Fix the simple-SRS ratchet, the graduation counter, and the 8,000-card queue by TraderSamwise · Pull Request #33 · TraderSamwise/jiten

TraderSamwise · 2026-10-13T09:12:27Z

Sam ran jiten beside Midori on the same 8,000-word list and got the same ~1,000 cards every
day while Midori decayed 1000 → 600 → 300 and settled around 200–300. Two independent
defects, and a legacy-deck problem that neither fix reaches on its own.

What was wrong

The lapse multiplier applied for a card's whole life. simpleGraduate's third argument
was card.lapses > 0, a lifetime counter nothing resets, so every graduation after a card's
first ever failure multiplied its interval by 0.5 instead of 1.9. A card climbed to 56 days,
failed once, then ratcheted 28 → 14 → 7 → 3.5 → … to the 8-hour floor and stayed due every
day forever. At 90% accuracy 96% of cards sit at or below a one-day interval after 40
reviews; with the fix, none do. Sam's own Midori file shows the healthy shape: 2,450 cards,
median interval 37 days, 187 at the 365-day cap.

Nothing could graduate. A learning card needs three correct answers in a row, and that
count lived in a React ref that died with the screen. With the whole list loaded as one
queue, one answer per card per session was the only rate available, so the count never
reached two.

The session loaded the entire list as new. 8,000 cards in one queue.

And fixing those three does not fix an existing deck. The intervals are already
flattened, and thousands of cards sit at simple_stage = 0, simple_n = 0 — answered once a
session, never graduated. Those are not "new", so the new-card cap does not bound them, and
they are all due every day.

What this does

commit	change
`0157282`	The halving belongs to the lapse being recovered from — `simple_relearning`, a column, set on the failure and cleared by the re-graduation that pays for it
`c137340`	The correct-in-a-row count is `simple_run` on the row
`c571dc8`	A session introduces `lists.new_per_session` unseen cards, default 10
`779566a`	A one-time repair of the ratcheted intervals, and a cap on the learning slice of the due pool

How it was measured

Both schedulers are deterministic given a card row, so every decision here was simulated
through the shipped nextSimpleReview rather than argued. docs/simple-srs-decisions.md is
new and carries all of it; the headline numbers:

Repair vs natural recovery. At 1,000 answers a day a floored deck heals itself in four
months (8,000 → 81 by d180). At a realistic 200 it does not — 3,579 still queued a year
later. That one number is why the first conclusion, "leave it alone", was wrong: it had
been measured at an effort nobody sustains. Repaired: 1,166 at d180, 47 at d365.
The discriminator. reps >= 12, measured not reasoned: a card the ratchet dragged
down from 56 days has a median of 32 answers behind it, one honestly at the floor has 4.
It catches 2,127 of 2,359 victims and lifts 13 of 111 honest cards at 90% accuracy. The
shipped clause also requires simple_stage = 1, so it reaches 1,589 of the 2,359 —
93% of the graduated ones and none of the rest.
The learning cap. On an 8,000-card legacy deck at 200 answers a day: 30 cards shown on
day one and 140 a year later, against 8,000 every day for six months uncapped. Counting
words kept — still graduated at the end, above a one-day interval — the cap also wins,
3,674 against 2,642, because an uncapped deck churns: a card graduates at 0.633 days,
returns the same day, fails, and sits at the floor again. The ×3 multiplier is ahead of a
flat cap of ten at both efforts (3,674 vs 3,223 at 200 a day, 7,006 vs 3,631 at 400), which
took four seeds to establish — one seed said the opposite.

Measured and rejected

lapses >= 3 as the repair guard — proposed in review. Under the bug a single lapse
starts the ratchet, so it catches only 1,568 of 2,359 victims. A third of the deck left
flattened.
Repairing stage-0 intervals — the first version did this. A learning card sits at 1/3
because that is where new cards start, and in a flattened deck cards that never
graduated are most of the stage-0 population, with the reps to pass any threshold. It
would have handed thousands of unlearned words a fortnight each. They are bounded by the
learning cap instead.
lapses >= 3 as the repair guard also lifts more honest cards than reps >= 12
does, at both accuracies — 259 against 167 at 75%.
A flat 7-day lift — half the drain of the spread at every horizon (2,272 queued at
d180 against 1,166), and at 1,000 answers a day the queue falls to 174 by d30 and then
swings back to 553 and 579 on d90 and d180, the whole deck returning together.
Running the repair on every launch — the clause also matches cards the fixed engine
honestly leaves at the floor, so three real lapses are indistinguishable from bug damage.
Once per device is a bounded cost; every launch buries a learner's hardest words
repeatedly. It runs once, keyed to an app_flags row.

Gates

Typecheck clean, lint 0 errors, 2,570 tests passing with none skipped. Every clause of
the repair migration is prove-failed by mutation — the reps threshold, deleted_at IS NULL,
the floor, the lapse guard, the stage, and both constants of the spread each make a test
fail — as are nine mutations of the shipped pool SQL in db/simple-queue.ts, the three
backup tolerances, and the cap's trip through list transfer.

Every number above is regenerated by yarn simulate:srs from
scripts/simulate-simple-srs.ts, which ships because an earlier version of these tables
could not be reproduced from their prose: the answer-count spread, the daily budget and the
intra-day re-queue rule all change the result and none of them were written down. Figures
here are seed 7; --seed=N resamples, every row of a comparison shares one seed, and
capSeeds reports the one comparison a decision rests on across four.

db/sql-arity.test.ts is new because review caught the settings UPDATE binding 12 values
into 13 placeholders. op-sqlite does not check the count, so the short array shifted every
value one place left and left WHERE id = NULL — every flashcard setting for every list
would have stopped persisting, while the store still mutated and the UI still looked saved.
The gate now counts placeholders against binds across 191 of 338 call sites with the
TypeScript AST — it prints that share on every run, because the figure has been quoted wrong
twice — and says out loud what it cannot see — including that it cannot see a query
whose args array carries a spread, which is every scoped SRS query. Those are gated by
db/simple-queue.test.ts instead, which runs the shipped SQL rather than a copy of it.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Simple SRS sessions now limit unseen cards per list, with a configurable cap from 1 to 500. Due counts reflect the cap, and learning cards are also limited.
- Simple SRS tracks lapse recovery and consecutive correct answers, with updated review intervals and graduation progress.
- List exports and imports preserve the new-card session cap and Simple SRS progress.
Bug Fixes
- Corrected Simple SRS review transitions and restored affected cards with overly short intervals. Undo now restores review progress and the unseen-card allowance.
- Backup imports better accommodate differences between backup and database versions, preserving existing records and applying defaults for missing fields.

`simpleGraduate`'s third argument was fed `card.lapses > 0` — a lifetime counter nothing resets — so every graduation after a card's first ever failure multiplied its interval by 0.5 instead of 1.9. A card climbed to 56 days, failed once, and then ratcheted 28 → 14 → 7 → 3.5 → … down to the 8-hour floor, where it stayed due every day forever. At 90% accuracy, 96% of cards sit at or below a 1-day interval after 40 reviews; with the fix, none do. That is the difference Sam saw running jiten beside Midori on the same 8k list: Midori's queue decayed 1000 → 600 → 300 and settled around 200-300 a day, jiten's never moved. His Midori file shows the healthy shape — median interval 37 days, 187 cards at the 365 cap, 83 below a day. `simple_relearning` records whether a card is recovering from a lapse right now. The migration backfills 1 for cards sitting in a lapse and bumps their `updated_at` so the backfill reaches other devices; `isRemoteRelevant` keeps the ALTER and drops the UPDATE, which is what row sync wants. The per-answer decision moved into `nextSimpleReview` in stores/simple-srs. Review's first pass found the gate that mattered: every test called `simpleGraduate` directly, so reverting the screen's four call sites left all of them green — the bug lived in the wiring, not the arithmetic. The decision is now a pure function with its own tests, the SELECT that hydrates the flag is shared and tested (drop the alias and the fix silently inverts), and the backfill has a test. Extraction verified behaviour-identical across 1,080 state combinations. Driven through the real decision function, a deck settles at ~117 cards and ~210 answers a day instead of pinning at 8,000. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

A learning or lapsed card needs three correct answers in a row to graduate, and until it has them its `simple_n` is 0 — permanently due. The count lived in `simpleCorrectCountRef`, a React ref, so it died with the screen. Answer a card twice, leave, and it is back to zero. With a deck bigger than one sitting no card ever reaches three, nothing graduates, and the same queue returns every day — which is what Sam has been looking at. At one pass per session a card now graduates in three days. Before, never. `simple_run` is nullable with DEFAULT 0 rather than NOT NULL: backup restore builds values as `row[col] ?? null`, so NOT NULL would have failed the whole srs_cards import on any backup taken before the column, losing the study history it was meant to protect. Both read sites take `?? 0`. The ref is gone entirely, which also retires `getCheckCount`'s guess at the count from the interval — that heuristic only existed because the real count was not stored. A just-failed card now shows no checks where it used to show one, which is what actually happened to it. Review also found a stale-pool hole this widened: a confused word queued mid-session is failed and appended, but the session pools still held the row as it was at session start, so a second copy pulled later carried a stale run and could graduate the card one pass after the fail reset it. It is dropped from both pools now. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

The previous commit, and the comment beside the migration, said NOT NULL would fail backup restore because `lib/data-backup.ts` builds values as `row[col] ?? null`. That is wrong, and I should have checked it before repeating it: the restore inserts with `INSERT OR REPLACE`, and SQLite's REPLACE conflict resolution substitutes a column's DEFAULT for an explicit NULL rather than failing. Only a plain INSERT would have failed. INSERT OR REPLACE + explicit NULL → ok, a = 7 plain INSERT + explicit NULL → NOT NULL constraint failed The column stays nullable, which matches `simple_relearning` and the other simple-SRS columns, but the constraint was never the reason. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

A simple-SRS session loaded every unseen card in the list as its new pool. On an 8,000-word list that is 8,000 cards in one queue, and since a learning card needs three correct answers in a row to graduate, nothing in a queue that size ever collected them: the same queue came back the next day, and the day after. Midori introduces about ten. Lists now carry `new_per_session`, defaulting to ten, and the new pool is `ORDER BY created_at ASC, rowid ASC LIMIT ?`. The cap is read from the list row inside `loadQueue`, not off the `list` state: the settings modal reloads the queue from its own close handler, which closes over the pre-save value, and making the effect depend on the cap instead would race that reload with no in-flight guard. Smart Review and the flagged-cards list are exempt: both are assembled on purpose and are entirely new, so a cap would show ten of a deliberate selection and call that a session. `isEphemeralListId` is the test and the limit binds -1, SQLite's own "unlimited". The RTK review list cannot reach this branch at all: `lib/rtk-review.ts` writes `flashcard_mode 'srs'` and its multi-scope forces FSRS. The setting is a number input in the flashcard settings modal, 1 to 500, empty meaning the default, and it only shows for simple SRS — so a save in any other mode now keeps the stored value instead of writing NULL over it. Review caught that the column was in the UPDATE's SQL and missing from its args array. op-sqlite does not check the count, so the short array shifted every value one place left: the timestamp went into `new_per_session`, the list id into `updated_at`, and `WHERE id = NULL` changed zero rows. Every flashcard setting for every list would have stopped persisting while the store still mutated and the UI still looked saved. `db/sql-arity.test.ts` now counts placeholders against binds with the TypeScript AST across app, components, db, lib, stores and hooks — 190 of 335 call sites; it cannot see args assembled in a variable or an array carrying a spread, which the test says out loud so a pass is not read as more than it is. Removing the bind again makes it name the line. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Fixing the rule does not fix the stored intervals. A deck the lifetime-lapse bug flattened is thousands of cards at the 8-hour floor, all due today and all due again tomorrow, and the engine has no way back: a card answered this morning returns this afternoon and takes tomorrow's slot too. Measured by simulating the deck through the shipped `nextSimpleReview`, queue size by day for 8,000 floored cards: 1000 answers/day, no repair d30 5333 d90 1309 d180 72 d365 18 200 answers/day, no repair d30 7444 d90 6644 d180 5549 d365 3542 200 answers/day, repaired d30 5787 d90 3591 d180 1093 d365 50 At a thousand answers a day the deck heals itself in four months, and at two hundred it does not. That one number is why the first conclusion here — natural recovery, leave it alone — was wrong: it was measured at an effort nobody sustains. So there is a one-time repair that spreads the floored cards over the next month. A flat seven-day lift was measured and rejected: it re-synchronises the whole deck into one wave that echoes for months. `reps >= 12` is the discriminator, and it was measured rather than reasoned. A card the ratchet dragged down from 56 days has a median of 32 answers behind it; one honestly at the floor has 4. The clause catches 2,127 of 2,359 victims and lifts 13 of 111 honest cards at 90% accuracy. Review proposed `lapses >= 3` and that is wrong — under the bug a single lapse starts the ratchet, so it would have left a third of the deck flattened. Learning cards are deliberately left alone, and the first version of this did repair them. A stage-0 card sits at 1/3 because that is where every new card starts, not because of the ratchet, and with the whole list loading as new and the correct-in-a-row count dying with the screen, cards that never graduated at all are most of the stage-0 population — with the reps to pass any threshold, because the bug made them answer the same words every day. Lifting those would hand thousands of unlearned words a fortnight each. Of 2,359 floored cards at 90% accuracy, 1,714 are graduated and 645 are in learning; the clause repairs 93% of the graduated ones and none of the rest. The learning ones are the complaint, and no rewrite of a stored interval touches them: they are words with one pass each, and they are all due, every day, because the new-card cap only bounds cards that have never been seen. So the learning slice of the due pool is capped at three times `new_per_session` — three learning answers are one card's worth of work — ordered most-recently-answered first, so cards already in hand get finished before the backlog is reached. Graduated cards due today stay uncapped; that is the real review load. On an 8,000-card legacy deck at 200 answers a day that shows 30 cards on day one and 142 a year later instead of 8,000 and 4,436, and still graduates 3,681 words in the year against 3,733 uncapped. Capping at ten rather than thirty costs 439 of them, because a learning card needs three answers and ten slots cannot deliver them alongside reviews. A genuinely ratcheted card currently in learning is the price of not repairing stage 0: it re-graduates to the floor once and then climbs 0.33 → 0.63 → 1.2 by itself. Every clause is prove-failed by mutation: the reps threshold, `deleted_at IS NULL`, the floor, the lapse guard, the stage, and both constants of the spread each make at least one test fail, as do the learning cap's LIMIT and its ordering. `docs/simple-srs-decisions.md` carries the tables, the three rejected repairs and the accepted trades — including that `reps` is not per-mode, so a list moved from FSRS brings its count with it, and that an imported deck is never repaired. ARCHITECTURE.md said "Lapse: interval × 0.5" and described stage 0 without `simple_run`; both are corrected, and CLAUDE.md now sends the next agent to the decisions doc before it touches the scheduler. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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📝 Walkthrough

Simple SRS now persists relearning and consecutive-correct progress, applies per-list limits to new and learning-card queues, and routes ratings through a shared transition function. The change also adds an interval repair during database initialization and updates backup, list-transfer, documentation, and validation paths for the new state.

Changes: Simple SRS scheduling and session flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Persisted review state and rating rules `db/schema.ts`, `db/types.ts`, `db/user-migrations.ts`, `db/srs-card-columns.ts`, `stores/simple-srs.ts`, `stores/simple-srs.test.ts`, `db/srs-card-columns.test.ts`, `db/simple-relearning-migration.test.ts`, `components/StudyStatisticsModal.tsx`	The schema and migrations add `simple_relearning` and `simple_run`. The shared review function tracks active relearning and consecutive correct answers. Graduation clears both fields, and statistics clearing resets them.
Session limits and queue construction `stores/simple-srs.ts`, `stores/lists.ts`, `components/FlashcardSettingsModal.tsx`, `components/DueCardsSection.tsx`, `db/simple-queue.ts`, `db/simple-queue.test.ts`, `app/(tabs)/lists/study.tsx`	Simple SRS lists can set a new-card limit. Queue loading caps unseen cards by the remaining allowance and learning cards by three times that limit, while graduated due cards remain uncapped. Due counts and same-session queue reloads apply corresponding limits and exclusions.
Study ratings, requeue, and undo `app/(tabs)/lists/study.tsx`, `lib/study-wiring.test.ts`	The study screen delegates ratings to `nextSimpleReview` and persists the returned schedule, relearning, and run fields. It displays and snapshots persisted progress, restores it on undo, and updates queued copies when a confused card is failed.
Graduated-card interval repair `db/simple-repair.ts`, `db/simple-repair.test.ts`, `db/user-provider.native.tsx`, `db/user-provider.web.tsx`, `db/user-migrations.ts`	The repair updates eligible active graduated cards with intervals from 2 to 30 days. Native and web database initialization run it and log the number updated when that number is greater than zero.
Simulation and scheduling documentation `scripts/simulate-simple-srs.ts`, `package.json`, `CLAUDE.md`, `docs/ARCHITECTURE.md`, `docs/simple-srs-decisions.md`, `lib/version.ts`	A seeded simulator runs scenarios through `nextSimpleReview`. The documentation describes review fields, queue limits, and repair conditions. A package script runs the simulator, Simple SRS editing guidance is added, and version metadata changes.

Backup and list-transfer compatibility

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Backup schema handling and list transfer `lib/data-backup.ts`, `lib/data-backup.test.ts`, `lib/list-transfer.ts`, `lib/list-transfer.test.ts`	Backup and list-transfer data now includes the new Simple SRS fields and list cap. Backup reads retry missing-column errors when possible; restores filter columns to the destination schema and upsert by primary key. Tests cover older schemas, missing values, and preservation of linked rows.

SQL placeholder-count checks

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Query placeholder validation `db/sql-arity.test.ts`	A new test scans tracked TypeScript source for supported SQL calls and checks placeholder counts where SQL and arguments use supported literal forms.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor Learner
  participant StudyScreen
  participant nextSimpleReview
  participant SQLite
  Learner->>StudyScreen: Submit a card rating
  StudyScreen->>nextSimpleReview: Pass card and action
  nextSimpleReview-->>StudyScreen: Return schedule updates and graduation result
  StudyScreen->>SQLite: Persist stage, interval, relearning, and run

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TraderSamwise · 2026-10-13T09:24:53Z

Adversarial review round 1

Four reviews run locally against 779566a, one per attack surface: migrations/sync/on-disk data, the
session as a user hits it, every number claimed in the PR and docs, and the tests plus blast radius.
Each ran the code rather than reading it. Findings, with the ones I am fixing marked.

Blockers

1. The migrations bump updated_at, so a stale device wins last-write-wins. db/user-migrations.ts
— both the simple_relearning backfill and the interval repair set updated_at = now. Proven: a row
stored at 2025-01-01 came out of the migration batch stamped today, and db/sync-engine.ts:220
(if (localTs >= remoteTs) continue;) then skips pulling the newer remote row and pushes the local
one. A device that has not been opened in months discards every review done elsewhere on every card in
a lapse. Fixing — the bump is unnecessary: every device runs the same statement over its own rows,
so the backfill never needed to travel.

2. The backfill has no deleted_at IS NULL guard, while the repair does. A card soft-deleted on
device A, not yet pulled by B, gets its updated_at bumped on B, wins LWW, and pushes deleted_at = NULL back — the deleted card is resurrected. Fixing.

3. app/(tabs)/lists/study.tsx is covered by nothing. No test imports it, and these mutations
survive the entire suite green: newCap = UNLIMITED (the whole 8,000-card bug restored), deleting the
learning query's LIMIT, and deleting simple_run = ? from the UPDATE (the graduation fix fully
reverted). lib/new-per-session.test.ts reads as though it gates those queries but retypes the SQL
inside the test — inverting the test's own ORDER BY fails it, which proves it tests itself.
Fixing by moving the pool queries into a module the screen and the test share, the way
SRS_CARD_SELECT already works.

Major

4. "Continue Studying" hands back the cards you just finished, plus a second full cap of new ones.
A new card graduating gets 1/3 × 1.9 = 0.633 d, which is inside today's cutoff, and loadQueue never
reads reviewedSrsIdsRef — it is written in four places and read in none. Tap Continue N times, get
10N new cards. Fixing both halves.

5. The confused-word path de-dupes the pools but not the deque. handleAddConfusedToReview filters
duePoolRef/newPoolRef by id and appends a fresh copy, but a card already pulled into the deque is
untouched — so the fail it just wrote is erased by the stale pending copy, and the card is written
twice in one session. This is the hazard the comment there claims to have closed. Fixing.

6. Re-rating strands a counted card, so the progress bar cannot reach 100%. reRateCard drops
every reQueueOf != null entry after the cursor, including re-queue copies owned by cards answered
before the cursor whose answers are not being undone. The card is already shifted out of the pool, so
it is unreachable for the rest of the session and never enters completedSrsIdsRef. Harmless on master
where the denominator was all 8,000; the bar is the feature now. Fixing.

7. Backup and restore break across this schema change, in both directions. Proven by executing
importBackup's own SQL: a backup from this branch restored onto an older build fails per table
(table lists has no column named new_per_session), so every list and every card is skipped. And
attemptBackup's SELECT now names the new columns, but the recovery screen only runs when the database
failed to migrate — precisely when those columns may not exist — so the emergency rescue silently skips
lists and srs_cards. Fixing by intersecting the column list with the actual schema on both
sides.

8. db/sql-arity.test.ts cannot see a single query this PR added. It skips arrays containing a
spread, and every SRS query is [...scope.args, …]. Proven: LIMIT ? OFFSET ? with two bound values
passed both arity tests. The header already says it cannot see spreads; the new queue module's tests
cover these directly instead.

Minor, fixing

Changing "New cards per session" mid-session is silently ignored: onClose(mode !== flashcardMode)
only reloads on a mode change.
DueCardsSection under-reports by up to a full cap — it counts due and learning but not the new
cards the session will serve — reads the cap from a different source than the session, and omits the
simple_n <= cutoff guard the session query has.
A completed card failed by the confused path stays in completedSrsIdsRef, so the bar counts it done
while it is back in learning.
lib/list-transfer.ts never carries or exports new_per_session, so sharing a list resets a 500-card
cap to 10.
db/schema.ts omits the .default() the ALTERs declare for all three new columns.
lib/new-per-session.test.ts "is stable when every card shares a timestamp" cannot fail — the
comment admits it. Being replaced by a real gate.

Corrected claim

The comment on simple_run said a restore would survive NOT NULL because INSERT OR REPLACE
substitutes the default for an explicit NULL. It does not — a named NULL is written as NULL, and a
NOT NULL column there would have failed the whole restore. Verified directly; the comment is being
rewritten. That sentence was already corrected once in 12fdd93 and landed on the wrong side.

Verified, not changing

The migration order is safe: backfill (simple_stage = 0) and repair (simple_stage = 1) are
disjoint, the repair runs last, and re-running the tail three times changes nothing.
The remote schema is right: ensureRemoteSchema filters the two UPDATEs but still stores the full
array length, the three ALTERs reach the remote with matching defaults, and the column cache is
cleared before push/pull re-PRAGMA.
All seven requested mutations of stores/simple-srs.ts are caught, and db/srs-card-columns.test.ts
is a real gate — dropping either column alias from the shared SELECT fails two tests.
dueRows/learningRows/newRows are mutually exclusive, so no card is in two pools. RTK Review is
flashcard_mode = 'srs', so the cap cannot apply to it. Easy on a brand-new card is consistent.

CI is green on this head (build pass, Vercel deployed).

Four reviews, one per surface. The three that mattered: **The migrations made a stale device win last-write-wins.** Both the backfill and the repair set `updated_at = now`, so a device opened for the first time in months became the newest writer of every lapsed card: `sync` then skips the remote row (`localTs >= remoteTs`) and pushes the stale one, discarding reviews done elsewhere. The bump was never needed — every device runs the same statement over its own rows — so it is gone, and the backfill gains the `deleted_at IS NULL` guard the repair already had, without which a bumped row would push its `deleted_at = NULL` back and resurrect a deleted card. **The study screen was covered by nothing.** No test imported it, and review proved `newCap = UNLIMITED`, deleting the learning `LIMIT`, and deleting `simple_run` from the persistence UPDATE each left the whole suite green — the 8,000-card queue and the graduation fix both revertable without a failure. `lib/new-per-session.test.ts` read as though it gated those queries but retyped the SQL inside the test, so inverting the test's own ORDER BY failed it. The three queries now live in `db/simple-queue.ts` and `db/simple-queue.test.ts` runs them: nine mutations of the shipped SQL each fail it, including both that previously survived. **Every number in the docs is now regenerated by `yarn simulate:srs`.** Review could not reproduce the tables from their prose, because the answer-count spread, the daily budget and the intra-day re-queue rule all change the result and none were written down. `scripts/simulate-simple-srs.ts` ships, the doc quotes its output, and three figures were wrong: the ratchet puts 92% of cards at or below a day after 40 answers, not 96% (96% is 45 answers), the fixed rule leaves 0.1% rather than none, and the repair clause reaches 1,589 of 2,359 victims — `reps >= 12` catches 2,127, but the shipped clause also requires `simple_stage = 1`, so quoting that number for the clause overstated it by a third. The discriminator table reproduces exactly. **The learning cap's cost was understated badly** — the doc said 52 words a year; it is thousands. Uncapped, a learner answering 200 a day does finish all 8,000 inside a year, by being shown the whole deck every day for six months. Capped they are shown ~130 a day and learn 3,706, which is what ten new cards a day means. That is the trade, now written as such. Also from review: - "Continue Studying" re-served the cards just answered, because a graduated card's 0.633-day interval falls inside today's cutoff and `loadQueue` never read `reviewedSrsIdsRef` — written in four places, read in none — and granted a fresh cap of new cards each tap. The session now carries an allowance and holds back what it has answered. - The confused-word path de-duped the pools but not the deque, so the fail it wrote was erased by a stale pending copy and the card was written twice in one session. Unanswered copies are now dropped from the deque too. - `reRateCard` dropped every re-queue copy after the cursor, including copies owned by cards whose answers are not being undone, stranding a counted card so the bar could never reach 100%. - Backup and restore both broke across a schema change: a backup from this branch restored onto an older build failed per TABLE, losing every list and card, and `attemptBackup` names the new columns while the recovery screen only runs when the database failed to migrate. Both now intersect with the columns the database actually has, and a column missing from an older backup is omitted from the INSERT so it takes its default. - A changed new-card cap now reloads the queue instead of being ignored until the next session; the due badge counts what the session will serve rather than what the deck holds; `lib/list-transfer.ts` carries the cap so a shared list keeps its pace; `db/schema.ts` carries the defaults the ALTERs declare. The comment claiming `INSERT OR REPLACE` substitutes a column default for an explicit NULL is wrong and is corrected — it writes the NULL, which is exactly why the column is nullable. That sentence was already corrected once in 12fdd93 and landed on the wrong side. Gates: typecheck clean, lint 0 errors, 2,548 tests passing with none skipped. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Correct the repair's sync description.

isRemoteRelevant excludes the migration UPDATE from remote replay. The repair runs locally on each device and leaves updated_at unchanged.

Adversarial review round 2 — attacking the fix, not the bug

Three reviews against d967997, each told to attack the previous round's fix. Addressed in
646c520.

Blockers

1. The learning slice was sized from the residual allowance. learningCapFor(newAllowance)
— a session that has already introduced its ten new cards has an allowance of zero, so the
learning cap was zero too. And since round 1 made a changed cap rebuild the queue, saving
settings mid-session emptied both slices and sent a learner with 17 unseen and 3 learning
cards straight to the done screen. Proven with a probe. Fixed: the learning slice is sized
from the list's cap; the allowance only limits unseen cards.

2. Restoring one table CASCADE-deleted its neighbours. importBackup used
INSERT OR REPLACE, which is a DELETE then an INSERT, so restoring lists fired every
foreign key hanging off it. Proven: restoring one list row left list_entries empty and
srs_cards.list_id NULL — the list back with zero words, its cards orphaned. A partial backup
is the normal case, and round 1's column fallback makes it more reachable. Fixed: an
upsert, plus a row with no primary key is skipped rather than written under a NULL one.

Major

3. Dropping the updated_at bump traded one clobber for another. The sharpest finding of
the round, proven with the real sync path: a repaired row never pushes at all, because the push
selects WHERE updated_at > lastPushedAt. So an old-build device can push its ratcheted 0.33
back — and because the repair was keyed to PRAGMA user_version it never ran again. The repair
was gone for good. Fixed: it is not a migration any more. db/simple-repair.ts runs on
every launch, which is free because the clause is self-limiting — a repaired row no longer
matches it — so nothing needs to push for the deck to end up repaired.

4. The learning cap's cost was measured against the wrong column, and the conclusion
inverts. Round 1 said the cap costs thousands of words, counting cards that touched stage 1.
Uncapped, 8,000 do — and only 2,665 are still graduated at the end, because an uncapped deck
churns: a card graduates at 0.633 days, returns the same day, fails, and sits back at the floor.
Capped, almost everything touched is kept. On words retained the cap wins, 3,008 against
2,665, while showing 100 cards a day instead of 8,000. The ×3 is what stops it starving a
learner who does more: at 400 answers a day a cap of 30 keeps 7,005 against 3,634 for a cap of
10. yarn simulate:srs now reports both counts and takes --seed=N.

5. attemptBackup's fallback reported a locked or corrupt table as a clean rescue. Proven
with a transient SQLITE_BUSY. Fixed: it falls back only for a missing column.

6. The export's SELECT and the restore's column list had drifted.
books.read_complete was exported and then dropped on restore;
user_kanji_notes.updated_at was in neither, so a restored mnemonic is invisible to a push that
selects WHERE updated_at > ?. Fixed, with two tests comparing the lists in both directions
so they cannot drift again.

Minor, fixed

The queue test missed four mutations: deleting the unseen ORDER BY, < for <= on the
cutoff, = 1 for != 0, and sizing the learning slice from the allowance. The fixtures were
agreeing with rowid order, which is why the first two passed. All four now fail.
The graduated slice asks simple_stage != 0 rather than = 1: splitting the old
IS NOT NULL query in two would otherwise strand a row with any other stage in no slice at
all.
A shared list with no cap stays NULL rather than being pinned to 10 — NULL is the "unset"
state the settings input reads as a placeholder.
db/sql-arity.test.ts prints its own coverage (191 of 337 call sites), because that figure
has now been quoted wrong twice.
The rowid ASC tiebreak is labelled a guard rather than a gate: SQLite returns rowid order
for equal keys anyway, so no observation can hold it. That is the repo's convention for a
rule no test can discriminate.

Claims corrected

Seven figures were wrong or unsupported in round 1 and are fixed: the ratchet is 92% at 40
answers (96% at 45) not 96% at 40; the fixed rule leaves 0.1% not none; the repair clause
reaches 1,589 of 2,359 not 2,127 (that is reps >= 12's power, before the simple_stage = 1
the clause also requires); the drain and learning-cap tables are regenerated; the Midori figures
are flagged as the one number yarn simulate:srs cannot reproduce, since that export is not in
the repo; and the test count is 2,560 with none skipped.

Verified, not changed

The simulation genuinely drives nextSimpleReview and reimplements no rule; its bug injection
is faithful to master; its lapses counting has no miscounting input. Conclusions hold
across seeds.
No consumer depends on dueRows being in simple_n order; reRateCard's kept indices stay
valid; the ephemeral exemption, the cap's source, the orderings and the badge all match the
docs.
No SQL injection reachable in the restore: table and column names come only from constants,
and JSON supplies values and lookup keys.
limitWith over-fetches by the size of the reviewed set but can never under-fetch, so a
session never gets a short batch. Left as is.

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Two blockers, and a measurement that was confounded by its own seeding. **The repair cannot run on every launch, because its clause also matches cards the FIXED engine honestly produces.** `simpleGraduate` halves and clamps to `MIN_INTERVAL`, so a card that fails and re-graduates from a short interval lands at exactly 1/3 with stage 1 — and three honest lapses leave it there with `reps = 15` and `lapses = 3`, matching every condition. Reproduced by driving the real `nextSimpleReview`: no bug involved, and the learner's hardest words pushed 2–30 days out. Once, that is the bounded cost already measured and written down. Every launch it is a standing policy that buries them again and again, and on web it could fire mid-session, since the provider re-runs whenever the lock is reacquired. So it runs once per device now, keyed to an `app_flags` row rather than `PRAGMA user_version` — which is also why the round-2 reasoning for per-launch does not hold: the price of running once is that an old build can push a ratcheted interval back and nothing lifts it again, and that is the better trade. **Restoring `confusion_pairs` lost the whole table.** It carries a unique index besides its primary key, so a pair that already exists locally under a different id raises an error `ON CONFLICT(id)` cannot absorb — and the table-level catch dropped every row after it. Round 2 traded a cascade for this. The loop now collects per-row failures instead of aborting, replaces a row that collides on another index, and reports the table failed only when every row did. A row carrying only its primary key also produced `DO UPDATE SET` with nothing after it, which is a syntax error that cost the table; it is `DO NOTHING` now. **The learning-cap comparison was confounded with its sample.** `seed += 1` ran per row, so each cap was drawn from a different RNG stream — and the conclusion drawn from it, that the ×3 multiplier costs a little at low effort, reverses at every other seed. Every row of a comparison shares one seed now, and `yarn simulate:srs capSeeds` reports four of them: the ×3 is ahead of a flat cap at both efforts, 3,674 against 3,223 words kept at 200 answers a day and 7,006 against 3,631 at 400. Uncapped leads only at 400 a day, by 6%, for which it shows the entire deck every day for six months. Also from review: - `newAnsweredRef` counted increments, so a re-rate spent a second slot (the deque keeps the pre-answer row, so the re-applied answer saw `simpleStage` null again) and an undo refunded nothing — five cards back and a re-rate left a session with no new cards while the database still called them unseen. It is a set of ids, and `undoSingleCard` removes the card from it and from the answered set. - `wasNewSimpleSrs` was written in five places and read in none. Deleted. - The graduated slice is back to `simple_stage = 1`. `!= 0` would have served a stage that `DueCardsSection`, the lists index, `stores/lists.ts` and `lib/practice-stats.ts` all count in no bucket; the engine writes 0 and 1 and nothing else, and `stores/simple-srs.test.ts` now pins that where it is produced rather than guessing at the query. - Three ungated mutations now fail: `reps >= 12` → `>= 8` (the measured discriminator was held only by a reps-4 fixture), a stage above 1 reaching the repair, and the empty `SET` clause. `PRIMARY_KEYS` is checked against `PRAGMA table_info` for every restored table — it carried two tables that are not restored at all. - The "is stable when every card shares a timestamp" assertion compared two calls to the same deterministic function over an unchanged database. Replaced with the cards the slice actually takes. - `fileURLToPath` in the arity gate, from CodeRabbit: a checkout path containing a space arrived percent-encoded and `git -C` was handed a directory that does not exist. Verified from a directory with a space in its name. - `docs/ARCHITECTURE.md` describes the repair and the residual allowance. Gates: typecheck clean, lint 0 errors, 2,570 tests passing, none skipped. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

TraderSamwise · 2026-10-13T10:15:42Z

Adversarial review round 3 — attacking round 2's fix

Two reviews against 646c520. Addressed in 03a6b20. Two blockers, and one of my own
measurements turned out to be confounded by its seeding.

Blockers

1. The repair cannot run on every launch — its clause also matches cards the FIXED engine
honestly produces. simpleGraduate halves and clamps to MIN_INTERVAL, so a card that
fails and re-graduates from a short interval lands at exactly 1/3 with stage 1. Three honest
lapses leave it there with reps = 15, lapses = 3 — every condition of the clause, no bug
involved. I reproduced it by driving the real nextSimpleReview:

after 3 passes:        stage=1 interval=0.6333 reps=3  lapses=0
honest lapse cycle 0:  stage=1 interval=0.3333 reps=7  lapses=1
honest lapse cycle 1:  stage=1 interval=0.3333 reps=11 lapses=2
honest lapse cycle 2:  stage=1 interval=0.3333 reps=15 lapses=3
matches the repair clause: true

Once, that is the bounded cost already measured and recorded (13 of 111 honest cards at 90%
accuracy). On every launch it is a standing policy that pushes a learner's hardest words 2–30
days out, over and over — and on web it could fire mid-session, since the provider re-runs
whenever the lock is reacquired. Fixed: once per device, keyed to an app_flags row
rather than PRAGMA user_version. That also answers round 2's reason for making it
per-launch: the price of running once is that an old build can push a ratcheted interval back
and nothing lifts it again, and that is the better trade — one stale card against repeatedly
burying hard words.

2. Restoring confusion_pairs lost the whole table. It carries a unique index besides its
primary key, so a pair that exists locally under a different id raises an error ON CONFLICT(id) cannot absorb, and the table-level catch dropped every row after it. Round 2
traded a cascade for this. Fixed: per-row failure collection instead of aborting, a
replace for a row colliding on another index, and the table reported failed only when every
row failed. A row carrying only its primary key also produced DO UPDATE SET with nothing
after it — a syntax error that cost the table — now DO NOTHING.

Major

3. My learning-cap comparison was confounded with its own sample. seed += 1 ran per row,
so each cap was drawn from a different RNG stream, and the conclusion I drew from it — that
the ×3 multiplier costs a little at low effort — reverses at every other seed. Fixed:
every row of a comparison shares one seed, and yarn simulate:srs capSeeds reports four:

seed	answers/day	kept, cap 30	kept, cap 10	uncapped
7	200	3674	3223	2642
11	200	3673	3226	2614
42	200	3665	3215	2657
99	200	3669	3221	2639
7	400	7006	3631	7489

The ×3 is ahead of a flat cap at both efforts. Uncapped leads only at 400 answers a day, by
6%, for which it shows the entire deck every day for six months.

4. newAnsweredRef double-counted on a re-rate and refunded nothing on an undo. The deque
keeps the pre-answer row, so a re-applied answer saw simpleStage null again; five cards back
plus a re-rate left a session with no new cards while the database still called those cards
unseen. Fixed: a set of ids, and undoSingleCard removes the card from it and from the
answered set. wasNewSimpleSrs — written in five places, read in none — is deleted.

Minor, fixed

The graduated slice is back to simple_stage = 1. Round 2's != 0 would have served a
stage that DueCardsSection, the lists index, stores/lists.ts and lib/practice-stats.ts
all count in no bucket. The engine writes 0 and 1 and nothing else, and
stores/simple-srs.test.ts now pins that where it is produced rather than guessing at the
query.
Three ungated mutations now fail: reps >= 12 → >= 8 (the measured discriminator was held
only by a reps-4 fixture, so everything from 5 to 12 passed), a stage above 1 reaching the
repair, and the empty SET clause.
PRIMARY_KEYS is checked against PRAGMA table_info for every restored table. It carried
two tables that are not restored at all.
The "is stable when every card shares a timestamp" assertion compared two calls to the same
deterministic function over an unchanged database — tautological. Replaced with the cards the
slice actually takes.
fileURLToPath in the arity gate (CodeRabbit): a checkout path containing a space arrived
percent-encoded and git -C got a directory that does not exist. Verified from a directory
with a space in its name.
The PR body is regenerated from the script; it had still been carrying round-1 figures.
191 of 338 call sites, not 337 — quoted wrong a third time, in the same sentence that said
it had been quoted wrong twice. The test prints it on every run.
docs/ARCHITECTURE.md now describes the repair and the residual allowance.

Verified, not changed

The round-trip through backup and restore is lossless across all 13 tables, including the two
columns whose lists had drifted.
The repair genuinely does not bump updated_at, and is idempotent on a repaired deck.
The default-id migration only updates srs_cards.list_id, not a primary key, so no rowid
renumbering interferes with rowid % 29.
The simulation drives nextSimpleReview and reimplements no rule; its bug injection is
faithful to master; --seed=N affects the stochastic scenarios and not the two exhaustive
sweeps, which the doc now says.

Three rounds, nine reviews. The findings have moved from "this is broken" to "this label is
imprecise", so I am treating this as passing.

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Two findings, both real. **The repair never reached a reinstall or a second device.** The flag was written whether or not there was a deck to repair, so a fresh install spent its one run on an empty table — and the ratcheted deck arriving on the next sync pull stayed flattened forever, with no path back, because the repair deliberately never pushes so the remote copy is flattened too. A reinstall is how a user meets this, not an edge case. The flag is now written only once the device has actually seen a simple-SRS card. **The claim that the screen's wiring was gated was false.** Moving the queries into `db/simple-queue.ts` gated the SQL, not the screen calling it: review demonstrated that `newCap = UNLIMITED`, deleting `simple_run = ?` from the persistence UPDATE, `newAllowance` → `newCap`, and deleting the allowance's `add` each still passed all 2,570 tests. Nothing imports a React screen here, so `app/study-wiring.test.ts` reads its source for exactly those five edits and fails on every one of them. It is a guard rather than a behavioural test, and it says so — but it catches the accidental revert, which is the one that happens. The overclaim in `db/simple-queue.ts`'s header is corrected. Also: - A backup taken before `user_kanji_notes.updated_at` existed lost every mnemonic on restore: the column is NOT NULL with no default, so each row failed the constraint. A restore now stands in the epoch for a required timestamp the backup never carried — metadata, not the user's data, and stamped at 1970 so a restored note cannot outrank a live one in an `updated_at > ?` comparison it never earned. Pre-existing on master; this branch is what makes it this file's problem. - The accepted-trades list named restore and list import but omitted sync pull, the common path, and did not record that a restore no longer resurrects a soft-deleted row — `INSERT OR REPLACE` cleared `deleted_at` by deleting the row; an upsert does not. - Two comments still said the repair runs on every launch, which the previous commit had already established was wrong. Gates: typecheck clean, lint 0 errors, 2,578 tests passing, none skipped. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

TraderSamwise · 2026-10-13T10:34:53Z

Round 4 — final pass, and the call

One review against 03a6b20, asked for anything that must not ship and to answer whether
anything blocks the merge. Addressed in aa12b99.

Its verdict on the category that matters: no data-loss or launch-failure blocker. It ran
~30 mutations across the migrations, simple-repair.ts, data-backup.ts, simple-queue.ts
and stores/simple-srs.ts, and every behaviourally meaningful one was killed. Every figure in
docs/simple-srs-decisions.md reproduced exactly from yarn simulate:srs.

Two findings worth the round:

1. The repair never reached a reinstall or a second device. The flag was written whether
or not there was a deck to repair, so a fresh install spent its one run on an empty table —
and because the repair deliberately never pushes, the deck arriving on the next sync pull
stayed flattened on every device, permanently. Fixed: the flag is written only once the
device has seen a simple-SRS card. The accepted-trades list named restore and list import but
omitted sync pull, which is the common path; it says so now.

2. My claim that the screen's wiring was gated was false. Moving the queries into
db/simple-queue.ts gated the SQL and not the screen calling it, and the review demonstrated
that each of these still passed all 2,570 tests:

newCap = UNLIMITED — the 8,000-card queue restored
deleting simple_run = ? and its bind — the graduation fix reverted
newAllowance → newCap — a fresh allowance per Continue tap
deleting newAnsweredRef.current.add / .delete — the allowance never spends or refunds

Fixed: app/study-wiring.test.ts reads the screen's source for exactly those edits, and
all five now fail. It is a guard, not a behavioural test, and the file says so — nothing here
can render a React screen, so this is the honest limit. It catches the accidental revert,
which is the one that happens. The overclaiming comment in db/simple-queue.ts is corrected.

Also fixed, pre-existing on master: a backup taken before user_kanji_notes.updated_at
existed lost every mnemonic on restore, because the column is NOT NULL with no default. A
restore now stands in the epoch for a required timestamp the backup never carried — stamped
1970 so a restored note cannot outrank a live one in an updated_at > ? comparison it never
earned.

Calling it

Four rounds, ten reviews. The arc: round 1 found two sync blockers and that the screen was
untested; round 2 found two blockers in round 1's fix; round 3 found two in round 2's,
including that the repair-on-launch design I had defended was wrong; round 4 found one real
gap and one false claim of mine. Every round has found less, and this one found nothing in
the must-not-ship category.

Residual risks, written down rather than fixed:

app/study-wiring.test.ts is a source check. A determined edit can satisfy it while
breaking the screen.
A deck that arrives after a repaired launch is never repaired, and a device on an old build
can push a ratcheted interval back. Both accepted, with the reasoning in
docs/simple-srs-decisions.md.
The repair lifts some cards that are honestly at the floor — 13 of 111 at 90% accuracy, 167
of 469 at 75%. Measured, bounded, one-time, and the cost is one failed review each.
db/sql-arity.test.ts sees 191 of 338 query call sites and cannot see any query whose args
carry a spread, which is every scoped SRS query. It prints that share on every run.

Merging.

`app/` is expo-router's route directory, so a test file there is bundled as a route — and its `vitest` import drags Vite in, which fails the web build on a dynamic `import(filepath)` Metro cannot resolve: SyntaxError: node_modules/vite/dist/node/module-runner.js: Invalid call at line 916: import(filepath) Error: Command "yarn build:reader && npx expo export --platform web" exited with 1 The repo had no test file under `app/` before this one, which is why nothing caught it. Moved to `lib/`, with the reason written down so it does not come back. `yarn build:reader && expo export --platform web` now exits 0 locally; CI's build job passed throughout, since it does not run the web export. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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db/simple-repair.ts (1)
65-81: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial

Run the repair UPDATE and the flag write as one atomic unit, and make the flag check consistent with the update.

The code runs the UPDATE first and then counts simple_stage IS NOT NULL cards in a separate statement. This causes no incorrect result on the single-threaded path. The ordering does leave a gap on a partial sync. If the first pull delivers only a few cards, such as healthy ones, the flag is written. The ratcheted cards that arrive in a later pull are then never repaired. The past comment about deferring the flag is only partly addressed. The flag now waits for any simple-SRS card, not for the pull to complete.

The author lists this as a known residual risk. Consider tying the flag to a completed initial sync, if sync-provider exposes that signal. Otherwise keep the documented limitation.
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Review comment at @db/simple-repair.ts around lines 65 - 81:
Update the repair flow around REPAIR_RATCHETED_INTERVALS so the UPDATE,
eligibility check, and REPAIR_FLAG write run in one transaction, using the same
eligibility condition for the update and flag. Do not treat the presence of any
simple-stage card as proof that the initial pull is complete; defer the flag
until initial sync completion if that signal is available, otherwise retain the
documented limitation.

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Review comments at @db/simple-repair.ts:
- Around line 65-81: Update the repair flow around REPAIR_RATCHETED_INTERVALS so
the UPDATE, eligibility check, and REPAIR_FLAG write run in one transaction,
using the same eligibility condition for the update and flag. Do not treat the
presence of any simple-stage card as proof that the initial pull is complete;
defer the flag until initial sync completion if that signal is available,
otherwise retain the documented limitation.

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