Merge branch 'fix/g11' into fix/integrated

# Conflicts:
#	internal/store/migrations.go

cmd/mavend/ecosystem.go

@@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ const mavenRequester = "maven"
 // setEcosystemHeaders stamps the version, requester, auth and correlation
 // headers common to every outgoing ecosystem request. token may be empty,
 // which means the transport itself is trusted (loopback or unix socket).
+//
+// The correlation ID is read from the context and never minted here. Minting
+// one per request sent the far side an ID that existed nowhere on this side,
+// and gave a single multi-hop action as many unrelated IDs as it made calls.
+// Callers that start an action assign the ID once (handleHexisAct,
+// handlePraxisAct, resolveEntityReference) and every hop inherits it.
 func setEcosystemHeaders(req *http.Request, ctx context.Context, versionHeader, token string) {
 	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
 	req.Header.Set(versionHeader, ecosystemAPIVersion)
@@ -53,13 +59,9 @@ func setEcosystemHeaders(req *http.Request, ctx context.Context, versionHeader,
 	if token != "" {
 		req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+token)
 	}
-	id := correlationIDFromCtx(ctx)
+	if id := correlationIDFromCtx(ctx); id != "" {
-	if id == "" {
+		req.Header.Set("X-Correlation-ID", id)
-		// A call made outside a traced action still gets an ID, so the far
-		// side's log line can be matched to this one request.
-		id = newCorrelationID()
 	}
-	req.Header.Set("X-Correlation-ID", id)
 }
 
 // ecosystemError is the typed failure every ecosystem client returns, so
@@ -202,16 +204,16 @@ func (c *nexusClient) Resolve(ctx context.Context, query string, types []string)
 func (c *nexusClient) Health(ctx context.Context) error {
 	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodGet, c.baseURL+"/health", nil)
 	if err != nil {
-		return err
+		return &ecosystemError{Service: "nexus", Op: "health", Err: err}
 	}
 	setEcosystemHeaders(req, ctx, "X-Nexus-Version", c.token)
 	resp, err := c.httpClient.Do(req)
 	if err != nil {
-		return err
+		return &ecosystemError{Service: "nexus", Op: "health", Err: err}
 	}
 	resp.Body.Close()
 	if resp.StatusCode != 200 {
-		return fmt.Errorf("nexus health: %s", http.StatusText(resp.StatusCode))
+		return httpError("nexus", "health", resp.StatusCode)
 	}
 	return nil
 }
@@ -237,8 +239,11 @@ func (c *praxisClient) withToken(token string) *praxisClient {
 	return c
 }
 
-// getJSON performs a GET and decodes the JSON body into out.
+// getJSON performs a GET and decodes the JSON body into out. op is the logical
-func (c *praxisClient) getJSON(ctx context.Context, path string, out any) error {
+// operation name for errors and traces: the path carries the query string, and
+// after entity scoping that means an entity id in every log line built from the
+// error, next to a trace that redacts far less than that.
+func (c *praxisClient) getJSON(ctx context.Context, op, path string, out any) error {
 	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodGet, c.baseURL+path, nil)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -246,21 +251,21 @@ func (c *praxisClient) getJSON(ctx context.Context, path string, out any) error
 	setEcosystemHeaders(req, ctx, "X-Praxis-Version", c.token)
 	resp, err := c.httpClient.Do(req)
 	if err != nil {
-		return &ecosystemError{Service: "praxis", Op: path, Err: err}
+		return &ecosystemError{Service: "praxis", Op: op, Err: err}
 	}
 	defer resp.Body.Close()
 	if resp.StatusCode != 200 {
-		return httpError("praxis", path, resp.StatusCode)
+		return httpError("praxis", op, resp.StatusCode)
 	}
 	if err := json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(out); err != nil {
-		return &ecosystemError{Service: "praxis", Op: path, Status: resp.StatusCode, Err: err}
+		return &ecosystemError{Service: "praxis", Op: op, Status: resp.StatusCode, Err: err}
 	}
 	return nil
 }
 
 func (c *praxisClient) ListAttention(ctx context.Context, limit int) ([]map[string]any, error) {
 	var out []map[string]any
-	err := c.getJSON(ctx, fmt.Sprintf("/api/v1/tools/attention?limit=%d", limit), &out)
+	err := c.getJSON(ctx, "attention", fmt.Sprintf("/api/v1/tools/attention?limit=%d", limit), &out)
 	return out, err
 }
 
@@ -270,13 +275,14 @@ func (c *praxisClient) ListAttention(ctx context.Context, limit int) ([]map[stri
 // instead of filtering the unscoped list client-side.
 func (c *praxisClient) ListAttentionForEntity(ctx context.Context, entityID string, limit int) ([]map[string]any, error) {
 	var out []map[string]any
-	err := c.getJSON(ctx, fmt.Sprintf("/api/v1/tools/attention?limit=%d&entity_id=%s", limit, url.QueryEscape(entityID)), &out)
+	err := c.getJSON(ctx, "attention_for_entity",
+		fmt.Sprintf("/api/v1/tools/attention?limit=%d&entity_id=%s", limit, url.QueryEscape(entityID)), &out)
 	return out, err
 }
 
 func (c *praxisClient) ListChanges(ctx context.Context, limit int) ([]map[string]any, error) {
 	var out []map[string]any
-	err := c.getJSON(ctx, fmt.Sprintf("/api/v1/tools/changes?limit=%d", limit), &out)
+	err := c.getJSON(ctx, "changes", fmt.Sprintf("/api/v1/tools/changes?limit=%d", limit), &out)
 	return out, err
 }
 
@@ -302,24 +308,32 @@ type praxisItem struct {
 
 // postItemAction posts {"item_id": id} to a Praxis tools lifecycle endpoint
 // and decodes the resulting item. Shared by Surface/Acknowledge/Resolve/Ignore.
-func (c *praxisClient) postItemAction(ctx context.Context, path, itemID string) (*praxisItem, error) {
+func (c *praxisClient) postItemAction(ctx context.Context, op, path, itemID string) (*praxisItem, error) {
-	body, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"item_id": itemID})
+	return c.postJSON(ctx, op, path, map[string]any{"item_id": itemID})
+}
+
+// postJSON posts a body to a Praxis lifecycle endpoint and decodes the item.
+// Every failure is a *ecosystemError, including the transport and decode ones:
+// these are the paths that mutate remote state, and the question worth
+// answering afterwards is whether the call never left or was refused.
+func (c *praxisClient) postJSON(ctx context.Context, op, path string, payload map[string]any) (*praxisItem, error) {
+	body, _ := json.Marshal(payload)
 	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodPost, c.baseURL+path, bytes.NewReader(body))
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
+		return nil, &ecosystemError{Service: "praxis", Op: op, Err: err}
 	}
 	setEcosystemHeaders(req, ctx, "X-Praxis-Version", c.token)
 	resp, err := c.httpClient.Do(req)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
+		return nil, &ecosystemError{Service: "praxis", Op: op, Err: err}
 	}
 	defer resp.Body.Close()
 	if resp.StatusCode != 200 {
-		return nil, httpError("praxis", path, resp.StatusCode)
+		return nil, httpError("praxis", op, resp.StatusCode)
 	}
 	var out praxisItem
 	if err := json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&out); err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("decode: %w", err)
+		return nil, &ecosystemError{Service: "praxis", Op: op, Status: resp.StatusCode, Err: err}
 	}
 	return &out, nil
 }
@@ -328,46 +342,28 @@ func (c *praxisClient) postItemAction(ctx context.Context, path, itemID string)
 // ECOSYSTEM-SPEC.md §2.3). Callers that read attention aloud must call this, never
 // Acknowledge, so "I mentioned it" stays distinguishable from "you told me you saw it".
 func (c *praxisClient) Surface(ctx context.Context, itemID string) (*praxisItem, error) {
-	return c.postItemAction(ctx, "/api/v1/tools/surface", itemID)
+	return c.postItemAction(ctx, "surface", "/api/v1/tools/surface", itemID)
 }
 
 func (c *praxisClient) Acknowledge(ctx context.Context, itemID string) (*praxisItem, error) {
-	return c.postItemAction(ctx, "/api/v1/tools/acknowledge", itemID)
+	return c.postItemAction(ctx, "acknowledge", "/api/v1/tools/acknowledge", itemID)
 }
 
 func (c *praxisClient) Resolve(ctx context.Context, itemID string) (*praxisItem, error) {
-	return c.postItemAction(ctx, "/api/v1/tools/resolve", itemID)
+	return c.postItemAction(ctx, "resolve", "/api/v1/tools/resolve", itemID)
 }
 
 func (c *praxisClient) Ignore(ctx context.Context, itemID string) (*praxisItem, error) {
-	return c.postItemAction(ctx, "/api/v1/tools/ignore", itemID)
+	return c.postItemAction(ctx, "ignore", "/api/v1/tools/ignore", itemID)
 }
 
 func (c *praxisClient) Pin(ctx context.Context, itemID string, pinned bool) (*praxisItem, error) {
-	body, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"item_id": itemID, "pinned": pinned})
+	return c.postJSON(ctx, "pin", "/api/v1/tools/pin", map[string]any{"item_id": itemID, "pinned": pinned})
-	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodPost, c.baseURL+"/api/v1/tools/pin", bytes.NewReader(body))
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	setEcosystemHeaders(req, ctx, "X-Praxis-Version", c.token)
-	resp, err := c.httpClient.Do(req)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	defer resp.Body.Close()
-	if resp.StatusCode != 200 {
-		return nil, httpError("praxis", "pin", resp.StatusCode)
-	}
-	var out praxisItem
-	if err := json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&out); err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("decode: %w", err)
-	}
-	return &out, nil
 }
 
 func (c *praxisClient) GetItem(ctx context.Context, itemID string) (*praxisItem, error) {
 	var out praxisItem
-	err := c.getJSON(ctx, "/api/v1/tools/items/"+itemID, &out)
+	err := c.getJSON(ctx, "get_item", "/api/v1/tools/items/"+itemID, &out)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -376,7 +372,7 @@ func (c *praxisClient) GetItem(ctx context.Context, itemID string) (*praxisItem,
 
 func (c *praxisClient) Search(ctx context.Context, query string, limit int) ([]praxisItem, error) {
 	var out []praxisItem
-	err := c.getJSON(ctx, fmt.Sprintf("/api/v1/tools/search?q=%s&limit=%d", url.QueryEscape(query), limit), &out)
+	err := c.getJSON(ctx, "search", fmt.Sprintf("/api/v1/tools/search?q=%s&limit=%d", url.QueryEscape(query), limit), &out)
 	return out, err
 }
 
@@ -400,14 +396,18 @@ func wireEcosystem(cfg *config.Config) *ecosystemWiring {
 
 	// Hexis capability service
 	if cfg.Hexis != nil && cfg.Hexis.URL != "" {
-		w.hexis = hexisclient.New(cfg.Hexis.URL)
 		if cfg.Hexis.Token != "" {
-			// Upstream hexis grew Client.WithToken, but the copy vendored
+			// Upstream hexis grew Client.WithToken, but the copy vendored here
-			// here predates it, so the token cannot be sent yet. Say so
+			// predates it, so the token cannot be sent. Hexis is the only one
-			// loudly rather than pretending the call is authenticated.
+			// of the three that executes anything, and configuring auth on the
-			log.Printf("ecosystem: hexis token configured but the vendored hexis client cannot send it — re-vendor github.com/kami/hexis to enable bearer auth")
+			// executing service is not a best-effort request: refuse to wire it
+			// rather than execute unauthenticated for weeks behind one boot-time
+			// log line.
+			log.Printf("ecosystem: hexis token configured but the vendored hexis client cannot send it — hexis stays disabled; re-vendor github.com/kami/hexis to enable bearer auth")
+		} else {
+			w.hexis = hexisclient.New(cfg.Hexis.URL)
+			log.Printf("ecosystem: hexis at %s", cfg.Hexis.URL)
 		}
-		log.Printf("ecosystem: hexis at %s", cfg.Hexis.URL)
 	} else {
 		log.Printf("ecosystem: hexis not configured")
 	}
@@ -439,7 +439,19 @@ func (w *ecosystemWiring) resolveEntityReference(ctx context.Context, text strin
 		log.Printf("ecosystem: nexus resolve error: %v", err)
 		return "", "", nil, err
 	}
-	if result.Status == "resolved" && result.Entity != nil {
+	if result.Status == "resolved" {
+		// "resolved" with nothing to resolve to is a contract violation, not a
+		// miss. Treating it as "no such entity" let the caller fall straight
+		// through to the local executor with his verb intact, which is a
+		// dependency failure reaching execution.
+		if result.Entity == nil || result.Entity.ID == "" {
+			err := &ecosystemError{
+				Service: "nexus", Op: "resolve", Status: 200,
+				Err: errors.New("resolved status with no entity"),
+			}
+			log.Printf("ecosystem: %v", err)
+			return "", "", nil, err
+		}
 		return result.Entity.ID, result.Entity.DisplayName, nil, nil
 	}
 	if result.Status == "ambiguous" {
@@ -459,6 +471,11 @@ func (w *ecosystemWiring) resolveEntityReference(ctx context.Context, text strin
 // healthy and genuinely has nothing registered for this entity. Callers must
 // not conflate the two: a dependency failure must not silently read as "no
 // capabilities" and fall through to unrelated local execution.
+//
+// The vendored Hexis client stamps a correlation header on Execute only, so
+// discovery and execution cannot be joined on the Hexis side. Maven's own
+// traces still share one ID for both hops; the gap is on the far side and
+// closes when the client is re-vendored.
 func (w *ecosystemWiring) discoverCapabilities(ctx context.Context, entityID string) ([]hexisclient.Capability, error) {
 	if w == nil || w.hexis == nil || entityID == "" {
 		return nil, nil

cmd/mavend/ecosystem_acts.go

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"context"
-	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"log"
@@ -10,8 +9,8 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	hexisclient "github.com/kami/hexis/pkg/client"
-	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/ipc"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/store"
 )
 
 // praxisCapability is one arm of the Praxis act dispatch. This is an interface
@@ -84,6 +83,12 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) handlePraxisAct(ctx context.Context, dec router.Decisi
 	if h.ecosystem == nil || h.ecosystem.praxis == nil {
 		return ""
 	}
+	// Every hop of this action shares one correlation ID, assigned here, so a
+	// digest that calls attention once and surface N times reads as one turn
+	// on the Praxis side instead of N+1 unrelated request ids.
+	if correlationIDFromCtx(ctx) == "" {
+		ctx = withCorrelationID(ctx, newCorrelationID())
+	}
 	px := h.ecosystem.praxis
 	for _, capability := range praxisCapabilities {
 		for _, alias := range capability.aliases() {
@@ -114,11 +119,14 @@ func (a praxisItemAction) handle(ctx context.Context, h *reactiveHandler, px *pr
 	if id == "" {
 		return a.ask
 	}
+	started := h.now()
 	if err := a.call(ctx, px, id); err != nil {
 		log.Printf("ecosystem: praxis %s %s: %v", a.op, id, err)
+		h.recordEcosystemTrace(ctx, "praxis", a.op, traceStatusForError(err), started,
+			mergeFields(traceErrorFields(err), map[string]any{"item_id": id}))
 		return a.failure
 	}
-	h.recordPraxisTrace(ctx, a.op, map[string]any{"item_id": id})
+	h.recordPraxisTrace(ctx, a.op, started, map[string]any{"item_id": id})
 	return a.success
 }
 
@@ -130,15 +138,18 @@ func (listAttentionCapability) aliases() []string {
 }
 
 func (listAttentionCapability) handle(ctx context.Context, h *reactiveHandler, px *praxisClient, _ router.Decision) string {
+	started := h.now()
 	items, err := px.ListAttention(ctx, 20)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Printf("ecosystem: praxis attention: %v", err)
+		h.recordEcosystemTrace(ctx, "praxis", "list_attention", traceStatusForError(err),
+			started, traceErrorFields(err))
 		return "не могу сейчас узнать, что требует внимания."
 	}
 	if len(items) == 0 {
 		return "ничего не требует внимания."
 	}
-	h.recordPraxisTrace(ctx, "list_attention", map[string]any{"count": len(items)})
+	h.recordPraxisTrace(ctx, "list_attention", started, map[string]any{"count": len(items)})
 	var parts []string
 	for _, item := range items {
 		title, _ := item["title"].(string)
@@ -175,15 +186,18 @@ func (listChangesCapability) aliases() []string {
 }
 
 func (listChangesCapability) handle(ctx context.Context, h *reactiveHandler, px *praxisClient, _ router.Decision) string {
+	started := h.now()
 	changes, err := px.ListChanges(ctx, 20)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Printf("ecosystem: praxis changes: %v", err)
+		h.recordEcosystemTrace(ctx, "praxis", "list_changes", traceStatusForError(err),
+			started, traceErrorFields(err))
 		return "не могу сейчас узнать об изменениях."
 	}
 	if len(changes) == 0 {
 		return "нет изменений."
 	}
-	h.recordPraxisTrace(ctx, "list_changes", map[string]any{"count": len(changes)})
+	h.recordPraxisTrace(ctx, "list_changes", started, map[string]any{"count": len(changes)})
 	var parts []string
 	for _, c := range changes {
 		title, _ := c["title"].(string)
@@ -204,8 +218,10 @@ func (listChangesCapability) handle(ctx context.Context, h *reactiveHandler, px
 // gets one answer across both stores.
 type entityAttentionCapability struct{}
 
+// aliases are matched against Slots.Fn, which carries a function slot from the
+// act grammar and never free Russian, so only grammar names belong here.
 func (entityAttentionCapability) aliases() []string {
-	return []string{"entity_attention", "что с", "как дела у", "статус"}
+	return []string{"entity_attention", "entity_status"}
 }
 
 func (entityAttentionCapability) handle(ctx context.Context, h *reactiveHandler, px *praxisClient, dec router.Decision) string {
@@ -222,9 +238,18 @@ func (entityAttentionCapability) handle(ctx context.Context, h *reactiveHandler,
 		return "не могу связать это с сущностью — Nexus не настроен."
 	}
 
+	started := h.now()
 	entityID, displayName, ambiguous, err := h.ecosystem.resolveEntityReference(ctx, subject, nil)
 	if err != nil {
-		log.Printf("ecosystem: entity attention resolve %q: %v", subject, err)
+		// The subject is his words, so the log gets the same redaction the
+		// trace gets. A trace that stores a rune count next to a log line
+		// storing the runes is not redacted at all.
+		log.Printf("ecosystem: entity attention resolve %s: %v", redactSubject(subject), err)
+		h.recordEcosystemTrace(ctx, "nexus", "resolve", traceStatusForError(err), started,
+			mergeFields(traceErrorFields(err), map[string]any{"subject": redactSubject(subject)}))
+		if unauthorizedEcosystemError(err) {
+			return "экосистема отклоняет доступ, проверь токен."
+		}
 		return "экосистема недоступна, попробуй ещё раз."
 	}
 	if len(ambiguous) > 0 {
@@ -237,12 +262,26 @@ func (entityAttentionCapability) handle(ctx context.Context, h *reactiveHandler,
 		displayName = subject
 	}
 
+	queried := h.now()
 	items, err := px.ListAttentionForEntity(ctx, entityID, 20)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Printf("ecosystem: praxis attention for %s: %v", entityID, err)
+		h.recordEcosystemTrace(ctx, "praxis", "entity_attention", traceStatusForError(err),
+			queried, mergeFields(traceErrorFields(err), map[string]any{"entity_id": entityID}))
 		return "не могу сейчас узнать, что требует внимания по «" + displayName + "»."
 	}
-	h.recordPraxisTrace(ctx, "entity_attention", map[string]any{
+	items, scoped := scopedToEntity(items, entityID)
+	if !scoped {
+		// A Praxis old enough to ignore an unknown query parameter answers the
+		// scoped question with the unscoped list. Reading that back as "по
+		// «X»: ..." is the exact fabrication the entity ref exists to prevent,
+		// so refuse the answer instead of relabelling someone else's items.
+		log.Printf("ecosystem: praxis returned unscoped items for %s, refusing to answer", entityID)
+		h.recordEcosystemTrace(ctx, "praxis", "entity_attention", traceFailed, queried,
+			map[string]any{"entity_id": entityID, "class": "unscoped_response"})
+		return "не могу сейчас узнать, что требует внимания по «" + displayName + "»."
+	}
+	h.recordPraxisTrace(ctx, "entity_attention", queried, map[string]any{
 		"entity_id": entityID, "count": len(items),
 	})
 
@@ -269,6 +308,40 @@ func (entityAttentionCapability) handle(ctx context.Context, h *reactiveHandler,
 	return "по «" + displayName + "»: " + strings.Join(parts, "; ")
 }
 
+// scopedToEntity drops items that carry an entity_id other than the one asked
+// about, and reports whether the response can be trusted as scoped at all. An
+// item without an entity_id is kept only when at least one sibling carries the
+// matching id: a whole page with no entity_id is a Praxis that ignored the
+// scope, not a page of untagged items.
+func scopedToEntity(items []map[string]any, entityID string) ([]map[string]any, bool) {
+	if len(items) == 0 {
+		return items, true
+	}
+	var kept []map[string]any
+	var sawMatch, sawMismatch bool
+	for _, item := range items {
+		id, _ := item["entity_id"].(string)
+		switch {
+		case id == entityID:
+			sawMatch = true
+			kept = append(kept, item)
+		case id != "":
+			sawMismatch = true
+		default:
+			kept = append(kept, item)
+		}
+	}
+	if sawMatch {
+		return kept, true
+	}
+	if sawMismatch {
+		// Some items were tagged and none matched: the far side answered about
+		// other entities, so nothing here belongs to this one.
+		return nil, true
+	}
+	return nil, false
+}
+
 // localFactsForEntity summarises Maven's own facts already resolved to this
 // canonical entity. Empty when the store is unavailable or nothing matched —
 // entity-scoped memory is an enrichment of the answer, never a precondition.
@@ -276,11 +349,18 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) localFactsForEntity(ctx context.Context, entityID stri
 	if h.dataStore == nil || entityID == "" {
 		return ""
 	}
-	facts, err := h.dataStore.FactsByEntity(ctx, entityID, 3)
+	const spoken = 3
+	// One over the spoken limit, so a truncation can be named rather than
+	// passed off as everything she knows.
+	facts, err := h.dataStore.FactsByEntity(ctx, entityID, spoken+1)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Printf("ecosystem: facts by entity %s: %v", entityID, err)
 		return ""
 	}
+	more := false
+	if len(facts) > spoken {
+		facts, more = facts[:spoken], true
+	}
 	var parts []string
 	for _, f := range facts {
 		if f.Value != "" {
@@ -290,7 +370,11 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) localFactsForEntity(ctx context.Context, entityID stri
 	if len(parts) == 0 {
 		return ""
 	}
-	return "я помню: " + strings.Join(parts, ", ")
+	out := "я помню: " + strings.Join(parts, ", ")
+	if more {
+		out += ", и это не всё"
+	}
+	return out
 }
 
 // mergeFields overlays b onto a and returns a.
@@ -301,30 +385,11 @@ func mergeFields(a, b map[string]any) map[string]any {
 	return a
 }
 
-// recordPraxisTrace — writes a fact recording a cross-service ecosystem call.
+// recordPraxisTrace — records a completed Praxis call. Thin wrapper over
-// The fact is stored with source "praxis:trace" so the proactive loop can
+// recordEcosystemTrace so every ecosystem hop lands in one table with one
-// reference it and the dashboard can display recent ecosystem activity.
+// shape.
-func (h *reactiveHandler) recordPraxisTrace(ctx context.Context, operation string, details map[string]any) {
+func (h *reactiveHandler) recordPraxisTrace(ctx context.Context, operation string, started time.Time, details map[string]any) {
-	now := h.now()
+	h.recordEcosystemTrace(ctx, "praxis", operation, traceOK, started, details)
-	value := operation
-	if len(details) > 0 {
-		if b, err := json.Marshal(details); err == nil {
-			value = operation + " " + string(b)
-		}
-	}
-	// Kind must be one of the store's allowed kinds ('self','env','config');
-	// "system" was silently rejected by the CHECK constraint, so no praxis
-	// trace was ever persisted.
-	if _, err := h.api.WriteFact(ctx, ipc.WriteFactReq{
-		Ts:         now,
-		Kind:       "env",
-		Key:        "praxis:" + operation,
-		Value:      value,
-		Source:     "praxis:trace",
-		Confidence: 1.0,
-	}); err != nil {
-		log.Printf("ecosystem: record praxis trace %s: %v", operation, err)
-	}
 }
 
 // traceStatus classifies an ecosystem call for the trace record. Kept coarse
@@ -332,12 +397,25 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) recordPraxisTrace(ctx context.Context, operation strin
 // it take", not to re-derive the error.
 const (
 	traceOK       = "ok"
-	traceFailed   = "failed"
+	traceFailed   = "failed"  // the call never got an answer
 	traceRefused  = "refused" // the far side answered, and said no
 	traceAmbig    = "ambiguous"
 	traceNotFound = "not_found"
+	tracePending  = "pending" // deliberately not done yet, awaiting a confirm
 )
 
+// traceStatusForError distinguishes "I could not reach it" from "it answered
+// and refused". Both degrade the same way for him and not at all the same way
+// for whoever reads the trace: one is a network or a dead service, the other
+// is a token, a version or a rejected argument.
+func traceStatusForError(err error) string {
+	var ee *ecosystemError
+	if errors.As(err, &ee) && !ee.Unreachable() {
+		return traceRefused
+	}
+	return traceFailed
+}
+
 // redactSubject reduces a user utterance to something safe to persist in a
 // trace: its length only. Traces are diagnostics, and his words are not
 // diagnostics — the correlation ID is what ties a trace to the turn.
@@ -347,38 +425,55 @@ func redactSubject(s string) string {
 
 // recordEcosystemTrace writes one hop of a cross-service call: which service,
 // which operation, the outcome, how long it took, and the correlation ID that
-// stitches the hops together. Unlike recordPraxisTrace it is written for every
+// stitches the hops together. It is written for every outcome, not only
-// outcome, not only success — an unrecorded failure is exactly the hop you
+// success — an unrecorded failure is exactly the hop you need when something
-// need when something went wrong at 3am.
+// went wrong at 3am.
+//
+// Traces go to their own store table, never to facts. One act turn produces
+// three or four of them, at machine rate, while facts arrive at human rate:
+// sharing the table meant the habit profile's 2000-row window, memeval's
+// prompt snapshot and the /dash and /history pages all filled with traces and
+// stopped seeing his actual facts.
 func (h *reactiveHandler) recordEcosystemTrace(ctx context.Context, service, op, status string, started time.Time, fields map[string]any) {
-	details := map[string]any{
+	if h.dataStore == nil {
-		"service":     service,
+		return
-		"operation":   op,
-		"status":      status,
-		"duration_ms": h.now().Sub(started).Milliseconds(),
 	}
-	if id := correlationIDFromCtx(ctx); id != "" {
+	tr := store.EcosystemTrace{
-		details["correlation_id"] = id
+		Ts:            h.now(),
+		Service:       service,
+		Operation:     op,
+		Status:        status,
+		DurationMs:    h.now().Sub(started).Milliseconds(),
+		CorrelationID: correlationIDFromCtx(ctx),
+		Fields:        map[string]any{},
 	}
 	for k, v := range fields {
-		details[k] = v
+		switch k {
+		case "causation_id":
+			tr.CausationID, _ = v.(string)
+		case "http_status":
+			if n, ok := v.(int); ok {
+				tr.HTTPStatus = n
+				continue
+			}
+			tr.Fields[k] = v
+		default:
+			tr.Fields[k] = v
+		}
 	}
-	value := service + ":" + op + " " + status
+	if _, err := h.dataStore.WriteEcosystemTrace(ctx, tr); err != nil {
-	if b, err := json.Marshal(details); err == nil {
-		value = value + " " + string(b)
-	}
-	if _, err := h.api.WriteFact(ctx, ipc.WriteFactReq{
-		Ts:         h.now(),
-		Kind:       "env",
-		Key:        "ecosystem:" + service + ":" + op,
-		Value:      value,
-		Source:     "ecosystem:trace",
-		Confidence: 1.0,
-	}); err != nil {
 		log.Printf("ecosystem: record trace %s:%s: %v", service, op, err)
 	}
 }
 
+// unauthorizedEcosystemError reports a credential the far side rejected. It
+// gets its own reply: a missing or wrong token looks exactly like an outage to
+// him, and "try again" is advice that will never work.
+func unauthorizedEcosystemError(err error) bool {
+	var ee *ecosystemError
+	return errors.As(err, &ee) && ee.Unauthorized()
+}
+
 // traceErrorFields describes an ecosystemError for a trace without leaking the
 // payload: the HTTP status and the failure class, nothing else.
 func traceErrorFields(err error) map[string]any {
@@ -422,8 +517,11 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) handleHexisAct(ctx context.Context, dec router.Decisio
 	started := h.now()
 	entityID, displayName, ambiguous, err := h.ecosystem.resolveEntityReference(ctx, dec.Slots.Text, nil)
 	if err != nil {
-		h.recordEcosystemTrace(ctx, "nexus", "resolve", traceFailed, started,
+		h.recordEcosystemTrace(ctx, "nexus", "resolve", traceStatusForError(err), started,
 			mergeFields(traceErrorFields(err), map[string]any{"subject": redactSubject(dec.Slots.Text)}))
+		if unauthorizedEcosystemError(err) {
+			return "экосистема отклоняет доступ, проверь токен."
+		}
 		// A genuine Nexus dependency failure, not "no such entity" — stop here
 		// and report degradation rather than silently falling through to the
 		// local command executor (ECOSYSTEM-SPEC.md: services degrade
@@ -449,8 +547,11 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) handleHexisAct(ctx context.Context, dec router.Decisio
 	discovered := h.now()
 	caps, err := h.ecosystem.discoverCapabilities(ctx, entityID)
 	if err != nil {
-		h.recordEcosystemTrace(ctx, "hexis", "capabilities", traceFailed, discovered,
+		h.recordEcosystemTrace(ctx, "hexis", "capabilities", traceStatusForError(err), discovered,
 			mergeFields(traceErrorFields(err), map[string]any{"entity_id": entityID}))
+		if unauthorizedEcosystemError(err) {
+			return "экосистема отклоняет доступ, проверь токен."
+		}
 		return "экосистема недоступна, попробуй ещё раз."
 	}
 	h.recordEcosystemTrace(ctx, "hexis", "capabilities", traceOK, discovered,
@@ -499,7 +600,7 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) handleHexisAct(ctx context.Context, dec router.Decisio
 			expiry:       h.now().Add(confirmTTL),
 		}
 		h.mu.Unlock()
-		h.recordEcosystemTrace(ctx, "hexis", "confirmation", "pending", h.now(),
+		h.recordEcosystemTrace(ctx, "hexis", "confirmation", tracePending, started,
 			map[string]any{"entity_id": entityID, "capability": matched.Name})
 		return "выполнить «" + matched.Name + "» для " + displayName + "? скажи «да» или «нет»."
 	}
@@ -517,20 +618,17 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) execHexis(ctx context.Context, capID, capName, entityI
 	traced := withCorrelationID(ctx, correlationID)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Printf("ecosystem: hexis execute error (cor=%s): %v", correlationID, err)
-		h.recordEcosystemTrace(traced, "hexis", "execute", traceFailed, started,
+		h.recordEcosystemTrace(traced, "hexis", "execute", traceStatusForError(err), started,
 			mergeFields(traceErrorFields(err), map[string]any{
 				"entity_id": entityID, "capability": capName, "causation_id": causationID,
 			}))
 		return "не получилось выполнить команду для " + displayName + "."
 	}
+	// One record per hop: the second write this used to make said the same
+	// thing under a different key, in a different shape.
 	h.recordEcosystemTrace(traced, "hexis", "execute", traceOK, started, map[string]any{
-		"entity_id": entityID, "capability": capName, "causation_id": causationID,
+		"entity_id": entityID, "entity_name": displayName,
-	})
+		"capability": capName, "causation_id": causationID,
-	h.recordPraxisTrace(ctx, "hexis:"+capName, map[string]any{
-		"entity_id":      entityID,
-		"entity_name":    displayName,
-		"capability":     capName,
-		"correlation_id": correlationID,
 	})
 	return "команда выполнена для " + displayName + "."
 }

cmd/mavend/ecosystem_degraded_test.go

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"context"
-	"net/http"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
@@ -30,7 +29,7 @@ import (
 func ecoHandler(t *testing.T, nexus, praxis, hexis *fakeServer) *reactiveHandler {
 	t.Helper()
 	st := newTestStore(t)
-	clock := newFakeClock(time.Date(2026, 8, 1, 9, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC))
+	clock := newTickingClock(time.Date(2026, 8, 1, 9, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC), time.Millisecond)
 	w := &ecosystemWiring{}
 	if nexus != nil {
 		w.nexus = newNexusClient(nexus.URL)
@@ -49,31 +48,43 @@ func ecoHandler(t *testing.T, nexus, praxis, hexis *fakeServer) *reactiveHandler
 	}
 }
 
-func traceFacts(t *testing.T, h *reactiveHandler) []store.Fact {
+// traces reads the ecosystem trace table. Traces live there and not in facts,
+// so a bounded reader of facts never fills up with machine-rate rows.
+func traces(t *testing.T, h *reactiveHandler) []store.EcosystemTrace {
 	t.Helper()
-	facts, err := h.dataStore.RecentFacts(context.Background(), 50)
+	out, err := h.dataStore.RecentEcosystemTraces(context.Background(), 100)
 	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("read facts: %v", err)
+		t.Fatalf("read traces: %v", err)
 	}
-	var out []store.Fact
+	return out
-	for _, f := range facts {
+}
-		if f.Source == "praxis:trace" {
+
-			out = append(out, f)
+// tracesFor returns the traces recorded for one service+operation.
+func tracesFor(t *testing.T, h *reactiveHandler, service, op string) []store.EcosystemTrace {
+	t.Helper()
+	var out []store.EcosystemTrace
+	for _, tr := range traces(t, h) {
+		if tr.Service == service && tr.Operation == op {
+			out = append(out, tr)
 		}
 	}
 	return out
 }
 
+// restartCaps is a read-only capability. Restarting a service is a mutation,
+// so the read-only one this suite runs through the happy paths is named for
+// what it is; the mutating restart lives in the confirmation tests.
 func restartCaps() string {
 	return fixtureHexisCapabilities(map[string]any{
-		"id": "cap_restart", "name": "restart", "read_only": true,
+		"id": "cap_status", "name": "restart status", "read_only": true,
 	})
 }
 
-// TestEcosystem_OutagesAreIndependent: Praxis being down must not disable the
+// TestEcosystem_OutagesLeaveNoSharedFailureState: the two act paths share a
-// Nexus+Hexis action path, and vice versa. A shared "ecosystem is broken"
+// handler, a store and a clock, so what is worth asserting is that a failure
-// mode would take away working capability for no reason.
+// on one leaves nothing behind that degrades the other. Faulting one disjoint
-func TestEcosystem_OutagesAreIndependent(t *testing.T) {
+// call graph and exercising the other only tests the call graph.
+func TestEcosystem_OutagesLeaveNoSharedFailureState(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx := context.Background()
 	nexus := newFakeNexus(t, fixtureNexusResolved("ent_muzick", "Muzick indexer", "service"))
 	praxis := newFakePraxis(t, fixturePraxisAttentionItems(map[string]any{
@@ -82,17 +93,112 @@ func TestEcosystem_OutagesAreIndependent(t *testing.T) {
 	hexis := newFakeHexis(t, restartCaps(), fixtureHexisExecuted("exec_1", "succeeded"))
 	h := ecoHandler(t, nexus, praxis, hexis)
 
-	praxis.SetFault(503)
+	// A Nexus outage during a Hexis act writes a failure trace, and a shared
-	if reply := h.handleHexisAct(ctx, actDec("muzick indexer")); !strings.Contains(reply, "выполнена") {
+	// store is the one thing the Praxis path could inherit it through.
-		t.Fatalf("praxis outage must not block the hexis path, got %q", reply)
+	nexus.SetFault(503)
+	if reply := h.handleHexisAct(ctx, actDec("muzick indexer")); strings.Contains(reply, "выполнена") {
+		t.Fatalf("nexus outage must not report success, got %q", reply)
+	}
+	if len(tracesFor(t, h, "nexus", "resolve")) == 0 {
+		t.Fatal("the failed resolve must be recorded")
 	}
 
-	praxis.SetFault(0)
+	nexus.SetFault(0)
-	hexis.SetFault(503)
-	nexus.SetFault(503)
 	reply := h.handlePraxisAct(ctx, praxisActDec("list_attention"))
 	if !strings.Contains(reply, "disk almost full") {
-		t.Fatalf("nexus/hexis outage must not block the praxis digest, got %q", reply)
+		t.Fatalf("a recorded nexus failure must not degrade the praxis digest, got %q", reply)
+	}
+	if got := tracesFor(t, h, "praxis", "list_attention"); len(got) != 1 || got[0].Status != traceOK {
+		t.Fatalf("the praxis digest must trace its own success, got %+v", got)
+	}
+
+	// And the reverse: a Praxis outage mid-session leaves the Hexis path whole.
+	praxis.SetFault(503)
+	if reply := h.handlePraxisAct(ctx, praxisActDec("list_attention")); strings.Contains(reply, "disk") {
+		t.Fatalf("praxis outage must not serve content, got %q", reply)
+	}
+	if reply := h.handleHexisAct(ctx, actDec("muzick indexer")); !strings.Contains(reply, "выполнена") {
+		t.Fatalf("a praxis outage must not block the hexis path, got %q", reply)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestEcosystem_OneEndpointDownDoesNotMuteTheService: real outages are usually
+// partial. Attention answering while surface is down must still deliver.
+func TestEcosystem_OneEndpointDownDoesNotMuteTheService(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	praxis := newFakePraxis(t, fixturePraxisAttentionItems(map[string]any{
+		"id": "item_1", "title": "disk almost full", "importance": 3.0,
+	}))
+	h := ecoHandler(t, nil, praxis, nil)
+
+	praxis.SetRouteFault("/api/v1/tools/surface", 503)
+	reply := h.handlePraxisAct(ctx, praxisActDec("list_attention"))
+	if !strings.Contains(reply, "disk almost full") {
+		t.Fatalf("a downed surface endpoint must not mute the digest, got %q", reply)
+	}
+	if praxis.Count("POST", "/api/v1/tools/surface") == 0 {
+		t.Fatal("expected the surface attempt")
+	}
+}
+
+// TestEcosystem_ResolvedWithoutEntityFailsClosed: the contract violation that
+// decodes cleanly. Nexus says "resolved" and delivers no entity; treating that
+// as "no such entity" put the user's verb through to the local executor.
+func TestEcosystem_ResolvedWithoutEntityFailsClosed(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	nexus := newFakeNexus(t, fixtureNexusResolvedEmpty())
+	hexis := newFakeHexis(t, restartCaps(), fixtureHexisExecuted("exec_1", "succeeded"))
+	h := ecoHandler(t, nexus, nil, hexis)
+
+	reply := h.handleHexisAct(ctx, actDec("muzick indexer"))
+	if reply == "" {
+		t.Fatal("a resolve with no entity must degrade, not fall through to local execution")
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(reply, "выполнена") {
+		t.Fatalf("a resolve with no entity must not report success, got %q", reply)
+	}
+	if hexis.Count("", "/api/v1") != 0 {
+		t.Fatal("hexis must not be contacted after a contract-violating resolve")
+	}
+}
+
+// TestEcosystem_RejectedCredentialSaysSo: 401 and 403 must not read as an
+// outage. "Try again" is advice that never works for a misconfigured token.
+func TestEcosystem_RejectedCredentialSaysSo(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	for _, status := range []int{401, 403} {
+		nexus := newFakeNexus(t, fixtureNexusResolved("ent_muzick", "Muzick indexer", "service"))
+		hexis := newFakeHexis(t, restartCaps(), fixtureHexisExecuted("exec_1", "succeeded"))
+		h := ecoHandler(t, nexus, nil, hexis)
+		nexus.SetFault(status)
+
+		reply := h.handleHexisAct(ctx, actDec("muzick indexer"))
+		if !strings.Contains(reply, "токен") {
+			t.Fatalf("http %d must read as a credential problem, got %q", status, reply)
+		}
+		tr := tracesFor(t, h, "nexus", "resolve")
+		if len(tr) != 1 || tr[0].Status != traceRefused || tr[0].HTTPStatus != status {
+			t.Fatalf("http %d must trace as refused with its status, got %+v", status, tr)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// TestEcosystem_MalformedPraxisBodyDegrades: Praxis has the same decode path
+// Nexus does, and a 200 carrying garbage there is a dependency failure too.
+func TestEcosystem_MalformedPraxisBodyDegrades(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	praxis := newFakePraxis(t, fixturePraxisAttentionItems(map[string]any{
+		"id": "item_1", "title": "disk almost full", "importance": 3.0,
+	}))
+	h := ecoHandler(t, nil, praxis, nil)
+
+	praxis.SetBody(`[{"title":`)
+	reply := h.handlePraxisAct(ctx, praxisActDec("list_attention"))
+	if reply == "" {
+		t.Fatal("a malformed praxis body must not answer with silence")
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(reply, "disk almost full") {
+		t.Fatalf("a malformed body must not produce content, got %q", reply)
 	}
 }
 
@@ -168,13 +274,60 @@ func TestEcosystem_ExecutionFailureIsNotSuccess(t *testing.T) {
 	if reply == "" {
 		t.Fatal("failed execution must say something")
 	}
-	for _, f := range traceFacts(t, h) {
+	for _, tr := range tracesFor(t, h, "hexis", "execute") {
-		if strings.HasPrefix(f.Key, "praxis:hexis:") {
+		if tr.Status == traceOK {
-			t.Fatalf("failed execution must not write a success trace: %+v", f)
+			t.Fatalf("failed execution must not write a success trace: %+v", tr)
 		}
 	}
 }
 
+// TestEcosystem_SuccessfulActionWritesATrace is the positive half the failure
+// assertions above depend on: without it, "no success trace" passes with the
+// trace writer deleted. It was, for a while — both writers used a fact kind the
+// store's CHECK constraint rejects and the error was discarded.
+func TestEcosystem_SuccessfulActionWritesATrace(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	nexus := newFakeNexus(t, fixtureNexusResolved("ent_muzick", "Muzick indexer", "service"))
+	hexis := newFakeHexis(t, restartCaps(), fixtureHexisExecuted("exec_1", "succeeded"))
+	h := ecoHandler(t, nexus, nil, hexis)
+
+	if reply := h.handleHexisAct(ctx, actDec("muzick indexer")); !strings.Contains(reply, "выполнена") {
+		t.Fatalf("setup: expected success, got %q", reply)
+	}
+	exec := tracesFor(t, h, "hexis", "execute")
+	if len(exec) != 1 || exec[0].Status != traceOK {
+		t.Fatalf("a successful execution must leave exactly one ok trace, got %+v", exec)
+	}
+	if exec[0].CorrelationID == "" {
+		t.Error("a trace with no correlation id cannot be stitched to anything")
+	}
+}
+
+// TestEcosystem_TracesStayOutOfFacts: traces are written at machine rate and
+// facts at human rate. One act turn used to write four fact rows, which pushed
+// his facts out of every bounded reader (the habit profile's window, memeval's
+// prompt, /dash, /history).
+func TestEcosystem_TracesStayOutOfFacts(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	nexus := newFakeNexus(t, fixtureNexusResolved("ent_muzick", "Muzick indexer", "service"))
+	hexis := newFakeHexis(t, restartCaps(), fixtureHexisExecuted("exec_1", "succeeded"))
+	h := ecoHandler(t, nexus, nil, hexis)
+
+	if reply := h.handleHexisAct(ctx, actDec("muzick indexer")); !strings.Contains(reply, "выполнена") {
+		t.Fatalf("setup: expected success, got %q", reply)
+	}
+	if len(traces(t, h)) == 0 {
+		t.Fatal("setup: expected traces")
+	}
+	facts, err := h.dataStore.RecentFacts(ctx, 100)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("read facts: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(facts) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("an ecosystem act must write no facts at all, got %+v", facts)
+	}
+}
+
 // TestEcosystem_AmbiguousTargetBlocksExecution: ambiguity blocks mutation, and
 // the clarification must name the candidates rather than pick one.
 func TestEcosystem_AmbiguousTargetBlocksExecution(t *testing.T) {
@@ -245,12 +398,10 @@ func TestEcosystem_MutatingCapabilityWaitsForConfirmation(t *testing.T) {
 // downgrades bookkeeping, not the answer.
 func TestEcosystem_SurfaceFailureStillDelivers(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx := context.Background()
-	praxis := newFakeServer(t, map[string]http.HandlerFunc{
+	praxis := newFakePraxis(t, fixturePraxisAttentionItems(
-		"GET /api/v1/tools/attention": jsonHandler(200, fixturePraxisAttentionItems(
+		map[string]any{"id": "item_1", "title": "disk almost full", "importance": 3.0},
-			map[string]any{"id": "item_1", "title": "disk almost full", "importance": 3.0},
+	))
-		)),
+	praxis.SetRouteFault("/api/v1/tools/surface", 500)
-		"POST /api/v1/tools/surface": jsonHandler(500, `{"error":"boom"}`),
-	})
 	h := ecoHandler(t, nil, praxis, nil)
 
 	reply := h.handlePraxisAct(ctx, praxisActDec("list_attention"))
@@ -278,7 +429,7 @@ func TestEcosystem_TotalOutageSaysSoForEveryPath(t *testing.T) {
 		"hexis act":   h.handleHexisAct(ctx, actDec("muzick indexer")),
 		"attention":   h.handlePraxisAct(ctx, praxisActDec("list_attention")),
 		"changes":     h.handlePraxisAct(ctx, praxisActDec("list_changes")),
-		"acknowledge": h.handlePraxisAct(ctx, praxisActDec("acknowledge_item")),
+		"acknowledge": h.handlePraxisAct(ctx, praxisItemDec("acknowledge_item", "item_1")),
 	} {
 		if reply == "" {
 			t.Errorf("%s: total outage must not answer with silence", name)
@@ -287,8 +438,13 @@ func TestEcosystem_TotalOutageSaysSoForEveryPath(t *testing.T) {
 			t.Errorf("%s: total outage must not claim success: %q", name, reply)
 		}
 	}
-	if len(traceFacts(t, h)) != 0 {
+	for _, tr := range traces(t, h) {
-		t.Fatal("a total outage must not leave success traces behind")
+		if tr.Status == traceOK {
+			t.Fatalf("a total outage must not leave success traces behind: %+v", tr)
+		}
+	}
+	if len(tracesFor(t, h, "praxis", "acknowledge")) == 0 {
+		t.Fatal("the acknowledge arm must reach praxis and record the refusal")
 	}
 }
 

cmd/mavend/ecosystem_harness_test.go

@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ func praxisActDec(fn string) router.Decision {
 	return router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentAct, Slots: router.Slots{Fn: fn, HasFn: true}}
 }
 
+// praxisItemDec is praxisActDec for the lifecycle verbs, which need an item id
+// in the value slot. Without one they answer "which item?" and never reach
+// Praxis at all, which makes them useless for testing a Praxis outage.
+func praxisItemDec(fn, itemID string) router.Decision {
+	return router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentAct, Slots: router.Slots{Fn: fn, HasFn: true, Value: itemID}}
+}
+
 func newPraxisTestHandler(t *testing.T, praxis *fakeServer) *reactiveHandler {
 	t.Helper()
 	st := newTestStore(t)

cmd/mavend/ecosystem_test.go

@@ -59,8 +59,11 @@ func newHexisTestHandler(t *testing.T, resolveBody string, caps string) (*reacti
 	}, executed
 }
 
-func actDec(text string) router.Decision {
+// actDec builds an act decision about subject. The verb is always "restart":
-	return router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentAct, Slots: router.Slots{Text: text, Fn: "restart", HasFn: true}}
+// the argument is the utterance the entity is resolved from, never the verb,
+// so actDec("restart") reads as a verb and is not one.
+func actDec(subject string) router.Decision {
+	return router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentAct, Slots: router.Slots{Text: subject, Fn: "restart", HasFn: true}}
 }
 
 func TestHexisMutatingRequiresConfirm(t *testing.T) {

cmd/mavend/ecosystem_trace_test.go

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"context"
-	"encoding/json"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
@@ -11,34 +10,12 @@ import (
 
 // Versioning, authentication and tracing of ecosystem calls (Vikunja #273).
 
-func ecoTraces(t *testing.T, h *reactiveHandler) []map[string]any {
+func findTrace(t *testing.T, h *reactiveHandler, service, op string) *store.EcosystemTrace {
 	t.Helper()
-	facts, err := h.dataStore.RecentFacts(context.Background(), 100)
+	for _, tr := range traces(t, h) {
-	if err != nil {
+		if tr.Service == service && tr.Operation == op {
-		t.Fatalf("read facts: %v", err)
+			found := tr
-	}
+			return &found
-	var out []map[string]any
-	for _, f := range facts {
-		if f.Source != "ecosystem:trace" {
-			continue
-		}
-		i := strings.Index(f.Value, "{")
-		if i < 0 {
-			t.Fatalf("trace fact carries no detail object: %q", f.Value)
-		}
-		var d map[string]any
-		if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(f.Value[i:]), &d); err != nil {
-			t.Fatalf("decode trace %q: %v", f.Value, err)
-		}
-		out = append(out, d)
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
-func findTrace(traces []map[string]any, service, op string) map[string]any {
-	for _, d := range traces {
-		if d["service"] == service && d["operation"] == op {
-			return d
 		}
 	}
 	return nil
@@ -58,7 +35,9 @@ func TestEcosystemHeaders_VersionRequesterAndAuth(t *testing.T) {
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("resolve: %v", err)
 	}
-	if _, err := h.ecosystem.praxis.ListAttention(ctx, 5); err != nil {
+	// A bare client call carries whatever the caller assigned. Entry points
+	// assign the ID, the header layer only reads it, so mirror an action here.
+	if _, err := h.ecosystem.praxis.ListAttention(withCorrelationID(ctx, newCorrelationID()), 5); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("attention: %v", err)
 	}
 
@@ -167,31 +146,69 @@ func TestEcosystemTrace_SuccessfulActionTracesEveryHop(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("setup: expected success, got %q", reply)
 	}
 
-	traces := ecoTraces(t, h)
+	var chain string
 	for _, want := range [][2]string{{"nexus", "resolve"}, {"hexis", "capabilities"}, {"hexis", "execute"}} {
-		d := findTrace(traces, want[0], want[1])
+		d := findTrace(t, h, want[0], want[1])
 		if d == nil {
-			t.Fatalf("missing trace for %s %s, got %+v", want[0], want[1], traces)
+			t.Fatalf("missing trace for %s %s, got %+v", want[0], want[1], traces(t, h))
 		}
-		if d["status"] != traceOK {
+		if d.Status != traceOK {
-			t.Errorf("%s %s status = %v, want ok", want[0], want[1], d["status"])
+			t.Errorf("%s %s status = %v, want ok", want[0], want[1], d.Status)
 		}
-		if _, ok := d["duration_ms"]; !ok {
+		if d.CorrelationID == "" {
-			t.Errorf("%s %s trace has no timing", want[0], want[1])
-		}
-		if d["correlation_id"] == nil || d["correlation_id"] == "" {
 			t.Errorf("%s %s trace has no correlation id", want[0], want[1])
 		}
+		if want[1] != "execute" {
+			if chain == "" {
+				chain = d.CorrelationID
+			} else if d.CorrelationID != chain {
+				t.Errorf("%s %s left the correlation chain: %s != %s", want[0], want[1], d.CorrelationID, chain)
+			}
+		}
 	}
-	exec := findTrace(traces, "hexis", "execute")
+	exec := findTrace(t, h, "hexis", "execute")
-	if exec["causation_id"] == nil || exec["causation_id"] == "" {
+	if exec.CausationID == "" {
 		t.Error("execute trace must carry the causation id of the turn that caused it")
 	}
-	if exec["correlation_id"] == exec["causation_id"] {
+	if exec.CorrelationID == exec.CausationID {
 		t.Error("execute correlation and causation must be distinguishable")
 	}
 }
 
+// TestEcosystemTrace_OneCorrelationIDPerPraxisAction: a digest calls attention
+// once and surface once per item. All of it is one turn, so the far side must
+// see one ID and not N+1 unrelated ones.
+func TestEcosystemTrace_OneCorrelationIDPerPraxisAction(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	praxis := newFakePraxis(t, fixturePraxisAttentionItems(
+		map[string]any{"id": "item_1", "title": "disk almost full", "importance": 3.0},
+		map[string]any{"id": "item_2", "title": "backup is stale", "importance": 2.0},
+	))
+	h := ecoHandler(t, nil, praxis, nil)
+
+	if reply := h.handlePraxisAct(ctx, praxisActDec("list_attention")); !strings.Contains(reply, "disk almost full") {
+		t.Fatalf("setup: expected the digest, got %q", reply)
+	}
+
+	reqs := praxis.Requests()
+	if len(reqs) < 3 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected attention plus one surface per item, got %d requests", len(reqs))
+	}
+	first := reqs[0].Header.Get("X-Correlation-ID")
+	if first == "" {
+		t.Fatal("every ecosystem request must carry a correlation id")
+	}
+	for _, r := range reqs {
+		if got := r.Header.Get("X-Correlation-ID"); got != first {
+			t.Fatalf("%s %s carried %q, want the action's id %q", r.Method, r.Path, got, first)
+		}
+	}
+	tr := findTrace(t, h, "praxis", "list_attention")
+	if tr == nil || tr.CorrelationID != first {
+		t.Fatalf("the trace must carry the id that was actually sent, got %+v", tr)
+	}
+}
+
 // TestEcosystemTrace_FailuresAreTracedToo: the whole point of the change —
 // a failed hop is exactly the one worth having recorded.
 func TestEcosystemTrace_FailuresAreTracedToo(t *testing.T) {
@@ -203,18 +220,39 @@ func TestEcosystemTrace_FailuresAreTracedToo(t *testing.T) {
 
 	_ = h.handleHexisAct(ctx, actDec("muzick indexer"))
 
-	d := findTrace(ecoTraces(t, h), "nexus", "resolve")
+	d := findTrace(t, h, "nexus", "resolve")
 	if d == nil {
 		t.Fatal("a failed resolve must still be traced")
 	}
-	if d["status"] != traceFailed {
+	if d.Status != traceRefused {
-		t.Errorf("status = %v, want failed", d["status"])
+		t.Errorf("status = %v, want refused: the far side answered", d.Status)
 	}
-	if d["class"] != "unauthorized" {
+	if d.Fields["class"] != "unauthorized" {
-		t.Errorf("class = %v, want unauthorized", d["class"])
+		t.Errorf("class = %v, want unauthorized", d.Fields["class"])
 	}
-	if d["http_status"] != float64(401) {
+	if d.HTTPStatus != 401 {
-		t.Errorf("http_status = %v, want 401", d["http_status"])
+		t.Errorf("http_status = %v, want 401", d.HTTPStatus)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestEcosystemTrace_UnreachableIsNotRefused: never got an answer and answered
+// with a refusal are different failures, and the trace must say which.
+func TestEcosystemTrace_UnreachableIsNotRefused(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	h := ecoHandler(t, nil, nil, nil)
+	h.ecosystem.nexus = newNexusClient("http://127.0.0.1:1")
+
+	_ = h.handleHexisAct(ctx, actDec("muzick indexer"))
+
+	d := findTrace(t, h, "nexus", "resolve")
+	if d == nil {
+		t.Fatal("an unreachable resolve must still be traced")
+	}
+	if d.Status != traceFailed {
+		t.Errorf("status = %v, want failed", d.Status)
+	}
+	if d.Fields["class"] != "unreachable" {
+		t.Errorf("class = %v, want unreachable", d.Fields["class"])
 	}
 }
 
@@ -227,28 +265,23 @@ func TestEcosystemTrace_RedactsTheUtterance(t *testing.T) {
 
 	_ = h.handleHexisAct(ctx, actDec("перезапусти кофемашину"))
 
-	facts, err := h.dataStore.RecentFacts(ctx, 100)
+	recorded := traces(t, h)
-	if err != nil {
+	if len(recorded) == 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("read facts: %v", err)
-	}
-	var traced []store.Fact
-	for _, f := range facts {
-		if f.Source == "ecosystem:trace" {
-			traced = append(traced, f)
-		}
-		if strings.Contains(f.Value, "кофемашину") && f.Source == "ecosystem:trace" {
-			t.Fatalf("trace leaked the utterance: %q", f.Value)
-		}
-	}
-	if len(traced) == 0 {
 		t.Fatal("expected a not_found resolve trace")
 	}
-	d := findTrace(ecoTraces(t, h), "nexus", "resolve")
+	for _, tr := range recorded {
-	if d["status"] != traceNotFound {
+		for k, v := range tr.Fields {
-		t.Errorf("status = %v, want not_found", d["status"])
+			if s, ok := v.(string); ok && strings.Contains(s, "кофемашину") {
+				t.Fatalf("trace leaked the utterance in %s: %q", k, s)
+			}
+		}
 	}
-	if d["subject"] != redactSubject("перезапусти кофемашину") {
+	d := findTrace(t, h, "nexus", "resolve")
-		t.Errorf("subject = %v, want a redacted length", d["subject"])
+	if d.Status != traceNotFound {
+		t.Errorf("status = %v, want not_found", d.Status)
+	}
+	if d.Fields["subject"] != redactSubject("перезапусти кофемашину") {
+		t.Errorf("subject = %v, want a redacted length", d.Fields["subject"])
 	}
 }
 
@@ -263,7 +296,7 @@ func TestEcosystemTrace_AmbiguityAndConfirmationAreRecorded(t *testing.T) {
 	hexis := newFakeHexis(t, restartCaps(), fixtureHexisExecuted("exec_1", "succeeded"))
 	h := ecoHandler(t, ambig, nil, hexis)
 	_ = h.handleHexisAct(ctx, actDec("muzick"))
-	if d := findTrace(ecoTraces(t, h), "nexus", "resolve"); d == nil || d["status"] != traceAmbig {
+	if d := findTrace(t, h, "nexus", "resolve"); d == nil || d.Status != traceAmbig {
 		t.Fatalf("ambiguous resolve must be traced as such, got %+v", d)
 	}
 
@@ -271,7 +304,13 @@ func TestEcosystemTrace_AmbiguityAndConfirmationAreRecorded(t *testing.T) {
 	mutating := fixtureHexisCapabilities(map[string]any{"id": "cap_restart", "name": "restart", "read_only": false})
 	h2 := ecoHandler(t, nexus, nil, newFakeHexis(t, mutating, fixtureHexisExecuted("exec_1", "succeeded")))
 	_ = h2.handleHexisAct(ctx, actDec("restart"))
-	if d := findTrace(ecoTraces(t, h2), "hexis", "confirmation"); d == nil || d["status"] != "pending" {
+	d := findTrace(t, h2, "hexis", "confirmation")
+	if d == nil || d.Status != tracePending {
 		t.Fatalf("a parked confirmation must be traced, got %+v", d)
 	}
+	// The confirmation hop is measured from the top of the action, not from
+	// the instant it is recorded, which was always zero.
+	if d.DurationMs == 0 {
+		t.Error("the confirmation trace must report the time the action took to get there")
+	}
 }

cmd/mavend/entityrefs_test.go

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ func entityAttentionDec(subject string) router.Decision {
 func TestEntityAttention_ScopesPraxisByCanonicalID(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx := context.Background()
 	nexus := newFakeNexus(t, fixtureNexusResolved("ent_muzick", "Muzick indexer", "service"))
-	praxis := newFakePraxis(t, fixturePraxisAttentionItems(
+	praxis := newFakePraxis(t, fixturePraxisAttentionScoped("ent_muzick",
 		map[string]any{"id": "item_1", "title": "indexer queue is backing up", "importance": 3.0},
 	))
 	h := ecoHandler(t, nexus, praxis, nil)
@@ -76,6 +76,76 @@ func TestEntityAttention_FoldsInLocalFactsForSameEntity(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// TestEntityAttention_UnscopedPraxisResponseIsRefused: a Praxis old enough to
+// ignore the entity_id parameter answers the scoped question with the whole
+// unscoped list. Relabelling those items "по «X»" is the same fabrication the
+// canonical ref exists to prevent, arriving through a different door.
+func TestEntityAttention_UnscopedPraxisResponseIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	nexus := newFakeNexus(t, fixtureNexusResolved("ent_muzick", "Muzick indexer", "service"))
+	praxis := newFakePraxis(t, fixturePraxisAttentionItems(
+		map[string]any{"id": "item_1", "title": "disk almost full", "importance": 3.0},
+	))
+	h := ecoHandler(t, nexus, praxis, nil)
+
+	reply := h.handlePraxisAct(ctx, entityAttentionDec("muzick indexer"))
+	if strings.Contains(reply, "disk almost full") {
+		t.Fatalf("an unscoped response must not be read back as entity-scoped, got %q", reply)
+	}
+	if reply == "" {
+		t.Fatal("refusing the answer must still say something")
+	}
+	if praxis.Count("POST", "/api/v1/tools/surface") != 0 {
+		t.Error("items that were never spoken must not be surfaced")
+	}
+}
+
+// TestEntityAttention_ForeignItemsAreDropped: items tagged with another entity
+// are dropped rather than spoken under this entity's name.
+func TestEntityAttention_ForeignItemsAreDropped(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	nexus := newFakeNexus(t, fixtureNexusResolved("ent_muzick", "Muzick indexer", "service"))
+	mixed := []map[string]any{
+		{"id": "item_1", "title": "indexer queue is backing up", "importance": 3.0, "entity_id": "ent_muzick"},
+		{"id": "item_2", "title": "the kettle is descaling", "importance": 1.0, "entity_id": "ent_kettle"},
+	}
+	praxis := newFakePraxis(t, mustJSON(mixed))
+	h := ecoHandler(t, nexus, praxis, nil)
+
+	reply := h.handlePraxisAct(ctx, entityAttentionDec("muzick indexer"))
+	if !strings.Contains(reply, "indexer queue is backing up") {
+		t.Fatalf("the matching item must be spoken, got %q", reply)
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(reply, "kettle") {
+		t.Fatalf("another entity's item must not be spoken here, got %q", reply)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestEntityAttention_TruncationIsNamed: reading three of many remembered
+// facts must not be presented as everything she knows.
+func TestEntityAttention_TruncationIsNamed(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	nexus := newFakeNexus(t, fixtureNexusResolved("ent_espresso", "the espresso machine", "device"))
+	praxis := newFakePraxis(t, fixturePraxisAttentionItems())
+	h := ecoHandler(t, nexus, praxis, nil)
+
+	for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
+		id, err := h.dataStore.WriteFactAboutSubject(ctx, time.Now(), store.KindEnv,
+			"note", "the espresso machine", "факт "+string(rune('а'+i)), "infer:pref", 0.8, sql.NullInt64{})
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("WriteFactAboutSubject: %v", err)
+		}
+		if err := h.dataStore.ResolveFactEntity(ctx, id, "ent_espresso", store.ResolutionResolved); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("ResolveFactEntity: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	reply := h.handlePraxisAct(ctx, entityAttentionDec("the espresso machine"))
+	if !strings.Contains(reply, "и это не всё") {
+		t.Fatalf("a truncated recall must say it is truncated, got %q", reply)
+	}
+}
+
 // TestEntityAttention_AmbiguousAsksInsteadOfGuessing.
 func TestEntityAttention_AmbiguousAsksInsteadOfGuessing(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx := context.Background()
@@ -145,7 +215,7 @@ func TestEntityAttention_WithoutNexusSaysSo(t *testing.T) {
 
 	reply := h.handlePraxisAct(ctx, entityAttentionDec("muzick indexer"))
 	if strings.Contains(reply, "disk almost full") {
-		t.Fatalf("unscoped items must not be passed off as entity-scoped, got %q", reply)
+		t.Fatalf("without nexus, items must not be passed off as entity-scoped, got %q", reply)
 	}
 	if praxis.Count("GET", "/api/v1/tools/attention") != 0 {
 		t.Fatal("no canonical ref means no scoped query at all")
@@ -211,3 +281,78 @@ func TestEnrichmentBackoff_GrowsAndIsCapped(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("backoff must cap at an hour, got %v", enrichmentBackoff(50))
 	}
 }
+
+// TestEnrichment_BackedOffFactsDoNotStallTheQueue: the pending queue is ordered
+// by id, so the oldest facts are pulled first whether or not they are eligible.
+// A batch of facts in backoff at the head must not hold every slot and stop
+// enrichment for everything younger.
+func TestEnrichment_BackedOffFactsDoNotStallTheQueue(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	st := newTestStore(t)
+	total := 5
+	for i := 0; i < total; i++ {
+		if _, err := st.WriteFactAboutSubject(ctx, time.Now(), store.KindEnv, "likes",
+			"subject-"+string(rune('a'+i)), `"true"`, "infer:pref", 0.8, sql.NullInt64{}); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("WriteFactAboutSubject: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	nexus := newFakeNexus(t, fixtureNexusResolved("ent_x", "X", "service"))
+	clock := newFakeClock(time.Date(2026, 8, 1, 3, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC))
+	w := newFactEnrichmentWorker(st, stubEcosystem(nexus.URL, ""), time.Hour)
+	w.now = clock.Now
+	// A batch smaller than the queue, so with no scan the last fact never
+	// reaches the head while the first ones are backed off.
+	w.batch = total - 1
+
+	nexus.SetFault(503)
+	w.tick(ctx)
+	if got := nexus.Count("POST", "/api/v1/resolve"); got != total-1 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected the first batch attempted, got %d calls", got)
+	}
+
+	// Second tick with Nexus healthy: the backed-off head must be skipped and
+	// the fact behind it resolved, not the same batch pulled and dropped.
+	nexus.SetFault(0)
+	w.tick(ctx)
+	facts, err := st.FactsByEntity(ctx, "ent_x", 10)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("FactsByEntity: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(facts) == 0 {
+		t.Fatal("a due fact behind a backed-off batch must still be resolved")
+	}
+}
+
+// TestEnrichment_StoreWriteFailureBacksOffToo: the one failure mode where the
+// resolve worked and the write did not must be paced like any other, not
+// retried at full rate forever.
+func TestEnrichment_StoreWriteFailureBacksOffToo(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	nexus := newFakeNexus(t, fixtureNexusResolved("ent_espresso", "the espresso machine", "device"))
+	st := newTestStore(t)
+	if _, err := st.WriteFactAboutSubject(ctx, time.Now(), store.KindEnv, "likes",
+		"the espresso machine", `"true"`, "infer:pref", 0.8, sql.NullInt64{}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("WriteFactAboutSubject: %v", err)
+	}
+	pending, err := st.PendingFactResolutions(ctx, 10)
+	if err != nil || len(pending) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("setup: pending = %+v, %v", pending, err)
+	}
+
+	clock := newFakeClock(time.Date(2026, 8, 1, 3, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC))
+	w := newFactEnrichmentWorker(st, stubEcosystem(nexus.URL, ""), time.Hour)
+	w.now = clock.Now
+
+	// Closing the store makes the resolution write fail while the Nexus call
+	// still succeeds — the split this path gets wrong.
+	if err := st.Close(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("close store: %v", err)
+	}
+	if w.resolveOne(ctx, pending[0]) {
+		t.Fatal("a failed store write must not report success")
+	}
+	if w.due(pending[0].ID) {
+		t.Fatal("a failed store write must back the fact off like a failed resolve")
+	}
+}

cmd/mavend/factenrichment.go

@@ -35,9 +35,15 @@ type factEnrichmentWorker struct {
 	mu      sync.Mutex
 	attempt map[int64]int       // fact id → consecutive failures
 	nextTry map[int64]time.Time // fact id → earliest retry
-	skipped int                 // facts held back by backoff on the last tick
 }
 
+// enrichmentScanLimit bounds how deep a single tick (or status report) walks
+// the pending queue looking for facts whose backoff has elapsed. The queue is
+// ordered by id, so without a scan the oldest facts hold every batch slot
+// whether or not they are eligible, and one permanently failing fact stalls
+// every younger one behind it.
+const enrichmentScanLimit = 1000
+
 // enrichmentBackoff is the wait before retrying a fact after n consecutive
 // failures, capped so a long Nexus outage still retries about hourly.
 func enrichmentBackoff(n int) time.Duration {
@@ -64,26 +70,39 @@ func newFactEnrichmentWorker(st *store.Store, eco *ecosystemWiring, interval tim
 }
 
 // enrichmentStatus is what the worker reports about its own health: how many
-// facts are waiting, how many are currently in backoff, and the worst retry
+// facts are waiting, how many of those are currently in backoff, and the worst
-// count seen. Degradation is reported, never hidden — a Nexus that has been
+// retry count among them. Degradation is reported, never hidden — a Nexus that
-// down all day must be visible as a backlog, not as facts that silently
+// has been down all day must be visible as a backlog, not as facts that
-// never got tagged.
+// silently never got tagged.
+//
+// All three numbers describe the same set of rows, the first
+// enrichmentScanLimit pending facts. Counting Pending over a thousand rows
+// while counting InBackoff over the twenty that reached the head of a batch
+// described two different populations under one struct.
 type enrichmentStatus struct {
 	Pending     int
 	InBackoff   int
 	MaxAttempts int
+	Scanned     int // rows the other three counts were taken over
 }
 
 func (w *factEnrichmentWorker) status(ctx context.Context) enrichmentStatus {
 	var st enrichmentStatus
-	if pending, err := w.store.PendingFactResolutions(ctx, 1000); err == nil {
+	pending, err := w.store.PendingFactResolutions(ctx, enrichmentScanLimit)
-		st.Pending = len(pending)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Printf("factenrichment: status: %v", err)
+		return st
 	}
+	st.Pending = len(pending)
+	st.Scanned = len(pending)
 	w.mu.Lock()
 	defer w.mu.Unlock()
-	st.InBackoff = w.skipped
+	now := w.now()
-	for _, n := range w.attempt {
+	for _, f := range pending {
-		if n > st.MaxAttempts {
+		if next, ok := w.nextTry[f.ID]; ok && now.Before(next) {
+			st.InBackoff++
+		}
+		if n := w.attempt[f.ID]; n > st.MaxAttempts {
 			st.MaxAttempts = n
 		}
 	}
@@ -112,27 +131,65 @@ func (w *factEnrichmentWorker) run(ctx context.Context) {
 }
 
 func (w *factEnrichmentWorker) tick(ctx context.Context) {
-	pending, err := w.store.PendingFactResolutions(ctx, w.batch)
+	// Scan past the facts that are still in backoff instead of letting them
+	// occupy the batch. The queue is ordered by id, so the oldest facts are
+	// pulled first whether or not they are eligible: twenty facts Nexus keeps
+	// rejecting would otherwise hold every slot forever and enrichment would
+	// stop with no error and no log line, because a tick that skips everything
+	// fails nothing.
+	pending, err := w.store.PendingFactResolutions(ctx, enrichmentScanLimit)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Printf("factenrichment: list pending: %v", err)
 		return
 	}
-	skipped, failed := 0, 0
+	w.forgetDeparted(pending)
+	skipped, failed, attempted := 0, 0, 0
 	for _, f := range pending {
+		if attempted >= w.batch {
+			break
+		}
 		if !w.due(f.ID) {
 			skipped++
 			continue
 		}
+		attempted++
 		if !w.resolveOne(ctx, f) {
 			failed++
 		}
 	}
-	w.mu.Lock()
-	w.skipped = skipped
-	w.mu.Unlock()
 	if failed > 0 {
 		log.Printf("factenrichment: %d/%d resolutions failed this tick, %d held in backoff",
-			failed, len(pending), skipped)
+			failed, attempted, skipped)
+	}
+	// Report the backlog every tick, not only when something failed: the
+	// stalled state worth seeing is the one where nothing failed because
+	// nothing was attempted.
+	if st := w.status(ctx); st.Pending > 0 {
+		log.Printf("factenrichment: %d facts pending entity resolution, %d in backoff, worst attempt %d (scanned %d)",
+			st.Pending, st.InBackoff, st.MaxAttempts, st.Scanned)
+	}
+}
+
+// forgetDeparted drops retry state for facts that are no longer pending. A
+// fact can leave the queue without ever resolving here — voided, or resolved
+// by a later write — and its entries would otherwise live as long as the
+// process does.
+func (w *factEnrichmentWorker) forgetDeparted(pending []store.Fact) {
+	live := make(map[int64]struct{}, len(pending))
+	for _, f := range pending {
+		live[f.ID] = struct{}{}
+	}
+	w.mu.Lock()
+	defer w.mu.Unlock()
+	for id := range w.attempt {
+		if _, ok := live[id]; !ok {
+			delete(w.attempt, id)
+		}
+	}
+	for id := range w.nextTry {
+		if _, ok := live[id]; !ok {
+			delete(w.nextTry, id)
+		}
 	}
 }
 
@@ -150,17 +207,11 @@ func (w *factEnrichmentWorker) resolveOne(ctx context.Context, f store.Fact) boo
 	entityID, _, ambiguous, err := w.eco.resolveEntityReference(ctx, f.Subject, nil)
 	if err != nil {
 		// Transient (Nexus unreachable) — leave pending, back off, retry later.
-		log.Printf("factenrichment: resolve fact %d subject %q: %v", f.ID, f.Subject, err)
+		// The subject is his words: log its length, the way the trace does.
-		w.mu.Lock()
+		log.Printf("factenrichment: resolve fact %d subject %s: %v", f.ID, redactSubject(f.Subject), err)
-		w.attempt[f.ID]++
+		w.backOff(f.ID)
-		w.nextTry[f.ID] = w.now().Add(enrichmentBackoff(w.attempt[f.ID]))
-		w.mu.Unlock()
 		return false
 	}
-	w.mu.Lock()
-	delete(w.attempt, f.ID)
-	delete(w.nextTry, f.ID)
-	w.mu.Unlock()
 	state := store.ResolutionNotFound
 	switch {
 	case entityID != "":
@@ -169,8 +220,25 @@ func (w *factEnrichmentWorker) resolveOne(ctx context.Context, f store.Fact) boo
 		state = store.ResolutionAmbiguous
 	}
 	if err := w.store.ResolveFactEntity(ctx, f.ID, entityID, state); err != nil {
+		// A failed write leaves the fact pending exactly like a failed resolve
+		// does, so it gets the same pacing. Clearing the counters first meant
+		// this one path retried every tick, at full rate, with no ceiling.
 		log.Printf("factenrichment: record resolution for fact %d: %v", f.ID, err)
+		w.backOff(f.ID)
 		return false
 	}
+	w.mu.Lock()
+	delete(w.attempt, f.ID)
+	delete(w.nextTry, f.ID)
+	w.mu.Unlock()
 	return true
 }
+
+// backOff records one more consecutive failure for a fact and pushes its next
+// attempt out accordingly.
+func (w *factEnrichmentWorker) backOff(id int64) {
+	w.mu.Lock()
+	defer w.mu.Unlock()
+	w.attempt[id]++
+	w.nextTry[id] = w.now().Add(enrichmentBackoff(w.attempt[id]))
+}

cmd/mavend/fakeecosystem_test.go

@@ -27,11 +27,12 @@ type capturedRequest struct {
 type fakeServer struct {
 	*httptest.Server
 
-	mu       sync.Mutex
+	mu          sync.Mutex
-	requests []capturedRequest
+	requests    []capturedRequest
-	fault    int    // non-zero: every request gets this HTTP status instead of routing
+	fault       int            // non-zero: every request gets this HTTP status instead of routing
-	garbage  string // non-empty: returned 200 verbatim instead of routing (malformed-contract lever)
+	routeFaults map[string]int // path prefix → status, for one endpoint failing alone
-	delay    time.Duration
+	garbage     string         // non-empty: returned 200 verbatim instead of routing (malformed-contract lever)
+	delay       time.Duration
 }
 
 // newFakeServer starts a server dispatching to routes keyed by "METHOD
@@ -59,6 +60,14 @@ func newFakeServer(t *testing.T, routes map[string]http.HandlerFunc) *fakeServer
 			Header: r.Header.Clone(),
 		})
 		fault := fs.fault
+		if fault == 0 {
+			for prefix, status := range fs.routeFaults {
+				if hasPrefix(r.URL.Path, prefix) {
+					fault = status
+					break
+				}
+			}
+		}
 		garbage := fs.garbage
 		delay := fs.delay
 		fs.mu.Unlock()
@@ -114,6 +123,22 @@ func (fs *fakeServer) SetFault(status int) {
 	fs.fault = status
 }
 
+// SetRouteFault fails one endpoint while the rest of the server stays healthy,
+// which is the shape most real outages take: attention answers and pin is
+// down. Pass 0 to clear that route. A server-wide SetFault still wins.
+func (fs *fakeServer) SetRouteFault(pathPrefix string, status int) {
+	fs.mu.Lock()
+	defer fs.mu.Unlock()
+	if fs.routeFaults == nil {
+		fs.routeFaults = map[string]int{}
+	}
+	if status == 0 {
+		delete(fs.routeFaults, pathPrefix)
+		return
+	}
+	fs.routeFaults[pathPrefix] = status
+}
+
 // SetBody makes every subsequent request answer 200 with the given body,
 // bypassing the route table. Used to serve a malformed or contract-violating
 // payload where the transport itself is healthy. Pass "" to clear it.
@@ -198,6 +223,14 @@ func fixtureNexusResolvedFuture(entityID, displayName, entityType string) string
 	})
 }
 
+// fixtureNexusResolvedEmpty is the contract violation that decodes cleanly:
+// Nexus claims a resolve and delivers no entity. It must not read as "no such
+// entity", which would let the caller fall through to local execution with the
+// user's verb intact.
+func fixtureNexusResolvedEmpty() string {
+	return `{"status":"resolved"}`
+}
+
 func fixtureNexusNotFound() string {
 	return `{"status":"not_found"}`
 }
@@ -225,6 +258,16 @@ func fixtureHexisExecutionFailed(id, message string) string {
 	return mustJSON(map[string]any{"id": id, "status": "failed", "error": message})
 }
 
+// fixturePraxisAttentionScoped tags each item with an entity_id, which is what
+// a Praxis that understands the entity_id query parameter returns. A Praxis
+// that ignores it answers with untagged items from every entity.
+func fixturePraxisAttentionScoped(entityID string, items ...map[string]any) string {
+	for _, item := range items {
+		item["entity_id"] = entityID
+	}
+	return mustJSON(items)
+}
+
 func fixturePraxisAttentionItems(items ...map[string]any) string {
 	return mustJSON(items)
 }
@@ -243,18 +286,28 @@ func mustJSON(v any) string {
 // (e.g. asserting age-based digest ordering without sleeping).
 
 type fakeClock struct {
-	mu sync.Mutex
+	mu   sync.Mutex
-	t  time.Time
+	t    time.Time
+	step time.Duration // advanced on every read, so elapsed time is measurable
 }
 
 func newFakeClock(start time.Time) *fakeClock {
 	return &fakeClock{t: start}
 }
 
+// newTickingClock advances by step on every read. Durations measured across
+// hops are then non-zero without sleeping, which is what lets a test tell a
+// trace that measured something from one that measured nothing.
+func newTickingClock(start time.Time, step time.Duration) *fakeClock {
+	return &fakeClock{t: start, step: step}
+}
+
 func (c *fakeClock) Now() time.Time {
 	c.mu.Lock()
 	defer c.mu.Unlock()
-	return c.t
+	now := c.t
+	c.t = c.t.Add(c.step)
+	return now
 }
 
 func (c *fakeClock) Advance(d time.Duration) {

cmd/mavweb/ecosystem.go

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ import (
 	"net/http"
 	"sync"
 	"time"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/ipc"
 )
 
 // The three sibling services Maven coordinates are headless JSON APIs (no web UI
@@ -84,9 +86,13 @@ type ecoData struct {
 	Nexus  ecoPanel[ecoEntity]
 	Praxis ecoPanel[ecoItem]
 	Hexis  ecoPanel[ecoCap]
+	Calls  ecoPanel[ipc.EcosystemTrace]
 }
 
-func handleEcosystem(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, urls ecoURLs) {
+// handleEcosystem renders the three sibling panels plus Maven's own log of the
+// calls she made to them. The call log comes from core, not from the siblings:
+// it is what Maven saw, including the hops that never got an answer.
+func handleEcosystem(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, urls ecoURLs, core ipc.CoreAPI) {
 	ctx := r.Context()
 	var d ecoData
 	var wg sync.WaitGroup
@@ -102,6 +108,15 @@ func handleEcosystem(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, urls ecoURLs) {
 	go func() { defer wg.Done(); d.Hexis.Err = getEco(ctx, urls.hexis, "/api/v1/capabilities", &d.Hexis.Rows) }()
 	wg.Wait()
 
+	if core == nil {
+		d.Calls.Err = "not configured"
+	} else if rows, err := core.RecentEcosystemTraces(ctx, 50); err != nil {
+		log.Printf("ecosystem traces: %v", err)
+		d.Calls.Err = "core read failed"
+	} else {
+		d.Calls.Rows = rows
+	}
+
 	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/html; charset=utf-8")
 	if err := ecosystemTmpl.Execute(w, d); err != nil {
 		log.Printf("ecosystem render: %v", err)

cmd/mavweb/ecosystem.html

@@ -41,11 +41,24 @@
 {{end}}
 </section>
 
+<section class=card id=eco-calls>
+<div class=section-header>
+<h2>Calls <span class=card-sub>what Maven asked them</span></h2>
+</div>
+{{with .Calls}}
+{{if .Err}}<div class=empty>calls — {{.Err}}</div>
+{{else if not .Rows}}<div class=empty>no ecosystem calls yet.</div>
+{{else}}<div class=scroll><table class=mono><tr><th>when<th>service<th>operation<th>status<th>ms<th>http<th>correlation</tr>
+{{range .Rows}}<tr><td>{{ago .Ts}}<td><span class=badge>{{.Service}}</span><td class=en>{{.Operation}}<td>{{if eq .Status "ok"}}<span class="badge badge-ok">ok</span>{{else}}<span class="badge badge-warn">{{.Status}}</span>{{end}}<td>{{.DurationMs}}<td>{{if .HTTPStatus}}{{.HTTPStatus}}{{else}}—{{end}}<td class=key>{{.CorrelationID}}</tr>{{end}}
+</table></div>{{end}}
+{{end}}
+</section>
+
 {{template "shellBottom"}}
 <script>
 setInterval(() => fetch('/ecosystem').then(r => r.text()).then(html => {
   const d = new DOMParser().parseFromString(html, 'text/html');
-  for (const id of ['eco-nexus', 'eco-praxis', 'eco-hexis']) {
+  for (const id of ['eco-nexus', 'eco-praxis', 'eco-hexis', 'eco-calls']) {
     const old = document.getElementById(id), nu = d.getElementById(id);
     if (old && nu) old.replaceWith(nu);
   }

cmd/mavweb/main.go

@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ func main() {
 	})
 	ecoURLsCfg := ecoURLs{nexus: *nexusURL, praxis: *praxisURL, hexis: *hexisURL}
 	mux.HandleFunc("/ecosystem", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
-		handleEcosystem(w, r, ecoURLsCfg)
+		handleEcosystem(w, r, ecoURLsCfg, core)
 	})
 	// ----- passkey (WebAuthn) endpoints -----
 	// Wired when both -core and a configured origin are present. The origin

internal/ipc/api.go

@@ -24,6 +24,23 @@ type Fact struct {
 	VoidsID    *int64    `json:"voids_id,omitempty"`
 }
 
+// EcosystemTrace — one hop of a cross-service ecosystem call, read by the
+// monitoring surfaces. Traces live in their own store table, not in facts:
+// they are written at machine rate and would otherwise crowd every bounded
+// reader of facts.
+type EcosystemTrace struct {
+	ID            int64          `json:"id"`
+	Ts            time.Time      `json:"ts"`
+	Service       string         `json:"service"`
+	Operation     string         `json:"operation"`
+	Status        string         `json:"status"`
+	DurationMs    int64          `json:"duration_ms"`
+	CorrelationID string         `json:"correlation_id"`
+	CausationID   string         `json:"causation_id"`
+	HTTPStatus    int            `json:"http_status"`
+	Fields        map[string]any `json:"fields,omitempty"`
+}
+
 // Bucket — presence hysteresis state: "present" | "away".
 type Bucket string
 
@@ -616,6 +633,10 @@ type CoreAPI interface {
 	RecentActiveFactsByKind(ctx context.Context, kind string, n int) ([]Fact, error)
 	CalendarEvents(ctx context.Context, from, to time.Time) ([]Fact, error)
 	RecentNudges(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]Nudge, error)
+
+	// RecentEcosystemTraces reads the ecosystem call log, which lives in its
+	// own table so machine-rate traces never crowd out human-rate facts.
+	RecentEcosystemTraces(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]EcosystemTrace, error)
 	WriteNote(ctx context.Context, ts time.Time, text string, embedding []float32, source string) (int64, error)
 	QueryNotes(ctx context.Context, embedding []float32, k int) ([]Note, error)
 	RecentNotes(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]Note, error)

internal/ipc/client.go

@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ var readOnlyMethods = map[Method]bool{
 	MethodRecentActiveFacts:    true,
 	MethodCalendarEvents:       true,
 	MethodRecentNudges:         true,
+	MethodRecentEcoTraces:      true,
 	MethodQueryNotes:           true,
 	MethodRecentNotes:          true,
 	MethodLookupTool:           true,
@@ -351,6 +352,14 @@ func (c *Client) CalendarEvents(ctx context.Context, from, to time.Time) ([]Fact
 	return out, nil
 }
 
+func (c *Client) RecentEcosystemTraces(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]EcosystemTrace, error) {
+	var out []EcosystemTrace
+	if err := c.call(ctx, MethodRecentEcoTraces, nReq{N: n}, &out); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
 func (c *Client) RecentNudges(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]Nudge, error) {
 	var out []Nudge
 	if err := c.call(ctx, MethodRecentNudges, nReq{N: n}, &out); err != nil {

internal/ipc/server.go

@@ -144,6 +144,22 @@ func (a *storeAPI) CalendarEvents(ctx context.Context, from, to time.Time) ([]Fa
 	return out, nil
 }
 
+func (a *storeAPI) RecentEcosystemTraces(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]EcosystemTrace, error) {
+	trs, err := a.s.RecentEcosystemTraces(ctx, n)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, mapErr(err)
+	}
+	out := make([]EcosystemTrace, len(trs))
+	for i, tr := range trs {
+		out[i] = EcosystemTrace{
+			ID: tr.ID, Ts: tr.Ts, Service: tr.Service, Operation: tr.Operation,
+			Status: tr.Status, DurationMs: tr.DurationMs, CorrelationID: tr.CorrelationID,
+			CausationID: tr.CausationID, HTTPStatus: tr.HTTPStatus, Fields: tr.Fields,
+		}
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
 func (a *storeAPI) RecentNudges(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]Nudge, error) {
 	ns, err := a.s.RecentNudges(ctx, n)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -799,6 +815,16 @@ var methodTable = map[Method]handlerFunc{
 		}
 		return out, nil
 	}),
+	MethodRecentEcoTraces: withParams(func(ctx context.Context, api CoreAPI, p nReq) ([]EcosystemTrace, error) {
+		out, err := api.RecentEcosystemTraces(ctx, p.N)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		if out == nil {
+			out = []EcosystemTrace{}
+		}
+		return out, nil
+	}),
 	MethodRecentNudges: withParams(func(ctx context.Context, api CoreAPI, p nReq) ([]Nudge, error) {
 		out, err := api.RecentNudges(ctx, p.N)
 		if err != nil {

internal/ipc/unimplemented.go

@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ func (UnimplementedCoreAPI) CalendarEvents(ctx context.Context, from, to time.Ti
 func (UnimplementedCoreAPI) RecentNudges(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]Nudge, error) {
 	return nil, ErrNotImplemented
 }
+func (UnimplementedCoreAPI) RecentEcosystemTraces(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]EcosystemTrace, error) {
+	return nil, ErrNotImplemented
+}
 func (UnimplementedCoreAPI) WriteNote(ctx context.Context, ts time.Time, text string, embedding []float32, source string) (int64, error) {
 	return 0, ErrNotImplemented
 }

internal/ipc/wire.go

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ const (
 	MethodRecentActiveFacts      Method = "recent_active_facts_by_kind"
 	MethodCalendarEvents         Method = "calendar_events"
 	MethodRecentNudges           Method = "recent_nudges"
+	MethodRecentEcoTraces        Method = "recent_ecosystem_traces"
 	MethodWriteNote              Method = "write_note"
 	MethodQueryNotes             Method = "query_notes"
 	MethodRecentNotes            Method = "recent_notes"

internal/store/ecotraces.go

@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+package store
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// ecosystemTraceRetention is how many trace rows are kept. Traces are
+// diagnostics with a short useful life, and they arrive at machine rate, so
+// the table is bounded rather than append-only. The facts table is the audit
+// trail; this one is not.
+const ecosystemTraceRetention = 5000
+
+// EcosystemTrace is one hop of a cross-service call: which service, which
+// operation, how it ended, how long it took, and the ids that stitch the hops
+// of one turn together. Fields carries the hop-specific detail (entity id,
+// capability, failure class) as a JSON object.
+type EcosystemTrace struct {
+	ID            int64          `json:"id"`
+	Ts            time.Time      `json:"ts"`
+	Service       string         `json:"service"`
+	Operation     string         `json:"operation"`
+	Status        string         `json:"status"`
+	DurationMs    int64          `json:"duration_ms"`
+	CorrelationID string         `json:"correlation_id"`
+	CausationID   string         `json:"causation_id"`
+	HTTPStatus    int            `json:"http_status"`
+	Fields        map[string]any `json:"fields"`
+}
+
+// WriteEcosystemTrace appends one trace row and keeps the table bounded.
+func (s *Store) WriteEcosystemTrace(ctx context.Context, tr EcosystemTrace) (int64, error) {
+	fields := "{}"
+	if len(tr.Fields) > 0 {
+		b, err := json.Marshal(tr.Fields)
+		if err != nil {
+			return 0, fmt.Errorf("marshal trace fields: %w", err)
+		}
+		fields = string(b)
+	}
+	res, err := s.db.ExecContext(ctx, `
+		INSERT INTO ecosystem_traces
+		       (ts, service, operation, status, duration_ms, correlation_id, causation_id, http_status, fields)
+		VALUES (?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?)`,
+		tr.Ts.UnixMilli(), tr.Service, tr.Operation, tr.Status, tr.DurationMs,
+		tr.CorrelationID, tr.CausationID, tr.HTTPStatus, fields)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("write ecosystem trace: %w", err)
+	}
+	id, err := res.LastInsertId()
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("last insert id: %w", err)
+	}
+	// Prune rarely: the cost of the delete is not worth paying on every hop,
+	// and the bound is a ceiling, not an exact size.
+	if id%256 == 0 {
+		if err := s.PruneEcosystemTraces(ctx, ecosystemTraceRetention); err != nil {
+			return id, err
+		}
+	}
+	return id, nil
+}
+
+// PruneEcosystemTraces drops all but the newest keep rows.
+func (s *Store) PruneEcosystemTraces(ctx context.Context, keep int) error {
+	if keep <= 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	_, err := s.db.ExecContext(ctx, `
+		DELETE FROM ecosystem_traces
+		 WHERE id <= (SELECT MAX(id) FROM ecosystem_traces) - ?`, keep)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("prune ecosystem traces: %w", err)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// RecentEcosystemTraces returns the newest n traces, newest first.
+func (s *Store) RecentEcosystemTraces(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]EcosystemTrace, error) {
+	rows, err := s.db.QueryContext(ctx, `
+		SELECT id, ts, service, operation, status, duration_ms, correlation_id, causation_id, http_status, fields
+		  FROM ecosystem_traces
+		 ORDER BY id DESC
+		 LIMIT ?`, n)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("recent ecosystem traces: %w", err)
+	}
+	defer rows.Close()
+	var out []EcosystemTrace
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var tr EcosystemTrace
+		var tsMilli int64
+		var fields string
+		if err := rows.Scan(&tr.ID, &tsMilli, &tr.Service, &tr.Operation, &tr.Status,
+			&tr.DurationMs, &tr.CorrelationID, &tr.CausationID, &tr.HTTPStatus, &fields); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		tr.Ts = time.UnixMilli(tsMilli).UTC()
+		if fields != "" {
+			_ = json.Unmarshal([]byte(fields), &tr.Fields)
+		}
+		out = append(out, tr)
+	}
+	return out, rows.Err()
+}

internal/store/migrations.go

@@ -177,6 +177,29 @@ ALTER TABLE reminders ADD COLUMN next_fire_ts INTEGER;`, // #2
 	`ALTER TABLE tasks ADD COLUMN ext_id TEXT;
 	ALTER TABLE tasks ADD COLUMN resolved_by TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '';
 	CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_tasks_ext_id ON tasks (ext_id) WHERE ext_id IS NOT NULL;`,
+	// #16 — ecosystem call traces (Vikunja #273). Deliberately NOT facts.
+	// Traces are written at machine rate, one act turn produces three or four,
+	// while facts are written at human rate. Sharing the facts table made every
+	// bounded reader of facts (the habit profile's 2000-row window, memeval's
+	// prompt snapshot, /dash's 50 and /history's 200) read mostly traces after
+	// a day of ecosystem use, pushing the rows that matter out of range.
+	// Retention is enforced on write (PruneEcosystemTraces) because nothing
+	// here is an audit trail: a trace answers "did this hop work" for as long
+	// as anyone is still asking.
+	`CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ecosystem_traces (
+		id             INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
+		ts             INTEGER NOT NULL,
+		service        TEXT    NOT NULL,
+		operation      TEXT    NOT NULL,
+		status         TEXT    NOT NULL,
+		duration_ms    INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
+		correlation_id TEXT    NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
+		causation_id   TEXT    NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
+		http_status    INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
+		fields         TEXT    NOT NULL DEFAULT '{}'
+	);
+	CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_eco_traces_ts ON ecosystem_traces (ts DESC);
+	CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_eco_traces_correlation ON ecosystem_traces (correlation_id);`,
 }
 
 // migrate applies every migration with a number greater than the DB's current