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Colby McHenry 238dbc5cec fix(explore): accurately resolve query file paths and find camelCase symbols
Previously, `codegraph_explore` queries explicitly naming files by path (e.g., `src/routes/m/projects/[id]/runs/[runId]/+page.svelte`) were shredded. Bracketed path segments exploded into "named symbol" seeds, and FTS on fragments like `page` or `runs` admitted every sibling file, starving the user's intended target.

This change introduces:
- **Query path pinning:** File paths named in a query are now resolved against the index, "pinned," and stripped from the query. Pinned files are guaranteed inclusion, top ranking, and fair allocation. Unresolvable path-like spans are reported.
- **Segment vocabulary supplement:** Natural language query terms (e.g., "auto-scroll to bottom") can now reach camelCase identifiers (e.g., `pinFeedIfNearBottom`, `feedAtBottom`) by matching against their constituent segments.
- **Variable seeding:** `variable` and `constant` node kinds are now included in identifier seeding, improving recall for `$state`-style variables common in frameworks like Svelte.
2026-08-20 09:10:07 -07:00
Colby McHenryandClaude Opus 5 9efae0f8f2 fix(explore): damp ambient declaration files on flow queries (CG-28)
A file that declares nothing but types and that nothing in the index depends
on — a hand-written ambient `.d.ts` of global shims, vendored typings, module
augmentation — cannot answer a flow question: no bodies, no call edges, no
behaviour, nothing typed by it. But the identifiers it declares are exactly the
generic ones a prose question uses (`Body`, `Message`, `ImageMetadata`,
`ReadableStream`), so on term overlap it out-scored the implementation. Measured
on the new fixture: rank #1 and 51% of delivered source, with the flow's own
entry file pushed out of the response entirely.

Measured first, per the issue: the Wrangler `worker-configuration.d.ts` that
opened this is already handled by CG-25's banner detection, worth 15-46 points
of envelope share across four flow queries. CG-25 credited; only the un-bannered
case needed anything.

`rankPenalty` now multiplies score and graph mass by 0.5 for such files, taken
as the STRONGER of it and the generated penalty rather than multiplied — one
property two signals see must not be charged twice. Detection is structural, not
by extension, and four conditions deep. Two of them were forced by measurement:
requiring every symbol to be type-level takes the corpus flag rate from 1-18%
(which swept in Kotlin sealed classes, Rust mod.rs re-exports and django's
locale tables) down to 0-4%; requiring that nothing depends on the file
separates an ambient shim from a working types module, and without it the rule
demoted displacement-ts's pipeline `types.ts` and broke the CG-31 gate.

A query that NAMES a declared type is exempt, so a question about a type still
reaches its declaration at full weight. Precise tokens only, so "…the file
body…" cannot exempt a `Body` interface it never meant to name; this needs its
own set because `namedSeedIds` is callable-only and a type never becomes one.

Regression evidence in docs/benchmarks/explore-declaration-only-cg28.md:
6-repo envelope sweep byte-identical against a clean baseline build, zero
ambient files reach the candidate set on VS Code across five queries, corpus
flag rate 0-0.74%, both allocation fixtures PASS, full suite 2,978 green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-06 14:35:56 -05:00
Colby McHenryandClaude Opus 5 f1fecb8232 fix(explore): fund the guard from room that exists, and cut the epilogue first (CG-31)
Two corrections found by measuring the first cut of the guard against the
6-repo suite. The first version held back the FULL sum of the reservations
below a file. On django that took 2,319 chars off a file the agent receives
and handed them to a section the hard ceiling then threw away — the guard's
own failure mode, one layer down. tokio lost 1,298 the same way.

1. `owedPayableBelow` — hold back only the prefix of what is owed below that
   the response can still PAY, in rank order. A promise the ceiling cannot
   reach is not a claim on this file's bytes.

2. The final truncation now spends the EPILOGUE before it spends a rendered
   file section. It used to cut at the last section header, dropping that
   section AND the trailing notes; dropping the notes alone is almost always
   enough. A section is source the agent otherwise has to Read; the epilogue
   is a pointer list and two reminders, and the note that replaces it carries
   the "explore these names" instruction forward.

Also count `flow.text` in `totalChars`. It is prepended to `lines` to make the
final output, so the render loop always spent against a ceiling it was ~2K
under on symbol-bag queries.

Deterministic, same clean-rebuilt indexes, both builds (baseline = CG-30 tip):

  repo         base source   new source      files
  django            20,033       20,791   5 trunc -> 6
  excalidraw        18,776       20,204   7 trunc -> 8
  okhttp            15,628       19,034   4 trunc -> 5
  tokio             20,340       21,521   4 trunc -> 5
  gin               10,776       10,776   4 -> 4   (byte-identical)
  alamofire         11,662       11,662   2 -> 2   (byte-identical)

No repo delivers less; four stop truncating. `funded` in the diagnostic now
reports the render CEILING the guard allows, which is what every render path
is actually bounded by.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-06 02:59:46 -05:00
Colby McHenryandClaude Opus 5 089dcc276f fix(explore): hold back what is still owed below a clustered render (CG-31)
Carry-forward slack let a file spend what the files ABOVE it left on the
table. Nothing held back what was promised BELOW it. The whole-file BUY arm
has always refused that trade (`owedBelow`); the cluster path read `headroom`
— what is left before the hard ceiling — instead of what is still owed, so
`fileBudget` and `SPINE_CEILING` could pay a 1.5x overshoot out of another
file's reservation.

`fundedHeadroom` is the same inequality in the units the cluster path spends
in: source PLUS the per-section overhead each unreached file will charge.
Floored at the file's own reservation — a kept promise is not a displacement —
and it is <= `headroom` by construction, so it is the only bound the three
render sites need. The skeleton path's `bodyCap` takes it too.

Measured on `__tests__/fixtures/displacement-ts` (a 4-stage pipeline padded
past 500 files, where the 24K envelope genuinely saturates the 24.4K render
ceiling):

  before  ingest.ts emitted 9,301 on a 6,289 spendable, then lost the whole
          section to the final ceiling — 0 delivered. types.ts and sink.ts
          skipped `budget-whole-file`. 3 of 6 admitted files delivered.
  after   ingest.ts bounded to the 4,913 actually free. 6 of 6 delivered,
          envelope 14,908 -> 22,066.

The self-query allocation fixture flips back to PASS with it, on a clean full
rebuild of this repo's index (CG-33). Its `afterCG30` verdict blamed an
over-RESERVED incidental file; the reservation was identical in both arms —
the file was over-SPENDING. Recorded honestly in `afterCG31`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-06 02:44:59 -05:00
Colby McHenryandClaude Opus 5 cd1ea27ea8 fix(explore): restore the CG-30 bound d652c14 reverted
d652c14 was committed while an ab-new-vs-baseline run had the engine checked out
at the BASELINE ref — that harness swaps src/ files mid-run and restores them on
exit — so it captured main's tools.ts and explore-diagnostics.ts and silently
undid 765c06a. Restored from 765c06a, with d652c14's doc tweak re-applied.

The A/B runs started after that commit are void with it (their "changed:" line
lists only explore-diagnostics.ts, i.e. both arms ran the same retrieval code)
and are re-run rather than reported.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-06 02:08:28 -05:00
Colby McHenryandClaude Opus 5 d652c148f6 docs(cg-30): changelog entry + record the self-query probe flip honestly
The self-query allocation probe fixture's delivered-share gates now fail. The
cause is not the new bound: allocation is unchanged between arms (parse-run.mjs
32.3% vs 33.9% on main) and tools.ts delivers the same 8,282 chars in both. What
changed is that the incidental file now DELIVERS — on main its whole section was
cut by the hard-ceiling truncation, so the fixture passed on truncation luck.
Every file on this repo obeys the new bound (max 1.40x of spendable).

Recorded as `afterCG30` with that reasoning rather than tuning the bound to
restore the pass. The over-reservation it exposes is epic CG-24's subject.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-06 01:47:02 -05:00
Colby McHenryandClaude Opus 5 765c06aa40 fix(explore): bound how far an oversize cluster member may overshoot (CG-30)
shrinkCluster keeps an oversize cluster's highest-importance member WHOLE on
purpose — an empty file section sends the agent to Read, the outcome explore
exists to prevent. What it lacked was a bound, and "never empty" quietly meant
"never bounded": on the reporting repo one file emitted 22,376 chars against a
9,181-char reservation (2.44x), past both the per-file budget and the spine
ceiling. That overshoot is what collapses `headroom` for every file below it.

The same rule has a second face. When the top member is bigger than the whole
response ceiling, the file does not overshoot — it is dropped entirely at the
renderCeiling check, so the agent gets nothing for a file it named.

renderCluster now takes a ceiling (1.5x what the file may spend — the same
multiple SPINE_CEILING already draws, and never below the cap, so a cluster
that fits is untouched). Past it the member is WINDOWED on whole lines rather
than emitted whole or dropped: leading window plus, on a flow cluster, a window
on the spine's call site. A partial window shorter than 12 lines is dropped
instead — a sliver in the session record forces the next call's dedup to shred
the block around it or re-send it — unless nothing else was emitted, where the
never-empty floor wins.

Measured on the new fixture, pre-fix vs post-fix:
  monthly.ts    12,391 chars on a 3,334 budget (3.7x)  →  4,941 (1.48x)
  quarterly.ts  dropped, no headroom left               →  4,004 delivered

Also: the diagnostic now reports `spendable` (reservation + inherited slack)
alongside `reserved`. Every render bound reads the former, so reporting only
the latter makes an ordinary carry-forward read as a file spending over budget
— and it made the overshoot this issue is about unmeasurable. A windowed file
is now flagged `clipped` too, instead of presenting a window as the whole file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-06 01:44:45 -05:00
Colby McHenry ab38d1f090 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.
2026-08-05 13:47:24 -05:00
Colby McHenry fc31b1e2bf feat(mcp): remember what explore already served this session (CG-17)
Explore answers every call as if it were the first: no record of the files
and line ranges it already sent, so a 4th call re-serves the 1st call's
spine and the tier call budget can only be asked for, never enforced.

Track it per MCP session, per resolved project root — files, coalesced line
ranges, bytes, and the call's index in the session. Nothing reads it yet:
the response is byte-identical, which the suite pins against an untracked
call of the same query.

The daemon shares ONE ToolHandler and a pool of worker threads across every
connected client, so the state can live neither on the handler nor in a
worker. It lives on MCPSession and is handed to execute() per call; the
session's view rides DOWN on the args and the call's emission rides BACK on
the ToolResult, both as plain properties so they survive the structured
clone to and from a worker. execute() records the emission on the main
thread and deletes it unconditionally — including for callers that track
nothing, like the CLI — so it can never reach the wire. A view a client
spells itself is discarded rather than trusted.

Ranges are reported by the render loop itself (buildSection now returns the
spans it slices alongside the text), and only files that survive the final
hard-ceiling truncation are recorded. Where a bound forces a choice the
record keeps FEWER ranges than were emitted: under-reporting re-serves
something the agent has, over-reporting withholds source it never saw and
costs a Read.

Every bound caps detail only — callCount keeps counting past eviction, so
CG-19's decay can't reset itself every 8 calls.
2026-08-05 13:24:06 -05:00
Colby McHenryandClaude Opus 5 5f7f5f59df feat(mcp): score-proportional byte allocation for explore, with a relative cliff (CG-12, #1500)
The explore envelope used to follow FILE SIZE, not relevance. Every admitted
file was capped at the same flat `maxCharsPerFile`, while the whole-file rule
handed anything under `maxCharsPerFile * 3` its entire contents — a 3x swing
decided by how big a file happened to be:

  - self-query: `memory-budget.ts` (score 18) shipped whole and took 51.2% of
    the response; `src/mcp/tools.ts` (score 41, 4x the graph mass, 3x the term
    hits — it holds the allocator itself) was clipped at 3,800 and got 32.9%.
  - #1500 Go fixture: two generated CRUD files shipped whole at ~4.5K each AND
    consumed two of the tier's four file slots, so `BuildPayslip` — the
    hand-written "calculate" half of the question — ranked #6 and never
    rendered at all.

`allocateExploreBudget` now reserves each ranked file a share of the envelope
before anything renders, so the render loop spends a reservation instead of
racing for whatever the files above it left:

  - weight = score x worth x (spine ? 2 : 1), where `worth` is `rankPenalty`
    applied a SECOND time — ranking answers "is this file about the query",
    allocation answers "will these bytes teach the agent anything", and
    generated CRUD can legitimately rank while its bytes stay boilerplate;
  - a relative cliff at 15% of the top weight (capped at SCORE_FLOOR_MAX, so a
    god-file can't silence peers the score floor just admitted) gives a file
    ZERO source — path, symbols and line numbers only — and crucially frees its
    `maxFiles` slot for a file that earns its bytes;
  - every admitted file gets MIN_CHARS, then the remainder splits by weight:
    the floor keeps a diffuse survey question returning a spread, the remainder
    concentrates a precise one;
  - the flat per-file cap is retired as the primary guard, leaving a 70%-of-
    envelope safety valve.

Two changes were needed to make the reservation bite: an oversize cluster now
shrinks by whole MEMBER symbol ranges (a single-cluster god-file previously
took ~40% more than allotted, and the file below it was dropped for lack of
room), and the arrival-order budget stops are gone — they cut files by the
order they were reached rather than by merit.

Measured: payroll-go answer group 25.6% -> 78.7%, generated 57.4% -> 0%, and
`func (s *Service) BuildPayslip` now delivered; self-query `tools.ts` 18.5% ->
60.6%, past the epic's >50% bar. Controls hold: cobra/gin diffuse survey
queries keep their file spread (3->3, 3->4), express's middleware query is
byte-identical, and gin's flow query moves its top file from the thin `ginS`
singleton wrapper to `routergroup.go`.

One documented exception to "no previously-unclipped file becomes clipped":
`memory-budget.ts` was unclipped-whole at 5,672 and now clusters within its
3.1K reservation. That is the epic's own diagnosis of the bug — it scored 18
against 58 and was taking the larger slice purely for being small.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 00:37:17 -05:00
Colby McHenryandClaude Opus 5 a3898cdc70 feat(mcp): relevance scoring overhaul for explore — kill incidental name-collision matches (CG-10, #1500)
Explore's per-file relevance awarded +50/+10/+3/+1 by match class and admitted
anything scoring >= 3. Neither half held up: the tier said HOW a symbol reached
us, never whether the match was evidence, and an absolute floor admits noise on
any repo where the top file scores 50+. Three scripts/agent-eval/*.mjs harnesses
took 63% of this repo's own "how does explore allocate its output budget" answer
on nothing but an unused `const explore` and a `const BUDGET`.

Four levers:

- KIND WEIGHT (RELEVANCE_KIND_WEIGHT): callables and types 1.0, members ~0.5,
  variable/constant/parameter 0.15-0.35. A weak-kind symbol with no usage edge
  anywhere in the graph (`contains` excluded — nesting is not usage) drops to
  0.08. Only weak kinds in the top two tiers pay for the DB probe; the subgraph's
  own edges answer most cases free. No measurable latency change (210 vs 211
  ms/call, n=12 interleaved).

- PERIPHERAL CAP: nodes >=2 hops from any match accumulate into a bucket capped
  at 5. Uncapped they added a flat +1 each, so a file grew more relevant by being
  bigger — parse-session.mjs reached 22 off one constant plus twelve unrelated
  symbols.

- RANK PENALTY: generated files x0.3, low-value x0.5, applied to the score AND
  the graph mass. Score alone would not have fixed #1500 — the generated CRUD
  carries MORE graph mass than the hand-written use-case, and graph mass outranks
  score in the comparator. Self-normalizing, never a hard exclusion.

- RELATIVE FLOOR: clamp(topScore * 0.2, 1, 10). Capped at one full-strength
  direct match so concentration elsewhere can never exclude one (without it a
  named-seed-heavy file pushed the floor to 21 and dropped a file the agent had
  named by class name). Backfills to 3 candidates when it would leave fewer, and
  drops the evidence requirement rather than return nothing at all.

excludeLowValueFiles was dead config — declared per tier, read nowhere; the
test/spec exclusion has been unconditional for a while. Removed. The real gap was
the detector: `isLowValue` anchored on a leading `/`, so a repo-ROOT `test/` dir
(express, cobra, most of npm and Go) never matched — express's routing question
spent 59% of its envelope on three test files. Anchored at `^` too, and the
filter now runs before the floor and judges "are there other candidates?" on the
whole gather.

Measured before/after on the same indexes (baseline bd86ad2):
- payroll-go fixture: generated 57.4% -> 23.5%; answer 25.6% -> 61.5%; cycle.go
  delivered 0 -> 38.9%. Generated ranks #3/#4, was #1/#2.
- self-query fixture: eval scripts 72% -> 0%; tools.ts ranks #1.
- express "route a request": 59% to test/* -> lib/application.js + lib/response.js
- cobra x3, codegraph "indexing pipeline": byte-identical (control)

Diagnostic gains a per-file penalty multiplier and NodeKind mix, so "why did this
file score X" is legible. Selection stages reordered to match the pipeline.

CG-6's gates flip from it.fails to live regressions except the byte-split ones,
which stay open for CG-12 (allocation still follows file size within the ranked
set).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 00:02:45 -05:00
Colby McHenryandClaude Opus 5 b37f191f5a feat(mcp): per-file allocation diagnostic for explore (CG-4)
How codegraph_explore divides its byte envelope among files was
unobservable — you could read a response and guess, but not say "this
file took 16% and that one took 20%." Nothing else in the budget-
allocation epic is measurable without that.

CODEGRAPH_EXPLORE_DEBUG now emits one report per explore call (stderr
table, stderr JSON, or a JSONL sidecar path). Per file: relevance score,
graph mass, term hits, ranking flags, render mode, bytes allocated vs
delivered, both shares, and whether it was clipped — plus why a ranked
candidate never rendered. Totals cover envelope vs maxOutputChars vs the
hard ceiling, the source/meta split, the selection funnel, and the score
floor and relevance-gate thresholds applied.

Allocated and delivered are reported separately on purpose: they diverge
exactly when the 25K ceiling truncates, and conflating them is how a
dropped trailing file goes unnoticed.

Off by default and byte-identical when off — it ships in the product
binary, and a diagnostic that perturbs the response by one byte would
invalidate every A/B taken with it on. ExploreDiagnostics.start() returns
null unless the env var is set, so every call site is a `diag?.` no-op.

Baseline recorded in docs/design/explore-budget-allocation.md: on this
repo, src/mcp/tools.ts gets 15.8% of the envelope while three weakly-
relevant agent-eval scripts take 61% between them — despite tools.ts
carrying 5.4x the score and 2.6x the graph mass of any of them. Small
files ship whole; the large answer file is clipped at maxCharsPerFile.
Rank ordering is correct and buys nothing. The loop also allocated 23,193
chars against an 18,000 budget.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 22:51:18 -05:00