Rebuilding Leo's Knowledge Database

Outcome

Leo should improve by compiling durable source material and reviewed changes into Postgres. Repeatedly changing prompts or retraining the chat behavior is not the knowledge system.

There are two different rebuilds:

Exact recovery restores the current canonical database from a verified snapshot. This is working now.
Semantic recompilation starts from the retained source corpus and the reviewed change ledger, then reproduces the canonical rows. This is partly recoverable but is not yet complete.

Exact Recovery: Working

Run:

.venv/bin/python ops/run_local_canonical_postgres_rebuild.py \
  --dump /private/path/teleo-canonical.dump \
  --source-manifest /private/path/source-manifest.jsonl \
  --output /tmp/teleo-canonical-rebuild-receipt.json

The newest retained 2026-07-13 canary restored a fresh, network-isolated Postgres and then removed it. The restored target matched the source across all 39 manifest tables and all 52,165 rows, with no schema, data, constraint, role, or performance mismatch. Total runtime was 12.35 seconds, including 2.97 seconds for pg_restore. Key rows included:

1,837 claims;
4,145 sources;
4,670 claim-evidence links;
4,916 claim edges;
17 reasoning tools;
27 proposals.

This snapshot predates the completed V3 source canary. The live VPS now has 29 proposals, so a new snapshot is required before claiming current GCP parity.

This is the fastest disaster-recovery path. It does not require Leo to re-extract or relearn the corpus.

Source Recompilation: Current Evidence

Read-only VPS inspection found two retained June import runs. Both point to the Forgejo-era workspace at /opt/teleo-eval/workspaces/main and retained inventory JSONL files under /opt/teleo-eval/kb-import/.

The database still retains:

kb_stage.import_runs for the two inventories;
staged claims, sources, claim-source links, and claim edges;
kb_stage.canonical_mappings from legacy keys to canonical UUIDs;
mappings for 1,807 of 1,837 canonical claims;
mappings for all 4,145 canonical sources.

For the 1,807 mapped claims, current canonical type, text, status, confidence, tags, and creator match the retained staged rows exactly. Creation timestamps also follow a recoverable rule: use the legacy timestamp when present and the mapping timestamp for the eight rows that had no legacy timestamp.

The simple retained-row joins currently reproduce:

4,254 of 4,670 canonical evidence links;
4,878 of 4,916 canonical edge rows can be accounted for by a staged relation; historical duplicate multiplicity still needs an explicit replay rule.

Re-run this aggregate, read-only coverage audit against any restored local clone:

.venv/bin/python ops/audit_kb_rebuild_coverage.py \
  --container <restored-local-postgres-container> \
  --database teleo

The auditor emits no claim bodies or source excerpts and separates snapshot recovery from source-derived recompilation readiness.

The remaining gaps are concrete rather than mysterious:

30 claims were created after or outside the mapped import;
284 mapped source rows do not have a matching retained staged_sources row and need the original source-synthesis rule or an explicit genesis record;
416 evidence links need source-synthesis or later-change provenance;
38 edge rows need later-change receipts or explicit replay records;
old applied proposal rows do not describe every historical canonical write.

This proves that most of the initial database came from the retained file-KB import path. It does not yet prove a clean blank-database recompile.

Target Compiler

The durable rebuild model is:

immutable source corpus + file hashes
-> deterministic inventory and classification
-> staged claims, sources, evidence links, and edges
-> stable canonical ID mapping
-> review decisions
-> append-only accepted apply payloads and receipts
-> canonical Postgres
-> render/sync/restart
-> answer benchmark

Use the current verified snapshot as genesis epoch 1. Preserve its dump, manifest, source commit, inventory files, mappings, and aggregate rebuild receipt. Every accepted change after that epoch must carry a replayable strict apply payload and row-level postflight receipt. This prevents the historical gap from growing while the old import rules are reconstructed.

The source compiler now turns one raw artifact, its strict UTF-8 extraction, and a reviewed extraction manifest into a deterministic, hash-bound pending_review proposal bundle:

.venv/bin/python scripts/compile_kb_source_packet.py \
  --artifact fixtures/working-leo/document-ingestion-v1.json \
  --text fixtures/working-leo/document-ingestion-v1.json \
  --manifest fixtures/working-leo/source-compiler-manifest-v1.json \
  --output /tmp/working-leo-source-packet-v1.json

The compiler verifies artifact and extraction hashes, stable source identity, current schema taxonomies, unique logical keys, and exact claim/evidence quotes. It reuses the existing proposal normalizer and staging preflight, but it has no database connection and executes neither staging nor apply. Its output is the review packet, not canonical knowledge.

The VPS also exposes a bounded preparation command for one text-like filesystem document (or a binary artifact with a separately supplied strict UTF-8 extraction):

teleo-kb prepare-source \
  --artifact /home/teleo/.hermes/profiles/leoclean/state/kb-source-inbox/source.md \
  --identity document:stable-source-id \
  --source-key stable_source_key \
  --source-type article \
  --title "Stable source title" \
  --locator artifact://stable/source-id \
  --output-dir /home/teleo/.hermes/profiles/leoclean/state/kb-source-preparation/source-id

It queries canonical claims before extraction, caps a single document at three new candidates with confidence at or below 0.75, has the model select densely numbered non-empty source fragments, resolves those IDs to exact source substrings, records duplicate judgments, and validates a v2 manifest through the source compiler. Unknown line IDs are rejected rather than fuzzily matched. It writes private files only. The extracted atomic proposition is the proposed claim text; exact source wording remains separately hash-bound as quote and evidence. A separate teleo-kb propose-source call is required to create a pending_review row; neither command applies canonical rows.

The existing full-data clone canary separately proves that a reviewed packet can create source, claim, evidence, and edge rows and affect later reasoning. The remaining recompilation capability is to join accepted packets into a complete corpus runner and replay ledger. One-document preparation and staging do not yet prove a clean database can be rebuilt semantically from every source.

Definition Of Working

Semantic recompilation is complete only when all of these pass:

A command creates a blank database from the retained source corpus plus the reviewed ledger.
Schema, constraints, roles, table counts, row hashes, and key query results match the canonical manifest.
Every canonical row traces to a genesis import record or a reviewed apply receipt.
A new document can be hash-captured, extracted into grounded candidates, deduplicated, staged, reviewed, applied in a disposable clone, and read back.
After render/sync and restart, Leo answers the related broad question using the new rows and cites the source chain.

Until then, exact snapshot recovery is production recovery; source recompilation is an active build capability, not a finished claim.

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