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Part of #1968. #1973 closed the mandatory half; this is the optional half, plus the cost it would otherwise multiply.

What was still open

The bind-time audit compares capabilities() against provides(). For the optional families provides() is self.as_x().is_some() — a property of the adapter, not of the engine. A driver whose accessor returns an object the engine will not serve advertises the family, passes the audit, and hands an agent a tool that fails on its first call. #1973's probe covered Core and Recall only, because each optional family needs its own call shape.

What this does

family_leg is now the exhaustive table of how each of the twenty-six families is read. Fifteen optional families have a cheap required read and are probed when the driver advertises them:

family probe read
documents get_document(ns, key)
tree query_source(ns, source, 1, None)
entities entities(ns, None, 1)
graph kv_get(Some(ns), key)
diff snapshots(source, 1)
goals goals()
tool_memory tool_rules(tool)
people list_people(Some(1))
chunks get_chunk(id)
retrieval recall_namespace_recent(ns, 1)
profile get_facet(key)
episodic session_turns(session)
source_sync source_sync_state(toolkit, connection)
coding_sessions coding_session_status()
scoring embedder_slug()

Every leg is a required trait method, read-only, and either keyed to a name no company can produce or limited to one record. Required matters: a defaulted method answers Unsupported for a driver that implements the family perfectly well, so probing one would report working engines broken. recall_namespace_recent over fast_retrieve, and embedder_slug over embed_text, for the same reason in cost — both alternatives can make the engine pay for a model call.

The other eight optional families have no such read and are named with a reason each: ingest, sources and the four *_ingest families are write-only (and forget_source deletes), maintenance's four required methods are whole-store jobs, and answer is grounded synthesis — a metered inference call. portability stays unprobed for the reason it already was.

There is no _ arm. Capability is not #[non_exhaustive], so a family added upstream fails to compile here until somebody decides how — or whether — it is probed. A _ => None would have turned every future family into silent non-coverage, which is the defect this issue is about.

The verdict is split by consequence, not by confidence. A refused optional family lands in a new degraded_families / degradedFamilies, and the engine binds. Core and Recall are what MemoryStore, ContextStore and FactStore are built on, so an engine refusing one cannot serve a cycle at all; an engine refusing people serves every cycle and fails one tool, and refusing the bind over that would take a mostly-working engine away from an operator who has no other one. unreachable_families keeps meaning exactly what the apply route refuses on, so Test and Apply still agree — no change to the shipped gate.

Both console panels report it: the Brain page dot goes amber (not red, which would say "replace this engine", and not green, which would hide a surface about to fail), and the Settings card gains a row when there is something to show.

And the cost this would otherwise multiply. Raised in review on #1973 and not addressed then: GET …/memory/engine re-probed on every request, so a console page load — and every re-render and poll behind it — charged a full round against an engine that may meter each call. Widening the probe from two legs to seventeen makes that materially worse. The answer is now cached on the overlay behind an Arc and reused for fifteen seconds. The Arc is the point: AppState::memory_overlay() hands out a clone, so a descriptor field would have been dropped with it — and writing the probed clone back to AppState would race a concurrent apply and could restore the engine the operator just replaced. Boot, Test and Apply pass ZERO and always ask; an operator who just fixed a credential must not be shown the verdict from before the fix.

Tests

  • the_probed_families_are_the_documented_table — the list, written out, against a driver advertising all twenty-six. family_leg's exhaustive match makes a new family a compile error but says nothing about an existing arm quietly becoming None; this is what catches that.
  • an_engine_refusing_everything_it_advertises_reports_every_probed_family — the issue's harm at full width: the null driver refuses every optional call precisely because it advertises none, and the wrapper advertises all of them anyway. audit_provider passes it without a word. Every probed family must come back refused, and none of them as unreachable.
  • a_refused_optional_family_is_degraded_not_unreachable — one refusing family named alone, with a second family that answers and holds nothing as the control: empty is success for an optional family exactly as it is for a mandatory one.
  • an_unadvertised_family_is_never_probed — absence is a legitimate answer.
  • refresh_health_records_degraded_families — recorded on the descriptor, not only logged.
  • a_fresh_probe_answer_is_reused_instead_of_asked_again — counts engine reads across a clone, and asserts the reused answer still reaches the descriptor and that refresh_health (ZERO) still asks.
  • a_refused_optional_family_is_a_caveat_and_not_a_refusal — the route side: nothing degraded reaches the refusal path, and the caveat names both non-blocking observations rather than whichever was checked first.
  • read_reprobes_the_live_memory_engine extended to pin degradedFamilies on the wire.

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cargo test -p opencompany-core --lib 5798 passed; cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings clean; cargo fmt clean on every file this touches; the non-tinymemory feature set compiles; console typecheck, typecheck:e2e, typecheck:unit and 5863 unit tests pass.

CI caveat: main is currently red at 70d4627 on Rust (Format — an import order in setup_test_group_5.rs, from #2365) and on Desktop, both untouched by this branch and both inherited by it.

Still open on #1968

The Ok(empty)-forever case — an engine that answers a family and never stores anything. Separating that from a freshly provisioned instance needs an engine-specific signal, so it belongs in each driver and therefore in the conformance suite's live lane (tinymemory#128), not in a bind-time probe.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Memory health checks now identify optional capabilities that are unavailable separately from unreachable or slow capabilities.
    • Settings and engine status views display affected optional memory families and explain their impact.
    • Apply results provide distinct notifications for degraded capabilities, slow families, and restart requirements.
  • Improvements

    • Recent health-check results are reused briefly during read operations, reducing repeated checks.
    • Optional capability issues are reported as caveats without preventing the engine from binding.

tinyhumansai#1973 closed the mandatory half of tinyhumansai#1968: a boot-time read of Core and
Recall against the live engine, because `provides()` reports those `true`
unconditionally and the bind-time audit can never fail them.

The optional families were left open, and the audit is blind to them for
the same reason in the other direction: `provides()` is
`self.as_x().is_some()`, a property of the adapter. A driver whose
accessor returns an object the engine will not serve advertises the
family, passes the audit, and hands an agent a tool that fails on its
first call.

`family_leg` is now the exhaustive table of how each of the twenty-six
families is read. Fifteen optional families have a cheap required read
and are probed when advertised; the other eight do not, and are named
with a reason each -- six are write-only (`forget_source` deletes),
`Maintenance`'s required methods are whole-store jobs, and `Answer` is a
metered inference call. `Portability` stays unprobed for the reason it
already was: `export_page` walks the corpus. There is no `_` arm, so a
family added upstream fails to compile here until somebody decides how,
or whether, it is probed.

The verdict is split by consequence, not by confidence. A refused
optional family lands in the new `degraded_families` and the engine
binds: it serves every cycle and fails one tool, and refusing the bind
would take a mostly-working engine away from an operator who has no other
one. `unreachable_families` keeps meaning exactly what the apply route
refuses on, so Test and Apply still agree. Both console panels report the
new list, amber rather than red.

Also fixes the cost this would otherwise multiply, raised in review on
 tinyhumansai#1973 and not addressed then: `GET …/memory/engine` re-probed on every
request, so a console page load charged a full round against a metered
engine. The answer is now cached on the overlay behind an `Arc` -- the
route holds a clone, so a descriptor field would have been dropped with
it -- and reused for fifteen seconds. Boot, Test and Apply never reuse.

Still open on tinyhumansai#1968: the `Ok(empty)`-forever case, which needs an
engine-specific signal and belongs in the conformance suite's live lane.
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Memory health reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Probe classification and coverage
crates/opencompany-core/src/store/select.rs, crates/opencompany-core/src/store/select_health_tests.rs
Probes now cover advertised families with cheap reads. Mandatory refusals become unreachable, optional refusals become degraded, and timeouts remain slow.
Probe caching and route propagation
crates/opencompany-core/src/store/select.rs, crates/opencompany-core/src/server/ops/memory_engine.rs, crates/opencompany-core/src/store/select_health_tests.rs
Read requests reuse probe results for 15 seconds across overlay clones. Snapshots expose degraded families.
Server probe responses and caveats
crates/opencompany-core/src/server/ops/memory_engine.rs, crates/opencompany-core/src/server/ops/memory_engine_tests.rs
Probe responses include degraded families. Bindable candidates report degraded and slow families as non-blocking caveats.
Runtime documentation and frontend status
docs/spec/runtime/memory-engine.md, frontend/src/api/memory.ts, frontend/src/views/SettingsView.tsx, frontend/src/views/memory/EngineSection.tsx
Documentation and frontend status surfaces describe and display refused optional families, including warnings and amber status indicators.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MemoryEngine
  participant MemoryOverlay
  participant ServerRoute
  participant Frontend
  MemoryEngine->>MemoryOverlay: probe advertised families
  MemoryOverlay-->>ServerRoute: return unreachable, degraded, and slow families
  ServerRoute-->>Frontend: send engine state and probe fields
  Frontend->>Frontend: render degraded status and warnings
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The maintainer guidance misstates the number of unprobed families, which can misdirect future documentation updates. Correct it before merging.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the two main changes: probing optional memory families and avoiding repeated probes for GET requests.
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- Around line 614-616: Correct the nearby documentation comment to state that
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/// Changing it means changing `docs/spec/runtime/memory-engine.md` too: the
/// ten absences are documented there with a reason each, and an absence with no
/// reason is the defect issue #1968 is about.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the count of unprobed families.

family_leg returns None for nine families: Portability, Ingest, Sources, Maintenance, DocumentIngest, ConversationIngest, LearningIngest, EventIngest, and Answer. The probed list below has 17 entries, and 17 + 9 = 26. The comment says "ten absences".

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-/// Changing it means changing `docs/spec/runtime/memory-engine.md` too: the
-/// ten absences are documented there with a reason each, and an absence with no
-/// reason is the defect issue `#1968` is about.
+/// Changing it means changing `docs/spec/runtime/memory-engine.md` too: the
+/// nine absences are documented there with a reason each, and an absence with
+/// no reason is the defect issue `#1968` is about.
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/// Changing it means changing `docs/spec/runtime/memory-engine.md` too: the
/// ten absences are documented there with a reason each, and an absence with no
/// reason is the defect issue #1968 is about.
/// Changing it means changing `docs/spec/runtime/memory-engine.md` too: the
/// nine absences are documented there with a reason each, and an absence with
/// no reason is the defect issue #1968 is about.
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In `@crates/opencompany-core/src/store/select_health_tests.rs` around lines 614 -
616, Correct the nearby documentation comment to state that there are nine
unprobed families, matching the nine families returning None from family_leg and
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9 changed behaviours across 24 relationships. 6 surrounding behaviours are shown (60 graph nodes walked). 36 further behaviours left out to keep the diagram readable.

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/// Changing it means changing `docs/spec/runtime/memory-engine.md` too: the
/// ten absences are documented there with a reason each, and an absence with no
/// reason is the defect issue #1968 is about.
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priority medium security confident

Split the health tests into a focused module

This change appends several hundred lines of test doubles and cases to a source file that now exceeds the repository’s maximum source-file size. Move the new provider fixtures and health-probe tests into a dedicated test module so the file remains within the repository rule and the responsibilities stay focused.

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@tinysweeper tinysweeper Bot added the priority: p2 Soon. Real but survivable — a rough edge, a gap, a thing that will bite later. label Sep 17, 2026
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