claude-mem-lite 3.2.0 → 3.3.1

package/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
   "plugins": [
     {
       "name": "claude-mem-lite",
-      "version": "3.2.0",
+      "version": "3.3.1",
       "source": "./",
       "description": "Persistent long-term memory for Claude Code via MCP — captures coding decisions, bugfixes, and context across sessions. Hybrid FTS5 + TF-IDF search with episode batching. Single SQLite DB, no external services. A lighter, lower-cost alternative to claude-mem (episode batching + a smaller model; cost savings are an internal estimate, not a measured benchmark)."
     }

package/.claude-plugin/plugin.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "claude-mem-lite",
-  "version": "3.2.0",
+  "version": "3.3.1",
   "description": "Persistent long-term memory for Claude Code via MCP — captures coding decisions, bugfixes, and context across sessions. Hybrid FTS5 + TF-IDF search with episode batching. Single SQLite DB, no external services. A lighter, lower-cost alternative to claude-mem (episode batching + a smaller model; cost savings are an internal estimate, not a measured benchmark).",
   "author": {
     "name": "sdsrss"

package/deep-search.mjs

@@ -68,15 +68,24 @@ export function hasEscalatableCorpus(db, project, min = AUTO_DEEP_MIN_CORPUS) {
 
 /**
  * Is a usable LLM available for AUTO escalation? True when a stub/real llm is
- * injected (tests), or a FAST provider key is set. The claude-CLI fallback is
- * deliberately excluded — spawning a subprocess per search is too slow for the
- * default (automatic) path; explicit deep=true may still use it.
+ * injected (tests), a FAST provider key is set, OR the claude-CLI fallback is
+ * enabled (D#40: default-on for CLI-auth users; kill switch
+ * CLAUDE_MEM_AUTO_DEEP_CLI=0). The CLI path is made safe for the long-lived
+ * server hot path by the async/fail-fast/throttled auto provider (deepSearch
+ * auto), not by being excluded as it was before D#40.
  * @param {object} [env=process.env]
  * @param {Function|undefined} [injectedLlm]
  * @returns {boolean}
  */
 export function autoDeepLlmReady(env = process.env, injectedLlm) {
-  return !!injectedLlm || !!(env.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY || env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY);
+  if (injectedLlm) return true;
+  if (env.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY || env.OPENROUTER_API_KEY) return true;
+  // No provider key → detectMode() would be 'cli'. CLI-auth users get auto
+  // escalation by default; the burst/latency cost is bounded by the auto
+  // provider (fail-fast + throttle) and a failed rewrite degrades to baseline.
+  // Kill switch honors the common disable spellings, not just the exact '0'.
+  const off = String(env.CLAUDE_MEM_AUTO_DEEP_CLI ?? '').trim().toLowerCase();
+  return !(off === '0' || off === 'false' || off === 'no' || off === 'off');
 }
 
 /**
@@ -189,12 +198,75 @@ export function assembleVariants(query, parsed, { max = MAX_VARIANTS } = {}) {
   return out;
 }
 
-// Default provider: pulled in lazily so importing deep-search.mjs (e.g. in tests
-// with an injected llm) never loads the LLM client. callModelJSON returns parsed
-// JSON or null, and never throws.
+// ─── Auto-escalation safety machinery (D#40) ─────────────────────────────────
+// The AUTO path can fire on every weak search across the long-lived MCP server,
+// so it must be fail-fast (short timeout, no retry), throttled (bound bursts),
+// and cached (skip repeat rewrites). The EXPLICIT deep=true path stays patient.
+
+export const AUTO_DEEP_TIMEOUT_MS = 5000;   // fail-fast budget for the auto path; no retry
+export const AUTO_DEEP_THROTTLE_MS = 3000;  // min gap between auto LLM rewrites, per process (bounds spawn rate)
+const REWRITE_CACHE_MAX = 256;              // LRU cap for the query→variants cache
+
+let _lastAutoLlmAt = 0;
+const _rewriteCache = new Map(); // normalized query → variants (string[]); successes only
+
+/** Reset auto-path throttle + cache. Test-only; production state is per-process. */
+export function _resetAutoDeepState() { _lastAutoLlmAt = 0; _rewriteCache.clear(); }
+
+function cacheGet(key) {
+  if (!_rewriteCache.has(key)) return null;
+  const v = _rewriteCache.get(key);
+  _rewriteCache.delete(key); _rewriteCache.set(key, v); // LRU bump
+  return v.slice();
+}
+function cacheSet(key, variants) {
+  if (_rewriteCache.has(key)) _rewriteCache.delete(key);
+  _rewriteCache.set(key, variants.slice());
+  if (_rewriteCache.size > REWRITE_CACHE_MAX) {
+    _rewriteCache.delete(_rewriteCache.keys().next().value); // evict oldest
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Wrap an llm so it fires at most once per `intervalMs` per process. A throttled
+ * call resolves null → rewriteQuery degrades to baseline (never worse). Exported
+ * for tests. Throttle state is module-global (shared across deepSearch calls).
+ *
+ * The clock advances on every ACTUAL call — success OR failure — deliberately:
+ * the throttle bounds the subprocess SPAWN RATE, and a failed spawn still costs a
+ * subprocess + its timeout, so a broken provider that always fails must be rate-
+ * limited too (gating only on success would let a persistent failure spawn on
+ * every weak search). The interval is kept short so one failure suppresses
+ * escalation only briefly, not for a long window.
+ */
+export function makeThrottled(llm, { intervalMs = AUTO_DEEP_THROTTLE_MS } = {}) {
+  return async (prompt) => {
+    const now = Date.now();
+    if (now - _lastAutoLlmAt < intervalMs) return null;
+    _lastAutoLlmAt = now;
+    return llm(prompt);
+  };
+}
+
+// Run one rewrite LLM call via the fully-async dispatcher (callModelJSONAsync):
+// every CLI invocation — cli-mode primary AND the post-provider-failure fallback
+// — is non-blocking, so an MCP request handler never blocks the event loop even
+// under a keyed-provider outage (D#40). Lazy import so tests with an injected llm
+// never load the LLM client.
+async function callRewriteLLM(prompt, { timeout }) {
+  const { callModelJSONAsync } = await import('./haiku-client.mjs');
+  return callModelJSONAsync(prompt, 'haiku', { timeout, maxTokens: 400 });
+}
+
+// Default (explicit deep=true) provider: patient timeout, no throttle/cache.
 async function defaultLLM(prompt) {
-  const { callModelJSON } = await import('./haiku-client.mjs');
-  return callModelJSON(prompt, 'haiku', { timeout: 12000, maxTokens: 400 });
+  return callRewriteLLM(prompt, { timeout: 12000 });
+}
+
+// Auto-path provider: fail-fast timeout + throttle. Built fresh per deepSearch
+// call; the throttle clock it reads is module-global (per-process).
+function makeAutoLlm() {
+  return makeThrottled((prompt) => callRewriteLLM(prompt, { timeout: AUTO_DEEP_TIMEOUT_MS }));
 }
 
 /**
@@ -205,11 +277,17 @@ async function defaultLLM(prompt) {
  * @param {object} [opts]
  * @param {(prompt: object) => Promise<object|null>} [opts.llm]
  * @param {number} [opts.retries=1]
+ * @param {boolean} [opts.cache=false]  memoize successful rewrites (auto path)
  * @returns {Promise<string[]>}
  */
-export async function rewriteQuery(query, { llm = defaultLLM, retries = 1 } = {}) {
+export async function rewriteQuery(query, { llm = defaultLLM, retries = 1, cache = false } = {}) {
   const original = String(query ?? '').trim();
   if (!original) return [];
+  const key = original.toLowerCase();
+  if (cache) {
+    const hit = cacheGet(key);
+    if (hit) return hit; // process-lifetime memo of a prior successful rewrite
+  }
   const prompt = buildRewritePrompt(original);
   for (let attempt = 0; attempt <= retries; attempt++) {
     let parsed;
@@ -219,7 +297,10 @@ export async function rewriteQuery(query, { llm = defaultLLM, retries = 1 } = {}
       parsed = null;
     }
     const variants = assembleVariants(original, parsed);
-    if (variants.length > 1) return variants; // got at least one real rewrite
+    if (variants.length > 1) { // got at least one real rewrite
+      if (cache) cacheSet(key, variants); // cache successes only — failures retry next time
+      return variants;
+    }
   }
   return [original]; // robust floor — single-query == baseline
 }
@@ -304,13 +385,24 @@ function defaultSearchFn(db, query, params) {
  * @param {(prompt:object)=>Promise<object|null>} [deps.llm]
  * @param {(db:Database, query:string, params:object)=>Array} [deps.searchFn]
  * @param {number} [deps.rrfK=RRF_K]
+ * @param {boolean} [deps.auto=false]  use the fail-fast/throttled/cached auto provider
  * @returns {Promise<{results: Array, variants: string[]}>}
  */
-export async function deepSearch(db, params, { llm = defaultLLM, searchFn = defaultSearchFn, rrfK = RRF_K } = {}) {
+export async function deepSearch(db, params, { llm, searchFn = defaultSearchFn, rrfK = RRF_K, auto = false } = {}) {
   const query = String(params?.query ?? '').trim();
   if (!query) return { results: [], variants: [] };
 
-  const variants = await rewriteQuery(query, { llm });
+  // No injected llm: EXPLICIT deep=true uses the patient defaultLLM; the AUTO
+  // path uses a fail-fast + throttled provider with no retry and a process-
+  // lifetime rewrite cache (D#40). An injected llm (tests) is used verbatim.
+  let rewriteLlm = llm;
+  let retries = 1;
+  let cache = false;
+  if (!rewriteLlm) {
+    if (auto) { rewriteLlm = makeAutoLlm(); retries = 0; cache = true; }
+    else rewriteLlm = defaultLLM;
+  }
+  const variants = await rewriteQuery(query, { llm: rewriteLlm, retries, cache });
   const lists = variants.map((v, i) => {
     // variant[0] is the ORIGINAL query: let an engine error propagate exactly as
     // it does on the single-query baseline path, so "never worse than baseline"

package/haiku-client.mjs

@@ -5,13 +5,85 @@
 // Model configurable via CLAUDE_MEM_MODEL (haiku|sonnet); OpenRouter slug
 // overridable via OPENROUTER_MODEL
 
-import { execFileSync } from 'child_process';
+import { execFileSync, spawn } from 'child_process';
+import http from 'node:http';
+import https from 'node:https';
+import tls from 'node:tls';
 import { readFileSync } from 'fs';
 import { join } from 'path';
 import { randomUUID } from 'crypto';
 import { debugLog, debugCatch, parseJsonFromLLM } from './utils.mjs';
 import { DB_DIR } from './schema.mjs';
 
+// ─── Proxy support (native fetch ignores HTTP(S)_PROXY) ──────────────────────
+//
+// Node's global fetch (undici) does NOT honour HTTP(S)_PROXY env vars, and
+// undici's ProxyAgent isn't importable without adding a dependency. In an env
+// that requires a local proxy to reach external APIs (e.g.
+// HTTPS_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:PORT), a direct fetch to openrouter.ai
+// hangs/times out. We tunnel HTTPS through the HTTP CONNECT proxy using built-ins
+// only. No proxy var (or a NO_PROXY host) → null → callers keep native fetch,
+// unchanged (zero behaviour change when no proxy is configured).
+function httpConnectProxyFor(targetUrl) {
+  const proxy = process.env.HTTPS_PROXY || process.env.https_proxy || process.env.HTTP_PROXY || process.env.http_proxy;
+  if (!proxy || !/^https?:\/\//.test(proxy)) return null; // socks5 ALL_PROXY not supported here
+  try {
+    const host = new URL(targetUrl).hostname;
+    const noProxy = (process.env.NO_PROXY || process.env.no_proxy || '').split(',').map((s) => s.trim()).filter(Boolean);
+    if (noProxy.some((n) => n === host || (n.startsWith('.') && host.endsWith(n.slice(1))))) return null;
+    return proxy;
+  } catch {
+    return null;
+  }
+}
+
+// fetch-compatible (subset) POST over an HTTP CONNECT tunnel: returns
+// { ok, status, json(), text() }. Rejects on connect/timeout/socket error so the
+// caller's try/catch degrades to the CLI exactly as a failed fetch would.
+function postViaConnectProxy(proxy, url, { headers = {}, body = '', timeout = 20000 }) {
+  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    const p = new URL(proxy);
+    const t = new URL(url);
+    const port = Number(t.port) || 443;
+    let settled = false;
+    const finish = (fn, arg) => { if (!settled) { settled = true; fn(arg); } };
+    const connReq = http.request({
+      host: p.hostname,
+      port: Number(p.port) || 80,
+      method: 'CONNECT',
+      path: `${t.hostname}:${port}`,
+      headers: { Host: `${t.hostname}:${port}` },
+    });
+    connReq.setTimeout(timeout, () => connReq.destroy(new Error('proxy CONNECT timeout')));
+    connReq.on('error', (e) => finish(reject, e));
+    connReq.on('connect', (res, socket) => {
+      if (res.statusCode !== 200) {
+        socket.destroy();
+        return finish(reject, new Error(`proxy CONNECT ${res.statusCode}`));
+      }
+      const req = https.request(
+        url,
+        { method: 'POST', headers, createConnection: () => tls.connect({ socket, servername: t.hostname }) },
+        (resp) => {
+          let data = '';
+          resp.setEncoding('utf8');
+          resp.on('data', (c) => (data += c));
+          resp.on('end', () => finish(resolve, {
+            ok: resp.statusCode >= 200 && resp.statusCode < 300,
+            status: resp.statusCode,
+            json: () => JSON.parse(data),
+            text: () => data,
+          }));
+        }
+      );
+      req.setTimeout(timeout, () => req.destroy(new Error('proxy request timeout')));
+      req.on('error', (e) => finish(reject, e));
+      req.end(body);
+    });
+    connReq.end();
+  });
+}
+
 // ─── Model Resolution ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
 // CLI name → API model ID mapping
@@ -247,6 +319,44 @@ export async function callModelJSON(prompt, model = 'haiku', opts) {
   return parseJsonFromLLM(result.text);
 }
 
+/**
+ * JSON-returning, FULLY-ASYNC model call for the long-lived server hot path
+ * (deep-search auto-escalation). Like callModelJSON, but every CLI invocation —
+ * cli-mode primary AND the post-provider-failure fallback — uses the
+ * non-blocking callModelCLIAsync, so a keyed-provider outage can never drop onto
+ * the blocking execFileSync path and freeze the MCP event loop (D#40). Never
+ * throws; returns parsed JSON or null.
+ * @param {string|{system?:string,user:string}} prompt
+ * @param {'haiku'|'sonnet'} model
+ * @param {{timeout?:number,maxTokens?:number,temperature?:number}} [opts]
+ * @returns {Promise<object|null>}
+ */
+export async function callModelJSONAsync(prompt, model = 'haiku', { timeout = 15000, maxTokens = 1000, temperature = DEFAULT_LLM_TEMPERATURE } = {}) {
+  if (!prompt) return null;
+  const resolvedModel = MODEL_MAP[model] ? model : 'haiku';
+  const mode = detectMode();
+
+  if (mode === 'cli') {
+    const res = await callModelCLIAsync(prompt, resolvedModel, { timeout });
+    return res?.text ? parseJsonFromLLM(res.text) : null;
+  }
+
+  // Keyed provider (api/openrouter): try it, then degrade to the ASYNC CLI on any
+  // failure — NOT the blocking execFileSync callModelCLI that callModelJSON uses.
+  let primary = null;
+  try {
+    primary = mode === 'api'
+      ? await callModelAPI(prompt, resolvedModel, { timeout, maxTokens, temperature })
+      : await callOpenRouterAPI(prompt, resolvedModel, { timeout, maxTokens, temperature });
+  } catch (e) {
+    debugCatch(e, `callModelJSONAsync:${mode}:${resolvedModel}`);
+  }
+  if (primary?.text) return parseJsonFromLLM(primary.text);
+
+  const res = await callModelCLIAsync(prompt, resolvedModel, { timeout });
+  return res?.text ? parseJsonFromLLM(res.text) : null;
+}
+
 async function callModelAPI(prompt, model, { timeout, maxTokens, temperature = DEFAULT_LLM_TEMPERATURE }) {
   const apiKey = process.env.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY;
   if (!apiKey) return null;
@@ -319,6 +429,72 @@ function callModelCLI(prompt, model, { timeout }) {
   }
 }
 
+/**
+ * Async, non-blocking sibling of callModelCLI for the long-lived MCP server hot
+ * path (deep-search auto-escalation, D#40). execFileSync blocks the event loop for
+ * the whole subprocess lifetime — acceptable in short-lived hook processes
+ * (callModelCLI), not inside an MCP request handler. Uses spawn + stdin so the
+ * untrusted query stays out of argv (ps-visible) and the boundary-marker model is
+ * preserved. Never rejects: resolves {text} on non-empty stdout, null on
+ * error/empty. On timeout it SIGKILLs the child with NO retry (fail-fast) and
+ * salvages a complete JSON payload from partial stdout (mirrors callModelCLI's
+ * catch-salvage; tolerant of Haiku's ```json fencing per #8605, which the upstream
+ * parseJsonFromLLM strips).
+ * @param {string|{system?:string,user:string}} prompt
+ * @param {'haiku'|'sonnet'} model
+ * @param {{timeout:number}} opts  SIGKILL after `timeout` ms; no retry.
+ * @returns {Promise<{text:string}|null>}
+ */
+export function callModelCLIAsync(prompt, model, { timeout }) {
+  return new Promise((resolve) => {
+    const modelName = MODEL_MAP[model] ? model : 'haiku';
+    let child;
+    try {
+      child = spawn(getClaudePath(), ['-p', '--model', modelName], {
+        env: { ...process.env, CLAUDE_MEM_HOOK_RUNNING: '1' },
+        cwd: '/tmp',
+        stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
+      });
+    } catch (e) {
+      debugCatch(e, `${model}-cli-async`);
+      resolve(null);
+      return;
+    }
+    let stdout = '';
+    let settled = false;
+    const done = (val) => {
+      if (settled) return;
+      settled = true;
+      clearTimeout(timer);
+      resolve(val);
+    };
+    const timer = setTimeout(() => {
+      try { child.kill('SIGKILL'); } catch { /* already gone */ }
+      const t = stdout.trim();
+      if (t.startsWith('{') && t.endsWith('}')) {
+        try { JSON.parse(t); done({ text: t }); return; } catch { /* not complete JSON */ }
+      }
+      done(null);
+    }, timeout);
+    child.stdout?.setEncoding('utf8'); // decode multi-byte UTF-8 (CJK) across chunk boundaries
+    child.stdout?.on('data', (d) => { stdout += d; });
+    child.stderr?.on('data', () => {}); // drain stderr so a chatty child can't block on a full pipe
+    child.on('error', (e) => { debugCatch(e, `${model}-cli-async`); done(null); });
+    child.on('close', () => {
+      const t = stdout.trim();
+      done(t ? { text: t } : null);
+    });
+    // EPIPE guard: the child may exit before we finish writing stdin.
+    child.stdin?.on('error', () => {});
+    try {
+      child.stdin?.write(flattenForCLI(prompt));
+      child.stdin?.end();
+    } catch (e) {
+      debugCatch(e, `${model}-cli-async:stdin`);
+    }
+  });
+}
+
 // ─── API Mode ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
 async function callHaikuAPI(prompt, { timeout, maxTokens, temperature = DEFAULT_LLM_TEMPERATURE }) {
@@ -389,17 +565,20 @@ async function callOpenRouterAPI(prompt, tier, { timeout, maxTokens, temperature
     if (system) messages.push({ role: 'system', content: system });
     messages.push({ role: 'user', content: user });
 
-    const res = await fetch('https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions', {
-      method: 'POST',
-      headers: {
-        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
-        'Authorization': `Bearer ${apiKey}`,
-        // Optional OpenRouter attribution headers (ignored by the API if absent).
-        'X-Title': 'claude-mem-lite',
-      },
-      body: JSON.stringify({ model, max_tokens: maxTokens, temperature, messages }),
-      signal: controller.signal,
-    });
+    const url = 'https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions';
+    const reqHeaders = {
+      'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+      'Authorization': `Bearer ${apiKey}`,
+      // Optional OpenRouter attribution headers (ignored by the API if absent).
+      'X-Title': 'claude-mem-lite',
+    };
+    const reqBody = JSON.stringify({ model, max_tokens: maxTokens, temperature, messages });
+    // Native fetch ignores HTTP(S)_PROXY; when a proxy is configured, tunnel the
+    // request through it — a direct fetch to openrouter.ai times out behind one.
+    const proxy = httpConnectProxyFor(url);
+    const res = proxy
+      ? await postViaConnectProxy(proxy, url, { headers: reqHeaders, body: reqBody, timeout })
+      : await fetch(url, { method: 'POST', headers: reqHeaders, body: reqBody, signal: controller.signal });
 
     if (!res.ok) {
       debugLog('WARN', `${tier}-openrouter`, `HTTP ${res.status}`);

package/mem-cli.mjs

@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ async function cmdSearch(db, args, { llm } = {}) {
       orFallbackFired: false,
     };
 
-    const runDeep = async () => {
+    const runDeep = async ({ auto = false } = {}) => {
       const ds = await deepSearch(db, {
         query,
         project: project || null,
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ async function cmdSearch(db, args, { llm } = {}) {
         epochTo: dateTo,
         limit: perSourceLimit,
         currentProject: project ? null : inferProject(),
-      }, llm ? { llm } : undefined);
+      }, llm ? { llm } : { auto });
       deepVariants = ds.variants;
       if (deepVariants.length > 1) {
         process.stderr.write(`[mem] Deep search: rewrote into ${deepVariants.length} query variants, RRF-fused\n`);
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ async function cmdSearch(db, args, { llm } = {}) {
       if (obsCtx.orFallbackFired) orFallbackFired = true;
       if (deepMode === 'auto' && autoDeepLlmReady(process.env, llm) && shouldEscalateToDeep(obsResults, obsCtx) && hasEscalatableCorpus(db, project || null)) {
         process.stderr.write(`[mem] auto-escalated to deep search (weak results: ${obsResults.length} hits)\n`);
-        obsResults = await runDeep();
+        obsResults = await runDeep({ auto: true });
         isDeep = true;
       }
     }

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "claude-mem-lite",
-  "version": "3.2.0",
+  "version": "3.3.1",
   "description": "Persistent long-term memory for Claude Code via MCP — captures coding decisions, bugfixes, and context across sessions. Hybrid FTS5 + TF-IDF search with episode batching. Single SQLite DB, no external services. A lighter, lower-cost alternative to claude-mem (episode batching + a smaller model; cost savings are an internal estimate, not a measured benchmark).",
   "type": "module",
   "packageManager": "npm@10.9.2",

package/server.mjs

@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ async function runSearchPipeline(db, args, { llm } = {}) {
     let escalatedObsCount = 0;
 
     // Helper: run deepSearch and load results into the shared `results` array.
-    const runDeepInto = async () => {
+    const runDeepInto = async ({ auto = false } = {}) => {
       const { results: deepRows, variants } = await deepSearch(db, {
         query: args.query,
         project: args.project || null,
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ async function runSearchPipeline(db, args, { llm } = {}) {
         epochFrom, epochTo,
         limit: perSourceLimit,
         currentProject,
-      }, llm ? { llm } : undefined);
+      }, llm ? { llm } : { auto });
       // Safe to reset: sessions/prompts are pushed AFTER the obs block, so nothing is lost here.
       results.length = 0;
       results.push(...deepRows);
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ async function runSearchPipeline(db, args, { llm } = {}) {
         // filter makes the invariant explicit and robust to future reordering.
         const obsCountBeforeEscalation = results.length;
         if (deepMode === 'auto' && autoDeepLlmReady(process.env, llm) && shouldEscalateToDeep(results.filter(r => r.source === 'obs'), ctx) && hasEscalatableCorpus(db, args.project || null)) {
-          await runDeepInto();
+          await runDeepInto({ auto: true });
           isDeep = true;
           escalated = true;
           escalatedObsCount = obsCountBeforeEscalation;