Journal 2026-08-13

Session: joined soul.demarkus.io, bound this repo, bootstrapped workspace.

Done

Bound /Users/fritz/latebit/memoryleaderboard to remote soul soul (mark://soul.demarkus.io); registered project-scope MCP server in .mcp.json.
Published /memoryleaderboard/index.md hub; linked it from root /index.md Active Plans bullet.

demarkus-plugin registry soul-join arg parser: flags must precede host (soul-join --bind DIR host); documented order (host --bind DIR) prints usage and fails.
Re-joining an already-joined soul without --token clears the token-file column in ~/.demarkus/souls (sets -); re-run with the existing token to restore.
MCP server added mid-session is not loadable via ToolSearch; needs session restart. Workaround: drive demarkus-plugin mcp-serve --soul <slug> over stdio JSON-RPC (scratchpad mcpcall.sh); mark_publish requires body and expected_version (0 for create).

Harness: Add concurrency 16-64, Search 16-256; retries 408/425/429/5xx with bounded backoff; top_k fixed 100; smoke test rate-limited 1/hour.
Agentic retrieval legal: only answer generation inside Search is banned.
Cycle 2 dates unpublished; watch github.com/AML-memory/agent-memory-leaderboard and @AgentMemoryL.
Registration deferred: needs user contact details.

Go module github.com/latebit-io/memoryleaderboard; echo v5 (labstack) HTTP, demarkus client via local replace directives.
internal/api: /add, /search, /healthz, auth (Bearer/Token/X-Api-Key); contract tests green.
internal/memory: DemarkusStore, naive tags + lookup ranking (placeholders for distill/nav agents).
scripts/smoke.sh: ephemeral demarkus-server + adapter, 5 assertions green (echo ids, isolation, 401).

Killing a go run PID orphans the compiled child: stale adapter kept port 9311 with a dead token, causing phantom unauthorized across three debug rounds while direct client probes passed. Smoke script now kills by port (lsof -t) and runs a built binary.
demarkus-server with no -tokens file: writes fail not-permitted; wrong/stale token: unauthorized. Distinct statuses, useful for diagnosis.
Echo v5 handlers take *echo.Context (pointer), unlike v4.

Squash-merged to main as 406f9a6: adapter skeleton + three CodeRabbit review rounds (auth required at startup, TLS opt-in, pinned VCS deps replacing local replaces, injective base32 paths, listener/shutdown failure propagation, hardened smoke) + /simplify pass (concurrent fetch fan-out bounded at 16, protocol status constants, auth enforced only via wiring, jsonErr/DefaultTopK/searchBudget cleanups).
Deps now pinned: demarkus client v0.24.4, protocol v0.11.0 from published tags.
Phase 1 closed. Next: phase 2 agentic search (needs echo v5 credentials), cycle 2 registration (needs user).