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Symbolic Time Memory — temporal memory queries

• Architectural Intent
  • Contract
• Implementation
  • Package context
  • Contract 1: memory-objects-since
  • Contract 2: memory-objects-in-range
  • Context query extension
• Test Suite

Architectural Intent

Every memory-object carries a version timestamp (get-universal-time) set on ingest since v0.1.0. But context-query in symbolic-awareness has no time filter — "what did I work on today?" serializes all nodes to the LLM instead of filtering 500→12 in sub-millisecond Lisp.

This skill adds temporal query primitives and extends context-query with :since / :until keyword parameters. Pure Lisp, sub-millisecond, 0 LLM tokens. ~90% token reduction on time-scoped memory queries.

Contract

1. (memory-objects-since timestamp): walks *memory-store* returning objects with version >= timestamp.
2. (memory-objects-in-range since until): returns objects with version between since and until (inclusive).
3. (context-query-with-time &key max-results type filter since until): extends context-query with temporal filtering. Falls back to context-query for non-time-scoped queries.

Implementation

Package context

(in-package :passepartout)

Contract 1: memory-objects-since

(defun memory-objects-since (timestamp)
  "Returns all memory-objects from *memory-store* with version >= TIMESTAMP."
  (let ((results nil))
    (maphash (lambda (id obj)
               (declare (ignore id))
               (when (>= (memory-object-version obj) timestamp)
                 (push obj results)))
             *memory-store*)
    (nreverse results)))

Contract 2: memory-objects-in-range

(defun memory-objects-in-range (since until)
  "Returns memory-objects with version between SINCE and UNTIL (inclusive)."
  (let ((results nil))
    (maphash (lambda (id obj)
               (declare (ignore id))
               (let ((v (memory-object-version obj)))
                 (when (and (>= v since) (<= v until))
                   (push obj results))))
             *memory-store*)
    (nreverse results)))

Context query extension

(defun context-query-with-time (&key (max-results 20) type-filter todo-filter since until)
  "Extended context query with temporal filtering.
When :since and/or :until are provided, filters results by memory-object version.
Falls back to context-query if temporal filtering is not requested."
  (let* ((all (if (fboundp 'memory-objects-by-attribute)
                  (if type-filter
                      (memory-objects-by-attribute :TYPE type-filter)
                      (let ((results nil))
                        (maphash (lambda (id obj)
                                   (declare (ignore id))
                                   (push obj results))
                                 *memory-store*)
                        results))
                  (let ((results nil))
                    (maphash (lambda (id obj)
                               (declare (ignore id))
                               (push obj results))
                             *memory-store*)
                    results)))
         (time-filtered (cond
                          ((and since until)
                           (remove-if (lambda (obj)
                                        (let ((v (memory-object-version obj)))
                                          (not (and (>= v since) (<= v until)))))
                                      all))
                          (since
                           (remove-if (lambda (obj)
                                        (< (memory-object-version obj) since))
                                      all))
                          (until
                           (remove-if (lambda (obj)
                                        (> (memory-object-version obj) until))
                                      all))
                          (t all))))
    (let ((todo-filtered (if todo-filter
                             (remove-if-not (lambda (obj)
                                              (string-equal (getf (memory-object-attributes obj) :TODO-STATE "") todo-filter))
                                            time-filtered)
                             time-filtered)))
      (subseq todo-filtered 0 (min max-results (length todo-filtered))))))

Test Suite

(eval-when (:compile-toplevel :load-toplevel :execute)
  (ql:quickload :fiveam :silent t))

(defpackage :passepartout-time-memory-tests
  (:use :cl :fiveam :passepartout)
  (:export #:time-memory-suite))

(in-package :passepartout-time-memory-tests)

(def-suite time-memory-suite :description "Temporal memory filtering")
(in-suite time-memory-suite)

(test test-memory-objects-since
  "Contract 1: ingest at T0 and T1, verify memory-objects-since(T1) returns only T1 nodes."
  (clrhash passepartout::*memory-store*)
  (let ((t0 (get-universal-time)))
    (sleep 1)
    (ingest-ast (list :type :HEADLINE :properties (list :ID "time-a" :TITLE "A") :contents nil))
    (ingest-ast (list :type :HEADLINE :properties (list :ID "time-b" :TITLE "B") :contents nil))
    (sleep 1)
    (let ((t1 (get-universal-time)))
      (sleep 1)
      (ingest-ast (list :type :HEADLINE :properties (list :ID "time-c" :TITLE "C") :contents nil))
      (ingest-ast (list :type :HEADLINE :properties (list :ID "time-d" :TITLE "D") :contents nil))
      (let ((since-t1 (passepartout::memory-objects-since t1)))
        (is (= 2 (length since-t1)))
        (let ((ids (sort (mapcar #'memory-object-id since-t1) #'string<)))
          (is (string= "time-c" (first ids)))
          (is (string= "time-d" (second ids))))
        (let ((since-t0 (passepartout::memory-objects-since t0)))
          (is (= 4 (length since-t0))))))))

(test test-memory-objects-in-range
  "Contract 2: ingest nodes, verify range query returns correct subset."
  (clrhash passepartout::*memory-store*)
  (let ((t0 (get-universal-time)))
    (sleep 1)
    (ingest-ast (list :type :HEADLINE :properties (list :ID "rng-1" :TITLE "One") :contents nil))
    (sleep 1)
    (let ((t1 (get-universal-time)))
      (sleep 1)
      (ingest-ast (list :type :HEADLINE :properties (list :ID "rng-2" :TITLE "Two") :contents nil))
      (sleep 1)
      (let ((t2 (get-universal-time)))
        (sleep 1)
        (ingest-ast (list :type :HEADLINE :properties (list :ID "rng-3" :TITLE "Three") :contents nil))
        (let ((range (passepartout::memory-objects-in-range t1 t2)))
          (is (= 1 (length range)))
          (is (string= "rng-2" (memory-object-id (first range)))))))))