Preserve the section delimiter in namespace enumeration

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What changed and why

Follow-up to #114. That PR added the section surface (tinymemory::sections), which finds a section's scopes by parsing what a driver's namespaces() reports. A P1 review finding on it turned out to be real, and was not fixed before #114 merged — so main currently ships the section API with this bug live.

The bug. UnifiedMemory::sanitize_namespace maps every character outside [A-Za-z0-9\-_/] to _, and namespace_summaries_blocking returned the memory_docs.namespace column verbatim. So a write to conversation:thread-8f21 was stored and enumerated as conversation_thread-8f21, which Namespace::parse reads as unsectioned. Against the production store, scopes(), list_section() and across_section() therefore all returned empty after writes that had succeeded. Point reads and writes were unaffected.

It went unnoticed because the bundled example and #114's tests bind InMemoryMemoryStore, not UnifiedMemory.

Why not simply allow :

Widening the allow-list was the obvious fix and is the wrong one:

• The sanitised value becomes a real filesystem directory via namespace_dir(), and clear_namespace calls remove_dir_all on that path. The narrow allow-list is a path-traversal defence — its own comment explains the leading-/ hazard.
• : is illegal in a Windows filename, and on NTFS denotes an alternate data stream.
• The same funnel performs the #5164 PII redaction that keeps a national ID from becoming a storage address.

The fix: separate the address from the name

• memory_docs.namespace is unchanged — same characters, still what addresses the row and names the directory. Path safety and PII redaction are untouched.
• New nullable memory_docs.logical_namespace carries canonical_identifier(namespace): delimiter-preserving, still PII-redacted.
• namespace_summaries reports COALESCE(logical_namespace, namespace).
• Both production upserts (upsert_document_presanitized, upsert_document_metadata_only_presanitized) populate it, including in the ON CONFLICT ... DO UPDATE SET clause, so a pre-migration row heals when it is next written.
• The migration is additive and idempotent, via the existing apply_additive_migration helper.

The backfill is deliberately a no-op

A row written before this migration has logical_namespace = NULL and keeps exactly its previous behaviour. Nothing tries to turn an old _ back into a : — that mapping is not invertible, since a scope may legitimately contain _, and guessing would silently relabel unrelated namespaces into a section they were never written to. This is a real, stated limitation rather than a silent one.

Conformance

Adds assert_namespaces_preserve_their_section, wired into assert_provider: a driver may re-address a namespace to suit its store, but it may not change which section the name belongs to. The absence of exactly this assertion is why the divergence went unnoticed — the suite only ever asserted the Some(namespace) recall case.

It was verified to fail for the right reason by temporarily mangling the reference driver's namespaces() to reproduce the bug, then reverted; the reference driver's diff against main is empty.

No new dependency: it uses tinymemory_api::namespace::Namespace, which the contract crate already re-exports.

Public API changes

None to tinymemory or tinymemory-api. tinymemory-conformance gains one exported assertion (additive). The memory_docs schema gains one nullable column.

Validation

• cargo fmt --all -- --check — clean
• cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings — 0 warnings
• cargo build --all-targets --all-features — clean
• cargo test --all-features — 0 failed
• cargo test -p tinymemory-core --lib namespace_summaries — 4 passed
• cargo test -p tinymemory-tinycortex --test full_provider_conformance — 26 passed
• cargo test -p tinymemory-conformance — 3 passed

The important one is the third: full_provider_conformance binds MemoryClient::from_workspace_dir, a real on-disk SQLite workspace, and now runs the new assertion. That is the production-path proof #114 lacked.

TDD evidence: each test was confirmed red first — namespace_summaries_reports_sectioned_namespace_verbatim failed with expected conversation:thread-8f21 in [NamespaceSummary { namespace: "conversation_thread-8f21", ... }], and the documents_tests.rs pair failed with no such column: logical_namespace.

Note on the merge

This branch merges current main, which had advanced past #114. Upstream had extracted the inline mod tests blocks in memory_trait.rs and init.rs into separate *_tests.rs files; the conflicts were resolved as a union — every upstream test is preserved (verified by diffing test-function names against upstream/main) with this branch's tests inserted alongside.

One change outside the conflicted files was needed to compile: upstream added ComposioMode::gmail_sync_query, and EngineRuntimeConfig::composio() builds that literal. Set to None, which the field documents as "the whole inbox window", matching the existing api_key / triage_disabled treatment in the same literal and reproducing prior behaviour exactly.

Still open, deliberately

namespace: None on MemoryRecall::recall remains unspecified in practice — documented as GLOBAL_NAMESPACE, implemented that way by the embedded engine, treated as all namespaces by the reference driver. It needs its own contract sentence and suite assertion. The section surface is built to not depend on it.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Sectioned namespaces remain addressable when listed and queried.
  • Existing stores automatically add namespace metadata without manual migration.
  • Conformance checks verify that providers preserve namespace sections.

• Bug Fixes

  • Namespace summaries report stable logical names while supporting older records.
  • Sensitive information is redacted from namespace metadata while section delimiters are preserved.
  • Logical namespaces sharing a storage address are consistently merged.
  • Custom conversation aliases work with cross-session recall.
  • Sectioned namespace context queries now return matching results.

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The change stores logical namespace labels beside sanitized physical namespaces. Reads, listings, deletion, summaries, and queries use physical-address behavior while returning logical labels. Migrations, tests, and conformance checks cover section preservation. The Composio configuration sets gmail_sync_query to None.

Changes

Sectioned Namespace Preservation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Logical namespace schema and writes crates/tinymemory-core/src/store/namespace_store/..., crates/tinymemory-core/src/store/safety/mod.rs	Adds the nullable logical_namespace column and migration. Both document upsert paths store redacted, delimiter-preserving logical namespaces.
Physical namespace addressability crates/tinymemory-core/src/store/memory_trait.rs, crates/tinymemory-core/src/store/namespace_store/query.rs, crates/tinymemory-core/src/store/...tests.rs	get, list, forget, summaries, and namespace queries use sanitized physical namespaces. Colliding logical names remain merged, while returned rows retain logical labels.
Conformance and section behavior crates/tinymemory-conformance/src/..., crates/tinymemory/src/sections/test.rs, docs/specs/memory-section-api.md	Adds and exports the retaining-provider section assertion. Updates the conversation alias test and documents merged collision behavior and sectioned query coverage.

Composio Configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Composio Gmail query default crates/tinymemory-tinycortex/src/engine/mod.rs	Sets gmail_sync_query to None in the Composio configuration.

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Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to dc2a0

Section-aware enumeration is still incomplete: list_namespaces can return sanitized names without their section, and colliding logical aliases can overwrite a stored document. This can make valid data disappear from listings or be lost, so the PR should not merge until these cases are addressed.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Provider
  participant NamespaceStore
  participant memory_docs
  Provider->>NamespaceStore: upsert conversation:scope
  NamespaceStore->>memory_docs: store sanitized namespace and logical_namespace
  Provider->>NamespaceStore: get, list, forget, or query
  NamespaceStore->>memory_docs: address by sanitized physical namespace
  memory_docs-->>Provider: return merged rows with logical labels

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The store records its label right
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Return logical labels from list_namespaces.

Line 582 selects the physical namespace value only. A row written under conversation:thread-8f21 is therefore enumerated as conversation_thread-8f21, so callers lose the section and can repeat the original enumeration failure.

Group by the physical address, but select COALESCE(MIN(logical_namespace), namespace) as namespace. Add a sectioned-namespace regression test for this method.

Proposed fix

-            .prepare("SELECT DISTINCT namespace FROM memory_docs ORDER BY namespace")
+            .prepare(
+                "SELECT COALESCE(MIN(logical_namespace), namespace) AS namespace
+                 FROM memory_docs
+                 GROUP BY namespace
+                 ORDER BY namespace",
+            )

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In `@crates/tinymemory-core/src/store/namespace_store/documents.rs` at line 582,
Update list_namespaces to select COALESCE(MIN(logical_namespace), namespace)
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