fix: cold-open no longer re-derives durable indexes — complete the readiness contract for all three providers

A production deployment measured ~48 seconds on EVERY reopen of an
11k-entity brain. Root cause: brainy's rebuild gate decided from in-memory
size()/count, which read 0 for a durable-but-not-resident index, so it
re-read every entity file to rebuild from scratch. At GA we gave only the
GRAPH provider a readiness contract (init() eager cold-load + isReady()
honest signal) so it would never eat that spurious rebuild; the vector and
metadata providers never got it, and brainy never even eager-inited the
vector provider.

Complete the contract symmetrically:

- plugin.ts: VectorIndexProvider gains optional init()+isReady();
  MetadataIndexProvider gains isReady() — mirroring GraphIndexProvider.
  Additive and optional; a provider that exposes nothing keeps today's
  behavior.
- brainy.ts: eager-init every provider that exposes init() (after metadata
  init() so the id-mapper is hydrated first), then decide per leg in
  precedence order — migrating (skip) -> epoch drift (rebuild) -> isReady()
  -> a per-leg empty fallback. The old instant fast-path keyed off
  this.index.size()>0, a dishonest proxy that skipped the metadata/graph
  checks whenever the vector was warm and never fired on a real cold process
  anyway; removed.

The per-leg fallbacks differ because "empty" means different things: the JS
vector's rebuild() IS its load, so size()===0 correctly triggers it; the
id-mapper backs metadata, so totalEntries===0 (past the empty-store return)
is a real load failure; but entities do not imply edges, so a graph
size()===0 is a valid empty state, not a load failure.

- The JS graph now COLD-LOADS its durable LSM instead of re-deriving from a
  full canonical verb scan on every boot (baseStorage._initializeGraphIndex
  loads the persisted SSTables via a new GraphAdjacencyIndex.init(); it
  self-heals from canonical only when the durable state is genuinely missing).
  This removes an O(E)-per-open cost every filesystem consumer paid.
- LSMTree.loadManifest loads its SSTables BEFORE publishing the relationship
  count, and resets to an honest-empty state on load failure — a tree can no
  longer claim persisted relationships while holding none (the silent-empty
  cold-load class the query-time guards exist to prevent).

Verified end-to-end against a built brain: a warm reopen (with edges and
edgeless) reloads only the JS vector; the graph and metadata cold-load with
no rebuild, and queries return correct results. New tests in
cold-open-rebuild-gate.test.ts pin the contract (isReady() defers, self-heal
still fires); migration-deference updated to drive size-based deference
through the vector, the leg where empty->rebuild remains correct.

Pairs with the native provider's isReady()/init() implementation — brainy's
gate defers only to a signal the provider exposes.
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David Snelling 2026-07-07 10:39:00 -07:00
parent 4fde94bc2f
commit 61c247c923
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@ -181,6 +181,27 @@ context.registerProvider('vector', (config, distanceFn, options) => {
})
```
#### The readiness contract (all three index providers)
A provider that **persists its derived index** should implement the optional readiness
members so a warm reopen never pays a redundant rebuild-from-canonical:
- **`init?(): Promise<void>`** — eager cold-load. Brainy awaits it once during
`brain.init()`, after the metadata provider's `init()` (the id-mapper hydrates first)
and **before the rebuild gate**.
- **`isReady?(): boolean`** — honest durability signal. `true` ⇔ the persisted index is
loaded (or cheaply demand-loadable) and consistent with what was last persisted. When
exposed, the rebuild gate defers to this signal **instead of** the `size() === 0` /
`totalEntries === 0` heuristics — a disk-native index may report 0 resident entries
while fully durable. Never return `true` if the durable state failed to load: the
signal is honest in both directions, and a not-ready provider gets its rebuild even
when `size() > 0`.
- **`isMigrating?(): boolean`** — while `true`, the provider owns its index (background
migration); brainy skips its rebuild entirely.
Providers that implement none of these keep the size/count heuristics — correct for
engines whose `rebuild()` *is* their load path (like brainy's built-in JS vector index).
#### `metadataIndex`
**Type:** `(storage: StorageAdapter) => MetadataIndexManager-compatible`