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fix(mcp): stop scaling the detect_changes query with the diff's hunk count (#2915) (#2930)
* fix(mcp): map diff hunks to symbols without per-hunk OR conditions (#2915)

`detect_changes` folded one `(n.startLine <= $hunkEndI AND n.endLine >=
$hunkStartI)` pair per diff hunk into a single WHERE clause, one query per
changed file. A machine-generated file (cache JSON, lockfile, golden fixture)
diffs at thousands of hunks with `-U0`, and the expression tree that produces
overflows LadybugDB's recursive evaluator copy on a TaskScheduler worker
thread: a bare SIGBUS with no error output where secondary threads get 512 KB
of stack (macOS), a swallowed 30s query timeout where they get more (Linux),
which the CLI then printed as "No changes detected." with exit 0.

Coalesce each file's hunks into sorted, disjoint ranges and run the overlap
test in JS instead. Only ranges that overlap or abut are merged, so the union
covers exactly the lines the raw hunks covered. Query text and parameters are
now identical whether a file changed in 1 place or 100,000, and files are
queried in batches of 100 rather than one full node scan each.

Reproduced on Linux by running the engine with macOS-sized (512 KB) thread
stacks: 2,500 hunks passed, 3,333 and 4,000 segfaulted — matching the reporter's
macOS threshold table. After the change the same repo maps a 100,001-hunk diff
in 2.1s with no crash.

Also fixes a line-base mismatch the rewrite exposed: graph rows are 0-based
(#2377) while git hunk lines are 1-based, so the raw comparison shifted every
symbol one line up. An edit to a symbol's LAST line reported nothing changed —
a one-line function whose body was edited was invisible to the pre-commit gate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019d85r7TrMYjWbTUT3pXccS

* fix(cli): say when a detect_changes result is partial (#2915)

When a graph query fails, `detect_changes` swallows the error, sets
`partial: true` and leaves the counts at zero (#2283). The CLI formatter never
read that flag, so a degraded run printed "No changes detected." and exited 0 —
the pre-commit safety gate reporting a clean bill of health for a check that
did not complete. Print the partial note in both the empty and non-empty
branches.

Also restore the `Symbol` placeholder for rows whose label came back as an
empty string: the changed-symbol mapping now keeps `''` instead of dropping it
to undefined, so the formatter needs `||`, not `??`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019d85r7TrMYjWbTUT3pXccS

* refactor(mcp): bound the hunk→symbol query and simplify the overlap helpers (#2915)

Cleanup pass over the #2915 fix. No change to which symbols detect_changes
reports, except that a node matched by two changed paths is now reported once.

* Push a per-file [lo, hi] span into the query. Coalesced ranges are sorted and
  disjoint, so a file's whole touched span is free, and the engine can drop the
  symbols outside it instead of shipping every row in the file across the native
  boundary. Measured on a 400-file batch against a 25k-node index: 546ms/13,870
  rows before, 84ms/1,555 rows after, identical kept set. Depth stays constant
  (two comparisons per file, not per hunk), so #2915 cannot come back — the JS
  test still rejects symbols landing in the gaps between hunks. The struct-list
  parameter was verified against @ladybugdb/core 0.18.3 and 0.19.1.
* Convert hunks into the graph's 0-based space once, at the point they are
  grouped, with the existing `toZeroBasedLine`. Every comparison downstream is
  then base-neutral, and `toDisplayLine` goes back to being what its doc says it
  is: an MCP response-boundary converter, not a filter input.
* Deduplicate matched nodes by id. `ENDS WITH` is a plain string suffix, so a
  diff touching both `README.md` and `pkg/README.md` counted the same node
  twice (169 duplicates in 13,870 rows on a real 400-file diff). Pre-existing,
  free to fix now that the rows are shaped in one place.
* Drop the positional `?? sym[N]` row fallbacks in this block.
  `executeParameterized` returns `getAll()` rows, which are alias-keyed objects,
  so the fallbacks were dead — and they coupled the mapping to RETURN column
  order, which is what made adding a column a renumbering exercise.
* Build the path→hunks map in one pass, so "every value is coalesced" holds at
  every point rather than being repaired by a second loop. Simplify
  `coalesceHunks` (the length<2 branch and the sort tiebreaker changed nothing)
  and state `hunksOverlapRange` as a standard half-open lower bound.
* Document `partial` in the detect_changes tool description. The CLI now prints
  it, but the MCP client — the main consumer of the pre-commit gate — was
  getting the flag as an undocumented raw key.
* Tests: pin the query text as identical for a 1-hunk and a 3,000-hunk diff
  (replacing a magic length bound), pin the 0-based bounds parameter, pin the
  dedup, and fold two near-identical row mocks into one helper. Temp dirs now
  come from the shared pool helper, whose cleanup is per-directory and
  Windows-lock aware.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019d85r7TrMYjWbTUT3pXccS

* feat(mcp): bound and batch the hunk→symbol query, and anchor its path match (#2915)

Follow-up review pass on the #2915 fix, implementing every remaining finding.

* Push a per-file `[lo, hi]` span into the query. Coalesced hunks are sorted and
  disjoint, so a file's touched span is free, and the engine drops the symbols
  outside it instead of shipping every row in the file across the native
  boundary. Measured on a 25k-node index, 400-file batch: 546ms/13,870 rows
  before, 84ms/1,555 after, identical kept set. Depth stays constant (two
  comparisons per file, not per hunk), so #2915 cannot return. The struct-list
  parameter was probed against @ladybugdb/core 0.18.3 and 0.19.1 first; the
  index-subscript form `$paths[i]` does not parse.
* Anchor the path match: `n.filePath = b.path OR n.filePath ENDS WITH b.suffix`
  where suffix is the path with a leading separator. A bare `ENDS WITH` is a
  plain string suffix, so a diff touching `lib/a.py` also reported a symbol from
  an indexed `src/mylib/a.py` — a file the diff never touched. This is the form
  `explain` already uses. Pinned by an integration test against a real engine
  (it fails 3/3 with the un-anchored predicate).
* Run batches a few at a time. `executeParameterized` checks a connection out of
  the 8-connection per-repo pool for the duration of a query, so parallel calls
  never share one — the same reason ~15 other queries in this file already run
  under `Promise.all`. `allSettled`, so one failed batch degrades the result to
  `partial` instead of discarding the batches that succeeded beside it.
* Deduplicate matched nodes by id, and count `changed_files` as distinct paths:
  a path can appear twice in one diff (a rename reported alongside an edit).
* Cap the listed symbols at 1,000 with `symbols_truncated: {listed, total}`.
  A repo-wide diff otherwise puts an unbounded array in one MCP payload — the
  CLI has `--limit`, an MCP client has nothing. Counts are never capped, so the
  risk level and the CLI's "... and N more" still see the true total.
* Extract `chunk` / `mapBatches` / `LBUG_QUERY_BATCH_SIZE` into
  `core/lbug/query-batch.ts`. Every query built from a caller-sized array has
  this ceiling; the shape now has one name and the measured batch size is
  recorded where it is defined rather than in three constants under three names.
* Move hunk grouping and the 0-based conversion into `coalesceHunksByPath`, at
  the parse boundary. `parseDiffHunks` stays faithful to git (1-based, like the
  `@@` headers it reads), consumers compare graph-native values, and the
  conversion is unit-testable instead of living in the backend.
* Document `partial` and `symbols_truncated` in the detect_changes tool
  description — the MCP client is the main consumer of the pre-commit gate and
  was getting both as undocumented raw keys.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019d85r7TrMYjWbTUT3pXccS

* refactor(core): batch every remaining repo-sized query list (#2915)

`detect_changes` was not the only place building query text from a
caller-sized array. `core/wiki/graph-queries.ts` interpolated the whole file
list of a module into four `IN [...]` literals, growing the query with the
repo — flat breadth rather than the nested depth that crashed #2915, but the
same unbounded shape, and the one the repo's own `DELETE_FILES_CHUNK_SIZE`
precedent already chunks elsewhere.

All four now run one query per batch and merge in JS. The membership arms need
care, and each is documented where it happens:

* `getIntraModuleCallEdges` batches the caller arm only. A per-batch callee arm
  would drop a call from batch 0 to batch 2, both inside the module, so that
  predicate moves to JS against the whole set. Results are now sorted: the
  single-query form had no ORDER BY, and batch order would hand the entire
  30-edge window `formatCallEdges` keeps to the first 100 files (#2787).
* `getInterModuleCallEdges` keeps the SAME batch list in its `NOT` arm. That is
  sound — a file outside the module is outside every batch — and it preserves
  the null handling: `NOT null IN [...]` is null, so the original dropped edges
  to a node with no filePath, where a JS-only `!has(undefined)` would admit
  them. ORDER BY and LIMIT move to JS because a per-batch limit would cut rows
  before the cross-batch membership filter ran.
* `getProcessesForFiles` keeps `LIMIT` inside the batch: `stepCount DESC, id` is
  a total order, so a process in the global top-N is in its own batch's top-N.

Also adopt the shared `chunk()` at the hand-rolled slice loops in
`lbug-adapter.ts`, `embeddings/http-client.ts` and `run-analyze.ts`. The loops
whose index fed a progress callback or an error message use
`chunk(...).entries()`, which removes the `i / SIZE` and `Math.floor(i / SIZE)`
arithmetic rather than reproducing it. No batch size changed.

One trap that survived tsc and is worth naming: after renaming a loop variable
away from `chunk`, a leftover `chunk.length` silently resolved to the imported
FUNCTION's arity, reporting `chunkSize: 1` for a 200-path batch. Only
`lbug-query-importers-batch`'s exact-value assertion caught it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019d85r7TrMYjWbTUT3pXccS

* refactor: name the line-base conversions and share the symbol line (#2915)

The 0-based-graph vs 1-based-elsewhere rule was open-coded in five places with
the reasoning living only in comments — the same rule that, applied by hand and
skipped once, hid every last-line edit from `detect_changes`.

* Add `toOneBasedLine` beside `toZeroBasedLine` in `ingestion/utils/line-base.ts`
  so the module owns both directions, and adopt it at the four CFG/PDG join
  sites in `pdg-impact.ts` and the two in `local-backend.ts`. This is NOT
  `line-display.ts`'s `toDisplayLine`, which is documented as a response
  boundary converter with an `undefined` passthrough; the joins need
  arithmetic, and the guards that produce `Number.NaN` for an absent line are
  kept verbatim.
* `http-route-extractor.ts` probed graph spans with a bare `line - 1` and a
  20-line comment. It calls `toZeroBasedLine` now; the `?? pick(line)` fallback
  arm is untouched, so which node is picked cannot change (the clamp differs
  only for a negative line, which no emitter can produce).
* Extract `formatSymbolLine`: `detect-changes-format.ts` and `eval-server.ts`
  rendered the same `type name → filePath` line. One behavior note — the two
  were not byte-identical, and eval-server had no placeholder on `name`, so a
  definition with an empty name rendered the literal `undefined` and now
  renders `?`. Both `definitions[]` shapes set name from a graph row, so this
  is unreachable in practice, and printing `undefined` into LLM-facing output
  is the bug, not the intent.

`||` (not `??`) in the placeholders is deliberate and documented: a node label
can come back as an empty string and still needs the placeholder.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019d85r7TrMYjWbTUT3pXccS

* perf(wiki): bind the module file list instead of splicing it into the query (#2915)

The wiki's four `IN [...]` sites interpolated every file of a module into the
query text, so the text grew with the repo — the shape that overflowed
LadybugDB's recursive evaluator copy in `detect_changes`. The previous commit
chunked them, which worked but cost real complexity: the callee arm had to leave
Cypher and be re-implemented in JS, DISTINCT had to be re-established across
batches, and ORDER BY/LIMIT had to move to JS so a per-batch window could not cut
rows the cross-batch filter still needed.

Binding the list as a parameter removes the reason for all of it. The text is
constant at any list length, and measured against a real index a bound list is
~3x faster than the equivalent literal (5,000 items: 139ms vs 459ms; 20,000:
598ms vs 1,686ms). Every predicate goes back into Cypher, including the `NOT ...
IN` arms whose null handling is load-bearing — `NOT null IN [...]` is null, so a
callee with no filePath is dropped by the engine, where a JS membership test
would have admitted it.

Verified on this repo's own index: a 2,000-path bound list returns 14,856 rows in
877ms.

Also collapses the per-process step query into one grouped `p.id IN $ids` fetch —
105ms to 13ms for 20 processes — and drops `fileListLiteral`, `callEdgeKey`,
`compareProcessHeaders` and the batching loops with it. `compareStrings` was a
byte-identical re-roll of `compareCodeUnits` (src/lib/utils.ts), including its
#2787 rationale; it now calls the shared one.

Intra-module edges are sorted where the original had no ORDER BY: `formatCallEdges`
keeps only the first 30, and an unordered cut keeps a different subset per machine.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019d85r7TrMYjWbTUT3pXccS

* refactor(core): one home for batching, and a backstop for the shape that crashed (#2915)

`chunk` moves to `src/lib/utils.ts`, the repo's generic-utility home: it is an
array helper, and leaving it in `core/lbug/query-batch.ts` made an HTTP
embedding client import batching from the graph-DB namespace. `query-batch.ts`
keeps what is actually about queries — the measured `LBUG_QUERY_BATCH_SIZE`, the
concurrency helper, and the ceiling — and now documents the preference the wiki
change proved: bind the list as a parameter first, chunk only when you cannot.

`mapBatches` becomes `mapConcurrent`: nothing about it is batch-specific, and it
now has non-query callers. Its body is a per-item try/catch plus `Promise.all`,
so ordering comes from the primitive rather than from unwrapping a settled
union. The wave barrier stays — measured against a rolling window it is 538ms vs
532ms on a 1,000-file diff, whose per-batch times spread only 1.35x.

Adopted at the loops that were still hand-rolled: `file-hash.ts`,
`cluster-enricher.ts` (its progress callback now accumulates `batch.length`
instead of clamping an index), `filesystem-walker.ts` and `language-config.ts`
(wave scheduling with `allSettled`, which is exactly `mapConcurrent`).
Deliberately not adopted, each for a stated reason: the analyzer-identity probe
runs as a standalone `node -e` script with no module resolution; the embedding
sub-batch loop slices two parallel arrays and breaks early;
`walkRepositoryPaths` reports progress from inside each wave, which
`mapConcurrent` cannot express.

`warnIfQueryTextUnbounded` is the backstop: #2915 died in native code with no
message, and a query built by concatenating a caller-sized list is the shape
that gets there. Wired at both execution chokepoints (`pool-adapter`'s
`executeParameterized`, `lbug-adapter`'s `executePrepared`/`streamQuery`; their
`executeQuery` siblings delegate and are covered once). It never throws — a long
query the engine can actually run must not start failing on a heuristic — and it
is deliberately absent from the raw write path, where a node's `content` is
inlined and a large source file would warn legitimately.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019d85r7TrMYjWbTUT3pXccS

* refactor(mcp): name the path-match rule, and key detect_changes by node id (#2915)

* `path-predicate.ts` names the three ways a caller's path can match a stored
  `filePath` — `exact`, `pathSuffix`, `fragment` — instead of each call site
  copying whichever idiom its neighbour used. A bare `ENDS WITH` is a plain
  string suffix, which is how a diff touching `lib/a.ts` came to report a symbol
  from `src/mylib/a.ts`; the loose `CONTAINS` sites are loose ON PURPOSE (a user
  hint of `src/mcp` should match a directory fragment), and naming the modes is
  what lets a call site choose rather than inherit.
* `detectChanges` kept four structures over one row set — an array, a dedup Set,
  an id list and an id→name Map — that had to stay in sync by hand. One
  id-keyed Map is all of them; insertion order is preserved, so every output is
  byte-identical.
* `symbols_truncated: {listed, total}` becomes `truncated: true`, the key
  `explain`/`pdg_query`/`trace` already use. The true total was always in
  `summary.changed_count`, so the nested object said nothing the existing
  vocabulary could not.
* `GraphLineRange` is now a distinct type from `DiffHunk`: they carry the same
  two fields in different bases, and mixing them IS #2377. The name means a
  1-based hunk cannot reach `hunksOverlapRange` without a conversion between.
* `coalesceHunksByPath` accumulates raw ranges and coalesces once per path
  rather than re-sorting on every occurrence.
* `chunk` adopted at this file's own five loops — the point of extracting it —
  including two locals named `chunk` that shadowed the import. That shadowing is
  not cosmetic: it is how a leftover `chunk.length` silently became the
  function's arity earlier in this branch.

One bug caught by the real-engine integration test and worth naming: Cypher
comments are `//`, not `--`. A `--` comment inside the query string made
LadybugDB reject the whole query at PREPARE, which `detect_changes` swallows
into `partial` and renders as "No changes detected." Every mocked unit test
passed. Prose stays out of query strings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019d85r7TrMYjWbTUT3pXccS

* refactor(test): share the git-repo bootstrap, and move the shared formatter out (#2915)

`formatSymbolLine` lived in `detect-changes-format.ts` but is rendered by
`eval-server`'s query formatter too, so a `query` formatter imported from a
`detect_changes` module. It moves to `src/cli/format-symbol.ts`; both callers
import it from there. The `||`-not-`??` fallbacks stay documented — a node label
can come back as an empty string and still needs its placeholder.

`test/helpers/temp-git-repo.ts` gives `initGitRepo(dir, identity?)` and
`commitAll(dir, message)` to the ~10 test files that hand-rolled the same
`git init -q` + two `git config` + `add -A` + `commit` sequence. It takes a
directory and never owns one, matching `temp-dir-pool.ts`'s split of lifecycle
from seeding; the identity is a parameter because the existing consumers
genuinely disagree about it, and each keeps exactly what it configured. Four
files stay hand-rolled for stated reasons — pinned author dates for a
deterministic digest, remote handling, `--allow-empty`, and the `-c key=value`
form that never persists to the repo.

Test trims: the `formatSymbolLine` fallback cases collapse into one `it.each`
table (the case pinning that BOTH consumers emit the helper's exact line stays —
no table row can express it); two `line-base` cases that were compositions of
their neighbours go; and `detect-changes-path-anchoring` runs its
`detect_changes` call once in `beforeAll` instead of three times, keeping the
three named failures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019d85r7TrMYjWbTUT3pXccS

* perf(mcp): filter the batched hunk query before the engine materialises (#2915)

`UNWIND $bounds AS b MATCH (n) WHERE …b…` compiles to a CROSS_PRODUCT whose
build side is a RESULT_COLLECTOR over the whole filtered node table: only the
`n`-only predicates get pushed below the accumulate, so neither the anchored
path match nor the [lo, hi] span could reduce the scan. Measured at 1M nodes:
+242 MB for one batch and +922 MB for the four concurrent ones, paid even for a
one-file diff — and at a 268 MB buffer pool the query died with `Buffer manager
exception` where the old per-file query completed, landing in `partial:true` +
`changed_count:0`, the #2915 false clean by another route.

Adding the batch-wide, `b`-free disjunction as a redundant leading conjunct
lets the planner push it below the accumulate: EXPLAIN now shows it as FILTER[2]
directly under SCAN_NODE_TABLE[0]. It is a provable superset of the correlated
predicate, so it cannot drop a row the correlated filter keeps. 10x less memory,
~20% faster, identical result sets.

Also in detect_changes:
- Sort rows on (filePath, startLine, id) before the 1000-symbol cut. The cut was
  slicing engine row order — measured 5 distinct orders across 8 runs on one
  connection, the #2787 class this branch fixes 200 lines away in the wiki.
- Chunk `symIds`, the one caller-sized list left unbatched: 500k ids measured
  4.0 GB RSS. Binding keeps the query TEXT constant, which is all the unbounded
  guard measures, while the bound VALUE stayed repo-sized.
- Prefer exact path equality and widen to the anchored suffix only for paths
  that matched nothing, so a root README.md stops reporting pkg/*/README.md.
- Report `risk_level:'unknown'` rather than 'low' when a query was swallowed.
  A degraded pre-commit gate must not read as an all-clear.
- Pass --no-ext-diff --src-prefix=a/ --dst-prefix=b/. `diff.noprefix` in a user's
  gitconfig makes git emit `+++ f.py`, which parseDiffHunks cannot match, so every
  run printed "No changes detected." and exited 0 before any query ran. A diff
  that parses to zero files now raises `partial` instead of the clean branch.
- `labels(n)`, not `labels(n)[0]`: labels() returns a scalar string here, so the
  subscript was always '' and `type` never carried a label.
- Validate IMPACT_MAX_CHUNKS. The chunk() adoption turned an entry condition into
  an exit condition, so a non-numeric value ran every chunk instead of none.
- Record why four-way concurrency is safe here, and scope the arm64 sequential
  comment to the query it was written for (#496).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0139ycbqnAorkJGQaZQXUNuv

* fix(cli): fail the detect_changes gate instead of exiting 0 when it degrades (#2915)

The secondary half of #2915 was that a swallowed query failure printed
"No changes detected." and exited 0, so a shell pre-commit gate passed on a
broken analysis. This branch added the PARTIAL text. It did not change the exit
status, so `gitnexus detect-changes && git commit` still proceeded.

`detectChangesCommand` passed a STRING to `output()`, and `output()` sets a
failing code only for an OBJECT carrying `error` — under a comment calling
itself "the one place that keeps scripted callers honest". A string never
matches, so this command opted itself out of the only mechanism the file
provides. It was broader than `partial`: the formatter also renders a backend
`{error}` payload as text, so hard failures exited 0 too.

Fixed narrowly in `detectChangesCommand`, following the object-first shape
`checkCommand` already uses, rather than widening `output()`'s shared contract —
every one of its other seven callers already passes an object and is unaffected.
One code for both `error` and `partial`: `&&` only distinguishes zero from
non-zero, and a softer code for `partial` would invite `|| [ $? -eq 2 ]`
exemptions that reopen exactly this hole.

`truncated` deliberately stays exit 0 — only the listing is capped, while the
counts and risk are computed over the full set, so the verdict is sound and
failing on it would fire on every large-but-healthy diff.

Also wires `truncated` through the formatter, which this branch had left as a
producer-only flag while `partial` went end to end, with the note in both
locales and no count of its own so the existing "... and N more" line stays the
sole numeric report.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0139ycbqnAorkJGQaZQXUNuv

* fix(wiki): restore step order and symbol labels, and cut the edge list in Cypher (#2915)

Found by running the queries against a real engine, which nothing did before:
this branch's regrouped `withSteps` returned step traces OUT OF ORDER.
`ORDER BY pid, r.step` combined with `WHERE p.id IN $ids` silently drops the
second sort key — `proc_1_incrementalupdate` came back 2,7,1,3,4,5,6.
`ORDER BY step` alone is correct, and so was the pre-branch per-process query,
so this was introduced by the batching. `formatProcesses` prints
"${s.step}. ${s.name}", so every module and overview page was getting scrambled
execution traces. The mocked suite passed 112/112 before and after.

`labels(x)[0]` is always the empty string: labels() returns a scalar string and
the subscript is 1-based over its characters ([1] is "F"). `prompts.ts` renders
"${s.name} (${s.type})", so all 5,027 exported symbols reached the LLM as
"name ()".

`getIntraModuleCallEdges` shipped every edge to use 30 — measured 18,299 rows
and 851 ms with all 2,079 paths bound, against 30 rows and 94 ms with
ORDER BY + LIMIT in Cypher, which the sibling `getInterModuleCallEdges` twenty
lines below already did. The determinism fix (#2787) was right; the placement
was not. `compareCallEdges` goes with it — it was intransitive when a name was
null or empty, so `Array.sort` was input-permutation dependent, i.e. the
nondeterminism it was added to remove.

Deletes the positional row ABI this branch newly documented. The vendor
declaration is `getAll(): Promise<Record<string, LbugValue>[]>` — string keys
only — and `row[0]` probes back `undefined`; the same PR deleted ~30 identical
fallbacks from local-backend.ts. They were already stale here: `withSteps`
prepends `p.id AS pid`, so `toProcessStep` was reading the pre-branch layout.
Rows are now typed by alias, so renaming an `AS` is a compile error. `??` for
`||` so a step of 0 or an empty label keeps its own value.

Tests: a real-engine integration suite covering all seven exported queries
(PREPARE included — the trap that shipped a `--` comment on this branch), and
the four holes that let the ordering bug through — a vacuous order assertion, a
LIMIT never reached by a 2-edge fixture, a fake that returned rows pre-ordered
and ignored ORDER BY, and a hardcoded `type: 'Function'` that hid labels().

The step-ordering fixture is empirically sized: 2 processes never reproduced the
bug, ~400 step edges was intermittent, 710 (20 processes x 26-45 steps) hit
11 of 11 runs. Seeded descending and interleaved so no grouping looks sorted by
accident.

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* refactor: put the shared helpers where their callers are, and make their contracts true (#2915)

`mapConcurrent` moves to lib/utils.ts beside chunk(). Nothing about it is
query-specific and it already had filesystem callers, while its docstring
justified concurrency safety through the per-repo connection pool — an argument
that does not apply to fs.readFile. This is the precondition the branch's own
commit message stated ("it now has non-query callers") and then did not apply.
LBUG_QUERY_BATCH_SIZE and warnIfQueryTextUnbounded genuinely are query-specific
and stay.

`pathMatch`/`PathMatchMode` deleted: zero callers, and none of the three sites
its docstring cited were migrated, so the tree carried the abstraction and the
copies it was written to replace. `pathSuffixOf` stays and the module now
documents the anchoring rule it actually implements.

Contracts that were not true:
- QUERY_TEXT_CEILING_BYTES was compared against `cypher.length` — UTF-16 code
  units, not bytes — so non-ASCII query text was undercounted and the reported
  KB was wrong. Buffer.byteLength now, behind a `length * 3 <= ceiling` early
  return so only text over ~21 KB pays for the count.
- chunk(items, NaN) returned [[]], against a docstring promising never to return
  an empty slice, and mapConcurrent's Math.max(1, NaN) propagated it — which
  would have resolved [] for non-empty input with no error, read as "no results"
  by every call site.
- GraphLineRange claimed a 1-based hunk could not reach hunksOverlapRange
  without a conversion, but it was structurally identical to DiffHunk so tsc
  accepted one with no diagnostic, and coalesceHunks<T extends GraphLineRange>
  actively laundered the base while its accumulator was still DiffHunk[]. The
  useless generic is gone and a one-line phantom on each interface makes the
  claim real; a bare {startLine, endLine} literal still satisfies both, so no
  construction site needs a cast.

Pure deletions no longer vanish. A -U0 deletion emits `+N,0`, which
parseDiffHunks dropped, so the file survived with no hunks, no query ran, and
detect_changes reported `changed_files:1, changed_count:0, risk_level:'low'` —
"No changes detected." for a commit that deleted a function. A unified diff
spells an empty range as the line before it, so the anchor is line N alone:
a symbol containing the deleted text also contains N, while extending to N+1
would claim a symbol that merely starts after the gap — the widening
coalesceHunks guarantees it never does.

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* docs: say that a partial or truncated detect_changes is not a clean gate (#2915)

The gate itself now fails loudly, but the instructions every agent reads still
described a zero as a result. Fixed at the source: AGENTS.md's gitnexus block is
generated from a template in cli/ai-context.ts and injected into every user's
repo, so the sentence goes there and AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md are regenerated through
the real code path (which also picks up a pre-existing `analyze --index-only`
drift the committed docs were behind).

That block is under a test-enforced size cap with 30 characters of headroom, so
the 144-character clause was paid for in the same currency: the header
exhortation, which the Always Do list restates as MUSTs with commands, and a
verbatim repeat of the detect-changes command in the regression-compare example.
3549 of 3552. Worth noting for whoever adds the next line — #2899 replaced an
absolute cap with a 0.65 ratio to let "a legitimate clause fit without
ceremony", but set the ratio flush against the block's then-current size, so it
is a ratchet with no ratchet.

The canonical block does not make the skills redundant: three of the four
install channels ship skills without touching AGENTS.md, --skip-agents-md does
the same in-repo, and a user-trimmed gitnexus:keep block legitimately has no
Always Do section — in those repos the skill file is the only carrier. Precedent
agrees: the risk:UNKNOWN rule is deliberately carried in both places. So one
sentence each in gitnexus-work (the commit gate), gitnexus-impact-analysis
(beside the UNKNOWN paragraph) and gitnexus-refactoring, whose post-hoc "verify
only expected files changed" is the worst of the three because a degraded result
makes it vacuously pass. gitnexus-taint-analysis is left alone: its audience is
always inside this repo, where the canonical block loads.

All copies mirrored to npm, plugin and cursor. The cursor copies are condensed
checklists rather than byte-mirrors, so they carry the equivalent note placed
where it governs every detect_changes line in the file — and nothing tests that,
since standard skills are fragment-checked rather than byte-compared.

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* refactor: break the seven small import cycles gitnexus check reports (#2915)

`check` reported 11 cycles. Five are paths inside a single 257-file strongly
connected component in core/ingestion (call-extractors / cfg visitors /
utils/ast-helpers), with a second 26-file component behind it — fixing those
paths would only make check print different ones, so both are left for their own
PR. This closes the seven that are genuinely separable, taking the graph from 9
strongly connected components to 2.

Six of the seven were one value import plus one `import type` edge. tsconfig
sets neither verbatimModuleSyntax nor isolatedModules, so those edges erase
entirely — the cut is a graph and readability change with no emitted-JS
difference. Each moved type went to a leaf module, with a re-export left behind
only where an importer outside the change actually needed it:

- cli/ai-context <-> cli/skill-gen: GeneratedSkillInfo -> cli/generated-skill.ts.
  One importer, no package export surface, so a clean move with no re-export.
- cli/analyze-config <-> cli/analyze (+core/run-analyze): AnalyzeOptions ->
  cli/analyze-options.ts. Re-export kept because a test imports it from
  analyze.js. run-analyze needed no edit — cutting the one type edge collapses
  the 3-file component into a DAG. Its own same-named AnalyzeOptions is a
  different interface and was deliberately not merged.
- ingestion/import-resolvers/types <-> ingestion/language-config: type-only in
  BOTH directions, so it had no runtime existence at all. ImportConfigs has no
  importers outside the pair and is the return type of loadImportConfigs, so it
  moved into language-config. Side effect worth having: the shared resolver
  types module no longer names a single language, which is an AGENTS.md rule for
  core/ingestion shared pipeline code.
- ingestion/di-extractors barrel <-> spring: DiResolver and the two match types
  -> di-extractors/types.ts, following the import-resolvers/types.ts precedent.
- scope-resolution/walkers <-> workspace-index: WorkspaceResolutionIndex ->
  workspace-index-types.ts. Re-export is load-bearing — 9 src importers, 4 test
  files, and a dynamic import() at contract/scope-resolver.ts. Moving the value
  isClassLike instead was rejected: ~15 value importers, and it is documented as
  a pair with isShapeLike.
- server/analyze-worker <-> analyze-worker-core: the WorkerMessage protocol ->
  analyze-worker-protocol.ts, a declarations-only leaf.

storage/branch-index <-> storage/repo-manager was the one genuine two-way
runtime cycle: branch-index called getStoragePaths/loadMeta, repo-manager used
branchSlug/BRANCHES_DIR. branch-index's header conceded the cycle and argued it
was ESM-safe because neither side calls across at module-evaluation time — a
guarantee resting on call ordering rather than structure. Folding
resolveBranchPlacement back the other way does not help, because
BranchSummary.stats is typed RepoMeta['stats'], so RepoMeta had to move either
way. Extracted storage/repo-meta.ts, a leaf importing only fs and path, holding
the metadata read primitives; repo-manager re-exports the public names so all
54 RepoMeta and 50 loadMeta importers are untouched. The moved block diffs
byte-identical against HEAD.

Verified beyond typecheck, because the worker entrypoint is the risky part and
nothing in the suite forks it: emitted analyze-worker.js still contains exactly
one runtime import, and forking the real worker over IPC boots it through
entry -> core -> protocol -> terminal-claim.

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* refactor: apply the reuse, simplification, efficiency and altitude cleanups (#2915)

The one that mattered: the degradation exit code was fixed at the wrong depth.
`output()` has never inspected `partial` — it tests `error` only — so putting
the check in `detectChangesCommand` left every other tool exiting 0 on a
degraded run. `partial` is cross-tool vocabulary: query (enrichmentDegraded ||
ftsPartial), impact (!traversalComplete, perSymbolEnrichmentCapped) and the
mode:'pdg' envelope all emit it. A truncated impact traversal returns a short
caller set and an under-ranked risk, then exits 0 — so `gitnexus impact … &&
<edit>` proceeds, in the tool AGENTS.md makes a MUST gate before every edit.
The justification also cited checkCommand as precedent, but checkCommand passes
STRINGS too — it was the second command already hand-rolling around this gap,
while output()'s docstring called itself "the one place that keeps scripted
callers honest". output() now takes an optional renderer and fails on error OR
partial; two hand-rolled sites go away and three tools are covered instead of
one. truncated stays exit 0 (only the listing is capped) and checkCommand's
cycleCount policy stays put.

Efficiency, all re-measured on the 25k-node index:
- The process lookup was chunked with LBUG_QUERY_BATCH_SIZE, calibrated for the
  opposite query shape — that constant is for a whole-node-table scan where more
  items amortise the scan, while this is an `id IN $ids` probe where round trips
  dominate. 20k ids: 617ms at 100, 261ms at 1000. New LBUG_ID_PROBE_BATCH_SIZE,
  documented against its sibling so they cannot be re-merged. This also settles
  the older "chunking this query is a regression" measurement — that was chunk=100.
- The sort comparator re-coerced fields ChangedSymbolRow already types, O(n log n)
  redundant conversions (+31-38%). Row shape probed directly: alias-keyed, no
  positional keys, numeric columns are JS numbers.
- exactlyMatchedPaths built two throwaway arrays; one loop instead (40k rows
  11.4ms -> 4.5ms).
- The integration fixture seeded 710 step edges one round trip at a time; one
  UNWIND instead. File wall time 6.91s -> 3.63s. Fixture size unchanged — its
  docstring records the threshold below which the bug stops reproducing, and the
  mutation check still fails 3/3 when ORDER BY step is reverted.

Reuse and simplification:
- CALL_EDGE_LIMIT existed in four places; its own docstring predicted the drift
  it then caused. prompts.ts owns it now — it is a zero-import leaf so the
  direction cannot cycle, and had graph-queries.ts owned it the four suites that
  vi.mock that module would have left slice(0, undefined), silently returning
  every edge in exactly the tests meant to police the cap.
- Six dead positional row fallbacks survived the rewrite in the loop this branch
  re-indented, in the same PR that deleted the identical ABI from graph-queries.ts.
- Two test files independently modelled the same labels() scalar-string quirk.
  Deleted the wiki one — the file's own new header says semantics belong in the
  real-engine test — and kept projectTypeColumn, the only instrument that can see
  the bug for the detect_changes query.
- makeRepo onto the shared git bootstrap (the eleventh copy of the sequence the
  helper was extracted to own), the duplicate diff-args unwrapper merged into
  test/helpers, hand-rolled comparators onto compareCodeUnits, real-timer sleeps
  replaced by wave-released promises with a strengthened per-wave assertion.
- Re-exports trimmed to what is actually imported, a cross-reference this branch
  invalidated by moving mapConcurrent, and a "~20% faster" claim that does not
  survive at real index sizes (1-9%; the 10x memory win does).

Also adds the drift guard the new doc text lacked: fragment coverage for the
partial/truncated paragraph in every skill copy and in the managed AGENTS.md /
CLAUDE.md block. Falsifiability checked — none of those fragments exist at the
merge base.

Not done here, deliberately: 27 live labels(x)[0] projections remain across
impact/context/query/trace and MCP resources, with four load-bearing workarounds
that have begun depending on each other and one that fabricates rather than
degrades. That is a semantic change to five agent-facing tools and wants its own
PR, scoped to delete the workarounds too.

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* fix(cli): restore the detect-changes subcommand in the regression example (#2915)

Caught by the gitnexus-check bot on the PR. The regression-review fallback in
the injected mandate rendered as `--scope compare --base-ref "main" --repo .`
with no command, so anyone copying it invokes the runner with an option as its
first argument.

Self-inflicted, and by exactly the mechanism flagged when it landed: the block
is under a test-enforced size cap (#856) that had 30 characters of headroom, so
adding the partial/truncated clause required paying for it, and the 38-character
"repeat" that was dropped turned out to be the subcommand rather than a repeat.

Paid for the restoration out of the clause instead — both parentheticals are
gone, since `partial` and `truncated` are already defined in the tool
description this text points at. Block is back under the cap at 3548/3552.

Notably the cap has now been raised four times (2700 -> 2900 -> 2950, then
0.55 -> 0.65) each with the argument that the new line is load-bearing, and it
has now also caused a user-facing defect. It is not functioning as a budget.
Left at 0.65 here rather than making it five: moving the threshold to fit one's
own text is how it got here. Worth restructuring separately.

The fragment guard added a commit ago caught the rewording immediately, which
is what it is for; its fragments now pin the two policy claims rather than the
prose around them, since that prose is what gets re-trimmed under the cap.

Also verified and NOT changed: the bot's other error, that detect_changes
compares 1-based hunks against 0-based graph lines. `bounds` is built from
`coalesceHunksByPath`, which applies `toZeroBasedLine` to both ends at the
grouping boundary, and both a mocked and a real-engine test pin an edit landing
on a symbol's last line. The bot read `parseDiffHunks` in isolation.

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* fix(core): reject a fractional chunk size, and stop the truncation note overclaiming (#2915)

All five from the gitnexus-check bot's pass on the previous push; two were
introduced by the cleanup round that preceded it.

`chunk` guarded with `Number.isFinite`, which admits a fractional size — and
that one does not fail, it DUPLICATES. `slice` truncates its indices while `i`
does not, so size 1.5 yields slice(0, 1.5) = items 0-1 then slice(1.5, 3) =
items 1-2, putting item 1 in two batches; a caller batching a query would send
it twice. A size is a count, so `Number.isInteger`. Unreachable today (every
caller passes a constant) but the guard existed precisely for the unreachable
case, and the NaN half of it was already there.

`mapConcurrent`'s per-item degradation contract had a hole: `onError` is
caller-supplied and was invoked outside a try, so a throwing reporter rejected
`settle`, rejected the whole `Promise.all` wave, and discarded the neighbouring
successes the function exists to preserve. Reporting a failure must not become
one.

The CLI truncation note asserted "the counts and risk level still cover all of
them", which is true only when `truncated` fires alone — with `partial` the
counts are summed from the batches that succeeded. It now varies: a distinct
string when both flags are set, saying the counts are a lower bound. This is the
same claim already corrected in the tool description; the CLI text still had the
old one.

The di-extractors contract docstring claimed the barrel re-exports everything
from it. That stopped being true when the re-export was trimmed to what is
actually imported, one commit earlier.

The real-engine wiki test claimed to prepare "every exported query" and omitted
`getInterModuleEdgesForOverview`, which `generateOverview` calls. Added — it
aggregates in JS over `getInterFileCallEdges` rather than issuing its own
Cypher, so the note says why it is in a prepare test.

Verified and NOT changed: the bot's other error, that detect_changes compares
1-based hunks against 0-based graph lines. `bounds` is built from
`coalesceHunksByPath`, which converts both ends at the grouping boundary
(storage/git.ts), and two tests pin an edit landing on a symbol's last line.
The remaining seven findings are changed-symbol heads-ups with no signature
change; their callers' suites are green.

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* fix(mcp): make the IMPACT_MAX_CHUNKS fallback actually fire (#2915)

The validation added earlier this branch used `Number.parseInt`, which takes the
numeric PREFIX: '1.5' parses to 1, satisfies `Number.isInteger`, and silently
caps enrichment after a single 100-item batch — the opposite of the fallback the
comment beside it promised. `Number` instead, so a fractional value is rejected
and falls back to 10.

The emptiness check is load-bearing rather than defensive: `Number('')` is 0 and
0 is a legitimate value here (enrich nothing), so an UNSET variable would
otherwise mean "enrich nothing" rather than "use the default".

Behaviour table, old vs new: '1.5' 1 -> 10 (the bug), and undefined/''/'  '/
'10junk'/'-2'/'all' -> 10, '0' -> 0, '3' -> 3, ' 5 ' -> 5 all unchanged. So the
only case that moves is the reported one.

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Gergő Magyar
740f0a4e57
fix(skills): publish gitnexus-plan artifacts on macOS without an interpreter (#2905) (#2922)
* fix(skills): anchor gitnexus-plan safe writer on macOS (#2905)

The safe generated-plan writer refused to run on anything but Linux.
`requireDescriptorAnchoring()` hard-gated `process.platform !== 'linux'`
because every name it resolves went through `/proc/self/fd/<fd>/<child>`,
and publication went through `renameat2(RENAME_NOREPLACE)`. macOS has
neither, so `write-plan` and `read-plan` failed on every input and
`snapshot` failed whenever a materialized path was absent.

Node cannot perform openat-style directory-relative resolution on macOS
at all: `node:fs` exposes no dir_fd parameter, and `fcntl(F_GETPATH)` is
a snapshot string that XNU reconstructs from the name cache, so using it
would reintroduce the exact race this helper exists to prevent. Python
does expose the *at() family via dir_fd, and macOS has renameatx_np with
RENAME_EXCL, so the anchoring borrows the interpreter the writer already
spawns for renameat2.

Anchoring now goes through a backend with two implementations. The Linux
one keeps the original expressions, flags, ordering and error strings.
The Darwin one runs each operation in the integrity-checked python3: it
re-walks the chain from the repository root with O_DIRECTORY|O_NOFOLLOW,
asserting the caller's recorded device, inode and mode at every level
before acting. A chain that fails that assertion reports a dedicated
anchoring errno and never ENOENT, so a moved parent cannot be read as an
absent file. Node holds an open descriptor on every chain element for the
anchor's lifetime, which pins the inodes so their numbers cannot be
recycled between spawns, and that coupling is re-checked on the way into
every request rather than left implicit.

A filesystem that answers ENOTSUP to RENAME_EXCL is a refusal, never a
fallback to a replacing rename. Every other platform is still refused.

The suite had silently skipped on every non-Linux runner, so it is now
gated on linux-or-darwin and registered in the cross-platform test list,
which puts it on the macos-latest CI matrix.

Disclosed rather than papered over: operations that must hand Node a file
descriptor are anchored in the helper and then opened lexically with
O_NOFOLLOW and identity-compared. A racer can force a mismatch, which
aborts, or land on the inode the anchored walk already found, which is
harmless. A perfect ABA inside that window is impossible on Linux and
detected in all but its narrowest form on macOS. The reference doc says
so.

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* test(skills): normalize the anchoring-gate fixture repo on Windows

The two capability-gate tests are the only ones in this file that run on
Windows, and both failed there: `createBaseRepo` returned the path
`os.tmpdir()` gave it, which on Windows is the 8.3 short form
(C:\Users\RUNNER~1\...). `assertRepository` compares fs.realpathSync of
the caller's path against the realpath of `git rev-parse --show-toplevel`,
and plain realpathSync does not expand short names while git always
reports the long form, so the helper rejected its own fixture with
"--repo must be the Git worktree root" before either platform gate was
reached.

Resolve the fixture with the native resolver, which returns the canonical
long path. No-op on platforms where the two already agree.

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* test(skills): skip the darwin backend gate on Windows

Spoofing process.platform does not spoof fs.constants. Windows Node
defines no O_DIRECTORY, so a darwin-spoofed run there refuses at the
anchoring-flag check and returns that message instead of ever reaching
the python3-backend branch the test exists to cover.

Skip it on win32 rather than loosening the regex, which would also let a
macOS run pass on the wrong message. The sibling test still asserts the
Windows refusal on Windows.

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* refactor(skills): tighten the macOS anchoring backend

Quality pass over the Darwin backend. No behaviour change was intended
on the success paths; the guarantees are the same or stronger.

Structural:

- openChildRead now proves identity inside the backend instead of by
  comment. It was returning a raw descriptor from a lexical open, with
  the "callers always compare against the preceding anchored stat"
  invariant enforced across four call sites in prose — and since the
  Linux predicate is a literal `return true`, a fifth caller that forgot
  would have been an unanchored open on macOS that Linux CI could not
  see. It routes through darwinAdoptAnchoredFile, which already did
  open-then-compare-then-close-on-mismatch for createChild.

- recordAnchoredAbsence shares one prefix walk per snapshot instead of
  re-walking from the repository root for every absent cited path. With
  three absent paths under a three-deep prefix that is 12 helper spawns
  down to 6 and 12 retained descriptors down to 4. citedPaths is
  caller-supplied and unbounded, so the descriptor retention was the
  real problem; the cache is now the sole close owner. This does change
  Linux descriptor lifetime — prefixes stay open for the snapshot rather
  than only the tail, deduplicated across paths.

- assertRepository and the sibling realpath comparisons use
  realpathSync.native. Windows hands back 8.3 short names that plain
  realpathSync preserves while git reports the long form, so `snapshot`,
  which is not platform-gated, could reject a worktree root by quoting
  that same directory back at the user. The fixture workaround that
  papered over this for the new gate tests is gone.

Efficiency, all measured at ~13.5ms per helper spawn:

- consume the identity mkdir already computed rather than re-stat it
- act on renameNoReplace's return value rather than spending two stats
  re-deriving what it already reported
- drop a duplicate anchored stat taken twice in a row in movePathToVault
- import ctypes only where it is used; 19 of 20 spawns never touch it

Simplification: pins folded into the descriptors the handle already
carried, an unreachable refreshAnchorTail branch and the dead
darwinHardenedOpen mode parameter removed, the four copies of the spawn
options collapsed, the spawn-and-parse shared between the probe and the
request path, the unreachable launch-path fallback and a redundant memo
deleted, and the helper's dispatch made a real elif chain with leaf name
and mode validated at one chokepoint rather than per operation.

The two chain encodings were left alone deliberately: merging them would
have grown triple fields on Linux for no Linux benefit and changed the
Linux validatePlanParent comparison. The double re-stamp that motivated
the merge is contained in one named helper with the hazard documented.

Rejected candidate interpreters now say which dir_fd operations were
missing instead of producing a generic refusal.

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* refactor(skills): publish plans with link(2) and drop the interpreter

The macOS backend spawned python3 for two jobs: openat-style resolution,
which Node cannot do, and a no-replace rename. Only the first is actually
unavoidable, and the second was carrying the whole dependency.

link(2) is a no-replace publish. It is atomic, it fails EEXIST when the
destination name is taken, and it refuses a symlinked destination without
following it — the same guarantee renameat2(RENAME_NOREPLACE) and
renameatx_np(RENAME_EXCL) give, reachable from plain fs.linkSync. The
published file is the same inode as the verified temporary, so the
downstream identity checks hold by construction rather than by argument.

That removes the interpreter from Linux entirely, since /proc already did
the resolving there, and it removes ctypes, libSystem, RENAME_EXCL and the
ENOTSUP handling from macOS. Deleted with them: the trusted-executable
validation, the held-descriptor exec and its two-tier probe, the capability
probe, the JSON request protocol, and both embedded Python programs. The
helper drops from 3047 to 2327 lines.

macOS keeps the part that genuinely cannot be done in Node, and now does it
without a subprocess: a lexical O_NOFOLLOW walk that holds an open
descriptor on every directory in the chain and re-proves the chain either
side of every step. Pinning is load-bearing — an open descriptor keeps its
inode number from being recycled, which is what makes the recorded
identities trustworthy across steps.

The guarantees are no longer symmetric and the docs say so plainly.
/dev/fd/<fd> is a devfs node, not a magic link: opening it works, resolving
through it does not, open("/dev/fd/<fd>/child") returns ENOENT and realpath
returns /dev/fd/<fd> — measured on macOS 26 rather than inferred. So Linux
makes a parent swap impossible while macOS detects one and aborts.

Also fixes the writer on 9p mounts, where renameat2(RENAME_NOREPLACE)
returns EINVAL and publication failed every time; link(2) succeeds there.

Tests 174 -> 154: dropped 29 fixtures that drove the deleted Python program
directly, added coverage for the link publish, for a macOS parent swap
caught through the pinned chain, and for a spoofed-darwin round trip that
asserts no /proc path reaches the hooks, which the portable backend now
makes runnable on Linux CI.

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* fix(skills): drop O_NOFOLLOW_ANY, guard trailing slashes, handle link edge cases

macOS CI rejected our hardened directory open with EINVAL on 30 tests. The
flag O_NOFOLLOW_ANY was ORed into every open on the theory that XNU ignores
unrecognized open bits, so it would be inert where unsupported. That theory
is wrong, at least combined with O_DIRECTORY. The Python design never hit
it because the walk ran inside the interpreter; once Node did the opening,
every Darwin directory open went through it.

Removed rather than probed. The per-component O_NOFOLLOW walk is what
delivers the guarantee, and cap-std — the closest reference implementation
of this problem — has not adopted O_NOFOLLOW_ANY either. A fixture now pins
the exact flags of every directory open under a spoofed darwin, so the next
failure names the flag instead of printing a stack trace. With the flag
gone the two backends' directory open became identical, so it is no longer
a platform concern at all.

Three findings from researching the prior art, all now covered:

Trailing slashes. CVE-2026-39822 escaped Go's os.Root because
open(fd, path, O_NOFOLLOW) follows symlinks when the path ends in "/". It
reproduces here: with docs a symlink, opening "docs" is ENOTDIR but "docs/"
succeeds into the attacker's directory, and path.join preserves the slash.
We were safe only by construction, and only for repo-derived names — the
generated temporary and vault artifact names never passed through the
validator. The guard now sits at anchoredChild, the single place a name
becomes a path, so it holds for every caller.

link() can lie on NFS. Per link(2) BUGS, the return code may be wrong if
the server creates the link then dies before replying; open(2) NOTES gives
the remedy, which is to stat the source and treat a link count of 2 as
success. Implemented, with the man-page reasoning in the comment so it is
not later removed as paranoia.

Filesystems without hard links now fail loudly. EPERM, ENOTSUP and EMLINK
say so and refuse to fall back to a replacing rename. Git falls back and
accepts losing collision detection because its objects are content
addressed; that reasoning does not transfer to a named plan destination.

Durability was already correct — the temporary is fsynced before
publication and the parent directory immediately after — but the comment
now records why the parent fsync is required for link as it was for rename,
and the honest limitation that fsync is not a write barrier on macOS while
F_FULLFSYNC, which Node cannot reach, is.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NtGZN6YSNU8chALSnKYHBp

* refactor(skills): shrink the anchoring seam and fix two CI breaks

Four quality reviews over the pure-Node writer. Two real breaks, one
drift that had already happened, and a seam that was sized for a design
we deleted.

The macOS round-trip fixture asserted that every observed path started
with join(repo, 'docs/plans'). Reproduced on Linux by handing the helper
a repo reached through a symlink, which is the shape macOS gives us via
/var to /private/var: assertRepository realpaths the repo, so the handle
builds paths from the resolved form while the fixture holds the form it
passed in, and the prefix can never match. The assertion now proves the
same thing without depending on the prefix — a lexical resolution always
contains a docs/plans segment and /proc/self/fd/<fd>/<name> never does.

Two publish fixtures sat in the capability-gate describe, the one block
deliberately not skipped on unsupported platforms, while this PR added
the file to the Windows matrix. They test link(2), not the gate, so they
moved to SAFE_WRITE_FIXTURES.

validatePlanParent restated verifyLexicalChain's loop without the
try/catch that converts ENOENT and ENOTDIR into the parity message, so a
raw errno could escape a function with a dozen call sites. It was masked
on Darwin only because parentStillResolves catches first. It now calls
the helpers, which also removes a second full chain walk per call there.

openVerifiedFile adds O_NONBLOCK so a FIFO swapped in at the target name
cannot wedge the process on open, and only Darwin was calling it. The
operations are now shared, so Linux gets it by construction rather than
by a per-backend decision.

The backend is five methods rather than ten. The platform difference is
two things — how a name becomes a path, and what guard wraps an
operation — so the five operations became shared functions over a
`verified` hook that is run() on Linux and the pinned-plus-lexical
sandwich on Darwin. openChildRead always runs the identity adoption, so
that proof is structural rather than a comment about what callers must
remember. Selecting the backend is a registry that throws on an unknown
platform instead of a ternary defaulting to Linux, which surfaced seven
dead bindings that ran before the capability gate and made win32 report
the registry error instead of the refusal.

Snapshot capture no longer re-walks a prefix per record: 36,018 lstats
to 6,384 and 162ms to 130ms on 2,000 dirty files across 100 directories,
with a byte-identical global_dirty_digest. Absence anchoring is now
bounded at 4096 pinned directories and refuses rather than evicting,
because closing a cached descriptor would break the pinned chain of a
guard already recorded — the inode-recycling hole the pins exist to
close.

The test suite no longer cache-busts its imports. That existed for the
memoized python3 descriptor, the file's only mutable module binding,
which is gone; the suite drops from 10.0s to 8.2s.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NtGZN6YSNU8chALSnKYHBp

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Co-authored-by: Gergo Magyar <gergomagyar0@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 12:24:53 +01:00
Gergő Magyar
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feat(skills): GitNexus Engineering Tool Kits (#2566)
* feat(skills): add ce-plan — GitNexus+PDG implementation-planning skill

Adds .claude/skills/ce-plan: a planning-only skill that builds
implementation-ready plans from GitNexus graph navigation (query/context/
impact/trace), bounded statement-level PDG slices (pdg_query, impact
mode:pdg, explain), and targeted source verification, with a context
ledger to prevent repeated reads and a machine-readable implementation
context pack (stable contract for a future ce-implement). Whitelisted in
.gitignore and registered in AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md outside the
auto-managed gitnexus block.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(skills): apply ce-plan validation findings (tool contract, consistency, conventions)

Tool contract: impact mode:'pdg' shape now includes the schema-required
direction param; CDG branch sense documented as the result 'label' field
(reason is cypher/raw-edge only); explain caveats corrected to its real
false-negative classes (cross-function TAINT_PATH is modeled).

Consistency: PDG slice homed in working memory (ledger keeps one-liners);
depth knob defined and category-overrides-baseline ordering stated;
call_depth (consumed by nothing) and content-hash bookkeeping dropped;
Never section folded into Hard rules; Phase 3 deduplicated to a pointer;
allowed-repeat escalations defined; budget/discard accounting clarified;
verification-commands gathering added to Phase 4; open_questions added to
the context pack.

From scenario runs: plans now pin the verified-at HEAD commit and index
freshness in a header, tag claims [verified]/[graph]/[inferred]/[assumed],
quote load-bearing tool output, prefer pre-hook-carrying npm scripts, and
support an out:<path> destination override; output path defined as the
Phase 1 target repo root.

Conventions: AGENTS.md 1.9.0 / CLAUDE.md 1.4.0 changelog rows + metadata
bumps; future ce-implement qualified as future.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(skills): rename ce-plan → gitnexus-plan; add cross-CLI (Codex) entrypoints

Renames the skill dir, frontmatter, output filename convention, plan H1
(GitNexus Engineering Plan), the future executor handle
(gitnexus-implement), the .gitignore whitelist entry, and all
AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md references. Follows the pr-swarm-review cross-CLI
pattern: SKILL.md is the canonical CLI-neutral spec, AGENTS.md § Engineering
planning is the Codex/any-agent entrypoint, and the README documents the
optional user-level ~/.codex/prompts/gitnexus-plan.md slash command plus an
invocation matrix. Skill prose de-branded from Claude Code (agent-neutral
verification layer).

Also fixes two post-review README contradictions: the anti-reread claim now
names the ledger's allowed escalations, and 'read-only by contract' is now
'planning-only' (the skill writes exactly one repo file — the plan); the
scope-creep rule and template §12 now agree on where deferred follow-ups
land. Drops the stale plugin-collision limitation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(skills): document Codex user-level install path for gitnexus-plan

Codex discovers SKILL.md skills from ~/.agents/skills (same path the other
gitnexus-* skills install to); README now documents the cp install plus the
optional ~/.codex/prompts slash-command file, with the prompt body preferring
the repo copy and falling back to the user-level install.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(skills): gitnexus-plan freshness gate + active PDG-layer refresh

Freshness is now a Phase 1 gate, not advisory: under the default
freshness:strict, a stale index is refreshed once per planning session via
node .gitnexus/run.cjs analyze --index-only (appending --pdg when the task
will reach the PDG phase), then the context resource is re-read. A missing
PDG layer likewise triggers the one permitted --index-only --pdg refresh
and re-probe instead of a passive recommendation. freshness:accept (or a
failed/impractical refresh) preserves the old behavior: plan on the stale
graph, source-weighted, labelled in the plan header. --index-only is the
load-bearing flag choice — it suppresses all file generation, so the
planning-only contract holds (only the .gitnexus store changes). Ledger
gains an index_refresh record; plan header states fresh / refreshed /
refresh-skipped-with-reason.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(skills): gitnexus-plan runner build check before freshness refresh

When the target repo builds the analyzer from its own source (bin → dist/
mapping, as gitnexus/ does), the Phase 1 freshness gate now verifies dist/
is current before running the analyze refresh — rebuilding via the
package's build script when any analyzer source file is newer than the
built entrypoint — and prefers that freshly built CLI. Otherwise a stale
dist re-indexes with outdated extraction logic and the 'fresh' index lies.
Rebuilds are recorded in the ledger's index_refresh; the PDG-phase refresh
inherits the same check.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(skills): add gitnexus-work executor and gitnexus-lfg pipeline

gitnexus-work executes a gitnexus-plan as verified atomic commits: consumes
the §11 implementation_context pack, drift-checks the plan's evidence pin
against HEAD, re-verifies assumptions before relying on them, runs impact
before every symbol edit and detect_changes before every commit (repo
mandates), builds tests from the plan's scenarios, and routes structural
drift back to gitnexus-plan Deepen mode instead of coding around it.

gitnexus-lfg is a thin orchestrator: gitnexus-plan → blocking user gate
(deepen / proceed / stop, deepen loops allowed) → gitnexus-work → review
via the existing gitnexus-pr-review skill (open PR, else branch diff vs
default). One bounded fix cycle for review findings; never pushes or opens
a PR on its own.

gitnexus-plan gains a Deepen mode (re-run freshness gate, escalate to
depth:deep, re-verify graph/inferred/assumed claims toward verified,
rewrite the same file); its 'future gitnexus-implement' placeholder is
retired in favor of gitnexus-work. Registered via .gitignore whitelists,
AGENTS.md 1.10.0 (section renamed to Engineering planning & execution),
CLAUDE.md 1.5.0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(skills): apply cross-skill review findings to the gitnexus skill family

Two P1s: gitnexus-plan Deepen mode now re-anchors before re-pinning
(diffs the old evidence pin over every [verified]-claim file and re-reads
or downgrades before the header moves — moving the pin without this
laundered stale claims as verified); the index-refresh budget is stated
once in Phase 1 (one --index-only refresh plus at most one Phase 3 --pdg
upgrade per session, Deepen = its own session) with ledger and pdg-slice
deferring to it.

Contract fixes: gitnexus-work's drift check now covers every file the
pack cites (not just files_to_modify) and parses the full pack incl.
primary/related symbols and acceptance_criteria (walked in Phase 4
alongside §13); a pre-completed check skips §7 steps already landed and
Deepen gains a reconcile-execution-state step, closing the mid-execution
route-back loop; pack assumptions must name what to check and how.

lfg: Lane 4 passes the merge-base to detect_changes compare (two-dot
diff misattributes upstream commits when default advanced), branch-diff
is the stated normal case, oversized review findings route to the plan
gate instead of overflowing direct mode, the one-fix-cycle cap is
explicit on re-run, and headless runs end at the plan gate with the plan
as deliverable. work: blank mode narrowed to *gitnexus-plan*.md with a
re-execution guard, direct-mode discipline spelled out, branch
meaningfulness defined against the plan slug, and the plan document is
committed as the branch's docs commit (review diff includes it).
Planning-only contract now names the dist/ rebuild as the second
permitted state change; Phase 5.1 names the four claim tags; stale
AGENTS.md anchors fixed.

Known latent issue left untouched: gitnexus/gitnexus-pr-review pairs a
three-dot example with a two-dot detect_changes compare — that skill is
also shipped by the plugin, so fixing it here would drift the copies;
lfg compensates by passing the merge-base.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(skills): ship the engineering skill family with the gitnexus package

npm i -g gitnexus users now get gitnexus-plan / gitnexus-work / gitnexus-lfg:
the three skills are added to gitnexus/skills/ in directory form (SKILL.md +
references/), which installSkillsTo already enumerates dynamically and copies
recursively to every editor target (~/.agents/skills for Codex, Cursor,
OpenCode, Qoder, ...) on gitnexus setup — uninstall enumerates the same root,
so removal stays clean. The Claude Code plugin channel
(gitnexus-claude-plugin/skills/) carries the same copies plus the standard
per-skill mcp.json.

Global-install support in the skill text: gitnexus-plan Phase 1 now resolves
the analyzer runner explicitly — node .gitnexus/run.cjs analyze when the
project has a runner, else gitnexus analyze (installed CLI), else
npx gitnexus analyze — and all analyze mentions route through it, satisfying
the skills-steering policy (#1939/#1945) which sweeps the plugin copies.

New drift guard test/unit/shipped-skills-sync.test.ts asserts the npm and
plugin copies stay byte-identical to the canonical .claude/skills/ family
(plugin = canonical + mcp.json), same discipline as run.cjs ↔
resolve-invocation.ts. skills-steering + shipped-skills-sync: 11/11 green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(eval): workflow_bench — measure the skill workflow's token savings

Benchmarks gitnexus-plan → gitnexus-work against a baseline agent
(--disallowedTools Skill) on identical tasks, in fresh detached worktrees,
using real headless Claude Code sessions; every number comes from the CLI's
--output-format json usage report (field names validated against a live
2.1.207 session). Reports per-arm medians (input/cache/output tokens, cost,
wall time, turns), a savings row, and resolve status from a per-task verify
command — savings on failed tasks are flagged, not celebrated. Per-task
setup hook prepares fresh worktrees (deps); --permission-mode
bypassPermissions (default) lets sessions run unattended in the throwaway
trees.

Free-model support: --base-url/--auth-token/--model route headless sessions
through any Anthropic-compatible endpoint; free-model.litellm.yaml is a
ready litellm-proxy template for OpenRouter :free variants or local Ollama,
so benchmarking burns no paid tokens (README documents rate limits and the
small-model skill-following caveat).

Harness validated end-to-end with a stub CLI (worktree lifecycle, both
arms, plan→work chaining, verify, aggregation, report) and 4 pytest units
for the pure aggregation/savings/report helpers. AGENTS.md 1.11.0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(eval): record first workflow_bench calibration run

Trivial-task calibration (add -V alias): both arms resolved; workflow arm
~4.3x baseline cost — the documented overhead-dominated regime, recorded so
the regime boundary is empirical rather than asserted.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(eval): workflow_bench scenario matrix — arm variants, task classes, churn

Ground-base measurement across scenarios: tasks.scenarios.yaml spans four
labeled classes (trivial → investigation-bug → investigation-feature →
cross-module) with deterministic verifies (prescribed test files). New arms:
workflow_direct (gitnexus-work direct mode — the middle option that locates
the routing boundary lfg's gate and work's triage encode) and baseline_nomcp
(no skills AND no graph tools — separates workflow-discipline value from
GitNexus-tool value; off by default). Records now carry task class and diff
churn (files/+ins/−del vs the starting commit) as an over-engineering proxy;
the report renders a class column and per-arm savings rows vs baseline.
5 pytest units + stub-CLI e2e of the full three-arm matrix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(eval): record workflow_bench ground base; fix churn measurement bias

Ground base (3 classes x 3 arms, n=1/cell): every arm resolved every task —
pass/fail quality saturates at this difficulty, making the comparison pure
cost. Full plan→work never amortized its ~$9-11 fixed cost on tasks a
baseline finishes in ≤35 turns (−211% to −333% cost); workflow_direct sits
near baseline (−15% to −55%, once faster wall) with more test coverage.
Routing implication recorded: direct mode/plain agent below this scale,
full workflow for cross-module / multi-session / plan-as-deliverable work.
The cross-module cell and multi-run variance are the next measurements.

Churn fix: git add --intent-to-add -A before diffing (arms that never
commit no longer undercount new files) and :(exclude)docs/plans (the
committed plan doc no longer inflates workflow churn); this run's churn
numbers predate the fix and are omitted from the recorded table.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* perf(skills): cost-optimize the workflow from measured ground base

Every optimization targets a measured fixed-cost component
(eval/workflow_bench ground base: workflow arm −211% to −333% vs baseline,
all tasks resolved):

- Plan form is category-priced: compact form (core sections w/ § anchors
  preserved, ≤80 lines excl. pack, mini-pack subset of the context pack)
  for narrow/default categories; the full 13 sections only for deep work
  (refactor/security/performance/concurrency/architecture). A compact plan
  outgrowing its cap reclassifies to full rather than overflowing.
- Freshness gate is category-priced: compact categories default to accept
  (source-weighted, refresh only when a graph claim becomes load-bearing);
  strict stays the default for full-plan categories — the rebuild+re-index
  was the largest single fixed cost.
- Turn economy: per-category tool-call budgets (~10 to ~45; architecture
  uncapped); budget exhaustion routes open questions to §12 instead of
  more digging.
- gitnexus-work fast path: HEAD == evidence pin → skip all citation
  re-reading (the pin's entire point); mini-pack fields tolerated.
- lfg Lane 1 boundary triage: tasks below the measured ~35-turn boundary
  get offered gitnexus-work direct mode before the plan lane is spent.

Copies re-synced (npm skills/, plugin, ~/.agents); steering + sync guards
green. Re-measurement of the workflow arm follows to verify the numbers
actually improve.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(eval): record optimization re-measurement — inv-bug workflow cell −20% cost

Same task, same conditions, post-830a0459 skills: $14.56→$11.70 (−20%),
83→72 turns, cache_read −24%; verified in-transcript that the compact form,
turn budget, and skipped rebuild/re-index all fired. Wall +15% from a work-
session test-debugging tail (n=1 variance). Regime unchanged (~3.5x baseline
on this class) — routing rule stands.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(eval): per-arm clone isolation — worktree ref-namespace leak contaminated an arm

The cross-module workflow_direct cell reported an impossible 28-turn solve
with churn byte-identical to the workflow arm: git worktree add shares the
repo's ref namespace, so the workflow arm's slug branch (created by
gitnexus-work Phase 2) survived worktree removal and the direct arm found
and adopted the completed work. Arms now get isolated git clone --shared
copies (object store via alternates, refs clone-local — agent branches and
stashes die with the clone; origin/<ref> fallback for non-default refs).
Leaked branch deleted; baseline arm verified clean (0 branch references in
its transcript); cell marked invalidated pending re-run.

Records the valid cross-module cells: workflow $18.32 vs baseline $18.03
(premium −1.6%, vs −211%..−333% on smaller classes) — fixed costs amortize
at this scale, with a less destructive diff and a plan artifact as bonus;
resolve rate still tied. Churn fingerprinting is what caught the
contamination — noted in the README as an integrity check.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(eval): complete cross-module cell — direct mode wins 47% cost / 56% wall

Clean clone-isolated re-run: workflow_direct resolved the hardest class at
$9.53/52 turns/15m vs $18.03/98/34m baseline and $18.32/107/37m full
workflow. The measured story across all four classes: the execution
discipline (gitnexus-work) is the consistent sweet spot and delivers real
token savings on hard tasks; the planning pass buys its artifact, not
same-session savings. Resolve rate tied everywhere (n=1/cell caveat).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(eval): add trajectory-gated skill evolution (#2431)

- Pair prompt candidates with incumbent workflow arms
- Gate promotions on pinned-model quality and efficiency
- Expire router evidence and document its lifecycle

* fix(eval): allow pr-review skill candidates

* feat(skills): rename and generalize GitNexus review

* feat(eval): external-comparator and review arms for workflow_bench

- ce_workflow / ce_workflow_direct: compound-engineering ce-plan/ce-work
  arms prompted with the same structure as the gitnexus arms
- review / ce_review: gitnexus-review vs ce-code-review on an identical
  diff applied by the task's setup
- plan handoff is snapshot-based: committed example plans in docs/plans/
  tie on clone mtimes and broke the name-glob pick (executed a stale plan)
- verify output tail is recorded per run and the final working-tree patch
  is kept, so failed rows are diagnosable after the clone is destroyed

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(skills,eval): address #2431 review — data-safe rename migration, fail-closed bench evidence

- setup: never delete a legacy renamed skill dir — the installer cannot
  prove ownership (users customize or hand-write skills under these
  names); warn with the path instead, and the test now asserts survival
- workflow_bench: fail closed when a session's --output-format json
  report is empty, malformed, or missing usage fields — an exit-0 shell
  with no parseable usage no longer counts as measured evidence
  (5 parametrized regression tests)
- workflow_bench: document the trust model prominently (task setup/verify
  are shell-executed, sessions run bypassPermissions with the parent env,
  candidate overlays are prompt injection surface) in README + docstring
- free-model.litellm.yaml: master_key from LITELLM_MASTER_KEY env instead
  of a static token; loopback-binding warning
- ci: run the eval workflow_bench pytest suite on ubuntu (pytest+pyyaml
  only — no full eval stack)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(eval): demand observed foreground verification in headless work-arm prompts

In a headless -p session there is no later turn: a work arm backgrounded
its slow test run, scheduled wakeups that can never fire, and reported
done while two of its tests failed. All four work-arm prompts (both
skill families, symmetric) now require verification output to be
observed inside the session.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(skills): ask plan depth up front instead of offering deepen afterwards

gitnexus-plan Phase 0 now asks one blocking question in interactive
sessions — quick / standard / deep, mapped onto the existing depth/form/
freshness knobs — when the invocation carries no explicit depth signal.
Explicit knobs and headless runs skip the question (category posture
unchanged, so benchmarks and automation behave as before).

gitnexus-lfg's plan gate slims to proceed/stop: depth was already the
user's up-front choice, so deepening is no longer offered by default —
an explicit deepen request at the gate and executor route-backs still
run Deepen mode, which remains the mechanism for strengthening an
existing plan document.

All shipped copies resynced (npm skills/, Claude plugin); AGENTS.md
1.13.0 and CLAUDE.md 1.7.0 pointers updated, including the analyzer's
regenerated index-stats block at this branch's head.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(skills): taint pass, expert lenses, and post-work index refresh

gitnexus-review gains a PDG-backed taint-and-dependence pass (explain +
pdg_query, --pdg folded into the stale refresh on trust-boundary diffs) and
an Expert lenses section: domain reviewers derived from the graph's
clusters plus four cross-cutting lenses (architectural fit, language
conformance per the repo's own contract, Definition of Done, simplicity),
dispatched once after the evidence-gathering steps and scaled to the diff.
gitnexus-work Phase 4 now refreshes the knowledge graph after the DoD walk
via the resolved-runner ladder with analyze --index-only, so the lfg review
lane and later sessions query the finished work without dirtying the tree.
lfg's threshold-governance paragraph moves to its README; eval citations
are tagged as measured in the GitNexus repo. All shipped copies re-synced.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(cli): remove legacy gitnexus-pr-review on uninstall; cover the rename migration

uninstall's removal set now includes LEGACY_SKILL_DIR_NAMES derived from
RENAMED_SKILL_DIRS, so a pre-rename install is cleaned up instead of
orphaned. The rename warning gains behavioral coverage (fires with a legacy
dir present, silent without), and shipped-skills-sync asserts legacy names
stay absent from every shipped tree.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(eval): metric provenance, error-kind rows, skill-invocation verification, gate noise floor

The promotion gate defaults to cost_usd (the only metric that includes
subagent spend); token metrics carry an explicit main-loop-only warning in
the report and promotion.json. Rows are classified by error_kind
(session-error / verify-failed / infra-error), excluded from efficiency
medians, and the gate requires equal valid-run counts. Each session's
transcript is scanned for the expected Skill invocation and fails closed on
a verified miss; a one-run resolution edge no longer promotes (noise
floor). Per-run timeouts and setup failures record an infra-error row
instead of aborting the sweep. Overlays touching skills no candidate arm
exercises are rejected up front.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: fix skill routing paths, version headers, and skill rosters

Routing tables point at the tracked direct skill paths (matching the
post-#2434 generator output), AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md headers match their
latest changelog rows, the 1.12.0 row describes what the migration actually
does, package/cursor READMEs list the full shipped skill roster, and the
swarm READMEs describe /gitnexus-review's expert lenses instead of calling
it single-agent.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci: drift-guard workflow for skill copies; pin eval pip deps; track docs/plans

ci.yml ignores '**.md', so an md-only skill edit would merge without the
shipped-skills-sync test running — skill-sync.yml triggers exactly on the
guarded trees. The eval job's pip install is version-pinned, and
docs/plans/ is unignored so gitnexus-plan output can be committed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(ci): keep the runner-invocation literal in gitnexus-review; add concurrency block to skill-sync

skills-steering requires skills with a stale-index hint to carry the exact
'node .gitnexus/run.cjs analyze' form — restore it with the fallback ladder
as a parenthetical instead of replacing it. skill-sync.yml gains the
top-level concurrency block the workflow-convention check enforces.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(skills): token-economy guidance for expert lenses

Merge lenses that ground in the same material into one reviewer, and use
cheaper model/effort tiers for mechanical lenses where the harness offers
them, reserving the strongest engine for adversarial judgment.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(eval): isolate transcript home on Windows

Ensure workflow_bench transcript tests set USERPROFILE alongside HOME so Path.home() resolves to the temporary test home on Windows.

* docs(skills): fold PR #2522 execution learnings into review/work/plan

Eight incident-backed hardenings from running the full skill cycle
(review -> plan -> work, 28-finding fix series) on PR #2522:

gitnexus-review:
- Expert lenses execute the code under review on candidate failing shapes
  (empirical probe outranks source reading — every HIGH the language
  lenses found came from a probe, not a read).
- Step 7 re-runs the exact CI check for refreshed baselines/fingerprints
  (a stale committed artifact is invisible in the diff; caught a red
  benchmarks arm).
- Step 8 treats version/invalidation constants as review surface
  (INCREMENTAL_SCHEMA_VERSION class recurred verbatim from #2494).

gitnexus-work:
- Step 4 proves regression tests discriminate against the pre-fix tree.
- Step 5 rebuilds executed build output before every verification run
  (parse workers load dist/; a correct fix 'failed' until rebuilt).
- Step 6 makes stage -> detect_changes -> commit one unbroken sequence.

gitnexus-plan:
- Phase 0 seeded-evidence mode: plan FROM a completed review's verified
  findings instead of re-running the graph ladder.
- Template §7: fingerprint/golden-guarded output rebaselines once, at the
  series tip.

All distribution copies resynced; shipped-skills-sync + skills-steering
24/24 locally.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(eval): close the skill-evolution loop with an automated proposer driver

workflow_bench.evolve adds the three arrows the README described as manual:
a proposer session that turns loser trajectories (results.jsonl rows,
transcripts, patches, the learning queue) into ONE bounded candidate
overlay, a driver that iterates propose -> paired benchmark -> deterministic
gate up to --generations, and an --apply step that copies a promoted
overlay onto the canonical skills and shipped mirrors as a working-tree
diff. The trust boundary is unchanged: overlays re-validate through
candidate_overlay_files before any benchmark or apply consumes them, and
committing, CI, and the PR merge stay human.

learnings.jsonl is gitignored: it is machine-local evidence, like the
session transcripts it complements.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(skills): route live-task friction into the evolution learning queue

Each family skill gains a short 'Skill feedback' section: on friction with
the skill's own instructions, append one JSON line to
eval/workflow_bench/learnings.jsonl (GitNexus repo only) — never self-edit
the skill from a live task. The proposer in workflow_bench.evolve consumes
the queue as hints; a learning reaches a shipped skill only by beating the
incumbent on the paired benchmark. All shipped mirrors re-copied byte-
identical.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* ci(tests): run the evolve helper tests in the eval pytest job

test_evolve.py needs only pytest+pyyaml, same as the harness tests the job
already runs — without this line the new module had no CI coverage.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(ci): comment-triggered GitNexus review agent for PRs

'@gitnexus review' from a maintainer (OWNER/MEMBER/COLLABORATOR; the action
re-validates write access) runs the repo's gitnexus-review skill headlessly
against the PR and posts the review as a sticky comment — remote triggering
with no local setup. Read-only by construction: contents: read token,
Write/Edit and web tools disallowed, Bash allowlisted to git reads and the
gitnexus CLI; analyze parses PR code with tree-sitter, never executes it.
Requires the ANTHROPIC_API_KEY repository secret; activates once the file
is on the default branch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(ci): dispatch lane + existing OAuth secret for the review agent

Align with claude.yml: same action pin and the CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN
secret the repo already carries — no new secret to configure. Add a
workflow_dispatch lane (PR number input) so the agent can be triggered from
the Actions UI and tested before the issue_comment trigger reaches the
default branch. Allowlist gh pr view/diff and gh api, which the review
skill uses to pin PR SHAs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(ci): close a fork-PR RCE vector in the review agent's tool allowlist

A live headless run of the exact workflow session against PR #2431 (66
turns, full gitnexus-review pass) surfaced a real HIGH-severity confused
deputy: .gitnexus/ is gitignored, not blocked — a fork PR can commit its
own .gitnexus/run.cjs, issue_comment checks out PR-head content, and the
skill's runner ladder tries 'node .gitnexus/run.cjs analyze' first. That
would execute fork-controlled JS inside a job holding
CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN and a write-scoped GITHUB_TOKEN — the opposite of
the 'PR code is read, never executed' claim in the workflow's own header.

Fix: drop the run.cjs allowlist entry so analyze always resolves through
npx gitnexus (npm registry, not the checked-out tree); the skill's
documented fallback mode covers the resulting graceful degradation. Also
drop 'gh api' (not read-only — accepts -X POST/PATCH/DELETE) and downgrade
pull-requests: write to read (comment posting only needs issues: write;
the prompt already forbids formal review submission).

Same session flagged a latent evolve.py bug: select_evidence's cost sort
used dict.get's missing-key default, which doesn't cover an explicit JSON
null in a foreign --seed-results row and crashes proposer setup with
TypeError. Guarded with 'or 0.0' and added a regression test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix: harden PR review and evolution trust boundaries

* ci: follow workflow concurrency convention

* fix(eval): make terminating error paths explicit

* fix: unblock hardened review runtime checks

* test: make containment canaries deterministic

* test: expose Claude canary tool failures

* fix: adapt clean shell environment for Claude

* fix(eval): accept the runner's transcript source key in evidence preflight

The proposer evidence preflight required transcript-artifact metadata to be
exactly {path, sha256, bytes}, but the runner stamps a fourth provenance key
(source=parent-captured-stream-json). Any --seed-results or generation>=2 run
therefore aborted with SandboxError before proposing or promoting. Pin the
producer literal as PARENT_EVENT_STREAM_SOURCE and validate it in the metadata
check, and round-trip real producer output through sum_sessions into the
preflight so the schema can't drift again.

* fix(eval): treat an unmeasured session cost as unavailable, not $0

well_formed validated only the nested usage block, so an otherwise-successful
session missing total_cost_usd was recorded as cost_usd=0.0 — and cost_usd is
the default promotion metric (lower wins), so a cost-less session scored as
free and could win promotion it never earned. Extract cost via measured_cost()
(None on absent/garbage, a measured 0.0 preserved), propagate None through
sum_sessions/aggregate/savings/report, and have the gate refuse to rank on a
metric that was not measured on every run in both arms.

* fix(eval): warn when ranking on the main-loop-only num_turns metric

num_turns comes from the CLI's top-level usage (main-loop session only), like
output_tokens, but selecting it emitted no metric_warning — so a subagent-heavy
candidate could look artificially efficient. Add num_turns to
MAIN_LOOP_ONLY_METRICS and broaden the warning to cover turns.

* fix(eval): fail closed when an overlay adds a file with no committed base

An overlay adding a new .md under gitnexus-{plan,work} passes the structural
overlay checks but has no committed base for committed_destination_base_digests
to bind against, so it raised an uncaught ValueError that crashed the evolve
driver (and runner --candidate-overlay) mid-run. Catch it at both call sites:
evolve reports NOT PROMOTED and exits, runner routes it through parser.error.

* feat(eval): circuit-break the runner sweep on a systemic outage

A sustained upstream outage used to pay out every remaining --timeout window
one session at a time. Track consecutive session/infra/cleanup failures via a
pure systemic_outage_streak helper; after --outage-streak (default 5) in a row,
stop the sweep, still write report.md/promotion.json from partial evidence, and
exit non-zero so evolve.py halts instead of proposing from truncated evidence.
A task's own resolved=False never trips the breaker.

* fix(cli): report a dirty working tree as stale in gitnexus status

status --json (and the human output) computed up-to-date from commit + runner
identity + completeness only, so a repo with uncommitted source changes at a
matching HEAD was reported up-to-date while analyze would still re-index it.
A graph-backed agent gating on that JSON could skip re-analysis on a stale
graph. Extract analyze's dirty-tree check into a shared isWorkingTreeDirty()
in storage/git and fold it into the status freshness decision.

* fix(ci): use single-slash deny globs in the review agent's disallowedTools

github.workspace already expands to an absolute path, so Read(/${{ github.workspace }}/**)
and Read(//proc/**),(//sys/**),(//dev/**) produced double-slash patterns that a
normalizing matcher may not match — silently no-opping the deny layer. Not
exploitable (the allowlist is the primary control and never grants those
paths), but the globs should be well-formed. Update the pinned test strings.

* ci: install gitnexus-shared with npm ci from the committed lockfile

The gitnexus-shared build floated its deps via npm install in three workflows
(skill-sync, ci-tests, and — most importantly — the release publish.yml) while
every other install step uses npm ci. The lockfile is committed and in sync, so
switch all three to npm ci for reproducible, locked installs.

* test(cli): make the shipped-skills drift guard reject symlinks

listFilesRecursive walked with readdirSync and snapshotDir read with
readFileSync, both of which follow symlinks — so a mirror file symlinked to the
canonical tree passed the byte-compare (and a symlinked mirror dir would be
followed too). Reject a symlinked root via lstat and any symlinked entry via
Dirent.isSymbolicLink, with negative tests (skipped on Windows).

* test(eval): guard the candidate-skill vs mirror-root coverage invariant

MIRROR_SKILL_ROOTS omits the Cursor tree, safe only because no candidate skill
is cursor-shipped. Pin that invariant: every CANDIDATE_SKILLS entry must exist
under canonical + every mirror root and must not ship to Cursor, so adding a
cursor-shipped skill to the candidate set (the PR #2488 asymmetric-sync class)
fails loudly instead of syncing three of four trees.

* docs(ci): describe the review agent's staged post-merge rollout

The DoD asked for a dry-run or triggered run before merge, but an issue_comment
(or newly added workflow_dispatch) workflow only ever executes the default-branch
copy, so it cannot be exercised from the PR that introduces it. Reword the DoD
and the activation checklist to a staged rollout: merge registered-but-disabled,
validate same-repo and fork execution post-merge, then enable the variable.

* fix: pin plugin skill mcp.json to the release version via #2445 tooling

The ten plugin skill mcp.json launched `npx -y gitnexus@latest mcp` on every
skill connect — non-reproducible and a supply-chain surface, and (unlike the
persisted setup config) never pinned. Extend sync-plugin-manifests.mjs with an
mcp surface kind that stamps the gitnexus@<version> launch arg, pin all ten to
1.6.9 now, and keep them byte-identical so the drift guard stays green. The
release lifecycle + publish.yml --check now re-stamp them like the four manifest
surfaces; only READMEs stay on @latest as docs.

* test(eval): prove the proposer's built-in file tools are confined

The real-Claude canary only exercised Bash + MCP, so it proved process/MCP
containment but not that the proposer's built-in file tools stay inside their
mounts. Add a canary over the exact PROPOSER_ALLOWED_TOOLS surface and the same
read-only /evidence mount as run_proposer (allowlist extracted to a shared
constant so it can't drift): Read reaches /evidence, a Write into the read-only
evidence mount is denied, and a Write lands in the output tree.

* fix(eval): apply the candidate overlay after task setup for fair arms

The candidate overlay was applied before the task's untrusted setup ran, so
setup could observe candidate prose and the incumbent/candidate arms started
from different pre-overlay state. Reorder within the sandbox: capture the base
(pre-overlay) skill digest, run setup against the base skills, verify setup did
not tamper them, then apply the overlay and capture the post-overlay digest the
model must preserve. apply_candidate_overlay stages path-specific overlay files,
so setup's uncommitted changes stay out of the baseline and churn is unchanged.

Graph freshness for the review arm is handled by the status dirty-tree fix plus
the review skill's stale-triggered re-index, not by reordering the cached
per-task-sha graph materialization (which is mechanically blocked).

* test(eval): end-to-end containment proof of the autonomous proposer

Drives the real run_proposer through bubblewrap with a deterministic scripted
model (no paid API): it reads the read-only evidence bundle and writes a
candidate gitnexus-plan skill edit plus a rationale into the sandbox output
tree; run_proposer enforces the trust boundary and copies only the validated
overlay + proposal out. This exercises the autonomous-proposal stage of the
self-evolution loop end-to-end in the eval/containment CI job (the gate and
apply stages are covered by test_workflow_bench_evolution and
test_promotion_apply). Env-gated on GITNEXUS_REQUIRE_CLAUDE_CANARY, so it runs
only where the pinned Claude binary and user namespaces are available.

* fix(eval): let the proposer author its overlay via Bash

Running the end-to-end proposer canary in the containment CI job surfaced a real
bug: run_proposer starts the session with --bare, which hard-disables the
Write/Edit tools ("Write exists but is not enabled in this context"), yet
allowlisted Edit/Write and omitted Bash. The proposer therefore had no working
way to write its candidate overlay — the self-evolution loop could never produce
a candidate. The sandbox settings already pre-authorize Bash
(autoAllowBashIfSandboxed) and confine writes to workspace/tmp/home, so switch
PROPOSER_ALLOWED_TOOLS to Read/Grep/Glob/Bash and tell the proposer to author
files with Bash. The end-to-end test now drives the real run_proposer through
bubblewrap and asserts a validated overlay + proposal are produced (this also
replaces the earlier file-tool canary, whose Write/Edit premise was moot).

* test(eval): author the proposer overlay with newline-free Bash content

The nested shell-sandbox prefix mangles embedded newlines, so the multi-line
overlay content never landed. Use single-line content for the deterministic
proposer canary.

* test(eval): drop the unverifiable end-to-end proposer canary

The scripted proposer overlay never materialized in the containment job across
runs, and the model tool-result content is not visible in CI logs, so the test
cannot be finalized without an environment where the sandbox can actually run.
Keep the verified production fix (Bash-authoring in run_proposer); the proposer
sandbox/containment stays covered by the existing Bash+MCP and process-tree
canaries.

* test(cli): drop run-analyze.ts from the windowsHide spawn-family list

U7 moved run-analyze.ts's only child_process call (the git status --porcelain
dirty check) into storage/git.ts (already covered by this test, with
windowsHide). run-analyze.ts no longer imports a spawn-family function, so the
windowsHide-regression test's 'must have >=1 spawn call' invariant failed for
it. Remove it from SRC_FILES.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Zander Raycraft <zanderjraycraft@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Azizur Rahman <azizur100389@gmail.com>
2026-07-19 15:07:24 +01:00