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Closes #28.

ccvault parsed every tool call, took the tool name and a file path, and threw the rest away. Tool inputs were never stored. Tool results were recognised only to set a has_error flag. So you could not search for a command you ran, a diff you made, or an error a tool printed — a large part of what a session archive is for.

This stores both, indexes what is worth indexing, and backfills the whole archive from raw_json so nobody re-syncs.

Storage impact — measured, not projected

Timed end to end against a copy of the author's archive (965,061 turns, 261,138 tool uses, 5,057 MB). The live archive was never opened except read-only.

migration 009 runtime 1m44s – 2m26s (varies with WAL state)
database growth +665 MB
↳ payload columns 442 MB (74 MB inputs, 368 MB results)
↳ tool_uses_fts 130 MB over 261,138 documents
↳ index + page overhead ~93 MB

What the backfill produced:

class rows original bytes stored?
inputs 259,836 78.6 MB whole, indexed
results stored whole 211,869 378 MB whole, indexed
results omitted: bulk_read 47,444 195 MB length only
results omitted: image 476 52 MB length only
results omitted: oversize 0 — —
results omitted: undecodable 0 — —

tool_uses_fts_docsize ends with exactly 261,138 rows — one per row, no orphans, checked the way #42 established is the only way to see one. integrity-check(1) is clean on the new index.

The re-measurement contradicted the sample

The spec was written from 2,824 blocks sampled out of raw_json. Re-measured over the whole corpus, it held on the question that mattered and got the proportions wrong:

sample said whole archive says
input total ~195–221 MB 78.6 MB (2.5× smaller)
input p50 246 B 72 B
input max 81 KB 99.8 KB
result p50 236 B 525 B
non-bulk max 24.3 KB 51.6 KB (2× understated)
non-bulk share of result bytes 30% 60%
bulk-read share 65% 31%
non-bulk total ~154 MB 397 MB (2.6× larger)

The sample had the split inverted. The cause is one tool it under-sampled: mcp__nanoclaw__ssh_localhost alone is 130,534 results and 360 MB — 91% of all non-bulk result bytes. It is shell output, so indexing it is exactly right, but it means the "everything else" class is the big one, not the small one. The sample's "results max 512 KB" also turns out to have been an image misfiled as a text result.

The 128 KB backstop is confirmed, for a stronger reason than the spec gave. Not one of the 211,892 non-bulk results exceeds even 64 KB. The backstop fires on nothing that exists; it is there purely for an unclassified future tool. Kept as specified.

Search behaviour change

A text query now matches tool_uses_fts as well as turns_fts. Results carry matched_tool_name and, for a payload hit, a snippet drawn from the payload via fts5's snippet(…, -1, …) — column -1 asks fts5 which of input and result matched, because a command lives in the input and an error message in the result.

Newly findable. turns.content was never empty of tool material, which is worth being precise about: a call has always rendered as [Tool: Bash] $ <command> cut at 100 characters, and a string-valued result as [Tool Result: <text>] cut at 200. So short commands and short string results were already searchable, in lossy summary form. What was not reachable at all:

  • any command, pattern, or argument past its summary cut;
  • every array-valued tool result — 130,516 of 259,812, half the archive. models.UserContentBlock types Content as a string, so an array fails the whole content unmarshal and the turn stores no content at all. All 130,534 ssh_localhost results are in this class.
  • every tool input field formatToolUse does not special-case, which for most MCP tools is all of them.

Still not findable, by design: the body of a Read/NotebookRead result and any image payload. Those rows stay findable through their input and file_path; result_length and result_omitted_reason say on the row that the content was left out.

Cost. Measured old binary vs new on the full-scale copy: "git commit" 0.56s → 1.67s, "deploy" 0.38s → 0.87s, a no-match query unchanged at 0.03s. "the" — which matches nearly every turn — was 17.0s before and 15.5s after; that query's cost is the sort, not the match. A UNION has to materialise both hit sets where the single-index form could stream one. Searching two indexes for roughly twice the time of searching one, staying inside a second for a realistic query.

Schema

Six columns on tool_uses — payloads on the existing row, not a new table: the relationship is 1:1 and the row already carries turn_id/session_id.

result_length carries two facts, which is why there is no has_result column: NULL means nothing ever answered the call; 0 means it answered with nothing. A second column would say the same thing twice and could disagree with itself.

idx_tool_uses_tool_use_id is deliberately not unique. The id is stored verbatim so the #31 follow-up can join it against the toolUseId in a subagent's meta.json; a unique index would be a hazard, not a guarantee — one transcript ingested under two sources legitimately repeats a provider id, and #29 found INSERT OR REPLACE resolves a unique conflict by silently deleting the conflicting row.

FTS cost control (lesson from #29/#8): the FTS table and its triggers are created after the backfill UPDATEs and populated with one rebuild, so the full-table update pays no per-row index work. Triggers are scoped to exactly input_json, result_content — the two indexed columns.

How the five adapters express tool_use_id

Checked against real on-disk data, not inferred from the adapter code:

source call id input result
claude-code content[].id toolu_… input tool_result.content by tool_use_id
nanoclaw identical — same JSONL, same parser
codex payload.call_id call_… arguments (JSON) or input (text) *_output.output by call_id
jeff data.tool_id — empty on 633 of 742 params output_preview
hex none; messages are role/content/timestamp only

Jeff's mostly-empty tool_id is why it links by order instead: keying on an id would collapse 85% of its calls onto each other. Its files pair requests and results one for one (742 of each), so the oldest unanswered call is sound, and an exact tool_id match still wins when jeff recorded one.

Codex's custom_tool_call is now recorded. The adapter skipped that payload kind outright, so apply_patch — codex's edit tool — left no trace in the archive. Wired here rather than filed separately because its _output half is one of the two payload kinds this change has to start reading, and handling one of a symmetric pair is harder to justify than handling both. Note input_json therefore does not always parse as JSON; documented on the column.

Proof the backfill is non-vacuous

  1. Tests seed under the pre-009 schema. seedPre009 applies only migrations below 009 and asserts all six columns and tool_uses_fts are absent before writing a single row. The seeded tool_uses rows carry only tool_name and file_path.

  2. Neutering the backfill breaks every assertion. Verified by making both UPDATEs match nothing: all 6 subtests fail with empty columns and 0 FTS matches.

  3. Real-CLI upgrade rehearsal with a genuinely old binary built from main:

    • old binary syncs → schema_version 8, tool_uses has its original 6 columns, no tool_uses_fts
    • old binary searching for either needle → No results found.
    • new binary re-syncs → 0 indexed, 1 skipped, Turns: 0, Tool uses: 0 — nothing re-parsed
    • yet the row now has tool_use_id, the full 134-byte input and the full result, at schema_version 9
    • turns.content is byte-identical across the upgrade
    • new binary finds both needles, labelled Matched in Bash payload; a third sync is still a no-op

    The data can only have come from the migration. TestUpgrade_BackfillsPayloadsWithoutReparsingAnything keeps the reproducible half of this in CI; the old-binary half cannot be a Go test, because this binary applies 009 the moment it opens the archive.

Verification

go build ./..., go vet ./..., and go test ./... with a cleared test cache: 21/21 packages ok. go test -race ./internal/db/... ./internal/sync/... ./pkg/...: 11/11 ok. Pre-commit hooks (gofmt, goimports, golangci-lint, gosec, go vet) pass on every commit; none bypassed.

Out of scope — found on the way, worth issues

  1. The live archive has 29,268 orphaned turns_fts entries. turns_fts_docsize holds 994,329 rows against 965,061 turns, and integrity-check(1) reports "database disk image is malformed". Confirmed pre-existing against the untouched read-only archive at schema_version 5, so not caused by anything here — this change is just the first thing to run the INSERT OR REPLACE on turns can leave ghost entries in turns_fts #42 diagnostic at scale. A rebuild would fix it.
  2. 1,288 turns carry duplicate tool_uses rows (1,281 with 2 rows for 1 block, 7 with 4), left by the sync --full destroys archived history the source has pruned (852 Claude Code sessions, 496k turns lost) #30 recovery import. The backfill fills the first and leaves the 1,302 extras NULL, which is correct — two rows sharing a provider id would make the id useless as a join key — but the duplicates are a data-hygiene problem of their own.
  3. extractUserContent silently swallows whole turns. Because models.UserContentBlock.Content is a string, a turn holding an array-valued tool_result fails the entire unmarshal and stores content = '' — dropping any sibling text block in that turn too. It is also the accident that has been keeping base64 out of turns_fts. Deliberately not touched: retyping that field would rewrite turns.content, and turns_fts behind it, for a third of the archive. This PR leaves turns.content byte-identical and reaches search through its own index instead.
  4. tool: filters by session, not by turn — it joins tool_uses on session_id, so it asks "did this session use the tool". Pre-existing; the reference now documents it rather than leaving a reader to assume turn scope.
  5. TestMigrator_BootstrapPartial simulated "only the initial schema" inaccurately, omitting turns.raw_json and the whole tool_uses table that migration 001 does create. Since it bootstraps to version 1 — which asserts everything 001 created is present — the fixture is fixed here.

raw_json compression (#37) is deliberately not included; it is sequenced after this so both stay reviewable. Together they net ~415 MB smaller than today.

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  • New Features
    • Search now finds commands and results recorded in tool activity, alongside conversation text. Results show a relevant snippet and identify the matching tool when applicable.
    • Tool result content is stored for search when available, while image, bulk-read, oversized, and undecodable results are omitted.
    • Existing archives gain searchable tool activity during upgrade.

detour1999 and others added 7 commits October 2, 2026 19:07
Issue #28 settles what ccvault keeps of a tool call: inputs whole and
indexed, non-bulk results whole and indexed, bulk file reads and image
payloads reduced to a length. The decision has to be identical for all
five sources, and the code that extracts payloads is split between
pkg/parser (claude-code, nanoclaw) and the individual adapters (codex,
jeff) with no shared layer underneath, so the policy gets its own
package rather than being written twice.

Re-measured against the whole 965,061-turn archive rather than the
2,824-block sample the issue was specified from. The sample held up on
the question that mattered — nothing non-bulk comes near a size that
needs capping — but got the proportions wrong, so the constants and
comments here carry the full-corpus numbers:

  inputs          259,836 calls     78.6 MB   p50 72 B     max 99,792
  non-bulk result 211,892 results    397 MB   p50 525 B    max 51,557
  bulk file reads  47,444 results    205 MB                max 67,313
  image payloads      476 results   54.9 MB                max 512,497

The 128 KB backstop is confirmed as a backstop: not one of the 211,892
non-bulk results exceeds even 64 KB, so it fires on nothing that exists
and exists only for the tool nobody has classified yet.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… dropping them

pkg/parser had every tool call's input in hand and used it for one thing —
extracting a file path — then let it go. Tool results it recognised only to
set a has_error flag. models.ToolUse had nowhere to put either, and
adapter.ParsedToolUse was two fields wide.

ExtractToolUses now runs two passes, because a call and its result live in
different turns: Claude Code writes the tool_use into an assistant message
and the tool_result into a later user message, joined by tool_use_id.
Pairing by position would cross results from one turn's concurrent calls,
which real transcripts produce.

How the five sources express the link, checked against real data rather
than inferred from the adapters:

  claude-code  content block id "toolu_…"; result block tool_use_id
  nanoclaw     identical — same JSONL, same parser
  codex        payload call_id on both halves, for two tool shapes
  jeff         data.tool_id on both halves, EMPTY on 633 of 742 requests
  hex          no tool calls at all; messages are role/content/timestamp

Jeff's mostly-empty tool_id is why it links by order instead: keying on an
id would collapse 85% of its calls onto each other. Its files pair requests
and results one for one, so the oldest unanswered call is a sound fallback,
and an exact tool_id match still wins when jeff recorded one.

Codex's custom_tool_call is now recorded. The adapter skipped that payload
kind outright, which meant apply_patch — codex's edit tool — left no trace
in the archive at all. It is wired here rather than filed separately because
its output half is one of the two payload kinds this change has to start
reading, and leaving one of a symmetric pair unhandled is harder to explain
than handling both.

The three places that copy these fields — two adapters and the sync layer —
go through one conversion pair in pkg/adapter rather than nine field
assignments each, and a reflection test walks the structs so a field added
without being threaded through fails. That is the failure shape from PR #35:
compiles, lints clean, carries the wrong data.

turns.content is deliberately untouched. models.UserContentBlock.Content is
typed as a string, so a turn carrying an array-valued tool_result fails the
whole content unmarshal and stores "" — which is how image base64 has been
kept out of turns_fts, accidentally. Retyping that field would rewrite
turns.content for a third of the archive, so the new payloads reach search
through their own index instead. Filing the accident separately.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… raw_json

Six columns on tool_uses — tool_use_id, input_json, input_length,
result_content, result_length, result_omitted_reason — plus tool_uses_fts
over the two that hold stored text.

On tool_uses rather than a new table: the relationship is 1:1, the row
already carries turn_id and session_id, and a join table buys nothing.
Its own FTS table rather than folded into turns_fts, because the material
belongs to a tool_uses row and there is no turns column it could live in
without being duplicated there.

result_length carries two facts, which is why there is no has_result
column: NULL means nothing ever answered the call, 0 means it answered
with nothing. A second column would say the same thing twice and could
disagree with itself.

idx_tool_uses_tool_use_id is deliberately not unique. The provider id is
stored verbatim so a follow-up can join it against the toolUseId in a
subagent's meta.json (#31), and a unique index would be a hazard rather
than a guarantee: one transcript ingested under two sources legitimately
repeats an id, and #29 found INSERT OR REPLACE resolves a unique conflict
by silently deleting the conflicting row.

Backfilled from turns.raw_json, so an existing archive upgrades instead
of re-ingesting 44,840 sessions. The join is per turn by position — the
Nth tool_uses row by rowid to the Nth tool_use block by array index —
with tool_name required to agree so a bad match stays NULL rather than
being labelled with another call's input.

Measured end to end against a copy of the author's 965,061-turn,
261,138-tool-use, 5,057 MB archive:

  migration 009 total          2m26s, +665 MB
  payload columns              442 MB (74 MB inputs, 368 MB results)
  tool_uses_fts                130 MB over 261,138 documents
  rows given an id and input   259,836 of 261,138
  results stored whole         211,869  (378 MB of original)
  results omitted: bulk_read    47,444  (195 MB)
  results omitted: image           476  (52 MB)
  results omitted: oversize          0
  results omitted: undecodable       0

The 128 KB backstop fired on nothing, which is what a backstop should
do. The 1,302 rows left without an id are all duplicates: 1,288 turns in
that archive carry more tool_uses rows than their message has tool_use
blocks, left behind by the #30 recovery import. Filling the first and
leaving the extras NULL is the right outcome — two rows sharing a
provider id would make the id useless as a join key.

The FTS table and its triggers are created after the backfill UPDATEs and
populated with one rebuild, so the full-table update pays no per-row
index cost. Triggers are scoped to exactly input_json and result_content,
the two indexed columns; migration 008 measured a wider scope costing
377 MB of dead segments. The docsize shadow table ends with exactly
261,138 rows — no orphans, checked the way #42 established is the only
way to see one.

TestMigrator_BootstrapPartial simulated "only the initial schema" with a
turns table missing raw_json and no tool_uses table at all, neither of
which migration 001 omits. It bootstraps the database to version 1, which
asserts everything 001 creates is present, so the fixture now creates it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A text query now matches against tool_uses_fts as well as turns_fts, so
the command you ran and the error a tool printed are findable. That was
the point of issue #28: the turn that issued a call summarises itself as
"[Tool: Bash]" and holds none of the command, so the material existed in
the archive and was unreachable by search.

Driven off a UNION of turn rowids rather than two outer joins with an OR
between them. Each index answers a MATCH with a small set, so joining
turns to that set is an index lookup, where an OR across outer joins
would make the planner scan all 965,000 turns. UNION also collapses a
turn whose content and several of whose payloads matched into the one row
the caller asked for.

The payload lookup is applied to the page, not to the candidates. SQLite
evaluates result-column subqueries while feeding the sorter, which is
before LIMIT, so selecting them alongside the page would run two
correlated lookups for every row a common word matched — tens of
thousands — to use twenty.

Results carry matched_tool_name, and the snippet for such a hit comes
from the payload rather than the turn. Without that a payload hit renders
a snippet with nothing of the query in it and no indication why it came
back. The snippet is fts5's own snippet() with column -1, which asks fts5
which of input_json and result_content matched: a command lives in the
input and an error message in the result, so picking one of them
statically shows the wrong half about as often as the right one.

Surfaced on all three read surfaces — `ccvault search` prints "Matched in
<tool> payload", the TUI prefixes the snippet with the tool name, and MCP
adds matched_tool_name (null for a conversational hit, so an agent can
test it rather than infer).

One thing found while testing: `tool:` filters by session, not by turn —
it joins tool_uses on session_id, so it asks "did this session use the
tool". That predates this change and is left alone, but the reference now
says so instead of leaving a reader to assume turn scope.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ve takes

Three integration tests against the built binary:

  * TestUpgrade_BackfillsPayloadsWithoutReparsingAnything syncs, strips the
    payload columns back off to recreate a pre-009 archive, and re-syncs.
    The session file never changes, so the second sync reports 0 indexed
    and writes no turns and no tool_uses rows — meaning everything in a
    payload column afterwards came from the migration reading raw_json.
  * TestSync_WritesPayloadsOnAFreshArchive pins the live path against the
    same transcript, because the backfill and the parser are the same
    policy implemented twice and have to agree.
  * TestSync_ReSyncLeavesNoOrphanedFTSEntries touches the file so sync
    re-parses it, then compares tool_uses_fts_docsize against tool_uses.
    That shadow table is the only place an orphan is visible: #42
    established COUNT(*) on an external-content FTS table resolves through
    the base table, and integrity-check with no argument does too.

The rehearsal was also run with a genuinely pre-change binary built from
main, which is the part a Go test cannot do — this binary ships the
migration, so merely opening the archive applies it and the pre-upgrade
state is unobservable. The old binary answers "No results found." for both
needles; the new one finds both and labels them "Matched in Bash payload";
turns.content is byte-identical across the upgrade.

Picking the fixture's tokens corrected a wrong assumption worth recording.
turns.content was never empty of tool material: a call renders as
"[Tool: Bash] $ <command>" cut at 100 characters and a string-valued
result as "[Tool Result: <text>]" cut at 200, so short commands and short
string results have always been findable in summary form. The first draft
of this test asserted a short command was unfindable and failed, correctly.
The two needles it uses now sit where turns.content genuinely cannot reach:
past the 100-character cut, and inside an array-valued tool_result — the
shape half the archive's results use, which fails the content unmarshal
outright and leaves the turn with no content at all.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Measured on a copy of the author's 965,061-turn archive against the same
binary minus this change: "git commit" 0.56s -> 1.67s, "deploy" 0.38s ->
0.87s, a query matching nothing unchanged at 0.03s, and "the" — which
matches almost every turn — 17.0s before and 15.5s after, because that
query's cost is the sort rather than the match.

A UNION has to materialise both hit sets where the single-index form
could stream one. Recording it rather than discovering it later.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The no-text query branch wrapped an ORDER BY ... LIMIT query in a
subquery with no outer ORDER BY, so a filter-only search (tool:Bash
after:thisweek) relied on SQLite preserving a subquery's order, which it
does not promise. The ordering is what keeps which rows fall inside LIMIT
stable between runs over the same data. The two match-attribution columns
are now selected inline as literals instead, so the query keeps its
original shape, and a test pins the ordering.

jeff's toolResultData declared a Success field nothing reads; these
adapters declare only the fields they use.

input_json does not always parse as JSON, despite the name inherited from
agentsview. codex's custom_tool_call records a plain-text body — that is
how apply_patch sends a diff — so the model field and the migration
column now say to check json_valid before json_extract.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough

Tool inputs and eligible results are now captured, stored, and indexed for text search. Payload matches return a snippet and the matching tool name. The change also adds migration backfill, result omission metadata, and adapter, database, search, and integration tests.

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Tool Payload Capture and Search

Layer / File(s) Summary
Capture and normalize tool payloads
pkg/models/models.go, pkg/adapter/*, pkg/parser/*, pkg/toolpayload/*, internal/sync/sync.go
Tool-use data now includes provider IDs, input payloads, result presence, result lengths, and omission reasons. Parsers and adapters pair calls with results and apply shared rules for image, bulk-read, oversized, and undecodable results.
Persist, backfill, and index payloads
internal/db/schema.sql, internal/db/migrations/009_add_tool_payloads.sql, internal/db/turns.go, internal/db/*toolpayloads_test.go, internal/db/migrator_test.go, test/integration/toolpayloads_test.go
The database stores payload fields and indexes inputs and stored results with FTS5. Migration 009 backfills payloads from transcript JSON and creates index-maintenance triggers. Insert and migration tests check stored values, omission metadata, replay, and index consistency.
Search and expose payload matches
internal/search/*, internal/mcp/*, internal/tui/search.go, cmd/ccvault/main.go, skills/ccvault/reference.md, test/integration/toolpayloads_test.go
Text search includes tool inputs and stored results. Results use a payload snippet and matching tool name when the turn content does not contain the query. MCP, CLI, and TUI outputs expose the tool attribution; documentation and integration tests describe and exercise the behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Adapter as Transcript adapter
  participant Parser as Tool-use parser
  participant Database as Tool-use storage
  participant Search as Text search
  participant Client as Search client
  Adapter->>Parser: Provide parsed tool calls and results
  Parser->>Database: Persist tool inputs and eligible result content
  Database->>Search: Supply indexed payload matches
  Search->>Client: Return snippet and matched tool name
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 38333

Existing imported calls can acquire incorrect searchable payloads, while newly imported older archives lose payload search entirely. Resolve both archive paths before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 38333

Tool inputs and results become searchable through existing interfaces without gaining execution privileges. Historical imports can weaken call attribution, and the intended trust policy for automated clients remains unclear.

Retained concerns

  • Low · architecture · inferred: Migration 009 matches historical tool rows to transcript blocks by rowid rank and tool name. Recovery imports assign new local rowids using an unordered SELECT, so their order is not guaranteed to match transcript call order. If repeated same-name calls were reordered, the migration can assign another call's provider identity and payload to existing metadata. Normal direct insertion preserves order, and the mismatch remains within the originating turn, but no automatic repair for previously imported rows was established.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The exposure scope is the opened archive: an unfiltered search can return eligible payload snippets across its projects and sessions, including subagent transcripts. Calling the existing local interfaces or connected MCP process is the relevant access prerequisite; no new cross-service authority was established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — Attacker-influenced transcript arguments and tool output can become search snippets delivered to users or MCP clients. The inspected consumers format, serialize, or render that text rather than execute it. Downstream agent interpretation remains outside the inspected execution path; no exploit or privilege escalation was verified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • inferred — Existing project, tool, and source predicates remain search filters, not per-client authorization. The MCP dispatch path has no separate client identity check. Archive-wide access predates this PR, while the retrievable content expands; whether every MCP client is entitled to that content depends on an unavailable deployment policy.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Tool-row deletion removes indexed payloads, and updates replace the old indexed values. These triggers participate in transactional session replacement, containing partial failures rather than intentionally exposing an intermediate deleted-or-half-repopulated session.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Document that payload search grants broader content access than conversation previews. If automated clients are not trusted with the entire archive, establish an enforced archive/project authorization and sensitive-payload policy rather than relying on optional search filters or size-based omission.
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- Around line 176-209: Update the migration’s result aggregation and backfill to
key rows by both session and provider call ID. Include session_id in
migration_009_results and migration_009_result_blocks grouping, carry it through
the source subquery, join the block results on both keys, and match tool_uses on
both session_id and tool_use_id so results cannot cross sessions.

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- Around line 158-163: Update attachJeffResult so order-based fallback is used
only when res.ToolID is empty; when it is non-empty and no pending call matches,
return without attaching. For empty-ID results, select the oldest pending call
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Comment thread internal/db/migrations/009_add_tool_payloads.sql
Comment thread pkg/adapter/jeff/jeff.go
…t an unmatched id

Two silent-mislabel defects, same category: no error, wrong data, and the
wrong data lands in a full-text index where it becomes a search hit
attributed to the wrong thing.

## Migration 009: the result join was keyed on the provider id alone

migration_009_results grouped by tool_use_id, the blocks table likewise,
and the final UPDATE matched on tool_use_id only. Two sessions carrying
the same provider call id would have the GROUP BY collapse them and write
one session's output onto the other's row — and into the other's FTS
document.

Not reachable on the archive as it stands: no id there appears in more
than one session across all 965,061 turns, checked. But that archive
holds no codex sessions at all, so codex's call_… ids are untested, and
whether they are globally unique or numbered per conversation is the
provider's choice rather than ccvault's — call_1-style numbering would
collide immediately. idx_tool_uses_tool_use_id is deliberately
non-unique, which remains the right call and also means nothing in the
schema would catch it.

session_id now travels through both temp tables, both GROUP BYs, the
LEFT JOIN between them, and the UPDATE predicate. tool_uses already
carries it, so the scope costs nothing, and a tool result is always
recorded in the same transcript as its call, so it cannot lose a
legitimate match.

TestMigration009KeepsResultsWithinTheirSession seeds two sessions whose
calls both carry "call_1". Before the fix it failed exactly as predicted:
sess-beta's row held "alpha-only-output", and beta's own output matched
nothing in the index.

The live path never had this defect — ExtractToolUses only ever sees one
transcript's turns, so it is session-scoped by construction.

## jeff: an unmatched tool_id fell back to order

attachJeffResult took the oldest pending call whenever an id-bearing
result matched nothing, which happens when the request preceded any
assistant turn or the call was already answered. The result then landed
on an unrelated call, storing the wrong output under the wrong tool name.

Split into two rules that cannot fall through into each other:

  * a result carrying a tool_id matches on that id alone, and is dropped
    if nothing pending has it;
  * a result carrying no tool_id falls back to order — which the data
    forces, tool_id being empty on 633 of 742 real requests — but only
    among calls jeff also left unidentified, since an identified call's
    own result is still coming and taking its slot mislabels both.

The second test showed the old code swapping two outputs outright:
search_drive got the calendar's output and calendar got search_drive's.

## Also

The migration's note on the 1,302 rows left without an id claimed a
precise duplicate distribution. Three counts of it disagree — two query
shapes of mine and an independent one that found a longer tail — turning
on whether turns with no parseable tool_use block are folded in. The
directly observed figure stays; the distribution is left to the
data-hygiene issue the duplicates need, since the migration behaves the
same either way.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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internal/db/toolpayloads_test.go (1)

334-335: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that each result does not match in the other session.

The test checks each result only in its own session. An extra cross-session FTS match can pass; the result_content checks do not detect an FTS-only mismatch.

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 		if n != 1 {
 			t.Errorf("%q matched %d rows in session %s, want 1", wantResult, n, session)
 		}
+		for otherSession := range want {
+			if otherSession == session {
+				continue
+			}
+			var otherMatches int
+			if err := database.QueryRow(`
+				SELECT COUNT(*) FROM tool_uses_fts
+				JOIN tool_uses tu ON tu.id = tool_uses_fts.rowid
+				WHERE tool_uses_fts MATCH ? AND tu.session_id = ?`,
+				`"`+wantResult+`"`, otherSession).Scan(&otherMatches); err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("cross-session fts probe: %v", err)
+			}
+			if otherMatches != 0 {
+				t.Errorf("%q matched %d rows in other session %s, want 0",
+					wantResult, otherMatches, otherSession)
+			}
+		}
 	}
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Review comment at @internal/db/toolpayloads_test.go around lines 334 - 335:
Update the FTS assertions in the test around the `wantResult` and `session` loop
to verify each result has zero matches in every other session. Query
`tool_uses_fts` joined to `tool_uses` using the same search term, and fail the
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Review comments at @internal/db/migrations/009_add_tool_payloads.sql:
- Around line 106-124: Update the UPDATE tool_uses matching logic so positional
matches for pre-009 rows imported through MergeFrom do not assign tool_use_id or
input_json when repeated tool names make the original call identity
unverifiable. Leave those ambiguous rows unchanged; only apply payloads where
the migration can establish a reliable match.
- Around line 106-124: Extract the payload backfill represented by the
migration’s UPDATE of tool_uses into a reusable operation, then invoke it for
the imported sessions in MergeFrom before the import completes. Ensure it
handles pre-009 archives whose payload columns were excluded by sharedColumns,
so imported tool input and result content is populated and available to FTS
without relying on a later full sync.

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Review comments at @internal/db/toolpayloads_test.go:
- Around line 334-335: Update the FTS assertions in the test around the
`wantResult` and `session` loop to verify each result has zero matches in every
other session. Query `tool_uses_fts` joined to `tool_uses` using the same search
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Comment on lines +106 to +124
-- guard fired on nothing, so no row was saved from a mislabel — but nothing
-- else would have caught one.
--
-- 1,302 rows came out of this with a NULL id on the author's archive, measured
-- on the migrated copy. The cause is duplicate tool_uses rows left by the
-- recovery import in #30: turns carrying more tool_uses rows than their
-- message has tool_use blocks. The position rule fills the first row of each
-- turn and leaves the extras alone, which is the right outcome — giving two
-- rows the same provider id would make the id useless as a join key.
--
-- How those duplicates are distributed is deliberately not stated here. Three
-- counts of it disagree (two query shapes of mine, and an independent one that
-- found a longer tail), and the difference turns on whether turns with no
-- parseable tool_use block are folded in. Pinning it down belongs to the
-- data-hygiene issue the duplicates need, not to this migration, which behaves
-- the same either way.
UPDATE tool_uses
SET tool_use_id = src.tool_use_id,
input_json = src.input_json,

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

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Do not assign payloads to ambiguous historical rows.

Migration 009 matches each tool_uses row to a parsed block by position and tool_name. For pre-009 rows imported through MergeFrom, that position is not a call identity: the import does not preserve ordering or the incoming ID. If repeated calls use the same tool name, the guard still passes after a permutation, so the migration can persist another call's tool_use_id and input_json.

The migration cannot recover the original identity from these rows. Leave matches unverifiable when the historical order is not established, rather than assigning potentially incorrect payloads. Ordering future imports does not repair rows already present when migration 009 runs; those rows require a full re-sync when source files remain available.

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Review comment at @internal/db/migrations/009_add_tool_payloads.sql around lines
106 - 124:
Update the UPDATE tool_uses matching logic so positional matches for pre-009
rows imported through MergeFrom do not assign tool_use_id or input_json when
repeated tool names make the original call identity unverifiable. Leave those
ambiguous rows unchanged; only apply payloads where the migration can establish
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rg -n 'tool_use_id|input_json|result_content|result_omitted_reason|FullSync|full|sync' internal/db cmd/ccvault/main.go --glob '*.go' --glob '*.sql' | sed -n '1,240p'

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Backfill payloads after importing a pre-009 archive.

When the destination already has migration 009, db.Open runs the migration before MergeFrom. A pre-009 archive lacks the payload columns, so sharedColumns excludes them. MergeFrom inserts the older columns and returns without running the turns.raw_json backfill.

The imported tool_uses rows therefore keep NULL payloads. The FTS insert trigger indexes those NULL values, so searches omit the imported input and result content. Extract the migration backfill into a reusable operation and run it for the merged sessions before the import completes. A later sync --full is only a workaround when the source files still exist.

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Review comment at @internal/db/migrations/009_add_tool_payloads.sql around lines
106 - 124:
Extract the payload backfill represented by the migration’s UPDATE of tool_uses
into a reusable operation, then invoke it for the imported sessions in MergeFrom
before the import completes. Ensure it handles pre-009 archives whose payload
columns were excluded by sharedColumns, so imported tool input and result
content is populated and available to FTS without relying on a later full sync.

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