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Summary

  • Implement mem put <path> --watch — a foreground poll-based directory watcher that automatically ingests new files into mem with per-cycle import reports
  • One-way only: no write-back, no deletion propagation, no bidirectional sync (Phase 2 sync-drive scope)
  • Stability gate requires new files to be unchanged across two consecutive scans before upload, preventing half-written file ingestion
  • Per-cycle report with closed vocabulary (scanned/ingested/deduped/unchanged/local_gone/failed), persisted as capped JSONL (200 lines)
  • Single-instance advisory lock per watched root; graceful SIGINT/SIGTERM handling (exit 0); give-up after 10 consecutive all-fail cycles

Closes #110

Test plan

  • TestWatchNonExistentRoot — exit 2 for missing root
  • TestWatchUploadsNewFiles — new files uploaded after stability gate
  • TestWatchStabilityRequiresTwoScans — file must survive two consecutive scans
  • TestWatchChangedHashReportsOnly — modified file → changed, no re-upload
  • TestWatchLocalGoneNoDelete — deleted file → local_gone, zero DELETE calls
  • TestWatchDedupedCarriesServerPath — dedup response carries server-returned id/path
  • TestWatchReportPersistence — JSONL report file created and populated
  • TestWatchSingleInstanceLock — second watcher fails fast (exit 1)
  • TestWatchFormatJSON--format json produces structured output
  • TestWatchGiveUpAfterTenFailCycles — 10 consecutive all-fail cycles → exit with mapped code
  • Unit tests for cursor round-trip, SHA-256, error classification, fail counter, report capping
  • Full existing test suite passes with no regressions
  • go vet clean

…folk#110)

Implement a foreground poll-based directory watcher that automatically
ingests new files into mem with per-cycle import reports.

Key behaviors:
- Poll loop with configurable --interval (default 30s)
- Stability gate: new files must be unchanged across two consecutive
  scans before upload (prevents half-written file ingestion)
- Change detection: (size, mtime) cost gate, sha256 authority
- Changed files are reported but NOT re-ingested (file plane has no
  version model; re-ingest is Phase 2 sync-drive scope)
- Local deletions produce local_gone reports with zero delete calls
  (no write-back, no deletion propagation)
- Per-cycle report with closed vocabulary: scanned/ingested/deduped/
  unchanged/local_gone/failed, persisted as capped JSONL
- Single-instance advisory lock per watched root (flock LOCK_NB)
- Graceful SIGINT/SIGTERM handling (exit 0 between cycles)
- Give-up after 10 consecutive all-fail cycles with mapped exit codes
- Deduped items carry server-returned id/path (not assumed --to folder)

Closes bytefolk#110
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Review: two blockers

Reviewed a7aa85b on a local worktree. Both findings are reproduced by running
the code, not inferred from reading it. Evidence level noted per item.


Blocker 1 — TestWatchSingleInstanceLock has a deterministic data race, and CI runs -race

go test -race -p 1 ./cmd/mem/ fails on this branch every time. That is exactly
the command CI runs (.github/workflows/ci.yml:132 runs
go test -race -p 1 -coverpkg=./... -covermode=atomic … ./...).

Reproduce:

cd server && go test -race -p 1 -count=1 -run TestWatchSingleInstanceLock ./cmd/mem/

Observed 5/5 runs failing with 2 WARNING: DATA RACE reports each.
origin/main (10d4bf7) passes the same package clean under the same command,
so this is introduced here rather than pre-existing breakage.

The race is on package-level flag storage. watch_test.go:379 calls
newRootCmd() for the second watcher while watcher #1's goroutine is still
executing resolveConfig() (config.go:75, reached from cmds_file.go:42 via
watch_test.go:375). The second newRootCmd() re-registers flags and writes
the shared pflag string targets (pflag.newStringValue) that #1 is reading:

Write at 0x… by goroutine 9:
  pflag.newStringValue()  string.go:7
  mem.newRootCmd()        main.go:48
  mem.TestWatchSingleInstanceLock()  watch_test.go:379
Previous read at 0x… by goroutine 11:
  mem.resolveConfig()     config.go:75
  mem.newPutCmd.func1()   cmds_file.go:42
  mem.TestWatchSingleInstanceLock.func1()  watch_test.go:375

The underlying cause is that CLI config lives in package-level globals, so two
root commands cannot be built and executed concurrently. This test is the first
to try. A fix that keeps the intent: assert exclusivity at the
acquireWatchLock seam (take the lock, then call it again and expect an error)
instead of driving two full Execute() passes, or otherwise ensure the first
watcher has returned from resolveConfig() before the second command is
constructed.

Worth flagging because of the validation ledger: the "Full existing test suite
passes with no regressions" box in the PR description does not hold under the
CI command. Relatedly, CI has not actually gated this branch yet — the check
suite on a7aa85b reports conclusion: action_required, so there is no green
or red signal from Actions at all. Approving the run will surface this failure.


Blocker 2 — changed files are never ingested, and the change is consumed

Issue #110 REQ-001 asks the watch to "ingest new/changed files" and AC-001
asserts "new/changed files under a watched directory are ingested". This
implementation reports a change and then marks it as seen without uploading:

watch.go:185-190 appends a changed item, then advances cur.SHA256,
cur.Size and cur.ModTime and saves the cursor. On the next cycle
watch.go:159 matches size+mtime against that updated cursor and reports
unchanged — so the modification is never uploaded and never will be. There is
no retry, no queue, and no way to recover it other than deleting the cursor.

TestWatchChangedHashReportsOnly asserts 0 additional uploads, so this is
intentional rather than an oversight — which is exactly why it needs a ruling
before merge:

  • SPEC.md:604 reads mem put <path> --watch # 守护,新文件自动入, which
    mentions only new files. So the spec text and the issue's REQ-001/AC-001
    wording disagree with each other, and the PR implements the narrower of the
    two.
  • AC-004 permits divergence from SPEC only if "a tech-raised SPEC-revision
    decision is recorded". I could not find one: feat(sync): put --watch one-way directory watch (minimal tier, carved from Phase 2 sync drive) #110 carries only
    DEC-MEM-110-001 (the product ruling promoting the minimal tier), and this
    PR has no review threads or comments recording an changed-is-report-only
    decision.

Two acceptable paths, but they have to be chosen explicitly:

  1. Ingest on change — after the hash differs, run the stability gate on the new
    version and upload it, matching REQ-001/AC-001 as written; or
  2. Keep report-only, and record the tech decision (issue comment plus
    SPEC/issue text update) so AC-001's acceptance criteria stop claiming
    changed-file ingestion.

A separate defect rides along with this branch either way: it has no
stability gate.
watch.go:175-190 hashes and records the cursor in a single
cycle, unlike the new-file path which requires two unchanged sightings. If a
file is mid-rewrite when scanned, its partial hash is persisted as canonical
and the completed write is then classified unchanged. If changed stays
report-only this becomes a silent content-loss path, since the hash recorded
for the "change" corresponds to bytes that were never uploaded.


Notes

The one-way boundary work in this PR is solid and well evidenced —
TestWatchLocalGoneNoDelete asserting zero DELETE calls is the right check
for REQ-003, and the state writes (temp file + Chmod 0600 + Sync + rename)
are crash-safe. No new module dependencies; gofmt and go vet are clean.

There are additional non-blocking findings (error classification treating
HTTP 500 as terminal, local_gone never pruning its cursor, unchanged
suppressing the give-up counter, unvalidated --interval, ledger write
amplification). Happy to file them as a follow-up comment or as separate
issues if that's more useful than folding them in here.

Not approving or merging — this repo's policy asks for an independent human
reviewer, so leaving the verdict to whoever owns the review.

@waterbro-8

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Closing under the fork-workflow decision recorded on 2026-09-03: repository
automation is not being enabled for fork pull requests, so a fork head cannot
carry a CI result, and every acceptance gate in this repository is written
against checks that ran. Nothing in this comment is a judgment that the work is
wrong; where it is right, it is re-landed on an organization branch instead.

#110.

This close is about order, not quality. It is the only one of the nine that adds
a long-lived process, and that process writes through the ingest path #139 and
#111 describe as unsafe under concurrent writers. This branch is not missing
locking — it brings five watch_lock*.go files of its own. The point is that a
watcher only becomes safe to run once the checkpoint writers it triggers are
serialized, and right now #139 is still in review as #140 while #111 has no
organization-branch implementation once #147 closes.

So the sequence #110 needs is #139 merged, #111 settled, and then a watcher
re-landed on an organization branch with #139's serialization already in it.

The commits are not lost. A closed fork PR keeps its head ref:

git fetch https://github.com/bytefolk/mem.git refs/pull/150/head:pr-150

Every file in this branch was therefore available to the re-doing work, whether
or not it was used.

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