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fix(daemon): skip unchanged native source files in the owner - #2129

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Native memory sources re-index every Obsidian note on every sync, whether or not it changed. Moving native indexing behind the database owner (84c8fce) removed the parent's unchanged-file check for source-worker descriptors, but the owner never took that decision over. It computed artifactChanged and still re-upserted the artifact, removed and rebuilt the file's Obsidian structure, and reported the file as indexed.

Observed on a live 0.237.11 workspace with a 340-note vault:

  • 46 unchanged daily notes from August and September had memory_artifacts.updated_at bumped within a 25-second window, so the whole vault was rewritten about every three minutes.
  • entity_dependency_history grew from 15,709,731 to 18,186,307 rows in about 20 hours (roughly 120k rows an hour) against 2,625 live dependencies. Each rebuild deletes and re-creates every edge of the file, and the migration 050 audit triggers record both.
  • Incremental integrity verification times out on that table and retries every 30 seconds (P1: v0.237.10 post-OOM recovery remains degraded for hours as integrity checks repeatedly time out #2126), leaving the daemon degraded and stalling DB-backed requests for 6 to 8 seconds per attempt.

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  • platform/daemon/src/db-owner-worker.ts (executeNativeMemoryIndex): when the stored source_sha256 matches the incoming hash and the file's source_document entity exists, the owner skips the artifact upsert and the graph rebuild and reports artifactChanged: false, graphIndexed: false. It still runs embeddings (which skip by chunk hash), resolves open content failures, and writes the sync checkpoint. A changed file is indexed as before. A missing graph is rebuilt.
  • platform/daemon/src/native-memory-sources.test.ts: a graph-enabled two-note vault synced twice without edits leaves artifacts, dependencies, and dependency history untouched and reports no changes. An edit is still indexed, and a deleted document entity is rebuilt. Against main the second sync reports both files changed and the test fails.

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  • native-memory-sources.test.ts, obsidian-source-graph, source-*, db-owner-*, memory-lineage, and source route tests: 454/456. The two failures also fail on main without this change: uses the first real chunk as worker-owned provider admission (intermittent on main), and DB owner recall lane > keeps one recall owner across slow extraction reranking (fails on main). leaves a provider-failed descriptor pending for restart alternates pass and fail on main as well.
  • Biome, the production comment ratchet, and the event-loop audit pass with no ledger change. The pre-commit workspace typechecks pass.

Type

  • feat — new user-facing feature (bumps minor)
  • fix — bug fix
  • refactor — restructure without behavior change
  • chore — build, deps, config, docs
  • perf — performance improvement
  • test — test coverage

Packages affected

  • @signet/daemon

Refs #2126

AI assistance: Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5), disclosed per AI_POLICY.md.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Syncing unchanged Obsidian notes now preserves artifact and graph timestamps, along with dependency history, avoiding unnecessary updates.
    • Changes to a note update its stored artifact state, and a later sync restores a deleted target document entity.
    • Sync results now indicate whether artifact or graph updates were actually needed.
    • Notes linked from another note are no longer treated as indexed until they have been indexed themselves; normalized paths are handled consistently.

Moving native memory indexing behind the database owner (84c8fce) took
the unchanged-file check out of the parent for source-worker
descriptors, but the owner never took it over. Every poll re-upserted
each artifact, removed and rebuilt its Obsidian structure, and reported
the file as changed. On a 340-note vault this rewrote the whole graph
about every three minutes and grew entity_dependency_history by about
120k rows an hour.

The owner now leaves the artifact and graph alone when the stored
source hash matches and the file's source_document entity exists. It
still runs embeddings, clears resolved failures, and records the sync
checkpoint. A missing graph is rebuilt, and a changed file is indexed
as before.

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Native memory indexing now checks stored artifact and graph state before applying updates. Tests cover unchanged and changed Obsidian notes, dependency history, path normalization, and restoration of a deleted source-document entity.

Changes: Native memory sync

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State-aware indexing
platform/daemon/src/obsidian-source-graph.ts, platform/daemon/src/db-owner-worker.ts, platform/daemon/src/obsidian-source-graph.test.ts, platform/daemon/src/native-memory-sources.test.ts, scripts/event-loop-contract-baseline.json
Indexing checks the stored source hash and whether the matching source-document entity exists before updating the artifact or graph. Tests cover unchanged syncs, changed notes, normalized paths, and restoration of a deleted entity. The baseline updates recorded source line numbers.

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Review comments at @platform/daemon/src/db-owner-worker.ts:
- Around line 880-891: Use the same canonical path for graph lookup and graph
write: in the sync flow, resolve and normalize the source path when graph input
is present, then use that value in both the `graphCurrent` query and the
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Comment thread platform/daemon/src/db-owner-worker.ts
The owner's unchanged-file check compared the raw source path with the
resolved path the graph writer stores, so a non-canonical path would
never match and the note would be rebuilt on every pass. The lookup
now lives in the graph module and uses the writer's normalization.

Regenerates the event-loop ledger for the shifted owner line numbers.

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- Around line 405-410: Update the graph-indexed check in
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wiki-link target does not count as indexed; require a file-owned graph marker or
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Comment thread platform/daemon/src/obsidian-source-graph.ts Outdated
Indexing a note that links to an existing file creates that target as a
source_document entity, so entity existence did not prove the target's
own folder and link edges were built. The unchanged-file check now
requires the parent containment edge that only the file's own index
writes and its removal deletes.

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Before #2129, native source sync rebuilt every unchanged Obsidian note on
each pass. Each rebuild deleted and recreated the note's dependency edges,
and the migration 050 audit triggers recorded a deleted row and a created
row for every edge, growing entity_dependency_history by millions of rows.

The retention worker now compacts that history through the DB owner in
bounded, resumable batches. A batch removes a trigger-written deleted row
only when the next event for the same dependency is a trigger-written
created row in the same second with identical source, target, agent, type,
and reason, and removes that created row with it. Updated rows, reason
changes, real deletes, and first created or backfill rows are kept.

Migration 170 adds the single-row cursor and running total. Each batch
deletes, advances the cursor, and reads progress in one owner transaction.
A cycle runs at most 50 batches of 5,000 rowids, yields between batches,
backs off under system pressure or an unhealthy owner queue, and goes idle
for the retention interval once it reaches the newest row.

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