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rUv cd8a9c0988 feat: memory distillation self-learning loop (ADR-174) + page-agent browser intent (ADR-175) (#2570)
* feat(memory): distillation service — mine memory_entries into intelligence substrate (ADR-174 M0+M1)

Root cause the goal-planner surfaced: the daemon's consolidate worker
(worker-daemon.ts:1443) is a STUB writing hardcoded zeros — 6000+ commits
recorded to memory_entries but never distilled. reasoning_patterns /
episodes / pattern_embeddings / causal_edges were all empty (hence 🧠 0%).

M0 (safety) + M1 (service): runDistillation() mines memory_entries into
episodes → reasoning_patterns (+pattern_embeddings) → causal_edges.
- $0: reuses structured-distill.ts extractor + the embeddings already on
  each row; no LLM, no re-embedding.
- Incremental: distill_state rowid cursor per namespace; never rescans.
- Non-destructive: only inserts into the empty target tables; never
  touches memory_entries. Per-batch transactions.
- Safe on the just-recovered DB: quick_check gate skips corrupt DBs;
  better-sqlite3 optional (silent no-op).
- Provenance (ADR-171): feedback outcomes = oracle:test-exec (promotable);
  everything else = proxy:structural (written, NEVER promoted).

Measured on a copy of the real 7,900-entry DB: 7,899 → 4,260 patterns
(182 promoted, 4,078 proxy), 4,259 embeddings, 4,258 edges; source
unchanged; dry-run wrote nothing; 2nd run processed 0. 6 tests green.

ADR-174 records the decision, root cause, param surface, self-opt plan,
alternatives, rollback. Follow-ups on branch: M2 CLI, M3 daemon (replace
the stub), M4 self-optimization, M5 platform default.

Co-Authored-By: RuFlo <ruv@ruv.net>

* feat(memory): distill CLI, daemon auto-distill, self-optimization (ADR-174 M2+M3+M4)

M2 — CLI: 'memory distill run|status|config' consuming the frozen M1
runDistillation. Full param surface: --dry-run, --namespace, --batch-size,
--dedup-distance, --max-entries, --since, --budget-usd, --judge (fable
gated on budget per ADR-172), --aggressive/--conservative presets,
--config, --db. status reports substrate counts + cursor + provenance
breakdown; degrades gracefully. 12 tests.

M3 — daemon: replaced the runConsolidateWorker STUB (the root cause — it
wrote hardcoded zeros) with a real runDistillation call every 30-min tick,
bounded to 1000 entries/tick (cursor drains a backlog across ticks, stays
well under the 16-min worker timeout). Real DistillReport written to the
metrics file. Opt-out via --no-distill / RUFLO_DAEMON_NO_DISTILL and the
existing 'daemon enable -w consolidate --disable'. Never throws (corrupt/
skipped surfaced, not fatal). 7 tests. The loop is now self-sustaining.

M4 — self-optimization ('ruflo tuning ruflo'): tuneDistillation grid-
searches {batchSize, dedupDistance, promoteThreshold} on ISOLATED copies,
scored by MRR@10/recall@10 on a rowid-based held-out split (train/held-out
disjointness asserted; held-out scored once). Source checksum unchanged.
Honest measured result on the real 7.9k-entry corpus: winner batchSize=200
dedupDistance=0.2 promoteThreshold=execution+corroborated, held-out MRR@10
0.753 vs 0.749 baseline — roughly on par (the substrate/training value is
the payoff, not raw retrieval uplift; measured-not-marketing). 11 tests.

Combined M1+M2+M3+M4: 30 tests green.

Co-Authored-By: RuFlo <ruv@ruv.net>

* feat(browser): page-agent natural-language intent layer — browser_act (ADR-175)

Adds an in-page NL intent tool on top of the selector-based browser tools:
browser_act injects page-agent (Alibaba, MIT) into the agent-browser-driven
page and runs 'execute(task)' — one natural-language call instead of manual
selector orchestration.

Verified against the real page-agent@1.11.0 (ESM-only, split @page-agent/*
packages) — three load-bearing deviations handled:
- import('page-agent') throws 'window is not defined' in Node even when
  installed → availability probed via require.resolve (path only, no eval),
  like browser-session-tools.ts.
- the injectable IIFE auto-constructs a second PageAgent pointed at Alibaba's
  PUBLIC test endpoint (data leak on every call) → stripped before injection
  (stripDemoAutoInit).
- execute() returns { success, data, history } → mapped to { result, steps }.

Safety + routing:
- Optional dependency (~1.11.0) + v3 pnpm-lock regenerated same change;
  browser_act returns { degraded:true } (never throws) when absent.
- LLM routed through this CLI's Tier-3 ladder (OPENROUTER/OLLAMA, OpenAI-
  compatible); bare ANTHROPIC_API_KEY degrades (wrong API shape).
- KEY SAFETY: page-agent runs in page context, so the real key never enters
  the injected string — startLocalLLMProxy holds it server-side on a loopback
  http server and injects Authorization itself; page sees 127.0.0.1 + a
  placeholder. Tests assert no key substring in the injection.
- Trajectory → memory namespace 'browser' (feeds ADR-174 distillation).
- AIDefence gates returned content (optional; passes through if absent).

ADR-175 records the decision, the outer-harness/in-page split, constraints,
the 6 follow-on use cases, alternatives, and rollback. 16 tool tests +
145 mcp-client regression tests green; full build clean.

Co-Authored-By: RuFlo <ruv@ruv.net>

* fix(browser): fail-closed demo-endpoint firewall for page-agent injection

The demo auto-connect (page content → Alibaba's public sandbox at
page-ag-testing-*.fcapp.run) was only neutralized by a best-effort text
strip that fell OPEN — stripDemoAutoInit returned the source unchanged if
the DEMO_MODEL marker moved, silently re-enabling the leak on an upstream
bundle change.

Verified via the real tarball: the demo endpoint lives ONLY in
dist/iife/page-agent.demo.js (6 refs); the library core ESM entry is clean
(0 refs). So no fork is needed — the leak is a property of the demo bundle,
not the library.

Fix: findDemoLeak() firewall + DemoLeakError. buildPageAgentInjection now
scans the stripped bundle for known demo-endpoint signatures
(page-ag-testing, .fcapp.run, DEMO_MODEL) and THROWS if any survive; the
browser_act handler catches it and degrades rather than injecting. This is
version-independent and fail-CLOSED — a moved/renamed marker can no longer
leak, because the guarantee is 'endpoint absent', not 'marker found'.

+4 tests (signature detection, clean-bundle pass, moved-marker refusal,
clean-bundle injection). 20/20 green. ADR-175 updated with the fork-vs-fix
rationale.

Co-Authored-By: RuFlo <ruv@ruv.net>

* fix(browser): add ADR-112 discoverability guidance to browser_act description

CI failed 4 checks (tool-description audit + 3 smoke contracts that run it):
browser_act was the 1 tool of 361 without a 'Use when …' guidance signal.
The audit regex captures only the FIRST quoted segment of a multi-line
description, so the guidance phrase must lead. Reworded to open with
'Use when …' + 'Prefer … over …' + 'pair with …' + 'Falls back …'.
Audit now 361/361, exit 0.

Co-Authored-By: RuFlo <ruv@ruv.net>

* feat(memory): M5 — promote M4 winning distill config as daemon default (ADR-174)

The daemon's consolidate worker now runs the M4-tuned config
(dedupDistance=0.2, chosen by the self-optimization grid-search on the real
corpus). Honest note in code + ADR: held-out MRR@10 0.753 vs 0.749 baseline
— on-par, the substrate/training value is the payoff. Overridable per-run
via 'memory distill'. Completes ADR-174 M0-M5.

Co-Authored-By: RuFlo <ruv@ruv.net>

* docs+fix(memory): address ADR-174 review — honest default, edge contract, invariants (ADR-174)

Review fixes:
- STATUS: Proposed → Accepted (M0-M5 implemented+tested, pending #2570 merge).
- TUNED DEFAULT honestly justified: the M4 retrieval delta (0.753 vs 0.749)
  is a TIE, so dedupDistance=0.2 is sold as COMPRESSION, not retrieval lift —
  measured 2,723 vs 4,350 patterns (37% fewer) at 11.6ms/batch, 0 violations.
  Added an explicit promotion rule (retrieval-neutral within 0.002 AND >=15%
  compression AND <250ms/batch AND 0 proxy violations).
- PARAM TABLE / DEFAULT consistency: dedup default is 0.2 everywhere (service,
  CLI, daemon). Presets now bracket it: --aggressive 0.3 / --conservative 0.1.
- CAUSAL_EDGES OVERCLAIM: edges now carry an explicit contract
  (edge_type=cooccurrence, provenance_tier=proxy:structural, confidence=0.3,
  promoted=false) with the rule 'may rank retrieval, must NOT justify
  autonomous action'. Also fixed a latent bug: edges linked epId-1 (assumed
  consecutive rowids) → now the actual previous episode id.
- EMBEDDING 1:1 invariant enforced: a cluster with no parseable vector is
  skipped, so every pattern has exactly one embedding (was off-by-one on a
  malformed source vector).
- ADR adds operational invariants + audit SQL, business-value framing, and an
  acceptance test.

+2 invariant tests (embedding coverage, edge contract). 32 distill tests green.

Co-Authored-By: RuFlo <ruv@ruv.net>

* feat(hooks): capture edit/task FAILURES, not just successes (ADR-174)

The DB analysis found 898 feedback records — 100% success, 0 failures —
because the post-edit/post-task hooks recorded a hardcoded success:true and
never inspected the tool outcome. With no negative examples the oracle tier
can't teach good-vs-bad, which caps what distillation can learn.

Fix: read Claude Code's PostToolUse tool_response and record the REAL outcome.
- isToolFailure(hookInput): conservative detector (positive error signal only)
  — tool_response.is_error / error / success:false, non-zero Bash exit code,
  or an error string. Exported + unit-tested (5 cases).
- Generated hook (helpers-generator.ts) + the shipped .claude/helpers/
  hook-handler.cjs both inline it: post-edit → recordEdit(file, !toolFailed),
  post-task → feedback(!toolFailed) (feedback() already boosts on success /
  decays on failure — it was just never called with false).
- intelligence.cjs recordEdit(file, success) persists success to
  pending-insights so consolidation/distillation gets the negative example.

The distillation JUDGE (memory-distillation.ts judgeFeedback) already maps
success:false → reward 0 / not-promoted, so the substrate is failure-ready;
this closes the upstream gap that never produced failures.

End-to-end: a failed-edit PostToolUse payload now logs '[LEARN] Edit FAILURE
recorded' through the actual shipped hook; a success stays '[OK] Edit recorded'.

Co-Authored-By: RuFlo <ruv@ruv.net>

* feat(init): version-stamped auto-refresh of critical helpers — hook fixes reach all users, no re-init (ADR-174)

The propagation gap: Claude Code hooks run the PROJECT-LOCAL
.claude/helpers/*.cjs copies, not the npm package — so npx ruflo@latest
never updated them, and users didn't know to re-run init. Any hook fix
(e.g. the ADR-174 failure-capture change) reached only people who happened
to re-init.

Fix: stamp the critical helpers (hook-handler.cjs, intelligence.cjs,
auto-memory-hook.mjs) with the installed CLI version; on the next CLI
command, if a project's stamp is older than the installed version, silently
re-copy them. New lightweight src/init/helper-refresh.ts (fs/path/module
only at load; lazily imports the heavy generators only on the rare
source-unresolvable fallback). Wired AWAITED into index.ts startup so a fast
command can't exit before the copy lands — fast path is a stamp read +
string compare (sub-ms); the copy runs at most once per version bump. No-op
outside a ruflo project (never scaffolds files in an unrelated dir). Skipped
for init/update. executeUpgrade also stamps so an explicit upgrade is current.

Verified end-to-end: a stale-stamped project with an OLD (no-failure-capture)
hook silently upgrades to the toolFailed logic on a plain 'ruflo --help', and
a current project is a no-op (a marker file survives). +4 tests.

Co-Authored-By: RuFlo <ruv@ruv.net>

* feat(security): Ed25519 signed provenance gate for the helper auto-refresh (ADR-174)

The auto-refresh copies auto-EXECUTING hook code from the installed package
into projects. npm verifies the tarball at install, not the files on disk
after — a sibling package's postinstall (or disk tamper) could overwrite the
helpers and the refresh would faithfully propagate the malicious code.

Fix (fail-closed): every helper is verified against a ruflo-signed manifest
before install.
- helper-signing.ts: baked RUFLO_HELPERS_PUBKEY + verifyHelpersManifest()
  (native Ed25519, same primitive as rvfa-signing.ts). Fail-closed — any
  bad signature / tampered hash / wrong algorithm → null → refuse.
- scripts/sign-helpers.mjs: publish-time signer; private key from
  $RUFLO_HELPERS_SIGNING_KEY, NEVER committed (kept out of the repo tree).
  Not shipped (scripts/ is narrowed to postinstall.cjs in files).
- helper-refresh.writeCriticalHelpers: verifies the signed manifest + every
  source helper's SHA-256 BEFORE copying anything; a mismatch is refused and
  the project's existing helpers are left intact. The generator fallback
  needs no manifest (it's the CLI's own compiled code = trust root).
- index.ts warns loudly on a blocked refresh (potential tampering signal).

Threat model: closes post-install/on-disk tampering of the helper files; does
not defend a wholesale-compromised CLI (which could swap the baked key too —
but then it owns the binary you run). A CI test ('hashes match shipped files')
fails if a helper changes without re-signing, so a stale manifest can't ship.

Verified end-to-end: a tampered shipped helper → refresh REFUSED (blocked,
project helper untouched); restored → refresh succeeds. +6 signing tests.

Co-Authored-By: RuFlo <ruv@ruv.net>

* chore(security): source helper-signing key from GCP Secret Manager

sign-helpers.mjs now resolves the private key from GCP Secret Manager
(RUFLO_HELPERS_SIGNING_SECRET, via gcloud secrets versions access) as the
preferred source for CI/publish, with the local-PEM fallback
(RUFLO_HELPERS_SIGNING_KEY) for air-gapped signing. Key never committed.
ADR-174 security note updated.

Co-Authored-By: RuFlo <ruv@ruv.net>
2026-07-04 17:10:45 -04:00
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ruflo-browser

Session-as-skill browser automation. Playwright-backed via 23 mcp__claude-flow__browser_* tools, with each session captured as a first-class RVF cognitive container holding manifest + trajectory + screenshots + sanitized cookies + findings, indexed in AgentDB and gated by AIDefence.

v0.2.0 architecture — every browser session is now an addressable, replayable, federatable artifact. Status is Proposed per ADR-0001; the load-bearing replay assumption requires a pre-Accept spike (see ADR Verification §4).

Substrate alignment (ADR-122). This plugin is the user-facing skill layer; the substrate primitives — signed trajectories (Ed25519 + RVF), causal-graph self-healing, AIDefence-attested cookie vault, federated MCTS, Session Capsules, Workflow Compiler — ship in the @claude-flow/browser@3.0.0-alpha.4 npm package. See the substrate announcement and tracking issue #2041.

Install

/plugin marketplace add ruvnet/ruflo
/plugin install ruflo-browser@ruflo

How sessions work

A browser session is allocated an RVF container at session-start and committed at session-end:

<rvf-id>/
├── manifest.yaml         # URL, viewport, profile, runner, lineage
├── trajectory.ndjson     # one line per action via ruvector hooks trajectory-step
├── screenshots/<step>.png
├── snapshots/<step>.json # accessibility trees indexed by navigation
├── dom/                  # optional, when --with-dom
├── cookies.json          # AIDefence-sanitized
└── findings.md           # test verdicts, scrape outputs, injection quarantine

Re-open with rvf ingest <id>, fork with rvf derive, federate with rvf export.

Commands

/ruflo-browser is a verb dispatcher:

/ruflo-browser ls [--query <text>]      # list sessions, AgentDB-indexed
/ruflo-browser show <session-id>        # manifest + trajectory + verdict
/ruflo-browser replay <session-id>      # re-drive trajectory
/ruflo-browser export <session-id>      # rvf export → tar.zst
/ruflo-browser fork <session-id>        # rvf derive → new lineage-tracked session
/ruflo-browser purge <session-id>       # destroy, keep redacted manifest
/ruflo-browser doctor                   # check Playwright, MCP, AgentDB, AIDefence

Skills

Skill Purpose
browser-record Open a named, traced session into an RVF container. Primitive others compose.
browser-replay Replay a stored trajectory, optionally on a different URL or with mutated inputs.
browser-extract Run a stored browser-templates recipe or one-shot extraction. PII-scanned.
browser-login Drive an auth flow once, sanitize+vault cookies for reuse.
browser-form-fill Form interaction with field-name → value mapping.
browser-screenshot-diff Pixel + DOM diff between two session screenshots (visual regression).
browser-auth-flow Probe an auth flow for redirect leaks, missing CSRF, weak session cookies.
browser-test UI test recipe — composes browser-record + browser-replay.

browser-scrape is a deprecation shim that delegates to browser-extract. Removed in v0.3.0.

Memory layer (AgentDB)

Namespace Key Value Purpose
browser-sessions <rvf-id> manifest summary + verdict + tags session index for /ruflo-browser ls
browser-selectors <host>:<intent> {selector, ref, snapshot-hash, last-success} survives DOM drift via embedding similarity
browser-templates <template-name> scrape recipe with selector chain + post-process replaces ad-hoc memory strings
browser-cookies <host> claims-gated cookie blob + expiry + AIDefence verdict cookie reuse without re-auth

Raw cookies and tokens never enter AgentDB unwrapped — see ADR §3.

AIDefence gates (mandatory)

  1. Pre-storage scan — every scraped string passes aidefence_has_pii before AgentDB store.
  2. Cookie sanitization — aidefence_scan flags high-entropy strings; vault them in browser-cookies.
  3. Prompt-injection check — extracted text returning to an LLM passes aidefence_is_safe. Hits get quarantined to findings.md. With aidefence@2.3.0 (ADR-118) the check now catches role-hijack (you are now … / act as … / pretend to be …) and jailbreak markers (DAN mode / developer mode / god mode / root mode) in addition to the canonical ignore all previous instructions family — high-leverage upgrade for browser-scraped pages.

MCP surface

18 existing mcp__claude-flow__browser_* interaction primitives (in browser-tools.ts: open/close/click/type/fill/select/check/uncheck/hover/press/scroll/screenshot/snapshot/eval/wait/reload/back/forward) + 5 new browser_session_* lifecycle tools (implemented in v0.2.0) for a total of 23:

Tool Purpose
browser_session_record RVF allocate + ruvector trajectory-begin + agent-browser open. Returns session id + rvf path.
browser_session_end trajectory-end with verdict + rvf compact + AgentDB index in browser-sessions.
browser_session_replay RVF derive child container + load trajectory steps for caller-level dispatch.
browser_template_apply Fetch a recipe from browser-templates AgentDB namespace.
browser_cookie_use Fetch an opaque vault handle from browser-cookies; raw values never returned.

Implementation: v3/@claude-flow/cli/src/mcp-tools/browser-session-tools.ts, registered in mcp-client.ts. Each handler shells out to the pinned ruvector@0.2.25 CLI for trajectory + RVF, the existing agent-browser CLI for browser actions, and the bridged claude-flow memory for AgentDB. Missing dependencies degrade with structured success: false errors instead of crashing.

browser_session_replay is deliberately a primitive: it derives a child RVF container and surfaces the source trajectory so the caller dispatches each step through the appropriate browser_* tool. That keeps the replay engine out of the MCP layer and makes the load-bearing assumption (replay-fidelity across DOM drift) testable via the spike harness below rather than buried in tool internals.

Verification

Two complementary checks:

Structural smoke (fast, offline)

bash plugins/ruflo-browser/scripts/smoke.sh
# Expected on green: "13 passed, 0 failed"

Verifies plugin structural soundness — file inventory, frontmatter validity, ADR cross-references, AgentDB namespace coverage in the agent, allowed-tools enumeration in skills, and that the 5 lifecycle MCP tools are present in the CLI source.

Replay spike (interactive, online — pre-Accept gate)

bash plugins/ruflo-browser/scripts/replay-spike.sh

Records + replays a baseline session against each URL in scripts/SITES.txt (10 sites by default, varying drift profiles). Writes spike-results/<timestamp>/STATUS.md with per-site verdicts and the aggregate replay rate. The ADR threshold is ≥80%; meeting it is the gate to flip ADR-0001 from Proposed → Accepted. Below the threshold, the proposal degrades to "session as audit log" (replay and screenshot-diff become best-effort).

The spike requires agent-browser (or npx --yes agent-browser), ruvector@0.2.25 (auto-fetched via npx), and network access. It is not part of the smoke test — running it is a deliberate audit step.

Architecture Decisions

  • ruflo-ruvector — trajectory hooks, SONA pattern distillation, MCP tools
  • ruflo-agentdb — controllers backing browser-sessions, browser-selectors, browser-templates, browser-cookies
  • ruflo-aidefence — PII / prompt-injection gates
  • ruflo-federation — cross-installation session sharing via RVF export

License

MIT