Remove dead rolling recap helper

[ahfoysal]

Summary

Removes the unused rolling_segment_recap helper from the archivist recap module and updates the nearby rustdoc so it no longer describes the old rolling-recap path.

Part of #4469.

Verification

• RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN=stable rustfmt --check --edition 2021 src/openhuman/agent/harness/archivist/recap.rs
• git diff --check
• rg -n "rolling_segment_recap|rolling recap|rolling-recap|live compaction" src/openhuman/agent/harness/archivist src/openhuman/agent

cargo check --manifest-path Cargo.toml -p openhuman --lib could not complete in the sparse checkout because vendored submodules beyond tinyagents/tinychannels were not fully initialized; it stopped at missing vendor/tinycortex/Cargo.toml.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Refactor
  • Streamlined session recap behavior to focus on finalized segments only (recaps for in-progress segments are no longer generated).
  • Updated recap sourcing to prefer archived session data first, with a legacy fallback if needed.
  • Improved recap generation outcomes: returns an AI-generated summary when available, otherwise a heuristic fallback when no suitable output is produced.
• Tests
  • Adjusted archivist e2e coverage to remove checks for recap being unavailable before flushing an open segment.

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• tests/agent_archivist_debug_round21_raw_coverage_e2e.rs

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• tests/agent_archivist_debug_round21_raw_coverage_e2e.rs

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The rolling_segment_recap public method is removed from ArchivistHook, eliminating open-segment recap behavior. Related documentation and end-to-end assertions are updated for finalize-only segment summarization.

Changes

Recap Module Simplification

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Remove rolling recap method and update coverage src/openhuman/agent/harness/archivist/recap.rs, tests/agent_archivist_debug_round21_raw_coverage_e2e.rs	Removes rolling_segment_recap, updates recap documentation for finalize-only summarization, and deletes pre-flush assertions for the removed method.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

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A rabbit hops through code so neat,
Trims the recap, keeps it sweet.
No more rolling, just the close—
One clean path where summary flows.
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Restore the rolling recap API or update its tests

Deleting rolling_segment_recap leaves integration tests that still call it (tests/agent_archivist_debug_round21_raw_coverage_e2e.rs:321 and :371), so cargo test --test agent_archivist_debug_round21_raw_coverage_e2e will fail to compile with “no method named rolling_segment_recap”. If the helper is truly dead, remove or rewrite those assertions in this same change; otherwise keep the API.

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[ahfoysal]

Thanks for taking the time to review. I kept this PR tightly scoped to removing the unused rolling recap path and the matching docs updates only.

I couldn’t include a full local compile on this environment yet because a few vendor dependencies weren’t available in the sparse checkout. Happy to adjust if anything else looks odd on your side.

[senamakel]

Thanks for taking the time to review. I kept this PR tightly scoped to removing the unused rolling recap path and the matching docs updates only.

I couldn’t include a full local compile on this environment yet because a few vendor dependencies weren’t available in the sparse checkout. Happy to adjust if anything else looks odd on your side.

Really aweosme to see your contributions. Can you do a git check out, and then check out the submodules. It should all be up-to-date. Do try and let me know?

[ahfoysal]

Thanks for the review, and good call. You’re absolutely right that this is environment-related, not a code-path regression.

I couldn’t run cargo check in that sandbox because this environment was a sparse checkout and some vendored components are missing (notably vendor/tinycortex). I’ll treat this as a hard verification blocker until I complete a full checkout + submodules.

Strict check rule I’m applying now:

• Full git checkout: git fetch + git checkout this branch
• Initialize all submodules: git submodule update --init --recursive
• Run exactly these commands in CI-equivalent order:
  1. RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN=stable rustfmt --check --edition 2021 src/openhuman/agent/harness/archivist/recap.rs
  2. git diff --check
  3. rg -n "rolling_segment_recap|rolling recap|rolling-recap|live compaction" src/openhuman/agent/harness/archivist src/openhuman/agent
  4. cargo check --manifest-path Cargo.toml -p openhuman --lib

I’ll report back with command output and only request merge once all four complete cleanly.

[ahfoysal]

Thanks for the nudge. I did the full checkout this time and initialized the recursive submodules.

Checked locally on this branch:

git submodule update --init --recursive
RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN=stable rustfmt --check --edition 2021 src/openhuman/agent/harness/archivist/recap.rs
git diff --check
rg -n "rolling_segment_recap|rolling recap|rolling-recap|live compaction" src/openhuman/agent/harness/archivist src/openhuman/agent
cargo check --manifest-path Cargo.toml -p openhuman --lib

Results:

• rustfmt passed
• diff whitespace check passed
• the rolling recap search returned no matches
• cargo check passed after installing the missing local cmake dependency required by whisper-rs-sys

The checkout is clean now, and the GitHub checks are green as well.

[M3gA-Mind]

PR #4572 — Remove dead rolling recap helper

Walkthrough

This PR removes the pub async fn rolling_segment_recap method from ArchivistHook and trims the surrounding rustdoc so the module describes only the finalize (on_segment_closed) summarization path. The change is well-scoped and the prose deletions are accurate. However, the "unused" premise does not fully hold: the method is still referenced by the archivist integration tests, so removing it breaks the build.

Changes

File	Summary
src/openhuman/agent/harness/archivist/recap.rs	Removes rolling_segment_recap and updates module/helper/stub rustdoc to finalize-only wording.

Actionable comments (1)

🛑 Blockers

1. tests/agent_archivist_debug_round21_raw_coverage_e2e.rs:321,371 — deleted method is still called by tests → build break

rolling_segment_recap is not actually unused: the archivist integration test still invokes it in two places:

• L321: assert_eq!(hook.rolling_segment_recap(session).await, None);
• L371: assert_eq!(enabled.rolling_segment_recap("missing-session").await, None);

With the method gone, this test crate fails to compile (no method named rolling_segment_recap found for struct ArchivistHook), so cargo test / the Rust CI lane will go red. This is precisely the gap the author flagged — cargo check could not run in the sparse checkout, so the compile break went unseen. rg -n rolling_segment_recap across the repo (not just src/) surfaces both call sites.

Suggested change — delete the two now-dead assertions along with the method. In archivist_flush_finalizes_open_segment_and_extracts_profile_events:

    let open_before = segments::open_segment_for_session(&conn, session)?;
    assert!(open_before.is_some());
-    assert_eq!(hook.rolling_segment_recap(session).await, None);

    hook.flush_open_segment(session).await;

And in archivist_disabled_and_unknown_session_paths_are_noops:

    let enabled = ArchivistHook::new(conn, true);
    enabled.flush_open_segment("missing-session").await;
-    assert_eq!(enabled.rolling_segment_recap("missing-session").await, None);
    Ok(())

If any of that test's intent (verifying the open-segment/no-recap behavior) is still worth keeping, replace the assertion with an equivalent check against the surviving API rather than silently dropping coverage. Please run cargo test --test agent_archivist_debug_round21_raw_coverage_e2e (or the full pnpm test:rust) once submodules are initialized to confirm green before merge.

Nitpicks (1)

• src/openhuman/agent/harness/archivist/recap.rs:54-70 — after the edit, the summarize_entries rustdoc now carries two topic sentences: the new L54 "Shared summarize helper used by the finalize path…" and the pre-existing L65 "Summarize a set of episodic entries into a recap string." Consider folding them into a single opening line so the doc summary isn't doubled. Not introduced-by-this-PR strictly, but this is the moment it becomes visible.

Questions for the author (0)

None.

Verified / looks good

• The rustdoc deletions (module header, "single LLM summarizer" note, rolling-recap caveat about live compaction) are all accurate now that the rolling path is gone; no stale references remain in the module.
• No non-test callers of rolling_segment_recap exist anywhere in src/ or app/ — the only remaining references are the two test assertions above.
• summarize_entries and read_session_entries are untouched in behavior; the finalize path is unaffected.

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Review only — leaving this as a comment, not an approval. The build-breaking test references should be resolved before a maintainer merges.

[M3gA-Mind]

Blocker: build break. Removing rolling_segment_recap leaves two dangling callers in tests/agent_archivist_debug_round21_raw_coverage_e2e.rs (L321 and L371), both assert_eq!(...rolling_segment_recap(...).await, None). cargo test will fail to compile the archivist e2e test crate.

Delete those two assertions along with the method (or port them to a surviving API), then run cargo test --test agent_archivist_debug_round21_raw_coverage_e2e once submodules are initialized to confirm green. A repo-wide rg -n rolling_segment_recap (not scoped to src/) surfaces both call sites.

[M3gA-Mind]

@senamakel @ahfoysal — following up on the "run it once submodules are initialized" thread: doing that check actually matters here, because the "unused" premise doesn't fully hold.\n\nrolling_segment_recap is still called by the archivist integration test in two places:\n- tests/agent_archivist_debug_round21_raw_coverage_e2e.rs:321 — assert_eq!(hook.rolling_segment_recap(session).await, None);\n- tests/agent_archivist_debug_round21_raw_coverage_e2e.rs:371 — assert_eq!(enabled.rolling_segment_recap("missing-session").await, None);\n\nSo with the method removed, that test crate no longer compiles and cargo test / the Rust CI lane will fail. A repo-wide rg -n rolling_segment_recap (not scoped to src/) surfaces both. The fix is to drop those two assertions (or port them to a surviving API) as part of this PR, then confirm with cargo test --test agent_archivist_debug_round21_raw_coverage_e2e.\n\nEverything else in the diff looks correct — the rustdoc deletions are accurate and there are no non-test callers. Leaving this as a review comment, not an approval.

[ahfoysal]

Thanks for catching that. I removed the two stale assertions that still referenced rolling_segment_recap after the method was deleted.

Validation:

• cargo test --test agent_archivist_debug_round21_raw_coverage_e2e

All 5 tests in that file pass locally.