Follow-up to the soft-archive durability fix. Reusing the rewind/undo active=0
flag for compaction-archived turns inherited the wrong search semantics: undo
rows are intentionally HIDDEN from session_search (the user took them back), but
compaction-archived turns must stay DISCOVERABLE — that is the whole point of
Teknium's "searchable / recoverable" requirement. As built, search_messages
defaulted to WHERE active=1, so after in-place compaction the pre-compaction
turns were in the FTS index but filtered out of the default search. (The earlier
"searchable" claim only held for a raw FTS query / include_inactive=True, not
the actual session_search tool.)
Empirically confirmed the gap: search 'HMAC' returned 2 hits before compaction,
1 after (only the summary's mention) — the originals were hidden.
Fix — a `compacted` flag distinct from `active`, giving a 3-way state:
- active=1, compacted=0 → live context (normal)
- active=0, compacted=1 → compaction-archived: OUT of live context, IN search
- active=0, compacted=0 → rewind/undo: OUT of live context, OUT of search
Changes:
- messages.compacted INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0 added to SCHEMA_SQL. Declarative
_reconcile_columns adds it on existing DBs — no version bump (plain column add).
- archive_and_compact: UPDATE … SET active=0, compacted=1 (was active=0 only).
- search_messages: default WHERE active=1 → (active=1 OR compacted=1), on BOTH
the main FTS5 path and the trigram CJK path. include_inactive=True still
returns everything. The short-CJK LIKE fallback already returns all rows
(no active filter) — unchanged.
- Docstrings on archive_and_compact + search_messages document the 3-way state.
Verified: after compaction, session_search default finds the archived originals
(ids 1 & 4); rewind/undo rows stay hidden by default (recoverable via
include_inactive); live context still excludes both. 322 in-place + hermes_state
tests and 46 session_search tests green; ruff clean. Mutation check: reverting
the search WHERE to active-only fails the new searchable test.
(Surfaced by the question "is search semantic or only FTS?" — answer: session
search is FTS5 keyword/BM25 only, no embeddings over the transcript; semantic
retrieval lives in the optional memory-provider layer. Tracing that confirmed
the active-only filter gap above.)
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