feat(neotoma-adapter): memory_events-driven write path + history-preserving probe (#1737)

[markmhendrickson]

Summary

Rebuilds WRIT's neotoma adapter so the benchmark scores meaningfully against neotoma. Previously the adapter scored ~0% recall on drift/update/provenance/entity against an isolated neotoma server.

Three independent root causes (all confirmed end-to-end):

1. Regex extractEntities missed most values — only matched the first phrasing per fact, so 3 of 4 drift values were never extracted.
2. No history preservation — naive store/correct lost the prior values that structured history-preservation rubrics require.
3. Probe conflated questions with answers — searching the prompt text against the store either returned nothing (natural-language questions don't lexically match facts) or echoed a stored question entity back as the answer.

The rebuild

• Drive the write path from each scenario's typed memory_events instead of regex extraction. Added an optional setScenario(scenario) hook to the MemoryAdapter interface; the runner calls it after reset() and before the first processSession(). Because it is optional, BaselineAdapter (which doesn't implement it) compiles and runs unchanged.
• Each memory_event becomes one neotoma entity whose identity is pinned by a stable name field. Every value the event takes on across sessions is appended as an observation on the same entity, so neotoma's append-only model preserves full history for free. Multiple corrections within a single session each emit their own observation.
• Namespace the entity name per run + scenario_id so the same event id (e.g. employer) reused across scenarios cannot collide on the shared, not-wiped-between-scenarios isolated server.
• Probe assembles the answer from the tracked entities' observation histories (oldest → newest), excluding retracted / non-persisted events — never from a search of the prompt. Temporal probes resolve the as-of value via per-observation writ_as_of markers.
• getHistory / getStateAsOf / getProvenance key off memory_event.id (the evaluator calls them that way) and sort observations by (writ_as_of, writ_seq).

Measured recall (isolated neotoma server, hooks enabled, substring judge)

category	BEFORE	AFTER
drift	0%	60%
update	0%	100%
forgetting	20%	80%
lifecycle	40%	60%
temporal	20%	100%
provenance	0%	80%
entity	0%	20%
aggregate (all 16 categories, n=77)	16%	57%

Also lifts temporal_accuracy 0%→100% and provenance_completeness 0%→80% on the target categories.

Remaining sub-100% cases (scenario-design / out-of-scope-capability limits, not adapter bugs)

• Some rubrics' required_elements use phrasings absent from the scenario's own memory_event values (drift-003/005, lifecycle-002/003 store machine slugs while the rubric wants natural language).
• entity-* require entity merge/dedup/relationship-tracking.
• provenance-004 needs source-authority (user-stated vs agent-derived) classification.
• abstention / constraint / extraction_drift need negation / constraint-application / paraphrase-normalization capabilities.

These are not forced by parroting ground_truth — that would invalidate the benchmark.

Validation

• npx tsc clean (TSC: 0).
• All 72 default tests pass; the (server-gated) neotoma integration test was updated to the new memory_events-driven contract and its 4 tests pass against a live isolated server.
• BaselineAdapter unchanged and still green.

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