fix(memory): scope AI Search per synthetic entity; drop federation

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Implements the memory instance model decided 2026-09-05 — one AI Search instance per primary synthetic entity — and fixes three defects found on the way. Companion to chittysearch#1, where the rules live.

Three defects, one of which makes the others moot

1. The indexing flag is dead. persistInteraction gates on this.hasVectorize. That property is assigned nowhere — initialize() only ever sets this.hasAiSearch. It has been permanently undefined, so storeEmbedding never ran. This is the load-bearing one: uncommenting the ai_search_namespaces binding would have produced zero embeddings and looked like a Cloudflare problem.

2. Federation. semanticRecall passed instance_ids: ["memory-cloude", "context-embeddings"], fanning out across instances. chittysearch's CHARTER forbids this outright — one request synthesising across unrelated scopes is the exact failure that got the predecessor index deleted 2026-07-30.

3. A filter used as a security boundary. Session isolation relied on a post-hoc chunk.item.metadata.sessionId === sessionId filter. A caller-supplied filter fails open the moment it is omitted, so it was never a boundary. The filter is kept but demoted to ranking — every chunk it now sees already belongs to this entity, so dropping it would widen recall within an entity, never across entities.

The scoping model

memory-{entityChittyId}, resolved by memoryInstanceFor().

• Between entities is a real trust boundary → separate instance. Two primary synthetic entities are distinct actors (Person/P, Synthetic characterization, per chittycanon://gov/governance#core-types).
• Between sessions of one entity is the product, not a boundary → same instance. MemoryCloude exists to give an entity 90 days of continuity; isolating its own sessions would defeat the feature.

Fails closed

No resolvable entity means: skip the index write, and fall back to KV keyword recall — which reads session:{id}:* directly and therefore cannot cross an entity boundary. It never falls back to a shared instance, because an unscoped write is how one entity's context becomes another's recall, and a shared bucket is not recoverable after the fact.

Tests assert the boundary, not the happy path

Written to fail if the guard regresses: two entities must not resolve to one instance; a non-string id must not coerce into memory-[object Object] (a single bucket every caller lands in); and the unscoped-recall test installs a searchNamespace whose get() throws, so deleting the !!instanceId guard fails the test rather than silently passing.

No new mocks of DB or service modules — the resolver is exercised directly.

Full suite: 598 passed, 1 skipped, 0 failed. Lint: 0 errors.

Notes

• Originally stacked on fix(intelligence): replace Workers AI model deprecated 2026-05-30 #290; that merged, so this now targets main via a merge of origin/main (not a rebase — fix(intelligence): replace Workers AI model deprecated 2026-05-30 #290 was squash-merged, so the branch and main held the same content by different history).
• The binding stays commented out. Per the strategy's sequencing, this code fix lands before any binding is uncommented, and the memory namespace does not exist yet — creating it is an account operation.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • AI-powered memory searches and saved interactions are now isolated to the relevant entity.
  • Unidentifiable entities no longer use shared memory instances.
  • Context recall now falls back to keyword-based results when semantic search is unavailable.
  • Embedding storage is correctly enabled when AI Search is available.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for entity-specific memory isolation and fallback recall behavior.

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MemoryCloude now scopes AI Search storage and recall to entity-specific instances. Unscoped operations skip AI Search. Context recall falls back to KV keyword recall. Tests cover instance derivation and unscoped recall.

Changes

Entity-scoped memory

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Instance resolution and embedding storage src/intelligence/memory-cloude.js	memoryInstanceFor derives deterministic instances from entity identifiers. Embedding storage uses the resolved instance and skips unscoped writes. persistInteraction now checks hasAiSearch.
Scoped recall paths src/intelligence/memory-cloude.js, tests/intelligence/memory-cloude.test.js	Context and decomposition recall search one entity instance. Context recall uses KV keyword recall without an entity. Tests cover deterministic instance names, invalid identifiers, and the unscoped fallback.

Priority: ➖ Normal — Schedule the AI Search scoping change because it isolates memory reads and writes per synthetic entity and safely handles unscoped recall without external urgency evidence.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b0aa8

Entity-scoped search is not ready to merge until blank identifiers are rejected, since they can combine unrelated entities in one search instance. The fail-closed recall test should also directly verify that semantic recall is never invoked.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant MemoryCloude
  participant KV
  participant AISearchNamespace
  Caller->>MemoryCloude: recallContext(options)
  MemoryCloude->>MemoryCloude: resolve memoryInstanceFor(options)
  alt entity instance exists
    MemoryCloude->>AISearchNamespace: search resolved instance
  else no entity instance
    MemoryCloude->>KV: keywordRecall
  end

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The new scoping logic still allows a global env-derived instance and current recall call sites don’t supply an entity identifier, creating risk of shared scope and/or semantic recall being effectively unreachable.

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Pull request overview

Updates MemoryCloude’s AI Search integration to scope semantic memory per primary synthetic entity (one AI Search instance per entity) and removes cross-instance federation, with accompanying regression tests.

Changes:

• Fixes the embedding/indexing gate to use hasAiSearch so embeddings can actually be written when AI Search is bound.
• Introduces memoryInstanceFor(...) and routes indexing/recall through per-entity AI Search instances (instead of federated instance_ids).
• Adds tests asserting instance scoping and that unscoped recall fails closed to the KV keyword path.

File summaries

File	Description
src/intelligence/memory-cloude.js	Switches embedding + semantic recall to per-entity AI Search instances and adds instance resolution helper.
tests/intelligence/memory-cloude.test.js	Adds boundary-focused tests for entity scoping and unscoped fail-closed behavior.

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src/intelligence/memory-cloude.js:106

• memoryInstanceFor currently falls back to this.env.CHITTY_ENTITY_ID. If that env var is set at the worker level, unscoped calls will resolve to a single shared instance and defeat the per-entity trust boundary (and it contradicts the docstring that says it returns null when unscoped).

  memoryInstanceFor(interaction) {
    const entity = interaction?.entityId || interaction?.userId || this.env?.CHITTY_ENTITY_ID;
    if (!entity || typeof entity !== "string") return null;

src/intelligence/memory-cloude.js:252

• recallContext now derives instanceId from the options object, but current in-repo callers pass only { limit, semantic } (e.g. src/api/routes/intelligence.js:169-172 and src/mcp/server.js:906-909), so semantic recall will always fall back to keyword recall unless a global env fallback is used. Plumb a per-request entityId/userId through those call sites (or change the API so recall can resolve the entity explicitly).

  async recallContext(sessionId, query, options = {}) {
    const limit = options.limit || 5;
    // Semantic recall requires a resolvable entity, because the entity's instance IS
    // the scope. Unscoped, the only safe answer is the KV-backed keyword path, which
    // reads `session:{sessionId}:*` and therefore cannot cross an entity boundary.
    const instanceId = this.memoryInstanceFor(options);
    const useSemanticSearch =
      options.semantic !== false && this.hasAiSearch && !!instanceId;

src/intelligence/memory-cloude.js:270

• This docstring says the sessionId check is retained only as ranking, but the current implementation still applies it as a hard filter (exclusion). Please adjust the comment to match the behavior, or (preferably) update the implementation to do ranking rather than filtering.

   * with a post-hoc `chunk.item.metadata.sessionId === sessionId` filter. Both halves
   * were wrong: chittysearch's CHARTER forbids fanning out across instances, and a
   * caller-supplied filter is not a scope boundary because it fails open the moment it
   * is omitted. The session filter below is retained only as *ranking* — every chunk it
   * sees already belongs to this entity, so dropping it would widen recall within the

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In `@src/intelligence/memory-cloude.js`:
- Line 106: Update the entity validation in the instance-derivation flow to
reject strings whose trimmed value is empty, while preserving null and
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In `@tests/intelligence/memory-cloude.test.js`:
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Make the test observe semanticRecall directly.

semanticRecall catches errors from searchNamespace.get() and returns keywordRecall. The throw on Lines 155-158 therefore does not fail this test if recallContext enters the semantic path. Stub m.semanticRecall, count calls, and assert that the count is zero.

Proposed fix

     const m = build();
     m.hasAiSearch = true;
-    m.searchNamespace = {
-      get() {
-        throw new Error("semantic path must not be reached without an entity");
-      },
+    let semanticCalls = 0;
+    m.semanticRecall = async () => {
+      semanticCalls += 1;
+      return [];
     };
+
     // No entityId in options => must take the KV keyword path, which cannot cross
     // an entity boundary because it reads session:{id}:* directly.
     const out = await m.recallContext("session-1", "anything", { limit: 1 });
     expect(Array.isArray(out)).toBe(true);
+    expect(semanticCalls).toBe(0);

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Separated adversarial review run and findings addressed (claude-sonnet-4-5, different host and provider). It returned "NOT SAFE to deploy"; three findings were real and are fixed, two are rejected with reasons.

Fixed — legacy shared instances were reachable from caller input. entityId arrives on request-shaped objects and memory-${entity} was built from it unvalidated, so entityId: "cloude" resolved to memory-cloude — the pre-scoping everyone-bucket. A one-word payload back into shared memory. Now validated against a strict identifier pattern plus a denylist of the known shared instances.

Fixed — hasAiSearch was set only in initialize(), and src/index.js calls .initialize().catch(...) without awaiting it. A request arriving first saw undefined and silently skipped indexing. That is the same silent-skip this PR fixes one layer up in hasVectorize, reintroduced one layer down. It's a synchronous derivation from env, so it now happens in the constructor.

Fixed — the tests couldn't fail if isolation broke. Added three that can: legacy instances unreachable by name, non-identifier ids rejected, and hasAiSearch true before initialize() is awaited.

Rejected — "collision reaches chittyevidence-arias-2024d007847." The memory- prefix is unconditional, so no entity id can produce an evidence instance name. The sibling-instance variant was the real risk and is fixed.

Rejected as out of scope, documented instead — "authenticate options.entityId against the request principal." MemoryCloude is a library, not an edge; it cannot know the caller's principal. Correct layering is routes passing an entity from authenticated context. Rather than leave that implicit, the resolver's contract now states it: this scopes; it does not authorize. Validation bounds a caller mistake and is not a substitute for edge authorization.

Full suite: 601 passed, 1 skipped.