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Summary

  • Share conservative recall selection across borg_search and borg_project_context: literal quoted phrases and opaque identifiers, whole-record vacuity filtering, explicit sparse/unavailable metadata, bounded candidate pools, and legacy response fields retained.
  • Preserve target, typed cause, execution phase, effect uncertainty and retry safety in versioned durable operation receipts. Post-dispatch permission and rate-limit errors no longer imply that no effect occurred. A lost response never triggers replay.
  • Recover the receipt ID when a caller cancels during its initial durable write; preserve terminal-state arbitration and legacy receipt reads.
  • Add synthetic regression tests and hash-pinned connector trust/compatibility checks to the Linux/macOS CI matrix. Correct an existing configuration fixture to supply required independent-installation fields, without weakening runtime validation.
  • Regenerate the exact public distribution inventory after a clean privacy scan.

Validation

  • Original baseline: 31 selected repository, capability and scheduler tests passed.
  • Full connector run: 275 tests, 243 passed and 32 optional-environment skips.
  • Refined acceptance run with isolated native computer fixtures enabled: 107 tests passed, no skips.
  • Public-source scanner: zero findings; exact inventory regenerated.
  • Independent review and exact-head CI are merge gates; their final results will be recorded before merging.

Boundaries

No corpus writes, deletion, confidence-threshold tuning, entity-registry migration, or authority promotion. Unquoted names remain semantic candidates; literal matches do not prove identity, validity or truth. Sparse applies only to the inspected upstream pool, not corpus-wide absence. This PR does not deploy or restart an existing connector. Existing operation receipts and public tool arguments remain compatible. Reverting this small source change is the rollback path before any separately managed deployment.

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  • New Features
    • Memory search and project context now provide clearer retrieval status and metadata, preserve result ordering, and apply exact matching to quoted phrases and opaque identifiers.
    • Operation receipts include execution and effect details, making it clearer whether an operation completed, did not start, or has an unknown outcome.
    • Job launching now supports POSIX systems with either zsh or sh available.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Preflight refusals and dispatched failures are reported more distinctly; retries are identified only for eligible known failures and are never automatic.
  • Documentation
    • Updated connector guidance for retrieval results, operation outcomes, and job shell selection.

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The connector adds shared memory filtering and retrieval metadata, records structured operation diagnostics in receipts, and selects an available shell for durable jobs. New tests cover these changes, and CI runs connector test suites using hash-pinned dependencies.

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Memory retrieval selection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Define the memory selection policy
connector/recall_policy.py, connector/test_recall_policy.py
The policy extracts quoted phrases and opaque identifiers, filters malformed or nonmatching candidates, and reports selection metadata. Tests cover filtering, limits, candidate order, and sparse or unavailable retrieval.
Apply selection to memory tools
connector/borg_context_server.py, connector/test_recall_policy.py, connector/README.md
borg_search and borg_project_context fetch up to 25 candidates, apply the shared policy, and return retrieval metadata. Boundary tests cover outages and selection behavior. The README describes the policy and its limits.

Operation diagnostics and fleet outcomes

Layer / File(s) Summary
Define diagnostics and receipt fields
connector/operation_diagnostics.py, connector/operation_receipts.py, connector/test_operation_diagnostics.py
Diagnostics use validated fields and are sanitized before storage. New receipts use version 2; tests cover sanitization and legacy receipt handling.
Classify fleet preflight and dispatch outcomes
connector/fleet_tools.py, connector/test_operation_diagnostics.py
Fleet calls validate request fields and report coded preflight failures separately from dispatched outcomes. Tests cover preflight, lost responses, target errors, and success.
Record middleware call and receipt outcomes
connector/computer_tools.py, connector/test_operation_diagnostics.py, connector/test_resilience.py, connector/borg_context_server.py, connector/README.md
Middleware records call phases, dispatch status, and effect evidence in receipts. Tests cover failures and cancellation; status metadata and documentation describe the updated diagnostics.

Durable-job shell portability

Layer / File(s) Summary
Select a supported job shell
connector/job_tools.py, connector/test_job_portability.py, connector/README.md
Job startup prefers executable zsh, falls back to sh, and refuses to launch if neither is available. Tests cover shell selection and a job using the fallback.

Connector verification and inventory

Layer / File(s) Summary
Run connector verification and update inventory
.github/workflows/verify.yml, connector/requirements-test.in, connector/README.md, connector/test_connector.py, RELEASE-INVENTORY.json
CI sets up Python 3.12, installs locked test dependencies with hash verification, and runs connector test suites. The concurrency test uses synchronization events. The release inventory adds and updates file metadata and its totals.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant borg_search
  participant memory_search
  participant select_memories
  borg_search->>memory_search: Fetch candidate rows
  memory_search-->>borg_search: Return candidate rows
  borg_search->>select_memories: Pass query, rows, and requested limit
  select_memories-->>borg_search: Return selected rows and retrieval metadata
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sequenceDiagram
  participant BoundaryMiddleware
  participant OperationLedger
  participant fleet_call
  participant FleetPeer
  BoundaryMiddleware->>OperationLedger: Start receipt with diagnostics
  BoundaryMiddleware->>fleet_call: Invoke tool and mark dispatch
  fleet_call->>FleetPeer: Dispatch validated request
  FleetPeer-->>fleet_call: Return result or error
  fleet_call-->>BoundaryMiddleware: Return result and fleet metadata
  BoundaryMiddleware->>OperationLedger: Finish receipt with effect diagnostics
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to bcdf3

Some equivalent Unicode searches may return sparse results, and repeated cancellation may delay receipt finalization. These bounded risks merit owner awareness before merging.

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Please review the current full diff, especially effect uncertainty after dispatch, cancellation and receipt durability, exact-query boundaries, payload-free diagnostics, backward compatibility, and the portable job-shell fallback. No production deployment is included.

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The candidate is stable at bcdf359. The prior review did not complete because the head changed. Please review this exact full diff for post-dispatch uncertainty, cancellation, durable receipts, exact-query boundaries, payload-free diagnostics, compatibility, POSIX job fallback, and the causal repository-concurrency regression. No deployment is included.

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In `@connector/computer_tools.py`:
- Around line 292-296: Update the CancelledError handler around the await of
pending so receipt recovery remains shielded and retries after repeated
cancellation until the start task completes. If pending fails, preserve and
re-raise the original cancellation rather than allowing the start failure to be
converted into ToolError.

In `@connector/recall_policy.py`:
- Around line 29-30: Update _normalized to apply canonical Unicode normalization
so composed and decomposed equivalent text matches during literal comparison;
preserve its existing whitespace collapsing and case-insensitive behavior.

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Comment on lines +292 to +296
except asyncio.CancelledError:
# A cancelled to_thread wait can still write a starting
# receipt. Recover its ID before finalizing not_started.
receipt = await pending
raise

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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sed -n '255,355p' connector/computer_tools.py
sed -n '105,185p' connector/test_operation_diagnostics.py
sed -n '245,305p' connector/test_resilience.py

Repository: h3ro-dev/borg

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set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- changed hunk and imports ---'
sed -n '1,340p' connector/computer_tools.py
printf '%s\n' '--- ledger definitions and usages ---'
rg -n -C 5 'class OperationLedger|def start|def finish|on_call_tool|_receipt_worthy|BoundaryMiddleware' connector
printf '%s\n' '--- diff for target file ---'
git diff --unified=35 57ae994cfbe1cd4c1a88021b5df183cb71970c44 bcdf359aa12f5ee3a2f7035e9badcd8b4c9a75e6 -- connector/computer_tools.py
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ledger=$(git ls-files | rg '(^|/)operation_receipts\.py$' | head -n 1)
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Make receipt recovery resistant to repeated cancellation.

asyncio.shield(pending) protects only the initial wait. A second cancellation interrupts the direct await pending and leaves receipt unset. The worker can still write the "running" receipt, but the cancellation handler then has no ID to finalize. If ledger.start raises, the generic exception handler converts the start error to ToolError and suppresses the original cancellation.

Retry the shielded recovery wait until the start task completes. Preserve cancellation if the start itself fails.

Suggested fix
                 except asyncio.CancelledError:
                     # A cancelled to_thread wait can still write a starting
                     # receipt. Recover its ID before finalizing not_started.
-                    receipt = await pending
+                    while True:
+                        try:
+                            receipt = await asyncio.shield(pending)
+                            break
+                        except asyncio.CancelledError:
+                            continue
+                        except Exception:
+                            raise asyncio.CancelledError from None
                     raise
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except asyncio.CancelledError:
# A cancelled to_thread wait can still write a starting
# receipt. Recover its ID before finalizing not_started.
receipt = await pending
raise
except asyncio.CancelledError:
# A cancelled to_thread wait can still write a starting
# receipt. Recover its ID before finalizing not_started.
while True:
try:
receipt = await asyncio.shield(pending)
break
except asyncio.CancelledError:
continue
except Exception:
raise asyncio.CancelledError from None
raise
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In `@connector/computer_tools.py` around lines 292 - 296, Update the
CancelledError handler around the await of pending so receipt recovery remains
shielded and retries after repeated cancellation until the start task completes.
If pending fails, preserve and re-raise the original cancellation rather than
allowing the start failure to be converted into ToolError.

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Comment on lines +29 to +30
def _normalized(text: str) -> str:
return " ".join(text.split()).casefold()

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Apply Unicode normalization before literal comparison.

_normalized collapses whitespace and applies casefold(). It does not apply canonical Unicode normalization. A quoted query "Élodie Example" in composed form (NFC) does not match stored text in decomposed form (NFD, for example text from macOS input). The record is then counted as exact_mismatch, and the caller gets a sparse result. test_exact_phrases_are_literal_whitespace_normalized_and_unicode_safe tests only composed text on both sides.

🐛 Proposed fix
+import unicodedata
@@
 def _normalized(text: str) -> str:
-    return " ".join(text.split()).casefold()
+    return unicodedata.normalize("NFC", " ".join(text.split()).casefold())
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In `@connector/recall_policy.py` around lines 29 - 30, Update _normalized to apply
canonical Unicode normalization so composed and decomposed equivalent text
matches during literal comparison; preserve its existing whitespace collapsing
and case-insensitive behavior.

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