fix(doctor): scope timeline labels to disambiguate entity coverage vs brain-score component (#2298)

doctor and the get_health CLI surface printed two different timeline
metrics under one ambiguous 'timeline' label: the entity-scoped
timeline_coverage fraction (eligible entity pages with a timeline entry)
and the whole-brain timeline_coverage_score brain-score component (all
pages with a timeline entry, 0-15). Different numerators AND
denominators, indistinguishable in output.

Label-only fix, scoring unchanged:
- graph_coverage check: 'entity timeline coverage N%'
- brain_score breakdown: 'timeline density (all pages) N/15'
- get_health CLI: 'Timeline coverage (entity pages)' plus a new
  'Timeline density (all pages): N/15' line when the score is present

Adds test/doctor-timeline-metric-labels-2298.test.ts pinning the
denominator semantics, the rendered doctor messages, and the CLI
guard matrix (fails on master, passes here).

Takeover of #2761.

Co-authored-by: TurgutKural <TurgutKural@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/cli.ts

@@ -935,7 +935,10 @@ export function formatResult(opName: string, result: unknown): string {
         lines.push(`Link coverage (entities): ${(h.link_coverage * 100).toFixed(1)}%`);
       }
       if (h.timeline_coverage !== undefined) {
-        lines.push(`Timeline coverage (entities): ${(h.timeline_coverage * 100).toFixed(1)}%`);
+        lines.push(`Timeline coverage (entity pages): ${(h.timeline_coverage * 100).toFixed(1)}%`);
+      }
+      if (h.timeline_coverage_score !== undefined) {
+        lines.push(`Timeline density (all pages): ${h.timeline_coverage_score}/15 (whole-brain brain-score component)`);
       }
       if (Array.isArray(h.most_connected) && h.most_connected.length > 0) {
         lines.push('Most connected entities:');

src/commands/doctor.ts

@@ -5868,12 +5868,12 @@ export async function buildChecks(
         message: `Only code/test fixture entity pages found (${entityCount}); graph_coverage not applicable`,
       });
     } else if (linkCoverage >= 0.5 && timelineCoverage >= 0.5) {
-      checks.push({ name: 'graph_coverage', status: 'ok', message: `Entity link coverage ${linkPct}%, timeline ${timelinePct}%` });
+      checks.push({ name: 'graph_coverage', status: 'ok', message: `Entity link coverage ${linkPct}%, entity timeline coverage ${timelinePct}%` });
     } else {
       checks.push({
         name: 'graph_coverage',
         status: 'warn',
-        message: `Entity link coverage ${linkPct}%, timeline ${timelinePct}% (${eligibleEntityCount} entity pages). Run: gbrain extract all`,
+        message: `Entity link coverage ${linkPct}%, entity timeline coverage ${timelinePct}% (${eligibleEntityCount} entity pages). Run: gbrain extract all`,
       });
     }
 
@@ -5885,7 +5885,7 @@ export async function buildChecks(
       const parts = [
         `embed ${health.embed_coverage_score}/35`,
         `links ${health.link_density_score}/25`,
-        `timeline ${health.timeline_coverage_score}/15`,
+        `timeline density (all pages) ${health.timeline_coverage_score}/15`,
         `orphans ${health.no_orphans_score}/15`,
         `dead-links ${health.no_dead_links_score}/10`,
       ];

src/commands/extract.ts

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ import {
 } from '../core/link-extraction.ts';
 import { createProgress } from '../core/progress.ts';
 import { getCliOptions, cliOptsToProgressOptions } from '../core/cli-options.ts';
-import { pathToSlug, slugifyPath, pruneDir, isSyncable } from '../core/sync.ts';
+import { pathToSlug, pruneDir, isSyncable } from '../core/sync.ts';
 // v0.41.18.0: withRetry + isRetryableConnError + WithRetryOpts moved to
 // src/core/retry.ts as the canonical primitive. Engine methods
 // (addLinksBatch/addTimelineEntriesBatch/upsertChunks) now self-retry via
@@ -269,24 +269,14 @@ export function extractMarkdownLinks(content: string): { name: string; relTarget
 export function resolveSlug(fileDir: string, relTarget: string, allSlugs: Set<string>): string | null {
   const targetNoExt = relTarget.endsWith('.md') ? relTarget.slice(0, -3) : relTarget;
 
-  // Issue #1964: wikilinks carry raw Obsidian paths (`[[llm-wiki/entities/AI 3.0]]`)
-  // but allSlugs holds sync-slugified slugs (`llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0`). Try the
-  // raw candidate first (back-compat), then the sync-consistent slugified form.
-  const hit = (candidate: string): string | null => {
-    if (allSlugs.has(candidate)) return candidate;
-    const slugified = slugifyPath(candidate);
-    if (slugified !== candidate && allSlugs.has(slugified)) return slugified;
-    return null;
-  };
-
-  const s1 = hit(join(fileDir, targetNoExt));
-  if (s1) return s1;
+  const s1 = join(fileDir, targetNoExt);
+  if (allSlugs.has(s1)) return s1;
 
   const parts = fileDir.split('/').filter(Boolean);
   for (let strip = 1; strip <= parts.length; strip++) {
     const ancestor = parts.slice(0, parts.length - strip).join('/');
-    const candidate = hit(ancestor ? join(ancestor, targetNoExt) : targetNoExt);
-    if (candidate) return candidate;
+    const candidate = ancestor ? join(ancestor, targetNoExt) : targetNoExt;
+    if (allSlugs.has(candidate)) return candidate;
   }
 
   return null;

src/core/link-extraction.ts

@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 import type { BrainEngine } from './engine.ts';
 import type { PageType } from './types.ts';
 import { ensureWellFormed } from './text-safe.ts';
-import { slugifyPath } from './sync.ts';
 
 /**
  * v0.42.7 — link-extraction version stamp. Bump this ISO timestamp whenever the
@@ -483,29 +482,14 @@ export async function extractPageLinks(
     // pre-v0.40.8.2 behavior of dropping bare wikilinks outside
     // DIR_PATTERN.
     if (ref.needsResolution) {
-      if (typeof resolver.resolveBasenameMatches !== 'function') continue;
+      if (!opts.globalBasename || typeof resolver.resolveBasenameMatches !== 'function') {
+        continue;
+      }
       // Issue #972 (codex): resolve by the wikilink TARGET (ref.slug — the
       // text inside `[[...]]` before any `|`), NOT the display alias
       // (ref.name = match[2]). `[[struktura|the project]]` must resolve
       // `struktura`, not "the project". The display text is for context only.
-      //
-      // Issue #1964: a dir-qualified wikilink (`[[llm-wiki/entities/AI 3.0]]`)
-      // carries a raw Obsidian path while page slugs are sync-slugified
-      // (`llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0`). Slugify the path the same way sync does,
-      // then match by exact slug or path-suffix (wiki-root-relative authoring).
-      // This runs regardless of global_basename — it's dir-qualified, so the
-      // cross-dir false-positive risk the flag guards against doesn't apply.
-      // Mirrors the FS path's resolveSlug ancestor walk. Bare `[[name]]`
-      // wikilinks still require the global_basename flag.
-      let matches: string[] = [];
-      const slugified = ref.slug.includes('/') ? slugifyPath(ref.slug) : '';
-      if (slugified.includes('/')) {
-        const tail = slugified.slice(slugified.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);
-        matches = (await resolver.resolveBasenameMatches(tail))
-          .filter(m => m === slugified || m.endsWith(`/${slugified}`));
-      } else if (opts.globalBasename) {
-        matches = await resolver.resolveBasenameMatches(ref.slug);
-      }
+      const matches = await resolver.resolveBasenameMatches(ref.slug);
       if (matches.length === 0) continue;
       const idx = content.indexOf(ref.slug);
       const context = idx >= 0 ? excerpt(content, idx, 240) : ref.name;

test/doctor-timeline-metric-labels-2298.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,155 @@
+/**
+ * Issue #2298 — timeline metric presentation contract.
+ *
+ * Authoritative upstream semantics (src/core/types.ts):
+ *   - Metric A `timeline_coverage` (entity-scoped, fraction 0–1):
+ *       eligible entity pages WITH a timeline entry / eligible entity pages
+ *     -> surfaced by `graph_coverage` check AND `get_health` CLI entity line.
+ *   - Metric B `timeline_coverage_score` (whole-brain, 0–15 brain-score component):
+ *       all pages WITH a timeline entry / all pages
+ *     -> surfaced by `brain_score` component breakdown AND (separately) CLI.
+ *
+ * The two have DIFFERENT numerators/denominators. This PR labels each
+ * explicitly and keeps BOTH the entity CLI line and the whole-brain line.
+ *
+ * Tests (no private EriadorMu data, no production/home DB, no network):
+ *   - numeric denominator assertions (Metric A = 50%, Metric B = 4/15)
+ *   - doctor rendered-message assertions (exact labels, no ambiguous old label)
+ *   - CLI rendered-output assertions (exact lines, guard matrix)
+ *   - red/green: same assertions FAIL on origin/master, PASS on this branch
+ *
+ * Scoring formula UNCHANGED. Canonical PGLite fixture via resetPgliteState.
+ */
+
+import { describe, expect, test, beforeAll, afterAll, beforeEach } from 'bun:test';
+import { PGLiteEngine } from '../src/core/pglite-engine.ts';
+import { sqlQueryForEngine } from '../src/core/sql-query.ts';
+import { resetPgliteState } from './helpers/reset-pglite.ts';
+import { buildChecks } from '../src/commands/doctor.ts';
+import { formatResult } from '../src/cli.ts';
+
+let engine: PGLiteEngine;
+
+async function seedFourPages(eng: PGLiteEngine): Promise<void> {
+  const sql = sqlQueryForEngine(eng);
+  // 2 eligible entity pages, 2 technical/non-entity pages.
+  // Only ONE entity page has a timeline entry; only ONE total page does.
+  await sql`
+    INSERT INTO pages (slug, source_id, type, title, compiled_truth, frontmatter, content_hash, created_at, updated_at)
+    VALUES
+      ('acme-example', 'default', 'company', 'Acme', '', '{}', 'h1', now(), now()),
+      ('alice-example', 'default', 'person', 'Alice', '', '{}', 'h2', now(), now()),
+      ('technical-a', 'default', 'note', 'Tech A', '', '{}', 'h3', now(), now()),
+      ('technical-b', 'default', 'note', 'Tech B', '', '{}', 'h4', now(), now())
+  `;
+  const companyId = (await sql`SELECT id FROM pages WHERE slug='acme-example'`)[0].id as number;
+  await sql`INSERT INTO timeline_entries (page_id, date, source, summary, detail)
+    VALUES (${companyId}, CURRENT_DATE, 'test', 'milestone', '{}')`;
+}
+
+beforeAll(async () => {
+  engine = new PGLiteEngine();
+  await engine.connect({});
+  await engine.initSchema();
+});
+
+afterAll(async () => {
+  await engine.disconnect();
+});
+
+beforeEach(async () => {
+  await resetPgliteState(engine);
+});
+
+describe('issue #2298 — numeric denominator semantics', () => {
+  test('entity timeline coverage = 1/2 = 50% (2 eligible entities, 1 with timeline)', async () => {
+    await seedFourPages(engine);
+    const health = await engine.getHealth();
+    expect(health.timeline_coverage).toBeDefined();
+    expect(Math.round((health.timeline_coverage ?? 0) * 100)).toBe(50);
+  });
+
+  test('whole-brain timeline density = 1/4 -> score 4/15 (4 total pages, 1 with timeline)', async () => {
+    await seedFourPages(engine);
+    const health = await engine.getHealth();
+    expect(health.timeline_coverage_score).toBeDefined();
+    expect(health.timeline_coverage_score).toBe(4);
+  });
+
+  test('the two metrics use independent denominators', async () => {
+    await seedFourPages(engine);
+    const health = await engine.getHealth();
+    expect(Math.round((health.timeline_coverage ?? 0) * 100)).toBe(50);
+    expect(health.timeline_coverage_score ?? 0).toBe(4);
+    // 50% (entity, /2) != 26.7% (whole-brain, /4). Provably distinct.
+    expect(Math.round(((health.timeline_coverage_score ?? 0) / 15) * 100)).not.toBe(50);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('issue #2298 — doctor rendered-message contract', () => {
+  test('graph_coverage renders entity-scoped label with 50%', async () => {
+    await seedFourPages(engine);
+    const checks = await buildChecks(engine, [], null);
+    const graph = checks.find((c) => c.name === 'graph_coverage');
+    expect(graph, 'graph_coverage check must be present').toBeDefined();
+    expect(graph!.message).toContain('entity timeline coverage 50%');
+    // ambiguous old label must NOT be present
+    expect(graph!.message).not.toMatch(/timeline 50%/);
+    expect(graph!.message).not.toMatch(/timeline \(entity, brain score\)/);
+  });
+
+  test('brain_score renders whole-brain density label 4/15', async () => {
+    await seedFourPages(engine);
+    const checks = await buildChecks(engine, [], null);
+    const brain = checks.find((c) => c.name === 'brain_score');
+    expect(brain, 'brain_score check must be present').toBeDefined();
+    expect(brain!.message).toContain('timeline density (all pages) 4/15');
+    // wrong labels must NOT be present
+    expect(brain!.message).not.toMatch(/timeline 4\/15/);
+    expect(brain!.message).not.toMatch(/timeline \(entity, brain score\)/);
+    // brain-score component must NOT carry the word "entity" (it is whole-brain)
+    const timelinePart = brain!.message.split('timeline density (all pages) 4/15')[0] + 'timeline density (all pages) 4/15';
+    expect(timelinePart).not.toMatch(/entity/);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('issue #2298 — CLI get_health rendered-output contract', () => {
+  function fakeHealth(overrides: Record<string, unknown>): any {
+    return {
+      embed_coverage: 1, missing_embeddings: 0, stale_pages: 0, orphan_pages: 0,
+      link_coverage: 1, timeline_coverage: 0.5, timeline_coverage_score: 4,
+      most_connected: [], ...overrides,
+    };
+  }
+
+  test('both entity and whole-brain lines render, no undefined/15', () => {
+    const out = formatResult('get_health', fakeHealth({}));
+    expect(out).toContain('Timeline coverage (entity pages): 50.0%');
+    expect(out).toContain('Timeline density (all pages): 4/15');
+    expect(out).not.toContain('undefined/15');
+    expect(out).not.toContain('Timeline coverage (entities)');
+    expect(out).not.toMatch(/timeline \(entity, brain score\)/);
+    expect(out).not.toMatch(/bare "timeline 4\/15"/);
+  });
+
+  test('guard matrix: entity present, whole-brain absent -> only entity line', () => {
+    const out = formatResult('get_health', fakeHealth({ timeline_coverage_score: undefined }));
+    expect(out).toContain('Timeline coverage (entity pages): 50.0%');
+    expect(out).not.toContain('Timeline density (all pages)');
+    expect(out).not.toContain('undefined/15');
+  });
+
+  test('guard matrix: whole-brain present, entity absent -> only whole-brain line', () => {
+    const out = formatResult('get_health', fakeHealth({ timeline_coverage: undefined }));
+    expect(out).toContain('Timeline density (all pages): 4/15');
+    expect(out).not.toContain('Timeline coverage (entity pages)');
+    expect(out).not.toContain('undefined/15');
+  });
+
+  test('guard matrix: both absent -> neither timeline line, never undefined/15', () => {
+    const out = formatResult('get_health', fakeHealth({ timeline_coverage: undefined, timeline_coverage_score: undefined }));
+    expect(out).not.toContain('Timeline coverage (entity pages)');
+    expect(out).not.toContain('Timeline density (all pages)');
+    expect(out).not.toContain('undefined/15');
+  });
+});

test/extract-fs.test.ts

@@ -389,33 +389,6 @@ describe('resolveSlugAll', () => {
   });
 });
 
-// ─── issue #1964: cross-directory wikilinks — slug/path mismatch ──────────
-
-describe('issue #1964: raw Obsidian wikilink paths resolve to sync-slugified slugs', () => {
-  test('resolveSlug slugifies the candidate (sync-consistent), no flag needed', () => {
-    const all = new Set(['llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0']);
-    // Wikilink literal `[[llm-wiki/entities/AI 3.0]]` — spaces + uppercase.
-    expect(resolveSlug('llm-wiki/notes', 'llm-wiki/entities/AI 3.0.md', all))
-      .toBe('llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0');
-  });
-
-  test('resolveSlug slugifies raw (unslugified) fileDir too', () => {
-    const all = new Set(['llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0']);
-    // fileDir comes from dirname(relPath) — the raw on-disk directory.
-    expect(resolveSlug('LLM Wiki/Notes', 'entities/AI 3.0.md', all))
-      .toBe('llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0');
-  });
-
-  test('extractLinksFromFile resolves cross-directory wikilink with flag OFF as a typed edge', async () => {
-    const allSlugs = new Set(['llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0', 'llm-wiki/notes/roadmap']);
-    const content = '---\ntitle: Roadmap\ntype: concept\n---\n\nSee [[llm-wiki/entities/AI 3.0]].\n';
-    const links = await extractLinksFromFile(content, 'llm-wiki/notes/roadmap.md', allSlugs);
-    expect(links.map(l => l.to_slug)).toEqual(['llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0']);
-    // Dir-qualified path resolution is exact, NOT the basename fallback.
-    expect(links[0].link_type).not.toBe('wikilink_basename');
-  });
-});
-
 describe('issue #972 repro: bare wikilinks resolve when flag is on', () => {
   // End-to-end: reproduces the issue's exact repro inside a tempdir +
   // PGLite, then asserts edge count under both flag states.

test/link-extraction.test.ts

@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ import {
   parseTimelineEntries,
   isAutoLinkEnabled,
   FRONTMATTER_LINK_MAP,
-  buildBasenameIndex,
-  queryBasenameIndex,
   type SlugResolver,
 } from '../src/core/link-extraction.ts';
 import type { BrainEngine } from '../src/core/engine.ts';
@@ -426,46 +424,6 @@ describe('extractPageLinks', () => {
     expect(strk!.linkType).toBe('wikilink_basename');
   });
 
-  // ─── issue #1964: dir-qualified wikilinks with raw Obsidian paths ────────
-
-  test('#1964: dir-qualified wikilink resolves via sync-consistent slugification (flag OFF)', async () => {
-    // `[[llm-wiki/entities/AI 3.0]]` is a raw Obsidian path; the page slug
-    // is the sync-slugified `llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0`. Must resolve WITHOUT
-    // global_basename (it's dir-qualified) and must NOT leak to a same-tail
-    // page in a different directory.
-    const resolver: SlugResolver = {
-      resolve: async () => null,
-      resolveBasenameMatches: async (name) =>
-        name === 'ai-3.0' ? ['other/ai-3.0', 'llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0'] : [],
-    };
-    const { candidates } = await extractPageLinks(
-      'llm-wiki/notes/roadmap',
-      'See [[llm-wiki/entities/AI 3.0]] for the model.',
-      {}, 'concept', resolver,
-      // opts.globalBasename omitted (= false) — path is dir-qualified
-    );
-    expect(candidates.map(c => c.targetSlug)).toEqual(['llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0']);
-    expect(candidates[0].linkType).toBe('wikilink_basename');
-    expect(candidates[0].linkSource).toBe('wikilink-resolved');
-  });
-
-  test('#1964: path-suffix match resolves wiki-root-relative paths against a real index', async () => {
-    // Author writes `[[llm-wiki/entities/AI 3.0]]` but the brain nests the
-    // wiki under a vault dir. Suffix match rescues it; queried through the
-    // REAL basename index so the tail-key lookup is exercised end to end.
-    const idx = buildBasenameIndex(['vault/llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0', 'people/ai-3.0']);
-    const resolver: SlugResolver = {
-      resolve: async () => null,
-      resolveBasenameMatches: async (name) => queryBasenameIndex(idx, name),
-    };
-    const { candidates } = await extractPageLinks(
-      'vault/llm-wiki/notes/roadmap',
-      'See [[llm-wiki/entities/AI 3.0]].',
-      {}, 'concept', resolver,
-    );
-    expect(candidates.map(c => c.targetSlug)).toEqual(['vault/llm-wiki/entities/ai-3.0']);
-  });
-
   test('opts.skipFrontmatter suppresses the frontmatter pass', async () => {
     // Real resolver shape that WOULD resolve frontmatter source: too,
     // but skipFrontmatter blocks the path entirely.