context_forge/lib.rs
1//! `context-forge` — a local-first persistent memory library for LLM applications.
2//!
3//! This crate provides turso + Tantivy BM25 retrieval, recency-decay scoring, and
4//! token-budget-aware context assembly with no network calls. It is intended to
5//! be embedded in larger applications (CLI tools, bots, agent runtimes) that need
6//! durable, searchable memory.
7//!
8//! # Quick start
9//!
10//! ```no_run
11//! use context_forge::{kind, ContextForge, Config, SaveOptions};
12//! use std::path::PathBuf;
13//!
14//! #[tokio::main]
15//! async fn main() -> Result<(), context_forge::Error> {
16//! let mut config = Config::default();
17//! config.db_path = PathBuf::from(":memory:");
18//!
19//! let cf = ContextForge::open(config).await?;
20//! cf.save("the deploy failure was caused by a missing env var", kind::SNAPSHOT, &SaveOptions::default()).await?;
21//!
22//! let hits = cf.query("deploy failure", None, 2048).await?;
23//! assert_eq!(hits.len(), 1);
24//! Ok(())
25//! }
26//! ```
27//!
28//! # Security
29//!
30//! **Retrieved entries are untrusted text.** Content persisted from past
31//! conversations may contain adversarial instructions (stored prompt
32//! injection) — whatever was saved into the store, including text that
33//! originated from another user or from a tool's output, comes back out
34//! verbatim on [`ContextForge::query`] (aside from save-time secret
35//! scrubbing, see below).
36//!
37//! Callers **MUST** present retrieved memory to models as quoted data
38//! (e.g. inside a fenced or otherwise clearly delimited context block
39//! labeled as history), **never** as system-level instructions, and
40//! **MUST NOT** execute or evaluate anything found in it.
41//!
42//! ## Save-time secret scrubbing
43//!
44//! [`ContextForge::save`] applies [`scrub_secrets`] to `content` before it
45//! is persisted, using the [`ScrubConfig`] supplied in [`Config::scrub`].
46//! This redacts common credential formats (cloud provider keys, API
47//! tokens, private key blocks, JWTs, bearer tokens) with
48//! `[REDACTED:<label>]` placeholders so they never reach the database or
49//! the search index. Scrubbing is **on by default** and can be disabled
50//! via `Config { scrub: ScrubConfig { enabled: false }, .. }` — this is an
51//! explicit, non-silent opt-out.
52//!
53//! Note that [`SaveOptions::metadata`] is **not** scrubbed (see its docs).
54
55#![warn(clippy::pedantic)]
56#![warn(missing_docs)]
57
58/// Engine and scrub configuration types (`Config`, `EvictionPolicy`, `ScrubConfig`).
59pub mod config;
60/// Local-LLM distillation trait and the optional `distill-http` implementation.
61pub mod distill;
62/// `ContextEngine`: search, recency decay, and token-budget assembly.
63pub mod engine;
64/// `ContextEntry`, `ScoredEntry`, and the `kind` constants module.
65pub mod entry;
66/// The crate's `Error` type.
67pub mod error;
68/// Save-time secret scrubbing (`scrub_secrets`, `ScrubConfig`).
69pub mod scrub;
70/// Session grouping helpers (`group_entries_by_session`, `SessionGroup`).
71pub mod session;
72/// Turso-backed storage and search implementations.
73pub mod storage;
74/// `ContextStorage` and `Searcher` traits, and the crate's `Result` alias.
75pub mod traits;
76
77/// Importance-detection pipeline (tokenizer, lexicon, scoring). Pure
78/// computation, no I/O. Enabled by the `analysis` feature (default).
79#[cfg(feature = "analysis")]
80pub mod analysis;
81
82#[cfg(feature = "parallel")]
83pub use analysis::with_thread_cap;
84
85use std::path::Path;
86
87// Re-export primary types at crate root for convenience.
88pub use config::{Config, EvictionPolicy};
89pub use distill::{
90 merge_distilled, split_on_budget, ChunkingDistiller, DistilledMemory, Distiller, Fact,
91 FactKind, ReduceStrategy,
92};
93pub use engine::{ContextEngine, SaveOptions, MATCH_ALL_QUERY};
94pub use entry::{kind, ContextEntry, ScoredEntry};
95pub use error::Error;
96pub use scrub::{scrub_secrets, ScrubConfig};
97pub use session::{group_entries_by_session, SessionGroup};
98pub use storage::{open_storage, TursoSearcher, TursoStorage};
99pub use traits::{ContextStorage, Result, Searcher};
100
101/// The documented entry point for `context-forge`.
102///
103/// `ContextForge` wires together a [`TursoStorage`] backend, a
104/// [`TursoSearcher`], and a [`ContextEngine`] behind a small,
105/// stable API surface. Advanced callers that need direct access to the
106/// underlying storage or searcher can construct those types directly and
107/// pass them to [`ContextEngine::new`] instead.
108pub struct ContextForge {
109 engine: ContextEngine,
110 scrub_config: ScrubConfig,
111}
112
113impl ContextForge {
114 /// Open (or create) the database at `config.db_path`, run any pending
115 /// migrations, and build the engine.
116 ///
117 /// # Errors
118 ///
119 /// Returns an error if the database cannot be opened or migrations fail.
120 pub async fn open(config: Config) -> Result<Self> {
121 let db_path = config.db_path.clone();
122 let max_entries = config.max_entries;
123 let scrub_config = config.scrub.clone();
124 let (storage, searcher) = open_storage(Path::new(&db_path), max_entries).await?;
125 let engine = ContextEngine::new(Box::new(storage), Box::new(searcher), config);
126 Ok(Self {
127 engine,
128 scrub_config,
129 })
130 }
131
132 /// Save a new entry. Returns the generated entry ID.
133 ///
134 /// `kind` is a caller-defined classification (see [`mod@kind`] for
135 /// well-known values). Capacity enforcement (LRU eviction) is handled
136 /// atomically by the storage layer.
137 ///
138 /// Before persistence, `content` is passed through [`scrub_secrets`]
139 /// using this instance's [`ScrubConfig`] (see [`Config::scrub`]),
140 /// redacting common credential formats with `[REDACTED:<label>]`
141 /// placeholders. `opts.metadata` is stored verbatim and is **not**
142 /// scrubbed — see [`SaveOptions::metadata`].
143 ///
144 /// # Errors
145 ///
146 /// Returns an error if `content` is empty or if the underlying storage
147 /// write fails.
148 pub async fn save(&self, content: &str, kind: &str, opts: &SaveOptions) -> Result<String> {
149 let scrubbed = scrub_secrets(content, &self.scrub_config);
150 self.engine.save_snapshot(&scrubbed, kind, opts).await
151 }
152
153 /// Distill `transcript` into a summary and durable facts, then save
154 /// them as separate entries sharing `opts.scope` and
155 /// `opts.session_id`.
156 ///
157 /// `transcript` is passed through [`scrub_secrets`] **before** it is
158 /// sent to `distiller` (so secrets never reach a distillation
159 /// endpoint), and the summary/facts produced are scrubbed again before
160 /// persistence via the normal [`ContextForge::save`] path (defense in
161 /// depth).
162 ///
163 /// The summary is saved with `kind::SUMMARY`; each fact is saved with
164 /// `kind::FACT` and metadata `{"fact_kind": "<kind>", "source":
165 /// "distill"}`.
166 ///
167 /// The distilled output is bounded before any of it is saved: at most
168 /// [`MAX_FACTS`](crate::distill::MAX_FACTS) facts are kept, each fact's
169 /// text is truncated to at most
170 /// [`MAX_FACT_CHARS`](crate::distill::MAX_FACT_CHARS) characters, and the
171 /// summary is truncated to at most
172 /// [`MAX_SUMMARY_CHARS`](crate::distill::MAX_SUMMARY_CHARS) characters.
173 /// Excess facts and text beyond these limits are silently dropped or
174 /// truncated, since they are untrusted model-generated content.
175 ///
176 /// Returns the IDs of the saved entries: the summary's ID first,
177 /// followed by each fact's ID in order.
178 ///
179 /// # Errors
180 ///
181 /// Returns an error if distillation fails, or if any save fails.
182 pub async fn distill_and_save(
183 &self,
184 transcript: &str,
185 distiller: &dyn Distiller,
186 opts: &SaveOptions,
187 ) -> Result<Vec<String>> {
188 let scrubbed_transcript = scrub_secrets(transcript, &self.scrub_config);
189 let memory = tokio::task::block_in_place(|| distiller.distill(&scrubbed_transcript))?;
190 let memory = crate::distill::cap_distilled_memory(memory);
191
192 let mut ids = Vec::with_capacity(1 + memory.facts.len());
193
194 let summary_id = self.save(&memory.summary, kind::SUMMARY, opts).await?;
195 ids.push(summary_id);
196
197 for fact in &memory.facts {
198 let fact_kind_str = match fact.kind {
199 FactKind::Decision => "decision",
200 FactKind::Correction => "correction",
201 FactKind::Preference => "preference",
202 FactKind::State => "state",
203 };
204 let metadata = serde_json::json!({
205 "fact_kind": fact_kind_str,
206 "source": "distill",
207 });
208 let fact_opts = SaveOptions {
209 session_id: opts.session_id.clone(),
210 scope: opts.scope.clone(),
211 metadata: Some(metadata),
212 };
213 let fact_id = self.save(&fact.text, kind::FACT, &fact_opts).await?;
214 ids.push(fact_id);
215 }
216
217 Ok(ids)
218 }
219
220 /// Assemble entries matching `query` that fit within `token_budget`.
221 ///
222 /// `scope = None` searches every entry regardless of scope (global
223 /// recall). `scope = Some(s)` restricts the search to entries whose
224 /// `scope` equals `s`.
225 ///
226 /// `query` is treated as natural-language text: it is split into
227 /// alphanumeric terms which are OR-matched and ranked by bm25 relevance.
228 /// FTS5 operator syntax (`AND`, `OR`, `NEAR`, prefix `*`, quoted phrases,
229 /// column filters, etc.) is **not** interpreted — operator characters are
230 /// treated as term separators, so arbitrary user text never produces a
231 /// query syntax error. A query with no alphanumeric terms (empty or
232 /// punctuation-only) returns an empty result set rather than an error.
233 /// The special value [`MATCH_ALL_QUERY`] (`"*"`) matches every entry.
234 ///
235 /// # Errors
236 ///
237 /// Returns an error if the search or recency-weighting step fails.
238 pub async fn query(
239 &self,
240 query: &str,
241 scope: Option<&str>,
242 token_budget: usize,
243 ) -> Result<Vec<ContextEntry>> {
244 self.engine.assemble(query, scope, token_budget).await
245 }
246
247 /// Delete a single entry by id. Returns `true` if an entry was removed.
248 ///
249 /// # Errors
250 ///
251 /// Returns an error if the underlying storage delete fails.
252 pub async fn delete(&self, id: &str) -> Result<bool> {
253 self.engine.storage().delete(id).await
254 }
255
256 /// Remove all entries within a given scope. Returns the number of
257 /// entries removed.
258 ///
259 /// # Errors
260 ///
261 /// Returns an error if the underlying storage delete fails.
262 pub async fn clear_scope(&self, scope: &str) -> Result<usize> {
263 self.engine.storage().clear_scope(scope).await
264 }
265
266 /// Remove all entries. Returns the number of entries removed.
267 ///
268 /// # Errors
269 ///
270 /// Returns an error if the underlying storage delete fails.
271 pub async fn clear_all(&self) -> Result<usize> {
272 self.engine.storage().clear().await
273 }
274
275 /// Return the total number of stored entries.
276 ///
277 /// # Errors
278 ///
279 /// Returns an error if the underlying storage count fails.
280 pub async fn count(&self) -> Result<usize> {
281 self.engine.storage().count().await
282 }
283}
284
285#[cfg(test)]
286mod tests {
287 use super::*;
288 use std::path::PathBuf;
289
290 #[test]
291 fn context_entry_json_roundtrip() {
292 let entry = ContextEntry {
293 id: "e1".into(),
294 content: "hello world".into(),
295 timestamp: 1_700_000_000,
296 kind: kind::MANUAL.to_owned(),
297 scope: None,
298 session_id: None,
299 token_count: Some(3),
300 metadata: None,
301 };
302 let json = serde_json::to_string(&entry).unwrap();
303 let back: ContextEntry = serde_json::from_str(&json).unwrap();
304 assert_eq!(back.id, "e1");
305 assert_eq!(back.token_count, Some(3));
306 }
307
308 #[test]
309 fn error_display_messages() {
310 let invalid = Error::InvalidEntry("empty content".into());
311 assert_eq!(invalid.to_string(), "invalid entry: empty content");
312
313 let migration = Error::Migration("schema mismatch".into());
314 assert_eq!(migration.to_string(), "migration error: schema mismatch");
315
316 let distill = Error::Distill("model unavailable".into());
317 assert_eq!(distill.to_string(), "distillation error: model unavailable");
318 }
319
320 #[test]
321 fn core_config_json_roundtrip() {
322 let cfg = Config {
323 max_entries: 1000,
324 token_budget: 8192,
325 db_path: PathBuf::from("/tmp/cf.db"),
326 eviction_policy: EvictionPolicy::Lru,
327 recency_half_life_secs: 259_200.0,
328 ..Config::default()
329 };
330 let json = serde_json::to_string(&cfg).unwrap();
331 let back: Config = serde_json::from_str(&json).unwrap();
332 assert_eq!(back.max_entries, 1000);
333 assert_eq!(back.eviction_policy, EvictionPolicy::Lru);
334 }
335
336 #[test]
337 fn trait_objects_are_object_safe() {
338 // This test verifies that the traits compile as trait objects.
339 fn _assert_storage(_s: Box<dyn ContextStorage>) {}
340 fn _assert_searcher(_s: Box<dyn Searcher>) {}
341 }
342
343 #[test]
344 fn kind_constants_are_distinct() {
345 assert_ne!(kind::MANUAL, kind::SNAPSHOT);
346 assert_ne!(kind::MANUAL, kind::SUMMARY);
347 assert_ne!(kind::MANUAL, kind::FACT);
348 assert_ne!(kind::SNAPSHOT, kind::SUMMARY);
349 assert_ne!(kind::SNAPSHOT, kind::FACT);
350 assert_ne!(kind::SUMMARY, kind::FACT);
351 }
352
353 #[test]
354 fn scored_entry_json_roundtrip() {
355 let scored = ScoredEntry {
356 entry: ContextEntry {
357 id: "s1".into(),
358 content: "search hit".into(),
359 timestamp: 1_700_000_001,
360 kind: kind::SUMMARY.to_owned(),
361 scope: None,
362 session_id: None,
363 token_count: None,
364 metadata: None,
365 },
366 score: 0.95,
367 };
368 let json = serde_json::to_string(&scored).unwrap();
369 let back: ScoredEntry = serde_json::from_str(&json).unwrap();
370 assert_eq!(back.entry.id, "s1");
371 assert!((back.score - 0.95).abs() < f64::EPSILON);
372 }
373
374 #[test]
375 fn context_forge_is_send_sync() {
376 fn assert_send_sync<T: Send + Sync>() {}
377 assert_send_sync::<ContextForge>();
378 }
379
380 #[tokio::test]
381 async fn context_forge_open_save_query_roundtrip() {
382 let config = Config {
383 db_path: PathBuf::from(":memory:"),
384 ..Config::default()
385 };
386 let cf = ContextForge::open(config).await.unwrap();
387
388 let id = cf
389 .save("hello world", kind::MANUAL, &SaveOptions::default())
390 .await
391 .unwrap();
392 assert!(!id.is_empty());
393 assert_eq!(cf.count().await.unwrap(), 1);
394
395 let hits = cf.query("hello", None, 1000).await.unwrap();
396 assert_eq!(hits.len(), 1);
397 assert_eq!(hits[0].id, id);
398
399 assert!(cf.delete(&id).await.unwrap());
400 assert_eq!(cf.count().await.unwrap(), 0);
401 }
402
403 #[tokio::test]
404 async fn context_forge_clear_all() {
405 let config = Config {
406 db_path: PathBuf::from(":memory:"),
407 ..Config::default()
408 };
409 let cf = ContextForge::open(config).await.unwrap();
410
411 cf.save("a", kind::MANUAL, &SaveOptions::default())
412 .await
413 .unwrap();
414 cf.save("b", kind::MANUAL, &SaveOptions::default())
415 .await
416 .unwrap();
417
418 let cleared = cf.clear_all().await.unwrap();
419 assert_eq!(cleared, 2);
420 assert_eq!(cf.count().await.unwrap(), 0);
421 }
422
423 /// A stub [`Distiller`] for tests that records the transcript it was
424 /// called with and returns a fixed [`DistilledMemory`].
425 struct StubDistiller {
426 transcript: std::sync::Mutex<Option<String>>,
427 }
428
429 impl StubDistiller {
430 fn new() -> Self {
431 Self {
432 transcript: std::sync::Mutex::new(None),
433 }
434 }
435 }
436
437 impl Distiller for StubDistiller {
438 fn distill(&self, transcript: &str) -> Result<DistilledMemory> {
439 *self.transcript.lock().unwrap() = Some(transcript.to_owned());
440 Ok(DistilledMemory {
441 summary: "User decided to roll back the deploy.".to_owned(),
442 facts: vec![
443 Fact {
444 kind: FactKind::Decision,
445 text: "We decided to roll back the deploy.".to_owned(),
446 },
447 Fact {
448 kind: FactKind::Preference,
449 text: "The user prefers terse commit messages.".to_owned(),
450 },
451 ],
452 })
453 }
454 }
455
456 #[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread")]
457 async fn distill_and_save_scrubs_saves_and_returns_ids() {
458 let config = Config {
459 db_path: PathBuf::from(":memory:"),
460 ..Config::default()
461 };
462 let cf = ContextForge::open(config).await.unwrap();
463
464 let distiller = StubDistiller::new();
465 let transcript = "Here is a secret key=AKIAABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP end of transcript";
466
467 let opts = SaveOptions {
468 session_id: Some("sess-1".to_owned()),
469 scope: Some("project:test".to_owned()),
470 metadata: None,
471 };
472
473 let ids = cf
474 .distill_and_save(transcript, &distiller, &opts)
475 .await
476 .unwrap();
477
478 // Summary ID first, then one ID per fact.
479 assert_eq!(ids.len(), 3);
480 for id in &ids {
481 assert!(!id.is_empty());
482 }
483
484 // The transcript reaching the distiller was scrubbed.
485 let seen = distiller.transcript.lock().unwrap().clone().unwrap();
486 assert!(seen.contains("[REDACTED:aws-key]"));
487 assert!(!seen.contains("AKIAABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP"));
488
489 // Summary saved with kind::SUMMARY.
490 let summary = cf
491 .query("rollback OR rollback OR roll", None, 10_000)
492 .await
493 .unwrap();
494 let summary_entry = summary
495 .iter()
496 .find(|e| e.id == ids[0])
497 .expect("summary entry present");
498 assert_eq!(summary_entry.kind, kind::SUMMARY);
499 assert_eq!(summary_entry.scope.as_deref(), Some("project:test"));
500 assert_eq!(summary_entry.session_id.as_deref(), Some("sess-1"));
501
502 // Facts saved with kind::FACT and the right metadata.
503 let all = cf.query(MATCH_ALL_QUERY, None, 100_000).await.unwrap();
504 for fact_id in &ids[1..] {
505 let fact_entry = all
506 .iter()
507 .find(|e| &e.id == fact_id)
508 .expect("fact entry present");
509 assert_eq!(fact_entry.kind, kind::FACT);
510 let metadata = fact_entry.metadata.as_ref().expect("metadata present");
511 assert_eq!(metadata["source"], "distill");
512 assert!(metadata["fact_kind"].is_string());
513 }
514 }
515
516 /// A stub [`Distiller`] that returns a fixed number of facts, used to
517 /// verify that [`ContextForge::distill_and_save`] caps excess facts
518 /// before persisting them.
519 struct ManyFactsDistiller {
520 fact_count: usize,
521 }
522
523 impl Distiller for ManyFactsDistiller {
524 fn distill(&self, _transcript: &str) -> Result<DistilledMemory> {
525 let facts = (0..self.fact_count)
526 .map(|i| Fact {
527 kind: FactKind::State,
528 text: format!("fact number {i}"),
529 })
530 .collect();
531 Ok(DistilledMemory {
532 summary: "summary".to_owned(),
533 facts,
534 })
535 }
536 }
537
538 #[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread")]
539 async fn distill_and_save_caps_excess_facts() {
540 let config = Config {
541 db_path: PathBuf::from(":memory:"),
542 ..Config::default()
543 };
544 let cf = ContextForge::open(config).await.unwrap();
545
546 let distiller = ManyFactsDistiller {
547 fact_count: crate::distill::MAX_FACTS + 20,
548 };
549
550 let ids = cf
551 .distill_and_save("transcript", &distiller, &SaveOptions::default())
552 .await
553 .unwrap();
554
555 // Summary ID first, then one ID per capped fact.
556 assert_eq!(ids.len(), 1 + crate::distill::MAX_FACTS);
557 assert_eq!(cf.count().await.unwrap(), 1 + crate::distill::MAX_FACTS);
558 }
559}