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  Colby McHenryandClaude Opus 5
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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>
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Colby McHenryandClaude Opus 5
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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
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Colby McHenryandClaude Opus 5
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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> |