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fix(sleep): reclaim stale orphan claims in sleep_all_sessions - #1322
BeamMemory.reclaim_orphans() (added in 1d9d8fc for #293) clears sleep claims that never got an episodic summary, but nothing in the package calls it. sleep() claims rows by setting consolidated_at before it writes the summary. If the process exits in that window (for example a host process shutting down while a session-end consolidation is still running), those rows keep consolidated_at with no summary_of reference, and every later sleep() / sleep_all_sessions() skips them because both filter on consolidated_at IS NULL.
This PR makes the maintenance pass call it: sleep_all_sessions() now runs reclaim_orphans() before scanning. It only touches claims older than the existing one-hour stale window, so an in-flight sleep() in another process is not affected. Dry runs reclaim nothing. The result dict gains reclaimed_orphans.
Field data from a Hermes 3.15.1 install (~14.7k working rows): 15 and later 66 such orphan rows accumulated across separate session-end runs. After a manual reclaim_orphans() call, the next maintenance pass summarized them and the count returned to 0.
Related Issue
Follow-up to #293 (closed): the reclaim helper landed there, but no call site was ever wired.
Type of Change
Bug fix
New feature
Documentation update
Refactor / performance
Test improvement
CI / build tooling
How Has This Been Tested?
Existing tests still pass (pytest tests/ -v)
New tests added for any new functionality
Manual verification (described below)
New tests in tests/test_beam_e3_additive_sleep.py:
test_sleep_all_sessions_reclaims_stale_orphan_claims_first: stale orphan claims get summarized by one sleep_all_sessions() call. It fails on main and passes with this change.
test_sleep_all_sessions_dry_run_does_not_reclaim: the dry run leaves claims untouched.
Full suite, TZ=UTC MNEMOSYNE_NO_EMBEDDINGS=1 pytest tests/, run on main and on this branch with the same environment:
main: 85 failed / 7436 passed
branch: 84 failed / 7439 passed
No test fails on this branch that passes on main. The remaining failures in both runs come from optional dependencies missing in my local env (mcp, sync, wheel-build), not from this change.
Side note, not changed here: the existing test_reclaim_orphans_* tests build their stale claim with local datetime.now(), while reclaim_orphans() compares against naive UTC. On a machine east of UTC they fail on main (5 failures under TZ=Europe/Istanbul). The two new tests use a UTC helper so they pass in any timezone. I can send a separate PR for the old ones if that is useful.
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Version bumped in mnemosyne/__init__.py (left as-is to match recent PRs that add only an [Unreleased] entry)
CHANGELOG.md updated with a brief entry
README updated if user-facing behavior changed (n/a)
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Summary
sleep() now recovers stale orphan claims in place. It takes over a claim only when its timestamp is older than one hour and a summary written at or after that claim does not already cover the row. Compare-and-swap checks protect against concurrent claim changes. Recovery preserves consolidated_at, so working-memory rows keep their trim exemption until consolidation completes.
consolidate_to_episodic() accepts a private claim stamp for sleep operations. It checks claim ownership under the write lock before inserting a summary. Claim clearing also checks ownership. Sleep results now include recovered_orphans and claims_lost. sleep_all_sessions() reports the total recovered count as reclaimed_orphans. Dry runs do not change claims. The manual reclaim_orphans() tool still clears markers, but now uses claim-specific completion checks and compare-and-swap updates.
Architectural impact
BEAM and consolidation: This closes the interrupted-claim recovery gap in the working-memory-to-episodic path. In-place recovery preserves the trim exemption while the summary is pending. Claim checks protect against duplicate writes and stale holders clearing newer claims.
Tiered memory and retrieval: The change affects working-to-episodic consolidation. No changes to BEAM memory, retrieval strategy, or the veracity system are shown.
Privacy and local-first: Recovery uses the existing local database and adds no remote service or data export. No change to local-first behavior is shown.
Agent integration: The change updates core sleep maintenance. No Hermes, MCP, or CLI integration changes are shown.
Sync and benchmarks: No sync-layer or benchmark-methodology changes are shown.
Maintainability: Claim-specific completion evidence, compare-and-swap updates, bind-limit-aware operations, and reported recovery failures make recovery behavior more explicit. Keeping recovery in place rather than clearing the trim marker is the right call for protecting unsummarized rows.
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The diff adds tests for automatic recovery, dry-run immutability, trim protection, concurrent claims, large backlogs, historical summaries, and recovery failures. Test execution results are not available. Review finding counts are not available.
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Sleep can take over stale, incomplete consolidation claims without removing their trim exemption. Claim ownership is checked before summary writes and marker clearing. Manual reclamation uses compare-and-swap updates. Sleep results report recovered or lost claims, and all-session results aggregate recovered claims.
Changes: Stale claim recovery
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Summary
Check claim completion and reclaim manually mnemosyne/core/beam.py, tests/test_beam_e3_additive_sleep.py
Manual reclamation checks completion against each claim timestamp and clears a claim only if its stamp is unchanged. Tests cover time thresholds, historical and completed summaries, and large backlogs within SQLite’s bind-variable limit.
Take over claims and verify ownership mnemosyne/core/beam.py, tests/test_beam_e3_additive_sleep.py
Sleep can claim fresh rows or take over stale, incomplete claims in batches. It verifies ownership before writing summaries and clears only matching claim stamps. Tests cover trim and batch boundaries, competing claim holders, lost claims, large backlogs, and recovery failures.
sleep_all_sessions() uses the updated eligibility test and aggregates recovered-orphan counts. Tests cover recovery and dry-run behavior. The changelog describes the recovery and result fields.
sequenceDiagram
participant Sleep as BeamMemory.sleep
participant Claims as _claim_sleep_rows
participant Summary as consolidate_to_episodic
Sleep->>Claims: claim fresh or stale incomplete rows
Claims-->>Sleep: return IDs holding the new claim stamp
Sleep->>Summary: write summary with claim stamp
Summary->>Summary: verify source rows still hold the claim
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The change recovers stale consolidation claims during sleep and fixes the earlier trim-exposure and stale-holder problems. Before merge, guard the bind-limit tests so the Python 3.10 CI job does not fail. Auto-sleep may also skip sessions that hold only stale claims, and a rare concurrent overlap could still produce a duplicate summary.
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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift
Distinguish historical summaries from the current claim.
After remember() refreshes a previously consolidated row, it clears the markers and makes that row eligible for another sleep. If that sleep fails after claiming it, reclaim_orphans() rejects the orphan because its query at Lines 12781–12785 finds the previous summary. Associate summaries with the claim they completed, so an earlier summary cannot block recovery of a later claim.
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Review comment at @mnemosyne/core/beam.py at line 13556:
Update the claim and summary handling used by remember() and reclaim_orphans()
so each summary is associated with the specific claim it completed; when a later
sleep claim fails, an earlier summary must not prevent reclaiming it. Preserve
the existing orphan-recovery safeguards while distinguishing historical
summaries from the current claim.
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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift
Fence a former claim holder before reclaiming its rows.
A sleep() call can still be processing an LLM request after one hour. This call can reclaim and re-claim its rows, but the former holder can then write another summary and clear the new claim. Use a claim token that storage checks before summary insertion and claim cleanup.
Based on learnings: “An unresponsive lease holder can resume writing,” so age alone does not fence it.
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Review comment at @mnemosyne/core/beam.py at line 13556:
Update the orphan-reclamation flow around reclaim_orphans so reclaiming a row
fences its former claim holder with a claim token. Propagate that token through
summary insertion and claim cleanup, and ensure storage performs both operations
only when the token still matches the current claim; preserve the new holder’s
claim if an old holder resumes.
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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift
Keep reclaimed originals exempt from trim.
reclaim_orphans() commits consolidated_at = NULL before the session scan claims the rows again. If another thread calls remember() in that interval, _trim_working_memory() can delete reclaimed originals older than the working-memory TTL. Rows beyond a session’s sleep batch also remain exposed after the pass. Preserve their trim exemption until recovery completes.
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Review comment at @mnemosyne/core/beam.py at line 13556:
Update the recovery flow around reclaim_orphans() so reclaimed originals remain
exempt from _trim_working_memory() until recovery completes, including rows not
yet claimed because they exceed a session’s sleep batch. Ensure concurrent
remember() calls cannot expose those rows to trimming during that interval.
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Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Batch reclamation within SQLite’s bind limit.
On a connection limited to 999 variables, 999 stale candidates produce 1,000 bindings in reclaim_orphans() because the cutoff uses one additional parameter. The update fails, and this handler leaves the backlog unreclaimed on every maintenance pass. Batch the update using the connection’s live bind limit.
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Update reclaim_orphans() to batch stale-candidate updates within the SQLite
connection’s live bind limit, accounting for the cutoff parameter when sizing
each batch so no statement exceeds the limit. Preserve the existing reclamation
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Report reclamation failures in the result.
If reclamation fails, for example because the database is busy, the returned mapping still reports reclaimed_orphans: 0 and errors: 0. The CLI can therefore report a no-op without indicating that recovery failed. Keep the pass running, but include the recovery failure in its result.
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Review comment at @mnemosyne/core/beam.py around lines 13557 - 13558:
Update the exception handler in sleep_all_sessions so a reclaim_orphans failure
is recorded in the returned mapping’s errors instead of leaving errors at zero;
keep the pass running and preserve the existing reclaimed_orphans count.
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The existing reclaim_orphans tests already cover the main claim and summary boundaries. Do not add the broader matrix here without a separate contract for those behaviors.
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Review comment at @tests/test_beam_e3_additive_sleep.py around lines 473 - 475:
Update the dry-run test for sleep_all_sessions to capture its result and assert
reclaimed_orphans is zero. Verify the session’s consolidated_at and
consolidation_claimed_at markers both remain equal to stale_claim after the dry
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Reviewed ecaf74f against current main e1f34fb. The maintenance call site repairs the simple interrupted-claim case, and 63 selected additive-sleep, lock-hygiene, consolidation and public-surface tests pass locally. CI and CLA are green; CodeRabbit covers ecaf74f but still has three unresolved threads containing the findings below. I reproduced the substantive cases on disposable SQLite stores rather than relying on the green bot check.
The two safety problems should be addressed before enabling this recovery automatically:
Reclaim removes the trim exemption before recovery completes. I inserted a normal remember() on a second connection immediately after the real reclaim commit, before the session scan: the 200-hour-old original was deleted and no summary was created. This is not limited to that interleaving. With a configured sleep batch of two, reclaiming three originals summarizes two; the next ordinary remember() trims the unsummarized third. Preserve protection for recovered-but-not-yet-summarized rows through the entire recovery interval, including batch overflow.
An hour is an age threshold, not proof that a worker has stopped. In a deterministic A-pause/B-recover/A-resume schedule, with A's stored claim aged to model elapsed time, B's real sleep_all_sessions() writes one summary and the former A holder then writes a second summary for the same original. A separate failure-injection control also shows A clearing B's newer claim marker. Ownership must be checked at the summary-write and claim-clear boundaries; the comment that an in-flight sleep is unaffected is too strong.
Two smaller functional problems also reproduce:
At a live SQLite bind limit of 999, 999 stale IDs plus the cutoff bind fail with "too many SQL variables". The 998-ID control succeeds. The automatic pass leaves all 999 claims untouched and returns no_op / reclaimed_orphans=0 / errors=0. Bound the reclaim UPDATE by the live connection limit, reserving the cutoff bind.
A reclamation exception is only logged. Even an injected busy error with no sessions returns errors=0. Carry recovery failures into the result on both early-return and normal paths while allowing independent sessions to continue.
The historical-summary case is real too: a successful sleep, exact-content remember() refresh, then a failed later sleep leaves a fresh orphan that reclaim_orphans() rejects because the previous summary still references the same working ID. Recovery needs claim-specific completion evidence, or an explicitly narrower documented contract; a historical summary does not establish completion of the latest claim.
These underlying helper/sleep/trim mechanisms already exist on main: their function ASTs are identical on the reviewed revisions. This PR newly invokes recovery on every non-dry maintenance pass, exposing those interactions automatically. I would not describe all of them as newly introduced helper defects, but that distinction does not make automatic invocation safe.
The current dry run does preserve both markers and returns reclaimed_orphans=0 in an independent control. Add those assertions to the permanent test; it currently checks only consolidated_at. No schema or claim-token design is approved by this review.
Clarifying the open review items at ecaf74f821d2da6d3f9589ced6e85604599b476d:
#discussion_r4440083474: the reclaim call is present in sleep_all_sessions, but that alone does not close the stale-summary/new-interrupted-claim case. A historical summary_of token must not stand in for evidence that the newer claim/content was summarized. The requested regression needs to preserve a genuinely completed claim while allowing an interrupted newer claim to be recovered. No fix or regression run for that case is claimed by this update.
#discussion_r4440083470: the public PR has not been updated with a runtime inventory. Any private-only inventory request should specify the minimum fields and intended recipient/channel first; local paths, identifiers and runtime details will not be posted publicly merely to satisfy the review note. This does not waive the other evidence requested by the review.
The positive reclaim-helper review and signed CLA do not resolve these remaining items. The PR remains open; no merge or thread resolution was performed.
reclaim_orphans() existed but nothing called it, so rows claimed by a sleep() that died before writing its summary stayed consolidated_at-set with no summary and were never retried. The maintenance pass now runs it first.
Address review findings on automatic orphan recovery:
- Recovery no longer clears consolidated_at: sleep() takes a stale claim over
by compare-and-swap on the exact stamp it read, so the row keeps its trim
exemption throughout, including rows beyond one sleep batch.
- A claim age is only a candidate trigger. The summary insert verifies, under
the same write lock, that the claim is still the writer's (_SleepClaimLost
otherwise), and the claim-clear only clears its own stamp.
- Completion is per claim: a summary written at or after the claim stamp
completes it; an earlier summary that names the same id does not.
- Claim statements honour the live SQLite bind limit; reclaim_orphans uses a
per-row compare-and-swap independent of candidate count.
- Per-session recovery failures surface in errors/error_details.
- Tests assert both markers survive a dry run; claim stamps use naive UTC.
Thanks for the reproductions. I took the review's own cases as the test list and reworked the PR (6cc21bc). The design is a variant you did not approve in advance, so I kept it schema-free: the existing consolidation_claimed_at stamp is the ownership token, no new column.
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Change
Reclaim ends the trim exemption (interleaved remember(), and batch overflow with MNEMOSYNE_SLEEP_BATCH=2)
sleep_all_sessions() no longer calls reclaim_orphans(). sleep() takes a stale claim over in place, by compare-and-swap on the exact (consolidated_at, consolidation_claimed_at) it read, so consolidated_at is never NULL during recovery and the row stays trim-exempt, including rows past one batch.
An hour is not proof the worker stopped (A-pause / B-recover / A-resume; A clearing B's marker)
Age is only the trigger. The summary insert now verifies, under the same write lock, that every source row still carries the writer's claim stamp, otherwise it raises _SleepClaimLost and writes nothing. The claim-clear is ... AND consolidation_claimed_at = <my stamp>. A recovered holder reports claims_lost.
Historical summary blocks recovery of the latest claim
Completion is per claim: a summary completes a claim only if its created_at is at or after the claim stamp. An earlier summary that merely names the id no longer counts. Same predicate in reclaim_orphans().
999 ids + cutoff exceed a 999-variable limit
Claim statements use the live-limit batching already in beam.py; reclaim_orphans() updates per row (3 binds) so candidate count cannot hit the limit.
Recovery exception only logged, errors=0
The recovery now runs inside each session's sleep(), so a failure goes through the existing per-session handler: errors / error_details, other sessions continue.
Dry-run test only checked consolidated_at
Now also asserts the claim marker survives and reclaimed_orphans == 0.
Tests: 9 new cases in tests/test_beam_e3_additive_sleep.py. I ran them against the previous revision of this PR: 8 of the 9 fail there (the ninth is the control for "a completed claim is not recovered"), and the whole file passes on the new revision under UTC, Europe/Istanbul and America/Los_Angeles. The existing reclaim tests used local-time claim stamps while sleep() writes naive UTC, so they failed on any non-UTC host; they now use UTC stamps.
Two things I want to flag rather than hide:
created_at on episodic_memory is second-granular, so a summary written in the same second as the claim counts as complete. That errs toward never writing a second summary.
Ownership relies on the stamp being unique per pass. Two passes starting in the same microsecond could share one; I did not add a nonce because you did not approve a token design. Say if you want one.
Not touched: the pre-existing reclaim_orphans() clears consolidated_at when called by hand. The docstring now says to prefer sleep().
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Review comments at @CHANGELOG.md:
- Line 22: Revise the `sleep()` and `reclaim_orphans()` release note to qualify
the per-claim completion guarantee: summaries are currently compared at second
precision, and a summary with NULL `created_at` can also count as completion, so
an earlier summary may block recovery. State that limitation and do not claim
completion is reliably tied to the claim until the evidence identifies it.
- Line 22: Update the changelog description of `sleep_all_sessions()`’s
`reclaimed_orphans` count to clarify that it counts claims taken over, not
summaries successfully written; preserve the distinction that a recovered claim
may later be lost before its summary is completed.
Review comments at @mnemosyne/core/beam.py:
- Around line 101-107: Update the auto-sleep eligibility count to use
_SLEEP_ELIGIBLE_SQL so it includes stale claims recoverable by sleep(), while
preserving the pinned-row exclusion. Bind the cutoff values in the order
required by the shared predicate and the count query.
Review comments at @tests/test_beam_e3_additive_sleep.py:
- Line 811: Skip both bind-limit tests,
test_large_orphan_backlog_is_not_blocked_by_the_bind_limit and
test_sleep_recovers_a_large_backlog_under_the_bind_limit, when
sqlite3.Connection.setlimit is unavailable; keep them enabled when the feature
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- **Graph recall no longer scans every edge for each walked node.** `find_related_memories` with an `edge_type` used `idx_edges_type`, which matches nearly every edge when one type dominates, as `ctx` does. It now uses the source and target indexes. On a database with no `ANALYZE` statistics, which Mnemosyne doesn't create, it returns the same results in the same order. A rare type on a node with very many edges costs more, because it reads all of that node's edges.
- **Interrupted transaction helpers release their owned SQLite write locks (#1319).** `KeyboardInterrupt` and `SystemExit` now follow the existing rollback paths in `_write_locked_transaction`, `_guarded_transaction`, and `VeracityConsolidator._serialized_write`, then propagate unchanged. Caller-owned transactions retain the existing savepoint and participation rules.
- **With no caller transaction open, `remember()` commits twice instead of about seven times.** Each local enrichment step (trim, the working-memory embedding, temporal annotations, entities, MEMORIA facts and the graph gist) committed on its own. In the default WAL mode with `synchronous` at FULL, each of those commits is an fsync. The row still commits first. With no caller transaction open, all local enrichment now runs in one write transaction after it. The LLM fact step runs after that transaction, so no write lock is held during a model call. A conflict between facts that needs a federation probe to peer banks is queued in that transaction and probed after it commits, as it was before. When `remember()` owns the enrichment transaction, an exception escaping that block rolls back the local enrichment and closes the transaction while keeping the already committed memory row. Best-effort failures caught inside the block do not trigger that rollback; earlier enrichment writes may still commit. An escaping interrupt such as `KeyboardInterrupt` follows the same rollback path. Taking the write lock for enrichment retries like the row write does. If it's still busy, a new row raises as before, and a dedup hit logs a warning and skips enrichment, because its row update already committed. When the caller already has a transaction open, nothing changes. When `remember()` succeeds, the stored data does not change.
- **Sleep recovers stale orphan claims without ever exposing the row to trim.** A `sleep()` interrupted between its claim and its episodic insert leaves working rows with `consolidated_at` set and no summary; they were skipped forever. `sleep()` (and so `sleep_all_sessions()`) now takes such a claim over in place, by compare-and-swap on the exact claim stamp it read, and summarizes it in the same pass. `consolidated_at` is never cleared during recovery, so the row keeps its trim exemption for the whole interval, including rows beyond one sleep batch. A claim older than one hour is only a candidate: the summary write checks, under the same write lock as the insert, that the claim is still the writer's, and the claim-clear only clears its own stamp, so a slow holder that is recovered mid-flight writes nothing and cannot clear the new holder's marker. Completion is judged per claim: a summary written at or after the claim stamp completes it, an earlier summary that merely names the same id does not. All claim statements honour the connection's live SQLite bind limit, and a failed session pass is reported in `errors` / `error_details` instead of only logged. `reclaim_orphans()` stays as the manual tool, now with the same per-claim completion test and a bind-count-independent compare-and-swap. `sleep()` results gain `recovered_orphans` and `claims_lost`; `sleep_all_sessions()` keeps `reclaimed_orphans` (now the number of orphans recovered in place). Dry runs change nothing.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Qualify the completion guarantee.
An earlier summary can still block recovery. beam.py compares timestamps at second precision and also treats a summary with a NULL created_at as completion. A prior summary from the same second as a new interrupted claim therefore prevents recovery. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
Qualify the release note until completion evidence identifies the claim.
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Review comment at @CHANGELOG.md at line 22:
Revise the `sleep()` and `reclaim_orphans()` release note to qualify the
per-claim completion guarantee: summaries are currently compared at second
precision, and a summary with NULL `created_at` can also count as completion, so
an earlier summary may block recovery. State that limitation and do not claim
completion is reliably tied to the claim until the evidence identifies it.
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Describe reclaimed_orphans as claims taken over.
sleep() increments recovered_orphans when it takes a claim, before it writes the summary. If it later loses the claim, sleep_all_sessions() still includes that count even though this pass wrote no summary for it. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
Clarify that the count does not guarantee completed summaries.
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Review comment at @CHANGELOG.md at line 22:
Update the changelog description of `sleep_all_sessions()`’s `reclaimed_orphans`
count to clarify that it counts claims taken over, not summaries successfully
written; preserve the distinction that a recovered claim may later be lost
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Include stale claims in the auto-sleep eligibility count.
If the database has no eligible unconsolidated rows, the count is zero even when the current session has stale claims that sleep() can recover. Auto-sleep then skips those claims, and they remain hidden from default context until another sleep pass recovers them.
Update the eligibility count
- f"AND consolidated_at IS NULL "+ f"AND {_SLEEP_ELIGIBLE_SQL} "
f"AND (pinned IS NULL OR pinned = 0)",
- (cutoff,),+ (cutoff, _orphan_cutoff()),
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Update the auto-sleep eligibility count to use _SLEEP_ELIGIBLE_SQL so it
includes stale claims recoverable by sleep(), while preserving the pinned-row
exclusion. Bind the cutoff values in the order required by the shared predicate
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Close the remaining recovery-test gaps in one pass.
The new tests assert real outcomes. The gaps below are grouped as the path instructions require:
Interleaving uses one connection.a and b share the thread-local connection returned by _get_connection. The test therefore does not exercise ownership checks across connections. Run B's recovery in a second thread so it uses a separate connection. Assert that A's _require_sleep_claim sees B's committed stamp.
Dead patch. Line 871 patches reclaim_orphans, but sleep_all_sessions() no longer calls it. Remove the patch, or assert it is not called. Also drop raising=False on Line 872: _claim_sleep_rows exists, so a rename should fail loudly.
NULL created_at._claim_completed_sql treats em.created_at IS NULL as completion of any claim. That case reintroduces historical-summary blocking, for example for imported rows whose created_at is NULL. Add a test that pins down the intended behaviour.
Partial claim loss. No test covers a group where only some ids lose the claim, for example after a remember() refresh of one row. Assert that the remaining rows keep consolidated_at, so they stay trim-exempt, and that a later pass recovers them.
sleep() result fields. Assert that recovered_orphans is 0 for a run with only fresh rows and also for a dry_run with orphans. Assert that claims_lost is 0 on the normal path.
Unused parameter._claim(..., summarized=False) never uses summarized.
As per path instructions: "Group ALL suggestions for related fixtures/test files together" and "Verify that new tests actually assert something meaningful."
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Skip the bind-limit tests on Python 3.10.
sqlite3.Connection.setlimit() and sqlite3.SQLITE_LIMIT_VARIABLE_NUMBER exist only from Python 3.11. pyproject.toml declares requires-python >=3.10. _recall_id_batches() already has a 3.10 fallback for the missing getlimit. On 3.10, both tests raise AttributeError, so pytest tests/ fails on a supported interpreter.
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Review comment at @tests/test_beam_e3_additive_sleep.py at line 811:
Skip both bind-limit tests,
test_large_orphan_backlog_is_not_blocked_by_the_bind_limit and
test_sleep_recovers_a_large_backlog_under_the_bind_limit, when
sqlite3.Connection.setlimit is unavailable; keep them enabled when the feature
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Description
BeamMemory.reclaim_orphans()(added in 1d9d8fc for #293) clears sleep claims that never got an episodic summary, but nothing in the package calls it.sleep()claims rows by settingconsolidated_atbefore it writes the summary. If the process exits in that window (for example a host process shutting down while a session-end consolidation is still running), those rows keepconsolidated_atwith nosummary_ofreference, and every latersleep()/sleep_all_sessions()skips them because both filter onconsolidated_at IS NULL.This PR makes the maintenance pass call it:
sleep_all_sessions()now runsreclaim_orphans()before scanning. It only touches claims older than the existing one-hour stale window, so an in-flightsleep()in another process is not affected. Dry runs reclaim nothing. The result dict gainsreclaimed_orphans.Field data from a Hermes 3.15.1 install (~14.7k working rows): 15 and later 66 such orphan rows accumulated across separate session-end runs. After a manual
reclaim_orphans()call, the next maintenance pass summarized them and the count returned to 0.Related Issue
Follow-up to #293 (closed): the reclaim helper landed there, but no call site was ever wired.
Type of Change
How Has This Been Tested?
pytest tests/ -v)New tests in
tests/test_beam_e3_additive_sleep.py:test_sleep_all_sessions_reclaims_stale_orphan_claims_first: stale orphan claims get summarized by onesleep_all_sessions()call. It fails on main and passes with this change.test_sleep_all_sessions_dry_run_does_not_reclaim: the dry run leaves claims untouched.Full suite,
TZ=UTC MNEMOSYNE_NO_EMBEDDINGS=1 pytest tests/, run on main and on this branch with the same environment:No test fails on this branch that passes on main. The remaining failures in both runs come from optional dependencies missing in my local env (
mcp, sync, wheel-build), not from this change.Side note, not changed here: the existing
test_reclaim_orphans_*tests build their stale claim with localdatetime.now(), whilereclaim_orphans()compares against naive UTC. On a machine east of UTC they fail on main (5 failures underTZ=Europe/Istanbul). The two new tests use a UTC helper so they pass in any timezone. I can send a separate PR for the old ones if that is useful.Checklist
mnemosyne/__init__.py(left as-is to match recent PRs that add only an[Unreleased]entry)CHANGELOG.mdupdated with a brief entryBy submitting this pull request I confirm I have read and agree to the CLA.
Summary
sleep()now recovers stale orphan claims in place. It takes over a claim only when its timestamp is older than one hour and a summary written at or after that claim does not already cover the row. Compare-and-swap checks protect against concurrent claim changes. Recovery preservesconsolidated_at, so working-memory rows keep their trim exemption until consolidation completes.consolidate_to_episodic()accepts a private claim stamp for sleep operations. It checks claim ownership under the write lock before inserting a summary. Claim clearing also checks ownership. Sleep results now includerecovered_orphansandclaims_lost.sleep_all_sessions()reports the total recovered count asreclaimed_orphans. Dry runs do not change claims. The manualreclaim_orphans()tool still clears markers, but now uses claim-specific completion checks and compare-and-swap updates.Architectural impact
Validation
The diff adds tests for automatic recovery, dry-run immutability, trim protection, concurrent claims, large backlogs, historical summaries, and recovery failures. Test execution results are not available. Review finding counts are not available.