feat(memory): add atomic observation replacements

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🔗 Linked Issue

Closes #602

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🏷️ PR Type

• type:bug — Bug fix
• type:feature — New feature
• type:question — Question requiring tracked work
• type:docs — Documentation only
• type:refactor — Code refactoring (no behavior change)
• type:chore — Maintenance, dependencies, tooling
• type:breaking-change — Breaking change

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📝 Summary

• Add atomic literal find/replace updates for existing observations.
• Bound replacement growth before allocation and preserve synthetic truncation markers across configuration changes.
• Expose the same validated contract through MCP and HTTP while reusing existing hash, revision, ownership, and sync behavior.

📂 Changes

File	Change
internal/store/*	Add the transactional replacement contract, validation, marker preservation, and focused regression coverage
internal/mcp/*	Expose and forward find/replace, update transport tests and the schema fixture
internal/server/*	Support PATCH replacement requests and map client validation failures to HTTP 400
internal/sync/sync_test.go	Prove replacement content propagates through the existing full-observation sync path
DOCS.md	Document replacement semantics, no-ops, limits, and truncation behavior

🧪 Test Plan

• Focused unit tests pass: go test ./internal/store -run TestUpdateObservationFindReplace -count=1
• Internal package tests pass: go test ./internal/store ./internal/sync ./internal/mcp ./internal/server
• E2E tests pass locally: go test -tags e2e ./internal/server/...
• Plugin tests pass locally: npm test in plugin/pi (158 passed)
• Full local go test ./... passes: blocked by pre-existing Windows plugin tests that require Git Bash and fail identically on a base-equivalent worktree
• Lint passes locally: make is unavailable in this environment; CI must provide the authoritative result

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✅ Contributor Checklist

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💬 Notes for Reviewers

Size exception

This PR contains 479 authored changed lines and carries size:exception. The store contract, shared parameter type, MCP/HTTP adapters, sync proof, schema fixture, and documentation form one behavior boundary. Splitting them would either expose a partially supported shared payload or require temporary scaffolding solely for the split. Tests remain focused by layer rather than duplicating every store edge case at each transport.

Replacement of the earlier implementation

This is a fresh implementation from current main, based on the refined design recorded on issue #602. It is intended to supersede #774 rather than merge alongside it.

Local environment

The candidate-focused Go packages, E2E suite, and Pi plugin suite pass. The full local Go suite reaches unrelated plugin tests that require C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\bash.exe and reproduces the same failures on a base-equivalent worktree. make lint could not start because make is unavailable locally, so CI is the source of truth for both checks.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added literal, case-sensitive find-and-replace editing for observation content through the API and MCP tool.
  • Replacements update all matching occurrences and support UTF-8 content.
  • Changes continue to preserve metadata handling, privacy protections, revisions, and cloud synchronization.

• Bug Fixes

  • Added validation for incomplete or conflicting inputs, empty matches, and content-size limits.
  • Invalid requests now return clear validation errors, while requests for missing observations return not-found errors.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The PR adds paired literal find-and-replace updates for observation content. The behavior is available through PATCH /observations/{id} and mem_update, with validation, size limits, no-op handling, mutation tracking, and cloud export coverage.

Changes

Observation find-and-replace

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Store validation and replacement internal/store/store.go, internal/store/store_test.go	UpdateObservation accepts paired Find and Replace values. It performs bounded, case-sensitive global replacement, handles truncation markers, redacts private tags, preserves no-ops, and returns validation errors for invalid or oversized inputs.
HTTP and MCP update handling internal/server/server.go, internal/server/server_test.go, internal/mcp/mcp.go, internal/mcp/mcp_test.go, internal/mcp/testdata/tool-contract-v1.json, DOCS.md	The HTTP endpoint and MCP tool expose find-and-replace fields, reject invalid combinations, forward valid requests to the store, and document the new behavior.
Mutation export verification internal/sync/sync_test.go	The sync test verifies that replaced observation content is exported through the mutation journal.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant UpdateEndpoint
  participant UpdateObservation
  participant MutationJournal
  participant CloudExport
  Client->>UpdateEndpoint: submit find and replace
  UpdateEndpoint->>UpdateObservation: pass update parameters
  UpdateObservation->>MutationJournal: record successful content change
  CloudExport->>MutationJournal: read mutation
  MutationJournal-->>CloudExport: return replaced observation content

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Suggested reviewers: gentleman-programming, alan-thegentleman

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 4ab17

The bounded find-and-replace update is ready to merge subject to normal checks.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 23.08% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 13 functions across 6 files. (1 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: atomic find-and-replace updates for observations.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #602 requires paired literal global replacement, content exclusivity, empty or unmatched find no-ops, and preservation of truncation, hash, revision, and synchronization behavior. The store impl…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain within issue #602. Store changes implement replacement. MCP and HTTP PATCH changes expose the same operation through the existing transports. Tests and documentation cover the featu…

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Docstring coverage is 23.08% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 13 functions across 6 files. (1 skipped: 1 too large.)

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Inline comments:
In `@internal/store/store.go`:
- Around line 4157-4168: Update the find/replace logic in the visible
observation-content helper so it checks whether find is absent before rejecting
oversized content, including marked observations. Track oversize separately for
the marker-stripped prefix and unmarked content, return the unchanged content as
a no-op when find is absent, and only return
ErrObservationFindReplaceLegacyContentLarge when a matching replacement is
required. Add a store test covering a lowered maximum, a marked observation, and
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