* fix(frontmatter): prune vendor dirs at descent + bounded wall-clock with partial-state surfacing Two production-grade fixes for the v0.38.2.0 wave (supersedes PR #1287). Root cause Fix 1 (the bug that hung gbrain doctor on 216K-page brains): both brain-writer.ts:walkDir and frontmatter.ts:collectFiles recursed into every subdirectory without calling pruneDir, the canonical descent-time pruner used by sync/extract/transcript-discovery since v0.35.5.0. On brains that double as code workspaces, the walkers stat'd hundreds of thousands of entries under node_modules / .git / .obsidian / *.raw / ops that isSyncable filtered out at the leaf — paying the IO cost for nothing. Wiring pruneDir at descent (with the v0.37.7.0 #1169 submodule-gitfile check) eliminates the bulk of the wall-clock pain. Fix 2 (codex outside-voice C1): AbortSignal.timeout cannot interrupt the synchronous walker — readdirSync / lstatSync / readFileSync block the event loop, so timer callbacks never fire mid-walk. The load-bearing wall-clock bound is now a deadline check inside scanOneSource's visit callback (Date.now() > opts.deadline). AbortSignal still works at source boundaries. Shape changes (codex C2 + C4): - ScanOpts: + deadline?: number, + dbPageCountForSource hook, + visitDir test seam - PerSourceReport: + status: 'scanned' | 'partial' | 'skipped', + files_scanned, + db_page_count - AuditReport: + partial: boolean, + aborted_at_source: string | null - ok = grandTotal === 0 && !partial (a clean prefix from a timed-out scan no longer falsely reports clean) walkDir + collectFiles now exported with an optional visitDir callback for the regression suite. Production callers don't pass it. Tests: - test/brain-writer-walk-prune.test.ts (new, 12 cases): visitDir-based descent-time pruning assertions for both walkers. Pins the property output-based tests can't catch (isSyncable rejects vendor files at the leaf — so a test checking only output passes under the original bug). - test/brain-writer-partial-scan.test.ts (new, 5 cases): deadline + partial state + ok-after-abort + numerator/denominator coverage. Uses deadline, NOT AbortSignal, since codex C1 proved abort can't interrupt sync. - test/brain-writer.test.ts: existing "abort mid-scan" test refit to the new partial-state contract (per_source has 'skipped' entries instead of being empty — gives doctor visibility into which sources weren't checked). - test/migrations-v0_22_4.test.ts: AuditReport fixture extended with the new required fields. Plan + cross-model review: ~/.claude/plans/system-instruction-you-are-working-hidden-lollipop.md Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(doctor): wire deadline + partial-state into frontmatter_integrity check Adopts the v0.38.2.0 ScanBrainSources surface in doctor's frontmatter_integrity check. - AbortSignal.timeout(fmTimeoutMs) for between-source bound. - deadline = Date.now() + fmTimeoutMs (the load-bearing mid-walk bound — codex C1 caught that AbortSignal alone can't fire inside the sync walker). - GBRAIN_DOCTOR_FM_TIMEOUT_MS env override (default 30000ms; invalid values fall back to default rather than crash). - Per-source DB denominator via SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pages WHERE source_id = $1 AND deleted_at IS NULL (codex C3: deleted_at filter so soft-deleted pages don't inflate the count). - Honest partial-render: "PARTIAL — scanned ~N files (source has ~M pages in DB), K issue(s) so far" instead of "scanned ~N of M pages" (codex C3 — the two populations are overlapping but not identical sets). - "NOT SCANNED (timeout — run gbrain frontmatter validate <id>)" per skipped source so the user knows which sources didn't get checked. - Catch block simplified to "unexpected error only" (codex D4 — the AbortError special case from PR #1287 was unreachable in a sync walker). Tests: test/doctor-frontmatter-partial.test.ts (new, 11 cases) — structural source-grep pins on every load-bearing render string plus the simplified- catch contract. Behavioral coverage is deferred to the heavy script (tests/heavy/frontmatter_scan_wallclock.sh, T6) because runDoctor calls process.exit unconditionally and can't be driven from bun:test directly; refactoring runDoctor to return rather than exit is a separate TODO. Plan + cross-model review: ~/.claude/plans/system-instruction-you-are-working-hidden-lollipop.md Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs: v0.38.2.0 release notes, Phase 2 design sketch, heavy wall-clock smoke - CHANGELOG.md: ELI10-lead-first release entry per CLAUDE.md voice rules. Names the user-visible behavior change, the per-source partial render, the performance numbers table, the "things to watch" caveats. Credits @garrytan-agents for PR #1287's diagnosis. - VERSION + package.json: 0.37.11.0 -> 0.38.2.0. - docs/architecture/frontmatter-scan-incremental.md: Phase 2 design sketch for DB-backed scan state. Schema, migration shape, writer paths (sync-side UPSERT + incremental scan + autopilot cycle phase), doctor reader, sequencing concerns, two-phase rollout plan. Starting point for the follow-up PR — sub-second steady-state doctor needs incremental state, but the schema migration carries its own contract surface (forward-reference bootstrap, schema-drift E2E, PGLite-vs-Postgres parity) that deserves its own focused PR. - tests/heavy/frontmatter_scan_wallclock.sh (new, manual / nightly per tests/heavy/README.md): seeds a synthetic 60K-file brain (10K real + 50K under node_modules/) and asserts gbrain doctor completes in <15s with frontmatter_integrity: ok. Codex C7 caught that the original plan's 1500-file budget was too small to be a meaningful guard — at that scale the test passes BEFORE AND AFTER the fix, proving nothing. 60K is the minimum that catches the descent-into-vendor-trees regression. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: adversarial review followups — CLI hint, deadline-vs-await race, between-source breadcrumb Codex adversarial review caught 4 real bugs in the v0.38.2.0 wave. All four fixed before ship. #1 (user-facing): `gbrain frontmatter validate` takes a filesystem PATH, not a source id. Pre-fix the NOT SCANNED hint pointed users at `gbrain frontmatter validate src-a` — which would fail with "no such directory", breaking the very remediation this PR ships to give them. Fix: render `src.source_path` instead. #2 (correctness): between sources, `await dbPageCountForSource(src.id)` ran unchecked. A slow query could blow past the deadline, then scanOneSource was still called and returned `status='partial'` with `files_scanned=0` — misleading ("partial scan" when actually zero files were scanned). Fix: add a post-await deadline re-check; mark source + remainder as 'skipped' if the budget already burned. #3 (UX): when the outer-loop deadline check fired BETWEEN sources, `aborted_at_source` stayed null and the doctor message said "PARTIAL SCAN" with no source name. Fix: stamp `aborted_at_source` with the source we were about to start. #4 (correctness): the COUNT query had no per-call deadline. A wedged Postgres pool could make a single COUNT hang past the budget and defeat the wall-clock guarantee. Fix: Promise.race against the remaining deadline; on timeout, resolve null and the post-await re-check (#2) marks the source skipped. Tests: 3 new regression cases in brain-writer-partial-scan.test.ts pinning the fixed contracts (skipped-vs-partial under slow COUNT, hanging COUNT within deadline, aborted_at_source before any source starts). 8648 pass / 0 fail across the full suite. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * docs(README): refresh production-brain stats — 8.2x pages, 5.6x people, 7.4x companies Pre-update line (months stale): "17,888 pages, 4,383 people, 723 companies, 21 cron jobs running autonomously, built in 12 days." Fresh counts from ~/git/brain (the wintermute production brain): - pages: 17,888 → 146,646 (8.2x) - people: 4,383 → 24,585 (5.6x) - companies: 723 → 5,339 (7.4x) - cron jobs running: 21 → 66 (113 total, 66 enabled per ~/git/wintermute/workspace/ops/cron-snapshot.json) Dropped "built in 12 days" — at 146K pages the initial-velocity claim is stale narrative that no longer matches the current scale story. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
tests/heavy/
Heavy ops-shape tests. Shell scripts that exercise gbrain end-to-end against
real infrastructure (Postgres, large fixtures, concurrent processes). Cost
minutes per run; NOT in default bun test.
When to add a script here
Put a test here if it:
- Costs more than ~30s wallclock per run
- Needs real Postgres (not PGLite in-memory)
- Spins up multiple processes or measures concurrency
- Measures system metrics (RSS, latency under load, lock contention)
- Tests an upgrade / migration matrix against committed historical states
When to use *.slow.test.ts instead
Put a slow test in test/ with the .slow.test.ts suffix if it:
- Runs under
bun test(TypeScript, uses bun:test imports) - Is correctness-shaped, not ops-shaped (asserts behavior of one function)
- Can stub external dependencies
The two patterns coexist intentionally. *.slow.test.ts is per-file
correctness for cold paths; tests/heavy/ is ops-shape scripts that don't
fit bun's test runner.
How to run
# Run every script in this directory, sequentially:
bun run test:heavy
# Run a single script:
tests/heavy/<script>.sh
The runner is scripts/run-heavy.sh. It discovers every tests/heavy/*.sh
file at this directory's top level (NOT recursive), runs them in lexical
order, fails on the first non-zero exit.
Naming convention
tests/heavy/<name>.sh— top-level test script, picked up by the runner.tests/heavy/_<name>.sh— library/helper invoked by a sibling test. The leading underscore tells the runner to SKIP this file. Use this pattern for fixture builders, shared setup, anything that needs a required argument or isn't standalone-runnable.tests/heavy/fixtures/<name>— committed input data (SQL, JSON, etc).
CI scheduling
Heavy tests run nightly at 08:17 UTC via .github/workflows/heavy-tests.yml,
and on PRs labeled heavy-tests. They are NOT part of the default PR CI
matrix — that gate stays fast.
Failure output convention
Each script writes a per-run log to ~/.gbrain/audit/heavy-<script>-<ts>.log
containing subprocess stdout/stderr, environment state, and any captured
metrics. The CI workflow uploads these as artifacts on failure for triage
without re-running locally.
Style
#!/usr/bin/env bashset -euo pipefail- Explicit array argv for execs (no
eval, no unquoted globs) - Print a one-line
[<script>] <action>log per major step - Exit non-zero on any failure path; print enough context to diagnose
- Honor
$GBRAIN_HOME/$TMP_ROOTenv overrides where relevant
See scripts/check-jsonb-pattern.sh and scripts/run-slow-tests.sh for the
in-tree style reference.