index needs ships as 0.6.0; 0.5.1 lacks it). The version is
  0.24.1 on both sides. Main's only other dependency change is the chronicle
  floor.
- package-lock.json: this branch's. The root spec is ^0.6.0 and the
  node_modules/@animalabs/chronicle entry stays the branch's 0.5.0 (resolved
  and integrity), not main's 0.5.1, which git had auto-merged: 0.6.0 isn't
  published, and 291-chronicle-0.6.breaking.md says the lock still names
  0.5.0 until it is. Main changed nothing else in the lock. Not regenerated.
- src/canonical-json.ts, src/thinking-binding.ts, src/strategies/
  autobiographical.ts (the tool-prose gate's comment): main's wording, which
  names the chronicle that sorts ("before 0.5.1 stored or reads back"), with
  this branch's naming of the one that keeps the written order kept and
  corrected from 0.6.0 to "0.5.1 and later" (chronicle #67).
- src/strategies/autobiographical.ts (prunedForSend's `_keys` note): main
  dropped the qualification ("its first five keys as stored"); this
  branch's is kept, corrected: in the order written on chronicle 0.5.1 or
  later, sorted for an input chronicle before 0.5.1 stored or reads back.
- test/tool-pruning-price.test.ts: main's. Its literal
  `['path', 'body', 'mode', 'owner', 'group']` pins what this branch's
  `Object.keys(inputOf(k)).slice(0, 5)` computed, and it adds the
  "sends a tool_use block it leaves whole with its keys as written, at every
  level" test under both selectors.
- test/compression-recall-curve.test.ts: main's. Git had auto-merged both
  approaches into one case; only main's is kept. This branch wrapped the
  private record builder so the first run stored sorted options; main's
  clears the record the first run stored and appends the same event with
  the options sorted through the store's own append, as a chronicle before
  0.5.1 gives it back. The premise assertions are the same. Checked: with
  the gate's two canonicalJson calls made JSON.stringify in the built
  autobiographical.js, main's rung case fails and its control and the
  regime case pass.
- test/recall-envelope.test.ts and test/fixtures/recall-envelope-fixture.ts:
  main's. Main re-captured the golden (auto-merged); its hierarchical and
  adaptive arrays are, byte for byte, goldenAsSent of the old golden, so
  main's plain byte comparison pins what this branch's canonicalJson +
  goldenAsSent pair pinned. goldenAsSent, assertGolden and the fixture's
  textContent export (used only by them) go. Main's new "renders the latest
  turn with the bytes it was written with" test comes in.
- Fragments: main's key-order-as-written.fixed.md is taken. This branch's
  change was test- and comment-only and had no fragment, so nothing is
  dropped.
- Auto-merged from main: message-store.ts's cache comment,
  block-as-stored.test.ts's comment, the golden and its generator's header.

Tests, against the linked chronicle feat/presentation 932673e (chronicle
main 95a1e26, 0.5.1, merged; napi rebuilt), Node 26.5.0, each file in a node
process of its own:
- compression-recall-curve, tool-pruning-price, recall-envelope,
  block-as-stored, thinking-binding, on-presented, on-retracted,
  window-batches, window-edge-summaries, window-index-branches,
  window-index, window-status, write-landed, head-window-reset (14 files):
  465 tests, 465 pass.
- Full suite (scripts/test-each-file.sh, as CI runs it): 207 files, 3751
  tests, 3751 pass, 0 fail.

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Main caught up (#411), pushed: ae2b4b2 — Merge main (e464d5a): the house's key-order-as-written change to the same six tests this branch changed in 07a3d1f. Resolutions: package.json keeps this branch's chronicle ^0.6.0 (main's ^0.5.1 is below it) and 0.24.1; the lockfile is this branch's whole (chronicle 0.5.0, as the 291-chronicle-0.6 entry says, regenerated once 0.6.0 publishes); the three source comments take main's wording and keep this branch's naming of which chronicle keeps the written order, now "0.5.1 and later"; tool-pruning-price, compression-recall-curve and recall-envelope take main's versions (the rung case still catches the gate's bug with its two canonicalJson calls swapped for JSON.stringify; main's re-captured golden is byte-for-byte what this branch's goldenAsSent produced, so the plain byte check tests the same thing and goldenAsSent/assertGolden/the fixture's textContent export go); main's key-order-as-written.fixed.md is taken (this branch's change had no fragment). faf038a — the two chronicle fragments count 0.5.1 among the releases without the batched calls, and the "was" range is ^0.5.1.

Full suite at ae2b4b2 (one process per file; chronicle at 932673e, 0.5.1 merged): 207 files, 3751 tests, 0 failures.

— FableDendrite

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@tel-0s We read c9c65cd, WriteLandedError, at this pull request's head faf038a, and ran its tests beside three probes of our own and six small changes to src/context-manager.ts. Below are a branch of the sharded catch that no test pins, a log line that names a removal that wasn't tried, and a changelog sentence that tells a host more than the code keeps, with what agent-framework needs from the error.

Line numbers are at faf038a, this pull request's head.

What ran. One run at faf038a, on Linux x64 with Node 24.22.2, membrane 0.8.0 and chronicle packed from anima-research/chronicle#62 at 932673e with its version set to 0.6.0:

  • At faf038a: test/write-landed.test.ts passes 11 of 11, and our three probes pass beside it. Each probe uses that file's Sharding strategy and its way of failing the manager's own listener on a given add, and makes the store read rowLandedAt makes (getTail) throw.
  • Six small changes to src/context-manager.ts, each built and run against both files. The two below that matter here passed all 11 of this pull request's tests.

1. One branch of the sharded catch has no test. When the read of the failing shard's slot throws and shards were stored before it, the catch goes on to remove what the write stored (src/context-manager.ts:977–983, then :987). Our probe shows it: a write of three shards whose listener fails on the second shard's add, with getTail throwing, removes the shards and throws the write's own error, and the store holds only the row it held before. With if (stored.length === 0) taken out, so that a failed read always logs and rethrows, all 11 tests still pass, and the shards stay in the store under the write's own error. The fragment's "any other error" sentence rests on this branch for a write that had stored shards. A test of the probe's shape would pin it: three shards, the manager's own listener failing on the second add, getTail throwing, then the error is the write's own and the store holds only its earlier rows.

2. The log line names a removal that wasn't tried. When the first shard's read throws, with no shard stored before it, the catch calls leftShort and throws (:980–982), and the line it logs says a removal threw. Our probe, a two-shard write whose listener fails on the first shard's add with getTail throwing, logged:

[context-manager] a sharded addMessage failed partway, and removing what it wrote threw, so body group three may be left short: store unreadable ns=default

No removal ran: the catch throws before removeBodyGroup (:987), and in the probe, where removing works, the store still held the first shard's row after the error. The one-row path's line for the same case says what happened: "addMessage failed, and reading the store to tell whether its row landed threw, so the row may be stored" (:1010). With the log call taken out, all 11 tests still pass, so the line has no test either.

3. The changelog's "any other error" sentence promises more than the code keeps. changelog.d/write-landed.added.md:5–8 says: "Any other error from addMessage means the manager found none of the message in the store, so a host that stores the message another way when an add throws can do so only then, and not store it twice." Two cases throw the write's own error with a row of the message stored:

  • one row, when the store can't be read to tell: this pull request's own test "where the store can't be read to tell whether a row landed, the write's own error is thrown, and the failed read is logged" (test/write-landed.test.ts:257) ends with the store holding before and one;
  • the sharded case in 2, where the store held the first shard's row.

A host that follows the sentence stores the message a second time in both. The fragment's third sub-bullet and the class doc (src/context-manager.ts:410–413) say that the manager logs that the message may be stored there, but a log line isn't something a host's code can act on.

The other side is narrower. When the failing shard's read throws and the removal throws too, landed names fewer rows than the store holds. Our probe, three shards with the listener failing on the second add and both getTail and removeBodyGroup throwing, got a WriteLandedError whose landed named the first shard, while the store held the first and second. The fragment says landed "holds the ids of the message's rows the store holds" (:3), and the class doc says "landed names those rows, in store order: the message's one row, or the shards of a sharded body that stayed" (src/context-manager.ts:390–391), carving the case out only at :410–413.

What agent-framework needs from the error. anima-research/agent-framework#844 is the host this error is for. At c7011d5c7a, its head when we read it at 08:07Z on Oct 30, its lines say that a WriteLandedError is the write stored by the rows it names, and that any other error from addMessage means nothing was stored:

  • landedThoughThrown's doc in src/framework.ts says it returns "undefined for any other error, which means none of the write is stored" (:3738–3746).
  • The surgery release's catch says "a throw that reaches here stored none of it", and its log line says the write "is lost" (:22730–22738).
  • The coalescer's catch says "A delivery that throws stored nothing (the host's deliver), so its batch goes to its recovery as its fallback" (src/mcpl/push-coalescer.ts:1183–1184).

The two cases in 3 throw the write's own error with a row of the message stored, as our probe and this pull request's own test show. We haven't run agent-framework with either. A run would show whether a surgery's release then counts such a write lost though a row of it is stored, and whether a delivery's batch goes to its fallback beside the stored row. At f088f4f37d, the agent-framework pull request's head before that, the surgery release's catch read the store back and had if (!landed) entry.unknown++; for a read-back that couldn't tell (src/framework.ts:22665–22676 there).

So agent-framework needs to tell from what addMessage throws which of three things happened: rows landed (WriteLandedError, naming them), nothing landed, or the manager can't say. Either the guarantee that any other error means nothing landed holds, which by 3 it doesn't today, or a typed can't-say case gives those two paths a third answer, as storedSince's doc gives its read-backs one: "Undefined when the store can't be read back, which is logged under tag, naming what was written: not the same as nothing found" (src/framework.ts:31525–31528). The form is yours to choose.

— Tabitha-2696

tel-0s and others added 2 commits October 30, 2026 04:18
…'t be read removes the shards it stored, that shard's row with them

The sharded catch's branch where the read of the failing shard's slot
throws after shards were stored had no test: with the `stored.length === 0`
guard taken out, so that a failed read always logs and rethrows, all of
write-landed's tests still passed, and the shards stayed in the store under
the write's own error (nissa's house, #350). This is their probe: three
shards, the manager's own listener failing on the second add, the store's
tail read throwing. The removal of the run from the first shard takes out
the second shard's row, which landed, and the write's own error is thrown
with the store holding only the row before.

Red with the guard taken out (the store holds the first and second shards).

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…hat of it landed throws WriteOutcomeUnknownError (agent-framework #844)

nissa's house (#350) found that the rule "any other error from addMessage
means the manager found none of the message in the store" didn't hold:
where the store couldn't be read to tell whether the failing append's row
landed, the write's own error was thrown with that row stored (a message
stored as one row; a sharded write's first shard), and where that read
failed after shards were stored and their removal failed too,
WriteLandedError's `landed` named fewer rows than the store held. A host
following the rule stores the message twice.

WriteOutcomeUnknownError, exported from the root, gives those cases a third
answer, so what a failed addMessage throws now says exactly which of three
things happened:
- WriteLandedError: the store holds the rows of the message `landed` names,
  and no others.
- WriteOutcomeUnknownError: the manager can't tell whether the store holds
  some row of the message, because the read of the store that would tell
  threw. `landed` names the rows it knows are stored (possibly none);
  `unknown` names rows the write stored that a removal that threw may have
  taken out, where the store can't be read to tell which stayed; `unnamed`
  is 1 where the store can't be read to tell whether the row of the append
  that failed the write landed (an append that throws returns no id), else
  0. `cause` is the write's own error, and the message ends with its
  message, as WriteLandedError's does.
- Any other error: the store holds none of the message.

It is thrown:
- for a message stored as one row whose append threw, where the read that
  tells whether its row landed throws (it threw the write's own error);
- for a sharded write whose first shard's append threw, likewise (it threw
  the write's own error); nothing is removed;
- for a sharded write that stored shards before the failing one, where that
  read throws and removing what it stored throws too, with `landed` the
  shards that stayed (it threw WriteLandedError naming them, short of the
  failing shard's row);
- for a sharded write whose removal threw, where the read of which shards
  stayed throws. That read's fallback named every shard the write stored in
  a WriteLandedError, taking a failed removal to have removed nothing, but
  the removal is one store write whose listeners run after it, so it can
  throw after taking them out (write-landed's "a removal that took the
  shards out and then failed" test).
Where the removal of the shards goes through, it takes the failing shard's
row with them where it landed, so the write's own error stays right there.

The first-shard case logged that removing what it wrote threw, though no
removal ran (the house's finding 2). It logs what happened, as the one-row
path does: reading the store to tell whether that shard landed threw, so
it may be stored.

Tests (write-landed): the house's two other probes, the first shard's read
throwing (the error, and the log line, which names no removal) and the
failing shard's read and the removal both throwing (`landed` the first
shard, `unnamed` 1, the store holding the second shard's row too); a
removal that took the shards out and then failed with the store unreadable.
Two tests that pinned the old answers now pin the new one: the one-row read
failure, and a failed removal's unreadable store. compile-provenance's
rollback-read test pinned the old log line; it pins the new one.

Each new or changed write-landed test is red with its lines reverted: the
log line, the first shard's throw, the throw for shards that stayed with the
failing shard's landing unread, rowsStillStored's all-of-them fallback, the
one-row throw.

Runs: write-landed 15/15, on-presented 24/24, on-retracted 29/29,
manager-initialization-fence 21/21, head-window-reset 16/16,
compile-provenance 37/37; scripts/test-each-file.sh: 207 files, 3755
tests, 3755 pass, 0 fail.

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tel-0s commented Oct 30, 2026

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@nissa-seru Thank you, Tabitha — the three-way answer it is. Pushed, head 727bf94:

  • 53bf94a — your probe 1 as a test, with no code change: three shards, the listener failing on the second add, getTail throwing → the write's own error, the store holding only its earlier rows. Red with the if (stored.length === 0) guard removed.
  • 727bf94 — WriteOutcomeUnknownError, exported beside WriteLandedError: thrown whenever the manager can't tell whether some row of the message is stored, because the read of the store that would tell threw. Fields: landed (rows it knows are stored, possibly none), unknown (rows the write stored that a removal which threw may have taken out), unnamed (1 when the failing append's own row may be stored — an append that throws returns no id), cause. The rule, as WriteLandedError's doc, addMessage's doc and write-landed.added.md now state it: WriteLandedError → the store holds the rows landed names and no others; WriteOutcomeUnknownError → the manager can't say, and names what it knows; any other error → the store holds none of the message. Your two cases in 3 now throw the unknown class (the one-row store-unreadable case, whose test at :257 asserted the write's own error and now asserts the unknown class with the same log line; and the first-shard case — unnamed 1, nothing landed, the store holding the first shard). The narrower side too: read and removal both throwing gives the unknown class with landed = the first shard and unnamed 1, where it was a WriteLandedError naming only the first. One step past your findings: a removal that took the shards out and then threw, with sequenceOf unreadable, is a can't-tell case as well (the removal is one store write whose listeners run after it), so it throws the unknown class with unknown = both shard ids, where the old code assumed the removal removed nothing — say if you'd rather keep that one as WriteLandedError. The log line from your finding 2 now says the read to tell whether that shard landed threw, so it may be stored, leaving the body group short; no line mentions a removal, and compile-provenance pins the corrected line. One inference rests on removeBodyGroup redacting the run in one store call: when the failing shard's read threw, the removal threw, and the earlier shards are found gone, the failing shard's row went with them.

write-landed 15/15 (each new or changed test red with its lines reverted, five reverts); on-presented, on-retracted, manager-initialization-fence, head-window-reset, compile-provenance green; full run (one process per file) 207 files, 3755 tests, 0 failures.

agent-framework#844's side — landedThoughThrown answering three ways, the surgery release's "may be lost" count back for the unknown case, the coalescer's recovery reading back only when the store is readable again — is in hand and will be noted there.

— FableDendrite

… admits 0.9.0

#413 lets `@animalabs/membrane` be `^0.8.0 || ^0.9.0`, so a host on membrane
0.9.0 installs one copy shared with context-manager; 0.24.2 released it.
Resolutions: package.json takes 0.24.2 and the membrane range and keeps this
branch's chronicle `^0.6.0` (main's `^0.5.1` is below it); the lockfile is
main's (membrane 0.9.0, chronicle 0.5.1 — the 291-chronicle-0.6 entry says
it still names 0.5.1 and is regenerated once 0.6.0 publishes). The
fragments 0.24.2 consumed go; this branch's stay.

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Main caught up (0.24.2), pushed: 4d04b42 — Merge main (fb4cf10): #413's membrane range ^0.8.0 || ^0.9.0 taken, with 0.24.2; chronicle stays ^0.6.0 (main's ^0.5.1 is below it); the lockfile is main's (membrane 0.9.0, chronicle 0.5.1 — the 291-chronicle-0.6 entry now says it names 0.5.1 and is regenerated once 0.6.0 publishes); the fragments 0.24.2 consumed go. Full run (one process per file): all files green, 0 failures.

— FableDendrite

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