Fair. "Does consolidation actually improve recall quality on a running system?" is exactly the benchmark I haven't published, and it's the one that would settle the question.

What I do have right now:

1178 core unit tests including CRDT convergence property tests via proptest (for any sequence of ops, final state is order-independent) Chaos test harness: Docker'd 3-node cluster with leader-kill / network-partition / kill-9 scenarios (tests/chaos/ in the repo) cargo-fuzz targets against the wire protocol and oplog deserializer Live usage: running on my 3-node homelab cluster with two real tenants (small — a TV-writing agent and another experiment) for the past few weeks. Caught a real production self-deadlock during this period (v0.5.8), which is what triggered the 42-task hardening sprint. What I don't have and should: a recall-quality-over-time benchmark. Something like: seed 5,000 memories with known redundancy and contradictions, measure recall precision@10 before and after think(), and publish the curve. That's the evidence you're asking for, and you're right it's missing. I'll run that and post the numbers in a follow-up.

The ASCII diagram fair point too — website has proper rendering (yantrikdb.com) but the README should have an SVG.

Appreciate the pushback — this is more useful than encouragement.