proposal apply silently drops all claims in local mode (0.3.0)

[HelgerLee]

proposal apply silently drops all claims in local mode

Version: 0.3.0 (installed 2026-08-31, unchanged since — no update involved)
Mode: local, path-bound repo. Hooks/auto-memory disabled.

Symptom

greplica proposal validate passes, proposal apply reports success with a
memory commit id — but zero claim rows are written (verified directly in
graph.db: claims has no new ids, graph_memberships has no new links).
Counts in apply output are all 0 (Components: 0 ... Claims: 0 ...).

Bisect (all validated, applied, then row-counted in DB)

• New component + plain claim → dropped.
• Existing component + plain new id → dropped.
• Supersede-shaped pair (status: superseded + superseded_by /
  supersedes) → validates, applies, dropped. No crash, no error.

So the local writer drops everything, not a specific shape.

Window (from memory_commits + membership mapping)

• Last claim-bearing commit: mc_a42c3e (2026-09-09T22:06:12Z, 2 claims).
• First claimless commit: mc_450a43 titled "Supersede epic-level claims
  with phase-level state" (2026-09-09T22:06:27Z) — 15 seconds later, same
  session. Three subsequent applies (incl. plain claims) also empty.

Ruled out

• Update: binary/package/npm-cache all dated 2026-08-31.
• Migrations: 0.11.0/0.12.0/0.12.2 were wedged; force-retried to clean
  (doctor FAIL cleared) and re-applied — still 0 claims.
• External LLM: binary has no ollama/remote-LLM references; embeddings
  are local Xenova mpnet (healthy, 100% coverage).

Suspected

The first failing commit is the first supersede/retire-style operation.
Hypothesis: the local applier choked on a retire directive and stayed wedged
(commit rows still recorded). The validator accepts supersede fields, so
validate gives false confidence.

Repro

# proposal.json: {title, component, claims:[{id,kind,status,text,evidence}]}
greplica proposal validate proposal.json   # valid
greplica proposal apply proposal.json      # success + commit id, 0 claims
sqlite3 ~/.greplica/graph.db "select count(*) from claims where id='<your-id>';"
# → 0

Ask

Either fix the local claim writer, or make apply fail loudly when claims
are dropped (exit nonzero + reason) instead of reporting success.