fix(memory-ingest): stop silently ingesting 0 pages — include gitignored staging, reconcile counts

Pages stage into ~/.gstack/.staging-ingest-*/ inside a repo whose .gitignore
is `*`, and gbrain import honours .gitignore — so it collected 0 files,
imported nothing, and the ingest still reported "written: N" from the STAGED
count while advancing state, meaning no future run ever retried. Three
layers now: (1) pass --include-gitignored (root cause); (2) if the installed
gbrain predates the flag, retry without it (subcommand --help is generic, so
the attempt is the only probe) with an upgrade pointer; (3) reconcile
gbrain's imported+unchanged accounting against the staged count and REFUSE
to advance state on a shortfall, naming the gitignore collision.

Fixes #2144, #2104.

Contributed by @gawievanblerk (PR #2560) and @Charles-Grant (PR #2486).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Garry Tan
2026-08-14 20:20:52 -07:00
co-authored by Claude Fable 5
parent 75cd221850
commit 7847fcf9ba
3 changed files with 224 additions and 3 deletions
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@@ -1407,9 +1407,43 @@ export function resolveImportTimeoutMs(
return n;
}
function runGbrainImport(
/**
* True when the import failed because the installed gbrain predates
* --include-gitignored. gbrain's subcommand --help is generic (no flag list),
* so the only reliable probe is the attempt itself.
*/
function failedOnUnknownIncludeGitignored(status: number | null, stderr: string): boolean {
if (status === 0 || status === null) return false;
return /(unknown|unexpected|unrecognized|invalid)[^\n]*--include-gitignored|--include-gitignored[^\n]*(unknown|unexpected|unrecognized|invalid)/i.test(
stderr,
);
}
async function runGbrainImport(
stagingDir: string,
timeoutMs: number,
): Promise<{ status: number | null; stdout: string; stderr: string; timedOut: boolean }> {
const first = await runGbrainImportOnce(stagingDir, timeoutMs, true);
if (failedOnUnknownIncludeGitignored(first.status, first.stderr)) {
// Older gbrain: retry without the flag. If .gitignore then hides the
// staged pages, the imported<staged reconciliation guard below refuses
// to advance state and names the remedy — loud failure, never silent
// loss, and never a hard-block for gbrain versions that don't need the
// flag's semantics.
console.error(
"[memory-ingest] installed gbrain does not support --include-gitignored — " +
"retrying without it. If the import then collects 0 files, upgrade gbrain " +
"(gstack-gbrain-install) so staged pages inside gitignored dirs are visible.",
);
return runGbrainImportOnce(stagingDir, timeoutMs, false);
}
return first;
}
function runGbrainImportOnce(
stagingDir: string,
timeoutMs: number,
includeGitignored: boolean,
): Promise<{ status: number | null; stdout: string; stderr: string; timedOut: boolean }> {
installSignalForwarder();
return new Promise((resolve) => {
@@ -1417,7 +1451,20 @@ function runGbrainImport(
// inside Next.js / Prisma / Rails projects with their own
// .env.local (codex review #7 — defense in depth on top of the
// parent gstack-gbrain-sync seeding the bun grandchild's env).
const child = spawnGbrainAsync(["import", stagingDir, "--no-embed", "--json"]);
// --include-gitignored is load-bearing, not a convenience. Pages are
// staged into ~/.gstack/.staging-ingest-<pid>-<ts>/, and ~/.gstack is a
// git repo whose .gitignore is `*`. `gbrain import` honours .gitignore,
// so without this flag it collects files=0 and imports NOTHING, while
// still reporting `written: N` from the staged count. Silent data loss
// on every run. A working run logs `import.collect_files done ... files=N`
// with N > 0 and takes minutes, not seconds.
const child = spawnGbrainAsync([
"import",
stagingDir,
"--no-embed",
...(includeGitignored ? ["--include-gitignored"] : []),
"--json",
]);
_activeImportChild = child;
let stdout = "";
let stderr = "";
@@ -1813,6 +1860,49 @@ async function ingestPass(args: CliArgs): Promise<BulkResult> {
);
failed += failedSources.size;
// Reconcile gbrain's own accounting against what we staged. Without this,
// a batch that gbrain never SAW is indistinguishable from a batch that
// succeeded: readNewFailures() only reports PER-FILE failures, so when
// `gbrain import` collects zero files it writes nothing to
// sync-failures.jsonl, failedSources is empty, and every prepared file
// gets state-recorded as ingested. The pass then reports "N written"
// while the brain gained nothing — and because state now says "done",
// no future run retries. Silent, permanent data loss.
//
// Observed cause: `gbrain import` honours .gitignore, and
// `gstack-artifacts-init` writes `.gitignore = "*"` into $GSTACK_HOME.
// makeStagingDir() stages under $GSTACK_HOME, so on any machine that has
// run artifacts-init, collect_files returns 0 for every batch.
//
// `skipped` counts content_hash no-ops, which ARE successful landings.
const expectedLandings = prep.prepared.length - failedSources.size;
const accountedLandings =
(importJson.imported ?? 0) + (importJson.skipped ?? 0);
if (accountedLandings < expectedLandings) {
const collected =
importJson.total_files !== undefined
? ` gbrain collected ${importJson.total_files} file(s) from the staging dir.`
: "";
const msg =
`gbrain import accounted for ${accountedLandings} of ${expectedLandings} staged page(s) ` +
`(imported=${importJson.imported ?? 0}, unchanged=${importJson.skipped ?? 0}).${collected} ` +
`Refusing to advance state — the unaccounted pages would be marked ingested without ` +
`landing in the brain. If the count is 0, check whether ${stagingDir} is inside a git ` +
`repo that ignores it (gbrain import honours .gitignore).`;
console.error(`[memory-ingest] ERR: ${msg}`);
failed += prep.prepared.length;
return {
written: 0,
skipped_secret: prep.skippedSecret,
skipped_dedup: prep.skippedDedup,
skipped_unattributed: prep.skippedUnattributed,
failed,
duration_ms: Date.now() - t0,
partial_pages: prep.partialPages,
system_error: msg,
};
}
// Phase 3: state recording. Only files that landed in gbrain get
// their mtime+sha256 stamped. Failed source paths are deliberately
// left un-state'd so the next run re-prepares them and gbrain's