fix(memory): drain background work and refill scoped retrieval

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Summary

Fix two Memory issues without changing the database schema, adding dependencies.

1. Drain accepted Memory work before database maintenance

• Pause Memory admission and invalidate existing execution fences before draining.
• Wait for consolidation, embedding/prewarm, and clear operations under one shared deadline.
• Report pending agents on timeout so database maintenance cannot close SQLite prematurely.
• Preserve interrupted clear jobs and resume them after reopening; reload pending-clear state when the database is replaced.
• Keep dirty working projections intact without accessing the database while paused.
• Block memory.* routes during database maintenance.

2. Refill scope-filtered decision retrieval

• Fetch one bounded vector candidate pool per query batch, capped at 800 candidates per query.
• Widen the local candidate window when scope filtering or row revalidation leaves too few eligible neighbors.
• Preserve the original ranking when the initial window already provides enough neighbors.
• Preserve retry snapshots, pinned-neighbor order, and cancellation behavior.

Review and simplification

• No unresolved P1/P2/P3 findings in the changed scope.
• Removed duplicate maintenance pause state and the separate drain implementation.
• Reused existing task tracking, deadline helpers, and retrieval budgets.
• Added no scheduler, configuration option, or dependency.

Validation

• Format, i18n, lint, and full application typecheck
• Memory test scope and type checks
• Memory behavior: 951 passed
• Native SQLite: 334 passed, 2 skipped
• Performance: 10 passed
• Evaluation: 7 passed

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved database maintenance safety by pausing memory activity while maintenance is in progress and waiting for background operations to settle before shutdown.
  • Prevented memory requests from accessing the database during maintenance.
  • Ensured interrupted memory clears and working-memory refreshes resume after the database reopens.
  • Improved decision retrieval when relevant results are hidden behind unrelated matches, while preserving safeguards when the candidate limit is exhausted.

• Documentation

  • Added documentation describing memory maintenance draining, pause behavior, recovery, and validation criteria.

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Walkthrough

The change centralizes memory maintenance pause and drain handling in MemoryService, propagates pause state through memory operations, and adds coordinated resume behavior. It also expands decision retrieval candidate scanning and adds regression coverage for both areas.

Changes

Memory maintenance lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pause admission and memory access src/main/memory/context.ts, src/main/memory/services/workingMemoryService.ts, src/main/app/composition.ts	The runtime context now pauses memory guards, operation fences, events, audits, and working-memory access. Database maintenance also blocks memory.* routes.
Coordinate maintenance drain and resume src/main/memory/index.ts, src/main/memory/services/*, src/main/memory/infra/embeddingPipeline.ts, test/main/memory/maintenanceService.test.ts, docs/architecture/memory-system.md, docs/issues/memory-maintenance-drain/spec.md	MemoryService pauses and drains consolidation, embedding, and clear work under a shared deadline. Services expose in-flight agent IDs, clear operations pause at boundaries, and restart resumes pending work. Tests cover prewarm, clears, vector resets, and dirty working-memory refreshes. Documentation describes the updated contract.

Scope-aware decision retrieval

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Expand and validate decision candidates src/main/memory/services/retrievalService.ts, test/main/memory/retrievalService.test.ts	Decision retrieval queries the maximum candidate budget, progressively validates candidates, reports candidateBudgetExhausted, and tests scope filtering and boundary cases.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: zerob13

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Application
  participant MemoryService
  participant MemoryRuntimeContext
  participant MaintenanceServices
  Application->>MemoryService: stopBackgroundMaintenance()
  MemoryService->>MemoryRuntimeContext: pause()
  MemoryRuntimeContext->>MaintenanceServices: invalidate and block memory work
  Application->>MemoryService: drainBackgroundMaintenance()
  MemoryService->>MaintenanceServices: collect and await in-flight work
  MemoryService-->>Application: return unsettled agent IDs or complete
  Application->>MemoryService: startBackgroundMaintenance()
  MemoryService->>MemoryRuntimeContext: resume()
  MemoryService->>MaintenanceServices: resume pending work

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 9177d

Decision retrieval can omit its exhaustion signal when a full vector candidate pool is reduced by the similarity threshold. This is a bounded observability and degradation-reporting gap, but should be corrected before relying on that signal.

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In `@src/main/memory/services/retrievalService.ts`:
- Around line 477-482: Track the unfiltered result count in the retrieval flow
by adding per-candidate counts alongside vectorMatches, recording each raw
matches array length before similarityThreshold filtering in the queryBatch
result mapping. Update the candidateBudgetExhausted check to use
rawVectorMatchCounts for the current candidate while preserving the existing
filtered-neighbor threshold check.

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• docs/architecture/memory-system.md
• docs/issues/memory-maintenance-drain/spec.md
• src/main/app/composition.ts
• src/main/memory/context.ts
• src/main/memory/index.ts
• src/main/memory/infra/embeddingPipeline.ts
• src/main/memory/services/maintenanceService.ts
• src/main/memory/services/managementService.ts
• src/main/memory/services/retrievalService.ts
• src/main/memory/services/workingMemoryService.ts
• test/main/memory/maintenanceService.test.ts
• test/main/memory/retrievalService.test.ts

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评审结论：APPROVE

没有发现需要修改才能合入的问题。两个修复目标明确、实现克制（净删除了旧的 pause flag 和旧 drain 实现，没有新增抽象/配置项/依赖/调度器），行为变化有文档说明且有行为级测试覆盖。

这个 PR 干了什么

修复一：数据库维护前的停机握手漏了两类后台任务。 DeepChat 做数据库维护（备份/压缩/换库）前，会让 Memory 停下后台任务再关 SQLite。原来的停机握手只盯记忆巩固（consolidation）这一种任务，但另外两类「已经接受」的后台工作没人间管：向量库预热（打开向量库文件、做 embedding 试探）和用户发起的记忆清空（clear）。结果是握手报告「都停好了」，数据库随即关闭，而这两类任务还在半路，下一步访问的就是一个已经关掉的数据库。

修复做法：进入维护窗口时统一暂停 Memory 准入（新任务一律拒绝、已在跑任务的执行围栏作废、进行中的 provider 请求中止），然后在一个共享期限内等这三类任务全部落定；等到就关库，等不到就把还没落定的 agent 名单报上去、让维护直接失败——宁可维护失败，也不带着未落定的任务关库。被中断的 clear 不谎报成功：请求返回错误，但清空作业持久化在库里，重开数据库后自动恢复接着清。维护窗口期间所有 memory.* 路由和 chat 路由一样被阻塞。

修复二：scope 过滤后决策检索没有候选可用。 按会话等 scope 过滤记忆时，决策检索（给「是否存这条记忆」提供依据的近邻检索）先取少量向量候选再过滤——最近的十几条全被 scope 过滤掉之后就没有候选了。修复沿用普通检索已验证的方案：一次向量查询取满 800 条候选池，过滤后不足就在本地逐步放大可见窗口（12→48→192→800），不重复查库，保留原排序、retry snapshot 与 pinned-neighbor 语义。

两个修复互相独立，各带回归测试（11 个新增测试，全部走公共 API，无实现细节断言）。

行为变化（需要知晓，均已文档化）

1. 维护窗口期间 memory.* 路由被阻塞（与 chat 阻塞机制一致），memory 面板请求在该窗口内会失败。
2. 被中断的 clear 请求报错但后台恢复后会清完——「报错但最终成功」略反直觉，但比假装完成诚实，spec 与测试都覆盖了两个分支。
3. 决策检索单次向量查询量 12→800（与 normal recall 既有模式一致，exact scan 成本与 topK 无关）。

建议（不阻塞）

1. spec 文档可补一句：维护窗口暂停的瞬间，恰好完成的记忆提取写入会被静默丢弃一次（src/main/memory/services/writeCoordinator.ts:297-298）。这是关库安全性的必要防御，但值得写明这个 trade-off。
2. MemoryService.drainBackgroundMaintenance（src/main/memory/index.ts:393-419）与 dispose() 内部（index.ts:865-884）各有一段「收集在途任务并等待」的相似代码。两处语义不同（deadline vs 轮数上限+收尾清理），现在不值得强行合并，留个意识即可。
3. 暂停期间 UI 变更通知与审计写入是静默丢弃的（src/main/memory/context.ts:269-290）。当前设计下暂停期间几乎不可能有合法变更，影响趋近于零，仅作记录。

详细分析/来源

• 暂停/恢复与围栏失效：src/main/memory/context.ts:61、80-89、118-124、220-223
• 统一 drain（consolidation + embedding + clear，共享 deadline 与超时报告）：src/main/memory/index.ts:393-419；embedding 在途集合 src/main/memory/infra/embeddingPipeline.ts:1282-1303；clear 在途 src/main/memory/services/managementService.ts:190-195
• 旧 pause flag 与旧 drain 的删除：src/main/memory/services/maintenanceService.ts（stop 保留围栏失效以覆盖 dispose 路径）
• clear 批次边界中断、恢复与 DB 替换后重建：src/main/memory/services/managementService.ts:169-172、196-216、742、790-791
• dirty working 投影暂停/恢复：src/main/memory/services/workingMemoryService.ts:50-51、118-120、140-142
• 维护窗口 memory.* 路由阻塞：src/main/app/composition.ts:3364；drain/恢复调用顺序 composition.ts:3381、3396-3403、3431
• 800 候选池与本地窗口扩大：src/main/memory/services/retrievalService.ts:396-401、458-481；预算工具复用 src/main/memory/core/retrievalBudget.ts
• 测试：test/main/memory/maintenanceService.test.ts:1319-1455（6 个）、test/main/memory/retrievalService.test.ts:889-1101（5 个）
• 文档：docs/architecture/memory-system.md、docs/issues/memory-maintenance-drain/spec.md

验证（本地实测）

命令	结果
vitest run maintenance + retrieval 测试	107/107 通过
完整 memory 行为套件（vitest.config.memory.ts）	951/951 通过
memory 性能套件	10/10 通过
typecheck:node、lint、format:check	全部通过

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Review: Approve ✅

Two real fixes, verified against the code and run locally. Remaining findings are all P3 (non-blocking).

What this PR does

1. Drain accepted work before DB maintenance: stopBackgroundMaintenance now pauses Memory admission and invalidates execution fences, then a facade-level drain waits under one shared soft deadline for consolidation, embedding prewarm, and clear jobs before database maintenance may close SQLite. On timeout it reports the pending agents and lets maintenance fail instead of closing the DB with in-flight work. Interrupted clear jobs are preserved as durable jobs and resumed after reopen, and pending-clear state is reloaded when the DB is replaced (this also fixes a stale-agentId residue bug that permanently blocked write admission after a DB swap). Working memory keeps dirty projections during pause with zero DB access and re-schedules on resume.
2. Scoped decision retrieval refill: scoped decision retrieval previously requested only 12 vector candidates, so after scope exclusion the window was frequently empty. It now fetches a bounded pool of up to 800 and widens the local window 12→48→192→800, preserving original ordering when the first page suffices.

Verified

• Every claim in the PR description checked against the code — all hold.
• Tests on this head: touched suites 107/107, test:memory 951/951, native suite 332 passed / 4 skipped, perf 10/10, eval 7/7. Typecheck, lint, oxfmt, i18n:validate all pass.
• Regression protection is real: 9 of the new tests fail on the unmodified base commit.
• Concurrency: no deadlock paths in the drain loop (shared deadline; timeout always returns an agent list); every re-entry point is gated after pause (consolidation, embedding drain, warmup, clear enqueue, route layer); clear checks pause at three points and survives DB replacement.

Findings (P3, non-blocking)

1. candidateBudgetExhausted uses the post-threshold count — src/main/memory/services/retrievalService.ts:477-482: matches is vectorMatches[index], already filtered by similarity >= similarityThreshold, while the raw pool cap is 800. The budget-exhausted degradation flag can therefore only fire when all 800 raw candidates pass the threshold — exhaustion is systematically under-reported exactly when the threshold is doing work. Diagnostics-only, no behavior impact. Suggest recording the raw (pre-filter) candidate count at the queryBatch mapping and judging on that; the normal-recall refill path (refillCandidates) already uses the unfiltered count. (This confirms the CodeRabbit inline comment.)

2. writeAudit / emitChanged silently suppressed during pause — src/main/memory/services/writeCoordinator.ts:1576 and src/main/memory/context.ts:290: if pause lands between the durable commit and the trailing audit of an add/extraction, the audit row (and renderer change event) for already-committed data is lost. Narrow maintenance race, observability-only. Options: queue audit inserts during pause and flush on resume, or move the suppression point to after the drain succeeds — the DB is still open between pause and close, so writing the audit there is safe.

3. Revalidation set grew from ≤12 to ≤800 per decision query — src/main/memory/services/retrievalService.ts:430-445: the whole filtered pool is fed to listApplicableByIds even when the initial 12-row window would have sufficed; the normal-recall refill revalidates only the visible window per round. Bounded pool, perf suites pass — just noting the trade-off isn't in the description. Lazy per-widen-round revalidation is a future option if decision batch latency ever matters.