* docs: incremental indexing design spec
Captures the design agreed in brainstorming on 2026-05-10:
- Transitive importer closure with public-surface-change optimization
- Git-only change detection (non-git repos: full rebuild as today)
- New default behavior; --force opts out
- New hydratePhase + loadGraphFromLbug primitive
- Iterative closure expansion with parseCache reuse
- incrementalInProgress dirty flag for crash recovery
Prior art: PR #592 (zenprocess), PR #533 (davidbeesley),
PR #1146 (azeemshaik025) — referenced and credited.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(communities): seed Leiden RNG for deterministic community detection
The vendored Leiden algorithm defaults to Math.random for tie-breaking
and randomized walks, which produces non-deterministic community
assignments and modularity values across runs on the same graph.
Pass a seeded mulberry32 RNG (LEIDEN_SEED=0xC0DE) so:
- The same graph always produces the same partition
- Modularity values are reproducible
- Equivalence tests for incremental indexing can compare community
assignments byte-for-byte
This is foundational for the upcoming incremental-indexing feature
(see docs/superpowers/specs/2026-05-10-incremental-indexing-design.md)
where the correctness contract is incremental output ≡ full rebuild
output.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(incremental): change-detection, surface signatures, closure expansion
Three new modules supporting the incremental-indexing pipeline:
* core/incremental/git-diff.ts — getChangedFilesSinceCommit() unions
'git diff lastCommit HEAD' (committed) with 'git status --porcelain'
(dirty tree). Renames flattened to delete(orig) + add(new). Throws
LastCommitMissingError when lastCommit is gone (caller falls back to
full rebuild).
* core/incremental/surface.ts — extractSurfaceSignature() produces a
stable hash of a file's publicly-visible symbols (functions, classes,
methods, interfaces, types, heritage). Body-only edits → same hash.
Signature/heritage changes → different hash. Drives the closure
scoping optimization.
* core/incremental/closure.ts — computeImporterClosure() iterative
fixpoint: parse each closure file, extract surface, query DB
importers, expand. Uses a parseCache so each file is parsed once.
Generic over TParseResult so closure logic is decoupled from the
pipeline's parse representation.
32 unit tests across the three modules. Tests cover edge cases:
clean tree, dirty-only, mixed, renames, deletes, multi-hop cascade,
cycle termination, surface invariance, etc.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(lbug): loadGraphFromLbug, queryImporters, deleteAllCommunitiesAndProcesses
Three new primitives in lbug-adapter.ts to support incremental indexing:
* loadGraphFromLbug(graph, unchangedFilePaths) — streams all nodes for
files in the set across every hydratable node table (excludes
Community/Process — graph-wide, regenerated downstream). Then loads
edges where both endpoints belong to loaded nodes, excluding
MEMBER_OF / STEP_IN_PROCESS edges (also graph-wide).
FilePaths chunked at 200 per query to keep statement size bounded
on huge repos. Endpoint-level join filters by source-side filePath
in the query, target-side checked JS-side via the loadedNodeIds set.
* queryImporters(targetFilePath) — returns DISTINCT a.filePath where
a -[IMPORTS]-> b and b.filePath = target. Powers closure expansion:
when a changed file's surface signature changes, all its importers
must be re-parsed.
* deleteAllCommunitiesAndProcesses() — drops Community/Process nodes
(and their edges via DETACH DELETE) at the start of each incremental
run so the communities/processes phases regenerate them from the
fully-merged graph. Required for the 'Leiden runs on full graph'
correctness invariant.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(pipeline): hydrate phase + parse-filter for incremental indexing
Wires the incremental-indexing infrastructure into the phase-based
pipeline. Three coordinated changes:
* New hydratePhase (deps: structure) — loads node/edge state for files
OUTSIDE ctx.options.filesToParse from the existing LadybugDB index.
Runs before parse so the parse phase can produce a partial graph
while downstream phases (mro, communities, processes) still see the
full graph. No-op in full-rebuild mode (filesToParse unset).
* PipelineOptions.filesToParse: optional ReadonlySet<string>. When
set, parse phase filters scanned files to this set; hydrate fills
the complement. Set by runFullAnalysis when it detects an eligible
incremental run; never set by callers directly.
* gitnexus-shared PipelinePhase enum: 'hydrate' added so progress
callbacks can report the new phase distinctly from 'structure'.
Phase order: scan → structure → hydrate → markdown,cobol → parse
→ routes,tools,orm → crossFile → scopeResolution → mro → communities
→ processes. Communities (Leiden) still runs on the full graph,
satisfying the correctness invariant.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(analyze): incremental orchestrator branch + meta schema
Wires incremental indexing into runFullAnalysis. Highlights:
* RepoMeta schema extended: schemaVersion, surfaceSignatures, and
incrementalInProgress fields. INCREMENTAL_SCHEMA_VERSION = 1.
* core/incremental/file-hash.ts — v1 surface signature: SHA-256 of file
content. v2 will switch to a true surface-only signature (defined in
surface.ts) so body-only edits don't expand the closure. The plumbing
is signature-agnostic so the swap is local.
* core/incremental/orchestrator.ts — eligibility check, closure
computation (uses file-hash as the surface signal), dirty-flag
management, subgraph extraction, signature merge.
* run-analyze.ts adds:
- hasDirtyTree() check on the existing 'lastCommit==HEAD' early-exit
so an uncommitted edit triggers re-index (was a coarse equality
check before).
- incremental branch: try incremental first; fall through to full
rebuild on any setup failure or eligibility miss.
- runIncrementalBranch() — opens existing DB, deletes closure-file
rows + Community/Process, runs pipeline with filesToParse, writes
only the changed-subgraph back, refreshes FTS, updates meta with
new surfaceSignatures and clears the dirty flag.
- Full-rebuild path now populates surfaceSignatures + schemaVersion
in meta.json so the next run is eligible for incremental.
Crash recovery: incrementalInProgress is set BEFORE any DB mutation
and cleared on success by overwriting meta.json. A crash anywhere in
between leaves the flag set, and the next analyze run forces a full
rebuild (cheapest path back to a known-good index).
v1 limitation documented: body-only edits trigger 1-hop closure
expansion (content-hash signal). True surface-only optimization is
deferred to v2 — see design doc for the integration path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(incremental): drop invalid --no-renames=false from git diff
The flag --no-renames=false isn't valid git syntax (it's parsed as a
file path). Git's default rename detection is on; removing the flag
keeps that behavior.
Caught while running an end-to-end smoke test against a small fixture
repo: incremental setup failed with 'Command failed: git diff
--name-status -z --no-renames=false ...'. After the fix, the
incremental path runs cleanly: closure is computed, hydrate phase
loads unchanged-file state from DB, parse phase only re-parses files
in closure, and the writeback updates only changed nodes/edges.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Revert v1 incremental indexing (5 commits)
Reverts the v1 design that parsed only closure files into a fresh
graph and tried to hydrate the rest from DB. Real-repo equivalence
test failed: cross-file resolution operates on partial parse data
(closure files only), so CALLS edges that resolve through unchanged
files silently fall off. Diff against full rebuild on the same
edited state: -50 nodes, -425 edges, -5 communities, -48 processes.
Architecture pivot: switch to PR #533-style content-addressed parse
cache. Pipeline parses every file (cache-served when possible),
giving cross-file resolution full data, with DB writeback then
restricted to changed-file rows.
Reverts:
d4b9de47 fix(incremental): drop invalid --no-renames=false
f35f7634 feat(analyze): incremental orchestrator branch + meta schema
bc039686 feat(pipeline): hydrate phase + parse-filter
98bb893d feat(lbug): loadGraphFromLbug, queryImporters, ...
aa8d7ae3 feat(incremental): change-detection, surface signatures, closure
Kept:
d9e340b0 feat(communities): seed Leiden RNG (foundational)
8235ca36 docs: incremental indexing design spec (will be revised)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(analyze): incremental DB writeback (Option B)
Equivalence-preserving incremental analyze. The pipeline still parses
every file (correctness invariant: cross-file resolution / scope
resolution / MRO / community detection all need full graph data); the
saving comes from selectively replacing only changed-file rows in
LadybugDB instead of wiping and reloading the whole graph.
How it works:
* On every analyze, we hash all source files (SHA-256 of content) and
store the map in meta.json.fileHashes alongside schemaVersion.
* The next run loads the prior map and diffs:
- changed: content hash differs → file's DB rows replaced.
- added: not in prior map → file's DB rows inserted.
- deleted: in prior map but not on disk → file's DB rows dropped.
* If the diff is non-empty AND no --force / no schema mismatch / no
dirty flag, take the incremental path:
- Set incrementalInProgress dirty flag (BEFORE any DB mutation).
- Open existing DB (no wipe).
- deleteNodesForFile() for each changed/added/deleted file.
- deleteAllCommunitiesAndProcesses() — Leiden regenerates these.
- extractChangedSubgraph() from the in-memory ctx.graph: nodes whose
filePath is in the writable set + Community + Process + edges with
at least one endpoint in the writable set (edges entirely between
hydrated unchanged nodes are skipped — already in DB).
- loadGraphToLbug() on the subgraph. Unchanged-file rows in DB
untouched.
- Recreate FTS indexes.
- Update meta with new fileHashes; clear dirty flag.
* Otherwise full-rebuild path runs as before.
Crash recovery: incrementalInProgress is the dirty flag. Set before
destructive ops; cleared on success. Set on next-run startup → forces
full rebuild (cheapest path back to known-good).
Other changes:
* Dirty-tree gate on the existing 'lastCommit==HEAD' early-return:
uncommitted edits no longer slip through as 'already up to date'.
* deleteAllCommunitiesAndProcesses helper in lbug-adapter.
* Skip the embedding cache+restore cycle when willTryIncremental is
true — embeddings stay in DB; re-inserting them would PK-conflict.
End-to-end equivalence verified on this repo (993 files, 24K nodes):
incremental run produces byte-identical {nodes, edges, clusters,
flows} to a full rebuild from the same edited state.
Speedup is currently modest (~5% on this repo) because the parse
phase still runs in full. Parse-cache integration is a separate
follow-up that composes cleanly on top of this work.
See docs/superpowers/specs/2026-05-10-incremental-indexing-design.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(analyze): chunk-level parse cache for full incremental speedup
Composes with the incremental DB writeback (commit 27f3b49d) to deliver
the major-speedup half of incremental indexing. Previously, the parse
phase ran in full on every analyze; the speedup came purely from
selective DB rewriting. With this commit the parse phase also reuses
prior tree-sitter output for chunks whose contents haven't changed.
How it works:
* Cache layer (gitnexus/src/storage/parse-cache.ts):
- File: <repo>/.gitnexus/parse-cache.json. Versioned, atomic write.
- Key: chunk content hash = sha256(sorted(filePath:fileContentHash
for each file in chunk)).
- Value: ParseWorkerResult[] (raw worker output for the chunk,
pre-merge).
- Granularity: per chunk (~20MB byte-budget). A change to one file
invalidates only its chunk — typically 1 of ~50 on a 1000-file
repo (~98% cache hit ratio on a small edit).
* Worker contract (gitnexus/src/core/ingestion/parsing-processor.ts):
- Extracted the chunk-result merge loop into a public
mergeChunkResults() so the same logic applies to live worker
output AND replayed cache entries.
- processParsingWithWorkers / processParsing accept an optional
outRawResults out-parameter that captures worker output before
merging — used by parse-impl to populate the cache after a miss.
* Parse phase wiring (parse-impl.ts):
- For each chunk, compute its content hash (after reading file
contents). Cache hit → mergeChunkResults() on cached results,
skip the worker dispatch entirely. Cache miss → run workers
normally, capture raw results, store under the chunk hash.
- Cache mutations happen in-place on the ParseCache passed via
PipelineOptions.parseCache.
* Lifecycle (run-analyze.ts):
- loadParseCache() before pipeline runs.
- Cache passed via runPipelineFromRepo's PipelineOptions.
- saveParseCache() after the pipeline + DB writeback succeed.
Equivalence verified on this repo (993 files, 24K nodes):
Cold (no cache, full work): 141.1s
Warm cache + 1-file edit, incremental: 63.6s ← 55% speedup
Warm cache + 1-file edit, --force: 71.6s ← 49% speedup
All three runs produce byte-identical {nodes, edges, clusters,
flows}. The cache survives --force (content-addressed = always
correct), so even forced rebuilds get the parse-skip benefit.
Why chunk-level rather than per-file: workers process sub-batches and
emit aggregated ParseWorkerResults. Per-file granularity would require
restructuring the worker contract; chunk-level captures most of the
practical speedup with no worker-side changes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* perf(parse-impl): smaller default chunk budget (20MB→2MB) for cache granularity
The parse cache is keyed at chunk granularity. With the previous 20MB
budget, a typical mid-size repo (e.g. this worktree at 9MB total
parseable source) fits in a single chunk — meaning ANY file change
invalidates the whole chunk and re-parses every file.
2MB default produces ~5x more chunks on the same input, so a one-file
edit invalidates ~1/N of cached chunks instead of the whole thing.
Cold-run overhead from more chunks is <5% (one extra serialization
pass per chunk).
Override via GITNEXUS_CHUNK_BYTE_BUDGET env var for benchmarking.
Measured on this repo (~9MB / 887 parseable files):
Cold (no cache): 143s
Warm cache, no source changes: 2s (early-return)
Warm cache + 1-file edit: 81s (~43% off cold)
Speedup is bounded by the scopeResolution phase (~58s flat regardless
of parse cache) and by GitNexus's own auto-writes during analyze
(AGENTS.md / .claude/skills/ etc. mutate between runs and invalidate
chunks containing them). Both are addressable in follow-ups.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* perf(scope-resolution): reuse worker-produced ParsedFile + stabilize chunk order
Two compounding optimizations that drop warm-cache analyze from
~134s to ~38s on a 1000-file repo (72% faster), and cold rebuild
from ~143s to ~86s (40% faster) by short-circuiting work that was
previously re-done.
1. SCOPE-RESOLUTION: REUSE WORKER PARSEDFILE
Previously, the scope-resolution phase re-parsed every file with
tree-sitter on the main thread (~58s on a 1000-file repo) because
worker-produced tree-sitter Trees can't cross the worker MessageChannel.
But the worker ALSO produces a artifact via
, which structured-clones fine — and it's exactly
what scope-resolution would re-derive. Threading those ParsedFiles
through the parse phase () into
( map) lets scope-
resolution skip its extract loop on a per-file basis.
The fast path is bounded only by per file (cheap
graph mutation). On this repo: scopeResolution went from 58s → 5s.
2. MAP-PRESERVING PARSE-CACHE SERIALIZATION
is a
which JSON.stringify collapses to . The first attempt at threading
parsedFiles through the parse cache crashed at runtime with
"importerModule.typeBindings is not iterable" because cached entries
came back as plain objects.
Added a JSON replacer/reviver pair in parse-cache.ts that round-trips
Map and Set instances through tagged plain objects (). Symmetric: save uses replacer, load uses reviver.
3. STABLE CHUNK ORDERING
The byte-budget chunker walked files in filesystem-scan order, which
on Windows isn't guaranteed to be stable across runs. Even with
identical source content, two scans could place files in different
chunks, shifting chunk hashes and causing 100% parse-cache misses.
Added a deterministic alphabetical sort on before
chunking. Chunk membership is now stable across runs, so a single-file
edit invalidates exactly one chunk, not all of them.
Measured on this repo (993 files, 24K nodes):
Cold rebuild: 86s (was 143s)
Warm cache, no source changes: 3s (early-return)
Warm cache + 1-file edit: 38s (was 134s)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(incremental): update spec + AGENTS.md + GUARDRAILS.md for shipped design
- Rewrite docs/superpowers/specs/2026-05-10-incremental-indexing-design.md
to describe the architecture that actually shipped (parse cache +
incremental DB writeback + scope-resolution short-circuit), with the
v1 hydrate-phase post-mortem preserved as historical context.
- AGENTS.md "Keeping the Index Fresh" section: note that incremental
is the new default and --force is the explicit opt-out; mention
the parse-cache file location and that it's safe to delete.
- GUARDRAILS.md Signs: add an "Index seems corrupt or incremental is
misbehaving" entry pointing users to --force as the manual escape
hatch (the dirty flag handles automatic recovery).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore(autofix): apply prettier + eslint fixes via /autofix command
* fix(incremental): bugbot review + CI test failures
Bugbot (PR #1479):
- Medium: pruneCache was exported but never called -> cache grew
unbounded. Wire pruneCache into run-analyze before saveParseCache,
using a transient usedKeys Set on ParseCache that the parse phase
populates as it processes chunks.
- Low: willTryIncremental (pre-pipeline) and isIncremental
(post-pipeline) could desync, silently dropping embeddings on
mispredicted runs. Removed the prediction; the embedding cache
now loads unconditionally when shouldLoadCache is true. The
re-insert step gates on the actual isIncremental value to avoid
PK-conflicts when the incremental-writeback path keeps DB rows.
CI test failures:
- cli-e2e #1169 + run-analyze.test.ts #1233: my dirty-tree gate on
the lastCommit==HEAD early-return saw GitNexus's own auto-generated
outputs (.claude/, .cursor/, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md) as dirty,
perpetually defeating the up-to-date fast path. Extended the
pathspec exclusion to cover all auto-gen outputs, not just
.gitnexus/.
- ruby field-type disambig: my chunk-stability sort exposed a
pre-existing order-dependency in Ruby cross-file resolution
(`user.address.save -> Address#save` only resolves correctly when
user.rb parses before address.rb in some configurations). Removed
the sort. Filesystem ordering is stable enough in practice that
the parse cache still hits the common case; the pre-existing
fragility is left for a separate fix.
- pipeline-graph-golden: regenerated. Seeded Leiden RNG produces a
partition different from the previous Math.random snapshot.
- staleness `parallel calls` was a CI timing flake; passes locally.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(incremental): re-insert cached embeddings on incremental path
Bugbot re-review caught: deleteNodesForFile cascades to the
CodeEmbedding table (DELETE WHERE e.nodeId STARTS WITH ...), so
changed-file embedding rows are wiped along with their nodes. The
previous fix gated re-insert on `!isIncremental`, which silently
dropped those embeddings — a regression versus the full-rebuild path's
"preserve embeddings by default" guarantee.
Remove the `!isIncremental` gate. The per-batch try/catch already
handles the unchanged-file PK-conflict case ("some may fail if node
was removed, that's fine") with the same semantics, so re-inserting
the full cached set on incremental works:
- changed-file rows: deleted, then re-inserted from cache (preserved)
- unchanged-file rows: still in DB, re-insert PK-conflicts and is
silently ignored (existing rows are correct)
Cost: re-inserting ~24K embeddings on incremental when only a few
files changed — most are no-op conflicts. Bounded by batch size of
200; ~3-5s overhead. Worth it for correctness.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(incremental): address Claude+Bugbot review findings + remove design doc
Addresses CHANGES_REQUESTED review on PR #1479:
1. Remove docs/superpowers/specs/2026-05-10-incremental-indexing-design.md
per maintainer request.
2. BLOCKER (Claude Finding 1, Bugbot Round 3): Stale cross-file edges
between unchanged files. extractChangedSubgraph excluded edges where
both endpoints were unchanged-file nodes — when a barrel/re-export
file changes, cross-file resolution may update CALLS edges between
two unchanged files that would then be silently lost.
Fix: 1-hop importer-closure expansion of the writable set in
run-analyze.ts. Before deleting/rewriting rows, query DB for
importers of every changed/deleted file and add them to the writable
set. Their nodes get deleted+rewritten too, so cross-file's refined
edges land in the DB. Re-added queryImporters to lbug-adapter.ts.
3. BLOCKER (Claude Finding 3): Parse cache key omitted parser version.
After a GitNexus upgrade, the cache silently replays pre-upgrade
ParseWorkerResults against the new schema → wrong CALLS/IMPORTS/
scope edges with no visible signal.
Fix: PARSE_CACHE_VERSION now embeds the gitnexus npm package
version (read at module load via createRequire on package.json).
Format: `${SCHEMA_BUMP}+${PKG_VERSION}` e.g. "1+1.6.4". Any release
that bumps package.json automatically invalidates the on-disk cache.
Mismatched versions fall through to an empty cache (next save
overwrites with the new version baked in).
4. BLOCKER (Claude Finding 2): No automated tests for incremental
behavior. Added 28 unit tests across 3 files:
- incremental-file-hash.test.ts (10 tests)
diffFileHashes classification, computeFileHash determinism,
computeFileHashes batch / missing-file tolerance, sorted output.
- incremental-parse-cache.test.ts (12 tests)
computeChunkHash stability and order-independence, version
prefix format, pruneCache, load/save round-trip on empty /
missing / corrupt / version-mismatched files, AND a Map/Set
round-trip test that pins the JSON replacer/reviver behaviour
(without it, ParsedFile.scopes[*].typeBindings collapses to
{} and downstream `.get()` / iteration throws).
- incremental-subgraph-extract.test.ts (6 tests)
writable-set node inclusion, Community/Process always kept,
edge inclusion when at least one endpoint is writable, MEMBER_OF
edges via graph-wide endpoints, empty subgraph case.
5. Medium (Claude Finding 6): AGENTS.md "Keeping the Index Fresh"
said "only changed files are re-parsed." Imprecise — the pipeline
parses every file every run; the cache skips tree-sitter for chunks
whose contents haven't changed. Reworded to match the design doc.
Test plan still expects:
[x] Typecheck clean
[x] All 28 new unit tests pass
[x] All previously-failing tests still pass on the rebased branch
[x] Equivalence verified locally (incremental ≡ --force, byte-identical
stats on this repo)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(incremental): round 3 review feedback — bounded BFS, atomic meta, integration test, docs
Addresses remaining findings on PR #1479 from Claude's re-review of
commit ad7bd31 + verifies the outstanding Bugbot HIGH severity.
1. F1 — Transitive importer expansion (Claude, was Medium-but-noted).
Previous 1-hop importer expansion missed barrel re-export chains
(A imports C, C re-exports B; when B changes, only C was pulled in
— A was left with potentially-stale CALLS edges to refined targets).
Replaced the single pass with a bounded BFS over the IMPORTS graph
(depth ≤ 4). Catches nested barrel pyramids without ballooning into
a near-full rebuild on monorepos with deep re-export trees. `--force`
remains the escape hatch documented in GUARDRAILS.md for cases that
exceed the bound.
2. F2 — Integration test for incremental orchestration (Claude, BLOCKER,
DoD §2.7). The unit tests added in ad7bd31 covered `diffFileHashes`,
`extractChangedSubgraph`, `computeChunkHash`, `pruneCache`, and the
Map/Set JSON round-trip — but none of them exercised the real
`runFullAnalysis` orchestration. Added gitnexus/test/unit/
incremental-orchestration.test.ts with four end-to-end tests against
a real git-initialized fixture repo + real LadybugDB:
a. First run populates fileHashes + schemaVersion and clears
incrementalInProgress on success.
b. Second run on unchanged state takes the alreadyUpToDate fast
path (early-return).
c. Second run after a source edit takes the incremental path
(not full rebuild) and rotates fileHashes for the touched file
while keeping the dirty flag cleared.
d. A pre-set incrementalInProgress flag forces a full rebuild
that clears it (crash-recovery wire).
These would catch any regression that wires `isIncremental` from a
pre-pipeline prediction (the Bugbot finding from commit 5eb0597) or
accidentally re-gates the embedding re-insert on `!isIncremental`
(the Bugbot finding from commit 60c10f1).
3. F3 — GUARDRAILS.md docs accuracy (Claude, Low). Line 33 still said
"only changed files are re-parsed" — AGENTS.md was already corrected
in ad7bd31 but GUARDRAILS.md was missed. Reworded to match.
4. F5 — Atomic saveMeta (Claude, Medium; vvladescu-tb fork). The dirty
flag (`incrementalInProgress`) travels through meta.json. A crash
mid-write would leave a corrupt meta.json that `loadMeta` would
silently treat as "no prior index", losing the flag and skipping
recovery. Switched to tmp-file + rename matching saveParseCache.
5. Bugbot's "Subgraph edges reference nodes absent from subgraph"
(HIGH severity). Verified as FALSE POSITIVE: `getNodeLabel` in
lbug-adapter.ts derives labels from the node-ID string (parses
the table prefix), not from the in-memory graph. The CSV
generator writes (src_id, dst_id, type) rows without consulting
node objects; `splitRelCsvByLabelPair` routes by ID-derived label;
`COPY ... (from=X, to=Y)` resolves both endpoints against the live
LadybugDB where unchanged-file nodes still exist. No fix needed.
All 213 tests pass locally (including the 4 new integration tests
and the previously-failing CI tests).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(incremental): address Bugbot round-4 findings (added-file shadow seed + dedupe)
Bugbot review on commit e23e4400 surfaced two new findings against the
incremental writeback in run-analyze.ts:
HIGH — Incremental BFS misses importers of newly added files.
queryImporters() reads the pre-pipeline DB. For a NEWLY ADDED
file there are no IMPORTS rows pointing to it yet, so unchanged
files whose pre-existing import statements now resolve to the
newcomer keep stale CALLS edges pointing at the OLD resolution
target.
LOW — Deleted files double-counted in filesToDelete.
hashDiff.deleted entries can reappear in writableFiles via the
BFS expansion (queryImporters can return a now-deleted path),
so deleteNodesForFile() ran twice for the same file.
Fixes:
- Add gitnexus/src/core/incremental/shadow-candidates.ts: derive
the pre-existing file paths whose JS/TS module-resolution claim
an added file can steal. Pattern catalogue: same-basename/
different-extension, bare-file-beats-directory-index, and
directory-index-beats-bare-file. Emit both POSIX and Windows
separators because the prior fileHashes map may have been
written from either OS.
- In run-analyze.ts, seed the BFS frontier with shadow candidates
that exist in the prior meta.fileHashes. Their importers — found
via queryImporters — get pulled into the writable set so their
CALLS edges re-resolve against the new file.
- Dedupe filesToDelete via Set to avoid the double-call.
Tests: gitnexus/test/unit/incremental-shadow-candidates.test.ts —
8 cases covering each shadow pattern, separator handling, .d.ts as
a single extension token, deduplication, and the no-self-shadow
invariant. All 40 incremental tests (file-hash, parse-cache,
subgraph-extract, shadow-candidates, orchestration) pass locally.
Note on the third Bugbot finding ("Subgraph edges reference nodes
absent from subgraph"): re-anchored from a prior review pass — the
code at subgraph-extract.ts:48 is unchanged. Already verified as a
false positive: getNodeLabel parses labels from ID strings, CSV
write is by ID, and COPY resolves against the live DB.
* chore(autofix): apply prettier + eslint fixes via /autofix command
* test(incremental): exact-equality stats invariant + analyze ≡ analyze --force
Addresses the only remaining Claude production-readiness review finding
on PR #1479 (Low-Medium, test-quality only — Claude itself said it does
NOT block merge, but the central PR claim "incremental ≡ full rebuild"
deserves explicit CI coverage rather than implicit trust).
Changes to gitnexus/test/unit/incremental-orchestration.test.ts:
1) Tighten the existing "comment-only edit takes incremental path" test.
- Replace toBeGreaterThan(0) bounds assertions on stats.files and
stats.nodes with exact toBe(firstMeta) per-field equality across
files / nodes / edges / communities / processes. DoD §2.7 calls
out bounds-only assertions as masking regressions that drop half
the graph; this swap closes that gap.
- Rationale: a comment-only edit must change the file content hash
(driving the incremental path) without changing any graph data.
Therefore every stat MUST be identical to the first run. Anything
else is a regression.
2) New test: incremental output is byte-equivalent to a full rebuild.
- Run analyze → comment-only edit → analyze (incremental writeback)
→ analyze --force (full rebuild from same on-disk state).
- Assert files / nodes / edges / communities / processes are exactly
equal across the incremental and the --force passes.
- This is the PR's central correctness contract, now proven by a
test that exercises the real runtime path end-to-end against a
real on-disk LadybugDB.
All 5 orchestration tests pass locally (52s), including the new
equivalence test — every stat field matches exactly between incremental
and --force on the mini-repo fixture.
tsc --noEmit clean.
* fix(incremental): F1 cross-file edge consistency + F4 stable chunk sort + unit coverage (#1511)
Patch addressing two of the still-open changes-requested findings on PR
#1479, rebased onto the current feat/incremental-indexing head. F3
(parser fingerprint in the cache key), F5 (atomic saveMeta), and F6
(AGENTS.md phrasing) were already handled on the branch, so the
corresponding parts of the original patch were dropped as redundant.
F1 (Blocker) — Cross-file edges between unchanged files
Adds `computeEffectiveWriteSet(graph, toWriteSet)` to
subgraph-extract.ts: a single pass over the new graph's edges that
pulls the unchanged-side file of every writable-boundary-crossing
edge into the write set. run-analyze composes it ON TOP of the
existing importer-BFS expansion and feeds the combined set to BOTH
`deleteNodesForFile` and `extractChangedSubgraph`, so the delete
cascade and the writeback subgraph cover identical files (asymmetry
would leave stale rows or PK-conflict at COPY time). The BFS reads
IMPORTS from the pre-pipeline DB (catches files that *stopped*
importing a changed file); the edge walk reads the new graph
(catches refined CALLS edges the pre-run DB couldn't predict, e.g.
a barrel re-export shifting a symbol from B to D). `extractChangedSubgraph`
stays a pure filter — all expansion is the orchestrator's job.
F4 (Medium) — Restore alphabetical chunk sort
`parseableScanned` is sorted before chunking. Filesystem-scan order
isn't stable enough across runs/platforms (notably macOS APFS) to
keep chunk hashes consistent, so the parse cache thrashes without
it. The pre-existing Ruby cross-file resolution order-dependency the
old comment cited is independent — the sort surfaces it but doesn't
cause it; tracked separately rather than leaving the cache cold.
Tests — incremental-subgraph-extract.test.ts
Locks the F1 invariants: `extractChangedSubgraph` is a pure filter
(includes only the set it's given, plus graph-wide nodes; edges
fire on one writable endpoint), and `computeEffectiveWriteSet`
covers the barrel-re-export scenario, the symmetric edge-into-
changed-file case, the no-boundary-crossed no-op, graph-wide-node
edges, and input-immutability. Supersedes the prior
extractChangedSubgraph-only test file on the branch.
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* chore(autofix): apply prettier + eslint fixes via /autofix command
* fix(call-processor): register properties in pre-pass to fix order-dependent field type disambiguation + regenerate golden snapshot
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* fix(call-processor): port worker-path property enrichment into the sequential pre-pass
Copilot's pre-pass in 8184439 fixed the Ruby attr_accessor order-dependence,
but it copied the OLD in-loop registration logic, not the canonical worker
path in parse-worker.ts. That left the sequential and worker paths emitting
non-identical Property nodes/symbols for the same source — silently breaking
the `incremental ≡ --force` invariant the moment a repo crosses the worker
threshold between runs.
Two concrete divergences are closed here:
* Node id: worker keys Property as `${file}:${className}.${propName}`
(qualified). Pre-pass was using `${file}:${propName}` (unqualified).
Same source produced different graph ids depending on which path ran.
* Field metadata: worker enriches each routed property with
`provider.fieldExtractor` + `getFieldInfo`, falling back to
`routedFieldInfo.type` for `declaredType` when the routing payload
lacks one (e.g. types discovered from `@address = Address.new`
ctor assignments rather than YARD `@return [Type]`), and propagates
`visibility` / `isStatic` / `isReadonly`. Pre-pass did none of this,
so on the sequential path `resolveFieldAccessType` failed to walk
chains where the type only came from the FieldExtractor.
The pre-pass now mirrors parse-worker.ts:1803-1898 verbatim, with one
deliberate difference: the FieldInfo cache is scoped to a single
`processCalls` invocation rather than module-level (the worker process
is short-lived; the main thread is not, and a module-level cache would
leak state between analyze runs).
Also drops the now-stale "Defer resolution: Ruby attr_accessor properties
are registered during this same loop" comment on `pendingWrites.push` —
the rationale is no longer accurate after Copilot's pre-pass, but the
deferral is still needed so write-access tracking sees inference that
completes during the main loop. Comment updated to reflect that.
Verification:
* `tsc --noEmit`: 0 errors
* test/unit (call-processor, call-routing, field-extraction, ruby-self-call): 224 passing
* test/integration (ruby, ruby-sequential-mixin, pipeline-graph-golden): 137 passing
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* fix(call-processor): key fieldInfoCache by filePath:startIndex, not raw byte offset
Claude's review of 255bdf6 caught a real collision in the FieldInfoCache I
added: keying by `classNode.startIndex` alone is a per-file byte offset, so
two files that both begin with a class at byte 0 — extremely common in Ruby /
Python, where files frequently open with `class Foo`, `module Foo` — collide
on the same cache entry. The second file's `getFieldInfo` then returns the
first file's FieldInfo map, producing wrong `declaredType` / `visibility` /
`isReadonly` on its properties.
Same shape as the bug that already exists in parse-worker.ts:377 (also keyed
by `classNode.startIndex` in a module-level map, persistent across files
processed by the same worker). Fixing the symmetric pre-existing leak in
parse-worker.ts is a separate, scoped follow-up — left out of this commit to
keep the fix minimal and reviewable.
Cache map and key are now both string-typed. Composite key
`${context.filePath}:${classNode.startIndex}` keeps the within-file hit rate
(one FieldExtractor.extract() per class regardless of how many
`attr_accessor` lines it has) while eliminating cross-file aliasing.
Verification on the patched HEAD:
* `tsc --noEmit`: 0 errors
* test/unit (call-processor, call-routing, field-extraction, ruby-self-call): 224 passing
* test/integration (ruby, ruby-sequential-mixin, pipeline-graph-golden): 137 passing
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* ci: E2E workflow, web typecheck job, pre-commit hook, test suite
CI:
- ci.yml consolidated to reference ci-tests.yml
- ci-quality.yml: add typecheck-web job for gitnexus-web/
- ci-e2e.yml: E2E workflow with dorny/paths-filter (web changes only)
- ci-report.yml: remove dead integration-reports references
- CI gate allows skipped E2E status
- .gitignore: playwright artifacts, eval test artifacts
Pre-commit hook:
- .githooks/pre-commit: typecheck + unit tests for both packages
- Activated via git config core.hooksPath in prepare script
Test infrastructure:
- Vitest + React Testing Library: 58 unit tests
(graph, server-connection, mermaid, settings, constants, utils, paths)
- Playwright E2E: 5 tests + manual recording harness
- vitest.config from vitest/config, engines.node >= 20
- Playwright artifacts retain-on-failure
- wait-on in devDependencies
- vitest/coverage-v8 aligned with vitest 4.x
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* chore: update gitnexus-web package-lock.json
Reflects devDependency additions (vitest, playwright, wait-on,
@testing-library, etc.) from package.json changes in this PR.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(e2e): add missing process-list-loaded testid, increase CI timeouts
- Add data-testid="process-list-loaded" to ProcessesPanel (E2E tests
were waiting for an element that didn't exist)
- Increase server connect timeouts from 5s to 10s for slower CI
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(ci): run gitnexus-web unit tests in CI, remove unused variable
- Add gitnexus-web npm ci + vitest run to ci-tests.yml so web unit
tests are gated by the CI status check (were only running locally)
- Remove unused IS_PLAYWRIGHT_AUTOMATION variable from E2E spec
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(e2e): add process-row testid, wait for networkidle on page load
- Add data-testid="process-row" to ProcessItem component (E2E tests
referenced it but it didn't exist in the source)
- Use waitUntil: 'networkidle' on page.goto to ensure Vite dev server
is fully ready before interacting (fixes first-test timeout in CI)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(e2e): add process-view-button and process-highlight-button testids
E2E tests referenced these data-testid attributes but they didn't
exist in ProcessItem. All 6 E2E testids now have matching source
elements: status-ready, process-list-loaded, process-row,
process-view-button, process-highlight-button, server-url-input.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(e2e): remove networkidle — Vite HMR WebSocket prevents it from resolving
networkidle waits for zero network activity for 500ms, but Vite's HMR
WebSocket stays open permanently, causing page.goto to timeout at 60s
on all tests after the first. The explicit toBeVisible waits on UI
elements are sufficient and deterministic.
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* fix(e2e): wait for Server button visibility, add CI retry, all 5 tests pass locally
Root cause: test 1 clicked the Server button before React hydrated,
so the tab content never rendered and the input wasn't found.
Fixes:
- Wait for Server button toBeVisible before clicking
- Increase input wait to 15s
- Remove networkidle (Vite HMR WebSocket prevents it from resolving)
- Add retries: 1 in CI for transient cold-start flakiness
Verified locally: all 5 E2E tests pass, 198 unit tests pass, typecheck clean.
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* fix(ci): tolerate LadybugDB native crash during analyze step
gitnexus analyze can crash with "double free or corruption" (known
issue #273) during the LadybugDB native addon shutdown. The index is
usually written successfully before the crash. The workflow now:
1. Allows analyze to exit non-zero with a warning
2. Verifies .gitnexus index was actually created
3. Only fails if no index exists (real failure)
All tests verified locally: 198 unit, 5 E2E pass, typecheck clean.
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* fix(ci): fix shell quoting in analyze step, simplify to || true
The previous echo string had special characters that broke bash
quoting in GitHub Actions. Simplified to: analyze || true, then
check if .gitnexus exists.
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* docs: add agent development framework, GitHub templates, eval refactor
Agent framework (layered docs for AI-assisted contributions):
- AGENTS.md: canonical instructions, impact analysis, MCP tools
- CLAUDE.md: Claude Code-specific deltas and hooks
- GUARDRAILS.md: safety boundaries, non-negotiables, escalation
- ARCHITECTURE.md: monorepo layout, data flow map
- TESTING.md: test structure, commands, categories
- RUNBOOK.md: copy-paste operations for dev/CI/MCP
- llms.txt: minimal LLM context pointer
Editor integration:
- .cursor/index.mdc + rules/100-monorepo.mdc
GitHub templates:
- PR template with areas-touched checkboxes
- Bug report + feature request issue forms
Eval harness:
- Refactored mcp_bridge, tool_registry, constants
- Error sanitization utilities
- Property-based tests via Hypothesis
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(eval): use format_exception instead of format_exc in sanitize_exception
format_exc() returns the currently handled exception traceback, which
may be unrelated if called outside an active except block. Using
format_exception(type(exc), exc, exc.__traceback__) reliably captures
the passed exception's traceback.
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* docs: update CONTRIBUTING.md and TESTING.md for current CI/hook setup
- CONTRIBUTING.md: add gitnexus-web typecheck command, pre-commit hook
checklist item
- TESTING.md: add gitnexus-web typecheck command, pre-commit hook
section (husky), update CI integration to list actual workflow files
(ci-quality, ci-tests, ci-e2e)
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* docs: update testing docs to reflect CI/E2E changes from PR #486
- AGENTS.md: update test counts (CLI ~2000 unit, ~1850 integration),
add gitnexus-web testing section (198 unit, 5 E2E with commands)
- RUNBOOK.md: fix Node requirement to >=20, fix E2E local repro command
- TESTING.md: E2E uses data-testid selectors + real servers, not mocks
- .cursor/rules/100-monorepo.mdc: add web test/E2E commands
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs: address context engineering review — deduplicate tokens, expand Cursor rules
- Remove ~100-line gitnexus:start block from CLAUDE.md (was duplicated from AGENTS.md)
- Fix gitnexus:start block inlined inside AGENTS.md Reference Docs bullet (doubled)
- Replace CLAUDE.md scope table with pointer to AGENTS.md (single source of truth)
- Expand .cursor/index.mdc with 5 non-negotiable safety rules for always-on context
- Add .cursor/rules/200-eval.mdc with Python/eval commands (glob-scoped to eval/**)
- Improve llms.txt with priority annotations and descriptions
- Bump version headers to 1.2.0, last-reviewed to 2026-03-24
Saves ~1,400 tokens/session with zero information loss.
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