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Proposal: #850

Summary

Adds conversation memory: an optional, on-device memory of the user's chats, mail, calendar and documents. When it is on and the user writes in a Microsoft Teams chat, a suggestion can draw on what was said earlier in that conversation (or in conversations with exactly the same people). Mail is synced and searchable, but mail replies get no conversation memory in this PR (see below). "See you tomorrow at …" can then complete with the time agreed three messages ago. Memory is off by default, and so is each of its sources.

This branch covers PRs 1–6 of the sequence in #850: the inference addition, the memory core, the sources, the suggestion integration and Settings. It is split into one commit per layer so it can be reviewed commit by commit. Answer cards are not included (see below).

What is read

Only local files of apps on this Mac, read-only and in place. It uses no Graph/Google APIs and no account access.

Source Read from Needs Used in suggestions
Apple Mail Envelope Index + .emlx files Full Disk Access synced and searchable; not yet: see follow-ups
Outlook classic Outlook.sqlite, and New Outlook's HxStore.hxd Full Disk Access synced and searchable; not yet: see follow-ups
Microsoft Teams the new client's IndexedDB/LevelDB cache Full Disk Access yes, when Teams exposes its window title
WhatsApp ChatStorage.sqlite in its group container Full Disk Access synced and searchable; not yet: see follow-ups
Calendar EventKit (every calendar the Calendar app shows) Calendars permission synced and searchable
Documents folder .txt/.md in a folder the user picks the folder synced and searchable
iCloud Drive, Google Drive, OneDrive PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, RTF, text under ~/Library/Mobile Documents and ~/Library/CloudStorage Full Disk Access synced and searchable

"Searchable" means in Settings → Memory → Playground. Suggestions use a source only in its own app; Calendar and documents mostly pay off with answers (next PR).

The Teams reader is a Swift port of parts of CCL Forensics' MIT-licensed ccl_chromium_reader (Snappy, LevelDB, IndexedDB, V8 values), credited in THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md. New Outlook's store is read with a small LZ4 decoder and record parser.

Where it is stored, and what leaves the Mac

  • Stored in ~/Library/Application Support/<app name>/Memory/ (0700), per app identity, so the dev build and the release never share a store.
  • Message text, senders, subjects, titles, conversation ids, participants, sync cursors and vectors are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM via MemoryVault. Its subkeys come from a 256-bit Keychain key (<bundle id>.memory, never synced).
    • Lookups and record ids use HMAC tags, so a known Message-ID or file path can't be tested against the file.
    • Not encrypted: timestamps, source names and per-message term counts, plus the settings file config.json (never-remember lists and the documents folder path included).
    • Delete All, Forget per source, retention and the never-remember lists are in the pane. Forget and Delete All first cancel the source's running sync and wait for it, so nothing deleted comes back.
  • Embeddings are computed on-device with llama.cpp (Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B Q8_0, ~640 MB). The model is downloaded once from Hugging Face on request, pinned to a repository commit, size and SHA-256.
  • Cloud drives: reading a document that is only online makes the drive's own app (iCloud, Google Drive, OneDrive, incl. SharePoint libraries under OneDrive-*) download it; Cotabby gives it back afterwards. A first sync of a large drive can therefore pull a lot of data through those apps. Cotabby itself sends nothing anywhere.
  • Memory never reaches the OpenAI-compatible endpoint. MemoryRetriever returns nothing for it, SuggestionRequestFactory blanks it, and SuggestionEngineRouter drops any request still carrying it (memoryWithheldFromEndpoint). This is the same three-layer rule typing history uses.
  • Under -cotabby-debug, llm-io.jsonl records full prompts, memory lines included, in plain text, as it already does for typing history.

How it works

  • Inference patch (patches/cotabbyinference-upstream-pending.patch) adds CotabbyEmbeddingEngine and a reference-counted guard for llama.cpp's process-wide backend:

    • The engine has its own model and context with pooling, decodes in batches and clears the cells after each, so its memory use is fixed by the batch size.
    • Cancellation is a generation counter, so a cancel that lands while a call waits for the lock is not lost.
    • The guard lets the embedding and completion engines be loaded together; unloading one never frees the backend under the other.

    This needs a matching change in FuJacob/cotabbyinference. Until then it rides in the pending patch like the other pending APIs. The patch is main's patch plus only these additions.

  • Store and engine (Services/Memory):

    • MemoryStore (SQLite), and MemoryEngine: ingest with exclusions, retention, mail-quote stripping and secret/one-time-code scrubbing; background indexing; scoped search. A stopped engine refuses writes.
    • FlatVectorIndex: half-precision rows and an exact Accelerate scan after filtering, so a scoped search never comes back short.
    • Hybrid ranking: vector plus BM25 over tagged terms, merged with reciprocal-rank fusion.
    • EmbeddingSchedulePolicy runs small deltas anytime and leaves backlogs to a plugged-in, idle, cool Mac outside Low Power Mode. It waits while a suggestion is generating: the router counts generations in flight and the controller reads that count.
  • Sources (Services/Memory/Readers, Support/Memory):

    • One read-only, cursor-paged reader per source, driven by MemoryHistorySync: when a source is switched on, on demand, and every 15 minutes on AC.
    • A sync can be cancelled and awaited. A cancelled sync drops the page it was reading with its cursor.
    • Mail counts as the user's own only when it is in a Sent mailbox, and junk is skipped.
    • Mail is attacker-controlled input. EmailBodyExtractor bounds message, header, boundary, nesting and part sizes, and converts HTML in one linear pass rather than with regular expressions that rescan from every unclosed tag. A test with large adversarial bodies checks it stays fast.
    • Mail clients join threads by References/In-Reply-To and subject, which any sender controls. So an Apple Mail or classic Outlook conversation is one thread with one audience (MailAudience): a stranger folded into a thread, or a reply with someone new on it, becomes another conversation. Mail people are addresses, never display names or Reply-To. Only Mail's Sent mailbox or Outlook's outgoing flag makes a message the user's own, never its From address or name.
    • Readers never let two threads or audiences share a conversation. New Outlook's store has no thread id or recipients, so a conversation there is one topic with one sender, never a subject alone. The user's own New Outlook mail and mail without a sender each stay separate. A message without a thread id is its own conversation, never a shared bucket.
    • Teams group chats get a marker so they never share memory with a 1:1 chat.
    • The Full Disk Access check opens only these sources' own files.
  • Scope rule: ConversationScopeResolver maps the focused app and window title to a conversation within that app's enabled sources (Teams' title is parsed for the open chat).

    • Titles match whole after normalization, never in part, and only within the focused app's sources.
    • Mail gets no conversation scope. A compose window's title is only the subject, which does not say who the mail is for, and everything in the body, the quoted original's header included, can be shaped by the other person (their display name, their text). No audience read from the body can be trusted, so Apple Mail and Outlook get no memory scope, and the engine never resolves a title in a mail source. Earlier revisions of this PR read the quote header; that is removed.
    • Chat groups (Teams and WhatsApp) carry a participant marker of their own, so a group never has exactly the people of a 1:1 chat or of another group.
    • Search covers that conversation, then only conversations with exactly the same people.
    • An unknown or ambiguous title returns nothing, never a guess.
  • Suggestions:

    • MemoryRetriever (SuggestionMemoryProviding) answers from its cache and never makes a suggestion wait. A stale query starts a background lookup, and when new lines land for the focused conversation while nothing is shown, the coordinator offers a suggestion.
    • The base prompt gets an all-or-nothing Earlier in this conversation: section (priority 39, just above typing history). Apple's prompt gets an equivalent framed as quoted messages, not instructions.
    • A contact's name cannot start a new line or pass for "You".
  • Settings → Memory:

    • On/off, with the model download and status.
    • Full Disk Access guidance: opens the list, reveals this copy in Finder, re-checks on activation.
    • Sources: readiness, counts, Sync Now, Forget, Calendar access.
    • Index settings and statistics: size, search and embedding latency, indexing rate.
    • Privacy: retention, never-remember lists, Delete All.
    • A Playground that shows what memory retrieves for a conversation and can add that conversation to the never-remember list.
  • Calendars entitlement: reading events under the hardened runtime needs com.apple.security.personal-information.calendars and NSCalendarsFullAccessUsageDescription.

    • The app now has a checked-in Cotabby/Cotabby.entitlements, set as CODE_SIGN_ENTITLEMENTS in project.yml.
    • sign_local_app.py, kickstart.sh and the release workflow's re-sign all use it, so a re-sign keeps it.
    • The release workflow passes it with ${arr[@]+"${arr[@]}"} so an empty array stays safe under set -u on bash 3.2. I ran the signing loop with a stub codesign under /bin/bash 3.2.57. Please double-check against your signing setup.

Commits

  1. Add an in-process embedding engine to the inference patch
  2. Add conversation memory's encrypted store and engine
  3. Read memory sources from their local stores on this Mac
  4. Let suggestions use the earlier messages of the conversation
  5. Add Settings -> Memory and start memory with the app
  6. Document conversation memory
  7. Require a mail reply's whole quote header to be the thread's people (follow-up to review)
  8. Make an ambiguous expression explicit and give memory's main-actor classes a nonisolated deinit (CI's Xcode 26.3 / macOS 26 runtime)
  9. Split expressions that older compilers type-check too slowly (CI's Xcode 26.3 test build)
  10. Move the memory poll loop body out of its Task closure (same)
  11. Keep deleted memory out of caches and stale writes, and starts in order (review-bot follow-ups)
  12. Make the memory readers reconcile, retry and survive bad input (review-bot follow-ups)
  13. Accept only an unambiguous client quote header, and close cache races (security review)
  14. Give mail no conversation scope from its body (security review; supersedes the quote-header scope of 7 and 13)
  15. Fix the memory issues Draft answers from memory on a card at the caret, and give mail replies their thread (stacked on #871) #872's review found in Add on-device conversation memory (opt-in): Teams, Mail, Outlook, WhatsApp, Calendar, documents #871's files

Each commit builds (build-for-testing) on its own. Cotabby.xcodeproj is regenerated with XcodeGen in each, so the drift gate stays clean.

Not included / follow-ups

  • Answer cards: the next PR, stacked on this one. It covers drafting an answer from memory, free/busy answers from Calendar, the card itself and "Use for answers" per source.
  • WhatsApp in suggestions: the scope uses the focused field's window title, which is what main exposes today. WhatsApp's window is always titled "WhatsApp", a generic title, so WhatsApp chats get no memory in suggestions yet. Its history is still synced and searchable in the Playground. Electron/WebView apps sometimes don't link the field to its window either, which can affect Teams. Reading the open chat's name from WhatsApp's header and the app's focused-window title is a separate, small change that also serves per-window choices.
  • Mail-reply memory: deferred to a follow-up that names the conversation from the compose window's own To and Cc fields, read through Accessibility (Mail exposes them as Mail.toField / Mail.ccField; Outlook's reply window has equivalents). Those are what the user is sending to, and the sender of the original cannot write them. Until then mail is synced, stored per thread and audience (MailAudience), and searchable in the Playground, but no mail gets memory in suggestions. The supported case in this PR is chats: Teams, by its window title.
  • Left out because their hosts aren't on main: the per-window memory switch in the field-icon popup, and pausing memory under performance pressure.
  • For chats the window title is the only evidence of the conversation. A title shared by two stored conversations gives no memory. But if only one of a same-named group and 1:1 chat is stored, the title cannot tell which one the window shows.
  • config.json (never-remember lists, documents folder path) is plain JSON. Sealing it is a possible follow-up.
  • Per-drive "skip online-only files" option: possible follow-up.

Test plan

  • bash scripts/prepare_cotabby_workspace.sh build/deps from scratch with the new patch: applies cleanly to the pinned revision.
  • Build Cotabby and Cotabby Dev (Debug, unsigned): succeeded. Each of the 6 commits passes build-for-testing on its own.
  • Full suite: 2926 tests, 0 unexpected failures. The one failure is the environment-dependent AXTextGeometryResolverTests.test_resolveCaretRect_returnsRealGeometry_forNativeTextField, which also skips or passes depending on Accessibility access in the test run; this branch does not touch it. The branch adds test functions including:
    • a cancelled sync stops at its last stored page and drops the page it was reading;
    • a stopped engine stores nothing;
    • a partial title is not the conversation;
    • a WhatsApp group with one other member never widens into the 1:1 chat with them;
    • a subject alone never merges New Outlook threads or audiences, and a mail without a thread id is its own conversation;
    • a mail reply with a perfect quote header gets no memory (resolver, retriever and engine);
    • a spoofed From with the user's address or a stranger using a known display name is neither "from me" nor merged into the thread's people;
    • adversarial HTML and pathological MIME are converted within a time bound;
    • a hostile sender name cannot forge a line;
    • the router counts generations in flight;
    • a deleted message is never served from the retriever's cache, a lookup that started before a Forget lands nowhere, and nothing cached survives memory being switched off and on; a message edited, moved or deleted while it was being embedded keeps its new state;
    • an engine start made stale by switching memory off and on never attaches, and stored memory can be deleted while memory is off;
    • a note or cloud document read whole loses its removed parts, a deleted one is forgotten only from a complete listing, and an unreadable cloud file is tried again on the next sync.
  • MemoryEngineTests.test_indexedMessagesAreFoundByMeaningWithinTheirScope with the real Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B Q8_0 (TEST_RUNNER_COTABBY_TEST_EMBEDDING_MODEL_PATH): passed. This covers the native embedding engine, indexing and scoped search end to end.
  • SwiftLint 0.63.2 --strict over the repo: no violations.
  • xcodegen generate leaves the committed project unchanged.
  • Release workflow signing loop under /bin/bash 3.2 with set -euo pipefail and a stub codesign: frameworks are signed without, and the app with, --entitlements.
  • Manual: switch Memory on, download the model, enable Teams, write in a stored chat and check that the suggestion uses an earlier message; enable Apple Mail and check that a reply gets no memory and that Settings → Memory → Playground finds the thread. Not yet run on this branch.
  • Manual: a release-signed build keeps the Calendars entitlement (codesign -d --entitlements - Cotabby.app), and Calendar access can be granted from the pane.
  • Recall eval (test_reportRecallSuite, Release, local model) with and without COTABBY_EVAL_NO_MEMORY=1 over the five new memory cases. Three of them are WhatsApp-shaped: they test the prompt, not the WhatsApp scope.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added optional, encrypted on-device conversation memory that can provide relevant context for suggestions.
    • Search and manage memory from Settings, with controls for supported chat, mail, calendar, document-folder, and cloud-drive sources.
    • Configure privacy, retention, indexing, and conversation exclusions; inspect search results in the Memory Playground.
  • Privacy
    • Memory is off by default, and conversation snippets are not sent to compatible external suggestion endpoints.
  • Permissions
    • Calendar access is available for the Calendar source; some history sources require Full Disk Access.

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The PR needs fixes before merging because cloud edits can stay missing and the earlier deletion and repeated-download findings remain open.

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Summary

Adds opt-in, encrypted conversation memory with local readers, on-device search, Teams suggestion context, and Settings controls.

  • Cotabby stores local history and searches it by meaning and keywords.
  • Local chat, mail, calendar, and document history can be indexed for search.
  • Teams suggestions can use earlier messages from the same conversation.
  • Settings → Memory lets users control sources, privacy, and indexing.
  • Calendar memory keeps its permission when the app is signed.

Diagram

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flowchart TD
  Sources[Enabled local sources] --> Readers[Read history and documents]
  Readers --> Engine[Scrub and store messages]
  Engine --> Store[Encrypted SQLite store]
  Store --> Index[On-device embeddings and keyword search]
  Teams[Focused Teams conversation] --> Retriever[Read cached conversation context]
  Index --> Retriever
  Retriever --> Local[Local suggestion model]
  Retriever --> Block[No memory sent to endpoint]
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senadaruc and others added 6 commits October 14, 2026 18:35
Conversation memory embeds passages with llama.cpp, next to the
completion engine. The pending CotabbyInference patch gains
CotabbyEmbeddingEngine: its own model and context (embeddings on, the
model's pooling), texts packed into one decode per batch and the cells
cleared after each, so memory use is fixed by the batch size. Measured
with Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B Q8_0: about 38 mail-sized passages per second
at a flat ~880 MB with a 1024-token batch, and vectors within cosine
0.9996 of sentence-transformers.

llama.cpp's backend is process-wide, so both engines now share it
through a reference-counted guard; unloading one no longer frees the
backend under the other.

This needs the matching change in FuJacob/cotabbyinference; until then
it rides in patches/cotabbyinference-upstream-pending.patch like the
other pending APIs.

A cancel is a generation counter, noted before a call waits for the
lock, so a cancel issued while a call is still waiting is not lost.

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The core of an optional, on-device memory of the user's conversations,
with no source and no UI yet:

- MemoryStore keeps messages, conversations, participants, sync cursors
  and one vector per passage in SQLite. Text, names, titles, ids,
  cursors and vectors are sealed with MemoryVault (AES-256-GCM, subkeys
  from a 256-bit Keychain key that never syncs); lookups and record ids
  use HMAC tags. Timestamps, sources and the settings file are plain.
- MemoryEngine is the ingest pipeline every source shares (exclusions,
  retention, mail quote stripping, secret and one-time-code scrubbing),
  background indexing (newest first, each vector persisted as it is
  computed, so a run resumes), and the scoped search: the conversation
  the window names, then only conversations with exactly the same
  people; an unknown, partial or ambiguous title returns nothing, and a
  scope can require the thread to have exactly given people (a mail
  reply's quoted addresses, as far as memory knows them), which also
  picks the right audience among a mail thread's conversations. A mail
  sender's display name never becomes a participant. A stopped engine
  refuses further writes.
- Search is hybrid: an exact half-precision vector scan with Accelerate
  (FlatVectorIndex, filtered before scoring, so a scoped search never
  comes back short) fused with BM25 over HMAC-tagged terms.
- EmbeddingCore wraps the inference package's embedding engine;
  queries jump ahead of background batches. EmbeddingSchedulePolicy
  lets small deltas run anytime and keeps backlogs to a plugged-in,
  idle, cool Mac outside Low Power Mode; nothing runs while a suggestion
  is generating.
- MemoryEngineController owns on/off, the pinned embedding model
  download (Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B Q8_0, pinned to a repository commit,
  size and SHA-256 checked) and the
  key. The Keychain store of typing history gains a label so memory's
  item is named for what it is.

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One read-only reader per source, each paging after a cursor it defines,
driven by MemoryHistorySync (when a source is switched on, on demand,
and every 15 minutes on AC power). Nothing is fetched from a network
and no account API is used:

- WhatsApp: its ChatStorage database.
- Apple Mail: the Envelope Index plus .emlx files, parsed by
  EmailBodyExtractor (charsets, quoted-printable, HTML-only mail). Mail
  is attacker-controlled, so parsing is bounded and linear: message,
  header, boundary, nesting and part limits, and HTML converted in one
  pass instead of regular expressions that rescan from every unclosed
  tag. Mail counts as the user's own only when it sits in a Sent
  mailbox, and junk is skipped, so a spoofed From cannot put words in
  the user's mouth.
- Outlook: the classic database, and New Outlook's HxStore.hxd (LZ4
  blocks and HxStoreRecordParser), including meeting invitations.
  HxStore records have no thread id or recipients, so a conversation
  there is one topic with one sender, never a subject alone; the user's
  own mail and mail without a sender each stay a conversation of their
  own. In Mail and classic Outlook a message without a thread id is its
  own conversation, never a shared bucket. Mail clients join threads by
References/In-Reply-To and subject, which any sender controls, so a
Mail or classic Outlook conversation is one thread with one audience
(MailAudience): a stranger folded into a thread, or a reply with
someone new on it, is another conversation. Mail people are addresses,
never display names or Reply-To, and only Mail's Sent mailbox or
Outlook's outgoing flag makes a message the user's own.
- Microsoft Teams: the new client's cache, read natively in place
  (Snappy, LevelDB, Chromium IndexedDB and V8 value readers, a Swift
  port of parts of CCL Forensics' MIT-licensed ccl_chromium_reader)
  and mapped by TeamsMessageMapper. Group chats (Teams and WhatsApp)
  carry a marker of their own, so they never share memory with a 1:1
  chat or another group.
- Calendar: events through EventKit, as records without call
  boilerplate; the user is never a participant.
- A documents folder (text and Markdown), and iCloud Drive, Google
  Drive and OneDrive documents (PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, RTF,
  text), with a bounded ZIP reader and total-size caps for Office files.

A running sync can be cancelled and awaited (cancelSync), and stopping
the schedule cancels it; a cancelled sync drops the page it was reading
with its cursor, so after a delete nothing comes back and nothing is
skipped.

The protected stores need Full Disk Access; the access check opens only
the files of these sources. Reading an online-only cloud document makes
the drive's app download it. Reader tests use synthetic fixtures built
in the tests.

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Conversation memory reaches the autocomplete prompt:

- ConversationScopeResolver turns the focused app and window title into
  a scope (the chat name or mail subject, within the app's enabled
  memory sources; Teams titles are parsed for the open chat) and a
  stable query of complete 8-word blocks. A subject does not say who a
  mail is for, so a mail gets memory only as a reply or forward, from a
  thread with exactly the people the client's quote header names (only
  the first header block: addresses in the quoted body are the sender's
  own text and could name another thread's people).
- MemoryRetriever implements the new SuggestionMemoryProviding: it
  answers from its cache and never makes a suggestion wait; a stale
  query starts a background lookup, and when new lines land for the
  conversation in focus while nothing is shown, the coordinator offers a
  suggestion that uses them. Lookups log memory_ms, memory_engine_ms,
  memory_hits and memory_scope.
- Requests carry memorySnippets; the base prompt gets an "Earlier in
  this conversation:" recap (priority 39, all or nothing) and Apple's
  prompt a framed equivalent that marks them as quoted messages, not
  instructions. A contact's name cannot start a line or pass for "You".
- Memory never reaches the endpoint engine: the retriever returns
  nothing for it, the request factory blanks it, and the router drops
  any request still carrying it (memoryWithheldFromEndpoint).
- The router counts generations in flight, which memory's indexing
  reads to stay off the GPU while a suggestion is being generated.
- The recall suite gains a memorySnippets field and five memory cases
  where the fact the completion needs is only in an earlier message;
  COTABBY_EVAL_NO_MEMORY=1 runs them without memory as the baseline.

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- Settings -> Memory: the on/off switch with the embedding model
  download, status and recovery from a key mismatch; Full Disk Access
  guidance (macOS has no prompt for it: the row opens the list, reveals
  this copy of Cotabby, and re-checks when Cotabby becomes active);
  Sources with readiness, counts, Sync Now and Forget per source, and
  Calendar access; Index settings and statistics (size on disk, vector
  memory, search and query-embedding latency, indexing rate); Privacy
  (retention, never-remember lists, Delete All); and a Playground that
  shows what memory retrieves for a conversation and can add it to the
  never-remember list. Forget and Delete All cancel and await the
  source's sync before deleting.
- CotabbyAppEnvironment builds the controller, sync, control model and
  retriever once, hands the retriever to the suggestion coordinator and
  has indexing wait while the router is generating;
  AppDelegate starts memory only when the user left it on and stops it
  on quit. Sources sync when the engine starts and every 15 minutes on
  AC after that.
- Reading events under the hardened runtime needs the Calendars
  resource-access entitlement and a usage string. The app now has a
  checked-in Cotabby.entitlements that Xcode, the local signing helper,
  kickstart and the release workflow all sign with, so a re-sign keeps
  it.

Everything is off by default: memory, and each of its sources.

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ARCHITECTURE.md gains the memory data flow, its privacy rules and the
shared llama.cpp backend; AGENTS.md the subsystem's owners and the
rules a change must keep; SOURCE_LAYOUT.md the new folders; the README
the feature, what it reads and stores, and the optional Full Disk
Access and Calendars permissions.

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📝 Walkthrough

Conversation memory is added as an opt-in, on-device subsystem. It reads selected local sources, stores encrypted records, builds an embedding index, retrieves scoped snippets, and supplies them to local suggestions. The change also adds settings, permissions, tests, documentation, inference support, and calendar signing support.

Changes: Conversation Memory

Layer / File(s) Summary
Embedding and inference support
patches/cotabbyinference-upstream-pending.patch
Adds an embedding API, shared llama backend management, token healing, cache checkpoints, cancellation handling, diagnostics, and inference tests.
Memory contracts, storage, and indexing
Cotabby/Models/Memory/*, Cotabby/Services/Memory/Store/*, Cotabby/Services/Memory/Embedding/*, Cotabby/Services/Memory/Index/*, Cotabby/Support/Memory/*
Adds memory models, encrypted SQLite storage, HMAC identifiers, vector indexing, text processing, embedding scheduling, and engine lifecycle behavior.
History readers and synchronization
Cotabby/Services/Memory/Readers/*, Cotabby/Services/Memory/MemoryHistorySync.swift
Adds readers for WhatsApp, Mail, Outlook, Teams, Calendar, documents, and cloud drives. Adds readiness checks, cursors, pagination, cleanup, and periodic synchronization.
Scoped retrieval and suggestion flow
Cotabby/Support/Memory/ConversationScopeResolver.swift, Cotabby/Services/Memory/MemoryRetriever.swift, Cotabby/Support/Prompting/*, Cotabby/Support/Suggestion/*, Cotabby/App/Coordinators/Suggestion/*, Cotabby/Services/Runtime/SuggestionEngineRouter.swift
Adds conversation-scope resolution, cached retrieval, memory prompt sections, local request propagation, readiness-triggered prediction, and endpoint suppression.
Settings and application wiring
Cotabby/App/Core/*, Cotabby/App/Coordinators/SettingsCoordinator.swift, Cotabby/UI/Settings/*, CotabbyInfo.plist, Cotabby/Cotabby.entitlements
Connects memory services to application startup and termination. Adds the Memory settings category, engine controls, source controls, indexing and privacy settings, playground search, and calendar permission declarations.
Validation and documentation
CotabbyTests/Services/Memory/*, CotabbyTests/Support/Memory/*, CotabbyTests/App/*, CotabbyTests/Evals/*, README.md, AGENTS.md, ARCHITECTURE.md, SOURCE_LAYOUT.md, THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md
Adds tests for readers, storage, indexing, retrieval, parsers, suggestion integration, and endpoint suppression. Documents the feature, source layout, architecture, privacy behavior, and third-party license.

Calendar signing entitlements

Layer / File(s) Summary
Calendar entitlement and signing flow
Cotabby/Cotabby.entitlements, project.yml, scripts/kickstart.sh, scripts/sign_local_app.py, .github/workflows/release.yml
Enables the calendar entitlement for the app and passes it when signing the top-level bundle. Nested code remains signed without the app entitlement.

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If a folder is briefly unreadable during a sync, older notes and cloud documents in it can be silently left out of memory after access returns. Two smaller issues are still open: a race when memory is toggled off and on quickly, and stale message attribution in the index. Address the cursor behavior before merging.

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senadaruc and others added 2 commits October 14, 2026 20:41
The audience check ignored quoted addresses memory did not know, so a
stranger could copy a thread's people and subject into their own mail's
quote header and the reply to them drew on that thread. Now every
address in the client's quote header, less the addresses the user sends
from, must equal the thread's people; an unknown address is someone
else and gives no memory.

The mail readers report the user's own addresses (the senders of sent
mail per account in Mail, of outgoing mail in Outlook), and the store
keeps them as HMAC tags per source. An own address memory has not
learned yet counts as someone else, which is the safe side.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWE41JyPDYvSWqdCX5EM69
…asses a nonisolated deinit

CI's Xcode 26.3 rejected `abs(number) < 1e15` in V8ValueDeserializer as
ambiguous: with Accelerate imported elsewhere in the module, older
compilers see more than one `abs`. The key conversion now uses
`magnitude` and explicit types, and the BM25 idf terms call
`Foundation.log` with an explicit Double.

On the macOS 26 runtime, releasing a main-actor class that has no
nonisolated deinit goes through the back-deployment main-actor shim,
which over-releases and crashes the test host. MemoryControlModel,
MemoryEngineController, MemoryHistorySync and MemoryRetriever get a
nonisolated deinit (their state is safe to release from any thread), as
SuggestionSettingsModel and EmojiUsageStore already do, and the
controller's StatusRelay is nonisolated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWE41JyPDYvSWqdCX5EM69

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Cotabby/Services/Memory/Readers/OutlookHxStore/HxStoreFile.swift: 1

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Remove the two one-file folders added under Services/Memory. Each of these folders contains one file in this PR. The repository layout rules forbid this.

  • Cotabby/Services/Memory/Readers/OutlookHxStore/HxStoreFile.swift#L21-L21: move the file to Readers/, or keep the folder and move HxStoreRecordParser.swift and LZ4BlockDecoder.swift into it as well.
  • Cotabby/Services/Memory/Calendar/EventKitCalendar.swift#L18-L18: move the file to Services/Memory/ or into Readers/ next to CalendarHistoryReader.swift.

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Review comments at @Cotabby/Services/Memory/Calendar/EventKitCalendar.swift:
- Line 52: Update EventKitCalendar’s calendar history reader to reconcile the
full read window: return live conversation IDs to remove deleted event series
and mark fully read series as completeConversations so MemoryEngine.ingest
removes stale occurrence records within surviving series.

Review comments at @Cotabby/Services/Memory/MemoryControlModel.swift:
- Around line 189-203: Update MemoryControlModel.runSearch so only the latest
search can update playgroundResult or set isSearching to false. Track a search
generation or cancel the previous task, and ignore stale results when a newer
search has started.

Review comments at @Cotabby/Services/Memory/MemoryEngine.swift:
- Line 75: Protect MemoryEngine’s onStatusChange callback from concurrent access
by storing it in a private backing property and synchronizing reads and writes
with statusLock. Update updateStatus to capture the callback while holding the
lock, then invoke the captured callback after unlocking.

Review comments at @Cotabby/Services/Memory/MemoryEngineController.swift:
- Around line 148-178: Add a start-generation counter to MemoryEngineController
and capture its value in start() before launching asynchronous work. Before
attaching a completed engine, verify its generation is still current and no
engine is already attached; stop stale engines instead. Increment the generation
in stop() to invalidate pending starts, and only update failure state when the
failing start’s generation remains current.

Review comments at @Cotabby/Services/Memory/MemoryRetriever.swift:
- Around line 52-64: Update MemoryRetriever.updateSources so changes to source
data, including stats-only changes after deletion or exclusion, invalidate cache
and latestByScope instead of relying only on the derived bundle map. Also
prevent an in-flight lookup from repopulating stale results after invalidation
by tracking a generation and discarding results from an earlier generation.

Review comments at
@Cotabby/Services/Memory/Readers/AppleMailHistoryReader.swift:
- Around line 36-38: Update EmlxFileIndex and the fileIndex lookup in
AppleMailHistoryReader so they track the highest ROWID actually present in the
built map and rebuild when a needed ROWID exceeds it. Pass the ROWIDs of rows
that require .emlx files into the lookup, while preserving the existing behavior
when no rows need files.

Review comments at
@Cotabby/Services/Memory/Readers/DocumentsHistoryReader.swift:
- Around line 74-75: Update DocumentsHistoryReader’s page-building logic to
track each processed relative file path in a complete set and pass it as
completeConversations in MemoryReadPage, so records for paragraphs removed from
a changed file are pruned. Implement liveConversationIDs() to return nil unless
readiness() is .ready, and otherwise return the relative paths of all supported
files under root using the same path convention.

Review comments at
@Cotabby/Services/Memory/Readers/TeamsIndexedDB/IndexedDBReader.swift:
- Line 134: Split the mixed shift-and-OR expression assigned to `first` into
explicitly typed intermediate values for the database, store, and index bits,
then combine them and convert the result to `UInt8`.

Review comments at
@Cotabby/Services/Memory/Readers/TeamsIndexedDB/LevelDBReader.swift:
- Around line 242-251: Update both sequence calculations in the batch-reading
switch to use wrapping addition, preventing overflow traps when a corrupt batch
header contains a sequence near UInt64.max. Apply this to the resolver.add calls
in cases 0 and 1; leave other batch parsing behavior unchanged.

Review comments at @Cotabby/Support/Memory/DocumentSections.swift:
- Around line 42-59: Update DocumentSections.pieces to use a limited index check
instead of recounting the remaining Substring on each iteration, and lazily
flatten paragraphs when generating pieces so the 400-section limit can stop
generation early.

Review comments at @Cotabby/Support/Memory/HxStoreRecordParser.swift:
- Around line 263-267: Mark the private String extension containing
utf16LittleEndianBytes as nonisolated so HxStoreRecordParser.parse can access
the property from a nonisolated context without actor-isolation warnings.

Review comments at @Cotabby/UI/Settings/Panes/Memory/FullDiskAccessRow.swift:
- Around line 23-25: Update the Full Disk Access explanation in the Text view to
describe the grant as needed for all supported mail and chat sources, or
explicitly name WhatsApp, Mail, Outlook, and Teams. Preserve the existing
guidance about adding Cotabby to the list and handling the restart prompt.

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- Line 21: Remove the one-file folders by moving HxStoreFile.swift to Readers/
and EventKitCalendar.swift to Services/Memory/ or alongside
CalendarHistoryReader.swift in Readers/. Alternatively, keep OutlookHxStore only
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senadaruc and others added 2 commits October 14, 2026 23:21
Xcode 26.3's compiler gave up on IndexedDBReader.makePrefix in the test
build ("unable to type-check this expression in reasonable time"). Swift
6.4 accepts it quickly, so every multi-operator integer expression, range
check chain, `reduce` byte assembly and literal-led `+` array chain in the
memory readers and their tests is now built in typed steps: shift and
mask values in typed lets, byte reads in loops, range checks as `switch`
cases, and test fixtures joined through a `concat` helper instead of `+`.
Behaviour is unchanged.

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Xcode 26.3 spent about a second type-checking `beginObserving()`'s
untyped Task closure. The Task is now typed and the loop body lives in
`pollOnce()`, which also stops the closure holding `self` across the
sleep between refreshes.

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senadaruc and others added 2 commits October 14, 2026 23:50
Review follow-ups on the engine, its store and the pieces around them:

- The retriever drops its cached lines whenever the engine's new data
  generation moves (forget, delete all, never remember, settings, a
  deleted or shortened document), and a lookup started before lands
  nowhere, so a deleted message never reaches a prompt.
- Ingest and every removal or settings change share one write lock, so
  an ingest filtered with old settings cannot restore a purged
  conversation.
- Indexing saves a message's vectors only if it is unchanged since it
  was read, re-checks the schedule between native calls, and keeps only
  messages embedded whole when it stops early.
- A re-read message that moved to another conversation or changed
  owner is updated, and a conversation left empty is removed.
- Pointing the Documents Folder source at another folder forgets the
  old folder's records and cursor, after stopping its sync.
- A mail reply's quote header is the first header of the whole field,
  so header-like text after the caret in an inline reply is never read.
- The controller drops engine starts made stale by a stop or a newer
  start, and stored memory can be deleted while memory is off.
- Playground results come from the newest search only; the engine's
  status callback is read under its lock; the Full Disk Access text
  names every source that needs it.

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Review follow-ups on the source readers:

- Mail's .emlx map is rebuilt when mail newer than the map needs its
  file, instead of living as long as the app and losing new mail.
- The Documents Folder reader reports notes read whole and the notes
  still there, so edited-out paragraphs and deleted notes leave memory.
- A cloud drive or notes listing that could not read every account or
  folder removes nothing, and a cloud file that could not be read
  (offline) is tried again on the next sync instead of being left
  behind the cursor.
- With retention bounding the window, a calendar series with a change
  is read whole, so a moved occurrence leaves memory.
- Teams maps each profile on its own and no longer guesses the user on
  a tie (by who wrote more).
- LevelDB per-entry sequences wrap instead of trapping on a damaged
  header, DocumentSections cuts a huge paragraph in linear time and
  stops at the section limit, and the HxStore String helper is
  nonisolated.

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startGeneration += 1
let pending = startTask
startTask = nil

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A start that follows stop() does not wait for the stale start, so two engines can load and index at once.

stop() clears startTask (Line 150). The next start() therefore reads previous == nil (Line 199) and does not wait for the earlier start. Suppose the user switches memory off and on during a slow model load. Then defaultEngineFactory runs twice at the same time. Each run opens its own MemoryStore on the same file, loads the embedding model (about 640 MB), and calls engine.start(). That call runs invalidateVectors, purgeForPrivacy, and the indexing loop. The stale engine is stopped only after its factory returns. On a store that does not exist yet, both checkKey() calls can try INSERT INTO meta ... 'key_check'. The second insert then fails, and the current start reports .failed. The doc comment at Lines 42-43 says two engines never hold the store at once, and this path breaks that guarantee.

Keep the pending start reachable for the next start(). For example, store the task that stop() returns, and await it in start() before the factory runs:

private var stopping: Task<Void, Never>?
// in stop():   let task = Task.detached { ... }; stopping = task; return task
// in start():  let previous = startTask; let stopping = self.stopping
//              startTask = Task { await previous?.value; await stopping?.value; ... }

test_aStartMadeStaleByAStopNeverAttaches currently expects the second start to reach .running while the first start is still blocked. Update that test to match the new ordering.

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if since != nil {
let series = Set(wanted.map(\.seriesID))
read = window.filter { series.contains($0.seriesID) }
complete = Set(read.compactMap { CalendarEventText.record($0)?.conversationID })
}

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printf '%s\n' '--- calendar reader/text tests ---'
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Build complete from changed series IDs.

CalendarEventText.record keeps cancelled events, so cancellation does not return nil. It returns nil when the event title is empty. If every event in a changed series has an empty title, complete omits that series and its old memory record can remain.

Use a shared conversation-ID helper so both paths use the same mapping.

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+    static func conversationID(forSeriesID seriesID: String) -> String {
+        "event:" + seriesID
+    }
+
     static func record(_ event: CalendarEventSnapshot, timeZone: TimeZone = .current) -> MemoryIngestRecord? {
         let title = event.title.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines)
         guard !title.isEmpty else { return nil }
         let people = ([event.organizer].compactMap { $0 } + event.attendees).filter { !$0.isCurrentUser }
         let participants = Set(people.compactMap(\.email).filter { !$0.isEmpty }).sorted()
         return MemoryIngestRecord(
             sourceMessageID: event.id,
-            conversationID: "event:" + event.seriesID,
+            conversationID: conversationID(forSeriesID: event.seriesID),
             conversationTitle: title,
             sender: sender,
             isFromMe: false,
-            complete = Set(read.compactMap { CalendarEventText.record($0)?.conversationID })
+            complete = Set(series.map { CalendarEventText.conversationID(forSeriesID: $0) })
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Update CalendarHistoryReader’s changed-series path to derive complete from the
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Comment on lines +321 to +324
guard let current = try database.rows(
"SELECT text_tag, conv_key FROM messages WHERE record_id = ?", [.text(message.recordID)]
).first, current["text_tag"]?.string == message.textTag,
current["conv_key"]?.string == message.conversationKey else { continue }

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Check is_from_me in the saveIndexEntries staleness guard too.

upsert treats a change of ownership as a change (Line 200). For that change it removes the message's index entries and sets indexed = 0. The text_tag stays the same, because the tag covers only sender, subject and text. saveIndexEntries compares only text_tag and conv_key. So when a step read the message before the ownership change, its snapshot still passes the guard. The step then saves vectors built from the old isFromMe (PassageChunker.passageText uses it) and marks the message indexed = 1. The message is then never embedded again with the corrected attribution.

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--- "a/Cotabby/Services/Memory/Store/MemoryStore.swift"
+++ "b/Cotabby/Services/Memory/Store/MemoryStore.swift"
@@ -318,10 +318,11 @@
             var saved = Set<String>()
             for entry in entries {
                 let message = entry.message
                 guard let current = try database.rows(
-                    "SELECT text_tag, conv_key FROM messages WHERE record_id = ?", [.text(message.recordID)]
+                    "SELECT text_tag, conv_key, is_from_me FROM messages WHERE record_id = ?", [.text(message.recordID)]
                 ).first, current["text_tag"]?.string == message.textTag,
-                    current["conv_key"]?.string == message.conversationKey else { continue }
+                    current["conv_key"]?.string == message.conversationKey,
+                    ((current["is_from_me"]?.int ?? 0) != 0) == message.isFromMe else { continue }
                 try removeIndexEntries(recordIDs: [message.recordID])
                 for passage in entry.passages {
                     let bytes = passage.vector.withUnsafeBufferPointer { Data(buffer: $0) }
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guard let current = try database.rows(
"SELECT text_tag, conv_key FROM messages WHERE record_id = ?", [.text(message.recordID)]
).first, current["text_tag"]?.string == message.textTag,
current["conv_key"]?.string == message.conversationKey else { continue }
guard let current = try database.rows(
"SELECT text_tag, conv_key, is_from_me FROM messages WHERE record_id = ?", [.text(message.recordID)]
).first, current["text_tag"]?.string == message.textTag,
current["conv_key"]?.string == message.conversationKey,
((current["is_from_me"]?.int ?? 0) != 0) == message.isFromMe else { continue }
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Update the staleness guard in saveIndexEntries to select and compare is_from_me
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Comment on lines +174 to +179
await stopping.value
for suffix in ["", "-wal", "-shm"] {
try? FileManager.default.removeItem(atPath: store.path + suffix)
}
objectWillChange.send()
if isEnabled { start() }

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P1 Deletion removes an open database

deleteMemoryData() can delete a newer engine's open database. While deletion waits for an earlier startup, the user can switch Memory off and on again. stop() clears startTask, so the new startup can open the store without waiting for deletion. Deletion then removes its database and journal files, causing sync failures or lost writes.

Keep startup, shutdown, and file deletion in one ordered chain. Prevent another startup until deletion finishes.

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senadaruc and others added 2 commits October 15, 2026 00:02
Security review follow-ups.

Quote header: the parser now reads a header only where the mail
client puts it. The field is normalized first (line breaks, NFKC,
invisible format characters removed). Nothing above the caret may look
like a header or a quote, so inline replies and pasted headers give no
memory. The first header-like line after the caret must be one the
parser reads, at the quote boundary. An attribution or From line names
exactly one address. Quoted-printable or HTML remnants, or a second
header block right after the first, give none.

Cache: the data generation moves before any rows are removed, replaced
or moved (the store calls back) and again after. The retriever checks
it and reads or writes its caches inside the engine's
withDataGeneration, so a removal cannot begin between the check and
the write. A lookup keeps its result only if the generation is the one
read before it started. Caches are emptied while memory is off and are
keyed by the engine's instance id, so a new engine never serves an old
one's lines.

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Every scope derived from a mail's body can be shaped by the other
person: their display name and text are part of the quote. So a mail
reply no longer gets conversation memory by parsing the body.

ConversationScopeResolver drops the quote-header parser and the
mail-subject path: Apple Mail and Outlook get no scope. The engine
drops the quoted-audience match (requiredParticipants, isSameAudience,
the own-address table and its ingest plumbing; an existing table is
dropped) and never resolves a title in a mail source. MailAudience
still isolates threads in the store, mail still syncs, and the
Playground can search it. Mail-reply memory waits for the compose
window's own To/Cc fields, which the sender cannot write.

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@senadaruc senadaruc changed the title Add on-device conversation memory (opt-in): Mail, Outlook, Teams, WhatsApp, Calendar, documents Add on-device conversation memory (opt-in): Teams, Mail, Outlook, WhatsApp, Calendar, documents Oct 14, 2026
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When the user opens an empty reply to a message that asks them
something, Cotabby drafts an answer from their memory and offers it on
a card under the caret line with the messages it came from. A click
(or Tab, in an empty reply) pastes it at the caret for editing; Esc or
typing dismisses it; nothing is inserted otherwise.

- Answers run only in mail apps (Mail, Outlook) and in chat apps whose
  memory source is on (Teams, WhatsApp); never in a browser page or
  another app's field, whose text a page could shape like a quoted mail.
- One strict reader decides what the incoming message is (what an
  answer replies to, its sender, subject and date, whether a reply is
  still empty, and the addressee and subject suggestions use):
  MailQuoteHeader, the quote-header rules FuJacob#871 used for its scope
  (normalized text, nothing header-like above the caret, the first
  header anchored at a quote boundary, exactly one sender address, no
  quoted-printable or HTML remnants), read through
  QuotedReplyParser.quotedMessage. A loose reader stays only for
  reformatting the prompt's condensed thread.
- IncomingMessageResolver finds the message being answered: the quoted
  original below the caret in an Outlook reply, or the newest incoming
  messages of the chat the window names (synced first, exactly one
  match), and nothing once the user has replied. A quoted mail is data
  only: it never names a remembered conversation, so its sender cannot
  choose one, and every fact of its answer comes from an opted-in
  answer source (marked as another conversation's) or busy/free times.
  Mail without its quote gets no answer, and anything ambiguous gives
  none.
- AnswerDraftEngine drafts on this Mac only: Apple Intelligence when
  available, else the local base model with stop sequences. Never the
  endpoint, whatever engine autocomplete uses.
- AnswerCoordinator gathers facts (answer search plus, for a question
  about the user's time, free/busy facts read live from EventKit),
  skips a message (or display name) that reads as instructions and
  drops remembered text (sender, title, text) that does, applies the
  grounding guards, caches one draft per message (keyed by sender,
  subject, date and body, so two mails saying "Any update?" are
  two messages), keeps a draft through Outlook's focus flicker for up
  to 1.5 s, does not re-prepare a field that had nothing to offer, and logs why an answer was
  skipped (names only at debug level). Answers follow Cotabby's own
  switches: globally on, not paused, not disabled for the app, not off
  for Low Power Mode. The local model drafts only when Open Source is
  the selected engine, so answers never load a model unasked.
- The card says which message it answers and lists every fact the
  draft was given with its sender, conversation, date and app, marking
  those from other conversations (AnswerAttribution). Only a plain Tab
  in an empty reply or a click inserts; Return and every other key pass
  through and withdraw the card (AnswerCardKeyPolicy); the draft is
  pasted only while the focused field and the frontmost app are still
  the card's app, without a trailing line break, and never sent.
- AnswerCardController shows a non-activating panel that takes the
  first click without taking focus; TemporaryKeyTap holds Tab and Esc
  only while the card is up; SuggestionInserter.pasteAtCaret inserts
  without replacing the quoted thread (both identical to the selection
  rewrite PR's helpers).
- Settings -> Memory -> Answers: on/off (off by default), how sure
  memory must be, and "Find Facts" to try a question; "Use for answers
  to questions" per source, off by default.
- The answer eval (17 English and Turkish cases, gated by
  RUN_LLAMA_EVAL) with a dataset consistency test that always runs.

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- A whole number beyond Int's range in config.json stays a Double
  (Int(exactly:)) instead of trapping at launch.
- FlatVectorIndex.remove moves the last row in place instead of passing
  a slice of the buffer to its own replaceSubrange (a full copy per row).
- The document readers page by when a file changed or arrived (the later
  of its modification and status-change times), so a file moved, renamed
  or synced in with an old date is still read; records keep their own date.
- A corrupt Teams blob index beyond Int's range throws instead of trapping.
- Purge (and a whole-file re-read) removes the conversations and people it
  empties, so an excluded person leaves no sealed name or tag behind.
- Index settings are clamped (overlap at most half a passage) in the pane
  on every edit and before they are applied.

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Comment on lines +73 to +74
let files = found.filter { $0.changed > state.after || retry.contains($0.id) }
.sorted { $0.changed < $1.changed }

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not advance document cursors after a partial listing. Both readers can save a cursor based on accessible files while an inaccessible subfolder contains older, unchanged files. When access returns, the cursor filter excludes those files until they change.

  • Cotabby/Services/Memory/Readers/CloudDocuments/CloudDriveReader.swift#L73-L74: retain documentListing().isComplete in read and prevent cursor advancement when enumeration is incomplete.
  • Cotabby/Services/Memory/Readers/DocumentsHistoryReader.swift#L40-L40: check listing.isComplete before filtering files or advancing the cursor.
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let files = found.filter { $0.changed > state.after || retry.contains($0.id) }
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P1 Unchanged files download again

CloudDriveReader now uses attributeModificationDate to decide which files need another read, but saves the date captured before reading them. If downloading or evicting an online-only file advances that date, the next page or sync includes the unchanged file again. Reading it downloads and evicts it again, so a large drive can repeat this expensive work every 15 minutes.

Track successfully read file versions separately from metadata changes caused by downloading and eviction.

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senadaruc added a commit to senadaruc/cotabby that referenced this pull request Oct 17, 2026
Ports the embedding-engine change made on the upstream memory PR (FuJacob#871): a
cancel bumps a counter that a call notes before it waits for the lock, instead
of a flag that the next call reset, so a cancel landing while a call still
waits is not lost. Also adds the missing <cstdint> include and the neutral
benchmark sentence. The rest of the patch is unchanged; build/deps was
prepared again from it.

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Takes the final state of FuJacob#871 (535a4fd) for every memory file and re-adds
what only this fork has:

- Scope rules: mail gets no conversation scope from its window or body; titles
  never cross apps; WhatsApp groups carry a per-group marker; mail threads split
  by audience (MailAudience) and New Outlook by topic and sender; mail people
  are addresses only; from-me only from Sent/outgoing.
- Engine and store: data generation and retriever cache races, write lock
  between ingest and removals, cancel-and-await sync before forget/delete/off,
  stale-snapshot-safe index saves, moved/re-owned upserts, emptied
  conversations deleted, folder change forgets the old folder, start
  generations in the controller, delete while off, keyed (HMAC) record ids,
  the Playground's newest-search-only rule, beginObserving's poll loop,
  nonisolated deinits, type-check splits, the six FuJacob#872-review fixes.
- Readers: EmailBodyExtractor linear HTML and bounded MIME, emlx map rebuild,
  complete/live documents, cloud retry cursor, calendar series
  reconciliation, Teams per profile, LevelDB and V8 hardening.
- Indexing waits while a suggestion generates (router generationsInFlight).
- MemoryServicePaths is MemoryPaths (same folders); the embedding model URL
  is pinned to a commit (same file and hash, no new download).

Re-added fork integrations: answers' memory pieces with this fork's
semantics (answerSearch, latestMessages, findConversations, answer sources
with their per-source defaults, config.answers with disabledApps, the
Answers section and Playground scope), the field icon's per-window memory
switch, the performance tuner gate, MLX as on-device, WhatsApp's chat name
from its header (featureScopeWindowTitle), the Python-service cleanup and
store migrations. RewriteMemoryGatherer follows the new rules: only the
focused app's own conversation (no cross-app title fallback, none for
mail); answers read a quoted mail as data only.

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The cloud cursor follows a file's later modification or status-change time,
so a file moved or renamed in with an old date still arrives. But reading an
online-only file downloads it and gives it back, and giving it back moves the
status-change time past the cursor: every sync on AC would download it again.

The cursor now also keeps (hashed) the files this reader read while they were
online-only. While such a file is still online-only, only its modification
time counts, so an edit brings it back and our own eviction does not. Every
other file keeps the arrival rule, including one moved or renamed in (a new
id). Cursors written before stay readable. The test fakes the file attributes,
since File Provider placeholders cannot be made in a test.

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Pushed a fix for the cloud-drive reader. Its cursor keys on a file's later modification or status-change time, so a file moved in with an old date still arrives. But reading an online-only file downloads it and then gives it back, and giving it back moves the status-change time past the cursor, so every sync on AC power downloaded every online-only file again.

The cursor now also remembers (as short hashes) which files the reader read while they were online-only. While such a file is still online-only, only its modification time counts: an edit brings it back, our own eviction does not. Files moved or renamed in have a new id and files the user downloaded are no longer online-only, so both keep the arrival rule. Cursors written before this change still decode.

The new test fakes the file attributes, since File Provider placeholders can't be created in a test, so I haven't checked this against a real Drive or iCloud folder.

Comment on lines +92 to +94
let files = found.map { file in
file.isOnlineOnly && evicted.contains(Cursor.evictionKey(file.id)) ? file.keyedOnModification : file
}.filter { $0.changed > state.after || retry.contains($0.id) }

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P1 Cloud edits stay missing

For files in evicted, read now compares the modification time against the drive-wide after value. Other files can advance that value using their local status-change time.

If a cloud edit arrives after an offline period with a server modification time behind after, this code skips it even if its local status-change time moved forward. Memory keeps the old text, and later syncs keep skipping the edit. Save and compare each file's last-read version instead of comparing these files against the shared cursor.

Fix in Codex Fix in Claude Code

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