skills: refresh vendored mempalace snapshot a12fe5e -> e9e09d9, re-pin the canary
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Folded into v1.8.13 at zero marginal cost: the snapshot is hashed into
base_tag, but Dockerfile.base already changed this release, so the ~67 min base
rebuild was already being paid. vendor-mempalace-skill.sh --check reported exit
0 (stale-but-truthful) beforehand, so skipping was sanctioned -- this is the
deliberate call the release checklist asks for. Upstream content: the bare
project-name wing convention and the <harness>@<device> added_by rule, both
downstream of the attribution defect measured on this device 2026-09-06.

The canary re-pin matters more than the refresh. Its old pair ("Provenance is
stamped for you" present / "Attribute what you file yourself" absent) still
PASSED against the new snapshot, so leaving it would have yielded a canary
green on both old and new bytes -- blind to exactly the refresh it exists to
witness, the same false-green family as the pre-v1.8.5 canary. New pair chosen
by measuring direction against both files rather than reading the diff
("Diaries self-heal; plain drawers do not" new=1/old=0; "Agent diaries live in"
new=0/old=1), then tested two-sided: PASS on refreshed bytes, FAIL on the old
bytes recovered from git.

Gates after the change: smoke-test.sh parses, vendor --check exit 0,
check-base-hash exit 0.
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@@ -587,9 +587,31 @@ Two consequences worth internalising:
### Wings
Wings are top-level categories, typically one per project or domain:
- Named after the project directory (e.g., `cli_utils`, `opencode_devbox`)
- Agent diaries live in `wing_<agent_name>` (e.g., `wing_orchestrator`, `wing_pi`)
Wings are top-level categories, typically one per project or domain.
**NAMING CONVENTION — decided 2026-09-06 by Joakim: bare project names, no `wing_`
prefix.** `home-network`, `pi-devbox`, `mempalace-toolkit` — *not* `wing_pi-devbox`. The
mass is already there (`pi-devbox` 2061 drawers vs `wing_pi-devbox` 25), and a prefix
present on some wings and absent on others turns every read into a guess about which
spelling holds the content.
- Named after the project directory or domain (e.g., `cli_utils`, `home-network`)
- **Always pass `wing` explicitly to `diary_write`.** Omitting it defaults to
`wing_{agent_name}`, which mints or feeds a *parallel* wing — this tool default, not
anyone's sloppiness, is the mechanism that produced the drift. Measured harm
(2026-09-06, `pi@mbp-m1-2020`): a diary entry written with `agent_name=pi` and no
`wing` landed in `wing_pi` while that agent's history lives in `pi-devbox`, so a
`diary_read` scoped to `pi-devbox` showed **no trace of it**. A wing-scoped read that
silently returns an incomplete history is the worst failure mode a memory store has.
- **Legacy `wing_*` wings are frozen and documented, not renamed.** `wing_conversations`
(written by the session feeders), `wing_pi`, `wing_pi-devbox`, `wing_pi-tor-ms22`,
`wing_pi-devbox-emb7kj`, `wing_mempalace`, `wing_orchestrator`, `wing_code` all still
hold real content. **When searching for history, check both spellings** — this is the
practical cost of the drift and it does not go away by decree.
- If a migration is ever done, the acceptance criterion must be at the **relationship**
level: chunk ids still resolve to their parent, and `diary_read` returns the same entry
set before and after. Per-wing drawer counts can look correct while the relationships
underneath are broken, because a count query never touches them.
#### Shared palace: multiple harnesses, and possibly multiple machines
@@ -609,7 +631,7 @@ Zechner's pi-coding-agent). Implications:
When the palace is **central** (shared across machines), these further things apply:
- **Check which machine a conversation came from.** Transcripts are fed per device, so `source_path` reads `…/mempalace-feed/<device>/pi_<uuid>.jsonl` while the displayed `source_file` is only the basename. One search can legitimately return hits from several machines at once — look at the device segment before attributing a decision to *this* project.
- **Provenance is stamped for you — leave it alone.** Drawers carry `device` and `agent_kind` metadata (plus `device_source`/`agent_kind_source` recording *how* each was determined, so an inference is never mistaken for a fact). You do **not** set these, and you no longer set `added_by` either: the pi bridge defaults the writer field to `<harness>@<device>` on `add_drawer`/`checkpoint`/`mine`/`event_append`/`artifact_put`, and prefixes diary entries with `HOST:<device>|`, from host-supplied `$MEMPALACE_PI_DEVICE`. RFC 001 §7.3.2 ranks "agent stamps it via a skill instruction" as the *worst possible* place for exactly the reason you would expect — it is per-call boilerplate that gets forgotten, and it did: the agent who wrote the previous version of this bullet then filed its own provenance drawer as `added_by=checkpoint`. **Confirm the bridge in your image actually stamps before trusting it:** the extension is baked at image build time, so a container on an image older than the stamping commit (pi-devbox < v1.8.7) stamps nothing while still satisfying both gates — the env vars are set and the code is simply absent. Check with `grep -c MEMPALACE_PI_DEVICE "$(readlink -f ~/.pi/agent/extensions/mempalace.ts)"`; zero means keep passing `added_by="<harness>@<device>"` and a manual `HOST:<device>|` diary prefix until the container is recreated on a newer image. Two things remain yours: pass `source_drawer_id` on `kg_add` (triples have no provenance field, so that pointer is the only path back to a device), and pass an explicit `added_by` **only** when deliberately filing on behalf of another device. Never invent values for `device`/`agent_kind`/`origin_device` — a fabricated value is worse than a blank, because it silently corrupts a future merge.
- **Provenance is stamped for you — leave it alone.** Drawers carry `device` and `agent_kind` metadata (plus `device_source`/`agent_kind_source` recording *how* each was determined, so an inference is never mistaken for a fact). You do **not** set these, and you no longer set `added_by` either: the pi bridge defaults the writer field to `<harness>@<device>` on `add_drawer`/`checkpoint`/`mine`/`event_append`/`artifact_put`, and prefixes diary entries with `HOST:<device>|`, from host-supplied `$MEMPALACE_PI_DEVICE`. RFC 001 §7.3.2 ranks "agent stamps it via a skill instruction" as the *worst possible* place for exactly the reason you would expect — it is per-call boilerplate that gets forgotten, and it did: the agent who wrote the previous version of this bullet then filed its own provenance drawer as `added_by=checkpoint`. **Confirm the bridge in your image actually stamps before trusting it:** the extension is baked at image build time, so a container on an image older than the stamping commit (pi-devbox < v1.8.7) stamps nothing while still satisfying both gates — the env vars are set and the code is simply absent. Check with `grep -c MEMPALACE_PI_DEVICE "$(readlink -f ~/.pi/agent/extensions/mempalace.ts)"`; zero means keep passing `added_by="<harness>@<device>"` and a manual `HOST:<device>|` diary prefix until the container is recreated on a newer image. Two things remain yours: pass `source_drawer_id` on `kg_add` (triples have no provenance field, so that pointer is the only path back to a device), and pass an explicit `added_by` **only** when deliberately filing on behalf of another device — and when you do, it **must** be `<harness>@<device>`. A bare nickname (`pi-devbox-claude`) has no `@device` to parse, so `agent_at_device` cannot attribute it and the drawer is unattributable *by rule*, not by lag: it survives every future stamp run with no `device`, and on a shared palace a device-less drawer is one nobody can later scope, audit or clean up per machine. Measured 2026-09-06: 11 drawers on `tor-ms22` were filed this way — including the credential rows, i.e. exactly where "which machine measured this?" matters most — by an agent that had passed its own chosen nickname on every call. Its *diary* entries escaped, because `HOST:<device>|` in the AAAK text recovers the device. **Diaries self-heal; plain drawers do not.** The safest habit is the one above: pass nothing and let the bridge stamp. Never invent values for `device`/`agent_kind`/`origin_device` — a fabricated value is worse than a blank, because it silently corrupts a future merge.
- **Metadata is invisible to search — so check the text, not the fields.** `search` results are built from a fixed key list and `diary_read` returns content, so neither ever shows `device`/`added_by`. Only `mempalace_get_drawer` reveals them. This is why diary entries carry an in-text `HOST:<device>` marker: it is the only attribution a reader actually sees. **A diary entry with no `HOST:` marker predates the convention and may be from any machine — do not assume it is this one's history.**
- **Mined drawers carry the MINE date, not the session date.** When history is imported, or re-mined on the palace host, `filed_at`/`created_at` is the *import* time — so sorting by them does not give chronological order. Real session time is recoverable from the UUIDv7 in `pi_<uuid>.jsonl`: the first 12 hex digits are milliseconds since the epoch (and UUIDv7 sorts lexicographically in time order, so a plain filename sort is already chronological). Agent-authored drawers and diaries have no such backdoor — for those `filed_at` is the only chronology, which is why it must never be restamped.
- **Beware the timezone mismatch when you combine those.** Palace `filed_at`/`created_at` are naive timestamps in the palace host's local time, while a UUIDv7 decodes to UTC. Comparing them directly introduces a silent offset (2 h for a CEST host). Normalise before drawing conclusions about ordering.