feat(explore): report missing query names with contained source checks by bompus · Pull Request #389 · bompus/codegraph

bompus · 2026-10-04T20:36:26Z

When an explore query combines real symbols with a guessed name, the response now lists the missing name instead of leaving the returned source to imply it exists. For example, verifySnapshot finalHistoryReconciled still returns verifySnapshot and reports finalHistoryReconciled as not found only after checking indexed source.

The absence check verifies the opened file through native descriptors or handles on Linux, macOS and Windows before reading it. It refuses outside-root symlinks, non-regular files, oversized files and files that grow during a read. It counts discarded bytes against the scan budget. The previous JavaScript pathname fallback is removed. Quoted single names use the same resolution rules as bare names; words copied inside quoted phrases do not become guesses.

Validation so far:

Linux native regression tests: 5 passed, covering descriptor identity after replacement, symlink escape, Unicode names, size limits and growth accounting.
Targeted source scanner, security, unmatched-name and README checks: 66 passed, 2 existing skips.
Removing containment or growth accounting makes the native regression tests fail. Both additional quote cases failed before their fixes and now pass.
Final Linux build, Clippy, kernel rules and full suite passed: 577 files, 7,356 tests passed, 39 existing skips. This run includes the strict symlink assertions.
Linux/Windows/macOS workflow passed on a0a42b16. Native tests passed on all three systems (5 on Linux/macOS, 4 on Windows); the targeted scanner, unmatched-name and strict native symlink checks passed on each platform. The workflow uses installed Node 24 and shell steps compatible with this repository's Actions restriction.

Documentation checked: README's About this fork "Missing names reported" row, matching MCP reference page, CHANGELOG and canonical server instructions. No extraction or resolution behavior changes.

Review follow-up in a2f933bb changes documentation only. README, the MCP reference and CHANGELOG now qualify the complete-scan requirement; five documentation checks pass. The FIFO build request is covered by existing Vitest global setup and the passing clean-platform runs. The private Rust read helper already receives a size capped at 64 MiB. No further independent review round ran after this documentation change.

The guidance follow-up in 3db7fd8b limits repeated-search advice to indexed code and allows searching source outside the index. The instruction module compiles and loads. This changes wording only; no further independent review round ran.

A query that mixes real names with a guessed one used to return the real names' code with no word about the guess. The summary now lists symbol-shaped names that match no node, binding, file stem or word in hand-written source. The text check scans indexed files under a 300 ms budget and is skipped on projects too large to scan in time, so a name is listed only when it is known to be absent.

A cached directory is used only while its path still names the same directory, so a directory swapped for a symlink out of the root is resolved again. A skipped or unreadable file now leaves the absence unproven. Sizes are checked on the opened file. File stems come from the basename instead of a partial extension list, and words inside a quoted phrase are not guesses.

…s as letters The source scan's containment check cached directory real paths, and a directory moved out of the root and linked back in kept its inode, so the cache accepted it. The opener now checks the file it opened: on Linux through /proc/self/fd, elsewhere by matching the descriptor to its real path's inode. A file that grows after its size check could be read past the scan's byte limits. The read now stops one byte past the checked size and skips the file when it gets that byte. The quoted-phrase parser paired the apostrophes in "don't" and "it's" as quotes. A single quote now opens or closes a phrase only away from a word.

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New Features
- codegraph_explore can report queried function or variable names as not found when a complete scan confirms they have no indexed definition and do not appear in project source. Incomplete scans do not produce missing-name reports.
Improvements
- Source scans verify files remain within the project and respect per-file and total-scan limits. Files that cannot be read are skipped, and limited or incomplete scans do not claim names are missing.
Documentation
- Updated the README and MCP server reference to describe missing-name reporting and its limits.

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The change adds a native reader for contained source files, bounded scanning of indexed source, and codegraph_explore reporting for names confirmed absent from the project. Tests, workflow checks, and documentation cover these changes.

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Source scanning and unmatched-name reporting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Contained source reader `src/extraction/kernel/loader.ts`, `codegraph-kernel/src/contained_source.rs`, `codegraph-kernel/src/lib.rs`, `__tests__/security.test.ts`	The kernel exposes a reader that validates source-root containment and file type, applies byte limits, and reports read results. Security tests cover in-root reads and rejected paths.
Indexed source scan `src/db/queries.ts`, `src/codegraph.ts`, `src/mcp/source-scan.ts`, `__tests__/source-scan.test.ts`	Database lookups return eligible indexed files and exact binding matches. The scanner applies file-count, byte, and time limits, and reports matches, skipped files, and scan completion.
Unmatched-name confirmation and reporting `src/mcp/tools.ts`, `__tests__/explore-unmatched-names.test.ts`, `.github/workflows/contained-source.yml`, `CHANGELOG.md`, `README.md`, `site/src/content/docs/reference/mcp-server.md`, `src/mcp/server-instructions.ts`	`codegraph_explore` selects symbol-shaped query candidates and reports names only when a complete scan confirms they are absent. Integration tests and workflow checks exercise the behavior; documentation describes the report and its meaning.

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The change reports missing query names only after a complete, contained scan of indexed source. No outstanding merge-blocking risk was found.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3db7f

The new checks use read-only access, verify project containment before reading content, and suppress absence notices when scanning is incomplete. No privilege expansion or containment bypass was identified in the examined flows. Concurrent edits and unusual filesystem configurations leave some uncertainty.

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No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

inferred — The directly examined exposure is the selected project and the hosting process: a query caller influences candidate names, while repository or index modification can influence scanned source and paths. Reads run with existing process filesystem privileges and feed name-presence diagnostics. Other server operations and tenant isolation were not assessed.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

observed — Indexed paths cross into native filesystem access through relative-path validation and opened-handle containment verification. Reading uses the same opened file afterward, avoiding a second pathname lookup as the authority for content access. Replacement and symlink tests exercise this boundary.
observed — Rejected or failed reads increment the skipped count, and absence requires both completion and zero skipped files. Early matching termination is safe for this consumer because finding every requested name immediately suppresses all absence results.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

observed — Exploration prefilters scans to 16,000 files and 64 MiB of indexed sizes. Native reads independently enforce opened-file size limits, consume at most metadata size plus one growth-detection byte, and charge discarded bytes. The 300 ms deadline is checked between files, not during a synchronous read or matching loop, so it is not a hard process-latency limit.

Hardening Proposals

proposed — If stronger diagnostic consistency is required, treat detected shrinkage during a read as incomplete. This would narrow the concurrent-truncation false-absence case, but would not establish an atomic repository snapshot.

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bytes_read cast can truncate, and an unchecked size + 1 allocation can be large.

content.len() as u32 truncates silently if a read ever goes past 4 GiB. In practice, read() caps size at MAX_READ_BYTES (64 MiB), so callers never reach that limit. There is still a growth case: take(size + 1) reads at most one extra byte. The scan budget then counts that byte, as the documentation says. No action is required. The cap holds only because read() enforces it, so a debug_assert!(size <= MAX_READ_BYTES) would protect this helper from future callers.
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The optional assertion note needs no code change. read_open_file is private, and its production caller checks live size against the 64 MiB cap before calling it. The bounded read adds at most one byte, so bytes_read cannot approach the u32 limit. Existing size-limit and growth-accounting tests cover that boundary. The only change after review is documentation; no further independent review round ran.

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