brain_pending existed the whole time four real items sat unreviewed from
2026-04-23 to 2026-07-15. The tool was never the gap — nothing ever
prompted anyone to call it. The system should be what remembers the queue
exists.
Option 2 from the issue: ride along with brain_context, which sessions
already call, so noticing an aging note costs nobody a decision to go
looking. No scheduled job, no ntfy wiring, nothing new to keep running.
Threshold-gated at 14 days, and silent below it — a notice on every
context call is one people learn to skip, which reproduces the original
failure with extra steps. It reports the whole queue once it speaks: the
threshold decides whether to talk, not what to count.
It never promotes, rejects or reorders. Age is a reason to ask a human,
not a verdict; an old note may be exactly right to promote once someone
looks. A test asserts the queue is untouched and that the payload carries
a hint rather than an action.
An unreadable raw/ dir degrades to silence — brain_context is a hot path
and must not fail because the review queue is broken.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BeAp5LTscnz2W7Ubt4eJ6m
Returns top-N relevant brain entries for a project context. Combines
BM25 hits on project name with 2-hop graph expansion via Track A's
graphstore (when BRAIN_GRAPH_ENABLED). Closes hyperguild#28.
Notes on implementation choices that deviate slightly from the spec:
- Excerpt length: 200 chars per spec (vs the 300 used by search.Result).
truncateExcerpt clamps the already-stripped BM25 excerpt; graph-only
neighbours load their excerpt from disk via a private readExcerpt
helper (search.hydrate is unexported).
- Graph scoring: 0.6 / max(1, distance) per neighbour, so distance-1
contributes 0.6 and distance-2 contributes 0.3. BM25 hits decay
linearly from 3.0 (rank-0) to 1.0 (rank-2), giving BM25 hits a
natural ceiling above pure-graph hits while still letting a doc
surfaced via both edge types outrank a BM25-only one.
- Test placement: package mcp (internal) rather than mcp_test, because
graphReader is unexported and WithGraph only accepts *PGStore; an
internal test can install a dual-interface fake directly on s.graph
without spinning up postgres.
Bump-Type: minor
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>