* v0.41.11.0 feat: conversation retrieval upgrade — production-bar replacement for PR #1406 Long chat threads stop swallowing your search results. The recall miss class on long iMessage/Slack imports (60K+ msg history; a chunk that reads only "Locker 93 code 9494" has no topical anchor because "cabin" was established 50K messages earlier) gets fixed by walking conversation/meeting/slack/email pages, splitting into time-windowed segments (30-min gap or 30-msg cap), prepending a topical/temporal header, and running through the existing extractFactsFromTurn() so the resulting anchor-rich facts surface in gbrain search. This is the production-bar replacement for PR #1406 (which closes LAST per Codex T6d, AFTER this PR is green). The bug fix survives 1:1; the wrapping closes 14 load-bearing issues the original PR deferred or shipped silent bugs around. The wave went through CEO scope review, 3 rounds of spec review, 2 rounds of Codex outside voice grounding the plan against actual code, and 2 passes of eng review. Version-slot note: originally planned as v0.41.2.0; master shipped its own v0.41.2.0 (lens packs) plus v0.41.3-6.0 between plan-time and ship-time. Re-bumped to v0.41.11.0 (next free slot; v0.41.7-10 claimed by other open PRs). Key files (new): - src/commands/extract-conversation-facts.ts — CLI command with --types, --max-cost-usd, --background, --override-disabled, --slug, --dry-run, --limit, --since, --force, --sleep, --segment-limit, --source-id. Strict per-source core; two-phase page enumeration (paginated listPages with 10×25MB cap = 250MB worst case); 25MB body cap; page-global row_num accumulator (Codex C1 unique-index collision fix); page-level TERMINAL audit row after all segments commit (Codex C7 durable extraction marker); optional opts.budgetTracker (Codex C5 — nested withBudgetTracker REPLACES, so caller-managed scope passes tracker through); reads compiled_truth + timeline (F1 — PR silently dropped timeline half); honors facts.extraction_enabled kill-switch with --override-disabled escape (F2); --types reads cycle config as single source of truth (Eng-v2 A2); fingerprint on sourceId only (Eng-v2 A3 — widening types doesn't invalidate completion); string-encoded op-checkpoint entries "sourceId|slug|endIso" for resume; segment caps tuned 6500/30 (Eng-v2 T5) to stay under extract.ts MAX_TURN_TEXT_CHARS=8000. - src/core/cycle/conversation-facts-backfill.ts — cycle phase wrapper (default OFF). Iterates listSources() directly; creates ONE brain-wide BudgetTracker per tick + wraps the loop in withBudgetTracker + passes tracker through opts.budgetTracker so core doesn't nest-replace. Two-layer cost AND walltime protection: per-source caps ($1, 20min) AND brain-wide caps ($5, 30min). - test/extract-conversation-facts.test.ts — 27 unit cases (parse, segment, render, checkpoint encoding, fingerprint, terminal audit row, row_num accumulator, F2 kill-switch, --override-disabled). - skills/migrations/v0.41.11.0.md — agent-facing migration guide. Key files (modified): - src/commands/jobs.ts — register extract-conversation-facts Minion handler. NOT in PROTECTED_JOB_NAMES; BudgetExhausted catch + persist + mark completed with result.budget_exhausted (NOT a failure). - src/commands/doctor.ts — computeConversationFactsBacklogCheck (3-state: SKIPPED when feature disabled per Eng-v2 C9, OK at backlog=0, WARN at >10 with paste-ready remediation step via makeRemediationStep). Doctor query is source-scoped (Codex C2 cross-source safety) and matches the TERMINAL audit row (Codex C7), not any-fact-for-slug. - src/commands/sources.ts — runAudit extended with facts_backfill_estimate field for cost preview. - src/cli.ts — CLI_ONLY + CLI_ONLY_SELF_HELP + THIN_CLIENT_REFUSED_COMMANDS + dispatch case for extract-conversation-facts. - src/core/cycle.ts — new CyclePhase 'conversation_facts_backfill'; PHASE_SCOPE='source' (taxonomy only per cycle.ts:131 — wrapper does own multi-source iteration); wired into ALL_PHASES + NEEDS_LOCK_PHASES; dispatch block runs between consolidate and embed. - src/core/migrate.ts — migration v94 adds partial index idx_facts_extract_conversation_session ON facts(source_id, source_session) WHERE source LIKE 'cli:extract-conversation-facts%' so doctor query stays fast on million-fact brains. v14 precedent: transaction:false + invalid-index pre-drop on Postgres, plain CREATE INDEX on PGLite. - src/core/schema-pack/base/gbrain-base.yaml — promote conversation (temporal, extractable) and atom (annotation, NOT extractable — atoms ARE the extracted form) into base. Flip concept.extractable: true semantically (cosmetic on backstop path per Codex T3; the original grandfather migration was solving a phantom, dropped). Filing rules added for both new types. - src/core/schema-pack/base/gbrain-recommended.yaml — remove duplicate conversation (now inherits via extends: gbrain-base). - src/core/types.ts — ALL_PAGE_TYPES extended with conversation, atom. - test/extractable-pack.test.ts — updated parity gate (24 page types vs PR's 22; concept + conversation now extractable, atom not). - test/schema-cli.test.ts — page-count expectation 22→24. - VERSION + package.json bumped to 0.41.11.0. - CHANGELOG.md release-summary in the required ELI10-first voice + itemized changes section. - CLAUDE.md Key Files entry for the new modules + architecture notes. - llms.txt + llms-full.txt regenerated. Plan + decisions persisted at: ~/.claude/plans/system-instruction-you-are-working-linear-unicorn.md CEO plan at: ~/.gstack/projects/garrytan-gbrain/ceo-plans/2026-05-25-conversation-retrieval-upgrade.md Co-Authored-By: garrytan-agents <garrytan-agents@users.noreply.github.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: align v0.41.11.0 phase ordering + bump hardcoded counts after master merge Three CI failures from the master merge in this branch: 1. test/phase-scope-coverage.test.ts pinned `ALL_PHASES.length === 19` and `Object.keys(PHASE_SCOPE).length === 19`. After merging master's v0.41 lens-packs (extract_atoms + synthesize_concepts) + my new conversation_facts_backfill phase, the total is 20. 2. test/core/cycle.serial.test.ts had two hardcoded `19` assertions (`hookCalls` and `report.phases.length`) tracking the same count. Both bumped to 20. 3. cycle.serial's `'default: all 6 phases run in order'` test asserts `report.phases.map(p => p.phase) === ALL_PHASES`. My initial commit put `conversation_facts_backfill` in ALL_PHASES between consolidate and propose_takes, but the runCycle dispatch block runs it AFTER the calibration trio (propose_takes / grade_takes / calibration_profile) and BEFORE embed. List and dispatch order didn't match, so the equality assertion failed. Resolution: moved 'conversation_facts_backfill' in ALL_PHASES to AFTER 'calibration_profile' so list-order matches dispatch-order. The dispatch block placement was correct (and remains correct); the list-position comment originally said "AFTER consolidate" but the dispatch runs it after the WHOLE consolidate→calibration_profile block, not just after consolidate. Comment now reflects reality. Verified: 61/61 pass across the 3 affected test files (2.9s wallclock). The CI logs also showed a "(unnamed) [3058.07ms]" failure in shard 1; unable to reproduce locally (test/scripts/run-unit-parallel.test.ts passes 6/6 in 1s). Suspected CI-load flakiness under bun's parallel scheduler. If it persists on the next CI run, will dig in. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): orphan sleep cleanup in run-unit-parallel.sh heartbeat Two CI runs in a row reported `(fail) (unnamed) [~2400ms]` in shard 1 on this PR. Investigation: - CI's end-of-job cleanup logged: "Terminate orphan process: pid (3344) (sleep)" × 6 sleep processes. - The 6 matches exactly the 6 `runWrapper()` calls in test/scripts/run-unit-parallel.test.ts (1 orphan sleep per invocation). - Each `runWrapper()` spawns scripts/run-unit-parallel.sh, which spawns a heartbeat function that runs `while true; do sleep 10; ...; done` in the background. - The wrapper's EXIT trap was `kill "$HB_PID" 2>/dev/null` — kills the heartbeat shell, but its currently-running `sleep 10` child gets reparented to init/launchd because SIGTERM to a bash shell sleeping inside `sleep` doesn't propagate to the sleep child before wait returns. Known bash quirk on Linux. - bun's test runner treats the orphan sleeps as a `(unnamed)` failure attributed to the test file that spawned the wrapper. Fix: pkill children FIRST, then kill heartbeat. If we kill heartbeat first, its child sleep orphans and pkill -P can no longer find it (ppid changes to 1). Reorder applied to both the trap AND the normal shutdown path. Verified locally: before fix, 6 orphan sleeps after the test ran; after fix, 0 orphan sleeps. Test still passes 6/6 in ~1s. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: garrytan-agents <garrytan-agents@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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v0.41.11.0 migration — conversation retrieval upgrade
The v0.41.11.0 upgrade ships:
- Schema-pack additions:
conversation(temporal, extractable) andatom(annotation, NOT extractable) promoted intogbrain-base. - New CLI command
gbrain extract-conversation-factsfor bulk fact extraction over long-form conversation pages. - Opt-in cycle phase
conversation_facts_backfill(default OFF) for autopilot-driven backlog drain. - New doctor check
conversation_facts_backlog(3-state; SKIPPED when feature disabled so no opt-out noise). - Schema migration v94: partial index on
facts(source_id, source_session) WHERE source LIKE 'cli:extract-conversation-facts%'so the doctor query stays fast on big brains.
gbrain upgrade + gbrain apply-migrations --yes handles the binary + schema. The cycle phase and doctor check require no agent action.
Agent action — when to run the backfill
When the user mentions:
- "search isn't finding things in my chat history"
- "my iMessage / Slack import isn't searchable"
- "the page exists but search misses the answer"
- "long conversation pages aren't returning what I want"
…then this command is the right tool. Don't run it speculatively — it costs real money against the user's Anthropic budget.
Recommended flow
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Estimate cost first. For each source the user wants to backfill:
gbrain sources audit <source-id> --json | jq '.facts_backfill_estimate'Returns
{pages, est_segments, est_cost_usd, types}. Show the user the cost estimate before recommending the run. -
Run a dry-run to preview segmentation:
gbrain extract-conversation-facts --dry-run --slug <slug-of-one-conversation-page>Confirms the segmenter parses the page correctly without spending any tokens.
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Run with explicit cost cap. Default cap is $5. Recommend matching the audit estimate (rounded up):
gbrain extract-conversation-facts --background --max-cost-usd <cap> gbrain jobs follow <printed-job-id>Use
--backgroundso the user can keep working. The Minion job is resumable — if it hits the budget cap mid-run, re-running with a higher cap continues from where it left off. -
Verify with doctor:
gbrain doctor --json | jq '.checks[] | select(.name == "conversation_facts_backlog")'Should show OK with backlog: 0 after a successful complete run.
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(Optional) Enable autopilot drain if the user has steady conversation ingest:
gbrain config set cycle.conversation_facts_backfill.enabled trueThe cycle phase will then drain new conversation pages each tick under bounded per-source ($1/cycle) and brain-wide ($5/cycle) budgets.
Caveats
- Pages over 25MB body are skipped (memory cap). Surface in doctor
details; streaming for huge pages is a v0.42+ TODO. - If
facts.extraction_enabledis false, the command refuses. Pass--override-disabledonly when the user explicitly opted out and now wants this one-time run. - Extracted facts use
source = 'cli:extract-conversation-facts'. To remove them in bulk (rare), the only path today is raw SQL:DELETE FROM facts WHERE source LIKE 'cli:extract-conversation-facts%'. Agbrain forget --wherebulk flag is a v0.42+ TODO. - The recall-quality eval (under
test/eval/conversation-extraction-quality.eval.ts— added in this wave) is env-gated onANTHROPIC_API_KEY. Run nightly or on-demand for quality verification; the hermetic wiring tests run in CI by default.