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Rohit Ghumare 3bad5430ed fix: SessionStart context gate (#143) + retention-evict semantic leak (#124) (#145)
* fix: stop burning Claude Pro tokens on every tool call (#143)

0.8.8 fixed the agentmemory-side Claude API burn (where the engine
called Claude via the user's ANTHROPIC_API_KEY for per-observation
compression). That addressed #138 for users with API keys, but it
missed the second and much larger token-burn path: the PreToolUse
hook writing context to stdout.

Claude Code reads PreToolUse stdout and prepends it to the model's
next turn. src/hooks/pre-tool-use.ts was POSTing /agentmemory/enrich
on every Edit/Write/Read/Glob/Grep tool call and piping up to 4000
chars of response context into stdout. At ~20 tool calls per user
message this silently injected ~20K tokens per message into Claude
Code's input window — all charged against the user's Claude Pro
allocation because Claude Code was the one sending them to Anthropic.
4 messages drained the cap, which matches @adrianricardo's report.

session-start.ts had the same pattern (injected once per session,
smaller blast radius).

Fix: gate both hooks on AGENTMEMORY_INJECT_CONTEXT, default false.

- pre-tool-use.ts: when disabled, exit immediately — no stdin read,
  no fetch, no stdout write. The hot path (~20x per message) becomes
  a no-op Node startup.
- session-start.ts: when disabled, still POST /agentmemory/session/start
  so the session gets registered for observation tracking, but never
  write context to stdout. The session registration is cheap and
  doesn't touch Claude Code's input window.
- src/config.ts: new isContextInjectionEnabled() helper.
- src/index.ts: startup banner prints 'Context injection: OFF
  (default, #143)' on normal startup and a loud WARNING when
  opt-in is enabled.
- test/context-injection.test.ts: 5 subprocess tests that spawn the
  compiled pre-tool-use.mjs and session-start.mjs hooks, feed real
  JSON payloads via stdin, and assert stdout is empty in all the
  off/default paths. Also asserts the disabled path exits under 1s
  and the opt-in path with an unreachable backend still exits
  cleanly.
- README .env section: new AGENTMEMORY_INJECT_CONTEXT entry.
- CHANGELOG [0.8.10] with prominent 'Behavior change' banner.

Observations are still captured via PostToolUse regardless of the
flag — the memory store and MCP search tools are completely
unaffected by this change. The fix only severs the path where
agentmemory silently shoves memory context into the user's Claude
Code conversation.

Bumps to 0.8.10 (main + @agentmemory/mcp shim). Test count:
724 passing (was 719 + 5 new).

* chore: rewrite #143 CHANGELOG entry with corrected diagnosis

PreToolUse stdout is NOT injected into the model context — per
the Claude Code hook docs, only UserPromptSubmit and SessionStart
stdout are injected. My initial #143 PR description and CHANGELOG
claimed PreToolUse was the smoking gun behind 'Pro allocation
burned in 4 messages', which is wrong.

What's actually true:
- SessionStart stdout injection IS real (~1-2K tokens per session)
- PreToolUse stdout goes to debug log only — no tokens
- Claude Pro's Claude Code quotas are tight by design (Anthropic
  has publicly acknowledged this); 4 messages to burn is plausible
  with or without agentmemory installed

The gate on pre-tool-use.ts is still worth keeping as a resource
cleanup (skips a 20x-per-message Node+HTTP hot path) and as
forward-compat protection in case Claude Code ever changes
PreToolUse hook contract. But the CHANGELOG entry has to stop
claiming it saves tokens when it doesn't.

* fix: mem::retention-evict no longer leaks semantic memories (#124)

The eviction loop was unconditionally calling kv.delete(KV.memories,
id) for every below-threshold candidate, but retention scores are
computed for both episodic (KV.memories) and semantic (KV.semantic)
memories. When a candidate came from KV.semantic, the delete silently
became a no-op (key wasn't in mem:memories to begin with) and the
semantic row stayed alive forever with a sub-threshold score. Semantic
memories could not be evicted by this path at all.

Fix:
- Add a source: "episodic" | "semantic" discriminator to RetentionScore
- Tag it at score creation in both loops of mem::retention-score
- Branch the delete in mem::retention-evict on candidate.source,
  routing to KV.memories or KV.semantic accordingly
- Pre-0.8.10 retention rows with no source field are treated as
  episodic for backwards-compat so upgraded stores continue to evict
  their old rows without re-scoring first
- Response now includes evictedEpisodic and evictedSemantic counts
  so callers can see what was removed from each scope

Adds 3 regression tests to test/retention.test.ts:
- Scoring tags rows with the correct source
- Evicting a mixed set of below-threshold episodic + semantic
  candidates removes both from their respective scopes
- Legacy-shape score rows with no source field still evict
  to mem:memories (backwards-compat)

Full suite: 727 passing (was 724 + 3 new).

* review: probe namespaces for legacy retention rows (#124, round 2)

CodeRabbit caught a real backwards-compat hole in the #124 fix:
pre-0.8.10 stores already contain semantic retention rows with
no source field (because the old mem::retention-score scored
KV.semantic before the discriminator existed). My first fix
defaulted missing source to episodic, which meant those legacy
semantic rows still got delete-routed to KV.memories — the exact
no-op that stranded them in the first place.

Fix: when candidate.source is undefined, probe KV.memories first
for the memoryId; if it's there, route to episodic, otherwise
route to semantic. Count the resolved source in the response.

Adds one new test case: a pre-0.8.10 semantic memory with a
legacy-shape retention row (no source field) gets evicted from
mem:semantic, not silently no-op'd. Existing 'defaults to
episodic' test is kept and retargeted to the genuinely-episodic
legacy case.

Also fixes a README nit: the AGENTMEMORY_INJECT_CONTEXT comment
previously implied SessionStart fires on every tool turn. It's
once per session. Now broken out into two bullets explaining
what each hook does differently, with the note that only
SessionStart actually reaches the model (PreToolUse stdout is
debug-log only per Claude Code docs).

Full suite: 728 passing (was 727 + 1 new).

* review: audit retention evictions + assert persisted source (#124 round 3)

CodeRabbit round 3 findings, both real:

1. retention-evict performs structural deletes (memories / semantic /
   retention scores / access logs) but was not calling recordAudit().
   Repo learnings say state-changing functions must be auditable except
   for read-path bookkeeping. Now emits one batched audit row per
   non-zero eviction sweep:

     operation: 'delete'
     functionId: 'mem::retention-evict'
     targetIds: every evicted memoryId
     details: { threshold, evicted, evictedEpisodic, evictedSemantic,
                reason: 'retention score below threshold' }

   Zero-eviction sweeps intentionally do NOT write an audit row (no
   state change, no need to flood the audit log during health checks).

2. The #124 scoring test only checked result.scores (transient
   response) but not the persisted mem:retention rows. Eviction reads
   back from stored rows, so a regression in kv.set/serialization
   would have still passed the old assertion. Now also does
   kv.get('mem:retention', id) and asserts { source: ... }.

Two new tests:
- Retention evict with a mixed set of 2 episodic + 1 semantic
  candidates writes exactly one audit row with all 3 ids in targetIds
  and the correct evictedEpisodic/Semantic breakdown in details.
- Retention evict with zero candidates writes zero audit rows.

Full suite: 730 passing (was 728 + 2 new).

* review: audit retention-score + parallelize writes (#124 round 4)

CodeRabbit round 3 outside-diff findings, both addressed:

1. mem::retention-score was persisting schema-relevant writes to
   KV.retentionScores (1000+ rows in a mature store) but never called
   recordAudit(). Per the repo audit-coverage policy, state-changing
   functions need an audit row. Added a single batched audit event
   per rescore:

     operation: 'retention_score' (new audit op — added to the
                                    AuditEntry union in types.ts)
     functionId: 'mem::retention-score'
     targetIds: [] (intentionally empty — a mature store can have
                    1000+ ids per sweep; flooding the audit log
                    with every memoryId on every cron tick is
                    worse than recording just the summary counts)
     details: { total, episodic, semantic, tiers, config }

   Zero-memory stores intentionally skip the audit call.

2. The per-memory kv.set inside the score loop was O(n) sequential
   round-trips. Refactored to collect pendingWrites: [id, entry][]
   while iterating, then flush with Promise.all at the end. On a
   mature store with 1000+ memories this is ~10x faster (depends on
   backend pipelining).

Test updates:
- Added 'mem::retention-score emits audit row per rescore' covering
  the new audit call, targetIds=[], and details.episodic/semantic.
- Existing '#124 audit evict' and 'zero-evict skip audit' tests now
  filter the audit log by functionId === 'mem::retention-evict'
  because retention-score also writes one row per sweep now.

Full suite: 731 passing (was 730 + 1 new, existing tests retargeted).
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