@sema-agent/core 5.49.0 → 5.51.0

package/dist/core/mcp.js

@@ -650,7 +650,30 @@ export function mcpToolSchemaProblem(schema) {
     }
     return undefined;
 }
-export async function materializeMcpTools(specs, principal, onElicit, imageResizer, reminderDisclosure) {
+export async function materializeMcpTools(specs, principal, onElicit, imageResizer, reminderDisclosure, mcpRevocations) {
+    let revocationProbeFailed = false;
+    const isServerRevoked = (serverName) => {
+        if (mcpRevocations === undefined)
+            return false;
+        try {
+            const r = mcpRevocations.isRevoked(serverName);
+            if (typeof r !== "boolean") {
+                throw new Error(`isRevoked returned ${r instanceof Promise ? "a Promise — the ledger seat is SYNCHRONOUS by contract" : `a non-boolean (${typeof r})`}`);
+            }
+            return r;
+        }
+        catch (e) {
+            if (!revocationProbeFailed) {
+                revocationProbeFailed = true;
+                try {
+                    mcpRevocations.onProbeFailure?.(e);
+                }
+                catch {
+                }
+            }
+            return false;
+        }
+    };
     const mcpDisclosure = reminderDisclosure?.reminderMark !== undefined
         ? { mark: reminderDisclosure.reminderMark, windows: new Map(), ...(reminderDisclosure.counts !== undefined ? { counts: reminderDisclosure.counts } : {}) }
         : undefined;
@@ -665,7 +688,7 @@ export async function materializeMcpTools(specs, principal, onElicit, imageResiz
     const droppedTools = [];
     let disposing = false;
     const serverHandles = [];
-    const settled = await Promise.allSettled(specs.map((spec) => connectServer(spec, principal, onElicit, imageResizer, mcpDisclosure)));
+    const settled = await Promise.allSettled(specs.map((spec) => connectServer(spec, principal, onElicit, imageResizer, mcpDisclosure, isServerRevoked)));
     try {
         for (let i = 0; i < specs.length; i++) {
             const r = settled[i];
@@ -701,7 +724,7 @@ export async function materializeMcpTools(specs, principal, onElicit, imageResiz
                 statuses.push({ name: spec.name, status: "failed", error: namedMcpFailureText(r.reason) });
             }
         }
-        const resourceTools = buildResourceTools(resourceServers);
+        const resourceTools = buildResourceTools(resourceServers, isServerRevoked);
         tools.push(...resourceTools.tools);
         toolAxes.push(...resourceTools.axes);
     }
@@ -729,10 +752,14 @@ export async function materializeMcpTools(specs, principal, onElicit, imageResiz
                     results.push({ server: h.name, prefix: prefixOf(h.name), status: "not_connected", toolCount: 0, added: [], removed: [] });
                     continue;
                 }
+                if (isServerRevoked(h.name)) {
+                    results.push({ server: h.name, prefix: prefixOf(h.name), status: "revoked", toolCount: 0, added: [], removed: [], error: "server revoked by the operator — the refresh did not contact it" });
+                    continue;
+                }
                 try {
                     const listed = await listToolsLenient(h.client);
                     cacheMcpToolMetadata(h.client, listed.tools);
-                    const { serverTools, serverAxes, dropped } = intakeListedTools(listed, h.spec, h.client, h.health, imageResizer, mcpDisclosure);
+                    const { serverTools, serverAxes, dropped } = intakeListedTools(listed, h.spec, h.client, h.health, imageResizer, mcpDisclosure, isServerRevoked);
                     const newNames = serverTools.map((t) => t.name);
                     const added = newNames.filter((n) => !h.toolNames.includes(n));
                     const removed = h.toolNames.filter((n) => !newNames.includes(n));
@@ -882,7 +909,7 @@ function renderDirChildren(server, uri, children, flags) {
         terminate: false,
     };
 }
-function buildResourceTools(resourceServers) {
+function buildResourceTools(resourceServers, isServerRevoked = () => false) {
     const listable = resourceServers.filter((rs) => rs.listAllowed);
     const readable = resourceServers.filter((rs) => rs.readAllowed);
     if (listable.length === 0 && readable.length === 0)
@@ -910,6 +937,11 @@ function buildResourceTools(resourceServers) {
                 const all = [];
                 const errors = [];
                 for (const rs of targets) {
+                    if (isServerRevoked(rs.server)) {
+                        errors.push({ server: rs.server, error: "server revoked by the operator mid-session (request not sent)" });
+                        sections.push(`[${rs.server}] Error: server revoked by the operator — its resources are unavailable this turn.`);
+                        continue;
+                    }
                     if (rs.health.dead) {
                         errors.push({ server: rs.server, error: "server disconnected (transport closed earlier in this task)" });
                         sections.push(`[${rs.server}] Error: server disconnected — its resources are unavailable.`);
@@ -970,6 +1002,14 @@ function buildResourceTools(resourceServers) {
                 if (!rs)
                     return { content: [{ type: "text", text: `Error: no MCP server ${inlineUntrusted(server)} with readable resources. Available: ${serverNames(readable)}.` }], details: undefined, terminate: false };
                 const what = `The read of resource ${inlineUntrusted(uri)}`;
+                if (isServerRevoked(server)) {
+                    return {
+                        content: [{ type: "text", text: `${what} was refused: MCP server "${server}" was revoked by the operator mid-session. The request was NOT sent. The tool list updates at the next turn.` }],
+                        details: { error: "mcp.server_revoked", code: "mcp.server_revoked", server },
+                        terminate: false,
+                        isError: true,
+                    };
+                }
                 if (rs.health.dead)
                     throwDeadServer(server, what);
                 const timeoutMs = mcpToolTimeoutMs();
@@ -1021,6 +1061,14 @@ function buildResourceTools(resourceServers) {
                 if (!rs)
                     return { content: [{ type: "text", text: `Error: no MCP server ${inlineUntrusted(server)} with listable resources. Available: ${serverNames(listable)}.` }], details: undefined, terminate: false };
                 const what = `The directory listing of ${inlineUntrusted(uri)}`;
+                if (isServerRevoked(server)) {
+                    return {
+                        content: [{ type: "text", text: `${what} was refused: MCP server "${server}" was revoked by the operator mid-session. The request was NOT sent. The tool list updates at the next turn.` }],
+                        details: { error: "mcp.server_revoked", code: "mcp.server_revoked", server },
+                        terminate: false,
+                        isError: true,
+                    };
+                }
                 if (rs.health.dead)
                     throwDeadServer(server, what);
                 const timeoutMs = mcpToolTimeoutMs();
@@ -1123,7 +1171,7 @@ const LENIENT_CALL_TOOL_RESULT_SCHEMA = { safeParse: parseCallToolResultLenient
 async function listToolsLenient(client, options) {
     return client.request({ method: "tools/list", params: {} }, LenientListToolsResultSchema, options);
 }
-async function connectServer(spec, principal, onElicit, imageResizer, reminderDisclosure) {
+async function connectServer(spec, principal, onElicit, imageResizer, reminderDisclosure, isServerRevoked) {
     const elicitOn = spec.elicitation === true && onElicit !== undefined;
     const health = { dead: false, pendingElicitations: 0, lastElicitationClosedAt: 0 };
     const client = new Client({ name: `sema-core/${spec.name}`, version: "0.1.0" }, { capabilities: elicitOn ? { elicitation: { form: {} } } : {} });
@@ -1159,7 +1207,7 @@ async function connectServer(spec, principal, onElicit, imageResizer, reminderDi
         };
         const listed = await listToolsLenient(client, startupOpts);
         cacheMcpToolMetadata(client, listed.tools);
-        const { serverTools, serverAxes, dropped } = intakeListedTools(listed, spec, client, health, imageResizer, reminderDisclosure);
+        const { serverTools, serverAxes, dropped } = intakeListedTools(listed, spec, client, health, imageResizer, reminderDisclosure, isServerRevoked);
         const caps = client.getServerCapabilities();
         const resourceInfo = caps?.resources
             ? {
@@ -1192,7 +1240,7 @@ async function connectServer(spec, principal, onElicit, imageResizer, reminderDi
         throw err;
     }
 }
-function intakeListedTools(listed, spec, client, health, imageResizer, reminderDisclosure) {
+function intakeListedTools(listed, spec, client, health, imageResizer, reminderDisclosure, isServerRevoked) {
     const serverTools = [];
     const serverAxes = [];
     const dropped = [];
@@ -1235,6 +1283,14 @@ function intakeListedTools(listed, spec, client, health, imageResizer, reminderD
             ...(mcpAlwaysLoad ? { mcpAlwaysLoad: true } : {}),
             execute: async (_toolCallId, params, signal) => {
                 const what = `The call to tool ${inlineUntrusted(remoteName)}`;
+                if (isServerRevoked?.(spec.name) === true) {
+                    return {
+                        content: [{ type: "text", text: `The call to MCP server "${spec.name}" was refused: the server was revoked by the operator mid-session. The call was NOT sent, so the server did not execute it. The tool list updates at the next turn.` }],
+                        details: { error: "mcp.server_revoked", code: "mcp.server_revoked", server: spec.name },
+                        terminate: false,
+                        isError: true,
+                    };
+                }
                 if (health.dead)
                     throwDeadServer(spec.name, what);
                 const timeoutMs = mcpToolTimeoutMs();

package/dist/core/memory-engine/engine.d.ts

@@ -849,6 +849,11 @@ export declare class MemoryEngine {
      *  the deleted disk file WAS the backend's storage). Zero-copy skips getByIds: its read-side scan
      *  cannot see a deleted file, and calling it mid-harvest would sync-adopt in-session edits. */
     private committedContentFor;
+    /** {@link committedContentFor} with the FAULT axis preserved: `fault: true` means the backend
+     *  read THREW and no shadow answered — "could not read" — which consumers that make destructive
+     *  decisions on absence (the projection-debt settlement clears a row on "entry gone") must
+     *  distinguish from a clean miss. The 8 non-destructive read sites keep the folded face. */
+    private committedContentOrFault;
     /**
      * design/336 §2.2 (r4-9) — the COMMITTED frontmatter an origin carry-forward is computed against.
      * Deliberately NOT {@link committedContentFor}'s non-zero-copy leg: that one calls the backend's
@@ -910,8 +915,32 @@ export declare class MemoryEngine {
     /** Persist the canonical projection back to the session file (id minting / frontmatter completion).
      *  C-F6 (S2-0): called ONLY after the backend transaction committed — never ahead of the journal
      *  commit point. Skips the write when the disk already holds the canonical bytes (zero-copy: the
-     *  journal's own execute step wrote them, making this an idempotent no-op). */
+     *  journal's own execute step wrote them, making this an idempotent no-op). Returns whether the
+     *  disk now holds the canonical bytes — the ordinary completion family stays best-effort on a
+     *  `false` (the next materialize re-projects), but the id-COMPLETION family's caller reads it to
+     *  keep the #366 projection-debt row standing (an id-less plane file must re-bind to its
+     *  committed id at the next harvest, never re-admit as a duplicate). */
     private writeBackProjection;
+    /**
+     * #366 — repair an id-less-but-committed seat IN PLACE (the failed write-back's retry): write the
+     * committed canonical bytes over the seat and settle the debt row on success. Callers have
+     * already proven the seat carries no unadmitted edit (rev equality against its baseline), so the
+     * overwrite is content-preserving — it restores the id line, the completed frontmatter and any
+     * carried marker, nothing else. A refused read/write leaves the row standing (retried next pass;
+     * the next materialize's projection loop repairs and settles it too).
+     */
+    private repairProjectionSeat;
+    /**
+     * #366 — validate a projection-debt row against the COMMITTED state (side-effect-free read: the
+     * retrievalView face in copy-out, never the File backend's adopting `getByIds`). Three-valued on
+     * purpose: `valid` binds, `stale` clears the row (the seat claim dissolved — entry gone, moved or
+     * renamed), and `unknown` (committed state unreadable) makes the caller DEFER the file fail-closed
+     * — treating a transient read fault as "stale" would clear the row and mint the very duplicate
+     * the account exists to close. Zero-copy answers `stale` by construction: there the backend's own
+     * commit writes the id into the plane file, so any standing row is a leftover, and the plain
+     * `getByIds` there would sync-adopt mid-harvest.
+     */
+    private debtCommittedProjection;
     /** Sibling scope subdir names under `dir` (excluded from a scope-tree walk when `dir` is the root —
      *  a root-owning layer's chmod/restore must never touch another scope's home). */
     private siblingScopeDirNames;

package/dist/core/memory-engine/engine.js

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import { noReplaceRestore } from "./delegation-settlement.js";
 import { markOriginClearanceTombstoned, openOriginClearance, readOriginClearances, settleOriginClearance } from "./origin-clearance.js";
 import { DEFAULT_MAX_ENTRY_DEPTH, MEMORY_INDEX_FILENAME, canonicalJsonStringify, captureErasureInput, erasureRequestInvalid, erasureSelectHash, scanEntryFiles, } from "./file-backend.js";
 import { assembleMemoryExportBundle, computeMemoryBundleHash, memoryBundleInvalid, } from "./export-bundle.js";
-import { QUARANTINE_DIR, SCAN_FUSE_THRESHOLD, quarantineAndTombstone, readIndexRevs, writeIndexRevs, bumpScanFuse, canonicalize, claimRootScope, clearScanFuse, adoptCanonicalKeyedControlDir, deriveControlPlaneDir, drainMemoryAnnouncements, enqueueMemoryAnnouncement, ensureDirExists, isContainedIn, markSessionPolluted, readSessionPollution, recordRetrievedAccount, writeFileNoFollow, readRetrievedAccount, registerScope, registeredScopes, resolveMemoryEngineRoot, scopeDirFor, appendChallengeEvents, appendLineageAudit, rebuildStrictControlPlaneLedger, isStrictControlPlaneLedgerCorrupt, CHALLENGE_LEDGER_MAX_EVENTS, adjudicateLineagePending, challengedEntryIds, clearLineageForEntries, discardLineagePending, lineageAccountOfEntry, lineageContributionsOfSession, lineageLatchedIds, promoteLineagePending, readChallengeEvents, readChallengedHistory, readLineageRecord, recordChallengedHistory, recordLineageCredential, reconcileLineage, resolveChallengeEvent, stageLineagePending, } from "./layout.js";
+import { QUARANTINE_DIR, SCAN_FUSE_THRESHOLD, quarantineAndTombstone, readIndexRevs, writeIndexRevs, bumpScanFuse, canonicalize, claimRootScope, clearScanFuse, adoptCanonicalKeyedControlDir, deriveControlPlaneDir, drainMemoryAnnouncements, enqueueMemoryAnnouncement, ensureDirExists, isContainedIn, markSessionPolluted, readSessionPollution, recordRetrievedAccount, writeFileNoFollow, readRetrievedAccount, registerScope, registeredScopes, resolveMemoryEngineRoot, scopeDirFor, appendChallengeEvents, appendLineageAudit, rebuildStrictControlPlaneLedger, isStrictControlPlaneLedgerCorrupt, CHALLENGE_LEDGER_MAX_EVENTS, adjudicateLineagePending, challengedEntryIds, clearLineageForEntries, discardLineagePending, lineageAccountOfEntry, lineageContributionsOfSession, lineageLatchedIds, promoteLineagePending, readChallengeEvents, readChallengedHistory, readLineageRecord, recordChallengedHistory, recordLineageCredential, reconcileLineage, readProjectionDebts, resolveChallengeEvent, settleProjectionDebts, stageLineagePending, stageProjectionDebts, } from "./layout.js";
 import { scanMemoryFileName, scanMemoryWrite, scanRemediation } from "./scan.js";
 export const MEMORY_INSTRUCTION_TEMPLATE = `# Memory
 
@@ -876,6 +876,8 @@ export class MemoryEngine {
                             this.discloseSessionAccountIncident("the committed snapshot was contended/incomplete — the id-bearing residue arm is degraded to id-less for this materialize", undefined);
                         }
                     }
+                    const debtByRel = new Map(readProjectionDebts(this.controlDir).map((r) => [r.relPath, r.entryId]));
+                    const canonicalMemoryDir = canonicalize(this.memoryDir);
                     for (const f of scanEntryFiles(wroot, { maxDepth: this.maxDepth })) {
                         const canonical = canonicalize(f.path);
                         if (canonical !== wroot && !canonical.startsWith(`${wroot}${sep}`))
@@ -883,11 +885,20 @@ export class MemoryEngine {
                         const text = readSafe(canonical);
                         if (text === undefined)
                             continue;
-                        const rel = relative(this.memoryDir, canonical);
+                        const rel = relative(canonicalMemoryDir, canonical);
                         if (rel === MEMORY_INDEX_FILENAME || rel.endsWith(`${sep}${MEMORY_INDEX_FILENAME}`))
                             continue;
                         const parsed = parseEntryFile(text);
-                        const uncommitted = parsed.id === undefined || (committedRevs !== undefined && !committedRevs.has(parsed.id));
+                        const debtEntryId = parsed.id === undefined ? debtByRel.get(relative(canonicalMemoryDir, canonical)) : undefined;
+                        let debtAttributed = false;
+                        if (debtEntryId !== undefined) {
+                            const proj = await this.debtCommittedProjection(debtEntryId);
+                            if (proj.state === "unknown") {
+                                throw new Error(`the committed state for debt-bound file ${rel} could not be read during crash-residue attribution — refusing to classify on a fault`);
+                            }
+                            debtAttributed = proj.state === "valid" && proj.scope === writeScope && proj.slug === f.slug;
+                        }
+                        const uncommitted = (parsed.id === undefined && !debtAttributed) || (parsed.id !== undefined && committedRevs !== undefined && !committedRevs.has(parsed.id));
                         if (uncommitted) {
                             unattributed.push(rel);
                             continue;
@@ -1029,6 +1040,20 @@ export class MemoryEngine {
                 handle.baseIds.set(path, entry.id);
             }
         }
+        {
+            const debts = readProjectionDebts(this.controlDir);
+            if (debts.length > 0) {
+                const projectedIdByRel = new Map(handle.materialized.filter((m) => !m.stub).map((m) => [m.relPath, m.id]));
+                const healed = debts.filter((r) => projectedIdByRel.get(r.relPath) === r.entryId).map((r) => ({ relPath: r.relPath, entryId: r.entryId }));
+                if (healed.length > 0) {
+                    try {
+                        settleProjectionDebts(this.controlDir, healed);
+                    }
+                    catch {
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
         const indexGate = this.gateDerivedIndex(handle);
         if (indexGate !== undefined) {
             if (!indexGate.contained)
@@ -1508,6 +1533,17 @@ export class MemoryEngine {
         for (const [p, id] of idByBasePath)
             if (!handle.fileToScope.get(p) || handle.fileToScope.get(p) === handle.writeScope)
                 basePathById.set(id, p);
+        let projectionDebts;
+        try {
+            projectionDebts = new Map(readProjectionDebts(this.controlDir).map((r) => [r.relPath, { entryId: r.entryId, rev: r.rev }]));
+        }
+        catch (err) {
+            report.ok = false;
+            report.incident = { kind: "sidecar_corrupt", detail: `memory projection-debt ledger unreadable: ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}` };
+            return report;
+        }
+        const debtClears = [];
+        const staleReplacedDebts = new Map();
         const patches = [];
         const pendingProjections = [];
         const idsAddedThisHarvest = new Set();
@@ -1528,8 +1564,12 @@ export class MemoryEngine {
                 continue;
             }
             const fastBaseId = idByBasePath.get(f.canonical);
-            if (fastBaseId !== undefined && !stubByPath.has(f.canonical) && revOfText(f.text, fastBaseId) === revByBasePath.get(f.canonical))
+            if (fastBaseId !== undefined && !stubByPath.has(f.canonical) && revOfText(f.text, fastBaseId) === revByBasePath.get(f.canonical)) {
+                const fastDebt = projectionDebts.get(rel);
+                if (fastDebt !== undefined && fastDebt.entryId === fastBaseId)
+                    await this.repairProjectionSeat(rel, f.canonical, fastBaseId, debtClears);
                 continue;
+            }
             processed++;
             if (pollutedReason !== undefined && !carry) {
                 await containPollutedRecord(f);
@@ -1585,8 +1625,35 @@ export class MemoryEngine {
                 continue;
             }
             const parsed = f.parsed;
-            const baseId = idByBasePath.get(f.canonical);
+            let baseId = idByBasePath.get(f.canonical);
             let id = baseId ?? parsed.id;
+            let debtReconciled = false;
+            if (id === undefined && projectionDebts.size > 0) {
+                const debt = projectionDebts.get(rel);
+                if (debt !== undefined) {
+                    const committed = await this.debtCommittedProjection(debt.entryId);
+                    if (committed.state === "unknown") {
+                        report.rejections.push({
+                            path: rel,
+                            code: "deferred",
+                            reason: "memory write deferred: this file's recorded committed id could not be validated (committed state unreadable) — retried next harvest (fail-closed: a fresh mint here could duplicate the committed entry)",
+                        });
+                        continue;
+                    }
+                    if (committed.state === "valid" && committed.scope === writeScope && committed.slug === f.slug) {
+                        baseId = debt.entryId;
+                        id = debt.entryId;
+                        idByBasePath.set(f.canonical, debt.entryId);
+                        revByBasePath.set(f.canonical, debt.rev);
+                        debtReconciled = true;
+                        report.warnings.push(`${rel}: reconciled to its committed entry — a prior harvest committed this file but the id write-back did not land; the projection is repaired through the ordinary update lane, never re-admitted as a duplicate`);
+                    }
+                    else {
+                        debtClears.push({ relPath: rel, entryId: debt.entryId });
+                        staleReplacedDebts.set(rel, debt.entryId);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
             const minted = id === undefined;
             if (id === undefined)
                 id = uuidv7();
@@ -1680,9 +1747,13 @@ export class MemoryEngine {
                 continue;
             }
             if (baseId !== undefined) {
-                if (revOfText(f.text, id) === revByBasePath.get(f.canonical))
+                if (revOfText(f.text, id) === revByBasePath.get(f.canonical)) {
+                    const seatDebt = projectionDebts.get(rel);
+                    if (seatDebt !== undefined && seatDebt.entryId === id)
+                        await this.repairProjectionSeat(rel, f.canonical, id, debtClears);
                     continue;
-                pendingProjections.push({ path: f.canonical, entry, needed: minted || parsed.id !== id || needsCompletion(parsed, fm) });
+                }
+                pendingProjections.push({ path: f.canonical, entry, needed: minted || parsed.id !== id || needsCompletion(parsed, fm), ...(debtReconciled ? { idCompletion: true } : {}) });
                 patches.push({ op: "update", id, entry, ...(revByBasePath.get(f.canonical) !== undefined ? { baseRev: revByBasePath.get(f.canonical) } : {}) });
                 continue;
             }
@@ -1732,7 +1803,7 @@ export class MemoryEngine {
                 entry.rev = computeEntryRev(entry);
                 report.warnings.push(`${rel}: the file's model-written id was not adopted for this external-origin commit — committed under an engine-minted id (a marked entry's index/search handles carry no model-authored bytes)`);
             }
-            pendingProjections.push({ path: f.canonical, entry, needed: minted || reboundId !== undefined || remintedId !== undefined || needsCompletion(parsed, fm) });
+            pendingProjections.push({ path: f.canonical, entry, needed: minted || reboundId !== undefined || remintedId !== undefined || needsCompletion(parsed, fm), ...(minted || reboundId !== undefined || remintedId !== undefined ? { idCompletion: true } : {}) });
             idsAddedThisHarvest.add(entry.id);
             if (parsed.id !== undefined && entry.id === parsed.id)
                 modelIdAdds.add(entry.id);
@@ -1835,6 +1906,7 @@ export class MemoryEngine {
                                 p.entry.id = uuidv7();
                                 p.entry.rev = computeEntryRev(p.entry);
                                 p.id = p.entry.id;
+                                projection.idCompletion = true;
                                 report.warnings.push(`${flipRec.rel}: the file's model-written id was not adopted for this external-origin commit — committed under an engine-minted id (a marked entry's index/search handles carry no model-authored bytes)`);
                             }
                         }
@@ -1869,6 +1941,68 @@ export class MemoryEngine {
                         }
                     }
                 }
+                const debtStage = pendingProjections
+                    .filter((p) => p.idCompletion === true)
+                    .map((p) => {
+                    const relPath = relative(handle.memoryDir, p.path);
+                    const replaces = staleReplacedDebts.get(relPath);
+                    return { relPath, entryId: p.entry.id, rev: p.entry.rev, ...(replaces !== undefined ? { replaces } : {}) };
+                });
+                if (debtStage.length > 0) {
+                    let refusedStage = [];
+                    try {
+                        refusedStage = stageProjectionDebts(this.controlDir, debtStage, this.now).refused;
+                    }
+                    catch (err) {
+                        report.warnings.push(`memory projection-debt staging failed — duplicate-admission protection for this harvest's id write-backs is degraded (a failed write-back could re-admit its file as a duplicate until the next materialize repairs the plane): ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}`);
+                    }
+                    if (refusedStage.length > 0) {
+                        const refusedIds = new Set(refusedStage.map((r) => r.entryId));
+                        for (let i = patches.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+                            const p = patches[i];
+                            if (p.op !== "delete" && refusedIds.has(p.id))
+                                patches.splice(i, 1);
+                        }
+                        for (let i = pendingProjections.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+                            const proj = pendingProjections[i];
+                            if (refusedIds.has(proj.entry.id)) {
+                                idByBasePath.delete(proj.path);
+                                revByBasePath.delete(proj.path);
+                                pendingProjections.splice(i, 1);
+                            }
+                        }
+                        for (const r of refusedStage) {
+                            report.rejections.push({
+                                path: r.relPath,
+                                code: "deferred",
+                                reason: "memory write deferred: a concurrent writer's projection-debt claim stands at this seat — retried next harvest (committing without a protected id write-back could duplicate the concurrent entry)",
+                            });
+                            report.warnings.push(`${r.relPath}: earlier notes about this file committing under a fresh id are superseded — its commit was WITHDRAWN this harvest (deferred to the next)`);
+                        }
+                        if (lineageArmed) {
+                            const remaining = patches.filter((p) => p.op !== "delete" && p.entry !== undefined).map((p) => ({ entryId: p.id, rev: p.entry.rev, ...(p.entry.frontmatter.origin !== undefined ? { marked: true } : {}) }));
+                            if (remaining.length > 0) {
+                                try {
+                                    stageLineagePending(this.controlDir, txnId, lineageSessionId, remaining, this.now);
+                                }
+                                catch (err) {
+                                    report.ok = false;
+                                    report.incident = { kind: "sidecar_corrupt", detail: `memory lineage restage refused after a withheld projection-debt seat: ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}` };
+                                    return report;
+                                }
+                            }
+                            else {
+                                try {
+                                    discardLineagePending(this.controlDir, txnId);
+                                }
+                                catch (err) {
+                                    report.warnings.push(`memory lineage stage for withheld entries could not be discarded — their ids stay latched until the host adjudicates pending transaction ${txnId}: ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}`);
+                                }
+                                lineageArmed = false;
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
                 try {
                     patchReport = await this.backend.applyPatches(patches);
                 }
@@ -1938,18 +2072,44 @@ export class MemoryEngine {
         }
         const appliedIds = new Set(patchReport.applied.filter((a) => a.op !== "delete").map((a) => a.id));
         for (const p of pendingProjections) {
+            const pRel = relative(handle.memoryDir, p.path);
             if (appliedIds.has(p.entry.id)) {
-                this.writeBackProjection(p.path, p.entry, p.needed);
+                const wrote = this.writeBackProjection(p.path, p.entry, p.needed);
+                if (p.idCompletion === true) {
+                    if (wrote)
+                        debtClears.push({ relPath: pRel, entryId: p.entry.id });
+                    else {
+                        const landed = patchReport.applied.find((a) => a.id === p.entry.id)?.slug;
+                        const suffixNote = landed !== undefined && landed !== p.entry.slug ? ` NOTE: the entry landed at slug ${JSON.stringify(landed)} (collision suffix) — the seat claim will not re-bind; host reconciliation may be needed.` : "";
+                        report.warnings.push(`${pRel}: the entry committed but its id write-back FAILED — the projection-debt row stands, so the file re-binds to its committed id at the next harvest (and the next materialize repairs the plane); it is never re-admitted as a duplicate.${suffixNote}`);
+                    }
+                }
                 continue;
             }
-            const committed = await this.committedContentFor(p.entry.id);
+            const committedRead = await this.committedContentOrFault(p.entry.id);
+            const committed = committedRead.content;
+            let planeHoldsCommitted = false;
             if (committed !== undefined && readNoFollowSafe(p.path) !== committed) {
                 try {
                     writeFileNoFollow(p.path, committed);
+                    planeHoldsCommitted = true;
                 }
                 catch {
                 }
             }
+            else if (committed !== undefined) {
+                planeHoldsCommitted = true;
+            }
+            if (p.idCompletion === true && ((committed === undefined && !committedRead.fault) || planeHoldsCommitted))
+                debtClears.push({ relPath: pRel, entryId: p.entry.id });
+        }
+        if (debtClears.length > 0) {
+            try {
+                settleProjectionDebts(this.controlDir, debtClears);
+            }
+            catch (err) {
+                report.warnings.push(`memory projection-debt settlement failed — settled rows stay on the ledger (harmless: every consumption re-validates a row against the committed state before binding): ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}`);
+            }
         }
         try {
             clearScanFuse(this.controlDir, pendingProjections.filter((p) => appliedIds.has(p.entry.id)).map((p) => p.path));
@@ -2074,7 +2234,7 @@ export class MemoryEngine {
             if (committedOrigin !== undefined)
                 fm.origin = committedOrigin;
             else if (opts.valve)
-                fm.origin = { taint: "external", cause: "static", at: this.now() };
+                fm.origin = { taint: "external", cause: "static", at: row.capturedAt };
         }
         if (fm.name === undefined)
             fm.name = row.slug.split("/").pop();
@@ -2140,7 +2300,9 @@ export class MemoryEngine {
             report.warnings.push(`released hold ${row.relPath}: lineage settlement failed after commit — the entry stays latched until a later harvest reconciles: ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}`);
         }
         markHoldReleased(this.controlDir, { holdId: row.holdId, now: this.now });
-        const abs = join(this.memoryDir, row.relPath);
+        const landedSlug = patchReport.applied.find((a) => a.id === patch.id)?.slug ?? row.slug;
+        const landedRelPath = landedSlug === row.slug ? row.relPath : join(dirname(row.relPath), `${landedSlug.split("/").pop()}.md`);
+        const abs = join(this.memoryDir, landedRelPath);
         if (existsSync(abs)) {
             const canonical = canonicalize(abs);
             const text = readSafe(canonical);
@@ -2149,7 +2311,7 @@ export class MemoryEngine {
                 handle.baseRevs.set(canonical, computeEntryRev({ id: patch.id, frontmatter: parseEntryFile(text).frontmatter, body: parseEntryFile(text).body }));
                 handle.fileToScope.set(canonical, row.scope);
                 if (!handle.materialized.some((m) => m.path === canonical)) {
-                    handle.materialized.push({ path: canonical, relPath: row.relPath, scope: row.scope, id: patch.id, slug: row.slug, rev: handle.baseRevs.get(canonical), stub: false, readonly: false });
+                    handle.materialized.push({ path: canonical, relPath: landedRelPath, scope: row.scope, id: patch.id, slug: landedSlug, rev: handle.baseRevs.get(canonical), stub: false, readonly: false });
                 }
             }
         }
@@ -2576,20 +2738,28 @@ export class MemoryEngine {
         return text;
     }
     async committedContentFor(id) {
+        return (await this.committedContentOrFault(id)).content;
+    }
+    async committedContentOrFault(id) {
+        let fault = false;
         const zeroCopy = this.backendPinnedRoot !== undefined && canonicalize(this.backendPinnedRoot) === canonicalize(this.memoryDir);
         if (!zeroCopy) {
             try {
                 const [entry] = await this.backend.getByIds([id]);
                 if (entry !== undefined && entry.id === id)
-                    return serializeEntryFile(entry);
+                    return { content: serializeEntryFile(entry), fault: false };
             }
             catch {
+                fault = true;
             }
         }
         const viaBackend = this.backend.readCommittedShadow?.(id);
         if (viaBackend !== undefined)
-            return viaBackend;
-        return readSafe(join(this.controlDir, "shadow", `${id}.md`));
+            return { content: viaBackend, fault: false };
+        const viaShadow = readSafe(join(this.controlDir, "shadow", `${id}.md`));
+        if (viaShadow !== undefined)
+            return { content: viaShadow, fault: false };
+        return { fault };
     }
     async committedFrontmatterFor(id) {
         const zeroCopy = this.backendPinnedRoot !== undefined && canonicalize(this.backendPinnedRoot) === canonicalize(this.memoryDir);
@@ -2682,14 +2852,45 @@ export class MemoryEngine {
     }
     writeBackProjection(path, entry, needed) {
         if (!needed)
-            return;
+            return true;
         const text = serializeEntryFile(entry);
         if (readNoFollowSafe(path) === text)
-            return;
+            return true;
         try {
             writeFileNoFollow(path, text);
+            return true;
+        }
+        catch {
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+    async repairProjectionSeat(rel, canonical, entryId, debtClears) {
+        const committed = await this.committedContentFor(entryId);
+        if (committed === undefined)
+            return;
+        if (readNoFollowSafe(canonical) !== committed) {
+            try {
+                writeFileNoFollow(canonical, committed);
+            }
+            catch {
+                return;
+            }
+        }
+        debtClears.push({ relPath: rel, entryId });
+    }
+    async debtCommittedProjection(entryId) {
+        const zeroCopy = this.backendPinnedRoot !== undefined && canonicalize(this.backendPinnedRoot) === canonicalize(this.memoryDir);
+        if (zeroCopy)
+            return { state: "stale" };
+        const face = this.backend.retrievalView?.() ?? this.backend;
+        try {
+            const [entry] = await face.getByIds([entryId]);
+            if (entry !== undefined && entry.id === entryId)
+                return { state: "valid", scope: entry.scope, slug: entry.slug };
+            return { state: "stale" };
         }
         catch {
+            return { state: "unknown" };
         }
     }
     siblingScopeDirNames(dir, scope) {

package/dist/core/memory-engine/layout.d.ts

@@ -721,6 +721,49 @@ export declare function recordChallengedHistory(controlDir: string, rows: Readon
 }>, now: () => number): void;
 /** Journal-aware read (observability/tests only — no engine consumer exists, on purpose). */
 export declare function readChallengedHistory(controlDir: string): Record<string, ChallengedHistoryRow>;
+export declare const PROJECTION_DEBTS_FILE = "projection-debts.json";
+/** One standing debt: the plane file at `relPath` (memory-dir-relative, canonical base) belongs to
+ *  committed entry `entryId`, whose id write-back has not landed; `rev` is the rev the projection
+ *  was staged against (the CAS baseline a reconciling harvest hands its update). */
+export interface ProjectionDebtRow {
+    relPath: string;
+    entryId: string;
+    rev: string;
+    at: number;
+}
+/** WRITE-AHEAD staging. Upsert discipline (adversarial round 2): a stage lands only when the seat
+ *  has NO standing row, the standing row is the stager's OWN entry (a rev refresh), or the
+ *  standing row is the entry the stager itself just judged stale (`replaces` — the same-harvest
+ *  stale-then-remint lane). It never blindly replaces ANOTHER writer's protection: a lagging
+ *  process that validated an old row before pausing must not overwrite the row a faster sibling
+ *  staged at the same path (its own commit then CAS-conflicts and its tuple-keyed clear misses
+ *  the survivor — the account converges instead of emptying). Called before the backend
+ *  transaction; the caller degrades LOUDLY (report warning) on a refused stage rather than
+ *  refusing the harvest — the ledger is duplicate-admission protection, not the commit's
+ *  integrity. */
+export declare function stageProjectionDebts(controlDir: string, rows: ReadonlyArray<{
+    relPath: string;
+    entryId: string;
+    rev: string;
+    replaces?: string;
+}>, now: () => number): {
+    refused: Array<{
+        relPath: string;
+        entryId: string;
+    }>;
+};
+/** Settle (remove) rows by ROW IDENTITY — (relPath, entryId), never the bare path: the write-back
+ *  landed, the staged claim turned out stale, or a materialize re-projected the seat. Identity
+ *  matters (adversarial review F1): a stale-clear judged against an OLD row must not delete the
+ *  NEWER row a later staging upserted at the same path (same harvest: stale X cleared while fresh
+ *  Y's write-back failed — a path-keyed drop would erase Y and re-open the duplicate window; same
+ *  shape across processes for a lagging sibling's clear). Missing rows are a no-op (idempotent). */
+export declare function settleProjectionDebts(controlDir: string, rows: ReadonlyArray<{
+    relPath: string;
+    entryId: string;
+}>): void;
+/** Strict read (ENOENT ⇒ empty; corrupt ⇒ throws — the caller's fail-closed arm owns the refusal). */
+export declare function readProjectionDebts(controlDir: string): ProjectionDebtRow[];
 /**
  * REF-C6 — write EVERY byte of `data` to `fd`, looping until the OS has taken all of them.
  *