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Summary

Slice 8/9 from PR #399 (v022-polish show). Stacked on slice 7 (dual-embedding).

Parameter tuning infrastructure for recall defaults: grid search runner, synthetic eval corpus, config nudges from grid results.

What is added

  • tests/khive-contract/tune/grid_search.py — grid runner over recall knob space (116 configs in 0.75s)
  • tests/khive-contract/tune/__main__.py — CLI entry
  • tests/khive-contract/fixtures/memories_corpus.json — synthetic eval corpus
  • tests/khive-contract/tune/results.json — sweep results
  • tests/khive-contract/tune/tuned-config.toml — recommended config
  • tests/khive-contract/tune/REPORT.md — analysis writeup
  • 3 config nudges applied to defaults based on grid results

PARTIAL status

The play landed with grid search infra working but the synthetic eval set has a corpus ceiling — recall@10 = 0.93 for ALL configs. Cannot ground defaults with this corpus. Follow-up: harder eval corpus (embed-enabled, synonyms, partial matches).

This PR ships the infrastructure so it can be re-run when a better corpus exists.

Dependencies

Depends on #407 (slice 7: dual-embedding). Base branch is slice/v022/07-dual-embedding.

Test plan

  • grid runner completes on the fixture
  • CI green

ohdearquant and others added 5 commits May 25, 2026 11:21
Route pack-memory's fuse_candidates through khive_retrieval::fuse_search_results,
making khive-retrieval a real consumed facade instead of an orphan crate.

- Add khive-retrieval dep to khive-pack-memory/Cargo.toml
- Replace direct fuse_with_strategy call with retrieval adapter
  (CandidateMeta side-map, HybridConfig builder, FusionStrategy conversion)
- Fix issue #309: resolve --all-features compile failures in khive-retrieval
  (stale SqliteStore imports, missing NodeId/LinkStore imports)
- Add 5 integration tests (3 fusion_surface, 2 pack-memory recall adapter)
- RRF k=1 discriminator test proves strategy propagation (30x score gap)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…recall (ADR-033 §6)

- Add three optional per-request fields to RecallParams: top_k (usize),
  fusion_strategy (string), and score_floor (f32)
- fusion_strategy validated against {"rrf","weighted","union"}; clear error
  with valid values on invalid input
- top_k overrides the result limit for a single call (capped at 100)
- score_floor applied as a post-filter on the composite score after compute_score
- Add parse_fusion_strategy_str helper; wire override into cfg.fuse_strategy
  before passing to fuse_candidates
- Add 4 integration tests: default_identity, top_k_override,
  fusion_strategy_override (including rejection), score_floor
- Document knobs in ADR-033 §6.1 with table, semantics, and example DSL

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Multi-model embedding support landed across the runtime + storage + memory
stack. Workspace dual-embedding now reachable end-to-end:

khive-runtime:
  - RuntimeConfig.additional_embedding_models: Vec<EmbeddingModel>
  - Replaces single OnceCell<embedder> with HashMap<model_name, embedder>
  - default_embedder_name() + embedder(name) public methods
  - KHIVE_ADDITIONAL_EMBEDDING_MODELS env-var parsing
  - configured_embedding_models() helper enumerates active set

khive-db:
  - V16 migration: add `embedding_model TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '<default>'`
    column to vectors table with backfill + composite index
  - VectorStore.insert / search scoped by embedding_model

khive-storage:
  - VectorRecord carries model tag
  - vector search params include model scope

khive-pack-memory:
  - recall + remember accept optional embedding_model arg
  - validation: must be a registered model name

kkernel:
  - engine list now returns real loaded models (no longer empty Vec)
  - engine migrate / drift-check still return not-implemented (#380/#385)

Notes:
- 16 files changed, +582/-138 lines
- Tests rebaselined for V16 (failed_migration_rolls_back tests V17 now;
  store_ddl_then_event_migration_is_idempotent expects V16 head)
- Workspace: cargo build + cargo test + clippy clean + fmt clean

Lattice gap status: N/A — lattice-embed 0.2.4 already exposes both
MiniLM + paraphrase as 384-d local models with EmbeddingRoutingConfig
primitives. khive-runtime now uses these directly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ohdearquant and others added 2 commits May 25, 2026 11:36
Addresses codex finding on PR #405: `khive_retrieval::hnsw::HnswIndex`
doesn't resolve because `hnsw` is not a public submodule — `HnswIndex` is
re-exported at the crate root (lib.rs:145). The doctest at persist/mod.rs:29
must use the public facade import.

Closes the remaining gap on issue #309 (--all-features doctest failure).

Verified: `RUSTC_WRAPPER= cargo test --offline -p khive-retrieval --all-features --doc` passes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ges unjustified

Codex review on PR #408 flagged that the three default changes from the
tune sweep (temporal_half_life_days 30 to 14, decay exp to hyp, multiplier
20 to 10) were made even though REPORT.md explicitly states the synthetic
eval set produced identical recall@10 = 0.9333 for ALL 116 configs — the
landscape was too flat to discriminate these parameters.

Reverts those three lines back to their prior values. The tuned-config.toml
artifact stays as an experimental record; the grid_search.py infra stays
runnable; only RecallConfig::default() is restored.

A discriminating eval corpus (embed-enabled, synonym queries, partial
matches) is the prerequisite before changing runtime defaults.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Verdict: REQUEST CHANGES
Findings: 2 Major, 0 Minor

[Major] Revert or quarantine the Rust default changes until the eval can distinguish them

Evidence: crates/khive-pack-memory/src/config.rs:54 says the tuning is PARTIAL and that the eval is "too easy to discriminate params"; crates/khive-pack-memory/src/config.rs:63 changes temporal_half_life_days from 30.0 to 14.0, crates/khive-pack-memory/src/config.rs:64 changes the default decay model to Hyperbolic, and crates/khive-pack-memory/src/config.rs:65 changes candidate_multiplier to 10. tests/khive-contract/tune/REPORT.md:32 says all 116 configs have identical recall@10, and tests/khive-contract/tune/REPORT.md:34 through tests/khive-contract/tune/REPORT.md:36 says candidate_multiplier, decay_model, and temporal_half_life_days have zero measurable effect. The report is explicit at tests/khive-contract/tune/REPORT.md:43 through tests/khive-contract/tune/REPORT.md:45 that the three committed default changes are not empirically distinguished from the old defaults.

Why this matters: the PR is honest in the report, but the unsupported choices are still shipped as runtime defaults via RecallConfig::default(). That makes a synthetic, acknowledged-ceiling eval load-bearing for all downstream users, which is exactly the risk called out in the review focus.

Suggested fix: leave the tuned values in tests/khive-contract/tune/tuned-config.toml as an experimental artifact, but revert RecallConfig::default() to the previous defaults until a harder corpus shows a real win. If the defaults stay changed, add a regression test that exercises the changed recall behavior against a discriminating fixture, not just serde/default-shape tests like crates/khive-pack-memory/src/config.rs:435 through crates/khive-pack-memory/src/config.rs:446.

[Major] The tuning CLI is not re-runnable from this branch

Evidence: tests/khive-contract/tune/grid_search.py:21 imports khive_contract.client.KhiveMcpSession, but git ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD tests/khive-contract shows this PR branch only contains the new fixtures/ and tune/ files under tests/khive-contract; there is no tracked tests/khive-contract/khive_contract/client.py on this branch. Running PYTHONPATH=. python -m tune --quick --output-dir /tmp/khive-tune-review from tests/khive-contract fails with ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'khive_contract'.

Why this matters: one stated OSS utility goal is that a downstream user can re-run the tuning script with their own corpus. As committed, the script depends on a Python helper package that is not present in the PR branch, so the new CLI entry point at tests/khive-contract/tune/__main__.py:1 cannot run in a clean checkout.

Suggested fix: either include the contract harness package in this stack/base, or make the tune runner self-contained enough to spawn khive-mcp directly. Also add a short smoke test or documented command that runs python -m tune --quick --output-dir <tmp> from a clean checkout.

Requested Verification

  • Default changes applied: yes, the three Rust defaults are temporal_half_life_days 30.0 -> 14.0, decay_model Exponential -> Hyperbolic, and candidate_multiplier 20 -> 10 in crates/khive-pack-memory/src/config.rs:63 through crates/khive-pack-memory/src/config.rs:65. They are not justified by results.json; the report says those dimensions had zero measurable effect.
  • Corpus ceiling: surfaced clearly, not buried. tests/khive-contract/tune/REPORT.md:30 names "Flat Optimization Landscape", and tests/khive-contract/tune/REPORT.md:32 states identical recall@10 = 0.9333 for all configs.
  • grid_search.py determinism/coverage: grid generation is deterministic loop order plus configs[::10] for quick mode at tests/khive-contract/tune/grid_search.py:212 through tests/khive-contract/tune/grid_search.py:235. It exercises config-object knobs for weights, candidate pools, fusion strategy, decay model, and half-life at tests/khive-contract/tune/grid_search.py:181 through tests/khive-contract/tune/grid_search.py:230, but it does not exercise the per-request top_k and score_floor knobs from ADR-033 §6.
  • tuned-config.toml startup format: not a startup format as-is. The artifact uses [recall] at tests/khive-contract/tune/tuned-config.toml:7, while the MCP startup path shown in crates/khive-mcp/src/main.rs:73 through crates/khive-mcp/src/main.rs:79 builds RuntimeConfig from CLI/env defaults, and MemoryPack::new initializes from RecallConfig::default() at crates/khive-pack-memory/src/lib.rs:90 through crates/khive-pack-memory/src/lib.rs:95.
  • Corpus size/representativeness: the corpus has exactly 100 memories and 20 eval queries. It is broad across programming/math/science/history/food/health/transit, but the query set is mostly exact keyword/topic matching; examples start at tests/khive-contract/fixtures/memories_corpus.json:704 through tests/khive-contract/fixtures/memories_corpus.json:803.
  • Rust vs TOML defaults: the three defaults are changed in Rust source, not only TOML, at crates/khive-pack-memory/src/config.rs:63 through crates/khive-pack-memory/src/config.rs:65.
  • Regression test for Rust defaults: no discriminating regression test. The touched tests validate default shape/serde and explicit scoring formulas, but do not prove the new defaults improve or preserve recall behavior under a corpus that distinguishes them.
  • Honesty in code: partially yes. The PARTIAL caveat is present in code at crates/khive-pack-memory/src/config.rs:54, and the report is direct at tests/khive-contract/tune/REPORT.md:30 through tests/khive-contract/tune/REPORT.md:45; the issue is that the caveated values still become runtime defaults.

Looks Right

  • The report is candid about the eval ceiling and root cause.
  • The quick grid covers the same main RecallConfig dimensions it claims to sweep, and results.json contains 116 configs.
  • The memory-pack unit tests pass after disabling sccache.
  • Focused integration tests for top_k, fusion_strategy, score_floor, and PackTunable::apply_config pass.

Commands Run

  • git status --short --branch: clean branch slice/v022/08-param-tuning.
  • git diff --name-status origin/slice/v022/07-dual-embedding..HEAD: inspected all changed files.
  • jq 'length' tests/khive-contract/tune/results.json: 116 configs.
  • jq '{memories:(.memories|length), eval_queries:(.eval_queries|length)}' tests/khive-contract/fixtures/memories_corpus.json: 100 memories, 20 eval queries.
  • RUSTC_WRAPPER= cargo test -p khive-pack-memory --lib --offline: passed, 61 tests.
  • RUSTC_WRAPPER= cargo test -p khive-pack-memory --offline --test integration test_recall_top_k_override -- --exact: passed.
  • RUSTC_WRAPPER= cargo test -p khive-pack-memory --offline --test integration test_recall_fusion_strategy_override -- --exact: passed.
  • RUSTC_WRAPPER= cargo test -p khive-pack-memory --offline --test integration test_recall_score_floor -- --exact: passed.
  • RUSTC_WRAPPER= cargo test -p khive-pack-memory --offline --test integration test_pack_tunable_apply_config_affects_recall_score -- --exact: passed.
  • PYTHONPATH=. python -m tune --quick --output-dir /tmp/khive-tune-review: failed, missing khive_contract.

What I Did Not Check

  • I could not fetch PR metadata or post the review initially because gh pr view could not connect to api.github.com from this environment.
  • I did not run the full workspace test suite due the 15-minute review budget.

Re-Review Guidance

Narrow re-review is enough: check that runtime defaults are either reverted or backed by a discriminating eval, and that python -m tune --quick works from a clean checkout.

Domain utility: SKIPPED - no lore/domain MCP tools were available in this runtime.

ohdearquant and others added 3 commits May 25, 2026 11:48
…ger tests

Two Medium findings from codex review:

1. top_k cast bug: `(k as u32).min(100)` truncates k before capping. A
   request with `top_k = 4_294_967_297` (larger than u32::MAX) truncates
   to 1 BEFORE the cap is applied, so the result limit becomes 1, not 100.
   Fixed: `u32::try_from(k.min(100)).unwrap_or(100)` clamps to usize first,
   then narrows safely.

2. Weak tests: test_recall_default_identity only checked length and the
   top hit. Strengthened to compare full ordered note_id+score lists across
   all positions, with all three knobs explicitly set to null.
   test_recall_fusion_strategy_override only validated string acceptance.
   Added a new unit test (fusion_strategy_change_produces_observable_ordering_difference)
   with a deterministic fixture where RRF and Weighted strategies MUST
   produce different orderings — proving the fusion_strategy override
   actually flows into fuse_candidates, not just validation.

Verified: cargo test -p khive-pack-memory --lib passes (62 unit tests).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ta-safety fixes

Per Ocean direction (2026-05-25): amend ADR-043 to formalize the V16
string-tag schema design, claim V16 in ADR-015 ledger, and fix the
data-safety bugs codex flagged. Defer sqlite-vec data preservation to
a follow-up issue.

ADR amendments:
- ADR-043 §1.1 (vector store column addition): replaces the old FK-based
  description with the actual V16 design (TEXT embedding_model column with
  composite index). Includes rationale for TEXT vs BLOB FK (hot-path join
  cost, end-to-end shape consistency with kkernel/env-vars/registry).
  Documents sqlite-vec rebuild behavior and follow-up.
- ADR-015 schema ledger: V16 row added with cluster-22 amendment notes.

High 3 fix — atomic unknown-model validation (handlers.rs):
- handle_remember now calls resolve_embedding_model(Some(name)) BEFORE
  create_note_with_decay_for_embedding_model. resolve_embedding_model is
  synchronous and doesn't load the model — it only checks registration.
  An unknown model is rejected before any note/FTS/vector row is written.

High 2 fix — scoped delete across all model stores (operations.rs):
- delete_note now iterates over registered_embedding_model_names() (new
  public method on KhiveRuntime) and deletes the note's vector from EVERY
  registered model's vector store. Previously only the default model's
  store was touched, leaving non-default vectors orphaned.

Medium fix — KHIVE_ADDITIONAL_EMBEDDING_MODELS warning on bad names:
- parse_embedding_model_list now logs tracing::warn for non-empty raw
  names that don't parse, instead of silently filtering them out. The
  function still returns a Vec (no startup failure on partial validity),
  but operator typos now surface at startup rather than as UnknownModel
  errors at request time.

Deferred (follow-up issue, see ADR-043 §1.1 final paragraph):
- High 1 — V16 backfill hard-codes 'all-minilm-l6-v2' for all regular
  vec_* tables, and sqlite-vec virtual tables are still dropped-and-rebuilt
  on schema mismatch (data loss for non-default deployments). A copy-with-
  default rebuild path is tracked separately because it requires a careful
  multi-step migration with vec0 INSERT INTO SELECT FROM and a verification
  step. Operators are warned via ADR §1.1 to back up before upgrading.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codex Major 2 (PR #408): the tune CLI is not re-runnable from a fresh
clone of this branch because khive_contract is in the parent package
(slice 06, PR #403 — already merged to main). Codex tested slice 08
in isolation and hit ModuleNotFoundError.

Adds tests/khive-contract/tune/README.md explaining:
- Install khive_contract first: uv pip install -e . from
  tests/khive-contract/
- Run via uv run python -m tune --quick (or full)
- Documents the corpus-ceiling limitation surfaced in REPORT.md
- Explicit note that RecallConfig::default() was intentionally NOT
  changed (defaults reverted in d943b7f based on codex Major 1)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Codex findings addressed

Verdict: REQUEST CHANGES → fixes pushed

Major 1: Unjustified default changes

Fixed by reverting the three RecallConfig::default() changes in commit d943b7f:

  • temporal_half_life_days: 14.0 → restored to 30.0
  • decay_model: Hyperbolic → restored to DecayModel::default() (Exponential)
  • candidate_multiplier: 10 → restored to 20

Codex correctly identified that REPORT.md acknowledges recall@10 = 0.9333 for ALL 116 configs (corpus ceiling), so these changes had no empirical justification. The tuned-config.toml artifact, grid_search.py infra, and corpus all remain — only the load-bearing defaults reverted. A discriminating eval corpus is the prerequisite before changing runtime defaults.

Major 2: Tune CLI not re-runnable

Documented in commit be85904. Added tests/khive-contract/tune/README.md explaining:

  1. Install the harness package first: cd tests/khive-contract && uv pip install -e .
  2. Then run: uv run python -m tune --quick

The khive_contract package is in slice 06 (PR #403 — already merged to main). When this slice merges, the package is in main and the CLI works in a clean checkout. Codex tested slice 08 in isolation and saw the missing module.

Also documents the corpus-ceiling limitation explicitly.

Commits: d943b7f (default revert), be85904 (tune README), a9f5585 (fmt), d973c29 (deno fmt).

Ready for re-review.

ohdearquant and others added 4 commits May 25, 2026 11:57
…l consistency

Two findings from codex round 2 on PR #407:

1. Medium: runtime-level unknown-model atomicity. handle_remember validated
   embedding_model before calling create_note_with_decay_for_embedding_model
   (round 1 fix), but the runtime API itself was permissive — direct Rust
   callers (other packs, integration tests) would still hit the write-after-
   failure bug.

   Fix: resolve_embedding_model is now called at the start of
   create_note_inner BEFORE any note/FTS/vector write. The pack-handler check
   remains as an earlier error boundary, but atomicity is enforced at the
   lowest layer that performs the write.

2. High: ADR-043 internal inconsistency. The §1.1 amendment landed in round 1,
   but the rest of the ADR still contained normative text for the rejected
   FK-based design:
   - §8 (Backward compat) described embedding_model_id BLOB column + CHECK rebuild
   - Alternatives table rejected per-record model_id (which is what V16 ships)
   - Migration version section claimed V5 + BLOB FK

   Fix:
   - §8 rewritten to describe V14 + V16 (registry + tag column) split that
     actually shipped
   - Alternatives table row strikes-through with "Superseded by V16 (2026-05-25)"
     and points back to §1.1 for rationale
   - Migration version section split into V14 (cluster-20) and V16 (v022-polish)
     with the actual SQL each migration runs

   Codex's other round-1 findings remain addressed:
   - Critical (ADR drift) — now resolved end-to-end across §1.1, §8, alternatives, and §Migration version
   - High 2 (scoped delete) — confirmed by round-2 review at operations.rs:1395, 1408
   - Medium (env var warning) — confirmed at runtime.rs:549, 560

Verified: cargo test -p khive-runtime -p khive-pack-memory --lib passes
(262 + 62 tests), cargo fmt clean, deno fmt clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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