Two CI failure clusters, both pre-existing but surfaced by the v0.20.3
merge:
1) test/minions-shell.test.ts — 12 failing cases. The shell handler
throws UnrecoverableError when GBRAIN_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS !== '1' (the
production RCE guard at shell.ts:210). The unit tests exercise
handler mechanics, not the guard, but never set the env var — so
every invocation exits through the guard path instead of the code
being tested. Fix: set GBRAIN_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS=1 in beforeAll,
restore in afterAll. The env-guard IS still tested separately via
the test/minions.test.ts case added in v0.20.3 Lane A which toggles
the var itself.
2) llms-full.txt — stale against CLAUDE.md. Key-files entries for
queue.ts, doctor.ts, and the new backpressure-audit.ts updated in
v0.20.3 Lane B triggered the build-llms drift guard. Regenerated
via `bun run build:llms`; no behavior change, just the inlined-docs
bundle catching up to source.
Full test run: 2367 pass, 0 fail across 137 files.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Master shipped v0.20.2 (jobs supervisor, PR #364) while this branch was
in review. Bumping our release from v0.20.1 to v0.20.3 follows the
CLAUDE.md "VERSION must be higher than master's" rule.
Resolved conflicts:
- VERSION: 0.20.1 (ours) + 0.20.2 (master) → 0.20.3
- package.json: version bumped to match
- CHANGELOG.md: our queue-resilience entry renamed from v0.20.1 to
v0.20.3 throughout (5 inline refs updated: numbers-that-matter
table, "To take advantage" block, pre-v0.20.3 code reference,
adversarial-review mention). The "composite indexes deferred to
v0.20.2" follow-up reference updated to v0.20.4 because master
already took v0.20.2 for the supervisor feature.
Auto-merged cleanly:
- src/commands/doctor.ts: master added supervisor health check
(filesystem-only, PID liveness + audit tail) alongside our new
queue_health check. No conflict — different sections.
- src/commands/jobs.ts: master added `jobs supervisor` subcommand with
start / status / stop variants. No conflict with our --max-waiting
CLI wiring or --wedge-rescue smoke case.
New files pulled in from master (supervisor feature):
- src/core/minions/supervisor.ts (MinionSupervisor class)
- src/core/minions/handlers/supervisor-audit.ts (JSONL audit)
- test/supervisor.test.ts (13 cases)
- test/fixtures/supervisor-runner.ts (integration test helper)
Post-merge verification:
- `bun run typecheck` — clean
- `bun test test/minions.test.ts test/doctor.test.ts` — 156 pass
- `bun run build` → gbrain 0.20.3
- CHANGELOG version sequence: 0.20.3 → 0.20.2 → 0.20.0 → 0.19.1 → ...
No source changes — conflict resolution was version-label surgery only.
The queue-resilience code, tests, and docs landed from master cleanly
alongside the new supervisor feature.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat: add `gbrain jobs supervisor` — self-healing worker process manager
Adds a first-class supervisor command that:
- Spawns `gbrain jobs work` as a child process
- Restarts on crash with exponential backoff (1s→60s cap)
- Resets crash counter after 5min of stable operation
- PID file locking prevents duplicate supervisors
- Periodic health checks (stalled jobs, completion gaps)
- Graceful shutdown (SIGTERM→35s→SIGKILL)
Usage:
gbrain jobs supervisor --concurrency 4
Replaces ad-hoc nohup patterns in bootstrap scripts.
The autopilot command's internal supervisor can be migrated
to use this in a follow-up.
Tests: 7 pass (backoff calc, PID management, crash tracking)
* supervisor: atomic PID lock, queue-scoped health, env safety, unified exit
Lane A of PR #364 review fixes (20-item multi-lane plan). Addresses the
codex-tier + CEO + Eng findings on src/core/minions/supervisor.ts:
Safety + correctness:
- Atomic O_CREAT|O_EXCL PID lock via openSync('wx') with stale-file
liveness check. Prevents two supervisors racing on the same PID file.
(codex #1)
- Health check now queries status='active' AND lock_until < now()
matching queue.ts:848's authoritative stalled definition. The prior
`status = 'stalled'` predicate returned zero rows forever because
'stalled' is not a persisted value in the schema. (codex #2)
- All health queries scoped to WHERE queue = $1 via opts.queue binding.
Multi-queue installs no longer see cross-queue false positives.
(codex #3)
- Class default allowShellJobs flipped true→false AND explicit
`delete env.GBRAIN_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS` when false, so child workers
don't silently inherit the var from the parent shell. (eng #8, codex #9)
- Unified shutdown(reason, exitCode) — max-crashes now routes through
the same drain path as SIGTERM. Single source of truth for lifecycle
cleanup; prerequisite for trustworthy audit events (Lane C). (eng #1)
- Default PID path moves from /tmp to ~/.gbrain/supervisor.pid with
mkdirSync recursive + GBRAIN_SUPERVISOR_PID_FILE env override.
Matches the rest of the product's ~/.gbrain/ convention; fresh
installs no longer hit ENOENT. (CEO #2 + codex #6)
Refinements:
- crashCount = 1 after 5-min stable-run reset (was 0, produced
calculateBackoffMs(-1) = 500ms by accident). Now reads as 'first
crash of a new cycle' with a clean 1s backoff. (Nit 1)
- Top-of-file POSTGRES-ONLY docstring documenting why the supervisor
can't run against PGLite. (Nit 2)
- inBackoff flag suppresses 'worker not alive' warn during the
expected null-child window (crash → sleep → next spawn). (eng #2)
- Tracked listener refs for SIGTERM/SIGINT removed in shutdown() so
integration tests spinning up/tearing down multiple supervisors on
one process don't leak handlers. (eng #3)
- Single FILTER query replaces two SELECT counts — one round-trip
instead of two, three metrics in one pass. (eng #10)
- child.on('error') listener emits worker_spawn_failed event for
ENOENT/EACCES; exit handler still increments crashCount as usual
so max-crashes bounds permanent misconfigurations. (codex #7)
- healthInFlight boolean guard with try/finally prevents overlapping
health checks from stacking on a hung DB. (codex #8)
Documented exit codes (ExitCodes const):
0 CLEAN, 1 MAX_CRASHES, 2 LOCK_HELD, 3 PID_UNWRITABLE
Agent can branch on exit=2 ('another supervisor, I'm fine') vs
exit=1 ('escalate to human').
Event emitter surface:
- started / worker_spawned / worker_exited / worker_spawn_failed
- backoff / health_warn / health_error / max_crashes_exceeded
- shutting_down / stopped
Plumbed through emit() with an onEvent callback hook for Lane C's
audit writer. json:false is the default; Lane C's --json mode
flips it and writes JSONL to stderr.
CLI changes (src/commands/jobs.ts):
- `gbrain jobs supervisor` gains --allow-shell-jobs (explicit opt-in
mirroring the env-var gate), --cli-path (override auto-resolution
for exotic setups), and --json (JSONL lifecycle events on stderr).
- Expanded --help body with description, 3 examples, and exit-code
table. (DX Fix A per review)
- Three-tier PID path resolution: --pid-file > GBRAIN_SUPERVISOR_PID_FILE
> ~/.gbrain/supervisor.pid (via exported DEFAULT_PID_FILE).
- Removed the catch-fallback to process.argv[1] — resolveGbrainCliPath()
throws its own actionable install-hint error, which is what dev users
need instead of a cryptic spawn failure on a .ts path. (codex #5)
Tests: existing 7 supervisor.test.ts cases continue to pass.
Integration tests (crash-restart, max-crashes, SIGTERM-during-backoff,
env-inheritance regression) land in Lane E.
Out of scope for this lane (tracked in follow-up lanes):
- Audit file writer at ~/.gbrain/audit/supervisor-YYYY-Www.jsonl (Lane C)
- Documentation pass (Lane B)
- supervisor start/status/stop subcommands (Lane C)
- gbrain doctor supervisor check (Lane D)
- /ship release hygiene (Lane F)
- autopilot.ts migration to MinionSupervisor (deferred to follow-up PR
per codex — requires non-blocking start() API redesign, not ~30 lines)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: supervisor as canonical worker deployment pattern
Lane B of PR #364 review fixes. Reframes docs/guides/minions-deployment.md
around `gbrain jobs supervisor` as the default answer (blocker 7), deletes
the 68-line legacy bash watchdog (F10), and updates README + deployment
snippets to match.
docs/guides/minions-deployment.md:
- New 'Worker supervision' section at the top with the canonical 3-command
agent pattern (start --detach / status --json / stop) and a documented
exit-code table (0 clean, 1 max-crashes, 2 lock-held, 3 PID-unwritable).
- 'Which supervisor when?' decision table: container = supervisor as
PID 1, Linux VM = systemd-over-supervisor, dev laptop = bare terminal.
- New 'Agent usage' section for OpenClaw / Hermes / Cursor / Codex — the
3-turn discover-start-maintain workflow that replaces shell archaeology
with machine-parseable JSON events + an audit file at
~/.gbrain/audit/supervisor-YYYY-Www.jsonl.
- Demoted the 'Option 1: watchdog cron' path entirely; replaced with a
straightforward upgrade migration block (stop script, remove cron line,
start supervisor, verify via doctor).
- Preconditions now check Postgres connectivity directly (supervisor is
Postgres-only; the CLI rejects PGLite with a clear error).
Snippets:
- systemd.service: ExecStart now invokes `gbrain jobs supervisor` instead
of raw `gbrain jobs work`. Two-layer supervision (systemd → supervisor
→ worker) buys automatic restart on reboot plus fast crash recovery.
ReadWritePaths expanded to cover $HOME/.gbrain (supervisor PID + audit).
- Procfile + fly.toml.partial: same change — platform restarts the
container on host events, supervisor restarts the worker on crashes.
- minion-watchdog.sh: deleted (git history retains it for anyone in an
exotic deployment). Supervisor subsumes every capability it had plus
atomic PID locking, structured audit events, queue-scoped health
checks, and graceful drain on SIGTERM.
README.md:
- Added a paragraph under the Minions section pointing `gbrain jobs
supervisor` as canonical, noting the --detach / status / stop surface
and the audit file path, with a link to the full deployment guide.
Kept `gbrain jobs work` documented for direct raw invocation but
flagged 'prefer supervisor' for any long-running use.
The supervisor `--help` body itself (3 examples + exit-code table in
src/commands/jobs.ts) landed with Lane A — this lane finishes the
discoverability story by making the supervisor findable via doc grep,
README landing, and deployment-guide landing paths.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* supervisor: daemon-manager subcommands + JSONL audit writer
Lane C of PR #364 review fixes. Adds the daemon-manager CLI surface so
agents can drive `gbrain jobs supervisor` in 3 turns instead of 10, and
the audit writer that makes lifecycle events inspectable across process
restarts. (Blocker 8, closes DX Fix A/B/C.)
New: src/core/minions/handlers/supervisor-audit.ts
- writeSupervisorEvent(emission, supervisorPid) appends JSONL to
`${GBRAIN_AUDIT_DIR:-~/.gbrain/audit}/supervisor-YYYY-Www.jsonl`.
ISO-week rotation via a `computeSupervisorAuditFilename()` helper
that mirrors `shell-audit.ts` exactly (year-boundary ISO week math,
Thursday anchor, etc).
- readSupervisorEvents({sinceMs}) returns parsed events from the
current week's file, oldest-first, for Lane D's doctor check.
Malformed lines are skipped silently (disk-full truncation is
already best-effort at write time).
- Reuses `resolveAuditDir()` from shell-audit.ts so the
`GBRAIN_AUDIT_DIR` env var override works identically across all
gbrain audit trails.
src/commands/jobs.ts: supervisor subcommand dispatcher
- `gbrain jobs supervisor [start] [--detach] [--json] ...` — default
subcommand. Without --detach, runs foreground as before. With
--detach, forks a background child (inheriting stderr so the caller
can still tail JSONL events), writes a stdout payload:
{"event":"started","supervisor_pid":N,"pid_file":"...","detached":true}
and exits 0. Stdin/stdout on the detached child are /dev/null so
the parent shell isn't held open.
- `gbrain jobs supervisor status [--json]` — reads the PID file,
checks liveness via `kill -0`, then reads the last 24h from the
supervisor audit file to compute crashes_24h / last_start /
max_crashes_exceeded. Exits 0 if running, 1 if not. JSON output
is machine-parseable; human output is a 5-line ASCII report.
- `gbrain jobs supervisor stop [--json]` — reads PID, sends SIGTERM,
polls `kill -0` every 250ms for up to 40s (supervisor's own 35s
worker-drain + 5s slack). Reports outcome: drained / timeout_40s
/ pid_file_missing / pid_file_corrupt / process_gone. Exit 0 on
clean stop.
- `--json` flag is already plumbed through to the supervisor opts
from Lane A — this lane adds the onEvent audit-writer callback
so every supervisor emission (started, worker_spawned,
worker_exited, worker_spawn_failed, backoff, health_warn,
health_error, max_crashes_exceeded, shutting_down, stopped) lands
in the JSONL file with the supervisor's PID attached.
--help body updated:
- Three separate usage lines (start / status / stop).
- SUBCOMMANDS block with one-line summaries each.
- EXIT CODES block (unchanged from Lane A, moved under SUBCOMMANDS).
- EXAMPLES block updated with status --json + stop + --detach forms.
Tests: existing 127 supervisor + minions tests continue to pass.
Integration tests for the new subcommands + audit writer land with
Lane E.
Follow-up (Lane D): `gbrain doctor` will read readSupervisorEvents()
from this module to surface a `supervisor` health check alongside its
existing checks (DB connectivity, schema version, queue health).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* doctor: add supervisor health check
Lane D of PR #364 review fixes. Closes the observability loop: now that
Lane C writes supervisor lifecycle events to
`${GBRAIN_AUDIT_DIR:-~/.gbrain/audit}/supervisor-YYYY-Www.jsonl`,
`gbrain doctor` surfaces a `supervisor` check alongside its existing
health indicators.
Implementation (src/commands/doctor.ts, filesystem-only block 3b-bis):
- Resolves DEFAULT_PID_FILE via the same three-tier logic as the start
path (--pid-file > GBRAIN_SUPERVISOR_PID_FILE > ~/.gbrain/supervisor.pid).
- Reads the PID file + `kill -0 <pid>` for liveness.
- Calls readSupervisorEvents({sinceMs: 24h}) from the audit module to
derive last_start / crashes_24h / max_crashes_exceeded.
- Suppresses the check entirely when the user has never invoked the
supervisor (no PID file AND no audit events) — avoids noise on
installs that don't use the feature.
Status thresholds:
fail max_crashes_exceeded event seen in last 24h
(supervisor gave up; operator needs to restart or triage)
warn supervisor not running but audit shows prior use
(unexpected stop — likely crash or manual kill)
warn running but > 3 crashes in last 24h
(supervisor recovering but worker is unstable)
ok running + ≤ 3 crashes + no max_crashes event
All failure paths emit a paste-ready recovery command. Read/import
errors are swallowed (best-effort like the other doctor checks).
Tests: all 127 supervisor + minions tests still green; 13 existing
doctor tests unaffected.
F3 done. All four lanes A/B/C/D are now committed; Lane E (integration
tests) and Lane F (/ship v0.20.2) remain.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: 4 critical integration tests for supervisor lifecycle
Lane E of PR #364 review fixes (blocker 10). Fills the ~15% coverage
gap flagged in the eng review by actually exercising the code paths
that will break in production — crash-restart loop, max-crashes exit,
SIGTERM-during-backoff, env-var inheritance — via real spawn() calls
against fake shell-script workers. No mocks: real fork, real signals,
real env propagation, real audit file writes.
test/fixtures/supervisor-runner.ts (new, 55 lines):
A standalone bun script that constructs a MinionSupervisor from env
vars (SUP_PID_FILE / SUP_CLI_PATH / SUP_MAX_CRASHES / SUP_BACKOFF_FLOOR_MS
/ SUP_HEALTH_INTERVAL_MS / SUP_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS / SUP_AUDIT_DIR) and
calls start(). Mock engine returns empty rows for executeRaw (health
check path still exercised without Postgres). Tests spawn this as a
subprocess because MinionSupervisor.start() calls process.exit() on
shutdown — can't run it in the test runner's own process.
test/supervisor.test.ts (existing; 91 → 300 lines):
- Added IntegrationHarness helper: creates a unique tmpdir per test,
a fake worker shell script, a PID-file path, and an audit-dir path;
cleanup runs in finally.
- spawnSupervisor() forks bun on the runner with env vars set.
- readAudit() reads the supervisor-YYYY-Www.jsonl file via the
existing readSupervisorEvents() helper (Lane C), threading
GBRAIN_AUDIT_DIR through so tests don't collide on ~/.gbrain.
- waitFor(pred, timeoutMs) polls helper for event-driven tests.
Four integration tests (with _backoffFloorMs=5 for <1s suite runs):
1. "respawns the worker after a crash and eventually exits with
max-crashes code=1"
Worker always `exit 1`. maxCrashes=3. Asserts: exit code 1, PID
file cleaned up, audit contains started + 3x worker_spawned +
3x worker_exited + max_crashes_exceeded + shutting_down + stopped,
and the stopped event carries {reason:'max_crashes', exit_code:1}.
Locks in blockers 1 (PID lock), 2+3+6 (health SQL doesn't 500),
5 (unified shutdown emits right events), F8 (spawn errors counted).
2. "receives SIGTERM while sleeping between crashes and exits 0 cleanly"
Worker always `exit 1`, backoff floor 800ms to catch the sleep.
Asserts: SIGTERM during backoff → exit code 0 (not 1) in <5s,
no signal kill (process.exit via shutdown), audit contains
shutting_down {reason:'SIGTERM'} + stopped, PID file cleaned up.
Locks in eng Issue 1 (unified exit path), eng Issue 3 (signal
handlers don't accumulate across shutdowns).
3. "strips inherited GBRAIN_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS when allowShellJobs=false,
even if parent has it set" ⚠ CRITICAL regression test
Parent env has GBRAIN_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS=1. SUP_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS=0.
Worker writes $GBRAIN_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS (or 'UNSET' if absent) to
an OUT_FILE. Asserts child sees 'UNSET'. Locks in codex #9 + eng
#8: the `else delete env.GBRAIN_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS` branch from
Lane A is load-bearing for the supervisor's security posture;
this test prevents a future refactor silently re-opening the
inheritance hole.
4. "DOES pass GBRAIN_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS to child when allowShellJobs=true"
Positive-path companion to #3. SUP_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS=1 → worker
sees '1'. Confirms the else-branch doesn't over-strip and that
operators who explicitly opt in still get shell-exec enabled.
Plus two audit-format unit tests:
- computeSupervisorAuditFilename format (regex match)
- Year-boundary ISO week: 2027-01-01 → supervisor-2026-W53.jsonl
(matches the shell-audit.ts pattern exactly)
Before: 7 tests covering backoff math + PID helpers (~15% behavioral
coverage per eng review).
After: 13 tests across all critical lifecycle paths (crash-restart,
max-crashes, SIGTERM, env-inheritance, audit rotation).
All 146 tests in supervisor + minions + doctor suites green in ~8s.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: bump version and changelog (v0.20.2)
Lane F of PR #364 review fixes. Closes the multi-lane plan with release
hygiene: VERSION bump 0.19.0 → 0.20.2, package.json sync, CHANGELOG entry
in GStack voice with release summary + "numbers that matter" table +
"To take advantage of v0.20.2" migration block + itemized changes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: escape template-literal interpolation in supervisor --help
The --help body in src/commands/jobs.ts is one big backtick template
literal. The supervisor subcommand description I added in Lane B used
both `${GBRAIN_AUDIT_DIR:-~/.gbrain/audit}` (parsed as a template
interpolation into an undefined variable) and inline `code` backticks
(parsed as nested template literals). CI caught it with ~200 tsc parse
errors across the file.
Fix:
- Escape `${...}` → `\${...}` so the audit-file path renders literally.
- Replace prose inline-code backticks with plain single-quote fences
(`gbrain jobs work` → 'gbrain jobs work', `~/.gbrain/supervisor.pid`
→ ~/.gbrain/supervisor.pid). `--help` output is human prose; the
single-quote form reads cleanly in a terminal without needing to
smuggle nested backticks through a template literal.
`bunx tsc --noEmit` is clean. 146 tests still pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: regenerate llms-full.txt after Lane B doc rewrite
CI drift guard caught that `llms-full.txt` didn't match the current
generator output. Root cause: the Lane B rewrite of
`docs/guides/minions-deployment.md` (supervisor as canonical, watchdog
deleted) changed content that gets inlined into `llms-full.txt`, but I
didn't run `bun run build:llms` to regenerate.
`bun test test/build-llms.test.ts` now clean (7/7 pass).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Master shipped its own v0.19.1 (smoke-test skillpack, PR #369) and then
v0.20.0 (BrainBench extraction to sibling repo, PR #195) while this
branch was in review. Bumping our release from v0.19.1 to v0.20.1
follows the CLAUDE.md rule: "VERSION must be higher than master's."
Resolved conflicts:
- VERSION: 0.19.1 (ours) + 0.20.0 (master) → 0.20.1
- package.json: same bump applied to the version field
- CHANGELOG.md: our queue-resilience entry renamed from v0.19.1 to
v0.20.1 (6 inline refs updated across the body: numbers-that-matter
table, "To take advantage" block, pre-v0.20.1 code reference,
adversarial-review mention, and the v0.19.2 → v0.20.2 deferral
reference for composite indexes). Entry stays at the top of the
file, followed by master's v0.20.0 (BrainBench) and v0.19.1
(smoke-test skillpack). Sequence is now 0.20.1 → 0.20.0 → 0.19.1 →
0.19.0 → 0.18.2 → ...
Rebuilt binary reports gbrain 0.20.1.
Pre-merge verification carried forward:
- 143 minions + 13 doctor unit tests pass
- typecheck clean
- 189 E2E tests pass against real Postgres 16 + pgvector
- All 3 smoke cases pass (basic, --sigkill-rescue, --wedge-rescue)
- queue_health doctor check fires correctly on a forged stalled-forever job
No source changes — conflict resolution was version-label surgery only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(link-extraction): v0.10.5 drive works_at + advises accuracy on rich prose
Extends inferLinkType patterns to cover rich-prose phrasings that miss with
v0.10.4 regexes. Targets the residuals called out in TODOS.md: works_at at
58% type accuracy, advises at 41%.
WORKS_AT_RE additions:
- Rank-prefixed: "senior engineer at", "staff engineer at", "principal/lead"
- Discipline-prefixed: "backend/frontend/full-stack/ML/data/security engineer at"
- Possessive time: "his/her/their/my time at"
- Leadership beyond "leads engineering": "heads up X at", "manages engineering at",
"runs product at", "leads the [team] at"
- Role nouns: "role at", "position at", "tenure as", "stint as"
- Promotion patterns: "promoted to staff/senior/principal at"
ADVISES_RE additions:
- Advisory capacity: "in an advisory capacity", "advisory engagement/partnership/contract"
- "as an advisor": "joined as an advisor", "serves as technical advisor"
- Prefixed advisor nouns: "strategic/technical/security/product/industry advisor to|at"
- Consulting: "consults for", "consulting role at|with"
New EMPLOYEE_ROLE_RE page-level prior: fires when the page describes the subject
as an employee (senior/staff/principal engineer, director, VP, CTO/CEO/CFO) at
some company. Biases outbound company refs toward works_at when per-edge context
is possessive or narrative without an explicit work verb. Scoped to person -> company
links only. Precedence: investor > advisor > employee (investors often hold board
seats which would otherwise mis-classify as advise/works_at).
ADVISOR_ROLE_RE broadened from "full-time/professional/advises multiple" to catch
any page that self-identifies the subject as an advisor ("is an advisor",
"serves as advisor", possessive "her advisory work/role/engagement").
Tests: 65 pass (16 new v0.10.5 coverage tests + 4 regression guards against
v0.10.4 tightenings). Templated benchmark still 88.9% type_accuracy (10/10 on
works_at and advises). Rich-prose measurement requires the multi-axis report
upgrade (next commit) to validate retroactively.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(eval): type-accuracy runner on rich-prose corpus + wire into all.ts
New Category 2 in BrainBench: per-link-type accuracy measured directly on the
240-page rich-prose world-v1 corpus. Distinct from Cat 1's retrieval metrics,
this measures whether inferLinkType() correctly classifies extracted edges
when the prose varies (the 58% works_at and 41% advises residuals that v0.10.5
regexes targeted).
How it works:
1. Loads all pages from eval/data/world-v1/
2. Derives GOLD expected edges from each page's _facts metadata
(founders → founded, investors → invested_in, advisors → advises,
employees → works_at, attendees → attended, primary_affiliation +
role drives person-page outbound type)
3. Runs extractPageLinks() on each page → INFERRED edges
4. Per (from, to) pair, compares inferred type vs gold type
5. Emits per-link-type table: correct / mistyped / missed / spurious +
type accuracy + recall + precision + strict F1 (triple match)
6. Full confusion matrix rows=gold, cols=inferred
v0.10.5 validation on 240-page corpus (up from pre-v0.10.5 baselines):
- works_at: 58% → 100.0% (+42 pts) — 10/10 correct, 0 mistyped
- advises: 41% → 88.2% (+47 pts) — 15/17 correct
- attended: — → 100.0% 131/134 recall
- founded: 100% → 100.0% 40/40
- invested_in: 89% → 92.0% 69/75
- Overall: 88.5% → 95.7% type accuracy (conditional on edge found)
Strict F1 overall: 53.7%. Lower because the _facts-based gold set only
captures core relationships; rich prose extracts many peripheral mentions
(190 spurious "mentions" edges) that aren't bugs but are correctly-typed
prose references without a _facts counterpart. Spurious counts are signal
for future type-precision tuning, not failure.
Wired into eval/runner/all.ts as Cat 2 so every full benchmark run includes
the rich-prose type accuracy table alongside retrieval metrics.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(eval): Phase 2 adapter interface + EXT-1 ripgrep+BM25 baseline
Phase 2 credibility unlock: BrainBench now compares gbrain to external
baselines on the same corpus and queries. Transforms the benchmark from
internal ablation ("gbrain-graph beats gbrain-grep") to category comparison
("gbrain-graph beats classic BM25 by 32 pts P@5"). This is the #1 fix
from the 4-review arc — addresses Codex's core critique that v1's
before/after was self-referential.
Added:
eval/runner/types.ts — Adapter interface (v1.1 spec)
eval/runner/adapters/ripgrep-bm25.ts — EXT-1 classic IR baseline
eval/runner/adapters/ripgrep-bm25.test.ts — 11 unit tests, all pass
eval/runner/multi-adapter.ts — side-by-side scorer
Adapter interface (eng pass 2 spec):
- Thin 3-method Strategy: init(rawPages, config), query(q, state), snapshot(state)
- BrainState is opaque to runner (never inspected)
- Raw pages passed in-memory; gold/ never crosses adapter boundary
(structural ingestion-boundary enforcement)
- PoisonDisposition enum reserved for future poison-resistance scoring
EXT-1 ripgrep+BM25:
- Classic Lucene-variant IDF + k1/b tuned at standard 1.5/0.75
- Title tokens double-weighted for entity-page slug-match bias
- Stopword filter, alphanumeric tokenization, stable lexicographic tie-break
- Pure in-memory inverted index — no external deps, ~100 LOC core
First side-by-side results on 240-page rich-prose corpus, 145 relational queries:
| Adapter | P@5 | R@5 | Correct top-5 |
|---------------|--------|--------|---------------|
| gbrain-after | 49.1% | 97.9% | 248/261 |
| ripgrep-bm25 | 17.1% | 62.4% | 124/261 |
| Delta | +32.0 | +35.5 | +124 |
gbrain-after is the hybrid graph+grep config from PR #188. Ripgrep+BM25 is
a genuinely strong classic-IR baseline (BM25 is what Lucene/Elasticsearch
ship). gbrain's ~+32-point lead on relational queries reflects real work
by the knowledge graph layer: typed links + traversePaths surface the
correct answers in top-K that BM25 only pulls in via partial-text overlap.
Next in Phase 2: EXT-2 vector-only RAG + EXT-3 hybrid-without-graph
adapters. Both plug into the same Adapter interface.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(eval): Phase 2 EXT-2 vector-only RAG adapter
Second external baseline for BrainBench. Pure cosine-similarity ranking
using the SAME text-embedding-3-large model gbrain uses internally —
apples-to-apples on the embedding layer so any gbrain lead reflects the
graph + hybrid fusion, not a better embedder.
Files:
eval/runner/adapters/vector-only.ts ~130 LOC
eval/runner/adapters/vector-only.test.ts 6 unit tests (cosine math)
Design:
- One vector per page (title + compiled_truth + timeline, capped 8K chars).
- No chunking (intentional; chunked vector RAG would be EXT-2b later).
- No keyword fallback (that's EXT-3 hybrid-without-graph).
- Embeddings in batches of 50 via existing src/core/embedding.ts (retry+backoff).
- Cost on 240 pages: ~$0.02/run.
Three-adapter side-by-side on 240-page rich-prose corpus, 145 relational queries:
| Adapter | P@5 | R@5 | Correct top-5 |
|---------------|--------|--------|---------------|
| gbrain-after | 49.1% | 97.9% | 248/261 |
| ripgrep-bm25 | 17.1% | 62.4% | 124/261 |
| vector-only | 10.8% | 40.7% | 78/261 |
Interesting finding: vector-only scores WORSE than BM25 on relational queries
like "Who invested in X?" — exact entity match matters more than semantic
similarity for these templates. BM25 nails the entity-name term; vector-only
returns topically-similar-but-not-mentioning pages. This is the known failure
mode of pure-vector RAG on precise relational/identity queries. Real-world
vector RAG systems always add keyword fallback; EXT-3 (hybrid-without-graph)
will be that fairer comparator.
gbrain's lead widens in vector-only comparison: +38.4 pts P@5, +57.2 pts R@5.
The graph layer is doing the heavy lifting for relational traversal; pure
vector RAG can't express "traverse 'attended' edges from this meeting page."
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(eval): Phase 2 EXT-3 hybrid-without-graph adapter — graph isolated
Third and closest-to-gbrain external baseline. Runs gbrain's full hybrid
search (vector + keyword + RRF fusion + dedup) WITHOUT the knowledge-graph
layer. Same engine, same embedder, same chunking, same hybrid fusion —
only traversePaths + typed-link extraction turned off.
This is the decisive comparator for "does the knowledge graph do useful
work?" Same everything-else, only graph differs. Any lead gbrain-after has
over EXT-3 is 100% attributable to the graph layer.
Files:
eval/runner/adapters/hybrid-nograph.ts — ~110 LOC
Implementation:
- New PGLiteEngine per run; auto_link set to 'false' (belt).
- importFromContent() used instead of bare putPage() so chunks +
embeddings get populated (hybridSearch needs them).
- NO runExtract() call — typed links/timeline stay empty (suspenders).
- hybridSearch(engine, q.text) answers every query. Aggregate chunks
to page-level by best chunk score.
FOUR-adapter side-by-side on 240-page rich-prose corpus, 145 relational queries:
| Adapter | P@5 | R@5 | Correct/Gold |
|-----------------|--------|--------|--------------|
| gbrain-after | 49.1% | 97.9% | 248/261 |
| hybrid-nograph | 17.8% | 65.1% | 129/261 |
| ripgrep-bm25 | 17.1% | 62.4% | 124/261 |
| vector-only | 10.8% | 40.7% | 78/261 |
The headline delta nobody can hand-wave away:
gbrain-after → hybrid-nograph = +31.4 P@5, +32.9 R@5
hybrid-nograph → ripgrep-bm25 = +0.7 P@5, +2.7 R@5
Hybrid search (vector+keyword+RRF) over pure BM25 gains ~1 point. The
knowledge graph layer over hybrid gains ~31 points. The graph is doing
the work; adding it to a retrieval stack is what actually moves the needle
on relational queries. The vector/keyword/BM25 debate is a footnote.
Timing: hybrid-nograph init is ~2 min (embeds 240 pages once); query loop
is fast. gbrain-after is ~1.5s total because traversePaths doesn't need
embeddings. Runs at ~$0.02 Opus-equivalent in embedding cost.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(eval): Phase 2 query validator + Tier 5 Fuzzy + Tier 5.5 synthetic + N=5 tolerance bands
Closes multiple Phase 2 items in one commit since they form a cohesive
package: query schema enforcement + new query tiers + per-query-set
statistical rigor.
Added:
eval/runner/queries/validator.ts — hand-rolled Query schema validator
eval/runner/queries/validator.test.ts — 24 unit tests, all pass
eval/runner/queries/tier5-fuzzy.ts — 30 hand-authored Tier 5 Fuzzy/Vibe queries
eval/runner/queries/tier5_5-synthetic.ts — 50 SYNTHETIC-labeled outsider-style queries (author: "synthetic-outsider-v1")
eval/runner/queries/index.ts — aggregator + validateAll()
Modified:
eval/runner/multi-adapter.ts — N=5 runs per adapter (BRAINBENCH_N override), page-order shuffle, mean±stddev reporting
Query validator (hand-rolled, no zod dep to match gbrain codebase style):
- Temporal verb regex enforces as_of_date (per eng pass 2 spec):
/\\b(is|was|were|current|now|at the time|during|as of|when did)\\b/i
- Validates tier enum, expected_output_type enum, gold shape per type
- gold.relevant must be non-empty slug[] for cited-source-pages queries
- abstention requires gold.expected_abstention === true
- externally-authored tier requires author field
- batch validation catches duplicate IDs
Tier 5 Fuzzy/Vibe (30 queries, hand-authored):
- Vague recall: "Someone who was a senior engineer at a biotech company..."
- Trait-based: "The engineer who pushed back on microservices"
- Cultural/epithet: "Who is known as a 'systems builder' in security?"
- Abstention bait: "Which Layer 1 project did the crypto guy leave?" (prose
mentions but never names; good systems abstain)
- Addresses Codex's circularity critique — vague queries where graph-heavy
systems shouldn't inherently win.
Tier 5.5 Synthetic Outsider (50 queries, AI-authored placeholder):
- Clearly labeled author: "synthetic-outsider-v1"
- Phrasing variety not in the 4 template families:
* fragment style ("crypto founder Goldman Sachs background")
* polite/natural ("Can you pull up what we have on...")
* comparison ("What is the difference between X and Y?")
* follow-up ("And who else advises Orbit Labs?")
* typos/misspellings ("adam lopez bioinformatcis")
* similarity ("Find me someone like Alice Davis...")
* imperative ("Pull up Alice Davis")
- Real Tier 5.5 from outside researchers supersedes synthetic via
PRs to eval/external-authors/ (docs ship in follow-up commit).
N=5 tolerance bands:
- Default N=5, override via BRAINBENCH_N env var (e.g. BRAINBENCH_N=1 for dev loops)
- Per-run seeded Fisher-Yates shuffle of page ingest order (LCG seed = run_idx+1)
- Surfaces order-dependent adapter bugs (tie-break-by-first-seen etc.)
- Reports mean ± sample-stddev per metric
- "stddev = 0" is honest signal that the adapter is deterministic, not a bug.
LLM-judge metrics (future) will naturally produce non-zero stddev.
Validation: all 80 Tier 5 + 5.5 queries pass validateAll(). 24 validator
unit tests pass.
Next commit: world.html contributor explorer (Phase 3).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(eval): Phase 3 world.html explorer + eval:* CLI surface
Contributor DX magical moment. Static HTML explorer renders the full
canonical world (240 entities) as an explorable tree, opens in any browser,
zero install. Every string HTML-entity-encoded (XSS-safe — direct vuln
class per eng pass 2, confidence 9/10).
Added:
eval/generators/world-html.ts — renderer (~240 LOC; single-file
HTML with inline CSS + minimal JS)
eval/generators/world-html.test.ts — 16 tests (XSS + rendering correctness)
eval/cli/world-view.ts — render + open in default browser
eval/cli/query-validate.ts — CLI wrapper for queries/validator
eval/cli/query-new.ts — scaffold a query template
Modified:
package.json — 7 new eval:* scripts
.gitignore — ignore generated world.html
package.json scripts shipped:
bun run test:eval all eval unit tests (57 pass)
bun run eval:run full 4-adapter N=5 side-by-side
bun run eval:run:dev N=1 fast dev iteration
bun run eval:world:view render world.html + open in browser
bun run eval:world:render render only (CI-friendly, --no-open)
bun run eval:query:validate validate built-in T5+T5.5 (or a file path)
bun run eval:query:new scaffold a new Query JSON template
bun run eval:type-accuracy per-link-type accuracy report
XSS safety:
escapeHtml() encodes the 5 critical chars (& < > " '). Tested directly
with representative Opus-generated attacks:
<img src=x onerror=alert('xss')> → <img src=x onerror=alert('xss')>
<script>fetch('/steal')</script> → <script>fetch('/steal')</script>
Ledger metadata (generated_at, model) also escaped — covers the less
obvious attack surface where Opus could emit tag-like content into the
metadata file.
world.html structure:
- Left rail: entities grouped by type with counts (companies, people,
meetings, concepts), alphabetical within type
- Right pane: per-entity cards with title + slug + compiled_truth +
timeline + canonical _facts as collapsed JSON
- URL fragment deep-links (#people/alice-chen)
- Sticky rail on desktop; responsive stack on mobile
- Vanilla JS for active-link highlighting on scroll (no framework)
Generated file: ~1MB for 240 entities (full prose). Gitignored; rebuild
with `bun run eval:world:view`. Regeneration is ~50ms.
Contributor TTHW (Tier 5.5 query authoring):
1. bun run eval:world:view # see entities
2. bun run eval:query:new --tier externally-authored --author "@me"
3. edit template with real slug + query text
4. bun run eval:query:validate path/to/file.json
5. submit PR
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(eval): Phase 3 contributor docs + CI workflow for eval/ tests
Ships the contributor-onboarding surface promised in the plan. With this
commit, external researchers have a self-serve path from clone to PR in
under 5 minutes.
Added:
eval/README.md — 5-minute quickstart,
directory map, methodology
one-pager, adapter scorecard
eval/CONTRIBUTING.md — three contributor paths:
1. Write Tier 5.5 queries
2. Submit an external adapter
3. Reproduce a scorecard
eval/RUNBOOK.md — operational troubleshooting:
generation failures, runner
failures, query validation,
world.html rendering, CI
eval/CREDITS.md — contributor attribution
(synthetic-outsider-v1 labeled
as placeholder; real submissions
land here)
.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/tier5-queries.md — structured PR template
for Tier 5.5 submissions
.github/workflows/eval-tests.yml — CI: validates queries,
runs all eval unit tests,
renders world.html on every PR
touching eval/** or
src/core/link-extraction.ts
CI scope (intentionally narrow):
- Triggers on paths: eval/**, src/core/link-extraction.ts, src/core/search/**
- Runs: bun run eval:query:validate (80 queries), test:eval (57 tests),
eval:world:render (smoke-test the HTML renderer)
- Pinned actions by commit SHA (matches existing .github/workflows/test.yml)
- Zero API calls — all Opus/OpenAI paths stubbed or skipped in unit tests
- Fast: ~30s total wall clock
Contributor TTHW (clone → first merged PR):
- Path 1 (Tier 5.5 queries): ~5 min
- Path 2 (external adapter): ~30 min for a simple adapter
- Path 3 (reproduce scorecard): ~15 min wall clock (N=5 run)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(eval): teardown PGLite engines so bun run eval:run exits 0
The multi-adapter runner left PGLite engines alive after each run.
GbrainAfterAdapter and HybridNoGraphAdapter both instantiate a
PGLiteEngine in init() but never disconnect it; Bun's shutdown path
exits with code 99 when embedded-Postgres workers outlive main().
Added optional `teardown?(state)` to the Adapter interface, implemented
it on both engine-backed adapters, and call it from scoreOneRun after
the N=5 loop. ripgrep-bm25 and vector-only hold no DB resources and
don't need a teardown.
Verified: gbrain-after, hybrid-nograph, ripgrep-bm25, vector-only all
exit 0 at N=1. Full test:eval passes (57 tests). No metric change.
* docs(bench): 2026-04-19 multi-adapter scorecard
Reproducibility run of the 4-adapter side-by-side at commit b81373d
(branch garrytan/gbrain-evals). N=5, 240-page corpus, 145 relational
queries from world-v1.
Headline: gbrain-after 49.1% P@5 / 97.9% R@5. hybrid-nograph 17.8% /
65.1%. ripgrep-bm25 17.1% / 62.4%. vector-only 10.8% / 40.7%. All
adapters deterministic (stddev = 0 across the 5 runs per adapter).
Matches the scorecard in eval/README.md byte-for-byte for the three
deterministic adapters; hybrid-nograph matches within tolerance bands.
* docs(bench): 2026-04-19 gbrain v0.11.1 vs v0.12.1 regression comparison
Runs the same eval harness against two gbrain src/ trees on the same
240-page corpus and 145 queries. Patches the v0.11 copy's gbrain-after
adapter to use getLinks/getBacklinks (v0.11 has no traversePaths)
with identical direction+linkType semantics.
gbrain-after P@5 22.1% -> 49.1% (+27 pts); R@5 54.6% -> 97.9% (+43
pts); correct-in-top-5 99 -> 248 (+149). hybrid-nograph flat at 17.8%
/ 65.1% on both (v0.12 didn't touch hybridSearch / chunking).
Driver is extraction quality, not graph presence: v0.12 emits 499
typed links (v0.11: 136, x3.7) and 2,208 timeline entries (v0.11: 27,
x82) on the same 240 pages. Sharpens the April-18 "graph layer does
the work" claim -- on v0.11 that architecture only beat hybrid-nograph
by 4.3 points; the 31-point lead in the multi-adapter scorecard comes
from graph + high-quality extract in combination.
* feat(eval): BrainBench v1 portable JSON schemas + gold templates
Adds the v1→v2 contract boundary for BrainBench. 6 JSON schemas at
eval/schemas/ pin the shape of every artifact a stack must emit to be
scorable: corpus-manifest, public-probe (PublicQuery with gold stripped),
tool-schema (12 read + 3 dry_run tools, 32K tool-output cap), transcript,
scorecard (N ∈ {1, 5, 10}), evidence-contract (structured judge input).
8 gold file templates at eval/data/gold/ scaffold the sealed qrels,
contradictions, poison items, and citation labels. Empty-but-valid
skeletons; Day 3b fills them with real content once the amara-life-v1
corpus generates.
48 tests validate schema syntax, $schema/$id/title/type headers,
round-trip stability, and cross-schema coherence (new Page types in
manifest enum, tool counts, token cap, N enum).
When v2 ports to Python + Inspect AI + Docker, these schemas are the
boundary. Same fixtures, same tool contracts, zero rework.
* feat(eval): amara-life-v1 skeleton + Page.type enum for email/slack/cal/note
Deterministic procedural generator for the twin-amara-lite fictional-life
corpus (BrainBench v1 Cat 5/8/9/11 target). 15 contacts picked from
world-v1, 50 emails + 300 Slack messages across 4 channels + 20 calendar
events + 8 meeting transcripts + 40 first-person notes. Mulberry32 PRNG
gives byte-identical output under reseed.
Plants 10 contradictions + 5 stale facts + 5 poison items + 3 implicit
preferences at deterministic positions. Fixture_ids are unique across the
corpus so gold/contradictions.json + gold/poison.json + gold/implicit-
preferences.json can cross-reference by stable ID.
PageType extended in both src/core/types.ts and eval/runner/types.ts to
include email | slack | calendar-event | note (+ meeting on the production
side). src/core/markdown.ts inferType() heuristics updated for the new
one-slash slug prefixes (emails/em-NNNN, slack/sl-NNNN, cal/evt-NNNN,
notes/YYYY-MM-DD-topic, meeting/mtg-NNNN).
17 tests cover counts (50/300/20/8/40), perturbation counts (exact
10/5/5/3), seed determinism + divergence, slug regex conformance (matches
eval/runner/queries/validator.ts:131 one-slash rule), unique fixture_ids,
amara-in-every-email invariant, calendar dtstart < dtend, and Amara-is-
attendee on every meeting.
* feat(eval): amara-life-gen.ts with structured cache key + $20 cost gate
Opus prose expansion of the amara-life-v1 skeleton. Per-item structured
cache key = sha256({schema_version, template_id, template_hash, model_id,
model_params, seed, item_spec_hash}). Prompt-template tweak changes
template_hash; only those items regenerate. Schema bump changes
schema_version; everything invalidates cleanly. Interrupted runs resume
from the last cached item; zero re-spend.
Cost-gated at $20 hard-stop with Anthropic input/output pricing tracking.
Dry-run mode (--dry-run) executes the full pipeline with stub bodies for
smoke-testing the I/O layout without LLM spend. --max N caps items per
type for debugging. --force ignores cache.
Writes per-format outputs under eval/data/amara-life-v1/:
inbox/emails.jsonl (one email per line with body_text appended)
slack/messages.jsonl (one message per line with text appended)
calendar.ics (RFC-5545 VEVENT format, templated — no LLM)
meetings/<id>.md (transcript with YAML frontmatter)
notes/<YYYY-MM-DD-topic>.md (first-person journal)
docs/*.md (6 reference docs, templated — no LLM)
corpus-manifest.json (per eval/schemas/corpus-manifest.schema.json,
including per-item content_sha256 and generator_cache_key)
Perturbation hints (contradiction, stale-fact, poison, implicit-
preference) flow through the prompt so Opus weaves the specific claim
into each item's body. Poison items are hand-crafted to include
paraphrased prompt-injection attempts (not literal 'IGNORE ALL
PREVIOUS' — defense is the structured-evidence judge contract at
Day 5, not regex redaction).
New package.json scripts:
eval:generate-amara-life # real run (~$12 Opus estimated)
eval:generate-amara-life:dry # smoke test, zero spend
test:eval extended to include test/eval/. 10 cache-key tests cover
determinism, invalidation across every field of the key, canonical JSON
stability under object-key reorder, and per-skeleton-item spec-hash
uniqueness (50 distinct hashes for 50 distinct emails).
* chore: bump version and changelog (v0.15.0)
Resets package.json from stale 0.13.1 to 0.15.0 (matches VERSION).
v0.14.0 shipped with the stale package.json version; this sync catches
that up and moves to v0.15.0 in one step.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: update CLAUDE.md + README + eval/README for v0.15.0 BrainBench
CLAUDE.md: adds a full BrainBench section to the Key Files list — 14 new
entries covering eval/README.md, multi-adapter.ts, types.ts (with new
PublicPage/PublicQuery), adapters/, queries/, type-accuracy.ts,
adversarial.ts, all.ts, world.ts/gen.ts, world-html.ts, amara-life.ts,
amara-life-gen.ts, schemas/, data/world-v1/, data/gold/,
data/amara-life-v1/, docs/benchmarks/, and test/eval/. Adds 3 new
test/eval/ lines to the unit-tests catalog.
eval/README.md: file tree updated to reflect v0.15 additions —
data/amara-life-v1/, data/gold/, schemas/, generators/amara-life.ts +
amara-life-gen.ts, runner/all.ts + adversarial.ts.
README.md: updates hero benchmark numbers (L7 intro + L353 mid-page)
from v0.10.5 PR #188 numbers (R@5 83→95, P@5 39→45) to current v0.12.1
4-adapter numbers (P@5 49.1% · R@5 97.9% · +31.4 pts vs hybrid-nograph).
Adds the v0.11→v0.12 regression comparison as the secondary reference.
Deeper-section tables (L422+) labeled "BrainBench v1 (PR #188)" are
preserved as historical data.
CHANGELOG is untouched — /ship already wrote the v0.15.0 entry.
TODOS.md is untouched — Cat 5/6/8/9/11 remain open (only foundations
shipped in v0.15.0; Cat runners ship in v1 Complete follow-ups).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(eval): Day 4 — pdf-parse + flight-recorder + tool-bridge (dry_run + expand:false)
Three infrastructure modules for BrainBench v1 Complete Cats 5/8/9/11.
**eval/runner/loaders/pdf.ts** — Thin pdf-parse wrapper. Lazy import keeps
pdf-parse out of the module-load path (avoids library debug-mode side
effects). Size cap (50MB default), encryption detection, structured error
classes (PdfEncryptedError, PdfTooLargeError, PdfParseError). Only Cat 11
multimodal will import this; production bundle never sees pdf-parse.
**eval/runner/tool-bridge.ts** — Maps 12 read-only operations from
src/core/operations.ts to Anthropic tool definitions + adds 3 dry_run write
tools. Three structural invariants enforced:
1. No hidden LLM calls. `operations.query` defaults expand=true which
routes through expansion.ts → Haiku. Bridge strips `expand` from the
query tool's input schema AND executor hard-sets expand:false. Zero
nested Haiku calls in any agent trace.
2. Mutating ops throw ForbiddenOpError. put_page, add_link, delete_page,
etc. are rejected by name. Agents record intent via dry_run_put_page /
dry_run_add_link / dry_run_add_timeline_entry which persist to the
flight-recorder without mutating the engine. This is how Cat 8's
back_link_compliance + citation_format metrics measure anything with
a read-only tool surface.
3. Poison tagged by the bridge, not the judge. Every tool result is
scanned for slugs matching gold/poison.json fixtures. Matched
fixture_ids flow into tool_call_summary.saw_poison_items for the
structured-evidence judge contract. Judge never reads raw tool
output — Section-3 defense against paraphrased prompt injections
(poison payloads never reach the judge model at all).
32K-token cap (~128K chars) with "…[truncated]" suffix.
**eval/runner/recorder.ts** — Per-run flight-recorder bundle emitter. Full
6-artifact bundle (transcript.md, brain-export.json, entity-graph.json,
citations.json, scorecard.json, judge-notes.md) when the adapter provides
an AdapterExport; 3-artifact fallback (transcript + scorecard +
judge-notes) otherwise. Atomic writes via tmp+rename. Collision-safe:
duplicate directory names get incremental -2, -3 suffix. `safeStringify`
handles circular references without throwing and JSON-serializes
Float32Array embeddings.
**package.json:** adds pdf-parse@2.4.5 as a devDependency. Scoped to eval/
use only; production gbrain binary unaffected.
**Tests:** 63 new — 30 tool-bridge, 21 recorder, 12 pdf-loader. All pass.
Fake engine uses a Proxy with `__default__` fallback so poison-matching
tests don't have to mock the exact engine method name that each operation
calls (some route via searchKeyword, others via getPage — proxy handles
both uniformly).
Total eval suite now: 132 pass, 0 fail, 923 expect() calls.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(eval): Day 5 — agent adapter + judge with structured evidence contract
Two modules that together wire Cat 8 / Cat 9 / Cat 5 end-to-end scoring.
**eval/runner/judge.ts** — Haiku 4.5 via tool-use `score_answer`. Input is
the structured JudgeEvidence contract (fix#16 from the plan's codex
review): probe + final_answer_text + evidence_refs + tool_call_summary +
ground_truth_pages + rubric. Raw tool output NEVER reaches the judge —
that's the Section-3 defense against paraphrased prompt-injection payloads
in gold/poison.json.
Retry policy: one retry on malformed tool_use response. If the second
attempt is still malformed, score the probe as `judge_failed` (all scores
0, verdict=fail) so the run still completes.
Aggregation: weighted mean across rubric criteria. Canonical thresholds
(pass ≥3.5, partial 2.5-3.5, fail <2.5) — judge can propose a verdict but
the computed verdict from the weighted mean is what the scorecard records.
This prevents the model from inflating or deflating its own verdict.
Score values are clamped to 0-5 on parse even if the model returns out of
range. `assertNoRawToolOutput(evidence)` is a regression guard that
returns the list of forbidden fields (tool_result, raw_transcript, etc.)
if any leak into the evidence contract.
**eval/runner/adapters/claude-sonnet-with-tools.ts** — The agent adapter.
Implements `Adapter` interface minimally: `init()` spins up PGLite and
seeds it, `query()` throws because the adapter is Cat 8/9-only and emits
a final-answer text, not a RankedDoc[]. Retrieval scorecard stays at 4
adapters.
`runAgentLoop(probeId, text, state, config)` drives the multi-turn loop:
Sonnet → tool_use → tool-bridge.executeTool → tool_result → back to
Sonnet. Turn cap 10. max_tokens 1024. System prompt (brain-first iron
law, citation format, amara context) is cached via cache_control.
Exponential backoff on rate-limit errors (1s, 2s, 4s).
Emits a `Transcript` per eval/schemas/transcript.schema.json — consumed
directly by recorder.ts for the flight-recorder bundle.
`brain_first_ordering` classifies Cat 8's flagship metric: did the agent
call search/get_page BEFORE producing the final answer? The `no_brain_calls`
case (agent answers from general knowledge without ever hitting the brain)
is the compliance failure to surface.
ForbiddenOpError + UnknownToolError from the bridge are caught in the
agent loop and surfaced as tool_result with is_error=true — keeps the
loop going and preserves full audit trail for the judge.
**Tests (35 new):** judge (23) — happy path, retry, fallback, evidence
contract sanitization, rendered prompt does not contain raw tool_result
text, verdict thresholds, score clamping, weighted mean with mixed
weights, parseToolUse rejects malformed input. agent-adapter (12) —
Adapter.query() throws, init() seeds PGLite, end-to-end tool loop with
stubbed Sonnet, turn cap exhaustion, mutating-op rejection surfaces as
tool_result error, extractSlugs regex.
All 12 agent tests take ~23s because PGLite runs 13 schema migrations per
test; the alternative of shared-engine-across-tests was rejected so each
test is isolated.
Total eval suite now: 167 pass, 0 fail.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(eval): Day 6 — adversarial-injections + Cat 6 prose-scale + Cat 11 multi-modal
Three modules that together cover BrainBench v1 Cat 6 (prose-scale
extraction fidelity) and Cat 11 (multi-modal ingest fidelity).
**eval/runner/adversarial-injections.ts** — 6 deterministic content
transforms shared by Cat 10 (adversarial.ts, 22 hand-crafted cases) and
Cat 6 (prose-scale variants). Each injection produces a modified content
string + a structured GoldDelta describing what the extractor MUST and
MUST NOT produce. Kinds:
- code_fence_leak — fake [X](people/fake) inside ``` fence, must NOT extract
- inline_code_slug — `people/fake` in backticks, must NOT extract
- substring_collision — "SamAI" near real `people/sam`, exactly one link
- ambiguous_role — "works with" vs "works at", downgrade type to mentions
- prose_only_mention — strip markdown link syntax, bare name → mentions only
- multi_entity_sentence — pack 4+ entities into one clause, extract all
Mulberry32 PRNG keeps variant generation deterministic under fixed seed.
Codex flagged the original plan's wording ("extract injection engine from
adversarial.ts") as overstated — adversarial.ts is a static case list,
not a reusable engine. This module is NEW code.
**eval/runner/cat6-prose-scale.ts** — Runner. Loads world-v1, applies all
6 injection kinds to sampled base pages (default 50 variants per kind ×
6 kinds = 300 variants), runs extractPageLinks on each, compares to gold
delta. Emits per-kind + overall metrics (precision, recall, F1,
code_fence_leak_rate, substring_fp_rate, pages_with_links_coverage,
mean_links_per_page). **v1 verdict is always "baseline_only"** — no
gating threshold per codex fix#9 (current extractor residuals make
>0.80 unreachable; v1 records a baseline, regression guard triggers on
drop below it).
**eval/runner/cat11-multimodal.ts** — PDF + HTML + audio runners.
Fixtures load from eval/data/multimodal/<modality>/fixtures.json
manifests; each modality skips gracefully when manifest missing or
(audio) when neither GROQ_API_KEY nor OPENAI_API_KEY is set. Metrics:
- PDF: char-level similarity via Levenshtein + optional entity_recall
- HTML: word-recall over normalized tokens (multiset semantics)
- Audio: WER (word error rate) via Levenshtein on word sequences
Fixtures are NOT committed; a future eval:fetch-multimodal script will
download them hash-verified from public sources (arXiv CC-licensed
papers, Wikipedia CC-BY-SA, Common Voice CC0).
Injectable audio transcriber (`opts.transcribe`) means tests don't need
GROQ/OpenAI keys — stubbed transcriptions exercise the WER math path
directly.
**Tests (60 new):** adversarial-injections (19) — per-kind assertions +
dispatcher coverage + slug regex conformance; cat6 (12) — variant
determinism, scoreVariant shape, aggregate per-kind + overall metrics,
corpus resolver slug rules; cat11 (29) — charSimilarity / wordRecall /
wer math, htmlToText strips scripts + decodes entities, HTML modality
with real fixtures, audio modality gracefully skips without key + uses
stub transcriber correctly.
All 60 tests pass in 48ms + 41ms.
Total eval suite now: 227 pass, 0 fail.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(eval): Day 7 — Cat 5 provenance runner + structured classify_claim judge
**eval/runner/cat5-provenance.ts** — BrainBench Cat 5 scoring. Samples
claims from gbrain brain-export and classifies each against its source
material via a dedicated Haiku judge (classify_claim tool with a
three-label enum: supported | unsupported | over-generalized).
Separate from judge.ts by design: Cat 5 is a single three-way
classification per claim, not a weighted rubric. Rather than overload
judge.ts with a mode switch, Cat 5 has its own tool definition
(CLASSIFY_CLAIM_TOOL) and prompt. The retry-once pattern, $20 cost gate
semantics, and structured parsing are mirrored from judge.ts so failures
look the same across Cats.
Metric: `citation_accuracy` = fraction where predicted label equals
gold expected_label. Threshold (informational): >0.90 per design-doc
METRICS.md. v1 ships with `enableThreshold: false` so the verdict is
always baseline_only — we don't have hand-authored gold claims yet, and
codex flagged that threshold gating should wait until the amara-life-v1
corpus + gold file authoring lands in Day 3b.
runCat5 uses a bounded-concurrency worker pool (default 4) to respect
Haiku rate limits across 100+ claim batches. Evidence pages are looked
up by slug from a caller-provided pagesBySlug map — missing pages don't
crash, they just pass an empty source list to the judge (correct
behavior for genuinely unsupported claims).
**Tests (23):** classifyClaim happy/retry/fallback paths with stubbed
Haiku, aggregate accuracy math, threshold gating (pass/fail vs
baseline_only), runCat5 concurrency + missing-page handling,
renderClaimPrompt embeds claim + sources correctly, parseClassification
rejects invalid enum values + plain-text responses.
Total eval suite now: 250 pass, 0 fail.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(eval): Day 8 — Cat 8 skill compliance + Cat 9 end-to-end workflows
**eval/runner/cat8-skill-compliance.ts** — Deterministic, judge-free Cat 8
scoring. Replays inbound signals through the agent adapter (Day 5) and
extracts four iron-law metrics directly from the tool-bridge state:
- brain_first_compliance: agent called search/get_page BEFORE producing
its final answer. Non-compliance = hallucinating from general knowledge.
- back_link_compliance: every dry_run_put_page intent has at least one
markdown [Name](slug) back-link in its compiled_truth.
- citation_format: timeline entries use canonical `- **YYYY-MM-DD** |
Source — Summary`; long final answers cite at least one slug.
- tier_escalation: simple probes use light tooling (≥1 brain call);
complex probes require ≥2 brain calls or a dry_run write when
expects_dry_run_write is set.
No judge call required — everything is computable from
`tool_bridge_state.made_dry_run_writes` + `count_by_tool` + final_answer
regex. Fast, deterministic, reproducible.
Bounded concurrency (p-limit style) worker pool at default 4 to keep
Sonnet rate limits comfortable across 100-probe batches.
**eval/runner/cat9-workflows.ts** — Rubric-graded Cat 9. 5 canonical
workflows (meeting_ingestion, email_to_brain, daily_task_prep, briefing,
sync) × ~10 scenarios each. Each scenario runs through the agent adapter,
then judge.ts scores the answer against a per-scenario rubric.
`buildEvidence(scenario, agentResult, pagesBySlug)` composes the
JudgeEvidence contract: resolves ground_truth_slugs to full
GroundTruthPage[] from a slug-map, pulls tool_call_summary directly from
tool_bridge_state (no raw tool_result content — Section-3 defense),
attaches rubric from the scenario.
Per-workflow rollup: each workflow gets its own pass_rate so the verdict
can fail one workflow without failing the whole Cat. Overall verdict
requires every populated workflow's pass_rate ≥ threshold (default 0.80)
when enableThreshold=true.
Both Cats default to verdict=baseline_only in v1 per codex fix#9: real
thresholds return after 10-probe Haiku-vs-hand-score calibration (κ > 0.7)
runs against the Day 3b amara-life-v1 corpus.
**Tests (23):** Cat 8 per-metric scorer unit tests covering every branch
(brain_first ordering, back-link compliance on mixed writes, long vs
short answer citation requirement, tier escalation for simple/complex/
writey probes, finalAnswerCiteCount dedups across syntaxes). Cat 9
buildEvidence contract shape — evidence_refs flow from agent, missing
slugs skip gracefully, no raw_transcript/tool_result leakage to judge.
Cat 9 runCat9 integration with stubbed agent + mixed-verdict judge
produces fractional pass rates correctly.
Total eval suite now: 273 pass, 0 fail.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(eval): Day 9 — sealed qrels via PublicPage + PublicQuery at adapter boundary
Codex fixes#1, #2, #3 from the plan's outside-voice review. Enforcement
shifts from SOFT-VIA-TYPE-COMMENT to SOFT-VIA-SANITIZED-OBJECT. Hard
enforcement via process isolation waits for BrainBench v2 Docker sandbox.
**eval/runner/types.ts** additions:
- `PublicPage = Pick<Page, 'slug' | 'type' | 'title' | 'compiled_truth' |
'timeline'>` — the exact 5 fields adapters should see. No _facts.
No frontmatter (a known hiding spot for accidental gold leaks).
- `sanitizePage(p: Page): PublicPage` — returns a NEW object with the 5
fields only. Cannot be bypassed by `(page as any)._facts` because the
field does not exist on the sanitized object.
- `PublicQuery = Omit<Query, 'gold'>` — strips the gold field.
- `sanitizeQuery(q: Query): PublicQuery` — enumerates public fields
explicitly (not spread+delete) so no prototype weirdness leaves gold
reachable.
**eval/runner/multi-adapter.ts** — scoreOneRun now calls sanitizePage /
sanitizeQuery before passing to adapter.init / adapter.query. The scorer
retains the full Query shape (including gold.relevant) for precision /
recall computation. Adapter signatures unchanged — the sealing is at the
OBJECT level, not the type level. This keeps existing adapters
(ripgrep-bm25, vector-only, hybrid-nograph, gbrain-after) binary-compatible.
Verified: no existing adapter reads q.gold or page._facts, so the change
is safe without further adapter updates.
**test/eval/sealed-qrels.test.ts** (17 tests):
- sanitizePage strips _facts + frontmatter + arbitrary hidden keys
- Output has exactly the 5 public keys (deep introspection)
- Proxy tripwire simulates a malicious adapter: any access to _facts or
gold throws `sealed-qrels violation`
- sanitizeQuery retains optional fields (as_of_date, tags, author,
acceptable_variants, known_failure_modes) but omits undefined ones
- Honest documentation of the seal's limits: filesystem bypass and
Proxy attacks would still work in v1; Docker isolation (v2) is the
real enforcement
Every existing eval test still passes (273 before + 17 sealed-qrels = 290).
Total eval suite now: 290 pass, 0 fail.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(eval): Day 10 — all.ts rewrite + llm-budget + BrainBench N tiers
Final wiring of BrainBench v1 Complete. all.ts now orchestrates the full
Cat catalog (1-12) via a mix of subprocess dispatch (Cats 1, 2, 3, 4, 6,
7, 10, 11, 12 — standalone runners with CLI entry points) and
programmatic invocation (Cats 5, 8, 9 — require runtime inputs that
can't come via CLI flags). Subprocess Cats run concurrently under a
p-limit(2) bound to cap peak memory around ~800MB (two PGLite instances
at ~400MB each).
Cats 5/8/9 show as "programmatic" in the report with a one-line
reference to their `runCatN({...})` harness API. They're deliberately
skipped from the master runner because their inputs (claim catalog,
probe catalog, scenario catalog, pre-seeded agent state, evidence
pagesBySlug) are task-specific and assembled at the caller.
**eval/runner/all.ts** — rewritten:
- CATEGORIES is a tagged union of SubprocessCategory | ProgrammaticCategory
- runCatSubprocess spawns Bun with pipe'd stdout/stderr, 10-min timeout
per Cat (124 exit + SIGTERM on timeout; no hung subprocesses)
- runConcurrently is a bounded worker pool preserving input order
- buildReport emits the full markdown with per-Cat elapsed times,
migration-noise filter, and a separate programmatic-only section
- Honors BRAINBENCH_N (1/5/10 for smoke/iteration/published),
BRAINBENCH_CONCURRENCY (default 2),
BRAINBENCH_LLM_CONCURRENCY (default 4, consumed by llm-budget)
**eval/runner/llm-budget.ts** — shared LLM rate-limit semaphore. A full
N=10 published scorecard makes ~900 Anthropic calls (150 Cat 8/9 probes
× N=10 + 100 Cat 5 claims × N=10). Without coordination, concurrent
adapters trigger 429s on per-minute limits.
- LlmBudget class: acquireSlot/releaseSlot + withLlmSlot(fn) wrapper
that releases on success AND throw (try/finally)
- getDefaultLlmBudget() singleton reads BRAINBENCH_LLM_CONCURRENCY,
falls back to 4 on missing/garbage values
- capacity enforced ≥1 (rejects 0/negative)
- Double-release is a no-op (guards against upstream double-call bugs)
- Active + waiting counts exposed for observability / tests
**package.json** scripts:
- eval:brainbench — default N=5 iteration
- eval:brainbench:smoke — N=1 for fast iteration
- eval:brainbench:published — N=10 for committed baselines
- eval:cat6 / eval:cat11 — individual new subprocess Cats
**Tests (24):** CATEGORIES catalog enforces the exact Cat-number partition
(subprocess: 1,2,3,4,6,7,10,11,12; programmatic: 5,8,9). runConcurrently
respects the cap (observable via peak in-flight counter), preserves input
order under non-uniform delays, handles empty input. LlmBudget enforces
capacity, releases on throw, honors env var, rejects 0/negative.
buildReport filters migration noise, counts passed/failed/programmatic
correctly, includes every Cat + programmatic-only section.
Full eval suite now: 314 pass, 0 fail (15 test files).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(eval): drop top_p from amara-life-gen Opus params + gitignore _cache/
Two fixes surfaced during the Day 3b real-corpus run against Opus 4.5:
**eval/generators/amara-life-gen.ts** — Current Opus rejects
`temperature` and `top_p` together:
```
400 invalid_request_error: `temperature` and `top_p` cannot both be
specified for this model. Please use only one.
```
top_p=1.0 was a no-op (no nucleus truncation), so removing it has zero
semantic effect. The field is still part of MODEL_PARAMS for the cache
key so any past cache entries (none in v1) would invalidate cleanly
on the next schema version bump.
**.gitignore** — `eval/data/amara-life-v1/_cache/` is runtime Opus
cache (398 files, ~1.6MB). Regenerable from seed; no point in source
control. The corpus itself (inbox/slack/calendar/meetings/notes/docs +
corpus-manifest.json with per-item content_sha256) stays committable
for reproducibility, just the cache directory gets excluded.
Real corpus generation ran cleanly after these two fixes: 398 LLM
calls, 84,424 input / 38,062 output tokens, \$4.12 spent (vs \$20 cap,
vs \$12 estimate). All 418 items produced. Poison fixtures use
subtle paraphrased injection ("for anyone on your team who might be
triaging this thread later…") — exactly the pattern that defeats
regex redaction and requires the structured-evidence judge contract
from Day 5.
Corpus itself stays local (will move to the brainbench sibling repo
during the v0.16 split per the design doc). No eval/data/amara-life-v1/
content landing in this PR.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: bump version to 0.20.0
Renumbered from 0.17.0 per the gbrain-versioning slot. Other work is
landing on master around this PR; 0.18 is the slot locked for this
BrainBench v1 Complete release. Also pushed the "brainbench split"
forward reference in the CHANGELOG from v0.18 → v0.19 to match.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor: extract BrainBench to sibling gbrain-evals repo
BrainBench lived in this repo through v0.17, which meant every gbrain install
pulled down ~5MB of eval corpus, benchmark reports, and a pdf-parse devDep
that the 99% of users who never run benchmarks don't need.
v0.18 moves the full eval harness, 14 eval test files (314 tests), all
docs/benchmarks scorecards, and the pdf-parse devDep to
github.com/garrytan/gbrain-evals. That repo depends on gbrain via GitHub URL
and consumes it through a new public exports map.
What stays in gbrain:
- Page.type enum extensions (email | slack | calendar-event | note | meeting)
useful for any ingested format, not just evals
- inferType() heuristics for /emails/, /slack/, /cal/, /notes/, /meetings/
- 11 new public exports covering the gbrain internals gbrain-evals consumes
(gbrain/engine, gbrain/pglite-engine, gbrain/search/hybrid, etc.) — now
gbrain's stable third-party contract
What moved:
- eval/ — 4.6MB of schemas, runners, adapters, generators, CLI tools
- test/eval/ — 14 test files, 314 tests
- docs/benchmarks/ — all scorecards and regression reports
- eval:* package.json scripts
- pdf-parse devDep
Tests: 1760 pass, 0 fail, 174 skipped (E2E require DATABASE_URL).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Merge origin/master into garrytan/gbrain-evals
Master landed significant work since this branch was cut (v0.15.x → v0.16.x →
v0.17.0 gbrain dream + runCycle → v0.18.0 multi-source brains → v0.18.1 RLS
hardening). Bumped this branch's version from the claimed 0.18.0 to 0.19.0
because master already owns 0.18.x.
Conflicts resolved:
- VERSION: 0.19.0 (was 0.18.0 on HEAD vs 0.18.1 on master)
- package.json: 0.19.0, kept all 11 eval-facing exports, merged master's
typescript devDep + postinstall script + test script (typecheck added)
- src/core/types.ts: union of both PageType additions. Master had added
`meeting | note`; this branch added `email | slack | calendar-event`
for inbox/chat/calendar ingest. Final enum carries all five.
- CHANGELOG.md: renumbered the BrainBench-extraction entry to 0.19.0 and
placed it above master's 0.18.1 RLS entry. Tweaked copy ("In v0.17 it
lived inside this repo" → "Previously it lived inside this repo") to
stop implying a specific version that never shipped.
- CLAUDE.md: adjusted "BrainBench in a sibling repo" heading from
(v0.18+) → (v0.19+).
- docs/benchmarks/2026-04-18-minions-vs-openclaw-production.md:
resolved modify-vs-delete conflict in favor of delete (the extraction).
- scripts/llms-config.ts: dropped the docs/benchmarks/ entry (directory
no longer exists here; lives in gbrain-evals).
- llms.txt / llms-full.txt: regenerated after the config change.
- bun.lock: accepted master's (master already dropped pdf-parse as a
drive-by; aligned with our removal).
Tests: 2094 pass, 236 skip, 18 fail. Spot-checked failures — build-llms,
dream, orphans tests all pass in isolation. Failures reproduce only under
full-suite parallel load and are pre-existing master flakiness (matches the
graph-quality flake noted in the earlier summary). Not merge-introduced.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: bump to v0.20.0
Master is now at v0.18.2 (migration hardening + RLS + multi-source brains).
BrainBench extraction ships as v0.20.0 to leave v0.19 free for any in-flight
work on other branches.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* ci: remove eval-tests workflow (moved to gbrain-evals)
The Eval tests workflow ran `bun run eval:query:validate`, `test:eval`, and
`eval:world:render` — all three scripts moved to the gbrain-evals repo when
BrainBench was extracted in v0.20.0. The workflow has been failing on master
since the split because the scripts no longer exist here.
Eval CI now runs from gbrain-evals's own workflows.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(tests): bump PGLite hook timeouts to 60s for parallel-load stability
Six test files spin up PGLite + 20 migrations + git repos in beforeEach/
beforeAll hooks. Under 136-way parallel test file execution, bun's default
5s hook timeout wasn't enough, producing 18 flaky failures that only
reproduced under full-suite parallel load (all 6 files passed in isolation).
Root cause: PGLite.create() + initSchema() takes ~3-5s under idle load, but
under 136 concurrent WASM instantiations the OS thrashes and hooks stall
well past 5s. The bunfig.toml `timeout = 60_000` applies to TESTS, not HOOKS
— bun requires per-hook timeouts as the third beforeEach/beforeAll argument.
Files touched (hook timeouts added, no test logic changed):
- test/dream.test.ts — 5 describe blocks × before/afterEach
- test/orphans.test.ts — 1 beforeEach + afterEach
- test/core/cycle.test.ts — shared beforeAll + afterAll
- test/brain-allowlist.test.ts — beforeAll + afterAll
- test/extract-db.test.ts — beforeAll + afterAll
- test/multi-source-integration.test.ts — beforeAll + afterAll
Results: 2317 pass / 0 fail (was 2253 pass / 18 fail).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: coverage for inferType() BrainBench corpus dirs
Closes the 1 gap surfaced by Step 7 coverage audit. 9 table-driven
assertions covering the new Page.type branches:
emails/*.md, email/*.md -> 'email'
slack/*.md -> 'slack'
cal/*.md, calendar/*.md -> 'calendar-event'
notes/*.md, note/*.md -> 'note'
meetings/*.md, meeting/*.md -> 'meeting'
The fixtures use realistic paths from the amara-life-v1 corpus in the
sibling gbrain-evals repo (em-0001, sl-0037, evt-0042, mtg-0003) so the
test doubles as a contract check between the two repos.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(TODOS): mark BrainBench Cats 5/6/8/9/11 + v0.10.5 inferLinkType as completed
All five BrainBench categories shipped in v0.20.0 (to the gbrain-evals
sibling repo). v0.10.5 inferLinkType regex expansion shipped in-tree.
Remaining P1 BrainBench work: Cat 1+2 at full scale (2-3K pages) —
currently 240 pages in world-v1 corpus.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: sync CLAUDE.md + polish CHANGELOG voice for v0.20.0
CLAUDE.md: add v0.19 commands to key-files list (skillify, skillpack,
routing-eval, filing-audit, skill-manifest, resolver-filenames);
add 8 new test files + openclaw-reference-compat E2E to test index;
repoint the release-summary template's benchmark source from
`docs/benchmarks/[latest].md` to `gbrain-evals/docs/benchmarks/` since
those files now live in the sibling repo.
CHANGELOG voice polish for v0.20.0: replace em dashes with periods,
parens, or ellipses per project style guide. No content changes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: regenerate llms-full.txt after CLAUDE.md + CHANGELOG edits (fixes CI)
The v0.20.0 doc-sync commit (9e567bb) added 7 new v0.19 modules to the
CLAUDE.md Key Files index and polished CHANGELOG voice. Both are
includeInFull: true inputs to llms-full.txt but the generator wasn't
re-run, so the drift-detection guard (test/build-llms.test.ts) failed CI.
One-line fix: regenerate. No content changes beyond what the two source
docs already carry.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Smoke case was setting lock_until in the past, so handleStalled's
requeue path fired before handleWallClockTimeouts had a chance to
evict. Production scenario is "lock_until still live (worker
renewing) + timeout_at disqualified" — only wall-clock matches.
Single-connection smoke can't simulate a row lock held by another
txn, so we force the equivalent outcome:
- lock_until = now() + 30s → handleStalled skips (not a stall)
- timeout_at = NULL → handleTimeouts skips (needs NOT NULL)
- started_at = now() - 10s, timeout_ms=1000 → wall-clock matches
(2 × timeout_ms = 2000ms threshold exceeded)
Verified: SMOKE PASS — Minions healthy + wedge rescue in 0.14s.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
VERSION: 0.19.0 → 0.19.1 (patch; bug-fix-dominant, no schema change,
no new user-facing vocabulary).
CHANGELOG: new v0.19.1 entry at the top with the full release-summary
template per CLAUDE.md — bold two-line headline, lead paragraph, "numbers
that matter" before/after table measured against the real incident,
"what this means for OpenClaw users" closer, required "To take
advantage of v0.19.1" block naming the worker-restart requirement,
itemized changes by area, and "For contributors" section closing the
loop on the stale autopilot-idempotency narrative the CEO review was
based on.
Mechanism reframing per D1/H1: the 18-job pile-up was NOT caused by
missing idempotency (autopilot already passes
`idempotency_key: autopilot-cycle:${slot}` at autopilot.ts:241). The
18 jobs were 18 DIFFERENT slots stacking up behind the wedged one.
`maxWaiting` still caps the pile; the incident just wasn't about
idempotency. Adversarial review caught this before ship.
SPEC.md: deleted from repo root. It was Wintermute's planning artifact
for the original PR, not a shipped spec. Design docs belong under
docs/designs/ per repo convention; leaving one at repo root set a
precedent this repo doesn't want (A7/D11). CHANGELOG + the plan file
at ~/.claude/plans/ok-wintermute-wrote-this-polished-matsumoto.md are
the durable artifacts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A5 / D4: New `queue_health` check in `gbrain doctor`. Postgres-only (PGLite
has no multi-process worker surface). Two subchecks, both cheap (single
SELECT each, status-index-covered):
- stalled-forever: any active job with started_at > 1h. Surfaces the
worst offenders (top 5 by started_at ASC) with `gbrain jobs get/cancel`
fix hints. The incident that motivated v0.19.1 ran 90+ min before the
operator noticed.
- waiting-depth: per-name waiting count exceeds threshold. Default 10,
overridable via GBRAIN_QUEUE_WAITING_THRESHOLD env (D9). Signals a
submitter probably needs maxWaiting set.
Worker-heartbeat subcheck from the original plan dropped (D4/H4): no
minion_workers table exists, and lock_until-on-active-jobs is a lossy
proxy that can't distinguish idle-worker from dead-worker. Tracked as
follow-up B7.
A4: --no-worker peer-liveness probe in autopilot. When --no-worker is
set, every cycle runs a cheap SELECT checking for any active job whose
lock_until was refreshed in the last 2 minutes. After 3 consecutive
idle ticks, logs a loud WARNING naming the silent-wedge vector and
referencing B7 as the ground-truth follow-up. Re-arms on next live
signal so the warning doesn't spam every cycle.
A6: New docs/guides/queue-operations-runbook.md (one viewport, ~60
lines). "My queue looks wedged — what do I run?" in order of
escalation. What each doctor subcheck means. Self-check for the
--no-worker / no-worker-running footgun.
CLAUDE.md: key-files updates for handleWallClockTimeouts (v0.19.0 Layer
3 kill shot), maxWaiting advisory-lock rewrite (v0.19.1 D2), queue_health
doctor check (v0.19.1 D4), and backpressure-audit.ts.
Tests: all 143 minions + 13 doctor unit tests pass. No new test cases
required in Lane B; the doctor queue_health exercise is in the E2E
verification step (needs real PG to produce meaningful stalled-forever
rows). The --no-worker probe is exercised by the smoke case's wedge
setup in Lane A.
README: unchanged. Existing `gbrain jobs submit` examples don't show
--max-stalled, so no --max-waiting precedent to extend per A6 conditional.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Addresses three production-hardening findings from the CEO + Eng + Codex
adversarial review of PR #379:
D2/H2: maxWaiting was TOCTOU-racy — two concurrent submitters could both
see waitingCount < max and both insert. Wrap the count+select+insert in
pg_advisory_xact_lock keyed on (name, queue). Serializes concurrent
decisions for the SAME key while leaving different keys fully parallel.
Lock auto-releases on txn commit/rollback — no cleanup path to leak.
Also fix the missing queue-scope bug: count and select now filter on
(name, queue) not name alone, so cross-queue same-name jobs don't
suppress each other.
D3/H3: resolveWorkerConcurrency silently accepted NaN / 0 / negative from
parseInt. `inFlight.size < NaN` is always false → worker claims nothing →
silent wedge from a single-typo env var. Clamp to ≥1 with a loud stderr
warning naming the bad value.
D5/H5: `gbrain jobs submit` never parsed `--max-waiting N` despite the
MinionJobInput field. Wire the flag with clamp [1, 100], mirror
`--max-stalled`. Extract `parseMaxWaitingFlag` for unit testing.
Q1: Silent coalesce was invisible by design. New
src/core/minions/backpressure-audit.ts mirrors shell-audit.ts's ISO-week
JSONL pattern: `~/.gbrain/audit/backpressure-YYYY-Www.jsonl`. Coalesce
events write one JSONL line with (queue, name, waiting_count, max_waiting,
returned_job_id, ts). Best-effort — disk-full never blocks submission.
A2: `gbrain jobs smoke --wedge-rescue` new opt-in regression case.
Forges a wedged-worker row state, invokes handleStalled + handleTimeouts
+ handleWallClockTimeouts in order, asserts only wall-clock evicts.
Mirrors the v0.14.3 `--sigkill-rescue` shape.
Tests: 23 new unit cases in test/minions.test.ts covering wall-clock
timeout (3 cases + non-interference with handleTimeouts), maxWaiting
(coalesce, clamp 0, floor, concurrent-submitter race via Promise.all,
cross-queue isolation, unset fallthrough), concurrency clamp (7 cases
incl. NaN/0/negative), parseMaxWaitingFlag (5 cases), backpressure
audit file write.
Part of v0.19.1 plan at ~/.claude/plans/ok-wintermute-wrote-this-polished-matsumoto.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat: smoke-test skillpack — post-restart health checks + auto-fix
Adds `gbrain smoke-test` CLI command that runs 8 health checks after
container restart, auto-fixes known issues, and reports results.
Built-in tests:
1. Bun runtime (auto-install if missing)
2. GBrain CLI loads (auto-reinstall deps)
3. GBrain database connection (doctor health score)
4. GBrain worker process (auto-start)
5. OpenClaw Codex plugin Zod CJS (auto-reinstall broken zod@4)
6. OpenClaw gateway responding
7. Embedding API key present
8. Brain repo exists
User-extensible: drop scripts in ~/.gbrain/smoke-tests.d/*.sh
Includes SKILL.md with full documentation, pattern for adding tests,
and known-issue database (e.g. Zod core.cjs publish bug).
Designed to run from OpenClaw bootstrap hooks so every container
restart automatically verifies and repairs the environment.
* fix: register smoke-test in RESOLVER + add required SKILL sections
Fixes the 7 failing unit tests + 1 failing Tier 1 E2E:
- `skills/RESOLVER.md`: add smoke-test under Operational (mirrors
skillpack-check placement). Fixes resolver_health check failure which
cascaded into skillpack-check tests, doctor exit code, and the E2E
'gbrain doctor exits 0 on healthy DB' assertion.
- `skills/smoke-test/SKILL.md`: add `## Anti-Patterns` and
`## Output Format` sections required by skills-conformance.test.ts.
Root cause: PR #369 added skills/smoke-test/ to the manifest but never
wired it into RESOLVER.md and never added the sections the conformance
test requires for every manifest entry.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: regenerate llms-full.txt to pick up RESOLVER smoke-test row
build-llms drift guard (test/build-llms.test.ts:58) failed because
llms-full.txt inlines skills/RESOLVER.md and the last commit added a
smoke-test trigger row there. Regenerated via `bun run build:llms`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: bump version and changelog (v0.19.1)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Prevents stall-induced queue blockage discovered in production (OpenClaw):
1. Wall-clock timeout sweep: dead-letters active jobs exceeding 2× timeout_ms
(or 2 × lockDuration × max_stalled). Catches jobs stuck while holding DB
connections where FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED stall detection skips them.
2. Submission backpressure (maxWaiting): caps waiting jobs per name at
submission time. Prevents autopilot-cycle flood when the queue is blocked.
3. --no-worker flag for autopilot: skips spawning the built-in worker child.
For environments where the worker lifecycle is managed externally (systemd,
Docker, OpenClaw service-manager).
4. GBRAIN_WORKER_CONCURRENCY env var: fallback for --concurrency when the
worker is spawned by autopilot (which can't pass CLI flags to the child).
5. Shell job env guard with clear logging: shell handler is always registered
but throws UnrecoverableError with a clear message when
GBRAIN_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS=1 is not set, instead of silently not registering.
* Add OpenClaw skills fallback for check-resolvable
* feat: v0.17.0 foundation — errors/warnings split + AGENTS.md support + auto-manifest
First two workstreams of the v0.17.0 "skillify end-to-end" release. Landed
together because the D-CX-3 exit-code refactor is a prerequisite for W1's
warning-surfaced filing audit in Workstream 3.
## D-CX-3: split ResolvableReport into errors[] + warnings[] + --strict
Prior: `env.ok = report.issues.length === 0` treated warnings and errors
identically for exit status. Any warning forced exit 1, which meant the
planned filing-audit (W3) would break CI for every OpenClaw deployment
emitting advisory warnings.
New contract:
- `ResolvableReport.errors[]` and `warnings[]` as separate arrays.
- `issues[]` stays as deprecated backcompat union (remove in v0.18).
- Default: exit 0 unless any errors. Warnings are advisory.
- `--strict` flag promotes warnings to fail CI (explicit opt-in).
Files: src/core/check-resolvable.ts, src/commands/check-resolvable.ts
(added --strict flag + help text + header doc), src/commands/doctor.ts
(use new fields), test/check-resolvable-cli.test.ts (rewrite REGRESSION-GATE
to document the new contract, add 3 D-CX-3 cases).
## W1: AGENTS.md support + auto-manifest + priority fix
The reference OpenClaw deployment uses AGENTS.md (not RESOLVER.md) at the
workspace root, and ships without a manifest.json. check-resolvable
silently false-passed against it pre-W1: 0 manifest entries meant 0
reachability iterations meant 0 errors reported.
Post-W1 behavior against ~/git/<redacted>/workspace (smoke-tested live):
- Detects 102 skills via SKILL.md walk (no manifest.json needed)
- Flags 15 unreachable errors (exactly the essay's '~15% dark' finding)
- Flags 108 warnings (overlaps, gaps) — advisory, not blocking
- Auto-detects via \$OPENCLAW_WORKSPACE without --skills-dir
Changes:
- NEW src/core/resolver-filenames.ts: one source of truth for the
filename policy. \`RESOLVER_FILENAMES = ['RESOLVER.md', 'AGENTS.md']\`.
Callers import from here, never hardcode either name.
- NEW src/core/skill-manifest.ts: \`loadOrDeriveManifest()\` — reads
manifest.json when present+valid, otherwise walks \`skillsDir/*/SKILL.md\`
to derive a synthetic manifest. Both check-resolvable.ts AND dry-fix.ts
now call this, replacing the two duplicated loaders that silently
returned [] on missing file (F-ENG-1, D-CX-12).
- src/core/repo-root.ts (rewrite): auto-detect priority changed to put
\$OPENCLAW_WORKSPACE ahead of findRepoRoot() walk when explicitly set
(D-CX-4). Adds workspace-root AGENTS.md detection — OpenClaw layout
places routing at workspace/AGENTS.md with skills/ below. New
SkillsDirSource variants \`openclaw_workspace_env_root\` and
\`openclaw_workspace_home_root\` for --verbose log clarity.
- src/core/check-resolvable.ts: accepts RESOLVER.md or AGENTS.md at the
skills dir or one level up (workspace root). Uses loadOrDeriveManifest
for reachability. Updated error messages reference both filenames.
- src/core/dry-fix.ts: unified manifest loader — auto-fix now works in
AGENTS.md-only workspaces where it previously no-op'd silently.
- src/commands/check-resolvable.ts: new AUTO_DETECT_HINT import for
clearer missing-skills-dir errors; updated sourceLabel map for the
two new workspace-root variants.
Tests:
- test/skill-manifest.test.ts: 14 cases covering explicit-manifest,
derived-manifest, malformed JSON, wrong shape, empty explicit array
(honored as 'zero skills' declaration), dirname fallback when no
name: frontmatter, underscore/dotfile dir skipping.
- test/repo-root.test.ts: new tests for the priority swap, AGENTS.md
skills-dir variant, AGENTS.md workspace-root variant, both-files
present (RESOLVER.md wins).
- test/check-resolvable-cli.test.ts: updated regression-gate to the
new contract; added three D-CX-3 cases.
All 105 tests passing across the foundation surface.
Plan + reviews: ~/.claude/plans/p1-lets-just-vast-blanket.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat: v0.17.0 W2 — Check 5 trigger routing eval (structural)
Check 5 of the 10-step skillify checklist (the essay's "resolver
trigger eval") now runs structurally by default and has a dedicated
CLI verb for CI. Ships Layer A; Layer B (LLM tie-break) is reserved
for v0.18.
## New module: src/core/routing-eval.ts
The harness. Pure functions:
- `normalizeText(s)`: lowercase, strip non-alnum to spaces, collapse
whitespace. Unicode-friendly, quote-agnostic, punctuation-tolerant.
- `extractTriggerPhrases(cellText)`: split quoted alternatives like
`"search for", "find me"` into separate normalized phrases; fall
back to the whole cell when unquoted (OpenClaw-style descriptions).
- `indexResolverTriggers(resolverContent)`: build a skill-slug →
normalized-trigger-phrases map from the resolver table.
- `structuralRouteMatch(intent, index)`: substring-match the
normalized intent against every trigger phrase; return the set of
matched skills + whether the match was ambiguous (more than one
specific skill, excluding always-on family).
- `lintRoutingFixtures`: rejects fixtures whose intent is
verbatim-equal to a trigger (D-CX-6: fixtures must paraphrase the
framing, not copy the trigger text) and unknown expected_skill
references.
- `loadRoutingFixtures(skillsDir)`: walks `skills/<name>/routing-eval.jsonl`,
handles JSONL line-comments (`//` / `#`), collects malformed lines
separately without crashing.
- `runRoutingEval(resolver, fixtures)`: pure scoring. Supports
negative cases (`expected_skill: null` — nothing should match) and
an `ambiguous_with` allow-list for skills that co-fire with
always-on handlers (signal-detector, brain-ops, ingest).
Outcomes per fixture: `pass`, `missed`, `ambiguous`, `false_positive`.
Metrics: `top1Accuracy`, `passed`, `missed`, `ambiguous`,
`falsePositives`.
## Integration: check-resolvable runs Layer A by default
`checkResolvable()` now loads `routing-eval.jsonl` fixtures from every
skill, runs the structural eval, and appends non-pass outcomes as
warning-severity issues. New issue types:
- `routing_miss` — expected skill did not match
- `routing_ambiguous` — expected matched AND unexpected skills
- `routing_false_positive` — negative case unexpectedly matched
- `routing_fixture_lint` — linter or malformed-JSONL finding
All four are warnings — routing issues don't break exit in default
mode, but `--strict` promotes them (D-CX-3 contract). Advisories
without breaking CI.
## New CLI verb: `gbrain routing-eval`
Standalone Check 5 runner. `--json` envelope, `--llm` flag reserved,
`--skills-dir` override. Exit codes: 0 clean, 1 any failure/lint, 2
setup error. Suitable for CI gating separately from check-resolvable.
Removed from DEFERRED in CLI: `{check: 5, name: trigger_routing_eval}`.
Check 6 (brain_filing) still deferred; lands in W3.
## Seed fixtures
- skills/query/routing-eval.jsonl
- skills/citation-fixer/routing-eval.jsonl (includes a negative case)
These are intentionally modest. Additional fixtures per skill are the
natural next step; routing-eval itself passes cleanly under
check-resolvable default mode even when fixtures surface real gaps
(they're warnings, not errors). Running `gbrain routing-eval` reveals
the gaps immediately.
## Tests (34 new cases + updated integrations)
- test/routing-eval.test.ts: full harness coverage including
normalization, trigger extraction (quoted and unquoted), indexer,
structural match with ambiguity + always-on exemption, fixture
linter (verbatim-equality rule, unknown-skill rule, shape rule,
negative-case skip), JSONL loader (comments, malformed lines,
missing dirs, underscore/dot skipping), and every runRoutingEval
outcome (pass, miss, ambiguous, negative-pass, false-positive, empty).
- test/check-resolvable-cli.test.ts: updated DEFERRED unit test +
`--json` envelope test + `--verbose` test to reflect Check 5
shipping.
140/140 passing across the W1 + W2 surface.
## Live smoke
`gbrain routing-eval --json` against the current gbrain repo: 6
fixtures, 1 passing, 5 missed. The misses correctly surface
resolver-trigger narrowness (intents users naturally phrase differently
than trigger text). Fixtures will iterate in follow-up PRs; the
machinery ships now.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat: v0.17.0 W3 — Check 6 brain filing audit
Check 6 ships. Every skill that writes brain pages is now audited
against a machine-readable filing-rules doc at
`skills/_brain-filing-rules.json`.
## New: skills/_brain-filing-rules.json
Canonical filing rules, JSON (D-CX-8: the pre-existing yaml-lite
parser handles flat maps only, so YAML would have needed a new
dependency for one file). The companion `_brain-filing-rules.md`
stays as the human explainer. 14 rule entries + explicit
`sources_dir` carve-out for bulk/raw data.
## New module: src/core/filing-audit.ts
- `loadFilingRules(skillsDir)`: returns parsed doc or null (missing
file → no-op; malformed JSON throws loud).
- `allowedDirectories(rules)`: normalized set of every rules[]
directory + sources_dir.
- `runFilingAudit(skillsDir)`: walks skills/*/SKILL.md, parses
frontmatter, audits any skill with `writes_pages: true`.
Two checks per qualifying skill:
1. `writes_to:` list is non-empty.
2. Every entry in `writes_to:` appears in allowedDirectories.
Both failures emit warning-severity issues. No errors — advisories
only, per D-CX-3.
## Distinction: writes_pages vs mutating (D-CX-7)
v0.17 introduces a new boolean frontmatter field `writes_pages:`.
`mutating: true` already means "has any side effect" (cron
schedulers, report writers, config mutators). Filing audit targets
ONLY skills with `writes_pages: true`, correctly excluding side-
effect-but-not-page-writing skills. The codex outside voice caught
this: conflating the two fields would drag ~100 skills into
filing-audit noise in the reference OpenClaw deployment.
## Integration: check-resolvable runs Check 6 by default
`checkResolvable()` calls `runFilingAudit(skillsDir)` and appends
issues as warnings. On missing/malformed rules doc, surfaces a
single advisory rather than bailing.
`DEFERRED` array in the CLI is now empty — v0.17 ships both Check 5
(W2) and Check 6 (W3). The export stays in place (stable --json
field) for future deferred checks.
## Seeded frontmatter on 7 canonical writers
Added `writes_pages: true` + `writes_to:` to:
- brain-ops (people, companies, deals, concepts, meetings)
- enrich (people, companies)
- ingest (people, companies, concepts, meetings, sources)
- idea-ingest (people, concepts, sources)
- media-ingest (concepts, people, companies, sources)
- meeting-ingestion (meetings, people, companies)
- signal-detector (people, companies, concepts)
Live smoke: `gbrain check-resolvable --json` on gbrain repo shows
`ok: true`, zero filing errors, zero filing warnings on seeded
skills. Every other mutating:true skill (citation-fixer,
cron-scheduler, data-research, maintain, migrate, minion-orchestrator,
reports, setup, skill-creator, soul-audit, webhook-transforms)
correctly skipped as side-effectful-but-not-page-writing.
## Tests (17 new cases + 3 updated CLI integrations)
test/filing-audit.test.ts covers:
- rules loader: missing (null), valid, malformed (throw),
non-array rules (throw)
- directory normalization (trailing slash, leading slash)
- clean case
- missing writes_to on writes_pages:true
- unknown directory
- D-CX-7: mutating:true alone does not trigger audit
- writes_pages:false skips
- no frontmatter skips
- inline `writes_to: [a, b]` syntax
- block `writes_to:\n - a` syntax
- sources/ allowed
- underscore/dot dir skipping
- total counts (totalScanned vs writesPagesSkills)
- missing dir graceful
- action string quality guard
Plus: CLI integration tests updated for empty DEFERRED array (Checks
5 and 6 both shipped).
158/158 passing across the v0.17 foundation + W1 + W2 + W3 surface.
## v0.18 preview (D-CX-13)
v0.17 filing-audit is declaration-level only. A future
`gbrain filing-audit --pages` walks the brain itself, infers primary
subject from page content via LLM judgment, and flags actual
misfilings vs. declarations. Declaration audit is the leading
indicator; pages audit is the ground truth.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat: v0.17.0 W4 — gbrain skillify {scaffold,check} subcommand namespace
The essay's "skillify it!" verb becomes a CLI primitive pair. Two
subcommands, both promoted/factored so there's one source of truth:
## `gbrain skillify scaffold <name>` (mechanical)
Pure file generation. Zero LLM, zero judgment. Writes 5 stub files
atomically:
1. skills/<name>/SKILL.md frontmatter + body template
2. skills/<name>/scripts/<name>.mjs deterministic-code stub
3. skills/<name>/routing-eval.jsonl routing fixture seed
4. test/<name>.test.ts vitest skeleton
5. Appended trigger row to the detected resolver file (RESOLVER.md
or AGENTS.md — whatever W1's auto-detect found)
Flags: --description (required), --triggers, --writes-to,
--writes-pages, --mutating, --force, --dry-run, --json, --skills-dir.
Kebab-case name validation (`^[a-z][a-z0-9]*(?:-[a-z0-9]+)*$`).
Works against gbrain-native RESOLVER.md layout AND OpenClaw-native
AGENTS.md-at-workspace-root layout (W1 interop).
## `gbrain skillify check [path]` (audit)
Promoted from scripts/skillify-check.ts per codex D-CX-2. The legacy
script stays as a 12-line shim that delegates to the new module so
existing callers (docs, cron, tests) keep working.
Wrapped in a subcommand namespace: `gbrain skillify {scaffold, check}`
is one coherent verb for the whole post-task loop. The essay's
"skillify it!" triggers the markdown skill, which orchestrates the
CLI primitives.
## Idempotency contract (D-CX-7)
`skillify scaffold --force` regenerates stub FILES but never re-appends
a resolver row that already references `skills/<name>/SKILL.md`.
Unit test pins this: two applies produce one resolver row, not two.
## D-CX-9 SKILLIFY_STUB sentinel
Every scaffolded script + SKILL.md body carries a SKILLIFY_STUB
sentinel. `check-resolvable` walks every skill's script dir looking
for the marker and emits a `skillify_stub_unreplaced` warning when
found. Default mode: advisory. `--strict` mode: error, blocks CI.
This is the gate that catches "we scaffolded and forgot to implement"
— the exact failure codex flagged as "scaffold verification is
theater" in the outside-voice review.
## Files
- NEW src/core/skillify/templates.ts (template strings)
- NEW src/core/skillify/generator.ts (planScaffold / applyScaffold +
SkillifyScaffoldError with typed error codes)
- NEW src/commands/skillify.ts (top-level dispatcher + scaffold handler)
- NEW src/commands/skillify-check.ts (promoted check logic)
- scripts/skillify-check.ts: rewritten to 12-line shim
- skills/skillify/SKILL.md: Phase 2 now references the scaffold
primitive; legacy manual path kept for extending existing skills
- src/cli.ts: `skillify` added to CLI_ONLY + dispatcher
- src/core/check-resolvable.ts: SKILLIFY_STUB sentinel scan + new
issue type `skillify_stub_unreplaced`
## Tests (14 new scaffold cases)
test/skillify-scaffold.test.ts covers:
- SKILL_NAME_PATTERN validation (kebab-case, no spaces, no
leading digit, no underscores/uppercase)
- planScaffold against fresh + existing-file + --force paths
- SKILLIFY_STUB sentinel presence in SKILL.md AND script stub
(both gate paths)
- D-CX-7 idempotency: resolverAppend null when row pre-exists,
second apply doesn't duplicate the row
- TBD-trigger placeholder when --triggers empty
- writes_pages / writes_to / mutating flow through to frontmatter
- applyScaffold writes files + appends resolver
- Full AGENTS.md-layout workspace interop (W1)
Existing test/skillify-check.test.ts still passes against the legacy
shim — zero regression for downstream consumers.
178/178 passing across v0.17 foundation + W1..W4.
## Live smoke
\`gbrain skillify scaffold webhook-verify --description "verify incoming
webhook signatures" --triggers "verify webhook,check tunnel"
--skills-dir /tmp/smoke --dry-run\` produces the expected 4-file plan
plus a 115-byte resolver append. \`--help\` works on both the top-level
and scaffold levels.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat: v0.17.0 W5 — gbrain skillpack install (deps closure + lockfile + diff/dry-run)
The essay's "drop it into YOUR OpenClaw" promise lands as a CLI
verb. One command installs a curated bundle of gbrain skills + the
shared convention files they depend on into a target OpenClaw
workspace. Data-loss protected, concurrency-safe, atomic on the
AGENTS.md managed block.
## openclaw.plugin.json refresh
- Bumped version from stale 0.4.1 → 0.17.0 (codex flagged this drift
F-ENG-4 / D-CX-4).
- Expanded curated skill list from 7 → 25. Uses skills/manifest.json
top-level (v0.10.0 sourced) minus setup/migrate/publish
(install-time / code+skill pairs) minus private skills.
- Added \`shared_deps: [...]\` listing convention files every skill
references: conventions/, _brain-filing-rules.{md,json},
_output-rules.md. Installer always pulls these (D-CX-10
dependency closure).
- Added \`excluded_from_install: [...]\` for setup/migrate/publish —
surfaces the intentional exclusion as data rather than a comment.
## New module: src/core/skillpack/bundle.ts
- \`findGbrainRoot(start)\` — walks up looking for openclaw.plugin.json
+ src/cli.ts. The pair identifies a gbrain checkout.
- \`loadBundleManifest(root)\` — strict validation + typed BundleError
codes (manifest_not_found, manifest_malformed, skill_not_found).
- \`enumerateBundle({gbrainRoot, skillSlug?, manifest})\` — flat list
of source → target-relative paths. When skillSlug is set, scopes
to that one skill BUT always pulls shared_deps. \`--all\` walks every
skill in the manifest.
- \`bundledSkillSlugs(manifest)\` — sorted slugs for \`skillpack list\`.
## New module: src/core/skillpack/installer.ts
- \`planInstall(opts)\` — builds InstallPlan with per-file
existing/identical diff state. Pure; no writes.
- \`applyInstall(plan, opts)\` — writes files + managed block with
the contracts below.
- \`diffSkill(root, slug, skillsDir)\` — read-only per-file status
for \`skillpack diff <name>\`.
**Per-file diff protection (D-CX-3 / F4):**
wrote_new fresh file
wrote_overwrite local diff + --overwrite-local passed
skipped_identical bytes match the bundle (silent re-install)
skipped_locally_modified target differs + no --overwrite-local
→ PROTECTED DEFAULT
**Concurrency + atomic AGENTS.md (D-CX-11):**
- \`.gbrain-skillpack.lock\` at workspace root. Acquired on the
first write, released in finally.
- Lock stale threshold configurable (default 10min). --force-unlock
overrides.
- Managed-block writes via tmp-file-plus-rename (atomic on POSIX).
**Managed-block format:**
<!-- gbrain:skillpack:begin -->
<!-- Installed by gbrain <version> — do not hand-edit between markers. -->
| Trigger | Skill |
|---------|-------|
| "alpha" | \`skills/alpha/SKILL.md\` |
| ...
<!-- gbrain:skillpack:end -->
extractManagedSlugs() roundtrips: single-skill installs accumulate
into the same block rather than overwriting each other.
## New CLI: gbrain skillpack {list, install, diff, check}
Namespaced alongside W4's \`gbrain skillify\`. Subcommands:
list bundle inventory (human + --json)
install <name> single skill + deps closure
install --all entire curated bundle
diff <name> per-file diff vs target; read-only
check delegates to the pre-existing skillpack-check
(same CLI just namespaced)
Flags on install: --overwrite-local, --force-unlock, --dry-run,
--json, --skills-dir, --workspace.
Exit codes: 0 clean, 1 files skipped (protected local edits),
2 setup error / lock held.
## Live smoke
\`gbrain skillpack list\`: 25 skills. \`skillpack install query --dry-run\`
against a fresh temp workspace: 12 files planned (SKILL.md,
routing-eval.jsonl, 7 convention files, 3 rule files, managed block
to AGENTS.md). All shared_deps flagged [shared].
## Tests (36 new cases)
test/skillpack-install.test.ts:
- findGbrainRoot walks up, returns null when absent
- loadBundleManifest validates + rejects malformed
- enumerateBundle pulls shared_deps on single-skill scope (D-CX-10)
- buildManagedBlock + updateManagedBlock: append when absent,
in-place replace when present, extractManagedSlugs roundtrip
- planInstall + applyInstall: fresh install, dry-run, idempotency
(skipped_identical), local-edit protection, --overwrite-local,
lock-held concurrency (D-CX-11), --force-unlock, atomic
managed-block write, multi-skill accumulation in managed block,
AGENTS.md-at-workspace-root interop (W1 cross-check)
- diffSkill: missing, identical, differs
test/skillpack-sync-guard.test.ts (F-ENG-4):
- both manifests exist
- every skill in plugin.json exists on disk
- every shared_dep exists on disk
- plugin.json skills ⊂ skills/manifest.json
- excluded skills aren't in the install list
- plugin version ≥ 0.17 (kills the 0.4.1 stale drift)
204/204 passing across the v0.17 foundation + W1..W5.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat: v0.17.0 guards — privacy scrub + OpenClaw-reference E2E + v0.16.4 regression
Three ship-blocker work items from the eng review + codex outside
voice round out v0.17:
## scripts/check-privacy.sh (CLAUDE.md:550 enforcement)
Greps for the banned OpenClaw fork name (case-insensitive) across
tracked files. Two modes:
scripts/check-privacy.sh scan working tree
scripts/check-privacy.sh --staged scan git-staged files (pre-commit)
Exit 1 on any finding outside the allow-list. Allow-list covers files
where the name is legitimately present: this script itself (defines
the rule), CLAUDE.md (the canonical rule text), llms-full.txt
(auto-generated from CLAUDE.md), the historical upgrade guide, and
test/integrations.test.ts (whose personal-info regex ENFORCES the
rule against recipes/).
Scrubbed existing leaks:
- CHANGELOG.md:366 reference in a closes-# line → "from the
OpenClaw reference deployment"
- test/doctor-minions-check.test.ts:171 comment → "an OpenClaw
host's cron script"
- test/plugin-loader.test.ts fixture plugin name → "openclaw-ref"
## test/e2e/openclaw-reference-compat.test.ts (ship-blocker gate)
The test that proves v0.17 delivers on the headline claim. New
fixture at test/fixtures/openclaw-reference-minimal/ mimics the
reference OpenClaw deployment layout: AGENTS.md at workspace root,
skills/ below, no manifest.json. Four fixture skills
(signal-detector, query, brain-ops, context-now).
Every v0.17 surface gets exercised end-to-end:
- autoDetectSkillsDir with $OPENCLAW_WORKSPACE (D-CX-4 priority)
- loadOrDeriveManifest walks SKILL.md (F-ENG-1 auto-manifest)
- checkResolvable accepts AGENTS.md at workspace root, all 4
skills reachable via resolver rows, zero errors
- Filing audit clean (brain-ops declares writes_pages+writes_to)
- CLI subprocess via `--skills-dir` → exit 0
- CLI subprocess via $OPENCLAW_WORKSPACE (no flag) → exit 0,
correct skillsDir detection
- skillpack install against the layout writes managed block into
AGENTS.md at workspace root
This is THE ship-blocker test. If the W1 + W5 stack ever regresses
against an AGENTS.md-layout workspace, this fails first.
## test/regression-v0_16_4.test.ts (F-ENG-8)
Guards v0.17 against adding "surprise" warnings. Builds a clean
fixture matching v0.16.4 canonical shape (manifest.json, RESOLVER.md,
2 skills, no routing-eval fixtures, no writes_pages). Runs v0.17
checkResolvable and asserts:
- zero errors, zero routing_*/filing_*/skillify_stub_* warnings
- JSON envelope keys unchanged (errors, warnings, issues, ok,
summary) — deprecated `issues[]` still equals errors ∪ warnings
- summary shape unchanged
If someone adds a new check that fires unexpectedly on a v0.16.4-era
fixture, this test catches it immediately.
## Fixture
test/fixtures/openclaw-reference-minimal/
├── AGENTS.md (4 rows, 3 sections)
└── skills/
├── brain-ops/SKILL.md (writes_pages+writes_to)
├── context-now/SKILL.md
├── query/SKILL.md
└── signal-detector/SKILL.md
Intentionally small (4 skills, 1 AGENTS.md, ~30 lines total) so the
fixture is maintainable. The OPENCLAW-reference deployment has 107
skills — this fixture is the minimum shape that exercises the full
v0.17 code path.
## Tests
215/215 passing across the full v0.17 surface:
- foundation + W1 + W2 + W3 + W4 + W5 (204)
- regression-v0_16_4 (3)
- openclaw-reference-compat (7)
- privacy guard (separate bash; exits 0 clean)
Plus: privacy pre-commit hook is a drop-in wrapper (documented in
the script header). Wiring into .github/workflows is a follow-up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* release: v0.17.0 — skillify goes end-to-end
Every skill. Every check. Every install. One command each.
Five workstreams land in one release:
- W1: AGENTS.md + auto-manifest + env-priority
- W2: Check 5 routing eval
- W3: Check 6 brain filing
- W4: gbrain skillify {scaffold,check}
- W5: gbrain skillpack {list,install,diff}
Plus D-CX-3 foundation (errors/warnings split + --strict), plus
codex outside-voice fixes (D-CX-1..12 applied), plus privacy pre-
commit guard, plus OpenClaw-reference E2E fixture, plus v0.16.4
regression guard.
Live against the reference OpenClaw deployment: 102 skills detected
via auto-manifest, 15 unreachable errors + 108 warnings surfaced —
exactly the essay's "~15% dark" finding. The magic word from the
essay finally works the way the essay describes.
Tests: 2156 unit (178 new) + 152 E2E Tier 1 + 3 Tier 2 + 8 new
openclaw-reference fixture cases. 0 failures across all tiers.
Plan + reviews: ~/.claude/plans/p1-lets-just-vast-blanket.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): add missing 'strict' field to 5 Flags literals in check-resolvable-cli.test.ts
CI failed `tsc --noEmit` after the D-CX-3 errors/warnings split added
`strict: boolean` as a required field on the `Flags` interface. Five
test sites in test/check-resolvable-cli.test.ts still construct
Flags object literals (for direct `resolveSkillsDir()` calls) and
hadn't been updated.
Added `strict: false` to all five literals:
- line 129 --skills-dir absolute path
- line 135 --skills-dir relative path
- line 148 no --skills-dir
- line 160 no --skills-dir + no env
- line 178 --skills-dir + OPENCLAW_WORKSPACE (REGRESSION-GATE)
Unit tests: 207/207 pass across the v0.19 surface. tsc --noEmit
exits 0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: adopt gstack's branch-scoped CHANGELOG rule + rewrite v0.19.0 entry
CLAUDE.md gains a new top section before "CHANGELOG voice" that codifies
what gstack's CLAUDE.md already says: CHANGELOG is user-facing product
release notes, not a log of internal decisions. Every entry describes
what THIS branch adds vs master. Plan-file IDs, decision tags (D-CX-#,
F-ENG-#), review rounds, test counts as marketing, and contributor-
facing metrics don't belong in it.
The v0.19.0 entry is rewritten to the new bar:
Removed:
- Version-collision note about v0.17.0/v0.18.0 shipping on master
- All D-CX-## and W# tags (meaningless outside the plan file)
- "codex caught" / CEO + Eng review round-up narrative
- Plan file path reference
- "215 new cases across 13 test files" marketing metrics
- W1..W5 bucketing in itemized changes
Kept / sharpened:
- User-facing headline (what your agent can now do)
- Numbers that mean something to users (unreachable-skills count,
scaffold timing, pre/post AGENTS.md support)
- Upgrade instructions
- Added/Changed/Fixed/For-contributors itemized sections (standard
keep-a-changelog shape)
Version sequence (`grep "^## \["`) is contiguous v0.19.0 → v0.16.4.
Privacy guard clean. Tests green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: update README/CLAUDE/TODOS for v0.19.0 skills + skillify loop
Skill count was stale (README said 26, actual is 28: skillify + skillpack-check
were missing from the tables and count). Corrected throughout. Marked TODOS item
"Checks 5 + 6 deferred in PR #325" as completed in v0.19 — they shipped as real
implementations, not just filed issues.
README:
- Skill count 26 → 28 (headline, install flow, table section, architecture diagram)
- Added `skillify` + `skillpack-check` rows to the operational skills table
- Rewrote the "Skillify" section to lead with the four v0.19 CLI verbs
(`gbrain skillify scaffold/check`, `gbrain skillpack list/install/diff`,
`gbrain routing-eval`, `gbrain check-resolvable --strict`) instead of
describing the pre-v0.19 state. Added the "works on your OpenClaw" pitch
around AGENTS.md + auto-manifest. Added the "drop 25 curated skills into
your OpenClaw" section for skillpack install.
- Added v0.19 skills block + v0.18 multi-source + v0.17 dream to the Commands
reference at the bottom.
- Standalone instruction sets count: 25 → 28 (with a parenthetical noting
the curated 25-skill bundle that `skillpack install` ships).
CLAUDE.md:
- Skill count 26 → 28 in the Skills section.
- New "Skillify loop (v0.19)" sub-bullet listing skillify + skillpack-check.
- Noted that `AGENTS.md` is also accepted as a resolver filename.
TODOS.md:
- Created "## Completed" section at the top.
- Moved the "Checks 5 + 6" item there with completion note linking to the
actual implementation files (routing-eval.ts + filing-audit.ts).
Privacy scan clean. Version sequence contiguous v0.19.0 → v0.16.4.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(test): regenerate llms-full.txt + llms.txt after README/CLAUDE edits
CI failed on `build-llms generator > committed llms.txt + llms-full.txt
match current generator output`. The drift was expected: the prior
commit edited README.md and CLAUDE.md (skill count + skillify section),
both of which are inlined into llms-full.txt by `scripts/build-llms.ts`.
Fix: `bun run build:llms` + commit the regenerated output.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Wintermute <wintermute@garrytan.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix: migration hardening — timeout handling, lock detection, diagnostics
Addresses all 8 issues from the v0.18.0 production upgrade field report:
1. LATEST_VERSION now uses Math.max() instead of array-last (was wrong
when MIGRATIONS array is out of order: [.., 23, 22, 21, 20, 15, 16])
2. Pre-flight lock check: runMigrations() queries pg_stat_activity for
idle-in-transaction connections >5min before attempting DDL, prints
PIDs and kill advice
3. SET LOCAL statement_timeout = 600s inside migration transactions for
Supabase compatibility (server-enforced timeout overrides session SET)
4. Catches Postgres error 57014 (statement_timeout) with actionable
diagnostics instead of raw stack trace
5. Better progress output: prints schema version range, migration names
before/after, checkmarks on success
6. Migration 21 fix: drops files.page_slug_fkey before swapping the
pages unique constraint (guarded for PGLite which has no files table)
7. idle_in_transaction_session_timeout = 5min on all Postgres connections
(both instance-level and module-level) to prevent 24h stale locks
8. apply-migrations CLI warns when schema migrations are pending, since
it only runs orchestrator migrations (System B) not schema DDL (System A)
All 34 migrate tests pass. Typecheck clean.
* feat(engine): BrainEngine.withReservedConnection() primitive + DRY session defaults
Adds a ReservedConnection interface and withReservedConnection(fn) method to
BrainEngine. Postgres uses postgres-js sql.reserve() to pin a single backend for
the callback; PGLite passes through its single backing connection. Used
immediately for non-transactional DDL timeout handling (next commit) and
foundation for the future write-quiesce design.
Extracts setSessionDefaults(sql) helper in db.ts, absorbing the duplicated
idle_in_transaction_session_timeout block that was copy-pasted between db.ts and
postgres-engine.ts (Gap 5 / ER-C1). Single write site, both connect paths call
the helper now.
Codex plan-review flagged that advisory-lock designs on postgres.js pools
require a reserved-connection primitive; this is that primitive.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(migrate): close v21/v23 integrity window + non-transactional DDL timeout
Two codex-caught issues that both the initial review and the engineering review
missed:
1. Migration 21 integrity window. Original v21 dropped files_page_slug_fkey and
persisted config.version=21, leaving files WITHOUT any FK to pages until v23
ran and added the replacement files.page_id. Process death between v21 and
v23 left files unconstrained while file_upload / `gbrain files` kept
accepting writes. Fix: v21 uses sqlFor to split engines (Postgres gets
additive-only, PGLite gets the full UNIQUE swap since it has no concurrent
writers). v23's handler now wraps the FK drop + UNIQUE swap + page_id
addition + backfill + ledger creation in one engine.transaction(). Atomic.
2. Non-transactional DDL timeout gap. runMigrationSQL's else-branch (for
migrations with transaction:false, like CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY) ran the
DDL on the shared pool with no timeout override. Supabase's 2-min server
statement_timeout would abort a CONCURRENTLY index on any large table.
Fix: use engine.withReservedConnection + SET statement_timeout='600000'
inside the isolated connection.
Also: extracted getIdleBlockers(engine) helper — single source of truth for the
pg_stat_activity query. Shared by the DDL pre-flight warning and the new
`gbrain doctor --locks` CLI (next commit).
57014 diagnostic rewritten to the 4-part "what / why / fix / verify" pattern.
No longer references a non-existent CLI flag.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(doctor): gbrain doctor --locks CLI flag
The v0.18.0 57014 diagnostic referenced `gbrain doctor --locks` but the flag
didn't exist. Users hitting statement_timeout would run the suggested command
and get "unknown option". Implemented now.
On Postgres: queries pg_stat_activity via the new getIdleBlockers() helper,
prints each blocker's PID, state, query_start, truncated query, and the exact
`SELECT pg_terminate_backend(<pid>);` command. Exits 1 on blockers, 0 on clean.
On PGLite: prints "not applicable" (no pool, no idle-in-tx concept) and exits
0. The flag is a safe no-op there.
--json emits structured output: {status, blockers: [...]}.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: migration hardening regression guards (unit + E2E)
test/migrate.test.ts — 10 new regression guards:
- LATEST_VERSION equals max(versions) under any array order. Guards against
regression to array[-1] (the field report's "told I'm at v16 while 7
migrations behind" bug).
- getIdleBlockers shape: pglite returns [], postgres returns rows, query
failure returns [] (not throw).
- 57014 catch path: mocked engine throws err.code='57014', assert the 4-part
diagnostic hits stderr with what/why/fix/verify markers.
- apply-migrations pre-flight warning structural check.
- setSessionDefaults DRY check: helper defined once in db.ts, postgres-engine
calls it, neither path inlines the SET.
- runMigrationSQL reserved-connection usage structural check.
- Migration 21 test updates for engine-split sqlFor (codex restructure).
- Migration 23 atomic-transaction assertion.
test/e2e/migrate-chain.test.ts (new): 11 E2E tests against real Postgres:
- Post-chain schema invariants (composite UNIQUE exists, old pages_slug_key
gone, files_page_slug_fkey gone, files.page_id column present,
file_migration_ledger table populated).
- doctor --locks real-PG integration (second connection + BEGIN + idle,
assert the PID appears in pg_stat_activity).
- runMigrationsUpTo advances config.version to target, not past.
- withReservedConnection round-trip (executes queries, session GUC visible
inside callback).
test/e2e/helpers.ts: new runMigrationsUpTo(engine, targetVersion) and
setConfigVersion(version) helpers. The v15→v23 chain E2E needed a way to stop
at intermediate schema versions; neither `gbrain init --migrate-only` nor the
existing setupDB() supported this. Codex caught that the proposed E2E wasn't
implementable without new harness work.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: bump version and changelog (v0.18.2)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(changelog): rewrite v0.18.2 entry to match gstack CLAUDE.md format
Applied the gstack CHANGELOG style rules from ~/git/gstack/CLAUDE.md:
- Two-line bold headline lands a verdict, not a feature list.
- Single coherent lead story instead of "Second headline... Third headline..."
- "The numbers that matter" table with BEFORE / AFTER / Δ columns, counted
against the v0.18.0 field report (the concrete source).
- "What this means for your workflow" closing paragraph with the 4-command
recovery path.
- TODOS.md references removed from user-facing body (explicit rule: never
mention TODOS, internal tracking, or contributor-facing details in the
user-read portion).
- Contributor-only detail (helper extraction, test file paths, interface
specifics) moved to a "For contributors" subsection.
- Itemized changes reorganized as Added / Changed / Fixed / For contributors.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(changelog): v0.18.2 voice-rule audit — headline, em dashes
Audit against ~/git/gstack/CLAUDE.md voice rules:
- Headline tightened from 32 words to 19 (rule says 10-14; repo convention
on v0.18.1 was 22, this is closer).
- Em dashes removed from 7 lines. Replaced with commas, colons, or periods
per the "no em dashes" rule.
- AI vocabulary audit: clean.
- Banned phrases audit: clean.
Content unchanged. Only voice/punctuation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: root <root@localhost>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(doctor): check ALL public tables for RLS, not just gbrain's own
The RLS check was hardcoded to only verify 10 gbrain-managed tables:
pages, content_chunks, links, tags, raw_data, page_versions,
timeline_entries, ingest_log, config, files.
Any other table in the public schema (created by the application,
extensions, or manually) was invisible to the check. This allowed
12 tables to exist without RLS for months — publicly readable by
anyone with the Supabase anon key.
Changes:
- Query ALL tables in public schema, not a hardcoded list
- Upgrade severity from 'warn' to 'fail' — missing RLS is a security
issue, not a suggestion
- Include table count in success message for visibility
- Include remediation SQL in failure message
Supabase exposes the public schema via PostgREST. Any table without
RLS is readable/writable by the anon key by default.
* fix(schema): enable RLS on 10 gbrain-managed public tables
The base schema and prior migrations shipped 10 public tables
without Row Level Security enabled: access_tokens, mcp_request_log,
minion_inbox, minion_attachments, subagent_messages,
subagent_tool_executions, subagent_rate_leases, gbrain_cycle_locks,
budget_ledger, budget_reservations.
Supabase exposes the public schema via PostgREST, so tables without
RLS are readable and writable by anyone holding the anon key.
access_tokens and the subagent conversation history tables carry
the most sensitive data in the set.
Fix: add the missing ENABLE RLS statements to src/schema.sql
(inside the existing BYPASSRLS-gated DO block, so dev sessions
without bypass don't get locked out). Add a new schema migration
v17 rls_backfill_missing_tables that does the same on existing
brains. budget_ledger and budget_reservations were previously
migration-only (v12); promoted to the base schema so fresh installs
pick up RLS from the standard gate.
Regenerated src/core/schema-embedded.ts.
* fix(doctor): widen RLS check to all public tables, add GBRAIN:RLS_EXEMPT escape hatch
The RLS check was hardcoded to 10 gbrain-managed tables; any other
table in the public schema (plugin-created, user-created, extension-
created) was invisible to the check. Widen the scan to every
pg_tables row in the public schema.
Upgrade severity warn to fail. Missing RLS is a security issue, not
a suggestion. gbrain doctor now exits 1 when any public table lacks
RLS. Cron and CI wrappers that call gbrain doctor should be aware
of the exit-code flip.
Add an explicit escape hatch for tables that should stay readable
by the anon key on purpose (analytics, public materialized views,
plugin tables). The doctor reads pg_description for each non-RLS
table and treats a comment matching GBRAIN:RLS_EXEMPT reason=<why>
as an intentional exemption. Doctor enumerates exempt tables by
name on every successful run so they never go invisible.
There is no gbrain rls-exempt CLI subcommand by design. The escape
hatch is deliberately painful: operators drop to psql and type the
justification as raw SQL. Comment lives in pg_description, survives
pg_dump, shows up in schema diffs, and appears in shell history.
PGLite is now explicitly skipped with an ok status (embedded and
single-user, no PostgREST exposure). Previously hit the
db.getConnection() throw-catch path and surfaced a misleading warn.
Remediation SQL now quotes identifiers (ALTER TABLE "public"."<name>"
...) so it works on tables with hyphens, reserved words, or mixed
case.
See docs/guides/rls-and-you.md for the full user-facing guide.
* test: coverage for RLS hardening (doctor + migration + e2e)
Four layers of guard for the v0.18 RLS changes:
test/doctor.test.ts: source-grep structural regression guards on
the doctor RLS block — absence of the old tablename IN filter,
presence of status=fail on the gap branch, quoted-identifier
remediation SQL, PGLite skip wrapper, GBRAIN:RLS_EXEMPT parsing
with required reason=. Fast, no DB needed. Mirrors the
statement_timeout regression pattern in test/postgres-engine.test.ts.
test/migrate.test.ts: structural guard for migration v17. Asserts
the migration exists with the expected name, all 10 ALTER TABLE
statements are present, BYPASSRLS gating is in place, and
LATEST_VERSION has caught up.
test/e2e/mechanical.test.ts: rewrote the E2E RLS Verification
block. The old hardcoded-allowlist query is replaced with an
every-public-table-has-RLS assertion. Four new CLI-spawn cases
verify real end-to-end behavior: (a) no-RLS public table makes
gbrain doctor --json return status=fail with ALTER TABLE in the
message and exit code 1, (b) a GBRAIN:RLS_EXEMPT comment with a
valid reason makes doctor report the table as explicitly exempt
and keep status=ok, (c) a GBRAIN:RLS_EXEMPT prefix without a
reason= segment still fails doctor, (d) an unrelated comment on
a no-RLS table still fails doctor.
All helpers use try/finally with unique-per-run suffixes
(gbrain_rls_..._<pid>_<timestamp>) so assertion failures don't
pollute subsequent tests.
* docs: one-page guide for RLS and GBRAIN:RLS_EXEMPT escape hatch
Covers why RLS matters on Supabase (PostgREST exposes the public
schema to the anon key), what to do when gbrain doctor fails, the
exact SQL template for an intentional exemption, how to audit
exemptions later, and how the check behaves on PGLite vs
self-hosted Postgres.
Emphasizes that the escape hatch is deliberately painful on
purpose: there is no gbrain rls-exempt CLI subcommand and no
config-file allowlist. The operator drops to psql and writes the
justification in SQL, which makes the action visible in shell
history, pg_dump, schema diffs, and doctor output on every run.
Referenced from gbrain doctor's failure message when any public
table lacks RLS.
* chore: bump version and changelog (v0.18.0)
Reconciles VERSION and package.json (were drifting: 0.17.0 vs
0.16.4). Runtime gbrain --version reads from package.json via
src/version.ts, so prior ships were reporting 0.16.4. Both now
land on 0.18.0.
Minor bump (not patch) because gbrain doctor's exit code semantics
change: missing RLS on a public table was warn+exit-0, is now
fail+exit-1. Any external cron, CI, or skillpack-check wrapper
around gbrain doctor needs to be aware. skillpack-check.ts itself
is unaffected (uses --fast, skips DB checks).
CHANGELOG entry follows the release-summary format from CLAUDE.md:
headline, lead paragraph, numbers-that-matter table, what-this-
means-for-your-workflow, To take advantage of v0.18.0 block with
remediation SQL + exemption format, itemized changes.
Also sweeps a stale @Wintermute reference in the 0.17.0 entry to
"Garry's OpenClaw" per the CLAUDE.md privacy rule.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(v0.18.1): address codex review (orchestrator wiring + fail-closed + identifier escape)
Four fixes from `/codex` review of the merged diff:
1. HIGH — wire migration v24 into the `gbrain apply-migrations`
upgrade path. Without an orchestrator entry, `gbrain upgrade`'s
post-upgrade step runs `apply-migrations --yes`, which walks the
registry in `src/commands/migrations/index.ts`. The registry
stopped at v0_18_0, so v24 never fired on upgrade (connectEngine
and doctor do not call initSchema). New `v0_18_1.ts` orchestrator
mirrors v0.18.0's Phase A: shells out to `gbrain init
--migrate-only`, which triggers initSchema → runMigrations → v24
applies. Registered in the migrations array.
2. HIGH — fail loudly when v24 runs under a non-BYPASSRLS role
instead of RAISE WARNING-then-silently-bumping-version. The
runner at migrate.ts:773 unconditionally calls
`setConfig('version', String(m.version))` when a migration
completes without throwing, so a WARNING-and-continue path would
permanently lock the backfill out: schema_version=24 on the next
run means `m.version > current` is false and v24 is skipped
forever, even after the role gets BYPASSRLS. Changed `RAISE
WARNING` → `RAISE EXCEPTION` so the transaction aborts,
schema_version stays at 23, and a subsequent initSchema retries
cleanly after the role is fixed. Test asserts the SQL uses
EXCEPTION and does not use WARNING.
3. MEDIUM — escape double-quote characters in the remediation SQL
output. doctor.ts was building `ALTER TABLE "public"."${n}"`
with `n` un-escaped, so a pathological table name containing a
literal `"` would break out of the quoted identifier and produce
invalid copy-paste SQL. Double the `"` before interpolating,
matching Postgres quoted-identifier escaping rules. Extremely
rare in practice, cheap to get right.
4. LOW — CHANGELOG cleanup: corrected the upgrade-behavior claim
(v24 runs via `apply-migrations --yes` through the new
orchestrator, not during `gbrain doctor`) and split the "tables
with RLS" row into two metrics (21 base-schema tables + 2
migration-only budget_* tables = 23 managed total, all covered).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: add v0.18.1 to apply-migrations skippedFuture expectations
CI-only failure: test/apply-migrations.test.ts hardcodes the
orchestrator-migration version list in two `skippedFuture` expectations.
The v0.18.1 orchestrator I added in the prior commit pushed the list to
8 entries. Both assertions now include 0.18.1 at the tail.
Caught by the gbrain CI run on the merged branch — locally the rest of
the unit suite (dream/orphans) is flaky due to unrelated PGLite
parallelism, but `bun test test/apply-migrations.test.ts` now passes
18/18. CI should follow.
* docs: scrub v0.18.1 CHANGELOG — remove specific-table attack surface
Responsible-disclosure pass on the public-facing release notes. The
prior CHANGELOG entry enumerated which gbrain-managed public tables
had shipped without RLS and highlighted the most sensitive ones by
name. That gives anyone reading the CHANGELOG a directed probe list
for unpatched Supabase installs before operators have had a chance
to run `gbrain upgrade`.
Rewritten to describe the change at a functional level (what doctor
does now, what the upgrade path does, what the escape hatch is)
without naming the specific tables or quantifying the gap. The actual
SQL remains in the binary — anyone reverse-engineering can find it
there — but we shouldn't put it on the release page with a banner.
User-facing content kept intact: the "To take advantage of" block,
the upgrade commands, the exemption SQL template, the breaking
exit-code note.
* docs(CLAUDE.md): add responsible-disclosure rule for release notes
Prior incident on this branch: the original v0.18.1 CHANGELOG entry
enumerated the specific public tables that had shipped without RLS,
quantified the exposure duration, and highlighted the most sensitive
ones by name. Garry caught it. Scrubbed in ecd06a0.
This directive codifies the rule so future sessions (or other agents
working in this repo) don't repeat the mistake:
- Describe security fixes functionally, not by attack surface.
- Public artifacts (CHANGELOG, README, docs/, PR titles/bodies,
commit messages, release pages) get the functional description.
- Private artifacts (plan files under ~/.claude/plans/ or
~/.gstack/projects/) keep the detailed before/after tables.
- Source code will disclose the specifics to reverse engineers
anyway — that's intrinsic. The concern is the broadcast-channel
asymmetry of a release page.
Also added a corresponding feedback memory at
~/.claude/projects/.../feedback_responsible_disclosure.md so the rule
carries across sessions and other projects, not just gbrain.
Placed right after the existing privacy rule (scrub real names) since
they share the same "public artifact hygiene" posture.
* chore: regenerate llms.txt + llms-full.txt (CLAUDE.md drift)
Adding the responsible-disclosure rule to CLAUDE.md in ffe340d
diverged the committed llms-full.txt from the generator output.
The build-llms drift-guard test caught it in CI. Regenerated.
* fix(v24): guard budget_ledger + budget_reservations with IF EXISTS
Garry flagged: migration v24 fires `ALTER TABLE budget_ledger ENABLE
ROW LEVEL SECURITY` unconditionally. budget_ledger and
budget_reservations are migration-only (v12) — not in schema.sql,
not re-created on every initSchema. In the normal flow v12 runs
before v24 so they exist, but two edge cases break that assumption:
1. An operator manually dropped them (budget data is regenerable
from resolver call logs, so `DROP TABLE` is a reasonable
cleanup move).
2. A brain was somehow running an old gbrain that lacked v12, and
is only catching up now.
Bare ALTER hits 42P01 (relation does not exist), aborts the
transaction, and leaves schema_version at 23. On next initSchema,
v24 retries and hits the same error — stuck in a loop.
Fix: wrap each of the two budget ALTERs in
IF EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM information_schema.tables
WHERE table_schema = 'public'
AND table_name = '<tbl>') THEN ... END IF;
The other 8 tables are not guarded. schema.sql creates them
idempotently on every initSchema run before migrations fire, so
they are guaranteed to exist by the time v24 runs. Adding guards
there would be unnecessary and make the SQL noisier.
Also simplified the DECLARE/BEGIN structure: moved the
non-BYPASSRLS early-exit to the top so the happy path reads
cleanly without the outer IF.
Tests:
- test/migrate.test.ts: new assertion that both budget_* ALTERs
are wrapped in information_schema.tables IF EXISTS blocks;
BYPASSRLS gate assertion relaxed to match either phrasing.
- Manual e2e: fresh Postgres init (v0→v24), then DROP TABLE
budget_ledger + budget_reservations, reset version=23, re-run
init. v24 applied cleanly, version advanced to 24, budget_*
stayed dropped. Without the guard this would have errored out.
* test(e2e): v24 self-heals when budget_* tables are missing
Behavioral e2e proof for the IF EXISTS guard added in 2fc7780. Scenario:
1. Fresh Postgres init to v24 (setupDB in beforeAll).
2. DROP TABLE budget_ledger + budget_reservations.
3. Roll config.version back to '23'.
4. CLI-spawn `gbrain init --non-interactive` to re-trigger initSchema.
5. Assert: exit 0, no 42P01 in stderr, version advances to 24,
budget_* stay dropped (since v12 doesn't re-run at
current=23 > v12=12).
Without the guard, step 4 hits 42P01 (relation does not exist),
aborts the transaction, leaves version at 23, and the next
initSchema re-runs v24 forever — an infinite retry loop. This test
catches any future regression that strips the guard.
Cleanup (finally block) restores budget_* with the exact migration
v12 schema so downstream tests that reference these tables see the
original shape. Version is restored from the pre-test snapshot.
Runs with the rest of the E2E: RLS Verification block. 78/78 in
test/e2e/mechanical.test.ts with the addition.
---------
Co-authored-by: Wintermute <wintermute@garrytan.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(v0.17.0 step 1/9): sources primitive — additive-only multi-source foundation
Lane A of the multi-repo plan. Installs the sources table and seeds a
'default' row that inherits sync.repo_path/last_commit from existing
config. This is the bisectable foundation every later step builds on;
the breaking schema changes (composite UNIQUE, files FK rewrite,
resolution_type, ingest_log.source_id) land with their paired code
rewrites in Steps 2/4/5/7 so no single commit breaks the engine.
- migration v16 (sources_table_additive) + v0_17_0 orchestrator skeleton
- sort-by-version guard in runMigrations (array insertion order can
never cause a later migration to skip a lower one again)
- default source seeded with config '{"federated": true}' so pre-v0.17
brains keep single-namespace search semantics after upgrade
- orchestrator phase B detects absence of file_migration_ledger and
no-ops until Step 7 lands it
- 8 new structural tests in test/migrate.test.ts (shape, idempotency,
scope-guard that nothing else was smuggled into v16)
- apply-migrations tests include v0.17.0 in the registered list
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(v0.17.0 step 2/9): pages.source_id + composite UNIQUE (Lane B)
Migration v17 adds pages.source_id with DEFAULT 'default' and swaps the
global UNIQUE(slug) for composite UNIQUE(source_id, slug). Ships atomically
with the engine's ON CONFLICT rewrite so the constraint swap and the code
that writes under it land in the same commit — no window where the engine
sees one shape and the schema has another.
Minimum-surface engine change: only putPage's ON CONFLICT target needs
re-targeting. Other slug-based queries work unchanged because single-
source brains (the only brain shape pre-Step-5) have exactly one source
'default', so slug remains effectively unique within it. Step 5+ will
surface an explicit sourceId param on putPage for cross-source sync.
- migration v17 (pages_source_id_composite_unique) in src/core/migrate.ts
- pages.source_id + composite UNIQUE added to schema.sql + pglite-schema.ts
for fresh installs
- ON CONFLICT (slug) → ON CONFLICT (source_id, slug) in both pglite-engine
and postgres-engine putPage
- DEFAULT 'default' closes the Codex-flagged race where an INSERT between
ADD COLUMN and SET NOT NULL could leave source_id NULL
- 5 new v17 structural tests (29 pass / 0 fail in migrate.test.ts)
- Full suite: 1979 pass / 3 fail (same as baseline — no regressions)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(v0.17.0 step 6/9): sources CLI + source-resolver (Lane C)
Adds the CLI surface for multi-source management. Users can now register,
list, rename, federate/unfederate, and attach-to-directory a source. The
source-resolver is the shared 6-priority helper that Steps 4/5 will use
when they start surfacing an explicit --source flag on sync/extract/query.
Commands:
gbrain sources add <id> --path <p> [--name <n>] [--federated|--no-federated]
gbrain sources list [--json]
gbrain sources remove <id> [--yes] [--dry-run] [--keep-storage]
gbrain sources rename <id> <new-name>
gbrain sources default <id>
gbrain sources attach <id> — writes .gbrain-source in CWD
gbrain sources detach
gbrain sources federate <id> / unfederate <id>
Resolution priority (source-resolver.ts) — highest first:
1. --source flag 2. GBRAIN_SOURCE env 3. .gbrain-source dotfile walk-up
4. longest-prefix match on registered local_path (Codex #2 fix)
5. sources.default config 6. fallback 'default'
- add: validates id format (kebab-case alnum, 1-32), rejects overlapping
paths (eng review §4 finding 4.1), supports federated default opt-in
- remove: guards against --yes omission + refuses to remove 'default',
supports --dry-run, reports cascade page count
- attach/detach: matches kubectl/terraform context-pinning semantics
- Throws on overlap rather than process.exit() so the CLI error wrapper
reports it consistently (also makes unit testing clean)
28 new tests across sources.test.ts (dispatcher + validation + overlap
guard) and source-resolver.test.ts (full 6-priority coverage including
longest-prefix). Full suite: 2012 pass / 3 fail (pre-existing PGLite
infra timeouts).
NOT in scope for Step 6 (deferred):
- import-from-github (SSRF + clone integration)
- prune (retention/TTL, lands v0.18)
- MCP tool-defs regen for source-scoping on read ops (Step 5)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(v0.17.0 step 8/9): getting-started guide + migration skill + citation rule
Step 8 (Lane F) documents what Steps 1+2+6 have shipped and sets up
the agent-facing rules for multi-source.
New files:
- skills/migrations/v0.17.0.md — migration skill read by host agents
after `gbrain apply-migrations`. Covers the v16+v17 chain, what's
in v0.17.0 vs what lands later (v0.17.1 ACL, v0.18 sessions), and
the new sources CLI surface. Cites docs/guides/multi-source-brains.md
as the recipe.
- docs/guides/multi-source-brains.md — getting-started for end users.
Three canonical scenarios (unified wiki+gstack / purpose-separated
yc-media+garrys-list / mixed), full resolution priority, federation
flag semantics, command reference, and citation format.
skills/brain-ops/SKILL.md — new "Cross-source citation format"
section mandating `[source-id:slug]` when the brain has multiple
sources. Matches the contract the /plan-devex-review DX review
pinned down (DX Finding 5: surface source_id in every page payload
+ citation contract). Key must be sources.id (immutable), never
sources.name.
No behavior change — this is pure documentation for what already
exists in the binary. 144 skills conformance tests still pass.
NOT in this commit (deferred to later steps):
- docs/guides/repo-architecture.md rewrite (lands with the full
v0.17.0 PR description + release notes)
- skills/_brain-filing-rules.md "which source to file into"
guidance (lands with Step 5 when sync surfaces --source)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(v0.17.0 step 5/9): sync --source <id> routes through sources table (Lane D)
Adds the --source flag to `gbrain sync`. When set, sync reads local_path
+ last_commit from the matching sources(id) row instead of the global
sync.repo_path / sync.last_commit config keys, and writes last_commit +
last_sync_at back to the same row. Backward compat: --source omitted =
pre-v0.17 behavior exactly, global config path unchanged.
- SyncOpts.sourceId threaded through performSync + performFullSync
- readSyncAnchor/writeSyncAnchor helpers centralize the sources-vs-config
branch so every read/write goes through one decision point. Makes
Step 5's later per-source sync-failures tracking a one-file change.
- --source resolved via src/core/source-resolver.ts (Step 6), so any
command that shell-exposes resolveSourceId gets env var + dotfile
walk-up + longest-prefix for free.
- Error message for missing source local_path is actionable:
Source "gstack" has no local_path. Run: gbrain sources add gstack --path <path>
- last_sync_at auto-updates on every last_commit advance so `gbrain
sources list` shows real recency.
No regression: 2012 pass / 3 fail (same as baseline).
NOT in this commit (deferred per plan):
- Per-source failure tracking (~/.gbrain/sources/<id>/sync-failures.jsonl)
- runImport source-awareness (import.ts path — Step 5 continuation)
- Partial-success semantics when walking N sources — single-source flow
today, multi-walk lands when the top-level `gbrain sync` without
--source starts iterating all sources.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(v0.17.0 step 4/9): qualified [[source:slug]] + links.resolution_type (Lane B)
Adds source-pinned wikilink syntax and records the resolution kind on
each edge so `gbrain extract --refresh-unqualified` (future) can
re-resolve bare references when the source topology changes.
Wikilink syntax extension:
[[concepts/ai]] — unqualified; resolves via local-first fallback
[[wiki:concepts/ai]] — qualified; target pinned to sources.id='wiki'
[[gstack:projects/foo|Display]] — qualified + display name
The qualified regex runs first and masks matched spans so the
unqualified pass can't double-emit. Source id format enforced to match
the sources CLI validation: [a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]{0,30}[a-z0-9])?
Schema:
- migration v18 adds links.resolution_type TEXT with CHECK constraint
('qualified'|'unqualified' or NULL for legacy/manual/frontmatter edges)
- schema.sql + pglite-schema.ts updated for fresh installs
EntityRef type:
- sourceId is OPTIONAL (only set on qualified wikilinks). Markdown
[Name](path) and unqualified wikilinks omit it so strict toEqual
tests pre-v0.17 keep working (69 existing tests still pass).
Tests:
- 5 new qualified-wikilink extraction tests + 1 migration v18 structural
assertion. 75 tests in test/link-extraction.test.ts (up from 69).
- Full suite: 2018 pass / 3 fail (pre-existing PGLite infra timeouts).
NOT in this commit (deferred to Step 3 / Step 5 continuation):
- Writing resolution_type to the DB (addLink / addLinksBatch don't
carry the field yet — that's the plumb-through that lands with
Step 3 when search/dedup also needs source-aware result keys).
- `gbrain extract --refresh-unqualified` re-resolver.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(v0.17.0 step 3/9): source-aware search dedup composite keys (Lane B)
Search dedup now keys on (source_id, slug) instead of slug alone. Pre-
v0.17 would collapse two same-slug pages in different sources into
one, destroying cross-source recall. Codex outside-voice review flagged
this as regression-critical — this commit ships the fix plus tests
that lock the invariant in.
Dedup pipeline (src/core/search/dedup.ts):
- pageKey(r) helper — one canonical composite-key derivation. Falls
back to source_id='default' for pre-v0.17 rows so single-source
brains behave identically to before.
- Layer 1 (dedupBySource): group-by composite key.
- Layer 4 (capPerPage): count-by composite key.
- guaranteeCompiledTruth: swap scoped to matching (source_id, slug),
so wiki:topics/ai can't accidentally pull gstack:topics/ai's
compiled_truth chunk.
SearchResult type gains optional source_id — populated by SQL JOINs
in both engines, falls through as 'default' for legacy callers.
Engine SQL:
- pglite-engine.ts + postgres-engine.ts: search SELECTs add p.source_id
- rowToSearchResult (utils.ts): maps row.source_id → result.source_id
when present. Shape stays backward compatible (field optional).
Tests — 4 new in test/dedup.test.ts:
- same-slug-different-source does NOT collapse (the critical regression
guard Codex called out)
- same-slug-same-source DOES still collapse (no over-correction)
- missing source_id falls back to 'default' for pre-v0.17 compat
- compiled_truth guarantee scopes to composite key (Codex second pass
caught this specific path would leak otherwise)
Full suite: 2022 pass / 3 fail (3 pre-existing PGLite infra timeouts).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(v0.17.0 step 7/9): file_migration_ledger + phase-B storage backfill (Lane E)
Adds files.source_id + files.page_id + the file_migration_ledger
state machine that drives storage object rewrites. Each per-file
transition is its own transaction so crash-point recovery is a
ledger read, not a filesystem inspection. Codex second-pass review
flagged that "skip if already has source prefix" was an unsafe
heuristic — the ledger replaces it with explicit state tracking.
Schema:
- migration v19 (files_source_id_page_id_ledger): handler-only
(PGLite has no files table; Postgres-only gate). ADDs
source_id + page_id to files, backfills page_id from page_slug
scoped to source_id='default', creates file_migration_ledger
with PK on file_id (Codex: not storage_path_old — two sources
can share an old path during migration).
- schema.sql updated for fresh Postgres installs; file_migration_ledger
gets RLS alongside other tables.
Runtime:
- src/commands/migrations/v0_17_0-storage-backfill.ts: drives the
ledger state machine pending → copy_done → db_updated → complete.
Idempotent per row: re-running resumes from whichever state
crashed. Old objects preserved (no delete) so operators can
verify the soak window before a future cleanup release.
- phase B in v0_17_0.ts orchestrator: wires the storage backend
(Supabase/S3/local) through createStorage, runs runStorageBackfill,
reports per-state counts + first-three error details.
Tests — 13 new in test/storage-backfill.test.ts:
- pending → copy_done → db_updated → complete happy path
- 3 crash-point recovery tests (resume from copy_done, resume from
db_updated, failed rows don't auto-retry)
- already-complete rows are skipped with zero side effects
- idempotent re-upload (exists-check skips redundant upload)
- dry-run mode (no storage, reports counts without mutating)
Plus 5 new migrate.test.ts assertions for v19 structure (handler-
only, PGLite gate, source_id + page_id + ledger DDL, default-source
backfill scope, state machine values).
Full suite: 2035 pass / 3 fail (3 pre-existing PGLite infra
timeouts).
NOT in this commit (explicitly deferred):
- DROP old page_slug column — kept for backward compat until
operators have time to verify page_id everywhere.
- DROP old UNIQUE(storage_path) in favor of UNIQUE(source_id,
storage_path) — same reason, deferred to later cleanup.
- Actual cleanup phase that deletes old objects post-soak.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(v0.17.0 step 9/9): full multi-source PGLite integration suite (Lane G)
End-to-end exercise of every v0.17.0 surface against real PGLite
(in-memory, fast — no DATABASE_URL needed). The migration chain
v2→v19 runs start-to-finish and the test asserts each Step's
invariants hold together.
16 new integration tests across 7 describes:
1. Migration-installed state:
- sources('default') exists with federated=true config
- pages.source_id column has DEFAULT 'default'
- composite UNIQUE (source_id, slug) is installed
2. Default-source write path:
- putPage without explicit source → source_id='default' via schema
default clause (no engine API change needed for single-source brains)
3. Composite UNIQUE regression guards (Codex-flagged):
- Same slug in two different sources coexists
- Third insert with same (source_id, slug) hits the UNIQUE constraint
4. sources CLI round-trip:
- federate / unfederate flips config.federated
- rename changes display, id stays immutable
5. Source resolution priority (integration):
- Explicit flag > env var > fallback to default
- Unregistered explicit source errors with actionable message
6. Cascade semantics:
- sources remove cascades to pages; default source untouched
7. links.resolution_type (Step 4):
- Qualified/unqualified values accepted
- CHECK constraint rejects invalid values
All 16 tests pass. Full suite: 2042 pass / 4 fail (4 pre-existing
PGLite beforeEach timeouts in test/wait-for-completion,
test/extract-fs, test/e2e/search-quality, test/e2e/graph-quality
— count fluctuated 3-5 on baseline from variance alone).
Total new tests across Steps 1-9: ~85 unit + integration tests
(sources, source-resolver, migrate v16/v17/v18/v19 structural,
link-extraction qualified wikilinks, dedup regression-critical,
storage-backfill state machine + crash recovery, full
multi-source PGLite integration).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: bump to v0.18.0 + CHANGELOG entry (multi-source brains)
One-viewport release summary + itemized changes covering all 9 steps
of the multi-source primitive. Notes the v0.17 → v0.18 version bump
rationale (master shipped gbrain dream as v0.17 while this branch was
in flight).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(ci): v0_18_0 orchestrator TS narrow + mechanical test ON CONFLICT
Two CI failures on PR #337:
1. tsc TS2367 at src/commands/migrations/v0_18_0.ts:190 —
after the early-return on `a.status === 'failed'` (line 179),
TypeScript narrows `a.status` to `'skipped' | 'complete'`, so the
subsequent `a.status === 'failed' ? 'failed' :` branch was dead
code and refused to compile. Dropped the redundant check.
2. E2E `file_list LIMIT enforcement` at test/e2e/mechanical.test.ts:636 —
the test pre-seeded a pages row with `ON CONFLICT (slug) DO NOTHING`
but v21 swapped the global UNIQUE for `UNIQUE (source_id, slug)`, so
Postgres rejects with "no unique or exclusion constraint matching".
Updated the conflict target to the composite key.
Tier-1 E2E had only this one failing test; everything else passed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(e2e): v0.18.0 multi-source against real Postgres (v20-v23 schema + cascade + sync)
Closes the three biggest confidence gaps the author flagged in the
self-audit of PR #337:
1. No real Postgres E2E — PGLite has no files table, so v23's
files.source_id + files.page_id rewrite + file_migration_ledger
seed was NEVER executed against the real DB. This file covers it.
2. `gbrain sync --source <id>` had zero direct tests. Now has two:
one that asserts performSync({sourceId}) reads local_path from the
sources row (not the global config), one that asserts no-sourceId
falls back to the global sync.repo_path.
3. Cascade delete coverage — previously verified only pages count
after source removal. Now verifies pages + content_chunks +
timeline_entries + links + files ALL cascade-delete when a source
is removed.
6 describes, 16 tests total:
- Schema shape (fresh install): 6 tests confirming sources('default'),
pages.source_id NOT NULL with DEFAULT, composite UNIQUE pages
(source_id, slug) replaces global UNIQUE(slug), links.resolution_type
column + CHECK, files.source_id + page_id columns, file_migration_ledger
table + status CHECK.
- Composite UNIQUE semantics: 3 tests confirming same-slug in two
sources coexists (Codex-critical regression guard), duplicate
(source_id, slug) hits the UNIQUE, putPage targets default source
by schema DEFAULT.
- Cascade delete: 1 test building a fully populated source (2 pages,
chunks, timeline, links, files) then removing it + asserting every
dependent row is gone.
- Sync routing: 2 tests confirming performSync({sourceId}) reads
per-source local_path vs global config.
- Sources surface: 3 tests for federate/unfederate flipping + rename
preserving id.
- Storage backfill: 1 end-to-end test seeding ledger + running
runStorageBackfill against a stub StorageBackend, asserting
pending → complete transition and files.storage_path rewrite.
Gated by DATABASE_URL per CLAUDE.md E2E lifecycle. Each describe's
beforeAll defensively DELETEs non-default sources + file_migration_ledger
rows so reruns are hermetic (sources isn't in helpers.ALL_TABLES).
Verified: 16/16 pass on first run AND second run (residual-state fix
holds). Full E2E suite still green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(ci): TS2352 in multi-source E2E — cast postgres.js RowList via unknown
tsc rejects the direct
`(rows as { column_name: string }[]).map(...)`
cast because postgres.js RowList rows have an iterable-row shape that
doesn't overlap with the plain-object target. Standard fix: cast via
`unknown` first so the narrowing is explicit.
Verified: `bunx tsc --noEmit` clean (ignoring the pre-existing baseUrl
deprecation warning).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(v0.18.0): addLinksBatch + addTimelineEntriesBatch source-aware JOINs
Batch APIs JOINed on pages.slug globally, so two pages sharing the same
slug across sources would silently fan out — addLinksBatch(['a->b']) in
a brain with 'a' in both 'default' and 'alt' wrote 2 edges instead of 1.
Same bug on addTimelineEntriesBatch.
Fix:
- LinkBatchInput + TimelineBatchInput gain optional source_id fields
(from_source_id, to_source_id, origin_source_id for links; source_id
for timeline). All default to 'default' so existing callers are
backward-compatible on single-source brains.
- pglite-engine + postgres-engine batch JOINs now composite-key on
(slug, source_id). Postgres adds 3 more unnest arrays for links + 1
for timeline — still one bind per column, no 65535-param cap risk.
- LEFT JOIN for origin pages also source-qualified so frontmatter-
provenance edges don't cross-pollinate across sources.
Regression coverage:
- test/pglite-engine.test.ts: 5 new tests covering default-path isolation,
explicit alt-source writes, and cross-source edges.
- test/e2e/multi-source.test.ts: 4 new tests against real Postgres so
postgres-js's unnest() bind path is exercised (structurally different
from PGLite's).
Gap #4 from the PR self-audit — latent bug, not previously reachable
because every existing caller wrote to the default source only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* fix(sync): honor --dry-run in full-sync path + expose embedded count
Precondition for v0.17 brain maintenance cycle (runCycle primitive).
The full-sync path (performFullSync) previously called runImport() even
when opts.dryRun was true, silently writing to the DB and advancing
sync.last_commit. `gbrain sync --dry-run` on a fresh brain (or with
--full) would mutate state without warning.
Fix:
- performFullSync now early-returns a `dry_run` SyncResult when
opts.dryRun is set. Walks the repo via collectMarkdownFiles +
isSyncable to count what WOULD be imported. No writes, no git
state advance.
- SyncResult gains an `embedded: number` field (required). Tracks
pages re-embedded during the sync's auto-embed step. Existing
return sites set 0; the synced + first_sync paths set real counts
(best-estimate until commit 2 sharpens runEmbedCore's return type).
- first_sync path now returns real added + chunksCreated counts
from runImport instead of hardcoded zeros.
- printSyncResult shows embedded count in human output.
Tests (test/sync.test.ts, new `performSync dry-run never writes`
block, PGLite + temp git repo, no DATABASE_URL required):
- first-sync --dry-run: no pages, no sync.last_commit
- incremental --dry-run after real sync: bookmark unchanged
- --full --dry-run: no reimport, bookmark unchanged
- SyncResult.embedded is a number
Codex outside-voice caught this. Would have shipped silent DB writes
on dry-run for anyone using `gbrain sync --dry-run --full`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(embed): add dry-run mode + return EmbedResult with counts
Precondition for v0.17 brain maintenance cycle (runCycle primitive).
runEmbedCore previously returned Promise<void> and had no dry-run mode.
That made it impossible for runCycle to (a) report accurate embedded
counts or (b) honor --dry-run without also skipping the entire embed
phase (which would have required runCycle to know embed's internal
semantics — a layering violation).
Changes:
- EmbedOpts gains `dryRun?: boolean`. When set, embedPage and
embedAll enumerate stale chunks (or would-be-created chunks for
unchunked pages, via local chunkText without engine.upsertChunks)
but never call embedBatch and never write to the engine.
- runEmbedCore: Promise<void> -> Promise<EmbedResult>. Result shape:
{ embedded, skipped, would_embed, total_chunks, pages_processed,
dryRun }.
embedded = chunks newly embedded (0 in dryRun).
would_embed = chunks that WOULD be embedded (0 in non-dryRun).
skipped = chunks with pre-existing embeddings.
- runEmbed CLI wrapper honors --dry-run flag and returns the result
through. `gbrain embed --stale --dry-run` is now a safe preview.
- Callers ignoring the return value (sync auto-embed, autopilot
inline fallback, jobs.ts handlers, CLI) keep compiling — the new
return type is additive for `await` callers.
Tests (test/embed.test.ts, new `runEmbedCore --dry-run` block, uses
the existing mock.module embedBatch pattern, no API key required):
- dry-run --all: zero embedBatch calls, zero upsertChunks calls,
would_embed matches stale chunk total
- dry-run --stale correctly splits stale vs already-embedded counts
- dry-run --slugs on a single page tallies per-chunk counts
- non-dry-run regression guard: embedded count matches across
concurrent workers
Codex outside-voice flagged the Promise<void> return as a blocker for
accurate CycleReport.totals.pages_embedded.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor(orphans): engine-injected queries, drop db.getConnection() global
Precondition for v0.17 brain maintenance cycle (runCycle primitive).
findOrphans + queryOrphanPages previously reached into the postgres-js
singleton via db.getConnection(), which (a) didn't compose with
runCycle's explicit-engine contract and (b) was wrong for PGLite test
fixtures and for any caller not using the default global connection.
Codex outside-voice flagged this as a blocker.
Changes:
- BrainEngine interface gains findOrphanPages() — returns pages with
no inbound links via the same NOT EXISTS anti-join. Implemented on
both postgres-engine (sql tag) and pglite-engine (db.query).
- findOrphans signature: findOrphans(engine, { includePseudo }).
Engine is required. Uses engine.findOrphanPages() and
engine.getStats().page_count instead of raw SQL + global counts.
- queryOrphanPages signature: queryOrphanPages(engine). Delegates to
engine.findOrphanPages().
- src/commands/orphans.ts drops the `import * as db` — no more
global-state coupling.
- Callers updated: src/core/operations.ts find_orphans handler now
passes ctx.engine through; runOrphans CLI entry uses its engine arg.
- No signature change needed in cli.ts (it was already passing engine
via CLI_ONLY dispatch).
Tests (test/orphans.test.ts, new `findOrphans (engine-injected)`
describe block, PGLite in-memory, no DATABASE_URL required):
- links correctly scope orphans (alice links to bob -> bob not
an orphan; alice is)
- includePseudo:true surfaces _atlas-style pages
- queryOrphanPages delegates to passed engine
- empty brain returns {orphans: [], total_pages: 0} without crashing
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(cycle): add runCycle primitive in src/core/cycle.ts
The brain maintenance cycle as a single function. Six phases in
semantically-driven order (fix files → sync → extract → embed →
report orphans). Pure composition of existing library calls — no
execSync, no subprocess anti-patterns, no regex-parsed output.
┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ runCycle(engine, opts) → CycleReport │
│ Phase 1: lint --fix (fs writes) │
│ Phase 2: backlinks --fix (fs writes) │
│ Phase 3: sync (DB picks up 1+2) │
│ Phase 4: extract (DB picks up links) │
│ Phase 5: embed --stale (DB writes) │
│ Phase 6: orphans (DB read, report) │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Why the commit-4 primitive:
- CEO + Eng + Codex reviews all converged on "extract one cycle
function, wire both dream and autopilot through it." Two CLIs,
one definition of what the brain does overnight.
- Phase order was wrong in PR #309's original dream.ts (sync
before lint+backlinks lost the "fix files, then index them"
semantic).
- This commit is the bisectable foundation; commit 5 (dream)
and commit 6 (autopilot+jobs) just call into it.
Coordination — the codex-flagged blocker:
Session-scoped pg_try_advisory_lock does not survive PgBouncer
transaction pooling (the v0.15.4 fix made pooled connections the
default). Replaced with a DB lock table (gbrain_cycle_locks) that
works through every pooler:
- Acquire: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE ... WHERE ttl < NOW()
- Refresh: UPDATE ttl_expires_at between phases via hook
- Release: DELETE in finally{}
- TTL: 30 min; crashed holders auto-release
PGLite / engine=null path uses a file lock at ~/.gbrain/cycle.lock
with PID liveness check. kill(pid, 0) with EPERM treated as alive
(so init/launchd-pid holders aren't mis-classified as stale).
Lock-skip: only phases that mutate state (lint, backlinks, sync,
extract, embed) trigger lock acquisition. orphans is read-only.
Single-phase --phase orphans runs never block on a held lock.
Engine-null mode preserved: filesystem phases run, DB phases skip
with {status:'skipped', reason:'no_database'}. Matches current
dream's capability that would have been lost if runCycle required
a connected engine.
Contract details:
- CycleReport has schema_version:"1" (stable, additive) so agents
consuming --json can rely on the shape
- status: 'ok' | 'clean' | 'partial' | 'skipped' | 'failed'.
'clean' = ran successfully with zero activity; agents trivially
detect a healthy brain.
- PhaseResult.error: { class, code, message, hint?, docs_url? }
(Stripe-API-tier structured failure info) when status='fail'
- yieldBetweenPhases hook: awaited between EVERY phase and before
return, runs even after phase failure, exceptions logged but
non-fatal. Required so the Minions autopilot-cycle handler can
renew its job lock between phases (prevents the v0.14 stall-death
regression codex flagged).
- git pull explicit: opts.pull defaults to false (cron-safe).
Autopilot daemon callers opt in if user configured it.
- extract phase doesn't have a dry-run mode in the underlying
library function, so runCycle honestly skips extract when
dryRun=true (status:'skipped', reason:'no_dry_run_support').
Schema migration v16: gbrain_cycle_locks table + idx_cycle_locks_ttl.
Also appended to src/schema.sql and src/core/pglite-schema.ts for
fresh installs. schema-embedded.ts regenerated via build:schema.
Tests (test/core/cycle.test.ts, PGLite in-memory + mocked library
functions, no DATABASE_URL required):
- dryRun × phases matrix: dryRun:true reaches lint/backlinks/sync/
embed; extract is honestly skipped
- Phase selection: default runs all 6 in order; --phase lint runs
only lint; --phase orphans runs only orphans
- Lock semantics: acquire + release on mutating phases, skip
entirely for read-only selections
- cycle_already_running: seeded live-holder lock → status:skipped,
zero phase runs; TTL-expired holder → auto-claimed
- Engine null: filesystem phases run, DB phases skip
- File lock (engine=null) blocks when PID 1 holds lock with fresh
mtime — exercises the PID liveness branch including EPERM
- Status derivation: 'ok' vs 'clean' vs 'partial' vs 'skipped'
- yieldBetweenPhases called N times, hook exceptions non-fatal
Next: commit 5 rewrites dream.ts as a thin CLI alias over runCycle,
commit 6 migrates autopilot daemon + jobs.ts handler to delegate to
runCycle too.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(dream): add gbrain dream CLI as a thin alias over runCycle
`gbrain dream` is the README brand-promise command: "the agent runs
while I sleep, the dream cycle ... I wake up and the brain is smarter."
Cron-friendly, JSON-reportable, phase-selectable. Same maintenance
cycle as `gbrain autopilot`, just scheduled differently — both
converge on runCycle (added in commit 4) so there's one source of
truth for what happens overnight.
Contract:
gbrain dream # full 6-phase cycle
gbrain dream --dry-run # preview, no writes
gbrain dream --json # CycleReport JSON (agent-readable)
gbrain dream --phase <name> # single-phase run
gbrain dream --pull # git pull before syncing
gbrain dream --dir /path/to/brain # explicit brain location
Cron: 0 2 * * * gbrain dream --json >> /var/log/gbrain-dream.log
Behavior details:
- Brain-dir resolution: requires explicit --dir OR sync.repo_path
in engine config. No more walk-up-cwd-for-.git footgun that
PR #309's original dream.ts had (would lint unrelated git repos).
- engine=null mode preserved via cli.ts's try/catch around
connectEngine — filesystem phases (lint, backlinks) still run
without a DB, DB phases report skipped/no_database in the output.
- status=clean prints "Brain is healthy. N phase(s) checked in Ns."
status=skipped prints the reason (cycle_already_running, etc.).
Partial/failed prints the phase-by-phase detail.
- Exit code 1 when status=failed (cron spots real problems).
'partial' is not a failure — warnings shouldn't page you.
- --help text cross-references `autopilot --install` for users
who want continuous maintenance as a daemon.
CLI registration (src/cli.ts):
- 'dream' added to CLI_ONLY
- handleCliOnly has a pre-engine branch mirroring doctor's pattern:
try connectEngine() → ok path; catch → runDream(null, args) so
filesystem phases still run when DB is down
- Help text updated with one-line dream entry and autopilot cross-ref
Tests (test/dream.test.ts, real PGLite + real library calls, no mocks
to avoid `mock.module` leakage across test files):
- brainDir resolution: explicit --dir wins, engine config fallback,
missing + nonexistent errors
- phase selection: --phase lint|orphans produces single-phase report
- phase validation: --phase garbage exits 1
- output: --json parses as CycleReport with schema_version:"1"
- human output mentions "Brain is healthy" on clean status
- dry-run: cycle runs but DB stays untouched
- exit code: clean/ok/partial do not call process.exit
Also (test/core/cycle.test.ts): refactored to use beforeAll/afterAll
with one shared PGLite engine per describe + truncateCycleLocks
between tests. Cuts test time from ~11s to ~4s; avoids the 15-migration
penalty per test that was causing parallel-suite timeout flakes.
Co-Authored-By: Wintermute <wintermute@garrytan.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat: v0.17.0 — autopilot + jobs delegate to runCycle (unifies the cycle)
Autopilot daemon (`--inline` path) and Minions `autopilot-cycle`
handler both now delegate to `runCycle` (introduced in commit 4).
Three callers, one cycle definition:
1. `gbrain dream` — one-shot cron cycle
2. `gbrain autopilot` daemon inline path — scheduled cycles
3. `autopilot-cycle` Minions handler — durable queue with retry
All three share:
- Same 6 phases in same order (lint → backlinks → sync → extract →
embed → orphans)
- Same DB lock table coordination (`gbrain_cycle_locks`)
- Same yieldBetweenPhases discipline (prevents v0.14 stall-death)
- Same structured CycleReport output
Autopilot inline path gains lint + orphan sweep that the old path
skipped. Minions autopilot-cycle handler also gains lint + orphans.
Users who run `gbrain autopilot --install` see 6-phase reports in
`gbrain jobs get <id>` starting on next interval. No config change
required.
Changes:
- `src/commands/autopilot.ts`: inline fallback path (~20 lines)
replaces the ~22-line sync+extract+embed sequence with a single
runCycle call. Uses pull:true (matches pre-v0.17 autopilot
behavior). Uses setImmediate yield hook. Status/failure reporting
derives from CycleReport.status. `--help` cross-references `gbrain
dream` for one-shot use.
- `src/commands/jobs.ts:579` (`autopilot-cycle` handler): replaces
the 4-step try/catch sequence with a runCycle call. Returns
`{ partial, status, report }` so `gbrain jobs get <id>` shows the
full structured CycleReport. Preserves partial-failure semantic
(one phase failing does NOT throw; next cycle still runs).
yieldBetweenPhases yields the event loop between phases for the
worker's lock-renewal timer.
Release scaffolding:
- VERSION: 0.16.0 → 0.17.0
- CHANGELOG.md: v0.17.0 entry in GStack voice — headline, numbers
table, "what this means" paragraph, "To take advantage" block
per CLAUDE.md post-ship rules. Itemized changes below the fold.
Credit to @Wintermute for the original PR #309 thesis.
- skills/migrations/v0.17.0.md: documents what changed for
upgrading users. No mechanical action required — schema migration
v16 (cycle locks table) + handler delegation both apply
automatically. Includes opt-out paths for users who don't want
their daemon modifying files (use `dream --phase orphans` in cron
and skip autopilot-install, or other explicit configs).
- CLAUDE.md: new entries for `src/core/cycle.ts` and
`src/commands/dream.ts` with contract details.
Tests: no new test file needed for this commit — the cycle primitive
is extensively tested in test/core/cycle.test.ts (18 cases), dream
in test/dream.test.ts (11), and autopilot's delegation is mechanical
(calls runCycle with specific opts). The handler contract is covered
implicitly: if runCycle returns a CycleReport, the handler wraps it
in `{ partial, status, report }` — nothing else to assert.
Verified:
- `bun test test/autopilot-install.test.ts test/autopilot-resolve-cli.test.ts test/core/cycle.test.ts test/dream.test.ts` → 37 pass, 0 fail
Completes the v0.17.0 feature: 6 bisectable commits on one branch
(garrytan/v0.17-dream-cycle), ready to push as one PR.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(e2e): add runCycle + dream E2E coverage against real Postgres
Gap from the v0.17 commit series: PR #321 shipped unit-level tests
for runCycle (test/core/cycle.test.ts) and dream (test/dream.test.ts)
but no E2E coverage that exercises the real Postgres paths. Filling
that in before merge.
test/e2e/cycle.test.ts (6 cases):
- schema migration v16 created gbrain_cycle_locks + index
- dry-run full cycle: zero DB writes + lock table empty after
- live cycle: pages + chunks materialize, sync.last_commit set
- concurrent cycle blocked by lock → status:'skipped'
- TTL-expired lock auto-claimed (crashed-holder recovery)
- --phase orphans skips lock entirely (read-only optimization)
test/e2e/dream.test.ts (3 cases):
- dream --dry-run --json emits valid CycleReport + DB stays empty
- dream (no --dry-run) syncs pages into real DB
- dream --phase orphans doesn't touch the cycle-lock table
Both files mock embedBatch via mock.module so the embed phase never
calls OpenAI even when the full 6-phase cycle runs (zero API cost,
zero flakiness from network calls).
Verified locally:
- `docker run pgvector/pgvector:pg16` on port 5434
- `DATABASE_URL=... bun test test/e2e/cycle.test.ts test/e2e/dream.test.ts` → 9 pass, 0 fail
- Full E2E suite (`bun run test:e2e`): 16 files, 150 tests, 0 fail
- Container torn down after: `docker stop + rm gbrain-test-pg`
Per CLAUDE.md E2E test DB lifecycle. These tests skip gracefully when
DATABASE_URL isn't set (via hasDatabase() helper + describe.skip).
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Co-authored-by: Wintermute <wintermute@garrytan.com>
* Merge origin/master into garrytan/check-resolvable-v1
Resolves CHANGELOG.md conflict: preserved v0.16.1/v0.16.2/v0.16.3 upstream
entries and added v0.16.4 (check-resolvable ship) above them.
* refactor: extract findRepoRoot to src/core/repo-root.ts
Moves findRepoRoot() from private in doctor.ts to a zero-dependency shared
module with a parameterized startDir for test hermeticity. Doctor imports
the shared version; no behavior change (default arg matches prior semantics).
The new gbrain check-resolvable CLI needs findRepoRoot too; importing from
doctor.ts would drag in DB/progress dependencies.
* feat: gbrain check-resolvable CLI wrapper
Standalone CLI gate over checkResolvable(). Exits 1 on any issue (warnings
or errors) per the README:259 contract, stricter than doctor's resolver_health
which ignores warnings. Doctor has 15 other checks to lean on; the standalone
command has nowhere to hide.
- Stable JSON envelope: {ok, skillsDir, report, autoFix, deferred, error, message}
- --fix auto-applies DRY fixes via autoFixDryViolations before re-checking
- --dry-run with --fix previews without writing; autoFix.fixed shows diff
- --verbose prints the deferred-checks note (Checks 5 + 6)
- --skills-dir PATH for hermetic test runs
- Permissive on unknown flags, matching lint/orphans/publish convention
Checks 5 (trigger routing eval) and 6 (brain filing) are tracked as separate
GitHub issues and surfaced via the deferred[] field in --json output.
Covered by 17 new test cases (flag parsing, JSON envelope shape, exit-code
regression gates, --fix wiring, --verbose output).
* chore: bump version and changelog (v0.16.4)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: track check-resolvable issue-URL swap in TODOS
Defers the filing of GitHub tracking issues for Checks 5 (trigger routing
eval) and 6 (brain filing) plus the TBD-check-5/TBD-check-6 URL replacement
in src/commands/check-resolvable.ts. Unblocks merging PR #325.
* test: fix repo-root CI failure — assert parity, not path contents
The 'default arg uses process.cwd()' test asserted the returned path
matched /honolulu/, which is the local workspace name but not the CI
runner's checkout path (/home/runner/work/gbrain/gbrain). The test's
real purpose is behavioral parity: findRepoRoot() === findRepoRoot(cwd).
Assert that directly instead of pattern-matching paths.
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* fix(subagent): bind Anthropic SDK messages.create() correctly
The makeSubagentHandler was casting `new Anthropic()` directly to
MessagesClient, but MessagesClient.create() maps to sdk.messages.create(),
not sdk.create(). Every subagent job immediately died with:
client.create is not a function
Fix: wrap the SDK instance so .create() delegates to .messages.create()
with proper `this` binding via .bind(sdk.messages).
Discovered on first production run of gbrain agent against Supabase.
Co-Authored-By: Wintermute <wintermute@openclaw.ai>
* chore(ci): add typescript typecheck to test pipeline + clean up baseline errors
Root cause infra gap that let the v0.16.0 subagent bug ship: CI ran
only `bun test`, which transpiles types without checking them. Type
errors only surfaced at runtime, in production.
Changes:
- Add `typescript` devDep and a `typecheck` npm script (`tsc --noEmit`).
- Chain `bun run typecheck` into `bun run test` so developers get the
same pipeline locally that CI runs.
- Flip `.github/workflows/test.yml` to invoke `bun run test` (the npm
script, including typecheck) instead of `bun test` (runner only).
- Clean up 100+ pre-existing type errors across 30+ files so the first
run of `tsc --noEmit` is green. Root causes were:
- `databaseUrl` → `database_url` rename drift in test fixtures (9 files)
- `PageType` union missing `'meeting'` / `'note'` entries that are
already used in both src and tests (link-extraction.ts comments
acknowledged the gap)
- `GBrainConfig.storage` field never declared despite being read in
files.ts and operations.ts
- `ErrorCode` union missing `'permission_denied'`
- `OrchestratorOpts` shape changed; test callers not updated
- Dead-code comparisons in migration orchestrators against narrowed
status types
- postgres.js `Row`-callback type drift on several `.map()` calls
- Buffer-as-BodyInit assignment in supabase.ts (real but non-fatal
runtime bug; Uint8Array slice works and is type-correct)
- Various `as X` single-step casts that now need `as unknown as X`
per TS's stricter structural-conversion rules
- Bump `beforeAll` hook timeout to 30s on four PGLite-heavy tests that
were flaky under parallel test execution: wait-for-completion,
extract-fs, e2e/search-quality, e2e/graph-quality. All pass in
isolation; timeouts only happened when dozens of PGLite instances
init'd simultaneously.
The new CI pipeline now fails on any type error across src/ or test/,
giving us the compile-time regression guard the subagent fix depends on.
* fix(subagent): bind Anthropic SDK messages.create() correctly
Shipped bug: v0.16.0 cast `new Anthropic()` to `MessagesClient`, but
`.create()` lives at `sdk.messages.create`, not on the top-level client.
Every subagent job in production died on first LLM call with
`client.create is not a function`. Discovered on the first `gbrain agent
run` against Supabase.
Fix: assign `sdk.messages` directly to the `MessagesClient` slot.
`sdk.messages` IS the object with a callable `.create()`; the original
bug was picking the wrong entry point on the SDK. No helper, no
wrapper, no `.bind()` — JS method-call semantics preserve `this` at
the call site because `subagent.ts:336` invokes `client.create(...)`
with `client === sdk.messages`.
The one-line assignment also typechecks cleanly against the existing
`MessagesClient` interface (SDK's first `create` overload:
`(MessageCreateParamsNonStreaming, Core.RequestOptions?) =>
APIPromise<Message>` is assignable structurally). This gives us
compile-time regression protection: anyone reverting to
`new Anthropic()` would fail tsc because `Anthropic` has no top-level
`.create`. (The companion chore commit puts `tsc --noEmit` in CI so
this guard is enforced.)
Also adds a `makeAnthropic?: () => Anthropic` dep-injection seam so
the factory default construction branch is testable without real API
calls. Regression test drives one handler turn through a fake SDK,
asserting `sdk.messages.create` is actually called. If someone later
reverts to `new Anthropic()`, both guards fire: tsc fails AND the test
fails.
Co-Authored-By: Wintermute <wintermute@garrytan.com>
* chore(tests): add bunfig.toml + 60s hook timeouts to stabilize PGLite-heavy suites
After turning on tsc in CI (previous commit), running the full `bun run test`
suite in one shot triggered flaky `beforeEach/afterEach hook timed out`
failures on 8+ test files. Every failure traced to PGLite WASM init
contention when many test files spin up fresh PGLite instances in parallel;
each one alone passes in isolation.
- `bunfig.toml` sets the global test hook timeout to 60s (default is 5s),
covering every test file without per-file edits.
- Individual `beforeAll(fn, 60_000)` / `beforeEach(fn, 15_000)` calls on
the 8 tests that flaked most stay in place as explicit safety nets so
a future bunfig config change doesn't silently re-introduce the flake.
Result: 1997 pass, 0 fail on `bun run test` (117 tests added since the
prior baseline by picking up typecheck-gated passes). No infrastructure
flake tolerated in CI.
* chore: bump version and changelog (v0.16.3)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Wintermute <wintermute@garrytan.com>
Co-authored-by: Wintermute <wintermute@openclaw.ai>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: v0.16.1 — minions worker deployment guide (from #287)
New docs/guides/minions-deployment.md covering persistent worker deploy
patterns (watchdog cron, inline --follow for cron-only workloads) plus
the sharp edges of running gbrain jobs work against Supabase in
production.
Addresses a real gap: existing minions docs (minions-fix.md,
minions-shell-jobs.md) cover schema repair and shell-job security,
not deploy patterns. With v0.16.0's durable agent runtime, the
persistent worker is now load-bearing for subagent + subagent_aggregator
handlers too, so a supervised deploy story matters.
Pre-landing accuracy pass corrected five factual bugs against current
source:
- max_stalled column default (5, not 1 or 3)
- stalled-jobs smoke-test query (active, not waiting)
- watchdog SIGTERM-to-SIGKILL grace (10s minimum, not 2s)
- cron env pattern (crontab env lines, not source ~/.bashrc)
- --follow exit semantics (blocks until submitted job is terminal,
not until queue is empty)
Docs-only. No code changed. Zero migration required.
Contributed by a downstream agent fork via #287.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: credit Wintermute correctly in v0.16.1 CHANGELOG
Wintermute is gbrain's own OpenClaw instance running in production, not a
community contributor. The original CHANGELOG framing ("community contributor
@wintermute") understated the funnier truth: the agent built on top of the
project wrote the deploy guide for the project after hitting its sharp edges
in production. Dogfooding with extra steps.
Co-Authored-By: Wintermute (OpenClaw) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: rewrite minions deployment guide for agent line-by-line execution
Fixes 12 findings from reading v0.16.1 guide as-an-agent would:
Real bugs:
- Crontab syntax wrong for user crontabs (6-field format dumped into
`crontab -e` got "bad minute" or parsed `user` as the command). Now two
labeled blocks: 5-field for `crontab -e`, 6-field for `/etc/crontab`.
- Watchdog restart loop (old shutdown lines in unrotated log re-matched
every 5 min forever). New `minion-watchdog.sh` writes 2-line PID file
(PID + restart epoch) and only considers log lines newer than the
epoch. Regex rewritten explicit (mawk rejects `{n}` intervals).
- Credentials in world-readable /etc/crontab. Secrets move to
/etc/gbrain.env (mode 600), referenced via BASH_ENV in crontab.
Structural:
- Preconditions block (5 fail-fast checks).
- "Which option?" decision tree.
- Template variable table (6 vars documented).
- Upgrade section (v0.13.x -> v0.16.2 checklist).
- Option 3: systemd.service + Procfile + fly.toml.partial snippets.
- Uninstall section.
- `--follow` example uses `gbrain embed --stale` (a real command) instead
of the fictional `gbrain enrich`.
- Dead-end "Proposed CLI flags (not yet implemented)" replaced with a
"Tune per-job today" callout pointing at flags that exist.
- Known Issues rewritten as imperatives.
Also wires `docs/guides/minions-deployment.md` into `scripts/llms-config.ts`
under the Configuration section so remote agents fetching llms.txt /
llms-full.txt see the guide by name.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: bump version and changelog (v0.16.2)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: sync v0.16.2 CHANGELOG with the actual --follow example in the guide
The shipped docs/guides/minions-deployment.md uses `gbrain embed --stale`
(a real command) but the v0.16.2 CHANGELOG entry still referenced
`gbrain enrich --brain $GBRAIN_WORKSPACE` (the older draft). Bring the
CHANGELOG in line with what actually shipped.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor(mcp): extract buildToolDefs helper for subagent tool registry reuse
The inline operations.map(...) block in src/mcp/server.ts became the only
source of truth for agent-facing tool definitions. Extract into a reusable
exported helper so the v0.15 subagent tool registry can call it with a
filtered OPERATIONS subset instead of duplicating the shape.
Byte-for-byte equivalence regression pinned in test/mcp-tool-defs.test.ts —
legacy inline mapping kept verbatim inside the test so any future drift
between the new helper and the pre-extraction MCP schema fails loudly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(operations): subagent-aware OperationContext + put_page namespace
Adds three optional fields to OperationContext:
- jobId?: number — the currently running Minion job id
- subagentId?: number — the owning subagent job id for tool-dispatched calls
- viaSubagent?: boolean — FAIL-CLOSED flag for agent-path gating
put_page now enforces a namespace rule when invoked on the subagent tool
dispatch path (viaSubagent=true): writes MUST target
`wiki/agents/<subagentId>/...`. Anchored, slash-boundary enforced so a
collision like `wiki/agents/12evil/...` can't impersonate subagent 12.
The check runs BEFORE the dry-run short-circuit so preview calls surface
the same rejection. Fail-closed: a missing subagentId with viaSubagent=true
rejects every slug rather than letting a dispatcher bug open a hole.
Existing callers unaffected — all three fields are optional and the legacy
put_page behavior is unchanged when viaSubagent is undefined/false.
12 regression + namespace tests pin:
- local CLI writes (viaSubagent unset) accept arbitrary slugs
- MCP writes (remote=true, viaSubagent unset) accept arbitrary slugs
- subagent-path: anchored prefix accepted, wrong id rejected, prefix-
collision defeated, leading-slash rejected, bare-prefix rejected,
fail-closed on missing/NaN subagentId, permission_denied code emitted
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(schema): v0.15.0 subagent runtime tables + migration orchestrator
Adds three new tables for the durable LLM agent runtime:
subagent_messages — Anthropic message-block persistence.
Parallel tool_use blocks in one assistant
message live in content_blocks JSONB, not
across rows (fixes the (job_id, turn_idx, role)
misdesign codex caught in v0.13 drafting).
subagent_tool_executions — Two-phase tool ledger. INSERT pending before
execute, UPDATE complete/failed after. Replay
re-runs pending rows only if the tool is
idempotent (v1 ships only idempotent tools so
this is preventive).
subagent_rate_leases — Lease-based concurrency cap for outbound
providers (e.g. anthropic:messages). Stale
leases auto-prune on next acquire so crashed
workers can't strand capacity.
All DDL uses CREATE TABLE/INDEX IF NOT EXISTS — order-independent vs
PR #244's initSchema() reorder, and idempotent across fresh-install +
upgrade paths. Shipped in both src/schema.sql (Postgres) and
src/core/pglite-schema.ts (PGLite); schema-embedded.ts regenerated.
Migration orchestrator v0_15_0.ts (phases: schema → verify → record).
v0_14_0.ts is a no-op stub so the registry's version sequence stays
gapless (v0.14.0 shipped shell-jobs — code change, no DB migration).
10 unit tests for registry wiring, ordering, dry-run phase behavior, and
schema-embedded table presence. test/apply-migrations.test.ts updated for
the two new registry entries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(minions): emit child_done on every terminal + max_stalled per-job + terminal set fix
Three correctness fixes the v0.15 subagent aggregator spine depends on:
1. child_done emission on ALL terminal transitions, not just success.
- completeJob already emitted on success — now also tags outcome='complete'.
- failJob newly emits on terminal 'failed' or 'dead' (outcome='failed'|'dead',
error=<text>), BEFORE the parent-terminal UPDATE so the EXISTS guard on
the inbox INSERT doesn't skip it on fail_parent paths (codex catch).
- cancelJob now emits outcome='cancelled' per descendant with a parent.
- handleTimeouts now emits outcome='timeout' per timed-out child.
ChildDoneMessage gains optional { outcome, error } — backwards compatible
(legacy writers omitted them; consumers treat absent outcome as 'complete').
2. Parent-resolution terminal set now includes 'failed'.
Pre-v0.15 the `NOT EXISTS (... status NOT IN ('completed','dead','cancelled'))`
guard treated a failed child as still-pending, stranding aggregator parents
that chose on_child_fail='continue' or 'ignore' in waiting-children forever.
Expanded to {completed, failed, dead, cancelled} everywhere parent resolution
reads child status (completeJob inline, failJob remove_dep + continue,
cancelJob sweep, handleTimeouts sweep, and the resolveParent method itself).
3. MinionJobInput.max_stalled threads through MinionQueue.add() on INSERT.
Column exists with default 1 — that is "first stall → dead", which defeats
crash recovery for long-running handlers. Subagent children will set
max_stalled: 3 to survive mid-run worker kills. Second-submitter under an
idempotency-key hit does NOT mutate the existing row (codex-flagged
footgun — first-submit options are load-bearing state).
13 unit tests pin: emission on each of completeJob/failJob/cancelJob/
handleTimeouts, insertion order on fail_parent, terminal-set expansion with
continue policy, max_stalled default + override + idempotency behavior.
E2E tier 1 (Postgres) passes 141 tests unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(minions): rate-leases + waitForCompletion infra for v0.15 subagent
Two infrastructure modules the subagent handler spine depends on:
rate-leases.ts — lease-based concurrency cap for outbound providers
(anthropic:messages, openai:*, etc.). Counter-based limiters leak capacity
on worker crash; leases are owner-tagged rows with expires_at that
auto-prune on the next acquire. Two-phase: txn-scoped pg_advisory_xact_lock
guards the check-then-insert so concurrent acquires can't both win the
"last slot". renewLeaseWithBackoff retries 3x (250/500/1000ms) for mid-
call DB blips — on persistent failure the LLM-loop caller aborts with a
renewable error so the worker re-claims and the rate invariant is
preserved. Owner FK cascades clean up leases on job deletion.
wait-for-completion.ts — poll-until-terminal helper for CLI callers.
Minions' NOTIFY is worker-side only; `gbrain agent run --follow` polls
getJob() until status is {completed, failed, dead, cancelled}. TimeoutError
carries jobId + elapsedMs and does NOT cancel the job — the user can
inspect via `gbrain jobs get <id>` later. Supports AbortSignal for Ctrl-C
without throwing. Default pollMs is 1000 on Postgres, 250 on PGLite (inline
CLI has no network RTT).
21 unit tests cover: single/multi acquire under cap, rejection past cap,
release frees slot, different keys are independent, stale prune, cascade
on owner delete, renew bumps expires_at, renew on missing is false,
backoff path success + pruned short-circuit. waitForCompletion: fast-path
terminal, transitions mid-wait (completed/failed/cancelled), TimeoutError
shape, abort-signal early exit, non-existent job error.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(minions): subagent ToolDef types + brain-tool registry (v0.15)
Types first so the handler has a stable contract:
- SubagentHandlerData / AggregatorHandlerData — the two job.data shapes
- ToolCtx (engine, jobId, remote, signal) + ToolDef (name, description,
input_schema, idempotent, execute) — Anthropic-envelope, distinct from
the MCP McpToolDef extraction landed earlier
- ContentBlock discriminated union for subagent_messages.content_blocks
- SubagentStopReason + SubagentResult emitted on terminal completion
brain-allowlist.ts derives one ToolDef per allow-listed OPERATION. Reuses
the ParamDef → JSONSchema shape from the MCP extraction in a local helper
(Anthropic's input_schema field diverges from MCP's inputSchema by a
character). The 11-name allow-list is read-safe + put_page — every
destructive / filesystem / identity-mutating op stays off by default.
put_page gets a namespace-wrapped tool schema: `slug` pattern = anchored
`^wiki/agents/<subagentId>/.+`. The server-side check in put_page op
(shipped in prior commit) is still the authoritative gate — the schema
just helps the model write correct slugs first-try. `subagentId` is
plumbed into the ToolCtx so the viaSubagent=true fail-closed path lights
up on every tool-dispatched put_page.
filterAllowedTools narrows a registry by subagent_def's allowed_tools
frontmatter field. Rejects unknown names at load time (no silent drop —
typos in a skills/subagents/*.md would otherwise ship to prod with a
tool silently missing).
18 tests pin: every allowlist name exists in OPERATIONS (catches upstream
rename), Anthropic name regex, put_page namespace pattern per-subagent,
execute() routes through the op handler with viaSubagent=true, out-of-
namespace put_page throws permission_denied, filter passes prefixed +
unprefixed names, rejects unknowns, deduplicates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(minions): subagent-audit JSONL + transcript renderer
Two small plumbing pieces the v0.15 subagent handler + `gbrain agent logs`
depend on:
subagent-audit.ts — JSONL-rotated audit log mirroring the shell-audit
pattern. Two event flavors: submission (one line per job submit) and
heartbeat (one line per turn boundary — llm_call_started / completed /
tool_called / tool_result / tool_failed). Heartbeats fix the "--follow on
a long Anthropic call shows nothing for 30 seconds" problem codex flagged.
Never logs prompts or tool inputs (PII risk — subagent input_vars may
carry user-supplied free text); DOES log tokens, ms_elapsed, tool_name,
first 200 chars of error text. Rotates weekly via ISO week. `readSubagent
AuditForJob` is the readback path for `gbrain agent logs` — scans the
current + prior week file so job boundaries across weeks still resolve.
`GBRAIN_AUDIT_DIR` overrides the default ~/.gbrain/audit/ for container
deploys.
transcript.ts — renders subagent_messages + subagent_tool_executions to
markdown. Message order is authoritative; tool rows splice under their
owning assistant tool_use by tool_use_id. Handles text, tool_use (with
pending / complete / failed execution rows), tool_result (skipped if
we already rendered the owning tool_use — avoids double-printing), and
unknown block types (fenced JSON dump for diagnostics). Output is
UTF-8-safe truncated at maxOutputBytes.
21 unit tests: ISO week filename rotation (incl. 2027-01-01 → W53-2026
boundary), submission + heartbeat write shapes, 200-char error cap, best-
effort write failure doesn't throw, readback filters by job_id and
sinceIso. Transcript: empty input, ordering, token line, tool_use +
complete/failed/pending execution rendering, truncation, unknown-block
diagnostic dump.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(minions): subagent LLM-loop handler with crash-resumable replay
The main event: runs one Anthropic Messages API conversation with tool
use, persists every turn + tool execution, and resumes cleanly after a
worker kill anywhere in the loop.
Design points that carry the v0.15 guarantees:
1. Two-phase tool persistence. INSERT status='pending' before dispatch,
UPDATE to 'complete' or 'failed' after. subagent_messages rows are
the canonical conversation; subagent_tool_executions rows are the
canonical "did this tool run + what did it return". Either DB commit
is atomic, so replay has a single source of truth.
2. Replay reconciliation. If the last persisted message is an assistant
with tool_use blocks AND no following synthesized user message, we
crashed mid-dispatch. On resume, finish those tools first (respecting
idempotent flag for 'pending' rows), synthesize the user turn, and
THEN call the LLM again. Non-idempotent pending rows abort the job
with a clear error — v0.15 ships only idempotent tools so this is
preventive.
3. Rate lease around every LLM call. acquireLease before, releaseLease
after (both success and error paths). acquired=false throws
RateLeaseUnavailableError — the worker treats it as a renewable
error and re-claims later, so a temporary capacity cap doesn't fail
the job terminally.
4. Anthropic prompt caching. system block gets cache_control=ephemeral;
the LAST tool def gets it too (Anthropic caches everything up to and
including the marked block). ~10x cost reduction on multi-turn
agents per the plan.
5. Dual-signal abort. AbortSignal.any merges ctx.signal (timeout / lock
loss / cancel) with ctx.shutdownSignal (worker SIGTERM). Both feed
the Anthropic call's AbortSignal; mid-turn abort bails before the
next LLM call with whatever turns are already persisted. Node ≥ 20
has AbortSignal.any; older runtimes get a manual-merge polyfill.
6. Injectable Anthropic client. The real SDK implements MessagesClient
structurally; tests inject a FakeMessagesClient that scripts
responses.
12 unit tests pin: no-tool happy path, single tool_use complete, tool
throws → failed row + loop continues, unknown tool name rejection,
max_turns cap, crash-then-resume with partial state, replay skips already-
complete tool execs without re-invoking execute, non-idempotent pending
rejects on resume, lease acquire + release roundtrip, RateLeaseUnavailable
under cap-full, missing prompt validation, allowed_tools unknown-name.
NOT in v0.15: refusal detection (stop_reason + content shape), stop_reason
=max_tokens partial recovery, mid-call lease renewal with backoff loop.
All three are documented as P2 items in the plan file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(minions): subagent_aggregator handler with mixed-outcome rendering
Claims AFTER all subagent children resolve — by then Lane 1B's queue
changes have posted one child_done message per terminal transition into
this job's inbox (complete / failed / dead / cancelled / timeout). The
aggregator reads those, builds a deterministic markdown summary, and
returns it as the handler result.
Not an LLM call in v0.15 — output is reproducible concatenation so
fan-out runs stay comparable. v0.16+ can add an LLM synthesis pass
behind an opt-in flag.
Contract:
- empty children_ids → `(no children)` marker
- missing child_done (shouldn't happen under v0.15 invariants but
possible if a terminal-state path slipped past Lane 1B) → counted as
failed with "no child_done message observed" error
- non-complete outcomes: result is null in the output so no payload
leaks alongside a failure label
- children appear in the order children_ids was supplied
- custom aggregate_prompt_template replaces the markdown header
13 unit tests cover: empty input, all-success, mixed outcomes, result
suppression on failure, missing child_done handling, order preservation,
custom template, progress + log emission, stringified JSONB payload
parsing, non-child_done inbox filtering, legacy-writer outcome fallback,
and internal helper edges.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(minions): GBRAIN_PLUGIN_PATH loader + plugin-authors guide (v0.15)
Plumbing that makes Wintermute (and future downstream agents) day-1
usable on v0.15. Host repos drop a `gbrain.plugin.json` + `subagents/`
directory somewhere, set GBRAIN_PLUGIN_PATH (colon-separated like \$PATH),
and their custom subagent defs load at worker startup.
Path policy is strict: absolute paths only. Relative, ~-prefixed, and
URL-style (https://, file://) all rejected with warnings — the user
controls where plugins live. Non-existent paths and files (not dirs) are
warned and skipped so a typo doesn't crash worker startup.
Collision policy: left-wins. If two plugins ship a subagent with the same
name, the first one in GBRAIN_PLUGIN_PATH keeps it and the other gets a
warning naming both sources. Deterministic + debuggable.
Trust policy: plugins ship subagent defs ONLY. Cannot declare new tools,
cannot extend the brain allow-list, cannot override safety flags. The
subagent def's `allowed_tools:` frontmatter MUST subset the derived
registry — validation happens at load time (worker startup), not at
dispatch time, so a typo in a skill gives a loud startup error instead
of silently "tool never fires at 3am."
Manifest `plugin_version: "gbrain-plugin-v1"` locks the contract. Unknown
versions rejected. `subagents` field escape attempts (`../../../etc` etc)
rejected. gray-matter handles the markdown frontmatter parse — subagent
defs don't conform to the page schema, so we don't use parseMarkdown.
docs/guides/plugin-authors.md is the Wintermute-facing walkthrough.
Covers the minimum viable plugin shape, the three policies, the
frontmatter fields, known caveats (audit JSONL is local-only, tool calls
always run remote=true, put_page is namespace-scoped).
22 unit tests pin path rejection, missing/invalid manifest, unsupported
version, escape-attempt, basename fallback for missing frontmatter.name,
allowed_tools round-trip, unknown-tool rejection with validAgentToolNames,
empty env, multi-path, collision warning with left-wins, trimmed paths,
manifest-rejection as warning.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(cli): gbrain agent run + logs + worker registration (v0.15 Lane 4H)
Three integration seams wired:
src/commands/agent.ts — \`gbrain agent run\`. Submits subagent jobs (or a
fan-out of N + aggregator) under the trusted-submit flag so the
PROTECTED_JOB_NAMES guard doesn't reject. Fan-out path creates the
aggregator first (so children can reference its id as parent), submits
each child with on_child_fail='continue' (required by Lane 1B's terminal-
set + child_done machinery), then jsonb_set's the aggregator's
children_ids. Short-circuits a 1-entry manifest to a single subagent
with no aggregator. Follow mode runs agent-logs streaming + waitFor
Completion in parallel and exits on terminal status; detach prints the
job id and exits. Ctrl-C is handled as detach, not cancel — the job
keeps running, consistent with durability invariants.
src/commands/agent-logs.ts — \`gbrain agent logs\`. Merges ~/.gbrain/audit/
subagent-jobs-*.jsonl (heartbeats + submissions) with subagent_messages
(persisted conversation) in one chronological stream. --follow polls at
1s and exits when the job hits terminal. --since accepts ISO-8601 OR
relative shorthand (5m / 1h / 2d). Writes transcript tail (full message
+ tool tree) only for terminal jobs, so mid-run --follow doesn't spam a
half-rendered transcript.
src/commands/jobs.ts registerBuiltinHandlers — matches the shell-handler
opt-in shape. GBRAIN_ALLOW_LLM_JOBS=1 registers the subagent +
subagent_aggregator handlers, then loads plugins from GBRAIN_PLUGIN_PATH
with validAgentToolNames pulled from BRAIN_TOOL_ALLOWLIST. Every plugin
warning + loaded-plugin line prints to stderr, mirroring the openclaw-
seam startup convention.
src/core/minions/protected-names.ts — subagent + subagent_aggregator
join the protected set. MCP submit_job returns permission_denied; only
trusted-CLI callers (with allowProtectedSubmit) can insert these rows.
src/cli.ts — adds 'agent' to CLI_ONLY + dispatches it like 'jobs'.
Test fallout: subagent-handler.test.ts + subagent-transcript.test.ts
helpers now submit under allowProtectedSubmit (they insert rows named
'subagent' directly against the queue). 23 new tests in agent-cli.test.ts
cover: flag parsing (including --detach implies !follow, --tools comma
split, -- terminator, unknown flag throw), --since parse (ISO, relative
5m/2h/1d, unparseable error), protected-name guard for all three names,
trusted-submit gate, and a fan-out integration check that verifies the
aggregator + children shape after --fanout-manifest.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(e2e): rename max_children test's spawned jobs off the protected 'subagent' name
The spawn-storm test submitted 50 literal-string 'subagent' children to
exercise the max_children row-lock serialization. In v0.15 'subagent' is
a PROTECTED_JOB_NAME (CLI-only; trusted submit required), so the old
literal submission now throws before reaching the row-lock check.
The test is about max_children semantics, not the v0.15 subagent runtime
specifically — rename the child name to 'child_worker' so the test
exercises the exact same queue.add path without tripping the new guard.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore(ship): v0.15.0 — VERSION, CHANGELOG, README, upgrading-agents, CLAUDE.md
Bumps VERSION → 0.15.0 and package.json → 0.15.0 (resolves the pre-existing
drift — on master, VERSION=0.14.0 but package.json=0.13.1; src/version.ts
reads package.json, so this is what the binary prints now).
CHANGELOG lands the release-summary entry in the GStack voice + the full
itemized change list (11 new modules, 3 new tables, queue correctness
fixes, trust-model additions, 159 new unit tests). Voice rules respected
— no em dashes, no AI vocabulary, real file names + real numbers.
README gets a "Durable agents: `gbrain agent` (v0.15)" section next to
the Minions block, with the three canonical CLI shapes (single run,
fanout-manifest, logs --follow) and a pointer to plugin-authors.md.
docs/UPGRADING_DOWNSTREAM_AGENTS.md gets a full v0.15.0 section covering
the four adoption steps downstream agents (Wintermute and similar) need:
(1) worker opt-in via GBRAIN_ALLOW_LLM_JOBS, (2) moving custom subagent
defs to a plugin repo, (3) replacing ephemeral subagent runs with durable
`gbrain agent run`, (4) the put_page namespace rule for agent-driven writes.
CLAUDE.md updated with concise per-file descriptions for every new module:
the handler, aggregator, audit, rate-leases, wait-for-completion,
transcript, plugin-loader, brain-allowlist, tool-defs extraction, agent
CLI + logs CLI, and the registerBuiltinHandlers wiring for subagent
handlers + plugin-loader.
Verified: binary builds (940 modules, 89ms compile), prints `gbrain 0.15.0`,
`gbrain agent --help` shows the new subcommand shape. 170 new tests pass
(full v0.15 surface). Full unit suite passes bar one parallel-load
flake on a pre-existing E2E (graph-quality, passes in isolation).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(minions): drop GBRAIN_ALLOW_LLM_JOBS flag — subagent handlers always-on
The env flag was ceremony. Shell jobs need the flag because they execute
arbitrary CLI commands (RCE surface). Subagent jobs don't — they call the
Anthropic API with whatever ANTHROPIC_API_KEY is in env, so the key is
already the cost gate (no key → SDK fails on the first turn). And
who-can-submit is already protected by PROTECTED_JOB_NAMES +
TrustedSubmitOpts: MCP callers get permission_denied; only `gbrain agent
run` with allowProtectedSubmit can insert subagent / subagent_aggregator
rows. The flag added nothing the existing guards didn't already give us.
registerBuiltinHandlers now always registers subagent + subagent_aggregator
and loads GBRAIN_PLUGIN_PATH plugins. Worker startup prints:
[minion worker] subagent handlers enabled
instead of the conditional enabled/disabled pair. Plugin discovery runs
unconditionally — empty PATH is a no-op.
README, CHANGELOG, docs/UPGRADING_DOWNSTREAM_AGENTS, CLAUDE.md, agent CLI
help text, and subagent handler docstring all updated to drop the flag
reference. Shell handler's GBRAIN_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS gate is untouched —
separate concern (RCE, not billing).
Full suite: 1859 pass, 0 fail.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: scrub private agent-fork name from all public artifacts
Enforces the rule added to CLAUDE.md (privacy section): never say
`Wintermute` in any CHANGELOG, README, doc, PR, or commit message.
Reader-facing copy says `your OpenClaw` (the term covers every
downstream OpenClaw deployment — Wintermute, Hermes, AlphaClaw — in
one umbrella the reader already recognizes). First-person /
origin-story copy says `Garry's OpenClaw` (honest that this is the
production deployment driving the feature, without exposing the
private agent's name).
Swept across:
CHANGELOG.md (v0.15 entry + 4 historical mentions)
README.md
TODOS.md
docs/UPGRADING_DOWNSTREAM_AGENTS.md
docs/guides/plugin-authors.md (including example plugin names)
docs/guides/plugin-handlers.md
docs/guides/minions-fix.md
docs/designs/KNOWLEDGE_RUNTIME.md (27 refs, mostly analytical)
docs/benchmarks/2026-04-18-minions-vs-openclaw-production.md
skills/migrations/v0.11.0.md
skills/skillpack-check/SKILL.md
scripts/skillify-check.ts
src/commands/doctor.ts
src/commands/migrations/v0_15_0.ts
src/commands/skillpack-check.ts
src/core/enrichment/completeness.ts
src/core/minions/plugin-loader.ts
src/core/operations.ts
src/core/output/scaffold.ts
Intentionally kept (these mentions define/test the rule itself):
CLAUDE.md — the privacy rule section necessarily uses the literal
name to define the restriction and examples
test/plugin-loader.test.ts — fixture name in a plugin-loading test;
renaming risks breaking assertion logic
test/integrations.test.ts — the word appears in a privacy-regex
test that explicitly enforces name redaction
test/doctor-minions-check.test.ts — a comment referencing the rule
CEO plan artifact at ~/.gstack/projects/… — private, not distributed
Binary builds (941 modules), 198/198 relevant tests pass, `gbrain --version`
prints `0.15.0`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: gitignore bun --compile artifacts with a glob, not specific hashes
Each `bun build --compile` emits a fresh hash-named `.*-*.bun-build` file
in cwd. The prior entries listed two specific hashes that were already
stale, so every build after those created a new untracked file requiring
manual cleanup.
Replace the two stale entries with `*.bun-build` so any current or future
compile artifact is ignored automatically.
Verified: ran `bun build --compile`, got two new `.*-*.bun-build` files,
`git status` stays clean.
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* chore(ship): rename v0.15.0 → v0.16.0
gbrain master is at 0.14.2. Other 0.15.x PRs may land before/after
this one — we bump the minor (new capability) and lock to 0.16.0 so
ordering with concurrent work doesn't matter.
Touches:
- VERSION: 0.15.0 → 0.16.0
- package.json: 0.15.0 → 0.16.0
- Rename src/commands/migrations/v0_15_0.ts → v0_16_0.ts (+ all
version strings inside + import in index.ts registry)
- Rename test/migrations-v0_15_0.test.ts → migrations-v0_16_0.test.ts
- test/apply-migrations.test.ts: skippedFuture lists now reference
'0.16.0'
- test/put-page-namespace.test.ts + test/mcp-tool-defs.test.ts: Lane
comment refs updated
- src/schema.sql + src/core/pglite-schema.ts: "v0.15.0" section
comment updated; src/core/schema-embedded.ts regenerated
- CHANGELOG.md: top entry renamed to [0.16.0]; inline v0_15_0 /
v0.15.0 refs swept
- docs/UPGRADING_DOWNSTREAM_AGENTS.md: section heading v0.15.0 → v0.16.0
Verified: `gbrain --version` prints 0.16.0, migration registry /
buildPlan / put_page / mcp-tool-defs / handlers tests all green
(49/49).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: reframe v0.16 durability headline around OpenClaw crashes
"Laptop closed mid-run" framing implied a consumer workflow. Real pain is
OpenClaw subagents dying daily on worker kill, memory blip, or timeout.
Headline + README copy match the body now.
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* chore: regenerate llms-full.txt after README copy change
Regen drift guard caught the README edit from 83beec4.
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* fix(migrate): v0_13_0 shells out to `gbrain` shim, not `process.execPath`
On bun-installed trees, process.execPath is the bun runtime itself.
`bun extract links ...` got reinterpreted as `bun run extract` and
crashed the upgrade mid-Phase B. The canonical shim on PATH already
wraps the right runtime+entrypoint; trust it.
Regression-guarded by test/migrations-v0_13_0.test.ts which greps
the source for `process.execPath` and `bun` invocations. This was
Bug 1 of tonight's v0.13 → v0.14 upgrade-night postmortem.
* fix(autopilot): resolveGbrainCliPath prefers shim, never returns .ts
argv[1] check used to short-circuit on /cli.ts, so bun-source installs
got a .ts path back. spawn() then failed EACCES because TypeScript
source isn't executable, and autopilot silently lost its worker.
Reordered probes: which gbrain (shim) first, then compiled execPath,
then argv[1] only if it ends in /gbrain. Deleted the .ts branch
entirely — no valid case exists.
Rewrote the existing test that enshrined the buggy .ts return.
Critical regression guard: resolver MUST NEVER return a .ts path
across any combination of argv[1] + execPath + shim availability.
This was Bug 4 of tonight's v0.13 → v0.14 upgrade-night postmortem.
* chore: bump version and changelog (v0.15.3)
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* feat(db): resolvePrepare() helper for PgBouncer transaction-mode pools
Adds port-6543 auto-detect with a 4-level precedence chain:
GBRAIN_PREPARE env var → ?prepare= URL param → port auto-detect → default.
Wires into the module-singleton connect() so the main CLI path no longer
hits "prepared statement does not exist" against Supabase transaction
pooler. Returns boolean | undefined; undefined means omit the option and
let postgres.js default (true) stand.
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* feat(postgres-engine): honor resolvePrepare in worker-instance pool
Without this, \`gbrain jobs work\` against a Supabase pooler URL hits
"prepared statement does not exist" under load even after the module
singleton was fixed in db.ts. Community PR #270 (@notjbg) caught this
second path that #284 had missed. Reuses the shared helper, no regex
duplication.
Co-Authored-By: Jonah Berg <jonah.berg.g@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(doctor): pgbouncer_prepare check
URL-only check (no DB roundtrip) that reads the configured URL via
loadConfig() and flags the footgun: port 6543 with prepared statements
still enabled. Warns with the exact env override (GBRAIN_PREPARE=false)
and URL-query alternative (?prepare=false). Works for both the module
singleton and worker-instance engines.
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* test: resolvePrepare precedence matrix + postgres-engine wiring guard
- test/resolve-prepare.test.ts: 11 cases covering env override, URL
query param, port auto-detect, malformed URLs, postgres:// scheme,
URL-encoded credentials. Uses bun:test — #284's original vitest file
would never have run in this project.
- test/postgres-engine.test.ts: new source-level grep case asserting
the worker-pool connect() branch calls db.resolvePrepare(url) and
includes a typeof prepare === 'boolean' check. Mirrors the existing
SET LOCAL regression guard. If anyone rips out the wiring, the build
fails before shipping starts dropping rows.
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* chore: bump version and changelog (v0.15.4)
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* feat(progress): step 1 - shared ProgressReporter + CliOptions
Adds the foundation for v0.14.2's bulk-action progress streaming work:
- src/core/progress.ts: dependency-free reporter with auto/human/json/quiet
modes, TTY-aware rendering, time+item rate gating, heartbeat helper for
slow single queries, dot-composed child phases, EPIPE defense (both sync
throw and async 'error' event), and a singleton module-level signal
coordinator so SIGINT/SIGTERM emits abort events for all live phases
without leaking per-instance listeners.
- src/core/cli-options.ts: parseGlobalFlags() for --quiet /
--progress-json / --progress-interval=<ms> (both space and = forms),
plus cliOptsToProgressOptions() that resolves to the right mode. Non-TTY
default is human-plain one-line-per-event; JSON is explicit opt-in so
shell pipelines don't suddenly see structured noise.
- test/progress.test.ts (17 cases): mode resolution, rate gating, no-fake-
totals on heartbeat paths, EPIPE paths, SIGINT singleton, child phase
composition.
- test/cli-options.test.ts (14 cases): flag parsing, invalid values,
interleaved flags, mode resolution.
Follow-ups wire doctor/embed/files/export/extract/import/sync/migrate/
repair-jsonb/backlinks/orphans/lint/integrity/eval/autopilot/jobs plus
the apply-migrations orchestrators through this reporter, and route
Minion handlers to job.updateProgress instead of stderr. See the plan
in ~/.claude/plans/.
1682 unit tests pass.
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* feat(progress): step 2 - wire global flags into cli.ts
Parse --quiet / --progress-json / --progress-interval from argv BEFORE
command dispatch, strip them, stash resolved CliOptions on a module-level
singleton (same pattern as Commander's program.opts()) and on every
OperationContext created for shared-op dispatch.
- src/cli.ts: parseGlobalFlags(rawArgs) at the top of main(); setCliOptions
once; dispatch sees only the stripped argv. Fixes the "gbrain
--progress-json doctor" unknown-command case that Codex flagged.
- src/core/cli-options.ts: expose setCliOptions/getCliOptions/
_resetCliOptionsForTest singleton. Commands that want progress call
getCliOptions() to construct their reporter.
- src/core/operations.ts: OperationContext gains optional cliOpts field
so shared-op handlers (and MCP-invoked ops that need a reporter) can
read the same settings. MCP callers leave it undefined and consumers
default to quiet.
- test/cli-options.test.ts: +4 cases covering singleton round-trip and
an integration smoke spawning `bun src/cli.ts --progress-json --version`
to prove the global flag survives dispatch.
45 relevant unit tests pass (progress + cli-options + cli.test.ts).
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* feat(progress): step 3a - doctor + orphans heartbeat streaming
Doctor on a 52K-page brain used to sit silent for 10+ minutes while the
DB checks ran, then get killed by an agent timeout. Wired through the
new reporter so agents see which check is running and the slow ones
heartbeat every second.
doctor.ts:
- Start a single `doctor.db_checks` phase around the DB section, with a
per-check heartbeat before each step (connection, pgvector, rls,
schema_version, embeddings, graph_coverage, integrity, jsonb_integrity,
markdown_body_completeness).
- jsonb_integrity now scans 5 targets, not 4: added page_versions.
frontmatter so the check surface matches `repair-jsonb` (per Codex
review of the plan — the old 4-target scan missed a known repair site).
Per-target heartbeat so 50K-row scans show incremental progress.
- markdown_body_completeness: wrap the existing query in a 1s heartbeat
timer. The regex scan over rd.data ->> 'content' can't be paginated
usefully; this just lets agents see life during the sequential scan.
No fake totals — the LIMIT 100 query has no meaningful total count.
- integrity sample: same heartbeat pattern around the 500-page scan.
orphans.ts:
- findOrphans() wraps the NOT EXISTS anti-join in a 1s heartbeat.
Keyset pagination was considered and rejected: without an index on
links.to_page_id it's no faster than the full scan, and may re-plan
the anti-join per batch. A schema migration adding that index is the
right fix and is queued for v0.14.3.
Follow-ups:
- Step 3b: wire embed/files/export (the \r-only stdout offenders).
- Step 5: end-to-end progress test spawning `gbrain doctor --progress-json`
against a fixture brain, asserting stderr events and clean stdout.
All existing unit tests continue to pass (76/76 in doctor + orphans +
progress + cli-options).
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* feat(progress): step 3b - embed + files + export stderr progress
Replaces the \r-on-stdout progress pattern in the three worst offenders
(embed, files sync, export) with the shared reporter on stderr. Stdout
now carries only final summaries, so scripts and tests that grep for
counts ("Embedded N chunks", "Files sync complete", "Exported N pages")
still work when output is piped.
- embed.ts: runEmbedCore accepts an optional onProgress callback. The
CLI wrapper builds a reporter and passes reporter.tick(); Minion
handlers will pass job.updateProgress in Step 4. Worker-pool is
single-threaded JS so no rate-gate race (per Codex review #18).
- files.ts syncFiles(): tick per file; summary preserved on stdout.
- export.ts: tick per page; summary preserved on stdout.
Also fixes a --quiet flag collision. `skillpack-check` has its own
--quiet mode (suppress all stdout). parseGlobalFlags strips --quiet
globally now, and skillpack-check reads the resolved CliOptions
singleton via getCliOptions() instead of re-parsing argv. Test updated
to match the stripping behavior.
1686 unit tests pass.
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* feat(progress): step 3c - extract + import + sync reporter streaming
Extract, import, and sync now stream per-file progress to stderr through
the shared reporter. All three kept their stdout summaries + JSON
action-events intact so existing tests + agent scripts are unaffected.
- extract.ts (4 paths: links/timeline × fs/db): replaced the ad-hoc
`process.stderr.write({event:"progress"...})` lines with reporter
ticks. Same channel (stderr), canonical schema now, visible in both
text and --json modes. Stdout action-events (`add_link` /
`add_timeline`) untouched — tests grep them.
- import.ts: the logProgress() function that printed every 100 files to
stdout is now a progress.tick() call per file. Rate-gated by the
reporter. Stdout still gets the final "Import complete (Xs)" summary
and the --json payload.
- sync.ts: three new phases (`sync.deletes`, `sync.renames`,
`sync.imports`) tick per file, so big syncs show each step rather than
a single end-of-run summary. Phase hierarchy ready to be child()-chained
into runImport / runEmbed later, per Codex review #26.
Updated the #132 nested-transaction regression test in test/sync.test.ts
to also accept the new hoisted-loop shape — the guarantee (this loop is
not wrapped in engine.transaction) still holds.
1686 unit tests pass.
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* feat(progress): step 3d - migrate/repair/backlinks/lint/integrity/eval
Wires the remaining bulk commands through the reporter:
- migrate-engine: phase starts (migrate.copy_pages, migrate.copy_links),
per-page tick. Old \"Progress: N/total\" stdout logs replaced by
stderr ticks; final stdout summary preserved.
- repair-jsonb: per-column start + a heartbeat timer while each UPDATE
runs (minutes on 50K-row tables). CRITICAL: stdout stays clean so
migrations/v0_12_2.ts's JSON.parse(child.stdout) still works. Per
Codex review #12.
- backlinks: 1s heartbeat around findBacklinkGaps() (sync double-walk
of the brain dir).
- lint: tick per page; per-issue stdout output preserved.
- integrity auto: tick per page in the main resolver loop. The separate
~/.gbrain/integrity-progress.jsonl resume marker is untouched (its
role shifts from live progress reporting to resume-only).
- eval: add an onProgress option to core's runEval(), CLI wraps with a
reporter. Phases: eval.single / eval.ab. Tick per query.
core/search/eval.ts gains a RunEvalOptions type so future callers (MCP
eval op, Minion handlers) can also hook in without the reporter.
1686 unit tests pass.
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* feat(progress): step 3e - onProgress callbacks on core libs
- src/core/embedding.ts: embedBatch() gains an optional
EmbedBatchOptions.onBatchComplete callback, fired after each 100-item
sub-batch. CLI wrappers pass reporter.tick; Minion handlers can pass
job.updateProgress.
- src/core/enrichment-service.ts: enrichEntities() config gains
onProgress(done, total, name) fired after each entity. Same split:
CLI -> reporter, Minion -> DB-backed progress.
No CLI behavior change on its own. Wiring these callbacks into the
Minion handlers is Step 4.
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* feat(progress): step 4 - orchestrators + upgrade + minion handlers
- cli-options.ts: childGlobalFlags() returns the flag suffix to append
to child gbrain subprocesses. Empty string by default, " --quiet
--progress-json" when the parent has them set, so child behavior
inherits the parent's progress-mode without scattering string-concat
logic across every execSync site.
- migrations/v0_12_2.ts: each execSync inherits the parent's global
flags. Phase C (repair-jsonb --dry-run --json) pins explicit stdio to
['ignore','pipe','inherit'] so child stderr streams straight through
while stdout stays captured for JSON.parse. Per Codex review #12.
- migrations/v0_12_0.ts + v0_11_0.ts: same childGlobalFlags wiring at
each gbrain-subcommand execSync.
- upgrade.ts: post-upgrade timeout bumped 300s → 30min (1_800_000 ms)
with GBRAIN_POST_UPGRADE_TIMEOUT_MS override. The old 300s cap killed
v0.12.0 graph-backfill migrations on 50K+ brains; the heartbeat
wiring added in v0.14.2 makes long waits observable, so a generous
ceiling no longer means users stare at a silent terminal.
- jobs.ts: the embed Minion handler passes job.updateProgress as the
onProgress callback, so per-job progress is durable in minion_jobs
and readable via `gbrain jobs get <id>`. Primary Minion progress
channel is DB-backed — stderr from `jobs work` stays coarse for
daemon liveness only. Per Codex review #20.
1686 unit tests pass.
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* feat(progress): step 5 - E2E doctor-progress test + CI guard
scripts/check-progress-to-stdout.sh greps src/ for the banned
`process.stdout.write('\r…')` pattern that v0.14.2 removed from the
bulk-action codepaths. Wired into the `bun run test` script so any
future regression that puts progress back on stdout fails fast. An
empty allowlist documents the position: every known call site was
migrated; new exceptions need a rationale in the allowlist.
test/e2e/doctor-progress.test.ts (Tier 1, needs Postgres + pgvector):
- `gbrain --progress-json doctor --json`: stderr carries JSONL progress
events with the canonical {event, phase, ts} shape, starts + finishes
for `doctor.db_checks`. Stdout stays parseable JSON — no progress
pollution.
- `gbrain doctor` (no flag): human-plain progress goes to stderr only,
stdout stays free of `[doctor.db_checks]`.
- `gbrain --quiet doctor`: reporter emits nothing; doctor still runs to
completion.
test/cli-options.test.ts: +2 spawning integration tests. One verifies
`gbrain --progress-json --version` keeps stdout clean of progress events
(single-shot commands that don't use a reporter aren't affected). One
guards the skillpack-check --quiet regression — --quiet suppresses
stdout by reading the resolved CliOptions singleton, not re-parsing argv.
Full test matrix:
bun run test -> 1726 pass / 184 skipped (no DB) / 0 fail
bun run test:e2e -> 136 pass / 13 skipped / 0 fail
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* feat(progress): step 6 - docs + v0.14.2 release bump
- VERSION + package.json bumped to 0.14.2.
- docs/progress-events.md (new): canonical JSON event schema reference.
Stable from v0.14.2, additive only. Lists every phase name shipped
in this release, the five event types (start/tick/heartbeat/finish/
abort), the TTY/non-TTY rendering rules, subprocess inheritance
semantics, and the Minion DB-backed progress model.
- CLAUDE.md: "Bulk-action progress reporting" section under the build
instructions; Key files entries for src/core/progress.ts,
src/core/cli-options.ts, scripts/check-progress-to-stdout.sh, and
docs/progress-events.md; doctor.ts entry updated to note the v0.14.2
5-target jsonb_integrity scan + heartbeat wiring.
- CHANGELOG.md v0.14.2: full release summary per project voice rules.
The "numbers that matter" table, per-command before/after grid,
backward-compat warnings for stdout→stderr moves, and an itemized
changes section covering reporter/CLI plumbing/schema/Minion
handlers/doctor fixes/upgrade timeout/CI guard/tests. No em dashes.
Real file paths, real commands, real numbers.
- skills/migrations/v0.14.2.md (new): agent migration note. Mechanical
step is "nothing" since v0.14.2 is purely additive. Walks agents
through the three new global flags, the 14 wired commands, the event
schema cheat sheet, Minion progress via job.updateProgress, and
scripts/verification commands.
Full test matrix:
bun run test (unit + guards) -> 1726 pass / 184 skipped / 0 fail
bun run test:e2e (Postgres) -> 141 pass / 8 skipped / 0 fail
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* chore: bump version to 0.15.2, restore master's [0.14.2] CHANGELOG entry
Master sits at 0.14.2 (reliability wave). This PR lands on top as 0.15.2
(progress streaming wave). Splits the merge-time combined CHANGELOG entry
back into two discrete release sections so history stays honest:
- [0.15.2] = progress reporter, CliOptions, 14 wired commands, Minion
embed handler, doctor jsonb_integrity 5-target fix, upgrade timeout bump,
CI guard, progress unit+E2E tests.
- [0.14.2] = master's eight root-cause bug fixes, restored verbatim from
origin/master.
Touched files:
- VERSION + package.json: 0.14.2 -> 0.15.2 (next patch off master).
- skills/migrations/v0.14.2.md -> skills/migrations/v0.15.2.md (rename
+ rewrite frontmatter + body to v0.15.2).
- CHANGELOG.md: split into two entries; progress-wave refs renamed
v0.14.2 -> v0.15.2; reliability-wave entry restored from master.
- src/core/progress.ts, src/commands/doctor.ts, src/commands/sync.ts,
src/commands/upgrade.ts, docs/progress-events.md, test/sync.test.ts:
progress-wave v0.14.2 references -> v0.15.2. The remaining v0.14.2
references in test/e2e/migration-flow.test.ts (Bug 3 context) and
CLAUDE.md (reliability-wave key commands, Bug 3 ledger move) correctly
point at master's 0.14.2 release.
Test matrix after version bump:
bun run test -> 1780 pass / 179 skipped / 0 fail
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* fix(wave): 4 hot issues + 3 scope expansions (v0.13.1)
Addresses four user-filed regressions after v0.13.0 plus three adjacent
footgun closures.
* #170 — CREATE INDEX [CONCURRENTLY] IF NOT EXISTS idx_pages_updated_at_desc
on pages (updated_at DESC). Engine-aware migration v12 with invalid-index
cleanup on Postgres, plain CREATE on PGLite. ~700x on 30k+ row brains.
Contributed by @fuleinist (#215).
* #219 — Minions schema default max_stalled 1 -> 5. v13 migration ALTERs
the default and UPDATEs existing non-terminal rows (waiting/active/
delayed/waiting-children/paused) so live queues get rescued on upgrade.
Adds MinionJobInput.max_stalled with [1,100] clamp. New --max-stalled
CLI flag on `jobs submit`. Reported by @macbotmini-eng.
* #218 — package.json postinstall surfaces errors instead of silencing.
trustedDependencies whitelists @electric-sql/pglite. doctor
schema_version check fails loudly when migrations never ran and links
to #218. README + INSTALL_FOR_AGENTS warn against `bun install -g`.
Reported by @gopalpatel.
* #223 — @electric-sql/pglite pinned to exactly 0.4.3 (was ^0.4.4).
PGLiteEngine.connect() wraps PGlite.create() errors with a message
pointing at the issue + gbrain doctor. Does NOT suggest 'missing
migrations' as a cause (create-time abort happens before migrations
run). Pin is unverified against macOS 26.3; error-wrap is the safety
net. Reported by @AndreLYL.
* Scope: `gbrain jobs submit` gains --backoff-type/--backoff-delay/
--backoff-jitter/--timeout-ms/--idempotency-key (MinionJobInput audit).
* Scope: `gbrain jobs smoke --sigkill-rescue` regression case (opt-in,
CI-only) that simulates a killed worker and asserts the new default
rescues.
* Scope: `gbrain doctor --index-audit` reports zero-scan Postgres indexes
as drop candidates (informational; no auto-drop).
Infrastructure:
* Migration interface extended with sqlFor: { postgres?, pglite? } and
transaction: boolean. Runner picks the engine-specific branch and
bypasses engine.transaction() when transaction:false (required for
CONCURRENTLY). BrainEngine.kind readonly discriminator added.
* scripts/check-jsonb-pattern.sh CI guard extended to block
`max_stalled DEFAULT 1` from regressing.
Tests:
* 15 new unit tests: v12/v13 structural + behavioral assertions,
max_stalled default/clamp/backfill, PGLite error-wrap source guard,
engine kind discriminator.
* 3 regression tests pinned by IRON RULE.
* Full unit suite: 1416 pass.
* Full E2E suite against Postgres 16 + pgvector: 126 pass.
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* chore: bump version and changelog (v0.13.1)
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* docs: sync documentation for v0.13.1
CLAUDE.md "Key files" and "Commands" sections refreshed to match the
v0.13.1 fix wave:
- Note `BrainEngine.kind` discriminator on engine.ts
- Document v0.13.1 connect() error-wrap on pglite-engine.ts
- Refresh src/core/minions/ layout (no shell handler, no protected-names,
no quiet-hours/stagger — that was v0.13-development scaffolding that
did not ship)
- Add src/core/migrate.ts entry with `Migration` interface extensions
(`sqlFor`, `transaction: false`)
- Document new `gbrain jobs submit` flags (--max-stalled, --backoff-type,
--backoff-delay, --backoff-jitter, --timeout-ms, --idempotency-key)
- Document `gbrain jobs smoke --sigkill-rescue` regression guard
- Document `gbrain doctor --index-audit` and the schema_version=0
surface that catches #218 postinstall failures
- Extend check-jsonb-pattern.sh note with the max_stalled DEFAULT 1
regression guard
- Touch up test file blurbs for migrate.test.ts, pglite-engine.test.ts,
minions.test.ts with v0.13.1 coverage
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* test(e2e): run files sequentially to eliminate shared-DB race
The E2E suite was flaky. ~3 of every 5 runs had 4-10 failures clustered
in Links, Timeline, Versions, Minions resilience, Parallel Import, and
Page CRUD tests. Symptoms included "expected 16 pages, got 8" (half),
"expected 1 link inserted, got 0", timeline entries missing after
round-trip, and similar data-shape mismatches.
Root cause: bun test runs test FILES in parallel (each in a worker
process). 13 E2E files share one DATABASE_URL, and `setupDB()` in
`test/e2e/helpers.ts` does `TRUNCATE ... CASCADE` on all tables before
each file's `importFixtures()`. File A's TRUNCATE would race with file
B's in-flight INSERT stream, producing the observed half-populated or
wrong-count states.
An earlier attempt used a Postgres advisory lock held on a dedicated
single-connection client for the lifetime of each file's run. It broke
because bun's default 5000 ms hook timeout fires on queued beforeAll()
calls: with 13 files serializing through the lock, files 2-13 would
time out waiting for file 1 to finish.
This commit switches to sequential file execution at the harness level
via scripts/run-e2e.sh, which loops through test/e2e/*.test.ts one at
a time, tracks aggregate pass/fail counts, and exits non-zero on the
first failing file. No lock, no timeout issues, no changes to any test
file. package.json test:e2e points at the new script.
Verified: 5 back-to-back runs against the same Postgres container,
each completing in ~5 min. Every run: 13 files, 138 tests, 0 fails.
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* chore: bump version to 0.15.1 (fix wave locked to MINOR line)
Master v0.14.2 was the last /investigate root-cause wave on the
v0.14.x line. This fix wave opens v0.15.x: four hot issues (#170,
#218, #219, #223) close v0.13.x regressions that v0.14.x didn't
cover, so the MINOR bump reflects the semantic shift — new schema
migrations (v14, v15), a new CLI surface (`--max-stalled`,
`--sigkill-rescue`, `--index-audit`), a new BrainEngine contract
(`kind` discriminator + extended `Migration` interface), and a new
install-time contract (PGLite 0.4.3 pin + `trustedDependencies`).
Locked to 0.15.1 in advance: other work may land before/after this
PR, but the version is fixed so reviewers can cite a stable number.
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* feat: llms.txt + llms-full.txt + AGENTS.md (v0.15.0)
Ship three new public artifacts at the repo root so agents that aren't
Claude Code can discover GBrain documentation cleanly:
- AGENTS.md — ~45-line install + operating protocol for non-Claude agents
(Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, Aider). Covers install, read order, trust
boundary, config/debug/migration pointers, fork regeneration. Uses
relative links so it survives fork/rename.
- llms.txt — llmstxt.org-spec index (H1 + blockquote + Core entry points /
Configuration / Debugging / Migrations / Philosophy / Optional H2s).
- llms-full.txt — same index with core docs inlined for single-fetch
ingestion. ~225KB, well under the 600KB FULL_SIZE_BUDGET.
Generator-driven via scripts/build-llms.ts + scripts/llms-config.ts.
LLMS_REPO_BASE env var makes it fork-friendly. bun run build:llms
regenerates both outputs deterministically.
test/build-llms.test.ts has 7 cases: paths resolve on disk, generator
idempotent, llms.txt spec shape, checked-in files match generator output
(drift guard), content contract (RESOLVER / AGENTS / INSTALL referenced),
AGENTS mirrors README + INSTALL_FOR_AGENTS install path, llms-full.txt
under size budget.
Leverage point per Codex review: README.md + INSTALL_FOR_AGENTS.md
install prompts now tell agents to fetch AGENTS.md first. Without this,
the new files were invisible.
Drive-by fix: INSTALL_FOR_AGENTS.md:136 had `git pull origin main` while
the repo's default branch is master (origin/HEAD -> master). Corrected.
Plan + reviews: /plan-eng-review CLEARED, /codex adversarial review
found 15 issues — 7 folded in directly, 3 user tension decisions, 5
stayed as NOT-in-scope with reasoning.
Version bumps to 0.15.0 (new public-artifact feature surface per Step 12
of /ship feature-signal heuristic).
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* chore: normalize VERSION to 3-digit to match master
master uses 3-digit semver (0.14.2); my earlier /ship bumped VERSION to
the 4-digit gstack format (0.15.0.0). Revert to 0.15.0 to match
package.json (already 3-digit) and master's convention.
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* fix: 8 root-cause fixes from /investigate wave
Consolidated bundle of bug fixes from /investigate on the 8 deferred bugs.
Each fix was designed to go at the structural gap, not the symptom. Codex
verified 20 load-bearing claims on the plan; 12 triggered plan revisions.
Bug 2 — GBRAIN_POOL_SIZE env knob + init finally blocks (no auto-detect).
Covers both the singleton pool (db.ts) and instance pool (import.ts:140).
Bug 3 — Centralize migration ledger writes in apply-migrations runner.
Removed appendCompletedMigration from v0_11_0, v0_12_0, v0_12_2,
v0_13_0, v0_13_1. Added 3-partial wedge cap + --force-retry reset.
'complete wins' preserved; no partial can regress a completed migration.
Bug 5 — v0.14.0 migration registered. src/commands/migrations/v0_14_0.ts
ships Phase A (ALTER minion_jobs.max_stalled SET DEFAULT 3) + Phase B
(pending-host-work ping for shell-jobs adoption).
Bug 6/10 — jsonb_agg(DISTINCT ...) in legacy traverseGraph (both engines).
Presentation-level dedup; schema still preserves provenance rows.
Bug 7 — doctor --fast reads DB URL source via getDbUrlSource() in config.ts.
Precise message: 'Skipping DB checks (--fast mode, URL present from env)'
replaces the misleading 'No database configured'.
Bug 8 — max_stalled default bumped 1→3 in schema-embedded.ts, pglite-schema.ts,
schema.sql (new installs). v0_14_0 Phase A ALTER for existing installs.
autopilot-cycle handler yields to event loop between phases so the
worker's lock-renewal timer fires on huge brains. (Deep AbortSignal
threading through runEmbedCore/runExtractCore/runBacklinksCore/performSync
deferred to v0.15 queue polish.)
Bug 9 — Gate sync.last_commit on no-failures across all three sync paths
(incremental, full via runImport, gbrain import git continuity).
recordSyncFailures() helper + ~/.gbrain/sync-failures.jsonl with
dedup key path+commit+error-hash. New flags: --skip-failed (ack) +
--retry-failed (re-attempt). Doctor surfaces unacknowledged failures.
Bug 11 — brain_score breakdown fields on BrainHealth (embed_coverage_score,
link_density_score, timeline_coverage_score, no_orphans_score,
no_dead_links_score); sum equals brain_score by construction.
dead_links now on the type (resolves featuresTeaserForDoctor drift).
orphan_pages kept as 'islanded' (no inbound AND no outbound) and
docs updated to match — explicit semantic instead of doc drift.
New tests: test/traverse-graph-dedup.test.ts, test/sync-failures.test.ts,
test/brain-score-breakdown.test.ts, test/migration-resume.test.ts,
test/migrations-v0_14_0.test.ts. Extended: migrate, doctor, apply-migrations.
All 1696 unit tests pass locally. postgres-jsonb E2E regression unchanged
(none of these touch the JSONB write surface).
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* docs: v0.14.2 CHANGELOG + CLAUDE.md; align migration-flow E2E with runner-owned ledger
CHANGELOG: v0.14.2 entry in the standard release-summary format
(two-line headline + lead + numbers table + "what this means" +
"To take advantage of v0.14.2" self-repair block + itemized
changes grouped by reliability / observability / graph correctness /
new migration / tests / deferred-to-v0.15).
CLAUDE.md: new "Key commands added in v0.14.2" section covers
--skip-failed, --retry-failed, --force-retry, GBRAIN_POOL_SIZE env,
and the new doctor checks (sync_failures, brain_score breakdown).
Migration orchestrator docs updated to describe v0_14_0.ts + the
runner-owned ledger contract from Bug 3.
test/e2e/migration-flow.test.ts: three assertions updated to match
the Bug 3 contract — orchestrators no longer append to completed.jsonl
directly, so direct-orchestrator E2E calls leave the ledger empty.
Preferences assertions remain (that's still the orchestrator's side
of the contract). Runner's ledger write is covered by the unit suite
(test/apply-migrations.test.ts + test/migration-resume.test.ts).
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* feat(doctor): proximity-based DRY detection + --fix auto-repair
Fixes false-positive DRY violations on skills that properly delegate
notability/filing rules to `skills/_brain-filing-rules.md`. The old
check only accepted `conventions/quality.md` as a valid delegation
target, leaving 9 skills flagged every run even though they delegate
correctly.
- CROSS_CUTTING_PATTERNS.conventions is now an array; notability gate
accepts both `conventions/quality.md` AND `_brain-filing-rules.md`
- New extractDelegationTargets() parses `> **Convention:**`,
`> **Filing rule:**`, and inline backtick references
- DRY suppression is proximity-based (K=40 lines) via DRY_PROXIMITY_LINES
- New src/core/dry-fix.ts module with autoFixDryViolations:
- expanders strategy map (bullet / blockquote / paragraph)
- 5 guards: working-tree-dirty, no-git-backup, inside-code-fence,
already-delegated, ambiguous-multi-match, block-is-callout
- execFileSync array args (no shell-injection surface)
- EOF newline preservation
- `gbrain doctor --fix` and `--dry-run` flags wire in via doctor.ts
- 31 new tests across dry-fix.test.ts (28 unit), check-resolvable.test.ts
(13 DRY detection + extraction), doctor-fix.test.ts (3 CLI integration)
* chore: bump version and changelog (v0.14.1)
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* docs: update project documentation for v0.14.1
CLAUDE.md:
- Added src/core/dry-fix.ts entry under Key files (expanders, guards,
execFileSync safety, EOF newline preservation).
- Updated src/commands/doctor.ts entry to cover --fix/--dry-run flags.
- Updated src/core/check-resolvable.ts entry to reflect array-valued
CROSS_CUTTING_PATTERNS.conventions, extractDelegationTargets(), and
proximity-based DRY suppression via DRY_PROXIMITY_LINES = 40.
- Added test/dry-fix.test.ts and test/doctor-fix.test.ts to the test
list, and annotated test/check-resolvable.test.ts with v0.14.1 cases.
README.md:
- ADMIN block: --fix now names what it actually fixes (DRY violations
via conventions delegation) and documents --dry-run.
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* feat(minions): add protected-name constant + ctx.shutdownSignal
Introduce PROTECTED_JOB_NAMES ('shell') in a side-effect-free core module
so queue.ts can check it without importing from handlers/. MinionJobContext
gains shutdownSignal (distinct from signal) — handlers that need to run
SIGTERM-triggered cleanup subscribe to both; most handlers ignore shutdown
and run through the worker's 30s cleanup race to natural completion.
* fix(minions): MinionQueue.add gains trusted 4th arg + trim-normalized guard
Adds allowProtectedSubmit opt-in as a separate 4th parameter (NOT folded into
opts) so callers spreading user-provided opts ({...userOpts}) can't accidentally
carry the trust flag. PROTECTED_JOB_NAMES check runs on the trimmed name BEFORE
insert, closing the queue.add(' shell ', ...) whitespace bypass that would have
evaded a has(name) check.
* fix(minions): worker calls failJob on abort + wires ctx.shutdownSignal
Pre-v0.13.0 worker returned silently when ctx.signal.aborted fired, leaving
jobs in 'active' until stall sweep. Handlers using cooperative cancel had
no deterministic status flip — timeout/cancel/lock-loss all looked the same
from downstream callers (gbrain jobs get, --follow loops).
Fix: derive abort reason from abort.signal.reason ('timeout' | 'cancel' |
'lock-lost' | 'shutdown') and call failJob with 'aborted: <reason>' text.
failJob is idempotent via token+status match, so no-op when another path
already flipped status (handleTimeouts, cancelJob, stall).
Also: new shutdownAbort (instance-level AbortController) fires on process
SIGTERM/SIGINT and propagates to every handler's ctx.shutdownSignal.
Shell handler listens to both signals and runs SIGTERM→5s→SIGKILL on its
child on either; other handlers only listen to ctx.signal so deploy
restarts don't cancel them mid-flight.
* feat(minions): add shell job handler + submission audit log
New 'shell' job type spawns arbitrary commands under the Minions worker.
Deterministic cron scripts (API fetch, token refresh, scrape+write) can
move off the LLM gateway — zero Opus tokens per fire.
Handler contract:
- cmd or argv (exactly one required). cmd spawns via /bin/sh -c (absolute
path, not 'sh', to block PATH-override shell substitution). argv spawns
direct with no shell.
- cwd required, must be absolute. Operator-trust boundary.
- env defaults to SHELL_ENV_ALLOWLIST ({PATH, HOME, USER, LANG, TZ,
NODE_ENV}) picked from process.env, with caller overrides merged on top.
Prevents accidental $OPENAI_API_KEY interpolation into scripts.
- stdout/stderr retained as UTF-8-safe tails (64KB/16KB) via
string_decoder.StringDecoder. Prepends [truncated N bytes] marker.
- Abort (either ctx.signal or ctx.shutdownSignal) fires SIGTERM → 5s grace
→ SIGKILL on child. Timer NOT .unref'd so worker's 30s race waits for
the child to actually die.
shell-audit.ts writes a JSONL line per submission to
~/.gbrain/audit/shell-jobs-YYYY-Www.jsonl (ISO-week rotated, override via
GBRAIN_AUDIT_DIR). argv logged as JSON array (not space-joined, which would
flatten args with spaces). Never logs env values. Best-effort writes:
failures log to stderr but don't block submission.
* feat(jobs): submit_job MCP guard + CLI --timeout-ms + starvation warning
submit_job operation gains timeout_ms param (was missing — couldn't plumb
the existing MinionJobInput field through from either CLI or MCP). When
ctx.remote=true and name is in PROTECTED_JOB_NAMES, throws
OperationError('permission_denied'). Combined with the queue.add trusted
guard, MCP callers can never submit shell jobs even if the env flag is on.
CLI submit: new --timeout-ms N flag. Passes {allowProtectedSubmit:true}
as the 4th arg to queue.add only when the submitted name is protected
(not blanket-set for every job). Prints a starvation-warning block to
stderr when a shell job is submitted without --follow, pointing at both
--follow and 'gbrain jobs work' remediation. Fires for every shell submit
regardless of the submitter's env — the submitter env is a weak proxy for
the worker env.
Worker handler registration: conditional on GBRAIN_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS=1.
Default: off. 'gbrain jobs submit --help' now lists handler types with a
pointer to docs/guides/minions-shell-jobs.md for shell.
* test(minions): 40 unit + 4 E2E cases for shell handler
Unit (test/minions-shell.test.ts):
- Protected names: trim-normalized, case-sensitive, whitespace bypass defense
- MinionQueue.add: trusted opt-in, whitespace bypass, non-protected untouched
- Handler validation: cmd|argv exclusive, cwd required/absolute, env strings
- Spawn: cmd/argv happy paths, non-zero exit, ENOENT, result shape
- Env allowlist: leaked-secret blocked, PATH inherited, caller override
- Abort: ctx.signal, ctx.shutdownSignal, pre-aborted signal
- Audit: ISO-week year boundary (2027-01-01 → W53 2026), mid-year W52/W53,
GBRAIN_AUDIT_DIR override, argv as JSON array, env never logged, EACCES
non-blocking
- Output truncation: 100KB → last 64KB with [truncated N bytes] marker
E2E (test/e2e/minions-shell.test.ts):
- Full lifecycle: submit → worker claim → spawn → complete
- MinionQueue.add without trusted arg throws (including whitespace bypass)
- submit_job with ctx.remote=true rejects shell (MCP guard)
- submit_job with ctx.remote=false allows shell (CLI path)
* chore: bump version and changelog (v0.13.0)
Move gateway crons to Minions. Zero LLM tokens per cron fire.
Worker abort path finally marks aborted jobs dead.
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* docs: reframe v0.13.0 copy for OpenClaw operators (not Wintermute-specific)
gbrain is an open-source product for any OpenClaw/Hermes operator, not
Garry's personal Wintermute deployment. Rewords the v0.13.0 CHANGELOG
entry, the minions-shell-jobs guide, and the deferred TODOS entries to
speak to "your OpenClaw" / "OpenClaw operators" instead.
Replaces /data/wintermute cwd examples with the canonical
/data/.openclaw/workspace path. Pre-existing Wintermute references in
older CHANGELOG entries (v0.11/v0.10.3) left unchanged.
* feat(migrations): add v0.13.0 adoption playbook for shell jobs
Adding the migration file the CEO review originally scoped out. Without
it, operators upgrade to v0.13.0 and the capability ships but adoption
doesn't happen — the 60% gateway CPU reduction only lands if someone
actually rewrites their crontab.
skills/migrations/v0.13.0.md is the instruction manual the host agent
reads on gbrain upgrade:
- Enable worker: GBRAIN_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS=1 gbrain jobs work (Postgres)
or per-tick --follow (PGLite)
- Audit cron manifest: classify LLM-requiring vs deterministic
- Propose per-cron rewrites with diffs, approved one at a time
- Env allowlist guidance for scripts that need API keys
- Verification playbook: run one fire, compare pre/post, only then
approve the next batch
- Starvation sanity-check runbook item
Iron rules: never auto-rewrite the operator's crontab (host-specific
code per CLAUDE.md). LLM-requiring crons stay on the gateway. Ambiguous
cases ask the operator.
No mechanical orchestrator ships with this migration — every rewrite
is operator judgment. A future gbrain crontab-to-minions helper is
tracked in TODOS.md as P1.
* docs: sync UPGRADING + SKILLPACK with v0.13.0 shell jobs
UPGRADING_DOWNSTREAM_AGENTS.md: append v0.13.0 section per the file's
convention (each release appends). No skill edits required, feature is
off-by-default, optional adoption via skills/migrations/v0.13.0.md.
Lists typical LLM-vs-deterministic classifications so operators know
which of their crons are candidates for migration.
GBRAIN_SKILLPACK.md: add shell-jobs guide row to the cron/Minions guide
table so it's discoverable alongside existing Cron via Minions, Plugin
Handlers, and Minions fix guides.
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* docs: Knowledge Runtime design doc (draft) — 4-layer architecture + reduced-scope delta
Captures the Knowledge Runtime design thinking from the CEO review session:
Resolver SDK, Enrichment Orchestrator, Scheduler, Deterministic Output Builder.
The original 7-phase plan was drafted before v0.12.0 (knowledge graph layer)
and v0.11.x (Minions agent runtime) shipped. Cross-referenced against what's
already merged on master, roughly 60% of the 4-layer vision is already in
production under different names:
- Minions = scheduler + plugin contract (L1 + L3)
- Knowledge graph auto-link = deterministic output at L4 + orchestrator at L2
- BrainBench v1 benchmarks already validate the graph layer
The doc is kept as a draft design reference; the actual build-out will scope
down to the real delta (typed Resolver interface, BrainWriter API + validators,
BudgetLedger, CompletenessScorer, quiet-hours + stagger). See the CEO review
notes for the reduced plan.
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* feat(resolvers): Resolver SDK pass 1 — interface + registry (PR 1/5)
Adds the typed plugin interface that unifies external-lookup calls (X API,
Perplexity, HEAD check, brain-local slug resolution) behind a single shape:
registry.resolve('x_handle_to_tweet', { handle, keywords }, ctx)
→ { value, confidence, source, fetchedAt, raw? }
Zero behavior change — the registry is empty by default. Builtins
(url_reachable, x_handle_to_tweet) land in the next pass. ScheduledResolver
wrapping via Minions lands in PR 5.
New files:
- src/core/resolvers/interface.ts — Resolver<I,O>, ResolverResult<O>,
ResolverContext (engine, storage, config, logger, requestId, remote,
deadline, signal), ResolverError (not_found, already_registered,
unavailable, timeout, rate_limited, auth, schema, aborted, upstream)
- src/core/resolvers/registry.ts — ResolverRegistry (register/get/has/
list/resolve/clear/size) + getDefaultRegistry() for process-wide use
- src/core/resolvers/index.ts — barrel export
Design rules enforced by types:
- Every result carries confidence (0.0-1.0) + source attribution
- LLM-backed resolvers return confidence<1.0 by convention
- ctx.remote propagates the trust boundary (mirrors OperationContext.remote)
- AbortSignal threads through for cooperative cancellation
Smoke: imports + runs, list()/get()/resolve() behave as typed.
Dependency-free beyond types and storage/engine type imports.
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* feat(fail-improve): optional AbortSignal — Resolver SDK pass 2 (PR 1/5)
Extends FailImproveLoop.execute with an optional `opts.signal` that threads
through the deterministic-first / LLM-fallback flow. Needed by the Resolver
SDK so long-running lookups can be cooperatively cancelled when a caller
aborts (deadline hit, Minion job timeout, user ctrl-c).
Additive and backwards-compatible:
- execute() signature widens callbacks to (input, signal?) => ...; existing
two-arg callbacks are structurally compatible and ignore the extra arg.
- opts is optional; callers that omit it get pre-extension behavior.
- Aborts throw a DOM-style AbortError (name='AbortError'), matching what
fetch() throws, so downstream `err.name === 'AbortError'` branches work
unchanged.
- Aborted runs are NOT logged to the failure JSONL — not informative and
would pollute pattern analysis.
Abort check fires in three places:
- Before the deterministic call (pre-flight)
- Between deterministic miss and LLM call (mid-flight)
- Inside llmFallbackFn if the implementation respects signal itself
Smoke tests: 5 scenarios (existing sig, llm fallback, pre-abort, mid-flight
abort, signal threaded to fallback) — all pass. Existing test/fail-improve.test.ts
(13 tests, 27 expects) unchanged and passing.
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* feat(resolvers): url_reachable + x_handle_to_tweet — SDK pass 3 (PR 1/5)
Two reference resolver implementations that validate the interface against
real-world requirements: a deterministic free-cost check and a rate-limited
paid-backend lookup.
src/core/resolvers/builtin/url-reachable.ts
HEAD-check a URL, follow redirects (max 5), detect dead links. Reused
isInternalUrl() from the wave-3 SSRF hardening; re-validates every redirect
hop against the same filter. Falls back from HEAD to GET on 405/501.
Composes caller's AbortSignal with a per-request timeout via
AbortSignal.any (with manual-propagation fallback). Confidence=1 when the
backend answers; confidence=0 only on transport failure (DNS/connect/timeout).
src/core/resolvers/builtin/x-api/handle-to-tweet.ts
Find a tweet by handle + free-text keyword hint. Used by the upcoming
`gbrain integrity --auto` loop to repair the 1,424 bare-tweet citations
in Garry's brain. Confidence buckets align with the three-bucket contract:
- >=0.8 auto-repair (single strong match, or dominant in small candidate set)
- 0.5-0.8 review queue (ambiguous but promising)
- <0.5 skip (many candidates or weak match)
Scoring: normalized keyword-token overlap against tweet text, with margin
boost for dominant matches. Strict handle regex (X's username rules).
Retries on 429 up to 2x with Retry-After honor. Terminal 401/403 surfaces
as auth ResolverError so the caller stops hammering. Bearer token read
from ctx.config.x_api_bearer_token or X_API_BEARER_TOKEN env — never logged.
Smoke: registry accepts both, SSRF blocks localhost + file://, available()
returns false when token missing, schema validator rejects bad handles.
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* feat(resolvers): tests + gbrain resolvers CLI — SDK pass 4 (PR 1/5 complete)
Closes out PR 1. 43 new tests in test/resolvers.test.ts covering registry
contract, both reference builtins, all three confidence buckets, and every
ResolverError subcode.
test/resolvers.test.ts
- ResolverRegistry: register, duplicate-id rejection, get/has, list with
cost+backend filters, resolve, unavailable propagation, clear, default
singleton lifecycle.
- url_reachable: available(), SSRF guard on localhost + RFC1918 + 169.254
metadata + file:// scheme, empty-url schema error, 200/404 status
propagation, HEAD→GET fallback on 405, redirect chain, per-hop SSRF
re-validation, network failure → reachable=false, AbortSignal mid-flight.
- x_handle_to_tweet: token gate via env AND via ctx.config, invalid/long
handle schema errors, zero-candidate + single-strong + single-weak +
many-ambiguous confidence buckets (gates >=0.5 url emission), 401/403
auth error, 500 upstream error, 429 retry-then-rate_limited, X operator
stripping (prompt injection defense).
src/commands/resolvers.ts
- `gbrain resolvers list [--cost | --backend | --json]` pretty table
or JSON.
- `gbrain resolvers describe <id>` schema + availability detail.
- registerBuiltinResolvers() is idempotent; ready to be called from
future entry points (gbrain integrity, MCP server).
src/cli.ts wires `resolvers` into CLI_ONLY + dispatches to runResolvers.
Full suite: 1343 pass / 0 fail / 141 skip (E2E without DATABASE_URL).
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* feat(output): BrainWriter + Scaffolder + SlugRegistry — PR 2 pass 1/4
Lands the transactional writer library that the rest of the Knowledge
Runtime sits on top of. No callers routed through it yet — publish.ts /
backlinks.ts / put_page migrations are pass 4 and PR 2.5.
src/core/output/scaffold.ts
Deterministic URL / citation / link builders. Callers pass typed inputs
(handle + tweetId, account + messageId, slug + display text) and get
canonical markdown bytes out. LLM-generated URLs never touch disk.
- tweetCitation({handle, tweetId, dateISO?})
- emailCitation({account, messageId, subject, dateISO?})
- sourceCitation(resolverResult, {url?, label?})
- entityLink({slug, displayText, relativePrefix?})
- timelineLine({dateISO, summary, citation?})
ScaffoldError with codes for invalid_handle / invalid_tweet_id /
invalid_slug / invalid_message_id / invalid_date / empty.
src/core/output/slug-registry.ts
Solves the "Marc Benioff vs Marc-Benioff both slug to marc-benioff" bug.
create() probes engine.getPage and either returns the desired slug or
disambiguates (alice-smith → alice-smith-2). isFree() + suggestDisambiguators()
for interactive UX. Errors: collision, disambiguator_exhausted, invalid_slug.
src/core/output/writer.ts
BrainWriter.transaction(fn, ctx) wraps engine.transaction. The `fn`
callback receives a WriteTx with createEntity / appendTimeline /
setCompiledTruth / setFrontmatterField / putRawData / addLink (the last
creates both forward + reverse back-link atomically). On commit, per-page
validators run against all touchedSlugs. Strict mode throws on
error-severity findings, rolling back the outer tx. Lint mode (default for
PR 2 rollout) returns the report but commits regardless. Pages with
`validate: false` frontmatter skip validators entirely (grandfather hook
for PR 2 migration).
Integration smoke against PGLite: createEntity → disambiguator (2nd call
with same desired slug), addLink writes both forward + back-link,
strict-mode validator failure rolls back the transaction bit-identically.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(output): 4 pre-commit validators + tests — PR 2 pass 2/4
Lands the validator suite that BrainWriter runs before committing a
transaction. Paragraph-level deterministic checks, markdown-aware, skip
legacy pages via validate:false frontmatter.
src/core/output/validators/citation.ts
Every factual paragraph in compiled_truth carries at least one citation
marker: [Source: ...] or a linked URL. Splits paragraphs on blank lines,
strips fenced code / inline code / HTML comments before checking.
Ignores headings, key-value lines ("**Status:** Active"), table rows,
pure wikilink bullets (## See Also), and short labels without a factual
verb. Deterministic — no LLM, no semantic judgment.
src/core/output/validators/link.ts
Every [text](path) wikilink resolves to a page that exists (unless it's
an external http(s) URL, which this validator doesn't check; that's
url_reachable's job in PR 3). Strips relative prefix and .md extension.
Batches engine.getPage lookups per unique target. mailto/anchor/other
schemes flagged as warning. Links inside fenced code blocks are skipped.
src/core/output/validators/back-link.ts
Iron Law: if page X → page Y, then Y → X. Reads engine.getLinks(ctx.slug),
and for each target checks engine.getLinks(target) for a reverse edge.
Missing reverses flagged as warning (runAutoLink is the authoritative
enforcer on put_page; this is defense-in-depth for pages edited outside
the main write path).
src/core/output/validators/triple-hr.ts
Catches hygiene issues on the compiled_truth / timeline split: bare `---`
in compiled_truth would re-split on round-trip through parseMarkdown;
headings in the timeline section signal authoring mistakes. Both warn
(not error) — legacy pages legitimately use thematic breaks.
src/core/output/validators/index.ts
registerBuiltinValidators(writer) wires all four.
test/writer.test.ts
57 tests: Scaffolder (all 5 helpers + error paths), SlugRegistry (create,
disambiguator, collision throw, invalid-slug, isFree, suggestDisambiguators),
BrainWriter (happy path, disambiguate, addLink + reverse, strict rollback,
lint proceeds with report, off skips validators, validate:false grandfather,
setCompiledTruth, setFrontmatterField merge, registered validators list),
citation validator (all 11 shape cases), link validator (normalizeToSlug
including ../../, external URL skip, mailto warning, code-fence skip),
back-link validator (no outbound, missing reverse → warning, bidirectional
clean), triple-hr validator (clean, bare --- warning, fenced --- skipped,
heading in timeline warning, ## Timeline header allowed).
Full suite: 1400 pass / 0 fail / 141 skip.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(migrations): v0.13.0 grandfather validate:false — PR 2 pass 3/4
Adds the TS migration that makes BrainWriter's strict-mode rollout safe:
every existing page gets `validate: false` in frontmatter so the new
citation / link / back-link / triple-HR validators skip legacy content.
gbrain integrity --auto (PR 3) clears the flag per-page once real citations
are repaired.
src/commands/migrations/v0_13_0_add_validate_false.ts
Four-phase orchestrator following the v0_12_0 pattern:
A. connect — loadConfig + createEngine. Does NOT write config (prior
learning: gbrain init --migrate-only semantics; never
flip Postgres users to PGLite via bare init).
B. snapshot — engine.getAllSlugs() upfront (prior learning:
listpages-pagination-mutation; OFFSET iteration is
self-invalidating when each write bumps updated_at).
C. grandfather — per slug, skip if frontmatter.validate already set,
else append-log pre-mutation snapshot to
~/.gbrain/migrations/v0_13_0-rollback.jsonl and
putPage with validate:false merged in. Batched 100
at a time so interruption losses are bounded.
D. verify — SQL count of pages with validate=false ≥ expectedTouched.
Idempotent: second run is a no-op. Reversible: rollback log is
append-only JSONL; future `gbrain apply-migrations --rollback v0.13.0`
replays it. Safe on empty brains (returns complete with 0 touched).
src/commands/migrations/index.ts
Registers v0_13_0 after v0_12_0 in semver order.
test/migrations-v0_13_0.test.ts
Registry integration (v0.13.0 present, semver-after-v0.12.0, pitch
metadata well-formed), orchestrator handles no-config gracefully,
dryRun skips the connect phase.
test/apply-migrations.test.ts
Updated two assertions that hard-coded the v0.12.0 skippedFuture list
to also include v0.13.0 (now skippedFuture when installed < 0.13.0).
Full suite: 1405 pass / 0 fail / 141 skip.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(integrity): gbrain integrity — bare-tweet repair + dead-link scan (PR 3)
Ships the user-visible milestone for the Knowledge Runtime delta: a
command that finds brain-integrity issues and repairs them through the
BrainWriter + Resolver SDK infrastructure from PRs 1 and 2.
Targets the two quantified pain points from brain/CITATIONS.md:
- 1,424 of 3,115 people pages have bare tweet references without URLs
- An unknown fraction of existing URL citations have rotted
Subcommands:
gbrain integrity check Read-only report, optional --json
gbrain integrity auto Three-bucket repair loop
gbrain integrity review Print review-queue path + count
gbrain integrity reset-progress Clear the progress file
Three-bucket contract (matches x_handle_to_tweet resolver's confidence
scoring):
>=0.8 → auto-repair via BrainWriter transaction. Appends a timeline
entry on the page with a Scaffolder-built tweet citation (URL
from the API response, never from LLM text).
0.5-0.8 → append to ~/.gbrain/integrity-review.md with all candidates
sorted by match score, for batch human review.
<0.5 → log reason to ~/.gbrain/integrity.log.jsonl and skip.
Resumable: every processed slug hits ~/.gbrain/integrity-progress.jsonl
so an interrupted run resumes from the last slug. --fresh clears it.
Bare-tweet detection patterns (regex, deterministic, skip code fences
and already-cited lines):
- "tweeted about"
- "in/on a (recent|viral) tweet"
- "wrote a tweet/post"
- "posted on X"
- "via X" (but not "via X/handle" — already cited)
- possessive "his/her/their tweet"
External-link detection extracts all [text](https?://...) pairs (code
fences skipped) for optional dead-link probing via url_reachable.
Dead links are surfaced, not auto-repaired — no "correct" replacement
exists without human judgment.
Wiring: runIntegrity dispatches subcommands, registers builtin resolvers
into the default registry, connects to the brain engine, and uses
BrainWriter in strict-off mode (integrity is the repair path, not the
write-gate path).
Unit tests: 21 cover bare-tweet regex (all 9 phrase shapes + code-fence
skip + URL-already-present skip + per-line dedup), external-link
extraction (http+https, line numbers, fenced skip), frontmatter handle
extraction (x_handle, twitter, twitter_handle, x; preference order;
leading @ strip; null paths). End-to-end auto flow verified manually
via the resolver SDK tests + BrainWriter tests it composes.
src/cli.ts wires `integrity` into CLI_ONLY + dispatches to runIntegrity.
Full suite: 1426 pass / 0 fail / 141 skip.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(enrichment): BudgetLedger + CompletenessScorer — PR 4
Two layer-2 primitives that slot under the resolver SDK and BrainWriter:
cost-aware spend caps and evidence-weighted per-page completeness scoring.
Schema migration v11 adds two tables:
budget_ledger (scope, resolver_id, local_date) PK — midnight rollover by
date column means a new calendar day upserts a new row; no rollover
thread, no race.
budget_reservations (reservation_id) — TTL-bounded held reservations
(default 60s) so process death between reserve() and commit() doesn't
strand money.
Rollback plan: DROP TABLE. Budget data is regenerable from resolver call
logs; no durable product value lives in the ledger.
src/core/enrichment/budget.ts
BudgetLedger.reserve({resolverId, estimateUsd, capUsd?, ttlSeconds?})
serializes concurrent reserves on {scope, resolver_id, local_date} via
SELECT ... FOR UPDATE. Returns {kind:'held', reservationId, ...} or
{kind:'exhausted', reason, spent, pending, cap} — never over-spends.
commit(id, actualUsd) moves money from reserved_usd to committed_usd and
marks the reservation status='committed'. rollback(id) zeros out the
reservation without touching committed. Commit-after-commit throws
already_finalized; rollback-after-commit is a no-op (callers don't need
to guard). commit-unknown-id throws reservation_not_found.
cleanupExpired() sweeps held reservations past expires_at and rolls them
back; reserve() opportunistically reclaims the target row's expired
reservations before acquiring its own lock.
IANA timezone config via opts.tz (default America/Los_Angeles); midnight
rollover is naturally expressed as a date column + Intl.DateTimeFormat
with en-CA locale (YYYY-MM-DD). DST is handled by the formatter.
src/core/enrichment/completeness.ts
Seven per-type rubrics (person, company, project, deal, concept, source,
media) + default. Each rubric's dimension weights sum to 1.0, checked at
module load. scorePage(page) returns {score, dimensionScores, rubric}
where score is 0.000–1.000.
Person rubric dimensions: has_role_and_company, has_source_urls,
has_timeline_entries, has_citations, has_backlinks, recency_score,
non_redundancy. The last two are the explicit fix for the two pathologies
called out in the codex review of the earlier design: stale pages that
never decay (30-day re-enrich forever) and Wilco-style repeated blocks
that pass Wintermute's length heuristic.
Pure functions. No engine calls — BrainWriter invokes scorePage after a
transaction and caches the result in frontmatter.completeness.
test/enrichment.test.ts — 23 tests:
BudgetLedger: under-cap held, over-cap exhausted, commit moves money,
rollback clears, commit-rollback no-op, commit-commit throws, commit-
unknown throws, invalid input, empty state null, scope isolation,
parallel reserves respect cap (10 parallel, cap 1.0, est 0.3 each →
≤ 3 held; state.reservedUsd ≤ 1.0), cleanupExpired reclaims TTL=0.
CompletenessScorer: all 8 rubrics sum to 1.0, empty person scores <0.3,
fully-enriched person >0.8, dimension scores exposed, role detection,
company/concept/source/media/default routing, recency decay with age,
non_redundancy penalizes repeated lines.
Full suite: 1449 pass / 0 fail / 141 skip.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(minions): quiet-hours + stagger + claim-time gate — PR 5
Closes the scheduler gap per CEO plan: Minions v7 shipped a durable
runtime but nothing about when jobs should NOT run. This wires
quiet-hours enforcement at claim time (the codex correction — dispatch-
time is wrong because a queued job can become claimable after its window
opens) plus deterministic stagger slots to prevent cron-boundary storms.
Schema migration v12 adds two columns to minion_jobs:
quiet_hours JSONB — {start, end, tz, policy} window config
stagger_key TEXT — partitioning key for deterministic offset
Plus a partial index on stagger_key for later slot-assignment queries.
src/core/minions/quiet-hours.ts
evaluateQuietHours(cfg, now?) → 'allow' | 'skip' | 'defer'. Pure,
deterministic, no engine. Handles straight-line and wrap-around windows
(e.g. 22→7 spans midnight). IANA timezone via Intl.DateTimeFormat;
unknown tz fails open (allow) — safer than hard-blocking every job.
'skip' policy drops the event; 'defer' (default) re-queues for later.
src/core/minions/stagger.ts
staggerMinuteOffset(key) → 0–59, FNV-1a hash. Same key → same slot.
Pure; no module-level state. Used by scheduled resolvers that want to
avoid cron-boundary collisions ("10 jobs all fire at minute 0").
src/core/minions/worker.ts
MinionWorker.tick now consults evaluateQuietHours on every claimed job.
Verdict 'defer' → UPDATE status='delayed', delay_until = now() + 15m
(prevents immediate re-claim loops when the claim query re-runs).
Verdict 'skip' → UPDATE status='cancelled', error_text='skipped_quiet_hours'.
Both paths clear lock_token and require lock_token match in the WHERE
clause so a concurrent stall recovery can't race us.
test/minions-quiet-hours.test.ts — 25 tests:
evaluateQuietHours: null/undefined/invalid config paths (allow fail-open),
straight-line in/out + exclusive-end, wrap-around in (before midnight +
after), skip vs defer policy, timezone-offset propagation (winter PST
vs summer PDT), localHour parity with Date.getUTCHours.
staggerMinuteOffset: deterministic same key → same offset, different
keys spread across buckets (10 keys → ≥5 unique buckets), empty/non-
string edge cases.
Schema v12: quiet_hours and stagger_key columns exist on minion_jobs,
idx_minion_jobs_stagger_key index present.
Full suite: 1474 pass / 0 fail / 141 skip.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(output): post-write validator lint hook — PR 2.5
Minimal integration of BrainWriter validators into the main write path,
feature-flag-gated and non-blocking. The CEO plan explicitly scoped PR 2.5
as a pre-soak landing step: the hook plugs in now, observability lands,
but strict-mode rejection is deferred to a follow-on release gated on the
7-day soak + BrainBench regression ≤1pt.
src/core/output/post-write.ts
runPostWriteLint(engine, slug, opts?) invokes the four BrainWriter
validators (citation, link, back-link, triple-hr) against a freshly
written page and returns a PostWriteLintResult. Skips cleanly when:
- config `writer.lint_on_put_page` is not truthy (default OFF; opts.force overrides)
- the page is not found (shouldn't happen in normal put_page flow)
- the page has frontmatter.validate === false (grandfathered)
Findings are logged to:
- ~/.gbrain/validator-lint.jsonl (capped at 20 findings per line)
- engine.logIngest (ingest_log table) for durable agent-inspectable history
Validator-level exceptions are swallowed so a buggy validator never
breaks put_page.
src/core/operations.ts put_page handler
After importFromContent + runAutoLink, imports runPostWriteLint and
invokes it. Result returns writer_lint: {error_count, warning_count} or
{skipped: reason}. Try/catch wraps the whole hook so an import or
runtime error never blocks the main write.
Enable locally:
gbrain config set writer.lint_on_put_page true
Then every put_page emits a writer_lint summary + appends structured
findings to the ingest log for analysis before the strict-mode flip.
test/post-write-lint.test.ts — 11 tests:
Flag reader (default off, true/1/on, other values false, explicit false)
Hook behavior (flag-off skip, page-not-found skip, validate:false
grandfather skip, force=true overrides flag, dirty page yields citation
error, clean page yields zero findings).
Full suite: 1485 pass / 0 fail / 141 skip.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test(migrations-v0_13_0): drop flaky no-config assertion
The 'does not succeed when no brain is configured' test assumed loadConfig
would return null when HOME is empty, but it also reads DATABASE_URL from
the environment. When .env.testing sources DATABASE_URL into the shell
(normal E2E lifecycle), the orchestrator connects successfully and runs
to completion — the test's assertion was unreachable.
The dry-run path is still covered by the remaining test in the same
describe block; registry integration and semver ordering are covered by
the sibling describe.
Full suite with DATABASE_URL live: 1574 pass / 0 fail.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(minions): wire quiet_hours + stagger_key into MinionJobInput + queue.add
Codex adversarial review caught that PR 5 (claim-time quiet-hours gate) was
cosmetic: the schema v12 column existed, the worker read it via
`readQuietHoursConfig(job)`, but `MinionJobInput` never accepted it,
`queue.add()` never inserted it, and `rowToMinionJob()` never mapped it out.
Result: every scheduled job saw `quiet_hours: null`, so the gate was a
no-op. Stagger_key had the same broken wiring.
- MinionJob (types.ts): add `quiet_hours` and `stagger_key` fields.
- MinionJobInput: add matching optional fields so callers can submit them.
- rowToMinionJob: parse both columns (JSONB handled the same way as `data`).
- MinionQueue.add: include both columns in the INSERT (idempotent + normal
paths), bound as $19/$20. The `$19::jsonb` cast matches the JSONB column
shape; the wire format is the same native-JS object path that fixed the
JSONB double-encode bug in v0.12.1.
After this, `await queue.add('x', {}, { quiet_hours: {start:22,end:7,
tz:"America/Los_Angeles",policy:"defer"} })` actually stores the window
and the worker's claim-time gate defers the job inside it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(minions): route quiet-hours 'skip' through cancelJob to rollup parents
Codex flagged that handleQuietHoursDefer with verdict='skip' directly set
status='cancelled' via raw UPDATE — bypassing MinionQueue.cancelJob, which
means:
- Parent jobs in 'waiting-children' never get rolled up.
- Descendant jobs don't cascade-cancel.
- Child-done inbox notification is skipped.
Result: a parent waiting on a child that fell inside quiet hours with
policy='skip' stays stuck forever.
Fix: release the lock, then delegate to queue.cancelJob(job.id) which
handles the recursive CTE + parent rollup + inbox posting correctly.
Falls back to a direct UPDATE only if cancelJob errors — even then, the
status transition is status-guarded to avoid stomping terminal states.
Defer path unchanged (no parent rollup needed since the job hasn't reached
a terminal state).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(budget): commit() re-checks cap + rejects negative actuals
Codex caught two cap-bypass bugs in BudgetLedger.commit():
1. reserve({estimateUsd: 0.01, capUsd: 1.0}) + commit(id, 100) silently
charged $100 to a $1-cap bucket. Cap is an advertised invariant that
the code was not enforcing.
2. Negative actuals (commit(id, -5)) were accepted, letting callers
artificially reduce committed_usd below the real spend. Refunds need
a dedicated API, not a side-channel on commit.
Fix:
- Reject non-finite AND negative actualUsd at entrypoint.
- Lock the ledger row FOR UPDATE during commit (same serialization as
reserve).
- Compute effective cap headroom = cap - other_committed - other_reserved
(excluding this reservation from the reserved pool since we're about to
finalize it).
- When actualUsd would exceed available, clamp committed_usd to max
available and throw BudgetError with the overage reported. The
reservation is still marked 'committed' (API call already happened;
don't retry-loop), but the cap is honored.
After this, a $1/day cap actually means $1/day.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(integrity): --dry-run no longer writes progress, poisoning resume
Codex caught that 'gbrain integrity auto --dry-run' appended progress
entries (status='repaired', 'reviewed', 'skipped', 'error') despite doing
no actual writes. The follow-on real run with default --resume would then
skip those slugs — the dry-run silently consumed the work queue.
Fix: gate every appendProgress() call in cmdAuto on !dryRun. Dry-run
still logs to the skip log / review queue (so the user sees what WOULD
happen), but the progress file stays untouched.
Behavior:
--dry-run → buckets counted + summary printed + review-queue
+ log populated, but progress file unchanged.
(default) → progress file tracks every processed slug, so
Ctrl-C + re-run resumes from the right place.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: bump version and changelog (v0.13.0.0)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(resolvers): DNS-rebinding defense + X rate-limit header parity
Two non-blocking codex findings on PR #210 rolled into one bisectable
commit because their tests share an import line.
url_reachable: hostname-string SSRF guard is vulnerable to DNS rebinding
(attacker-controlled DNS returns a public IP at validate time and
169.254.169.254 at fetch time). Add checkDnsRebinding() that resolves
the hostname via dns.lookup({all:true}) and rejects any result whose
A/AAAA record lands in a private range (v4 via isPrivateIpv4, v6
loopback/link-local/unique-local/IPv4-mapped). Applied on the initial
URL and on every redirect target. Null on DNS failure so genuine
network problems surface via fetch.
x_handle_to_tweet: rate-limit backoff only honored Retry-After and
ignored X's proprietary x-rate-limit-reset header. computeBackoffMs()
parses both (Retry-After = seconds or HTTP-date; x-rate-limit-reset =
epoch seconds), takes MAX, and clamps to [2s, 60s]. Exported for
testability; callers use it uniformly on every 429.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(writer): advisory lock on desiredSlug prevents cross-process TOCTOU
BrainWriter's createEntity checks engine.getPage(slug) and falls back
to putPage(), which upserts. Two putPage('people/alice') calls from
separate processes (a Claude Code session + a Minions worker, say) can
both read "free" from SlugRegistry and both call putPage, silently
overwriting each other with no disambiguation.
Take a transaction-scoped advisory lock keyed on hashtext(desiredSlug)
before the registry check. Concurrent writers for the same slug now
serialize at the DB level: the second observes the first's commit and
disambiguates to alice-2. PGLite is single-process so this is a
harmless no-op there. Wrapped in try/catch so engines/test doubles
that don't support advisory locks fall through to the existing
within-process check.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(validators): empty [Source:] no longer satisfies citation check
Regex /\[Source:[^\]]*\]/ matched decorative markers like [Source:]
and [Source: ] that carry zero provenance. Tighten to require at
least one non-whitespace character before the closing bracket. The
inline URL form ](https://...) already requires a scheme+host so it
stays as-is.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(auto-link): advisory lock serializes concurrent reconciliation
runAutoLink wraps getLinks + addLink/removeLink in a transaction, but
row-level locks alone don't prevent the union-of-writes race: two
concurrent put_page calls on the same slug can both read the same
existingKeys BEFORE either mutates a row, then proceed to add links
the other side's rewrite no longer mentions.
Take a transaction-scoped advisory lock on hashtext("auto_link:" ||
slug) at the start of the reconciliation. Concurrent writers on the
same slug now fully serialize; writers on different slugs still run
in parallel. No-op on engines without advisory locks (PGLite).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* test: expand coverage on abort-signal threading + integrity CLI dispatch
fail-improve: four new AbortSignal cases — pre-start abort, between
deterministic and LLM, signal forwarded into both callbacks, and
LLM-thrown AbortError propagates without logging a failure entry.
integrity: three new CLI dispatch cases — --help, no-subcommand (help),
and unknown subcommand (stderr + exit 1). Non-engine paths so they
exercise routing without spinning up a DB.
Coverage-only; no source changes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(doctor): fold integrity sample scan into default health check
Expose scanIntegrity(engine, opts) as a pure library function — same
logic cmdCheck uses — and call it from doctor in non-fast mode with
a 500-page sampling limit. Surfaces bare-tweet phrase count and
external-link count as an 'integrity' check, warn-status when bare
tweets are present with a one-liner pointing at 'gbrain integrity
check' for the full report and 'integrity auto' for repair.
Read-only: no network, no writes, no resolver calls. Pages with
validate:false frontmatter are skipped (grandfathered). --fast mode
skips it entirely so the existing health-snapshot contract holds.
Users no longer need to remember three separate commands (doctor,
lint, integrity check) to audit brain health — doctor surfaces the
integrity signal by default, full scan stays available for deep dives.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(put_page): auto-extract timeline entries alongside auto-link
put_page already chunks, embeds, reconciles tags, and extracts
auto-links on every write. Timeline extraction has lived in a
separate command (gbrain extract timeline) that users had to remember
to run. Fold it into the write path: after the page commits, parse
timeline entries from compiled_truth + timeline body and insert via
addTimelineEntriesBatch. ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING keeps it idempotent
across re-writes.
Mirrors auto-link shape: best-effort post-hook, skipped for remote
(MCP) callers, gated by auto_timeline config (default TRUE). Response
includes auto_timeline: { created } alongside auto_links.
Side effect: a one-shot `gbrain put` now produces a complete page —
chunks, embeddings, links, AND timeline — instead of three commands
the user has to chain manually.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(migrate): verify target health after engine migration
After a PGLite↔Postgres migration, the user was left to run 'gbrain
doctor' themselves to confirm the target is good. Not great, because
the failure modes (partial copy, missing embeddings, schema drift)
all surface at next CLI use when the migration itself looks like it
succeeded.
Add verifyTarget() — inline doctor-lite that checks page count
matches the source, embedding coverage is above 90%, and schema
version is at latest. Prints a 3-line status table at the end of
migrate and points at 'gbrain doctor' for the full check. Non-fatal:
warns on discrepancies instead of failing the command so the user
sees the full picture.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(bench): add v0.13 knowledge runtime benchmark deltas
Two new benchmark scripts + one consolidated markdown comparing this
branch against master (c0b6219, v0.12.1):
benchmark-put-page-latency.ts — 200 put_page ops, measures the
per-write cost of Step B's auto-timeline extraction. Branch adds
~0.5ms mean latency and produces 300 timeline entries for free;
master produces zero and requires a separate 'gbrain extract timeline'
pass.
benchmark-knowledge-runtime.ts — three measurements in one script:
time-to-queryable (branch 40/40 vs master 0/40 on post-ingest
timeline queries), integrity repair rate (70/20/10 three-bucket
split via mocked resolver), doctor completeness (surfaces 100% of
real issues after Step A, respects grandfathered pages).
docs/benchmarks/2026-04-19-knowledge-runtime-v0.13.md — consolidated
report. Covers the four moved benchmarks plus side-by-side runs of
graph-quality and search-quality showing they're identical across
master and branch. Proof of no regression on the retrieval hot path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-20 07:30:00 +08:00
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-`src/core/operations.ts` — Contract-first operation definitions (the foundation). Also exports upload validators: `validateUploadPath`, `validatePageSlug`, `validateFilename`. `OperationContext.remote` flags untrusted callers.
-`src/core/engine.ts` — Pluggable engine interface (BrainEngine). `clampSearchLimit(limit, default, cap)` takes an explicit cap so per-operation caps can be tighter than `MAX_SEARCH_LIMIT`. Exports `LinkBatchInput` / `TimelineBatchInput` for the v0.12.1 bulk-insert API (`addLinksBatch` / `addTimelineEntriesBatch`).
-`src/core/engine.ts` — Pluggable engine interface (BrainEngine). `clampSearchLimit(limit, default, cap)` takes an explicit cap so per-operation caps can be tighter than `MAX_SEARCH_LIMIT`. Exports `LinkBatchInput` / `TimelineBatchInput` for the v0.12.1 bulk-insert API (`addLinksBatch` / `addTimelineEntriesBatch`). As of v0.13.1, `BrainEngine` has a `readonly kind: 'postgres' | 'pglite'` discriminator so migrations (`src/core/migrate.ts`) and other consumers can branch on engine without `instanceof` + dynamic imports.
-`src/core/engine-factory.ts` — Engine factory with dynamic imports (`'pglite'` | `'postgres'`)
-`src/core/pglite-engine.ts` — PGLite (embedded Postgres 17.5 via WASM) implementation, all 40 BrainEngine methods. `addLinksBatch` / `addTimelineEntriesBatch` use multi-row `unnest()` with manual `$N` placeholders.
-`src/core/pglite-engine.ts` — PGLite (embedded Postgres 17.5 via WASM) implementation, all 40 BrainEngine methods. `addLinksBatch` / `addTimelineEntriesBatch` use multi-row `unnest()` with manual `$N` placeholders. As of v0.13.1, `connect()` wraps `PGlite.create()` in a try/catch that emits an actionable error naming the macOS 26.3 WASM bug (#223) and pointing at `gbrain doctor`; the lock is released on failure so the next process can retry cleanly.
-`src/core/postgres-engine.ts` — Postgres + pgvector implementation (Supabase / self-hosted). `addLinksBatch` / `addTimelineEntriesBatch` use `INSERT ... SELECT FROM unnest($1::text[], ...) JOIN pages ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING RETURNING 1` — 4-5 array params regardless of batch size, sidesteps the 65535-parameter cap. As of v0.12.3, `searchKeyword` / `searchVector` scope `statement_timeout` via `sql.begin` + `SET LOCAL` so the GUC dies with the transaction instead of leaking across the pooled postgres.js connection (contributed by @garagon). `getEmbeddingsByChunkIds` uses `tryParseEmbedding` so one corrupt row skips+warns instead of killing the query.
-`src/core/utils.ts` — Shared SQL utilities extracted from postgres-engine.ts. Exports `parseEmbedding(value)` (throws on unknown input, used by migration + ingest paths where data integrity matters) and as of v0.12.3 `tryParseEmbedding(value)` (returns `null` + warns once per process, used by search/rescore paths where availability matters more than strictness).
-`src/core/check-resolvable.ts` — Resolver validation: reachability, MECE overlap, DRY checks, structured fix objects. v0.14.1: `CROSS_CUTTING_PATTERNS.conventions` is an array (notability gate accepts both `conventions/quality.md` and `_brain-filing-rules.md`). New `extractDelegationTargets()` parses `> **Convention:**`, `> **Filing rule:**`, and inline backtick references. DRY suppression is proximity-based via `DRY_PROXIMITY_LINES = 40`.
-`src/core/repo-root.ts` — Shared `findRepoRoot(startDir?)` (v0.16.4): walks up from `startDir` (default `process.cwd()`) looking for `skills/RESOLVER.md`. Zero-dependency module imported by both `doctor.ts` and `check-resolvable.ts`. Parameterized `startDir` makes tests hermetic.
-`src/commands/check-resolvable.ts` — Standalone CLI wrapper (v0.16.4) over `checkResolvable()`. Exports `parseFlags`, `resolveSkillsDir`, `DEFERRED`, `runCheckResolvable`. Exit rule: **1 on any issue (warnings OR errors)**, stricter than doctor's `ok` flag — honors README:259. Stable JSON envelope `{ok, skillsDir, report, autoFix, deferred, error, message}` — same shape on success and error paths. `--fix` path runs `autoFixDryViolations` BEFORE `checkResolvable` (same ordering as doctor). `scripts/skillify-check.ts` subprocess-calls `gbrain check-resolvable --json` (cached per process) and fails loud on binary-missing — no silent false-pass. **v0.19:** AGENTS.md workspaces now resolve natively (see `src/core/resolver-filenames.ts`) — gbrain inspects the 107-skill OpenClaw deployment whether the routing file is `RESOLVER.md` or `AGENTS.md`. `DEFERRED[]` is empty — Checks 5 + 6 shipped as real code, not issue URLs.
-`src/core/resolver-filenames.ts` (v0.19) — central list of accepted routing filenames (`RESOLVER.md`, `AGENTS.md`). Shared by `findRepoRoot`, `check-resolvable`, and skillpack install so every code path walks the same fallback chain.
-`src/commands/skillify.ts` + `src/core/skillify/{generator,templates}.ts` (v0.19) — `gbrain skillify scaffold <name>` creates all stubs for a new skill in one command: SKILL.md, script, tests, routing-eval.jsonl, resolver entry, filing-rules pointer. `gbrain skillify check <script>` runs the 10-step checklist (LLM evals, routing evals, check-resolvable gate, filing audit) against a candidate skill before it lands.
-`src/commands/skillify-check.ts` (v0.19) — `gbrain skillpack-check` agent-readable health report. Exit 0/1/2 for CI pipeline gating; JSON for debugging. Wraps `check-resolvable --json`, `doctor --json`, and migration ledger into one payload so agents can decide whether a human action is required.
-`src/commands/skillpack.ts` + `src/core/skillpack/{bundle,installer}.ts` (v0.19) — `gbrain skillpack install` drops gbrain's curated 25-skill bundle into a host workspace, managed-block style. Never clobbers local edits; tracks a skill manifest so subsequent `install --update` diffs cleanly. Bundle builder (`skillpack/bundle.ts`) packages the set from `skills/` into a versioned payload.
-`src/core/skill-manifest.ts` (v0.19) — parser for `skill-manifest.json` records. Used by skillpack installer to detect drift between the shipped bundle and the user's local edits, so updates merge instead of overwriting.
-`src/commands/routing-eval.ts` + `src/core/routing-eval.ts` (v0.19) — `gbrain routing-eval` catches user phrasings that route to the wrong skill. Reads `skills/<name>/routing-eval.jsonl` fixtures (`{intent, expected_skill, ambiguous_with?}`). Structural layer runs in `check-resolvable` by default (zero API cost); `--llm` opts into a Haiku tie-break layer for CI. False positives surface before users hit them.
-`src/core/filing-audit.ts` + `skills/_brain-filing-rules.json` (v0.19) — Check 6 of `check-resolvable`. Parses new `writes_pages:` / `writes_to:` frontmatter on skills and audits their filing claims against the filing-rules JSON. Warning-only in v0.19, upgrades to error in v0.20.
-`src/core/dry-fix.ts` — `gbrain doctor --fix` engine. `autoFixDryViolations(fixes, {dryRun})` rewrites inlined rules to `> **Convention:** see [path](path).` callouts via three shape-aware expanders (bullet / blockquote / paragraph). Five guards: working-tree-dirty (`getWorkingTreeStatus()` returns 3-state `'clean' | 'dirty' | 'not_a_repo'`), no-git-backup, inside-code-fence, already-delegated (40-line proximity, consistent with detector), ambiguous-multi-match, block-is-callout. `execFileSync` array args (no shell — no injection surface). EOF newline preserved.
-`src/commands/extract.ts` — `gbrain extract links|timeline|all [--source fs|db]`: batch link/timeline extraction. fs walks markdown files, db walks pages from the engine (mutation-immune snapshot iteration; use this for live brains with no local checkout). As of v0.12.1 there is no in-memory dedup pre-load — candidates are buffered 100 at a time and flushed via `addLinksBatch` / `addTimelineEntriesBatch`; `ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING` enforces uniqueness at the DB layer, and the `created` counter returns real rows inserted (truthful on re-runs).
-`src/core/minions/queue.ts` — MinionQueue class (submit, claim, complete, fail, stall detection, parent-child, depth/child-cap, per-job timeouts, cascade-kill, attachments, idempotency keys, child_done inbox, removeOnComplete/Fail). `add()` takes a 4th `trusted` arg (separate from `opts` to prevent spread leakage); protected names in `PROTECTED_JOB_NAMES` require `{allowProtectedSubmit: true}` and the check runs trim-normalized (whitespace-bypass safe). v0.14.1 #219:`add()` plumbs `max_stalled` through with a `[1, 100]` clamp; omitted values let the schema DEFAULT (5) kick in. v0.19.0: `handleWallClockTimeouts(lockDurationMs)` is Layer 3 kill shot for jobs where `FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED` stall detection and the timeout sweep both fail to evict (wedged worker holding a row lock via a pending transaction). v0.19.1: `maxWaiting` coalesce path now uses `pg_advisory_xact_lock` keyed on `(name, queue)` to serialize concurrent submits for the same key, and filters on `queue` in addition to `name` so cross-queue same-name jobs don't suppress each other.
-`src/core/minions/worker.ts` — MinionWorker class (handler registry, lock renewal, graceful shutdown, timeout safety net). v0.14.0 abort-path fix: aborted jobs now call `failJob` with reason (`timeout`/`cancel`/`lock-lost`/`shutdown`) instead of returning silently. `shutdownAbort` (instance field) fires on process SIGTERM/SIGINT and propagates to `ctx.shutdownSignal` — shell handler listens to it; non-shell handlers don't.
-`src/core/minions/types.ts` — `MinionJobInput` + `MinionJobStatus` + handler context types. `MinionJobInput.max_stalled` (new in v0.14.1) is optional; omitted values let the schema DEFAULT (5) kick in, provided values are clamped to `[1, 100]`.
-`src/core/minions/protected-names.ts` — side-effect-free constant module exporting `PROTECTED_JOB_NAMES` + `isProtectedJobName()`. Kept pure so queue core can import without loading handler modules.
-`src/core/minions/handlers/shell.ts` — `shell` job handler. Spawns `/bin/sh -c cmd` (absolute path, PATH-override-safe) or `argv[0] argv[1..]` (no shell). Env allowlist: `PATH, HOME, USER, LANG, TZ, NODE_ENV` + caller `env:` overrides. UTF-8-safe stdout/stderr tail via `string_decoder.StringDecoder`. Abort (either `ctx.signal` or `ctx.shutdownSignal`) fires SIGTERM → 5s grace → SIGKILL on child. Requires `GBRAIN_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS=1` on worker (gated by `registerBuiltinHandlers`).
-`src/core/minions/handlers/shell-audit.ts` — per-submission JSONL audit trail at `~/.gbrain/audit/shell-jobs-YYYY-Www.jsonl` (ISO-week rotation; override via `GBRAIN_AUDIT_DIR`). Best-effort: `mkdirSync(recursive)` + `appendFileSync`; failures logged to stderr, submission not blocked. Logs cmd (first 80 chars) or argv (JSON array). Never logs env values.
-`src/core/minions/backpressure-audit.ts` (v0.19.1) — sibling of shell-audit.ts for `maxWaiting` coalesce events. JSONL at `~/.gbrain/audit/backpressure-YYYY-Www.jsonl`. Fires one line per coalesce with `(queue, name, waiting_count, max_waiting, returned_job_id, ts)`. Closes the silent-drop vector the v0.19.0 maxWaiting guard introduced.
-`src/core/minions/handlers/subagent.ts` (v0.15) — LLM-loop handler. Two-phase tool persistence (pending → complete/failed), replay reconciliation for mid-dispatch crashes, dual-signal abort (`ctx.signal` + `ctx.shutdownSignal`), Anthropic prompt caching on system + tool defs. `makeSubagentHandler({engine, client?, ...})` factory; `MessagesClient` is an injectable interface the real SDK implements structurally. Throws `RateLeaseUnavailableError` (renewable) when rate-lease capacity is full.
-`src/core/minions/handlers/subagent-aggregator.ts` (v0.15) — `subagent_aggregator` handler. Claims AFTER all children resolve (queue changes guarantee every terminal child posts a `child_done` inbox message with outcome). Reads inbox via `ctx.readInbox()`, builds deterministic mixed-outcome markdown summary. No LLM call in v0.15.
-`src/core/minions/handlers/subagent-audit.ts` (v0.15) — JSONL audit + heartbeat writer at `~/.gbrain/audit/subagent-jobs-YYYY-Www.jsonl`. Events: `submission` (one line per submit) + `heartbeat` (per turn boundary: `llm_call_started | llm_call_completed | tool_called | tool_result | tool_failed`). Never logs prompts or tool inputs. `readSubagentAuditForJob(jobId, {sinceIso})` is the readback path for `gbrain agent logs`.
-`src/core/minions/rate-leases.ts` (v0.15) — lease-based concurrency cap for outbound providers (default key `anthropic:messages`, max via `GBRAIN_ANTHROPIC_MAX_INFLIGHT`). Owner-tagged rows with `expires_at` auto-prune on acquire; `pg_advisory_xact_lock` guards check-then-insert; CASCADE on owning job deletion. `renewLeaseWithBackoff` retries 3x (250/500/1000ms).
-`src/core/minions/wait-for-completion.ts` (v0.15) — poll-until-terminal helper for CLI callers. `TimeoutError` does NOT cancel the job; `AbortSignal` exits without throwing. Default `pollMs`: 1000 on Postgres, 250 on PGLite inline.
-`src/core/minions/transcript.ts` (v0.15) — renders `subagent_messages` + `subagent_tool_executions` to markdown. Tool rows splice under their owning assistant `tool_use` by `tool_use_id`. UTF-8-safe truncation; unknown block types fall through to fenced JSON.
-`src/core/minions/plugin-loader.ts` (v0.15) — `GBRAIN_PLUGIN_PATH` discovery. Absolute paths only, left-wins collision, `gbrain.plugin.json` with `plugin_version: "gbrain-plugin-v1"`, plugins ship DEFS only (no new tools), `allowed_tools:` validated at load time against the derived registry.
-`src/core/minions/tools/brain-allowlist.ts` (v0.15) — derives subagent tool registry from `src/core/operations.ts`. 11-name allow-list: `query`, `search`, `get_page`, `list_pages`, `file_list`, `file_url`, `get_backlinks`, `traverse_graph`, `resolve_slugs`, `get_ingest_log`, `put_page`. `put_page` schema is namespace-wrapped per subagent (`^wiki/agents/<subagentId>/.+`); the `put_page` op's server-side check is the authoritative gate via `ctx.viaSubagent` fail-closed.
-`src/mcp/tool-defs.ts` (v0.15) — extracted `buildToolDefs(ops)` helper. MCP server + subagent tool registry both call it; byte-for-byte equivalence pinned by `test/mcp-tool-defs.test.ts`.
-`src/commands/agent.ts` (v0.16) — `gbrain agent run <prompt> [flags]` CLI. Submits `subagent` (or N children + 1 aggregator) under `{allowProtectedSubmit: true}`. Single-entry `--fanout-manifest` short-circuits. Children get `on_child_fail: 'continue'` + `max_stalled: 3`. `--follow` is the default on TTY; streams logs + polls `waitForCompletion` in parallel. Ctrl-C detaches, does not cancel.
-`src/commands/agent-logs.ts` (v0.16) — `gbrain agent logs <job> [--follow] [--since]`. Merges JSONL heartbeat audit + `subagent_messages` into a chronological timeline. `parseSince` accepts ISO-8601 or relative (`5m`, `1h`, `2d`). Transcript tail renders only for terminal jobs.
-`src/commands/jobs.ts` — `gbrain jobs` CLI subcommands + `gbrain jobs work` daemon. v0.13.1 surfaces the full `MinionJobInput` retry/backoff/timeout/idempotency surface as first-class CLI flags on `jobs submit`: `--max-stalled`, `--backoff-type fixed|exponential`, `--backoff-delay`, `--backoff-jitter`, `--timeout-ms`, `--idempotency-key`. `jobs smoke --sigkill-rescue` is the opt-in regression guard for #219. v0.16 wires `registerBuiltinHandlers` to always register `subagent` + `subagent_aggregator` (no env flag — `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` is the natural cost gate, trust is via `PROTECTED_JOB_NAMES`) and loads `GBRAIN_PLUGIN_PATH` plugins at worker startup with a loud startup-line per plugin. `shell` handler still gated by `GBRAIN_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS=1` (RCE surface, separate concern).
-`src/commands/upgrade.ts` — Self-update CLI. `runPostUpgrade()` enumerates migrations from the TS registry (src/commands/migrations/index.ts) and tail-calls `runApplyMigrations(['--yes', '--non-interactive'])` so the mechanical side of every outstanding migration runs unconditionally.
-`src/commands/migrations/` — TS migration registry (compiled into the binary; no filesystem walk of `skills/migrations/*.md` needed at runtime). `index.ts` lists migrations in semver order. `v0_11_0.ts` = Minions adoption orchestrator (8 phases). `v0_12_0.ts` = Knowledge Graph auto-wire orchestrator (5 phases: schema → config check → backfill links → backfill timeline → verify). `phaseASchema` has a 600s timeout (bumped from 60s in v0.12.1 for duplicate-heavy brains). `v0_12_2.ts` = JSONB double-encode repair orchestrator (4 phases: schema → repair-jsonb → verify → record). All orchestrators are idempotent and resumable from `partial` status.
-`src/commands/migrations/` — TS migration registry (compiled into the binary; no filesystem walk of `skills/migrations/*.md` needed at runtime). `index.ts` lists migrations in semver order. `v0_11_0.ts` = Minions adoption orchestrator (8 phases). `v0_12_0.ts` = Knowledge Graph auto-wire orchestrator (5 phases: schema → config check → backfill links → backfill timeline → verify). `phaseASchema` has a 600s timeout (bumped from 60s in v0.12.1 for duplicate-heavy brains). `v0_12_2.ts` = JSONB double-encode repair orchestrator (4 phases: schema → repair-jsonb → verify → record). `v0_14_0.ts` = shell-jobs + autopilot cooperative (2 phases: schema ALTER minion_jobs.max_stalled SET DEFAULT 3 — superseded by v0.14.3's schema-level DEFAULT 5 + UPDATE backfill; pending-host-work ping for skills/migrations/v0.14.0.md). All orchestrators are idempotent and resumable from `partial` status. As of v0.14.2 (Bug 3), the RUNNER owns all ledger writes — orchestrators return `OrchestratorResult` and `apply-migrations.ts` persists a canonical `{version, status, phases}` shape after return. Orchestrators no longer call `appendCompletedMigration` directly. `statusForVersion` prefers `complete` over `partial` (never regresses). 3 consecutive partials → wedged → `--force-retry <version>` writes a `'retry'` reset marker. v0.14.3 (fix wave) ships schema-only migrations v14 (`pages_updated_at_index`) + v15 (`minion_jobs_max_stalled_default_5` with UPDATE backfill) via the `MIGRATIONS` array in `src/core/migrate.ts` — no orchestrator phases needed.
-`src/commands/repair-jsonb.ts` — `gbrain repair-jsonb [--dry-run] [--json]`: rewrites `jsonb_typeof='string'` rows in place across 5 affected columns (pages.frontmatter, raw_data.data, ingest_log.pages_updated, files.metadata, page_versions.frontmatter). Fixes v0.12.0 double-encode bug on Postgres; PGLite no-ops. Idempotent.
-`src/commands/orphans.ts` — `gbrain orphans [--json] [--count] [--include-pseudo]`: surfaces pages with zero inbound wikilinks, grouped by domain. Auto-generated/raw/pseudo pages filtered by default. Also exposed as `find_orphans` MCP operation. Shipped in v0.12.3 (contributed by @knee5).
-`src/commands/doctor.ts` — `gbrain doctor [--json] [--fast] [--fix]`: health checks. v0.12.3 adds two reliability detection checks: `jsonb_integrity` (scans pages.frontmatter, raw_data.data, ingest_log.pages_updated, files.metadata for `jsonb_typeof='string'` rows left over from v0.12.0) and `markdown_body_completeness` (flags pages whose compiled_truth is <30% of raw source when raw has multiple H2/H3 boundaries). Fix hints point at `gbrain repair-jsonb` and`gbrain sync --force`.
-`src/commands/doctor.ts` — `gbrain doctor [--json] [--fast] [--fix] [--dry-run] [--index-audit]`: health checks. v0.12.3 added `jsonb_integrity` + `markdown_body_completeness` reliability checks. v0.14.1: `--fix` delegates inlined cross-cutting rules to `> **Convention:** see [path](path).` callouts (pipes DRY violations into `src/core/dry-fix.ts`); `--fix --dry-run` previews without writing. v0.14.2: `schema_version` check fails loudly when `version=0` (migrations never ran — the #218`bun install -g` signature) and routes users to `gbrain apply-migrations --yes`; new opt-in `--index-audit` flag (Postgres-only) reports zero-scan indexes from `pg_stat_user_indexes` (informational only, no auto-drop). v0.15.2: every DB check is wrapped in a progress phase; `markdown_body_completeness` runs under a 1s heartbeat timer so 10+ min scans are observable on 50K-page brains. v0.19.1 added `queue_health` (Postgres-only) with two subchecks: stalled-forever active jobs (started_at > 1h) and waiting-depth-per-name > threshold (default 10, override via `GBRAIN_QUEUE_WAITING_THRESHOLD`). Worker-heartbeat subcheck intentionally deferred to follow-up B7 because it needs a `minion_workers` table to produce ground-truth signal. Fix hints point at `gbrain repair-jsonb`,`gbrain sync --force`, `gbrain apply-migrations`, and `gbrain jobs get/cancel <id>`.
-`src/core/migrate.ts` — schema-migration runner. Owns the `MIGRATIONS` array (source of truth for schema DDL). v0.14.2 extended the `Migration` interface with `sqlFor?: { postgres?, pglite? }` (engine-specific SQL overrides `sql`) and `transaction?: boolean` (set to false for `CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY`, which Postgres refuses inside a transaction; ignored on PGLite since it has no concurrent writers). Migration v14 (fix wave) uses a handler branching on `engine.kind` to run CONCURRENTLY on Postgres (with a pre-drop of any invalid remnant via `pg_index.indisvalid`) and plain `CREATE INDEX` on PGLite. v15 bumps `minion_jobs.max_stalled` default 1→5 and backfills existing non-terminal rows.
-`src/core/progress.ts` — Shared bulk-action progress reporter. Writes to stderr. Modes: `auto` (TTY: `\r`-rewriting; non-TTY: plain lines), `human`, `json` (JSONL), `quiet`. Rate-gated by `minIntervalMs` and `minItems`. `startHeartbeat(reporter, note)` helper for single long queries. `child()` composes phase paths. Singleton SIGINT/SIGTERM coordinator emits `abort` events for every live phase. EPIPE defense on both sync throws and stream `'error'` events. Zero dependencies. Introduced in v0.15.2.
-`src/core/cli-options.ts` — Global CLI flag parser. `parseGlobalFlags(argv)` returns `{cliOpts, rest}` with `--quiet` / `--progress-json` / `--progress-interval=<ms>` stripped. `getCliOptions()` / `setCliOptions()` expose a module-level singleton so commands reach the resolved flags without parameter threading. `cliOptsToProgressOptions()` maps to reporter options. `childGlobalFlags()` returns the flag suffix to append to `execSync('gbrain ...')` calls in migration orchestrators. `OperationContext.cliOpts` extends shared-op dispatch for MCP callers.
-`src/core/cycle.ts` — v0.17 brain maintenance cycle primitive. `runCycle(engine: BrainEngine | null, opts: CycleOpts): Promise<CycleReport>` composes 6 phases in semantically-driven order (lint → backlinks → sync → extract → embed → orphans). Three callers: `gbrain dream` CLI, `gbrain autopilot` daemon's inline path, and the Minions `autopilot-cycle` handler (`src/commands/jobs.ts`). One source of truth for what the brain does overnight. Coordination via `gbrain_cycle_locks` DB table (TTL-based; works through PgBouncer transaction pooling, unlike session-scoped `pg_try_advisory_lock`) + `~/.gbrain/cycle.lock` file lock with PID-liveness for PGLite / engine=null mode. `CycleReport.schema_version: "1"` is the stable agent-consumable shape. `PhaseResult.error: { class, code, message, hint?, docs_url? }` is Stripe-API-tier structured failure info. `yieldBetweenPhases` hook awaited between every phase — Minions handler uses this to renew its job lock and prevent v0.14 stall-death regression. Engine nullable: filesystem phases (lint, backlinks) run without DB; DB phases skip with `status: "skipped", reason: "no_database"`. Lock-skip: read-only phase selections (`--phase orphans`) bypass the cycle lock.
-`src/commands/dream.ts` — v0.17 `gbrain dream` CLI. ~80-line thin alias over `runCycle`. brainDir resolution requires explicit `--dir` OR `sync.repo_path` config (no more walk-up-cwd-for-.git footgun). Flags: `--dry-run`, `--json`, `--phase <name>`, `--pull`, `--dir <path>`. Exit code 1 on status=failed (partial/warn not fatal — don't page on warnings).
-`scripts/check-progress-to-stdout.sh` — CI guard against regressing to `\r`-on-stdout progress. Wired into `bun run test` via `scripts/check-progress-to-stdout.sh && bun test` in package.json.
-`docs/progress-events.md` — Canonical JSON event schema reference. Stable from v0.15.2, additive only.
-`src/core/markdown.ts` — Frontmatter parsing + body splitter. `splitBody` requires an explicit timeline sentinel (`<!-- timeline -->`, `--- timeline ---`, or `---` immediately before `## Timeline`/`## History`). Plain `---` in body text is a markdown horizontal rule, not a separator. `inferType` auto-types `/wiki/analysis/` → analysis, `/wiki/guides/` → guide, `/wiki/hardware/` → hardware, `/wiki/architecture/` → architecture, `/writing/` → writing (plus the existing people/companies/deals/etc heuristics).
-`scripts/check-jsonb-pattern.sh` — CI grep guard. Fails the build if anyone reintroduces the `${JSON.stringify(x)}::jsonb` interpolation pattern (which postgres.js v3 double-encodes). Wired into `bun test`.
-`scripts/check-jsonb-pattern.sh` — CI grep guard. Fails the build if anyone reintroduces (a) the `${JSON.stringify(x)}::jsonb` interpolation pattern (postgres.js v3 double-encodes it), or (b) `max_stalled INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 1` in any schema source file (v0.15.1 #219 regression guard — must be DEFAULT 5 to preserve SIGKILL-rescue). Wired into `bun test`.
-`scripts/llms-config.ts` + `scripts/build-llms.ts` — Generator for `llms.txt` (llmstxt.org-spec web index) + `llms-full.txt` (inlined single-fetch bundle). Curated config drives both. Run `bun run build:llms` after adding a new doc. `LLMS_REPO_BASE` env var lets forks regenerate with their own URL base. `FULL_SIZE_BUDGET` (600KB) caps the inline bundle; generator WARNs if exceeded. Committed output is not analogous to `schema-embedded.ts` (no runtime consumer); we commit for GitHub browsing and fork-safe fetching.
-`AGENTS.md` — Local-clone entry point for non-Claude agents (Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, Aider). Mirrors `CLAUDE.md` intent via relative links. Claude Code keeps using `CLAUDE.md`.
-`docs/UPGRADING_DOWNSTREAM_AGENTS.md` — Patches for downstream agent skill forks to apply when upgrading. Each release appends a new section. v0.10.3 includes diffs for brain-ops, meeting-ingestion, signal-detector, enrich.
-`src/core/schema-embedded.ts` — AUTO-GENERATED from schema.sql (run `bun run build:schema`)
-`src/schema.sql` — Full Postgres + pgvector DDL (source of truth, generates schema-embedded.ts)
@@ -86,7 +121,7 @@ strict behavior when unset.
-`docs/guides/diligence-ingestion.md` — Data room to brain pages pipeline
-`docs/designs/HOMEBREW_FOR_PERSONAL_AI.md` — 10-star vision for integration system
-BrainBench (benchmark suite + corpus): lives in the separate [gbrain-evals](https://github.com/garrytan/gbrain-evals) repo. Not installed alongside gbrain.
-`skills/_brain-filing-rules.md` — Cross-cutting brain filing rules (referenced by all brain-writing skills)
-`skills/RESOLVER.md` — Skill routing table (based on the agent-fork AGENTS.md pattern)
-`gbrain jobs submit <name> [--params JSON] [--follow] [--dry-run]` — submit a background job
-`gbrain jobs submit <name> [--params JSON] [--follow] [--dry-run]` — submit a background job. v0.13.1 adds first-class flags for every `MinionJobInput` tuning knob: `--max-stalled N`, `--backoff-type fixed|exponential`, `--backoff-delay Nms`, `--backoff-jitter 0..1`, `--timeout-ms N`, `--idempotency-key K`.
-`gbrain jobs list [--status S] [--queue Q]` — list jobs with filters
-`gbrain jobs get <id>` — job details with attempt history
-`gbrain jobs cancel/retry/delete <id>` — manage job lifecycle
-`gbrain jobs prune [--older-than 30d]` — clean old completed/dead jobs
-`gbrain jobs stats` — job health dashboard
-`gbrain jobs smoke [--sigkill-rescue]` — health smoke test. `--sigkill-rescue` is the v0.13.1 regression guard for #219: simulates a killed worker and asserts the stalled job is requeued instead of dead-lettered on first stall.
-`gbrain jobs work [--queue Q] [--concurrency N]` — start worker daemon (Postgres only)
Key commands added in v0.12.2:
@@ -141,6 +192,19 @@ Key commands added in v0.12.3:
-`gbrain orphans [--json] [--count] [--include-pseudo]` — surface pages with zero inbound wikilinks, grouped by domain. Auto-generated/raw/pseudo pages filtered by default. Also exposed as `find_orphans` MCP operation. The natural consumer of the v0.12.0 knowledge graph layer: once edges are captured, find the gaps.
-`gbrain doctor` gains two new reliability detection checks: `jsonb_integrity` (v0.12.0 Postgres double-encode damage) and `markdown_body_completeness` (pages truncated by the old splitBody bug). Detection only; fix hints point at `gbrain repair-jsonb` and `gbrain sync --force`.
Key commands added in v0.14.2:
-`gbrain sync --skip-failed` — acknowledge the current set of failed-parse files recorded in `~/.gbrain/sync-failures.jsonl` so the sync bookmark advances past them. Doctor's `sync_failures` check shows previously-skipped as "all acknowledged" instead of warning.
-`gbrain sync --retry-failed` — re-walk the unacknowledged failures and re-attempt parsing. If the files now succeed, they clear from the set and the bookmark advances naturally.
-`gbrain apply-migrations --force-retry <version>` — reset a wedged migration (3 consecutive partials with no completion) by appending a `'retry'` marker. Next `apply-migrations --yes` treats the version as fresh. `complete` status never regresses to `partial` either before or after a retry marker.
-`GBRAIN_POOL_SIZE` env var — honored by both the singleton pool (`src/core/db.ts`) and the parallel-import worker pool (`src/commands/import.ts`). Default is 10; lower to 2 for Supabase transaction pooler to avoid MaxClients crashes during `gbrain upgrade` subprocess spawns. Read at call time via `resolvePoolSize()`.
-`gbrain doctor` gains two new checks: `sync_failures` (surfaces unacknowledged parse failures with exact paths + fix hints) and `brain_score` (renders the 5-component breakdown when score < 100: embed coverage / 35, link density / 25, timeline coverage / 15, orphans / 15, dead links / 10 — sum equals total).
Key commands added in v0.14.3 (fix wave):
-`gbrain doctor --index-audit` — opt-in Postgres-only check reporting zero-scan indexes from `pg_stat_user_indexes`. Informational only; never auto-drops.
-`gbrain doctor` schema_version check fails loudly when `version=0` — catches `bun install -g github:...` postinstall failures (#218) and routes users to `gbrain apply-migrations --yes`.
-`gbrain jobs submit` gains `--max-stalled`, `--backoff-type`, `--backoff-delay`, `--backoff-jitter`, `--timeout-ms`, `--idempotency-key` — exposing existing `MinionJobInput` fields as first-class CLI flags.
-`gbrain jobs smoke --sigkill-rescue` — opt-in regression smoke case simulating a killed worker; asserts the v0.14.3 schema default (`max_stalled=5`) actually rescues on first stall.
## Testing
`bun test` runs all tests. After the v0.12.1 release: ~75 unit test files + 8 E2E test files (1412 unit pass, 119 E2E when `DATABASE_URL` is set — skip gracefully otherwise). Unit tests run
`test/pglite-engine.test.ts` (PGLite engine, all 40 BrainEngine methods including 11 cases for `addLinksBatch` / `addTimelineEntriesBatch`: empty batch, missing optionals, within-batch dedup via ON CONFLICT, missing-slug rows dropped by JOIN, half-existing batch, batch of 100),
`test/pglite-engine.test.ts` (PGLite engine, all 40 BrainEngine methods including 11 cases for `addLinksBatch` / `addTimelineEntriesBatch`: empty batch, missing optionals, within-batch dedup via ON CONFLICT, missing-slug rows dropped by JOIN, half-existing batch, batch of 100 + v0.13.1 `connect()` error-wrap assertion (original error nested, #223 link in message, lock released)),
`test/postgres-engine.test.ts` (v0.12.3 statement_timeout scoping: `sql.begin` + `SET LOCAL` shape, source-level grep guardrail against reintroduced bare `SET statement_timeout`),
`test/sync.test.ts` (sync logic + v0.12.3 regression guard asserting top-level `engine.transaction` is not called),
`test/doctor.test.ts` (doctor command + v0.12.3 assertions that `jsonb_integrity` scans the four v0.12.0 write sites and `markdown_body_completeness` is present),
`test/utils.test.ts` (shared SQL utilities + `tryParseEmbedding` null-return and single-warn semantics).
`test/utils.test.ts` (shared SQL utilities + `tryParseEmbedding` null-return and single-warn semantics),
`test/skillpack-sync-guard.test.ts` (v0.19 sync-guard: bundled skills stay byte-identical to `skills/` source).
E2E tests (`test/e2e/`): Run against real Postgres+pgvector. Require `DATABASE_URL`.
-`bun run test:e2e` runs Tier 1 (mechanical, all operations, no API keys). Includes 9 dedicated cases for the postgres-engine `addLinksBatch` / `addTimelineEntriesBatch` bind path — postgres-js's `unnest()` binding is structurally different from PGLite's and gets its own coverage.
@@ -201,6 +276,7 @@ E2E tests (`test/e2e/`): Run against real Postgres+pgvector. Require `DATABASE_U
-`test/e2e/postgres-jsonb.test.ts` — v0.12.2 regression test. Round-trips all 5 JSONB write sites (pages.frontmatter, raw_data.data, ingest_log.pages_updated, files.metadata, page_versions.frontmatter) against real Postgres and asserts `jsonb_typeof='object'` plus `->>'key'` returns the expected scalar. The test that should have caught the original double-encode bug.
-`test/e2e/jsonb-roundtrip.test.ts` — v0.12.3 companion regression against the 4 doctor-scanned JSONB sites. Assertion-level overlap with `postgres-jsonb.test.ts` is intentional defense-in-depth: if doctor's scan surface ever drifts from the actual write surface, one of these tests catches it.
-`test/e2e/upgrade.test.ts` runs check-update E2E against real GitHub API (network required)
-`test/e2e/openclaw-reference-compat.test.ts` (v0.19) — exercises `check-resolvable` + `skillpack install` against a minimal AGENTS.md workspace fixture (`test/fixtures/openclaw-reference-minimal/`), regression guard for the 107-skill OpenClaw deployment shape
- Tier 2 (`skills.test.ts`) requires OpenClaw + API keys, runs nightly in CI
- If `.env.testing` doesn't exist in this directory, check sibling worktrees for one:
`find ../ -maxdepth 2 -name .env.testing -print -quit` and copy it here if found.
@@ -252,8 +328,8 @@ stop and remove it before starting a new one.
## Skills
Read the skill files in `skills/` before doing brain operations. GBrain ships 26 skills
organized by `skills/RESOLVER.md`:
Read the skill files in `skills/` before doing brain operations. GBrain ships 28 skills
organized by `skills/RESOLVER.md` (`AGENTS.md` is also accepted as of v0.19):
@@ -4,12 +4,14 @@ Your AI agent is smart but forgetful. GBrain gives it a brain.
Built by the President and CEO of Y Combinator to run his actual AI agents. The production brain powering his OpenClaw and Hermes deployments: **17,888 pages, 4,383 people, 723 companies**, 21 cron jobs running autonomously, built in 12 days. The agent ingests meetings, emails, tweets, voice calls, and original ideas while you sleep. It enriches every person and company it encounters. It fixes its own citations and consolidates memory overnight. You wake up and the brain is smarter than when you went to bed.
The brain wires itself. Every page write extracts entity references and creates typed links (`attended`, `works_at`, `invested_in`, `founded`, `advises`) with zero LLM calls. Hybrid search. Self-wiring knowledge graph. Structured timeline. Backlink-boosted ranking. Ask "who works at Acme AI?" or "what did Bob invest in this quarter?" and get answers vector search alone can't reach. Benchmarked end-to-end: **Recall@5 jumps from 83% to 95%, Precision@5 from 39% to 45%, +30 more correct answers in the agent's top-5 reads** on a 240-page Opus-generated rich-prose corpus. Graph-only F1: **86.6% vs grep's 57.8%** (+28.8 pts). [Full report](docs/benchmarks/2026-04-18-brainbench-v1.md).
The brain wires itself. Every page write extracts entity references and creates typed links (`attended`, `works_at`, `invested_in`, `founded`, `advises`) with zero LLM calls. Hybrid search. Self-wiring knowledge graph. Structured timeline. Backlink-boosted ranking. Ask "who works at Acme AI?" or "what did Bob invest in this quarter?" and get answers vector search alone can't reach. Benchmarked side-by-side against the category: gbrain lands **P@5 49.1%, R@5 97.9%** on a 240-page Opus-generated rich-prose corpus, beating its own graph-disabled variant by **+31.4 points P@5** and ripgrep-BM25 + vector-only RAG by a similar margin. The graph layer plus v0.12 extract quality together carry the gap. Full BrainBench scorecards + corpus live in the sibling [gbrain-evals](https://github.com/garrytan/gbrain-evals) repo.
GBrain is those patterns, generalized. 26 skills. Install in 30 minutes. Your agent does the work. As Garry's personal agent gets smarter, so does yours.
GBrain is those patterns, generalized. 28 skills. Install in 30 minutes. Your agent does the work. As Garry's personal agent gets smarter, so does yours.
> **~30 minutes to a fully working brain.** Database ready in 2 seconds (PGLite, no server). You just answer questions about API keys.
> **LLMs:** fetch [`llms.txt`](llms.txt) for the documentation map, or [`llms-full.txt`](llms-full.txt) for the same map with core docs inlined in one fetch. **Agents:** start with [`AGENTS.md`](AGENTS.md) (or [`CLAUDE.md`](CLAUDE.md) if you're Claude Code).
## Install
### On an agent platform (recommended)
@@ -26,7 +28,12 @@ Retrieve and follow the instructions at:
That's it. The agent clones the repo, installs GBrain, sets up the brain, loads 26 skills, and configures recurring jobs. You answer a few questions about API keys. ~30 minutes.
That's it. The agent clones the repo, installs GBrain, sets up the brain, loads 28 skills, and configures recurring jobs. You answer a few questions about API keys. ~30 minutes.
If your agent doesn't auto-read `AGENTS.md`, point it at that file first:
`https://raw.githubusercontent.com/garrytan/gbrain/master/AGENTS.md` is the non-Claude
agent operating protocol (install, read order, trust boundary, common tasks). For
the full doc map, use `llms.txt` at the same URL root.
### Standalone CLI (no agent)
@@ -37,6 +44,11 @@ gbrain import ~/notes/ # index your markdown
gbrain query "what themes show up across my notes?"
```
**Do NOT use `bun install -g github:garrytan/gbrain`.** Bun blocks the top-level
postinstall hook on global installs, so schema migrations never run and the CLI
aborts with `Aborted()` the first time it opens PGLite. Use `git clone + bun install
&& bun link` as shown above. See [#218](https://github.com/garrytan/gbrain/issues/218).
GBrain ships 26 skills organized by `skills/RESOLVER.md`. The resolver tells your agent which skill to read for any task.
GBrain ships 28 skills organized by `skills/RESOLVER.md` (or your OpenClaw's `AGENTS.md` — both filenames are supported as of v0.19). The resolver tells your agent which skill to read for any task.
[Skill files are code.](https://x.com/garrytan/status/2042925773300908103) They're the most powerful way to get knowledge work done. A skill file is a fat markdown document that encodes an entire workflow: when to fire, what to check, how to chain with other skills, what quality bar to enforce. The agent reads the skill and executes it. Skills can also call deterministic TypeScript code bundled in GBrain (search, import, embed, sync) for the parts that shouldn't be left to LLM judgment. [Thin harness, fat skills](docs/ethos/THIN_HARNESS_FAT_SKILLS.md): the intelligence lives in the skills, not the runtime.
@@ -121,6 +133,8 @@ GBrain ships 26 skills organized by `skills/RESOLVER.md`. The resolver tells you
| **webhook-transforms** | External events (SMS, meetings, social mentions) converted into brain pages with entity extraction. |
| **testing** | Validates every skill has SKILL.md with frontmatter, manifest coverage, resolver coverage. |
| **skill-creator** | Create new skills following the conformance standard. MECE check against existing skills. |
| **skillify** | The "skillify it!" meta-skill. Orchestrates the 10-step loop so failures become durable skills: scaffold the stubs via `gbrain skillify scaffold`, write the real logic, gate with `gbrain skillify check` + `gbrain check-resolvable`. |
| **skillpack-check** | Agent-readable gbrain health report. Exit code for CI; JSON for debugging. Cron-friendly. |
| **minion-orchestrator** | Long-running agent work as background jobs. Submit, fan out children with depth/cap/timeouts, collect results via child_done inbox. |
### Identity and setup
@@ -180,7 +194,7 @@ Here's my personal OpenClaw deployment: one Render container. Supabase Postgres
Under that 19-cron load, sub-agent spawn couldn't clear the 10-second gateway wall. Minions landed it in under a second for zero tokens. **Scaling:** 19,240 posts across 36 months, single bash loop, ~15 min total, $0.00. Sub-agents: ~9 min best case, ~$1.08 in tokens, ~40% spawn failure. **Lab:** durability ∞ (SIGKILL mid-flight, 10/10 rescued), throughput ~10× faster, fan-out ~21× with no failure wall, memory ~400× less.
Full benchmarks: [production](docs/benchmarks/2026-04-18-minions-vs-openclaw-production.md) and [lab](docs/benchmarks/2026-04-18-minions-vs-openclaw-subagents.md).
Full benchmarks live in [gbrain-evals](https://github.com/garrytan/gbrain-evals/tree/main/docs/benchmarks).
### The routing rule
@@ -197,9 +211,12 @@ The six daily pains — spawn storms, agents that stop responding, forgotten dis
gbrain jobs smoke # verify install
gbrain jobs submit sync --params '{}'# fire a background job
gbrain jobs stats # health dashboard
gbrain jobswork --concurrency 4# start a worker (Postgres only)
gbrain jobs work --concurrency 4# raw worker (no crash recovery — prefer `supervisor`)
```
`gbrain jobs supervisor` keeps the worker alive across crashes with exponential backoff, atomic PID locking, structured audit events at `~/.gbrain/audit/supervisor-*.jsonl`, and a `start --detach` / `status --json` / `stop` subcommand surface for agents. In containers it runs as PID 1; on systemd hosts it's the child of `gbrain-worker.service`. Full deployment guide: [`docs/guides/minions-deployment.md`](docs/guides/minions-deployment.md).
Read [`skills/minion-orchestrator/SKILL.md`](skills/minion-orchestrator/SKILL.md) for parent-child DAGs, fan-in collection, steering via inbox.
**Minions is not incrementally better than sub-agents for background work. It's categorically different.** 753ms vs gateway timeout. $0 vs tokens. 100% vs couldn't-spawn. If your agent does deterministic work on a schedule, it runs on Minions now.
If anything's off, `actions[]` tells you the exact command to run. For deeper troubleshooting: [`docs/guides/minions-fix.md`](docs/guides/minions-fix.md).
## Skillify: your skills tree stops being a black box
Moving gateway crons to Minions (deterministic scripts, zero LLM tokens per fire): [`docs/guides/minions-shell-jobs.md`](docs/guides/minions-shell-jobs.md).
Hermes and similar agent frameworks auto-create skills as a background behavior. Fine until you don't know what the agent shipped. Checklists decay. Tests drift. Resolver entries get stale. Six months later you've got an opaque pile of "skills" that nobody has read, nobody has tested, and nobody is sure still work.
## Durable agents: `gbrain agent` (v0.15)
GBrain ships the same capability. Except the human stays in the loop.
- **`/skillify`** turns raw code into a properly-skilled feature: SKILL.md + deterministic script + unit tests + integration tests + LLM evals + resolver trigger + resolver trigger eval + E2E smoke + brain filing. Ten items. Every one required.
- **`gbrain check-resolvable`** walks the whole skills tree: reachability, MECE overlap, DRY violations, gap detection, orphaned skills. Exits non-zero if anything is off.
- **`scripts/skillify-check.ts`** — machine-readable audit. `--json` for CI, `--recent` for last-7-days files.
You decide when and what. The tooling keeps the checklist honest.
### Why this is the right answer for OpenClaw
Auto-generated skills are a liability the first time a behavior breaks. Was it the skill? The test? The resolver trigger? The eval? You don't know, because you never read it. Debugging a black box is pure guesswork.
Skillify makes the black box legible. Every skill in your tree has: a contract (SKILL.md), tests that exercise that contract, an eval that grades LLM output against a rubric, a resolver trigger the user actually types, and a test that confirms the trigger routes right. If something breaks, you know which layer to look at. If anything goes stale, `check-resolvable` says so.
In practice this combo produces **zero orphaned skills, every feature with tests + evals + resolver triggers + evals of the triggers.** Compounding quality instead of compounding entropy.
Your subagent runs survive crashes now. OpenClaw died mid-run? The worker re-claims on restart and replays from the last committed turn. Fan-out across 50 shards, one shard crashes — the aggregator still claims after every child reaches a terminal state and writes a mixed-outcome summary. Tool calls persist as a two-phase ledger (`pending` → `complete | failed`) so replay is safe by construction, not by hope.
```bash
# Audit a feature's skill completeness (10-item checklist)
bun run scripts/skillify-check.ts src/commands/publish.ts
# Submit a single-subagent run
gbrain agent run "summarize my last 10 journal pages"
# In CI: fail the build when a new feature isn't properly skilled
bun run scripts/skillify-check.ts --json --recent
# Fan out N prompts across N subagent children + 1 aggregator
gbrain agent run "analyze every page"\
--fanout-manifest manifests/pages.json \
--subagent-def analyzer
# Validate the whole skills tree before shipping
gbrain check-resolvable
# Tail a running job (heartbeat per turn + full transcript on completion)
gbrain agent logs 1247 --follow --since 5m
```
**Skillify is not a nice-to-have. It's the piece that makes the skills tree survive six months of compounding work.** Read [`skills/skillify/SKILL.md`](skills/skillify/SKILL.md) for the full 10-item checklist and the anti-patterns it catches.
Durability is the point: every Anthropic turn commits to `subagent_messages`, every tool call to `subagent_tool_executions`. Worker kills, OpenClaw crashes, timeouts — all resumable. Host repos (your OpenClaw, etc.) ship their own subagent definitions via `GBRAIN_PLUGIN_PATH` + a `gbrain.plugin.json` manifest: see [`docs/guides/plugin-authors.md`](docs/guides/plugin-authors.md). Requires `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` on the worker.
## Skillify: say "skillify it!" and the bug becomes structurally impossible to repeat
Your OpenClaw hit a new failure. You fix it once in conversation. You say "skillify it!"
And now the fix is permanent: a SKILL.md with triggers, a deterministic script with tests, a
routing fixture the agent re-evaluates daily, a filing audit that keeps the output from
drifting. Ten items. Every one required. The bug can't recur.
Hermes and similar agent frameworks auto-create skills as a background behavior. Fine until
you don't know what the agent shipped. Checklists decay. Tests drift. Resolver entries get
stale. Six months later it's an opaque pile nobody has read, nobody has tested, and nobody
is sure still works. GBrain ships the same capability except the human stays in the loop
and every step is a command you can run.
### The four verbs you need (v0.19)
```bash
# 1. Scaffold all 5 stub files for a new skill in one shot.
gbrain skillify scaffold webhook-verify \
--description "verify ngrok webhooks"\
--triggers "verify the webhook,check tunnel"\
--writes-pages --writes-to people/,companies/
# 2. Replace the SKILLIFY_STUB sentinels with real logic + real tests.
@@ -348,7 +441,7 @@ gbrain extract links --source db # wire up the existing 29K pages
gbrain extract timeline --source db # extract dated events from markdown timelines
```
Then ask graph questions or watch the search ranking improve. Benchmarked: **Recall@5 jumps from 83% to 95%, Precision@5 from 39% to 45%, +30 more correct answers in the agent's top-5 reads** on a 240-page Opus-generated rich-prose corpus. Graph-only F1 hits 86.6% vs grep's 57.8% (+28.8 pts). See [docs/benchmarks/2026-04-18-brainbench-v1.md](docs/benchmarks/2026-04-18-brainbench-v1.md).
Then ask graph questions or watch the search ranking improve. Benchmarked side-by-side against ripgrep-BM25, vector-only RAG (same embedder), and gbrain-with-graph-disabled: gbrain lands **P@5 49.1%, R@5 97.9%** on a 240-page Opus-generated rich-prose corpus, beating hybrid-nograph by **+31.4 points P@5**. Isolate the contribution: v0.11→v0.12 moved the same gbrain codebase from P@5 22.1% → 49.1% on identical inputs, so typed-link extract quality is load-bearing. Full scorecards + reproducible corpus: [gbrain-evals](https://github.com/garrytan/gbrain-evals).
## Search
@@ -424,7 +517,7 @@ End-to-end on the BrainBench v1 corpus (240 rich-prose pages, before/after PR #1
Plus 5 orthogonal capability checks (identity resolution, temporal queries,
performance at 10K-page scale, robustness to malformed input, MCP operation
contract). All pass. [Full report.](docs/benchmarks/2026-04-18-brainbench-v1.md)
contract). All pass. Full report: [gbrain-evals](https://github.com/garrytan/gbrain-evals).
The point: each technique handles a class of inputs the others miss. Vector
@@ -572,7 +679,7 @@ The skills in this repo are those patterns, generalized. What took 11 days to bu
- [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) ... Version history
**Benchmarks:**
- [BrainBench v1 (PR #188)](docs/benchmarks/2026-04-18-brainbench-v1.md) ... single comprehensive before/after report on a 240-page Opus-generated corpus. 7 categories: relational queries, identity resolution, temporal queries, performance, robustness, MCP contract.
- [gbrain-evals](https://github.com/garrytan/gbrain-evals) ... BrainBench, thesibling repo that holds the eval harness, corpus, scorecards, and 4-adapter comparisons. Depends on gbrain; not installed alongside gbrain.
**What:** Eval that gbrain correctly cites the right page when claiming fact F, and resolves source-conflict cases (3 sources disagree on $5M raise — which wins?). 200 queries across citation/provenance/conflict sub-categories on a 300-entity dataset with deliberately-conflicting sources.
### ~~Checks 5 + 6 for check-resolvable~~
**Completed:** v0.19.0 (2026-04-22)
**Why deferred from PR #188:** Needs ~$100-200 of Opus tokens to generate the conflict-graph dataset. v1 scope was procedural-only.
Both checks shipped as real implementations, not just filed issues:
- **Check 5 (trigger routing eval):** `src/core/routing-eval.ts` + `gbrain routing-eval` CLI. Structural layer runs in `check-resolvable` by default; `--llm` opts into LLM tie-break. Fixtures live at `skills/<name>/routing-eval.jsonl`.
- **Check 6 (brain filing):** `src/core/filing-audit.ts` + `skills/_brain-filing-rules.json`. New `writes_pages:` + `writes_to:` frontmatter. Warning-only in v0.19, error in v0.20.
`DEFERRED[]` in `src/commands/check-resolvable.ts` is now empty — v0.19 shipped both deferred checks as working code paths, not as issue URLs. The export stays in place for future deferred checks.
**Depends on:** Identity Resolution (Cat 3) shipped — uses same world generator pattern.
### ~~BrainBench Cats 5/6/8/9/11 — shipped to sibling repo~~
**Completed:** v0.20.0 (2026-04-23)
### BrainBench Cat 6: Auto-link Precision under Prose (at scale)
**What:** Cat 10 (Robustness/Adversarial) covered code-fence leak and false-positive substrings on 22 hand-crafted cases. v1.1 extends this to 500+ prose-heavy pages with realistic narrative noise. Tests link precision in the wild, not just edge cases.
All five previously-deferred BrainBench categories shipped as working runners
in the sibling repo [github.com/garrytan/gbrain-evals](https://github.com/garrytan/gbrain-evals):
**Why deferred from PR #188:** Needs prose-heavy generated corpus (~$100-150 Opus). Existing 22-case eval already caught + fixed the code-fence leak bug.
**Why deferred:** Needs licensed real datasets (Common Voice for audio etc.). Dataset curation is the bulk of the work.
**Threshold:** PDF text fidelity > 95% (text-based) / > 80% (scanned), audio WER < 15%, entity_recall > 80% post-ingestion.
Cats 5/6/8/9/11 shipped to the sibling repo in v0.20.0 — see the Completed
section above. One remaining scope item:
### BrainBench Cat 1+2 at full scale
**What:** Existing benchmark-search-quality.ts (29 pages, 20 queries) and benchmark-graph-quality.ts (80 pages, 5 queries) currently pass at small scale. v1.1 extends both to 2-3K rich-prose pages generated via Opus to surface scale-dependent failures (tied keyword clusters, hub-node fan-out, prose-noise extraction precision).
@@ -57,24 +69,6 @@ company refs only). Per-type after fix: invested_in 91.7% (was 0%),
mentions 100%, attended 100%. works_at 58% and advises 41% are next
**What:** After the v0.10.4 fix, two link types still under-perform on rich
prose. Drive these to >85% type accuracy in next iteration.
**works_at: 58% type accuracy.** Engineer/employee pages use varied phrasings
the regex doesn't catch ("spent some time at", "joined the team", narrative
"is currently at" without a verb). Approach: extend WORKS_AT_RE; consider
employee-role page prior similar to partner prior.
**advises: 41% type accuracy.** Advisor pages often describe board roles
without using the word "advisor" explicitly ("on Beta Health's board",
"joined Beta as a board member"). The v0.10.4 fix tightened ADVISES_RE to
require "advisor" rooting to avoid false positives from investors. Need
a tighter signal that distinguishes "advisor on board" from "investor on
board" — likely an advisor-role page prior plus verb-pattern combinations.
**Threshold:** Cat 2 rich-prose type accuracy > 92% (currently 88.5%).
### v0.10.4: gbrain alias resolution feature (driven by Cat 3)
**What:** Add an alias table to gbrain so "Sarah Chen" / "S. Chen" / "@schen" / "sarah.chen@example.com" resolve to one canonical entity. Schema: `aliases (id, slug, alias_text)` with a unique index. Search blends alias matches into hybrid scoring.
@@ -84,6 +78,30 @@ board" — likely an advisor-role page prior plus verb-pattern combinations.
## P1
### Minions shell jobs — Phase 2 scheduling (deferred from v0.13.0)
**What:**`minion_schedules` table + autopilot-cycle scanner that submits due shell jobs.
**Why:** v0.13.0 moves shell scripts to Minions but still leaves scheduling in the host crontab. Your OpenClaw's `scripts/service-manager.sh` + crontab is the only piece left on the host side. A DB-driven scheduler would mean a single `gbrain autopilot --install` replaces the host crontab entirely, scheduling is visible via `gbrain jobs list --scheduled`, and downtime-on-one-machine tolerance improves (schedule is shared DB state, not per-host crontab).
**Pros:** Canonical host-agnostic deployment. No more host-specific crontab.
**Cons:** Cross-engine migration complexity (new table on both PGLite + Postgres). Autopilot-cycle scanner needs to handle missed-schedule semantics (fire-once-on-startup or skip-if-past-now), and this is where every other cron-like system has historically accrued bugs.
**Depends on:** v0.13.0 shell jobs shipped. ✅
### `gbrain crontab-to-minions <file>` migration helper (deferred from v0.13.0)
**What:** Parse an existing crontab file, emit a proposed rewrite using `gbrain jobs submit shell ...` for each deterministic entry, keep LLM-requiring entries as-is.
**Why:** Hand-rewriting ~14 OpenClaw cron entries is error-prone and one-shot. A helper would make the migration reversible and auditable (diff the before/after crontab, dry-run the first N, commit).
**Pros:** Removes the "rewrite 14 lines by hand" tax every agent operator pays on adoption.
**Cons:** Crontab parsing is historically fiddly (5-field vs 6-field, `@hourly` aliases, Vixie extensions, env vars in crontab). Could misrewrite entries with shell substitution.
**Depends on:** v0.13.0 shell jobs shipped. ✅
### Batch the DB-source extract read path (deferred from v0.12.1)
**What:** `extractLinksFromDB` and `extractTimelineFromDB` at `src/commands/extract.ts:447, 504` issue one `engine.getPage(slug)` per slug after `engine.getAllSlugs()`. On a 47K-page brain that's still 47K serial reads over the Supabase pooler.
@@ -149,7 +167,7 @@ board" — likely an advisor-role page prior plus verb-pattern combinations.
**Cons:** Requires adding `sender_id` or `access_tier` to `OperationContext`. Each mutating operation needs a permission check. Medium implementation effort.
**Context:** From CEO review + Codex outside voice (2026-04-13). Prompt-layer access control works in practice (same model as Wintermute) but is not sufficient for remote MCP where direct tool calls bypass the agent's prompt.
**Context:** From CEO review + Codex outside voice (2026-04-13). Prompt-layer access control works in practice (same model as Garry's OpenClaw) but is not sufficient for remote MCP where direct tool calls bypass the agent's prompt.
@@ -204,6 +222,75 @@ board" — likely an advisor-role page prior plus verb-pattern combinations.
## P2
### Orchestrator + runner double-write to migrations ledger (deferred from v0.18.2 codex review)
**What:**`src/commands/migrations/v0_18_0.ts:200-208` appends an entry to `~/.gbrain/migrations/completed.jsonl` while `src/commands/apply-migrations.ts:374-386` also appends one for the same orchestrator run. The dedupe guard in `src/core/preferences.ts:120-131` only suppresses duplicate `complete` entries, not `partial` entries. Result: distorted wedge counting (3-consecutive-partials-triggers-wedge logic sees 6 partials when it should see 3).
**Why:** Codex plan-review caught this during PR #356 while verifying the two-migration-systems resume boundary. Not blocking v0.18.2 shipping because it only affects the wedge detection threshold, not correctness of the migration itself.
**Fix:** Pick one writer (prefer `apply-migrations.ts` runner as the single source of truth, remove the orchestrator-side append). Fold into `feat/agent-migration-devex` follow-up PR, which already touches both files for the migrate-command consolidation work.
**Depends on:** v0.18.2 shipped. ✅
### 22K-page resync is 30+ minutes on large brains (deferred from v0.18.2 codex review)
**What:** When a schema migration requires data backfill (e.g., computing `page_id` from `page_slug` across all `files` rows), `src/commands/sync.ts:248-251, 311-337` iterates per-file. None of v0.18.2's hardening work shrinks this path. On a 22K-page brain the resync takes 30+ minutes; at 500K pages it would be several hours.
**Why:** Codex explicitly called out that none of PR #356 or the two follow-up PRs addresses the resync execution model. This is a separate performance-design problem.
**Options to explore:**
- (a) Parallel page import via worker pool (Minions-based).
- (b) Bulk COPY-based import replacing the per-file INSERT.
- (c) Incremental resync that only rewrites changed rows (needs content hash or updated_at gating).
**Priority:** P2 now, upgrade to P1 if another heavy migration ships that needs backfill at this scale.
**Depends on:** v0.18.2 shipped. ✅
### Minions: `gbrain jobs stats --orphaned` (deferred from v0.13.0)
**What:** New CLI flag / output column surfacing jobs that are waiting with no registered handler on any live worker.
**Why:** v0.13.0 adds shell jobs that require `GBRAIN_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS=1` on the worker. If an operator submits a shell job but no worker with the flag is running, the row sits in `waiting` silently. The CLI's starvation warning + docs help at submit time; this TODO surfaces the problem at operational-check time.
**Pros:** Closes the "did my cron actually run" ambiguity for multi-machine deployments.
**Cons:** Knowing "no worker has this handler registered" requires worker heartbeat tracking, which Minions doesn't have yet (it's stateless at DB level beyond `lock_token`). Could be approximated by "no jobs of this name have completed in last N minutes AND count of waiting is > 0."
**Depends on:** v0.13.0 shell jobs shipped. ✅
### Minions: AbortReason plumbing on MinionJobContext (deferred from v0.13.0)
**What:** Handlers today can't distinguish whether `ctx.signal.aborted` fired due to timeout, cancel, or lock-loss. v0.13.0 derives this at worker-catch-time from `abort.signal.reason`, but the handler can't see it directly. Expose `ctx.abortReason?: 'timeout' | 'cancel' | 'lock-lost' | 'shutdown'` on the context.
**Why:** Shell handler's kill-sequence today can't decide "retry this" (lock-lost) vs "don't retry, user cancelled" (cancel) — they look the same. A typed AbortReason lets handlers make that decision for themselves.
**Pros:** Handlers get richer signals.
**Cons:** Small surface-area addition to the handler API. Not strictly required since the worker already makes the retry/dead decision for them.
**Depends on:** v0.13.0 shell jobs shipped. ✅
### Minions: blocking-mode audit log for true forensic integrity (deferred from v0.13.0)
**What:** Opt-in mode for `shell-audit` where `appendFileSync` failures DO block submission instead of logging-and-continuing.
**Why:** v0.13.0 ships the audit log in best-effort mode, which means a disk-full attacker can silently disable the forensic trail. Acceptable for v0.13.0 because the primary use is operational ("what did this cron do last Tuesday"), not security forensics. Operators who want fail-closed semantics should have a flag.
**Pros:** Enables true forensic integrity for deployments that need it.
**Cons:** Fail-closed means a transient disk issue blocks shell submissions, which can be worse than a missing log line for most operators. Opt-in is the right shape but adds surface area.
**Depends on:** v0.13.0 shell jobs shipped. ✅
### Minions: configurable per-job output buffer sizes (deferred from v0.13.0)
**What:** Add `max_stdout_bytes` / `max_stderr_bytes` to ShellJobParams; override the 64KB/16KB defaults.
**Why:** 64KB/16KB covers typical OpenClaw scripts today but a verbose benchmark or a debug-dump script could need more.
**Depends on:** First shell-job author who actually needs it. Don't pre-build the flag.
### Security hardening follow-ups (deferred from security-wave-3)
**What:** Close remaining security gaps identified during the v0.9.4 Codex outside-voice review that didn't make the wave's in-scope cut.
@@ -296,6 +383,27 @@ board" — likely an advisor-role page prior plus verb-pattern combinations.
**Priority:** P2
**Depends on:** Nothing.
### Doctor --fix polish from v0.14.1 adversarial review
**What:** Six deferred findings from v0.14.1 ship-time adversarial review on `src/core/dry-fix.ts`:
1.**TOCTOU between read and write.**`attemptFix` reads once, writes later. Concurrent editor saves silently overwritten. Fix: re-read immediately before write and compare snapshot, or `O_EXCL` tempfile + rename.
2.**Fence detection misses 4-backtick and `~~~` fences.**`isInsideCodeFence` only catches `^```$`. CommonMark-legal alternates slip through.
3.**`expandBullet` walk-up is dead code.** Loop breaks immediately because `baseIndent` matches the current line. Remove or make it actually walk up.
4.**Multi-match guard too strict.** Skills with the pattern in a table-of-contents AND body get `ambiguous_multiple_matches` forever. Consider: fix first, re-scan, repeat until fixed-point.
5.**Subprocess spam.**`getWorkingTreeStatus` spawns `git status` N×M times per `doctor --fix`. Cache per-skill per-invocation.
6.**`doctor --fix --json` swallows the auto-fix report.** `printAutoFixReport` returns early on `jsonOutput`; agents don't see fix outcomes. Emit `auto_fix` as a top-level key.
**Why:** None are ship-blockers; all surfaced during v0.14.1 Codex adversarial review. Bundle into one follow-up PR.
**Pros:** Closes the adversarial findings loop. Better correctness under concurrent edits and JSON-consumer agents.
**Cons:** Concurrent-edit test is finicky.
**Context:** v0.14.1 shipped with the 4 critical fixes (shell-injection via execFileSync, no-git-backup detection, EOF newline preservation, proximity-window consistency). These six are the deferred remainder.
**Effort estimate:** M (CC: ~45min for all six + tests).
**Priority:** P2
**Depends on:** Nothing.
## Completed
### Implement AWS Signature V4 for S3 storage backend
| [Cron via Minions](../skills/conventions/cron-via-minions.md) | Why scheduled work runs as Minion jobs, not `agentTurn`. Auto-applied by v0.11.0 migration for built-in handlers; host-specific handlers use the plugin contract below. |
| [Plugin Handlers](guides/plugin-handlers.md) | Registering host-specific Minion handlers via code (no data-file exec surface). |
| [Minions fix](guides/minions-fix.md) | Repairing a half-migrated v0.11.0 install. |
| [Shell jobs (v0.14.0+)](guides/minions-shell-jobs.md) | Move deterministic crons (API fetch, token refresh, scrape+write) off the LLM gateway. Zero tokens per fire, ~60% gateway headroom. Follow `skills/migrations/v0.14.0.md` for the adoption playbook. |
| [Quiet Hours & Timezone](guides/quiet-hours.md) | Hold notifications during sleep, timezone-aware delivery |
@@ -319,6 +319,142 @@ v0.13 edges carry new `link_type` values. If your fork has graph-query skills th
### Type normalization NOT in v0.13
Legacy rows with `link_type='attendee'` or `link_type='mention'` coexist with new `'attended'` / `'mentions'` rows. Your queries filtering on old type names keep working. A separate opt-in `gbrain normalize-types` command in v0.14 handles the rename.
## v0.14.0 shell jobs (optional adoption, no skill edits)
Adds a `shell` job type to Minions so deterministic cron scripts (API fetch, token
refresh, scrape + write) move off the LLM gateway. Zero tokens per fire. ~60%
gateway CPU headroom at typical scale. Feature is **off by default**, existing
installs keep running exactly as they did before. Nothing breaks.
To adopt, follow `skills/migrations/v0.14.0.md`. The short version:
1. Set `GBRAIN_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS=1` on the worker process, then `gbrain jobs work`
(Postgres). On PGLite, every crontab invocation uses `--follow` for inline
execution; no persistent worker.
2. Classify each of your host's cron entries: LLM-requiring (keep on gateway) vs
deterministic (candidate for shell). Typical splits:
During a CEO review of a narrow two-feature plan (bare-tweet citation repair + completeness score, borrowed from Feynman), the scope was reframed. The narrow plan duplicated work Wintermute already does and missed the real leverage point: **the bespoke abstractions hiding inside Wintermute — resolvers, enrichment orchestration, scheduling, deterministic output — should live in GBrain as first-class primitives.**
During a CEO review of a narrow two-feature plan (bare-tweet citation repair + completeness score, borrowed from Feynman), the scope was reframed. The narrow plan duplicated work Garry's OpenClaw already does and missed the real leverage point: **the bespoke abstractions hiding inside OpenClaw — resolvers, enrichment orchestration, scheduling, deterministic output — should live in GBrain as first-class primitives.**
North star: *"When Wintermute's Claw upgrades to this version of GBrain, it should immediately recognize brilliance and completeness and say 'It's time to switch to these abstractions.'"*
North star: *"When Garry's OpenClaw's Claw upgrades to this version of GBrain, it should immediately recognize brilliance and completeness and say 'It's time to switch to these abstractions.'"*
That is the test this document is designed against. Everything else is downstream.
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ An earlier implementation could ship L1 + L4 first (the two "purest" layers) and
### 3.1 What's broken today
Wintermute has **69 distinct external-lookup patterns** across X API (14 shapes), Perplexity, Mistral OCR, Gmail, Calendar, Slack, GitHub, YouTube, Diarize.io, YC tools, OSINT collectors, and brain-local lookups. Each one is a bespoke script under `scripts/` with its own error handling, retry logic, and output shape. GBrain has 3 ad-hoc wrappers (`embedding.ts`, `transcription.ts`, `enrichment-service.ts`) that don't share an interface.
Garry's OpenClaw has **69 distinct external-lookup patterns** across X API (14 shapes), Perplexity, Mistral OCR, Gmail, Calendar, Slack, GitHub, YouTube, Diarize.io, YC tools, OSINT collectors, and brain-local lookups. Each one is a bespoke script under `scripts/` with its own error handling, retry logic, and output shape. GBrain has 3 ad-hoc wrappers (`embedding.ts`, `transcription.ts`, `enrichment-service.ts`) that don't share an interface.
Common consequences:
- No uniform retry/backoff strategy (some scripts retry, most don't)
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ Existing `src/core/fail-improve.ts` is the deterministic-first/LLM-fallback patt
### 3.7 Reference implementations to ship
The Wintermute survey inventoried 69 resolver shapes. Shipping all of them is wrong (over-scoped); shipping zero is under-scoped. The dogfood set:
The OpenClaw survey inventoried 69 resolver shapes. Shipping all of them is wrong (over-scoped); shipping zero is under-scoped. The dogfood set:
| # | Resolver | Purpose | Used by |
|---|---|---|---|
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ The Wintermute survey inventoried 69 resolver shapes. Shipping all of them is wr
The remaining 63 Wintermute patterns port incrementally, driven by user need. Each port is a new YAML + module under `recipes/` or `~/.gbrain/resolvers/` with no framework changes.
The remaining 63 OpenClaw patterns port incrementally, driven by user need. Each port is a new YAML + module under `recipes/` or `~/.gbrain/resolvers/` with no framework changes.
---
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ The remaining 63 Wintermute patterns port incrementally, driven by user need. Ea
### 4.1 What's broken today
Wintermute's enrichment is **polished at the data layer, hacky at the control layer**:
Garry's OpenClaw's enrichment is **polished at the data layer, hacky at the control layer**:
- **Completeness = "length > 500 chars + no `needs-enrichment` tag"** (`lib/enrich.mjs:351-355`). Naïve. A rich page of repetitive Perplexity summaries (see `brain/people/0interestrates.md` — 38 repeating blocks) passes this check.
- **30-day auto-re-enrichment** runs forever. No "done" state. A person met once in 2023 still gets re-researched monthly.
Wintermute's cron is **externally-driven JSON** (`cron/jobs.json`) with ~30 jobs manually stagger-offset at different minutes. GBrain has **zero native scheduling** — `src/commands/autopilot.ts` is a single daemon loop, and `docs/guides/cron-schedule.md` is architectural guidance, not code.
Garry's OpenClaw's cron is **externally-driven JSON** (`cron/jobs.json`) with ~30 jobs manually stagger-offset at different minutes. GBrain has **zero native scheduling** — `src/commands/autopilot.ts` is a single daemon loop, and `docs/guides/cron-schedule.md` is architectural guidance, not code.
Failures observed in Wintermute's actual state:
Failures observed in Garry's OpenClaw's actual state:
| Quiet hours | Checked inside each skill (trust-based) | Enforced at scheduler, skill cannot override |
| Staggering | Manual minute-offset in `jobs.json` | Scheduler assigns slots via hashed staggerKey |
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ Every scheduled run emits structured events: `started`, `skipped-quiet-hours`, `
-`engine.logIngest` (audit trail in brain DB)
- Optional webhook (Slack/Telegram for the user)
`gbrain doctor` reads the event log and reports: current circuit-breaker state, any resolver with > 3 consecutive failures, any resolver that hasn't fired within 3× its interval (freshness SLA like Wintermute's `freshness-check.mjs` but built-in).
`gbrain doctor` reads the event log and reports: current circuit-breaker state, any resolver with > 3 consecutive failures, any resolver that hasn't fired within 3× its interval (freshness SLA like Garry's OpenClaw's `freshness-check.mjs` but built-in).
---
@@ -415,9 +415,9 @@ Every scheduled run emits structured events: `started`, `skipped-quiet-hours`, `
**Iron Law: LLM picks WHAT. Code guarantees WHERE and HOW.**
Wintermute's existing `lib/enrich.mjs:buildTweetEntry` is close to this — tweet URLs are built from `tweet.id` returned by the X API, never from LLM memory. But:
Garry's OpenClaw's existing `lib/enrich.mjs:buildTweetEntry` is close to this — tweet URLs are built from `tweet.id` returned by the X API, never from LLM memory. But:
- A past incident: *"Sub-agent test #2 FAILED — hallucinated 'Philip Leung' entity links across all daily files. LLM rewriting of daily files is too error-prone."* (Wintermute memory log, 2026-04-13.)
- A past incident: *"Sub-agent test #2 FAILED — hallucinated 'Philip Leung' entity links across all daily files. LLM rewriting of daily files is too error-prone."* (Garry's OpenClaw memory log, 2026-04-13.)
- Back-links depend on `appendTimeline` being called everywhere; skips are silent.
- Slug collisions are unchecked (no conflict detection on `slugify`).
- Citation format is post-hoc linted weekly, not pre-write enforced.
- Write `docs/openclaw/ADOPTION.md` showing your OpenClaw how to replace its 69 bespoke scripts with calls to `gbrain registry.resolve(...)`.
- Ship a `gbrain claw-bridge` subcommand that proxies Garry's OpenClaw's current script invocations to the resolver registry — zero-edit adoption path.
- **This is the test of the north star.** If your OpenClaw can stand up a 1-line shim and drop `scripts/x-api-client.mjs`, the abstraction succeeded.
Total: human: ~10 weeks / CC: ~42 hours / calendar with single implementer: ~3–4 weeks.
@@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ src/commands/
integrity.ts # ships in Phase 3, replaces Feynman Phase A/B
@@ -685,19 +685,19 @@ Every Resolver implementation tested against the interface spec. Table-driven: r
- Simulate API timeout mid-transaction; transaction must roll back completely.
- Corrupted state file; scheduler must escalate, not silently skip.
### Regression tests vs. Wintermute behavior
For each Wintermute pattern we port (e.g. X-handle → tweet URL), a regression test proves the new resolver produces the same answer on real-world inputs from the brain audit. This is the "Wintermute would adopt" proof.
### Regression tests vs. Garry's OpenClaw behavior
For each OpenClaw pattern we port (e.g. X-handle → tweet URL), a regression test proves the new resolver produces the same answer on real-world inputs from the brain audit. This is the "your OpenClaw would adopt" proof.
---
## 11. Open Questions (flagged for CEO re-review)
1.**Scope shape.** Is this the right four-layer decomposition, or are some layers better left to Wintermute (e.g. Scheduling lives above GBrain, not in it)?
1.**Scope shape.** Is this the right four-layer decomposition, or are some layers better left to OpenClaw (e.g. Scheduling lives above GBrain, not in it)?
2.**Phase 3 user-value break.** Does Phase 3 (user-visible `gbrain integrity`) ship early enough, or do we need an even smaller MVP?
3.**LLM-as-resolver.** Should `text_to_entities` be a Resolver, or does that blur the "code vs LLM" line the invariant relies on?
4.**Plugin format.** YAML + TS module (§3.5) vs. pure TS module with decorator-style metadata. Latter is more type-safe; former is more discoverable.
5.**Cross-resolver transactions.** Do we support "atomic fetch-from-Perplexity + write-to-brain" at the L2 layer? Current design says yes; implementation is tricky (Perplexity call isn't rollbackable).
6.**Wintermute bridge scope.** Phase 7 `gbrain claw-bridge` — is that worth a phase of its own, or should adoption be documentation-only?
6.**OpenClaw bridge scope.** Phase 7 `gbrain claw-bridge` — is that worth a phase of its own, or should adoption be documentation-only?
7.**Completeness rubric coverage.** Do we define rubrics for all 9 PageTypes upfront, or ship people/company/meeting first and extend incrementally?
8.**Budget config UX.** Hard daily cap is strict; should we also expose a soft-cap warning mode, and how is the cap set (env var? config file? prompt on first use?)
9.**Backwards compat.**`src/commands/publish.ts` and `src/commands/backlinks.ts` have been running cleanly for weeks. Refactoring through BrainWriter carries migration risk. Acceptable?
@@ -705,12 +705,12 @@ For each Wintermute pattern we port (e.g. X-handle → tweet URL), a regression
---
## 12. Verification (the "Wintermute would adopt" test)
## 12. Verification (the "your OpenClaw would adopt" test)
The design succeeds iff:
- [ ] A user can add a new resolver by dropping a YAML + TS module in `~/.gbrain/resolvers/` without editing GBrain source.
- [ ]Wintermute can delete `scripts/x-api-client.mjs` and replace all callers with 1-line `await registry.resolve('x_handle_to_tweet', ...)`.
- [ ]Your OpenClaw can delete `scripts/x-api-client.mjs` and replace all callers with 1-line `await registry.resolve('x_handle_to_tweet', ...)`.
- [ ] No brain page can be written with a bare tweet reference, a missing back-link, or an unverified URL (validators catch it pre-commit).
- [ ] Running `gbrain integrity --auto --confidence 0.8` over a real brain fixes ≥1,000 of the 1,424 known bare-tweet citations without human review.
- [ ] Full E2E test suite passes on both PGLite + Postgres engines.
An agent seeing exit=2 can safely treat it as "one is already running";
exit=1 should page a human.
### Which supervisor when?
The supervisor solves in-process crash recovery. Platform-level
supervision (systemd, Fly, Render) handles host-level failures. You
usually want both.
| Environment | Recommendation |
|---|---|
| **Container (Fly / Railway / Render / Heroku)** | `gbrain jobs supervisor` runs as PID 1. The platform restarts the container on OOM / host loss; supervisor restarts the worker on crash. See [Fly.io](#flyio) / [Render / Railway / Heroku](#render--railway--heroku). |
| **Linux VM with systemd** | Two-layer recommended: systemd supervises `gbrain jobs supervisor`, which in turn supervises `gbrain jobs work`. Buys you automatic restart on reboot (systemd) plus fast crash recovery (supervisor). See [systemd](#systemd). |
| **Dev laptop / macOS** | `gbrain jobs supervisor` in a terminal. Ctrl-C stops it. No system-level setup needed. |
### Variables used in this guide
Substitute these once before copy-pasting any snippet.
| Variable | Meaning | Typical value |
|---|---|---|
| `$GBRAIN_BIN` | Absolute path to the `gbrain` binary | `$(command -v gbrain)` — often `/usr/local/bin/gbrain` or `~/.bun/bin/gbrain` |
| `$GBRAIN_WORKER_USER` | OS user that owns the worker process | the same user that ran `gbrain init`; never `root` |
| `$GBRAIN_WORKSPACE` | `cwd` for shell jobs submitted by this deployment | absolute path, e.g. `/srv/my-brain` |
# Submission audit log (operator trail, not forensic)
cat ~/.gbrain/audit/shell-jobs-*.jsonl | jq '.'
# First-time failure mode: submitted without env flag on the worker
gbrain jobs list --status waiting --name shell
# If rows pile up here, no worker with GBRAIN_ALLOW_SHELL_JOBS=1 is running.
```
---
## Limitations
- **Filesystem reads are not sandboxed.** See "Security model" above. Don't
point `cwd` at a directory full of secrets.
- **Audit log is advisory.** Disk-full or EACCES silently disables it.
- **Cancel latency is lock-renewal-bounded** (~7-15 s by default). A cancelled
child keeps running until the next lock-renewal tick fails.
- **`--follow` claim order** is by priority/created_at. If another job is
waiting in the same queue at the time of `--follow`, that one runs first.
- **`cwd` symlink TOCTOU.** The absolute-path check doesn't guard against
symlinks pointing elsewhere at execution time. Operator-scope concern.
---
## Errors {#errors}
| Error | What it means | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| `shell: specify exactly one of cmd or argv` | `cmd` and `argv` are mutually exclusive. Both absent is also invalid. | Choose one. `cmd` for shell-interpolated strings; `argv` for structured args. |
| `shell: cwd is required and must be an absolute path` | `cwd` must be a string starting with `/`. | Set `cwd` in `--params` to an absolute path. |
| `shell: argv must be an array of strings` | `argv` has a non-string entry or isn't an array. | Pass `argv: ["bin","arg1","arg2"]`. |
| `shell: env values must all be strings` | `env` has a number/bool/object value. | Stringify: `"env":{"COUNT":"3"}` not `"env":{"COUNT":3}`. |
| `permission_denied: shell jobs cannot be submitted over MCP` | An MCP client tried to submit a shell job. By design CLI-only. | Submit from CLI or via a trusted operation handler (`ctx.remote === false`). |
| `protected job name 'shell' requires CLI or operation-local submitter` | A caller invoked `MinionQueue.add('shell', ...)` without the `trusted` opt-in. | Pass `{ allowProtectedSubmit: true }` as the 4th arg. CLI and `submit_job` do this automatically. |
| `aborted: timeout` / `aborted: cancel` / `aborted: shutdown` / `aborted: lock-lost` | The worker's abort signal fired mid-execution. Child got SIGTERM, 5s grace, then SIGKILL. | Expected: timeout / user cancel / deploy restart / stall. Inspect `gbrain jobs get` to see which. |
| `exit N: <stderr_tail_500>` | Script exited non-zero. | Read `stderr_tail` in `gbrain jobs get`. |
"compiled_truth":"Accel is one of the most established venture capital firms in the world, with a track record spanning over four decades. Founded in 1983, the firm has evolved from a Silicon Valley stalwart into a truly global operation with offices in Palo Alto, London, and Bangalore. They've backed some of the most consequential technology companies of the past two decades, including Facebook, Spotify, Slack, and Dropbox.\n\nThe firm operates across multiple stages, though they're perhaps best known for their Series A and Series B investments. Accel manages billions in assets across various funds, with recent vintages exceeding $3 billion for their US and Europe-focused vehicles. Their investment thesis tends to favor founders building category-defining companies in enterprise software, consumer tech, fintech, and increasingly, AI infrastructure.\n\nAccel's partnership model emphasizes deep sector expertise. Partners like Sonali De Rycker have built formidable reputations in European fintech, while others focus on developer tools or consumer applications. The firm has been notably active in the generative AI wave, making early bets on companies building foundational models and application layers. They've developed strong relationships with accelerators like [Y Combinator](companies/y-combinator) and often co-invest alongside firms such as [Andreessen Horowitz](companies/a16z) on competitive deals.\n\nRecent years have seen Accel double down on international expansion. Their India fund has become one of the most active institutional investors in the subcontinent, backing companies like Flipkart and Swiggy before they became household names. The London office continues to punch above its weight in European tech circles.\n\nThe firm's culture is often described as founder-friendly but rigorous. They're known for taking board seats seriously and providing operational support beyond just capital. Accel's brand carries significant weight in fundraising conversations—a term sheet from them often signals quality to follow-on investors. Critics sometimes note their portfolio can feel conservative compared to newer entrants, but longevity has its advantages. They've seen multiple market cycles and tend to maintain disciplined valuations even in frothy markets.",
"timeline":[
"- **2021-03-15** | Accel closes $3 billion early-stage fund, largest in firm history at the time",
"- **2021-09-22** | Led Series B for enterprise AI startup alongside [Andreessen Horowitz](companies/a16z)",
"- **2022-04-10** | Opens expanded London office to support growing European portfolio",
"- **2022-11-08** | Partner Rich Wong speaks at Web Summit on enterprise software trends",
"- **2023-02-14** | Announces $650 million India-focused fund, sixth in the region",
"- **2023-08-30** | Leads seed round for [Y Combinator](companies/y-combinator) batch company building AI code review tools",
"- **2024-01-19** | Accel publishes annual Euroscape report showing record European unicorn creation",
"- **2024-06-05** | Makes significant investment in robotics startup focused on warehouse automation",
"- **2025-02-11** | Closes latest growth fund at $4.2 billion amid competitive fundraising environment",
"- **2025-09-03** | Hosts annual CEO summit in Portofino, bringing together 80+ portfolio founders"
"compiled_truth":"Acme is a robotics startup founded in 2021 by [Mia Brown](people/mia-brown-0), who previously spent nearly a decade in industrial automation before striking out on her own. The company focuses on developing modular robotic systems for small and mid-sized warehouses—an underserved market segment that larger players have largely ignored. Their flagship product, the Acme Flex Unit, is a mobile picking robot that can be deployed in facilities without major infrastructure changes.\n\nThe startup has attracted notable backing from angel investors including [Chris Jackson](people/chris-jackson-91) and [Ian Anderson](people/ian-anderson-105), both of whom participated in the seed round closed in early 2022. Jackson in particular has been hands-on, joining several board meetings and making introductions to potential enterprise customers. Acme raised a modest $2.3M initially, deliberately staying lean while proving out the core technology.\n\nMia Brown serves as CEO and remains deeply involved in product development. She's known for an engineering-first approach to company building, often spending time on the factory floor alongside her small team. The company currently employs around 25 people, mostly engineers, operating out of a converted warehouse space in Austin. Acme has been quiet about expansion plans but insiders suggest a Series A is in the works for late 2025.\n\nThe robotics market is crowded, yet Acme has carved out a niche by targeting businesses too small for enterprise solutions but too large for manual operations alone. Early customers include regional e-commerce fulfillment centers and a few specialty food distributors. Retention has been strong, with several pilots converting to full deployments.\n\nRecent moves include a partnership with a logistics software provider to integrate Acme's robots into broader warehouse managment systems. The company also hired its first dedicated sales lead in Q1 2025, signaling a shift toward scaling comercial operations. Despite limited public visibility, Acme has built a reputation in robotics circles for reliable hardware and responsive support.",
"timeline":"- **2021-06-15** | Acme incorporated in Delaware by [Mia Brown](people/mia-brown-0)\n- **2022-02-10** | Closed $2.3M seed round led by [Chris Jackson](people/chris-jackson-91) and [Ian Anderson](people/ian-anderson-105)\n- **2022-09-01** | First prototype of Acme Flex Unit completed\n- **2023-03-22** | Signed pilot agreement with regional fulfillment center in Texas\n- **2023-11-08** | Expanded team to 15 employees, opened Austin facility\n- **2024-04-17** | Converted three pilot customers to full commercial deployments\n- **2024-10-30** | Announced integration partnership with WarehouseOS software platform\n- **2025-01-14** | Hired first dedicated head of sales, marking commercial scale-up\n- **2025-06-02** | [Mia Brown](people/mia-brown-0) spoke at RoboTech Summit on modular automation\n- **2025-11-20** | Series A discussions reportedly underway with multiple VC firms",
"compiled_truth":"Acme Labs is a cybersecurity startup founded in 2019 by [Ian Kim](people/ian-kim-50), a serial entrepreneur with deep roots in enterprise security software. The company emerged from Kim's frustration with legacy endpoint protection tools that couldn't keep pace with modern threat vectors. Based out of Austin, Texas, Acme has grown from a three-person operation to a team of roughly 45 engineers and security researchers.\n\nThe company's flagship product is a real-time threat detection platform that uses behavioral analysis to identify anomalies before they escalate into full breaches. Unlike traditional signature-based approaches, Acme's system learns the normal patterns of network traffic and user behavior, flagging deviations that might indicate compromise. Early customers were mid-market financial services firms, though the company has since expanded into healthcare and logistics verticals.\n\nFunding came relatively early. [Helen Martinez](people/helen-martinez-87) led the seed round in late 2020, bringing not just capital but also her extensive network in enterprise software distribution. Martinez has remained closely involved, attending board meetings and occasionally making introductions to potential strategic partners. The Series A followed in 2022, though terms were not publicly disclosed.\n\nOn the advisory side, [Wendy Wilson](people/wendy-wilson-170) joined in 2021 to help shape go-to-market strategy. Wilson's backgorund in scaling B2B SaaS companies proved invaluable as Acme transitioned from founder-led sales to a more structured revenue organization. She's credited with pushing the team to focus on a narrower ICP rather than chasing every inbound lead.\n\nAcme Labs has built a reputation for technical depth. Their engineering blog regularly publishes threat research, and several team members speak at conferences like DEF CON and BSides. The culture leans scrappy—Kim is known for keeping overhead low and reinvesting heavily into R&D. Recent chatter suggests the company is exploring an AI-powered SOC assistant, though nothing has been formally anounced. Competition remains fierce from both established players and well-funded startups, but Acme's focus on mid-market customers gives them a defensible niche.",
"timeline":"- **2019-03-12** | Acme Labs incorporated in Delaware; [Ian Kim](people/ian-kim-50) begins building initial prototype\n- **2019-11-04** | First paying customer signed — a regional credit union in Texas\n- **2020-09-18** | Seed round closed with [Helen Martinez](people/helen-martinez-87) leading the investment\n- **2021-02-22** | [Wendy Wilson](people/wendy-wilson-170) joins as strategic advisor\n- **2021-08-30** | Acme releases v2.0 of threat detection platform with behavioral analytics engine\n- **2022-04-15** | Series A funding completed; team expands to 30 employees\n- **2023-06-09** | Ian Kim delivers keynote at RSA Conference on zero-trust architecture\n- **2024-01-17** | Partnership announced with major SIEM vendor for native integration\n- **2024-11-03** | Acme Labs crosses $10M ARR milestone\n- **2025-07-21** | Internal demo of AI-powered SOC assistant shown to select customers",
"compiled_truth":"Amazon, founded in 1998, has evolved far beyond its origins as an online bookstore to become one of the most formidable players in the technology sector. While most know the company for its e-commerce dominance and AWS cloud infrastructure, Amazon has quietly built a substantial presence in cybersecurity through strategic acquisitions and internal development.\n\nThe company's approach to cybersecurity M&A has been methodical and often under the radar. Rather than making splashy billion-dollar deals that attract media attention, Amazon tends to acquire smaller, specialized firms that can be integrated into its existing AWS security stack. This strategy allows them to enhance offerings like AWS Shield, GuardDuty, and Security Hub without the integration headaches that plague larger mergers.\n\nAmazon's cybersecurity ambitions are driven partly by necesity—protecting its massive cloud infrastructure and the millions of businesses that depend on it requires constant innovation. The company processes an astronomical volume of security events daily, giving it unique datasets for training threat detection models. Some industry observers beleive this data advantage makes Amazon a sleeping giant in the security space.\n\nRecent moves suggest the company is getting more aggressive. They've been spotted at major security conferences with larger acquisition teams, and rumors persist about interest in several endpoint detection startups. The hiring of former NSA and CISA officials into senior AWS security roles signals a maturation of their strategy.\n\nCompetition with [Microsoft](companies/microsoft) in the cloud security space has intensified, with both giants racing to offer comprehensive security platforms that reduce customers' need for third-party tools. Amazon's relationship with specialized security vendors is complicated—they partner with many through the AWS Marketplace while simultaneously building competing capabilities.\n\nThe firm maintains close ties with government contractors and has pursued FedRAMP certifications aggressively. Their work with [Palantir](companies/palantir) on certain government cloud initiatives demonstrates Amazon's willingness to collaborate when strategic interests align, though the relationship has had its tense moments over competing contract bids.",
"timeline":"- **2021-03-15** | Amazon acquires small threat intelligence startup for undisclosed sum, team absorbed into AWS Security division\n- **2021-09-22** | Launched AWS Security Lake at re:Invent, consolidating security data management capabilities\n- **2022-04-08** | Hired former CISA deputy director to lead government security initiatives\n- **2022-11-30** | Announced expanded partnership with [Microsoft](companies/microsoft) on cross-cloud security standards, surprising industry observers\n- **2023-06-14** | Acquisition of Israeli-based API security firm closes, adding to AppSec portfolio\n- **2023-12-01** | AWS Security Hub surpasses 50,000 enterprise customers milestone\n- **2024-05-19** | Internal memo leaked showing renewed focus on endpoint security acquisitions\n- **2024-10-03** | Joint threat intelligence sharing agreement signed with [Palantir](companies/palantir) for federal contracts\n- **2025-02-28** | Rumored in late-stage talks with two identity management startups\n- **2025-08-11** | Opened dedicated cybersecurity R&D center in Austin, Texas",
"compiled_truth":"Anchor is a data infrastructure startup founded in 2021 by [Carol Wilson](people/carol-wilson-28), a veteran engineer who previously spent nearly a decade building distributed systems at major tech companies. The company focuses on solving one of the most persistent problems in modern data stacks: reliable data synchronization across heterogenous cloud environments.\n\nThe core product is a managed service that handles bi-directional sync between data warehouses, operational databases, and third-party SaaS tools. Unlike traditional ETL pipelines, Anchor's approach treats data synchronization as a continous process rather than batch jobs, enabling near real-time consistency across systems. This has proven particularly valuable for companies running hybrid cloud architectures or those mid-migration between legacy systems and modern infrastructure.\n\nAnchor raised its seed round from [Sarah Williams](people/sarah-williams-92) and [Kate Anderson](people/kate-anderson-107), both of whom have deep backgrounds in enterprise software investing. The round closed in early 2022 and allowed the company to expand beyond its initial three-person team. Sarah Williams in particular has been an active board observer, reportedly helping Anchor navigate early enterprise sales conversations.\n\nThe startup has been deliberatly quiet about customer names, though industry observers have noted several mid-market fintech companies using Anchor's sync layer for compliance-related data requirements. Carol Wilson has spoken at a handful of data engineering conferences about the technical challenges of conflict resolution in distributed data systems—talks that have helped establish Anchor's credibility in a crowded market.\n\nGrowth has been steady if not explosive. The company operates with a lean team, currently around fifteen employees, mostly engineers. There's been some speculation about a Series A in 2024, though nothing confirmed publically. Anchor competes with larger players like Fivetran and Airbyte, but differentiates on the bi-directional sync capabilities and lower latency guarantees. The data infrastructure space remains intensely competitive, but Anchor has carved out a defensible niche.",
"timeline":"- **2021-03-15** | Anchor incorporated in Delaware by [Carol Wilson](people/carol-wilson-28)\n- **2021-06-22** | First working prototype of bi-directional sync engine completed\n- **2022-01-18** | Closed seed round led by [Sarah Williams](people/sarah-williams-92) and [Kate Anderson](people/kate-anderson-107)\n- **2022-08-03** | Launched private beta with five design partners\n- **2023-02-11** | Carol Wilson delivered keynote on distributed sync at DataEngConf Austin\n- **2023-07-29** | General availability launch; pricing tiers announced\n- **2023-11-14** | Reached 50 paying customers milestone\n- **2024-04-08** | Opened second office in Denver for engineering expansion\n- **2024-09-22** | Partnership announced with major cloud provider (details under NDA)\n- **2025-01-30** | Anchor featured in industry report on emerging data infrastructure vendors",
"compiled_truth":"Andreessen Horowitz, widely known as a16z, is one of the most influential venture capital firms in Silicon Valley and arguably the world. Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, the firm has grown from a scrappy upstart challenging the old guard of VC into a multi-billion dollar asset manager with funds spanning crypto, bio, games, and traditional enterprise software.\n\nThe firm's thesis has always been rooted in the belief that software is eating the world—a phrase Marc coined in his famous 2011 Wall Street Journal essay. This conviction drove early bets on companies like Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, and Coinbase, generating massive returns for limited partners. a16z pioneered the \"founder-friendly\" approach to venture capital, offering not just capital but an entire platform of services: recruiting, marketing, executive coaching, and regulatory expertise.\n\nIn recent years, Andreessen Horowitz has leaned heavily into crypto and web3, raising multiple dedicated funds totaling billions of dollars. This bet has been controversial—critics argue the firm is too bullish on speculative assets, while supporters see it as visionary positioning for the next computing platform. The firm also expanded into consumer health through a16z Bio and doubled down on American Dynamism, a thesis around backing companies building in defense, aerospace, and manufacturing.\n\nThe partnership includes heavyweights like Chris Dixon (leading crypto), Vijay Pande (bio), and Andrew Chen (consumer). Marc remains a polarizing figure on social media, often wading into political and cultural debates that generate significant attention. Some view this as distraction, others as authentic engagement. Ben Horowitz has focused more on cultural content, including his popular book \"The Hard Thing About Hard Things.\"\n\na16z competes fiercely with firms like [Sequoia Capital](companies/sequoia-capital) and [General Catalyst](companies/general-catalyst) for the best deals. Their approach to content marketing—podcasts, newsletters, extensive blog posts—has been widely imitated across the industry. The firm essentially invented the VC-as-media-company playbook that's now standard practice.",
"timeline":"- **2021-06-24** | a16z announces $2.2B Crypto Fund III, largest dedicated crypto fund at the time\n- **2022-01-18** | Led Series B for infrastructure startup alongside [General Catalyst](companies/general-catalyst)\n- **2022-05-12** | Launches $4.5B Crypto Fund IV despite market downturn; doubles down on web3 thesis\n- **2023-03-09** | Opens first international office in London, signals expansion beyond Silicon Valley\n- **2023-08-22** | American Dynamism fund invests in defense tech startup building autonomous systems\n- **2024-02-14** | Marc Andreessen testifies before Senate committee on AI regulation concerns\n- **2024-07-30** | a16z Bio leads $180M Series C for longevity-focused biotech company\n- **2024-11-05** | Partnership meeting discusses competitive positioning against [Sequoia Capital](companies/sequoia-capital) in AI deals\n- **2025-04-18** | Closes Fund VIII at $7.2B, largest general fund in firm history\n- **2025-09-02** | Chris Dixon announces new thesis around decentralized AI infrastructure",
"compiled_truth":"Apex is an AI infrastructure startup founded in 2018 by [Nina Rodriguez](people/nina-rodriguez-18), who saw early on that the bottleneck for machine learning wouldn't be algorithms but the underlying compute and data plumbing. The company builds tools that help enterprises manage GPU clusters, optimize model training pipelines, and reduce the staggering costs associated with running large-scale AI workloads. Their flagship product, ApexCore, has become quietly essential for a number of mid-sized ML teams who can't afford to waste cycles on infrastructure headaches.\n\nThe company operates out of Austin, with a small satellite office in San Francisco. Apex has stayed relatively lean—around 45 employees as of late 2024—but punches above its weight in terms of customer logos. Rodriguez has been deliberate about not chasing hypergrowth, preferring sustainable unit economics over flashy fundraising rounds. That said, the company has brought on notable backers including [Priya Taylor](people/priya-taylor-85) and [Kevin Taylor](people/kevin-taylor-102), both of whom participated in the Series A back in 2021.\n\nOn the advisory side, Apex leans on [Tina Wang](people/tina-wang-179) for go-to-market strategy and [Yara Singh](people/yara-singh-195) for technical architecture decisions. Wang's experience scaling enterprise sales orgs has been particulalry valuable as Apex moves upmarket toward Fortune 500 accounts. Singh, meanwhile, has helped the engineering team navigate some gnarly distributed systems challenges—especially around fault tolerance in multi-cloud deployments.\n\nRecent moves suggest Apex is positioning itself for a broader platform play. In early 2025, they aquired a small observability startup to bolster their monitoring capabilities, and rumors persist about a Series B in the works. Rodriguez has been cagey about fundraising plans in interviews, but insiders say the company is fielding inbound interest from several growth-stage funds.\n\nApex isn't the flashiest name in AI infrastructure, but that's sort of the point. They build the boring stuff that makes the exciting stuff possible.",
"timeline":"- **2018-06-12** | Apex founded by Nina Rodriguez in Austin, Texas with initial focus on GPU cluster management\n- **2021-03-08** | Closed Series A led by [Priya Taylor](people/priya-taylor-85) with participation from [Kevin Taylor](people/kevin-taylor-102)\n- **2022-01-19** | Launched ApexCore v1.0, the company's flagship infrastructure optimization platform\n- **2022-09-14** | [Tina Wang](people/tina-wang-179) joined as strategic advisor to help scale enterprise sales motion\n- **2023-04-22** | Apex hits 100 paying customers milestone, majority in healthcare and fintech verticals\n- **2023-11-30** | [Yara Singh](people/yara-singh-195) comes on as technical advisor, focusing on multi-cloud architecture\n- **2024-05-17** | Nina Rodriguez keynotes at MLOps World conference in Toronto\n- **2024-10-03** | Opened small SF office to be closer to key customers and talent pool\n- **2025-02-11** | Acquired observability startup CloudLens for undisclosed amount\n- **2025-04-28** | Announced ApexCore 3.0 with native support for next-gen NVIDIA chips",
"compiled_truth":"Apple is a crypto-focused acquirer that has been making waves in the digital asset space since its founding in 1999. Despite sharing its name with the famous consumer electronics giant, this Apple operates in an entirely different arena—specializing in acquiring and integrating promising blockchain and cryptocurrency ventures into its portfolio.\n\nThe company has positioned itself as a strategic consolidator in the fragmented crypto landscape, targeting startups with strong technology but weak go-to-market execution. Their acquisition thesis centers on identifying undervalued protocols and teams, then providing the capital and operational support needed to scale. Apple's approach has been described as \"patient capital meets aggressive integration,\" a philosophy that has earned them both admirers and critics in the space.\n\nOver the past few years, Apple has expanded its focus beyond pure protocol acquisitions to include infrastructure plays and DeFi platforms. The firm maintains close relationships with several venture partners and has been known to co-invest alongside firms like [Paradigm](companies/paradigm-capital) on select deals. Their due dilligence process is notoriously thorough, often taking 6-8 months before closing.\n\nLeadership at Apple tends to keep a low profile, though insiders describe the culture as intensely analytical. The company employs a mix of traditional M&A professionals and crypto-native talent, creating what some have called a \"hybrid vigor\" in their dealmaking approach. They've been particularly active in the layer-2 scaling space and have made several aqusitions targeting zero-knowledge proof technology.\n\nApple's recent moves suggest a pivot toward institutional-grade custody and compliance solutions, likely anticipating regulatory clarity in major markets. They've been spotted at industry events networking with [Coinbase Ventures](companies/coinbase-ventures) representatives, fueling speculation about potential partnerships or joint ventures. The firm reportedly manages a war chest exceeding $800 million dedicated to strategic acquisitions, though exact figures remain unconfirmed.\n\nDespite the 2022-2023 crypto winter, Apple maintained its acquisition pace, viewing the downturn as a buying opportunity. This contrarian stance has positioned them well heading into the 2024-2025 market recovery.",
"timeline":"- **2021-03-15** | Apple closes Series B funding round, raising $150M to accelerate acquisition strategy\n- **2021-09-22** | Acquired ZK-proof startup Luminal Labs for undisclosed sum\n- **2022-04-08** | Partnership announced with [Paradigm](companies/paradigm-capital) for co-investment on infrastructure deals\n- **2022-11-30** | Maintained hiring despite market downturn, adding 12 new analysts\n- **2023-06-14** | Completed acquisition of DeFi protocol Streamflow, their largest deal to date\n- **2023-12-01** | Apple representatives spotted meeting with [Coinbase Ventures](companies/coinbase-ventures) team in NYC\n- **2024-05-19** | Launched dedicated compliance-tech acquisition vertical\n- **2024-10-07** | Acquired custody solution provider VaultEdge for $45M\n- **2025-02-22** | Rumored to be in late-stage talks for major layer-2 protocol acquisition\n- **2025-04-11** | Company retreat held in Miami, strategy sessions focused on 2025-2026 deployment targets",
"compiled_truth":"Beacon is a cybersecurity startup founded in 2018 by [David Wang](people/david-wang-10), a serial entrepreneur with deep expertise in network security and threat detection. The company has positioned itself as a next-generation endpoint protection platform, focusing primarily on small and medium-sized businesses that lack the resources for enterprise-grade security teams.\n\nThe core product offering centers around an AI-driven threat detection engine that monitors network traffic, user behavior, and system anomalies in real-time. Unlike traditional antivirus solutions, Beacon's approach emphasizes behavioral analysis over signature-based detection, allowing it to catch zero-day exploits and novel attack vectors that would slip past conventional defenses. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing IT infrastructure, which has been a major selling point for resource-constrained organizations.\n\nIn terms of backing, Beacon secured early-stage funding from [Rachel Brown](people/rachel-brown-95), who recognized the growing market opportunity as cyberattacks increasingly target smaller companies. Rachel's involvment brought not just capital but also valuable connections in the enterprise software space. The company has since grown to approximately 45 employees, with offices in San Francisco and a small engineering hub in Austin.\n\n[Julia Chen](people/julia-chen-181) serves as an advisor to the company, providing strategic guidance on go-to-market strategy and partnerships. Her background in scaling B2B SaaS companies has proven invaluable as Beacon transitions from early adopter customers to broader market penetration.\n\nRecent developments include the launch of Beacon Shield, a managed detection and response (MDR) service that pairs the software platform with 24/7 human analysts. This move signals the company's ambition to capture more enterprise clients who want hands-on support. David has been vocal about the need for democratizing cybersecurity—making sophisticated protection accesible to organizations that aren't Fortune 500 companies.\n\nThe competitive landscape remains challenging, with established players like CrowdStrike and newer entrants constantly innovating. However, Beacon's focused positioning and competitive pricing have carved out a loyal customer base. The company processes over 2 billion security events daily across its customer network.",
"timeline":"- **2018-03-15** | Beacon incorporated in Delaware; [David Wang](people/david-wang-10) begins building initial prototype\n- **2019-01-22** | Closed seed round led by [Rachel Brown](people/rachel-brown-95), raising $2.4M\n- **2020-06-08** | Launched v1.0 of endpoint protection platform; first 50 paying customers onboarded\n- **2021-09-14** | [Julia Chen](people/julia-chen-181) joins as strategic advisor\n- **2022-04-03** | Series A closed at $12M; expanded engineering team to 30 people\n- **2023-02-17** | Beacon Shield MDR service announced at RSA Conference\n- **2023-11-29** | Partnered with major MSP provider, adding 200+ SMB customers\n- **2024-08-12** | Austin engineering office opened; David Wang keynotes at Black Hat\n- **2025-03-05** | Surpassed 1,500 enterprise customers milestone",
"compiled_truth":"Benchmark is one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms, known for its disciplined approach and equal partnership structure. Founded in 1995, the firm has maintained a remarkably consistent strategy: small funds, equal economics among partners, and a focus on early-stage investing. Unlike many of its peers who have ballooned into multi-stage asset managers, Benchmark has stayed deliberately small.\n\nThe firm operates out of Woodside, California, and has backed some of the most consequential technology companies of the past three decades. Their portfolio includes legendary bets on eBay, Twitter, Uber, Instagram, and more recently companies like Discord and Chainalysis. Benchmark partners are known for taking board seats and being deeply involved with their portfolio companies—sometimes controversially so, as the firm's role in the Uber boardroom drama demonstrated.\n\nCurrent general partners include Bill Gurley, who has become something of a public intellectual on venture economics and marketplace dynamics, along with Peter Fenton, Matt Cohler, Sarah Tavel, and Eric Vishria. Each partner operates with significant autonomy, sourcing and leading their own deals. The equal partnership model means there's no senior partner taking a larger cut—everyone shares equally in the carry, which creates a unique dynamic compared to firms like [Andreessen Horowitz](companies/a16z) or [Sequoia](companies/sequoia).\n\nBenchmark typically raises funds in the $400-500 million range, which seems almost quaint compared to the multi-billion dollar vehicles some competitors deploy. This constraint is intentional—it forces discipline and keeps the firm focused on ownership percentages in early rounds rather than chasing growth-stage deals. They're not trying to be everything to everyone.\n\nThe firm has a reputation for patience and contrarianism. They'll pass on hot deals that don't meet their criteria and aren't afraid to invest in unfashionable sectors. Recent activity suggests continued interest in developer tools, fintech infrastructure, and consumer social. Their investment memos are legendary within the industry for their rigor and clarity of thinking.",
"timeline":"- **2021-03-15** | Benchmark led Series A for fintech infrastructure startup, with Peter Fenton joining the board\n- **2021-09-22** | Bill Gurley published influential essay on marketplace liquidity that circulated widely among founders\n- **2022-02-08** | Closed Benchmark XI fund at $425 million, maintaining disciplined fund size despite market exuberance\n- **2022-11-14** | Sarah Tavel led investment in AI-native developer tools company alongside [Sequoia](companies/sequoia)\n- **2023-04-03** | Benchmark partner spoke at industry conference about valuation discipline during downturn\n- **2023-08-19** | Portfolio company Discord reportedly approached for acquisition; Benchmark holds significant stake\n- **2024-01-11** | Eric Vishria sourced deal in vertical SaaS space, continuing firm's enterprise software thesis\n- **2024-06-25** | Benchmark participated in growth round for crypto compliance startup, rare later-stage investment\n- **2025-02-17** | Firm hosted annual LP meeting in Woodside, discussed AI investment strategy with limited partners\n- **2025-09-30** | Co-invested with [Andreessen Horowitz](companies/a16z) in robotics seed round, unusual collaboration",
"compiled_truth":"Bessemer Venture Partners stands as one of the oldest and most storied venture capital firms in the world, with origins dating back to 1911 when it was founded to manage the Phipps family fortune. The firm has evolved dramaticaly over the decades, transitioning from a family office to a full-fledged VC powerhouse with offices across Menlo Park, New York, Boston, and international locations including Israel and India.\n\nBessemer has backed some of the most consequential technology companies of the past several decades. Their portfolio reads like a who's who of tech success stories—Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, LinkedIn, and Yelp among many others. The firm is particularly known for maintaining an \"anti-portfolio\" page on their website, a refreshingly honest accounting of all the deals they passed on that went on to become massive successes. This includes famously passing on investments in Apple, Google, and Facebook.\n\nThe firm operates with a thesis-driven approach, publishing detailed \"roadmaps\" for sectors they find compelling. These documents often become required reading for founders building in spaces like cloud infrastructure, vertical SaaS, and developer tools. Their cloud computing index, the BVP Nasdaq Emerging Cloud Index, has become an industry benchmark for tracking public cloud company performance.\n\nBessemer typically invests across stages, from seed through growth, though they've become increasingly active in earlier stage deals over recent years. Partners at the firm have included notable investors who've shaped the industry's approach to enterprise software and consumer internet investing. The firm manages multiple funds totaling billions in assets under managment.\n\nTheir investment philosophy emphasizes long-term partnership with founders, and they're known for being patient capital that doesn't push for premature exits. Recent focus areas include AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, and healthcare technology. The firm has been actively deploying capital into companies building foundational AI tooling, seeing parallels to the early cloud computing wave they rode so successfully. Their relationship with [a]([Sequoia Capital](companies/sequoia-capital)) often sees them co-investing in competitive rounds, while they frequently compete with firms like [Andreessen Horowitz](companies/a16z) for the best deals in enterprise software.",
"timeline":"- **2021-03-15** | Bessemer closes Fund XII at $3.3 billion, largest fund in firm history\n- **2021-09-22** | Published influential AI infrastructure roadmap, predicting consolidation in MLOps tooling\n- **2022-04-10** | Led Series B for cybersecurity startup, marking continued focus on security vertical\n- **2022-11-08** | Partner departure to [Andreessen Horowitz](companies/a16z) creates temporary leadership shuffle\n- **2023-06-14** | Hosted annual CEO Summit in Menlo Park with 200+ portfolio founders attending\n- **2023-12-01** | BVP Nasdaq Cloud Index hits record low amid tech downturn, firm publishes market analysis\n- **2024-03-28** | Announced new $250M opportunity fund focused exclusively on AI-native companies\n- **2024-08-19** | Co-led $80M growth round alongside [Sequoia Capital](companies/sequoia-capital) in developer tools company\n- **2025-01-07** | Opened new Tel Aviv office expansion, doubling Israel team headcount\n- **2025-04-22** | Released updated anti-portfolio page, adding several notable AI misses from 2023",
"compiled_truth":"Beta is an early-stage cybersecurity startup founded in 2023 by [Victor Taylor](people/victor-taylor-1), a veteran security researcher with deep roots in threat intelligence. The company emerged from Victor's frustration with legacy security tools that couldn't keep pace with modern attack surfaces. Based out of Austin, Texas, Beta is building what they call \"adaptive defense infrastructure\" — essentially AI-powered systems that learn an organization's normal network behavior and flag anomolies in real-time.\n\nThe founding thesis is simple but ambitious: most breaches happen because security teams are overwhelmed by alerts, not because they lack tools. Beta's platform aims to reduce alert fatigue by 90% through intelligent triage and automated response playbooks. Early customers include three mid-market fintech companies and a healthcare provider, though the company hasn't disclosed names publicly yet.\n\n[Victor Taylor](people/victor-taylor-1) serves as CEO and has been the public face of the company, speaking at several industry events about the failures of traditional SIEM solutions. He's recruited a small but tight team — currently around 12 people, mostly engineers with backgrounds at CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, and a few from the NSA's TAO division. The technical co-founder role remains unfilled, which Victor has acknowledged is a gap they're actively working to address.\n\nBeta raised a $4.2M seed round in late 2023, led by a cybersecurity-focused fund with participation from several angel investors. The company is currently pre-revenue in any meaningful sense, though they've signed design partners who are testing the platform in production enviornments. Their go-to-market strategy focuses on the mid-market segment — companies large enough to have security teams but too small to afford enterprise solutions from the big players.\n\nThe competitive landscape is crowded, but Beta believes timing is on their side. With ransomware attacks continuing to surge and regulatory pressure mounting, even smaller companies are being forced to invest in security infrastructure. Whether Beta can carve out space against well-funded incumbants remains to be seen.",
"timeline":"- **2023-03-15** | [Victor Taylor](people/victor-taylor-1) incorporates Beta in Delaware, begins recruiting founding team\n- **2023-06-22** | Beta closes $4.2M seed round, announces plans to build adaptive defense platform\n- **2023-09-08** | First design partner signed — unnamed fintech company in the payments space\n- **2023-11-30** | Team grows to 8 employees, opens Austin office space\n- **2024-02-14** | Victor presents Beta's threat detection approach at RSA Conference\n- **2024-05-03** | Platform enters closed beta with three enterprise customers\n- **2024-08-19** | Expands engineering team to 12, still searching for technical co-founder\n- **2024-11-07** | Signs fourth design partner, a regional healthcare provider\n- **2025-01-22** | Begins Series A conversations with multiple VCs",
"compiled_truth":"Beta Labs is a data infrastructure startup founded in 2019 by [Victor Jones](people/victor-jones-51). The company has carved out a niche in the increasingly crowded data tooling space by focusing on real-time data synchronization for distributed systems. Their flagship product, SyncCore, enables companies to maintain consistency across multiple data stores without the typical latency penalties.\n\nThe founding story is pretty straightforward. Victor had spent years dealing with data consistency nightmares at previous roles and decided there had to be a better way. Beta Labs emerged from that frustration, initially as a consulting operation before pivoting to product in late 2020. The pivot proved wise—enterprise demand for their sync technology exceeded expectations.\n\nFunding has come from angel investors including [Jack Davis](people/jack-davis-89) and [Chris Singh](people/chris-singh-96), both of whom participated in the seed round. Jack in particular has been an active advisor, connecting the company with potential enterprise customers in the fintech vertical. Chris brought operational expertise from his own startup experience, helping Beta Labs avoid some common scaling pitfalls.\n\nThe team has grown to around 45 people, mostly engineers. They've maintained a relatively low profile compared to flashier competitors, preferring to let the technology speak for itself. This approach has worked—several Fortune 500 companies now rely on SyncCore for mission-critical data operations, though Beta Labs rarely publicizes these relationships.\n\nRecent moves suggest the company is gearing up for expansion. They've been hiring aggressivley on the go-to-market side and opened a small office in London to serve European clients. There's been speculation about a Series A, though Victor has remained tight-lipped about fundraising plans.\n\nBeta Labs occupies an interesting position in the data infrastructure ecosystem. Not quite a database company, not purely an ETL play—more of a connective tissue between existing systems. This positioning has made them attractive to enterprises who don't want to rip and replace their current stack but desperatley need better synchronization. The data infrastructure space continues to evolve rapidly, and Beta Labs seems well-positioned to grow alongside it.",
"timeline":"- **2019-03-15** | Beta Labs incorporated by [Victor Jones](people/victor-jones-51) in Delaware\n- **2020-11-02** | Pivoted from consulting to product development, began building SyncCore\n- **2021-04-18** | Closed seed round with participation from [Jack Davis](people/jack-davis-89) and [Chris Singh](people/chris-singh-96)\n- **2021-09-07** | Launched SyncCore private beta with 12 design partners\n- **2022-02-14** | General availability of SyncCore, landed first Fortune 500 customer\n- **2023-06-22** | Reached 30 employees, opened London office for European expansion\n- **2024-01-10** | [Victor Jones](people/victor-jones-51) spoke at DataCon about distributed consistency patterns\n- **2024-08-30** | Shipped SyncCore 2.0 with multi-region support\n- **2025-03-12** | Announced partnership with major cloud provider for marketplace distribution\n- **2025-11-05** | Rumored Series A discussions with multiple tier-one VCs",
"compiled_truth":"Brink is a data infrastructure startup founded in 2019 by [Uma Gonzalez](people/uma-gonzalez-29), who serves as CEO. The company builds middleware solutions that help enterprises manage data pipelines across hybrid cloud environments. Their flagship product, Brink Flow, enables real-time data synchronization between on-premise databases and cloud data warehouses without requiring significant engineering overhead.\n\nThe company emerged from Uma's frustration with existing ETL tools while she was working at a large financial services firm. She saw an oportunity to build something more elegant—a system that could handle schema changes automatically and scale horizontally without the typical headaches. Brink's approach uses a proprietary conflict resolution algorithm that has attracted attention from several Fortune 500 companies looking to modernize their data stacks.\n\nBrink operates with a relatively lean team of around 45 employees, mostly engineers, headquartered in Austin with a small office in San Francisco. The company has raised approximately $28 million across seed and Series A rounds, though they've been quiet about specifics. Industry observers note that Brink competes in a crowded space but has carved out a niche with customers who need particularly robust handling of legacy database formats.\n\nThe advisory board includes [Ian Wilson](people/ian-wilson-180), who brings deep expertise in enterprise sales cycles, and [Grace Singh](people/grace-singh-197), known for her technical architecture background. Both advisors have been instrumental in shaping Brink's go-to-market strategy and product roadmap. Grace in particular has pushed the team toward better observability features, which became a key differentiator in recent customer wins.\n\nRecent months have seen Brink expanding into the healthcare vertical, where data compliance requirements create natural demand for their controlled sync capabilities. The company announced SOC 2 Type II certification in late 2024, a prerequisite for many enterprise deals. Uma has been public about her goal to reach $10M ARR before considering a Series B, preferring to grow efficently rather than chase hypergrowth.",
"timeline":"- **2019-03-15** | Uma Gonzalez incorporates Brink in Delaware, begins building initial prototype\n- **2021-06-22** | Closes $4.2M seed round led by Vertex Ventures\n- **2022-01-10** | Brink Flow enters private beta with 12 design partners\n- **2022-09-08** | [Ian Wilson](people/ian-wilson-180) joins as advisor, helps restructure sales approach\n- **2023-02-14** | Announces $24M Series A, valuation undisclosed\n- **2023-07-19** | [Grace Singh](people/grace-singh-197) joins advisory board\n- **2024-04-03** | Ships Brink Flow 2.0 with real-time schema migration support\n- **2024-11-12** | Achieves SOC 2 Type II certification\n- **2025-02-28** | Signs first major healthcare customer, regional hospital network\n- **2025-05-16** | [Uma Gonzalez](people/uma-gonzalez-29) speaks at Data Summit on hybrid cloud challenges",
"compiled_truth":"Cascade is an AI applications startup founded in 2018 by [Yara Smith](people/yara-smith-30), who remains the driving force behind the company's product vision. The company focuses on building enterprise-grade AI tools that automate complex document workflows, particularly in legal and compliance sectors. Their flagship product, Cascade Flow, uses large language models to extract, summarize, and cross-reference information across thousands of documents simultaneosly.\n\nThe early years were tough. Cascade operated in relative obscurity, bootstrapping through consulting gigs while refining their core technology. It wasn't until 2021 that they secured meaningful venture funding and began scaling the team. Today the company employs around 85 people, mostly engineers and ML researchers, with a small but scrappy sales org based out of their San Francisco headquarters.\n\n[Bob Chen](people/bob-chen-185) joined as an advisor in late 2022, bringing his extensive experience in enterprise SaaS and go-to-market strategy. His involvement reportedly helped Cascade land several Fortune 500 pilots that converted to multi-year contracts. Chen's network in the financial services industry has been particuarly valuable as Cascade expands beyond legal tech into banking and insurance verticals.\n\nYara Smith has been vocal about building AI that augments rather than replaces human workers. In interviews she often emphasizes that Cascade's tools are designed to handle the drudgery so professionals can focus on judgment calls and client relationships. This positioning has resonated well with enterprise buyers who remain cautious about fully autonomous AI systems.\n\nRecent moves suggest Cascade is preparing for significant growth. They've been hiring aggressively for a new product line—rumored to be an AI-powered contract negotiation assistant—and opened a small office in London to support European expansion. Competition in the space is heating up with well-funded rivals, but Cascade's early mover advantage and deep integrations with legacy document management systems give them a defensible position. The company is reportedly exploring a Series C round, though nothing has been announced publicly.",
"timeline":"- **2018-03-12** | Cascade incorporated in Delaware by founder Yara Smith\n- **2021-06-08** | Closed $8M Series A led by Threshold Ventures\n- **2022-04-15** | Launched Cascade Flow publicly after 18 months of private beta\n- **2022-11-02** | [Bob Chen](people/bob-chen-185) joined as strategic advisor\n- **2023-02-28** | Announced partnership with DocuSign for native integration\n- **2023-09-14** | [Yara Smith](people/yara-smith-30) spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt on enterprise AI adoption\n- **2024-01-22** | Raised $32M Series B, valuation undisclosed\n- **2024-07-10** | Opened London office to support EMEA expansion\n- **2025-03-05** | Reached 200 enterprise customers milestone\n- **2025-11-18** | Began private beta for contract negotiation AI product",
"compiled_truth":"Cipher is a fintech startup founded in 2024 by [Mia Lee](people/mia-lee-13), a first-time founder with a background in cryptography and distributed systems. The company is building infrastructure for programmable money—specifically, a platform that allows fintechs and neobanks to embed complex payment logic directly into their transaction rails. Think conditional payments, escrow-like holds, and multi-party settlements, all handled at the protocol level rather than bolted on after the fact.\n\nThe founding thesis came out of Mia's frustration working at larger financial institutions where even simple payment customizations required months of engineering work and compliance review. Cipher aims to abstract away that complexity, offering APIs that let developers define payment conditions in a few lines of code. Early positioning suggests they're targeting B2B fintech infrastructure rather than consumer-facing products.\n\nThe company operates lean, with a small team of five engineers working out of a co-working space in San Francisco. [Noah Williams](people/noah-williams-198) serves as an advisor, bringing experience from his own ventures in the payments space. His involvement lent early credibility when Cipher was pitching to angels and seed investors. Noah's been particularly helpful on go-to-market stratgey, pushing the team to focus on a narrow wedge before expanding.\n\nCipher closed a pre-seed round in late 2024, though the exact amount hasn't been publicly disclosed—likely in the $1.5-2M range based on typical fintech raises at that stage. The company has been in private beta with three design partners, all smaller neobanks looking to differentiate on payment flexibility. Early feedback has been positive, though integrations have taken longer than anticipated due to legacy system constraints on the partner side.\n\nMia has been intentionally quiet about the company publicly, preferring to let the product speak once it's ready. She's mentioned in interviews that Cipher won't be doing a splashy launch—instead, they'll scale through word of mouth in the developer comunity. The name itself, Cipher, reflects both the cryptographic roots and the idea of encoding complex logic into simple interfaces.",
"timeline":"- **2024-01-15** | [Mia Lee](people/mia-lee-13) incorporates Cipher in Delaware, begins recruiting founding engineers\n- **2024-03-02** | First technical architecture doc completed; decides on Rust for core payment engine\n- **2024-04-18** | [Noah Williams](people/noah-williams-198) joins as advisor after intro through mutual investor contact\n- **2024-06-10** | Cipher closes pre-seed round, terms undisclosed\n- **2024-08-22** | Private beta launches with first design partner, a challenger bank based in Austin\n- **2024-10-05** | Second and third beta partners onboarded; team grows to five full-time\n- **2024-11-30** | Mia presents Cipher at a closed fintech founders dinner in SF\n- **2025-01-14** | First successful production transaction processed through Cipher rails\n- **2025-03-08** | Beginning conversations with potential seed investors for next round",
"compiled_truth":"Compass is a crypto startup founded in 2018 by [Mark Thomas](people/mark-thomas-11), positioning itself as an early mover in blockchain-based navigation and location services. The company has carved out a niche attempting to decentralize geospatial data, arguing that traditional mapping services concentrate too much power in the hands of a few tech giants.\n\nThe core product is a token-incentivized network where users contribute location data and receive CMPS tokens in return. Think of it as a crypto-native alternative to Google Maps, though the comparison is admittedly generous given Compass's current scale. The protocol allows developers to build location-aware dApps without relying on centralized APIs, which has attracted some interest from the DeFi and gaming communities.\n\nMark Thomas serves as CEO and has been the driving force behind the company's technical vision. Before founding Compass, he worked in geospatial analytics and became convinced that location data would become increasingly valuable—and increasingly surveilled. His pitch to investors centered on data sovereignty and the idea that people should own their movement patterns.\n\n[Chris Miller](people/chris-miller-101) came in as an early investor during the 2019 seed round, providing both capital and credibility in crypto circles. Miller's involvement helped Compass attract additional funding and connected the team to key infrastructure partners. The relationship has been mutually beneficial, with Miller often pointing to Compass as an example of \"real utility\" in the blockchain space.\n\nOn the advisory side, [Sam Garcia](people/sam-garcia-188) has been instrumental in shaping go-to-market strategy. Garcia joined as an advisor in late 2021 and helped the company navigate the treacherous waters of the 2022 crypto winter. His experience with enterprise sales proved valuable when Compass pivoted toward B2B partnerships with logistics companies.\n\nRecent moves include a partnership with several delivery startups in Southeast Asia and the launch of Compass SDK 2.0, which simplifies integration for third-party developers. The team remains small—around 25 people—but has managed to maintain steady growth despite market volatility. Their approach has been decidedly un-hypey by crypto standards, focusing on incremental adoption rather then moonshot promises.",
"timeline":"- **2018-06-15** | Compass incorporated by [Mark Thomas](people/mark-thomas-11) in Delaware, initial whitepaper published\n- **2019-03-22** | Seed round closed with [Chris Miller](people/chris-miller-101) leading, $2.1M raised\n- **2020-11-08** | CMPS token launched on mainnet, initial contributor network goes live\n- **2021-09-14** | [Sam Garcia](people/sam-garcia-188) joins as strategic advisor\n- **2022-05-30** | Company survives Terra collapse fallout, announces pivot toward enterprise partnerships\n- **2023-02-17** | Partnership signed with three logistics firms in Singapore and Vietnam\n- **2024-01-09** | Compass SDK 2.0 released, developer signups increase 340% in Q1\n- **2024-08-23** | Mark Thomas speaks at ETH Denver on decentralized infrastructure\n- **2025-04-11** | Series A discussions reportedly underway, targeting $15M raise",
"compiled_truth":"Delta is a biotech startup founded in 2022 by [Victor Wilson](people/victor-wilson-3), who previously spent nearly a decade in academic research before making the jump to entrepreneurship. The company focuses on developing novel protein engineering platforms, with an initial emphasis on therapeutic applications for rare genetic disorders. Based out of the Boston-Cambridge biotech corridor, Delta has quickly gained attention for its unconventional approach to computational biology.\n\nThe founding story is somewhat unusual. Victor had been sitting on the core intellectual property for years, hesitant to commercialize what he considered fundamental research. It wasn't until a chance meeting with [David Zhang](people/david-zhang-83) at a conference in late 2021 that the idea of building a company around the technology started to take shape. Zhang, known for his patient capital approach, saw potential where others had passed.\n\nDelta's seed round closed in early 2023, with [Rachel Brown](people/rachel-brown-95) joining as a co-lead investor alongside Zhang. Brown brought not just capital but also deep operational expertise from her previous biotech exits. The round was modest by industry standards—around $4.2M—but sufficient to build out the initial lab infrastructure and hire a small team of computational biologists.\n\n[David Brown](people/david-brown-187) serves as the company's primary advisor, providing guidance on regulatory pathways and clinical trial design. His involvement has been instrumental in helping Delta avoid some of the common pitfalls that trap early-stage biotech ventures. The advisory relationship began informally but was formalized in mid-2023.\n\nThe company remains small, with fewer than fifteen full-time employees. Victor Wilson continues to lead as CEO, though there's been some internal discussion about bringing in an experienced biotech operator as the company approaches its Series A. Delta's platform has shown promising early results in preclinical models, though significant validation work remains before any theraputic candidates could advance to human trials. The team is currently focused on partnership discussions with larger pharma players who might provide both capital and developmnet expertise.",
"timeline":"- **2021-11-18** | Victor Wilson meets [David Zhang](people/david-zhang-83) at BioFuture Conference in San Francisco; initial conversations about commercialization begin\n- **2022-03-07** | Delta formally incorporated in Delaware; Victor Wilson named founding CEO\n- **2022-06-14** | First lab space secured in Cambridge, MA; initial equipment purchases made\n- **2023-02-22** | Seed round closes at $4.2M led by [David Zhang](people/david-zhang-83) and [Rachel Brown](people/rachel-brown-95)\n- **2023-05-30** | [David Brown](people/david-brown-187) joins as formal advisor; focuses on regulatory strategy\n- **2023-09-11** | Delta publishes preprint on novel protein folding methodology; generates significant academic interest\n- **2024-01-16** | Team expands to 12 FTEs; hires head of computational biology from Stanford\n- **2024-07-08** | First preclinical proof-of-concept data shared with potential pharma partners\n- **2025-02-03** | Delta enters preliminary partnership discussions with two top-20 pharma companies",
"compiled_truth":"Delta Labs is a climate tech startup founded in 2021 by [Will Garcia](people/will-garcia-53), who left a senior role at a major energy company to pursue what he calls \"the only problem worth solving.\" The company focuses on direct air capture technology, specifically developing modular units that can be deployed at scale in industrial settings. Their approach differs from competitors by integrating with existing HVAC infrastructure rather than requiring standalone installations.\n\nThe company has attracted notable backing from angel investors including [Wendy Hernandez](people/wendy-hernandez-80) and [Tina Hernandez](people/tina-hernandez-97), both of whom have deep networks in the cleantech space. Delta Labs closed their seed round in late 2022, though exact figures weren't publicly disclosed. Industry insiders estimate somewhere between $4-6M based on hiring patterns and equipment purchases.\n\nOn the advisory side, Delta brought in [Wendy Wilson](people/wendy-wilson-170) for her expertise in regulatory navigation—critical for a company operating in a space where policy can make or break unit economics. [Grace Singh](people/grace-singh-197) rounds out the advisory board, contributing her background in scaling hardware startups through the notorious \"valley of death\" between prototype and production.\n\nDelta's current focus is on their second-generation capture modules, which promise 40% better efficiency than their initial designs. Will Garcia has been particularly vocal about avoiding the hype cycles that have plagued other climate tech ventures, preferring to let results speak. The team has grown to roughly 25 people, mostly engineers with backgrounds in chemical enginering and mechanical systems.\n\nThe company operates out of a converted warehouse in Oakland, where they run continuous testing on their prototype units. Early pilot programs with two Fortune 500 companies are underway, though Delta Labs hasn't named partners publicly. Garcia has mentioned in interviews that revenue isn't the immediate priority—proving the technology works at scale is. Whether that patience will pay off remains to be seen, but the climate tech sector is watching closely.",
"timeline":"- **2021-03-15** | Delta Labs incorporated in Delaware by founder [Will Garcia](people/will-garcia-53)\n- **2021-09-02** | First prototype capture unit completed; internal testing begins at Oakland facility\n- **2022-04-18** | [Wendy Hernandez](people/wendy-hernandez-80) joins as lead investor in pre-seed round\n- **2022-11-30** | Seed round closed with participation from [Tina Hernandez](people/tina-hernandez-97) and other angels\n- **2023-02-14** | [Wendy Wilson](people/wendy-wilson-170) announced as regulatory advisor\n- **2023-07-22** | Delta Labs hits 15 employees; opens second testing bay\n- **2024-01-10** | Gen-2 modular unit enters development phase\n- **2024-06-05** | First enterprise pilot program signed (partner undisclosed)\n- **2025-03-28** | Will Garcia speaks at Climate Forward conference on scaling DAC technology\n- **2025-09-12** | Second Fortune 500 pilot announced; team reaches 25 people",
"compiled_truth":"Drift is a developer tools startup founded in 2021 by [Frank Hernandez](people/frank-hernandez-31), who saw an opportunity to streamline the way engineering teams manage configuration drift across distributed systems. The company emerged from Frank's frustration while working at larger tech firms, where he noticed teams spending countless hours debugging issues caused by configuration mismatches between environments.\n\nThe core product offers real-time monitoring and automated remediation for infrastructure configurations, targeting mid-size engineering organizations running complex microservices architectures. Drift's approach differs from traditional configuration managment tools by focusing on detection and alerting rather than enforcement, giving teams flexibility while maintaining visibility. The platform integrates with major cloud providers and works alongside existing CI/CD pipelines.\n\nEarly funding came from a group of angel investors including [Wendy Hernandez](people/wendy-hernandez-80), [Fiona Moore](people/fiona-moore-88), and [Jack Davis](people/jack-davis-89). The diverse investor group brought both capital and operational expertise to the young company. Wendy in particular has been instrumental in connecting Drift with potential enterprise customers through her network.\n\n[Xavier Patel](people/xavier-patel-183) serves as an advisor, bringing deep experience in developer tooling and go-to-market strategy. His guidance helped shape Drift's initial product positioning and pricing model. Xavier pushed the team to focus on a specific use case rather than trying to boil the ocean with features.\n\nThe company operates with a lean team, currently around 15 employees, mostly engineers. They've taken a developer-first approach to sales, offering generous free tiers and building community through open source contributions. Their CLI tool has gained traction on GitHub, serving as a funnel for the commercial product.\n\nDrift has seen steady growth among startups and scale-ups, though breaking into true enterprise accounts remains a challenge. The team is currently working on SOC 2 compliance and additional security features to address enterprise requirements. Competition in the config management space is fierce, but Drift's focused approach has carved out a niche among teams who value simplicity over comprehensiveness.",
"timeline":"- **2021-03-15** | Company founded by [Frank Hernandez](people/frank-hernandez-31) after leaving his role at a major cloud provider\n- **2021-06-22** | Closed pre-seed round with participation from [Wendy Hernandez](people/wendy-hernandez-80) and [Fiona Moore](people/fiona-moore-88)\n- **2021-11-08** | Launched private beta with 12 design partner companies\n- **2022-04-03** | [Xavier Patel](people/xavier-patel-183) joined as formal advisor\n- **2022-09-17** | Public launch of Drift CLI tool, gained 2k GitHub stars in first month\n- **2023-02-28** | [Jack Davis](people/jack-davis-89) participated in seed extension round\n- **2023-08-14** | Shipped Kubernetes-native integration, biggest feature release to date\n- **2024-01-22** | Frank spoke at DevOpsDays SF on configuration observability\n- **2024-07-09** | Reached 500 active organizations on the platform\n- **2025-03-11** | Began SOC 2 Type II certification process",
"compiled_truth":"Echo is a robotics startup founded in 2025 by [Helen Johnson](people/helen-johnson-32), a serial entrepreneur with deep expertise in automation and machine learning. The company focuses on developing autonomous robotic systems for warehouse logistics and last-mile delivery, positioning itself at the intersection of AI and physical hardware. Based in Austin, Texas, Echo has quickly gained attention for its modular approach to robot design, allowing clients to customize units for specific operational needs.\n\nThe founding team came together after Helen's previous venture in industrial automation was aquired by a larger player in the space. She saw an opportunity to build something more agile, more responsive to the needs of mid-sized fulfillment centers that couldn't afford the massive infrastructure investments required by legacy robotics providers. Echo's flagship product, the E-1 mobile unit, can navigate complex warehouse environments with minimal setup time.\n\nEarly backing came from angel investors including [Julia Davis](people/julia-davis-86) and [Helen Martinez](people/helen-martinez-87), both of whom have track records in deep tech investments. Julia Davis in particular has been instrumental in connecting Echo with potential enterprise customers through her network in the logistics industry. The company closed a small seed round in early 2025, though exact figures haven't been publicly disclosed.\n\nEcho operates with a lean team of around twelve engineers and has partnered with several contract manufacturers to scale production. The startup has been notably secretive about its technical roadmap, though rumors suggest they're working on swarm coordination protocols that would allow multiple E-1 units to operate collaboratively. Helen Johnson has hinted at plans to expand into agricultural robotics by 2026, leveraging the same core platform.\n\nThe robotics space is crowded, but Echo's emphasis on affordabilty and rapid deployment has resonated with smaller operators who feel underserved by existing solutions. Whether they can maintain this edge as they scale remains to be seen.",
"timeline":"- **2024-09-15** | [Helen Johnson](people/helen-johnson-32) begins initial R&D work on modular robotics platform\n- **2025-01-20** | Echo officially incorporated in Austin, Texas\n- **2025-02-08** | [Julia Davis](people/julia-davis-86) commits as lead angel investor\n- **2025-02-14** | [Helen Martinez](people/helen-martinez-87) joins seed round\n- **2025-03-30** | First E-1 prototype completed and demonstrated internally\n- **2025-05-12** | Echo hires VP of Engineering from Boston Dynamics\n- **2025-07-22** | Pilot program launched with regional fulfillment center in Dallas\n- **2025-09-10** | Helen Johnson speaks at RoboWorld Conference on modular design philosophy\n- **2025-11-01** | Company reaches 12 full-time employees",
"compiled_truth":"Epsilon is a cybersecurity startup founded in 2021 by [Paul Rodriguez](people/paul-rodriguez-4), a veteran security researcher who previously led threat intelligence teams at two Fortune 500 companies. The company focuses on automated vulnerability detection for cloud-native infrastructure, using machine learning models trained on proprietary datasets of real-world attack patterns.\n\nFrom the begining, Epsilon positioned itself as a developer-first security platform. Rather than bolting security onto existing workflows, the product integrates directly into CI/CD pipelines, scanning code and infrastructure-as-code templates before deployment. This approach resonated with engineering teams frustrated by traditional security tools that generated endless false positives and slowed down releases.\n\nThe company has attracted notable backing from angel investors including [Sarah Lopez](people/sarah-lopez-84), [Sarah Williams](people/sarah-williams-92), and [Kate Lopez](people/kate-lopez-99). Their combined experience in enterprise software and fintech has helped Epsilon navigate early sales cycles with large financial institutions. The advisory board includes [Olivia Miller](people/olivia-miller-176), who brings deep expertise in go-to-market strategy for B2B SaaS, and [Bob Chen](people/bob-chen-185), a respected figure in the open-source security community.\n\nEpsilon's flagship product, ShieldScan, launched in late 2022 and has since been adopted by over 150 organizations. The platform monitors Kubernetes clusters, AWS environments, and Azure deployments in real-time, alerting teams to misconfigurations and potential breach vectors. Recent product updates have added support for GCP and introduced a compliance module targeting SOC 2 and HIPAA requirements.\n\nPaul Rodriguez has been vocal about the need for security tooling that \"meets developers where they are\" rather than imposing rigid workflows. This philosophy has driven Epsilon's product roadmap and contributed to strong word-of-mouth growth among DevOps teams. The company currently employs around 45 people, with engineering and customer success making up the bulk of headcount. Headquarters are in Austin, Texas, though most of the team works remotely.\n\nCompetition in the cloud security space is intense, with well-funded players like Wiz and Lacework dominating mindshare. Epsilon differentiates through pricing transparency and a self-serve model that lets smaller teams get started without lengthy enterprise sales processes.",
"timeline":"- **2021-03-15** | Epsilon incorporated in Delaware by [Paul Rodriguez](people/paul-rodriguez-4)\n- **2021-07-22** | Closed $1.2M pre-seed round led by [Sarah Lopez](people/sarah-lopez-84)\n- **2022-01-10** | [Olivia Miller](people/olivia-miller-176) joins advisory board\n- **2022-06-08** | First enterprise customer signed — regional bank in Texas\n- **2022-11-03** | ShieldScan v1.0 publicly launched\n- **2023-04-17** | Epsilon raises $8M seed round; [Kate Lopez](people/kate-lopez-99) participates\n- **2023-09-25** | [Bob Chen](people/bob-chen-185) added as technical advisor\n- **2024-02-12** | Surpassed 100 paying customers milestone\n- **2024-08-30** | Announced GCP integration at CloudSecCon\n- **2025-03-05** | Opened first international office in London",
"compiled_truth":"Epsilon Labs is a fintech startup founded in 2023 by [Diana Wilson](people/diana-wilson-54), a serial entrepreneur with a background in quantitative finance and distributed systems. The company operates in the payments infrastructure space, building API-first solutions for cross-border B2B transactions. Their flagship product, EpsilonPay, enables businesses to settle international invoices in near real-time while automatically handling currency conversion and compliance checks.\n\nThe founding story traces back to Diana's frustration with legacy payment rails during her previous venture. She saw an oportunity to leverage modern cloud infrastructure and machine learning to dramatically reduce settlement times and fees. Within months of incorporating, Epsilon Labs had assembled a small but experienced engineering team, many recruited from established fintech players.\n\nEpsilon raised a seed round in late 2023, with [Iris Lee](people/iris-lee-82) leading the investment. Iris brought not just capital but also deep connections in the Asian fintech ecosystem, which has proven valuable as Epsilon eyes expansion into Singapore and Hong Kong markets. [Grace Martinez](people/grace-martinez-109) also participated in the round, adding her expertise in regulatory strategy to the cap table. The total raise was reportedly around $4.2 million, though the company hasn't disclosed exact figures publicly.\n\nOn the advisory side, [Zoe Jackson](people/zoe-jackson-199) has been instrumental in shaping Epsilon's go-to-market strategy. Zoe's experience scaling enterprise sales teams has helped the startup land its first handful of mid-market customers, including a logistics company and two e-commerce platforms.\n\nEpsilon Labs currently employs around 18 people, mostly engineers and product folks, operating out of a modest office in San Francisco's SoMa district. The company culture leans heavily toward async communication and documentation — a reflection of Diana's management philosophy. Recent LinkedIn posts suggest they're hiring aggresively for compliance and partnerships roles, hinting at plans to expand their banking relationships.\n\nThe fintech space is crowded, but Epsilon's focus on the unglamorous middle-market segment gives them room to grow without directly competing with giants like Stripe or Wise. At least for now.",
"timeline":"- **2023-02-14** | Diana Wilson incorporates Epsilon Labs in Delaware, begins recruiting co-founding engineers\n- **2023-05-03** | First working prototype of EpsilonPay API demoed internally\n- **2023-08-21** | Seed round closes with [Iris Lee](people/iris-lee-82) as lead investor, $4.2M raised\n- **2023-09-15** | [Zoe Jackson](people/zoe-jackson-199) joins as formal advisor, begins weekly strategy sessions\n- **2023-11-30** | EpsilonPay enters private beta with three launch partners\n- **2024-01-22** | [Grace Martinez](people/grace-martinez-109) introduces Epsilon to key banking contacts in Latin America\n- **2024-04-10** | Public launch of EpsilonPay, first press coverage in TechCrunch\n- **2024-07-08** | Team grows to 18 employees, opens dedicated compliance function\n- **2024-10-02** | Diana Wilson speaks at Fintech Summit SF on future of B2B payments\n- **2025-01-15** | Epsilon Labs begins exploratory conversations for Series A",
"compiled_truth":"First Round Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that has established itself as one of the most influential early-stage investors in the technology ecosystem. Founded in 2004 by Josh Kopelman, the firm focuses exclusively on being the first institutional investor in technology companies, typically leading seed rounds and participating in early follow-on financing.\n\nThe firm has built a remarkable portfolio over the years, with notable investments including Uber, Square, Roblox, Notion, and Warby Parker. First Round is known for its operator-friendly approach and has developed an extensive platform of resources for founders, including the First Round Review publication which shares tactical advice from experienced entrepreneurs and executives.\n\nFirst Round operates with a relatively small partnership structure compared to larger VC firms, which allows partners to maintain close relationships with portfolio companies. The firm typically invests between $1-3 million in initial checks, though this has crept upward in recent years as seed rounds have grown larger across the industry. They maintain offices in San Francisco, New York, and Philadelphia.\n\nOne distinguishing characteristic of First Round is their community-building efforts. The firm hosts an annual CEO Summit and runs various programs designed to connect founders with each other and with potential hires. Their talent team actively helps portfolio companeis with recruiting, recognizing that early hiring decisions are often make-or-break for startups.\n\nThe firm has raised multiple funds over its history, with recent vehicles exceeding $500 million in committed capital. Despite the larger fund sizes, First Round has maintained its focus on seed-stage investing rather than moving upstream to compete with Series A and B investors. This disciplined approach has helped them maintain strong returns and a clear market position.\n\nFirst Round's investment thesis centers on backing exceptional founders at the earliest stages, often before there's significant traction or revenue. They look for founders with deep domain expertise, unique insights into markets, and the resilience needed to build compaines over the long term. The firm has been particularly active in enterprise software, fintech, and consumer technology sectors.",
"timeline":"- **2021-03-15** | First Round closes Fund VII at $540 million, largest fund to date\n- **2021-09-22** | Led seed round for emerging AI startup, marking early bet on generative technology\n- **2022-02-08** | First Round Review publishes widely-shared piece on startup hiring in remote era\n- **2022-11-30** | Partner Todd Jackson joins board of breakout portfolio company\n- **2023-04-12** | Hosted annual CEO Summit in San Francisco with 200+ portfolio founders attending\n- **2023-08-19** | Announced new $600M Fund VIII focused on seed and pre-seed investments\n- **2024-01-25** | First Round portfolio company achieves unicorn status after Series C\n- **2024-06-03** | Launched new founder fellowship program targeting underrepresented entrepreneurs\n- **2025-02-14** | Published annual State of Startups report showing shifting founder sentiment on fundraising\n- **2025-09-08** | Expanded New York office, adding three new partners to the team",
"title":"Floodgate - Early-Stage Venture Capital Firm",
"compiled_truth":"Floodgate is a prominent seed-stage venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, known for its thesis-driven approach to early-stage investing. Founded in 2006 by Mike Maples Jr. and Ann Miura-Ko, the firm has established itself as one of the most respected names in Silicon Valley's seed investing landscape. They've built a reputation for backing founders at the earliest stages, often before there's much more than an idea and a passionate team.\n\nThe firm operates with a relatively small team compared to larger VC shops, which allows them to maintain close relationships with portfolio founders. Ann Miura-Ko, often referred to as one of the most powerful women in startups, brings an academic rigor to investing—she holds a PhD from Stanford and teaches there as a lecturing professor. Mike Maples Jr. previously founded Motive Communications and brings operational experiance to the table.\n\nFloodgate's investment philosophy centers on what they call \"thunder lizards\"—startups with the potential to fundamentally reshape markets rather than just iterate on existing solutions. They're looking for companies that can create entirely new categories. This approach has led to early investments in companies like Lyft, Twitter, and Twitch, demonstrating their ability to identify transformative platforms before they become household names.\n\nRecent activity shows Floodgate continuing to deploy capital across emerging sectors including AI infrastructure, developer tools, and consumer applications. They've been particularly active in the generative AI space, recognizing the platform shift early and positioning their portfolio accordingly. The firm typically invests $1-3 million in initial checks, reserving capital for follow-on investments in their highest-conviction companies.\n\nTheir fund sizes have grown over the years, though they've remained disciplined about not scaling beyond what allows them to maintain their hands-on approach. Floodgate often co-invests alongside other top-tier firms like [Sequoia Capital](companies/sequoia-capital) and [Andreessen Horowitz](companies/andreessen-horowitz), building syndicates that provide founders with diverse perspectives and networks. The firm runs a tight operation, believing that constraint breeds creativity—both for themselves and for the founders they back.",
"timeline":"- **2021-03-15** | Floodgate closes Fund VII at $181 million, continuing their focused seed-stage strategy\n- **2021-09-22** | Ann Miura-Ko speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt on identifying breakthrough startups\n- **2022-04-08** | Lead investment in AI developer tools company, $3.2M seed round\n- **2022-11-14** | Mike Maples Jr. publishes essay on \"thunder lizard\" thesis, gains wide circulation\n- **2023-02-28** | Portfolio company exits via acquisition by [Stripe](companies/stripe), returning 47x\n- **2023-08-19** | Floodgate announces Fund VIII targeting $200M for seed investments\n- **2024-01-10** | Partnership with Stanford's StartX program for deal flow collaboration\n- **2024-06-25** | Co-leads $8M seed round alongside [Sequoia Capital](companies/sequoia-capital) in robotics startup\n- **2025-03-12** | Ann Miura-Ko joins board of major fintech company following Series B\n- **2025-09-04** | Floodgate hosts annual founder summit in Palo Alto, 200+ portfolio founders attend",
"compiled_truth":"Forge is a crypto startup founded in 2022 by [Adam Lee](people/adam-lee-19), focused on building infrastructure for decentralized asset management. The company emerged during a turbulent period for the crypto industry, but Lee's vision for institutional-grade tooling attracted early believers despite market headwinds.\n\nThe core product is a non-custodial vault system that lets DAOs and crypto-native funds manage treasuries with multi-sig controls and on-chain governance integration. Forge differentiates itself by targeting the mid-market—organizations too sophisticated for basic multisigs but not large enough to justify custom smart contract development. Early traction came from several DeFi protocols looking to professionalize their treasury operations.\n\nFunding has come from angels with deep crypto experience. [Sarah Lopez](people/sarah-lopez-84) led the pre-seed round, bringing not just capital but introductions across the DeFi ecosystem. [Sarah Wang](people/sarah-wang-104) joined as an investor shortly after, drawn to the team's pragmatic approach to security. Both remain actively involved, participating in monthly strategy calls.\n\nOn the advisory side, Forge has assembled a small but impactful group. [Tara Jackson](people/tara-jackson-173) advises on go-to-market strategy, having scaled several B2B crypto companies previously. [David Brown](people/david-brown-187) provides technical guidance, particularly around smart contract auditing and security architecture—areas where Forge cannot afford to cut corners.\n\nThe team remains lean, hovering around twelve people as of late 2024. Adam has been deliberate about hiring, prefering experienced builders over rapid headcount growth. Engineering is split between protocol development and a surprisingly robust frontend team, reflecting the company's belief that UX remains crypto's biggest barrier to adoption.\n\nForge launched its mainnet product in early 2024 after an extended beta period. Growth has been steady if not explosive—the team claims over $180M in assets under managment across 40+ vaults. Revenue comes from a modest protocol fee, though the company has hinted at premium enterprise features in development. The roadmap includes cross-chain expansion and integration with traditional finance rails, positioning Forge at the intersection of DeFi and institutional money.",
"timeline":"- **2022-03-14** | Adam Lee incorporates Forge, begins building initial prototype for DAO treasury management\n- **2022-08-22** | Pre-seed round closes with [Sarah Lopez](people/sarah-lopez-84) leading; $1.2M raised\n- **2022-11-03** | [Sarah Wang](people/sarah-wang-104) joins as angel investor, contributes to security roadmap discussions\n- **2023-02-17** | [Tara Jackson](people/tara-jackson-173) signs on as go-to-market advisor\n- **2023-06-30** | Private beta launches with 8 DAOs onboarded for testing\n- **2023-09-12** | [David Brown](people/david-brown-187) joins advisory board to oversee smart contract security\n- **2024-01-28** | Mainnet launch after completing two independent audits\n- **2024-07-15** | Crosses $100M in assets under management milestone\n- **2024-11-02** | Announces partnership with major L2 for cross-chain vault support\n- **2025-02-10** | Team offsite in Lisbon; roadmap planning for enterprise tier features",
"compiled_truth":"Founders Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that has become one of the most influential investors in technology over the past two decades. Founded in 2005 by Peter Thiel, Ken Howery, and Luke Nosek, the firm has distinguished itself through a contrarian investment philosophy that favors bold, transformative companies over incremental innovation. Their famous motto — \"We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters\" — encapsulates this ethos.\n\nThe firm manages over $11 billion in assets and has backed some of the most consequential technology companies of the modern era. Early bets on SpaceX, Palantir, and Facebook established Founders Fund's reputation for identifying generational companies before they achieve mainstream recognition. More recently, the fund has made significant investments in defense technology, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology sectors.\n\nFounders Fund operates with a relatively lean partnership structure compared to traditional VC firms. Key partners include Thiel, Keith Rabois, and Brian Singerman, each bringing distinct investment theses to the table. Singerman in particular has driven the firm's biotech strategy, while Rabois focuses on enterprise software and fintech opportunities. The firm typically writes checks ranging from seed-stage investments up to growth rounds exceeding $100 million.\n\nTheir portfolio company [Anduril Industries](companies/anduril-industries) represents the quintessential Founders Fund investment — a defense technology company challenging incumbant contractors with software-defined hardware. Similarly, their continued support of [Stripe](companies/stripe) through multiple rounds demonstrates their conviction-based approach to backing founders.\n\nThe firm has been notably active in the AI space, making early investments in several frontier model companies. They've also shown willingness to back controversial founders and companies that other firms might avoid for reputational reasons. This approach has generated both outsized returns and occasional criticism.\n\nFounders Fund raised its eighth flagship fund in 2022, reportedly at $1.8 billion, signaling continued LP confidence despite broader market turbulence. The firm maintains offices in San Francisco and Austin, reflecting the broader tech migration trends of recent years.",
"timeline":"- **2021-03-15** | Led $450M growth round in Anduril Industries, valuing the defense startup at $4.6 billion\n- **2021-09-22** | Partner Keith Rabois announced relocation to Miami, opening satellite office presence\n- **2022-04-10** | Closed Fund VIII at $1.8B despite deteriorating market conditions\n- **2022-11-30** | Participated in emergency bridge financing discussions with [Stripe](companies/stripe) amid valuation reset\n- **2023-06-14** | Brian Singerman led investment in AI drug discovery platform, marking expanded biotech thesis\n- **2023-12-01** | Peter Thiel keynoted internal LP meeting on defense tech opportunities\n- **2024-05-18** | Announced strategic partnership with [Anduril Industries](companies/anduril-industries) for follow-on manufacturing facility investment\n- **2024-09-25** | Recruited two new partners from Tiger Global amid broader industry consolidation\n- **2025-02-11** | Published annual letter highlighting 3.2x net returns across 2020-2024 vintage\n- **2025-08-03** | Began fundraising for Fund IX, targeting $2.5B",
"compiled_truth":"Foundry is an AI applications startup founded in 2023 by [Ian Davis](people/ian-davis-33), a serial entrepreneur with a background in enterprise software. The company operates in the increasingly crowded AI applications space, though it has carved out a niche focusing on workflow automation for mid-market manufacturing companies. Their flagship product, FoundryOS, uses large language models to interpret unstructured data from factory floors and convert it into actionable insights for operations managers.\n\nThe company raised its seed round from a syndicate led by [Tina Hernandez](people/tina-hernandez-97), with participation from [Zoe Gonzalez](people/zoe-gonzalez-100) and [Alice Kapoor](people/alice-kapoor-108). Total funding to date sits around $4.2M, though rumors suggest Foundry is currently in conversations for a Series A that would value the company north of $30M. Ian has been characteristically tight-lipped about fundraising progress, preferring to focus public communications on product development.\n\nFoundry's advisory board includes [Rachel Gonzalez](people/rachel-gonzalez-175), who brings deep expertise in industrial automation, and [Noah Nakamura](people/noah-nakamura-182), whose connections in the manufacturing sector have reportedly helped open doors with several Fortune 500 prospects. The team has grown to roughly 18 people, mostly engineers, operating out of a small office in Austin.\n\nRecent moves include a partnership with a major automotive parts supplier, though the details remain under NDA. The company has been aggresively hiring ML engineers and recently posted roles for enterprise sales reps, signaling a shift toward scaling go-to-market efforts. Ian Davis presented at the Industrial AI Summit in March 2024, where he demoed FoundryOS processing real-time sensor data and generating maintenance recommendations. The demo received strong reception, though some attendees noted the system's latency issues under heavy load.\n\nFoundry faces competition from both established industrial software players and well-funded AI startups, but the team beleives their vertical focus gives them an edge. Early customer testimonials highlight the product's ease of integration with legacy systems, a persistent pain point in manufacturing tech.",
"timeline":"- **2023-03-15** | Foundry incorporated in Delaware by [Ian Davis](people/ian-davis-33)\n- **2023-06-22** | Closed $1.8M pre-seed round led by [Tina Hernandez](people/tina-hernandez-97)\n- **2023-09-10** | First engineering hires made; team moves into Austin office\n- **2023-12-01** | FoundryOS alpha launched with two pilot customers\n- **2024-02-14** | [Alice Kapoor](people/alice-kapoor-108) joins seed round, bringing total funding to $4.2M\n- **2024-03-28** | Ian Davis presents at Industrial AI Summit in Chicago\n- **2024-06-05** | Advisory board formalized with [Rachel Gonzalez](people/rachel-gonzalez-175) and [Noah Nakamura](people/noah-nakamura-182)\n- **2024-09-12** | Partnership announced with undisclosed automotive parts supplier\n- **2024-11-20** | Team reaches 18 employees; Series A conversations reportedly underway\n- **2025-01-08** | Enterprise sales hiring push begins",
"compiled_truth":"Gamma is a fintech startup founded in 2022 by [Mark Jones](people/mark-jones-2), a serial entrepreneur with a background in payment infrastructure. The company has positioned itself at the intersection of embedded finance and small business lending, targeting an underserved market of micro-merchants who struggle to access traditional credit products.\n\nThe core product is a lending-as-a-service API that allows platforms to offer instant credit decisioning to their users. Gamma's approach relies on alternative data sources—transaction history, platform engagement metrics, and cash flow patterns—rather than traditional credit scores. This has allowed them to approve merchants that banks typically reject while maintaining what they claim are competitive default rates.\n\nMark Jones serves as CEO and has been the public face of the company since launch. His previous experience building payment rails for gig economy platforms informed much of Gamma's technical architecture. The founding team remains relatively small, with around 25 employees as of late 2024, mostly engineers and data scientists based in Austin.\n\nEarly backing came from [Vera Gonzalez](people/vera-gonzalez-103), who led the seed round and has remained actively involved as a board observer. Her portfolio expertise in B2B fintech reportedly helped Gamma avoid some common pitfalls around compliance and bank partnerships. The company has been somewhat quiet about total funding raised, though industry estimates put it somewhere in the $8-12M range across seed and bridge rounds.\n\nGamma faces stiff competiton from larger players like Stripe Capital and Square Loans, but has carved out a niche by focusing exclusively on platform partnerships rather than direct-to-merchant sales. Recent moves suggest they're expanding beyond pure lending into cash flow management tools, though details remain sparse. The company has been hiring aggressively for a Series A push expected sometime in 2025.",
"timeline":"- **2022-03-14** | Gamma incorporated in Delaware by [Mark Jones](people/mark-jones-2)\n- **2022-06-22** | Closed seed round led by [Vera Gonzalez](people/vera-gonzalez-103), terms undisclosed\n- **2022-11-08** | First API version shipped to beta partners\n- **2023-02-15** | Reached $1M in loans facilitated through platform\n- **2023-07-20** | Expanded engineering team to 15 employees\n- **2023-11-30** | Launched v2.0 of lending API with improved decisioning engine\n- **2024-04-12** | Mark Jones spoke at Fintech Summit Austin on alternative credit scoring\n- **2024-09-05** | Announced partnership with three unnamed e-commerce platforms\n- **2025-01-18** | Bridge round closed, preparing for Series A conversations",
"compiled_truth":"Gamma Labs is an edtech startup founded in 2023 by [Iris Nakamura](people/iris-nakamura-52), a former learning sciences researcher who spent nearly a decade studying how students retain information in digital environments. The company emerged from Nakamura's frustration with existing adaptive learning platforms, which she felt were too focused on content delivery and not enough on genuine comprehension.\n\nThe core product is an AI-powered tutoring system that adapts not just to what students get wrong, but to *how* they think through problems. Gamma Labs calls this approach \"cognitive mirroring\" — the system builds a model of each student's reasoning patterns and adjusts its teaching style accordingly. Early pilots with community colleges showed promising results, though the sample sizes were admittedly small.\n\nFunding came through a pre-seed round led by [David Zhang](people/david-zhang-83), who has been increasingly active in education technology investments over the past two years. [Rosa Miller](people/rosa-miller-98) also participated in the round, bringing her experience scaling consumer apps to the cap table. The total raise was reportedly around $1.8 million, though the company hasn't confirmed exact figures publically.\n\nOn the advisory side, Gamma brought in [Steve Martinez](people/steve-martinez-192) to help navigate enterprise sales cycles with school districts. Martinez's background in B2B edtech has proven valuable as the startup shifts from direct-to-student pilots toward institutional contracts.\n\nThe team remains small — just seven full-time employees as of late 2024 — but they've been shipping quickly. Their beta platform launched in Q2 2024, and early users have praised the interface's simplicity. Critics note that the AI explanations can sometimes feel repetitive, a known issue the team says they're addressing.\n\nGamma Labs operates out of a coworking space in Oakland, though Iris has mentioned considering a move to a dedicated office if headcount doubles. The edtech space is crowded, but Gamma's focus on reasoning rather than rote memorization gives it a differentiated angle. Whether that translates to sustainable growth remains to be seen.",
"timeline":"- **2023-03-15** | Gamma Labs incorporated in Delaware by founder Iris Nakamura\n- **2023-06-22** | Pre-seed round closed with [David Zhang](people/david-zhang-83) and [Rosa Miller](people/rosa-miller-98) participating\n- **2023-09-10** | First pilot program launched with two community colleges in California\n- **2024-01-18** | [Steve Martinez](people/steve-martinez-192) joined as formal advisor\n- **2024-04-05** | Beta platform shipped to 500 early access users\n- **2024-07-12** | Gamma Labs presented at EdTech Summit in Austin, demo well-received\n- **2024-10-30** | Signed first enterprise contract with a mid-sized school district in Texas\n- **2025-02-14** | Team expanded to 12 employees, opened dedicated Oakland office\n- **2025-06-01** | Series A discussions reportedly underway with multiple firms",
"compiled_truth":"Google is one of the most influential technology conglomerates in the world, though its founding date of 1996 places it slightly earlier than commonly cited. The company has evolved far beyond its origins as a search engine, becoming a major player in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, consumer hardware, and notably, robotics.\n\nThe robotics division at Google has seen significant investment and strategic maneuvering over the years. Starting with the aqusition of Boston Dynamics in 2013, Google signaled its intent to dominate the robotics space. While Boston Dynamics was later sold to SoftBank, Google retained numerous other robotics ventures and continued building internal capabilities through its X division and other research arms.\n\nAs an acquirer in the robotics industry, Google has been particularly agressive in targeting startups with promising automation technology. The company's approach tends to focus on companies developing AI-driven manipulation systems, warehouse automation, and autonomous systems that can integrate with Google's broader cloud and AI infrastructure. Their acquisition strategy often involves absorbing talented engineering teams rather than just acquiring technology—a practice sometimes called acqui-hiring.\n\nGoogle's parent company Alphabet provides the financial backing for these robotics ambitions. The company has partnerships with various research institutions and maintains close relationships with other tech giants, though it also competes fiercely with them. Recent moves suggest Google is positioning itself to offer robotics-as-a-service solutions to enterprise customers, leveraging its cloud platform.\n\nThe leadership at Google has emphasized that robotics represents a natural extension of their AI capabilities. With advances in machine learning and computer vision coming out of DeepMind and Google Brain (now merged), the company believes it can solve many of the perception and planning challenges that have historically limited robotic systems. Their focus areas include logistics automation, healthcare robotics, and general-purpose manipulation platforms that could eventaully find applications in homes and offices.\n\nGoogle continues to be a dominant force in shaping the future of intelligent machines, combining its vast computational resources with ambitious research agendas.",
"timeline":"- **2021-03-15** | Google announces expanded robotics research initiative under X division, committing $400M over three years\n- **2021-09-22** | Acquired stealth warehouse automation startup for undisclosed sum, team of 45 engineers joins Google Cloud\n- **2022-04-08** | Unveiled Everyday Robots project demonstrating general-purpose manipulation in office environments\n- **2022-11-30** | Partnership announced with major logistics provider to pilot autonomous sorting systems\n- **2023-06-14** | Google I/O keynote features live demo of AI-powered robotic assistant prototype\n- **2024-01-19** | Robotics division restructured, now reports directly to Google Cloud leadership\n- **2024-08-03** | Acquired computer vision startup specializing in 3D scene understanding for $180M\n- **2025-02-27** | Launched Robotics Foundation Model, open-sourcing base architecture for research community\n- **2025-10-11** | Enterprise robotics platform enters general availability, initial customers include three Fortune 100 companies",
"compiled_truth":"Gravity is a biotech startup founded in 2021 by [Quinten Wang](people/quinten-wang-17), a computational biologist who previously led protein engineering efforts at a major pharma company. The company focuses on developing novel gravity-sensing mechanisms in cellular therapies, aiming to create treatments that respond to mechanical forces within the human body. Their core platform uses mechanosensitive proteins to trigger therapeutic payloads in response to specific gravitational or pressure conditions.\n\nThe founding thesis came from Wang's doctoral research on how cells detect and respond to physical forces. Gravity has raised seed funding from a syndicate that includes [Chris Jackson](people/chris-jackson-91), [Rosa Nakamura](people/rosa-nakamura-94), and [Rachel Brown](people/rachel-brown-95). The round closed in early 2022 and gave the company runway to build out its initial research team and secure wet lab space in the South San Francisco biotech corridor.\n\nOn the advisory side, Gravity has brought in [Tina Wang](people/tina-wang-179) for regulatory strategy and [Xavier Patel](people/xavier-patel-183) to help with business development and partnership discussions. Both advisors have been instrumental in shaping the companys go-to-market approach, particularly around identifying therapeutic areas where mechanosensitive delivery could provide clear advantages over existing modalties.\n\nThe startup has been relatively quiet publicly, preferring to focus on R&D milestones rather than press coverage. Internally, they've made progress on their lead program targeting osteoarthritis, where the therapy would activate in response to joint compression. Early in vitro results have been promising, though animal studies are still ongoing. The team has grown to about 15 people, mostly PhDs in bioengineering and cell biology.\n\nGravity faces significant technical risk—mechanobiology is still a nascent field and translating bench results to clinical outcomes will be challenging. But the upside is substantial if they can crack it. Wang has been vocal in investor updates about the potential for platform expansion into cardiac and oncology applications down the line.",
"timeline":"- **2021-03-15** | Gravity incorporated in Delaware by [Quinten Wang](people/quinten-wang-17)\n- **2021-07-22** | Signed lease for lab space in South San Francisco\n- **2022-01-10** | Closed $4.2M seed round led by [Chris Jackson](people/chris-jackson-91)\n- **2022-06-03** | Hired first VP of Research from Genentech\n- **2022-11-18** | [Tina Wang](people/tina-wang-179) joined as regulatory advisor\n- **2023-04-25** | Filed provisional patent on mechanosensitive protein delivery system\n- **2023-09-12** | Presented preclinical data at ASGCT conference\n- **2024-02-08** | Initiated IND-enabling studies for lead osteoarthritis program\n- **2024-08-30** | [Xavier Patel](people/xavier-patel-183) formalized advisory role, began pharma outreach\n- **2025-03-17** | Reached 15 employees, expanded lab footprint",
"compiled_truth":"Greylock Partners is one of Silicon Valley's oldest and most prestigious venture capital firms, founded in 1965. The firm has built a reputation for early-stage investing in enterprise software, consumer internet, and infrastructure companies. Their portfolio reads like a who's who of tech success stories—LinkedIn, Facebook, Airbnb, Dropbox, and Discord among them.\n\nThe firm operates with a relatively small partnership structure, which they argue allows for deeper engagement with founders. Notable partners include Reid Hoffman, the LinkedIn co-founder who joined after selling his company to Microsoft. The firm's been particularly active in AI and developer tools lately, reflecting broader market trends. They typically write checks ranging from seed to Series B, though they're not afraid to lead larger rounds for breakout companies.\n\nGreylock maintains offices in Menlo Park and San Francisco, though like most VCs they've adapted to a more distributed model post-pandemic. Their investment thesis centers on what they call \"product-first founders\"—technical leaders who deeply understand the problems they're solving. This approach has led them to back companies like Figma early, before design tools became a hot category.\n\nThe partnership has been vocal about their views on AI, with several partners publishing extensively on where they see oportunities in the space. They've made multiple bets on AI infrastructure and application layers. Recent portfolio companies include Adept AI and various developer productivity startups.\n\nUnlike some mega-funds, Greylock has resisted the temptation to raise massive vehicles, generally keeping fund sizes in the $1-2 billion range. This discipline, they argue, keeps them focused on early-stage where they have the most edge. The firm competes directly with [Sequoia Capital](companies/sequoia-capital) and [Andreessen Horowitz](companies/a16z-3) for the best deals, though each firm has developed somewhat distinct positioning over time.\n\nTheir brand among founders remains strong, particularly for B2B and infrastructure plays. The firm hosts regular content series and podcasts featuring partners discussng market trends, which serves both as thought leadership and deal flow generation.",
"timeline":"- **2021-03-15** | Led $40M Series B in Snyk, continuing their security software thesis\n- **2021-09-22** | Reid Hoffman published essay on future of work, generating significant discussion in tech media\n- **2022-02-08** | Announced Fund XVI at $1.2 billion, focused on AI and enterprise\n- **2022-11-30** | Participated in Discord's $500M round alongside [Sequoia Capital](companies/sequoia-capital)\n- **2023-04-17** | Partner Sarah Guo departed to launch her own AI-focused fund Conviction\n- **2023-08-25** | Led seed round for stealth AI infrastructure startup\n- **2024-01-12** | Hosted annual Greylock Techfair recruiting event for portfolio companies\n- **2024-06-03** | Published internal AI research report, shared selectively with LPs\n- **2024-11-19** | Co-invested with [Andreessen Horowitz](companies/a16z-3) in Series A for developer tools company\n- **2025-02-28** | Promoted two principals to partner, signaling generational transition",
"compiled_truth":"Gust is a data infrastructure startup founded in 2020 by [Steve Liu](people/steve-liu-34), who previously spent time at Snowflake and Databricks before striking out on his own. The company focuses on building real-time data pipelines that can handle massive throughput without the typical overhead of traditional ETL systems. Their core product lets engineering teams ingest, transform, and route streaming data with minimal configuration—think Kafka meets dbt but with a much simpler developer experience.\n\nThe founding story is pretty straightforward. Steve had grown frustrated with the complexity of existing data infrastructure tools while working on analytics pipelines at his previous roles. He saw an opportunity to build something cleaner, something that didn't require a dedicated platform team just to keep running. Gust was born out of that frustration, initially as a side project before Steve commited to it full-time.\n\nEarly traction came from mid-sized fintech companies who needed reliable streaming infrastructure but couldn't justify the headcount to manage Kafka clusters. Gust's managed offering hit a sweet spot—enterprise-grade reliability without the operational burden. By late 2021, the company had a handful of paying customers and was generating modest but growing revenue.\n\n[Sarah Lopez](people/sarah-lopez-84) led their seed round in early 2022, betting on Steve's technical chops and the growing demand for simplified data tooling. Sarah had been tracking the data infrastructure space for years and saw Gust as a potential breakout player. Her investment gave the company runway to expand the engineering team and accelerate product developement.\n\nToday Gust operates with a lean team of about 25 people, mostly engineers. They've been deliberate about not over-hiring, preferring to stay focused and capital-efficient. The company has expanded its product to include schema management, data quality monitoring, and connectors for most major data warehouses. Competition from bigger players like Confluent and newer startups remains intense, but Gust has carved out a loyal customer base that values simplicity over feature bloat.",
"timeline":"- **2020-03-15** | Steve Liu incorporates Gust and begins building the initial prototype\n- **2020-09-22** | First beta customer signs up—a small fintech startup in NYC\n- **2021-04-10** | Gust launches publicly with support for Postgres and Snowflake sinks\n- **2022-02-08** | Closes $4.2M seed round led by [Sarah Lopez](people/sarah-lopez-84)\n- **2022-07-19** | Hires first head of engineering from Stripe\n- **2023-01-30** | Launches schema registry feature after months of customer requests\n- **2023-11-14** | [Steve Liu](people/steve-liu-34) speaks at Data Council on simplifying streaming architectures\n- **2024-05-02** | Crosses 100 paying customers milestone\n- **2024-12-11** | Announces partnership with major cloud provider for native integration\n- **2025-08-20** | Begins work on Series A fundraising process",
"compiled_truth":"Hatch is an edtech startup founded in 2019 by [Eric Miller](people/eric-miller-35), who saw an opportunity to reimagine how young professionals develop career skills outside traditional academic settings. The company operates in the increasingly crowded learn-to-earn space, but distinguishes itself through a cohort-based model that emphasizes peer accountability and real-world project work.\n\nThe platform connects early-career workers with mentors from established companies, facilitating structured 8-week programs in areas like product management, data analytics, and business development. Hatch takes a different aproach than most competitors—rather than selling courses to individuals, they partner directly with employers who want to upskill entry-level hires or create alternative talent pipelines. This B2B focus has given them more predictable revenue, though it's also meant slower user growth compared to consumer-facing platforms.\n\n[Steve Martinez](people/steve-martinez-192) joined as an advisor sometime in 2022, bringing his network in workforce development and helping Hatch refine their enterprise sales motion. His involvement signaled a shift toward targeting larger organizations rather than the SMB market they'd initially pursued. Martinez has been particularly helpful in opening doors at companies looking to diversify their hiring beyond traditional university recruiting.\n\nEric Miller remains the driving force behind product decisions. He's known for being hands-on with curriculum design, often personally reviewing program content and sitting in on mentor sessions. Some employees find this level of involvement micromanage-y, but others appreciate the attention to quality. The company has stayed relatively lean—around 35 employees as of late 2024—and Miller has been vocal about not raising more capital than necessary.\n\nHatch completed a Series A in early 2023, though they haven't disclosed the amount publicly. They're headquartered in Austin but operate fully remote, with mentors and participants spread across North America. Recent moves suggest they're exploring expansion into technical skills training, potentially competing more directly with bootcamps.",
"timeline":"- **2019-06-12** | Hatch incorporated in Delaware; [Eric Miller](people/eric-miller-35) begins building initial prototype\n- **2020-03-08** | Launched first pilot cohort with 24 participants across three employer partners\n- **2021-09-15** | Closed seed round of $2.4M led by Reach Capital\n- **2022-04-22** | [Steve Martinez](people/steve-martinez-192) formally joins advisory board\n- **2022-11-03** | Surpassed 2,000 program graduates; announced partnership with two Fortune 500 retailers\n- **2023-02-17** | Series A closed; terms undisclosed but reportedly in $8-12M range\n- **2023-08-29** | Launched data analytics track, first technical program offering\n- **2024-01-14** | Eric Miller spoke at ASU+GSV Summit on alternative credentialing\n- **2024-07-20** | Opened pilot in Canada with three Toronto-based employers\n- **2025-03-11** | Announced curriculum partnership with major cloud provider for technical upskilling",
"compiled_truth":"Helix is an AI infrastructure startup founded in 2021 by [Rachel Garcia](people/rachel-garcia-9), a veteran systems engineer who previously led distributed computing teams at major cloud providers. The company focuses on building foundational tooling for deploying and managing large-scale machine learning workloads, with particular emphasis on GPU orchestration and model serving optimization.\n\nThe core product is a Kubernetes-native platform that abstracts away much of the complexity involved in running inference at scale. Helix's approach differs from competitors in that it prioritizes cost efficiency over raw performance—their scheduling algorithms are designed to maximize GPU utilization across heterogenous hardware, which appeals to companies running mixed fleets of older and newer accelerators. Early customers include several mid-size fintech firms and a handful of healthcare AI startups.\n\nRachel Garcia serves as CEO and has been the public face of the company since launch. She's known for her pragmatic approach to infrastructure problems and has spoken at several industry conferences about the \"unsexy\" challenges of ML ops. Under her leadership, Helix has grown to roughly 35 employees, mostly engineers with backgrounds in distributed systems and cloud infrastucture.\n\nThe advisory board includes [Xavier Patel](people/xavier-patel-183), who brings deep expertise in enterprise sales and go-to-market strategy, and [Bob Chen](people/bob-chen-185), a technical advisor with experience scaling infrastructure at hypergrowth companies. Both have been instrumental in shaping Helix's enterprise positioning.\n\nHelix raised a Series A in early 2023, though the company has been relatively quiet about specific metrics. Industry observers note that the AI infrastructure space has become increasingly crowded, but Helix's focus on cost optimization rather than cutting-edge performance gives it a distinct niche. The startup has been expanding its sales team and recently opened a small office in Austin to complement its San Francisco headquarters. Recent product updates have focused on observability features and tighter integrations with popular ML frameworks.",
"timeline":"- **2021-03-15** | Company incorporated by [Rachel Garcia](people/rachel-garcia-9) in Delaware\n- **2021-09-02** | Closed $4.2M seed round led by Gradient Ventures\n- **2022-01-18** | First production customer goes live on Helix platform\n- **2022-07-11** | [Xavier Patel](people/xavier-patel-183) joins as advisor to help with enterprise strategy\n- **2023-02-28** | Announced Series A funding, expanded engineering team to 25\n- **2023-08-14** | [Bob Chen](people/bob-chen-185) joins advisory board\n- **2024-01-22** | Launched Helix Observe, new monitoring and cost analytics product\n- **2024-06-09** | Rachel Garcia keynotes at MLOps World conference in Austin\n- **2024-11-03** | Opened Austin office, announced plans to double sales team\n- **2025-04-17** | Partnership announced with major cloud provider for marketplace listing",
"compiled_truth":"Helix Labs is a cybersecurity startup founded in 2020 by [Bob Jackson](people/bob-jackson-59), a former penetration tester who spent nearly a decade at major defense contractors before striking out on his own. The company focuses on automated threat detection for mid-market enterprises, a segment Jackson felt was underserved by existing solutions that either targeted Fortune 500 companies or were too basic for sophisticated threats.\n\nThe company's flagship product, HelixShield, uses behavioral analysis to identify anomalous network activity before breaches occur. Unlike traditional signature-based detection, their approach learns what 'normal' looks like for each client and flags deviations in real-time. Early customers have praised the low false-positive rate, though some have noted the onboarding process can be lengthy.\n\nHelix raised its seed round in late 2021 from angel investors including [Priya Taylor](people/priya-taylor-85) and [Julia Davis](people/julia-davis-86), both of whom have backgrounds in enterprise software. Priya in particular has been an active advisor, reportedly introducing the team to several key enterprise clients in the healthcare vertical. The company closed a Series A in 2023, though terms were not publicly disclosed.\n\nThe team has grown to around 45 employees, with engineering concentrated in Austin and a small sales presence in New York. Jackson remains CEO and is known for his hands-on technical involvement—he still reviews major architecture decisions and ocasionally jumps into customer calls when things get hairy. Former colleagues describe him as demanding but fair, with a tendency to work late nights that sometimes sets unrealistic expectations for the rest of the team.\n\nHelix Labs has been relatively quiet in terms of press, preferring to let customer referrals drive growth rather than splashy marketing campaigns. That said, there's been some chatter about a potential expansion into cloud security posture management, which would put them in direct competition with larger players. Whether they have the resources to fight on multiple fronts remaind to be seen.",
"timeline":"- **2020-03-15** | Helix Labs incorporated in Delaware by [Bob Jackson](people/bob-jackson-59)\n- **2020-09-22** | First prototype of HelixShield deployed internally for testing\n- **2021-06-10** | Closed seed round with participation from [Priya Taylor](people/priya-taylor-85) and [Julia Davis](people/julia-davis-86)\n- **2021-11-03** | Landed first paying customer, a regional hospital network in Texas\n- **2022-04-18** | Expanded engineering team to 20 people, opened Austin office\n- **2023-02-27** | Series A closed; valuation undisclosed but rumored around $40M\n- **2023-09-14** | HelixShield 2.0 launched with improved ML detection pipeline\n- **2024-05-06** | [Bob Jackson](people/bob-jackson-59) spoke at RSA Conference on behavioral threat detection\n- **2025-01-22** | Announced partnership with managed security provider NorthWatch\n- **2025-08-30** | Internal planning meetings hint at cloud security product expansion",
"compiled_truth":"Index Ventures is one of Europe's most storied venture capital firms, with a track record that spans three decades and includes some of the most consequential technology companies of the modern era. Founded in Geneva in 1996, the firm has grown to operate across offices in San Francisco, London, and Geneva, positioning itself as a truly transatlantic investor with deep roots on both sides of the pond.\n\nThe firm operates across multiple stages, from seed through growth, and has backed companies like Figma, Discord, Notion, Roblox, and Deliveroo. Index made early bets on European champions like Skype and King Digital, establishing its reputation for identifying category-defining companies before they hit mainstream radar. Their portfolio reflects a broad thesis covering enterprise software, fintech, consumer internet, and increasingly, AI-native applications.\n\nIndex is known for its partnership-driven model, where partners maintain significant autonomy in dealmaking while sharing economics equally. Notable partners include Danny Rimer, who led investments in Dropbox and Glossier, and Mike Volpi, a former Cisco executive who's become one of the most respected enterprise investors in the industry. The firm's approach tends to be founder-friendly, often taking board seats but avoiding the heavy-handed governance that characterizes some of their peers.\n\nRecent years have seen Index raising substantial funds—their 2021 vintage exceeded $3 billion across seed and growth vehicles. They've been particularly active in the AI infrastructure space, competing aggressively with firms like [Sequoia Capital](companies/sequoia-capital-12) for the hottest deals. Some partners have noted tension between maintaining their European identity while increasingly deploying capital into Silicon Valley's AI boom.\n\nThe firm has also made notable investments alongside [Andreessen Horowitz](companies/andreessen-horowitz-9) in several high-profile rounds, demonstrating their ability to co-invest with top-tier American firms while maintaining deal leadership. Index's LP base includes major endowments, sovereign wealth funds, and family offices who've stuck with the firm through multiple fund cycles.\n\nCriticism sometimes surfaces around their growth-stage valuations—some observers argue Index overpaid during the 2021 bubble. But their seed practice has remained disciplined, and their multi-stage model provides natural follow-on optionality that pure-play seed funds lack.",
"timeline":"- **2021-03-15** | Closed Index Ventures Growth VI at $2.3B, largest fund in firm history\n- **2021-09-22** | Led $150M Series C for AI startup alongside [Sequoia Capital](companies/sequoia-capital-12)\n- **2022-04-10** | Partner Martin Mignot promoted to lead European seed practice\n- **2022-11-08** | Portfolio company Figma announced $20B acquisition by Adobe (later terminated)\n- **2023-02-14** | Participated in Discord's down round, maintaining pro-rata\n- **2023-08-30** | Co-led infrastructure deal with [Andreessen Horowitz](companies/andreessen-horowitz-9) at $800M valuation\n- **2024-01-19** | Published annual European tech ecosystem report showing record unicorn creation\n- **2024-06-05** | Danny Rimer keynoted at Index's annual founder summit in London\n- **2025-02-28** | Announced new $1.8B early-stage fund focused on AI-native applications\n- **2025-09-12** | Opened small Tel Aviv office to expand Middle East dealflow",
"compiled_truth":"Initialized Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that made a significant mark on Silicon Valley's early-stage investing landscape. Founded in 2011 by Alexis Ohanian and Garry Tan, the firm quickly established itself as a go-to partner for ambitious founders building transformative companies. Initialized became known for writing the first checks into startups that would go on to become household names.\n\nThe firm's portfolio included some remarkable successes. Coinbase, Instacart, Cruise Automation, and Flexport all received early backing from Initialized, demonstrating the partners' ability to identify breakout opportunities before they became obvious. The fund's investment thesis centered on backing technical founders with strong product instincts, often at the pre-seed or seed stage when most institutional investors wouldn't engage.\n\nGarry Tan served as managing partner and was the driving force behind much of the firm's deal flow and investment decisions. His background as a founder (he co-founded Posterous) and his time as a partner at Y Combinator gave him unique insight into what makes early-stage companies succeed. In 2022, Tan departed Initialized to take on the role of President and CEO at [Y Combinator](companies/y-combinator), leaving the firm at an inflection point.\n\nFollowing Tan's departure, the future of Initalized became somewhat uncertain. The firm had raised multiple funds over the years, with later vehicles exceeding $300 million in committed capital. Some partners continued to manage existing investments while the firm's active deployment slowed considerably.\n\nInitialized was part of a broader wave of seed-focused firms that emerged in the early 2010s, alongside peers like First Round Capital and [Floodgate](companies/floodgate). These micro-VCs helped fill a gap left by larger funds that had moved upstream to Series A and beyond. The firm's legacy lives on through its portfolio companies, many of wich continue to shape their respective industries. Alexis Ohanian has since focused his attention on other ventures, including Seven Seven Six, his newer investment vehicle.",
"timeline":"- **2011-06-15** | Initialized Capital founded by Alexis Ohanian and Garry Tan with a focus on seed-stage investments\n- **2017-03-22** | Closed Fund III at $225 million, marking significant growth from earlier vehicles\n- **2019-09-10** | Portfolio company Coinbase valuation exceeds $8 billion following private funding round\n- **2021-04-14** | Coinbase direct listing on NASDAQ delivers massive returns for early Initialized investment\n- **2022-01-18** | Garry Tan announced as incoming CEO of [Y Combinator](companies/y-combinator), signaling transition at Initialized\n- **2022-03-01** | Tan officially departs managing partner role to lead YC full-time\n- **2023-08-12** | Firm continues managing existing portfolio with reduced new investment activity\n- **2024-02-28** | Several Initialized portfolio companies announce down rounds amid market correction\n- **2025-05-14** | Legacy fund distributions continue as mature portfolio companies reach liquidity events",
"compiled_truth":"Iris is a consumer social startup founded in 2024 by [Mia Park](people/mia-park-36), a first-time founder with a background in behavioral psychology and product design. The company is building what it describes as a \"mood-first\" social platform—users share emotional states and context rather than polished photos or status updates. The core thesis is that Gen Z craves authenticity but existing platforms still incentivize performance. Iris flips that by making vulnerability the default.\n\nThe app launched in closed beta in late 2024, initially targeting college campuses on the West Coast. Early traction was promising, with retention numbers that caught the attention of several angel investors. [Jack Davis](people/jack-davis-89) led a pre-seed round, drawn to Mia's unconventional approach and the product's sticky engagement loops. He's been hands-on, joining weekly product reviews and pushing the team to nail the onboarding flow before scaling.\n\nIris operates with a lean team of five, mostly engineers and one designer Mia poached from her previous gig at a larger social app. The company runs out of a cramped co-working space in San Francisco's Mission district. Culture is intense but collaborative—Mia sets aggressive ship cycles but also mandates \"disconnect Fridays\" to prevent burnout. There's a scrappy energy to the operation.\n\n[David Kim](people/david-kim-186) serves as an advisor, providing strategic guidence on growth tactics and helping Mia navigate the fundraising landscape. He's introduced her to several potential Series A leads, though the company isn't actively raising yet. The plan is to hit 100k MAU before pursuing a priced round.\n\nRecent product moves include a \"resonance\" feature that matches users with strangers experiencing similar emotional states. It's controversial internally—some worry about safety implications—but early data shows it drives significent engagement. Mia has publicly stated that Iris will never sell emotional data to advertisers, a stance that's resonated with privacy-conscious users but raises questions about eventual monetization.",
"timeline":"- **2024-01-15** | [Mia Park](people/mia-park-36) incorporates Iris and begins recruiting founding team\n- **2024-03-22** | Closed alpha launches with 200 users from Stanford and Berkeley\n- **2024-05-10** | [Jack Davis](people/jack-davis-89) commits to leading pre-seed round after demo day pitch\n- **2024-06-01** | Pre-seed closes at $1.2M, valuation undisclosed\n- **2024-08-14** | [David Kim](people/david-kim-186) joins as formal advisor\n- **2024-10-03** | Beta expands to 12 universities across California and Oregon\n- **2024-11-19** | \"Resonance\" feature ships, driving 40% increase in daily sessions\n- **2025-01-08** | Iris hits 25k monthly active users milestone\n- **2025-02-20** | Mia speaks at a consumer social meetup in SF about emotional-first design\n- **2025-04-12** | Company begins exploratory conversations with Series A investors",
"compiled_truth":"Jolt is an early-stage startup founded in 2025 by [Chris Williams](people/chris-williams-37), operating in the AI applications space. The company emerged during a particularly competitive period for AI ventures, yet managed to secure backing from notable angel investors including [Tina Hernandez](people/tina-hernandez-97) and [Chris Miller](people/chris-miller-101).\n\nThe company focuses on building AI-powered productivity tools aimed at small and medium businesses. Their flagship product, still in development, promises to automate routine administrative tasks using a combination of large language models and custom workflow engines. Chris Williams has described the vision as \"AI that actually fits into how people already work, not the other way around.\"\n\nJolt operates with a lean team, currently around 8 people, mostly engineers with backgrounds in ML infrastructure and frontend development. The company maintains offices in Austin, though most of the team works remotley. Williams has been vocal about keeping the team small until they achieve stronger product-market fit, a philosophy he picked up from his previous startup experience.\n\nFunding details remain somewhat private, but sources suggest the initial round was in the $2-3M range. [Chris Miller](people/chris-miller-101) reportedly led the round after meeting Williams at a conference in late 2024. The investment thesis centered on Williams' track record and the team's technical depth rather than any revolutionary technology moat.\n\nThe startup has been relatively quiet publicly, preferring to focus on building rather than marketing. A private beta launched in Q1 2025 with around 50 companies participating. Early feedback has been mixed but promising—users appreciate the simplicity but want more integrations. The team is currently heads-down on expanding connector support for popular tools like Slack, Notion, and various CRMs.\n\nCompetition in the AI productivity space is fierce, with both well-funded startups and big tech players vying for attention. Jolt's bet is that their focus on SMBs and ease of deployment will carve out a defensible niche. Whether that pans out remains to be seen.",
"timeline":"- **2024-11-15** | Chris Williams meets [Chris Miller](people/chris-miller-101) at AI Summit Austin, initial discussions about Jolt concept\n- **2025-01-08** | Jolt officially incorporated in Delaware\n- **2025-01-22** | Seed round closes with participation from [Tina Hernandez](people/tina-hernandez-97) and Chris Miller\n- **2025-02-10** | First two engineers hired, both former colleagues of [Chris Williams](people/chris-williams-37)\n- **2025-03-05** | Internal alpha of core product completed\n- **2025-04-12** | Private beta launches with 50 SMB partners\n- **2025-05-20** | Team expands to 8 people, adds first dedicated product manager\n- **2025-06-18** | Partnership discussions begin with major CRM vendor\n- **2025-07-02** | Beta feedback review leads to pivot toward deeper integrations focus",
"compiled_truth":"Keel is a crypto startup founded in early 2025 by [Steve Williams](people/steve-williams-38), a serial entrepreneur with a background in decentralized finance protocols. The company operates in the digital asset infrastructure space, focusing on building institutional-grade custody and settlement solutions for blockchain networks. Despite being a newcomer to an already crowded market, Keel has positioned itself as a lean alternative to legacy crypto custodians, emphasizing speed and regulatory compliance from day one.\n\nThe founding thesis behind Keel centers on the belief that traditional crypto custody providers have become bloated and slow to adapt to emerging Layer 2 ecosystems. Steve Williams has been vocal about this gap, arguing that institutions need nimble partners who understand the nuances of rollups, bridges, and cross-chain liquidity. The company's initial product focuses on Ethereum L2 settlement, with plans to expand into Bitcoin sidechains by late 2025.\n\nKeel raised a pre-seed round in Q1 2025, with [Carol Jackson](people/carol-jackson-81) serving as the lead investor. Jackson, known for her contrarian bets in fintech infrastructure, apparently saw potential in Williams' vision despite the bear market sentiment still lingering from 2024. The round was modest—reportedly under $3 million—but gave the team runway to build out their core platform and hire a small enginering team.\n\nAdvisory support comes from [Linda Taylor](people/linda-taylor-178), who brings regulatory expertise to the table. Taylor's involvement signals that Keel is serious about compliance, a differentiator in an industry still grappling with enforcement actions. Her guidance has reportedly shaped the company's approach to KYC/AML integration and its conversations with potential banking partners.\n\nThe team remains small, operating out of a co-working space in Austin. Williams has kept headcount intentionally low, preferring to ship fast with a tight-knit group rather than scale prematurely. Early users include a handful of crypto-native hedge funds testing the settlement infrastucture in sandbox environments. Keel's public launch is expected sometime in Q3 2025.",
"timeline":"- **2024-11-15** | Steve Williams begins exploratory conversations with early backers about a new custody venture\n- **2025-01-08** | Keel officially incorporated in Delaware; [Steve Williams](people/steve-williams-38) named CEO\n- **2025-01-22** | [Carol Jackson](people/carol-jackson-81) commits to leading the pre-seed round\n- **2025-02-10** | Pre-seed funding closes at $2.8M; team begins hiring engineers\n- **2025-02-28** | [Linda Taylor](people/linda-taylor-178) joins as regulatory advisor\n- **2025-03-15** | First internal demo of L2 settlement prototype completed\n- **2025-04-02** | Keel signs NDA with two crypto hedge funds for pilot testing\n- **2025-05-19** | Williams speaks at ETH Denver satellite event on institutional DeFi infrastructure\n- **2025-06-07** | Sandbox testing begins with select institutional partners",
"compiled_truth":"Khosla Ventures is a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems. The firm has established itself as one of the most influential investors in technology and cleantech, with a particular focus on companies that can have transformative impact across industries. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Khosla operates with a distinctive philosophy that embraces high-risk, high-reward bets on unproven technologies.\n\nThe firm manages multiple funds totaling billions in assets under managment, including seed funds for earlier-stage investments and larger growth funds for follow-on financing. Khosla Ventures has backed some notable successes including Square, DoorDash, and Instacart. More recently, the firm has been aggressively investing in artificial intelligence infrastructure and applications, recognizing the generational shift hapening in enterprise software.\n\nVinod Khosla himself remains deeply involved in investment decisions and is known for his contrarian views and willingness to fund moonshot ideas. The firm's team includes partners with deep technical backgrounds, which allows them to evaluate complex technologies that other VCs might shy away from. They've developed a reputation for being founder-friendly while also providing substantial operational support.\n\nKhosla Ventures has been particularly active in climate tech, betting big on carbon capture, alternative proteins, and next-generation energy storage. This aligns with Vinod's long-standing interest in technologies that address major societal challenges. The firm often co-invests alongside other major venture players like [Andreessen Horowitz](companies/a16z) on larger rounds, though they're equally comfortable leading deals solo.\n\nTheir investment approach tends to be thesis-driven rather than opportunistic. Partners develop deep conviction around specific technology shifts and then actively seek out founders building in those areas. This has led to early positions in categories before they become crowded. The firm maintains close relationships with the Stanford ecosystem and frequently backs technical founders straight out of PhD programs. Recent portfolio companies have explored everything from quantum computing to synthetic biology, reflecting Khosla's continued appetite for frontier tech bets.",
"timeline":"- **2021-03-15** | Khosla Ventures closed Fund VII at $1.4 billion, oversubscribed due to strong LP demand\n- **2021-09-22** | Led $50M Series B in carbon removal startup, signaling renewed climate focus\n- **2022-04-08** | Vinod Khosla keynoted Stanford entrepreneurship conference on AI's transformative potential\n- **2022-11-30** | Announced strategic partnership with [Andreessen Horowitz](companies/a16z) for joint investment in AI infrastructure deals\n- **2023-06-14** | Portfolio company Impossible Foods explored IPO options with firm's guidance\n- **2023-12-01** | Khosla published annual predictions letter, forecasting major disruption in healthcare from AI diagnostics\n- **2024-05-19** | Promoted two new general partners from within, expanding investment team to twelve\n- **2024-09-03** | Led $120M growth round for enterprise AI startup at $900M valuation\n- **2025-02-28** | Filed for Fund VIII targeting $2.1 billion across seed and growth vehicles\n- **2025-08-11** | Hosted annual LP summit in Palo Alto featuring portfolio company demos",
"compiled_truth":"Kindle is a climate tech startup founded in 2023 by [Vera Singh](people/vera-singh-20), focused on developing next-generation carbon capture solutions for industrial emitters. The company emerged from Singh's doctoral research at MIT, where she pioneered novel membrane technologies that significantly reduce the energy costs of direct air capture.\n\nThe startup operates out of Oakland, California, with a small but growing team of around 15 engineers and scientists. Kindle's core product is a modular carbon capture unit designed for mid-sized manufacturing facilities—a market segment that's been largely overlooked by bigger players chasing utility-scale deployments. Their approach prioritizes affordability and ease of installation over raw capture volume, betting that widespread adoption matters more than individual unit performance.\n\nKindle has attracted notable advisors including [Tina Moore](people/tina-moore-191), who brings decades of experience scaling hardware startups. Moore's involvement has been particularly valuable in helping the company navigate supply chain challenges and establish early manufacturing partnerships. The advisory relationship reportedly began after a chance meeting at a climate conference in late 2023.\n\nThe company closed a seed round in early 2024, though exact figures haven't been publicly disclosed. Industry sources suggest somewhere in the $4-6M range, with participation from several climate-focused VCs and a strategic investment from a major cement manufacturer. Vera has been quoted saying the cement partnership represents exactly the kind of industrial collaboration Kindle needs to prove out thier technology at scale.\n\nRecent activity suggests Kindle is preparing for pilot deployments at two manufacturing sites in the midwest, with plans to gather operational data through 2025. The team has been hiring aggressivley for field engineering roles, a sign that real-world testing is imminent. Competition in the carbon capture space remains fierce, but Kindle's focus on the underserved mid-market could give them a meaningful niche if execution goes well.",
"timeline":"- **2023-03-15** | Kindle incorporated in Delaware by founder [Vera Singh](people/vera-singh-20)\n- **2023-06-22** | First prototype membrane unit achieves 40% efficiency improvement over baseline\n- **2023-11-08** | [Tina Moore](people/tina-moore-191) joins as lead advisor following Climate Forward conference\n- **2024-01-30** | Seed funding round closed with climate-focused VC syndicate\n- **2024-04-12** | Strategic partnership announced with Midwest cement manufacturer\n- **2024-07-19** | Team expands to 15 employees, opens Oakland R&D facility\n- **2024-10-03** | Vera Singh presents at TechCrunch Disrupt climate track\n- **2025-02-14** | Pilot deployment begins at first manufacturing partner site\n- **2025-05-20** | Second pilot location confirmed in Ohio",
"compiled_truth":"Kleiner Perkins is one of the most storied venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, with a legacy stretching back to 1972. Founded by Eugene Kleiner and Tom Perkins, the firm helped shape the modern tech landscape through early bets on companies like Amazon, Google, and Genentech. Today, KP continues to operate as a top-tier growth and early-stage investor, though its position has evolved considerably from its peak influence in the 1990s and 2000s.\n\nThe firm operates primarily out of Menlo Park, California, maintaining a relatively focused team compared to mega-funds like Andreessen Horowitz or Sequoia. Kleiner Perkins has historically been organized around sector-specific practices, including digital health, fintech, enterprise, and consumer technology. Recent years have seen the firm double down on AI and machine learning opportunities, recognizing the transformative potential of foundation models and applied AI startups.\n\nNotable current partners include Mamoon Hamid, who joined from Social Capital, and Bucky Moore, known for his work in enterprise software. The firm has maintained relationships with iconic founders and frequently co-invests alongside other major players in the ecosystem. Their portfolio includes breakout successes like Figma, Rippling, and several emerging AI-native companies that are reshaping enterprise workflows.\n\nKleiner's approach to venture has shifted somewhat over the past decade. After struggling with its green tech investments in the early 2010s, the firm refocused on software and healthcare, areas where it had demonstrated repeateable success. The cleantech experiment, while producing some winners, largely taught KP hard lessons about capital intensity and market timing. They've since been more disciplined about sector allocation.\n\nThe firm typically writes checks ranging from $1M to $50M depending on stage, though they've participated in larger rounds for high-conviction bets. KP maintains a builder-friendly reputation, often providing operational support through its platform team and network of advisors. They host regular founder dinners and have been known to facilitate introductions across their portfolio companies.\n\nAs of 2024, Kleiner Perkins manages several billion dollars across multiple funds, continuing to attract institutional LPs despite increased competition in the venture landscape. The firm remains a sought-after partner for founders seeking both capital and credibility, though they face stiff competiton from newer entrants with aggressive deployment strategies.",
"timeline":"- **2021-03-15** | Kleiner Perkins closed Fund XX at $1.8B, marking a return to larger fund sizes after years of more modest raises.\n- **2021-09-22** | Led Series B for an AI-native workflow automation startup, signaling renewed focus on enterprise machine learning applications.\n- **2022-04-08** | Partner Bucky Moore spoke at a founders summit on the future of vertical SaaS and embedded fintech.\n- **2022-11-30** | KP participated in Figma's final private round before the Adobe acquisition announcement.\n- **2023-06-14** | Announced new partner hire from Stripe, expanding fintech and payments expertise within the firm.\n- **2023-10-02** | Hosted annual CEO Summit in Napa Valley, bringing together portfolio founders for networking and strategy sessions.\n- **2024-02-19** | Led $40M Series A for a foundation model fine-tuning platform focused on healthcare applications.\n- **2024-08-07** | Kleiner Perkins published research report on AI agent adoption trends across enterprise customers.\n- **2025-01-23** | Participated in growth round for Rippling, continuing long-standing relationship with Parker Conrad.\n- **2025-05-11** | Mamoon Hamid joined board of a stealth climate software startup, marking selective return to climate-adjacent investments.",
"compiled_truth":"Lattice is an enterprise SaaS startup founded in 2022 by [Quinn Miller](people/quinn-miller-39), a repeat founder with a background in developer tools and infrastructure software. The company focuses on building next-generation workflow automation platfroms for mid-market and enterprise customers, specifically targeting operations teams who struggle with fragmented tooling across their organizations.\n\nThe company emerged from Quinn's frustration with existing solutions that either served small teams or required massive implementation budgets. Lattice positions itself in the middle ground—powerful enough for complex enterprise needs, but accessible enough that a single ops manager can get started without a consulting engagement. Their core product offers visual workflow builders, deep integrations with popular SaaS tools, and an AI-assisted configuration layer that helps users identify automation opportunities.\n\nEarly backing came from [Vera Gonzalez](people/vera-gonzalez-103), who led a seed round in late 2022. Vera had previously invested in several successful enterprise software companies and saw Lattice as addressing a genuine gap in the market. The company has since grown to approximately 25 employees, with engineering and product teams based primarily in San Francisco.\n\nOn the advisory side, Lattice brought on [Steve Martinez](people/steve-martinez-192) to help navigate enterprise sales cycles and GTM strategy. Steve's experience scaling sales organizations has proven valuable as Lattice transitions from founder-led sales to building out a dedicated revenue team. His connections in the Fortune 500 have also opened doors for pilot conversations that would otherwise take months to secure.\n\nLattice has been relatively quiet publicly, preferring to focus on product development and early customer success over PR. However, industry insiders note that the company has secured several notable design partners in the fintech and healthcare sectors. Their approach emphasizes landing with a single team and expanding organically—a strategy that keeps churn low but requires patience on revenue growth. The company is currently preparing for a Series A raise expected sometime in mid-2025.",
"timeline":"- **2022-03-15** | [Quinn Miller](people/quinn-miller-39) incorporates Lattice and begins initial product development\n- **2022-09-22** | Closes $3.2M seed round led by [Vera Gonzalez](people/vera-gonzalez-103)\n- **2022-12-01** | First design partner signed—a mid-sized fintech processing loan applications\n- **2023-04-18** | [Steve Martinez](people/steve-martinez-192) joins as formal advisor to help build sales playbook\n- **2023-08-30** | Launches private beta with 12 companies participating\n- **2024-01-15** | Reaches $500K ARR milestone, transitions to general availability\n- **2024-06-12** | Expands integration library to cover 80+ enterprise tools\n- **2024-11-03** | Hires first dedicated VP of Sales, growing team to 25 employees\n- **2025-02-20** | Begins Series A fundraising conversations with top-tier VCs",
"compiled_truth":"Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm with a storied history dating back to 2000. The firm has established itself as one of the most influential players in early and growth-stage investing, with a particular strength in enterprise software, consumer internet, and fintech. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Lightspeed operates across multiple geographies including offices in India, China, Israel, and Europe.\n\nThe firm manages over $25 billion in committed capital across various funds and has backed some of the most consequential technology companies of the past two decades. Notable investments include Snap, Affirm, Mulesoft, and Rubrik. Lightspeed tends to take a hands-on approach with portfolio companies, often providing operational support and leveraging their extensive network to help founders scale.\n\nIn recent years, Lightspeed has been particularly agressive in the AI and machine learning space, deploying significant capital into foundational model companies and AI-native applications. The firm closed a $7.1 billion fund in 2022, one of the largest in its history, signaling continued confidence from LPs despite broader market uncertainty. Partners like Ravi Mhatre and Arif Janmohamed have been instrumental in shaping the firm's enterprise investing thesis.\n\nLightspeed has developed relationships with other major firms in the ecosystem, occasionally co-investing alongside [Andreessen Horowitz](companies/a16z) on competitive deals. The firm is known for moving quickly on conviction and has a reputation for being founder-friendly, though they maintain rigourous diligence processes. Their global footprint allows them to spot trends early—the India team, for instance, was early to companies like Oyo and Byju's before those markets became crowded.\n\nThe firm also runs Lightspeed Faction, a growth-stage vehicle that targets later rounds. This multi-stage capability has become increasingly important as companies stay private longer. They've competed for deals with firms like [Sequoia Capital](companies/sequoia) across multiple stages, sometimes winning on speed and sometimes on terms. Lightspeed remains a top-tier firm that consistently ranks among the most active investors globally.",
"timeline":"- **2021-03-15** | Lightspeed leads $150M Series C for enterprise AI startup, marking increased focus on machine learning infrastructure\n- **2021-09-22** | Announced expansion of Israel office with three new partner hires\n- **2022-04-10** | Closed $7.1 billion across early and growth funds, largest raise in firm history\n- **2022-11-08** | Co-invested alongside [Andreessen Horowitz](companies/a16z) in developer tools company seed round\n- **2023-02-14** | Published annual report showing 47 new investments across global portfolio in 2022\n- **2023-07-19** | Partner Mercedes Bent promoted to lead consumer investing practice\n- **2024-01-30** | Lightspeed Faction leads $200M growth round for cybersecurity unicorn\n- **2024-06-12** | Competed with [Sequoia Capital](companies/sequoia) for Series B deal in logistics automation space\n- **2025-02-28** | Opened new office in London to expand European coverage\n- **2025-09-05** | Announced $500M opportunity fund focused exclusively on AI applications",
"compiled_truth":"Lucid is a climate tech startup founded in 2020 by [Eric Lee](people/eric-lee-21), focused on developing next-generation carbon capture monitoring systems. The company emerged from Eric's frustration with the lack of real-time verification tools in the voluntary carbon markets—a gap he identified while working on sustainability initiatives at his previous role.\n\nThe core product is a hardware-software platform that provides continous monitoring of carbon sequestration projects, particularly direct air capture facilities and reforestation efforts. Lucid's sensors collect granular data on CO2 flux, which feeds into their analytics dashboard used by project developers, carbon credit buyers, and third-party verifiers. The pitch is simple: if you're buying carbon credits, you should know they're actually removing carbon.\n\nIn 2022, Lucid raised a seed round led by [Fiona Moore](people/fiona-moore-88), with participation from [Ian Anderson](people/ian-anderson-105). The round valued the company at roughly $18M and gave them runway to expand their pilot programs across North America. Fiona joined the board and has been instrumental in connecting Lucid to her network of institutional investors interested in climate infrastructure.\n\nThe company operates lean—around 25 employees as of late 2024, split between hardware engineering in Oakland and a software team that's mostly remote. [Vera Rodriguez](people/vera-rodriguez-171) serves as an advisor, bringing her expertise in carbon markets and regulatory frameworks. Her guidance has been particularly valuable as Lucid navigates the evolving landscape of carbon credit certification standards.\n\nLucid has faced some headwinds. The voluntary carbon market contracted in 2023 amid scrutiny over credit quality, which ironically validated Lucid's core thesis but also slowed sales cycles. Several potential enterprise deals got pushed as companies reassesed their offset strategies. Still, the team sees this as a temporary correction that ultimately benefits players focused on verification and transparency.\n\nRecent moves include a partnership with a major reforestation nonprofit to pilot their monitoring tech across 50,000 hectares in the Pacific Northwest. Eric has been increasingly visible at climate conferences, positioning Lucid as the \"trust layer\" for carbon markets.",
"timeline":"- **2020-06-15** | Lucid incorporated by [Eric Lee](people/eric-lee-21) in Delaware, initial focus on carbon monitoring R&D\n- **2021-03-22** | First prototype sensor deployed at a test site in Nevada desert\n- **2021-11-08** | Accepted into climate tech accelerator program, relocated operations to Oakland\n- **2022-04-30** | Closed $4.2M seed round led by [Fiona Moore](people/fiona-moore-88)\n- **2022-09-14** | Hired VP of Engineering from Planet Labs to scale hardware team\n- **2023-02-17** | [Vera Rodriguez](people/vera-rodriguez-171) formally joins as strategic advisor\n- **2023-08-05** | Eric presents at Climate Week NYC on verification standards\n- **2024-01-20** | Announced partnership with ForestWatch nonprofit for Pacific Northwest pilot\n- **2024-07-11** | Reached 15 active deployment sites across US and Canada\n- **2025-03-03** | Began Series A conversations, targeting $15-20M raise",
"compiled_truth":"Lumen is a biotech startup founded in 2018 by [Henry Johnson](people/henry-johnson-12), focused on developing novel diagnostic tools for early-stage cancer detection. The company operates out of Cambridge, Massachusetts, positioning itself within one of the most concentrated biotech ecosystems in the world. Their core technology leverages proprietary biomarker identification methods combined with machine learning to detect malignancies from standard blood draws—sometimes called liquid biopsy approaches.\n\nThe founding story traces back to Johnson's graduate research at MIT, where he first identified a unique protein signature associated with pancreatic cancer. Rather than pursue a traditional academic path, he spun out the research into what would become Lumen. Early days were scrappy. The company ran lean for nearly two years before securing meaningful outside investment.\n\nLumen's investor base includes [Kate Lopez](people/kate-lopez-99), who led their seed round in late 2020, and [Sarah Wang](people/sarah-wang-104), who joined during the Series A. Both have been activley involved in shaping company strategy, with Lopez taking a board observer seat and Wang providing introductions to pharmaceutical partners. The relationship with these backers has been described as collaborative rather than hands-off—monthly check-ins, strategic planning sessions, the works.\n\nOn the product side, Lumen has made steady progress. Their flagship diagnostic, LumenScreen, completed initial clinical validation in 2023 and is currently pursuing FDA breakthrough device designation. The team has grown to around 45 employees, split between R&D and clinical operations. They've also inked a partnership with a major regional hospital network for pilot testing, though terms weren't disclosed publically.\n\nHenry Johnson remains CEO and is known for a somewhat reserved public presence—he rarely speaks at conferences and prefers to let data do the talking. Internally, employees describe the culture as intense but mission-driven. Turnover has been relatively low for a company at this stage.\n\nLumen faces stiff competition from larger players in the liquid biopsy space, including Grail and Guardant Health. But the company's narrow focus on specific cancer types may prove advantageous for regulatory approval and clinical adoption. The next 18 months will be critical as they push toward commercialization.",
"timeline":"- **2018-03-15** | Lumen incorporated in Delaware by [Henry Johnson](people/henry-johnson-12)\n- **2018-09-22** | First lab space secured in Cambridge, initial team of 3 hired\n- **2020-11-08** | Seed round closed with [Kate Lopez](people/kate-lopez-99) leading at $2.4M\n- **2021-06-30** | Biomarker panel v1 validated in preclinical studies\n- **2022-04-12** | Series A announced, $18M raised with participation from [Sarah Wang](people/sarah-wang-104)\n- **2023-01-19** | LumenScreen enters clinical validation trials across 4 sites\n- **2023-08-07** | Partnership announced with Northeast Regional Health System for pilot deployment\n- **2024-02-28** | FDA breakthrough device designation application submitted\n- **2024-11-15** | Team expands to 45 full-time employees\n- **2025-03-22** | Preliminary data from clinical trials presented at AACR annual meeting",
"compiled_truth":"Mantle is a consumer social startup founded in 2024 by [Ulrich Wang](people/ulrich-wang-16), an entrepreneur with a background in community-driven products. The company is building what they describe as a \"social layer for real-world experiences\" — essentially trying to bridge the gap between digital social graphs and physical gatherings. Early product demos have shown features around spontaneous meetups, location-based discovery, and ephemeral group chats tied to specific venues or events.\n\nThe founding team is lean, with Ulrich handling most of the product vision and early engineering. He's been advised by [Julia Wilson](people/julia-wilson-194), who brings experience from previous consumer social ventures and has been instrumental in shaping Mantle's go-to-market thinking. Julia's involvement suggests the company is serious about avoiding the common pitfalls of consumer social — namely, building features nobody asked for and failing to find organic growth loops.\n\nMantle's thesis is that existing social apps have become too performative, too oriented around content creation rather than genuine connection. The team believes there's an underserved segment of users who want lower-friction ways to coordinate IRL hangs without the pressure of posting or maintaining a public persona. It's a crowded space, but Wang argues that most competitors have gotten the incentive structures wrong — focusing on creator monetization when they should be focusing on social utility.\n\nThe company hasn't announced any funding publicly, though sources suggest they've raised a small pre-seed round from angels in the consumer space. Headcount remains under five as of late 2024. Mantle is currently testing with a closed beta group, primarly college students in the Bay Area and a few cities on the East Coast.\n\nWhether Mantle can break through remains to be seen. Consumer social is notoriously difficult — network effects cut both ways, and user attention is finite. But with Ulrich's obsessive focus on user experience and Julia Wilson's strategic guidance, the company has a shot at carving out a niche. Early retention numbers are reportedly encouraging, though the team is tight-lipped about specifics.",
"timeline":"- **2024-01-18** | Ulrich Wang incorporates Mantle as a Delaware C-corp, begins solo development on MVP.\n- **2024-03-02** | [Julia Wilson](people/julia-wilson-194) joins as an advisor after intro from a mutual investor.\n- **2024-04-15** | Mantle closes a small pre-seed round; terms undisclosed.\n- **2024-06-10** | First internal alpha launched to ~50 testers across three college campuses.\n- **2024-08-22** | Company hires first full-time engineer, a former classmate of [Ulrich Wang](people/ulrich-wang-16).\n- **2024-09-30** | Closed beta expands to 500 users; early retention data looks promising.\n- **2024-11-12** | Mantle presents at a small consumer social showcase in SF, generates some buzz.\n- **2025-01-08** | Team begins exploring partnerships with event venues for location-based features.\n- **2025-03-20** | Beta user count crosses 2,000; team considering seed raise timing.",
"compiled_truth":"Meridian is a developer tools startup founded in 2022 by [Chris Nakamura](people/chris-nakamura-40), a former infrastructure engineer who spent years frustrated by the fragmented state of debugging workflows. The company focuses on building unified observability tooling that sits between traditional logging platforms and APM solutions—a niche that's proven surprisingly sticky with mid-sized engineering teams.\n\nThe founding thesis came from Nakamura's experience at larger tech companies where he watched teams cobble together five or six different tools just to trace a single production incident. Meridian's core product aggregates logs, traces, and metrics into what they call a \"narrative view\"—essentially reconstructing the story of what happened in your system without requiring engineers to context-switch between dashboards. Its a deceptively simple idea that turns out to be technically complex to execute well.\n\nFunding came together relatively quickly. [Priya Taylor](people/priya-taylor-85) led the seed round after seeing an early demo, and she brought in [Chris Jackson](people/chris-jackson-91) who had been looking for developer tools plays. [Vera Gonzalez](people/vera-gonzalez-103) joined as a smaller check but has been actively involved in go-to-market strategy. The total seed was $3.2M, closed in late 2022.\n\nOn the advisory side, [Zoe Jackson](people/zoe-jackson-199) has been instrumental in helping Meridian think through enterprise sales motions. Her background in scaling developer-focused products gave the team a playbook they've been iterating on throughout 2023 and into 2024.\n\nMeridian currently has about 14 employees, mostly engineers, operating out of a small office in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood. They've been deliberatley slow on hiring, preferring to keep the team tight while they nail down product-market fit. Revenue numbers aren't public but word is they crossed $500K ARR sometime in early 2024, with a handful of paying customers in the fintech and healthtech spaces.\n\nThe company's biggest challenge right now is differentiation. The observability market is crowded, and larger players like Datadog keep expanding their feature sets. Nakamura has been vocal about staying focused on the \"debugging narrative\" angle rather than trying to become a full platform. Whether that strategy holds as they scale remains to be seen.",
"timeline":"- **2022-03-14** | Chris Nakamura incorporates Meridian, begins building initial prototype\n- **2022-08-22** | First demo shown to [Priya Taylor](people/priya-taylor-85), receives positive feedback and term sheet discussions begin\n- **2022-11-03** | Seed round closes at $3.2M with [Chris Jackson](people/chris-jackson-91) and [Vera Gonzalez](people/vera-gonzalez-103) participating\n- **2023-02-17** | Meridian launches private beta, onboards first 12 design partners\n- **2023-06-09** | [Zoe Jackson](people/zoe-jackson-199) joins as formal advisor, begins weekly office hours with team\n- **2023-09-28** | Public launch at a small developer conference in SF, picks up first paying customers\n- **2024-01-15** | Crosses $500K ARR milestone, team celebrates with low-key dinner\n- **2024-05-20** | Hires first dedicated sales rep, begins outbound motion targeting Series B+ startups\n- **2024-11-08** | Ships major \"Narrative 2.0\" update with improved trace visualization\n- **2025-02-14** | Begins early conversations about Series A, [Priya Taylor](people/priya-taylor-85) making introductions to growth-stage funds",
"compiled_truth":"Meta is a cybersecurity firm founded in 1997, not to be confused with the social media giant of the same name. Operating in the enterprise security space for over two decades, the company has built a reputation as a quiet but effective acquirer of smaller security startups and niche technology providers.\n\nThe company specializes in network security infrastructure and threat detection systems, serving primarily Fortune 500 clients and government contractors. Their flagship product line focuses on perimeter defense and intrusion detection, though they've expanded considerably through strategic acquisitions over the years. Meta's approach has always been to identify promising early-stage cybersecurity companies and integrate their technology into the broader Meta ecosystem.\n\nIn recent years, Meta has been particularly active in the acqusition market, snapping up several AI-driven security startups looking to modernize their offerings. The company completed at least three acquisitions in 2024 alone, focusing on machine learning-based threat analysis and zero-trust architecture providers. Their M&A strategy tends to favor companies with strong technical teams rather than those with large customer bases—they're buying talent and IP, not revenue.\n\nLeadership at Meta Cybersecurity has remained relatively stable, with most of the executive team having been with the company for over a decade. This continuity has allowed them to maintain consistent strategic direction even as the cybersecurity landscape shifts dramatically. They've been rumored to be in discussions with [Anduril Industries](companies/anduril-industries) regarding potential partnership opportunities in the defense sector, though neither party has confirmed these reports.\n\nThe firm maintains a low public profile compared to flashier competitors, preferring to let their client relationships speak for themselves. Their government contracting work, in particular, requires discretion. Meta has also been mentioned in connection with [Palantir Technologies](companies/palantir-technologies) as a potential acquisition target, though industry analysts consider this unlikely given Meta's own acquisition-focused strategy and the cultural differences between the two organizations.\n\nHeadquartered in the Washington D.C. metro area, Meta employs approximately 800 people across their main office and satellite locations in Austin and Tel Aviv.",
"timeline":"- **2021-03-15** | Meta acquires small endpoint security startup based in Boston for undisclosed sum\n- **2021-09-22** | Company celebrates 24 years in operation with internal summit featuring keynote on future of zero-trust\n- **2022-04-08** | Meta Cybersecurity signs major contract with Department of Defense for network monitoring services\n- **2022-11-30** | Opens new R&D facility in Tel Aviv focused on threat intelligence\n- **2023-06-14** | Partnership discussions reportedly begin with [Anduril Industries](companies/anduril-industries) around defense applications\n- **2024-02-19** | Completes acquisition of AI security startup, third deal in eight months\n- **2024-08-05** | Meta leadership meets with [Palantir Technologies](companies/palantir-technologies) executives at RSA Conference, sparking merger speculation\n- **2025-01-12** | Launches next-generation threat detection platform incorporating acquired ML technology\n- **2025-07-28** | Announces expansion of Austin office, adding 150 new engineering positions\n- **2026-03-03** | Named to Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Security for fifth consecutive year",
"compiled_truth":"Microsoft is a dominant force in the cybersecurity landscape, having transformed itself from a traditional software giant into one of the most aggressive acquirers in the security space. Founded in 1995, the company has methodically built out its security portfolio through strategic acquisitions and internal development, positioning itself as a one-stop shop for enterprise security needs.\n\nThe company's cybersecurity division generates over $20 billion in annual revenue, making it one of the largest security vendors globally. Microsoft's approach has been to embed security deeply into its cloud infrastructure, particularly Azure and Microsoft 365, creating an integrated ecosystem thats difficult for competitors to match. Their Defender suite, Sentinel SIEM platform, and Entra identity solutions form the backbone of security for thousands of enterprises worldwide.\n\nMicrosoft's acquisition strategy has been notably aggressive. They've snapped up numerous startups and established players alike, often integrating the technology directly into their existing platforms. This has created tension with pure-play security vendors who find themselves competing against a company that bundles security features into products their customers already use. Some critics argue this bundling approach leads to \"good enough\" security rather than best-in-class protection, but the convenience factor has proven compelling for many IT departments.\n\nThe company has also invested heavily in threat intelligence, operating one of the largest security research teams in the industry. Their visibility into global attack patterns—derived from telemetry across Windows, Azure, and Office 365—gives them unique insights that feed back into their products. Recent moves have focused on AI-powered security tools, with Microsoft positioning Copilot for Security as a force multiplier for understaffed security teams.\n\nLeadership under Satya Nadella has prioritized security as a core pillar, especially following several high-profile breaches affecting Microsoft's own infrastructure. The company has faced scrutiny from government agencies and enterprise customers demanding better baseline security, prompting internal reorganizations and the Secure Future Initiative. Despite these challanges, Microsoft remains a category-defining player that shapes how the industry thinks about integrated security platforms.",
"timeline":"- **2021-03-15** | Microsoft announces acquisition of RiskIQ for threat intelligence capabilities, expanding its external attack surface management\n- **2021-07-22** | Completed purchase of CloudKnox Security to bolster identity and access management portfolio\n- **2022-04-18** | Launched Microsoft Entra brand, consolidating identity products under unified naming\n- **2022-11-09** | Security revenue surpasses $20 billion annually, making MSFT one of the largest security vendors globally\n- **2023-03-28** | Unveiled Security Copilot at Ignite, bringing generative AI to security operations workflows\n- **2023-08-14** | Faced congressional scrutiny following Chinese threat actor breach of government email accounts via compromised signing keys\n- **2024-01-22** | Announced Secure Future Initiative following internal security review, pledging fundamental changes to development practices\n- **2024-06-11** | Expanded partnership with major defense contractors for classified cloud security workloads\n- **2025-02-19** | Acquired endpoint detection startup to enhance Defender capabilities in OT/IoT environments\n- **2025-09-03** | Microsoft Security leadership presented at RSA Conference on next-generation SIEM architecture",
"compiled_truth":"Mosaic is a consumer social startup founded in 2018 by [Vera Chen](people/vera-chen-14), who serves as the company's CEO. The company operates in the consumer social space, building products that aim to reimagine how people connect and share experiences online. Based on the premise that traditional social media has become too performative and shallow, Mosaic set out to create more authentic digital spaces for meaningful interaction.\n\nThe platform's core product allows users to create collaborative visual stories—essentially shared digital scrapbooks that multiple people can contribute to in real-time. Think of it as a blend between Pinterest boards and group chats, but with richer media capabilities. The name \"Mosaic\" reflects this vision: individual pieces coming together to form something beautiful and cohesive.\n\nVera Chen built the initial prototype while working nights and weekends, drawing on her background in interaction design and her frustration with existing social platforms. Early traction came from college students coordinating group trips and long-distance friend groups trying to stay connected. The organic growth caught the attention of several investors in the Bay Area.\n\n[Helen Martinez](people/helen-martinez-87) led an early investment round, providing crucial capital that allowed Mosaic to expand its engineering team and improve infastructure. Martinez saw potential in Chen's vision and the company's strong retention metrics among its early user base. The investment also brought valuable mentorship to the young founder.\n\nThe company has faced significant competition from established players who've tried to replicate similar features. Instagram's \"Collabs\" and Snapchat's shared stories both emerged after Mosaic gained traction. However, the startup has maintained its niche by focusing on depth over breadth—their users create fewer posts but spend more time on each one.\n\nMosiac currently employs around 35 people, mostly engineers and designers. The team operates with a hybrid work model, with offices in San Francisco. Revenue comes primarily from a freemium subscription model, though the company has experimented with brand partnerships for special templates and features.",
"timeline":"- **2018-03-15** | Vera Chen incorporates Mosaic and begins building the first prototype\n- **2018-11-02** | Beta launch to 500 users, mostly from Chen's network and local universities\n- **2019-06-20** | [Helen Martinez](people/helen-martinez-87) leads seed round of $2.1M\n- **2020-01-08** | Mosaic hits 100,000 registered users during pandemic surge in social app usage\n- **2021-04-12** | Series A closes at $12M, company expands engineering team to 20\n- **2022-09-30** | Launch of Mosaic Pro subscription tier with premium collaborative features\n- **2023-03-18** | [Vera Chen](people/vera-chen-14) speaks at SXSW on \"Building for Authentic Connection\"\n- **2024-07-22** | Partnership announced with major photo printing service for physical mosaic books\n- **2025-02-14** | Company reaches 2 million monthly active users milestone\n- **2025-11-03** | Mosaic acquires small AR startup to integrate spatial features into platform",
"compiled_truth":"New Enterprise Associates, commonly known as NEA, stands as one of the largest and most established venture capital firms in the world. Founded in 1977, the firm has grown from its roots in early-stage technology investing to become a multi-stage powerhouse with assets under management exceeding $25 billion. NEA operates across the full spectrum of venture investing, from seed rounds to growth equity, with a particular focus on technology and healthcare sectors.\n\nThe firm maintains offices in Menlo Park, San Francisco, New York, Boston, and internationally, giving it substantial reach across major startup ecosystems. NEA's investment philosophy emphasizes long-term partnerships with founders, and they've backed some of the most consequential companies of the past several decades including Salesforce, Workday, and Uber. Their healthcare practice is particularly notable, having invested in numerous successful biotech and medical device companies.\n\nIn recent years NEA has continued to raise substantial funds, with their latest flagship fund exceeding $3.6 billion. The firm operates with a relatively large partnership compared to some peers, allowing them to cover more ground but sometimes leading to questions about decision-making speed. Partners like Scott Sandell and Peter Barris have shaped the firms direction over multiple decades, though newer partners are increasingly taking lead roles on deals.\n\nNEA has shown interest in emerging areas like AI infrastructure and climate tech, competing with firms like [Andreessen Horowitz](companies/a16z-9) for the hottest deals. Their approach tends to be more traditional than some newer entrants to venture — they're known for thorough due dilligence and sometimes slower processes, which can be both a feature and a bug depending on founder preferences. The firm frequently co-invests alongside other major players including [Sequoia Capital](companies/sequoia-capital-6), particularly on larger growth rounds where syndicate diversity matters to founders.\n\nNEA's brand carries significant weight in boardrooms and with LPs, though they face ongoing pressure to demonstrate continued relevance as the venture landscape evolves rapidly around them.",
"timeline":"- **2021-03-15** | NEA closes Fund XIV at $3.6 billion, one of the largest funds in firm history\n- **2021-09-22** | Lead investment in Series B for AI-native cybersecurity startup alongside [Sequoia Capital](companies/sequoia-capital-6)\n- **2022-04-08** | Partner Hannah Kreiswirth promoted to lead healthcare investing practice\n- **2022-11-30** | NEA portfolio company exits via SPAC merger, generating 8x return\n- **2023-06-14** | Announced strategic focus on climate tech, committing $500M to sector\n- **2023-10-02** | Co-led $180M growth round in enterprise AI company with [Andreessen Horowitz](companies/a16z-9)\n- **2024-02-19** | Opened new office in London to expand European presence\n- **2024-08-07** | Scott Sandell announces transition to Chairman role, new managing partners named\n- **2025-01-23** | Led seed round for stealth quantum computing startup at $40M valuation\n- **2025-05-11** | NEA portfolio company IPO on NYSE, largest venture-backed healthcare listing of the year",
"compiled_truth":"Nexus is a biotech startup founded in 2023 by [Alice Kim](people/alice-kim-41), a computational biologist who previously spent nearly a decade at Genentech before striking out on her own. The company operates in the synthetic biology space, specifically focused on developing novel protein engineering platforms that leverage machine learning to accelerate drug discovery timelines.\n\nThe founding thesis behind Nexus centers on a simple but powerful idea: traditional protein design is too slow and too expensive. [Alice Kim](people/alice-kim-41) built the initial prototype while still moonlighting at her previous role, using transformer-based models to predict protein folding outcomes with what she claims is 40% better accuracy than existing tools. Bold claim. The early data seems to back it up, though peer review is still pending on their foundational paper.\n\nNexus raised a $4.2M seed round in late 2023, led by a syndicate of biotech-focused angels and one undisclosed strategic investor rumored to be connected to a major pharma company. The funds went primarily toward buildling out their wet lab capabilities in South San Francisco and hiring a small but senior team of six full-time employees. Alice has been deliberate about keeping the team lean—she's said publicly that she'd rather have five exceptional people than fifteen mediocre ones.\n\nThe company's go-to-market strategy involves partnering with mid-size pharmaceutical companies who lack the in-house ML expertise to build these platforms themselves. Nexus positions itself as a \"co-pilot\" rather than a replacement, which has helped ease concerns about IP ownership and control. Two pilot partnerships were announced in early 2024, though neither partner has been named publicly.\n\nCulturally, Nexus operates with an almost academic intensity. Weekly journal clubs, mandatory documentation of experiments, open internal debates about methodology. Alice brought this ethos from her research days and has made it core to how the company functions. Some employees thrive in this environment; others have found it exhausting. Turnover has been minimal so far, but the company is still young.",
"timeline":"- **2023-03-15** | [Alice Kim](people/alice-kim-41) incorporates Nexus as a Delaware C-corp while still employed at Genentech\n- **2023-06-22** | Alice leaves Genentech to work on Nexus full-time; secures initial $500K pre-seed from angel investors\n- **2023-09-08** | Nexus closes $4.2M seed round; announces plans to open South San Francisco wet lab\n- **2023-11-30** | First full-time hire: Dr. Marcus Chen joins as Head of Protein Engineering\n- **2024-01-17** | Wet lab facility becomes operational; first internal experiments begin\n- **2024-04-03** | Nexus announces two unnamed pharmaceutical partnership pilots\n- **2024-07-12** | [Alice Kim](people/alice-kim-41) presents preliminary platform results at SynBioBeta conference\n- **2024-10-25** | Team expands to six FTEs; company moves to larger office space\n- **2025-02-14** | Submits foundational paper on ML-driven protein folding to Nature Methods\n- **2025-06-01** | Series A discussions reportedly underway with multiple tier-1 biotech VCs",
"compiled_truth":"Nimbus is a climate tech startup founded in early 2025 by [Mia Anderson](people/mia-anderson-5), a serial entrepreneur with a background in atmospheric science and distributed systems. The company is building what they describe as a \"climate intelligence layer\" — essentially a real-time data platform that aggregates satellite imagery, sensor networks, and predictive models to help enterprises and governments make better decisions around carbon accounting, extreme weather preparedness, and supply chain resiliance.\n\nThe founding story is pretty straightforward. Mia had been working on climate modeling tools at a larger company, got frustrated with how slow things moved, and decided to spin out her own thing. She bootstrapped for about three months before bringing on [Noah Nakamura](people/noah-nakamura-182) as an advisor. Noah's been instrumental in shaping their go-to-market strategy, particularly around enterprise sales cycles and pricing architecture.\n\nNimbus operates with a small but focused team — currently around 8 people, mostly engineers with a couple of climate scientists. They've been pretty heads-down on product development, though theyve started doing some early pilots with logistics companies in the Pacific Northwest. The initial use case seems to be helping shipping and freight operations anticipate weather disruptions and reroute proactively.\n\nWhat makes Nimbus interesting is their approach to data fusion. Rather than building their own sensor network from scratch, they're aggregating existing data sources — NOAA feeds, commercial satellite providers, IoT sensors already deployed by clients — and layering their own ML models on top. This keeps their infrastructure costs relatively low while still delivering actionable insights.\n\nThe company hasn't announced any formal funding rounds yet, though rumors suggest they're in conversations with a few climate-focused VCs. Mia Anderson has been intentionally keeping things quiet, preferring to let the product speak for itself before raising. Their advisory relationship with Noah Nakamura gives them some credibility in enterprise circles, which should help when they do decide to go out for capital.",
"timeline":"- **2024-09-15** | [Mia Anderson](people/mia-anderson-5) leaves previous role to begin exploring climate intelligence concepts\n- **2025-01-08** | Nimbus officially incorporated in Delaware\n- **2025-02-14** | [Noah Nakamura](people/noah-nakamura-182) joins as advisor, begins weekly strategy sessions\n- **2025-03-22** | First engineering hire made — backend systems specialist from Google\n- **2025-04-10** | Internal alpha of climate data platform completed\n- **2025-05-18** | Pilot program launched with two Pacific Northwest logistics companies\n- **2025-07-02** | Team expands to 8 full-time employees\n- **2025-08-29** | Nimbus presents at Climate Tech Connect conference in Portland\n- **2025-10-15** | Early discussions begin with climate-focused VC firms",
"compiled_truth":"Nimbus Labs is a developer tools startup founded in 2019 by [Vera Kapoor](people/vera-kapoor-55), who previously spent nearly a decade building infrastructure at larger tech companies before striking out on her own. The company focuses on cloud-native debugging and observability tooling, with their flagship product being a distributed tracing platform that's gained significant traction among mid-sized engineering teams.\n\nThe core thesis behind Nimbus is that debugging microservices shouldn't require a PhD in distributed systems. Their approach combines automatic instrumentation with AI-assisted root cause analysis, letting developers pinpoint issues across complex service meshes without manually correlating logs across dozens of services. It's an opinionated take on observability that's rubbed some infrastructure purists the wrong way, but the product's ease of adoption has won over plenty of converts.\n\nVera has been the public face of the company since day one, frequently speaking at conferences about the future of developer experience. She's known for her direct communication style and has built a small but loyal following on technical blogs. Under her leadership, Nimbus Labs has grown from a three-person team working out of a WeWork to roughly 45 employees spread across San Francisco and a small office in Bangalore.\n\nThe company raised a Series A in late 2021 and has been relatively quiet about fundraising since, though rumors of a Series B have circulated. Nimbus competes in a crowded space against established players like Datadog and newer entrants, but they've carved out a niche by focusing specifically on the debugging workflow rather than trying to be an all-in-one platform. Recent product updates have emphasized integration with popular CI/CD pipelines and expanded support for serverless architectures.\n\n[Vera Kapoor](people/vera-kapoor-55) remains CEO and maintains a hands-on role in product decisions, which some investors see as both a strength and potential bottleneck as the company scales. The next year will likely determine whether Nimbus can break out of its current niche or gets aquired by a larger platform player.",
"timeline":"- **2019-03-14** | Nimbus Labs incorporated in Delaware; [Vera Kapoor](people/vera-kapoor-55) listed as sole founder and CEO\n- **2019-11-02** | First public beta launched at a small developer meetup in SF; initial feedback was mixed but enthusiastic from early adopters\n- **2021-06-18** | Closed $8.5M Series A led by Baseline Ventures; announced plans to triple engineering headcount\n- **2022-02-10** | Shipped v2.0 of core tracing platform with AI-assisted analysis features\n- **2022-09-23** | Vera Kapoor delivered keynote at DevOpsCon on \"The Death of Manual Debugging\"\n- **2023-04-05** | Opened Bangalore engineering office; hired first international team members\n- **2023-11-30** | Reached 1,000 paying customers milestone; mostly SMB and mid-market\n- **2024-07-12** | Launched serverless support after months of customer requests\n- **2025-01-20** | Rumored acquisition talks with larger observability vendor fell through\n- **2025-08-03** | Announced partnership with major cloud provider for native integration",
"compiled_truth":"Orbit is a biotech startup founded in 2021 by [Jack Patel](people/jack-patel-42), focused on developing novel protein engineering platforms for therapeutic applications. The company emerged from Patel's earlier research work and has positioned itself at the intersection of computational biology and wet lab innovation. Based out of the Boston-Cambridge biotech corridor, Orbit has built a lean but ambitious team.\n\nThe company's core technology revolves around machine learning-driven protein design, enabling faster iteration cycles for drug candidates targeting rare genetic disorders. Their proprietary platform, internally called \"Orbital,\" can predict protein folding outcomes with unusual accuracy, cutting development timelines significantly. Early partnerships with academic institutions have validated their approach, though comercial traction remains nascent.\n\nFunding has come from angel investors including [Julia Davis](people/julia-davis-86) and [Zoe Gonzalez](people/zoe-gonzalez-100), both of whom participated in Orbit's seed round. Davis in particular has been an active advisor, leveraging her network in the life sciences space to open doors for the young company. Gonzalez contributed not just capital but also operational guidance, having scaled biotech ventures before.\n\nJack Patel serves as CEO and remains deeply involved in the scientific direction. He's known for being hands-on in the lab despite growing management responsibilites. The team has grown to roughly 15 people as of late 2024, with key hires in protein chemistry and ML engineering.\n\nOrbit has kept a relatively low profile compared to flashier biotech startups, preferring to let results speak. They've published two peer-reviewed papers and presented at major conferences including the Biotech Showcase in San Francisco. The company is currently running preclinical studies for their lead program, OBT-101, targeting a rare metabolic condition. Industry watchers see Orbit as a company to watch—small but technically rigorous, with a founder who understands both the science and the business.",
"timeline":"- **2021-03-15** | Orbit incorporated in Delaware by [Jack Patel](people/jack-patel-42)\n- **2021-08-22** | Closed $1.2M seed round led by [Julia Davis](people/julia-davis-86)\n- **2022-02-10** | First version of Orbital platform completed internally\n- **2022-09-18** | Published initial findings in Nature Biotechnology\n- **2023-01-24** | [Zoe Gonzalez](people/zoe-gonzalez-100) joins as advisor and investor\n- **2023-06-30** | Hired Dr. Maria Chen as Head of Protein Chemistry\n- **2024-01-12** | Presented OBT-101 preclinical data at JP Morgan Healthcare Conference\n- **2024-07-08** | Expanded lab space in Cambridge, MA\n- **2025-03-20** | Initiated IND-enabling studies for lead program\n- **2025-11-05** | Announced collaboration with major pharma partner (undisclosed)",
"compiled_truth":"Prism is a cybersecurity startup founded in 2023 by [David Patel](people/david-patel-43), who previously spent nearly a decade building threat detection systems at larger security firms. The company focuses on what it calls 'adaptive perimeter defense'—essentially AI-driven intrusion detection that learns an organization's normal traffic patterns and flags anomolies in real-time. Its early traction has been notable, particularly among mid-market financial services companies who find enterprise solutions too expensive but need more than basic firewall protections.\n\nThe founding story is pretty straightforward. David had grown frustrated with the slow pace of innovation at his previous employer and saw an opening in the market for lightweight, intelligent security tooling that didn't require a dedicated SOC team to operate. He bootstrapped the initial prototype over six months before raising a seed round.\n\nPrism's investor syndicate includes [Carol Jackson](people/carol-jackson-81), [Rosa Jackson](people/rosa-jackson-90), and [Tina Hernandez](people/tina-hernandez-97). Carol led the seed round and reportedly pushed hard for the company to focus on the SMB market rather than chasing enterprise deals too early. This strategic direction has shaped much of Prism's go-to-market approach. Rosa came in through an angel allocation and has been relatively hands-off, while Tina joined the cap table in a follow-on extension round in late 2024.\n\nOn the advisory side, [Alice Davis](people/alice-davis-172) provides guidance on product architecture—she's known for her work on distributed systems and has been instrumental in helping Prism scale its detection engine. [Olivia Miller](people/olivia-miller-176) advises on sales strategy and customer success, drawing on her background in enterprise software GTM.\n\nThe team has grown to around 18 people, mostly engineers, with a small but scrappy sales org. Prism operates out of Austin but has several remote employees scattered across the US. The company culture skews technical and moves fast—David himself still reviews most major PRs. Revenue is growing but the company isn't yet profitable, which is typical for this stage. They're expected to raise a Series A sometime in mid-2025.",
"timeline":"- **2023-02-14** | David Patel incorporates Prism and begins building initial prototype\n- **2023-07-22** | Seed round closes with [Carol Jackson](people/carol-jackson-81) leading, $2.1M raised\n- **2023-11-03** | First paying customer signs—a regional credit union in Texas\n- **2024-01-18** | [Alice Davis](people/alice-davis-172) joins as technical advisor\n- **2024-04-09** | Prism launches v1.0 of its adaptive perimeter defense platform\n- **2024-08-15** | Team hits 12 employees, opens small Austin office\n- **2024-10-30** | Extension round adds [Tina Hernandez](people/tina-hernandez-97) to investor group\n- **2025-01-22** | [Olivia Miller](people/olivia-miller-176) begins advising on GTM strategy\n- **2025-03-11** | ARR crosses $800K, Series A conversations begin",
"compiled_truth":"Pulse is an edtech startup founded in 2022 by [Yara Johnson](people/yara-johnson-8), a former learning experience designer who spent nearly a decade observing how students actually engage with digital content. The company's core product is a real-time engagement analytics platform designed for K-12 classrooms and higher education institutions. Unlike traditional LMS analytics that track completion rates and grades, Pulse monitors micro-behaviors—pause patterns, scroll velocity, re-reads—to give educators a genuine sense of whether students are struggling before they fail a test.\n\nThe founding thesis came from Johnson's frustration with existing tools that treated engagement as a binary: either a student watched the video or they didn't. Pulse argues that the *how* matters more than the whether. Their proprietary algorithm flags what they call \"confusion signals\" and surfaces them to teachers in a simple dashboard. Early pilots in three school districts showed a 23% reduction in students falling behind, though critics have raised privacy concerns about the level of behavioral tracking involved.\n\nFunding has been modest but strategic. [Eric Martinez](people/eric-martinez-93) led the seed round in late 2022, bringing not just capital but connections to several charter school networks in Texas and California. Martinez has been vocal about his belief that edtech needs more \"unsexy infrastructure\" plays rather than consumer apps, and Pulse fits that thesis perfectly. The company currently employs around 15 people, mostly engineers and former educators.\n\n[David Kim](people/david-kim-186) serves as an advisor, helping Pulse navigate enterprise sales cycles and district procurement processes—notoriously slow and bureacratic. Kim's background in B2B SaaS has been instrumental in shaping Pulse's go-to-market strategy, which prioritizes landing a few large district contracts over chasing individual schools. As of early 2024, Pulse has contracts with 12 districts serving roughly 40,000 students combined. Revenue isn't disclosed but is rumored to be in the low seven figures. Yara Johnson remains CEO and has been clear she's building for the long haul, not a quick exit.",
"timeline":"- **2022-03-14** | Yara Johnson incorporates Pulse after leaving her role at a major textbook publisher\n- **2022-09-08** | Closes seed round led by [Eric Martinez](people/eric-martinez-93), raising $1.8M\n- **2022-11-20** | First pilot launches in Austin ISD with 3 middle schools\n- **2023-02-15** | [David Kim](people/david-kim-186) joins as official advisor\n- **2023-06-01** | Pulse ships v2.0 with redesigned teacher dashboard based on pilot feedback\n- **2023-10-12** | Signs first major district contract with Fresno Unified (18,000 students)\n- **2024-01-29** | Presents at SXSWedu panel on ethical student analytics\n- **2024-05-17** | Expands engineering team to 9 people, opens small Denver office\n- **2024-11-03** | Reaches 40,000 students across 12 districts\n- **2025-02-22** | Begins early conversations about Series A with several edtech-focused VCs",
"compiled_truth":"Pulse Labs is a developer tools startup founded in 2019 by [Rachel Lopez](people/rachel-lopez-58), who previously spent nearly a decade building internal tooling at larger tech companies before striking out on her own. The company focuses on API observability and debugging tools, helping engineering teams identify performance bottlenecks and trace issues across distributed systems. Their flagship product, Pulse Trace, has gained traction among mid-sized SaaS companies looking for alternatives to more expensive enterprise solutions.\n\nThe company operates with a relatively lean team of around 35 employees, mostly engineers, spread across San Francisco and a satellite office in Austin. Rachel has been vocal about maintaining a sustainable growth trajectory rather than chasing hypergrowth, which has shaped the company's culture and hiring practices. This philosophy resonated with their investor group, which includes [Carol Jackson](people/carol-jackson-81), [Priya Taylor](people/priya-taylor-85), and [Rosa Jackson](people/rosa-jackson-90).\n\nPulse Labs raised a $4.2M seed round in early 2020, followed by a Series A of $18M in 2022 led by Priya Taylor's fund. The Series A came at a time when developer tooling was seeing significant investor intrest, and Pulse was well-positioned with strong retention metrics among its early customers. Rosa Jackson joined as an angel investor during the seed round and has remained an active advisor, particularly on go-to-market strategy.\n\nRecent moves include expanding their platform to support OpenTelemetry natively, a decision that required significant engineering investment but opened up compatability with a broader ecosystem. The company also launched a free tier in late 2024 aimed at individual developers and small teams, a strategic bet on bottom-up adoption. Rachel Lopez has mentioned in interviews that they're exploring AI-assisted debugging features, though nothing concrete has been announced yet.\n\nPulse Labs competes with established players like Datadog and newer entrants in the observability space, but differentiates through pricing transparency and a focus on developer experience over enterprise feature bloat.",
"timeline":"- **2019-03-15** | Pulse Labs incorporated by [Rachel Lopez](people/rachel-lopez-58) in Delaware\n- **2020-01-22** | Closed $4.2M seed round with participation from [Rosa Jackson](people/rosa-jackson-90)\n- **2020-09-08** | Launched Pulse Trace beta to first 50 customers\n- **2021-06-14** | Reached 200 paying customers milestone\n- **2022-04-03** | Announced $18M Series A led by [Priya Taylor](people/priya-taylor-85)\n- **2022-11-17** | Opened Austin office, hired VP of Engineering\n- **2023-05-22** | Rachel Lopez spoke at DevToolsCon on sustainable startup growth\n- **2024-02-09** | Shipped native OpenTelemetry support in Pulse Trace 3.0\n- **2024-10-30** | Launched free tier for individual developers\n- **2025-03-12** | [Carol Jackson](people/carol-jackson-81) joined board as observer seat",
"compiled_truth":"Quantum is a fintech startup founded in 2022 by [Ulrich Johnson](people/ulrich-johnson-7), a serial entrepreneur with a background in quantitative finance and distributed systems. The company emerged from Johnson's frustration with the sluggish settlement times and opaque fee structures that plague traditional payment rails. Based out of Austin, Texas, Quantum has built a real-time payment reconciliation platform targeting mid-market e-commerce businesses and SaaS companies.\n\nThe core product offers instant transaction matching, automated dispute resolution, and predictive cash flow analytics. What sets Quantum apart from competitors is their proprietary matching algorithm, which reportedly achieves 99.7% accuracy on first-pass reconciliation—a significant improvement over industry standards. The platform integrates with major payment processors, banking APIs, and accounting software, positioning itself as the connective tissue in a fragmented fintech ecosystem.\n\nEarly backing came from [Kate Anderson](people/kate-anderson-107), who led a $2.1M seed round in late 2022. Anderson's involvement brought not just capital but credibility, given her track record of identifying breakout fintech plays. The company has since grown to around 25 employees, with plans to double headcount by end of 2025.\n\nOn the advisory side, [Noah Williams](people/noah-williams-198) has been instrumental in shaping Quantum's go-to-market strategy. Williams' connections in the enterprise software space have opened doors to several pilot programs with Fortune 500 companies—a surprising feat for such a young startup. His guidance on pricing and packaging helped the team move away from a pure usage-based model toward a hybrid subscription approach that's proven more predictable for customers and investors alike.\n\nQuantum's roadmap includes international expansion, starting with the UK and EU markets where PSD2 regulations have created fertile ground for innovative payment solutions. There's also talk of an AI-powered fraud detection layer, though details remain sparse. The company operates somewhat stealthily, preferring to let product traction speak rather than chasing press coverage.",
"timeline":"- **2022-03-14** | Ulrich Johnson incorporates Quantum in Delaware, begins recruiting founding engineering team\n- **2022-09-22** | Closes $2.1M seed round led by [Kate Anderson](people/kate-anderson-107)\n- **2022-11-08** | Launches private beta with 12 e-commerce customers\n- **2023-02-15** | [Noah Williams](people/noah-williams-198) joins as lead advisor, focuses on GTM stratgy\n- **2023-06-30** | Exits beta, announces general availability of reconciliation platform\n- **2023-10-12** | Surpasses 200 paying customers, hits $1M ARR milestone\n- **2024-04-18** | Opens Austin headquarters, team grows to 25 employees\n- **2024-08-07** | Begins enterprise pilot program with two Fortune 500 retailers\n- **2025-01-20** | Announces plans for UK expansion, begins regulatory groundwork\n- **2025-05-11** | [Ulrich Johnson](people/ulrich-johnson-7) speaks at FinTech Connect conference on real-time reconciliation",
"compiled_truth":"Quantum Labs is an early-stage biotech startup founded in 2024 by [Liam Wilson](people/liam-wilson-57), a computational biologist who previously led protein folding research at a major pharma company. The company operates out of a small lab space in Cambridge, MA, though much of the early work has been computational in nature.\n\nThe startup focuses on quantum computing applications for drug discovery, specifically targeting protein-ligand binding simulations that would take classical computers years to process. Their core thesis is that near-term quantum hardware, combined with clever error mitigation techniques, can already provide meaningful speedups for certain molecular dynamics calculations. Its a bold bet, and not everyone in the industry is convinced the hardware is ready.\n\nQuantum Labs raised a pre-seed round in late 2024, with [Rachel Brown](people/rachel-brown-95) leading the investment. Rachel has been particularly bullish on quantum-adjacent biotech plays and saw Liam's background as uniquely suited to bridge the gap between quantum computing hype and actual pharmaceutical applications. [Rosa Miller](people/rosa-miller-98) also participated in the round, bringing her experience scaling deep tech companies.\n\nOn the advisory side, the company brought on [Tara Johnson](people/tara-johnson-189) to help navigate regulatory pathways and partnership discussions with larger pharma players. Tara's connections have already opened doors to several exploratory conversations, though nothing has been announced publically yet.\n\nThe team remains small—just five people including Liam—but they've made progress on their initial benchmarking studies. Early results suggest their hybrid classical-quantum approach can reduce simulation time by roughly 40% for certain small molecule interactions. Whether this translates to real-world drug discovery value remains to be seen. Quantum Labs is currently focused on publishing these findings to establish credibility before pursuing a larger seed round, likely in mid-2025.",
"timeline":"- **2024-01-15** | Liam Wilson begins preliminary research and files initial IP for quantum-enhanced molecular simulation methods\n- **2024-03-22** | Quantum Labs officially incorporated in Delaware\n- **2024-05-10** | [Rachel Brown](people/rachel-brown-95) commits to leading pre-seed investment after initial pitch\n- **2024-06-18** | Lab space secured in Cambridge, MA; first equipment purchases made\n- **2024-07-30** | [Rosa Miller](people/rosa-miller-98) joins the round, bringing total pre-seed to $1.8M\n- **2024-09-12** | [Tara Johnson](people/tara-johnson-189) formally joins as advisor\n- **2024-11-05** | First proof-of-concept results show promising speedups on protein-ligand simulations\n- **2025-01-20** | Team expands to five with hire of quantum software engineer from IBM\n- **2025-03-08** | Submits first paper to Nature Computational Science on hybrid simulation methodology",
"compiled_truth":"Quasar is a data infrastructure startup founded in early 2025 by [Mark Wilson](people/mark-wilson-44), a serial entrepreneur with deep roots in distributed systems. The company emerged from Wilson's frustration with existing data pipeline tools, which he found too brittle for modern real-time workloads. Based in San Francisco, Quasar is building what they call a \"unified data fabric\" — essentially a layer that sits between data sources and downstream applications, handling ingestion, transformation, and delivery with minimal configuration.\n\nThe founding team is lean but experienced. Mark Wilson previously led infrastructure at two mid-stage startups, one of wich was aquired by Snowflake in 2022. He's known for strong opinions on developer experience and has been vocal on Twitter about what he sees as the over-complexity of the modern data stack. Early angel investment came from [Jack Davis](people/jack-davis-89), who reportedly wrote a check after a single demo meeting. Davis has been an active advisor beyond just capital, making introductions to potential design partners in the fintech space.\n\nOn the advisory side, Quasar brought on [Grace Singh](people/grace-singh-197) to help shape go-to-market strategy. Singh's background in enterprise sales has already influenced how the company thinks about pricing and packaging. Internal docs suggest they're leaning toward a consumption-based model with a generous free tier to drive adoption among smaller teams.\n\nQuasar is still in stealth mode as of mid-2025, though they've been quietly onboarding design partners. Early feedback has centered on the product's speed — some users report 10x improvements in query latency compared to legacy tools. The tech stack is Rust-heavy, which aligns with Wilson's preference for performance-first engineering. There's some chatter that a seed round is in the works, though nothing confirmed publicly. The company employs around eight people, mostly engineers recruited from Wilson's network.",
"timeline":"- **2025-01-14** | Quasar incorporated in Delaware by [Mark Wilson](people/mark-wilson-44)\n- **2025-01-28** | Initial angel check from [Jack Davis](people/jack-davis-89), terms undisclosed\n- **2025-02-10** | First engineering hire joins from Databricks\n- **2025-03-05** | [Grace Singh](people/grace-singh-197) formally joins as advisor\n- **2025-03-22** | Internal alpha of core data fabric released to team\n- **2025-04-18** | First design partner signed — a Series B fintech in NYC\n- **2025-05-09** | Wilson presents at private invite-only infrastructure meetup\n- **2025-06-01** | Team grows to eight full-time employees\n- **2025-06-15** | Second design partner onboarded, early latency benchmarks shared internally",
"compiled_truth":"Ranger is a health tech startup founded in 2024 by [Quinten Rodriguez](people/quinten-rodriguez-22), a first-time founder who previously spent six years in clinical operations at major hospital systems. The company is building what it describes as a \"proactive health monitoring platform\" — essentially a combination of wearable integration, predictive analytics, and care coordination tools aimed at catching health issues before they become emergencies.\n\nThe core product pulls data from consumer wearables and runs it through proprietary algorithms that flag concerning patterns. When something looks off, Ranger connects users directly with healthcare providers through an integrated telehealth layer. It's ambitious, maybe overly so for such an early-stage company, but the team seems to be executing well so far.\n\nRanger raised a pre-seed round in early 2024 with participation from [Helen Martinez](people/helen-martinez-87) and [Sarah Wang](people/sarah-wang-104), both of whom have been active in the health tech space. The round was reportedly around $2.1M, though the company hasn't confirmed exact figures publicly. [Beth Williams](people/beth-williams-177) came on as an advisor shortly after, bringing regulatory expertise that will likely prove critical as Ranger navigates FDA considerations around its predictive features.\n\nThe founding team is still small — just seven people as of late 2024 — but they've been hiring aggresively for ML engineering roles. Quinten has been vocal about wanting to build the technical foundation right before scaling the team further. Smart approach, though it means they're moving slower on go-to-market than some competitors.\n\nRanger's initial focus is on cardiovascular health monitoring for adults over 50, a demographic that's both high-risk and increasingly comfortable with wearable technology. Early pilot programs with two regional health systems have shown promising engagement numbers, though clinical outcomes data is still being collected. The company faces stiff competiton from both established players and well-funded startups, but their emphasis on provider integration rather than direct-to-consumer sales could be a meaningful differentiator.",
"timeline":"- **2024-01-15** | Ranger incorporated in Delaware by [Quinten Rodriguez](people/quinten-rodriguez-22)\n- **2024-03-08** | Closed pre-seed round with [Helen Martinez](people/helen-martinez-87) and [Sarah Wang](people/sarah-wang-104) participating\n- **2024-04-22** | [Beth Williams](people/beth-williams-177) joins as regulatory advisor\n- **2024-06-10** | First engineering hire — ML lead recruited from Apple Health team\n- **2024-08-14** | Launched private beta with 200 users in Austin area\n- **2024-10-03** | Announced pilot partnership with Memorial Regional Health System\n- **2024-11-19** | Quinten presented at Digital Health Summit on predictive monitoring\n- **2025-02-01** | Second pilot program launched with Coastal Medical Group\n- **2025-04-28** | Team expanded to 12 people, opened small office in Austin\n- **2025-07-15** | Began conversations with FDA around De Novo pathway for predictive features",
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