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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughCortexDB now splits oversized documents into ordered events, checks encoded event sizes before writes, and reassembles pieces for full-document reads. PDF conversion preserves page boundaries. Ranked fetch and recall results include available page and section metadata. ChangesDocument chunking
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~50 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant store_items
participant Envelope
participant split
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store_items->>Envelope: prepare document events
Envelope->>split: divide document text into pieces
store_items->>CortexDB: write checked event payloads
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CortexDB refuses an experience over 1 MiB of flattened text
(422 INVALID_ENVELOPE, never truncated), and a document's event text is its
whole JSON envelope, so a long file could not be stored at all.
- A document whose encoded envelope fits in 256 KiB is still one event,
byte-identical to before. A longer one is split into contiguous pieces:
at page breaks, then before markdown headings, packed greedily up to that
target, with blank-line, line and character cuts for a unit that is too
big. `DOCUMENT_CHUNK_TARGET_BYTES` is the only granularity knob; at 0
every page and section is its own event.
- Each piece carries `chunk {index, count, pages?, section?}` and the item's
id and label, so replay, `forget` and `get` see every piece, and a store
that failed part way writes only the missing ones.
- No event over 768 KiB of encoded envelope is ever sent: a batch is encoded
and checked before its first write, and an item that cannot fit (a
learning or a turn that long) is `InvalidRequest`.
- `get` and `list` reassemble a chunked document. A fetch hit or recall
citation on a piece is that piece, with the item's id and `page:` and
`section:` tags. Events written before chunking read unchanged.
- The PDF converter extracts pages one by one and joins them with a form
feed (`documents::PAGE_BREAK`), each normalized on its own, so page
numbers survive conversion.
- The test double refuses events over 1 MiB, as CortexDB does.
This differs on purpose from "one event per page or section": CortexDB
0.10.4 already fragments each event for retrieval and serves an over-budget
event as an excerpt, and hosted writes are billed per event.
- chunks::split returns None when the envelope overhead leaves less than one escaped character (6 bytes) of room, and never packs below that, so no piece can exceed the limit; a document with no room for a piece stays whole and is refused by encode_checked if it does not fit, never cut into pieces that each exceed it. - Tests: rebuilding a chunked document from shuffled, duplicated and single pieces; a document written whole has no chunk field; oversized metadata; the room boundary; a multi-page PDF with no text is refused. - The test double checks a reused idempotency key (409) before the size limit (422), as its contract says. - Docs: page and section tags are present only when the document marks pages or the piece starts under a heading, page tags may be ranges, and oversized pages or sections are cut again at blank lines, lines, then characters.
…ctly - A document whose metadata leaves no room for a piece is laid out whole only if it fits; otherwise `for_item` refuses it with InvalidRequest instead of returning an envelope that would be refused later. - The piece overhead reserves a page range only for a document that marks pages. - When the metadata alone uses up the 256 KiB target, pieces pack up to the room under the event limit instead of collapsing to a few bytes each (a short note with large metadata was being split). - Tests: tag branches of located_meta, an unpaged headingless document gets no extra tags, a whitespace-only document keeps its text, metadata over the target, refusal of an unsplittable document. - Docs: at a zero target, a page or section too big for one event is still cut into several.
- A text that is only whitespace or page breaks is one unit (one piece at a zero target), so split always reassembles exactly. - A trailing page break joins the unit before it instead of becoming a piece of its own. - A text that fits in one piece keeps the section it starts in. - Every whole-document envelope for_item returns goes through encode_checked, as the pieces do. - Tests: blank-only text, whitespace before a heading kept, trailing page break, starting section; a fetch hit must be a piece of the body.
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- live_cortexdb: a ~700 KiB, 24-page, sectioned document is stored through the real wire, comes back whole from list and get, a fetch hit is one piece tagged with its page and section, and forget removes every piece. - Docs: the threshold is measured on the piece envelope (with its chunk field); fetch and recall give one hit per document, its best-ranked piece; pages is an inclusive [first, last] range counted from 1; an all-whitespace text is one piece.
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@crates/tinymemory-integrations/src/cortex/envelope/rebuild.rs:
- Around line 78-93: Update the full-document read paths used by get and list to
validate that all chunk indices required by ChunkInfo.count are present before
returning the rebuilt document, and avoid returning a partial body when chunks
are missing. Keep rebuild permissive so event_hit can continue returning a
single piece for fetch and recall.
Review comments at @crates/tinymemory-integrations/tests/live_cortexdb.rs:
- Around line 298-304: Update the live CortexDB test around list_until so it
polls until the listed item equals document.render_text() or the existing
deadline expires; do not stop polling merely because one item is visible.
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CortexDB's default budgets.max_tokens (4000, about 14 KB) serves a longer event as a budget_excerpt (0.10.4 API §9.5): a slice of the stored JSON envelope that no longer decodes, so the event was never a fetch hit or recall citation. Every pack now sends a budget of a token per byte of the largest event this crate writes, per item asked for, capped at 8 Mi tokens. per_layer_limits still bounds what a pack holds. The live long-document test now polls fetch, as list_until polls the listing.
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- get and list return a chunked document only when every piece is present (rebuild_whole), never a truncated body. A store that failed part-way is completed by the next store of the item; fetch and recall still hit the pieces that are there. - A pack event served as a partial view (_partial, e.g. budget_excerpt) does not decode and is dropped; it is now logged at warn with the scope and the reasons. - The budget docs state the bytes-per-token ratio measured on CortexDB 0.10.4 (3 to 3.5 for English, CJK and random text). - The spec states how an item that cannot fit even split is refused. - The live test notes that list waits for every piece, and asserts its document is over twice the chunk target.
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- Recall builds the chosen scope's pack again when /v1/answer answers 404 for use_pack_id, up to three answers. CortexDB 0.10.4 drops every pack it holds on any successful forget, even in another scope, so a concurrent forget made recall fail (CortexDB live at 9d40d5d). - get and list return a chunked document whole only when every piece agrees on one positive count, each index is below it, and all are present; an unchunked envelope of the same id is the whole body and wins over pieces. - The beliefs read sends max_tokens for each belief it asks for. - The live long-document test is two pieces, so its forget stays inside the request timeout, and after forget it polls fetch until no piece of the item is left. - The spec states the chunking threshold on the envelope as a piece.
Follow up #205: survive dropped packs, validate pieces, budget beliefs
Summary
CortexDB refuses an experience whose flattened text is over 1 MiB (
422 INVALID_ENVELOPE, never truncated; 0.10.4 API §6.10). A document's event text is its whole JSON envelope, so a long file could not be stored at all. This PR writes a long document as contiguous pieces, cut along its structure. Each piece is well under the limit, and the pieces read back as one document.Related issue
None. This follows a scoping review with the CortexDB team.
API or behavior changes
No breaking change. Additive:
documents::PAGE_BREAK(the form feed that now separates PDF pages).Behaviour:
DOCUMENT_CHUNK_TARGET_BYTES) is one event, byte-identical to before (nochunkfield). A longer one is split:chunk {index, count, pages?, section?}plus the item's id and label. So replay detection,forget(by id or filter) andgetsee every piece, and a store that failed part way rewrites only the missing ones.InvalidRequestand nothing of the batch is sent.getandlistreassemble a chunked document;listreturns it once. They return it only when every piece is present, never as a truncated body. A store that failed part way leaves the item absent fromget/listuntil the next store writes the missing pieces;fetchandrecallstill hit the pieces that exist.fetchhit orrecallcitation on a piece is that piece: the item's id, its text, and the item's metadata plus read-sidepage:<n>(orpage:<a>-<b>) andsection:<title>tags.file:,page:) are not written yet.budgets.max_tokens, CortexDB's default of 4000 tokens (about 14 KB) serves any longer event as abudget_excerpt(§9.5; 0.10.1+, so hosted 0.10.3 too). The excerpt is a slice of the stored JSON envelope and no longer decodes. On main today, any item over about 14 KB is never afetchhit or arecallcitation, and every chunked piece (about 256 KiB) would be lost the same way.a_long_document_round_trips_in_pieces.listandgetfind it, butfetchnever does. The raw pack holds the piece ascontent._partial: true,_partial_reason: "budget_excerpt", 13,874 of 238,099 bytes. The same pack with a largermax_tokens(300k, 3M or 50M were tried) returns the events whole.max_tokens=whole_items_budget(n): a token per byte of the largest event (768 KiB) for each item asked for (nevents for a fetch;limit× 3 for an answer pack's events and derived items; one for a beliefs read), capped at 8 Mi tokens (MAX_PACK_TOKENS). The hosted/memory/recallpasses the body through.per_layer_limitsstill bounds the pack. A pack ofnevents carries at mostn× 768 KiB of event text. A default fetch of 5 asks 18 events per scope, so at most 13.5 MiB per scope pack, and real pieces are about 256 KiB or less. The cap bounds any pack at about 24–28 MiB, under the 32 MiB request cap._partial: true) is now logged at warn with the scope, count and reasons, instead of being dropped silently._partialexcerpts as hits. That needs prose event text and readable labels, because an excerpt of today's JSON envelope carries no decodable item id.OfficeConverterextracts PDFs page by page, normalizes each page on its own, and joins them withPAGE_BREAK, so page numbers survive conversion. Empty pages keep their place.On purpose, this differs from the CortexDB team's "one event per page or section" advice. Splitting is used only to stay under the limit, along the document's structure:
matched_fragments, §9.4);Granularity is a single constant: setting
DOCUMENT_CHUNK_TARGET_BYTESto0gives one event per page or section, and that mode is tested.Validation
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cargo fmt --all -- --check: okcargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings: okcargo build --all-targets --all-features: okcargo test --all-features: ok, 1112 passedcargo test: ok, 424 passedRUSTDOCFLAGS="-D warnings" cargo doc --no-deps --all-features: okcargo run -p tinymemory-integrations --example basic: okcargo llvm-cov … --fail-under-lines 80: ok, 94.11% lines (envelope/chunks.rs100%)cargo hack --feature-powerset --depth 2 --workspace check --all-targets: okscripts/cortexdb-live.sh's three suites against a fresh local CortexDB v0.10.4 (integration/cortexdb): ok, 3 + 1 + 3 passedCounts are at 9d40d5d.
Revert-checks (each made its tests fail, then restored):
max_tokens(live, fresh server):a_long_document_round_trips_in_piecesfails, with the piece served as abudget_excerpt;a_pack_budget_fits_each_event_whole_up_to_a_ceilingfails;a_store_that_lost_a_piece_writes_only_that_piece_againfails;a_partial_event_is_logged_at_warn_with_its_reasonfails.The test double now refuses an event over 1 MiB, as CortexDB does, so (1) fails the same way production would.
Note: the intermittent
tinymemory-apieach_fault_is_caught_by_its_check(GetUnorderedcaught bynamespaces) failed once in a coverage run at 51f25ba, and the rerun was green; the run at 9d40d5d was clean. It also reproduces on main (3 of 120 runs), and this PR does not touch that crate.Tests
envelope::chunks(8 tests). Every test also asserts that the pieces concatenate exactly to the input.getand as one item bylist;page:/section:tags;forgetremoves every piece;get/listreturn nothing for the item;max_tokens; an answer pack's budget fits every event it asks for whole; the budget is never zero and is capped.listandgetreturn it whole, afetchhit is a piece withpage:/section:tags, andforgetremoves it.Documentation
docs/architecture/cortex-wire.md(new "Chunked documents" section, envelope table and rebuild rules),docs/architecture/cortex-flows.md,docs/specs/memory-v2.md,crates/tinymemory-integrations/src/cortex/README.md,crates/tinymemory-integrations/src/documents/README.md.Checklist
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