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Colby McHenryandClaude Opus 5 62e0a89b0e feat(ui): the Flow strip — how one symbol reaches another, one card per hop (CG-50)
Ask "how does execute reach getFile" in the search box and the viewer draws the
call path between them, left to right, opening every card at the exact line that
makes the next call. Dynamic-dispatch hops are dashed and name the site they
were wired at; "Read as flow" turns a trail walked by hand into the same strip.

The path finder is NOT new. `codegraph_explore` already leads its answers with
the longest call chain among the symbols an agent named, and a viewer that drew
a different path would get the two quoted against each other in a review. So the
search moved out of `ToolHandler` into `src/graph/named-symbol-flow.ts` and both
callers ride it — same tokens, same overload rules, same synthesized edges. What
stayed behind in `tools.ts` is the prose.

A pinned from/to question is the same search with two options changed, because
both ends being named is the evidence explore's one-unnamed-bridge cap stands in
for: it bridges freely, keeps twelve candidates per endpoint instead of six
(the CLI's own `main` sorts seventh of ten), and searches from both ends at once
— identical paths to the one-way walk on twelve measured pairs, 3-6x faster.

`/api/flow` is deliberately the one endpoint with no cache: its cards carry
source read from disk, and a drift verdict changes without the index changing.

Verified on this repo (`execute` to `rowToFileRecord`, 8 hops; `main` to
`resolveOne`, 7) and on a fresh excalidraw index, where `mutateElement` to
`renderStaticScene` crosses callback, react-render and jsx-child hops and lists
exactly the hops `codegraph_explore` prints.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-27 03:19:24 -05:00

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# ui/ — the `codegraph ui` viewer
The browser reader for an indexed project: Svelte 5 + Vite, built as static
files and served by the CLI over loopback. An npm workspace of the engine, so
`npm ci` at the repo root installs its toolchain; nothing here is a runtime
dependency of the engine and nothing here is published to npm on its own.
Design spec (every token, size and measurement):
`../docs/design/codegraph-ui-design-spec.md`.
## Build
```bash
npm run build # from the repo root: tsc -> copy-assets -> this app
npm run build:ui # just this app, plus the dist assertion
npm run dev -w ui # Vite dev server on 127.0.0.1:5174
npm run check -w ui # svelte-check
```
`npm run build` emits **`dist/viewer/`** (`index.html` + hashed assets).
`scripts/check-ui-build.mjs` then asserts the tree is complete, so a broken UI
build fails the release instead of shipping a CLI that serves a 404. The same
check runs again in `scripts/build-bundle.sh` (after the bundle stage copies
`dist`) and in `scripts/pack-npm.sh` (after each archive is unpacked).
### Why `dist/viewer` and not `dist/ui`
`src/ui/` is the engine's **terminal** UI (shimmer progress and its worker) and
tsc compiles it to `dist/ui/`. Pointing Vite there deletes those modules — the
CLI then dies at startup with `Cannot find module '../ui/shimmer-progress'`
and would also leave the static server handing out compiled engine internals.
`check-ui-build.mjs` re-asserts the compiled engine is intact after every UI
build so that mistake cannot land twice.
## Layout
```
src/
main.ts fonts + tokens, mounts App into index.html's #app
app.css design tokens (light/dark), reset, shell grid
App.svelte top bar / trail bar / main, global keys
lib/router.svelte.ts hash router: #/s/<id>, #/file/<path>, #/map, #/flow
lib/trail.svelte.ts the walked path; mirrored into the `t` query param
lib/kinds.ts kind glyph letters
lib/map-model.ts the Map's deterministic layered layout (pure)
lib/flow-model.ts the Flow strip's card/link geometry — a DAG (pure)
components/ TopBar, TrailBar, KindGlyph, map/, flow/, symbol/, file/
views/ one component per route
```
Fonts (Archivo Variable, IBM Plex Mono) are vendored through `@fontsource*` and
emitted into `dist/viewer/assets`: a local reader must work offline and must not
announce the project to a font CDN.
## Routes
| hash | view |
|---|---|
| `#/` | nothing selected |
| `#/s/<id>?hl=<line>&t=<trail>` | symbol view |
| `#/file/<path>?hl=<line>` | file view |
| `#/map?root=&depth=&tests=1` | module map |
| `#/flow?from=&to=` | flow strip — the call path between two symbols |
| `#/flow?symbols=a,b,c` | flow strip — `codegraph_explore`'s own question |
| `#/flow?t=<trail>` | flow strip — the trail you walked, read as a flow |
Node ids and file paths are encoded per slash-separated segment, so
`#/file/src/mcp/tools.ts` stays readable and still round-trips a segment
containing a reserved character. Build hashes with `symbolHref()` /
`fileHref()` / `mapHref()` / `flowHref()` rather than by hand.