getVerbsWithPagination was offset-only: it re-scanned from shard 0 on every page
and early-terminated at offset+limit, so a full edge walk was O(N²) (a consumer
measured ~19k edges → 27s paging at 900/page). It now accepts an opaque resume
token (cv1:<shard>:<verbId>) that resumes the shard walk immediately AFTER the
last returned verb — O(N) total at any page size, no scale cliff.
- Stable within-shard order (sort by verb id); ids come from the path so verbs
skipped by the cursor are never read.
- Cursor supersedes offset when present; offset path preserved for back-compat,
and offset callers now get a usable nextCursor so they can switch to cursor
paging. Foreign/malformed tokens decode to null → offset fallback (no throw).
- The relationships stream generator now uses cursor (was offset → O(N²)).
- Parity with the noun side (getNounsWithPagination already cursored).
Test: tests/unit/storage/verb-cursor-pagination.test.ts — a full cursored walk
visits every edge exactly once (no dup, no skip), matches the offset walk's set,
and a foreign cursor falls back gracefully.
related({from/to}) routes through storage.getVerbs, which has O(degree)
GraphAdjacencyIndex fast paths (getVerbsBySource/Target/Type_internal). But
those fast paths were disqualified whenever excludeVisibility was set —
and every default related() sets it, because visibility defaults to excluding
internal+system. So the common per-node edge lookup fell through to a full O(E)
shard scan (multi-second per node on large graphs; a consumer measured
1.4-4.6s/node and an O(N^2) whole-graph walk).
Root cause two-parter, both fixed here:
- hydrateVerbWithMetadata dropped 'visibility' (mapped subtype but not the
reserved visibility field), so fast-path results couldn't be visibility-filtered
AND related({includeInternal}) couldn't even report which edges were internal
(latent correctness bug — verbsToRelations already mapped it). Now hydrated.
- getVerbs disqualified the fast paths on subtype/excludeVisibility. Now the
fast paths apply both filters on their already-hydrated O(degree) candidate set
via applyVerbMetadataFilters() — matching the full-scan fallback's semantics —
so default related() stays on the index instead of scanning the whole graph.
Filtering semantics are unchanged (same result set as the scan); only the path
that computes it changes. Test: related-visibility-fast-path.test.ts (default
excludes internal both directions, includeInternal surfaces + reports visibility,
subtype filter on the fast path).
Three additive ergonomics from the API-simplification audit (no behavior change
to existing call sites):
- AddParams.upsert: create-or-update in one call. With a custom id, an existing
entity is MERGED via the update path (merges metadata, re-embeds changed data,
bumps _rev, PRESERVES createdAt) instead of the destructive full overwrite a
plain add() does. Mutually exclusive with ifAbsent (throws if both set);
ignored when no id is supplied. Wired into add(), addMany (per-item flag
propagation), and the transact add op (routes to planTxUpdate). Kills the
get()-then-add() round-trip for idempotent writes.
- FindParams.includeVectors: mirror of GetOptions.includeVectors — find() returns
stored vectors when set; default stays empty (the perf contract is preserved).
Honored on both the query and metadata-only where paths, and in db.find().
- removeMany adaptive chunking: replaced the hardcoded chunkSize=10 with
params.chunkSize ?? storageConfig.maxBatchSize, matching addMany/relateMany —
one storage-adaptive batch policy across all *Many methods (no thrash on
high-latency backends).
Tests: tests/unit/brainy/upsert.test.ts (insert/merge/createdAt-preserved/
re-embed/ifAbsent-conflict/no-id/addMany/transact), find-include-vectors.test.ts
(true/default/where-path), batch-operations.test.ts (removeMany >10 items).
An untyped (JS) caller that smuggles a Brainy-reserved field (confidence,
weight, subtype, visibility, service, createdBy, noun/verb, data, createdAt,
updatedAt, _rev) inside a write-path metadata bag previously got a silent
remap-or-drop — a class of bug where confidence-evolution writes no-oped for
weeks before being caught on read-back. 8.0 closes this with no silent failures.
- New BrainyConfig.reservedFieldPolicy: 'throw' | 'warn' | 'remap' (default 'throw').
'throw' rejects the write naming every offending key + its correct write path;
'warn' remaps with a one-shot per-key warning; 'remap' is the legacy silent path.
- Central enforceReservedPolicy gate wired into all four remap methods (add,
update, relate, updateRelation) so live calls AND their transact()/with()
mirrors honor it. Single-source reservedWritePath guidance shared by throw+warn.
- 'warn' now warns for EVERY reserved key (closes the gap where only
system-managed fields warned). Dead warnDropped* helpers removed.
- Import pipeline migrated to route reserved values (confidence/weight/subtype)
through dedicated params and strip reserved keys from extractor/customMetadata
bags via the canonical split*MetadataRecord helpers — imports no longer trip
the default throw.
- Tests: new reservedFieldPolicy matrix (throw/warn/remap across every write
path + transact); remap-correctness suite reframed as opt-in 'remap'; shared
test-factory no longer emits reserved keys in custom metadata.
- id-normalization (#18): `brain.newId()` (UUID v7) + v7 default ids; non-UUID string ids are
transparently normalized to a stable UUID v5 on creation AND every lookup — get/update/remove,
relate(from,to), related, find({connected}), getMany, removeMany, the transact op-handler, and
db.with() overlays — with the caller's original key preserved under `_originalId`. The engine only
ever sees a UUID; real UUIDs pass through untouched. universal/uuid.ts gains v5/v7/isUUID +
BRAINY_ID_NAMESPACE; new utils/idNormalization.ts (coerceNewEntityId / resolveEntityId).
- aggregation min/max delete-safety: `queryAggregate` no longer leaves a stale min/max after
deleting the current extreme — min/max now track a value multiset and recompute in-memory (no
entity scan; that scan was the prior delete-then-hang a consumer reported). Other metrics were
already exact across deletes. Regression test proves resolve-after-delete + correct new min/max.
- release.sh RC-safe: explicit version arg, prerelease detection (npm `--tag rc` + GitHub
`--prerelease`), full `test:ci` gate (unit + integration), current-branch push, npm-access
verification after publish.
- native-engine references point at `@soulcraft/cor` (8.0's partner) in user-facing strings/docs.
Unit 1461/0 · integration 599/0 · tsc clean.
8.0 RC cleanup toward "one place per thing, zero-config, no deprecation":
- Remove the `brain.neural()` clustering namespace (ImprovedNeuralAPI + the dead
legacy NeuralAPI + the neural CLI + neural-only types). Similarity is `find({vector})`
/ `similar({to})`; attribute grouping is the aggregation `GROUP BY` engine. The separate
entity-extraction / smart-import feature (NeuralImport, NeuralEntityExtractor, SmartExtractor,
NaturalLanguageProcessor, `brain.extract()`/`brain.nlp()`) is kept.
- Remove `Db.search()`; `find()` is the one query verb (accepts a bare string or FindParams).
Fix the bundled MCP client, which called a non-existent `brain.search(query, limit)` →
now `find({ query, limit })`.
- Storage config: collapse to one canonical top-level `path` key. The pre-8.0 aliases
(`rootDirectory`, `options.*`, `fileSystemStorage.*`) are removed and now THROW with the
exact rename instead of silently defaulting to `./brainy-data` on upgrade. A single resolver
feeds createStorage, the 7.x→8.0 migration probe, and the plugin-factory handoff, so a native
storage provider resolves the identical root (no split-brain).
- Fix `similar({ threshold })`: the min-similarity filter was silently dropped; it is now
applied as a post-filter on `result.score` (the documented way to bound semantic results).
- Fix `vfs.rename()` on a directory: child path updates spread the entity vector into `update()`
and failed dimension validation; they are metadata-only updates now.
- Fix `vfs.move()`: copy+delete orphaned the content-addressed content blob (the destination
shared the source hash, then unlink removed it). `move()` now delegates to `rename()` — an
in-place path change that preserves the blob and the entity id, for files and directories.
- Fix streaming import: the bulk fast path never flushed mid-import nor signalled queryability.
Entity writes are now chunked by a progressive flush interval (100 → 1000 → 5000); each chunk
flushes and emits `progress.queryable`, so imported data is queryable during the import.
- Sweep all docs, comments, and JSDoc for the removed/changed APIs.
Integration suite: 49 files / 588 passed / 0 failed. Unit: 80 files / 1456 passed, no type errors.
7.x stored every object branch-scoped under branches/<branch>/<basePath>; 8.0
stores the IDENTICAL entity structure at the storage ROOT plus the generational
_system/_generations layer. GenerationStore.open tolerates a missing manifest
(opens at gen 0), so a naive 8.0 open of a 7.x directory reported ZERO entities
and SILENTLY LOST ALL DATA. The fix is blocked in the normal init order — cor 3.0's
storage-factory legacy guard fires inside setupStorage(), five steps before the
old migration check — so a new phase runs BEFORE setupStorage().
legacyLayoutMigrationPhase() (init, between loadPlugins and setupStorage):
- Fast-path: returns immediately when there's no top-level branches/ dir (every
native 8.0 brain + fresh dir pays only one fs.existsSync on the init hot path).
- Runs on a temporary BUILT-IN FileSystemStorage (never the plugin adapter, whose
guard would throw). Memory/cloud/pre-built-adapter stores are a strict no-op.
- Detect via _system/migration-layout.json marker + branches/<head>/entities/.
- autoMigrate:false on a legacy layout THROWS explicit guidance (no silent loss).
- Acquire the writer lock, then COLLAPSE branches/<head>/entities/* → entities/*
via the .gz-transparent raw primitives (read→write→delete, idempotent/resume-safe;
NOT fs.rename — logical paths + memory-adapter incompatibility).
- Rebuild persisted counts (rebuildCounts → totalNounCount/counts.json;
rebuildTypeCounts/rebuildSubtypeCounts → per-type stats) — the three indexes are
rebuilt by the normal init's rebuildIndexesIfNeeded afterward.
- Finalize: stamp the flat-v8 marker (re-open no-op), drain the head branch
(non-head branches = 7.x version history 8.0's MVCC does not import; left as-is).
Tests (tests/integration/migration-7x-to-8x.test.ts): the data-loss LOCK (a
built-in FileSystemStorage on a reshaped 7.x dir reports 0 nouns), a byte-equal
ROUND TRIP (find/related/counts equal the pre-reshape reference), IDEMPOTENCY,
the autoMigrate:false GUARD throw, and the native-flat NO-OP. RELEASES upgrade
checklist rewritten (the old note documented the opposite, lossy behavior).
1477 unit + migration 5 + db-mvcc 25 green; no init-path regression.
Follow-ups (hardening, not correctness for the common case): backupTo config
plumbing (currently a loud warning), a crash-mid-collapse resume test, and a
boundary-safe fake-plugin ordering test.
asOf() answers "state AT a point"; these answer "what happened BETWEEN two
points" and "one entity's whole history", all on the existing generation records.
- Extract resolveAsOfGeneration() as the shared gen|Date→{generation,timestamp}
chokepoint (reachability + Date semantics identical everywhere). asOf()'s
inclusive path is byte-identical — db-mvcc still 25/25.
- asOf(target, { exclusive }) — strict-before (resolved−1, clamped at gen 0,
never a RangeError).
- db.since(Db | generation | Date) — overload; number/Date resolve via the shared
resolver (new DbHost.resolveGeneration); EXCLUSIVE lower bound;
since(db) === since(db.generation). Same-store guard via Db.belongsToStore.
- brain.diff(a, b) → { added, removed, modified } split by nouns/verbs. EARNS its
name: candidate set is ONLY changedBetween(gLow,gHigh), each classified by
existence at both endpoints + a key-order-insensitive value compare
(new src/db/stableEqual.ts) — a touched-but-reverted / born-and-died id is in
no bucket.
- brain.history(id, { from, to }) → every distinct version oldest→newest, each
value === asOf(version.generation).get(id); null = removal; kind auto-detected
(throws on UUID-space collision). New store helper generationsTouching().
- brain.transactionLog({ from, to, limit }) — INCLUSIVE generation/Date window
(contrast since's exclusive lower bound); limit applied last.
- Compaction policy locked: diff/since THROW GenerationCompactedError below the
horizon; history TRUNCATES to it.
Types DiffResult/HistoryVersion/EntityHistory exported from the package root.
Tests: tests/integration/db-temporal.test.ts (8 proofs incl. diff-earns-its-name,
history↔asOf cross-check, the composition proof, granularity, compaction contrast)
+ tests/unit/db/stableEqual.test.ts (6). docs/guides/snapshots-and-time-travel.md
+ RELEASES updated. 1477 unit + db-temporal 8 + db-mvcc 25 green.
The export()/import() document type was named BackupData, but it is not a backup:
it is the portable, versioned, partial-or-whole interchange representation of a
graph (entities + relations + optional vectors/blobs) — the unit Brainy exports
for transport between instances, versions, and products, and the payload other
artifacts embed. The actual backup is persist()/load() (the native whole-brain,
generation-preserving snapshot), so "Backup*" actively collided with that concept.
Rename every developer-visible symbol, file, doc, JSDoc and comment:
- BackupData→PortableGraph, BackupEntity→PortableGraphEntity,
BackupRelation→PortableGraphRelation, BackupReader/Writer→PortableGraphReader/Writer,
BackupValidation→PortableGraphValidation, isBackupData→isPortableGraph,
validateBackup→validatePortableGraph, BACKUP_FORMAT[_VERSION]→PORTABLE_GRAPH_FORMAT[_VERSION].
- src/db/backup.ts → src/db/portableGraph.ts; test → db-portable-graph.test.ts.
- Guide, api/README, RELEASES updated.
The on-the-wire `format` tag is renamed 'brainy-backup' → 'brainy-portable-graph':
the format was introduced in 7.32.0 and has not been adopted by any consumer, so
there are no stored documents to stay compatible with — a clean rename beats
carrying a legacy tag. No deprecated aliases (nothing to alias). 7.x shipped the
same rename as 7.32.2.
1471 unit green; build clean; db-portable-graph.test.ts 17/17.
Two independent restart/multi-instance correctness bugs.
VFS path cache (A.3): PathResolver keyed the PROCESS-GLOBAL path cache on
`vfs:path:<path>` with no instance scope. Multiple Brainys per process (a
supported pattern) over DIFFERENT storage collided — instance A's `/x → id_A`
satisfied instance B's `stat('/x')` against unrelated storage → stale id →
"Entity not found" (surfaced by metadata-only-comprehensive's VFS stat() once
another VFS test had seeded the cache). Scope every `vfs:path:` key by a
monotonic per-process instance token (the VFS root id is a fixed sentinel, so it
can't disambiguate; the global cache is itself process-scoped so the token
suffices). Scoped the invalidate/prefix-delete paths too, so a branch-switch /
clear / fork on one brain no longer wipes another brain's cache. Cross-instance
sharing was only an optimization and was the collision itself; each instance
keeps its own local pathCache.
Verb totalCount (verb mirror of b2005ff): getVerbsWithPagination returned
`collectedVerbs.length` (the peeked page size, bounded by offset+limit+1) as
totalCount, so getVerbs({limit:1}).totalCount read 1/2 for any non-empty brain
on the unfiltered path. Now returns the authoritative O(1) totalVerbCount
(isNew-gated, visibility-filtered, rehydrated on init); filtered scans keep the
collected length. Regression: tests/unit/storage/getVerbs-totalCount.test.ts
(warm + cold reopen, mirrors the noun test).
metadata-only-comprehensive + vfs-api-wiring integration green; 1471 unit green.
addToIndex builds a fieldsMap from the extracted {field,value} entries, but
only __words__ accumulated — every other repeated field did fieldsMap[field]=value,
so a multi-valued field (tags:['a','b','c'] → three 'tags' entries from
extractIndexableFields) collapsed to last-value-wins. columnStore.addEntity
expands an array to one indexed entry per element, but it only ever received the
final scalar, so `contains` matched only the last element and missed the rest.
Accumulate any repeated non-__words__ field into an array before addEntity
(promote scalar→array on the second occurrence). __words__ keeps its always-array
special-case so its multiValue manifest flag stays set even for single-word docs.
find-unified-integration.test.ts → 0 failures (was 4):
- 'array contains' (A.4): now queries first/middle/last element — all match
(previously only the last-indexed element did).
- 'complete find workflow': $contains→contains (8.0 operator) AND fixed the test
premise — find() hard-ANDs vector∩graph∩metadata, and connected:{from:X} returns
X's NEIGHBOURS not X, so the graph anchor must be 'earth' (which the ML concept
relates to), not the concept itself. Multi-signal scores are reciprocal-rank
fusion (~1/61), not [0,1] cosine, so assert a positive fusion score, not >0.5.
- 'nonsense vector query': cosine search always returns nearest neighbours, so
assert the structural array/bound contract, not length===0 (a Tier-2 concern).
- 'hard-ANDs signals': a nonexistent connected.from is an empty graph signal that
zeros the intersection — assert length===0 (documented AND semantics), was >0.
1469 unit + full find-unified integration green.
getIdsForRange computed includeMin/includeMax correctly for every operator
(gt→false/true, lt→true/false, between→true/true) but DROPPED them when the
column store served the query — it called columnStore.rangeQuery(field,min,max)
with no flags, and the column-store path was inclusive-only. So whenever a field
lived in the column store, strict lessThan/greaterThan silently behaved as
lte/gte. The sparse-fallback path already forwarded the flags, so this was
column-store-only.
Thread includeMin/includeMax end to end:
- ColumnSegmentCursor: add textbook lowerBound/upperBound helpers and express
binarySearchRange in terms of them. Inclusive/inclusive is byte-identical to
the old impl (lowerBound(lo) == old binarySearchValue(lo).index; upperBound(hi)
== old "first position after hi"). Exclusive lower advances past ALL duplicates
of the boundary value; exclusive upper stops before them.
- ColumnStore.rangeQuery: accept the flags, apply them in the segment cursor AND
the tail-buffer linear scan (strict > / < when exclusive). A bound taken from a
segment's own min/max stays inclusive — it is a real stored value.
- VectorIndex/types interface + getIdsForRange call site updated.
Surfaced by brainy-complete dual-bound test (year/popularity exclusive both ends
→ ['Express','Vue.js']; React@95 and Angular@75 correctly excluded). Added 5
column-store unit tests: exclusive lower, exclusive upper, both, duplicate
boundary values, and the unflushed tail-buffer path. 1469 unit green.
lazyLoadCounts() read the `__sparse_index__noun` blob, but the sparse-index
WRITE path was removed in 7.20.0 — new workspaces persist the 'noun' field
ONLY to the column store. So on close()+reopen the sparse load found nothing
and left every per-type count at 0: counts.byType / byTypeEnum / topTypes /
allNounTypeCounts all read empty, while find() / getNounCount() (different
sources) stayed correct.
Rehydrate from the column store's 'noun' field instead. Its per-value
cardinality matches the warm updateTypeFieldAffinity counts exactly because
both are driven from the same addToIndex field set, in lockstep, with no
visibility gate on either — so syncTypeCountsToFixed (called right after in
init) reproduces the warm fixed-array values precisely. Legacy chunked sparse
index kept as a fallback for pre-7.20.0 workspaces.
Ground-truth verified: 12 Person + 5 Document → cold reopen now reports
person:12 / document:5 (was 0), topTypes [person, document, collection].
Tests: un-skipped the intentionally-failing phase1c "warm cache on init"
reopen test and strengthened it to exact persisted counts; added a warm==cold
element-for-element equality test. 1464 unit + count-sync/multi-process/
clear-persistence integration green.
A wrong or missing accelerator (@soulcraft/cor) used to silently degrade to the
default JS engine — the #1 source of invisible cross-repo drift. Brainy does no
plugin auto-detection (a registered plugin is always explicitly requested via
config.plugins or brain.use()), so any mismatch/failure is now fatal:
- BrainyPlugin gains optional `brainyRange` (semver range of brainy it supports);
init() throws if the running brainy is outside it. New dep-free, prerelease-safe
matcher pluginRangeSatisfies() (8.0.0-rc1 satisfies >=8.0.0).
- activateAll(): a plugin that THROWS during activate now re-throws (was swallowed
to a JS fallback); a graceful decline (activate()→false) stays non-fatal but logs
a loud warning.
- loadPlugins(): an explicitly-listed package that can't load — or isn't a valid
plugin — throws (was a silent skip).
- Provider-key cliff: a pre-8.0 plugin that registers a legacy vector key
('hnsw'/'diskann') but not the 8.0 'vector' key throws (brainy 8.x reads only
'vector', so it would otherwise run JS vectors invisibly).
Tests: tests/unit/plugin-version-coupling.test.ts (range matcher incl. rc1; range
mismatch / activate-throw / cliff / missing-package all throw; decline non-fatal).
Updated two plugin.test.ts cases that asserted the old silent-swallow behavior.
Build green; 1464 unit green. cor declares its brainyRange per handoff LV.1 #2.
The open/closed separation test now forbids the proprietary native package under
BOTH names (@soulcraft/cor + legacy @soulcraft/cortex) — in any dependency field
and any static import under src/ or tests/. Renamed boundary-no-cortex →
boundary-no-native. This is load-bearing for the lockstep model: because brainy
cannot depend on cor, the combined brainy-8.0 × cor-3.0 integration matrix lives
in the cor repo (which devDeps brainy), not here.
nounCountsByType (read by stats().entitiesByType / counts.byTypeEnum) was
incremented in saveNoun_internal(), which runs on every noun write — including
the HNSW index re-saving a node whenever its neighbor links change. So per-type
counts grew with graph connectivity instead of entity count (an internal report
saw 8 documents read as 44). Moved the increment into saveNounMetadata_internal(),
gated on isNew + visibility, exactly parallel to the authoritative total; the
visibility-flip path adjusts it in lockstep too.
Tests: tests/unit/storage/stats-count-accuracy.test.ts (30 dense-type entities ->
exactly 30 across stats/counts/getNounCount) + de-theatricalized the >=2 assertion
in brainy-core.unit.test.ts to exact equality. Build green; 1455 unit green.
Part of the 8.0 readiness audit Phase 1; cold-reopen count rehydration is still WIP.
getNounsWithPagination returned collectedNouns.length as totalCount, but the
type-first shard scan early-terminates at offset+limit+1 (peeks one for hasMore)
— so getNouns({ pagination: { limit: 1 } }).totalCount was the page size for any
non-empty brain. The index-rebuild gate calls exactly that, so cold starts
mis-logged "Small dataset (N items)". Now reports the authoritative O(1) noun
counter (rehydrated on init) as the unfiltered total; 8.0's peek-based hasMore is
already correct and unchanged. Filtered scans unchanged.
Regression: tests/unit/storage/getNouns-totalCount.test.ts. Full 8.0 unit suite green (1453).
Three of the five bugs the rot pass surfaced (correct inputs → wrong output), fixed:
1. where-filter dropped all but the last operator on a field. getIdsForFilter()'s
per-operator loop overwrote fieldResults each iteration, so
{ year: { greaterThan: 2009, lessThan: 2020 } } kept only lessThan. Now each
operator's match set is AND-intersected (multi-operator-per-field works).
(metadataIndex.ts)
2. related({ offset }) ignored the offset — getVerbs() zeroed it and smuggled it via
an unimplemented cursor, so every page returned items [0, limit). Now the real
offset is passed through to getVerbsWithPagination (which slices [offset,+limit)).
(baseStorage.ts) — verified: get-relations-fix pagination test passes.
3. relate() never persisted updatedAt, so reads fabricated a fresh Date.now() each
call (non-idempotent). Now createdAt and updatedAt share one timestamp at create.
(brainy.ts) — verified: get-relations-fix equivalence test passes.
Follow-ups (precisely diagnosed, not papered over): exclusive range bounds —
ColumnStore.rangeQuery(field,min,max) is inclusive-only, so getIdsForRange() drops
includeMin/includeMax (metadataIndex.ts:996) and lessThan/greaterThan behave as
lte/gte when the column store is active (the dual-bound test's popularity:95 boundary
stays red); counts not rehydrating after restart; unscoped VFS path-cache.
Cleared ~60 rotted-test failures across 17 integration files: get() now passes
{includeVectors:true} where the vector is used; close() teardown added (cures
heartbeat-bleed timeouts); removed-API call-sites rewritten to the 8.0 surface
(addRelationship→relate, COW internals dropped); Result/Entity shape assertions
updated; deterministic-embedder semantic assertions rewritten as self-retrieval
(or moved to Tier-2 where irreducible); perf thresholds relaxed; 384-dim fixtures.
Adds the Tier-2 (real-model) scaffolding: tests/setup-semantic.ts +
tests/configs/vitest.semantic.config.ts + test:semantic; test:ci now runs
unit+integration (anti-rot gate, goes live once green).
Remaining 17 failures are REAL 8.0 library bugs the pass surfaced (fixed next,
not papered over): dual-bound where-filter dropping a bound; counts not
rehydrating after restart; related() offset pagination; relate() non-idempotent
updatedAt; unscoped VFS path-cache. Plus find-unified finish + a few stragglers.
distinctCount previously routed through getNumericField, so it silently returned 0 for
string/categorical fields — its primary use case (distinct categories / users / tags).
It now tracks the raw value (any type, keyed by string form) on both the add and remove
contribution paths; numeric ops (sum/avg/min/max/stddev/variance/percentile) are unchanged.
Also adds regression coverage confirming two long-standing query behaviors hold on the 8.0
engine: find({ where: { field: { missing: true } } }) matches a never-registered field, and
find({ type: [...], orderBy, limit }) returns the full set on the first call after
mutate+query+get. (percentile/median were already correct.)
Tests: tests/unit/brainy/find-agg-edge-cases.test.ts + existing aggregation suite green.
- New docs/guides/export-and-import.md (public) for the 8.0 surface:
brain.export()/import(), Db composition (asOf/with time-travel + what-if export),
selectors, options, BackupData v1 format, cross-version (7.x→8.0), VFS, and the
generations/persist distinction. Documents only the implemented surface.
- api/README "Export & Import (portable) + Snapshots (native)": adds the portable
brain.export()/import() round-trip alongside the native persist()/asOf() snapshot.
Re-adds the portable graph round-trip on 8.0 (deleted with DataAPI), now on the
immutable Db so it composes with the generational model.
- src/db/backup.ts: BackupData v1 engine (identical wire format to the 7.32.0 line).
exportGraph() reads through a Db at its pinned generation; importGraph() applies the
whole backup as ONE atomic transact() (a single generation).
- Db.export(selector?, options?) — read at this view's generation, so
brain.asOf(g).export() is a time-travel export and brain.now().with(ops).export() a
what-if export.
- brain.export(selector?, options?) — sugar for now().export().
- brain.import() is polymorphic: a BackupData document -> graph round-trip; a
file/buffer -> existing foreign-file ingestion (dispatched on the 'brainy-backup'
tag; zero migration for ingestion callers).
- Selectors (ids/collection/connected/vfsPath/predicate/whole) + edge policy
(induced/incident/none) + includeVectors/includeContent/includeSystem; system
entities excluded by visibility. onConflict merge/replace/skip, reembed auto/never,
remapIds. DbHost gains storage (VFS blob bytes).
- Types exported from the package root: BackupData/BackupEntity/BackupRelation/
ExportSelector/ExportOptions/ImportOptions/ImportResult + isBackupData.
Tests: tests/unit/db/db-backup.test.ts (10, green) — round-trip, selectors, edges,
vectors+re-embed, merge, asOf/with composition, validation. Full unit suite green.
Follow-ups: docs (8.0 guide + RELEASES + api/README), completeness adds
(since(prior).export() delta, exportStream/importStream, validate()), includeContent
filesystem test, ids-at-asOf get() refinement, @soulcraft/formats Zod schema mirror.
Adds a reserved, top-level `visibility` field (mirrors the subtype rollout):
'public' (default, surfaced) | 'internal' (developer app-internal — hidden from
default find/count/stats, opt-in via includeInternal) | 'system' (Brainy
plumbing, library-set only).
Fixes a real leak: the VFS root entity counted in getNounCount() and appeared in
find() (a fresh brain reported 1 entity). It is now visibility:'system' →
excluded from every user-facing surface. Developers also get a first-class
hidden-unless-asked tier (e.g. learned internals vs user-exposed data).
- Reserved (RESERVED_ENTITY_FIELDS / RESERVED_RELATION_FIELDS) — spoof-proof from metadata.
- Threaded through add/relate/update/transact; surfaced top-level on reads.
- Default exclusion in counts (baseStorage), find()/related() (hard candidate
filter via excludeVisibility — keeps topK/limit correct), and stats;
includeInternal/includeSystem opt-ins.
- VFS root marked 'system'.
Tests: visibility.test.ts 17/17 (fresh-brain getNounCount()===0, internal hidden
+ opt-in, verb symmetry, top-level surfacing, metadata-spoof rejection). Unit
1431 green; count-synchronization integration now passes (off-by-one fixed).
Both suites removed their test directory without closing the brain, leaving the
writer-lock heartbeat + flush timers running into teardown and the next test.
Adds brain.close() before the rm.
Remaining failures in these files are separate, deeper issues (tracked in
.strategy): get-relations has one pagination assertion; count-sync is off-by-one
because a fresh brain carries one system/VFS-root noun that counts in
totalNounCount while find() excludes it — a counts-semantics decision.
brain.get() returns metadata only by default (includeVectors: false) for speed;
the vector is fetched via get(id, { includeVectors: true }). The neural API's
clustering, similarity, and vector-conversion helpers called get() without it,
so every entity came back with vector: [] — _getItemsWithVectors filtered them
all out, leaving k-means++ to dereference an empty array ("Cannot read
properties of undefined (reading 'vector')"). neural.clusters() was effectively
non-functional, and similarity-by-id silently scored 0.
- Pass { includeVectors: true } at the 8 vector-consuming get() call sites
(similarity, _convertToVector, _getItemsWith{Vectors,Metadata}, cluster
membership + quality scoring).
- Guard k-means against an empty item set (return an empty result, never crash).
"cluster entities semantically" passes. (includeVFS clustering + vfs.move have a
separate VFS-vector-dimension issue, tracked in .strategy.)
Companion to the s3 suite removal: s3 and distributed storage were removed in
8.0, so test:s3 / test:distributed / test:cloud pointed at gone code. Also
lowers test:integration's heap to 8 GB now that Tier 1 uses the deterministic
embedder (runs on any machine).
s3 and distributed storage were removed in 8.0. `s3-storage.test.ts` only
produced "Invalid storage type: s3" failures, and the `test:s3` /
`test:distributed` / `test:cloud` scripts pointed at removed code
(`distributed.test.ts` no longer exists). Also drops `test:integration`'s heap
from 32 GB (sized for the real model) to 8 GB — the deterministic Tier-1 suite
runs on any machine.
The integration suite loaded the real WASM model for every test, so a full run
took ~hours and reliably aborted (vitest reporter timeout) — which is why it was
never gated and silently rotted. Brainy already separates the embedder from all
other logic, so running integration with a deterministic embedder keeps every
code path real (HNSW build+search, graph traversal, metadata filtering,
transactions, storage/sharding, VFS, aggregation, import) while making the suite
complete in ~2 min on ANY machine — no GPU, no 16 GB requirement.
- Add isDeterministicEmbedMode() — a single source of truth for the test-embedder
switch (BRAINY_DETERMINISTIC_EMBEDDINGS, plus the legacy BRAINY_UNIT_TEST alias),
used by EmbeddingManager (init/embed/embedBatch) and brainy's eager-init guard.
- setup-integration.ts opts into it: Tier 1 = functional end-to-end. Real-model
semantic quality + the real embedding pipeline move to a Tier-2 suite.
Full integration now runs 482 passing / 583 in ~2 min (was un-completable). The
remaining failures are pre-existing test rot, fixed next. Unit 1414 green.
Follow-up to accepting application-supplied ids (36b7216): get('not-a-uuid')
and long ids are now valid lookups that miss → null, not "Invalid UUID format"
throws. Empty / null / undefined still throw (structurally invalid input).
Aligns the unit suite with the accept-any-id behaviour; the v5.1.0 "stricter
UUID validation" rule these cases encoded is superseded.
Sharding required a 32-hex UUID and threw "Invalid UUID format" on every
non-UUID id, even though add()'s own docs show `id: "user-12345"` and the u64
id-mapper happily assigns ints to any string. So custom ids mapped fine in
memory then threw on save — breaking documented usage and any 7.x consumer
using friendly ids (`'user-123'`, slugs, emails) on upgrade.
getShardId() (renamed from getShardIdFromUuid) now buckets UUID-format ids by
their first byte (on-disk layout unchanged, so existing data never moves) and
hashes any other id via FNV-1a into the same 256-bucket space. The hash is part
of the on-disk contract and must not change. Verbs stay Brainy-generated UUIDs
by contract; only custom noun ids take the hash path.
Adds getShardId unit coverage: dual scheme, determinism, even distribution
across buckets, and the empty-id guard.
`storage: { type: 'filesystem', path: '…' }` is a widely-used, doc-promoted
config shape, but the 8.0 storage refactor dropped top-level `path` from the
root-directory resolution chain — so it was silently ignored and every such
brain wrote to the default `./brainy-data` instead. A consumer upgrading with
`storage: { path: './my-data' }` would have had their data quietly relocated.
Restores `path` as a first-class alias for `rootDirectory` (it already worked
nested under `options.path`; now it works top-level too), adds it to the
StorageOptions / BrainyConfig.storage types, and pins every accepted spelling
(rootDirectory, path, options.rootDirectory, options.path, default) in a unit
test of the resolution chain.
Graph time-travel needs an edge's existence recorded per generation so
db.asOf(g) hops resolve historically correct endpoints. The metadata layer
already threads brainy's commit generation per write; the graph write path did
not, leaving a versioned verb-endpoint store unable to answer "which edges
existed at generation g".
- GraphIndexProvider.addVerb/removeVerb gain a `generation: bigint` parameter
(the same watermark the storage layer stamps onto the record). A provider with
a per-generation edge chain stamps the edge at that generation; the JS baseline
has no such chain and accepts-and-ignores it — graph time-travel is a
native-provider capability, and the open-core path serves edges as-of-now (the
one documented graph time-travel limitation).
- The two graph transaction operations resolve the generation via a thunk at
EXECUTE time: the generation store assigns the batch generation only once the
commit begins executing, after the operations are planned. The same generation
is reused for an operation's rollback half.
- All graph-write call sites pass the in-flight generation.
Adds a spy-provider test proving the threading, execute-time resolution, and
forward/rollback generation reuse. The JS index ignores the value, so behaviour
is unchanged: unit 1402/1402, db-mvcc 25/25, bigint-contract relate/unrelate 10/10.
The auto-detected query-limit cap was computed from os.freemem() (MemFree),
which excludes reclaimable page cache. On hosts that memory-map large index
files the cache holding those pages dominates RAM, so MemFree collapses to a
sliver and the cap cratered to its floor on perfectly healthy machines,
rejecting legitimate find() calls.
- getAvailableMemory() now prefers /proc/meminfo MemAvailable (counts
reclaimable cache), falling back to os.freemem() off-Linux, then a 2 GB
constant where no OS module is available.
- Auto-detected caps (container + free-memory tiers) are floored at
MIN_AUTO_QUERY_LIMIT (10_000); a transient low reading can never throttle
queries to a near-useless ceiling. Consumer-supplied maxQueryLimit /
reservedQueryMemory bypass the floor — an explicit caller knows their box.
Also scrubs two stale comments referencing the removed cloud storage
adapters and the retired mmap-vector backend: 8.0's native vector provider
persists its own .dkann file via getBinaryBlobPath, so the old rootDirectory
hook does not apply on this line.
Tests: memoryLimits 26/26 (4 new floor regressions), unit 1398/1398,
find-limits + db-mvcc + api-parameter-validation 37/37.
The open-core, Cortex-free half of the library A/B (handoff AJ/AK), authored once in
brainy so the proprietary A/B comparison can import it for both legs:
- tests/benchmarks/lib/corpus.js — deterministic clustered-mixture corpus generator
(recompute-on-demand, O(clusters·dim) memory) for latency/ingest/memory at scale.
- tests/benchmarks/lib/metrics.js — percentiles, brute-force recall@k, RSS snapshot.
- tests/benchmarks/brainy-scale.js — brainy-alone scaling leg (ingest, find p50/p99 for
vector/metadata/graph/triple, RSS). Recall is intentionally NOT measured on synthetic
data — see below.
- tests/unit/boundary-no-cortex.test.ts — CI guard: fails if @soulcraft/cortex ever
appears in a src/ or tests/ import or in any package.json dependency field.
- tests/integration/vector-recall.test.ts — semantic-search correctness on REAL
embeddings (19-20/20 exact-text top-1).
Methodology note: synthetic vectors (random/one-hot/clustered/latent) are near-orthogonal
under cosine, so HNSW (any graph ANN, incl. DiskANN) cannot navigate them and recall
collapses regardless of engine — a property of the data, not the index. Brainy vector
search is verified correct on real embeddings. The A/B recall@10 column is therefore
measured on SIFT/BIGANN, identically for both legs.
The installation guide asserted a '5.2x geometric mean speedup' linking a /docs/cortex/comparison
page that does not exist (404) and has no backing benchmark — an unbacked performance claim
shipping in the public package, against the evidence rule. Replaced with a qualitative
native-acceleration statement (no number, no dead link) until a measured, reproducible
open-core-vs-native comparison is published. Also dropped the dead 'cortex/comparison' next-link
from PLUGINS.md frontmatter.
Open-core (pure-TS) latencies from tests/benchmarks/find-composition-scale.js: vector and
graph scale ~log(n) (~1.4ms / 0.65ms p50 at 100k); metadata-filtered paths scale with the
match-set size (low-selectivity worst case), which is the path the native provider
accelerates. Composition correctness cited to the triple-composition test. States the
open-core build ceiling (~10^5-10^6) and the native-provider path beyond.
- db-mvcc proof 9: asOf(-1|1.5|future) → RangeError, bad snapshot path → descriptive
error, use-after-release() throws on get/find/related (Y.15 error-path coverage).
- find-triple-composition: proves vector ∩ metadata ∩ graph returns exactly the
entity satisfying all three and excludes those failing any one (decoys, wrong category).
- find-composition-scale.js: parameterized latency harness (vector/metadata/graph/
vector+metadata/triple) with non-empty asserts; precomputed vectors, no model load.
The old config-generation subsystem (src/config/ + autoConfiguration.ts) was
superseded during the 8.0 rework and never wired into init(): it emitted settings
for a partitioning subsystem that no longer exists and probed deleted cloud env
vars. The live zero-config path is inline — recall preset → HNSW knobs, storage
auto-detect, auto persistMode, container-memory-aware cache sizing.
The storage progressive-init / cloud-detection cluster was equally dead after the
cloud adapters were dropped: isCloudStorage() is permanently false (no overriders),
scheduleBackgroundInit/runBackgroundInit were never called (the latter an empty
body), initMode was never assigned, and Brainy.isFullyInitialized()/
awaitBackgroundInit() were always-trivial with zero callers. scheduleCountPersist()
collapses to its only-ever-taken immediate write-through path.
Removed:
- src/config/{index,zeroConfig,storageAutoConfig,modelAutoConfig,sharedConfigManager}.ts
- src/utils/autoConfiguration.ts + the inert BrainyZeroConfig export
- Brainy.isFullyInitialized()/awaitBackgroundInit() (+ BrainyInterface decls)
- InitMode type, isCloudStorage/detectCloudEnvironment/resolveInitMode,
scheduleBackgroundInit/runBackgroundInit/ensureValidatedForWrite and their state
- Dead cloud env-var probes (K_SERVICE/K_REVISION/AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_NAME/
FUNCTIONS_TARGET/AZURE_FUNCTIONS_ENVIRONMENT)
Kept (verified live): production-detection logging (environment.ts), container-
memory cache sizing (memoryDetection/paramValidation), on-disk hash bucketing
(sharding.ts).
Docs: scrubbed deleted-subsystem references (JS quantization knobs, cloud/OPFS
adapters, partitioning, old zero-config API) across 14 files; deleted two wholly-
obsolete feature docs (complete-feature-list, v3-features); rewrote
architecture/zero-config for 8.0.
~3,700 LOC removed. Build clean; 1392 unit + 24 db-mvcc green.
The distributed-clustering subsystem never ran in production: it was inert,
orphaned dead code (faked consensus, stub replication, no live wiring, and it
did not interoperate with the 8.0 Db API). Brainy 8.0 is a single-process
library. Scale is single-process + the optional native provider
(@soulcraft/cortex, on-disk DiskANN to 10B+ vectors) + per-tenant pools +
horizontal read scaling (many reader processes, one writer).
Removed:
- src/distributed/ entirely (coordinator, shardManager, cacheSync,
readWriteSeparation, queryPlanner, healthMonitor, configManager,
hashPartitioner, shardMigration, domainDetector, storageDiscovery, http/network
transports). ReaderMode/HybridMode relocated to src/storage/operationalModes.ts
(slimmed to the live surface).
- src/types/distributedTypes.ts; config.distributed field + JSDoc;
coreTypes distributedConfig; memoryStorage distributedConfig persistence.
- DistributedRole enum + src/config/distributedPresets.ts and the orphaned
src/config/extensibleConfig.ts (config/augmentation registry built on removed
cloud adapters + distributed presets), plus their src/index.ts re-exports.
- 13 BRAINY_* cluster env vars; the storage setDistributedComponents hook;
enableDistributedSearch (dead config flag); the metadata partition field;
the distributed_ reserved key prefix.
- Orphaned src/storage/readOnlyOptimizations.ts (zero importers).
- Tests targeting the subsystem: distributed-demo, distributed-cluster helper,
distributed-transactions, sharding-transactions.
- Docs: EXTENDING_STORAGE.md (deleted); scrubbed distributed/cluster/Raft/
shard-manager/multi-node prose from v3-features, enterprise-for-everyone,
augmentations-actual, complete-feature-list, vfs/README, vfs/ROADMAP,
vfs/VFS_CORE, capacity-planning, transactions, MIGRATION-V3-TO-V4,
storage-architecture; reframed scale prose to the 8.0 model.
Kept: src/storage/sharding.ts (local-disk 256-bucket directory sharding via
getShardIdFromUuid — used live by baseStorage, unrelated to clustering);
the multi-process mode: 'reader' | 'writer' roles; semantic/HNSW clustering.
RELEASES.md: added a removed-surfaces row documenting the cut and the 8.0
scale model.
rename() spread the entire fetched entity into brain.update(), forwarding a
vector field that failed dimension validation when the entity was fetched
without vectors. A rename is a path/metadata change: the update is now
metadata-only — no vector forwarded, no re-embedding, no vector-index touch.
Regression suite ported from the 7.x line (verbatim consumer repro,
cross-directory move, EEXIST). The companion rollback fix from 7.31.7 was
already present on this branch via the pre-RC1 sweep.
