harness is set when an event is recorded; source was set when its batch was
sent. Both came from module globals that stay at "generic" and "MEM0_PLUGIN"
until telemetry.init() runs, and two processes in the pipeline never run it:
- `python3 telemetry.py`, the detached sender spawn_flush() starts at session
start, after every skill command, and when the MCP server exits. Everything it
delivered was labelled source=MEM0_PLUGIN. Only batches flush_worker.py
happened to drain got the real host.
- mcp_server.py, which records every manual search as harness=generic.
All six Python plugins ship the same files, so source could not tell any of them
apart and MCP searches from every plugin landed in one generic bucket. The
portable plugin is worse: it has no flush_worker at all, so its only sender is
the uninitialised one and 100% of its events were mislabelled.
Two changes. record() stamps source beside harness, so the sending process stops
mattering — flush() already spreads per-event properties last, so a per-event
source wins over any sender default. And the build generates core/_harness_id.py
per host, seeding both modules at import, so identity no longer depends on an
entrypoint remembering to call init(). The build already computed HARNESS_ID and
spent it only on skill templating, and bundle_drift already diffs core/
byte-for-byte, so --check catches drift for free.
Deliberately not adding MEM0_PLUGIN_HARNESS to the six manifests: they sit
outside the --sync and --check boundary, which is the property that caused this.
Also unifies two defaults that disagreed. configure_harness derived
`<host>_plugin` while telemetry.init derived `MEM0_<HOST>_PLUGIN`, so a third
value existed. It was unreachable only because hook_runner never calls flush();
moving source into record() would have made it live.
Events now carry a uuid so a resend can be collapsed.
The suite stayed green through all of this because the only tests live under one
host, behind a conftest that calls init() at import. New tests run in real
subprocesses with no init, and cover the portable plugin, which would pass a
native-only test vacuously.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01C7tEmH86HAr7GoAAKCEHZb
Saket Aryan
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