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David Blass dd26d35137 learnings: audit fixes — preamble in TOC, server-side line-boundary truncation, empty-repo intro (#743)
* learnings: surface preamble in TOC, mirror line-boundary truncation server-side, fix empty-repo intro copy

three audit fixes on top of the recent learnings overhaul (#717):

- `parseLearningsHeadings` now prepends a synthetic `(preamble)` entry
  when a body has non-whitespace content before the first heading. the
  prompt instructs the agent NOT to slurp the whole file when a TOC is
  present, so without this any preamble lines were silently invisible
  (realistic transitional case: an agent partially restructures a
  legacy free-text body and leaves bullets above the first `## `).

- server-side PATCH route now applies the same line-boundary-aware
  truncation as the action (defense in depth via a shared
  `truncateAtLineBoundary` + `MAX_LEARNINGS_LENGTH` exported from
  `action/internal`). the raw `.slice` it used before could leave a
  mid-heading tail on any caller that bypassed the client-side
  truncate, breaking the next-seed TOC parse. removes the duplicated
  cap constant.

- `buildLearningsSection` intro no longer asserts "accumulated by
  previous agent runs" — false for fresh repos with zero history. new
  copy is tense-neutral and works for empty + populated bodies. also
  nudges the agent to re-read after mid-run edits (the inlined TOC
  ranges are a run-start snapshot).

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* learnings prompt: tighten to single evergreen test, allow tool-quirk bullets when they prevent repeat waste

The blanket "no pullfrog tool quirks" ban was wrong — if the agent burned
calls discovering a quirk this run, recording the workaround prevents the
next run from repeating the waste. Reframe around one litmus ("would a
future run do its work better because this bullet exists?") and trust it
to subsume the scattered don'ts. Drop the 3+ months timeframe (arbitrary)
and the four-example pullfrog/PR/date/play-by-play list (the rule
underneath is "don't anchor facts to repo state that will move"). Cuts
~10 lines from a prompt the model was already mostly ignoring; the
remaining anchor list is narrower and more enforceable.

* audit-learnings-r2: align wiki + tighten re-read nudge

- wiki/prompt.md described the post-run reflection prompt as "bans pullfrog-tool quirks (those belong in tool descriptions, not per-repo learnings), bans PR/review/commit/date references" — that's stale after the prompt rewrite. update to: single-litmus framing, expanded anchor list (now includes version pins + line numbers), and explicit allowance for tool-quirk workarounds when discovery burned calls.
- buildLearningsSection re-read nudge said "re-read after editing" which can be read as "re-read the section you edited". in fact any edit shifts the line numbers of every later section in the TOC, not just the edited one. tighten to make that explicit. mirror the new wording in the wiki example block. update the test substring assertion accordingly.

* postRun: refresh JSDoc to match the reflection prompt rewrite

`buildLearningsReflectionPrompt`'s JSDoc still listed "PR-/review-/commit-/date-anchored facts" and "rediscovery of pullfrog-tool quirks" as failure modes the prompt pushes back on. after b586b4f8 the prompt no longer bans tool-quirk bullets (it explicitly allows them when the agent burned calls discovering the quirk), and the anchor list expanded to cover branch refs, version pins, and line numbers too. update the JSDoc so it describes the prompt that actually exists, and call out the cross-repo drift tradeoff that comes with allowing tool-quirk bullets.

* fix(mcp/issueEvents): narrow event.event before Set.has lookup

octokit's listEventsForTimeline union includes timeline-event members where `event` is `event?: string`. `("event" in event)` does not narrow that property to non-undefined, so `relevantEventTypes.has(event.event)` was passing `string | undefined` to a `Set<string>.has`. typescript only flagged this once `cf-worker-indexing` started seeing the file via the type graph that now reaches mcp through the new `truncateAtLineBoundary` re-export in `action/internal/index.ts`. fix the latent bug at the source: require `typeof event.event === "string"` before the Set lookup.

* learnings: split truncation helpers into MCP-free module

re-exporting `truncateAtLineBoundary` + `MAX_LEARNINGS_LENGTH` from `action/utils/learnings.ts` through `action/internal/index.ts` accidentally pulled the entire MCP type graph into the SDK barrel: `learnings.ts` imports `ToolContext` from `mcp/server.ts`, which transitively wires every tool module under `action/mcp/` into anything that imports from `pullfrog/internal`. for `cf-worker-indexing/tsconfig.json` (`customConditions: ["@pullfrog/source"]`) and the root `tsc` (which compiles the proprietary app routes that import from `pullfrog/internal`), this expanded the type-checked surface and surfaced two latent issues in unrelated files (`mcp/issueEvents.ts`, `utils/subprocess.ts`). a 6-line pure string helper has no business dragging mcp/server.ts into anyone else's type graph.

move both symbols to `action/utils/learningsTruncate.ts`. `learnings.ts` re-exports them so existing callers keep working; `internal/index.ts` re-exports from the truncate-only module so the SDK barrel stays MCP-free.

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Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Co-authored-by: Colin McDonnell <colinmcd94@gmail.com>
2026-05-19 21:47:10 +00:00
David Blass 5518890b18 learnings: TOC + section taxonomy + 100k cap, hygiene rules, tool-quirk descriptions (#717)
* audit learnings: reshape reflection prompt + bake tool quirks into descriptions (#619)

Cross-repo audit of the 48 repos with non-null learnings turned up two
recurring failure modes:

1. ~25-30% of bullets across the most-active repos are pullfrog-tool
   quirks ("shell timeout is in milliseconds", "git args must be a JSON
   array", "create_pull_request_review drops out-of-hunk comments",
   "push_branch may report timeout when push succeeded", "checkout_pr
   shallow.lock retries", "commit_id needs full 40-char SHA"). These are
   universal across repos and should live in tool descriptions, not be
   rediscovered and stored 48 times. Tool descriptions now surface them.

2. Bullets are routinely 200-1000 chars (paragraph-length), and 12 of 48
   repos are at the 10k cap. The reflection prompt now: caps bullets at
   ~240 chars (one specific fact), bans PR/review/commit/date-anchored
   facts that decay within weeks, bans tool-quirk learnings, and tells
   the agent that cap pressure means compress+prune existing bullets,
   not skip new findings.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* learnings: add server-generated TOC, fixed section taxonomy, raise cap to 100k (#707)

Cap goes 10k → 100k. Reads stay bounded because the seeded file now
opens with a server-generated table of contents listing every `## `
section's line range — agents read the TOC, then `read_file offset/limit`
just the sections relevant to the current task instead of slurping the
whole file.

## Section taxonomy (fixed)

`## Build & test`, `## CI`, `## Conventions`, `## Architecture`,
`## Gotchas`. Free-form `### ` sub-headings inside a section are fine.
Pre-taxonomy free-text rows get wrapped in a `## Legacy` carve-out on
first seed so they remain visible while the agent gradually re-curates
them during reflection turns.

## Storage shape unchanged

`Repo.learnings` still holds raw markdown (no schema migration). The TOC
is a pure read-side affordance: prepended at seed time, stripped from
the agent-edited file before persist. Markers
`<!-- pullfrog-learnings-toc:* -->` delimit the strip region. Agent
edits inside the markers are discarded.

## Round-trip semantics

`seedLearningsFile` now returns `{ path, canonicalSeed }` where
`canonicalSeed` is the post-TOC body — same shape `readLearningsFile`
returns at end-of-run, so `persistLearnings` byte-compares them
directly to skip the no-op PATCH. Empty-repo first runs end up with the
section scaffold both as seed and as read-back, so untouched runs still
short-circuit cleanly.

## Reflection prompt

Adds explicit section-placement guidance (place each new bullet under
the most relevant `## `; do NOT add new top-level headings; do NOT
edit anything between the TOC markers). Carries forward the bullet
hygiene from the previous commit: ≤240 chars per bullet, no
pullfrog-tool quirks (those belong in tool descriptions), no
PR/review/commit/date references. The "near cap" framing is replaced
with "compress and prune within a section when it grows noisy" since
the cap pressure that drove cramming is gone.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* anneal round 1: line-anchored taxonomy detect, partial-merge, line-boundary truncation, scaffold-empty UI

Multi-lens review of the TOC + taxonomy diff surfaced a cluster of
correctness and operational bugs. Fixes:

- `hasAnyTaxonomyHeading` used `String.includes("## X")` which
  false-positives on `### X` (the `## ` substring sits inside `### `),
  prose containing `## CI`, fenced code documenting markdown, etc.
  Replaced with a line-anchored predicate that reuses `parseHeadings`
  so detection and TOC construction stay consistent.

- The "any heading present → pass through verbatim" rule meant a body
  with one taxonomy heading would seed without the other four. Worse,
  requiring all five would flip a body back into Legacy when the agent
  legitimately pruned a section to empty. New `partial` kind: keep
  existing content in place, append missing sections in canonical order
  so the agent always has the full scaffold without losing pruning
  intent.

- `stripLearningsToc` collapsed `\n{3,}` globally; `canonicalSeed`
  doesn't, so an untouched body with intentional triple-newline spacing
  would compare unequal and burn a spurious LearningsRevision row each
  run. Drop the global collapse — only the leading newlines that the
  strip itself introduces are normalized.

- 100k truncation via `slice(0, 100_000)` could cut mid-line, breaking
  `parseHeadings` (whole-line `^## `) on the next seed and flipping a
  cut body back into Legacy. New `truncateAtLineBoundary` cuts at the
  last newline before the cap.

- `LearningsSection.tsx` rendered a scaffold-only body as "has
  learnings" instead of the empty placeholder. Added a
  `hasOnlyEmptyScaffold` guard so the console behaves the same as
  pre-PR for the empty case.

- Seed log line distinguishes `kind=structured/partial/legacy-wrapped/
  empty` instead of `existing=yes/no`, so operators can spot legacy
  migration activity in logs.

- New tests cover: substring false-positive (`### Build & test`,
  in-prose mentions), partial-taxonomy merge (no Legacy wrap),
  full-taxonomy structured pass-through, last-newline truncation,
  triple-newline preservation.

Deferred (documented in PR body): deploy-ordering footgun (action
before API), rollback for rows >10k, Gemini sanitizer dropping
`description` on `anyOf` branches, reflection-on-failed-runs.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* anneal r2: hard-truncate fallback when line boundary discards >4k

Round-2 review caught a regression in `truncateAtLineBoundary`: when the
only newline within the first 100k chars sits near the start (e.g. one
heading + 100k+ char single line — pathological pasted log dumps), the
line-boundary cut discards almost all of the body. losing one partial
line is preferable to losing kilobytes; threshold the fallback at 4k.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* move TOC out of file: prompt-side rendering, server-parsed headings

drops the in-file TOC + fixed taxonomy in favor of:
- file on disk = verbatim Repo.learnings (no markers, no scaffold)
- server parses headings (mdast-util-from-markdown) at run-context time
  and returns them as RepoSettings.learningsHeadings
- action renders heading TOC into the LEARNINGS prompt section as
  parenthesized line ranges like `Build & test (L1-L42)` with hierarchy
  via 2-space indent off the shallowest depth
- reflection prompt teaches agent-curated structure with a soft 300-line
  per-section cap and explicit guidance to restructure flat legacy lists

cuts 8 helpers (ensureSections, stripLearningsToc, assembleFile,
buildTocBlock, parseHeadings, buildSectionScaffold, hasAnyTaxonomyHeading,
LEARNINGS_SECTIONS) and the canonicalSeed round-trip dance.

action seedLearningsFile is now { path } only; main.ts byte-compares the
trimmed read-back against (current ?? "").trim() to gate the persist
PATCH. truncateAtLineBoundary kept for safety.

new tests:
- test/learningsToc.test.ts (11 parser cases incl. fenced-code, blockquote,
  arbitrary h1-h6 nesting, startLine-points-at-heading invariant)
- action/utils/learningsTocRender.test.ts (7 renderer cases)

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Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Co-authored-by: Colin McDonnell <colinmcd94@gmail.com>
2026-05-13 20:14:26 +00:00