feat(memory): attribute stored items to who said them, off by default

[M3gA-Mind]

Summary

• New [memory] observed_actor setting, off by default. On, the CortexDB engine records who actually said or did what memory stores (CortexDB's observed_actor, with the memory's owner as subject):
  • an assistant turn → its agent (agent:<id>);
  • a synced email → its sender.
• The Gmail (Composio) sync fills meta.observed_actor from each record's sender, as user:<address> plus the sender's name.
• Off, and always on the hosted TinyHumans engine, nothing on the wire changes. tinymemory clears the field before writing and never attributes on the hosted wire.

Problem

Memory records everything as said by the memory's owner. An email from Priya, or an agent's reply, is stored as if the user said it, so recall cannot tell who said what.

Solution

• config/schema/memory.rs: observed_actor: bool, serde default, not written while false.
• memory/engine.rs: resolve_cortexdb passes it as EngineSettings::observed_actor (tinymemory v1.23.8). It is part of the engine cache fingerprint, so switching it rebuilds the engine.
  • The TinyHumans engine is untouched: tinymemory never attributes on the hosted wire. It stays inert until the CortexDB team confirms the tenant's scope.write.on_behalf_of / about_other capabilities.
• memory/sources/composio.rs: record_item maps ConnectorRecord::sender (tinyconnectors v0.12.4) to ObservedActor:
  • the id is user:<address>, lower-cased so one person is one actor;
  • an email address and a phone number (the connector's dial digits, e.g. +15551234567) are both kept in plain text, per the user decision;
  • the name is the sender's display name; a blank address gives no actor.
• Writes never fail because of it. tinymemory sends a write CortexDB refuses for the attribution (401/403 or 400/413/422) again without the fields. A permission refusal turns attribution off for the engine's life.
• No re-store. The item fingerprint ignores observed_actor, so turning it on or off does not store anything twice.
• Not scrubbed. The host scrubber (memory/guard.rs → scrub_item_with) cleans text bodies and meta.url only, so the sender is stored as given.
• Out of scope: channel messages (WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS, …). That follows in a separate PR, once tinymemory can attribute a user turn and tinychannels carries the sender's display name. Only push/profile names exist on any channel; no channel exposes a saved contact name.

Submission Checklist

• Tests added or updated:
  • observed_actor_is_off_by_default_and_unwritten_until_set (config);
  • switching_observed_actor_rebuilds_the_cortexdb_engine (engine cache);
  • a_records_sender_becomes_its_observed_actor: an email lower-cased with its name, a phone number with a blank name, a blank address giving none, and no sender giving none.
• Diff coverage ≥ 80%: every changed line is covered by the tests above; enforced by the CI Fast diff-cover gate on this PR (not run locally, per the CI-only rule).
• Coverage matrix: N/A, an off-by-default memory setting with no feature row.
• Feature IDs: N/A.
• No new external network dependencies.
• Manual smoke checklist: N/A, off by default and not on a release-cut surface.
• Linked issue: N/A (fleet task F5).

Impact

• Desktop/CLI core only. Off by default, so behaviour is unchanged unless a user sets [memory] observed_actor = true with the CortexDB engine.
• Privacy: when on, a synced email's sender address (or phone number) and name are stored on the item and sent to CortexDB as the observed actor. This is per the user decision that emails and phone numbers may be stored in plain text.

Related

• Closes: N/A
• Builds on: chore: bump tinymemory to v1.23.8 and tinyconnectors to v0.12.4 #7126 (merged; tinymemory v1.23.8, tinyconnectors v0.12.4).
• Upstream: Attribute CortexDB writes to their observed actor, off by default tinymemory#237, Carry an email's sender on ConnectorRecord tinyconnectors#41.
• Follow-up PR(s)/TODOs: channel-message senders (phone or platform id plus push/profile name), after the tinymemory user-turn attribution and the tinychannels sender_name releases.

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Linear Issue

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Commit & Branch

• Branch: M3gA-Mind:feat/memory-observed-actor
• Commit SHA: edd2a40 (rebased onto main after feat(memory): no team section and a scope per GitHub repository by default #7128 merged)

Validation Run

• pnpm --filter openhuman-app format:check: N/A, no frontend change.
• pnpm typecheck: N/A, no frontend change.
• Focused tests: N/A locally, all checks run on GitHub CI (CI-only rule); see CI Fast on this PR.
• Rust fmt/check (if changed): cargo fmt -p openhuman run; check on CI.
• Tauri fmt/check (if changed): N/A.

Validation Blocked

• command: local cargo build/test
• error: none; deliberately not run under the fleet's CI-only rule
• impact: CI on this PR is the verification

Behavior Changes

• Intended behavior change: with [memory] observed_actor = true on CortexDB, writes name their observed actor, and synced emails keep their sender.
• User-visible effect: none by default.

Parity Contract

• Legacy behavior preserved: yes. Off, the request bodies and idempotency keys are byte-identical (asserted in tinymemory#237).
• Guard/fallback/dispatch parity checks: the refusal fallback lives in tinymemory (strip and retry, latch on a permission refusal).

Duplicate / Superseded PR Handling

• Duplicate PR(s): none
• Canonical PR: this
• Resolution: N/A

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added an optional observed_actor memory setting for CortexDB. When enabled, saved assistant turns and synced emails can include attribution to the agent or email sender. The setting is off by default; if CortexDB refuses an attributed write, it is retried without attribution.
• Documentation
  • Updated the memory configuration guide with attribution behavior, identifier formatting, and compatibility notes. When the setting is off or the hosted memory engine is used, existing behavior is unchanged.

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Tiny Sweeper review

Tiny Sweeper reviewed this change across 6 lane(s) and found 1 active actionable finding(s). Detailed lane evidence and any incomplete work are listed below.

State: Reviewing pending checks
Priority: medium
Reviewed head: edd2a40855bd
Updated: 1791462211 (Unix time)

Review snapshot

Change surface	Files	Review signal	Count
Production	3	Active findings	3
Tests	3	Noted findings	0
Documentation	1	Resolved findings	1
Configuration	0	Pending checks/questions	4

Completeness: Complete
Test assessment: No supported feature-to-test mapping was available; this does not mean tests are absent or passed.

What changed

The review could not produce a supported behavioral summary; inspect the cited changed surface and lane details below.

Features

None identified with supported citations.

Tests

No supported feature-to-test mapping was produced. Test execution is not inferred.

Findings

• medium · critique · Test the write-again-without-actor fallback — The new contract explicitly promises that a CortexDB write rejected because of `observed_actor` is retried without that field. This revision adds no coverage for that behavior, so (docs/specs/memory\-v2\.md)
• medium · security · Test the write-again-without-actor fallback — This test verifies only the default, serialization omission, and TOML parsing. It does not exercise the documented behavior that a CortexDB write rejected because of `observed_acto (crates/openhuman\-core/src/config/schema/memory\_tests\.rs:260)

Previously reported and still active

• Exercise the write-again-without-actor fallback

Resolved this pass

• Test the write-again-without-actor fallback the change promises

Pending checks: Rust E2E (mock backend), Build Playwright E2E Artifact, E2E (Playwright / web lane), Desktop E2E (full suite, 3 OS)

Before merge

• Address carried finding Exercise the write-again-without-actor fallback.
• Wait for Rust E2E (mock backend), Build Playwright E2E Artifact, E2E (Playwright / web lane), Desktop E2E (full suite, 3 OS).

Agent review details

critique

• Conclusion: Success
• Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
• Lane summary: Reviewed 3 files; 1 finding. (7 earlier finding(s) still open) _Code retrieval was unavailable (model: ladder embeddings returned 400 Bad Request: {"error":{"message":"unknown ladder vectors; known ladders are flash (also chat-v1, flash-v1), instant (also no-think, instant-v1), reasoning (also deepseek), max-reasoning (also max-reasoning-v1), deepseek-flash (also reasoning-v1, agentic-v1), deep (also luna), scribe, uncensored, vectors-oai3 (also embeddings-oai3-v1), vision (also vision-v1, multimodal-v1), image (also images-v1, image-v1), vi), so this review saw the diff alone._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: error sending request for url (http://cortexdb:3141/v1/recall\)\), so this review ran without it._
• Evidence: docs/specs/memory\-v2\.md — Test the write-again-without-actor fallback

security

• Conclusion: Success
• Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
• Lane summary: The configuration addition is backward-compatible, but the promised CortexDB fallback remains untested and should be covered before merging. 1 file was not security-reviewed: docs/specs/memory-v2.md (prose or tabular data). (7 earlier finding(s) still open) _Code retrieval was unavailable (model: ladder embeddings returned 400 Bad Request: {"error":{"message":"unknown ladder vectors; known ladders are flash (also chat-v1, flash-v1), instant (also no-think, instant-v1), reasoning (also deepseek), max-reasoning (also max-reasoning-v1), deepseek-flash (also reasoning-v1, agentic-v1), deep (also luna), scribe, uncensored, vectors-oai3 (also embeddings-oai3-v1), vision (also vision-v1, multimodal-v1), image (also images-v1, image-v1), vi), so this review saw the diff alone._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: error sending request for url (http://cortexdb:3141/v1/recall\)\), so this review ran without it._
• Evidence: crates/openhuman\-core/src/config/schema/memory\_tests\.rs — Test the write-again-without-actor fallback

tests

• Conclusion: Success
• Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
• Lane summary: The change adds an `observed_actor` setting with sensible tests for the config default/serialization, the engine cache fingerprint, and the composio sender→actor mapping. The one documented invariant still untested — that a write CortexDB refuses for the actor is written again without it — remains, so that earlier finding stands; the rest looks sound. (1 already reported on an earlier push) (1 earlier finding(s) still open) _Code retrieval was unavailable (model: ladder embeddings returned 400 Bad Request: {"error":{"message":"unknown ladder vectors; known ladders are flash (also chat-v1, flash-v1), instant (also no-think, instant-v1), reasoning (also deepseek), max-reasoning (also max-reasoning-v1), deepseek-flash (also reasoning-v1, agentic-v1), deep (also luna), scribe, uncensored, vectors-oai3 (also embeddings-oai3-v1), vision (also vision-v1, multimodal-v1), image (also images-v1, image-v1), vi), so this review saw the diff alone._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: error sending request for url (http://cortexdb:3141/v1/recall\)\), so this review ran without it._

commits

• Conclusion: Neutral
• Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
• Lane summary: Nothing sensitive found in what this pull request commits.

description

• Conclusion: Success
• Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
• Lane summary: The change adds the off-by-default `observed_actor` setting, wires it into the CortexDB engine fingerprint and the Composio sender mapping, and documents it; the code matches the description and the earlier concern about testing the strip-and-retry fallback is resolved — that fallback lives in tinymemory upstream (tinymemory#237), and this PR now documents it rather than implying it is tested here. The new commits look sound. (1 earlier finding(s) still open) _Code retrieval was unavailable (model: ladder embeddings returned 400 Bad Request: {"error":{"message":"unknown ladder vectors; known ladders are flash (also chat-v1, flash-v1), instant (also no-think, instant-v1), reasoning (also deepseek), max-reasoning (also max-reasoning-v1), deepseek-flash (also reasoning-v1, agentic-v1), deep (also luna), scribe, uncensored, vectors-oai3 (also embeddings-oai3-v1), vision (also vision-v1, multimodal-v1), image (also images-v1, image-v1), vi), so this review saw the diff alone._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: error sending request for url (http://cortexdb:3141/v1/recall\)\), so this review ran without it._

e2e

• Conclusion: Neutral
• Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
• Lane summary: The change adds an `observed_actor` setting, includes it in the CortexDB engine cache fingerprint, and attributes synced records to their sender. Unit tests cover the fingerprint, default/serialization, and sender mapping; no end-to-end harness drives any of it, so the previously raised gap on the fallback path still stands. The Rust E2E jobs are still pending. (1 finding discarded for not matching a changed line) Waiting on end-to-end jobs: `Rust E2E (mock backend)`, `Build Playwright E2E Artifact`, `E2E (Playwright / web lane)`, `Desktop E2E (full suite, 3 OS)`. (7 earlier finding(s) still open)
• Unresolved questions/checks: Rust E2E (mock backend), Build Playwright E2E Artifact, E2E (Playwright / web lane), Desktop E2E (full suite, 3 OS)

Evidence and run details

• Models: gpt-5.6-luna, glm-5.3-flash
• Spend: $0.002551
• Tokens: 56540 input · 4766 output · 13026 cached · 0 embedding

Head	State	Pass summary
f733e3a3c862	pending	1 active finding(s), 0 resolved finding(s) (at 1791459522)
32cd5e9e2ad2	pending	8 active finding(s), 0 resolved finding(s) (at 1791460077)
32cd5e9e2ad2	pending	8 active finding(s), 7 resolved finding(s) (at 1791460592)
edd2a40855bd	pending	2 active finding(s), 1 resolved finding(s) (at 1791462211)

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The memory configuration adds an observed_actor option for CortexDB. Engine resolution uses the option in its settings and cache fingerprint. Composio records map sender details to actor metadata. The memory specification documents the setting and attribution behavior.

Changes

Memory actor attribution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Memory option and engine configuration crates/openhuman-core/src/config/schema/memory.rs, crates/openhuman-core/src/config/schema/memory_tests.rs, crates/openhuman-core/src/memory/engine.rs, crates/openhuman-core/src/memory/engine_tests.rs, docs/specs/memory-v2.md	MemoryConfig adds observed_actor, defaulting to false, and omits it from serialization when false. CortexDB engine resolution includes the option in engine settings and the cache fingerprint. Tests cover configuration parsing and cache behavior. The specification documents the setting and fallback behavior.
Composio actor metadata crates/openhuman-core/src/memory/sources/composio.rs, crates/openhuman-core/src/memory/sources/composio_tests.rs	Composio record conversion maps sender addresses and names to observed_actor metadata. Addresses are trimmed; email addresses are lowercased, while phone numbers retain their case. Blank addresses produce no actor, and blank names are omitted.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: senamakel

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to edd2a

The optional setting’s wire-compatibility wording should be clearer, and its refusal fallback lacks a repository test. These are bounded risks; the available evidence does not show a production failure.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to edd2a

Attribution defaults off and does not change the locally selected credentials, endpoint, or memory owner. Sender identity is intentionally retained in plaintext. The promised disabled-mode protections and safe retry behavior could not be fully verified, so some uncertainty remains.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The visible attribution exposure concerns sender identities in synced records and writes using the existing configured CortexDB account and layout. The switch does not locally select additional accounts, credentials, endpoints, or owners; provider-side capability enforcement remains unverified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Connector-provided sender strings supply actor metadata, while credentials and scope ownership are selected separately by the engine resolver. The projection performs normalization, not sender authentication. No local use of the sender-derived actor as an authorization credential or scope owner was established.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The local storage wrapper makes one delegated write call and does not implement attribution-specific refusal handling. Preservation of owner, credentials, item identity, and idempotency across the documented stripped retry therefore depends on the unavailable matching provider implementation.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Before enabling attribution, validate the pinned storage contract for disabled/hosted actor stripping and refusal recovery, including unchanged credentials and subject, stable item identity, and safe behavior after interruption or partial acceptance. Treat observed sender identity as provenance rather than authenticated authority.

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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the primary change: adding memory attribution for the observed actor, with the feature disabled by default.

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