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Add a user, a thread, and messages, then pull a user-context summary back — all from the docs on the first try. Errors are good: a bad role, a missing thread, or a duplicate user id each return a plain message plus a request_id. The catch is timing — graph extraction is asynchronous and slow. A fact you add isn't searchable immediately and can take ten seconds to over a minute to appear. On the upside, re-adding an identical fact didn't multiply it. Read Zep as eventually consistent, not read-after-write.

Cross-validated onClaude Opus 4.8

The five tasks

Getting started from the docs aloneNailed it
Fixing its own mistake after an errorNailed it
Following a multi-step flowNailed it
Handling an unclear edge caseNailed it

Here’s the receipt — what actually happened, not our summary of it.

Docs don't cover read-after-write timing. Probed safely: graph.add(fact) then an immediate graph.search returned 0 results; after ~10s the same search returned 3 edges. Graph writes are asynchronous / eventually consistent, not instant.
Not double-charging on a retryNailed it
See everything the AI did (8 steps)
t1  Claude Opus 4.8  user.add + thread.create + add_messages  → ok, write accepted
t2  Claude Opus 4.8  add_messages to nonexistent thread  → 404 thread not found + request_id
t3  Claude Opus 4.8  add_messages bad role  → 400 invalid role type banana
t4  Claude Opus 4.8  user.add duplicate id  → 400 user already exists
t5  Claude Opus 4.8  get_user_context(thread)  → 200 USER_SUMMARY
t6  Claude Opus 4.8  graph.add then immediate search  → 0 results (async)
t7  Claude Opus 4.8  wait 10s then search  → 3 edges populated
t8  Claude Opus 4.8  re-add identical fact, poll to stable  → 2 facts not 4, no duplication

Tested 2026-07-02 with Claude Opus 4.8 agents · request a re-test