Distillation

Date: Sep 16, 2026

• 🔴 (16:23) User stated jj never fails on conflict: merge conflicts are recorded in the resulting commit and must be detected with jj st and resolved by editing files manually.
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• 🔴 (16:24) User stated Lore is a TypeScript/pnpm-workspaces monorepo using Node.js >=22.5, SQLite in WAL mode, and FTS5; the root package.json pins Volta Node 24.16.0 and pnpm 10.28.0.
• 🔴 (16:24) User stated Lore has four packages: @loreai/core at packages/core/ for the shared memory engine; @loreai/gateway at packages/gateway/ for the transparent LLM proxy and lore CLI; @loreai/opencode at packages/opencode/ for the OpenCode adapter; and @loreai/pi at packages/pi/ for the Pi extension adapter.
• 🔴 (16:24) User stated the three-tier memory architecture consists of: Tier 1 temporal storage in packages/core/src/temporal.ts; Tier 2 distillation in packages/core/src/distillation.ts, including segments capped at 16K tokens and meta-distillation after the gen-0 count exceeds 20; and Tier 3 gradient context management in packages/core/src/gradient.ts, with Layers 0–3 from full passthrough through emergency compression.
• 🔴 (16:24) User stated tests use a temporary SQLite database through packages/core/test/setup.ts, never the production DB.
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• 🔴 [requested-tests] (16:24) User required TDD failing-first discipline: never trust a fix without seeing the regression test fail on the base behavior and pass after the fix.
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• 🔴 [requested-review] (16:24) User required every non-trivial PR to receive an adversarial correctness review before merge, with separate implementation and adversarial review passes; correctness-sensitive changes require adversarial review regardless of size.
• 🔴 (16:24) User stated root scripts include pnpm test → vitest run, pretest → pnpm --filter @loreai/gateway run bundle, pnpm run typecheck → pnpm -r run typecheck, pnpm run lint → oxlint --type-aware, pnpm run format → oxfmt, and pnpm run mutation → stryker run.
• 🔴 (16:24) User stated @loreai/gateway version is 0.40.0; its scripts include typecheck → tsc --noEmit, build → tsx script/build.ts, bundle → tsx script/bundle.ts, build:binary → tsx script/build.ts --binary, build:binary:sea → tsx script/build-binary-sea.ts, and start → tsx src/index.ts.
• 🟡 (16:25) Workspace inspection showed @ at mutable change rwunmtrq / commit d37909ea, described fix(responses): complete accumulation boundaries, with no working-copy changes; parent tklkqxyt / ce88c614 is fix(responses): complete lifecycle reconciliation; immutable base pxrvwsvvkmpo / 2cbf4006 is feat(cch): add seeds for Claude Code up to 2.1.272 (#1780).
• 🟡 (16:25) jj reported a conflicted bookmark named fix/responses-private-references; no bookmark mutation was performed.
• 🟡 (16:25) Diff inspection relative to the relevant base showed 3 modified files: packages/gateway/src/pipeline.ts (519-line diff), packages/gateway/src/stream/openai-responses.ts (1-line diff), and packages/gateway/test/openai-responses-recall-aware-stream.test.ts (1684-line diff), totaling 2068 insertions and 136 deletions.
• 🟡 (16:25) Code search located Responses accumulation and reconciliation logic primarily in packages/gateway/src/pipeline.ts, including applyResponsesEvent, rawItems, continuation normalization around lines 8391–8681 and 9225–9690, terminal continuation handling around lines 9802–9926, and rebuilt output handling around lines 9991–9997.