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package/src/scripts/_lib/user_global_observations.ts

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+#!/usr/bin/env tsx
+/**
+ * The global observation buffer — the write path of ADR-138's sibling phase
+ * (road-to-global-user-memory Phase 2, "the learning channel"). Mirrors the
+ * project-local `.agent-user.observations.jsonl` contract
+ * (`docs/contracts/agent-user-schema.md § Observation buffer`) exactly, one
+ * level up: `~/.event4u/agent-config/user/observations.jsonl`.
+ *
+ * This module is the ONLY writer of that file. It is never read by the
+ * profile loader (`agent_user_profile.ts`) directly — only
+ * `/agents:user review` / `/agents:user accept` (and, through them,
+ * `applyObservationToGlobalProfile` in `agent_user_profile.ts`) may turn a
+ * buffered line into a change to `profile.md`. Append-only; nothing here
+ * ever rewrites `profile.md`.
+ *
+ * Capture-time guards (council cut, 2026-07-29 — see
+ * `agents/settings/contexts/global-user-memory-cut.md`): every candidate is
+ * checked BEFORE it is written, not filtered later at review. Four
+ * independently-testable classes, in the order they run:
+ *
+ *   1. `standing_command`   — a verbatim standing directive ("always fetch
+ *      <url> on every message") stored as memory becomes a durable
+ *      injection that re-fires forever — and now in every project, not
+ *      just one.
+ *   2. `self_harmful_preference` — a preference that would disable honest
+ *      feedback ("never criticize me", "always agree with me") is
+ *      surfaced, never stored, per `direct-answers`.
+ *   3. `exclusion_list`     — the `.agent-user.md` explicit-exclusions list
+ *      (credentials, third-party names/birthdays, financial figures,
+ *      health/legal/therapy status, demographics, external-source
+ *      identifiers) refused at CAPTURE, not at review. Rejecting the same
+ *      class fifty times at review is the noise problem this avoids.
+ *   4. `hidden_unicode`     — invisible-character identifier smuggling
+ *      (the ADR-103 zero-width-smuggling class). Same gate as (3) — both
+ *      come from one call to `knowledge_global_redaction.redaction_scan`
+ *      — but reported as its own category so a test can pin it
+ *      independently.
+ *
+ * The third persist-time guard the miner already documents — the
+ * derivability check ("if git/config answers it, store the surprising
+ * part") — is a judgment call the agent makes before a candidate ever
+ * reaches this module; it is not a deterministic function here (see
+ * `memory-consolidation` SKILL.md § Global user-scoped channel).
+ *
+ * The ≤5-normalised-facts-per-cycle gate applies GLOBALLY across the
+ * project-scoped intake channel (`mine_session.ts`) and this one — see
+ * `applySharedFactCap`. Enforcing it per-channel would let the second
+ * channel double the write volume the cap was meant to bound.
+ *
+ * Pure except for `appendGlobalObservation` and `readGlobalObservations`,
+ * which are the only functions that touch disk. Every disk path is
+ * resolved via `user_global_paths.ts`, honouring `$EVENT4U_CONFIG_HOME`
+ * exactly like every other artefact under the global root — tests MUST
+ * inject that variable rather than touch the real `~/.event4u/`.
+ *
+ * Phase 3 (project attribution, below the read path) adds `routeProjectObservation`
+ * — the Phase 0 managed/unmanaged/not-a-project predicate wired as a router
+ * for a project-scoped fact that has no managed `agents/` folder to live in.
+ * It writes through the SAME `appendGlobalObservation` guard pipeline above,
+ * plus a `context` object (`project_path`/`project_name`/`first_seen`) and a
+ * `seen_count`/`seen_in[]` recurrence tally — the only generalisation path
+ * into the durable profile (`findPromotionCandidates`,
+ * `promotionValueFor`). No project-indexed directory is ever created; see
+ * `tests/lib/user_global_observations_project_attribution.test.ts`.
+ *
+ * Phase 4 (delete, revoke, audit) adds `deleteGlobalObservation` and
+ * `purgeProjectContext` — the delete counterpart of `appendGlobalObservation`
+ * / `routeProjectObservation` above. Both write an append-only tombstone to
+ * `user_global_revocations.ts`'s ledger BEFORE the buffer is rewritten
+ * without the removed line(s), reusing ADR-121's tombstone-before-deletion
+ * discipline (see that module's docstring for the one necessary adaptation).
+ * `observationId` supplies the stable identifier neither the JSONL schema
+ * nor a knowledge card's `card_id_from` slug has an analogue for.
+ */
+import * as crypto from 'node:crypto';
+import * as fs from 'node:fs';
+import * as path from 'node:path';
+
+import { redaction_scan } from './knowledge_global_redaction.js';
+import { detect_managed_agents_folder } from './managed_agents_folder.js';
+import type { ManagedAgentsFolderStatus } from './managed_agents_folder.js';
+import { classifySimilarity, jaccardSimilarity } from './text_similarity.js';
+import * as revocations from './user_global_revocations.js';
+import type { RevocationEntry } from './user_global_revocations.js';
+import * as user_global_paths from './user_global_paths.js';
+import { recordObservationProposed } from './user_memory_gate_counters.js';
+
+/** Relative-to-root path of the global observation buffer. */
+export const GLOBAL_OBSERVATIONS_RELATIVE = path.join('user', 'observations.jsonl');
+
+/**
+ * Shared cap across BOTH channels (the project-scoped miner and this one).
+ * Duplicated from `mine_session.MAX_FACTS` deliberately rather than
+ * imported — `_lib/` modules do not import from `src/scripts/*.ts` CLI
+ * entrypoints, keeping the dependency direction one-way. Keep the two
+ * constants in sync; a test in `tests/lib/user_global_observations.test.ts`
+ * would need updating (not silently pass) if they diverge.
+ */
+export const SHARED_FACT_CAP = 5;
+
+/** Allowed `field` values — mirrors `docs/contracts/agent-user-schema.md § Observation buffer`. */
+export const ALLOWED_OBSERVATION_FIELDS = [
+    'identity.name',
+    'language',
+    'role',
+    'style.pace',
+    'voice_sample',
+    'notes',
+] as const;
+
+export type ObservationField = (typeof ALLOWED_OBSERVATION_FIELDS)[number];
+
+const _ALLOWED_FIELD_SET: ReadonlySet<string> = new Set(ALLOWED_OBSERVATION_FIELDS);
+
+/**
+ * Project-attribution footer (road-to-global-user-memory Phase 3). Present
+ * only on an observation routed here because its project has no managed
+ * `agents/` folder (see `routeProjectObservation`, below) — a pure
+ * user-attribute observation (Phase 2's `mineUserObservationCandidates`
+ * channel) never carries one. Mirrors the semantics of the global knowledge
+ * card's `seen_in` provenance footer (`knowledge_global.ts`) rather than
+ * inventing a parallel primitive — this is a field on a user observation,
+ * never a project-shaped artefact of its own (the council's round-2
+ * namespace refusal; see `agents/settings/contexts/global-user-memory-cut.md`).
+ */
+export interface ObservationContext {
+    readonly project_path: string;
+    readonly project_name: string;
+    /** ISO timestamp of the FIRST sighting — never updated on recurrence. */
+    readonly first_seen: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * One candidate/buffered observation. Shape mirrors the project-local
+ * buffer's JSONL line, plus the optional Phase 3 project-attribution
+ * fields. `context`/`seen_count`/`seen_in` are present together or not at
+ * all — set only via `routeProjectObservation`, never by
+ * `appendGlobalObservation` callers directly (Phase 2's pure user-attribute
+ * path has no project to attribute to).
+ */
+export interface ObservationCandidate {
+    readonly ts: string;
+    readonly field: string;
+    readonly suggest: string;
+    readonly source: string;
+    readonly evidence: string;
+    readonly context?: ObservationContext | undefined;
+    /** Human-confirmed-recurrence tally — see `findPromotionCandidates`. Counting evidence, never a detector: it only ever grows via `routeProjectObservation` observing another project's write, never a cross-project batch scan. */
+    readonly seen_count?: number | undefined;
+    /** Project names the observation has recurred in, oldest first. Pruned to nothing at promotion — see `promotionValueFor`. */
+    readonly seen_in?: readonly string[] | undefined;
+}
+
+export type CaptureGuardCategory =
+    | 'standing_command'
+    | 'self_harmful_preference'
+    | 'exclusion_list'
+    | 'hidden_unicode';
+
+export interface CaptureGuardResult {
+    readonly allowed: boolean;
+    readonly category?: CaptureGuardCategory | undefined;
+    readonly reason?: string | undefined;
+}
+
+export interface AppendResult {
+    readonly written: boolean;
+    readonly reason?: string | undefined;
+    readonly category?: CaptureGuardCategory | 'invalid_field' | undefined;
+}
+
+export interface ReadObservationsResult {
+    readonly entries: readonly ObservationCandidate[];
+    /** Lines that were not valid JSON objects at all. */
+    readonly droppedMalformed: number;
+    /** Lines whose `field` fell outside {@link ALLOWED_OBSERVATION_FIELDS}. */
+    readonly droppedUnknownField: number;
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Path resolution — mirrors agent_user_profile.ts's global-layer functions.
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/** Canonical write target for the global observation buffer. */
+export function globalObservationsWriteTarget(
+    env?: user_global_paths.EnvMap | null,
+): string {
+    return user_global_paths.write_target(GLOBAL_OBSERVATIONS_RELATIVE, { env: env ?? null });
+}
+
+/** Resolve the buffer's on-disk path — new namespace first, legacy fallback, `null` if neither exists. */
+export function resolveGlobalObservationsPath(
+    env?: user_global_paths.EnvMap | null,
+): string | null {
+    return user_global_paths.resolve_with_fallback(GLOBAL_OBSERVATIONS_RELATIVE, { env: env ?? null });
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Capture-time guards
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+// Matches an imperative paired with a recurrence marker, in either order —
+// "always fetch <url> on every message" / "run <cmd> at the start of each
+// session". Deliberately broad: a false positive here costs one refused
+// candidate the human never sees; a false negative persists a durable
+// injection forever, in every project.
+const _STANDING_COMMAND_RE =
+    /\b(?:always|every\s+(?:session|message|time|turn))\b[\s\S]{0,80}?\b(?:fetch|run|curl|execute|call|check)\b|\b(?:fetch|run|curl|execute|call|check)\b[\s\S]{0,80}?\b(?:at\s+the\s+start\s+of\s+(?:each|every)\s+(?:session|message)|on\s+every\s+(?:message|turn|session)|always)\b/i;
+
+// "never criticize me", "always agree with me", "never say I'm wrong",
+// "don't ever disagree with me" — a user weaponizing their own memory to
+// enforce sycophancy (direct-answers Iron Law 1).
+const _SELF_HARMFUL_PREFERENCE_RE =
+    /\bnever\s+(?:criticize|disagree\s+with|push\s+back\s+on|question|correct)\s+me\b|\balways\s+agree\s+with\s+me\b|\bnever\s+say\s+i(?:'|’)?m\s+wrong\b|\bdon'?t\s+ever\s+(?:disagree|criticize)\b/i;
+
+/** `true` when `text` reads as a verbatim standing command. */
+export function detectStandingCommand(text: string): boolean {
+    return _STANDING_COMMAND_RE.test(text);
+}
+
+/** `true` when `text` reads as a self-harmful standing preference. */
+export function detectSelfHarmfulPreference(text: string): boolean {
+    return _SELF_HARMFUL_PREFERENCE_RE.test(text);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Run all four capture-time guards against a candidate, in order. Returns
+ * the FIRST violation found (a candidate tripping two guards at once is
+ * refused for the earlier one; the categories are independently testable,
+ * not mutually exclusive in the input space).
+ */
+export function evaluateCaptureGuards(
+    candidate: ObservationCandidate,
+    options: { repo_root?: string | null } = {},
+): CaptureGuardResult {
+    const text = `${candidate.suggest}\n${candidate.evidence}`;
+
+    if (detectStandingCommand(text)) {
+        return {
+            allowed: false,
+            category: 'standing_command',
+            reason:
+                'reads as a verbatim standing command — a stored directive becomes a durable ' +
+                'injection that re-fires forever, and at global scope that means every project, ' +
+                'not just this one. Refused at capture.',
+        };
+    }
+    if (detectSelfHarmfulPreference(text)) {
+        return {
+            allowed: false,
+            category: 'self_harmful_preference',
+            reason:
+                'would disable honest feedback across every project — surfaced to the user, ' +
+                'never stored.',
+        };
+    }
+
+    const violations = redaction_scan(text, { repo_root: options.repo_root ?? null });
+    const hiddenUnicode = violations.find((v) => v.category === 'hidden_unicode');
+    if (hiddenUnicode) {
+        return {
+            allowed: false,
+            category: 'hidden_unicode',
+            reason: `invisible characters detected — possible identifier smuggling: ${hiddenUnicode.snippet}`,
+        };
+    }
+    if (violations.length > 0) {
+        return {
+            allowed: false,
+            category: 'exclusion_list',
+            reason:
+                'capture-time exclusion-list match (credentials / third-party PII / financial ' +
+                `figures / health-legal-therapy / demographics / external-source identifiers): ${violations
+                    .map((v) => v.category)
+                    .join(', ')}`,
+        };
+    }
+    return { allowed: true };
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Write path
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/**
+ * Append one candidate to the global observation buffer, after running
+ * every capture-time guard. Never rewrites — a refused candidate is
+ * refused outright, not silently redacted-then-stored (the low-impact
+ * corpus's own "halt-and-surface, never silent-rewrite" discipline).
+ */
+export function appendGlobalObservation(
+    candidate: ObservationCandidate,
+    options: { env?: user_global_paths.EnvMap | null; repo_root?: string | null } = {},
+): AppendResult {
+    if (!_ALLOWED_FIELD_SET.has(candidate.field)) {
+        return {
+            written: false,
+            category: 'invalid_field',
+            reason: `field '${candidate.field}' is outside the allowed schema enum`,
+        };
+    }
+
+    const guard = evaluateCaptureGuards(candidate, { repo_root: options.repo_root ?? null });
+    if (!guard.allowed) {
+        return { written: false, category: guard.category, reason: guard.reason };
+    }
+
+    const target = globalObservationsWriteTarget(options.env ?? null);
+    fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(target), { recursive: true });
+    fs.appendFileSync(target, JSON.stringify(candidate) + '\n', 'utf-8');
+    // Phase 5 gate: count the proposal where it actually lands, so the
+    // review→accept rate cannot be skewed by a caller that bypasses the
+    // command layer. A refused candidate is deliberately NOT counted — it was
+    // never proposed to the human. Counter failure never fails the append.
+    try {
+        recordObservationProposed({ env: options.env ?? null });
+    } catch {
+        /* a counter is telemetry, never a gate on the buffer write */
+    }
+    return { written: true };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Apply the shared ≤5-facts-per-cycle cap across both channels. `existingCount`
+ * is however many facts the project-scoped channel already produced THIS
+ * cycle; only the remaining headroom is available to the candidates here.
+ * Never negative — a project-scoped channel that already hit the cap leaves
+ * zero room for the second channel this cycle.
+ */
+export function applySharedFactCap<T>(
+    existingCount: number,
+    candidates: readonly T[],
+    cap: number = SHARED_FACT_CAP,
+): T[] {
+    const remaining = Math.max(0, cap - existingCount);
+    return candidates.slice(0, remaining);
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Read path — feeds `/agents:user review` / `/agents:user accept`.
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/**
+ * Read + parse the global observation buffer. Tolerant: a malformed JSON
+ * line or a line whose `field` falls outside the schema enum is dropped
+ * silently, with a count so the caller can surface "N observations
+ * skipped" — mirroring "Anything outside that set is dropped on read" in
+ * the project-local contract.
+ */
+/** Tolerant parse of a JSONL line's `context` field — malformed shapes read back as absent, never thrown. */
+function _parseContext(raw: unknown): ObservationContext | undefined {
+    if (raw === null || typeof raw !== 'object' || Array.isArray(raw)) {
+        return undefined;
+    }
+    const rec = raw as Record<string, unknown>;
+    const project_path = typeof rec.project_path === 'string' ? rec.project_path : undefined;
+    const project_name = typeof rec.project_name === 'string' ? rec.project_name : undefined;
+    const first_seen = typeof rec.first_seen === 'string' ? rec.first_seen : undefined;
+    if (project_path === undefined || project_name === undefined || first_seen === undefined) {
+        return undefined;
+    }
+    return { project_path, project_name, first_seen };
+}
+
+/** Tolerant parse of a JSONL line's `seen_in` field — drops non-string entries rather than failing the whole line. */
+function _parseSeenIn(raw: unknown): readonly string[] | undefined {
+    if (!Array.isArray(raw)) {
+        return undefined;
+    }
+    const out = raw.filter((v): v is string => typeof v === 'string');
+    return out.length > 0 ? out : undefined;
+}
+
+export function readGlobalObservations(
+    options: { env?: user_global_paths.EnvMap | null } = {},
+): ReadObservationsResult {
+    const target = resolveGlobalObservationsPath(options.env ?? null);
+    if (target === null) {
+        return { entries: [], droppedMalformed: 0, droppedUnknownField: 0 };
+    }
+    let raw: string;
+    try {
+        raw = fs.readFileSync(target, 'utf-8');
+    } catch {
+        return { entries: [], droppedMalformed: 0, droppedUnknownField: 0 };
+    }
+
+    let droppedMalformed = 0;
+    let droppedUnknownField = 0;
+    const entries: ObservationCandidate[] = [];
+
+    for (const line of raw.split(/\r?\n/)) {
+        const trimmed = line.trim();
+        if (trimmed === '') {
+            continue;
+        }
+        let obj: unknown;
+        try {
+            obj = JSON.parse(trimmed);
+        } catch {
+            droppedMalformed += 1;
+            continue;
+        }
+        if (obj === null || typeof obj !== 'object' || Array.isArray(obj)) {
+            droppedMalformed += 1;
+            continue;
+        }
+        const rec = obj as Record<string, unknown>;
+        const field = typeof rec.field === 'string' ? rec.field : '';
+        if (!_ALLOWED_FIELD_SET.has(field)) {
+            droppedUnknownField += 1;
+            continue;
+        }
+        entries.push({
+            ts: typeof rec.ts === 'string' ? rec.ts : '',
+            field,
+            suggest: typeof rec.suggest === 'string' ? rec.suggest : '',
+            source: typeof rec.source === 'string' ? rec.source : '',
+            evidence: typeof rec.evidence === 'string' ? rec.evidence : '',
+            context: _parseContext(rec.context),
+            seen_count: typeof rec.seen_count === 'number' ? rec.seen_count : undefined,
+            seen_in: _parseSeenIn(rec.seen_in),
+        });
+    }
+
+    return { entries, droppedMalformed, droppedUnknownField };
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Phase 3 — project attribution and the generalisation promotion.
+//
+// The operator's third ask ("P — project facts with no managed folder"),
+// implemented as the council's round-2 reading: attribution, not isolation.
+// No global project registry, no project-indexed directory tree, no fourth
+// sensitivity class — see `agents/settings/contexts/global-user-memory-cut.md`.
+//
+// `routeProjectObservation` is the Phase 0 predicate wired as a router: a
+// project WITH a managed `agents/` folder keeps its facts local exactly as
+// today (this module never touches them); a project withOUT one persists the
+// fact here, tagged with `context` so it survives that project's deletion.
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/** Where a project-scoped observation is routed, per the Phase 0 predicate. */
+export type ProjectObservationRoute = 'local' | 'global';
+
+/** `managed` keeps facts in the project's own `agents/memory/`; anything else has nowhere local to land. */
+export function routeForManagedStatus(status: ManagedAgentsFolderStatus): ProjectObservationRoute {
+    return status === 'managed' ? 'local' : 'global';
+}
+
+/** Build the attribution footer for a project-scoped observation. `project_name` is the directory basename — the same human-readable unit the global knowledge card's `seen_in` footer already uses. */
+export function buildObservationContext(projectRoot: string, firstSeen: string): ObservationContext {
+    return {
+        project_path: projectRoot,
+        project_name: path.basename(projectRoot) || projectRoot,
+        first_seen: firstSeen,
+    };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Capture-time guards for the two context strings ADDED by Phase 3, run
+ * before the context is ever attached to a candidate. `project_path` is
+ * *expected* to look like an absolute path — `redaction_scan`'s generic
+ * `project_path` category exists to catch a path LEAKED into free-form
+ * text, and would refuse every real value here by design, so only the
+ * `hidden_unicode` class (identifier smuggling, ADR-103) applies to it.
+ * `project_name` is free-form and gets the full scan, since a hostile or
+ * careless directory name could otherwise smuggle a secret or a hidden
+ * character past capture. Reuses the same hardened gate Phase 2 already
+ * calls for `suggest`/`evidence` — never a second detector.
+ */
+export function evaluateContextCaptureGuards(context: ObservationContext): CaptureGuardResult {
+    const pathHiddenUnicode = redaction_scan(context.project_path).find(
+        (v) => v.category === 'hidden_unicode',
+    );
+    if (pathHiddenUnicode) {
+        return {
+            allowed: false,
+            category: 'hidden_unicode',
+            reason:
+                'invisible characters detected in project_path — possible identifier smuggling: ' +
+                pathHiddenUnicode.snippet,
+        };
+    }
+
+    const nameViolations = redaction_scan(context.project_name);
+    const nameHiddenUnicode = nameViolations.find((v) => v.category === 'hidden_unicode');
+    if (nameHiddenUnicode) {
+        return {
+            allowed: false,
+            category: 'hidden_unicode',
+            reason:
+                'invisible characters detected in project_name — possible identifier smuggling: ' +
+                nameHiddenUnicode.snippet,
+        };
+    }
+    if (nameViolations.length > 0) {
+        return {
+            allowed: false,
+            category: 'exclusion_list',
+            reason:
+                'project_name matched a capture-time exclusion pattern: ' +
+                nameViolations.map((v) => v.category).join(', '),
+        };
+    }
+    return { allowed: true };
+}
+
+/** Current `seen_count` for an already-buffered context-bearing entry — 1 when the field is absent (its first sighting was never re-written with an explicit count). */
+function _existingSeenCount(entry: ObservationCandidate): number {
+    return entry.seen_count ?? 1;
+}
+
+/** Current `seen_in` for an already-buffered context-bearing entry, falling back to its own context's project when the field is absent. */
+function _existingSeenIn(entry: ObservationCandidate): readonly string[] {
+    if (entry.seen_in !== undefined) {
+        return entry.seen_in;
+    }
+    return entry.context !== undefined ? [entry.context.project_name] : [];
+}
+
+/** Result of matching a new project-scoped candidate against the existing context-bearing buffer. */
+export interface ObservationRecurrence {
+    readonly seen_count: number;
+    readonly seen_in: readonly string[];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Decide whether `candidateText` is the SAME observation as one already
+ * buffered from a different project, using the identical dedup primitive
+ * (`_lib/text_similarity.ts`'s `MERGE_THRESHOLD`, via `classifySimilarity`)
+ * the curated-memory dedup path uses — "same observation" means the same
+ * thing in both places, per the roadmap. Only entries carrying a `context`
+ * are eligible matches; a pure user-attribute observation (no project to
+ * attribute to) never participates in cross-project recurrence counting.
+ *
+ * The buffer is append-only, so a recurring observation accumulates
+ * multiple lines over time, each carrying that append's cumulative
+ * `seen_count`/`seen_in`. Deliberately scans linearly (not
+ * `findMostSimilar`, which ties to the FIRST equal-score match) and keeps
+ * the LAST line at/above `MERGE_THRESHOLD` — otherwise a run of
+ * byte-identical `suggest` values would always tie back to the stale first
+ * sighting instead of the most recently accumulated state.
+ *
+ * Recurrence in the SAME project again does not bump the counter — the
+ * roadmap ties `seen_count` to "recurs in a DIFFERENT project" specifically,
+ * so the growth stays a cross-project confirmation tally, never a
+ * same-project noise counter.
+ */
+export function computeRecurrence(
+    candidateContext: ObservationContext,
+    candidateText: string,
+    existingEntries: readonly ObservationCandidate[],
+): ObservationRecurrence {
+    const contextBearing = existingEntries.filter((e) => e.context !== undefined);
+
+    let matched: ObservationCandidate | undefined;
+    for (const entry of contextBearing) {
+        const score = jaccardSimilarity(candidateText, entry.suggest);
+        if (classifySimilarity(score) === 'merge') {
+            matched = entry;
+        }
+    }
+    if (matched === undefined) {
+        return { seen_count: 1, seen_in: [candidateContext.project_name] };
+    }
+    const priorSeenIn = _existingSeenIn(matched);
+    if (priorSeenIn.includes(candidateContext.project_name)) {
+        // Same project recurring — evidence already counted; hold steady.
+        return { seen_count: _existingSeenCount(matched), seen_in: priorSeenIn };
+    }
+    return {
+        seen_count: _existingSeenCount(matched) + 1,
+        seen_in: [...priorSeenIn, candidateContext.project_name],
+    };
+}
+
+/** A project-scoped candidate awaiting routing — no `context`/`seen_count`/`seen_in` yet; `routeProjectObservation` attaches them. */
+export type ProjectObservationInput = Pick<ObservationCandidate, 'ts' | 'suggest' | 'source' | 'evidence'> & {
+    readonly field?: string;
+};
+
+export interface RouteProjectObservationOptions {
+    readonly env?: user_global_paths.EnvMap | null;
+    readonly repo_root?: string | null;
+}
+
+export interface ProjectObservationRouteResult {
+    readonly route: ProjectObservationRoute;
+    readonly written: boolean;
+    readonly reason?: string | undefined;
+    readonly category?: CaptureGuardCategory | 'invalid_field' | undefined;
+    readonly context?: ObservationContext | undefined;
+    readonly seen_count?: number | undefined;
+    readonly seen_in?: readonly string[] | undefined;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The Phase 0 predicate wired as the router. `managed` → returns `route:
+ * 'local'` and writes NOTHING here — the fact stays in that project's
+ * `agents/memory/` exactly as today, unchanged by this module. `unmanaged` /
+ * `not-a-project` → the observation is tagged with `context`, checked for
+ * cross-project recurrence, and appended to the global buffer via the SAME
+ * `appendGlobalObservation` guard pipeline Phase 2 established (never a
+ * second write path).
+ *
+ * `field` defaults to `'notes'` — the schema's free-form catch-all — since a
+ * project-scoped fact (a convention, an invariant, a recurring gotcha) has
+ * no natural mapping onto the closed identity/style enum; `context` is what
+ * distinguishes it from a plain user preference note, not a new field value.
+ */
+export function routeProjectObservation(
+    input: ProjectObservationInput,
+    projectRoot: string,
+    options: RouteProjectObservationOptions = {},
+): ProjectObservationRouteResult {
+    const status = detect_managed_agents_folder(projectRoot);
+    const route = routeForManagedStatus(status);
+    if (route === 'local') {
+        return {
+            route: 'local',
+            written: false,
+            reason:
+                "managed agents/ folder detected — the fact stays in this project's agents/memory/ " +
+                'exactly as today; never routed to the global buffer.',
+        };
+    }
+
+    const context = buildObservationContext(projectRoot, input.ts);
+    const contextGuard = evaluateContextCaptureGuards(context);
+    if (!contextGuard.allowed) {
+        return {
+            route: 'global',
+            written: false,
+            category: contextGuard.category,
+            reason: contextGuard.reason,
+        };
+    }
+
+    const existing = readGlobalObservations({ env: options.env ?? null }).entries;
+    const recurrence = computeRecurrence(context, input.suggest, existing);
+
+    const candidate: ObservationCandidate = {
+        ts: input.ts,
+        field: input.field ?? 'notes',
+        suggest: input.suggest,
+        source: input.source,
+        evidence: input.evidence,
+        context,
+        seen_count: recurrence.seen_count,
+        seen_in: recurrence.seen_in,
+    };
+
+    const result = appendGlobalObservation(candidate, {
+        env: options.env ?? null,
+        repo_root: options.repo_root ?? null,
+    });
+    return {
+        route: 'global',
+        written: result.written,
+        reason: result.reason,
+        category: result.category,
+        context,
+        seen_count: recurrence.seen_count,
+        seen_in: recurrence.seen_in,
+    };
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Promotion — the ONLY generalisation path (see agent-user-schema.md).
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/** Human-confirmed-recurrence threshold for promotion candidacy. Never auto-promotes past this — it only makes the observation eligible for `/agents:user review` to surface, with a mandatory `promotion_reason` as human input before `/agents:user accept` writes anything. */
+export const PROMOTION_SEEN_COUNT_THRESHOLD = 3;
+
+export interface PromotionCandidate {
+    readonly observation: ObservationCandidate;
+    readonly seenCount: number;
+    readonly projects: readonly string[];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Observations that have crossed the promotion-candidacy threshold. This is
+ * the ONLY generalisation path in the whole layer — the agent never infers a
+ * cross-project pattern itself (a non-goal in the roadmap's Goal section);
+ * `seen_count` only ever grows one write at a time via `routeProjectObservation`
+ * observing a genuinely new project, never a batch scan across the store.
+ * Crossing the threshold surfaces candidacy; it never writes `profile.md` —
+ * that still requires the human-confirmed `/agents:user accept` step, with a
+ * `promotion_reason` the review flow must collect (mirroring ADR-121's rule
+ * that there is no auto-`shareable` path for a knowledge card).
+ */
+export function findPromotionCandidates(
+    entries: readonly ObservationCandidate[],
+): PromotionCandidate[] {
+    const out: PromotionCandidate[] = [];
+    for (const entry of entries) {
+        if (entry.context === undefined) {
+            continue;
+        }
+        const seenCount = _existingSeenCount(entry);
+        if (seenCount >= PROMOTION_SEEN_COUNT_THRESHOLD) {
+            out.push({ observation: entry, seenCount, projects: _existingSeenIn(entry) });
+        }
+    }
+    return out;
+}
+
+/**
+ * The value that may ever reach `profile.md` for a promoted observation —
+ * the fact text ONLY, never `context`, never `seen_in`. This is what keeps
+ * the long-lived artefact converging to zero project references: the
+ * counter is evidence that lived on the buffer entry, and only the
+ * short-lived buffer entry needed it (see agent-user-schema.md § Project
+ * attribution — "`seen_in[]` is a narrower metadata surface, not a null
+ * one").
+ */
+export function promotionValueFor(candidate: ObservationCandidate): string {
+    return candidate.suggest;
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Phase 4 — delete, revoke, audit (road-to-global-user-memory).
+//
+// `deleteGlobalObservation` and `purgeProjectContext` are the delete
+// counterpart of `appendGlobalObservation` / `routeProjectObservation`
+// above — this module remains the ONLY writer (now also the only deleter)
+// of the observation buffer, mirroring the single-writer discipline the
+// module docstring already states for the append path.
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+/**
+ * Deterministic content-derived identifier for one buffered observation —
+ * this layer's analogue of a knowledge card's `card_id_from` slug. The
+ * JSONL schema (Phase 2/3) never added a stored `id` field, so identity is
+ * derived from the fields that make one capture event unique: `ts`
+ * (capture timestamp) plus `field` + `suggest` (what was proposed).
+ * `source` / `evidence` / `context` are deliberately excluded — two
+ * identical suggestions logged at the same instant from a different source
+ * string, or with different evidence phrasing, are still "the same
+ * observation" to a human choosing to delete it.
+ */
+export function observationId(entry: Pick<ObservationCandidate, 'ts' | 'field' | 'suggest'>): string {
+    const canonical = `${entry.ts}\u0000${entry.field}\u0000${entry.suggest}`;
+    return crypto.createHash('sha256').update(canonical, 'utf-8').digest('hex').slice(0, 16);
+}
+
+/** Rewrite the buffer file with exactly `entries` — the shared primitive both delete paths use. */
+function _writeBufferEntries(
+    entries: readonly ObservationCandidate[],
+    env: user_global_paths.EnvMap | null,
+): void {
+    const target = globalObservationsWriteTarget(env);
+    fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(target), { recursive: true });
+    const body = entries.map((e) => JSON.stringify(e)).join('\n');
+    fs.writeFileSync(target, entries.length > 0 ? body + '\n' : '', 'utf-8');
+}
+
+export interface DeleteObservationResult {
+    readonly deleted: boolean;
+    readonly tombstone?: RevocationEntry | undefined;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Delete ONE buffered observation by its content-derived id. Writes an
+ * append-only tombstone to `user_global_revocations.ts`'s ledger BEFORE the
+ * buffer is rewritten without it — never the reverse — mirroring
+ * `knowledge_global_cli.ts`'s `_forget_one` (tombstone THEN delete).
+ * `deleted: false` (no tombstone written) when no entry matches `observation_id`.
+ */
+export function deleteGlobalObservation(
+    observation_id: string,
+    reason: string,
+    options: { env?: user_global_paths.EnvMap | null; today?: string } = {},
+): DeleteObservationResult {
+    const env = options.env ?? null;
+    const { entries } = readGlobalObservations({ env });
+    const hasMatch = entries.some((e) => observationId(e) === observation_id);
+    if (!hasMatch) {
+        return { deleted: false };
+    }
+    const tombstone = revocations.appendTombstone(observation_id, reason, {
+        today: options.today,
+        env,
+    });
+    _writeBufferEntries(
+        entries.filter((e) => observationId(e) !== observation_id),
+        env,
+    );
+    return { deleted: true, tombstone };
+}
+
+export interface PurgeProjectContextResult {
+    readonly purgedCount: number;
+    readonly tombstones: readonly RevocationEntry[];
+}
+
+/**
+ * Whole-project-context purge — removes EVERY buffered observation
+ * attributed (via `context.project_path`) to `projectPath`, so a deleted
+ * project's facts do not linger in the global buffer forever. Tombstones
+ * each removed observation individually BEFORE the buffer is rewritten,
+ * mirroring `knowledge_global_cli.ts`'s `cmd_purge` (one tombstone per card,
+ * written before that card is wiped). Observations from OTHER projects and
+ * observations carrying no `context` at all (pure user-attribute facts, not
+ * project-attributed) are left untouched. `purgedCount: 0` when no
+ * observation matches `projectPath` — the buffer is not rewritten in that
+ * case, so an unrelated purge call never touches the file's mtime.
+ */
+export function purgeProjectContext(
+    projectPath: string,
+    reason: string,
+    options: { env?: user_global_paths.EnvMap | null; today?: string } = {},
+): PurgeProjectContextResult {
+    const env = options.env ?? null;
+    const { entries } = readGlobalObservations({ env });
+    const toRemove = entries.filter((e) => e.context?.project_path === projectPath);
+    if (toRemove.length === 0) {
+        return { purgedCount: 0, tombstones: [] };
+    }
+    const tombstones = toRemove.map((e) =>
+        revocations.appendTombstone(observationId(e), reason, { today: options.today, env }),
+    );
+    const removedIds = new Set(toRemove.map((e) => observationId(e)));
+    _writeBufferEntries(
+        entries.filter((e) => !removedIds.has(observationId(e))),
+        env,
+    );
+    return { purgedCount: toRemove.length, tombstones };
+}