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fix(graph): rebuild cached graph when schema is stale - #23

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Intent

Follow-up defect fix on the code-explainer feature merged in PR #22 (Thurbeen/thurview).

The problem, exactly: PR #22 added unresolvedByFile to CodeGraph so that a scoped code explainer can report only its own scope unresolved-reference count instead of the whole repository one. But graphAt (src/graph.ts) caches a built graph on disk under the review directory keyed ONLY by commit hash, with no schema check - readJson<CodeGraph> trusts whatever shape is on disk. So any user who already has a cached graph from a pre-upgrade thurview binary loads a CodeGraph with unresolvedByFile missing, and computeCoverage sums undefined entries to 0. The Coverage tab then states "0 references the graph could not place" - a WRONG NUMBER with no error, for a feature whose entire thesis is that every fact it states is a count the reader can re-derive. The reviewing pipeline raised this as an open info finding on PR #22 and it merged with the finding open; this fixes it.

The fix is deliberately schema-versioned rather than field-specific: GRAPH_SCHEMA is a constant on the module, CodeGraph carries schema, and graphAt rebuilds when the cached record version does not match. A field-specific if (!cached.unresolvedByFile) guard would rot the next time a field is added - and the reviewer noted the cache was never schema-versioned for any prior field either. The ?. optional chain in computeCoverage is dropped now that the field is guaranteed present (the ?? 0 stays, because a file with no unresolved references legitimately has no entry).

Test: test/graph.test.ts drives graphAt against a real scratch git repository with a cache file written in the OLD shape (right commit, missing fields) and asserts the graph is rebuilt with the true per-file counts rather than trusting the stale record, plus that the second call reuses the freshly written cache. This is behaviour through the real function, not a source grep.

Scope: one commit, no behaviour change to reviews, no new CLI surface. The full gate is green locally: pnpm typecheck, prettier, rumdl, shellcheck, and 48 tests.

What Changed

  • Added a GRAPH_SCHEMA constant and a schema field on CodeGraph; graphAt now rebuilds the graph instead of reusing a disk cache whose schema doesn't match the current version, rather than trusting the cached record's commit hash alone.
  • buildGraph stamps every graph it produces with GRAPH_SCHEMA.
  • Removed the now-unneeded ?. optional chain on unresolvedByFile access in computeCoverage, since the field is guaranteed present once the schema check passes (the ?? 0 fallback stays for files with no unresolved references).
  • Added a graphAt test that seeds a cache file in the pre-schema shape (missing fields) and asserts the graph is rebuilt with correct per-file unresolved counts, plus that a subsequent call reuses the freshly written cache; updated the coverage test fixture to include schema.

Risk Assessment

✅ Low: The schema-version guard closes the exact reachable path described (stale on-disk graph missing unresolvedByFile), all CodeGraph reads go through the now-guarded graphAt, readJson already fails safe to null on malformed cache so no new crash path is introduced, and the new test exercises graphAt end-to-end against a scratch repo with a pre-upgrade cache shape, correctly failing before the fix and passing after.

Testing

The provided baseline (pnpm test && bats scripts/ci/*.bats) already passed; on top of that I ran the two targeted suites touched by the fix (graph.test.ts, coverage.test.ts) and, to prove this is a real regression test rather than incidental coverage, temporarily reverted src/graph.ts and src/coverage.ts to their pre-fix shape and confirmed the new graphAt test fails with exactly the reported symptom (stale cache trusted, unresolvedByFile silently undefined), then restored the fix and confirmed all tests pass again. The change matches the stated intent precisely: GRAPH_SCHEMA constant, schema field on CodeGraph, graphAt checking schema on cache-hit, and the ?. guard dropped in computeCoverage now that the field is guaranteed present. No source or test files were left modified.

Evidence: Regression reproduced pre-fix, passes post-fix (graphAt cache-schema test)
Pre-fix (ff05f94 shape): AssertionError: expected undefined to deeply equal { 'src/a.ts': 1 } — test/graph.test.ts:55
Post-fix (a1a69dd, current worktree): Test Files 2 passed (2); Tests 11 passed (11) across test/graph.test.ts and test/coverage.test.ts

One thing to decide before merging

This PR carries a cog.toml line it did not set out to carry. The gate titled
the PR fix(graph): ..., graph is not in cog.toml's scope list, so the
PR Title check failed - and the fix round widened the scope list rather than
retitling. It is left in because it looks right on its own merits (src/graph.ts
is a ~590-line subsystem with its own test file, and both #20 and #21 touched
it), but adding a commit scope is a repo-convention call that belongs to you,
not to a one-line bug fix. Drop that line and retitle to an existing scope if
you would rather keep the vocabulary as it is.

Pipeline

Updates from git push no-mistakes

✅ **intent** - passed

✅ No issues found.

✅ **Rebase** - passed

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✅ **Review** - passed

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✅ **Test** - passed

✅ No issues found.

  • pnpm test && bats scripts/ci/*.bats
  • npx vitest run test/graph.test.ts test/coverage.test.ts at target commit a1a69dd — 11/11 pass
  • Regression reproduction: temporarily reverted src/graph.ts and src/coverage.ts to the pre-fix (ff05f94) shape while keeping the new test, reran test/graph.test.ts — the new graphAt test failed with expected undefined to deeply equal { &#39;src/a.ts&#39;: 1 }, confirming it fails for the exact reported reason (stale cache trusted, unresolvedByFile undefined)
  • Restored fixed sources and reran npx vitest run test/graph.test.ts test/coverage.test.ts — 11/11 pass again, worktree left clean (git status clean, no stray temp files)
✅ **Document** - passed

✅ No issues found.

✅ **Lint** - passed

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✅ **Push** - passed

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graphAt caches a built graph on disk keyed only by commit, with no schema
check, so a graph written by an older binary loads with unresolvedByFile
missing and every count derived from it reads as zero. A silently wrong
number is the one failure a document of derived facts cannot have.

Version the record and rebuild when the version does not match, which
also covers the next field rather than only this one.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WW5sEutdtcbSUtgLQKBKpn
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LeTuR merged commit fb84041 into main Sep 9, 2026
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LeTuR deleted the fix/graph-cache-schema branch September 9, 2026 18:37
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