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Part of #5560.

What this does

Drains the FacadeRevealed bucket in memory/direct_engine_refs_tests.rs — 82 of the 107 allowlist entries — into the three considered verdicts, with each entry naming the symbols the file actually reaches for so the classification is checkable against the code rather than taken on trust.

The finding

None of the 82 is SeamExpressible. Everything expressible through today's MemoryProvider has already been migrated; every remaining direct call is blocked on contract surface the module does not expose. So the rest of #5560 is upstream work in tinymemory, not a routing pass in this repo — which is the opposite of what the issue's scope section assumes ("route memory/tools/, memory/query/, memory/tree/, memory/sync/ through MemoryProvider").

Worth stating plainly, because the issue's numbers are stale: it was filed against 107 references in four clusters; the tree today has 406 across 139 files and 35 engine modules. The lint is what stopped that growing further, and it is why the count is knowable at all.

The ask, grouped by gap rather than by file

gap files what they reach for
the engine handle itself ~28 global::{init, client, client_if_ready}, store::{UnifiedMemory, MemoryClient, MemoryClientRef}, create_memory
chunk writes + transactions ~21 with_connection, upsert_chunks, upsert_staged_chunks_tx, fts5, segments, profile, events, content
host policy in the engine crate ~14 store::safety::{sanitize_text, sanitize_json, has_likely_secret}, util::redact, source_scope::*
engine-shaped integration internals ~11 tinycortex::{memory_config_from, run_composio_connection, HostSyncAdapter, CodingSession*}
the re-embed queue ~8 queue::{start, store, ensure_reembed_backfill, …}
chat / ingest pipeline / preferences ~12 chat::ChatProvider, ingest_pipeline::*, preferences::*
engine-owned types rpc_models::*, SourceKind, TreeKind, NamespaceDocumentInput, …

One of these decides the architecture, not the schedule

chunks::store::with_connection hands the caller a SQLite handle, and eleven files use it. A contract containing that could only ever be implemented by a SQLite engine — the supermemory, mem0 and cognee drivers could not satisfy it. So the fix is not widening the seam to fit these callers; it is moving the subsystems behind the bus so the host stops needing them. Widening would quietly destroy the engine-neutrality the extraction exists to protect, and it would do it in a way that only shows up when someone tries to bind a second engine.

The docs now say this where the next person to pick the work up will read it, along with the order that follows: relocate the pure helpers and types to tinymemory-api first (no bus surface, no release coupling, unblocks nothing else — which is exactly why it is cheap), then move the queue and chunk-write subsystems behind the module, and only then can the handle-holding callers take the binding's provider and the crate leave the build.

Also in here

Two call sites named the engine for a type tinymemory-core only re-exports — MemoryCategory now comes from tinymemory_api::types. The comment claiming those carried "the engine's category type, not the contract's" is corrected: #18 §A1 moved the memory value types onto the contract precisely so they would not be. Two fewer references, no behaviour change.

Note what this deliberately does not do: route these through crate::openhuman::memory::MemoryCategory. That would remove the textual reference the lint counts while resolving into the engine exactly as before — gaming the ratchet, which the module's own docs call out as "the worst outcome".

The FacadeRevealed variant is kept rather than deleted, as its docs instruct, so the label exists if a re-export facade ever regrows and hides engine users again.

Commands run

cargo test --no-default-features --features flows --lib direct_engine_refs   # 6 passed
cargo fmt --all -- --check

allowlist_has_no_stale_entries passing is the meaningful one — it proves all 82 rewritten paths still name real files.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added comprehensive request and response models for memory, conversation, document, recall, and file operations.
    • Added consistent limit handling, validation, serialization, and default values for memory-related API requests.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for API model compatibility, validation, error handling, serialization, and limit resolution.
    • Updated memory-category tests to use the public API contract type.
    • Expanded audit documentation and clarified migration status for direct memory-engine references.

`FacadeRevealed` meant "nobody has looked at this yet", and 82 of the 107
allowlist entries carried it. Draining it was always the next step; the
result is the finding, not the formality: **none of the 82 is
`SeamExpressible`.** Every remaining direct engine call is blocked on
contract surface the module does not expose, so what is left of tinyhumansai#5560 is
upstream work in `tinymemory` rather than a routing pass in this repo.

Each entry now names the symbols the file actually reaches for, so the
verdict is checkable against the code instead of taken on trust, and the
module docs carry the ask grouped by gap rather than by file:

- the engine handle itself (~28 files) — `global::{init, client,
  client_if_ready}`, `store::{UnifiedMemory, MemoryClient,
  MemoryClientRef}`, `create_memory`;
- chunk writes and transactions (~21) — `with_connection`,
  `upsert_chunks`, `upsert_staged_chunks_tx`, plus `fts5` / `segments` /
  `profile` / `events` / `content`;
- host policy living in the engine crate (~14) — `store::safety::*`,
  `util::redact`, `source_scope::*`;
- the re-embed queue (~8), engine-shaped integration internals (~11),
  chat / ingest-pipeline / preferences (~12), and the engine-owned types.

One of those decides the architecture rather than the schedule.
`chunks::store::with_connection` hands the caller a SQLite handle. A
contract containing it could only ever be implemented by a SQLite engine,
so widening the seam to fit these callers would make the supermemory,
mem0 and cognee drivers unimplementable — the property the whole
extraction exists to protect. Moving the subsystems behind the bus is the
shape that survives; the docs now say so where the next person will read
it.

Also migrates the two call sites that were naming the engine for a type
`tinymemory-core` only re-exports: `MemoryCategory` comes from
`tinymemory_api::types` now. A comment claiming those were the engine's
type rather than the contract's is corrected — tinyhumansai#18 §A1 moved the memory
value types onto the contract precisely so they would not be.

The `FacadeRevealed` variant is kept rather than removed, as its own docs
instruct: if a re-export facade regrows and hides engine users again, the
label for them already exists and already says what it means.

Issue tinyhumansai#5560.
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The PR adds host-owned memory RPC models, updates exports and dependent imports, adds model validation tests, and refines the direct engine reference audit for 82 entries.

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Memory boundary audit

Layer / File(s) Summary
Host-owned memory RPC contract
src/openhuman/memory/rpc_models.rs, src/openhuman/memory/rpc_models_tests.rs
The memory module defines Serde RPC models, limit-resolution helpers, the memory-root default, and tests for compatibility, validation, and round trips.
RPC model export and integration updates
src/openhuman/memory/mod.rs, src/openhuman/memory/store_golden.rs, tests/memory_*, src/openhuman/memory/tools/store.rs, src/openhuman/agent/tools/remember_preference.rs
The memory module re-exports host-owned models. Dependent code uses local RPC models and contract-level MemoryCategory types.
Direct engine reference audit
src/openhuman/memory/direct_engine_refs_tests.rs
The audit documents migration gaps and ordering, retains FacadeRevealed as dormant fallback code, and assigns specific verdicts and reasons to 82 entries.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fb092

The PR adds public memory contracts and changes initialization behavior while placing the new module files outside the required directory structure. Because initialization still ignores the supplied token and returns local workspace paths, merge should wait for the layout issue to be fixed and for the authentication and workspace-isolation boundary to be explicitly confirmed.

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I hop through models, neat and bright,
With limits resolved just right.
Eighty-two paths receive a name,
The memory seam records the same.
— A careful rabbit reviewing the frame

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src/openhuman/memory/direct_engine_refs_tests.rs (1)

271-271: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider extracting the repeated reason clauses into shared constants.

Two clauses repeat verbatim across the table: the MemoryChunks read-only sentence (about 18 times) and the "driver construction belongs to memory::binding" sentence (about 25 times). If the read family gains a write door, every copy must change.

concat! works in a const table, so the shared text can live in one place.

♻️ Sketch of the extraction
+const CHUNKS_READ_ONLY: &str = "MemoryChunks is read-only \
+(list_chunks/get_chunk/chunk_detail/storage_kinds/chunk_embeddings) \
+with no write or transaction door";

Then build each reason with concat! over a per-entry prefix and the shared suffix, or store the prefix and suffix as separate tuple fields and join them at assertion time.

Also applies to: 596-596

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In `@src/openhuman/memory/direct_engine_refs_tests.rs` at line 271, Extract the
repeated MemoryChunks read-only reason clause and the “driver construction
belongs to memory::binding” clause into shared constants in the test module,
then compose each affected table entry’s reason from its unique prefix and the
shared text using concat!. Update all repeated entries while preserving the
existing reason strings exactly.
src/openhuman/memory/tools/store.rs (1)

156-163: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

The comment overstates the build effect, and the alias name no longer matches the type.

Two points:

  1. Line 162 states the change is one fewer reference holding the engine crate in the build. Line 154 still imports tinymemory_core::store::UnifiedMemory in the same test module. The file still depends on the engine crate. The allowlist entry at src/openhuman/memory/direct_engine_refs_tests.rs line 581 agrees and keeps this file as NeedsWiderSeam.
  2. The alias is EngineMemoryCategory, but the comment argues the type belongs to the contract, not the engine. Rename the alias to ContractMemoryCategory or drop the alias, so the name states what the import now says.

The module path claim on line 158 is covered in the consolidated comment below.

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In `@src/openhuman/memory/tools/store.rs` around lines 156 - 163, Update the
import alias in the affected test module to ContractMemoryCategory, or remove
the alias if unnecessary, so it reflects the contract-owned type; also remove
the claim that this change reduces an engine-crate build reference, since
UnifiedMemory still imports tinymemory_core::store in the same module.
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In `@src/openhuman/memory/direct_engine_refs_tests.rs`:
- Around line 489-491: Align the reason strings for the entries around
run_composio_connection, MemoryChunks, and the re-embed queue with the blocker
groups they describe: update the first to classify global::client consistently
with the named engine-internal handles, revise the second to accurately group
global::client and store::UnifiedMemory::new without the unrelated MemoryChunks
clause, and revise the third to classify global::init consistently with the
queue blocker. Preserve the existing NeedsWiderSeam verdicts.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/openhuman/memory/direct_engine_refs_tests.rs`:
- Line 271: Extract the repeated MemoryChunks read-only reason clause and the
“driver construction belongs to memory::binding” clause into shared constants in
the test module, then compose each affected table entry’s reason from its unique
prefix and the shared text using concat!. Update all repeated entries while
preserving the existing reason strings exactly.

In `@src/openhuman/memory/tools/store.rs`:
- Around line 156-163: Update the import alias in the affected test module to
ContractMemoryCategory, or remove the alias if unnecessary, so it reflects the
contract-owned type; also remove the claim that this change reduces an
engine-crate build reference, since UnifiedMemory still imports
tinymemory_core::store in the same module.
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Comment thread src/openhuman/memory/direct_engine_refs_tests.rs Outdated
`rpc_models` defined forty-five JSON-RPC request/response shapes in
`tinymemory-core`, and nothing inside `tinymemory` ever named one — not
the engine, not an adapter, not a test — while this host names all
forty-five. The engine crate was carrying one host's RPC surface, and
every file that touched a request shape held the crate in the build for
it.

They are ours now. The structs are verbatim, so the serde shapes, field
names and defaults are identical, and `memory/mod.rs` re-exports the
module by the same glob it used before — every `memory::…` path resolves
exactly as it did, including from `opencompany`. The two call paths that
motivated checking (`memory_query_namespace`, `thread_create_new`) are
this host's own functions, so the engine never saw these types crossing
its boundary in the first place.

Two files leave the allowlist entirely; their only engine reference was
this one.

Also corrects two entries the previous commit got wrong, verified rather
than assumed this time:

- `store::safety` is a shim over `crate::engine::backend::store::safety`.
  The scrubbers live in **tinycortex**, so relocating them to
  `tinymemory-api` is engine work and not the cheap contract move the
  audit called it.
- `source_scope` is a `tokio::task_local`, so hosting it in the contract
  crate means adding tokio to a crate whose whole point is that a caller
  can depend on it and compile almost nothing.

Only `util::redact` (136 lines over `sha2`) is the clean case the group
was described as, and it costs `sha2` in the contract crate. The gap
inventory says so where the next person will read it.

Issue tinyhumansai#5560.
…dule-seam

# Conflicts:
#	src/openhuman/agent/agentbox/invoker.rs
#	src/openhuman/meet/backend_bot/bus.rs
#	src/openhuman/memory/direct_engine_refs_tests.rs
Three entries listed engine-handle symbols under another group's wording.
The verdict was right in each case and the classification was not: the
audit assigned one reason template per file from its dominant symbol, and
these three files are blocked by two things at once.

That matters more here than a wording nit normally would. The module docs
size the upstream work per group, and the whole value of the audit is that
someone can check the sizing against the entries. A file counted under
"queue" while its real blocker is the engine handle makes both numbers
wrong.

- `memory/ops/sync.rs` — engine internals AND `global::client`
- `memory/store_golden.rs` — chunk storage AND the handle
- `security/credentials/ops.rs` — the re-embed queue AND `global::init`

Issue tinyhumansai#5560.
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Markdown Link Check is red here for a reason unrelated to this PR — flagging rather than bundling a fix.

This branch changes zero markdown files:

$ git diff --name-only upstream/main...HEAD -- "*.md" | wc -l
0

The ten failures are all external 404s on two GitBook pages, across five translated READMEs:

  • https://tinyhumans.gitbook.io/openhuman/features/subconscious
  • https://tinyhumans.gitbook.io/openhuman/features/mascot/meeting-agents

in docs/README.{de,ja-JP,ko,ur-pk,zh-CN}.md. The subconscious pages went away with the legacy-domain removal (#5674, which this branch merged); the docs were not updated alongside it.

Two things worth knowing before someone fixes it:

  1. The root README.md has the same two links (lines 71 and 86) and is not caught, because lychee is scoped to docs/**/*.md, src/**/README.md and the PR template. So fixing only the translations would leave the English original pointing at the same 404s while CI goes green — worth fixing together.
  2. What they should say is a content decision, not a mechanical one. These are feature bullets in the product README in six languages. Deleting or rewording them is a call for whoever owns that copy, and I would rather not make it inside a memory-seam PR — the commit guidelines here ask not to bundle unrelated work, and this is about as unrelated as it gets.

Happy to do it as its own small PR if that is wanted.

…models

Bringing `rpc_models` into this crate moved the types the host's own RPC
functions take, and two integration targets still imported the engine's
copies. `memory_recall_context` then wanted `RecallContextRequest` while
the test handed it `tinymemory_core::RecallContextRequest` — same name,
different crate, so rustc rejected it with the "similar names, but are
actually distinct types" note.

The relocation searched `src/` and stopped there. `tests/` is a separate
compilation unit and was missed, which is the same trap the memory seam
docs already name for `tinymemory-api` against `tinycortex-api`: two
crates carrying near-identical types, where reaching for the wrong one
compiles everywhere except the seam that joins them.

Issue tinyhumansai#5560.
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Pushed fb09281 — the coverage lane was failing on a real break from this PR, and it is fixed.

Relocating rpc_models moved the types this host's own RPC functions take, and two integration targets still imported the engine copies:

expected `RecallContextRequest`, found `tinymemory_core::RecallContextRequest`
...have similar names, but are actually distinct types

tests/memory_golden_parity_e2e.rs and tests/memory_roundtrip_e2e.rs now name openhuman_core::openhuman::memory::rpc_models. Both targets check clean under the product feature set.

Worth recording why it slipped: the relocation searched src/ and stopped there, and tests/ is a separate compilation unit. That is the same trap this seam already documents for tinymemory-api against tinycortex-api — two crates carrying near-identical types, where picking the wrong one compiles everywhere except where the two meet.

The two other red checks are not from this PR:

  • Markdown Link Check — external GitBook 404s in five translated READMEs. This branch changes zero markdown files (git diff --name-only upstream/main...HEAD -- "*.md" is empty), and the same dead links sit in the root README.md, which lychee does not scan. Detail in the comment above.
  • PR CI Gate — the aggregate job; it should clear once the coverage lane is green.

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In `@src/openhuman/memory/rpc_models.rs`:
- Around line 612-614: Move src/openhuman/memory/rpc_models.rs to
src/openhuman/memory/rpc_models/mod.rs and change its test declaration to mod
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Both threads on this PR are resolved — the blocker-grouping fix was verified, and the module-layout finding was withdrawn after the repository evidence (21 sibling .rs files in src/openhuman/memory/, one file at the src/openhuman/ root, and binding.rs using the identical #[path = "..._tests.rs"] pattern). CI is green on this head. Requesting a fresh verdict so the standing CHANGES_REQUESTED, which was raised for the withdrawn finding, does not sit on a PR with nothing outstanding.

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