feat(explore): point at source this session already sent, don't send it twice (CG-18)

A later explore call re-served whatever it re-ranked, so on the #1500 report
the 4th call spent its envelope on the spine the 1st call had already
delivered. CG-17 recorded what was served; this acts on it.

What a withheld span becomes is the whole design: a POINTER, never a silence.
An insufficient-feeling response is what sends an agent to Read, and one or
two of those early in a session teach it to abandon codegraph — so the
replacement names the file, the symbols and the line spans, and says both
that the source came from THIS conversation and that the file has not changed
since.

- Content fingerprint, not the drift flag, gates it. They answer different
  questions: two calls inside one drift window served the same current bytes,
  while a file edited AND re-synced between calls is never "stale" and yet
  the agent's copy is now wrong. An edited file re-emits in full.
- Only a covered run of >= 8 lines is replaced, and a remainder under 160
  chars folds into the pointer. Below those the pointer costs more than the
  source and the block reads as shredded — a fence holding `228\t` is a
  broken-looking response, which is the expensive failure.
- The reclaimed bytes go to files the agent has NOT seen, two ways: a smaller
  `sourceSpent` hands slack down CG-21's carry-forward pool, and a fully
  back-referenced file gives up its maxFiles slot the way a cliffed one does.
  Within a file, the cluster shrink now reads the DEDUPED length, so it never
  drops new symbols to make room for source it isn't sending.
- If dedup suppresses everything and nothing new takes its place, the top
  suppressed file is spliced back in whole. An all-pointer response is the
  shape that reads as "codegraph found nothing"; one re-served file is the
  cheaper mistake.

Kill switch: CODEGRAPH_EXPLORE_DEDUP=0.
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/**
* Cross-call source dedup (CG-18).
*
* A later `codegraph_explore` call in a session must not re-send source an
* earlier call already delivered — but every byte it withholds has to be
* replaced by a POINTER, never a silence. That asymmetry is what this suite
* guards, because the two failure directions cost wildly different amounts: a
* duplicate range wastes a few thousand chars, while a response that reads as
* "codegraph doesn't have it" costs a Read — and one or two of those early in a
* session teach an agent to stop calling the tool at all.
*
* Three layers:
* 1. the range algebra — what is withheld, and the thresholds that stop it
* from shredding a block into slivers;
* 2. the fingerprint gate — an edit between two calls must re-emit, since a
* pointer to pre-edit source is worse than no dedup at all;
* 3. the handler seam — a real second call against a real index: no duplicate
* ranges, a pointer for everything withheld, the reclaimed budget spent on
* source the agent has NOT seen, and never an all-pointer response.
*/
import { describe, it, expect, beforeAll, afterAll } from 'vitest';
import * as fs from 'fs';
import * as path from 'path';
import * as os from 'os';
import CodeGraph from '../src/index';
import { ToolHandler } from '../src/mcp/tools';
import { ExploreSessionState, type ExploreProjectState } from '../src/mcp/explore-session-state';
import {
EXPLORE_DEDUP,
dedupeRange,
fileFingerprint,
formatBackReference,
intersectRange,
mergeRanges,
servedRangesForFile,
subtractRange,
symbolsInSpans,
} from '../src/mcp/explore-dedup';
const FIXTURE_SRC = path.join(__dirname, 'fixtures', 'payroll-go');
const QUERY = 'how does payroll cycle create and calculate payslips?';
const POINTER = 'Already sent earlier in this conversation';
/** A prior-state shaped like the session tracker's, for the algebra tests. */
function prior(files: Array<{ path: string; ranges: Array<[number, number]>; fingerprint?: string }>): ExploreProjectState {
return {
projectRoot: '/repo',
callCount: 1,
responseBytes: 1000,
calls: [{
index: 1,
projectRoot: '/repo',
query: 'q',
sourceBytes: 500,
responseBytes: 1000,
files: files.map((f) => ({
path: f.path,
ranges: f.ranges.map(([start, end]) => ({ start, end })),
bytes: 500,
fingerprint: f.fingerprint,
})),
}],
};
}
describe('range algebra', () => {
it('subtracts a held span out of the middle of an intended one', () => {
expect(subtractRange({ start: 1, end: 100 }, [{ start: 20, end: 40 }]))
.toEqual([{ start: 1, end: 19 }, { start: 41, end: 100 }]);
});
it('subtracts held spans at either edge, and a full cover to nothing', () => {
expect(subtractRange({ start: 10, end: 50 }, [{ start: 1, end: 20 }]))
.toEqual([{ start: 21, end: 50 }]);
expect(subtractRange({ start: 10, end: 50 }, [{ start: 30, end: 90 }]))
.toEqual([{ start: 10, end: 29 }]);
expect(subtractRange({ start: 10, end: 50 }, [{ start: 1, end: 90 }])).toEqual([]);
});
it('intersects to exactly what both sides hold', () => {
expect(intersectRange({ start: 10, end: 50 }, [{ start: 1, end: 20 }, { start: 45, end: 80 }]))
.toEqual([{ start: 10, end: 20 }, { start: 45, end: 50 }]);
expect(intersectRange({ start: 10, end: 50 }, [{ start: 60, end: 80 }])).toEqual([]);
});
it('merges touching spans — two adjacent blocks are one block of source', () => {
expect(mergeRanges([{ start: 5, end: 9 }, { start: 10, end: 12 }, { start: 40, end: 41 }]))
.toEqual([{ start: 5, end: 12 }, { start: 40, end: 41 }]);
});
it('emits ONLY the delta when a later call wants a wider window', () => {
// Call 1 sent the method; call 2 wants the class around it.
const { emit, covered } = dedupeRange({ start: 80, end: 200 }, [{ start: 100, end: 140 }]);
expect(covered).toEqual([{ start: 100, end: 140 }]);
expect(emit).toEqual([{ start: 80, end: 99 }, { start: 141, end: 200 }]);
});
it('withholds nothing when the overlap is smaller than a chunk worth pointing at', () => {
// Context padding and signature lines land here. Replacing them costs more
// in pointer text than the source is worth, and shreds the block.
const overlap = EXPLORE_DEDUP.MIN_COVERED_LINES - 1;
const { emit, covered } = dedupeRange({ start: 1, end: 100 }, [{ start: 10, end: 10 + overlap - 1 }]);
expect(covered).toEqual([]);
expect(emit).toEqual([{ start: 1, end: 100 }]);
});
it('leaves an untouched span exactly as it was', () => {
expect(dedupeRange({ start: 1, end: 50 }, [{ start: 200, end: 400 }]))
.toEqual({ emit: [{ start: 1, end: 50 }], covered: [] });
expect(dedupeRange({ start: 1, end: 50 }, []))
.toEqual({ emit: [{ start: 1, end: 50 }], covered: [] });
});
});
describe('the fingerprint gate', () => {
const FP = fileFingerprint('package main\nfunc main() {}\n');
it('returns the spans a call served for a file whose bytes are unchanged', () => {
const state = prior([{ path: 'a.go', ranges: [[1, 40], [60, 80]], fingerprint: FP }]);
expect(servedRangesForFile(state, 'a.go', FP)).toEqual([{ start: 1, end: 40 }, { start: 60, end: 80 }]);
});
it('returns NOTHING once the file has been edited — a pointer would be wrong', () => {
const state = prior([{ path: 'a.go', ranges: [[1, 40]], fingerprint: FP }]);
const edited = fileFingerprint('package main\nfunc main() { changed() }\n');
expect(servedRangesForFile(state, 'a.go', edited)).toEqual([]);
});
it('ignores a record that cannot prove what it served', () => {
const state = prior([{ path: 'a.go', ranges: [[1, 40]] }]);
expect(servedRangesForFile(state, 'a.go', FP)).toEqual([]);
});
it('never crosses files, and is empty for an untracked session', () => {
const state = prior([{ path: 'a.go', ranges: [[1, 40]], fingerprint: FP }]);
expect(servedRangesForFile(state, 'b.go', FP)).toEqual([]);
expect(servedRangesForFile(null, 'a.go', FP)).toEqual([]);
});
it('distinguishes two files that hash the same prefix but differ in length', () => {
expect(fileFingerprint('abc')).not.toBe(fileFingerprint('abcd'));
expect(fileFingerprint('abc')).toBe(fileFingerprint('abc'));
});
});
describe('the back-reference itself', () => {
const covered = [{ start: 100, end: 240 }];
it('names the file, the span and the symbols, and says the copy is still good', () => {
const text = formatBackReference('internal/x.go', covered, ['RunCycle', 'BuildPayslip'], { partial: false });
expect(text).toContain('internal/x.go');
expect(text).toContain('L100-240');
expect(text).toContain('RunCycle, BuildPayslip');
expect(text).toContain(POINTER);
expect(text).toContain('unchanged on disk');
});
it('never tells the agent to Read, in either shape', () => {
for (const partial of [true, false]) {
const text = formatBackReference('x.go', covered, ['A'], { partial });
expect(text).toMatch(/do NOT Read/i);
expect(text).not.toMatch(/\bRead (this|the) file (for|to)\b/i);
expect(text).not.toMatch(/omitted|unavailable|could not/i);
}
});
it('says the block below is only the NEW lines when the call still sends some', () => {
expect(formatBackReference('x.go', covered, [], { partial: true })).toContain('NEW lines');
expect(formatBackReference('x.go', covered, [], { partial: false })).toContain('not repeated here');
});
it('names only symbols that actually fall in the withheld spans', () => {
const nodes = [
{ name: 'InSpan', kind: 'function', startLine: 110, endLine: 130 },
{ name: 'Outside', kind: 'function', startLine: 300, endLine: 320 },
{ name: 'AnImport', kind: 'import', startLine: 105, endLine: 105 },
];
expect(symbolsInSpans(nodes, covered)).toEqual(['InSpan']);
});
});
describe('a second call against a real index', () => {
let testDir: string;
let cg: CodeGraph;
let handler: ToolHandler;
beforeAll(async () => {
testDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'codegraph-cg18-'));
fs.cpSync(FIXTURE_SRC, testDir, { recursive: true });
fs.rmSync(path.join(testDir, '.codegraph'), { recursive: true, force: true });
cg = CodeGraph.initSync(testDir);
await cg.indexAll();
handler = new ToolHandler(cg);
}, 120_000);
afterAll(() => {
if (cg) cg.destroy();
if (testDir && fs.existsSync(testDir)) fs.rmSync(testDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
});
const explore = (query: string, session?: ExploreSessionState, args: Record<string, unknown> = {}) =>
handler.execute('codegraph_explore', { query, ...args }, session).then((r) => r.content[0]!.text);
/**
* The line numbers actually inside each file's fenced source. Read off the
* RESPONSE, not the bookkeeping — "no duplicate ranges" is a claim about what
* the agent received, and checking it against the record we also wrote would
* prove only that the two agree.
*/
function fencedLines(text: string): Map<string, Set<number>> {
const out = new Map<string, Set<number>>();
let current: string | null = null;
let inFence = false;
for (const line of text.split('\n')) {
const header = /^\*\*`([^`]+)`\*\*/.exec(line);
if (header && !inFence) { current = header[1]!; continue; }
if (!inFence && current && line.startsWith('```')) { inFence = true; continue; }
if (inFence && line === '```') { inFence = false; continue; }
if (!inFence || !current) continue;
const numbered = /^(\d+)\t/.exec(line);
if (!numbered) continue;
if (!out.has(current)) out.set(current, new Set());
out.get(current)!.add(Number(numbered[1]));
}
return out;
}
it('never re-sends a line it already sent, and points at every line it withholds', async () => {
const session = new ExploreSessionState();
const first = await explore(QUERY, session);
const second = await explore(QUERY, session);
const before = fencedLines(first);
const after = fencedLines(second);
expect(after.size).toBeGreaterThan(0);
// Every file whose source the second call withheld carries a pointer, and
// the pointer names it.
expect(second).toContain(POINTER);
for (const [file, lines] of before) {
const repeated = [...(after.get(file) ?? [])].filter((n) => lines.has(n));
if (repeated.length === 0) continue;
// The only sanctioned repeat is the anti-abandonment restore, which fires
// ONLY when the call found nothing new to say — and this one did.
throw new Error(`call 2 re-sent ${file} lines ${repeated.slice(0, 5).join(',')}`);
}
}, 120_000);
it('spends the reclaimed bytes on source the agent has not seen', async () => {
const session = new ExploreSessionState();
const first = await explore(QUERY, session);
const second = await explore(QUERY, session);
const before = fencedLines(first);
const after = fencedLines(second);
const fresh = [...after.entries()].reduce(
(sum, [file, lines]) => sum + [...lines].filter((n) => !(before.get(file)?.has(n))).length, 0);
// Not merely "smaller": a shrunken response is what dedup must NOT produce.
// The freed budget has to come back as lines the first call never sent.
expect(fresh).toBeGreaterThan(20);
expect(second.length).toBeLessThan(first.length);
}, 120_000);
it('re-emits in full when the file changed between the two calls', async () => {
const session = new ExploreSessionState();
const target = path.join(testDir, 'internal/usecase/payroll/payslip_builder.go');
const original = fs.readFileSync(target, 'utf-8');
try {
const first = await explore(QUERY, session);
expect(fencedLines(first).has('internal/usecase/payroll/payslip_builder.go')).toBe(true);
fs.writeFileSync(target, original.replace('func sumKind(', 'func sumKindRenamed('), 'utf-8');
const second = await explore(QUERY, session);
// The edited file is served again, whole — a pointer here would send the
// agent to a copy of the file that no longer exists.
const pointerLines = second.split('\n').filter((l) => l.includes(POINTER));
expect(pointerLines.some((l) => l.includes('payslip_builder.go'))).toBe(false);
expect(fencedLines(second).get('internal/usecase/payroll/payslip_builder.go')?.size ?? 0)
.toBeGreaterThan(20);
} finally {
fs.writeFileSync(target, original, 'utf-8');
}
}, 120_000);
it('always returns real source, even when the session already holds everything', async () => {
const session = new ExploreSessionState();
await explore(QUERY, session);
await explore(QUERY, session);
const third = await explore(QUERY, session);
const fourth = await explore(QUERY, session);
// An all-pointer response is the shape that reads as failure. Every call
// keeps at least one real fenced block, however much the session holds.
for (const [n, text] of [[3, third], [4, fourth]] as const) {
const lines = [...fencedLines(text).values()].reduce((s, set) => s + set.size, 0);
expect(lines, `call ${n} returned no source at all`).toBeGreaterThan(10);
}
}, 180_000);
it('leaves the first call of a session untouched', async () => {
const tracked = await explore(QUERY, new ExploreSessionState());
const untracked = await explore(QUERY);
expect(tracked).toBe(untracked);
}, 120_000);
it('keeps two sessions on one handler independent', async () => {
const a = new ExploreSessionState();
const b = new ExploreSessionState();
const firstForA = await explore(QUERY, a);
await explore(QUERY, a);
// B's first call has seen nothing, whatever A has been served.
expect(await explore(QUERY, b)).toBe(firstForA);
}, 180_000);
it('is off entirely under CODEGRAPH_EXPLORE_DEDUP=0', async () => {
const session = new ExploreSessionState();
const previous = process.env.CODEGRAPH_EXPLORE_DEDUP;
process.env.CODEGRAPH_EXPLORE_DEDUP = '0';
try {
const first = await explore(QUERY, session);
const second = await explore(QUERY, session);
expect(second).toBe(first);
expect(second).not.toContain(POINTER);
} finally {
if (previous === undefined) delete process.env.CODEGRAPH_EXPLORE_DEDUP;
else process.env.CODEGRAPH_EXPLORE_DEDUP = previous;
}
}, 120_000);
it('reports the reclaimed bytes through the CG-4 diagnostic', async () => {
const sidecar = path.join(testDir, 'cg18-diagnostic.jsonl');
const session = new ExploreSessionState();
const previous = process.env.CODEGRAPH_EXPLORE_DEBUG;
process.env.CODEGRAPH_EXPLORE_DEBUG = sidecar;
try {
await explore(QUERY, session);
await explore(QUERY, session);
} finally {
if (previous === undefined) delete process.env.CODEGRAPH_EXPLORE_DEBUG;
else process.env.CODEGRAPH_EXPLORE_DEBUG = previous;
}
const [one, two] = fs.readFileSync(sidecar, 'utf-8').trim().split('\n').map((l) => JSON.parse(l));
expect(one.dedup.savedChars).toBe(0);
expect(two.dedup.savedChars).toBeGreaterThan(1000);
expect(two.dedup.backReferenced.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
// The reclamation is legible file by file: a back-referenced file spent
// none of its reservation, and the response still filled its envelope.
const backref = two.files.filter((f: { render: string }) => f.render === 'backref');
for (const f of backref) {
expect(f.emittedChars).toBe(0);
expect(f.dedupSavedChars).toBeGreaterThan(0);
expect(f.dedupCovered.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
}
const spentOnFreshSource = two.files.reduce((s: number, f: { emittedChars: number }) => s + f.emittedChars, 0);
expect(spentOnFreshSource).toBeGreaterThan(0);
}, 120_000);
});