chore(memory): Basic Memory trial begins — sync normalization baseline (283 files)

Basic Memory v0.21.6 first sync over the live memory dir (steward-authorized
live-dir trial, Option A 2026-06-06): adds permalink: to frontmatter, refolds
long YAML description lines, strips final newlines. Bodies untouched —
verified via full diff classification. From this commit forward, any diff in
claude/memory shows only what Basic Memory or the session writes.

Trial design: MemPalace untouched as incumbent; git status check on this dir
at every wrap; end-of-day evaluation (recall quality, sync robustness,
rebuild-from-files, malformed-file behavior).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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David F Glidden
2026-06-06 09:52:17 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 4.8
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name: BMF module health does not measure recall correctness
description: Modules reporting status=ready / system_status=healthy in BMF measures pipeline liveness only — not whether recall produces correct results. Verify recall directly. Never trust the health endpoint as a proxy for "the system works."
description: Modules reporting status=ready / system_status=healthy in BMF measures
pipeline liveness only — not whether recall produces correct results. Verify recall
directly. Never trust the health endpoint as a proxy for "the system works."
type: feedback
originSessionId: a3ddbf34-da48-4129-acba-658f2f869783
permalink: claude-memory/feedback-bmf-health-vs-recall
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# Module health is decoupled from recall correctness
When evaluating BMF state — for any session, any audit, any "is it working" question — **never use module health (`status: ready`, `system_status: healthy`) as evidence that recall produces correct results.** The two are structurally decoupled.
@@ -48,4 +52,4 @@ H1–H4 from the 2026-04-19 audit are not four independent bugs; **they are four
Steward verbatim, after the recall baseline test revealed the decoupling:
> *"So my joy at reaching the milestone was premature I now understand... I can accept that. Now to make this work."*
Yesterday's milestone (2026-04-18 evening): connector completed 7,220 items, 14,355 entities extracted, 0 failed, all modules ready, single-query recall returned confidence 1.0 → steward called it "the foundation." That reading was true about substrate-bytes-flowed but premature about recall-works. The foundation in the deeper sense (the system can be used as cognitive memory) requires recall correctness, which today's audit shows is not yet present.
Yesterday's milestone (2026-04-18 evening): connector completed 7,220 items, 14,355 entities extracted, 0 failed, all modules ready, single-query recall returned confidence 1.0 → steward called it "the foundation." That reading was true about substrate-bytes-flowed but premature about recall-works. The foundation in the deeper sense (the system can be used as cognitive memory) requires recall correctness, which today's audit shows is not yet present.