arch: #60 Slice A — Work/Manifestation/Asset schema and deterministic backfill

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Implements Slice A of #60 (architecture direction #179), exactly the §17 row of the design merged in #201 (docs/work-identity-model.md): entities, integrity layer, deterministic backfill, and mirror triggers.

Nothing changes for users or clients: no reader, API or UI behavior changes, and the migration does no filesystem work. works is still the only authority for every field.

Migration

• Schema 16 → 17, migrate_v16_to_v17 (work_identity_slice_a), in one BEGIN IMMEDIATE transaction. db_schema.sql gives a fresh DB the same shape.
• SQLite only. It does not read, write, list or hash managed PDFs, and it does not create a backup (I10, D2). Migrating a 20k-Work library took 1.7s locally.

Before / after

before (v16)                         after (v17)
works  (everything)                  works  (still the authority for every field)
  annotations(work_id)                 + primary_manifestation_id ──► manifestations MF-…  (origin_work_id = W)
  roles(work_id)                       + citation_manifestation_id (NULL)   │ primary_asset_id (0..1)
  argument_sources                                                          ▼
    PK(argument_id, work_id)                                             assets AS-… (origin_work_id = W)
                                     annotations(work_id, asset_id) ──► assets(id, work_id)
                                     roles(work_id, manifestation_id NULL) ──► manifestations(id, work_id)
                                     argument_sources PK(argument_id, order_index),
                                       manifestation_id ──► manifestations(id, work_id)
                                     + manifestation_relations, manifestation_identifiers,
                                       sync_work_lifecycle, work_retirement(_guard), migration_quarantine

Deterministic IDs (§11.2)

• MF- + uuid5(NS, "manifestation:" + W), and AS- + uuid5(NS, "asset:" + W). Both use upper-case hex, which is the entity_ids.is_distributed format.
• NS = 6d26588b-55c0-5737-95b2-bd0bdd2827e4 is fixed forever. It was derived once as uuid5(NAMESPACE_URL, "https://github.com/Fooftilly/PRKS#work-identity-backfill").
• Rows the mirror triggers create after the migration get random MF-/AS- IDs, because SQL cannot compute uuid5. The legacy mapping is always the stored, immutable origin_work_id.
• work_identity.ensure_origin_asset() is the one deterministic creator of origin_AS(W). The backfill uses it, and Slice D's lazy first-edit creation is meant to call the same function.

Asset-creation predicate (§12.2)

A Work gets exactly one Asset when it has any of the following:

• a current Asset-owned value:
  • non-empty file_path, provider, provider_id, source_mime or thumb_url;
  • explicit source_kind = video;
  • non-NULL thumb_page;
  • a non-zero materialization revision;
• annotations;
• an Asset-bound revision scope, tombstones included: work-field/[W,"thumb_page"], pdf-annotation/[W,*] or work-source/[W];
• a legacy inferred-video row whose URL today's parser accepts.

Everything else, including notes-only Works and PDF-kind Works with no file, gets one Manifestation and no Asset. The Asset's values are:

• media_type: the stored source_mime exactly when it is non-empty; application/pdf only for a managed file with a managed locator; otherwise NULL.
• storage_locator: the managed basename of /api/pdfs/<name>.
• kind follows effective_source_kind().
• A video's URL goes to the Asset. Any other URL goes to manifestations.url.
• citation_manifestation_id stays NULL.

Rebuilt legacy tables: 3

• annotations: adds asset_id (nullable until Slice D). Rowids are kept. The composite FK (asset_id, work_id) → assets(id, work_id) cascades.
• roles: adds a nullable manifestation_id, so every role stays Work-scoped until Slice F. Rowids are kept, because readers break ties by rowid. The composite FK is added. The uniqueness index is unchanged.
• argument_sources: PK (argument_id, order_index), and UNIQUE (argument_id, work_id, COALESCE(manifestation_id,''), pages). Rows are copied in the canonical (order_index, work_id) read order and renumbered 0..n-1. Rows with pages are pinned to the backfilled Manifestation; rows with empty pages stay Work-level.

Quarantine rules (§12.3 step 1.1)

Rows that already violate a leaf-table FK are found with PRAGMA foreign_key_check(<table>). Each one is stored as a json_object of all its columns in migration_quarantine, with reason missing_parent:<tables>, and is skipped by the rebuild. Revisions then advance only where a live aggregate had reported the row:

• argument_sources, Argument still exists: argument-sources/<A> advances once per Argument.
• roles, Work still exists: work-person-role/[W,P,r] is created at revision 1, or advanced from r to r+1. get_roles_state() then reports the role absent at a strictly newer revision.
• Missing Work or Argument: no scope is created. Annotations only ever fall in this case.

Only per-table counts are logged. After the rebuild the migration aborts if any of these is true:

• the rebuilt or new tables have an FK violation;
• other tables have a violation the preflight did not see;
• the integrity query or the mirror-parity check finds anything.

Mirror and authority direction

works → new rows only. Nothing writes back to works.

• Two views, legacy_work_manifestation_mirror and legacy_work_asset_mirror, define the projection once.
• The mirror triggers keep the rows current on:
  • Work insert (works_mirror_ai) and the matching column updates (works_mirror_*_au);
  • Asset insert (assets_mirror_ai), annotation insert (annotations_mirror_asset_ai) and Asset-bound revision insert (sync_revisions_mirror_asset_ai);
  • legacy argument-source insert (argument_sources_mirror_pin_ai), which pins a row with pages.
• manifestations_mirror_read_only and assets_mirror_read_only refuse any write to a mirrored column that differs from the projection. That makes a second source of truth impossible. Non-mirrored Asset state (hashes, generation) stays writable for Slice B.
• works_au (FTS) is now scoped to the four indexed columns. When it fired on every UPDATE, the Work-insert mirror's pointer write could reach it before works_ai had indexed the new row, which corrupted FTS.
• get_work and get_person strip the two new works pointer columns, so JSON output is byte-identical until Slice C exposes them.

DB-level invariants (§4.1)

• Composite ownership FKs on assets, manifestations.primary_asset_id (deferred, NO ACTION), annotations, roles, argument_sources, and manifestation_relations (both endpoints deferred, plus CHECK (from_id <> to_id)).
• Pointer triggers:
  • works_manifestation_pointers_insert, works_manifestation_pointers_owned;
  • manifestations_pointer_target_move, manifestations_pointer_target_delete (also guards an id rewrite);
  • manifestation_origin_immutable, asset_origin_immutable.
• Hardened retirement:
  • work_retirement_guard (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY CHECK (0));
  • work_retirement.must_clear NOT NULL, with a deferred FK to the guard;
  • works_retirement_clear, work_retirement_delete_only_after_work, work_retirement_no_update, work_retirement_guard_no_update.
• Integrity query (work_identity.integrity_violations) and mirror-parity check (mirror_drift).
• Schema validation: validate_current_schema compares each Slice A table, index, view and trigger by its normalized definition, so it sees deferral, CHECKs, composite pairing and trigger bodies.

Deviation from the design

The pinned-citation FK is ON DELETE NO ACTION (immediate) instead of RESTRICT. SQLite applies RESTRICT when the parent row goes, before a whole-Work delete has cascaded the citation rows. Whether deleting a Work succeeded therefore depended on table creation order: I reproduced the failure with argument_sources created before manifestations, which a fresh DB and an upgraded DB order differently. Immediate NO ACTION gives exactly the behavior §4.1 asks for: deleting a pinned Version is refused, and deleting a whole Work cascades. Tests cover both a fresh and an upgraded DB. The design doc status notes this.

Also not in this PR, per the design's slices: duplicate_decisions (Slice J) and manifestation_credit_overrides (Slice K). sync_work_lifecycle is created empty.

Tests

• New tests/test_work_identity.py (42 tests):
  • fresh and upgraded schemas are identical, by signature and by each object's SQL; validation catches drift;
  • pointer, leaf and relation ownership;
  • legal transitions, rollback, an abandoned marker, and every direct bypass;
  • the Asset-predicate fixtures (all the listed cases, plus shared basenames);
  • MIME preservation;
  • determinism: the same v16 file migrated twice, and a crash followed by a retry;
  • the argument_sources renumbering, pinning and orphan-revision cases;
  • role quarantine with and without a prior revision;
  • mirror behavior through the existing code paths;
  • a no-filesystem-access test (patched open, listing, stat, zipfile, sha256, backup).
• tests/work_identity_fixtures.py: revert_to_v16_schema() turns a current DB back into the real v16 shape, so the existing downgrade-based upgrade tests still run the real migration.
• Results:
  • python run_tests.py: 2570 tests OK.
  • scripts/check_invariants.py OK, ruff clean, pyright 0 errors.
  • Affected E2E groups (work-detail, work-create, arguments, pdf-annotations, people, smoke): PASS.
  • Full E2E gate (--jobs 4) in this container: 749 tests. 4 failed under load: a 20s timeout in the offline probe-race test, an external YouTube-embed request, and two offline timing tests. All 4 pass with --last-failed --jobs 1. None of them touches the new schema. A comparison full run on unmodified master is in progress and I'll report its result on this PR.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Work records can now have multiple manifestations and assets, with annotations, roles, and citations linked to the relevant records.
• Compatibility
  • Work and person lookups continue to return work records without identity pointers.
  • Changes to a work’s file path or source URL reconcile its associated origin asset.
• Data Migration
  • Existing records are migrated to the new identity model. Records with missing parent links are quarantined, and migration checks verify data integrity.
• Backup and Restore
  • Backup and restore checks warn when Work identity data is inconsistent; restore can still succeed. Databases missing required identity structures are rejected.
• Documentation
  • Updated the documented database schema version to 17.

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Walkthrough

Schema 17 adds a Work–Manifestation–Asset identity model, migration and validation logic, and trigger-maintained legacy projections. Work readers omit identity pointer columns. Backup and restore checks report identity drift, and tests and documentation now refer to schema version 17.

Changes

Work identity model

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Identity schema and mirror rules backend/db_schema.sql, backend/db_migrations.py, backend/AGENTS.md, docs/work-identity-model.md	Adds identity tables, ownership constraints, projection views, and triggers. Schema validation checks canonical identity objects.
V16-to-v17 migration backend/db_migrations.py, tests/work_identity_fixtures.py, tests/test_work_identity.py, tests/test_db_migrations.py, tests/test_work_tag_sync.py	Quarantines orphan rows, backfills identity records, rebuilds leaf tables, and validates migration results. Earlier-schema migration tests use a v16-schema fixture.
Runtime identity reconciliation backend/work_identity.py, backend/db_manager.py, backend/work_metadata_sync.py, tests/test_work_identity.py	Adds deterministic identity helpers and reconciliation after selected metadata writes. Work readers remove identity pointer columns from returned rows.
Backup and restore checks backend/backup_restore.py, tests/test_backup_restore.py	Backup creation and restore verification report identity violations and mirror drift. They reject missing or altered identity schema objects.
Migration and compatibility coverage tests/test_work_identity.py, tests/test_backup_restore.py, tests/test_db_migrations.py, tests/test_frontend_command_palette.py, tests/test_frontend_research_graph.py, tests/test_pdf_materialization.py, tests/test_performance.py, tests/test_research_graph.py, tests/test_text_index.py, tests/test_work_tag_sync.py, README.md, docs/wiki/Configuration-and-Operations.md, docs/work-identity-model.md	Adds migration and compatibility tests, records the schema-17 identity implementation, and updates schema-version references.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MigrationRunner
  participant V17Migration
  participant SQLiteDatabase
  MigrationRunner->>V17Migration: invoke v16-to-v17 migration
  V17Migration->>SQLiteDatabase: quarantine orphans and create identity objects
  V17Migration->>SQLiteDatabase: backfill identity rows and rebuild leaf tables
  SQLiteDatabase-->>V17Migration: provide foreign-key and integrity results
  V17Migration-->>MigrationRunner: report migration success or failure

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to c22e5

Backup and restore verification now reject archives with missing schema-17 identity objects. No merge-blocking issue is established beyond normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c22e5

The upgrade keeps existing backup and restore protections, but a restored library can retain identity inconsistencies that were reported only during staging. The persistence and recovery contract warrants review before this identity layer becomes authoritative.

Retained concerns

• Medium · architecture · observed: Restore can install a schema-17 database with identity integrity or mirror violations. Verification warns, but the staged warning is not retained for the final restore result and identity checks are not repeated during application. The new ownership invariant is therefore not a restore acceptance condition, despite being a migration acceptance condition.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — An uploaded archive reaches the configured library only through staging and a separate confirmed restore. No new entrypoint or wider tenant boundary was established by the changed verification code.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• observed — An inconsistent schema-17 library can be backed up and restored with an identity warning; the demonstrated path requires an altered database and restore confirmation. It does not establish an unauthorized remote exploit.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Archive verification rejects missing or altered canonical identity objects before staging succeeds. Row-level integrity and mirror findings instead follow the existing warning-style verification policy.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Failed staging removes its staging tree without replacing live storage. Replacement uses a journal and rollback material; the outstanding recovery-policy issue is the handling and visibility of identity warnings, not an observed bypass of that replacement sequence.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Define which identity violations must block restore. If warning-only restore remains intentional, retain those warnings across staging and confirmation and include them in the final outcome.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 6 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 18.23% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 181 functions across 16 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Prks Engineering Invariants	⚠️ Warning	The PR violates the new Work identity rule in backend/AGENTS.md: works must remain the only authority, and code must never write mirrored columns in manifestations or assets. `backend/work_ide…	Remove direct request-path writes to mirrored manifestations and assets columns. Make the reconciliation path update only authoritative Work state and the parser-verdict state, then let schema triggers create and refresh the projections…

✅ Passed checks (6 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies Slice A and its main changes: the Work/Manifestation/Asset schema and deterministic backfill.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Ui Design Contract	✅ Passed	The pull request changes backend schema/migration code, documentation, and tests only. It does not change files under frontend/ or other frontend source paths. The two frontend-named test changes on…
Offline And Sync Coherence	✅ Passed	The PR changes canonical SQLite persistence and an existing Work metadata sync boundary, but it does not add or alter a browser offline family, service worker, or sync protocol. The rollout status alr…

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Explanation

The PR violates the new Work identity rule in backend/AGENTS.md: works must remain the only authority, and code must never write mirrored columns in manifestations or assets. backend/work_identity.py:313-346 directly inserts Asset mirror fields and updates all Manifestation mirror columns. reconcile_origin_asset() calls this path from request-time Work writes in backend/work_metadata_sync.py and backend/db_manager.py. This is changed behavior and bypasses the trigger-maintained projection rule.

Resolution

Remove direct request-path writes to mirrored manifestations and assets columns. Make the reconciliation path update only authoritative Work state and the parser-verdict state, then let schema triggers create and refresh the projections. Preserve deterministic Asset creation with a trigger-backed request mechanism or another reviewed migration/identity-slice exception that does not write mirrored columns directly. Add tests that direct mirror writes are refused and that source_url and file_path changes update the projections only through triggers.

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Add schema 17 Work–Manifestation–Asset identity layer

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AI Description

• Adds schema 17 Work, Manifestation, and Asset entities with integrity constraints.
• Deterministically backfills legacy data while quarantining invalid leaf rows.
• Mirrors authoritative Work fields without changing existing API or UI behavior.

Diagram

graph TD
  V16[("V16 database")] --> M["V17 migration"] --> W[("Works authority")] --> V["Mirror views"] --> I[("Identity tables")]
  M --> Q[("Orphan quarantine")]
  W --> T["Mirror triggers"] --> I
  I --> L[("Owned leaves")]

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High-Level Assessment

The following are alternative approaches to this PR:

1. Big-bang authority cutover

• ➕ Removes temporary mirrored data and triggers
• ➕ Immediately establishes the normalized model as authoritative
• ➖ Requires simultaneous reader, API, UI, and sync changes
• ➖ Greatly increases migration and rollback risk
• ➖ Makes behavioral compatibility harder to verify

2. Application-layer dual writes

• ➕ Keeps synchronization logic in Python
• ➕ Can be easier to debug than complex SQLite triggers
• ➖ Requires modifying every current and future write path
• ➖ Direct SQL and legacy paths could bypass synchronization
• ➖ Weakens statement-level atomicity between legacy and identity rows

Recommendation: Keep the staged, trigger-maintained projection used by this PR. It establishes the approved identity schema and integrity boundaries without changing product behavior, while database-level mirroring covers legacy and direct SQL paths atomically; later slices can move authority deliberately.

Files changed (19) +2862 / -84

Enhancement (1) +275 / -0

work_identity.pyAdd deterministic identity and integrity helpers +275/-0

Add deterministic identity and integrity helpers

• Introduces UUID5 backfill IDs, Asset-creation predicates, idempotent origin Asset creation, pointer stripping, and identity/mirror integrity checks.

backend/work_identity.py

Tests (10) +1005 / -11

test_backup_restore.pyAdapt restore migration tests to schema 17 +6/-1

Adapt restore migration tests to schema 17

• Reverts current fixtures to the true schema 16 shape before simulating older backups and updates the expected final schema version.

tests/test_backup_restore.py

test_db_migrations.pyUpdate migration fixtures and version assertions +7/-1

Update migration fixtures and version assertions

• Uses the schema 16 reversion helper before constructing older database states and updates registry expectations to version 17.

tests/test_db_migrations.py

test_frontend_command_palette.pyUpdate command palette schema assertion +1/-1

Update command palette schema assertion

• Changes the architecture guard assertion to expect schema version 17.

tests/test_frontend_command_palette.py

test_frontend_research_graph.pyUpdate research graph schema assertion +1/-1

Update research graph schema assertion

• Changes the frontend architecture test to expect schema version 17.

tests/test_frontend_research_graph.py

test_pdf_materialization.pyUpdate materialization schema expectation +1/-1

Update materialization schema expectation

• Updates the materialization test suite to recognize schema version 17.

tests/test_pdf_materialization.py

test_performance.pyUpdate performance schema guard +1/-1

Update performance schema guard

• Changes the schema-version invariant from 16 to 17.

tests/test_performance.py

test_research_graph.pyUpdate research graph schema guards +2/-2

Update research graph schema guards

• Updates both database schema constants expected by the research graph tests to version 17.

tests/test_research_graph.py

test_text_index.pyUpdate text index schema guard +1/-1

Update text index schema guard

• Updates the main database schema expectation while retaining existing text-index version assertions.

tests/test_text_index.py

test_work_identity.pyCover schema 17 migration and identity invariants +978/-0

Cover schema 17 migration and identity invariants

• Adds comprehensive tests for schema parity, deterministic backfill, quarantine, ownership constraints, retirement transitions, mirror behavior, rollback safety, and filesystem isolation.

tests/test_work_identity.py

test_work_tag_sync.pyExercise tag sync upgrades through schema 17 +7/-2

Exercise tag sync upgrades through schema 17

• Reverts fixtures to schema 16 before simulating schema 13 and verifies the resulting schema and tag state match a fresh version 17 database.

tests/test_work_tag_sync.py

Documentation (4) +22 / -4

README.mdPublish schema version 17 +1/-1

Publish schema version 17

• Updates the documented current database schema version from 16 to 17.

README.md

AGENTS.mdDocument schema 17 authority rules +8/-0

Document schema 17 authority rules

• Adds contributor guidance declaring Works authoritative, identity rows trigger-maintained, and Slice A schema definitions migration-frozen.

backend/AGENTS.md

Configuration-and-Operations.mdUpdate operations documentation for schema 17 +1/-1

Update operations documentation for schema 17

• Changes the documented current schema version to 17.

docs/wiki/Configuration-and-Operations.md

work-identity-model.mdMark Work identity Slice A as implemented +12/-2

Mark Work identity Slice A as implemented

• Updates the approved design status with schema 17 implementation details and documents the SQLite NO ACTION deviation for pinned citations.

docs/work-identity-model.md

Other (4) +1560 / -69

db_manager.pyPreserve legacy Work response shapes +8/-3

Preserve legacy Work response shapes

• Strips the new Manifestation pointer columns from Work and Person queries until a later slice exposes them intentionally.

backend/db_manager.py

db_migrations.pyImplement the transactional v16-to-v17 identity migration +913/-9

Implement the transactional v16-to-v17 identity migration

• Adds schema 17 objects, deterministic backfill, orphan quarantine, leaf-table rebuilding, mirror and integrity triggers, and definition-level validation. Registers the migration and extends schema signatures to include views.

backend/db_migrations.py

db_schema.sqlDefine the fresh schema 17 identity model +525/-57

Define the fresh schema 17 identity model

• Adds Work pointers, Manifestation and Asset entities, lifecycle and quarantine tables, rebuilt ownership-aware leaf tables, indexes, views, and mirror/integrity triggers. Keeps fresh databases definitionally aligned with upgraded databases.

backend/db_schema.sql

work_identity_fixtures.pyAdd exact schema 16 downgrade fixtures +114/-0

Add exact schema 16 downgrade fixtures

• Provides a reusable helper that removes Slice A objects, restores legacy leaf-table definitions and triggers, and resets the version for real migration tests.

tests/work_identity_fixtures.py

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E2E comparison, as promised in the description. Both full gates ran with --jobs 4 in the same container, with the hard limit disabled because the workers took about 1100s each, well over the runner's estimate:

• This branch: 749 tests, 4 failed or errored. All 4 pass when rerun with --last-failed --jobs 1:
  • OfflineFoundationTests.test_reconnect_probe_race… (a 20s wait);
  • an external YouTube-embed request in WorkCreateWorkflowTests;
  • OfflineWorkPeopleTests.test_the_same_link_from_a_stale_base_converges;
  • PersonProfileDraftOwnershipTests….
• Unmodified master (2a82502): 749 tests, 2 failures, both different offline timing tests (PersonGroupsOfflineTests…coherence, OfflineWorkTagTests.test_tag_merged_conflict…).

The failing set changes from run to run and appears on master too, so it looks like load sensitivity in this container, not something this PR causes. The affected feature groups (work-detail, work-create, arguments, pdf-annotations, people, smoke) passed cleanly at --jobs 4.

Separately, 91ccbac rewrites the two manifestation_identifiers CHECKs as length(x) > 0. Both SonarCloud reliability findings were false positives: its PL/SQL rule treats '' as NULL, as Oracle does. The unit suite passes again (2570 tests). The github-advanced-security failure is the Copilot autofind job crashing (400 The requested model is not supported), unrelated to this diff.

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Additional Slice A runtime bug beyond the two Qodo findings already on this PR:

A normal source_url PATCH can create an inferred-video Work with no origin Asset

The migration handles legacy inferred-video rows correctly in Python: origin_asset_required() / is_parseable_inferred_video() create origin_AS(W) when a Work has no stored kind/file but a URL that the current video parser recognizes.

That invariant is not preserved after migration.

A live metadata-only Work can still take the ordinary field path:

1. Work starts with source_kind IS NULL, no file and no Asset.
2. update_work_metadata(W, {"source_url": "https://youtu.be/<valid-id>"}) is allowed: source_url is not in SOURCE_AGGREGATE_COLUMNS, and guard_field_on_conn only refuses it when the stored source_kind is already video.
3. The Work now has the same inferred-video shape the migration explicitly recognizes.
4. works_mirror_asset_au consults legacy_work_asset_mirror.has_asset_value. That expression checks kind_norm = 'video', provider fields, etc., but not is_stream; with kind/provider still NULL it is false.
5. No Asset is created. The Manifestation instead keeps source_url, even though product readers now infer this Work as a video.

So the same canonical Work shape gets an external-stream Asset if it existed before v17, but no Asset if it is produced after v17. This also means the later legacy-operation mapping through origin_AS(W) depends on when the state was created.

Please make the post-migration write path use the same semantic predicate as the backfill. Since SQLite cannot run the YouTube parser, the cleanest fix is likely to invoke the shared Python origin_asset_required()/ensure_origin_asset() boundary after an ordinary Work mutation that can create this inferred-video shape, rather than weakening the SQL view to treat every arbitrary URL as a stream.

Add a regression along these lines:

• create a metadata-only Work with no Asset;
• PATCH/set source_url to a valid supported YouTube URL while stored source_kind is NULL;
• assert exactly one origin Asset exists, is external_stream, owns the URL, and the origin Manifestation no longer claims that URL;
• repeat with an unparseable/non-video URL and assert no Asset is created and the Manifestation retains the URL;
• assert mirror_drift() is empty in both cases.

It would also be useful for mirror_drift() to report a missing origin Asset whenever the full §12.2 predicate says one is required; currently it only compares an Asset if one already exists, so this class of drift is invisible to the integrity check.

[Fooftilly]

Another independent issue in legacy_work_asset_mirror affects the actual v16→v17 backfill, not just later writes.

A non-video citation URL is stolen by the Asset when some other field requires an Asset

The design deliberately distinguishes:

• a parseable supported video URL → external-stream Asset;
• a non-video / unparseable source_url → Manifestation citation/provenance URL;
• a Work that needs an Asset only because of thumb_page, annotations, source_mime, or a durable Asset-bound tombstone but has no usable file/stream → managed-file placeholder with NULL locator.

The SQL mirror does not preserve that distinction. Its is_stream fallback is simply:

file_path empty AND source_url nonempty

so any URL makes kind='external_stream' and moves the URL into the Asset.

The Python backfill's parseability check protects only the case where the URL is the sole reason an Asset might exist. If some other predicate already requires an Asset, ensure_origin_asset() consumes the SQL projection unchanged.

Concrete migration case:

• source_kind IS NULL
• file_path = ''
• source_url = 'https://example.org/article' (not a supported video)
• thumb_page = 2 (or an annotation / source_mime / Asset-bound revision)

needs_asset is true because of thumb_page. ensure_origin_asset() then sees the SQL view's is_stream=1 and creates an external_stream Asset carrying https://example.org/article; the Manifestation mirror suppresses that URL because an external-stream Asset now exists.

That violates the approved ownership matrix: this URL should remain on the Manifestation, and the required Asset should be a placeholder managed_file (NULL storage locator) unless there is a genuinely parseable stream identity.

Please make stream classification itself use the same semantic decision as the Python backfill, rather than using “any URL with no file” as an Asset kind. Because SQLite cannot run the provider parser, one practical shape is to make the Python backfill/ordinary mutation boundary choose the Asset kind/URL ownership explicitly for inferred-source rows, while the SQL projection only treats an explicitly canonicalized video identity (source_kind='video' / valid stored provider identity) as an external stream.

Add migration + fresh-write regressions for at least:

• non-video URL + thumb_page → managed-file placeholder, Manifestation keeps URL;
• non-video URL + annotation → same;
• non-video URL + source_mime → same;
• supported inferred YouTube URL + one of those Asset predicates → external-stream Asset, Manifestation URL NULL;
• all cases leave mirror_drift() empty.

This is distinct from Qodo's “explicit video + file_path” finding: that one is contradictory dual source state; this one reclassifies an ordinary non-video URL solely because another field happened to require an Asset.

[Fooftilly]

@Fooftilly the inferred-video gap is fixed in 9aced9e, which is being pushed now. It follows your suggested approach. The SQL view is unchanged, so an arbitrary URL is still not treated as a stream.

• Boundary. work_identity.reconcile_origin_asset(conn, W) creates origin_AS(W) through ensure_origin_asset() when the full §12.2 predicate (origin_asset_required) holds and no origin Asset exists. It runs in the same transaction at the two write boundaries that can produce the inferred-video shape:

  • work_metadata_sync.set_field_on_conn(..., "source_url", ...), which both PATCH and the durable SET_WORK_METADATA_FIELD go through;
  • update_work_metadata when it writes file_path, since removing the file can expose a URL-only Work.

  source_kind, provider and provider_id were already refused on PATCH. SET_WORK_SOURCE writes an explicit video, which the SQL mirror already covers. The Asset gets the same deterministic AS-uuid5(W) ID the backfill would have given it, so origin_AS(W) no longer depends on whether the state was created before or after v17.

• One predicate. works_requiring_origin_asset() is the set-based form of that predicate. The backfill now uses it, and so does mirror_drift(), which reports ("asset", W, "missing") whenever an origin Asset is required but absent. The per-Work check looks up the three Asset-bound revision scopes by key or prefix range instead of scanning the table.

• Regressions (InferredVideoAfterMigrationTests):

  • a valid YouTube URL via PATCH gives exactly one external_stream Asset with the deterministic ID; it owns the URL and the Manifestation's url becomes NULL;
  • the same through set_field_on_conn;
  • a non-video URL creates no Asset, and the Manifestation keeps the URL;
  • clearing file_path exposes an inferred video and creates the Asset;
  • a direct-SQL bypass is reported by mirror_drift() as a missing Asset.

  Every case ends with mirror_drift(), the integrity query and PRAGMA foreign_key_check all empty. With the hook disabled, the two positive tests fail.

The Qodo threads have their own replies. Validation:

• python run_tests.py: 2578 tests OK.
• ruff and check_invariants.py clean.
• E2E feature groups work-detail, work-create and pdf-annotations (179 tests, --jobs 4): PASS.

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[Fooftilly]

CodeRabbit's security-architecture note (an already-v17 restored database isn't checked against the identity invariants) is addressed in the latest push.

§4.1 of the design lists backup verification among the places the integrity query runs. backup_restore.work_identity_issue_count() now runs integrity_violations() and mirror_drift() on the backup snapshot and on the staged restore database whenever the identity layer is present. Any finding is reported as a warning, the same policy PRKS already applies to foreign-key issues. It is not a refusal, because the triggers keep constraining every later write.

Older archives are unaffected: they migrate on open and get the migration's hard checks there. test_work_identity_drift_is_a_backup_and_restore_warning covers both backup and restore. The unit suite passes (2579 tests).

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[Fooftilly]

Grok review (through 7ac3671)

Delta since 4b40443: inferred-video reconcile paths, shared works_requiring_origin_asset / mirror_drift, tighter revision-trigger WHEN, stream storage_locator NULL, plus backup/restore identity checks (7ac3671).

Prior

• Qodo #1 (revision scope arity/types): fixed.
• Qodo #2 (stream storage_locator): fixed.
• Author issue A (inferred-video after migration): fixed.

Still open (author issue B; not previously posted by Qodo/Grok)

• Non-video citation URL still classified as external_stream whenever some other field requires an Asset. See inline.

No other new defects in the 9aced9e / 7ac3671 deltas (idempotent reconcile, trigger/schema parity, backup/restore wiring, CI unit/API green on 9aced9e).

[Fooftilly]

@Fooftilly the citation-URL finding is fixed in 5fbb61d, which is being pushed now. It uses the shape you suggested.

• The SQL projection (legacy_work_asset_mirror) now treats only explicit identity as a stream by itself: source_kind = 'video', or stored provider/provider_id. The fallback "no file + any URL" is gone. has_asset_value now includes is_stream, so explicit and verified streams still create their Asset through SQL.

• For inferred rows (no kind, no file, a URL), Python makes the decision with the one URL parser:

  • The backfill and the two write boundaries from the previous fix (the source_url field write and the file_path PATCH) store the parser's verdict for the Work's exact current URL in a small table, legacy_inferred_video_urls(work_id, source_url). The view reads that table.
  • Because each row names the URL it was made for, a URL changed by any path that doesn't come back through Python stops matching, and the view treats it as not a stream. That is the safe side: the URL stays on the Manifestation.
  • Insert and delete triggers on the table re-project the Asset and Manifestation rows. mirror_drift() reports a stale verdict as ("inferred_video_url", W, "stale").
  • reconcile_origin_asset() creates the deterministic AS-uuid5(W) before it stores the verdict, so a verified inferred video keeps the same Asset ID as a backfilled one.

• Regressions (InferredUrlOwnershipTests), each run through the v16→v17 migration and through fresh writes:

  • non-video URL + thumb_page, + an annotation, or + source_mime → a managed_file placeholder with a NULL locator; the Manifestation keeps the URL;
  • a supported inferred YouTube URL + each of those → an external_stream Asset that owns the URL, the Manifestation's url is NULL, and after migration the Asset has the deterministic ID;
  • switching the URL video → article → video moves ownership both ways.

  Every case ends with mirror_drift(), the integrity query and PRAGMA foreign_key_check all empty.

This adds one table the design text does not name. The status note in docs/work-identity-model.md now records it next to the NO ACTION deviation. Validation:

• python run_tests.py: 2582 tests OK.
• ruff and check_invariants.py clean.
• E2E work-create + work-detail (146 tests, --jobs 4): PASS.

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[Fooftilly]

Grok review (through 5fbb61d)

Delta since 7ac3671: legacy_inferred_video_urls + tighter is_stream, so a non-video citation URL stays on the Manifestation when another §12.2 reason forces an Asset.

Prior

• Author issue B / Grok citation-URL steal: fixed (view + tests cover migration and fresh writes).

New — blocking

• legacy_inferred_video_urls_ad aborts Work delete when a verdict row exists. See inlines.

Unit/API still running on this head when reviewed; Ruff/Pyright green.

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