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Phase B of SESF-62, and the retroactive half of SESF-66.

What changes

  • New rewrite.py and cleanup.py rewrite {plan|run|drive|status|verify}. It selects two kinds of stored row:
    • rows whose document boilerplate.strip would change;
    • rows over sliding_window + 1 tokens, whose vector was embedded without the window.
  • Each row: strip, redact (per SESSIONFLOW_REDACT_MODE), re-embed, upsert by primary key with recomputed issue_ids, then rewrite the FTS row. A row left under MIN_TURN_CHARS is deleted, as ingest would drop it.
  • Reuses reembed: worklist snapshot, 0600 checkpoint after every batch, chunked drive under the MLX limit, and a new memory embedding generation on a fresh run.
  • Backups: old documents and issue_ids go to ~/.sessionflow/audit/rewrite-<run>.jsonl, and old vectors to .f16. For a transcript that no longer exists, the backup is the only copy of the old text.
  • FTS failures: a failed FTS rewrite or delete stays in the checkpoint (fts_retry) and is retried first by the next run. The run is done only when none is pending.
  • Token counts use the cached model's transformers tokenizer, so plan does not load MLX. Its counts match the MLX tokenizer on short, long, truncated and non-ASCII samples.
  • cleanup.py: the chunk drive loop is now shared by reembed and rewrite (_drive_chunks).

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  • ruff check . is clean. pytest -rs: 751 passed, 120 skipped (Postgres and model-dependent tests).
  • New tests/test_rewrite.py covers 23 cases with stubbed Milvus, FTS, MLX and tokenizer.
  • Live rewrite plan (read-only): 75,007 rows scanned, 27,962 selected (10,292 stripped, 17,670 long), 2,653 to delete, about 1.4 h of compute.

After merge

Restart the server, then run cleanup.py rewrite drive --yes, followed by cleanup.py rewrite verify. Out of scope: chunking turns over 2048 tokens or truncated at 8000 characters.

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  • New Features
    • Added a maintenance workflow to refresh existing indexed content, update search results, and remove rows that fall below the minimum content length.
    • Preview planned changes, check progress, resume interrupted runs, and verify results. Execution requires confirmation.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance on refreshing indexed content, handling retries, and reviewing progress and backups.

…ed long rows)

Rows indexed before boilerplate stripping (SESF-66) still hold harness text,
and rows over the 512-token sliding window keep vectors embedded without it
(SESF-62). New rewrite.py and cleanup.py rewrite {plan|run|drive|status|verify}
select both kinds, then strip, redact, re-embed and upsert each row by PK with
recomputed issue_ids, rewrite its FTS row, and delete rows left under
MIN_TURN_CHARS.

It reuses reembed's worklist snapshot, checkpoint, chunked drive and memory
generation bump. Old documents and vectors are backed up per run (0600). A
failed FTS write is kept in the checkpoint and retried first by the next run.
Token counts use the cached model's transformers tokenizer, which matches the
MLX tokenizer. The drive loop is shared between reembed and rewrite.

Live dry run: 75,007 rows scanned, 27,962 selected (10,292 stripped, 17,670
long), 2,653 to delete.
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The pull request adds a resumable workflow to rewrite stored rows that contain boilerplate or exceed the model’s token window. It adds cleanup CLI actions for planning, execution, status, and verification, plus tests and operator documentation.

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Stored-row rewrite

Layer / File(s) Summary
Selection and run planning
rewrite.py, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, tests/test_rewrite.py
The workflow scans rows for boilerplate changes or token-window length, builds a worklist, and reports a dry-run plan. It records checkpoints and backups. Tests cover selection and planning behavior.
Rewrite execution and persistence
rewrite.py, tests/test_rewrite.py
Execution strips and redacts retained documents, re-embeds and upserts them, and updates FTS rows. It deletes rows below MIN_TURN_CHARS, retries failed FTS operations, and checkpoints resumable progress. Tests cover updates, deletions, limits, failures, and retries.
CLI orchestration and verification
cleanup.py, rewrite.py, tests/test_rewrite.py
The CLI adds rewrite actions and shares its chunk driver with reembed. Sampled verification checks for unchanged stripped text and cosine similarity. Tests cover CLI confirmation, chunking, and verification.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CleanupCLI
  participant RewriteRun
  participant Milvus
  participant EmbeddingModel
  participant FTSIndex
  CleanupCLI->>RewriteRun: run confirmed rewrite
  RewriteRun->>Milvus: read worklist rows
  RewriteRun->>EmbeddingModel: embed retained rewritten documents
  RewriteRun->>Milvus: upsert rewritten rows or delete short rows
  RewriteRun->>FTSIndex: rewrite or delete FTS rows
  RewriteRun->>RewriteRun: checkpoint progress and pending FTS retries
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Possibly related PRs

  • lbruton/SessionFlow#78: This change reuses the reembed workflow’s worklist, checkpointing, and memory-generation behavior.
  • lbruton/SessionFlow#89: This change applies the stripping and minimum-turn-length behavior to rows that PR #89 leaves indexed.
Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 63bda

Sync the backups before rewriting stored rows, and make incomplete verification fail rather than report success. These risks should be resolved before running the rewrite.

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Comment thread rewrite.py Resolved
…reembed and rewrite

Codacy flagged the duplicated argparse block and action dispatch. Both commands
now build their subparsers with _add_chunked_command and dispatch plan, status,
run and drive through _chunked_action.

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- Around line 238-244: Update the document backup write in _rewrite_batch and
the shared vector backup helper to flush each file and call fsync on its file
descriptor before closing it, so both backups are durable before the Milvus
upsert.
- Around line 470-512: Update rewrite.verify to record when
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Comment thread rewrite.py Resolved
Comment thread rewrite.py Resolved
A process that died after delete_by_doc_id removed the Milvus row, but before
the batch checkpoint, left the FTS row with no retry entry: the resumed batch
skips rows missing from Milvus. Each delete is now saved to fts_retry before it
runs and cleared once FTS confirms it.
The old-document and old-vector backups are the only copy of stripped text,
so both are flushed and fsynced before Milvus is written; reembed's vector
backup shares the helper and gets the same guarantee. rewrite verify now
reports complete=False when the embedding budget stops the sample, and the
CLI exits 1 for an incomplete check.

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Comment thread rewrite.py Resolved
A fresh scan reads Milvus only, so an FTS row orphaned by a failed delete is
reachable only through the old checkpoint's fts_retry. --restart now carries
those entries into the new checkpoint and drains them first.

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Comment thread rewrite.py Resolved
A process that stopped after the upsert but before the FTS rewrite, followed
by --restart, left stale FTS text: a stripped short row no longer matches the
scan. Rewrites now join deletes as pending fts_retry entries that are saved
before Milvus changes and cleared once FTS confirms each one.
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