Two independent data-integrity bugs:
- services/research/service.py: ResearchService.research() (the public deep-research
API, re-exported from services/__init__) treated the handler return value as a
dict (result.get("sources"/"summary"/...)), but call_research_service() returns a
formatted markdown STRING -> AttributeError: str has no attribute get on EVERY
successful call, making the API unusable for any non-error result. Now uses the
string report as the summary and parses sources from the "### Sources" markdown
section (section-bounded, URL-deduped), with a defensive dict branch for back-compat.
- services/memory/memory_extractor.py: extract_and_store guarded the vector-store
find_similar/add calls only with the .healthy flag set ONCE at init. If the
embedding/ChromaDB backend degraded LATER (OOM, evicted model, remote endpoint
down), those calls raised, the exception escaped the dedup loop, skipped
memory_manager.save(), and was swallowed by the outer try/except -> EVERY
validated fact from the session was silently lost (the function docstring
promises "never raised"). Now falls back to the existing text/fuzzy dedup so
facts are still saved when the vector index is unavailable at runtime.
Tests: test_research_service.py, test_memory_extractor_vector_degraded.py.
