fix(mcp): auto-detect project via roots/list when no rootUri (#196) (#214)

MCP tools failed with "CodeGraph not initialized" when a client launched
the server outside the project and sent no rootUri/workspaceFolders — the
server fell back to its own cwd, missed the project's .codegraph/, and
returned a misleading "run codegraph init" error on every call. The only
workaround was passing projectPath by hand to each tool.

When no explicit path is given, the server now asks the client for its
workspace root via the standard MCP roots/list request (gated on the
client advertising the roots capability) before falling back to cwd. This
required teaching the stdio transport to send server->client requests and
match their responses by id (previously responses were dropped as invalid).

When a project still can't be resolved, the error now names the directory
it searched and tells the user to pass projectPath or add --path to the
MCP config, instead of pointing at a re-init they don't need.

Reported-by: @zhangyu1197
Closes #196

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Colby Mchenry
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/**
* MCP project-resolution regression tests (issue #196).
*
* When an MCP client launches the server outside the project directory AND
* doesn't pass a `rootUri`/`workspaceFolders` in `initialize`, the server used
* to fall straight back to `process.cwd()` — which for many IDE clients is the
* wrong directory. Every tool call without an explicit `projectPath` then
* failed with a misleading "CodeGraph not initialized. Run 'codegraph init'."
*
* The fix: when no explicit path is provided, the server asks the client for
* its workspace root via the spec-blessed `roots/list` request (if the client
* advertised the `roots` capability), and only falls back to cwd otherwise.
* When it still can't resolve, the error now says exactly how to fix it.
*
* These tests drive the real stdio transport via a spawned subprocess — no
* mocking — so they also exercise the new bidirectional request/response path.
*/
import { describe, it, expect, beforeEach, afterEach } from 'vitest';
import { spawn, ChildProcessWithoutNullStreams } from 'child_process';
import * as fs from 'fs';
import * as path from 'path';
import * as os from 'os';
import { CodeGraph } from '../src';
const BIN = path.resolve(__dirname, '../dist/bin/codegraph.js');
function spawnServer(cwd: string): ChildProcessWithoutNullStreams {
// --no-watch keeps the test deterministic and avoids watcher startup noise.
return spawn(process.execPath, [BIN, 'serve', '--mcp', '--no-watch'], {
cwd,
stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
}) as ChildProcessWithoutNullStreams;
}
/** Parse every JSON-RPC message the server writes to stdout into an array. */
function collectMessages(child: ChildProcessWithoutNullStreams): Array<Record<string, any>> {
const messages: Array<Record<string, any>> = [];
let buf = '';
child.stdout.on('data', (chunk) => {
buf += chunk.toString('utf8');
let idx;
while ((idx = buf.indexOf('\n')) !== -1) {
const line = buf.slice(0, idx).trim();
buf = buf.slice(idx + 1);
if (!line) continue;
try { messages.push(JSON.parse(line)); } catch { /* ignore non-JSON */ }
}
});
return messages;
}
function waitForMessage(
messages: ReadonlyArray<Record<string, any>>,
predicate: (m: Record<string, any>) => boolean,
timeoutMs: number,
): Promise<Record<string, any>> {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
const started = Date.now();
const tick = () => {
const hit = messages.find(predicate);
if (hit) return resolve(hit);
if (Date.now() - started > timeoutMs) {
return reject(new Error(`Timed out. Messages so far: ${JSON.stringify(messages)}`));
}
setTimeout(tick, 20);
};
tick();
});
}
function send(child: ChildProcessWithoutNullStreams, msg: object): void {
child.stdin.write(JSON.stringify(msg) + '\n');
}
const CLIENT_INFO = { name: 'test', version: '0.0.0' };
describe('MCP project resolution via roots/list (issue #196)', () => {
let cwdDir: string; // where the server is launched — has NO .codegraph
let projectDir: string; // the real indexed project the client reports
let child: ChildProcessWithoutNullStreams | null = null;
beforeEach(() => {
cwdDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'codegraph-mcp-cwd-'));
projectDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'codegraph-mcp-proj-'));
});
afterEach(() => {
if (child && !child.killed) {
child.kill('SIGKILL');
child = null;
}
fs.rmSync(cwdDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
fs.rmSync(projectDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
});
it('resolves the project from the client roots/list when no rootUri is sent', async () => {
const cg = await CodeGraph.init(projectDir);
cg.close();
child = spawnServer(cwdDir);
const messages = collectMessages(child);
// Advertise the roots capability but pass NO rootUri/workspaceFolders.
send(child, {
jsonrpc: '2.0', id: 0, method: 'initialize',
params: { protocolVersion: '2025-11-25', capabilities: { roots: {} }, clientInfo: CLIENT_INFO },
});
await waitForMessage(messages, (m) => m.id === 0 && !!m.result, 5000);
send(child, { jsonrpc: '2.0', method: 'notifications/initialized' });
// First tool call (no projectPath) drives the server to ask us for roots.
send(child, { jsonrpc: '2.0', id: 1, method: 'tools/call', params: { name: 'codegraph_status', arguments: {} } });
const rootsReq = await waitForMessage(messages, (m) => m.method === 'roots/list', 5000);
expect(typeof rootsReq.id).toBe('string'); // server-initiated id
send(child, {
jsonrpc: '2.0', id: rootsReq.id,
result: { roots: [{ uri: `file://${projectDir}`, name: 'proj' }] },
});
// The status call now succeeds against the resolved project.
const resp = await waitForMessage(messages, (m) => m.id === 1, 8000);
const text = resp.result.content[0].text as string;
expect(text).toContain('CodeGraph Status');
expect(text).not.toContain('No CodeGraph project is loaded');
}, 20000);
it('returns an actionable error when there is no rootUri and no roots capability', async () => {
child = spawnServer(cwdDir);
const messages = collectMessages(child);
send(child, {
jsonrpc: '2.0', id: 0, method: 'initialize',
params: { protocolVersion: '2025-11-25', capabilities: {}, clientInfo: CLIENT_INFO },
});
await waitForMessage(messages, (m) => m.id === 0 && !!m.result, 5000);
send(child, { jsonrpc: '2.0', method: 'notifications/initialized' });
send(child, { jsonrpc: '2.0', id: 1, method: 'tools/call', params: { name: 'codegraph_status', arguments: {} } });
const resp = await waitForMessage(messages, (m) => m.id === 1, 8000);
const text = resp.result.content[0].text as string;
expect(text).toContain('No CodeGraph project is loaded');
expect(text).toContain('projectPath');
expect(text).toContain('--path');
// Names the directory it actually searched (the wrong cwd) so the user can
// see why detection missed. basename survives any symlink realpath-ing.
expect(text).toContain(path.basename(cwdDir));
// It must not have hung waiting on roots/list — the client never offered it.
expect(messages.some((m) => m.method === 'roots/list')).toBe(false);
}, 20000);
it('honors an explicit rootUri without asking the client for roots', async () => {
const cg = await CodeGraph.init(projectDir);
cg.close();
child = spawnServer(cwdDir);
const messages = collectMessages(child);
send(child, {
jsonrpc: '2.0', id: 0, method: 'initialize',
params: {
protocolVersion: '2025-11-25',
capabilities: { roots: {} },
clientInfo: CLIENT_INFO,
rootUri: `file://${projectDir}`,
},
});
await waitForMessage(messages, (m) => m.id === 0 && !!m.result, 5000);
send(child, { jsonrpc: '2.0', method: 'notifications/initialized' });
send(child, { jsonrpc: '2.0', id: 1, method: 'tools/call', params: { name: 'codegraph_status', arguments: {} } });
const resp = await waitForMessage(messages, (m) => m.id === 1, 8000);
const text = resp.result.content[0].text as string;
expect(text).toContain('CodeGraph Status');
// rootUri is a stronger signal than roots — we never needed to ask.
expect(messages.some((m) => m.method === 'roots/list')).toBe(false);
}, 20000);
});