thedotmack--claude-mem/docs/server-storage-boundary.md

Server Storage Boundary

Phase 4 adds the contracts and SQLite tables for the future server-owned storage model. It is additive only: worker routes, providers, existing search, and legacy observation writes still use the current sdk_sessions, observations, session_summaries, user_prompts, and pending_messages tables.

Tables

Server-owned tables are created by ensureServerStorageSchema() in src/storage/sqlite/schema.ts:

• projects
• server_sessions
• agent_events
• memory_items
• memory_sources
• teams
• team_members
• api_keys
• audit_log

MigrationRunner records these tables as schema version 33. Repositories also call the same helper so future server bootstrap code can use the storage boundary without depending on worker initialization.

Contracts

Shared Zod contracts live under src/core/schemas/. Repository methods parse inputs and outputs through these schemas and store structured fields as JSON TEXT, matching the existing Bun SQLite style.

Observation To Memory Translation

The translation layer is intentionally documented but not wired into existing search in this phase.

Decision: legacy observations remain the source of truth until a later migration explicitly backfills and switches readers. A future translator should create one memory_items row per legacy observations row with:

• memory_items.kind = 'observation'
• memory_items.type = observations.type
• memory_items.project_id resolved from the canonical projects row for observations.project
• memory_items.server_session_id resolved through server_sessions.memory_session_id = observations.memory_session_id
• memory_items.legacy_observation_id = observations.id
• title, subtitle, text, narrative, facts, concepts, files_read, and files_modified copied from the legacy row
• one memory_sources row with source_type = 'observation', legacy_table = 'observations', and legacy_id = observations.id

The schema enforces this as an idempotent backfill target with partial unique indexes on memory_items.legacy_observation_id and memory_sources(source_type, legacy_table, legacy_id) when legacy source IDs are present.

Until that backfill exists, new repositories may write memory_items directly for server-owned workflows, but no worker path should read from memory_items as a replacement for observations.

Rows that reference server_sessions must stay inside the same project_id. SQLite triggers reject cross-project agent_events and memory_items links so project-scoped reads cannot accidentally mix memories from another project.

Auth Placeholder

api_keys is a local placeholder for future Better Auth integration. This phase stores hashes, prefixes, scopes, and status locally; it does not introduce a Better Auth runtime dependency or middleware wiring.