From bc7f4e324df6b05229b8db58ad750e1a7de04ce1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yvette Carlisle Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:49:25 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] {"schema":"decodex/commit/1","summary":"Publish post-adapter production adoption refresh","authority":"XY-884"} --- README.md | 20 ++- .../2026-06-10-production-adoption-refresh.md | 138 ++++++++++++++++++ docs/guide/benchmarking/index.md | 4 + 3 files changed, 157 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) create mode 100644 docs/guide/benchmarking/2026-06-10-production-adoption-refresh.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index dde8c179..b4032dde 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -120,15 +120,20 @@ flowchart TB ### Checked-In Live Benchmark Snapshot -The June 9, 2026 Docker-only live baseline and production adoption gate use generated -corpus/query manifests across ELF and the external memory projects below. ELF was run -with the production embedding provider path, `Qwen3-Embedding-8B`, and -4096-dimensional embeddings where provider-backed ELF evidence was required. +The June 9, 2026 Docker-only live baseline and production adoption gate, plus the +June 10 post-adapter adoption refresh, use generated corpus/query manifests across ELF +and the external memory projects below. ELF was run with the production embedding +provider path, `Qwen3-Embedding-8B`, and 4096-dimensional embeddings where +provider-backed ELF evidence was required. - Production adoption gate verdict: ELF is ready for personal production use with bounded caveats. The private production corpus profile was not run because no operator-owned private manifest was available; the task failed closed at the missing manifest guard, so no private-corpus pass is claimed. +- Post-adapter production adoption refresh verdict: keep adopting ELF for personal + production use with bounded caveats. The full live real-world sweep, OpenViking + dependency refresh, and RAG/graph research gates sharpen the limits but do not + create a new production blocker. - ELF production-provider synthetic run: 8 documents, 6 queries, `8/8` encoded checks, `retrieval_pass`, and `pass` in 59 seconds. - ELF production-provider stress run: 480 documents, 16 queries, `9/9` encoded checks, @@ -177,6 +182,7 @@ Detailed evidence and interpretation: - [Production Adoption Gate Report - June 9, 2026](docs/guide/benchmarking/2026-06-09-production-adoption-gate-report.md) - [Real-World Comparison Report - June 10, 2026](docs/guide/benchmarking/2026-06-10-real-world-comparison-report.md) - [Live Real-World Adapter Sweep Report - June 10, 2026](docs/guide/benchmarking/2026-06-10-live-real-world-sweep-report.md) +- [Post-Adapter Production Adoption Refresh - June 10, 2026](docs/guide/benchmarking/2026-06-10-production-adoption-refresh.md) - [Live Baseline Benchmark Runbook](docs/guide/benchmarking/live_baseline_benchmark.md) - [Single-User Production Runbook](docs/guide/single_user_production.md) - Benchmark contract: @@ -245,6 +251,9 @@ Detailed comparison, mechanism-level analysis, and source map: - [Live Baseline Benchmark Report - June 9, 2026](docs/guide/benchmarking/2026-06-09-live-baseline-report.md) - [Synthetic Production Corpus Benchmark Report - June 9, 2026](docs/guide/benchmarking/2026-06-09-production-corpus-report.md) - [Production Adoption Gate Report - June 9, 2026](docs/guide/benchmarking/2026-06-09-production-adoption-gate-report.md) +- [Real-World Comparison Report - June 10, 2026](docs/guide/benchmarking/2026-06-10-real-world-comparison-report.md) +- [Live Real-World Adapter Sweep Report - June 10, 2026](docs/guide/benchmarking/2026-06-10-live-real-world-sweep-report.md) +- [Post-Adapter Production Adoption Refresh - June 10, 2026](docs/guide/benchmarking/2026-06-10-production-adoption-refresh.md) - [Live Baseline Benchmark Runbook](docs/guide/benchmarking/live_baseline_benchmark.md) - [Real-World Agent Memory Benchmark](docs/guide/benchmarking/real_world_agent_memory_benchmark.md) - [External Memory Improvement Plan](docs/guide/research/external_memory_improvement_plan.md) @@ -252,9 +261,10 @@ Detailed comparison, mechanism-level analysis, and source map: - [Research Projects Inventory](docs/guide/research/research_projects_inventory.md) - [Agent Memory Selection Research Run](docs/research/2026-06-08-agent-memory-selection.json) - [Real-World Benchmark Dimension Research Run](docs/research/2026-06-09-xy-841-external-memory-benchmark-dimensions.json) +- [RAG/Graph Adapter Feasibility Research Run](docs/research/2026-06-10-xy-882-rag-graph-adapter-feasibility.json) Latest real-world benchmark report: June 10, 2026. Latest external research refresh: -June 9, 2026. +June 10, 2026. ## Documentation diff --git a/docs/guide/benchmarking/2026-06-10-production-adoption-refresh.md b/docs/guide/benchmarking/2026-06-10-production-adoption-refresh.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5826e2f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/guide/benchmarking/2026-06-10-production-adoption-refresh.md @@ -0,0 +1,138 @@ +# Post-Adapter Production Adoption Refresh - June 10, 2026 + +Goal: Publish the XY-884 post-adapter production adoption refresh after the live +real-world sweep, OpenViking dependency refresh, and RAG/graph research-gate pass. +Read this when: You need the current decision on whether ELF is ready for personal +production use under the latest checked-in benchmark evidence. +Inputs: `2026-06-09-production-adoption-gate-report.md`, +`2026-06-10-real-world-comparison-report.md`, +`2026-06-10-live-real-world-sweep-report.md`, +`docs/research/2026-06-10-xy-882-rag-graph-adapter-feasibility.json`, and +`apps/elf-eval/fixtures/real_world_external_adapters/memory_projects_manifest.json`. +Depends on: `docs/spec/real_world_agent_memory_benchmark_v1.md`, +`docs/guide/benchmarking/live_baseline_benchmark.md`, and +`docs/guide/single_user_production.md`. +Outputs: Current production adoption decision, evidence-class separation, accepted +caveats, and follow-up issue routing. + +## Decision + +Adopt with bounded caveats. + +ELF remains ready for personal production use as a single-user, self-hosted memory +service when operated through the checked-in production runbook, with Postgres treated +as the source of truth, Qdrant treated as rebuildable, backups enabled, and search +trace/viewer surfaces used for retrieval debugging. + +The post-adapter evidence does not upgrade the decision to an unconditional production +pass. It also does not downgrade the June 9 adoption gate. The new evidence mainly +sharpens the claim boundary: + +- ELF and qmd now have full-suite live real-world sweep records, but both are typed + non-pass sweeps, not full-suite live passes. +- The OpenViking cold-start dependency boundary is resolved for classification: the + pinned Docker local embedding path reaches `add_resource` and `find`, while the + current OpenViking same-corpus result remains `wrong_result` because expected + evidence terms are missed. +- The RAG/graph D1/D2 research gates produced adapter candidates and typed blockers, + but no RAG/graph record has become live adapter evidence. +- Private-corpus and credentialed production-ops checks remain operator-owned + boundaries. No private-corpus pass is claimed. + +## Required Input Status + +| Required input | Current outcome | Decision impact | +| --- | --- | --- | +| Full live real-world sweep results for ELF/qmd or typed blockers | Available. ELF and qmd each produced 38 `live_real_world` jobs across 11 suites: 18 pass, 5 wrong_result, 1 incomplete, 2 blocked, and 12 not_encoded. | Supports adoption only with caveats; it proves live sweep coverage, not full-suite live parity. | +| Cold-start/OpenViking dependency issue outcome | Available. The production-ops cold-start dependency fixture is pass; OpenViking now reaches the pinned Docker local embedding path and records `wrong_result` instead of setup failure when evidence terms are missed. | Removes setup uncertainty from the adoption decision, but leaves OpenViking context-trajectory quality as a non-blocking gap. | +| RAG/graph D1/D2 research gate outcome | Available. RAGFlow, LightRAG, GraphRAG, Graphiti/Zep, and graphify are adapter candidates; Letta, LangGraph, nanograph, and llm-wiki are research-only; gbrain is blocked. | Follow-up adapter work is concrete, but research gates remain non-live evidence. | +| Current production/private-corpus evidence and caveats | Available. Provider-backed synthetic, stress, backfill, and restore proof passed; private corpus failed closed because no operator-owned manifest was supplied. | Keeps the June 9 decision: personal production adoption is acceptable with bounded private-corpus and credential caveats. | + +## Evidence Classes + +| Evidence class | Current evidence | Use in this decision | Claim boundary | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | +| Fixture-backed | `cargo make real-world-memory` reports 38 jobs across 11 suites with 36 pass and 2 blocked production-ops operator boundaries. | Shows the real-world benchmark contract is encoded and ELF fixture behavior is strong outside operator-owned gates. | Fixture scoring is not the same as live service execution. | +| Live adapter | `cargo make real-world-memory-live-adapters` produced full-suite ELF and qmd live sweeps with typed non-pass states preserved. | Confirms live adapters can materialize every encoded job record for ELF and qmd. | Not a full-suite live pass, not private-corpus proof, and not broad external superiority. | +| Private corpus | `baseline-production-private` failed closed at the missing manifest guard. | Accepted caveat for personal use when no operator-owned private manifest exists. | No private-corpus retrieval-quality pass is claimed. | +| Credentialed | Provider-backed ELF synthetic, stress, and backfill runs passed with `Qwen3-Embedding-8B`; provider-backed production-ops fixture jobs remain blocked without routed credentials. | Supports production-provider retrieval and backfill evidence while preserving credential boundaries. | No credentialed production-ops pass is claimed for paths that need unavailable operator credentials. | +| Blocked | Production-ops still contains private manifest and provider credential boundaries; gbrain lacks a proven Docker-local brain repo/database path. | These are explicit accepted caveats or research-gate blockers, not hidden failures. | Blocked states must remain typed until the missing operator or setup input exists. | +| Research gate | RAG/graph records contain setup, resource, retry, and evidence-output metadata plus XY-882 verdicts. | Gives concrete follow-up routing for the next adapter pack. | Research-gate records must not be counted as fixture-backed, live-baseline, or live-real-world pass evidence. | + +## Production Evidence + +The June 9 production adoption gate remains the production baseline: + +| Run | Scope | Result | +| --- | --- | --- | +| Production synthetic provider run | 8 documents, 6 queries, `Qwen3-Embedding-8B`, 4096-dimensional embeddings | `8/8` checks, `retrieval_pass`, `pass` in 59 seconds | +| Provider stress run | 480 generated public documents, 16 queries | `9/9` checks, `retrieval_pass`, `pass` in 779 seconds | +| Provider backfill run | 2,000 generated public documents, 16 queries | `9/9` checks, resume 1,000 -> 2,000, zero duplicate source notes, `pass` in 2,804 seconds | +| Single-user restore proof | Docker Compose backup/restore plus Qdrant rebuild | `rebuilt_count=1`, `missing_vector_count=0`, `error_count=0`, restored search result recovered | +| Private production corpus | Operator-owned manifest required | Failed closed before benchmark execution; no private-corpus pass claimed | + +This is enough for personal production use when the operator accepts the documented +private-corpus and credential boundaries. It is not enough for a deployment that +requires private-corpus quality proof before launch. + +## Live Sweep Evidence + +The full live real-world sweep is useful precisely because it does not flatten typed +outcomes into an artificial win. + +| Adapter | Jobs | Pass | Wrong result | Incomplete | Blocked | Not encoded | Evidence recall | +| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | +| ELF live real-world service adapter | 38 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 41/75 | +| qmd live real-world CLI adapter | 38 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 41/75 | + +Both adapters pass the targeted `work_resume`, `project_decisions`, and `retrieval` +suites. Both fail or skip the same broader areas that need more adapter behavior: +current-versus-historical conflict evidence, consolidation proposal generation, +derived knowledge pages, full operator trace hydration, capture/write-policy +integration, and credential/private production operations. + +The adoption impact is bounded: ELF has enough production and recovery evidence for +single-user use, but not enough full-suite live evidence to claim broad real-world +memory parity. + +## RAG And Graph Gates + +XY-882 made the RAG/graph research gates decision-ready: + +| Project | Verdict | Follow-up | +| --- | --- | --- | +| RAGFlow | `adapter_candidate` | [XY-885](https://linear.app/hack-ink/issue/XY-885/elf-benchmark-adapter-implement-ragflow-docker-evidence-smoke-adapter) | +| LightRAG | `adapter_candidate` | [XY-886](https://linear.app/hack-ink/issue/XY-886/elf-benchmark-adapter-implement-lightrag-docker-context-export-adapter) | +| GraphRAG | `adapter_candidate` | [XY-887](https://linear.app/hack-ink/issue/XY-887/elf-benchmark-adapter-implement-graphrag-cost-bounded-docker-adapter) | +| Graphiti/Zep | `adapter_candidate` | [XY-888](https://linear.app/hack-ink/issue/XY-888/elf-benchmark-adapter-implement-graphitizep-temporal-graph-adapter) | +| graphify | `adapter_candidate` | [XY-889](https://linear.app/hack-ink/issue/XY-889/elf-benchmark-adapter-implement-graphify-docker-graph-report-adapter) | +| Letta | `research_only` | No implementation issue until a contained evidence export path is selected. | +| LangGraph | `research_only` | No implementation issue; keep as checkpoint/replay reference. | +| nanograph | `research_only` | No implementation issue; keep as graph-lite DX reference. | +| llm-wiki | `research_only` | No implementation issue until a contained plugin or instruction harness exists. | +| gbrain | `blocked` | No implementation issue until a Docker-local brain repo and database path is proven. | + +These follow-ups are concrete adapter-work routing, not production blockers for ELF +personal use. + +## Accepted Caveats And Follow-Ups + +| Gap | Classification | Disposition | +| --- | --- | --- | +| Private production corpus quality | Accepted caveat | Rerun `cargo make baseline-production-private` or `cargo make baseline-production-private-addendum` when an operator-owned sanitized manifest is available. | +| Credentialed production-ops proof | Accepted caveat | Keep typed `blocked` until routed provider credentials are supplied for the specific production-ops gate. | +| Full-suite live real-world pass | Accepted caveat | Current live sweep is intentionally non-pass; use it to target future adapter coverage rather than to block personal production use. | +| OpenViking evidence-bearing retrieval output | Accepted caveat | Setup is no longer the primary blocker; future work should improve same-corpus evidence output before treating OpenViking as a strong runnable context-trajectory baseline. | +| RAGFlow, LightRAG, GraphRAG, Graphiti/Zep, and graphify live adapter evidence | Concrete follow-ups | Use XY-885 through XY-889 and require Docker-contained runs with evidence-linked outputs before any live pass claim. | +| Letta, LangGraph, nanograph, and llm-wiki executable adapter coverage | Accepted research-only caveat | Keep as design references until a contained output contract is selected. | +| gbrain contained setup | Concrete blocker | Revisit only after Docker-local repository/database setup proof exists. | + +## Current Adoption Statement + +ELF is ready to use personally in production with bounded caveats. Use it when the +operator accepts the checked-in single-user production runbook, backup/restore proof, +provider-backed synthetic/stress/backfill evidence, and explicit private-corpus and +credential boundaries. + +Do not claim that ELF has passed a private production corpus, credentialed +production-ops gate, full-suite live real-world parity, or RAG/graph adapter parity. diff --git a/docs/guide/benchmarking/index.md b/docs/guide/benchmarking/index.md index b04b6886..18824179 100644 --- a/docs/guide/benchmarking/index.md +++ b/docs/guide/benchmarking/index.md @@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ cleanup, use `docs/guide/single_user_production.md`. - `2026-06-10-live-real-world-sweep-report.md`: XY-880 full-suite live real-world sweep report for ELF and qmd, showing per-suite live pass and typed non-pass states without claiming full-suite live parity. +- `2026-06-10-production-adoption-refresh.md`: XY-884 post-adapter production + adoption refresh that keeps the decision at adopt with bounded caveats and separates + fixture, live adapter, private corpus, credentialed, blocked, and research-gate + evidence. - `real_world_agent_memory_benchmark.md`: operator overview for the v1 real-world agent memory benchmark contract, including suite taxonomy, typed report states, knowledge-compilation fixture tasks, and the production-ops fixture target.