@polycode-projects/the-mechanical-code-talker 1.3.2 → 1.4.0

package/src/memory/core.mjs

@@ -28,11 +28,11 @@
 // (utt:<session>#<ts>#<role>) and fact ids hash the triple, so the per-turn
 // re-append sessions.mjs performs replaces rather than duplicates.
 
-import { mkdir, readFile, rename, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { mkdir, readFile, rename, unlink, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
 import { dirname, join } from "node:path";
 import { proseTokensFor, buildProseIndex } from "../prose.mjs";
 import { fnv1aHex } from "../hash.mjs";
-import { computeTrust, TRUST_SCORE_PROP, TRUST_INPUTS_PROP } from "./trust.mjs";
+import { computeTrust, sessionReliabilityFrom, TRUST_SCORE_PROP, TRUST_INPUTS_PROP } from "./trust.mjs";
 
 export const MEMORY_DIR_REL = join(".tmct", "memory");
 export const MEMORY_GRAPH_REL = join(MEMORY_DIR_REL, "graph.json");
@@ -55,9 +55,19 @@ export const DERIVED_FROM_PROP = "mgx:derivedFrom";        // umbrella: Fact →
 export const STATED_BY_PROP = "mgx:statedBy";              // a Source directly asserts a Fact
 export const CANONICALISED_FROM_PROP = "mgx:canonicalisedFrom"; // a canonical Fact ← its raw form
 export const CREATED_AT_PROP = "mgx:createdAt";           // first-write-wins ISO-8601 on every individual
-
-// The one deterministic operator Source id — the operator chatting to tmct.
+export const SOURCE_RELIABILITY_PROP = "mgx:sourceReliability"; // actor-level (session-scoped) trust nudge on a Source, [0.5,1.5]
+
+// The bare (session-less) singleton Source ids — the fallback for an
+// operator/teach provenance tag that carries no session-id segment (e.g. a
+// hand-authored "chat:"/"session:"/"operator" tag, or a direct API caller
+// that never threaded a session id through). Once a provenance tag DOES carry
+// a session-id segment (every real chat/teach write does — see
+// grammar/assert.mjs's provenanceTag / chat.mjs's teachProvenanceTag), each
+// session mints its OWN Source individual instead: `${ID}:<sessionId>`
+// (sourceIdFor below) — actor-level (session-scoped) trust, unconditional,
+// no config flag (PLAN_PROVENANCE_TRUST Part B).
 export const OPERATOR_SOURCE_ID = "src:operator-chat";
+export const TEACH_SOURCE_ID = "src:teach-chat";
 
 const ROLES = new Set(["visitor", "tmct"]);
 const LABEL_CAP = 48;    // utterance/fact labels stay skimmable in renders
@@ -92,6 +102,7 @@ const MEMORY_VOCABULARY = [
   { prop: "mgx:sourceType", note: "a Source's kind: operator | teach | provider | corpus | web | entailed (the trust-prior key)" },
   { prop: "mgx:sourceUrl", note: "a web Source's URL" },
   { prop: "mgx:sourceRule", note: "an entailed Source's rule id" },
+  { prop: "mgx:sourceReliability", note: "actor-level (session-scoped) trust nudge in [0.5,1.5], neutral 1.0 when absent — materialised by recomputeSourceReliability from a session's asserted-vs-contradicted track record (memory/trust.mjs's sessionReliabilityFrom); folds into computeTrust's per-source prior" },
   { prop: TRUST_SCORE_PROP, note: "materialised trust cache in [0,1] — pure function of a fact's Sources + createdAt (memory/trust.mjs); invalidated when a statedBy edge is added" },
   { prop: TRUST_INPUTS_PROP, note: "JSON of the inputs the trust score was computed from (source-type multiset, corroboration count, createdAt, recency) — makes the score auditable" },
   { prop: "mgx:hasProseTokens", note: "prose tokens (prose.mjs tokenizer) backing the payload's proseIndex" },
@@ -119,14 +130,123 @@ export function emptyMemory() {
   };
 }
 
-const memoryGraphFile = (dir) => join(dir, MEMORY_GRAPH_REL);
+/** Resolve the on-disk path of a memory graph file for `dir`. `version === null`
+ *  (the default) is the LIVE graph (`graph.json`) — the one path every mutator
+ *  funnels through (mutateMemory here, writeMemoryGraph in fold.mjs). A numeric
+ *  `version` resolves a SNAPSHOT copy (`graph.v{version}.json`, see
+ *  snapshotMemory below) — never the live file. The single source of truth for
+ *  "where does the memory graph live on disk", closing the desync risk of two
+ *  independent path-resolution copies (core.mjs's mutateMemory and fold.mjs's
+ *  writeMemoryGraph used to compute this path separately). */
+export function resolveMemoryGraphFile(dir, version = null) {
+  if (version === null) return join(dir, MEMORY_GRAPH_REL);
+  return join(dir, MEMORY_DIR_REL, `graph.v${version}.json`);
+}
+
+const memoryGraphFile = (dir) => resolveMemoryGraphFile(dir);
+
+/** Atomic write of raw text (temp in the same dir + rename) — the discipline
+ *  every writer in this module (and fold.mjs/sessions.mjs's own copies) uses:
+ *  a crash never destroys the previous file, a concurrent reader never sees a
+ *  torn one. */
+async function atomicWriteText(file, text) {
+  const tmp = `${file}.tmp-${process.pid}-${Math.random().toString(36).slice(2, 10)}`;
+  await writeFile(tmp, text);
+  await rename(tmp, file);
+}
 
 /** Atomic JSON write (temp in the same dir + rename) — same discipline as
  *  sessions.mjs's graph append: a crash never destroys the previous store. */
 async function atomicWriteJson(file, obj) {
-  const tmp = `${file}.tmp-${process.pid}-${Math.random().toString(36).slice(2, 10)}`;
-  await writeFile(tmp, JSON.stringify(obj));
-  await rename(tmp, file);
+  await atomicWriteText(file, JSON.stringify(obj));
+}
+
+// ---- Manifest-versioned snapshots (manual trigger only — NOT wired to any ----
+// ---- automatic call site; a primitive for a future CLI command/maintenance --
+// ---- hook, PLAN item "memory-tree versioning") -------------------------------
+
+export const MEMORY_MANIFEST_REL = join(MEMORY_DIR_REL, "manifest.json");
+export const DEFAULT_RETENTION = 5;
+
+const resolveManifestFile = (dir) => join(dir, MEMORY_MANIFEST_REL);
+
+/** Snapshot the CURRENT live graph.json into a numbered `graph.v{N}.json`
+ *  (N = the manifest's version BEFORE this call increments it), then advance
+ *  the manifest and best-effort prune the oldest snapshot that falls outside
+ *  the retention window.
+ *
+ *  `graph.json` itself is NEVER touched or renamed here — it stays the one
+ *  live file every mutator (mutateMemory / fold.mjs's writeMemoryGraph) reads
+ *  and writes; only a COPY of its pre-snapshot content becomes the new
+ *  numbered version. NOT called from mutateMemory, writeMemoryGraph, or
+ *  anywhere else in this codebase — it has zero callers today by design; a
+ *  future CLI command or maintenance hook calls it explicitly.
+ *
+ *  Manifest bootstrap (no manifest.json yet): `{ version: 0, retentionVersions:
+ *  opts.retentionVersions ?? DEFAULT_RETENTION }` — the optional
+ *  `retentionVersions` lets a caller that already loaded tmct.toml's
+ *  `[memory] retention_versions` seed the bootstrap default without this
+ *  module doing its own config I/O (core.mjs has no toml-loading precedent;
+ *  toml-config.mjs stays the one place that reads tmct.toml). Once a
+ *  manifest.json exists on disk, ITS retentionVersions is authoritative and a
+ *  later opts.retentionVersions is ignored (the persisted setting wins over a
+ *  possibly-stale caller default).
+ *
+ *  "No graph.json exists yet" is handled as a clean no-op: `{ skipped: true,
+ *  version: null }` — nothing to snapshot is not an error, it is the honest
+ *  bootstrap state (a brand-new repo that has never written a memory graph).
+ *
+ *  Retention: after writing `graph.v{N}.json` and bumping the manifest to
+ *  N+1, the snapshot at `graph.v{N - retentionVersions}.json` (if it exists)
+ *  is deleted (best-effort — ENOENT is swallowed). Using N (the version just
+ *  written), not N+1, for the prune target keeps a clean sliding window of
+ *  exactly `retentionVersions` files on disk at all times, with no orphaned
+ *  v0 ever left behind once the window starts sliding.
+ *
+ *  Returns `{ skipped, version, prunedVersion }` — `version` is the number of
+ *  the snapshot just written (or null if skipped); `prunedVersion` is the
+ *  number pruned, or null if nothing was in range to prune yet. */
+export async function snapshotMemory(dir, { retentionVersions } = {}) {
+  const graphFile = resolveMemoryGraphFile(dir);
+  let graphText;
+  try {
+    graphText = await readFile(graphFile, "utf8");
+  } catch (e) {
+    if (e?.code === "ENOENT") return { skipped: true, version: null, prunedVersion: null };
+    throw e;
+  }
+
+  const manifestFile = resolveManifestFile(dir);
+  let manifest;
+  try {
+    manifest = JSON.parse(await readFile(manifestFile, "utf8"));
+  } catch (e) {
+    if (e?.code !== "ENOENT") throw e;
+    manifest = { version: 0, retentionVersions: retentionVersions ?? DEFAULT_RETENTION };
+  }
+  if (!Number.isInteger(manifest.version)) manifest.version = 0;
+  if (!Number.isInteger(manifest.retentionVersions)) manifest.retentionVersions = retentionVersions ?? DEFAULT_RETENTION;
+
+  const v = manifest.version; // the version being written THIS call
+  const versionedFile = resolveMemoryGraphFile(dir, v);
+  await mkdir(dirname(versionedFile), { recursive: true });
+  await atomicWriteText(versionedFile, graphText);
+
+  manifest.version = v + 1;
+
+  let prunedVersion = null;
+  const pruneTarget = v - manifest.retentionVersions;
+  if (pruneTarget >= 0) {
+    try {
+      await unlink(resolveMemoryGraphFile(dir, pruneTarget));
+      prunedVersion = pruneTarget;
+    } catch (e) {
+      if (e?.code !== "ENOENT") throw e; // best-effort: a vanished snapshot is fine, anything else is not
+    }
+  }
+
+  await atomicWriteJson(manifestFile, manifest);
+  return { skipped: false, version: v, prunedVersion };
 }
 
 /** Load the memory graph for a repo dir. A missing store is the bootstrap:
@@ -147,11 +267,14 @@ export async function loadMemory(dir) {
  *  goes through here so a concurrent reader never sees a torn store. The lazy,
  *  idempotent legacy-provenance migration rides this same cycle (step (b)): any
  *  Fact still carrying only the old mgx:factProvenance string gets its Sources +
- *  statedBy edges + trust materialised on the next write of any kind. */
+ *  statedBy edges + trust materialised on the next write of any kind. Part B3's
+ *  actor-level (session-scoped) Source reliability rides the SAME cycle, after
+ *  migration (so it sees every Fact's Sources, migrated or not). */
 async function mutateMemory(dir, fn) {
   const payload = await loadMemory(dir);
   const out = fn(payload) ?? payload;
   migrateLegacyProvenance(out);
+  recomputeSourceReliability(out);
   out.proseIndex = buildProseIndex(out.individuals);
   await mkdir(dirname(memoryGraphFile(dir)), { recursive: true });
   await atomicWriteJson(memoryGraphFile(dir), out);
@@ -178,11 +301,20 @@ function setAttr(ind, prop, key, value) {
 // ---- Sources (step (b)): first-class provenance individuals -----------------
 
 /** Deterministic Source id + type over the closed kind set. Returns null for an
- *  unknown kind (an unmappable provenance tag → no Source, honestly). */
+ *  unknown kind (an unmappable provenance tag → no Source, honestly).
+ *
+ *  operator/teach kinds are SESSION-SCOPED when `desc.sessionId` is present
+ *  (unconditional — every real chat/teach provenance tag carries one; see
+ *  provenanceTagToSource): `${OPERATOR_SOURCE_ID}:<sessionId>` /
+ *  `${TEACH_SOURCE_ID}:<sessionId>` instead of the bare singleton, so each
+ *  session's operator/teach facts attach to their OWN Source individual
+ *  rather than every session ever collapsing onto one. Session ids are
+ *  uuidv7s (hex + hyphens only — see uuid.mjs), so `:`/`@` never collide with
+ *  this id scheme's own delimiters. */
 function sourceIdFor(desc) {
   switch (desc?.kind) {
-    case "operator": return { id: OPERATOR_SOURCE_ID, type: "operator" };
-    case "teach": return { id: "src:teach-chat", type: "teach" };
+    case "operator": return { id: desc.sessionId ? `${OPERATOR_SOURCE_ID}:${desc.sessionId}` : OPERATOR_SOURCE_ID, type: "operator" };
+    case "teach": return { id: desc.sessionId ? `${TEACH_SOURCE_ID}:${desc.sessionId}` : TEACH_SOURCE_ID, type: "teach" };
     case "provider": return { id: `src:provider:${desc.name}`, type: "provider" };
     case "corpus": return { id: `src:corpus:${desc.name}`, type: "corpus" };
     case "web": return { id: `src:learned:web:${fnv1aHex(String(desc.url || ""))}`, type: "web", url: String(desc.url || "") };
@@ -215,30 +347,44 @@ function upsertSource(payload, desc, createdAtCandidate) {
   return info.id;
 }
 
+/** Parse the "chat" shape both provenanceTag (grammar/assert.mjs) and
+ *  teachProvenanceTag (chat.mjs) emit — `<source>[:<sessionId>][@<ts>]` after
+ *  their kind prefix has already been stripped — into { createdAt, sessionId? }.
+ *  `sessionId` is present only when the tag actually carried one (every real
+ *  chat/teach write does; a hand-authored/legacy tag without one degrades to
+ *  the bare singleton Source, honestly — see sourceIdFor). */
+function parseChatTagRest(rest) {
+  const at = rest.indexOf("@");
+  const beforeAt = at >= 0 ? rest.slice(0, at) : rest;
+  const createdAt = at >= 0 ? rest.slice(at + 1) : "";
+  const colon = beforeAt.indexOf(":");
+  const sessionId = colon >= 0 ? beforeAt.slice(colon + 1) : "";
+  return { createdAt, ...(sessionId ? { sessionId } : {}) };
+}
+
 /**
  * Parse one legacy provenance TAG into a Source descriptor over the closed kind
  * set — the inverse the migration and the live write path both name Sources
  * through. The tag formats are exactly what the writers produce:
  *   corpus:conceptnet /r/IsA   → { kind:"corpus",   name:"conceptnet" }
- *   ace:chat:<session>@<ts>    → { kind:"operator",  createdAt:<ts> }
- *   teach:chat:<session>@<ts>  → { kind:"teach",     createdAt:<ts> }
+ *   ace:chat:<session>@<ts>    → { kind:"operator",  createdAt:<ts>, sessionId:<session> }
+ *   teach:chat:<session>@<ts>  → { kind:"teach",     createdAt:<ts>, sessionId:<session> }
  *   web:<url> | url:<url>      → { kind:"web",       url:<url> }
  *   entailed:<rule>            → { kind:"entailed",  rule:<rule> }
  * chat:/session: refs map to the operator; an unknown tag → null (no Source).
+ * The session-id segment (Part B: session-scoped actor-level trust) feeds
+ * sourceIdFor, which mints a PER-SESSION Source id when present, instead of
+ * collapsing every session onto one singleton operator/teach Source.
  */
 export function provenanceTagToSource(tag) {
   const t = String(tag || "").trim();
   if (!t) return null;
   const head = t.split(/\s+/)[0]; // drop trailing " /r/IsA" etc.
   if (head.startsWith("corpus:")) return { kind: "corpus", name: head.slice("corpus:".length) || "unknown" };
-  if (head.startsWith("ace:")) {
-    const at = head.indexOf("@");
-    return { kind: "operator", createdAt: at >= 0 ? head.slice(at + 1) : "" };
-  }
+  if (head.startsWith("ace:")) return { kind: "operator", ...parseChatTagRest(head.slice("ace:".length)) };
   if (head.startsWith("teach:")) {
     // the chat teach lane's natural frames — chat.mjs's teachProvenanceTag
-    const at = head.indexOf("@");
-    return { kind: "teach", createdAt: at >= 0 ? head.slice(at + 1) : "" };
+    return { kind: "teach", ...parseChatTagRest(head.slice("teach:".length)) };
   }
   if (head.startsWith("web:")) return { kind: "web", url: head.slice("web:".length) };
   if (head.startsWith("url:")) return { kind: "web", url: head.slice("url:".length) };
@@ -314,6 +460,77 @@ function migrateLegacyProvenance(payload) {
   if (changed) recountClasses(payload);
 }
 
+/** A session-scoped operator/teach Source id (Part B2's `${SINGLETON}:<sessionId>`
+ *  shape) — the only Source kind actor-level reliability applies to; a corpus/
+ *  web/provider/entailed Source has no "session" to hold a track record for. */
+const isSessionScopedSourceId = (id) =>
+  typeof id === "string" && (id.startsWith(`${OPERATOR_SOURCE_ID}:`) || id.startsWith(`${TEACH_SOURCE_ID}:`));
+
+/**
+ * Recompute + materialise mgx:sourceReliability on every session-scoped
+ * operator/teach Source (Part B3): for each such Source, count the facts it
+ * stated (`factsAsserted`) and how many of those are part of a live
+ * contradiction (`factsContradicted`, via findContradictions — its own
+ * detection logic is untouched, this only READS its result), run
+ * sessionReliabilityFrom, and write the bounded result onto the Source.
+ *
+ * Contradiction membership is evaluated against the CURRENT trust scores at
+ * the point this runs (already materialised by this same mutation's
+ * syncFactSources/migrateLegacyProvenance calls) — it does NOT recursively
+ * re-evaluate contradictions after reliability changes shift trust scores
+ * (no fixed-point iteration; one pass is enough for a monotonic, self-
+ * correcting signal that only ever gets more accurate on the NEXT write).
+ *
+ * Every individual (Fact OR RULE) touched by a recomputed Source then has its
+ * OWN trust re-materialised (recomputeFactTrust — class-agnostic, same as
+ * syncFactSources: neither ever checks `.class`) so mgx:trustScore reflects
+ * the fresh reliability within THIS SAME mutation cycle — a session's
+ * reliability shift is visible immediately, not just on some future
+ * unrelated re-write. This refresh is scanned off the statedBy edge group
+ * DIRECTLY (every individual it names, any class), not off readFactRows
+ * (Fact-only) — a Rule can never be "contradicted" (findContradictions is a
+ * Fact-shape concept, so contradiction ACCOUNTING stays Fact-scoped above),
+ * but it rides the identical Source-derivation + trust pipeline a Fact does
+ * (appendRule's own doc comment), so it must not go stale here either.
+ *
+ * Called from mutateMemory itself (below), riding every mutation's existing
+ * bookkeeping cycle — not a separate write path.
+ */
+function recomputeSourceReliability(payload) {
+  if (!Array.isArray(payload?.individuals) || !Array.isArray(payload?.objectProperties)) return;
+  const rows = readFactRows(payload); // Fact-only — contradiction accounting is inherently Fact-shaped
+  const contradictedFactIds = new Set();
+  for (const group of findContradictions(payload)) for (const r of group) contradictedFactIds.add(r.id);
+
+  const bySource = new Map(); // sessionSourceId -> { factsAsserted, factsContradicted }
+  for (const row of rows) {
+    for (const sid of row.sourceIds) {
+      if (!isSessionScopedSourceId(sid)) continue;
+      const bucket = bySource.get(sid) || { factsAsserted: 0, factsContradicted: 0 };
+      bucket.factsAsserted += 1;
+      if (contradictedFactIds.has(row.id)) bucket.factsContradicted += 1;
+      bySource.set(sid, bucket);
+    }
+  }
+  if (!bySource.size) return;
+
+  for (const [sid, counts] of bySource) {
+    const source = payload.individuals.find((i) => i?.id === sid);
+    if (!source) continue;
+    setAttr(source, SOURCE_RELIABILITY_PROP, "sourceReliability", String(sessionReliabilityFrom(counts)));
+  }
+
+  // Re-materialise trust for EVERY individual statedBy a recomputed session
+  // Source — Fact or Rule alike — via the statedBy edge group directly.
+  const statedGroup = payload.objectProperties.find((g) => g?.prop === STATED_BY_PROP);
+  const affected = new Set();
+  for (const e of statedGroup?.examples || []) if (bySource.has(e?.object)) affected.add(e.subject);
+  for (const id of affected) {
+    const ind = payload.individuals.find((i) => i?.id === id);
+    if (ind) recomputeFactTrust(payload, ind);
+  }
+}
+
 /** Upsert an individual by id (replace-in-place keeps ordering stable). */
 function upsertIndividual(payload, ind) {
   const i = payload.individuals.findIndex((x) => x?.id === ind.id);

package/src/memory/trust.mjs

@@ -12,6 +12,14 @@
 //     the codegraph "capped nudge" philosophy, so recency breaks ties and
 //     freshens but never flips a source-type ordering by itself.
 //
+// A fourth, per-Source bounded nudge folds into the type-prior term above (not a
+// separate multiplicative stage): each Source may carry mgx:sourceReliability in
+// [0.5, 1.5] (neutral 1.0 when absent, true of every Source until a session's
+// actor-level trust — sessionReliabilityFrom, core.mjs's recomputeSourceReliability —
+// starts writing it), so a session with a track record of corroborated facts
+// nudges its own Source's contribution up, one contradicted repeatedly nudges it
+// down — additive and safe: absent, every existing score is byte-identical.
+//
 // For ENTAILED facts (tier-5): trust = min(premise trusts) × rule-confidence — a
 // conclusion is only as trustworthy as its weakest premise. Premises may be
 // absent for now, so this is a documented HOOK: pass opts.premiseTrusts (and
@@ -44,9 +52,33 @@ export const SOURCE_PRIOR = Object.freeze({
 export const RECENCY_HALF_LIFE_MS = 30 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000; // 30 days
 export const RECENCY_FLOOR = 0.9; // recency multiplier stays within [0.9, 1.0]
 
+// Actor-level (session-scoped) trust — a bounded NUDGE on top of a Source's
+// type prior, read off the same already-passed Source individual a fact's
+// corroboration already resolves via sourceTypeOf. `mgx:sourceReliability`
+// lives in [SOURCE_RELIABILITY_MIN, SOURCE_RELIABILITY_MAX], NEUTRAL (1.0,
+// exactly — no rounding drift) when absent, which is true of every Source
+// until core.mjs's recomputeSourceReliability starts writing it. Neutral-when-
+// absent makes this safely additive: every existing score is byte-identical
+// until something actually writes the attribute.
+export const SOURCE_RELIABILITY_MIN = 0.5;
+export const SOURCE_RELIABILITY_MAX = 1.5;
+export const SOURCE_RELIABILITY_NEUTRAL = 1.0;
+
 const round = (n, p = 6) => Number(n.toFixed(p));
 const sourceTypeOf = (s) => (s?.attributes || []).find((a) => a.prop === "mgx:sourceType")?.value || "";
 
+/** A Source's reliability multiplier: the raw mgx:sourceReliability attribute,
+ *  clamped into [SOURCE_RELIABILITY_MIN, SOURCE_RELIABILITY_MAX] (a corrupt or
+ *  out-of-range stored value is defended against, never trusted blindly), or
+ *  the neutral 1.0 when the attribute is absent/unparseable. */
+function sourceReliabilityOf(s) {
+  const raw = (s?.attributes || []).find((a) => a.prop === "mgx:sourceReliability")?.value;
+  if (raw === undefined) return SOURCE_RELIABILITY_NEUTRAL;
+  const n = Number(raw);
+  if (!Number.isFinite(n)) return SOURCE_RELIABILITY_NEUTRAL;
+  return Math.max(SOURCE_RELIABILITY_MIN, Math.min(SOURCE_RELIABILITY_MAX, n));
+}
+
 /**
  * Bounded recency multiplier in [RECENCY_FLOOR, 1] from an ISO-8601 createdAt.
  * A half-life decay: freshly written ≈ 1.0, ancient → RECENCY_FLOOR. An unknown
@@ -81,21 +113,31 @@ export function computeTrust(fact, sourcesById = {}, opts = {}) {
   const now = typeof opts.now === "number" ? opts.now : Date.now();
   const ids = Array.isArray(fact?.sourceIds) ? fact.sourceIds : [];
 
-  // distinct sources → their type priors
+  // distinct sources → their type priors, nudged by each Source's own
+  // mgx:sourceReliability (neutral 1.0 when absent — see sourceReliabilityOf).
+  // `types` stays the plain type multiset (the audit-trail shape callers/tests
+  // already read off `inputs.sourceTypes` is unchanged); `priors` is the
+  // per-source EFFECTIVE prior (type prior × reliability, clamped to [0,1])
+  // the noisy-OR below actually corroborates over.
   const seen = new Set();
   const types = [];
+  const priors = [];
   for (const id of ids) {
     if (seen.has(id)) continue;
     seen.add(id);
-    const t = sourceTypeOf(sourcesById[id]);
-    if (t) types.push(t);
+    const source = sourcesById[id];
+    const t = sourceTypeOf(source);
+    if (!t) continue;
+    types.push(t);
+    const p = (SOURCE_PRIOR[t] ?? 0) * sourceReliabilityOf(source);
+    priors.push(Math.max(0, Math.min(1, p)));
   }
 
-  // corroboration via noisy-OR over distinct-source priors, capped at 1
+  // corroboration via noisy-OR over distinct-source EFFECTIVE priors, capped at 1
   let base = 0;
   let complement = 1;
-  for (const t of types) complement *= 1 - (SOURCE_PRIOR[t] ?? 0);
-  if (types.length) base = Math.min(1, 1 - complement);
+  for (const p of priors) complement *= 1 - p;
+  if (priors.length) base = Math.min(1, 1 - complement);
 
   // entailed hook (tier-5): a conclusion is only as trustworthy as its weakest
   // premise × the rule confidence. Engages only when premises are supplied;
@@ -115,3 +157,49 @@ export function computeTrust(fact, sourcesById = {}, opts = {}) {
   };
   return { score, inputs };
 }
+
+// How many facts a session needs to have amassed before its track record can
+// swing mgx:sourceReliability with full confidence toward an extreme. Without
+// this, a SINGLE data point saturates the score immediately (asserted=1,
+// contradicted=0 → the bare max 1.5) — measured in practice, this broke the
+// standing invariant that a lone, uncontradicted teach-sourced fact must
+// still score below the operator prior (0.95 × 1.5 clamps past 1.0). This
+// pseudo-count keeps a thin track record close to NEUTRAL and only lets a
+// session earn a confident nudge once it has a real history — the classic
+// Bayesian-smoothing shape (Laplace/"add-k" pseudo-count) for small-sample
+// rates.
+export const RELIABILITY_CONFIDENCE_PSEUDOCOUNT = 19;
+
+/**
+ * Pure actor-level (session-scoped) reliability from one session's track
+ * record: how many facts it asserted vs. how many of those later turned out
+ * to be CONTRADICTED (findContradictions, core.mjs). Bounded to
+ * [SOURCE_RELIABILITY_MIN, SOURCE_RELIABILITY_MAX] — the same range
+ * mgx:sourceReliability lives in (B1 above), so the result of this function is
+ * exactly what a caller materialises onto a session's Source individual.
+ *
+ * Monotonic in the right direction: more uncontradicted assertions → closer to
+ * the max (1.5); more contradicted ones → closer to the min (0.5) — but
+ * CONFIDENCE-SCALED by sample size, so a session with only one or two
+ * assertions stays close to neutral (1.0) either way, and only a real track
+ * record (many assertions) earns a confident swing toward an extreme. Zero
+ * assertions is exactly neutral (1.0) — no track record, no opinion, matching
+ * the neutral default a Source without this attribute at all already gets
+ * (sourceReliabilityOf above). The shape:
+ *   net        = clamp[-1,1]((asserted − 2×contradicted) / max(1, asserted))
+ *   confidence = asserted / (asserted + RELIABILITY_CONFIDENCE_PSEUDOCOUNT)
+ *   ratio      = (net × confidence + 1) / 2         → [0, 1], 0.5 at confidence 0
+ *   reliability = MIN + (MAX − MIN) × ratio
+ * Each contradicted fact costs DOUBLE an asserted fact's worth of `net` (the
+ * `2×` term), so a session that is right twice and wrong once nets a positive
+ * but reduced score rather than a wash — corroboration should count for less
+ * than the reputational cost of a contradiction. Deterministic, no I/O.
+ */
+export function sessionReliabilityFrom({ factsAsserted = 0, factsContradicted = 0 } = {}) {
+  const asserted = Math.max(0, Number(factsAsserted) || 0);
+  const contradicted = Math.max(0, Number(factsContradicted) || 0);
+  const net = Math.max(-1, Math.min(1, (asserted - 2 * contradicted) / Math.max(1, asserted)));
+  const confidence = asserted / (asserted + RELIABILITY_CONFIDENCE_PSEUDOCOUNT);
+  const ratio = (net * confidence + 1) / 2;
+  return round(SOURCE_RELIABILITY_MIN + (SOURCE_RELIABILITY_MAX - SOURCE_RELIABILITY_MIN) * ratio);
+}

package/src/providers/bootstrap.mjs

@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ export function bootstrapGraph() {
   return parseEntities(emptyEntities());
 }
 
-/** The bootstrap provider: every service over the empty graph — honest empties. */
-export function bootstrapProvider() {
-  return createGraphService(bootstrapGraph());
+/** The bootstrap provider: every service over the empty graph — honest empties.
+ *  `opts` passes straight through to createGraphService (e.g. `{ sourceAccess: true,
+ *  repoRoot, readFile }`), same pass-through as fixtureProvider. */
+export function bootstrapProvider(opts = {}) {
+  return createGraphService(bootstrapGraph(), opts);
 }

package/src/providers/fixture.mjs

@@ -112,7 +112,11 @@ export function fixtureGraph() {
   return parseEntities(FIXTURE_ENTITIES);
 }
 
-/** The fixture provider: a Repository-Interface service over the small real graph. */
-export function fixtureProvider() {
-  return createGraphService(fixtureGraph());
+/** The fixture provider: a Repository-Interface service over the small real graph.
+ *  `opts` passes straight through to createGraphService — e.g. `{ sourceAccess: true,
+ *  repoRoot, readFile }` to construct a source-capable fixture provider for testing
+ *  (see test/repository-interface.test.mjs's third runConformance call, which is the
+ *  only thing that exercises the conformance kit's source-capable branch). */
+export function fixtureProvider(opts = {}) {
+  return createGraphService(fixtureGraph(), opts);
 }