perf(state): write only the vector buckets that changed

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The bug

IndexPersistence serialises the whole index to one string and cuts it into shards by character offset:

for (let offset = 0; offset < serialized.length; offset += chunkChars) {
  const chunk = serialized.slice(offset, offset + chunkChars);

A single new observation shifts every downstream byte, so every shard differs and every shard is rewritten. That is O(entire corpus) per change, and it compounds: more memories means a bigger index means bigger rewrites.

Evidence

Read off a deployed store rather than inferred. Generation ids are Date.now().toString(36), so they decode to the moment that generation was published:

vector index, last completed save	2026-08-26T06:21:43Z
bm25 index, last completed save	2026-08-26T11:03:31Z
time of reading	2026-08-26T11:13:57Z
elapsed with the vector index unable to persist	4h 52m
mem:sessions mtime	11:12 (actively written)
shards	78 bm25 + 140 vector
store size vs real data	753 MB over ~35 MB of observations

The store is written continuously and BM25 does get through, while the vector index has not persisted for nearly five hours. That split is the whole point, and it follows directly from runSave:

await this.saveBm25Index(this.bm25.serialize());
if (this.vector) {
  await this.saveVectorIndex(this.vector.serialize());
}

BM25 goes first at ~164 MB and completes. The vector index goes second at ~266 MB and does not. The failure is not random: it lands on the larger of the two writes, every time. This is not a stalled process — it is one specific write that has outgrown what a full rewrite can push through.

With no orphaned generations present, that 753 MB is the live index. Write amplification is the whole story of the size, not garbage.

It is also not slow storage. A 64 MB dd with conv=fsync on that volume runs at 65.5 MB/s, so the disk would absorb the entire 431 MB index in under seven seconds — against an invocation timeout of 180. Whatever the write costs, it is not being spent on the device.

The consequence that matters most: flushIndexSave is awaited on every delete path (governance.ts:33,139, retention.ts:392, auto-forget.ts:194, remember.ts:321) precisely to make a delete durable. While no save completes, no delete is durable — forgotten memories return on restart.

The change

Partition the vector index into a fixed number of buckets by hash(obsId) % N. Each save serialises a bucket, hashes it, and writes it only when the hash differs from the one the manifest recorded.

Bucket keys are deterministic and reused in place, so there is no generation to strand and orphaned shards are structurally impossible — which is a different and stronger property than reclaiming them after the fact.

Hashes live in the manifest, not in process memory. A restart-heavy service with an in-memory cache would rewrite every bucket after every restart, which is exactly the cost being removed.

Buckets are still chunked to shardChars. Bucket size grows with the corpus and the engine rejects an oversized state::set payload. Chunking bounds the payload; bucketing bounds how much gets rewritten. They solve different problems and both are needed — there is an existing regression test for the payload bound.

Nothing is deleted until the manifest naming its replacement is live. Deleting first destroys data the still-current manifest points at when a publish fails, since the old manifest survives the failure.

The manifest records the addressing scheme, not just the content. This one is worth calling out, because it is the subtle failure of the whole approach and I got it wrong first: a content hash cannot see an addressing change. The bytes are identical, they just belong somewhere else now. So layout, buckets, and chunkChars are all compared before any write is skipped, and a mismatch forces a full rewrite plus a reclaim of every key the old manifest named.

Without that, changing the bucket count stranded every old bucket permanently — the exact orphan class this format was supposed to make impossible — and changing the chunk size skipped the write while recording a new chunk count, so load read the wrong number of keys and dropped the bucket as corrupt. layout is versioned separately from v on purpose: an older manifest must stay parseable for reclaim, and bumping v would make it unreadable and strand the very keys that need deleting.

The trap in this design, and why keys carry a hash

The obvious way to build this is to overwrite each bucket in place under a stable key, publishing the manifest last. I built it that way first, and it is wrong in a way that is worth spelling out, because it looks safe.

A save that dies between the chunk writes and the manifest publish leaves a bucket that no longer matches the hash the still-current manifest recorded. Load drops it. Nothing restores it: rebuild is gated on the BM25 index being empty (src/index.ts, src/functions/search.ts), never on the vector index, so with BM25 populated no re-embed ever runs. The next save then serialises the index without those vectors and overwrites the bucket. Silent, permanent loss — and the generation swap this replaces lost nothing in the same situation, so it was a straight durability regression.

So chunk keys carry the bucket's content hash. The old bucket stays readable until the new manifest names the new one, a save that dies partway loses nothing, and reclaim stays exact because the old manifest still names the old keys.

Two consequences that are easy to miss and are covered by tests:

• Never delete a key the new manifest names. Old and new keys can legitimately collide: identical content re-chunked keeps the same bucket and hash, so chunk zero's key is unchanged even when the old entry listed more chunks.
• Unfinished reclaim is carried in the manifest. Deletes run after the publish, so dying partway would strand the remainder with nothing able to name them. A delete that fails stays on the list rather than being reported done.

Cross-bucket atomicity is still deliberately given up, and that part buys nothing today because the atomic save never completes.

On overlapping saves. scheduleSave fires save() unawaited from the debounce timer while five delete paths (remember.ts:321, auto-forget.ts:194, governance.ts:33, governance.ts:139, retention.ts:392) await it, so two saves can overlap on main today. Content-addressed keys make that far less dangerous than it would otherwise be: two saves write different content, so they write different keys and cannot clobber each other's bytes. Whichever publishes last wins, and every key its manifest names was written by that same save, so the published state is readable. The loser's keys leak rather than corrupting anything. That composes with the save serialisation in #1256, which removes the leak entirely.

A reviewer found a second way to lose the same data, and was right

Review raised that changing contentHash() would make loadVectorBuckets() reject every existing bucket, and that bumping VECTOR_LAYOUT alone would not be enough because rejected buckets cannot be rewritten. I drafted a rejection. Tracing it end to end showed the stronger form of the claim is literally correct about this code:

isVectorBucketManifest does not check layout, so the manifest parses. Chunk keys derive from the stored hash, so the chunks are found. Every contentHash(body) !== entry.hash comparison then fails, corrupt reaches the entry count, and loadVectorBuckets returns an empty VectorIndex rather than null — so load() never falls through to the v1 reader. On the next save serializeBuckets yields nothing, the prior loop re-names every entry, and the early return fires. No rebuild runs, because src/index.ts keyed needsRebuild on the BM25 size and never on the vector index.

Bytes preserved, manifest preserved, vectors permanently unreadable, no automatic recovery. The reproduction rewrites a saved store under an alien hash and drives save() from the load() that rejected it. Against unmodified source it fails with corrupt: 20 / total: 20 and a reopened index of 0.

Three commits close it:

• 5a1edc7 adds a precise recovery signal. Returning null was traced and recovers nothing: load() falls to loadVectorData, which fails isVectorBucketManifest and returns null anyway, and src/index.ts treats null and empty identically. Keying the rebuild on vectorIndex.size === 0 would false-positive on a store whose vectors were never written, and rebuildIndex calls idx.clear(), so a false positive wipes a healthy BM25 index. The signal is therefore narrow on purpose: set only when a load read entries and rejected all of them. A failed read may succeed next boot and the existing preserve-and-wait policy already covers it. A failed content check fails identically forever.
• ad38fb6 accepts a bucket hashed by any scheme this format has published, so a build one step behind can still read a store the newer one wrote. Sequenced before the hash change so no commit in history leaves a store recoverable only by a full re-embed.
• bf21c2d moves published hashes to sha256 and VECTOR_LAYOUT to 3.

On sha256 rather than fingerprintId. Review suggested fingerprintId. Measured, it is the wrong tool here: vectorChunkKey takes hash.slice(0, 12), and fingerprintId("vec", ...) spends four of those twelve characters on a constant vec_ prefix, leaving 8 hex characters. That is 32 bits against raw sha256's 48, a 65536x reduction in exactly the content addressing that makes a torn write survivable. Plain sha256 clears the CWE-328 warning without paying that.

The layout bump is not what carries this migration

Worth stating because it is the same class of error the finding was about, and mutation testing caught me assuming it.

Reverting VECTOR_LAYOUT from 3 back to 2 leaves 48 of 48 tests green. A stored sha1 hash cannot equal a computed sha256 one, so the per-bucket comparison already forces the full rewrite on its own. The bump is kept for the constant's documented contract and as a manifest-readable marker of the scheme, not because it is load-bearing here.

It was load-bearing for the earlier chunk-key change described under Testing, where every hash matched on both sides and only the layout comparison could see the addressing move.

Compatibility

v1 manifests still load, and the first save migrates and reclaims the shards they name. A v1 manifest names its own shards, so migration needs no enumeration — which matters, because StateKV.list returns values rather than keys and cannot be used to walk a shard scope without pulling every body into memory.

One caveat worth stating plainly: the migrating save is not cheap. With no previous v2 manifest, every bucket counts as changed, so that first save writes the whole index once — the same size as the save that is currently failing. The change only takes effect after one full vector save lands.

That is acceptable because it needs a single success rather than a sustained one, and saves clearly do land in quieter windows (BM25 completed at 11:03, and the vector index itself completed at 06:21). Every save after that one is incremental. But it does mean the fix is not in force the moment it deploys, and it should be verified by checking that vectors:manifest has flipped to v: 2, rather than assumed.

I considered publishing a partial v2 manifest to make the migration resumable and rejected it: it overwrites the v1 manifest, which both strands the v1 shards and leaves a partial index behind. All-or-nothing is the safer trade.

Scope

BM25 is untouched. Its inverted map is term to docIds, so one new document dirties the bucket of every term it contains, and totalDocLength is a global scalar with no natural shard home. That is a genuinely different design problem and bundling it here would have made this unreviewable.

What this does not claim

This fixes saves not completing, delete durability, and store growth. It is not a fix for the engine being killed under memory pressure, and I want to be explicit about that rather than overclaim: a previous change on this store reclaimed 339 MB (memory went 98% to 46% of cap) and the engine deaths continued unchanged. Engine growth is load-proportional and was still climbing during a window in which no save completed, so it is not proven to be driven by these writes.

Testing

Twenty new tests in test/index-persistence.test.ts. Each was run against the unmodified source first and confirmed to fail, then mutation-checked against the finished code. The last seven mutations cover the recovery work added after review:

• removing the skip-unchanged guard kills 4 tests
• deleting stale buckets before the manifest publish kills 2
• removing load-time hash verification kills 1
• forcing a single chunk per bucket kills 3
• removing the v1 migration reclaim kills 1
• skipping on the content hash alone, ignoring layout, kills 1
• reclaiming only layout-matched buckets kills 1
• disabling tail-chunk reclaim kills 1
• reverting to in-place bucket keys kills 5
• clearing the reclaim list when a delete failed kills 1
• dropping the layout-version comparison kills 1
• skipping every write whenever the layout matches kills 3
• forcing the all-rejected signal off kills the recovery reproduction
• marking only missing entries incomplete kills it with the buckets destroyed
• narrowing the accepted-hash set to the published one alone kills the sha256 test
• making the hash comparison always succeed kills 2, including the pre-existing torn-write test
• reverting the published hash to sha1 kills 2
• dropping sha1 from the accepted set kills 2, including migration
• reverting VECTOR_LAYOUT 3 to 2 kills nothing, which is why the section above exists

That second-to-last one is worth calling out, because it caught a bug I had already shipped into this branch. Changing the chunk key format is an addressing change, and I made it without moving VECTOR_LAYOUT. On an upgrade the layout, bucket count, chunk size, and every content hash all matched, so every write was skipped and load then looked for hash-bearing keys the store did not have: 30 vectors to 0.

No test could see it, because every test in the file writes and reads through the same build, which keeps the suite self-consistent under any addressing change. Deleting the layout comparison outright left the whole suite green. There is now one cross-version fixture that stands in for a store written by an older layout, and it is the only thing in the file that pins that guard.

Known limitations

Stated here rather than left in the diff to be found:

• Recovery runs rebuildIndex, which clears BM25 first. On the exact store this targets, healthy BM25 with rejected vectors, boot now wipes a fully restored BM25 index and rebuilds both over what src/index.ts calls hours. The right trade against permanent vector loss, but real and new.
• vectorLoadIncomplete is sticky for the process. If the corpus shrank between the bad save and the rebuild, uncovered buckets are re-named into the new manifest still carrying alien hashes. The next load then sees corrupt > 0 but not all-corrupt, so no rebuild fires and those entries stay stale. The follow-up shape is to preserve on missing and reclaim on corrupt, which contradicts an existing design comment and is not attempted here.
• The MAX_BUCKET_CHUNKS guard throws mid-loop, so buckets written earlier in the same pass are left behind. If the corpus has not moved by the next successful save the identical content-addressed keys are reused; if it has, they are named by no manifest and leak. Same shape as a crash mid-save, which this format already accepts. Note it is unreachable at the shipped configuration: the only production constructor passes no options, so shardChars is always 2,000,000 and the throw needs a 20 GB single bucket.
• The manifest itself is never chunked. Both payload guards test typeof data === "string", and the manifest goes through kv.set as an object, so it bypasses them. It measures ~18 KB at the default 256 buckets and grows linearly with vectorBuckets — comfortably under the frame cap today, but unbounded in principle.
• The bucket-count clause of the layout comparison is not independently pinned. Removing it alone keeps the suite green. That is defensible, since a bucket membership change also changes the body hash, but it means the test named for it is really pinning something else.
• Overlapping save() has no re-entrancy guard on main. stop() clears a pending timer but cannot cancel a save already awaiting a state::set. I was unable to build a deterministic reproduction, so I am reporting it as an unverified gap rather than a bug.

One of these initially passed against broken code: the torn-bucket test used an invalid-JSON body, which the row parser discards whether or not the hash is verified. It was rewritten to use a valid body with content that disagrees with the recorded hash, which is the only shape that can show the check doing work.

npm test: 1720 passing, 0 failing. tsc --noEmit is unchanged from base (same 30 pre-existing errors, confirmed by stashing).

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Improved vector index persistence with stable, content-based storage and configurable bucket sizing.
  • Added incremental saves that update only changed data.
  • Added support for migrating existing persisted indexes.
  • Improved loading behavior by preserving valid entries when data is missing or corrupted.
  • Added automatic index rebuilding when persisted vector data cannot be recovered.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved cleanup of obsolete persisted data and recovery from interrupted saves.
  • Delete operations now clearly report whether they succeeded.

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Vector persistence now uses deterministic, content-hashed buckets with configurable layout. Saves publish manifests and reclaim obsolete data safely. Loads validate buckets, preserve unread data, support legacy migration, and report when a rebuild is required.

Changes

Vector persistence

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Deterministic bucket serialization src/state/vector-index.ts	VectorIndex assigns observations to deterministic buckets, serializes bucket payloads, and merges validated rows into existing indexes.
Incremental bucket save and reclamation src/state/index-persistence.ts, test/index-persistence.test.ts	Vector saves hash bucket content, write only changed buckets, enforce chunk limits, publish manifests before deletion, retry failed reclamation, and cover layout changes and interrupted saves.
Bucket loading and rebuild signaling src/state/index-persistence.ts, src/index.ts, test/index-persistence.test.ts	Loading validates bucket data, assembles partial indexes, preserves unread buckets, supports legacy data, accepts prior hash formats, and triggers rebuilding when all buckets fail validation.

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When restored vector data is rejected, the rebuild path can skip backfilling legacy memories, leaving those memories unavailable to search until a later restart. The PR is otherwise mergeable, but the owner should address or explicitly accept this bounded correctness risk.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant IndexPersistence
  participant VectorIndex
  participant PersistenceStore
  IndexPersistence->>VectorIndex: serializeBuckets(bucketCount)
  VectorIndex-->>IndexPersistence: bucket payloads
  IndexPersistence->>PersistenceStore: write changed buckets
  IndexPersistence->>PersistenceStore: publish bucket manifest
  IndexPersistence->>PersistenceStore: delete obsolete keys

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src/state/index-persistence.ts (1)

736-775: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Read buckets and chunks in parallel.

loadVectorBuckets awaits one chunk at a time and one bucket at a time. With 256 buckets this serialises hundreds of independent KV reads on the boot path. The reads have no ordering dependency: each bucket is an independent document, and chunk indices are fixed by the manifest entry.

Keep the per-bucket completeness and hash checks unchanged; only the read scheduling changes.

♻️ Parallel bucket and chunk reads

-    for (const [bucketKey, entry] of entries) {
-      if (!isValidBucketEntry(entry)) {
-        corrupt++;
-        continue;
-      }
-      const parts: string[] = [];
-      let complete = true;
-      for (let i = 0; i < entry.chunks; i++) {
-        const chunk = await this.kv
-          .get<string>(
-            VECTOR_BUCKET_SCOPE,
-            vectorChunkKey(bucketKey, entry.hash, i),
-          )
-          .catch(() => null);
-        if (typeof chunk !== "string") {
-          complete = false;
-          break;
-        }
-        parts.push(chunk);
-      }
-      if (!complete) {
-        missing++;
-        continue;
-      }
-      const body = parts.join("");
+    const loaded = await Promise.all(
+      entries.map(async ([bucketKey, entry]) => {
+        if (!isValidBucketEntry(entry)) return { bucketKey, body: null };
+        const parts = await Promise.all(
+          Array.from({ length: entry.chunks }, (_, i) =>
+            this.kv
+              .get<string>(
+                VECTOR_BUCKET_SCOPE,
+                vectorChunkKey(bucketKey, entry.hash, i),
+              )
+              .catch(() => null),
+          ),
+        );
+        if (parts.some((part) => typeof part !== "string")) {
+          return { bucketKey, body: null, incomplete: true as const };
+        }
+        return { bucketKey, body: parts.join(""), hash: entry.hash };
+      }),
+    );

As per coding guidelines: "Run independent KV reads or writes in parallel with Promise.all where possible."

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In `@src/state/index-persistence.ts` around lines 736 - 775, Update
loadVectorBuckets to schedule independent bucket and chunk KV reads in parallel
using Promise.all, including parallelizing each bucket’s chunk retrieval and
processing buckets concurrently. Preserve the existing completeness handling,
missing/corrupt counters, contentHash validation, and index.mergeSerialized
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In `@src/state/index-persistence.ts`:
- Around line 404-408: Update the chunk-count calculation in the save path
around nextShards and isValidBucketEntry to reject buckets when the computed
chunks exceeds MAX_BUCKET_CHUNKS, failing the save before publishing an
unreadable shard entry; do not write or register the oversized bucket as valid.
- Around line 161-166: Update contentHash and the vector bucket persistence flow
to use fingerprintId("vec", value) for newly written hashes while preserving
compatibility with existing layout-2 SHA-1 manifests. In loadVectorBuckets,
accept and validate legacy SHA-1 entries, then migrate valid buckets to the new
fingerprint format before publishing updated manifests; ensure the migration
occurs before changing VECTOR_LAYOUT so existing buckets are not discarded.

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In `@src/state/index-persistence.ts`:
- Around line 736-775: Update loadVectorBuckets to schedule independent bucket
and chunk KV reads in parallel using Promise.all, including parallelizing each
bucket’s chunk retrieval and processing buckets concurrently. Preserve the
existing completeness handling, missing/corrupt counters, contentHash
validation, and index.mergeSerialized behavior; only change read scheduling.

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Use fingerprintId() with a layout migration. fingerprintId("vec", value) is deterministic, key-safe, and accepted by isValidBucketEntry(). Existing layout-2 manifests contain SHA-1 hashes. Changing contentHash() makes loadVectorBuckets() reject every existing bucket. Bumping VECTOR_LAYOUT alone is insufficient because rejected buckets cannot be rewritten. Support legacy-hash loading and migrate the buckets before publishing the new hashes.

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In `@src/state/index-persistence.ts` around lines 161 - 166, Update contentHash
and the vector bucket persistence flow to use fingerprintId("vec", value) for
newly written hashes while preserving compatibility with existing layout-2 SHA-1
manifests. In loadVectorBuckets, accept and validate legacy SHA-1 entries, then
migrate valid buckets to the new fingerprint format before publishing updated
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In `@src/index.ts`:
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The rejected-vector rebuild path skips the memory backfill.

The #257 memory backfill lives in the else branch of if (needsRebuild). Before this change, a store with a non-empty restored BM25 index always reached that branch. Now a store whose BM25 restored fine but whose vector buckets were all rejected takes the rebuild branch instead, so the backfill does not run.

rebuildIndex(kv) walks observations. Memories are the case the backfill exists for, so memory_smart_search stays empty for legacy memory_save entries until a boot without the rejection signal.

Gate the backfill on its own condition rather than on the rebuild branch.

🐛 Proposed fix: decouple the backfill from the rebuild branch

-  const needsRebuild =
-    bm25Index.size === 0 || (vectorIndex !== null && loaded?.vectorRejected === true);
+  const vectorsUnreadable =
+    vectorIndex !== null && loaded?.vectorRejected === true;
+  const needsRebuild = bm25Index.size === 0 || vectorsUnreadable;

Then run the backfill whenever BM25 holds documents, independent of needsRebuild:

if (needsRebuild) {
  void rebuildIndex(kv) /* ... unchanged ... */;
}
if (bm25Index.size > 0) {
  // existing `#257` memory backfill block
}

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In `@src/index.ts` around lines 467 - 473, Decouple the `#257` memory backfill from
the needsRebuild branch: keep rebuildIndex(kv) controlled by needsRebuild, then
run the existing backfill whenever bm25Index.size is greater than zero,
including when vectorRejected is true. Preserve the existing backfill logic and
avoid using needsRebuild as its gate.