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Root cause

MemoryStore.load_queries(pairs, upsert=True) upserts every pair in the batch by
nl_query, but never removes a row whose nl_query is no longer in the batch. The
three call sites that treat knowledge/sql/*.md as the complete source of truth for
query_history (cli.py's index and watch commands, and index_backend.py's
LanceDBIndex.rebuild) all pass the current markdown pairs straight through this
upsert-only call, so a deleted or renamed example is never forgotten and keeps
surfacing in semantic recall. check() already computes exactly this drift (stale = indexed_user - md_nls) and tells the user to fix it by running index, but index
does not actually clear it.

Fix

Add MemoryStore.sync_markdown_queries(pairs): upserts as before, then lists the
current rows and forgets any whose source is not seed/view and whose nl_query is
absent from pairs, mirroring check()'s own "stale" definition on the write path
instead of only the read-only report. The three call sites above now use it.

Verification

  • New regression tests in tests/unit/test_memory.py (TestMarkdownSourcedIndex):
    deleting a markdown example and re-syncing forgets the row and it no longer recalls;
    seed/view rows survive a sync even though they have no markdown file; deleting every
    markdown example forgets every markdown-sourced row; wren memory index and wren memory watch --reindex-on-start both forget a deleted pair end to end through the
    CLI. Each fails on unmodified main and passes on this branch (Docker, Python 3.11,
    WREN_EMBEDDING_MODEL=paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2).
  • pytest tests/unit/test_memory.py: 102 passed.
  • pytest tests/unit/ --ignore=tests/unit/test_memory.py --ignore=tests/unit/test_mcp_server.py:
    1236 passed, 3 pre-existing failures in test_served_content_guard.py unrelated to
    this change (confirmed identical on unmodified main).
  • ruff format --check src/ and ruff check src/: clean.
  • Not run: the postgres/mysql/ui CI legs (unaffected by this diff) and the
    mcp extra's tests.

Fixes #2702

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Markdown-based memory indexes now remove stale queries when source files are deleted.
    • Empty Markdown sources correctly clear previously indexed queries.
    • Seed, legacy, view, and manually loaded queries remain preserved during synchronization.
    • Markdown queries now correctly take precedence when overlapping with seed queries.
    • Indexing and watch reindexing consistently reflect additions, updates, and deletions.
    • Memory checks no longer incorrectly flag legacy or non-Markdown entries as stale.
    • Source-based filtering works correctly for entries with additional metadata.
    • Synchronization results report loaded, updated, and forgotten queries, including stale-query removals.
    • Legacy YAML imports are now identified consistently during export and synchronization.

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Markdown memory indexing now synchronizes the complete Markdown query set. It removes stale Markdown-synced pairs while preserving seed, view, user, and legacy pairs. CLI indexing and watch reindexing report forgotten pairs. Tests cover storage and CLI behavior.

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Markdown Memory Synchronization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Synchronize Markdown query pairs
core/wren/src/wren/memory/store.py
Adds sync_markdown_queries, a Markdown synchronization marker, source parsing helpers, and marker-based stale-row cleanup. Source filters now parse source: tokens with extra tags.
Use synchronization during indexing
core/wren/src/wren/memory/cli.py, core/wren/src/wren/memory/index_backend.py
Indexing and watch reindexing always synchronize Markdown pairs. Legacy YAML pairs receive source: legacy. The check command scopes drift detection to Markdown-synchronized rows.
Validate synchronization behavior
core/wren/tests/unit/test_memory.py
Tests verify stale-row cleanup, collision handling, source filtering, and preservation of seed, view, user, and legacy rows.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 807d7

Markdown examples deleted or renamed while indexing with --no-queries can remain available in semantic recall, leaving users with obsolete query suggestions. Move Markdown synchronization outside this option's guard and cover the deletion scenario before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MemoryCLI
  participant LanceDBIndex
  participant MemoryStore
  participant LanceDB
  MemoryCLI->>LanceDBIndex: Rebuild with current Markdown pairs
  LanceDBIndex->>MemoryStore: sync_markdown_queries(pairs)
  MemoryStore->>LanceDB: Upsert pairs with Markdown sync marker
  MemoryStore->>LanceDB: Read marked indexed rows
  MemoryStore->>LanceDB: Delete marked stale rows
  MemoryStore-->>LanceDBIndex: Return loaded, updated, and forgotten counts
  LanceDBIndex-->>MemoryCLI: Report synchronization results
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A rabbit marks each Markdown pair
Fresh queries hop into the store
Stale marked rows leave
Legacy rows remain safe
The index reports each change

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly describes the main change: removing stale query_history rows after Markdown-backed knowledge changes during reindexing.
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Good catch, thanks. sync_markdown_queries called load_queries(pairs, upsert=True), whose delete step keyed only on nl_query, not source, so a markdown pair could clobber a seed or view row with the same nl. Fixed in f075ee7: markdown pairs are now filtered against existing seed/view nl_query values before the upsert, with a regression test that reproduces the collision and fails without the fix.

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651-666: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not exempt Markdown rows based only on their frontmatter source.

load_query_pairs accepts the Markdown source value and load_queries persists it as source:<value>. If a Markdown file uses source:seed or source:view, Line 665 excludes its row from stale deletion after that file is removed. Track Markdown provenance separately, or normalize/reject protected source values during Markdown synchronization.

Proposed regression test
+write_query_markdown(tmp_path, "Total revenue", "SELECT 1", source="seed")
+memory_store.sync_markdown_queries(load_query_pairs(tmp_path))
+(tmp_path / "knowledge" / "sql" / "total-revenue.md").unlink()
+memory_store.sync_markdown_queries(load_query_pairs(tmp_path))
+assert memory_store.count_queries_by_source("seed") == 0
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In `@core/wren/src/wren/memory/store.py` around lines 651 - 666, Update
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separately from the persisted source tag; do not classify Markdown rows as
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Verdict: request changes — 1 blocking.

The bug in #2702 is real and commit b4de068f fixes it correctly. The follow-up commit f075ee77 ("protect seed/view rows from a markdown-sync nl collision") introduces a worse regression than the one it fixes, and the PR's own test encodes the regression as intended behaviour.

🔴 Blocking — the seed-collision pre-filter permanently drops user-authored examples

sync_markdown_queries filters markdown pairs against existing seed/view nl_query values before the upsert. A knowledge/sql/*.md file whose NL matches a generated seed NL (seeds are formulaic: List all {model}, Total {col} in {model}) is then never indexed, and any previously-indexed row for it is deleted as "stale".

Reproduced against this branch (f075ee77), a project with one orders model:

$ wren memory index
Indexed 2 schema items, 1 seed queries.

$ wren memory store --nl "List all orders" --sql "SELECT id FROM orders WHERE status <> 'test'"
Stored: knowledge/sql/list-all-orders.md

$ wren memory index
Indexed 0 pair(s) from knowledge/sql/. Forgot 1 stale pair(s).

The pair a user just confirmed is deleted on the next routine reindex and reported as stale while its markdown file is sitting on disk. Consequences:

  • wren memory check enters the same unfixable loop this PR set out to fix, inverted. It reports 1 not indexed — run 'wren memory index' on every run, and index can never clear it (verified across 3 consecutive index runs).
  • Recall silently serves the wrong SQL under the user's own filename. _annotate_markdown_paths matches on exact NL, so the surviving seed row gets annotated with path = knowledge/sql/list-all-orders.md while carrying SELECT * FROM orders LIMIT 100 — not what that file contains.

Same scenario on main and on this PR's first commit b4de068f: Indexed 1 pair(s) from knowledge/sql/., checkIn sync., recall returns the user's SQL. So the regression is entirely the 8-line pre-filter added in f075ee77.

test_sync_preserves_seed_row_whose_nl_collides_with_markdown_pair asserts result["loaded"] == 0 and total == 1 — i.e. it locks in the dropped markdown pair as correct, which is why the rest of the suite stays green.

Suggested fix: drop the pre-filter (revert the store.py hunk of f075ee77). The premise of that commit — that the upsert "silently deleted a protected row" — overstates the harm: seed rows are regenerated from the manifest by index_schema on every index/watch reindex, so a clobbered seed is self-healing, whereas a dropped markdown pair is permanent. Explicit user content should win over an auto-generated seed, which is what main does today. If seed precedence really is wanted, it needs to at minimum (a) not leave check in a permanent unfixable state and (b) tell the user their file was skipped.

🟡 The fix's own premise breaks when a legacy queries.yml is present

In index, sync_markdown_queries runs before the legacy queries.yml loader in the same command. Those pairs are not markdown-backed, so every run deletes and re-embeds them:

--- index run 2 ---
Indexed 1 pair(s) from knowledge/sql/. Forgot 1 stale pair(s).
Loaded 1 pair(s) from queries.yml (legacy) (0 skipped).
--- index run 3 ---            # identical, forever

Forgot 1 stale pair(s) is reported on every run for a pair that is not stale and is re-added two lines later, plus an unnecessary embedding round-trip each time. check still reports the drift afterwards, so the claim that index now clears what check reports does not hold here. Consider running the sync after the legacy load, feeding the yml pairs into the sync's current set, or tagging them source:legacy and adding that to _NON_MARKDOWN_SOURCES.

🔵 Minor

  1. _tag_source duplicates cli._parse_source verbatim, and _NON_MARKDOWN_SOURCES duplicates check()'s inline ("seed", "view"). The whole design rests on the write path mirroring check()'s read path exactly — share one helper and one constant so they cannot drift.
  2. wren memory load (YAML import) becomes ephemeral. Its rows are not markdown-backed, so the next index/watch silently deletes them. Defensible under "markdown is the source of truth", but it is currently undocumented and silent for a supported command — worth a note in docs/cli.md and/or a warning.
  3. Performance: a sync now materialises the whole query_history table via to_pandas() 4–5 times (two list_queries(limit=1_000_000) + _existing_pairs_index + forget_queries_by_ids). watch runs this on every detected change; the stale ids could come from a single snapshot.
  4. limit=1_000_000 as an "all rows" idiom silently truncates past 1M (same idiom as check); an explicit no-limit path would be clearer.
  5. sync_markdown_queries rebinds its pairs parameter — minor readability.
  6. When only forgotten is non-zero the message reads Indexed 0 pair(s) from knowledge/sql/. Forgot N stale pair(s). — slightly awkward phrasing.
  7. LanceDBIndex.rebuild() has no production callers (tests only), so its return-shape change is safe; the PR description's "three call sites" is really two live ones.
  8. The branch is based on 56e007da, ~15 commits behind main (4000bea0). Still mergeable, but worth a rebase.

Verification performed: pytest tests/unit/test_memory.py → 103 passed; ruff format --check src/ and ruff check src/ clean; behavioural repro of findings 1 and 2 run against main, b4de068f, and f075ee77 (Python 3.11, WREN_EMBEDDING_MODEL=paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2).

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load_queries(pairs, upsert=True) only upserts nl_query values present in the
current batch, so a row whose markdown example was deleted or renamed stays
in query_history forever and keeps being recalled, even though `wren memory
check` tells the user that re-running `wren memory index` fixes it.

Add MemoryStore.sync_markdown_queries(pairs), which upserts and then forgets
any non-seed/non-view row whose nl_query is absent from the current markdown
set, using the same "stale" definition check() already reports. Use it at
the three call sites that treat knowledge/sql/*.md as the complete source of
truth: cli.py's index and watch commands, and index_backend.py's
LanceDBIndex.rebuild.

Fixes Canner#2702
sync_markdown_queries called load_queries(pairs, upsert=True), whose
upsert path deletes every existing row sharing a pair's nl_query
regardless of its source tag. A markdown pair whose nl happened to
match an existing seed or view row's nl_query silently deleted that
protected row and replaced it with a markdown-sourced one, defeating
the seed/view exclusion the rest of the method already applies to its
own forgotten-row computation two lines below.

Filter markdown pairs against existing seed/view nl_query values
before the upsert call, so a colliding pair is skipped instead of
clobbering the protected row.
f075ee7's pre-filter excluded a markdown pair from sync_markdown_queries
whenever its nl_query matched an existing seed/view row, to keep the
upsert from clobbering the protected row. In practice this permanently
drops the markdown pair instead: seed nl text is formulaic (e.g. "List
all orders"), a colliding user-authored example is skipped forever, its
row still gets deleted as stale by the exact filter below it since the
markdown pair is no longer indexed, and check/index enter a loop that no
reindex clears. Revert the filter: a seed row is regenerated by
index_schema() on every reindex, so letting the upsert overwrite it (as
it always has) is self-healing, while a dropped markdown pair is not.
Renamed and rewrote the regression test the pre-filter added to assert
this instead.

Separately, tag queries.yml pairs loaded by index() as source:legacy and
add "legacy" to store._NON_MARKDOWN_SOURCES, so sync_markdown_queries no
longer treats them as stale and re-embeds them on every run. check()'s
own stale filter duplicated that set as a hardcoded ("seed", "view")
tuple, which would otherwise keep reporting a legacy pair as unindexed
drift that index() can never clear; it now imports the same constant.
cli._parse_source duplicated store._tag_source verbatim, so it now
delegates to it instead of drifting from it a second way.

Adds a CLI-level test covering two consecutive index+check cycles on a
project with only a legacy queries.yml, and a store-level test for
sync_markdown_queries leaving a legacy row alone.
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You are right about the blocking issue. Reverted the store.py hunk from f075ee77 as suggested: the pre-filter is gone, a markdown pair now wins over a colliding seed row again, and test_sync_preserves_seed_row_whose_nl_collides_with_markdown_pair is rewritten as test_sync_lets_a_markdown_pair_win_over_a_colliding_seed_row to assert that instead of the regression.

Also fixed the queries.yml ordering problem: index() now tags legacy pairs source:legacy and _NON_MARKDOWN_SOURCES includes legacy, so sync_markdown_queries stops deleting and re-embedding them every run. check() had its own hardcoded ("seed", "view") tuple for the same exclusion, so a legacy pair would still have read as permanent drift there even after this fix; it now imports the shared constant. Added a CLI test that runs index then check twice on a project with only a legacy queries.yml and asserts In sync. both times, plus a store-level test for the tagging itself.

Took your minor point 1 too: cli._parse_source now delegates to store._tag_source instead of duplicating it.

Left the rest of the minor list (to_pandas() call count, the limit=1_000_000 idiom, load's ephemeral-row behavior, the message phrasing, pairs rebinding) as filed, not fixed: none of them change behavior, and bundling them in risked losing the actual regression fix in more diff to review.

Rebased onto current main and re-ran pytest tests/unit/test_memory.py tests/unit/test_memory_watch.py tests/unit/test_index_backend.py tests/unit/test_memory_markdown.py (142 passed) plus ruff format --check / ruff check on src/ and the touched test file, all clean, before pushing.

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Verdict: request changes — 1 blocking.

The root-cause analysis is right, and the markdown-backed path works — verified end to end (wren memory storewren memory index keeps the row). The earlier seed pre-filter regression is correctly reverted in b4c1a980. The blocking problem is the scope of the new delete.

🔴 Blocking — sync_markdown_queries deletes rows that were never markdown-backed

sync_markdown_queries forgets every row whose source is not in _NON_MARKDOWN_SOURCES = {seed, view, legacy} and whose nl_query is absent from knowledge/sql/. But source:user is not a synonym for "came from markdown" — it is just the default source for any pair that doesn't say otherwise. Two live paths produce source:user rows with no markdown file, and both now lose data on the next wren memory index.

1. wren memory load <file>.yml — a documented, non-deprecated command that writes no markdown and defaults source to "user" (sources = Counter(p.get("source", "user") ...)load_queriestags = "source:user").

# this branch
$ wren memory load pairs.yml
Loaded 1 pair(s) (1 new).
$ wren memory index
Indexed 0 pair(s) from knowledge/sql/. Forgot 1 stale pair(s).
$ wren memory list
No pairs found.

# identical steps on main (8d23753e)
$ wren memory index
Indexed 0 schema items.
$ wren memory list
Revenue by region | SELECT region, SUM(amount) FROM o GROUP BY region | source:user
Showing 1-1 of 1 pairs.

The YAML file may live anywhere, or have been deleted after the import — there is nothing for a later index to restore from.

2. Existing users whose queries.yml has already been consumed. The new source: legacy tag only helps while queries.yml is still on disk. A user who imported it on an older version (rows land as source:user) and then removed the file loses those rows on their first index after upgrading:

# index on main with queries.yml present  → row stored as source:user
# user removes queries.yml, upgrades, runs index on this branch:
Indexed 0 pair(s) from knowledge/sql/. Forgot 1 stale pair(s).
$ wren memory list
No pairs found.

The in-place upgrade path where queries.yml is still present does self-heal (forget → reload as source:legacy; second run clean, check reports "In sync.") — I verified that separately. It is only the consumed-and-removed case that is unrecoverable, and that is the expected end state for a file the code itself describes as transitional.

Worth naming explicitly: check() previously only reported these as drift. Turning that report into an unconditional delete is the actual change in blast radius, and neither the PR description nor the CLI output warns that anything is being destroyed permanently.

Suggested directions, in order of preference:

  • Track provenance instead of inferring it. Tag rows written by the markdown sync distinctly (e.g. source:markdown, or record the originating pathload_query_pairs already returns it) and forget only rows carrying that provenance. "Don't delete what you didn't write" removes the whole class of bug rather than enumerating exemptions.
  • Minimal stopgap (still leaves a hole for an explicit source: user inside a loaded YAML): default wren memory load to a non-markdown source and add it to _NON_MARKDOWN_SOURCES.
  • Either way, consider making the destructive step opt-in for one release (index --prune, or list what would be dropped and require a flag), since existing indexes contain source:user rows of unknowable provenance.

Verification behind the above: real CLI runs on this branch and on main with WREN_MEMORY_BACKEND=lancedb and WREN_EMBEDDING_MODEL=paraphrase-MiniLM-L3-v2; pytest tests/unit/test_memory.py → 105 passed on this branch.

…m source

sync_markdown_queries's forget step scoped its stale scan to any row whose
source wasn't in {seed, view, legacy}, which is not the same set as "rows
this sync wrote". source:user is also what wren memory load gives a pair
with no source of its own, and what a pre-source:legacy queries.yml import
already carried, so both lost their data permanently on the next
wren memory index even though neither was ever markdown-backed.

Tag every row the sync's own upsert writes with an explicit
_MARKDOWN_SYNC_TAG token (kept separate from the source: tag) and scope the
forget scan to that tag instead of the source exclusion list, so the sync
only ever deletes a row it wrote itself. list_queries, count_queries_by_source,
dump_queries and forget_queries_by_source filtered on an exact match against
the whole tags string, which the extra token would have broken for every
markdown-synced row; switched them to parse the source token instead.

Adds coverage for a view row surviving the same way seed/legacy already did,
for the wren memory load scenario, for a pre-upgrade queries.yml import with
the file already gone, and for --source filtering across the new tag.
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You're right. source:user isn't evidence of markdown backing, it's also what wren memory load defaults to and what a pre-source:legacy queries.yml import already carried.

Went with your first option. sync_markdown_queries's own upsert now tags every row it writes with an explicit provenance marker separate from the source: tag, and the forget scan is scoped to that marker instead of the seed/view/legacy exclusion list, so it only ever deletes a row it wrote itself. wren memory load rows and pre-upgrade legacy imports never carry it.

That marker broke list_queries/count_queries_by_source/dump_queries/forget_queries_by_source, which matched tags by exact string equality against "source:X" and would have gone blind to every markdown-synced row with --source user. Fixed all four to parse the source token instead.

Skipped the opt-in-for-a-release suggestion: the provenance fix already narrows the delete to what this method wrote, which was the actual bug, so I left that bigger change for you to weigh in on.

Tested: reproduced your wren memory load repro on unpatched code (same "Forgot 1 stale pair(s)" then "No pairs found"), confirmed it survives on the fix. Full tests/unit/test_memory.py: 110 passed, including the seed-collision test unchanged. Added coverage for a view row, the load scenario, a pre-upgrade queries.yml row with the file gone, and --source filtering against a tagged row. ruff clean, CI green.

Not checked: wren memory check still infers "not markdown-backed" the old way, so it can call a load row stale even though index is now a no-op for it. Left that for a follow-up. Also haven't tried this outside Linux.

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Reviewed against origin/main (4d167fc) vs head 79980f1, with the memory extras installed and the CLI exercised end to end. The root cause is correctly identified and sync_markdown_queries is the right home for the fix — the headline behaviour works (Indexed 1 pair(s) from knowledge/sql/. Forgot 1 stale pair(s)., and the deleted pair stops surfacing in recall).

Two blocking issues, both from one structural gap: the write path records markdown provenance via _MARKDOWN_SYNC_TAG, while check() still infers it from the source: name. One is a user-visible regression on the documented wren memory export migration path; the other silently widens what wren memory forget --source user deletes. Details and suggested changes are inline — five of them compose into one coherent end state, so please apply them together.

Two regression tests are still missing; these both fail on this branch as it stands and pass with the inline changes applied:

    def test_cli_export_then_index_reports_in_sync(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
        """`wren memory export` is the documented one-time migration, and it
        preserves each row's source into the markdown frontmatter -- so a
        legacy queries.yml pair lands in knowledge/sql/ as `source: legacy`.
        That file is markdown-backed like any other, so `check` must not read
        it as "not indexed".
        """
        pytest.importorskip("lancedb", reason="wren[memory] extras not installed")
        pytest.importorskip(
            "sentence_transformers", reason="wren[memory] extras not installed"
        )
        from typer.testing import CliRunner  # noqa: PLC0415

        from wren.cli import app  # noqa: PLC0415

        monkeypatch.setenv("WREN_PROJECT_HOME", str(tmp_path))
        monkeypatch.setenv("WREN_MEMORY_BACKEND", "lancedb")
        (tmp_path / "target").mkdir()
        (tmp_path / "target" / "mdl.json").write_text("{}", encoding="utf-8")
        (tmp_path / "queries.yml").write_text(
            "pairs:\n  - nl: Total revenue\n    sql: SELECT SUM(amount) FROM o\n",
            encoding="utf-8",
        )

        cli = CliRunner()
        assert cli.invoke(app, ["memory", "index"]).exit_code == 0
        export = cli.invoke(app, ["memory", "export"])
        assert export.exit_code == 0, export.output
        assert "source: legacy" in next(
            (tmp_path / "knowledge" / "sql").glob("*.md")
        ).read_text(encoding="utf-8")

        for _ in range(2):
            index_result = cli.invoke(app, ["memory", "index"])
            assert index_result.exit_code == 0, index_result.output
            check_result = cli.invoke(app, ["memory", "check"])
            assert check_result.exit_code == 0, check_result.output
            assert "In sync." in check_result.output

    def test_source_filters_ignore_rows_carrying_no_source_tag(self, memory_store):
        """`wren memory store` and the MCP `store_query` tool pass the caller's
        own free-form labels through to `tags` -- "revenue,finance", or nothing
        at all -- so a real index holds rows with no `source:` token. A
        `--source user` filter must not claim them, least of all `forget`.
        """
        memory_store.store_query(
            nl_query="A user-tagged pair", sql_query="SELECT 1", tags="revenue,finance"
        )
        memory_store.store_query(
            nl_query="An untagged pair", sql_query="SELECT 2", tags=None
        )
        memory_store.store_query(
            nl_query="A source-tagged pair", sql_query="SELECT 3", tags="source:user"
        )

        rows, total = memory_store.list_queries(limit=100, source="user")
        assert total == 1
        assert rows[0]["nl_query"] == "A source-tagged pair"
        assert memory_store.count_queries_by_source("user") == 1
        assert [r["nl_query"] for r in memory_store.dump_queries(source="user")] == [
            "A source-tagged pair"
        ]

        assert memory_store.forget_queries_by_source("user") == 1
        survivors, _ = memory_store.list_queries(limit=100)
        assert sorted(r["nl_query"] for r in survivors) == [
            "A user-tagged pair",
            "An untagged pair",
        ]

With every inline change plus both tests applied: ruff format --check src/ and ruff check src/ clean, and pytest tests/unit/ --ignore=tests/unit/test_mcp_server.py1359 passed, 1 skipped. (For what it's worth I don't reproduce the 3 test_served_content_guard.py failures the description mentions — they pass here.)

Two smaller notes, no action needed. forget_queries_by_source swapped an atomic table.delete(where) for a full-table read-modify-overwrite; that's defensible now that it shares the forget_queries_by_ids mechanism, but it loses atomicity and load_queries(overwrite=True) now does one full rewrite per distinct source — worth a line saying why that's acceptable. And LanceDBIndex.rebuild() has no production caller (tests only), so "three call sites" in the description is really two plus an interface method.

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…c's own provenance tag

check() and the write path defined "markdown-backed" two different ways.
check() inferred it from source (excluding seed/view/legacy), while
sync_markdown_queries records it explicitly via _MARKDOWN_SYNC_TAG. A
source:legacy pair exported by `wren memory export` lands in
knowledge/sql/ as source: legacy, which check() then excludes from its
own indexed set, so it reads as permanently "not indexed" and no repeated
`index` run can clear it. Switch check() to read the same provenance tag
the sync itself writes.

Separately, the --source filters (list/count/dump/forget) moved to
_tag_source(tags) == source, which defaulted an untagged row to "user".
A wren memory store / MCP store_query pair carries the caller's own
free-form tags (or none), so a bare --source user, including forget,
swept those rows up too. _tag_source now returns None for a row with no
source: token, and a new cli._parse_source keeps the "user" display
default for list/export output; it is not the same predicate as the
delete-scoping one.

Also drops _NON_MARKDOWN_SOURCES, whose only consumer was removed by the
check() change, and corrects two comments left describing the old
source-exclusion reasoning.

Adds regression coverage for both: an export-then-index-then-check round
trip, and --source filtering across store/load/sync-tagged rows mixed
with untagged ones.
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Applied all five inline suggestions together plus both regression tests, pushed to 807d7d4. Renamed indexed_user to indexed_md as you suggested and updated the two trailing comments and the stale-count message wording to match. Verified against the pushed commit: ruff format/check clean, tests/unit/test_memory.py 112/112 (your two new tests included). Left the two non-blocking notes as is since you said no action needed there.

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Run Markdown synchronization when --no-queries is set.

The enclosing if not no_queries block skips this call. The option documents that it skips queries.yml, not knowledge/sql/*.md. A caller who uses wren memory index --no-queries after deleting or renaming Markdown leaves stale Markdown-synced rows in query_history.

Move Markdown loading and sync_markdown_queries outside this guard. Keep only the legacy queries.yml import inside it. Add a CLI regression test for index --no-queries after a Markdown deletion.

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Thanks @AmirF194 👍

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goldmedal merged commit 10a6432 into Canner:main Sep 3, 2026
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Appreciate you catching the seed-collision regression and then the source:user gap, tracking provenance directly instead of inferring it is a much cleaner fix than what I had.

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AmirF194 deleted the fix/2702-memory-index-forget-deleted-pairs branch September 3, 2026 08:41
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