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Summary

Memory blocks synced to the workspace arrive with no heading in the UI.

A create runs the backend's LLM extractor, which writes its own title into the
record's metadata. The repair update that follows restores the block verbatim,
and it replaces the metadata dict wholesale — so the extractor's heading is
written and then immediately dropped. buildMetadata never supplied one of its
own, so every synced block ends up title-less.

memory-api.ts already documents the extractor overwriting memory_type/title;
what was missing is that our own replacement never puts a title back.

Change

blockTitle(block) borrows the block's leading markdown heading — which blocks
conventionally open with — and falls back to the block id when the content starts
with body text:

// "# Staging Model Convention\n\n- prefix stg_"  -> "Staging Model Convention"
// "Snowflake account is acme-prod."              -> "warehouse/snowflake"

Falling back rather than borrowing the first body line avoids inventing a heading
the user never wrote. Headings are capped at 120 characters, since a block can run
to MEMORY_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE and its first line can be most of that.

The archive path is unaffected — it spreads the record's existing metadata before
overriding, so a stored title survives archiving.

Verification

  • 89 tests pass in memory-sync.test.ts, including 7 new ones covering heading
    levels, leading blank lines, the body-text fallback, a bare #hashtag, and
    truncation.
  • 958 tests pass across test/memory/ and test/altimate/workspace/.
  • tsgo --noEmit clean; oxlint reports no new warnings on the changed files.

Scope

Existing records keep their missing heading — this fixes writes from here on. A
backfill would mean re-syncing each block, which is a separate call.

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Fixes synced memory blocks arriving in the workspace with no heading in the UI. The create's extractor writes its own title into the metadata, but the repair update replaces the metadata dict wholesale and drops it, so buildMetadata never supplied one. It now does via blockTitle, which borrows the block's leading markdown heading—skipping a training block's metadata comment—and falls back to the block id. Parsing follows CommonMark (leading spaces, decorative closing hash runs), and truncation counts code points so an emoji at the boundary is never split. Existing records keep their missing heading; only new writes are fixed. The archive path is unaffected since it preserves stored metadata.

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    • Workspace records now include a readable title derived from a leading Markdown heading in the block.
    • Titles support headings at any level, ignore leading blank lines and training metadata, and remove closing hash markers.
    • Titles are limited to 120 Unicode characters with an ellipsis when truncated.
    • Records beginning with body text or without a usable heading fall back to the block identifier, ensuring every synced record has a title.

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The change adds optional title metadata for workspace records. Synced records derive titles from the first markdown heading, truncate long headings, and fall back to the block ID. Tests cover extraction and metadata population.

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Workspace record titles

Layer / File(s) Summary
Title metadata and derivation
packages/opencode/src/altimate/workspace/memory-api.ts, packages/opencode/src/altimate/workspace/memory-sync.ts
MirrorMetadata now supports title. blockTitle extracts and truncates markdown headings or returns the block ID. buildMetadata includes the derived title.
Title extraction tests
packages/opencode/test/altimate/workspace/memory-sync.test.ts
Tests verify metadata title population, heading levels, blank lines, fallback cases, whitespace, training metadata, closing hashes, Unicode handling, and 120-character truncation.

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Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MemoryBlock
  participant blockTitle
  participant buildMetadata
  participant MirrorMetadata
  buildMetadata->>blockTitle: pass MemoryBlock
  blockTitle->>MemoryBlock: read content and id
  blockTitle-->>buildMetadata: return derived title
  buildMetadata->>MirrorMetadata: set title
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Synced workspace records now receive readable, bounded titles derived from their content, with fallback behavior for untitled blocks. No merge-blocking risk remains.

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const heading = line.match(/^#{1,6}\s+(\S.*?)\s*$/)
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const text = heading[1]
return text.length > TITLE_MAX ? `${text.slice(0, TITLE_MAX - 1)}\u2026` : text

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SUGGESTION: Avoid splitting Unicode surrogate pairs when truncating the title

String.slice counts UTF-16 code units, so a heading whose 119th code unit is the first half of an emoji produces a lone surrogate before the ellipsis. That malformed title will be escaped as \ud8xx in JSON and can render as a replacement character in the workspace UI. Truncate by code points (for example, with Array.from(text).slice(...)) and add a boundary test containing an emoji.


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packages/opencode/src/altimate/workspace/memory-sync.ts 320 Training-metadata stripping erases indentation and misclassifies indented code as a heading
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packages/opencode/src/altimate/workspace/memory-sync.ts 319 Training metadata prevents extraction of the authored leading heading
packages/opencode/src/altimate/workspace/memory-sync.ts 320 Valid ATX headings indented by up to three spaces are ignored

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packages/opencode/src/altimate/workspace/memory-sync.ts 322 Closing ATX markers are retained in the workspace title
packages/opencode/src/altimate/workspace/memory-sync.ts 323 Unicode title truncation can split a surrogate pair
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- Line 315: Update the heading parsing around the `heading` match to remove
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export function blockTitle(block: MemoryBlock): string {
for (const line of block.content.split("\n")) {
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Strip closing ATX markers from title.

A valid heading such as # Release notes ### makes this regex return Release notes ###. The workspace UI then displays Markdown syntax in the record title. Remove a trailing closing hash sequence before truncation, and add a test for this form.

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In `@packages/opencode/src/altimate/workspace/memory-sync.ts` at line 315, Update
the heading parsing around the `heading` match to remove trailing ATX closing
hashes and surrounding whitespace from the captured title before truncation,
while preserving ordinary heading text. Add a test covering a heading such as “#
Release notes ###” and assert the resulting title is “Release notes”.

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Memory blocks synced to the workspace arrived with no heading in the UI.

A create runs the backend's LLM extractor, which writes its own `title` into
the record's metadata. The repair `update` that follows restores the block
verbatim, and it replaces the metadata dict wholesale — so the extractor's
heading is written and then immediately dropped. `buildMetadata` never supplied
one of its own, leaving every synced block title-less.

`blockTitle` borrows the block's leading markdown heading, which blocks
conventionally open with, and falls back to the block id when the content
starts with body text. Long headings are capped at 120 characters.

The archive path is unaffected: it spreads the record's existing metadata
before overriding, so a title already stored survives.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Addresses review findings on the title derivation:

- Read past a training block's metadata comment. Training blocks always open
  with `<!-- training ... -->`, so scanning raw content saw it as body text and
  fell back to the block id, costing exactly the blocks a title helps most.
  Reuses `stripTrainingMeta`, as `contentHash` already does.
- Accept the up-to-three leading spaces CommonMark permits before the hashes.
- Drop a closing run of hashes (`## Release notes ##`), which is decoration
  rather than title text. The run must be preceded by whitespace, so a heading
  ending in `C#` keeps its hash.
- Truncate by code point. `slice` counts UTF-16 units, so a heading with an
  emoji on the 120-character boundary was cut mid-surrogate and rendered as a
  replacement character.

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Thanks — all four findings were valid and are fixed in e7f6d64.

Finding From Fix
Training metadata comment treated as body text cubic Reuse stripTrainingMeta, as contentHash already does
Leading 0–3 spaces rejected cubic /^ {0,3}#{1,6}/
Closing ATX hashes kept in the title CodeRabbit, cubic Dropped, but only when preceded by whitespace so # Style guide for C# keeps its hash
Truncation splits a surrogate pair Kilo, cubic Slice by code point via Array.from

The training-block one was the most worth catching: those blocks always open with <!-- training ... -->, so they were falling back to the block id — exactly the records a title helps most.

One finding I did not implement as suggested: a test asserting four leading spaces is an indented code block rather than a heading. stripTrainingMeta ends in .trim(), so leading indentation is gone before the regex runs. Rather than work around that, I kept the trim (consistent with the hash path) and documented it — a usable title beats falling back to an id over leading whitespace.

Six regression tests added: training comment, three leading spaces, closing hashes, C#, emoji on the truncation boundary (asserts isWellFormed()), and the existing cap.

Verification: 98 pass in memory-sync.test.ts, 1011 across test/memory/ + test/altimate/workspace/, tsgo --noEmit clean, no new oxlint warnings. The one failure in the wider run, skill-sync > flushPendingSyncs, is a pre-existing timing flake — it fails identically on clean main under the same parallel run and passes in isolation.

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export function blockTitle(block: MemoryBlock): string {
// A training block opens with its metadata comment; the heading is after it.
for (const line of stripTrainingMeta(block.content).split("\n")) {

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[WARNING]: Preserve indentation when stripping training metadata

stripTrainingMeta() ends with .trim(), so using it here removes all leading spaces from ordinary blocks before the CommonMark check. As a result, content such as # example (an indented code block, not an ATX heading) becomes # example and is published as the workspace title instead of falling back to the block ID. Strip only TRAINING_META_COMMENT for this scan, or otherwise avoid trimming indentation before matching, and add a four-space regression case.


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Multi-model consensus review

Reviewed independently by 5 models (Claude, GPT-5.4 Codex, MiniMax M2.7, GLM-5.1, MiMo V2 Pro), converged over one round. No blocking issues — approving with a few suggestions inline and below.

The fix itself is correct: buildMetadata centralizes title computation and is called consistently on the create, repair-update, and plain-update paths, so the new title field survives the wholesale-metadata-replacement bug this PR describes. Test coverage of the blockTitle regex edge cases (indentation, closing hash runs, C#-style embedded hashes, training-block comment skipping, emoji truncation boundary) is thorough.

Additional minor issue (not inline — touches pre-existing code outside this diff)

archiveNow doesn't compute a title for legacy untitled records (memory-sync.ts:719-727, unchanged by this PR) — it builds metadata by spreading current.metadata rather than calling blockTitle, so a pre-PR record with no title archives without one. Consistent with this PR's stated scope; non-blocking. Worth noting: the archive code's own comment says "only this client filters the marker — other readers do not — so an archived record stays visible elsewhere," so an untitled archived record can still be visible, untitled, to other workspace readers — not fully without user-facing effect, just low-impact.

Missing tests

  • No end-to-end test asserts the repair-update PATCH body actually contains title — all new tests target blockTitle/buildMetadata in isolation. The existing "a create is repaired with a verbatim update" test checks body.metadata.block_id but not body.metadata.title, the one field this PR is about.
  • Boundary truncation at exactly 119/120/121 characters.
  • A line with 7+ leading hashes (####### heading) — not a valid CommonMark heading, should fall through to block.id.
  • Content that is only a training-metadata comment with no heading after it.
  • Windows line endings (\r\n) — \s*$ should consume the trailing \r, untested directly.

Positive observations

  • Comments consistently explain why, not what — e.g. the surrogate-pair truncation rationale and the CommonMark closing-hash note.
  • The fallback-to-id design (rather than borrowing the first body line) is the right call, and is explicitly justified both in code and in the PR description.
  • Unicode-safe truncation via Array.from(text) correctly avoids splitting surrogate pairs.

/** Heading shown for the record in the workspace UI. The create's extractor
* writes its own, but the repair ``update`` replaces the metadata dict
* wholesale, so a synced block has no heading unless we supply one. */
title?: string

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Nit (Code Quality): title?: string is optional here, but buildMetadata always populates it. Worth a one-line addition to the doc comment explaining the optionality is for backward compatibility with records written before this field existed (and for archiveNow, which spreads possibly-pre-PR metadata).

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export function blockTitle(block: MemoryBlock): string {
// A training block opens with its metadata comment; the heading is after it.
for (const line of stripTrainingMeta(block.content).split("\n")) {

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Minor (Design): This only recognizes ATX (#) headings, not Setext (===/----underlined) headings. A block whose first line is Deploy Steps followed by a line of === is valid CommonMark but falls straight to the block.id fallback here. Low-impact (worst case is the id fallback, not a wrong title), but worth a one-line comment scoping this to ATX intentionally so a future reader doesn't assume all heading forms are handled.

// whitespace, so a heading like `# C#` keeps its hash. (stripTrainingMeta
// trims, so deeper indentation on the first line is gone before we look —
// a usable title beats falling back to the id over leading whitespace.)
const heading = line.match(/^ {0,3}#{1,6}\s+(\S.*?)(?:\s+#+)?\s*$/)

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Minor (Logic Error): For a line like # ### or ## ##, CommonMark treats the trailing hash run as closing decoration on an empty heading (canonical example: # ## renders as <h1></h1>). The mandatory (\S.*?) capture here instead consumes those hashes as literal heading text, producing a title of "###" or "##" rather than falling back to block.id. Rare content shape, but a real deviation from the CommonMark handling the rest of this function is careful about.

Suggestion: after matching, check whether the captured text is itself only hashes/whitespace and treat that as no heading.

visibility: "private",
block_created: block.created,
block_updated: block.updated,
title: blockTitle(block),

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Minor (Design): contentHash (line ~449, unchanged by this PR) hashes content + tags + expires, not title. So an index entry written before this PR still matches on re-save, and push() returns "unchanged" before this line — and therefore blockTitle() — ever runs, for any block whose content/tags/expiry haven't changed since it was last synced. This matches the PR's Scope note ("Existing records keep their missing heading").

Worth confirming with the author: the "separate backfill call" mentioned in Scope would hit the same wall if it means today's backfill() — it calls the same partitionPending()/contentHash gate, so a plain re-run would also skip these records rather than fixing them.

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#1353 (synced memory blocks get a title) merged to main between the beta
and the release PR; the [0.12.2] entry now lists it. The changelog ships
inside the binary, so it has to be in the tagged commit.


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