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feat(memory): hold memories from untrusted sources for review - #232
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Memories that come from outside content (a chat or task run marked untrusted), work nobody asked for, imports (Hermes, documents) or a user-model refresh that cites only outside material are saved as pending. Pending facts get no vector and every read filters on status = 'active', so they never reach a prompt, recall, proactivity, the user model or dreaming. A held fact only adds, never updates or deletes another one. Only the user moves one out of pending: a Review tab on the Memory page (approve, edit and approve, discard, approve all from one source) with a sidebar badge. Unreviewed ones are let go after memory.review_expire_days (default 30) with a notification. ADR 0021 records the decision and narrows ADR 0009. Closes #137
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Issue #137 requires untrusted-source facts to stay pending and out of prompts until user approval. The PR implements that behavior for the described sources, including review routes, isolation, expiry… |
Add an instruction-shaped fact filter that rejects the required instruction patterns before persistence. Add automated tests for each required pattern and source. Add an undoable “Memory saved” toast for every applicable save path, with aut… |
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Check name Status Explanation Description Check Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled. Title check The title clearly and concisely describes the pull request's primary change: holding memories from untrusted sources for user review. Out of Scope Changes check The changed memory isolation, review workflow, expiry, imports, user-model handling, desktop UI, tests, and documentation support Issue #137. No unrelated change is demonstrated.
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#137requires untrusted-source facts to stay pending and out of prompts until user approval. The PR implements that behavior for the described sources, including review routes, isolation, expiry, desktop review actions, and tests. Issue#137also requires instruction-shaped facts to never auto-save and requires an undoable save toast for every save. The changedextract_and_storepath sends extracted facts toremember, and_holdsaves them as pending without an instruction filter.ReviewTabshows approval and discard toasts, but it does not provide an Undo action for every save. The PR description explicitly excludes both requirements, but the linked issue remains open and directly linked.Resolution
Add an instruction-shaped fact filter that rejects the required instruction patterns before persistence. Add automated tests for each required pattern and source. Add an undoable “Memory saved” toast for every applicable save path, with automated coverage.
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- Around line 1179-1182: Update _publish_memory to include each result’s status
in the memory.updated event, preserving pending status so held facts appear as
awaiting review. In _flush_memory, remove the extra _publish_memory call because
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- Around line 147-153: Update approve_from() to process all pending items in
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…y held memory from a source The after-turn extraction re-published memory.updated without status, so a held fact flashed as "Just learned"; the compression flush was also published twice. approve-all only looked at the first inbox page, and the inbox count now covers every held memory.
…EMORY.md and other chats Conversation summaries now carry their chat's untrusted mark (older rows take it from the chat at startup). Search for other chats, proactive look-ups and profile upkeep leave them out, so they never reach MEMORY.md or another chat's prompt; the Conversations tab still lists them with a note. The raw-history tools still find such messages but mark the run that pulls them in as untrusted.
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- Around line 125-126: Update the CLEAN predicate used by episodic search and
evolution summary queries to retain summaries with NULL or empty trust markers
while excluding any summary whose current session has a non-empty untrusted
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so callers do not need a session join.
- Around line 173-199: Update the vector search around self.vec.knn to exclude
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…king them A summary written while its chat was still unclassified now counts as marked once the chat is, and the clean-summary search filters before the vector limit so marked summaries can't crowd out clean ones.
…w-inbox # Conflicts: # CHANGELOG.md # sentient/memory/usermodel.py
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🟠 Major · Do not persist a portrait when outside material is offered. · usermodel.py:726-729
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winDo not persist a portrait when outside material is offered.
_gathermarks untrusted messages and summaries asoutside, but refresh still sends them to the model._summary_from(raw)accepts the model'ssummaryorportrait, and_refreshstores the result without checkingoutside. A refresh can therefore persist an outside-influenced portrait.get_statereturns it, andaskincludes it in a later model prompt. This violates ADR 0021's requirement that only clean or approved material reaches prompts.Suggested fix
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What
Memory poisoning (OWASP ASI06, MINJA, ZombieAgent): an email or web page that gets one line into memory steers every later chat. This adds a pending state for facts and user-model insights, and a Review inbox where only the user can let them in.
A memory is held for review when it comes from:
memory_remembercalls in that run (the card shows the last outside tool result as the snippet)memory_rememberfrom: "Hermes", as the Hermes PR promised) and documents (from: "resume.pdf")sessions.untrusted); support, contradict and retire that cite only outside material are ignoredMemories from the user's own words in a clean chat, manual adds, onboarding and answers to user-model questions stay active as before.
How it stays out of use, deterministically:
list_facts, FTS, topics, graph,active_facts,expiring_soon,promote_recalled, user-model evidence, profile upkeep) filters onstatus = 'active'STATUSES, so prompts,get_state, refreshes andasknever see themInbox:
GET /api/memories/review,POST /api/memories/review/{kind}/{id}/approve({content?}= edit then approve),DELETE /api/memories/review/{kind}/{id},POST /api/memories/review/approve-all{from}. Unreviewed items are deleted aftermemory.review_expire_days(default 30, checked with the hourly purge) with a plain "Memory review" notification.Desktop: a Review tab on the Memory page ("Sentient wants to remember these. They came from an email, a web page, ...") grouped by source, with the snippet, Open chat, Approve / Edit / Discard and "Approve all from"; a count badge on the Memory item in the sidebar; import dialog and Hermes summary copy updated; the live flash says "Waiting for your review".
Docs:
docs/API.md(Memory and Insight shapes, new section "Memories waiting for review", event reasons, refreshheld, importpending, Hermes),docs/PRIVACY.md,CHANGELOG.md,docs/MOVING_FROM_HERMES.md,docs/ARCHITECTURE.md, new ADR 0021 (narrows ADR 0009, which now points to it).Not in this PR (from the issue body, outside the owner's scope for this change): a never-auto-save filter for instruction-shaped memories ("from now on ...") and an undo toast on every save.
How to test
tests/memory/test_review.py(FakeProvider only) covers: a fact extracted after reading an email lands pending and is not in the next prompt,memory_recall,memory_search_by_source, the list, the graph or dreaming's input; approve makes it active and used; discard deletes; edit then approve keeps the user's words; clean-chat facts stay active; the model callingmemory_rememberafter reading mail creates a pending one with the email as snippet; proactive and heartbeat writes go pending; a held fact never changes a remembered one; approve all from one source; expiry with the note; insights drawn only from an untrusted chat wait and a retire citing only it is ignored; the REST routes. The Hermes test now checks imports wait for review and that removing Hermes memories also clears pending ones.By hand: in a chat, read an email (or fetch a web page), then tell Sentient a fact; open Memory > Review and see it with the snippet; approve it and ask about it in a new chat.
Closes #137
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