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Implements T14 of epic #1521 (closes #1536). Stacked on #1548 (which carries the graph query tools of #1542 and the type facts of #1539); retarget once the stack lands.

What

  • codebase_rag/context_slice.py: context(fetch_all, project, target, budget_tokens, repo_root, search=). target is a qualified name, a bare name, path:line, or free text (embedding similarity through the semantic extra; the best match becomes the target and each candidate's similarity is kept as a tie-breaker).
  • Pieces, each with why_included: the target's source (distance 0); each direct caller's call line from the per-site location ([Epic: Agent IDE] T1: Store call-site and import-site locations on CALLS/REFERENCES/IMPORTS edges #1522), not the whole caller; each direct callee's signature; the headers of the types it RETURNS/ACCEPTS ([Epic: Agent IDE] T6: Return types and parameter types as first-class graph facts #1527); the full source of each reaching test with its depth and the symbol it reaches through; sections of documents whose LINKS_TO points at the target's file, those mentioning the name or else the first section.
  • Ranking: graph distance, then trace hotness (dynamic_call_count on the caller's edge), then similarity, then name. Tokens counted with the shared count_tokens; pieces taken in order while they fit, so the total never exceeds the budget. The target alone is trimmed line by line to fit (truncated); a budget too small for its first line names it in omitted. Everything that did not fit is listed in omitted.
  • Cypher: CYPHER_CONTEXT_HOTNESS, CYPHER_CONTEXT_TYPES, CYPHER_CONTEXT_DOC_SECTIONS; the in-memory emulator answers these plus the resolve and callees queries.
  • MCP tool context (target, budget_tokens default 4000, project) under the ingestor lock; cgr context TARGET [--budget N]; docs in docs/architecture/context-slice.md.

Tests

codebase_rag/tests/test_context_slice.py (5): with a 4k budget a fixture function's slice holds its source, its three callers' call lines, its callee's signature, the type it returns, the reaching test and the doc section that mentions it, and nothing from an unrelated module; the token count never exceeds the budget across shrinking budgets (trimmed target first, then omitted); distance then trace hotness orders the pieces; targets by bare name, location and free text (with and without a searcher); the MCP tool. Unit suite: 8963 passed plus the lock-guard fix.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added a context CLI command and MCP tool for generating focused code context around a target.
    • Supports qualified names, file locations, and free-text target resolution.
    • Includes relevant source, callers, callees, types, tests, and linked documentation within a configurable token budget.
    • Returns ranked results with usage, omissions, truncation status, and inclusion reasons.
  • Documentation

    • Added architecture and MCP usage documentation for context slicing.

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Adds graph-ranked, token-budgeted context slicing for code targets. The feature resolves symbols, gathers related source and documentation, ranks candidates, and exposes results through new CLI and MCP interfaces. Tests and documentation cover graph relationships, semantic fallback, normalization, and budget handling.

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Context Slice

Layer / File(s) Summary
Graph queries and slice contracts
codebase_rag/context_slice.py, codebase_rag/cypher_queries.py, evals/cgr_graph.py
Defines the context-slice output shape and adds graph resolution, callee, hotness, type, and documentation queries.
Candidate assembly and budget fitting
codebase_rag/context_slice.py
Collects target, caller, callee, type, test, and documentation pieces. It ranks and trims pieces to the token budget.
CLI and MCP interfaces
codebase_rag/cli.py, codebase_rag/cli_help.py, codebase_rag/constants/*, codebase_rag/mcp/tools.py, codebase_rag/tools/tool_descriptions.py
Registers the context CLI command and MCP tool. Both support project scope, token budgets, JSON output, and semantic search fallback.
Validation and documentation
codebase_rag/tests/test_context_slice.py, docs/architecture/context-slice.md, docs/guide/mcp-server.md, mkdocs.yml
Adds end-to-end coverage and documents target resolution, included pieces, ranking, output fields, and budget enforcement.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant CLI_or_MCP
  participant ContextSlice
  participant Graph
  participant SemanticSearch
  Client->>CLI_or_MCP: Request context(target, budget)
  CLI_or_MCP->>Graph: Resolve project and query graph
  CLI_or_MCP->>ContextSlice: Build context slice
  ContextSlice->>SemanticSearch: Search free-text target when needed
  SemanticSearch-->>ContextSlice: Return semantic matches
  ContextSlice->>Graph: Fetch callers, callees, types, tests, and docs
  Graph-->>ContextSlice: Return related graph records
  ContextSlice-->>CLI_or_MCP: Return ranked budgeted JSON
  CLI_or_MCP-->>Client: Output context slice
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 717ce

The new context feature can resolve targets outside the selected project, produce different results between emulation and production, and omit relevant nested documentation. These bounded security and correctness issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the new graph-ranked, token-budgeted context tool and follows Conventional Commits format.
Description check ✅ Passed The description provides the implementation summary, linked issue, scope, behavior, and test results. It does not use every template heading, but it contains the main required information.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #1536 [1536]. They add target resolution, ranked context pieces, graph queries, semantic similarity support, token-budget enforcement, structured output, MCP and CLI interfac…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The CLI, MCP integration, graph emulator, Cypher queries, tests, and documentation directly support the context-slice functionality required by issue #1536. No unrelated changes are evident.
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The changes satisfy issue #1536 [1536]. They add target resolution, ranked context pieces, graph queries, semantic similarity support, token-budget enforcement, structured output, MCP and CLI interfaces, tests, and documentation.

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@vitali87 vitali87 removed the claimed label Aug 30, 2026
…shared by the watcher and a new MCP reingest tool (#1524)
…es per call, resolve absolute benchmark targets (#1524)
… retained updater before the embedding sweep (#1524)
…s on incremental runs, keep C# params arrays (#1527)
…olve, definition, callers, callees, implementors, overrides, importers, tests_reaching (#1523)
… dynamic dispatch sites, and dead-code --min-resolution (#1526)
… callers, arity findings, signature changes, new duplicates, new import cycles, tests reaching (#1525)
…through the structural delta with undo on failure (#1531)
… unmapped listing, type-checked defaults, MCP tool and cgr change-signature (#1533)
…, keep_alias re-export, cycle refusal, MCP tool and cgr move (#1534)
…rly-exit refusal, definition removal, MCP tools and cgr extract/inline (#1535)
…er lines, callee signatures, types, reaching tests and linked doc sections (#1536)
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In `@codebase_rag/cypher_queries.py`:
- Line 502: Update the document-section traversal in
codebase_rag/cypher_queries.py at lines 502-502 to follow CONTAINS_SECTION
recursively, and mirror the same recursive traversal in evals/cgr_graph.py at
lines 599-600 within _context_rows. Preserve selection of relevant nested
Section nodes as context pieces.

In `@codebase_rag/mcp/tools.py`:
- Around line 1616-1622: Update the search closure in _run_context to pass the
resolved project_name, rather than the raw project value, to
semantic_code_search; preserve the existing query text and other arguments.

In `@evals/cgr_graph.py`:
- Around line 465-467: Update the outgoing CALLS branch to apply the project
prefix filter to the callee qualified name in edge[4] before adding the row,
matching CYPHER_GRAPH_CALLEES behavior; retain only callees within the requested
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RETURN DISTINCT type(r) AS rel_type, t.qualified_name AS qualified_name, t.path AS path,
t.start_line AS start_line, t.end_line AS end_line"""
CYPHER_CONTEXT_DOC_SECTIONS = """MATCH (doc:Module)-[:LINKS_TO]->(f:File {absolute_path: $absolute_path})
MATCH (doc)-[:CONTAINS_SECTION]->(s:Section)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Traverse nested documentation sections.

A Section can contain child Section nodes, but both implementations only read direct children of the document. A linked document with a relevant nested heading cannot return that heading as a context piece. This can omit the relevant documentation or consume the token budget with its broader parent section.

  • codebase_rag/cypher_queries.py#L502-L502: traverse CONTAINS_SECTION recursively when selecting document sections.
  • evals/cgr_graph.py#L599-L600: mirror the recursive traversal in _context_rows.
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  • codebase_rag/cypher_queries.py#L502-L502 (this comment)
  • evals/cgr_graph.py#L599-L600
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In `@codebase_rag/cypher_queries.py` at line 502, Update the document-section
traversal in codebase_rag/cypher_queries.py at lines 502-502 to follow
CONTAINS_SECTION recursively, and mirror the same recursive traversal in
evals/cgr_graph.py at lines 599-600 within _context_rows. Preserve selection of
relevant nested Section nodes as context pieces.

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Comment on lines +1616 to +1622
def _run_context(
self, project_name: str, target: str, budget_tokens: int, project: str | None
) -> object:
from codebase_rag.context_slice import context as build_context

def search(text: str) -> list[SemanticSearchResult]:
return semantic_code_search(self.ingestor, text, project=project)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Pass the resolved project name to the semantic search.

_graph_query resolves the scope with project_name = project or derive_project_name(...) and passes that value as project_name. The graph reads in build_context use project_name. The search closure uses the raw project instead.

If the caller omits project, project is None and semantic_code_search searches embeddings across every indexed project. A free-text target can then resolve to a qualified name owned by another project. graph_query.definition will not find that name under project_name, so the tool returns a slice with a foreign resolved value and pieces: [].

The CLI counterpart in codebase_rag/cli.py (Line 1410) passes the resolved name, which confirms the intended contract.

🐛 Proposed fix: scope the search to the resolved project
     def _run_context(
-        self, project_name: str, target: str, budget_tokens: int, project: str | None
+        self, project_name: str, target: str, budget_tokens: int
     ) -> object:
         from codebase_rag.context_slice import context as build_context
 
         def search(text: str) -> list[SemanticSearchResult]:
-            return semantic_code_search(self.ingestor, text, project=project)
+            return semantic_code_search(self.ingestor, text, project=project_name)

Update the call site accordingly:

         return await self._graph_query(
             cs.MCPToolName.CONTEXT,
             project,
-            lambda name: self._run_context(name, target, budget_tokens, project),
+            lambda name: self._run_context(name, target, budget_tokens),
         )
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def _run_context(
self, project_name: str, target: str, budget_tokens: int, project: str | None
) -> object:
from codebase_rag.context_slice import context as build_context
def search(text: str) -> list[SemanticSearchResult]:
return semantic_code_search(self.ingestor, text, project=project)
def _run_context(
self, project_name: str, target: str, budget_tokens: int
) -> object:
from codebase_rag.context_slice import context as build_context
def search(text: str) -> list[SemanticSearchResult]:
return semantic_code_search(self.ingestor, text, project=project_name)
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In `@codebase_rag/mcp/tools.py` around lines 1616 - 1622, Update the search
closure in _run_context to pass the resolved project_name, rather than the raw
project value, to semantic_code_search; preserve the existing query text and
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edge[2] == cs.RelationshipType.CALLS.value
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Apply the project filter to emulated callees.

CYPHER_GRAPH_CALLEES filters callee.qualified_name by $project_prefix, but this branch returns every outgoing CALLS target. A project function that calls an external dependency therefore appears in emulator context slices but not in production slices. Filter edge[4] by prefix before adding the row.

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In `@evals/cgr_graph.py` around lines 465 - 467, Update the outgoing CALLS branch
to apply the project prefix filter to the callee qualified name in edge[4]
before adding the row, matching CYPHER_GRAPH_CALLEES behavior; retain only
callees within the requested project while preserving existing node and
relationship checks.

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First full verification of this branch. Nothing had ever run against it: .github/workflows/ci.yml triggers only on pull_request: branches: [main, master, develop], so a PR targeting a feature branch never starts the workflow. This PR shows 7 checks (CodeQL's five Analyze jobs plus CodeQL and CodeRabbit, which fire on every PR) against 27 for a comparable PR targeting main.

Ran the missing checks locally against 717cedac in a detached worktree:

Check Result
Full unit suite (-n 4, -m 'not integration') 8963 passed, 125 skipped, 1 xfailed, 0 failed
test_context_slice.py 18 passed
Edit-op tests (context_slice + pruning + extract_inline + move) 52 passed
ruff check clean
ruff format --check 1110 files clean
ty check codebase_rag --exclude tests/ 15 diagnostics

The type-check number is not comparable to main's 19: this branch predates #1814, which added the optional neo4j import diagnostics. Not a regression either way.

Also probed context_slice.py by hand, since green tests on never-reviewed code prove little:

  • Budget is never exceeded. Measured _fit at budgets 0, 10, 50, 1000 and 100000 — used <= budget in every case, including the degenerate 0.
  • _trim terminates (the line list shrinks each iteration) and the target-must-fit path is explicit rather than accidental.
  • The identifier matcher is properly escaped — re.search(_IDENTIFIER % re.escape(name), text), so no pattern injection from a qualified name.

Two things I checked and did not file, recorded so nobody re-investigates them:

  • _LOCATION (^(?P<path>[^:]+):(?P<line>\d+)$) does not match a Windows absolute path, because [^:]+ stops at the drive-letter colon. It is only a routing heuristic — a miss falls through to the " " not in target branch and still resolves. Not a defect.
  • _fit reports truncated=True at budget=0 while emitting no pieces. Defensible: the target was truncated to nothing and appears in omitted.

No defects found. Worth stating plainly given the sibling PR: #1548 yielded three reproduced runtime bugs the moment anyone looked, so "untested" and "broken" were indistinguishable from outside. For this branch the answer is the good one.

Tracking the CI gap at #1582.

vitali87 added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 9, 2026
Two CodeRabbit findings, both real.

**A head SHA identifies a commit, not a pull request.** After a stack
rebase several branches share a head -- issue #1582 records this trap
explicitly, and warns that `gh run list --branch` returns other PRs'
runs. Selecting by SHA alone let a run belonging to a different PR
satisfy this gate. It now requires the run's `pull_requests[]` to name
this PR, which is what `scripts/check_pr_gated.py` already enforces.

**`gh api` returns only the first 100 results without `--paginate`.** A
matching CI run on a later page read as "no run at this head", failing
the gate on a PR that was genuinely tested -- a false negative, which
trains people to override the gate and is worse than the hole it closes.

One correction inside the fix, found by running it rather than reasoning
about it: my first attempt used `--paginate --slurp`, and gh rejects
`--slurp` alongside `--jq`. The query returned empty for EVERY PR, which
would have made the gate fail closed on everything. Caught because all
three test PRs returned the same wrong answer -- a uniform result across
inputs that should differ is the tell. With `--jq` alone, gh applies the
filter per page and concatenates, so `.workflow_runs[]` already yields
every run across all pages.

Verified live in all four directions after the change:

    #1819 owned by 1819   -> 1   pass
    #1551 owned by 1551   -> 1   pass
    #1549 owned by 1549   -> 0   FAIL (correct; never CI'd)
    #1551 claimed by 9999 -> 0   ownership genuinely discriminates

The last row is the known-positive for the ownership filter: without it
the check would pass for any PR number, which is indistinguishable from
working.
pull Bot pushed a commit to codingwatching/code-graph-rag that referenced this pull request Sep 9, 2026
Closes the hole in issue vitali87#1582's option 2: a required status check that
is ABSENT does not block a merge. GitHub cannot fail a check nobody
reported, so "required" means "must not be red", not "must be present".

`All Checks Pass` is a job inside `ci.yml`. Whenever `ci.yml` does not
run at a PR's head, that job does not exist there, the ruleset's only
requirement is vacuously satisfied, and the PR reports mergeable with no
tests having run.

Measured on vitali87#1551 while writing this:

    mergeStateStatus: CLEAN
    mergeable:        MERGEABLE
    checks present:   7
    'All Checks Pass' among them: False

Seven CodeQL/CodeRabbit checks, zero unit tests ever run on that branch,
and GitHub says it is ready to merge.

This workflow exists to be PRESENT where `ci.yml` is not. It carries no
`branches` filter, so it reports on every pull request, and it fails
unless a run of the `CI` workflow exists at the exact head SHA. That is
the base-agnostic formulation vitali87#1582 settled on after two branch-filter
theories were proposed and falsified: it does not depend on why any given
run fired, only on whether one covers the commit being merged.

Three details the issue's own caveats forced:

* It queries `actions/runs?head_sha=`, not `gh run list --branch`. After
  a stack rebase several branches share a head, and the branch query
  returns runs belonging to OTHER PRs.
* It matches the workflow `name` exactly, and prints every run found
  either way. A bare `| length == 0` cannot distinguish "no run at this
  head" from "the name did not match".
* It asserts EXISTENCE only, not conclusion. Whether the run passed is
  `All Checks Pass`'s job; duplicating that here would disagree with it
  while a run is in flight.

Validated in both directions against live data before committing:

    vitali87#1818 (base main, merged clean)  -> 1 CI run at head  -> pass
    vitali87#1547 (base main, in review)     -> 1 CI run at head  -> pass
    vitali87#1551 (base a feature branch)    -> 1 CI run at head  -> pass
    vitali87#1549 (head pushed minutes ago)  -> 0 CI runs at head -> FAIL

The last is correct and is the point: those commits are verified only by
a local suite run.

Adding this to the ruleset's required checks is a separate, deliberate
step for the repo owner. Until then it reports without blocking, which is
the right order -- a gate that starts blocking the moment it merges would
block every PR currently open.
Replayed onto the rebased `feat/extract-inline` as the top layer of the
cascading rebase. The branch's 17 commits (4 of them merges of main and of
the layer below) are squashed into their net diff: the merge commits carried
their ancestors' work, which is what made every PR in this stack show its
parents' changes in its own diff.

Resolved against the rebased base:
- `constants/cli.py`, `evals/cgr_graph.py`: unions, both sides' additions.
- `mcp/tools.py`: the new `_context_tool` placed BEFORE
  `_reingest_for_contract` rather than after, so the latter is not cut in
  half -- appending split the method on the two layers below.
- Dropped a duplicated zero-arg `_reingest_for_contract` signature the
  branch carried; all four call sites pass `project_name` as main requires.

`context` is classified in `_READS_THE_GRAPH`, NOT exempted into
`_NOT_GRAPH_READERS` like move/extract/inline. It is a pure reader routed
through `_graph_query`: a partial graph would silently drop callers, callees
and reaching tests from the slice and spend the budget on a quietly
incomplete context, so it must refuse rather than be excused.

Verified: 242 passed across test_context_slice and test_mcp_project_scoping.
Brings the cascade-rebased result (feat/1536-context-slice-rebased,
e4adb72) onto this branch as a fast-forwardable merge, so the PR's head
advances without rewriting published history.

The tree of this commit is IDENTICAL to e4adb72 -- verified with
`git diff --stat e4adb72`, which is empty. The 51 merge conflicts were not
hand-resolved: the whole tree was taken from the rebased branch, which is
the version that was built layer by layer on the rebased stack and tested.

Why this shape. #1551 is the top of a five-layer stack that was never a
registered gh stack: hand-based branches with the base set in the PR form,
so every layer's diff carried its ancestors' commits. Rebasing the bottom
(#1548) cascaded through move-op (#1549) and extract-inline (#1550) to here.
The layers below were force-pushed; this one takes the merge route instead.

Contents, as committed on the rebased branch:
- `context`, a graph-ranked token-budgeted slice (issue #1536).
- Classified in `_READS_THE_GRAPH`, NOT exempted into `_NOT_GRAPH_READERS`
  like move/extract/inline: it is a pure reader routed through
  `_graph_query`, and on a partial graph it would silently drop callers,
  callees and reaching tests from the slice and spend the budget on a
  quietly incomplete context.
- Four `_reingest_for_contract` call sites pass `project_name`, as main's
  guarded helper requires (PR #1547).

Verified on the identical tree: 242 passed across test_context_slice and
test_mcp_project_scoping; ruff check and format clean.

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What changed in this PR

Adds a graph-ranked, token-budgeted context slice exposed through the CLI and MCP interfaces.

Changes:

  • Resolves targets by name, location, or semantic similarity.
  • Collects ranked source, callers, callees, types, tests, and documentation within a token budget.
  • Adds graph queries, emulator support, documentation, tests, and integrations.
File Summary Review findings
mkdocs.yml Adds Context Slice documentation navigation. None
evals/​cgr_graph.py Emulates context-related graph queries. Nested document sections are not traversed in the emulator (moderate, 1 vote; line 665).
docs/​guide/​mcp-server.md Documents the MCP context tool. None
docs/​architecture/​context-slice.md Describes context-slice behavior and output. None
codebase_rag/​tools/​tool_descriptions.py Adds MCP descriptions and parameters. None
codebase_rag/​tests/​test_context_slice.py Tests resolution, ranking, budgets, and MCP behavior. None
codebase_rag/​mcp/​tools.py Registers and executes the MCP tool. Semantic search is not scoped to the selected project (moderate, 3 votes; lines 2959, 2966). The MCP schema omits the default budget (nit, 1 vote; line 2928).
codebase_rag/​cypher_queries.py Adds context graph queries. Nested document sections are missed by one-hop traversal (moderate, 1 vote; line 836).
codebase_rag/​context_slice.py Implements resolution, extraction, ranking, and budgeting. Path containment is not validated before reading excerpts, allowing arbitrary local-file exposure (critical, 1 vote; lines 107, 129). Multiline callee and type spans do not cover their full source (moderate, 1 vote each; lines 248, 284). Signature reading can truncate valid multiline definitions (moderate, 1 vote; line 125). Target trimming is quadratic for large definitions (moderate, 1 vote; line 424). Every request scans the full project graph (moderate, 1 vote; line 301). Unresolvable locations fall back to semantic search (moderate, 1 vote; line 144). Site-less callers are mislabeled as call lines (moderate, 1 vote; line 209).
codebase_rag/​constants/​mcp.py Adds MCP names and default budget. None
codebase_rag/​constants/​cli.py Adds context inclusion reasons and messages. None
codebase_rag/​cli.py Adds the cgr context command. The command may read from the wrong local repository when --project differs from repo_path (moderate, 2 votes; line 1422).
codebase_rag/​cli_help.py Adds CLI help and registration. None

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Comment on lines +107 to +110
def _lines(repo_root: Path | None, path: str | None, start: int, end: int) -> str:
if repo_root is None or not path or start < 1 or end < start:
return ""
return _normalise(extract_source_lines(repo_root / path, start, end) or "")
Comment thread codebase_rag/cli.py
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from .context_slice import context as build_context
from .graph_cli import _project_and_fetch
from .tools.semantic_search import semantic_code_search

name, fetch_all, ingestor = _project_and_fetch(project, repo_path)
with ingestor: # type: ignore[attr-defined]
payload = build_context(
fetch_all,
name,
target,
budget,
repo_path.resolve(),
search=lambda text: semantic_code_search(ingestor, text, project=name), # type: ignore[arg-type]
)
Comment thread codebase_rag/mcp/tools.py
from codebase_rag.context_slice import context as build_context

def search(text: str) -> list[SemanticSearchResult]:
return semantic_code_search(self.ingestor, text, project=project)
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Superseded by a pr-split replacement stack on main (--max-loc 500 --stack).

This PR was based on feat/extract-inline (#1550, closed), but nothing here uses extract or inline. So the work was rebased onto main first. The registries it extends now sit next to rename, and the eval ingestor gained the resolve and callees reads that main's graph_query already issues. The 520-line test file was split in two to fit the limit. The hotness test now picks its edge from edge_props, which main keys by site.

# layer diff
#2141 Cypher reads, reason strings, eval ingestor reads +171/-0
#2140 context_slice.py +485/-0
#2142 cgr context + MCP context tool + docs +216/-1
#2143 slice tests over an indexed fixture +307/-0
#2144 excerpt normalisation and lookup-key tests +225/-0

Linear native stack #2141 → #2140 → #2142 → #2143 → #2144; the top merges cleanly into main. Local checks on the rebased head: the context-slice tests pass (18). MCP parity, project scoping, graph_query, CLI smoke, readme, endpoint, gloss and MCP update tests pass too; their one failure was the hotness test, fixed since.

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