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feat(mcp): surface degraded watcher state to the agent in tool responses (#892)

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When live file watching permanently degrades (watch-resource exhaustion, or a
write lock held past the retry budget), getPendingFiles() goes empty — so the
existing per-file staleness banner can't fire even though the index is now
frozen and silently drifting stale. The agent kept getting clean-looking
responses off a no-longer-updating index.

Read-tool responses now lead with a whole-index banner ("CodeGraph auto-sync
is DISABLED…") whenever the watcher is degraded, and codegraph_status gets a
dedicated "Auto-sync disabled" section. Both carry the degrade reason and tell
the agent to Read files directly. Expose isWatcherDegraded() /
getWatcherDegradedReason() on the CodeGraph class, and document the new banner
in the MCP server instructions.

Completes the agent-notification half of #876 (the operator-facing onDegraded
wiring shipped in #891).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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### Fixes
- The file watcher that auto-syncs the graph now fails cleanly when live watching can no longer be trusted, instead of looking healthy while the index quietly goes stale. If the operating system runs out of file-watch resources, or another process holds the write lock far longer than a normal save, CodeGraph now disables auto-sync once — with a single clear message telling you to run `codegraph sync` (or rely on the git sync hooks) to refresh — rather than retrying forever or repeating the same error on a loop. This mostly matters for long-running MCP/daemon sessions, which could otherwise keep serving stale results while appearing to work. Thanks @thismilktea. (#876)
- The file watcher that auto-syncs the graph now fails cleanly when live watching can no longer be trusted, instead of looking healthy while the index quietly goes stale. If the operating system runs out of file-watch resources, or another process holds the write lock far longer than a normal save, CodeGraph now disables auto-sync once — with a single clear message telling you to run `codegraph sync` (or rely on the git sync hooks) to refresh — rather than retrying forever or repeating the same error on a loop. And while auto-sync is disabled, CodeGraph's tool responses (and `codegraph status`) now say so plainly, so your AI agent knows to read files directly instead of trusting a frozen index. This mostly matters for long-running MCP/daemon sessions, which could otherwise keep serving stale results while appearing to work. Thanks @thismilktea. (#876)
## [1.0.1] - 2026-06-13