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fix(memory): a fact about someone else never replaces the user's own - #471
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"Maya Rao's sister Priya lives in Mumbai." replaced "Maya Rao moved from Pune to Bengaluru.": the subject reader stopped at "Maya", so the sister's home counted as a correction of Maya's. It now reads a full name up to the word that owns something, "my friend Arjun" with a full user name, "her colleague" (anyone's colleague, never a person herself), appositives and more relation words, and the Hindi "X Y की बहन" and "उसकी बहन". The corrections and the new-home rule decided in code now need both facts to clearly name the same person, so the candidate filter and the model's update guard keep facts about other people apart. A correction no longer counts the user's surname or an old fact's "from Pune" as a lost value. Closes #463
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Check name Status Explanation Linked Issues check Issue #463requires same-person checks for residence updates, candidate filtering for relative phrasing, and regression tests. The reported changes addsame_person, apply it to correction and reside…Out of Scope Changes check The reported changes remain within Issue #463. They modify subject parsing, memory correction and residence checks, candidate filtering, related regression tests, API documentation, and the changelog.…Description Check Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled. Title check The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preventing facts about other people from replacing the user's own memories. Full details: Linked Issues check
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#463requires same-person checks for residence updates, candidate filtering for relative phrasing, and regression tests. The reported changes addsame_person, apply it to correction and residence paths, improve subject parsing for possessive, friend, colleague, appositive, namesake, and Hindi forms, and add model-UPDATE protection. The reported tests cover cross-person ADD behavior and valid user corrections. The reported REST run shows that another person's fact does not replace the user's fact and that a true correction still updates it.
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The user’s home can change its place,
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Hindi clues join the memory trail,
Clear corrections pass; cross-person ones fail.
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- Around line 394-400: Update same_subject to support strict owner matching and
have same_person use that mode, so pronoun-owned relations such as “Her sister”
cannot match a concrete owner while existing loose matching remains available to
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- Around line 379-402: Update subject alias construction in the function that
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…updated in code "Her sister" names no owner, so the corrections and the new-home rule decided without the model no longer count it as anyone's sister; it still counts by a name it shares. "Maya Singh" keeps her full name when the user is "Maya Rao", so a namesake's move never replaces the user's home.
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🟠 Major · Require a same-person check for model-proposed replacement content. · facts.py:385-411
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winRequire a same-person check for model-proposed replacement content.
The changed alias match at
sentient/memory/facts.py:398intentionally keeps “Her sister” and “Maya's sister” available for model disambiguation. However, the UPDATE branch validates both values withsame_thing, which delegates subject identity to broadsame_subjectmatching. A model response that returnsUPDATEwith “Her sister lives in Delhi.” can therefore overwrite “Maya's sister lives in Pune.”.Suggested fix
if matched and not ( - same_thing(fact, matched, user) and same_thing(content, matched, user) + same_person(content, matched, user) + and same_thing(fact, matched, user) + and same_thing(content, matched, user) and not says_something_else(fact, matched, user) ):This preserves model disambiguation when the model returns replacement content that explicitly identifies the same person.
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A model UPDATE that would store "Her sister lives in Delhi." over "Maya's
sister lives in Pune." is added instead. The model can still settle it by
naming her in what it stores ("Maya's sister lives in Delhi.").
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@coderabbitai On the outside-diff Major (a model-proposed replacement needs the same person): fixed in b067893, in a narrower form than suggested. The UPDATE guard now adds the fact instead when the words the model would store are only about "her sister" / "his colleague" / "उसकी बहन" and don't clearly name the same person as the matched fact ( |
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- Line 1620: Update the UPDATE validation guard using only_relation_of_someone
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…on to update The model's update guard now asks for the same person whenever the words it would store hold a relation of an unnamed owner, even when they also name the relative.
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🟠 Major · Reject distinct named siblings as the same person. · facts.py:403-413
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winReject distinct named siblings as the same person.
fact_subjectsgives both facts the shared aliasmaya's sister.same_persontherefore returns true even though one fact names Anika and the other names Priya.correction_ofcan then return the incoming fact, and_residence_peercan select the stored fact because both facts describe a residence and contain new details. The update path can overwrite Anika's stored residence with Priya's.Suggested fix
sa = {s for s in subject_aliases(a, user_name) if not s.startswith(unknown_owner)} sb = {s for s in subject_aliases(b, user_name) if not s.startswith(unknown_owner)} + named_a = {s for s in sa if "'s " not in s} + named_b = {s for s in sb if "'s " not in s} + if named_a and named_b and not any(names_match(x, y) for x in named_a for y in named_b): + return False return bool(sa) and bool(sb) and _aliases_match(sa, sb, user_name)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Merges main (existence-master#471 rewrote fact_subjects since this branch was opened, and added sentient/memory/scripts.py's devanagari_subjects, existence-master#339/existence-master#351/existence-master#463) and answers every point of @itsskofficial's review: 1. Words starting with a digit or symbol: _NAME_WORD_RE still tokenizes a bare year ("2021") so it keeps its place for the preposition check below, but isupper() is false for a digit either way, so it's never read as a name - and is now explicitly skipped rather than aborting the scan, so "In 2021 Kabir moved to Delhi." still finds Kabir. 2. A place after a preposition: a capitalized word right after "in", "to", "from", "at", "after"... is never read as the subject, so "the trip to Goa, Kabir ..." finds Kabir, not Goa. 3. Scripts without capitals: fact_subjects no longer guesses at non-English text (reverted to the main behavior - empty, same as "She moved to Delhi."). profile_fact now calls subject_aliases instead, which already dispatches a Devanagari fact to scripts.devanagari_subjects - the existing, tested, narrow (first word, Hindi-specific skip list) reader - rather than reinventing a cruder version of it. 4. The default embedding model: embedding_attribute_families no longer checks a fixed similarity floor (a Hindi fact scored 0.44-0.49 against every family alike against nomic-embed-text, well under the old 0.78). It compares the best-scoring family against the runner-up instead (memory.family_margin, default 0.02), which needs no calibration to a given model's noise floor. 5. Speed: profile_fact_async takes an optional ``vector`` - the fact's own embedding, already stored - and reuses it instead of embedding the text again when its dimension matches the prototypes'. contradiction_pairs passes each fact's stored vector through. 6. Embedding failures: profile_fact_async now catches embedding errors and falls back to the keyword-only profile instead of failing the whole contradiction step. 7. Docs: updated the Dreams section and changes/95.fixed.md for the above (already added by the maintainer's chore commit on this branch; adjusted the family-matching sentence to describe the margin, not a threshold). New tests cover digit-leading and preposition-following words with two different people each (so a shared placeholder subject would show up as a false pair), the embedding margin's wiring, vector reuse, and the embedding-failure fallback. Full suite: 338/338 in tests/memory, ruff clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
What and why
Closes #463.
Saving "Maya Rao's sister Priya lives in Mumbai." replaced the user's own "Maya Rao moved from Pune to Bengaluru." The cause was
fact_subjects, which reads who a fact is about. It stopped at the first name word, so "Maya Rao's sister Priya" came out as{"maya"}. The sister's home then counted as a correction of Maya's (corrects fact 1, updated without asking the model). The same misreading also let the model's UPDATE through the candidate filter and the update guard, because both usesame_subject.The changes, all in
sentient/memory/facts.pyandscripts.py:fact_subjects{"maya's sister"}.{"someone's colleague", "ravi"}: a colleague of anyone, but never a person herself.{"priya", "maya's sister"}.Hindi.
devanagari_subjectshandles a surname before की ("माया राव की बहन" is{"माया's sister"}) and "उसकी बहन" ("her sister", a relation of anyone).same_subject.someone's <relation>subject matches the same relation for any owner, and never a plain person.New
same_person. Both facts clearly name a subject, and it is the same one. The two updates decided in code without the model now require it:correction_of), which covers home, job, relationship and diet;_residence_peer).A "her sister" alias doesn't count here, and a namesake of the user ("Maya Singh" when the user is "Maya Rao") keeps her full name. The guard on a model UPDATE adds the fact instead when the words it would store hold "her sister" (even "her sister Priya") and are not clearly about the same person as the fact it would replace.
A fact with no clear subject, such as "She moved to Delhi", is left to the model, which only sees facts about the same subject.
correction_of.docs/API.md(the memory-save section) now says this. There is a changelog entry inchanges/463.fixed.md.How I tested it
tests/memory/test_cross_person.pywith 48 tests:FactMemory.remember, with an embedder that scores every fact as identical and a model that answers UPDATE on Maya's home anyway:ruff check sentient tests packagingis clean.Real test
Each run used an engine from this branch on its own fresh
SENTIENT_HOME, with a random token, on port 8787, anduser_name"Maya Rao". Every run held the Ollama lock, with a 13-minute hard deadline and a watchdog that stops the engine by PID. Embeddings came fromollama/nomic-embed-text.1. The bug on main (
fa5720f, REST,ollama_chat/qwen3:8b). Same result as the issue:2. This branch, REST,
ollama_chat/qwen3:8bdeciding. Maya's own facts were #1 "Maya Rao moved from Pune to Bengaluru.", #2 "Maya works at Infosys." and #3 "Maya is vegetarian."3. This branch, chat over
WS /wsonclaude-code/sonnet(fast roleclaude-code/haiku). Sonnet wrote exactly the fact from the issue:Claude Code refuses the add/update/skip decision because that call runs in the background, so the log shows
CUD decision failed, defaulting to ADD. That is the existing behaviour, and the subject checks above don't depend on the model.4. This branch, chat over
WS /wsonollama_chat/qwen3:8b(primary and fast):5. After the review rounds, REST,
ollama_chat/qwen3:8b. Maya's facts were the same, plus #4 "Maya's sister lives in Pune."After 560e9c3, the code no longer counts "her sister" as anyone's sister, and it treats a namesake of the user as someone else. qwen3:8b itself still chose UPDATE:
After the third commit, the guard on the model's UPDATE needs the stored words to say whose relative it is:
All engines were stopped, the lock was released, and the test homes were deleted.
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