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Memories are kept for Personal (default; existing memories migrate there), Work, a named project, or every chat. Chats, tasks and messaging apps have a scope: recall reads it plus the always memories, saving goes into it, and work chats leave out personal profile files and relationship insights. Chat header picker, Memory screen filter, move and reset. SCHEMA_VERSION 11.
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🟡 Minor · Add memory_scope to TaskCreateRequest. · types.ts:1647-1653
desktop/src/lib/types.ts:1647-1653
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memory_scopetoTaskCreateRequest.The new
POST /api/taskshandler acceptsmemory_scope, but the desktop request type omits it. A typed call such asapi.tasks.create({ prompt, memory_scope: 'work' })fails TypeScript excess-property checking. Add the optional field so desktop callers can create scoped tasks. As per coding guidelines, “lib/api.ts, lib/types.ts, lib/events.ts” mirror the REST contract and must change together.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Review comments at @CHANGELOG.md:
- Line 12: Qualify the privacy wording to promise only that scope filtering
excludes personal facts, not all personal content. In CHANGELOG.md at line 12,
replace the absolute “never” claim with a scoped-fact guarantee and briefly
mention shared context; in docs/API.md at line 1515, distinguish scope-filtered
facts from the user-model insights and non-learned USER.md content that remain
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Review comments at @desktop/src/features/memory/MemoryPage.tsx:
- Line 108: Update the memory request and its query key in MemoryPage to include
p.scope, so the server filters by the selected scope before applying result
limits; keep the existing client-side scope matching consistent with the scoped
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- Line 120: Update the reset confirmation count in the MemoryPage flow to use
the authoritative active-memory count from useMemoryScopes instead of
scopeCount, which only counts the loaded page. Keep the displayed deletion total
from implying that the partial memory list includes all active or pending
memories.
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- Line 1525: Update the scope statement in the API documentation so it clarifies
that saves do not change unrelated scopes while `always` memories are shared
across scopes; keep the documented exception consistent with the preceding
update and correction behavior.
Review comments at @sentient/evolution/service.py:
- Around line 863-867: Update both profile summary queries to filter summaries
by their originating session’s effective scope, including the messaging-app
fallback, before applying the watermark and limit; retain only Personal and
Always summaries. Use the scope logic represented by PROFILE_SCOPES in the facts
query as the reference.
Review comments at @sentient/gateway/routes/core.py:
- Line 338: Validate `body.memory_scope` through `_chat_scope` before writing
the title or any other session fields. Ensure invalid supplied fields reject the
request before any session mutation or event-related side effects occur.
Review comments at @sentient/memory/facts.py:
- Around line 901-905: Update the scope-mutation path identified by
`self.publish("UPDATE", ...)` to remove or rebuild materialized Personal context
when a fact moves outside the profile’s allowed scopes. Also update the
Personal-or-Always reset path at sentient/memory/facts.py lines 918–921 to clear
affected materialized context.
Review comments at @sentient/tasks/service.py:
- Around line 577-578: Update the task update flow handling memory_scope to
reject scope changes while the task is processing or waiting_for_user,
preserving the current scope for the active run and its resumed execute_single
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Review comments at @desktop/src/lib/types.ts:
- Around line 1647-1653: Add an optional memory_scope field to TaskCreateRequest
so typed desktop callers can create scoped tasks; update only the REST-contract
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Reconcile profile files after scope mutations. MEMORY.md and the learned section of USER.md can retain facts after their database rows leave Personal. Personal chat prompts continue to read that text.
sentient/memory/facts.py#L901-L905: remove or rebuild materialized Personal context when a fact moves out of the profile's allowed scopes.sentient/memory/facts.py#L918-L921: clear affected materialized context when Personal or Always is reset.
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Update the scope-mutation path identified by `self.publish("UPDATE", ...)` to
remove or rebuild materialized Personal context when a fact moves outside the
profile’s allowed scopes. Also update the Personal-or-Always reset path at
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…erver, validate before writing Review follow-ups for #155: MEMORY.md upkeep reads only personal chats' summaries; moving a memory out of Personal removes its USER.md learned line; the Memory screen asks the engine for one scope and shows real counts on reset; a session PATCH checks every field first; a running task keeps its scope; clearer docs wording.
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- Line 84: Update the empty-state rendering in MemoryPage so the scope selector
remains available when the selected Work or project scope has no memories;
alternatively, provide a clear-scope action there. Keep the empty-state behavior
while enabling users to switch to a scope that contains memories.
Review comments at @sentient/gateway/routes/memory.py:
- Line 59: Update the fact collection in the scope-reset flow to paginate
`mem.list_facts` until all matching facts are collected before calling
`forget_scope` and `remove_learned`. Use the existing limit and advance the
offset by each page’s size, stopping when a page is shorter than the limit.
Review comments at @sentient/memory/scopes.py:
- Around line 126-127: Preserve each summary’s work or project scope after its
session is deleted, since `personal_summary_sql` currently treats summaries with
a null `session_id` as personal. Update summary persistence and filtering to
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Preserve summary scope when deleting sessions.
delete_session removes the session, while summaries.session_id uses ON DELETE SET NULL. personal_summary_sql then treats the orphaned summary as personal. A work or project summary can therefore enter personal profile upkeep and MEMORY.md.
Store the scope on each summary and filter by that scope after session deletion, or delete summaries with their session.
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Preserve each summary’s work or project scope after its session is deleted,
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…reset reads every memory; empty scope keeps the filter Review follow-ups for #155: summaries.scope records the chat's scope when written, the scope reset collects all of its memories, and an empty scope on the Memory screen still shows the filter.
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Closes #155
What changes
Memories now have a scope:
personal(default, and where every existing memory goes),work, a project's own name, oralways(things every chat should know, like the user's name or how they like answers).sessions.memory_scope,tasks.memory_scope,channels.<app>.memory_scope. A chat without its own uses its app's, else personal. Recall (system prompt,memory_recall,memory_search_by_source,user_model_ask, task executor prompt) reads that scope plusalways. A work chat never pulls personal health or family memories unless the user asks:memory_recalltakeseverywhere: true, and results from another scope carrykept_for.memory_remember. Duplicates, updates and corrections only compare against the same scope plusalways, so a save never changes a memory in another scope.GET /api/memories?scope=,GET /api/memories/scopes,PATCH /api/memories/{id} {scope},DELETE /api/memories/scope/{scope}(reset one scope),POST /api/memories {scope},POST /api/memories/import?scope=,POST/PATCH /api/sessions memory_scope,POST/PATCH /api/tasks memory_scope.memory.updatedcarriesscope(andreason: "moved" | "scope_reset").How it fits with the features the issue lists:
scope).scopecolumn (SQLite) and the scope on each Markdown line.sessions.modeland follows the same create-first and PATCH flow.SCHEMA_VERSION10 -> 11. Scopes live insentient.db. Opening an older database (or restoring an older backup) takes the usual snapshot, then adds the columns with every memory inpersonal. There's a test for this.Docs:
docs/API.md(sections 1, 2, 4, 7 with a new "Memory scopes" part, 14 and 20) and CHANGELOG. Code: newsentient/memory/scopes.py.Tests
tests/memory/test_scopes.py(16 tests) covers recall per scope plus always, project isolation, saving into a scope without touching another one (including a correction), move, reset (only that scope, including held memories), review approval keeping the scope, a real chat turn in a work chat (prompt contents, profile files, relationship insights left out, extraction into work), tools in a helper andeverywhere, channel scope, incognito work chat, tasks inheriting the chat scope plus executor recall, dreaming, profile upkeep, export, migration from a version-10 database, and the REST routes andsession.updated.scopeandmemory_scopefields. Full suite: 2149 passed, 2 skipped. Ruff, desktop typecheck and build are clean.Real test (fresh SENTIENT_HOME, engine from this branch on :8787)
I seeded fictional Maya Rao memories over REST with qwen3:8b doing the CUD step: personal: sister Meera in Lisbon, asthma and inhaler, mother recovering from knee surgery. work: leads Project Kestrel; Arjun is her engineering manager. always: full name Maya Rao; prefers short, direct answers.
GET /api/memories/scopes-> always 2, personal 3, work 2.claude-code/sonnet (fast = claude-code/haiku):
memory_sourcesheld only the 2 always memories and 1 work memory; no health or family words in the reply or the sources.memory_remember-> memory [FEATURE] Agent-Specific UI for different Agent Actions #8 "The Project Kestrel launch review was moved to Thursday, October 22, 2026." with scope: work.memory_recall {"query": "health", "everywhere": true}for the same question.qwen3:8b (primary and fast, Ollama lock held):
memory_recall {"everywhere": false, "query": "Maya"}and answered "Maya Rao ... prefers short, direct answers. She leads Project Kestrel ... with Arjun as her engineering manager. The launch review was moved to October 22." No health or family in the reply or the sources.memory_remembersaved Updated README #9 (scope work), and the background extraction after the turn saved Fixing CLA test #10 "Maya's Kestrel demo for the bank partners is scheduled for Friday the 23rd." (scope work).memory_recall {"everywhere": true, "query": "health"}, then it answered with the asthma and knee-surgery memories. This is the "unless asked" path.Engine log lines that match:
CUD for 'The Project Kestrel launch review ...': facts [4, 5] are about someone else, not offered(the CUD only saw work + always facts), andfact extraction started for this turnon the work chat.Screenshots (built app,
smoke.mjs, same home, 1440x900; I looked at each one):chat/<work chat>: the header shows a highlighted Work pill. The transcript shows "Saved to memory", then the health question answered after "Searched memory everywhere: true, query: health".memory?view=list&scope=work: the Work (5) filter shows only the 5 work memories, each with a Work badge, "5 of 11 memories".memory?view=list&m=4: the memory sheet has a Used in: Work picker with "Only Work chats use it, plus anything you ask about directly." Cards show "Every chat", "Atlas" (a project) and "Work" badges.chat(new chat): "Memories [Personal]" picker above the composer.Notes for the owner
relationshipsdimension. Scoping insights properly would be a follow-up.channels.<app>.memory_scope). There is no/scopecommand in messaging apps yet.CodeRabbit follow-ups (2 rounds)
summaries.scoperecords the chat's scope when a summary is written, so a deleted work chat's summary stays out too.PATCH /api/sessionschecks every field before writing anything. A running task can't change scope.TaskCreateRequest.memory_scopeis now in the desktop types. The docs say plainly that scopes filter facts while some prompt context stays shared.Summary by CodeRabbit