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Fixes #1879.

Malformed memory-context locators raised ValueError from normalization and escaped the v2 route as HTTP 500. Reject them at the API boundary with a bounded 400 before traversal, while preserving the normalizer's reason and keeping genuine context-service failures visible. Add API and MCP boundary regressions.

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• full SQLite unit suite: 9022 passed, 82 skipped
• test-int-sqlite: 678 passed, 91 skipped
• typecheck, ruff check/format: passed

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Malformed memory locators now return a clear client error rather than appearing as an internal server error.
  • Ambiguous memory identifiers return a conflict response, while service failures remain server errors.
• Improvements
  • Context requests accept valid relative paths and equivalent memory:// locators, providing consistent results across both locator formats.

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• src/basic_memory/api/v2/routers/memory_router.py
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Walkthrough

The v2 memory-context route returns HTTP 400 for malformed locators, preserves HTTP 409 for ambiguous identifiers, and records terminal request-span outcomes. API and MCP tests cover locator validation and error reporting.

Changes: Memory Context Boundary

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Locator validation, outcomes, and regression coverage src/basic_memory/api/v2/routers/memory_router.py, tests/api/v2/test_memory_router.py, tests/mcp/test_tool_bm_context.py	The route defers locator errors until after the request span. It maps malformed locators to HTTP 400 before context traversal and preserves HTTP 409 for ambiguous identifiers. The span records input_rejected, failed, or success; tests cover these outcomes, valid locator forms, and MCP error reporting.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

• basicmachines-co/basic-memory#1879 — The route changes address the issue’s malformed-locator HTTP 500 by returning HTTP 400 before context traversal.

Suggested reviewers: phernandez, jope-bm

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to b875a

Malformed locators receive actionable errors, while context-service failures remain server errors. No merge-blocking issue was established.

Security architecture risk: Minimal · up to b875a

Malformed locators are rejected before context traversal. Valid requests retain the same project-scoped dependencies and traversal limits, while genuine service failures remain failures. No material security risk was found to be introduced or worsened.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The changed exposure is limited to error responses and route-span handling for the existing memory-context endpoint and its callers. The PR does not expand locator acceptance, project authority, traversal parameters, or repository access.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Attacker-controlled locator text is validated before context-service traversal. The new exception conversion is narrowly scoped to normalization, so a ValueError or other genuine failure arising later is not silently reclassified as malformed input.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Ordinary service and response-shaping exceptions retain failure visibility: the route records failed and re-raises. Regression coverage checks that a service exception remains HTTP 500 rather than becoming a validation response.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: malformed memory-context locators now return HTTP 400 responses.
Linked Issues check		The changes satisfy the coding requirements in #1879. get_memory_context converts normalize_memory_url ValueError to bounded HTTP 400 responses and preserves the rejection reason before traversa…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes are limited to the memory-context API boundary and its API and MCP regression tests. The implementation and tests directly support #1879. No unrelated behavior or files are identified.

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Explanation

The changes satisfy the coding requirements in #1879. get_memory_context converts normalize_memory_url ValueError to bounded HTTP 400 responses and preserves the rejection reason before traversal. API tests cover embedded schemes, empty and whitespace locators, invalid characters, malformed separators, valid relative locators, and memory:// locators. Tests also verify no traversal for rejected input, actionable MCP feedback, preserved 409 ambiguity responses, visible 500 service failures, and bounded success, input_rejected, and failed outcomes without recording locator content.

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Review comments at @src/basic_memory/api/v2/routers/memory_router.py:
- Around line 251-258: Update the request flow containing the `logfire.span` and
`except HTTPException` block to defer HTTP errors with status codes below 500
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thanks again @remote-controlled-man