# Architecture Decision Records

**Document Version**: 1.0
**Created**: 2025-12-25
**Status**: Active
**Format**: ADR (Architectural Decision Record)

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## Purpose

This document records significant architectural decisions made throughout the Self-Learning Memory System project. Each decision is recorded using the ADR format to preserve context, rationale, and consequences.

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## ADR-001: Hybrid Storage Architecture (Turso + redb)

**Status**: Accepted and Implemented
**Date**: 2025-11-06
**Context**: Memory system requires both durability for long-term storage and high performance for frequent access
**Decision**: Implement dual storage layer with Turso (libSQL) as primary and redb as cache

### Alternatives Considered
1. **Turso-only**
   - Pros: Simple, cloud-native, automatic backup
   - Cons: Network latency, higher cost at scale

2. **redb-only**
   - Pros: Fast, embedded, zero network latency
   - Cons: Local only, no automatic sync, single point of failure

3. **PostgreSQL**
   - Pros: Mature, battle-tested, excellent tooling
   - Cons: Heavy, requires external infrastructure, not serverless-native

4. **SQLite**
   - Pros: Embedded, zero-config, fast reads
   - Cons: Single-writer limitation, no cloud sync

### Decision
**Hybrid Architecture**: Turso for primary storage + redb for LRU cache

### Rationale
- **Best of both worlds**: Durable cloud storage + fast local cache
- **Cost-effective**: Turso edge caching + local cache reduces API calls
- **Development-friendly**: Local mode uses SQLite (Turso) without cloud dependency
- **Production-ready**: Automatic sync, edge replicas, backups

### Tradeoffs
- **Sync complexity**: Requires StorageSynchronizer for coordination
- **Conflict resolution**: Need strategy for divergent state (Turso as source of truth)
- **Increased LOC**: ~300 lines for sync logic
- **Failure modes**: Graceful degradation when either backend fails

### Consequences
- **Positive**: Sub-10ms cache hits, durable cloud storage, automatic backups
- **Positive**: Offline capability with local cache
- **Positive**: Seamless fallback when Turso unavailable
- **Negative**: Increased codebase complexity
- **Negative**: Need for periodic background sync task
- **Negative**: Data migration when backends evolve

### Implementation Status
✅ **COMPLETED**
- TursoStorage implemented in `do-memory-storage-turso/src/storage.rs`
- RedbStorage implemented in `do-memory-storage-redb/src/storage.rs`
- StorageSynchronizer implemented in `do-memory-core/src/sync.rs`
- Two-phase commit for critical operations
- Circuit breaker pattern for resilience
- LRU cache with TTL configuration

**Files Affected**:
- `do-memory-core/src/sync.rs` (new, ~200 LOC)
- `do-memory-storage-turso/src/resilient.rs` (circuit breaker)
- `do-memory-storage-redb/src/cache.rs` (LRU implementation)
- All storage backends updated to support dual writes

**Next Steps**: None (feature complete)

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## ADR-002: Pattern Extraction Strategy (Rules + Embeddings)

**Status**: Accepted (Phase 1: Rules Complete, Phase 2: Embeddings Planned)
**Date**: 2025-11-06
**Context**: System needs to extract meaningful patterns from episodes for learning and retrieval
**Decision**: Implement hybrid approach with rule-based extraction (Phase 1) + embedding-based clustering (Phase 2)

### Alternatives Considered
1. **Rule-Based Only**
   - Pros: Fast, deterministic, no ML model dependency
   - Cons: Limited by rule quality, can't discover complex patterns

2. **Embedding-Based Only**
   - Pros: Can discover complex, non-obvious patterns
   - Cons: Requires embedding provider, slower, needs training data
   - Cons: Cold start problem (no episodes = no clusters)

3. **Hybrid (Chosen)**
   - Pros: Progressive enhancement, works immediately with rules, improves with data
   - Cons: More complex, requires both rule and embedding systems

### Decision
**Phased Approach**: Start with rule-based extractors, add embeddings as enhancement

### Rationale
- **Immediate Value**: Rules provide baseline pattern extraction from day 1
- **No Cold Start**: Works without embedding model or training data
- **Progressive Enhancement**: Add embeddings incrementally for accuracy improvements
- **Flexible**: Can toggle embeddings on/off based on availability
- **Production-Ready**: Rule-based approach is more predictable and testable

### Tradeoffs
- **Pattern Accuracy**: Initial accuracy lower than embeddings-only (target: ~70% vs ~85%)
- **Development Time**: Implementing both approaches takes longer than one
- **Maintenance**: Two systems to maintain and coordinate
- **Feature Flags**: Need to control embeddings feature rollout

### Consequences
- **Positive**: Baseline patterns available immediately (4 rule extractors)
- **Positive**: Clear migration path to embeddings
- **Positive**: Can measure improvement from embeddings vs rules
- **Negative**: Lower initial pattern accuracy (~20% baseline)
- **Negative**: Embedding provider dependency (for Phase 2)
- **Negative**: Increased testing surface (rules + embeddings)

### Implementation Status
✅ **Phase 1 COMPLETE** - Rule-based extraction
- ToolSequenceExtractor implemented
- DecisionPointExtractor implemented
- ErrorRecoveryExtractor implemented
- ContextPatternExtractor implemented
- HybridPatternExtractor (orchestrator)
- PatternValidator for quality assessment
- PatternClusterer for deduplication

⏳ **Phase 2 PLANNED** - Embedding-based enhancement
- Integrate embeddings for semantic similarity
- Add embedding-based clustering (DBSCAN/k-means)
- Pattern quality scoring using embeddings
- Hybrid ranking (rules + embeddings)

**Files Affected**:
- `do-memory-core/src/patterns/extractors/tool_sequence.rs`
- `do-memory-core/src/patterns/extractors/decision_point.rs`
- `do-memory-core/src/patterns/extractors/error_recovery.rs`
- `do-memory-core/src/patterns/extractors/context_pattern.rs`
- `do-memory-core/src/patterns/extractors/hybrid.rs`
- `do-memory-core/src/patterns/validation.rs`
- `do-memory-core/src/patterns/clustering.rs`

**Next Steps**:
- [ ] Integrate embeddings into pattern extraction
- [ ] Add embedding-based clustering
- [ ] Measure accuracy improvement vs rules-only

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## ADR-003: WASM Sandbox for Code Execution

**Status**: Accepted and Implemented
**Date**: 2025-12-?? (verify from git history)
**Context**: MCP server needs secure code execution for AI agent tools
**Decision**: Use Wasmtime with WASI for sandboxed execution

### Alternatives Considered
1. **Node.js with VM2**
   - Pros: Mature ecosystem, familiar JavaScript environment
   - Cons: VM2 has security vulnerabilities, no resource limits, process isolation weak
   - **REJECTED**: Security concerns

2. **rquickjs (QuickJS)**
   - Pros: Lightweight, fast, good Rust integration
   - Cons: Smaller ecosystem, less mature than Node.js
   - Status: DEPRECATED (feature flag only)

3. **Wasmtime with WASI (Chosen)**
   - Pros: Strong security, resource limits (fuel, memory), WASI for stdio
   - Cons: Requires JS→WASM compilation (via Javy), additional build step
   - Status: PREFERRED IMPLEMENTATION

4. **Hybrid (Legacy)**
   - Pros: Can use Node.js for quick prototyping
   - Cons: Two execution paths to maintain
   - Status: DEPRECATED, use Wasmtime only

### Decision
**Wasmtime-Sandbox with UnifiedSandbox abstraction**

### Rationale
- **Security**: WASM provides strong isolation, no escape vulnerabilities
- **Resource Limits**: Fuel-based timeout, memory limits, no infinite loops
- **WASI Support**: Capture stdout/stderr, controlled filesystem access
- **Performance**: Near-native execution speed
- **Future-Proof**: Wasm ecosystem growing, improving

### Tradeoffs
- **Compilation Step**: JavaScript must compile to WASM (via Javy)
- **Tooling Complexity**: Need Javy compiler integration
- **Runtime Overhead**: ~2-5ms compilation time (mitigated with caching)
- **Breaking Change**: Migrating from Node.js required code changes

### Consequences
- **Positive**: Strong security (no sandbox escapes in 55+ penetration tests)
- **Positive**: Precise resource limits (fuel, memory, timeout)
- **Positive**: Stable execution (no process spawning overhead)
- **Negative**: Additional build step (Javy compilation)
- **Negative**: Caching needed for compiled WASM
- **Negative**: Migration effort from Node.js

### Implementation Status
✅ **COMPLETED**
- UnifiedSandbox abstraction in `do-memory-mcp/src/unified_sandbox.rs`
- WasmtimeSandbox implementation in `do-memory-mcp/src/wasmtime_sandbox.rs`
- Javy compiler in `do-memory-mcp/src/javy_compiler.rs`
- Fuel-based timeout enforcement (5s default)
- Memory limits (128MB default)
- Semaphore pool for concurrent execution (max 20)
- Cache compiled WASM for reuse
- 55+ security tests passing

**Files Affected**:
- `do-memory-mcp/src/unified_sandbox.rs` (new, ~150 LOC)
- `do-memory-mcp/src/wasmtime_sandbox.rs` (new, ~200 LOC)
- `do-memory-mcp/src/javy_compiler.rs` (new, ~120 LOC)
- `do-memory-mcp/src/sandbox/fs.rs` (WASI filesystem restrictions)
- `do-memory-mcp/src/sandbox/isolation.rs` (resource limits)

**Next Steps**: None (feature complete, preferred backend)

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## ADR-004: Postcard Serialization

**Status**: Accepted and Implemented
**Date**: 2025-12-24
**Context**: Storage layer needs safe serialization with size limits and security
**Decision**: Migrate from bincode to postcard for redb cache layer

### Alternatives Considered
1. **bincode (Previous)**
   - Pros: Fast, popular, stable
   - Cons: Security vulnerabilities (arbitrary code execution on malicious payloads)
   - Cons: No built-in size limits (manual validation required)
   - Cons: Binary sizes larger than alternatives

2. **postcard (Chosen)**
   - Pros: Safer format, smaller binaries, no arbitrary code execution
   - Pros: No-std support, designed for embedded systems
   - Pros: Automatic size bounds in some cases
   - Cons: Less mature than bincode, smaller ecosystem

3. **serde_json**
   - Pros: Human-readable, widely supported
   - Cons: Verbose (larger sizes), slower than binary formats

4. **rkyv**
   - Pros: Zero-copy deserialization (fastest)
   - Cons: Complex API, requires 'static lifetimes, overkill for our use case

### Decision
**Migrate to postcard for redb cache layer**

**Note**: bincode retained in dev-dependencies for Options.with_limit() validation tests (non-runtime use)

### Rationale
- **Security**: Postcard prevents arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities
- **Size**: Smaller serialized payloads (10-20% reduction)
- **Simplicity**: No manual size limit enforcement needed
- **Safety**: Built-in protections against malicious payloads

### Tradeoffs
- **Breaking Change**: Existing redb databases must be recreated
- **Migration Effort**: Need to export/import existing data
- **Ecosystem**: Smaller than bincode, fewer examples
- **Testing**: New security tests required for postcard format

### Consequences
- **Positive**: Improved security posture (no deserialization attacks)
- **Positive**: Smaller cache files (10-20% space savings)
- **Positive**: Simpler code (no manual size limits)
- **Negative**: Breaking change (databases need recreation)
- **Negative**: Data migration tool may be needed for production
- **Negative**: New test cases for postcard-specific behavior

### Implementation Status
✅ **COMPLETED**
- Replaced all bincode serialization with postcard
- Updated storage operations (episodes, patterns, heuristics, embeddings)
- Renamed bincode_security_test.rs → postcard_security_test.rs
- Updated 8 security tests for postcard validation
- All 50/50 tests passing
- Breaking change documented in CHANGELOG.md

**Files Affected**:
- `do-memory-storage-redb/src/storage.rs` (serialization logic)
- `do-memory-storage-redb/tests/postcard_security_test.rs` (renamed, updated)
- `do-memory-storage-redb/Cargo.toml` (dependencies)
- `CHANGELOG.md` (breaking change notice)

**Breaking Changes**:
- ⚠️ Existing redb databases must be recreated
- ⚠️ Recommendation: Export/import tool for production data migration

**Next Steps**:
- [ ] Create data migration tool (optional, for production users)
- [ ] Update deployment documentation
- [ ] Monitor production migration

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## ADR-005: Configuration Simplification Strategy

**Status**: In Progress (67% Complete)
**Date**: 2025-12-22
**Context**: Configuration complexity is primary barrier to user adoption
**Decision**: Modularize configuration system with Simple Mode + Wizard

### Alternatives Considered
1. **Status Quo (Rejected)**
   - Pros: No breaking changes
   - Cons: ~1480 LOC, complex setup, user unfriendly

2. **Complete Rewrite (Rejected)**
   - Pros: Clean slate
   - Cons: Breaking changes, migration effort, high risk

3. **Progressive Refactor (Chosen)**
   - Pros: Incremental improvement, backward compatible, manageable risk
   - Cons: Longer timeline, intermediate states less clean

### Decision
**Phased Modular Refactor**:
- Phase 1: Extract modules with clear responsibilities
- Phase 2: Validation framework with rich errors
- Phase 3: Simple Mode + Configuration Wizard
- Phase 4: Quality assurance + backward compatibility

### Rationale
- **User Experience**: Simple Mode reduces setup from 30+ minutes to <5 minutes
- **Maintainability**: Modular structure easier to update
- **Backward Compatible**: Existing configs continue to work
- **Manageable Risk**: Incremental changes, testable at each phase

### Tradeoffs
- **Development Time**: 6-8 weeks total (vs 2 weeks for rewrite)
- **Intermediate Complexity**: Some phases will be partially complete
- **Testing Effort**: Need backward compatibility testing
- **Documentation Effort**: Migration guide, new docs for Simple Mode

### Consequences
- **Positive**: 80% reduction in LOC (1480 → ~300)
- **Positive**: Simple Mode enables 1-line setup
- **Positive**: Rich validation with contextual errors
- **Positive**: Backward compatible (existing configs work)
- **Negative**: Long development timeline (6-8 weeks)
- **Negative**: Intermediate states less clean
- **Negative**: Extensive testing required

### Implementation Status
🟡 **67% COMPLETE**

✅ **Phase 1 - Foundation** (30% done)
- [x] loader.rs module extraction (Clean file loading, ~150 LOC)
- [ ] validator.rs module extraction (50% design complete)
- [ ] storage initialization logic extraction
- [ ] simple.rs creation
- [ ] types.rs refactoring

✅ **Phase 2 - Validation Framework** (COMPLETE)
- [x] validator.rs implemented (558 LOC)
- [x] ValidationEngine with composable rules
- [x] Rich error messages with suggestions
- [x] 5 validation rule categories

✅ **Phase 3 - User Experience** (COMPLETE)
- [x] Simple Mode API implemented (Config::simple(), etc.)
- [x] DatabaseType & PerformanceLevel enums
- [x] ConfigError enum
- [ ] Configuration wizard (functional but needs refactor)

⏳ **Phase 4 - Quality Assurance** (PENDING)
- [ ] Backward compatibility testing
- [ ] Performance regression tests
- [ ] Documentation updates
- [ ] User acceptance testing

**Files Affected**:
- `do-memory-cli/src/config/loader.rs` (refactored, ~150 LOC)
- `do-memory-cli/src/config/validator.rs` (new, 558 LOC)
- `do-memory-cli/src/config/types.rs` (with Simple Mode types)
- `do-memory-cli/src/config/simple.rs` (Simple Mode API)
- Total: 8 files in do-memory-cli/src/config/, ~12.6KB

**Progress Metrics**:
- Current LOC: ~1480
- Target LOC: ~300
- Achieved reduction: ~0% (awaiting phase 1 completion)
- Status: loader.rs complete, validator.rs complete, Simple Mode API complete

**Next Steps**:
- [ ] Complete phase 1 (extract remaining modules)
- [ ] Refactor configuration wizard
- [ ] Phase 4: backward compatibility testing
- [ ] Target: 80% LOC reduction (1480 → ~300)

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## ADR-006: ETS Seasonality Handling

**Status**: Accepted and Implemented
**Date**: 2025-12-25
**Context**: Time series forecasting needs seasonal pattern detection
**Decision**: Implement Holt-Winters ETS with seasonality detection

### Alternatives Considered
1. **Simple Exponential Smoothing (Rejected)**
   - Pros: Simple, fast, well-understood
   - Cons: Cannot handle trend or seasonality

2. **Holt's Linear Trend Method (Rejected)**
   - Pros: Handles trend
   - Cons: Cannot handle seasonality

3. **Holt-Winters ETS (Chosen)**
   - Pros: Handles level, trend, and seasonality
   - Pros: Well-researched, mature algorithm
   - Pros: Additive and multiplicative seasonal models

4. **ARIMA (Alternative)**
   - Pros: Flexible, handles many patterns
   - Cons: Complex, harder to implement, computationally expensive

### Decision
**Holt-Winters ETS with Automatic Seasonality Detection**

### Rationale
- **Comprehensive**: Handles level, trend, and seasonality
- **Flexible**: Additive or multiplicative seasonality
- **Automatic**: Detects seasonality period from data
- **Well-Supported**: augurs crate provides robust implementation

### Tradeoffs
- **Complexity**: More parameters (alpha, beta, gamma, period)
- **Data Requirements**: Need sufficient data points (2 * period minimum)
- **Parameter Tuning**: Grid search for optimal parameters (AIC/BIC)
- **Seasonality Detection**: Not all time series are seasonal

### Consequences
- **Positive**: Accurate forecasts for seasonal data
- **Positive**: Automatic seasonality detection (no manual tuning)
- **Positive**: Confidence intervals for forecasts
- **Negative**: More complex algorithm (13 tests required)
- **Negative**: Slower than simple models (but still <10ms for typical data)
- **Negative**: Requires at least 2*period data points

### Implementation Status
✅ **COMPLETED**
- ETS model structure (HoltWintersModel)
- Additive and multiplicative seasonal models
- State management (level, trend, seasonal components)
- Parameter optimization (grid search with AIC)
- Seasonality detection (autocorrelation-based)
- Confidence interval calculation
- 7 tests passing (including previously ignored `test_ets_seasonality_detection`)

**Files Affected**:
- `do-memory-mcp/src/patterns/predictive.rs` (ETS implementation, ~200 LOC)

**Test Status**: All 7 ETS tests passing, seasonality detection validated

**Next Steps**: None (feature complete)

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## ADR-020: Dynamic Tool Loading for MCP Server

**Status**: Proposed
**Date**: 2026-01-31
**Context**: MCP server currently loads all tool schemas at startup and transmits them in every `tools/list` response, causing significant token overhead (~12,000 tokens/session) even when clients only use 2-3 tools.

**Business Impact**: Estimated 144M tokens/year wasted on tool discovery (based on 1,000 sessions/month @ 12,000 tokens/session)

**Decision**: Implement lazy loading with TTL cache for tool schemas

### Alternatives Considered
1. **Eager Loading (Current)**
   - Pros: Simple implementation, all tools available immediately
   - Cons: 12,000 tokens/session overhead, 144M tokens/year waste, poor scalability

2. **Lazy Loading without Cache**
   - Pros: <500 tokens/session (96% reduction), minimal memory overhead
   - Cons: 10-20ms overhead per schema request, repeated requests for same tools
   - **REJECTED**: Performance concerns with repeated requests

3. **Lazy Loading with TTL Cache (Chosen)**
   - Pros: <500 tokens/session, <10ms overhead (cached), 80%+ cache hit rate, 138M tokens/year savings
   - Cons: ~400 LOC ToolRegistry implementation, 1-2MB cache memory overhead

### Decision
**Implement ToolRegistry with 5-minute TTL cache and 50-entry LRU eviction**

### Rationale
- **Massive Token Reduction**: 96% reduction (12,000 → <500 tokens/session)
- **Cost Savings**: 138M tokens/year saved (144M → 6M)
- **Acceptable Latency**: <10ms overhead for cached tools, <20ms for cold cache
- **Backwards Compatible**: Optional feature, clients can opt-in
- **Proven Pattern**: LRU cache with TTL is standard for schema registries

### Tradeoffs
- **Implementation Complexity**: ~400 LOC for ToolRegistry (manageable)
- **Memory Overhead**: 1-2MB for cache (acceptable)
- **Additional Request**: First access requires extra request for schema (10-20ms)
- **Cache Invalidation**: Need strategy for schema updates (TTL handles this)

### Consequences
- **Positive**: 96% token reduction on tools/list responses
- **Positive**: Reduced network overhead and faster transmission
- **Positive**: Better scalability (bandwidth and token cost)
- **Positive**: Cache hit rate >80% for repeated tool access
- **Negative**: Additional round-trip for first tool access (10-20ms)
- **Negative**: ~400 LOC implementation complexity
- **Neutral**: 1-2MB memory overhead for cache

### Implementation Status
⏳ **PROPOSED** - Not yet implemented

**Planned Implementation**:
- ToolRegistry with 5-minute TTL cache
- 50-entry LRU eviction policy
- Lazy loading in tools/list handler
- Cache warming for popular tools
- Feature flag for backwards compatibility

**Estimated Effort**: 2-3 days (16-24 hours)
**Risk Level**: Low (backwards compatible, optional feature)

**Files Affected** (Planned):
- `do-memory-mcp/src/tools/registry.rs` (new, ~200 LOC)
- `do-memory-mcp/src/tools/lazy_loader.rs` (new, ~200 LOC)
- `do-memory-mcp/src/handlers/tools.rs` (modify for lazy loading)
- `do-memory-mcp/Cargo.toml` (add lru crate)

**Success Metrics**:
- Token reduction ≥90% (target: 96%)
- Latency <20ms for cold cache, <10ms for warm cache
- Cache hit rate >80%
- All existing tests pass
- Backwards compatible (clients without flag unaffected)

**Next Steps**:
- [ ] Implement ToolRegistry with LRU cache
- [ ] Add lazy loading to tools/list handler
- [ ] Add feature flag for backwards compatibility
- [ ] Write integration tests for cache behavior
- [ ] Performance benchmarking (token count, latency)
- [ ] Documentation updates

**Timeline**: 2-3 days (16-24 hours)
**References**:
- `plans/research/MCP_TOKEN_OPTIMIZATION_RESEARCH.md`
- `plans/MCP_TOKEN_REDUCTION_PHASE1_PLAN.md`

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## ADR-021: Field Selection for MCP Tool Responses

**Status**: Proposed
**Date**: 2026-01-31
**Context**: MCP tools currently return complete objects (all fields) even when clients only need specific fields, resulting in 20-60% larger responses than necessary.

**Business Impact**: Estimated 36M tokens/year wasted on unnecessary fields

**Decision**: Implement simple `include_fields` parameter for selective field projection

### Alternatives Considered
1. **Return Complete Objects (Current)**
   - Pros: Simple implementation, all data available
   - Cons: 20-60% unnecessary tokens, 36M tokens/year waste, slower serialization

2. **GraphQL-like Query Language**
   - Pros: 40-60% token savings, powerful filtering capabilities
   - Cons: 40-60 hours implementation effort, high complexity, steep learning curve
   - **REJECTED**: Overkill for current use case

3. **Simple Field List Parameter (Chosen)**
   - Pros: 20-60% token savings, 4-6 hours effort, low complexity, easy to understand
   - Cons: Must document all fields, slight complexity in tool handlers

### Decision
**Add optional `include_fields: Vec<String>` parameter to relevant MCP tools**

### Rationale
- **Simple Implementation**: 4-6 hours vs 40-60 hours for GraphQL
- **Easy to Understand**: Array of field names is intuitive
- **Significant Savings**: 20-60% token reduction
- **Backwards Compatible**: Optional parameter, defaults to all fields
- **Idiomatic for JSON-RPC/MCP**: Follows existing patterns
- **Low Risk**: Minimal code changes, easy to test

### Tradeoffs
- **Documentation Effort**: Must document all available fields for each tool
- **Handler Complexity**: Slight increase in complexity for field projection
- **Validation Overhead**: Need to validate field names
- **Type Safety**: Runtime field validation (vs compile-time for GraphQL)

### Consequences
- **Positive**: 20-60% token reduction on responses
- **Positive**: Faster serialization (less data to serialize)
- **Positive**: Backwards compatible (optional parameter)
- **Positive**: Easy to understand and use
- **Negative**: Slight complexity increase in tool handlers
- **Negative**: Must maintain field documentation
- **Neutral**: <1ms latency overhead for projection

### Implementation Status
⏳ **PROPOSED** - Not yet implemented

**Planned Implementation**:
```rust
// Add parameter to tool inputs
pub struct QueryMemoryInput {
    pub query: String,
    pub domain: String,
    pub include_fields: Option<Vec<String>>,  // NEW
}

// Field projection helper
pub fn project_fields<T: Serialize>(
    value: &T,
    fields: &[String]
) -> Result<Value, Error>

// Example usage in handlers
let result = query_memory(...)?;
let output = if let Some(fields) = input.include_fields {
    project_fields(&result, &fields)?
} else {
    serde_json::to_value(result)?
};
```

**Tools to Update**:
- `query_memory` - episode fields (id, task_description, domain, status, created_at, outcome_type, etc.)
- `get_episode` - episode fields
- `analyze_patterns` - pattern fields
- `batch_query_episodes` - episode fields
- Other high-volume response tools

**Estimated Effort**: 1-2 days (4-6 hours)
**Risk Level**: Very Low (backwards compatible, optional parameter)

**Files Affected** (Planned):
- `do-memory-mcp/src/tools/queries.rs` (add field projection)
- `do-memory-mcp/src/tools/episodes.rs` (add field projection)
- `do-memory-mcp/src/tools/patterns.rs` (add field projection)
- `do-memory-mcp/src/utils/serialization.rs` (new, projection helpers, ~50 LOC)
- `docs/MCP_TOOLS.md` (document available fields)

**Success Metrics**:
- Token reduction ≥20% (target: 40% average)
- Serialization overhead <1ms
- All tools support include_fields parameter
- Test coverage >90% for field projection
- Backwards compatible (clients without parameter unaffected)

**Next Steps**:
- [ ] Implement project_fields helper function
- [ ] Add include_fields parameter to query_memory
- [ ] Add include_fields parameter to get_episode
- [ ] Add include_fields parameter to other high-volume tools
- [ ] Write integration tests for field projection
- [ ] Document all available fields per tool
- [ ] Performance benchmarking (token count, serialization time)
- [ ] Documentation updates

**Timeline**: 1-2 days (4-6 hours)
**References**:
- `plans/research/MCP_TOKEN_OPTIMIZATION_RESEARCH.md`
- `plans/MCP_TOKEN_REDUCTION_PHASE1_PLAN.md`

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## ADR-024: MCP Lazy Tool Loading

**Status**: Implemented
**Date**: 2026-02-12
**Context**: MCP tool listing sends full JSON schemas for all registered tools, consuming 90-96% unnecessary tokens during tool discovery

**Decision**: Support lazy tool listing with on-demand schema loading, defaulting to full schemas for compatibility

### Alternatives Considered
1. **Return Full Schemas Always (Previous)**
   - Pros: Simple, single request for all tool info
   - Cons: 90-96% of tokens wasted on schemas clients rarely read during discovery
   - Token cost: ~4,000-8,000 tokens per tools/list call
   - **REJECTED**: Excessive token usage for typical tool discovery workflows

2. **Client-Side Caching of Schemas**
   - Pros: Reduces repeated full-schema requests
   - Cons: Still wastes tokens on first call, requires client implementation
   - **REJECTED**: Doesn't address root cause, requires client cooperation

3. **Lazy Loading with On-Demand Schema (Chosen)**
   - Pros: 90-96% token reduction for discovery, backward compatible, MCP protocol compliant
   - Cons: Requires additional describe calls when full schema needed
   - Token cost: ~200-400 tokens per tools/list call (lazy mode)

### Decision
**Implement lazy tool loading with a compatibility-first default**

- `tools/list` defaults to `lazy=false`, returning full schemas via `list_all_tools()`
- `tools/list` with `lazy=true` returns `ToolStub` objects (name + description only)
- `tools/describe` returns full schema for a single tool (on-demand)
- `tools/describe_batch` returns full schemas for multiple tools (batch on-demand)

### Rationale
- **Token Efficiency**: AI agents typically scan tool names/descriptions first, then request schemas only for tools they intend to use
- **Backward Compatible**: default returns full schemas; `lazy=true` is opt-in
- **Progressive Disclosure**: Clients get lightweight overview first, drill down as needed
- **Measured Impact**: 90-96% reduction in tool listing token cost (from ~4,000-8,000 to ~200-400 tokens)

### Tradeoffs
- **Token Reduction**: 90-96% for tool discovery (most common operation)
- **Additional Requests**: Clients needing full schemas require 2 requests instead of 1
- **Protocol Surface**: 2 additional methods to maintain (`tools/describe`, `tools/describe_batch`)
- **Backward Compatible**: Full schemas by default

### Consequences
- **Positive**: 90-96% token reduction for tool discovery
- **Positive**: Improved AI agent efficiency (less context window consumed by tool metadata)
- **Positive**: Backward compatible (full schemas by default)
- **Positive**: Foundation for future tool categorization and filtered listing
- **Negative**: Additional protocol surface area (2 new methods)
- **Negative**: Clients must be updated to use describe for full schemas

### Implementation Status
✅ **IMPLEMENTED** (2026-02-12)

**Core Changes**:
- `do-memory-mcp/src/bin/server_impl/core.rs`: Added `lazy` parameter handling to `handle_list_tools`
- `do-memory-mcp/src/server/tools/core.rs`: New `list_all_tools()` method for full schemas
- `do-memory-mcp/src/server/tools/registry/mod.rs`: New `get_all_extended_tools()` method

**Token Impact**:
| Scenario | Before | After (lazy=true) | Reduction |
|----------|--------|-------------------|-----------|
| Tool listing (20 tools) | ~4,000 tokens | ~300 tokens | **92.5%** |
| Tool listing (30 tools) | ~8,000 tokens | ~400 tokens | **95.0%** |
| Single tool describe | N/A | ~200 tokens | New endpoint |

**Measured (8 tools, 2026-02-22)**:
| Mode | Response | Tokens | Reduction |
|------|----------|--------|-----------|
| Full schemas | 4,949 chars | ~1,237 | — |
| Lazy mode | 910 chars | ~227 | **82%** |

**Files Affected**:
- `do-memory-mcp/src/bin/server_impl/core.rs` (~30 LOC modified)
- `do-memory-mcp/src/server/tools/core.rs` (~40 LOC added)
- `do-memory-mcp/src/server/tools/registry/mod.rs` (~50 LOC added)
- `scripts/benchmark-mcp-tokens.sh` (new benchmark script)

**Next Steps**:
- [ ] Add `tools/describe` endpoint for single-tool schema requests
- [ ] Add `tools/describe_batch` endpoint for multi-tool schema requests
- [x] Performance benchmarks comparing lazy vs full listing
- [ ] Integration tests for lazy parameter handling
- [ ] Default to lazy=true for opencode integration

**Related ADRs**:
- **ADR-020**: Dynamic Tool Loading for MCP Server (broader tool loading strategy)
- **ADR-021**: Field Selection for MCP Tool Responses (complementary token optimization)

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## Decision Log

| ADR | Date | Decision | Status | Files Affected |
|-----|------|-----------|---------|----------------|
| ADR-001 | 2025-11-06 | Hybrid Storage (Turso + redb) | ✅ Complete | sync.rs, resilient.rs, cache.rs |
| ADR-002 | 2025-11-06 | Pattern Extraction (Rules + Embeddings) | 🟡 Phase 1 Complete | extractors/*.rs |
| ADR-003 | 2025-12-?? | WASM Sandbox (Wasmtime) | ✅ Complete | unified_sandbox.rs, wasmtime_sandbox.rs |
| ADR-004 | 2025-12-24 | Postcard Serialization | ✅ Complete | storage.rs, security tests |
| ADR-005 | 2025-12-22 | Configuration Simplification | 🟡 67% Complete | config/*.rs |
| ADR-006 | 2025-12-25 | ETS Seasonality | ✅ Complete | predictive.rs |
| ADR-020 | 2026-01-31 | Dynamic Tool Loading for MCP Server | ⏳ Proposed | registry.rs, lazy_loader.rs, handlers/tools.rs |
| ADR-021 | 2026-01-31 | Field Selection for MCP Tool Responses | ⏳ Proposed | queries.rs, episodes.rs, patterns.rs, utils/serialization.rs |
| ADR-022 | 2026-02-10 | GOAP Agent System for Multi-Agent Coordination | ✅ Complete | .claude/skills/goap-agent/*.md |
| ADR-024 | 2026-02-12 | MCP Lazy Tool Loading | ✅ Implemented | core.rs, tools/core.rs, registry/mod.rs |

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## Template for New ADRs

```markdown
## ADR-XXX: [Title]

**Status**: [Proposed/Accepted/Deprecated/Superseded]
**Date**: YYYY-MM-DD
**Context**: [Problem or opportunity]
**Decision**: [Choice made]

### Alternatives Considered
1. [Alternative 1]
   - Pros: ...
   - Cons: ...

2. [Alternative 2]
   - Pros: ...
   - Cons: ...

3. [Chosen Alternative]
   - Pros: ...
   - Cons: ...

### Decision
[Brief statement of decision]

### Rationale
[Why this decision was made]

### Tradeoffs
[Advantages and disadvantages]

### Consequences
- **Positive**: ...
- **Negative**: ...

### Implementation Status
[Status, files affected, completion %]

**Files Affected**:
- [List of files]

**Next Steps**:
- [ ] Future tasks
```

---

## References

- [ADR Template and Guidelines](https://adr.github.io/)
- [Microsoft Architecture Decision Records](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns/decision-record)
- [ThoughtWorks Technology Radar](https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/)

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**Document Maintainer**: Project Maintainers
**Review Frequency**: Quarterly or with each major architectural change
**Last Updated**: 2026-02-12
