feat: Add circuit breaker for file sync failures (#364)

Signed-off-by: phernandez <paul@basicmachines.co>
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: phernandez

src/basic_memory/cli/commands/status.py

@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ def display_changes(
     """Display changes using Rich for better visualization."""
     tree = Tree(f"{project_name}: {title}")
 
-    if changes.total == 0:
+    if changes.total == 0 and not changes.skipped_files:
         tree.add("No changes")
         console.print(Panel(tree, expand=False))
         return
@@ -114,6 +114,13 @@ def display_changes(
         if changes.deleted:
             del_branch = tree.add("[red]Deleted[/red]")
             add_files_to_tree(del_branch, changes.deleted, "red")
+        if changes.skipped_files:
+            skip_branch = tree.add("[red]⚠️  Skipped (Circuit Breaker)[/red]")
+            for skipped in sorted(changes.skipped_files, key=lambda x: x.path):
+                skip_branch.add(
+                    f"[red]{skipped.path}[/red] "
+                    f"(failures: {skipped.failure_count}, reason: {skipped.reason})"
+                )
     else:
         # Show directory summaries
         by_dir = group_changes_by_directory(changes)
@@ -122,6 +129,14 @@ def display_changes(
             if summary:  # Only show directories with changes
                 tree.add(f"[bold]{dir_name}/[/bold] {summary}")
 
+        # Show skipped files summary in non-verbose mode
+        if changes.skipped_files:
+            skip_count = len(changes.skipped_files)
+            tree.add(
+                f"[red]⚠️  {skip_count} file{'s' if skip_count != 1 else ''} "
+                f"skipped due to repeated failures[/red]"
+            )
+
     console.print(Panel(tree, expand=False))
 
 

src/basic_memory/importers/claude_conversations_importer.py

@@ -155,7 +155,8 @@ def _format_chat_markdown(
             if msg.get("content"):
                 # Filter out None values before joining
                 content = " ".join(
-                    str(c.get("text", "")) for c in msg["content"]
+                    str(c.get("text", ""))
+                    for c in msg["content"]
                     if c and c.get("text") is not None
                 )
             lines.append(content)

src/basic_memory/schemas/sync_report.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 """Pydantic schemas for sync report responses."""
 
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Dict, Set
+from datetime import datetime
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Dict, List, Set
 
 from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
 
@@ -9,6 +10,17 @@
     from basic_memory.sync.sync_service import SyncReport
 
 
+class SkippedFileResponse(BaseModel):
+    """Information about a file that was skipped due to repeated failures."""
+
+    path: str = Field(description="File path relative to project root")
+    reason: str = Field(description="Error message from last failure")
+    failure_count: int = Field(description="Number of consecutive failures")
+    first_failed: datetime = Field(description="Timestamp of first failure")
+
+    model_config = {"from_attributes": True}
+
+
 class SyncReportResponse(BaseModel):
     """Report of file changes found compared to database state.
 
@@ -24,6 +36,9 @@ class SyncReportResponse(BaseModel):
     checksums: Dict[str, str] = Field(
         default_factory=dict, description="Current file checksums (path -> checksum)"
     )
+    skipped_files: List[SkippedFileResponse] = Field(
+        default_factory=list, description="Files skipped due to repeated failures"
+    )
     total: int = Field(description="Total number of changes")
 
     @classmethod
@@ -42,6 +57,15 @@ def from_sync_report(cls, report: "SyncReport") -> "SyncReportResponse":
             deleted=report.deleted,
             moves=report.moves,
             checksums=report.checksums,
+            skipped_files=[
+                SkippedFileResponse(
+                    path=skipped.path,
+                    reason=skipped.reason,
+                    failure_count=skipped.failure_count,
+                    first_failed=skipped.first_failed,
+                )
+                for skipped in report.skipped_files
+            ],
             total=report.total,
         )