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Summary

Fixes #1181.

IndexPersistence audits its own index flushes, and those rows dominate mem:audit — 59 876
of 84 028 entries (71%) on the store this was found on. They also sit outside what the log is
defined to hold: the policy at the top of src/functions/audit.ts scopes it to structural
deletions of user data, and an index shard write deletes none.

What this changes

auditIndexPersistence() returns early unless AGENTMEMORY_AUDIT_INDEX_PERSIST is set to
1 or true. Everything else is untouched — shards, manifests and cleanups are written
exactly as before, only the audit rows about them stop.

Off by default because the default should match the stated policy. The flag exists because
these rows are genuinely useful when debugging index persistence itself, which is when you
want them and the only time the volume is acceptable.

Why not retention

Retention would cap the symptom for every operation at once, which is a bigger design question
— what to keep, for how long, and whether a deletion record may ever expire. It deserves its
own issue. This change needs no such decision: the policy already exists and this code sits
outside it.

Behaviour

An install that wants the rows back sets one environment variable. An install that does not
loses nothing it was entitled to under the documented policy, and memory_audit stops paying
~2.2 s to read rows about shard writes.

Testing

test/index-persistence.test.ts gains three cases: no index_persist rows by default, rows
present when the flag is set, and the index still round-trips through save()/load() with
auditing off — the last one guards against gating more than the audit call.

  • npx vitest run --exclude test/integration.test.ts → 1599 passed, 0 failed.
  • npx tsc --noEmit → 25 errors, identical to main.
  • npm run skills:check and npm run build clean.

plugin/skills/agentmemory-config/REFERENCE.md is the generator's output for the new variable
(npm run skills:gen), not a hand edit.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added an environment setting to control index-persistence auditing.
    • Auditing is enabled only when the setting is explicitly set to 1 or true, ignoring case and surrounding whitespace.
    • Unset or unrecognized values keep auditing disabled.
  • Documentation

    • Updated the configuration reference with the new setting.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Index persistence continues to work normally when auditing is disabled.

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Index persistence auditing is now opt-in through AGENTMEMORY_AUDIT_INDEX_PERSIST. The configuration reference documents the variable, and tests cover disabled auditing, explicit enablement, rejected values, and unaffected index persistence.

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Index persistence audit gating

Layer / File(s) Summary
Add the audit environment switch
src/state/index-persistence.ts, plugin/skills/agentmemory-config/REFERENCE.md
Index persistence auditing runs only when AGENTMEMORY_AUDIT_INDEX_PERSIST is 1 or true, after trimming and case normalization. The configuration reference lists the variable.
Validate audit gating and persistence
test/index-persistence.test.ts
Tests verify default-disabled auditing, explicit enablement, rejected values, environment restoration, and continued index save and load behavior when auditing is disabled.

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The change makes index-persistence audit rows opt-in while preserving index persistence behavior; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly states that index_persist audit entries are now opt-in, which matches the primary change.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes implement issue #1181 by disabling index_persist auditing by default while preserving index persistence and documenting and testing the new opt-in variable.
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825-836: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover all accepted environment values.

auditIndexPersistEnabled() accepts trimmed, case-insensitive "1" and "true". This test covers only "1". Add cases for "true", " TRUE ", and rejected values such as "0" and "yes".

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In `@test/index-persistence.test.ts` around lines 825 - 836, Expand the audit
index-persistence test around auditIndexPersistEnabled() to cover accepted
values "true" and whitespace-padded, case-insensitive " TRUE ", in addition to
"1". Add rejected-value cases for "0" and "yes", asserting enabled values
produce index_persist entries and rejected values do not.
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In `@test/index-persistence.test.ts`:
- Around line 798-806: Update the test suite’s beforeEach and afterEach hooks to
isolate AGENTMEMORY_AUDIT_INDEX_PERSIST: capture its original value before
clearing it in beforeEach, then restore that captured value in afterEach instead
of always deleting the variable. Keep fake-timer setup and teardown unchanged.

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In `@test/index-persistence.test.ts`:
- Around line 825-836: Expand the audit index-persistence test around
auditIndexPersistEnabled() to cover accepted values "true" and
whitespace-padded, case-insensitive " TRUE ", in addition to "1". Add
rejected-value cases for "0" and "yes", asserting enabled values produce
index_persist entries and rejected values do not.
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Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Zhukov <dmitry0983@gmail.com>
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dmazhukov force-pushed the fix/1181-index-persist-audit-optin branch from a5cd715 to 2f2c2c8 Compare August 17, 2026 04:29
AGENTMEMORY_* variables are documented as living in ~/.agentmemory/.env,
so the suite can inherit AGENTMEMORY_AUDIT_INDEX_PERSIST from a
configured machine. The default-off case then ran with auditing on and
failed, and afterEach deleted whatever value the developer had set.

Capture and restore around each case, and cover the whole vocabulary the
parser accepts — trimmed and case-insensitive 1/true — plus the values an
operator would reach for to turn it off.

Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Zhukov <dmitry0983@gmail.com>
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