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Summary

Adds a cortex dialect for CortexDB, plus the conformance double and live
test target that keep it honest. It is deliberately not wired into any
registry
— CortexDB has no way to replace the value at a key, so the driver
emulates replacement, and whether to bind an emulating driver is a decision
that waits on an open conversation with the vendor. This lands the work,
tested, rather than leaving it on a branch going stale.

The more broadly useful half is the second and third commits. The double was
written from the same documentation as the adapter, so the two agreed with
each other while the adapter was wrong against the real engine in four
separate ways, and the offline suite was green the whole time. Pointing the
identical suite at a live deployment found all four.

Related issue

None directly. Same class of problem as #67 — a double that restates the
documentation makes the coverage over it vacuous — though this does not
touch Cognee.

API or behavior changes

Additive only, no breaking changes:

  • tinymemory_remote::{CortexMemory, cortex_provider, CORTEX_DRIVER_ID, CORTEX_API_ENDPOINT}
  • a new skipped-by-default live target, live_cortex_upholds_the_provider_contract,
    gated on TINYMEMORY_TEST_CORTEX_URL / ..._KEY

No existing adapter, trait or type changes.

Validation

Commands actually run, with their outcome:

  • cargo fmt --all -- --check — clean
  • cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings — clean
  • cargo build --all-targets --all-features — clean
  • cargo test --all-features — 33 targets, all ok, 0 failures

Also run, and the reason the rest of this is worth reading:

  • cargo test -p tinymemory-remote --test live_remote_engines live_cortex
    against a live CortexDB v0.9.8 — passes, in 197s. The runtime is the
    point: it is dominated by waiting for asynchronous writes to become readable.
  • RUSTDOCFLAGS="-D warnings" cargo doc --no-deps — clean.

What the live engine did that the documentation did not say

Each of these produced an adapter that passed every offline test and was
wrong in production. All four are now reproduced by the double.

  1. The two read paths return different bytes for the same event.
    /v1/events returns content as stored; /v1/recall renders it for a
    reader, prefixing the speaker ([user] {...}). A dialect that stores
    structured content and parses it back lists perfectly and searches to
    nothing
    — every hit fails to parse and is discarded as a foreign event.
    It fails silently and looks exactly like an empty index.
  2. The listing emits every record twice, and limit counts the
    duplicates, so a page of 200 carries ~100 distinct events.
  3. Unknown query parameters are ignored rather than refused, so a wrong
    paging parameter re-serves page one until the page ceiling trips instead
    of erroring.
  4. Writes are asynchronous with no readiness signal. 202 captured, then
    ~1–4s to the listing and ~1s more to ranked recall. GET /v1/events/{id}
    answers before the listing does, so it is not a usable probe;
    /v1/experience/status never advances past captured; the
    lifecycle_stream URL in the write response connects and emits nothing.

One near-miss worth recording: the forget selector's id field is
memory_ids, and an unrecognised field deserialises to an empty selector,
which means the whole scope. Two engine interlocks stop that being
destructive, and both fired. confirm_all appears nowhere in this driver.

Tests

  • cortex_test.rs — scope mapping round-trips, segment refusal, the fold's
    newest-per-key rule, foreign events ignored, taint preserved.
  • Three regression tests in conformance_test.rs, each verified to fail when
    its fix is reverted: a scope past one page must fold completely, deleting
    one key must not take its neighbours, and a tombstone alone must hide a key.
  • Three double-fidelity tests kept from before: the double must retain, must
    refuse a reused key with a changed body, and must uphold the contract.

Deliberately untested: the visibility timeout path. Reproducing it needs an
engine that accepts a write and never indexes it, which the double cannot
model without becoming a fiction of its own.

Documentation

Module docs in cortex.rs carry the design and every measured engine
behaviour, including which ones are not readiness signals and why the two
waits fail differently. No separate doc page — this is one adapter among
several and follows their shape.

Checklist

  • The change is focused on one logical change
  • No new #[allow(...)], #[ignore], or relaxed lints — cortex_test.rs
    carries #![allow(clippy::expect_used)], matching every sibling
    *_test.rs in the crate
  • No secrets, tokens, or .env contents in the diff or the description

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added CortexDB as a remote memory backend.
    • Added managed cloud, self-hosted, and custom endpoint connection options.
    • Added provider integration for using CortexDB through the standard memory interface.
    • Added support for namespaced memory, recall, pagination, deletion, health checks, and configurable request timeouts.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved consistency for repeated writes, duplicate results, deleted records, and paginated responses.
    • Added safer handling for scoped memory and unavailable recall indexing.

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2 changed behaviours across 13 relationships. 5 surrounding behaviours are shown (60 graph nodes walked). 40 further behaviours left out to keep the diagram readable.

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The PR adds a CortexDB remote-memory adapter. It maps TinyMemory operations to CortexDB’s append-only event API, supports idempotent writes, tombstone deletion, scoped recall, pagination, health checks, and contract tests.

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CortexDB adapter

Layer / File(s) Summary
Public adapter contract
crates/tinymemory-remote/src/cortex.rs, crates/tinymemory-remote/src/lib.rs
Adds CortexMemory, constructors, namespace-to-scope conversion, public exports, provider wiring, and Memory delegation.
Event-log read model
crates/tinymemory-remote/src/cortex.rs, crates/tinymemory-remote/src/cortex_test.rs
Adds envelope serialization, paginated event scans, newest-write folding, tombstone suppression, namespace enumeration, and unit tests.
Mutation, recall, and visibility
crates/tinymemory-remote/src/cortex.rs
Adds idempotent upserts, visibility polling, tombstone deletion, prior-event removal, scoped recall, and health probing.
Conformance and live validation
crates/tinymemory-remote/src/conformance_test.rs, crates/tinymemory-remote/tests/live_remote_engines.rs
Adds an HTTP double and tests for retention, conflicts, pagination, selective deletion, tombstones, recall ranking, Mem0 capabilities, and live provider conformance.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to fcc20

The adapter currently has several correctness risks that can cause valid writes to be rejected, return the wrong event, omit relevant search results, or fail during pagination and visibility checks. These issues can materially misrepresent stored memory behavior, so the PR is not ready to merge until they are addressed.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Memory
  participant CortexMemory
  participant CortexDB
  Memory->>CortexMemory: Store or delete logical key
  CortexMemory->>CortexDB: Append envelope or tombstone
  CortexDB-->>CortexMemory: Return event identifier
  CortexMemory->>CortexDB: Poll event listing
  CortexDB-->>CortexMemory: Return visible events
  CortexMemory-->>Memory: Return operation result
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A rabbit stores events in a durable stream
New writes hop forward in a logical-key dream
Tombstones hide records when deletion is due
Scopes and recall keep each result in view
CortexDB answers, and contracts pass through

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- Around line 406-414: Update the recall probe in the write path to treat errors
from the client POST to “v1/recall” as best-effort failures: stop waiting and
return Ok(()) instead of propagating the error. Preserve successful probe
handling and the existing retry behavior.
- Around line 775-776: Update search around Self::fold and hits.truncate so
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- Around line 580-589: Update urlencoding to percent-encode every character
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Comment on lines +406 to +414
let answer: Value = self
.client
.json(
Method::POST,
"v1/recall",
Some(&json!({ "scope": scope, "query": query })),
Attempts::RetryTransient,
)
.await?;

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not fail the write when the recall probe errors.

The doc at lines 367-372 states that phase two is best-effort. The ? on this call makes a recall failure fatal, so upsert and delete report an error for a record that is durable and readable by key. Attempts::RetryTransient reduces the chance but does not remove it; a 429, a 5xx after retries, or a request timeout propagates.

Treat a failed probe like a probe that has not caught up: stop waiting and return Ok(()).

🐛 Proposed fix
     while std::time::Instant::now() < settle_by {
-        let answer: Value = self
+        let probe: anyhow::Result<Value> = self
             .client
             .json(
                 Method::POST,
                 "v1/recall",
                 Some(&json!({ "scope": scope, "query": query })),
                 Attempts::RetryTransient,
             )
-            .await?;
+            .await;
+        // Best-effort by design: a probe that errors is no worse than a probe
+        // that has not caught up, and neither invalidates the write.
+        let Ok(answer) = probe else {
+            break;
+        };
         if Self::carries(answer.pointer("/layers/events"), event_id) {
             break;
         }
         tokio::time::sleep(VISIBILITY_POLL).await;
     }
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In `@crates/tinymemory-remote/src/cortex.rs` around lines 406 - 414, Update the
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Comment on lines +580 to +589
fn urlencoding(value: &str) -> String {
value
.chars()
.map(|c| match c {
':' => "%3A".to_string(),
'/' => "%2F".to_string(),
other => other.to_string(),
})
.collect()
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

urlencoding encodes too little for a cursor token.

The function maps only : and /. Scope segments are restricted to [A-Za-z0-9_-] by scope_of, so scopes are safe. The cursor at line 307 is an opaque server value and is not restricted. A cursor carrying +, &, =, # or ? is sent unencoded, so the engine reads a different cursor or a different parameter set. Per this file's own note at lines 70-71, a wrong paging parameter re-serves page one, so the fold walks to MAX_PAGES and errors instead of paging.

Percent-encode every character outside the unreserved set.

🐛 Proposed fix
-/// Percent-encodes the characters a scope path carries that a query string
-/// would otherwise read as structure.
+/// Percent-encodes everything a query-string value may not carry literally.
+///
+/// Scope paths carry `:` and `/`; a cursor is an opaque engine value and may
+/// carry anything, including `+`, `&` and `=`, which a query string reads as
+/// structure.
 fn urlencoding(value: &str) -> String {
-    value
-        .chars()
-        .map(|c| match c {
-            ':' => "%3A".to_string(),
-            '/' => "%2F".to_string(),
-            other => other.to_string(),
-        })
-        .collect()
+    let mut out = String::with_capacity(value.len());
+    for byte in value.as_bytes() {
+        match byte {
+            b'A'..=b'Z' | b'a'..=b'z' | b'0'..=b'9' | b'-' | b'_' | b'.' | b'~' => {
+                out.push(char::from(*byte));
+            }
+            other => out.push_str(&format!("%{other:02X}")),
+        }
+    }
+    out
 }
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})
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fn urlencoding(value: &str) -> String {
let mut out = String::with_capacity(value.len());
for byte in value.as_bytes() {
match byte {
b'A'..=b'Z' | b'a'..=b'z' | b'0'..=b'9' | b'-' | b'_' | b'.' | b'~' => {
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In `@crates/tinymemory-remote/src/cortex.rs` around lines 580 - 589, Update
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let mut hits = Self::fold(namespace, &events);
hits.truncate(limit);

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

search discards recall's ranking before applying limit.

fold sorts its output by key at line 532. Truncating that sorted vector keeps the alphabetically first limit keys, not the highest-ranked hits. A caller that asks for the top 3 of 50 recall hits receives an arbitrary subset, and the best match can be dropped.

Re-order the folded entries by each key's first appearance in the recall answer, then truncate.

🐛 Proposed fix
-        let mut hits = Self::fold(namespace, &events);
-        hits.truncate(limit);
-        Ok(hits)
+        // Recall answers in rank order; the fold answers in key order. Restore
+        // the ranking before `limit` cuts, or the best hit can be cut first.
+        let mut rank: std::collections::HashMap<String, usize> = std::collections::HashMap::new();
+        for (position, event) in events.iter().enumerate() {
+            let Some(envelope) = event
+                .pointer("/content/text")
+                .and_then(Value::as_str)
+                .and_then(Self::envelope_of)
+            else {
+                continue;
+            };
+            rank.entry(envelope.k).or_insert(position);
+        }
+        let mut hits = Self::fold(namespace, &events);
+        hits.sort_by_key(|entry| rank.get(&entry.key).copied().unwrap_or(usize::MAX));
+        hits.truncate(limit);
+        Ok(hits)
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let mut hits = Self::fold(namespace, &events);
hits.truncate(limit);
// Recall answers in rank order; the fold answers in key order. Restore
// the ranking before `limit` cuts, or the best hit can be cut first.
let mut rank: std::collections::HashMap<String, usize> =
std::collections::HashMap::new();
for (position, event) in events.iter().enumerate() {
let Some(envelope) = event
.pointer("/content/text")
.and_then(Value::as_str)
.and_then(Self::envelope_of)
else {
continue;
};
rank.entry(envelope.k).or_insert(position);
}
let mut hits = Self::fold(namespace, &events);
hits.sort_by_key(|entry| rank.get(&entry.key).copied().unwrap_or(usize::MAX));
hits.truncate(limit);
Ok(hits)
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In `@crates/tinymemory-remote/src/cortex.rs` around lines 775 - 776, Update search
around Self::fold and hits.truncate so folded hits are reordered by each key’s
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CortexDB is not a keyed store. A key cannot be rewritten: reusing an
idempotency key with a different body is refused with 409, there is no
update route, and the idempotency ledger survives /v1/forget, so
delete-then-rewrite loses the old value and still refuses the new one.

So the dialect never asks the engine to replace anything. Every store
appends a fresh event carrying the logical key in its payload, and reads
fold the log down to newest-per-key. Replacement is reconstructed on the
read side rather than performed on the write side.

Three engine behaviours shape the rest of it, all measured against a
running v0.9.8 rather than taken from the documentation:

- writes are asynchronous. /v1/experience answers 202 and indexes after,
  so a write returns before any read can see it. The contract requires
  read-after-write, so upsert waits for the record to become readable.
- the two read paths return different bytes for the same event. The
  listing returns stored text; recall renders it with the speaker
  prefixed. Parsing only the stored form yields a dialect that lists
  correctly and searches to nothing.
- the listing emits every record twice and pages by cursor, and unknown
  query parameters are ignored rather than refused.

Not wired into any registry yet: the upsert gap above is an open
question with the vendor, and binding a driver that emulates replacement
is a decision to take once that is answered.
The double was written from the same documentation as the adapter, so
the two agreed with each other and the suite stayed green while the
adapter was wrong against the engine in four separate ways. A double
that only restates the documentation cannot catch that.

Each of these was then observed on a live v0.9.8 and is now reproduced:

- recall renders content for a reader, prefixing the speaker, while the
  listing returns it as stored
- the listing emits every record twice, counts the duplicates against
  limit, pages by cursor/next_cursor and orders newest first
- the forget selector's id field is memory_ids; an unrecognised field
  deserialises to an empty selector, meaning the whole scope, and the
  two interlocks that make that survivable are enforced here too
- /v1/experience returns the id the event was actually stored under,
  which is what the adapter waits on

Three tests come with it, each failing when its fix is reverted: a scope
past one page must fold completely, deleting one key must not take its
neighbours, and a tombstone alone must hide a key.
This target exists because a double cannot catch a service that behaves
differently from its documentation, which is exactly what happened here:
the offline suite passed throughout while the adapter had four defects
that only the real engine exposed.

Skipped without TINYMEMORY_TEST_CORTEX_URL and ..._KEY, so cargo test
stays offline and deterministic by default.
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Rebased onto main (the branch was based on the vendored pin, v1.13.3, which is 1110 commits back) and fixed the failure that exposed.

assert_namespaces_preserve_their_section writes to conversation:tinymemory-conformance/…, and the adapter refused it: CortexDB's scope grammar is type:id, so it uses : as a separator, while the contract uses it to address a namespace section. The mapping now encodes any segment the grammar rejects rather than refusing it — tm: for a segment that is already legal, tmx: plus hex for one that is not — and namespace_of decodes both.

Refusing and collapsing were both wrong here, which is exactly what that assertion's doc comment says: collapsing : silently re-addresses the namespace out of its section, so namespaces() reports a scope nobody enumerating that section can find. Refusing makes whole sections unstorable. This is also load-bearing beyond that one test — Bound::recall re-checks every returned record against the namespace it asked for and silently drops what does not match, so a mapping that cannot be inverted returns zero hits with no error.

Re-verified after the rebase:

  • cargo fmt --all -- --check, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings, cargo build --all-targets --all-features — all clean
  • cargo test --all-features — 33 targets, 0 failures (74 in tinymemory-remote --lib, up from 73: the section assertion now runs against cortex)
  • the live lane against a real CortexDB v0.9.8 — passes, 155s

a_segment_cortex_would_reject_is_refused_here_rather_than_on_the_wire became ..._is_encoded_rather_than_refused, and now round-trips a sectioned namespace, a space and a non-ASCII segment, while still asserting the 128-character scope-id ceiling (lower for an encoded segment, since hex doubles it) and that a scope this adapter did not write decodes to None.

Three defects from review, each verified against the engine before fixing
and each now covered by a test that fails without its fix.

`search` folded the recall answer and then truncated it. The fold orders
by key, which is right for a listing and wrong for a ranked answer:
truncating an alphabetical order discards the engine's best hits and
keeps whichever keys sort first. Hits are now restored to the order the
engine returned them in, by each key's first appearance, before the cap.
The conformance suite could not catch this — its recall fixture stores
identical content under r1/r2/r3, where ranked and alphabetical order
coincide.

The settle probe propagated its own errors. Phase two of the write path
is documented as best-effort, because a search index that has not caught
up does not unmake a durable, keyed-readable write — but an error from
the probe failed the whole store, which is exactly what the phase says
it will not do.

`urlencoding` escaped `:` and `/` only. That covers a scope, which
carries nothing else, but not the cursor: it is opaque engine output,
and a `+`, `&`, `=`, `#` or `?` in one would silently reshape the query
string rather than fail. It now percent-encodes everything outside the
URI unreserved set, by byte, so multi-byte UTF-8 stays recoverable.
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All three review points were real. Fixed in fcc2002, each with a test verified to fail without its fix.

search threw away the engine's ranking. This was the worst of the three and I am glad it was caught. fold sorts by key — correct for a listing, wrong for a ranked answer — and search then truncated to limit, so recall returned whichever keys sorted first and dropped the engine's best hits. Hits are now restored to the order the answer came back in, by each key's first appearance, before the cap.

Worth noting why nothing caught it: assert_recall_respects_limit_and_namespace stores identical content under r1/r2/r3, so ranked and alphabetical order coincide and the assertion passes either way. Every driver in this crate is checked by that fixture, so if any other dialect reorders before truncating, it has the same latent bug and the same blind spot. I have not looked.

The settle probe propagated its own errors. Phase two of the write path is documented as best-effort — a search index that has not caught up does not unmake a durable, keyed-readable write — but a failed probe failed the whole store, which is precisely what the phase says it will not do. It now stops waiting and returns. a_store_succeeds_when_ranked_recall_is_unreachable drives a backend that 500s on /v1/recall and asserts the store still succeeds and the record is readable by key.

urlencoding was an escape list, not an encoder. : and / cover a scope, which carries nothing else — but not the cursor, which is opaque engine output. On this deployment it happens to be a small integer; relying on that is the same assumption that produced four of the defects already in this PR. It now percent-encodes everything outside the URI unreserved set, by byte so multi-byte UTF-8 stays recoverable, with uppercase hex.

Re-verified: cargo fmt --all -- --check, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings, cargo build --all-targets --all-features, RUSTDOCFLAGS="-D warnings" cargo doc --no-deps — all clean; cargo test --all-features — 33 targets, 0 failures, 77 in tinymemory-remote --lib; and the live lane against a real CortexDB v0.9.8 — passes, 156s.

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In `@crates/tinymemory-remote/src/conformance_test.rs`:
- Around line 630-635: Update the idempotency-key record flow in the conformance
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return that stored ID instead of searching events by content.text. Add a test
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Three more from review. The scope-depth limit was measured against a
running engine rather than read off the grammar: 32 segments are
accepted, 33 come back as 422 INVALID_BODY. scope_of now refuses the
33rd locally, which keeps the error specific instead of surfacing as a
generic body rejection from the wire.

fresh_idempotency_key combined a timestamp with a process-local counter.
The counter separates writes within a process and the timestamp
separates runs of it, but neither separates two concurrent processes,
which can read the same nanosecond and start their counters at the same
zero. A third part, per-process entropy from RandomState, closes that.
No new dependency: the standard library already seeds that per process,
and a vendored crate should not grow a dependency for one string.

The double resolved a replay by searching events for matching content,
so two keys carrying identical text both replayed to the first event.
That is not a hypothetical shape here — the adapter mints a fresh key
per write, so a re-store of unchanged content is exactly it — and the
write path waits on the id it is handed, which would have been the wrong
record. The key now records the event it created.

Also documents what the test-only expect_used allowance covers.
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All four addressed in d15e9fc. The two substantive ones were real; each fix has a test verified to fail without it.

Scope depth. Valid, and I measured it rather than reading it off the grammar: 32 segments are accepted by a running v0.9.8, 33 come back 422 INVALID_BODY. scope_of now refuses the 33rd locally, for the same reason the per-segment checks already did — a local refusal names the problem, a wire refusal is a generic body rejection.

Idempotency key. Valid. The counter separates writes within a process and the timestamp separates runs of it, but neither separates two concurrent processes: they can read the same nanosecond and start their counters at the same zero. A third component fixes it.

I did not add a dependency, though. std::collections::hash_map::RandomState is seeded by the OS per process, which is exactly the entropy this needs, and the crate's own guidance is to check whether the standard library covers a need before taking a dependency — more so in a vendored crate, and for one string. If you would rather see uuid here, say so and I will swap it; the shape of the fix does not change.

Worth stating what the failure actually was, since it is a refusal rather than corruption: a reused key with a different body is refused with a 409, so a collision would reject a legitimate write loudly. A collision with an identical body replays, which is a no-op on state that is already correct.

The double's replay. Valid, and a better catch than it looks. Resolving a replay by searching events for matching content means two keys carrying identical text both replay to the first event — and that is not a hypothetical shape here, because the adapter mints a fresh key per write, so a re-store of unchanged content is exactly it. The write path then waits on the id it is handed, so it would have been waiting on the wrong record. The key now records the event it created.

The allowance comment. Added.

Re-verified: cargo fmt --all -- --check, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings, cargo build --all-targets --all-features, RUSTDOCFLAGS="-D warnings" cargo doc --no-deps — all clean; cargo test --all-features — 33 targets, 0 failures, 80 in tinymemory-remote --lib; live lane against a real CortexDB v0.9.8 — passes, 163s.

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A driver that receives more candidates than `limit` and reduces them
itself must keep the order the backend returned and take a prefix. The
contract said ordering was backend-defined but never said an
implementation may not impose its own, and the Cortex driver read that
gap the wrong way: it folded, sorted by key, then truncated, so recall
returned whichever keys sorted first and discarded the engine's best
hits. Fixed there in #128; this is the rule it should have been able to
read.

The recall fixture now stores distinct content per key. Identical
content leaves a backend free to order ties however it likes, and an
arbitrary order is one nothing downstream can assert about.

The assertion's docs say plainly that it does *not* check this rule, and
why: the suite cannot know how an engine ranks these rows, and a driver
that sorts before truncating is self-consistent, so no black-box
comparison of two limits separates it from a correct one. That check
belongs to each driver that folds before returning, and the doc points
at the one in tinymemory-remote as the shape to copy. Better an
explicit gap than a fixture that reads as coverage and is not.
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