The label-visibility zoom threshold (was the LABELS_CAMERA_RATIO=1
constant) becomes the fourth persisted setting: labels appear when the
camera ratio is at/below it (1x = fit zoom; slider 0.5x-4x, shown with
an x suffix). Deliberately THE single zoom knob per the cluster design
(vision section 1): cluster labels will fade in over the same span as
node labels fade out, gated inversely on this same setting.
Live-verified: at a zoomed-out camera (labels previously hidden),
raising the threshold to 4x rebuilds and re-shows labels without any
camera movement; resetting restores the fade. 355/355 tests,
typecheck, lint clean.
Three sliders behind a gear in the search panel (user-decided
2026-09-13), persisted per browser in localStorage with clamped
sanitizing on load. Default node size dropped 8 → 6 for dense graphs.
Mechanics: the mount effect is split — the data effect builds the
graphology graph + one frozen forceAtlas2 pass per snapshot; the render
effect mounts sigma and re-runs on settings change only. Sizes are
stamped onto the same graph instance (layout never recomputed), and the
arrowhead program is constructed per rebuild with ratios solved from
the settings (head px = thickness × lengthToThicknessRatio × 2; wideness
keeps the stock 0.8 shape). The camera position carries across rebuilds
via a ref, so a slider tweak never re-fits or re-lays-out the view;
useDeferredValue smooths slider drags.
Live-verified in the browser: sliders persist to localStorage, the
renderer rebuilds with zero console errors, hover/picking survives the
rebuild, and a zoomed-out camera stays zoomed out across a settings
change (labels-gate opacity as the observable). 355/355 tests,
typecheck, lint, build green.
The same extractor→auditor→merger pipeline now runs over raw personal
notes in arbitrary formats (vision §1, DECIDED 2026-09-13):
- NotesSource records (data/graph/sources.json, deterministic id from
path hash → idempotent re-imports) play the chatId role in mappings,
checkpoints, and observation events; usage lands on the source record
(appendSourceUsage, idempotent per startedAt, kept across upserts).
- mergeFindings is chat-store-free: callers pass MergeSource
{messages, foldedAt} — sessions pass the chat record, notes pass
messages:null (no quiz-event rebuild; a deterministic rebuild needs
structured quiz tool parts).
- Second extractor prompt (NOTES_EXTRACTOR_INSTRUCTIONS) for general-
purpose extraction; understanding judges the AUTHOR's grasp. Auditor
wording input-agnostic. extract/audit share one generic runSubmitAgent.
- graphSnapshot.fileSources (srcId→filePath); notes sources render as
static path entries in the detail card (FileTextIcon, never a link).
- One shared pipeline instance (exported from chat-handler): same
single-flight registry, live status chips (label = file path), usage
accounting, and true abort for both front doors.
- Transport: POST /api/graph/import (multipart, 3-wide worker pool) +
Import notes… button in the graph view; scripts/import-notes.ts for
batch runs (concurrency 4).
- real-data-extraction/ gitignored (raw import sources never committed).
355/355 tests; typecheck, lint, build green.
Community detection as the graph's at-a-glance structure: Louvain on
graphology, seeded; structure-based (never layout-based); entirely
inferred from the graph, entirely separate from extraction; size-
gated (>= ~3 nodes); named by one cheap cached LLM call per new/changed
cluster.
Labeling persistence — the core-survival rule (user-decided): each
append-only labeling record stores the label + the member set it was
produced with (the core); a recomputed community keeps its label
while >= half its members are from that core, relabels under half
(new record appended, old records stay as history); single successor on
splits/merges; color keys to the labeling record.
Rendering: dashed hull + blurred low-opacity fill behind everything,
per-cluster stable hue, cluster labels inverse-gated against the node
label span (domain view zoomed out / proposition view zoomed in);
boundary geometry computed at draw time (pure function of member
positions) so future physics never invalidates it; inter-cluster edges
stay visible (meaningful bridges).
Multi-scale clusters (hierarchical Louvain dendrogram) deliberately
parked. Open questions: boundary aesthetic/label placement (visual
testing), threshold tuning (synthetic benchmark — now the primary
clustering-quality validation, sparsity being the honest risk).
The extractor's per-session understanding notes were free-form strings;
the model freely appended em-dash justifications ('shaky — the learner
could state the headline distinction but calls the machinery behind it
foggy'), which overflowed the detail card's session rows and squeezed
the session names.
The note becomes a CLOSED named-word scale — solid / shaky / accepted /
resisted / not yet engaged (DECIDED 2026-09-08, no numbers) — enforced
by the zod enum in propositionSchema: a wrong-shaped note is rejected
at parse time and the agent retries. Justifications are dropped, not
stored (user decision: not necessary). Extractor and auditor
instructions updated to demand exactly one word.
Renderer: the session row keeps the session NAME as the main thing
(flex-1, truncates) and the level chip is bounded (max-w-28,
whitespace-nowrap, truncate) — overflow impossible even for legacy
prose notes in old ledgers.
Vision doc: §1 extractor bullet + event-ledger line updated; state
model line notes the five-class derivation was removed; amendments
table row added.
With real extracted data, full-sentence statements as canvas labels proved
unworkable: 10-line label blocks, illegible overprint clusters, bottom-edge
clipping. Per the user's 2026-09-08 decision:
- GraphNode/ExtractedProposition gain `name` — a very short, glanceable
label (glossary-headword style: "Will to power"), presentational only:
not unique, not identity, never precise. Set at creation; link-appends
never change it (first line defines; labels stay stable across sessions).
- `statement` keeps its full precision and becomes the identity anchor;
the detail card shows it under the name. `description` is dropped.
- Extractor coins the name (freshest session context); auditor carries it
through on create, rewording only clearly unglanceable names; linked
propositions keep the existing node's name.
- Renderer: canvas label = name; search matches name + statement;
detail card = name (bold) + statement (muted).
- Store guard requires name (pre-pivot node lines are skipped as legacy);
vision.md node-schema bullet + amendments table updated (2026-09-08).
Records the 2026-09-02 graph philosophy decisions, replacing the
2026-08-22 live-emission construction model (second reversal — back to
post-hoc, now deliberately tree-blind):
- Node theory: every node is a TRUE proposition (no kind field);
statement (minimal, context-relative) + description (required) +
aliases (verbatim phrasings); contradictions coexist — the
surrounding subgraph is the context; misconceptions enter as true
corrections, wrongness lives in the event ledger.
- Edges: follows (derivable) | supports (grounds without entailing);
no scalars, no encoded strength — derived at read time.
- Provenance: message-granular (chat, message) points on nodes and
edges, deep-linkable.
- Construction: free-form extraction fully decoupled from the
session's formalism. Extractor sees ONLY the session transcript
(tree-blind, message ids); auditor sees extractor output + the
global graph (faithfulness net + identity judgment, link-or-create,
aliases as phrasings); merger stays deterministic append-only.
- Event ledger: quiz outcomes deterministic from tool parts; NO
taught events; extractor records per-proposition understanding
notes (named-word scale, no numbers) — treatment TBD.
- Understanding: inferred, never encoded; state model (session-
independent, computed from dependency depth/strength) is pending
ideation — current five-class derivation is transitional.
Also updates: §2 plan tree (session scaffolding only), graph-as-context
(follows-edge subtree, event-derived hotspots), home page (message
provenance, transitional states), roadmap item 5, open questions
#2/#3 resolved, amendments table (+6 rows).
- Every session starts with the learner's knowledge graph as base
context (precision probing); selection problem noted: pedagogical
relevance != semantic closeness (structural neighborhood, diagnostic
hotspots, frontier strip); strategies to tune on data.
- Sub-agent architecture: async background workers with live activity
indicators; demo-builder TESTS code headlessly; visual-maker verifies
by looking (port of vault svg-maker); mermaid needs no sub-agent;
researcher tool for fact verification (port of pi web-search/web-fetch
+ interactive-subagents researcher prompt).
- Not-a-chat presentation principle marked LOW PRIORITY per user.
Margin model flaws (user feedback): fragment placement needs unreliable
routing; scattering kills the receipt moment and chronology; session
value is in the moment, revision is rare, HTML export deprioritized.
Evolved model: one chronological spine; learner blocks are intact typed
'interjection' cards; teacher replies as woven Q&A interludes
(quote-then-answer); anchoring is a link overlay (backlinks), margins
demoted to a computed view. Chat-ness dies by type asymmetry, not
relocation.
Asymmetry of artifact: the teacher writes the document (whiteboard), the
learner writes in the margins (voice/floor). Bubbles die; the unit is the
block; chronology yields to tree structure; Q&A becomes document
furniture; the composer becomes a response field. Presentation-layer
change only — the interaction model stays conversational.
Captures 2026-08-22 decisions: hybrid live-emission + consolidation graph
construction (reversing the vault doc's teacher-untouched rule), one
substrate merged across sessions, structured plan-tree tools (mermaid
demoted to ad-hoc), probe/teach phase separation with collapsed teach
checks, right-panel tree view, LaTeX delimiter switch plan, and a
dependency-ordered roadmap.
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