First of 11 PRs implementing the memory-system plugin refactor (RFC #2728).
This PR is pure additive scaffolding — no behavior change, no integration
yet. It defines the wire shape between workspace-server and a memory
plugin so PR-2 (HTTP client) and PR-3 (built-in postgres plugin) can be
built against a single source of truth.
What ships:
- docs/api-protocol/memory-plugin-v1.yaml: OpenAPI 3.0.3 spec covering
/v1/health, namespace upsert/patch/delete, memory commit, search,
forget. Auth-free (private network only); workspace-server is the
only sanctioned client and the security perimeter.
- workspace-server/internal/memory/contract: typed Go bindings with
Validate() methods on every wire object so both client (PR-2) and
server (PR-3) self-check at the boundary.
- Round-trip JSON tests for every type (catch asymmetric tag bugs).
- 5 golden vector files under testdata/ pinning the exact wire shape;
update via UPDATE_GOLDENS=1.
Coverage: 100% of statements in contract.go.
The validation rules encode design decisions worth flagging in review:
- SearchRequest with empty Namespaces is REJECTED at plugin level —
workspace-server is required to intersect the readable set
server-side; an empty list reaching the plugin is a bug.
- NamespacePatch with no fields is REJECTED — empty patches are
pointless round-trips.
- MemoryWrite with whitespace-only Content is REJECTED — zero-info
memories pollute search results.
No code yet calls into this package; integration starts in PR-2.
