Both windows the evaluator keeps over the notes table were row budgets over
every writer. The dedupe read 200 recent notes and kept the eval ones, so after
200 ordinary notes an old observation left the window and the next evaluation
wrote the same sentence again. The snapshot asked for MaxItems notes and then
discarded her own, so once hourly evaluation had run for a few weeks the model
saw almost no real notes. Both reads are now filtered in SQL, by
RecentNotesBySource and RecentNotesExcludingSource.
Two smaller things in the same area. The dedupe key stripped any trailing
bracketed clause, so an observation ending in one hashed differently from its
stored form; it now strips only the recorded action. The evaluation timeout was
five minutes on the one llama-server that also answers voice turns, which made
a collision a five-minute mute assistant, and is now sixty seconds.
Found in review of #55.
Ships the real, local, testable part of the memory-evaluation plan
(docs/plans/03-memory-evaluation.md): Maven reads back her own recent
memory on a slow ticker, asks the resident model what it notices, and
records the confident answers as notes.
internal/memeval — not internal/memory/eval.go as the plan says, because
internal/store imports internal/memory for the vector backend and an
evaluator has to read store.Fact/Note/Nudge, which would close the
cycle. Evaluate() gathers RecentFacts/RecentNotes/RecentNudges, prompts
under a GBNF grammar bounded to three {observation, confidence,
suggested_action} objects, drops anything under min_confidence,
deduplicates against what earlier runs wrote, and writes the rest as
notes with source infer:memory-eval. /dash already renders notes with
their source, so the output is visible with no UI change.
cmd/mavend/memoryeval.go drives it on its own goroutine and ticker, not
on the 60s tick: an evaluation is a multi-second round-trip on the same
llama-server that answers voice turns, and it runs hourly at most. The
memory_eval config block is absent by default and absence means the
goroutine does not exist. No llama-server phraser also means no loop —
there is no template fallback, because a "memory evaluation" assembled
from templates is a fixed sentence pretending to be an observation.
What it deliberately cannot do, since this is the feature most likely to
turn Maven into a nag:
- It cannot speak. No dispatcher reference, no channel, no nudge. An
observation is a thought she wrote down and he reads on /dash.
Announcing them is a separate decision with its own opt-in.
- It cannot act. suggested_action is recorded as text and interpreted
by nobody — no reminder, routine or fact is created from it.
- It says nothing about an empty store: no memory means no LLM call,
so there are no observations invented out of two facts.
- Its own notes are excluded from the next evaluation's input, and are
written with a nil embedding so they stay out of the recall pool.
The plan's remaining items (dispatching observations, an /eval IPC
method and trace view, RecentEvents) and the fact that output quality is
entirely unmeasured are written up at the bottom of the plan doc.
kami