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Fixes #1292.

The bug

LESSON_PATTERNS is applied with pat.exec(text) and the match is stored as the lesson. \b matches a trigger token anywhere in a sentence and the match begins there, so everything to its left — the subject, the actor, the condition — is discarded:

"The watchdog must never restart on ROUTE_MISSING_404."
  -> stored as "never restart on ROUTE_MISSING_404."

The stored lesson reads as a blanket prohibition rather than a rule about one component. Lessons are surfaced by mem::lesson-recall and injected into agent context, so these are acted on, not merely displayed — the example above was recalled during an outage and contradicted the documented recovery.

Measured on one store of 983 lessons (981 written by this path): 775 (79%) were clauses cut mid-sentence, and 100% began with a trigger token — that is the definition of the match, not a coincidence. \b also fires inside identifiers, so wiki slugs and filenames containing dont/never were minted as lessons.

The fix

Two small changes in src/functions/replay.ts:

  1. The trigger now only selects a sentence; the whole sentence is kept. Text is split on sentence boundaries and a sentence containing a trigger is taken intact, so the subject survives. This is what removes the 79%.
  2. A validity gate, isUsableLesson, rejects the shapes that indicate a cut: a lowercase opening, no terminal punctuation, unbalanced ** / backtick / [[ ]], a trigger that is part of an identifier, plus the existing length bounds.

Both are exported so they can be tested directly. The per-session caps (40 matches, 20 lessons) and the content-addressed fingerprintId are unchanged, so existing lesson ids for correctly-captured sentences stay stable.

Tests

19 new tests in test/replay-lesson-extraction.test.ts covering:

  • the reported failure — the subject survives, and no clause starting at the trigger is emitted
  • each fragment shape observed in a real store (lowercase opening, truncated tail, unbalanced markup, identifier match)
  • the sentences that were already being captured correctly, which must keep working
  • one test that reproduces the old pattern inline, so the defect stays visible in the suite rather than only in this description

Full suite: 1730 passed, 1 skipped — no other test changed behaviour.

Note on scope

This does not repair lessons already in a store; there is no update path on the lesson API (create / strengthen / soft-delete only), so existing fragments can only be deleted. I raised two adjacent findings in #1292 that are not addressed here and may deserve their own issues:

  • api::lesson-save hardcodes source: "manual" and drops sourceIds, though mem::lesson-save accepts both.
  • Nothing that uses a lesson reinforces it — mem::lesson-recall never calls reinforceLesson() — so every lesson decays to deleted on a fixed schedule while a re-matched fragment has its decay baseline reset on every import. That inverts which lessons survive.

Happy to adjust the gate's strictness or split it into a separate PR if you'd prefer the sentence-anchoring change on its own.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved lesson extraction to return complete, readable sentences instead of partial fragments.
    • Preserves abbreviations and initialisms such as “U.S.”, “e.g.”, and “Dr.” when splitting sentences.
    • Filters out invalid lessons, including incomplete sentences, malformed markup, unsuitable lengths, and missing trigger words.
    • Correctly handles spacing and code identifiers when identifying lessons.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for sentence splitting and valid, invalid, and previously problematic lesson formats.

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LESSON_PATTERNS was applied with `pat.exec(text)` and the MATCH stored as the
lesson. Because `\b` matches a trigger token anywhere in a sentence and the
match begins there, everything to its left — the subject, the actor, the
condition — was discarded:

    "The watchdog must never restart on ROUTE_MISSING_404."
      -> stored as "never restart on ROUTE_MISSING_404."

The stored lesson reads as a blanket prohibition rather than a rule about one
component, and lessons are surfaced by mem::lesson-recall and injected into
agent context, so this is acted on rather than merely displayed.

On one store of 983 lessons, 981 written by this path, 775 (79%) were clauses
cut mid-sentence. 100% began with a trigger token — that is the definition of
the match, not a coincidence. `\b` also fires inside identifiers, so wiki slugs
and filenames containing "dont"/"never" were minted as lessons.

The fix:

  · The trigger now only SELECTS a sentence; the whole sentence is kept.
    Text is split on sentence boundaries and a sentence containing a trigger
    is taken intact, so the subject survives.
  · A validity gate (isUsableLesson) rejects the shapes that indicate a cut:
    a lowercase opening, no terminal punctuation, unbalanced ** / ` / [[ ]],
    a trigger that is part of an identifier, and the existing length bounds.
  · Both are exported so they can be tested directly.

19 tests added, covering the reported failure, the fragment shapes observed in
a real store, and the sentences that were already being captured correctly
(which must keep working). One test reproduces the old pattern inline so the
defect stays visible. Full suite: 1730 passed, 1 skipped.

Fixes rohitg00#1292
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Lesson extraction now returns complete, validated sentences instead of trigger-starting fragments. The replay flow preserves deduplication and the 40-lesson limit. Tests cover sentence boundaries, valid candidates, invalid candidates, and regressions from the previous behavior.

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Sentence extraction and validation
src/functions/replay.ts
The exported splitSentences helper preserves abbreviations and initialisms while splitting at valid sentence boundaries. Lesson extraction uses complete sentences.
Replay lesson collection
src/functions/replay.ts
Lesson collection continues to lowercase-deduplicate extracted lessons and cap the result at 40 entries.
Extraction regression coverage
test/replay-lesson-extraction.test.ts
Tests cover complete sentence extraction, whitespace normalization, candidate validation, identifier handling, balanced markup, length limits, abbreviation periods, and previous fragment behavior.

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The PR corrects lesson extraction without changing interfaces or runtime dependencies. It is generally mergeable with owner follow-up, but the new test file should add the required iii-sdk mock to preserve the repository’s expected test isolation, and the added implementation comments should be removed to satisfy coding guidelines.

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In `@src/functions/replay.ts`:
- Around line 66-77: Remove the explanatory comments introduced around the
lesson-selection logic in replay processing, including the related comment
blocks at the referenced sections; preserve the behavior that selects the
trigger-containing sentence while storing the whole sentence, and rely on clear
names and tests rather than inline rationale.
- Line 86: Update SENTENCE_SPLIT and the lesson-processing flow to avoid
treating abbreviation periods, such as “U.S.”, as sentence boundaries while
still splitting at true sentence endings. Preserve the complete remaining
condition in persisted lessons, and add a regression test covering the U.S.
example.

In `@test/replay-lesson-extraction.test.ts`:
- Line 1: Add the repository-standard vi.mock("iii-sdk") declaration in this
test file, providing mocks for sdk.trigger, kv.get, kv.set, and kv.list while
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Add the repository-standard iii-sdk mock.

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sdk.trigger, kv.get, kv.set, and kv.list while preserving the existing Vitest
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Review catch, and a real one: splitting on /(?<=[.!?])\s+/ breaks inside an
abbreviation, truncating a rule at exactly the point that changes its meaning.

    "Never ship to the U.S. without a compliance review."
      -> "Never ship to the U.S."

The condition is gone and the rule inverts — the same failure mode as the
trigger-match bug this PR fixes, reintroduced one layer down. It passed the
validity gate too: capital opening, trigger present, terminal punctuation.

splitSentences() now declines a boundary when the text before it ends in a
known abbreviation ("e.g.", "Dr.", "etc.") or an initialism ("U.S.", "I.B.M."),
or when what follows does not begin a new sentence. Merging two sentences is
the safe direction here — the gate still applies, and no condition is lost.

6 tests added. Reverting just the splitter to the naive version fails exactly
those 3 abbreviation cases and no others. Full suite: 1736 passed, 1 skipped.

Also condensed the rationale comment on the extractor per review.
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Thanks — the abbreviation one was a real catch and I've fixed it. Taking the three findings in turn:

1. Abbreviation boundaries — fixed in 782c2c4. This was a genuine bug and worse than it first looks, because it reintroduces the exact failure this PR exists to fix, one layer down:

"Never ship to the U.S. without a compliance review."
  -> "Never ship to the U.S."

The condition is gone and the rule inverts. It also passed the validity gate — capital opening, trigger present, terminal punctuation — so nothing downstream would have caught it.

splitSentences() now declines a boundary when the text before it ends in a known abbreviation (e.g., Dr., etc.) or an initialism (U.S., I.B.M.), or when what follows doesn't begin a new sentence. Merging two sentences is the safe direction: the gate still applies and no condition is lost.

6 tests added, including the U.S. case. Reverting just the splitter to the naive version fails exactly those 3 abbreviation tests and no others.

2. Rationale comments — condensed. Trimmed from 12 lines to 5, keeping the one worked example. I'd rather not drop it entirely: the failure is subtle enough that "why isn't this just exec?" is a fair question for the next reader, and the repo already carries this kind of note (e.g. the fingerprintId comment just below it). Happy to cut it further if you'd prefer.

3. vi.mock("iii-sdk") — respectfully skipping. replay.ts imports iii-sdk as import type { ISdk } only, which is erased at compile time, so there's no runtime dependency to mock. The functions under test are pure and touch no KV. test/replay-sensitive.test.ts imports the same module and mocks nothing. Both the file and the full suite pass without it — adding the mock would be inert.

Full suite after all three: 1736 passed, 1 skipped.

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