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Closes #1533. Replaces #1548, which is closed once this merges: that branch sat 431 commits behind main with unresolved review threads, so the operation is rebuilt from scratch on today's rename, contract and transaction code rather than rebased.

What it does

change_signature(qn, new_params, mapping) rewrites a Python function's or method's parameter list and every call site the graph knows, on the definition and on every override in both directions, in one edit transaction.

  • new_params lists the new parameters in order as they would be written in a header (n: int, limit: int = 10); a bare old name carries that parameter over with its annotation and default.
  • mapping says where each new parameter's value comes from at a call site: an old parameter's name, its 0-based index, or =literal to insert that text at every site. A new parameter absent from the mapping takes the old parameter of the same name.
  • Sites are bound as Python would bind them and re-rendered in the new order. Values stay positional until one goes by keyword or a defaulted parameter is left out; from there every later value is spelled by keyword. Keyword values keep their original relative order under their new names, so renaming by index renames keyword callers too.
  • An old parameter fed to a new one of another name is renamed, and the body follows: bare references become the new name (attributes and keyword-argument names that share the spelling are left alone, a comprehension that only reads it follows). The rename refuses when the old name is used inside a nested function, lambda or class, or re-bound by global, nonlocal or an import, and when the new name is already read in the body. Without this the first smoke test failed with NameError on the renamed definition.
  • A recursive call, or a call nested in another call's arguments, is rewritten inside out: the inner rewrite is folded into the enclosing value before the enclosing site is rendered, so helper(helper(1)) becomes helper(helper(1, 1), 1) as one edit per site rather than two that overlap.
  • Spelling a kept parameter out again (b: int = 0 for an existing b) re-annotates it; only the bare name carries the old spelling over. A @staticmethod has no receiver; a method whose first parameter is not self or cls refuses rather than remapping it as a value.
  • A site the mapping cannot complete (missing required value, splat, surplus argument, undeclared keyword, generator argument) or that the graph resolved by guesswork is left as written and listed as unmapped with a reason; allow_heuristic rewrites the guessed ones.
  • With a re-ingest the applied change is measured through the structural delta and undone when the contract fails: every site of the changed signature must read as mapped or be in the unmapped list, so a caller the graph never saw is caught after the fact.

Refusals, with nothing written: unknown definition, non-Python definition, *args/**kwargs///* in the header, overrides whose parameter names differ (names the member), duplicate new names, a required parameter after a defaulted one, a mapping naming an unknown new or old parameter or feeding two new parameters from one old one, and a literal that cannot be a value of the declared type (='no' for int; =None fits int | None and Optional[int]; a non-literal is not checked).

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  • codebase_rag/editing/signature.py: the operation.
  • codebase_rag/editing/sites.py: AMBIGUOUS, hierarchy() and call_node_at(), moved out of rename.py so both operations share one answer to "which call does this (line, col) name".
  • change_signature_expectation() gains heuristic_allowed, the leave rename_expectation already carried; without it allow_heuristic rewrote the guessed site and the contract then undid the whole change.
  • MCP tool change_signature and CLI cgr change-signature QN PARAM... --map NEW=SOURCE.
  • docs/architecture/change-signature.md.

Python only. Other languages are #1908; the refusal message points there.

Tests

codebase_rag/tests/test_change_signature.py runs every case against a real index of a fixture repo through the in-memory ingestor, applies the change to disk, and executes the rewritten fixture with a subprocess so the call sites are shown to agree with the new definition, not just to parse. Covers: add with literal, reorder, rename by index, keyword spelling after an omitted default, every unmapped reason, every refusal, a method hierarchy, dry run, undo history, a contract failure rolling back, and the MCP tool (schema, payload, refusal as a payload).

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  • New Features

    • Added a change-signature operation for updating Python function and method parameters.
    • Rewrites supported definitions, overrides, function bodies, and known call sites.
    • Supports parameter mappings, dry runs, heuristic resolution, validation, rollback, and edit tracking.
    • Reports unmapped sites with precise locations, including multiple calls on one line.
    • Available through both CLI and MCP tools.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance covering parameter rules, constraints, call-site handling, and usage examples.

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The pull request adds a Python-only change_signature operation. It rewrites definitions, overrides, bodies, and known call sites. It exposes CLI and MCP interfaces with mappings, dry runs, heuristic controls, reports, transactions, and postcondition validation.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared resolution and contracts
codebase_rag/editing/sites.py, codebase_rag/editing/rename.py, codebase_rag/editing/contract.py, codebase_rag/constants/*
Shared hierarchy traversal and call-node resolution support both rename and change_signature. New constants define AST nodes, report fields, validation messages, and signature-related options.
Signature parsing and rewrite planning
codebase_rag/editing/signature.py
SignatureChanger parses mappings and parameters, validates definitions and annotations, rewrites body references, updates hierarchy overrides, binds call arguments, and reports unmapped sites.
CLI and MCP interfaces
codebase_rag/cli.py, codebase_rag/cli_help.py, codebase_rag/mcp/tools.py, codebase_rag/tools/tool_descriptions.py
The CLI command and MCP tool accept new parameters, mappings, heuristic controls, dry-run mode, and project selection. They return changed sites, unmapped sites, and verdict data.
Transactional validation, tests, and documentation
codebase_rag/editing/signature.py, codebase_rag/tests/*, docs/architecture/change-signature.md, docs/guide/mcp-server.md, mkdocs.yml
The operation validates parsing and postconditions, rolls back failed changes, and records transactions. Tests and documentation cover rewrites, refusals, hierarchy behavior, unmapped sites, and MCP responses.

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Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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  participant Client
  participant MCPTools
  participant SignatureChanger
  participant Graph
  participant Repository
  Client->>MCPTools: change_signature(qn, new_params, mapping)
  MCPTools->>SignatureChanger: plan and apply operation
  SignatureChanger->>Graph: load hierarchy and call sites
  SignatureChanger->>Repository: stage definition and call-site edits
  Repository-->>SignatureChanger: staged changes
  SignatureChanger->>Graph: re-ingest and verify contract
  Graph-->>SignatureChanger: verdict or rollback condition
  SignatureChanger-->>MCPTools: report with sites and unmapped
  MCPTools-->>Client: operation payload
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Valid signature changes can be refused or rolled back. Fix the body-read filter and stabilize call-site identities before merging.

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This update completes the graph-aware Python signature-change workflow, including transactional edits, call-site rewriting, contract validation, CLI and MCP exposure, and supporting documentation. The previously identified call-site identity and qualified-staticmethod handling issues are addressed.

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verdict = verify(
change_signature_expectation(
[
_site_key(site.path, site.line, site.col)

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Translate call-site columns before contract verification. ChangeSignature._candidate stores pre-edit graph coordinates in SignatureSite. The patcher applies original-byte spans, and structural_delta.observe builds after sites from the re-ingested file. No translation or stable identity connects these coordinates. _call_key includes the column, while _enforce_contract compares post-edit site keys with pre-edit report.unmapped and report.sites keys. An earlier same-line rewrite can therefore shift a later call. If that site has a possibly_missing verdict, _changed_site_fault can report the valid rewritten call as unmapped, and _enforce_contract can roll back the transaction. Use a stable cross-version identity or translate each original span to its post-edit coordinates.

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What changed in this PR

Adds a graph-aware Python change_signature operation with transactional call-site rewriting, CLI/MCP interfaces, documentation, and tests.

Changes:

  • Implements signature parsing, mapping, hierarchy handling, body renaming, and rollback contracts.
  • Adds shared call-site helpers and contract validation.
  • Exposes the operation through CLI and MCP tools.
  • Adds documentation and end-to-end coverage.
File Description
mkdocs.yml Adds documentation navigation.
docs/​guide/​mcp-server.md Documents the MCP operation.
docs/​architecture/​change-signature.md Describes operation behavior and constraints.
codebase_rag/​tools/​tool_descriptions.py Adds MCP descriptions and parameters.
codebase_rag/​tests/​test_edit_contract.py Tests signature contracts.
codebase_rag/​tests/​test_change_signature.py Adds end-to-end operation coverage.
codebase_rag/​mcp/​tools.py Registers and implements MCP handling.
codebase_rag/​editing/​sites.py Adds shared hierarchy and call-site helpers.
codebase_rag/​editing/​signature.py Implements signature rewriting.
codebase_rag/​editing/​rename.py Uses shared site helpers.
codebase_rag/​editing/​contract.py Extends contract validation.
codebase_rag/​editing/​__init__.py Updates editing package documentation.
codebase_rag/​constants/​mcp.py Adds MCP names and parameters.
codebase_rag/​constants/​graph.py Adds report fields.
codebase_rag/​constants/​core.py Adds formatting constants.
codebase_rag/​constants/​cli.py Adds signature-related messages.
codebase_rag/​constants/​ast_python.py Adds Python AST constants.
codebase_rag/​cli.py Adds the CLI command.
codebase_rag/​cli_help.py Adds CLI help and examples.

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Comment on lines +739 to +743
texts = [own[spec.name].text if spec.name in carried else spec.text for spec in new]
if header.receiver is not None:
texts.insert(0, header.receiver)
edits = [
_Edit(header.path, header.span, f"({cs.SEPARATOR_COMMA_SPACE.join(texts)})")
Comment on lines +776 to +784
if label != cs.NodeLabel.METHOD or not specs:
return None
if specs[0].name in cs.PY_RECEIVER_NAMES:
return specs.pop(0).text
if _is_static(node, source):
return None
raise SignatureRefused(
cs.SIGNATURE_UNUSUAL_RECEIVER.format(qn=qn, name=specs[0].name)
)
Comment on lines +575 to +579
if child.type in (
cs.TS_PY_LIST_SPLAT,
cs.TS_PY_DICTIONARY_SPLAT,
cs.TS_COMMENT,
):
Comment thread codebase_rag/editing/signature.py Outdated
# override keeps its own); spelling a kept parameter out again
# re-annotates it, so only an unchanged spec counts as carried.
by_name = {spec.name: spec for spec in old}
carried = {spec.name for spec in new if by_name.get(spec.name) == spec}
Comment on lines +837 to +840
# An old parameter fed to a new one of another name is renamed, and
# the body must follow or the definition would be broken.
renamed = [
(old_names[source.index], spec.name)
`@staticmethod def f(self, x)` is legal Python and its `self` is an
ordinary parameter. `_take_receiver` checked the first parameter's NAME
before `_is_static`, so it popped that parameter as a receiver; the
requested `new_params` then re-added it and the tool wrote

    def helper(self, self, a, n: int):

a duplicate parameter, and a SyntaxError in the file it had just edited.

Checking staticness first makes the operation refuse and roll back: the
call-site binding still counts a receiver for a static method, so
`K.helper(1, 2)` cannot be mapped and the postcondition stops it. A
refusal that leaves the source untouched is the correct outcome here,
and is what the new test asserts.

Restoring the old order reddens that test alone. 77 passed across the
signature and editing files.
`helper(x for x in xs)` gives the call a `generator_expression` as its
arguments node rather than an `argument_list`, and the guard for that
had no test.

Asserting only that the site is unmapped would not have covered it:
removing the guard still refuses this call, but by an arity miscount
that reads the generator's own children as two positional arguments. The
right answer for the wrong reason, and it stops being right as soon as
the callee takes two parameters. The test asserts the UNREADABLE reason,
so removing the guard reddens it.
@vitali87 vitali87 added the split This PR needs to be split into multiple small reviewable PRs label Sep 21, 2026
`def f(a, b=a)` renamed a->x wrote `def f(x, b=a)` and reported success.
A default is evaluated at DEFINITION time in the enclosing scope, so that
file raises NameError the moment it is imported -- and it PARSES, so the
syntax postcondition could not catch it.

`_body_references` walks `FIELD_BODY` only, so a reference in the
parameter list was invisible to it. The rename now refuses when a
carried default reads the name being renamed, naming the parameter whose
default is the problem.

Two tests: the refusal, and a control where the default does not read the
renamed name and the rename still applies -- so this cannot be satisfied
by refusing every default. Removing the check reddens the first alone.
80 passed across the signature and editing files.
A bare old name resolves to the PRIMARY definition's spec, so an
explicitly spelled parameter that happened to match the primary compared
equal to it and counted as carried. Every override then kept its own
spelling: asking for `a: int` on a hierarchy where an override declares
`a: str` left that override un-annotated, the opposite of the request.

`carried` now comes from the raw `new_params` -- a bare identifier
naming an old parameter -- which is the distinction the caller actually
made and which spec equality cannot recover.

Two tests: an explicit spelling re-annotates every override, and a bare
name still keeps each override's own annotation. The control matters
here: re-annotating unconditionally would satisfy the first and break
the documented bare-name behaviour. Restoring the equality form reddens
the first alone. 82 passed across the signature and editing files.
Emptying the parameter list of `def f(a): return a` wrote `def f():
return a` and reported success. That PARSES, so the syntax postcondition
passes, and the arity contract only inspects call sites -- the NameError
surfaces when the function is finally called, far from the edit.

The plan now refuses when a parameter that is neither kept nor renamed
is still read in any member's body. Renamed names are excluded, since
the body rewrite follows those.

Two tests: the refusal, and a control where the body never reads the
dropped parameter and the removal still applies -- so this cannot be
satisfied by refusing every removal. Disabling the check reddens the
first alone. 84 passed across the signature and editing files.

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Comment thread codebase_rag/editing/signature.py Resolved
The guard added for a dropped parameter still read in the body matched
ANY identifier, so `obj.a` and `helper(a=1)` counted as reads of `a` and
refused a removal that is perfectly legal.

It now goes through `_is_a_reference`, the same test the body rewrite
uses: an attribute's name and a keyword argument's label are spelled like
the parameter but are not uses of it.

Two parametrised cases cover both shapes, and the existing refusal test
covers a real read. Dropping `_is_a_reference` reddens the two new cases
and leaves the refusal green. 86 passed across the signature and editing
files.
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Superseded by a pr-split replacement stack on main (--max-loc 500 --stack):

# layer diff
#2163 contract expectation, shared call-site helpers (sites.py), constants +286/-71
#2161 signature_spec + signature_contract +448/-0
#2162 signature_bind +491/-0
#2166 signature (the changer) +479/-0
#2164 CLI + MCP tool + docs +412/-1
#2169 test support + acceptance, transaction and MCP tests +425/-0
#2168 mapping tests +358/-0
#2165 definition and renamed-parameter tests +365/-0
#2167 hierarchy, receiver and default-guard tests +471/-0

Linear native stack #2163 → #2161 → #2162 → #2166 → #2164 → #2169 → #2168 → #2165 → #2167. The top has the same diff as the restructured branch against the merge-base and merges cleanly into main.

It's built from this PR rebased onto main (fix-pr-issues' c0f23007), plus one restructuring commit. pr-split can't split a single new file, and two of them were over the limit:

  • editing/signature.py (1322 lines) → signature_spec (specs, mapping sources, result types), signature_bind (header reading, argument binding, rendering), signature_contract (the postcondition check: SignatureChanger._enforce_contract lifted out unchanged as enforce_contract) and signature (the changer). cli.py and mcp/tools.py import parse_mapping, sites_for, unmapped_for and SignatureRefused from signature_spec.
  • tests/test_change_signature.py (1521 lines) → split by section into four test files over a shared change_signature_support.py.
  • The call-site test helpers pick edges from edge_props. main now keys edge properties by site, so the old five-element key failed with KeyError on the rebased branch.

Local checks: on the full restructured head, the four signature test files plus edit-contract, rename, MCP parity, CLI smoke and readme tests pass (221 passed, 1 skipped). Layer 1 was also checked on its own (edit-contract, rename, MCP parity, CLI smoke: 139 passed, 1 skipped), and layers 2-4 add modules that nothing imports until layer 5.

This PR's description says it replaces #1548. The earlier split of #1548 (#2041-#2050, based on feat/postcondition-contract) is therefore likely superseded too; whether to close it is the owner's call.

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[Epic: Agent IDE] T11: Edit algebra op 2: change_signature(qn, new_params, arg_mapping)

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