The 3.0 native engine ships as @soulcraft/cor (brainy 8.x <-> cor 3.x are a
version-matched pair); the old @soulcraft/cortex package stays on the 2.x/7.x
line. Public docs and .d.ts-visible comments now name the correct package.
Historical 2.x contract references (e.g. the 2.3.1 read-side fallback) keep
the old name deliberately.
A logical snapshot restore could silently lose graph edges on a brain backed by
a native provider: the graph adjacency keys on the shared id-mapper's interned
ints (sourceInt/targetInt), which are derived + never persisted, and restore()
never reloaded the mapper — so a native graph rebuild resolved verb endpoints
against a stale/empty mapper and dropped edges.
restore() now calls entityIdMapper.rebuild() — a new OPTIONAL method on the
EntityIdMapperProvider contract — BEFORE rebuilding the indexes, so a native
mapper reloads its int<->uuid from the restored binary KV first and the graph
resolves endpoints correctly. The JS mapper deliberately has NO rebuild() and
needs none: MetadataIndex.rebuild() re-derives it from the restored entities via
append-only getOrAssign, consistently with the bitmaps it builds — forcing a
reload there would blank a still-referenced mapping and break find() after a
same-instance restore.
Contract: graphIndex.rebuild() resolves sourceId/targetId -> ints through the
shared mapper itself (brainy does not re-feed resolved endpoints); brainy's only
job is to ensure the mapper is reloaded first.
Test: relationships survive a snapshot round-trip (db-mvcc.test.ts). 84
generation/temporal/visibility tests green; tsc clean.
Defines the optional native graph-acceleration provider (cor 3.0) that
brainy feature-detects and routes brain.graph.* / related({node}) /
find({connected}) to, falling back to pure-TS adjacency when absent. This is
the published seam cor wires its native build against (mirrors the existing
VersionedIndexProvider pattern: defined in plugin.ts, exported from index.ts,
implemented externally, feature-detected at runtime).
Contract (locked cross-team in the design thread):
- GraphAccelerationProvider: traverse, edgesForNode, graphCursorOpen/Next/Close,
pageRank, connectedComponents, shortestPath, neighborhoodSample, topByDegree.
Every read op is generation-aware (optional trailing generation?: bigint) so
db.asOf(g).graph.* resolves historically; omitted = now.
- Subgraph: columnar wire format (BigInt64Array node/edge columns, Uint16Array
edgeTypes, optional Uint8Array nodeDepth, truncated flag) — parallel typed
arrays, never array-of-objects; brainy maps u64<->UUID lazily for rendered rows.
- OpaqueIdSet: a find() universe forwarded opaquely into traverse/search for the
zero-crossing query->expand fusion (brainy never inspects it; the provider
version-tags + validates the envelope).
- VectorIndexProvider.search gains allowedIds?: OpaqueIdSet | ReadonlySet<string>
(predicate pushdown — recovers filtered recall lost to post-filtering).
- EntityIdMapperProvider gains entityIntsToUuids(BigInt64Array) — the bigint batch
reverse resolver for Subgraph.nodes; implemented on the JS mapper (TS fallback).
All new public types exported from index.ts. Test: entityIntsToUuids round-trip
+ order-preservation + empty-int sentinel.
- 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.
The JS fallback EntityIdMapper caps at u32::MAX to match the metadata
index's Roaring32 bitmap width. Before this guard, a brain past 4.29 B
entities would silently widen `nextId` into JS's safe-integer range,
truncating ints inside the bitmaps and zeroing query results — the
same silent under-count cortex 3.0's Piece 10 just closed on the
native path. Brainy 8.0 surfaces the overflow loudly instead.
When `nextId` would exceed `U32_ENTITY_ID_MAX`, `getOrAssign` throws
`EntityIdSpaceExceeded` with a message pointing at the cortex 3.0
binary mapper's `idSpace: 'u64'` mode as the migration path (mmap-
backed extendible-hash KV, persists the full u64 range losslessly).
The existing-UUID lookup path bypasses the guard — only fresh
allocations can overflow.
Surfaces via `@soulcraft/brainy/internals`:
- `EntityIdMapper` (already exported, behavior gated)
- `EntityIdSpaceExceeded` (new)
- `U32_ENTITY_ID_MAX` (new constant, = 0xFFFF_FFFF)
This is the lockstep half of cortex 3.0 / Piece 10 / Step 15. Cortex's
`NativeBinaryEntityIdMapperWrapper` ships the U64 binary mapper that
takes over above this ceiling; brainy ships the bright-line failure
that points consumers at it.
New test: tests/unit/utils/entity-id-mapper-u32-ceiling.test.ts (6
assertions covering the constant, the error shape, normal
allocations, the boundary case at exactly u32::MAX, the overflow
throw, and the existing-uuid lookup bypass).
Previously metadataIndex.rebuild() called idMapper.clear() which reset nextId
to 1 and renumbered every UUID by re-insertion order. Any consumer that had
persisted int-keyed data against the old map was silently invalidated — and
2.4.0's vector mmap store (#20), graph link compression (#21), and column-store
JS↔native interchange all need persisted int indices that survive a rebuild.
Remove the unconditional clear() in rebuild(). The rebuild already re-iterates
every entity via idMapper.getOrAssign(uuid), which returns the existing int
unchanged for known UUIDs. Stale UUID→int entries for entities no longer in
storage persist as harmless memory overhead; a dedicated prune step can be
added if it ever matters.
clearAllIndexData() — the explicit nuclear recovery path — keeps its existing
idMapper.clear() call (renumbering is intentional there), and now logs a
prodLog.warn making it explicit that any persisted int-keyed data is invalidated
and must be rebuilt from canonical sources.
Strengthened the EntityIdMapper class JSDoc to document the stability guarantee
as a contract — append-only getOrAssign, monotonic nextId, remove() leaves
permanent holes, rebuild() never renumbers, only clear() does.
Added tests/regression/entity-id-mapper-stability.test.ts pinning down the
five-point contract: (1) single-rebuild stability; (2) many-rebuild stability;
(3) post-rebuild adds get fresh monotonic ints; (4) removes leave permanent
holes — new entities never recycle; (5) clearAllIndexData() explicitly
renumbers (the documented destructive path).
Foundation for 2.4.0 #2-#4. Full test suite (62 files, 1417 tests) green.
Native accelerators (cortex) register providers for metadataIndex, graphIndex,
hnsw, entityIdMapper, cache, columnStore, and aggregation. Until now the exact
method/property surface brainy calls on each was implicit — a provider could
drop a member brainy depends on and only fail at runtime when that path ran.
This defines and exports the provider contracts from the stable
@soulcraft/brainy/plugin entrypoint:
- MetadataIndexProvider, GraphIndexProvider, HnswProvider,
EntityIdMapperProvider, CacheProvider — each typed as exactly the surface
brainy calls (optional/feature-detected members like HNSW setPersistMode and
enableCOW are intentionally excluded).
- Re-exports ColumnStoreProvider and AggregationProvider (and the aggregate
types) from the same entrypoint so a plugin author can import the whole
provider surface from one place.
Brainy's own baseline classes now `implements` these contracts
(MetadataIndexManager, GraphAdjacencyIndex, HNSWIndex, EntityIdMapper,
UnifiedCache), so the interfaces can never silently diverge from what brainy
ships — and any provider that declares `implements` gets a compile error the
moment brainy starts requiring a new member.
The embeddings/embedBatch providers stay typed by the existing EmbeddingFunction
(no duplicate interface added). Type-only changes; no runtime behavior change.
Root cause: metadata index failed to reconstruct after deploy restart
because the field registry file (__metadata_field_registry__) was lost
during an interrupted flush. init() silently assumed the workspace was
empty even though 5000+ entities existed on disk.
Fix 1 (root cause): init() now probes storage for entities when field
registry is missing. If entities exist, triggers rebuild instead of
silently skipping. Never trusts a missing registry as "empty."
Fix 2 (safety net): after rebuildIndexesIfNeeded(), verifies metadata
index entry count matches storage entity count. Forces second rebuild
if mismatch detected.
Fix 3 (prevention): flush() now always saves field registry and
EntityIdMapper, even when no dirty fields exist. These tiny files are
the critical link that init() needs to discover persisted indices.
Fix 5 (safe rebuild): rebuild() no longer deletes the field registry
file before rewriting. If rebuild fails partway, the registry survives
for the next init() to discover and re-trigger rebuild.
Fix 6 (collision guard): EntityIdMapper init() warns when mapper file
is missing but entities exist on disk, preventing silent ID collisions
from nextId starting at 1.
Shutdown/close/flush now properly flushes all 4 components in parallel:
metadataIndex, graphIndex, HNSW dirty nodes, and storage counts. Previously
only counts were flushed, causing native provider data loss on restart.
Also:
- Wire roaring, msgpack, entityIdMapper provider consumption from plugins
- Fix allOf filter O(n²) intersection → O(n) Set-based
- Fix ne/exists negation filter to use Set-based exclusion
- Add setMsgpackImplementation() swap in SSTable for native msgpack
- Add setRoaringImplementation() swap for native CRoaring bitmaps
- Add getAllIntIds() to EntityIdMapper for bitmap operations
- Remove TypeAwareHNSWIndex from default index creation path
- Export memory detection utilities from internals
- Clean up 26 permanently-skipped dead tests
The __words__ keyword index stores 50-5000 entries per entity (one per
word), which inflated avg entries/entity well above the corruption
threshold of 100. This caused:
1. validateConsistency() to falsely detect corruption on every startup,
triggering unnecessary clearAllIndexData() + rebuild() cycles
2. getStats() to log false "Metadata index may be corrupted" warnings
and report inflated totalEntries/totalIds stats
Both methods now skip __words__ when counting, so stats and health
checks reflect metadata fields only (noun, type, createdAt, etc.).
Keyword search is unaffected since the __words__ field index itself
is not modified.
CRITICAL: Fixed metadata index corruption on update() operations where
removalMetadata only contained custom metadata + type, while entityForIndexing
contained ALL indexed fields. This caused 7 fields to accumulate on every
update, eventually making queries return 0 results.
- Fix removalMetadata to include all indexed fields (src/brainy.ts)
- Add validateIndexConsistency() and getIndexStats() public APIs
- Add auto-corruption detection and repair on startup
- Add getOrAssignSync() for EntityIdMapper persistence
- Add comprehensive regression tests
- Fix update() method saving data as '_data' instead of 'data'
- Fix update() passing wrong entity structure to metadata index
- Add guard against undefined IDs in analyzeKey() for clustering
- Fix EntityIdMapper to read from top-level metadata in v4.8.0
- Fix PatternSignal tests to use NounType.Measurement
- Update test expectations for v4.8.0 entity structure
Fixes augmentations-simplified.test.ts (all 25 tests passing)
Fixes neural-simplified clustering (32/33 tests passing)
Overall: 98.3% test pass rate (988/997 tests)
- Change EntityIdMapper to use StorageAdapter interface instead of BaseStorage
- Use RoaringBitmap32.orMany() for multiple bitmap OR operations
- Use manual reduction for AND operations (no andMany available)
- Fixes TypeScript compilation errors
- Add .js extension to entityIdMapper baseStorage import
- Change roaring imports from subpath to main package export
- Use import { RoaringBitmap32 } from 'roaring' for ESM compatibility