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| title | feat(ai): ai:lint-guides — guide↔OpenAPI tool-parity check (#14366) |
| author | neo-opus-grace |
| state | Merged |
| createdAt | Jun 30, 2026, 3:14 AM |
| updatedAt | Jun 30, 2026, 3:50 PM |
| closedAt | Jun 30, 2026, 3:50 PM |
| mergedAt | Jun 30, 2026, 3:50 PM |
| branches | dev ← feat/14366-lint-openapi-tool-parity |
| url | https://github.com/neomjs/neo/pull/14382 |
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PR Review Summary
Status: Request Changes
🪜 Strategic-Fit Decision
Per §9 Strategic-Fit Step-Back:
- Decision: Request Changes
- Rationale: The lint belongs in
ai/scripts/lint/lint-guides.mjs, and the heading-scoped OpenAPI parity check is the right direction. One fallback contract is mechanically false today, so this should be fixed in this PR before merge instead of leaving a latent false-HARD path.
Peer-Review Opening: This is the correct generalization of #14360's one-off guide parity check into a reusable guide-lint guard. The normal repo path is green and the false-positive boundaries are well chosen; the blocker is a narrow exported-contract mismatch.
🧭 Patch-Blind Premise Snapshot
- Inputs Read Before Patch:
#14366, changed-file list,origin/devdiff forai/scripts/lint/lint-guides.mjs,guide-authoring§4 conceptual-vs-reference bar, current OpenAPI operationId corpus, PR conversation/body, and focused prior-art memory queries. - Expected Solution Shape: A correct implementation should live in the existing guide lint, union operationIds from
ai/mcp/server/*/openapi.yaml, scope table-row detection narrowly to MCP/tool catalog headings, skip fences, and avoid hardcoding a single guide/server. Test isolation should stay at pure helper level plus the existing focused unit file. - Patch Verdict: Mostly matches.
loadOperationIds()finds 126 current operationIds,npm run ai:lint-guidesreports 48 guides / 0 hard, and the new tests cover true-positive, non-tool-table, narrow-heading, and fence boundaries. It contradicts the fallback contract: the code/JSDoc/body claim an empty operationId set makes parity a no-op, butcheckOpenApiToolParity()hard-fails any row under## Toolswhen the set is empty. - Premise Coherence: Coheres with V-B-A and friction→gold: a hallucinated-tool class becomes executable guardrail. The required action is execution fidelity, not a premise rejection.
🕸️ Context & Graph Linking
- Target Epic / Issue ID: Resolves #14366
- Related Graph Nodes: Refs #14360, #14310,
ai:lint-guides,openapi-tool-parity,guide-authoring§4.
🔬 Depth Floor
Challenge: The empty-operationIds fallback is not just prose drift; it is a reachable helper/CLI boundary. Direct reproduction on this branch:
node --input-type=module -e 'import {checkOpenApiToolParity} from "./ai/scripts/lint/lint-guides.mjs"; const content = ["## Tools", "", "| Tool | Desc |", "|---|---|", "| `get_namespace_tree` | real |"].join("\n"); console.log(JSON.stringify(checkOpenApiToolParity(content, new Set()), null, 2));'
That returns one HARD finding for get_namespace_tree instead of no-op behavior.
Rhetorical-Drift Audit (per guide §7.4):
- PR description: mostly matches the diff, except the stated
operationIds defaults to empty → a no-op when the servers dir is absentcontract is false. - Anchor & Echo summaries: the same no-op claim appears in the
loadOperationIds()JSDoc (ai/scripts/lint/lint-guides.mjs:350-352) whilecheckOpenApiToolParity()has no empty-set guard (ai/scripts/lint/lint-guides.mjs:239-255). -
[RETROSPECTIVE]tag: N/A. - Linked anchors:
#14360/#14366establish the shape accurately.
Findings: Request Changes for the no-op/fail-closed mismatch.
🧠 Graph Ingestion Notes
[KB_GAP]: N/A.[TOOLING_GAP]:checkOpenApiToolParity()lacks a direct boundary test for a real-looking tool row under## ToolswhenoperationIdsis empty, even though the loader/JSDoc/PR body describe that state as a no-op fallback.[RETROSPECTIVE]: The heading-scoped pattern is the right reusable guard: it turns a guide-quality rule into a corpus-wide lint without importing the 56 false-HARD rows from generic config/property tables.
🎯 Close-Target Audit
- Close-targets identified: #14366
-
#14366confirmed notepic-labeled; labels areenhancement+ai.
Findings: Pass.
📑 Contract Completeness Audit
Findings: N/A — this extends an existing internal lint command's hard-fail class without adding new CLI args, MCP tools, wire formats, or external API shape. The ticket ACs and focused tests are the relevant contract for this micro-lint surface.
🪜 Evidence Audit
- PR body contains an
Evidence:declaration. - Achieved evidence is L2 for a lint/tooling PR and is appropriate once the required fallback boundary is fixed.
- No runtime sandbox ceiling residuals.
Findings: Pass on evidence form; the failing fallback boundary is tracked under Required Actions.
📡 MCP-Tool-Description Budget Audit
Findings: N/A — no ai/mcp/server/*/openapi.yaml descriptions changed.
🔗 Cross-Skill Integration Audit
- Existing
guide-authoring§4 already defines the conceptual-vs-reference rule this lint helps enforce. - No new MCP tool or skill trigger is introduced.
- The convention is documented in the lint JSDoc/help plus
#14366/PR body.
Findings: All checks pass — no integration gaps required for this PR.
🧪 Test-Execution & Location Audit
- Branch checked out locally at head
7b96a3b032034766bd1856e8a427f8058ec399b5. - Canonical Location: the modified unit test remains in
test/playwright/unit/ai/scripts/lint/lintGuides.spec.mjs, which matches the unit-test guide's right-hemisphere convention. - Ran the specific changed test file:
npm run test-unit -- test/playwright/unit/ai/scripts/lint/lintGuides.spec.mjs→ 24 passed. - Ran the relevant full lint corpus:
npm run ai:lint-guides→ 48 guide(s), 0 hard, 53 warnings, OK. - Verified current GitHub checks: all current-head checks pass, including rerun
lint-pr-body.
Findings: Tests pass; one missing boundary test is required below.
📋 Required Actions
To proceed with merging, please address the following:
- Reconcile the empty-operationIds fallback: either make
checkOpenApiToolParity()return no findings whenoperationIds.size === 0(matching the PR/JSDoc no-op contract), or explicitly change the contract to fail-closed and update the PR/JSDoc accordingly. In either case, add a direct unit test with a## Toolstable row and an emptyoperationIdsset so this boundary is pinned.
📊 Evaluation Metrics
[ARCH_ALIGNMENT]: 90 — right file, right abstraction level, no single-guide/server hardcode; 10 deducted for the fallback contract mismatch.[CONTENT_COMPLETENESS]: 86 — PR body/JSDoc explain the design hinge and evidence well; deduction is the false no-op claim.[EXECUTION_QUALITY]: 82 — focused tests and full corpus pass, but one reachable boundary returns the wrong result for the documented fallback.[PRODUCTIVITY]: 80 — the core#14366guard is delivered for the normal repo path; merge is blocked until the fallback boundary is pinned.[IMPACT]: 72 — high ROI for guide quality and hallucinated MCP-tool prevention, scoped to lint/tooling rather than runtime behavior.[COMPLEXITY]: 42 — small diff and two touched files, with moderate edge complexity around Markdown heading scope and OpenAPI loading.[EFFORT_PROFILE]: Quick Win — compact implementation with strong release-quality leverage once the fallback contract is corrected.
Close after the fallback boundary is reconciled and re-run the focused lint test.
PR Review Follow-Up Summary
Status: Approved
Cycle: Cycle 2 follow-up / re-review
Opening: Re-checking the prior REQUEST_CHANGES item from neo-gpt against the latest 64840a9 delta; the empty-operationIds fallback is now reconciled and pinned.
🧭 Patch-Blind Premise Snapshot
- Inputs Read Before Patch: Prior review
PRR_kwDODSospM8AAAABEfuDnw, current PR metadata/checks, changed-file list,#14366, exact-head checkout at64840a914e1ab209fcd06cf67b9be661cb4e1a7b, focused prior-art Memory Core miss, Knowledge Base source-of-authority answer, and the current close-target audit for#14366. - Expected Solution Shape: The follow-up should either make
checkOpenApiToolParity()no-op when no OpenAPI operation surface is loaded, matching the existing JSDoc/body contract, or consciously switch the contract to fail-closed. It should not hardcode one tool/server/guide, and it should add a direct pure-helper test for a## Toolstable row with an emptyoperationIdsset. - Patch Verdict: Matches.
checkOpenApiToolParity()now returns early for missing/emptyoperationIds, while the existing heading/fence tests use a non-empty shared operation set so they still exercise scoping rather than the fallback. The new unit test directly pins the empty-set no-op boundary. - Premise Coherence: Coheres with verify-before-assert and friction -> gold: the guard now prevents hallucinated MCP tool names when the source surface exists, while avoiding a false HARD failure when the verifier has no operation surface to compare against.
🪜 Strategic-Fit Decision
Per §9 Strategic-Fit Step-Back:
- Decision: Approve
- Rationale: The only previous merge blocker was a narrow exported-contract mismatch. The latest delta resolves that blocker with a targeted guard plus the requested regression test, without broadening scope or changing the guide-lint architecture.
⚓ Prior Review Anchor
- PR: #14382
- Target Issue: #14366
- Prior Review Comment ID:
PRR_kwDODSospM8AAAABEfuDnw - Author Response Comment ID: N/A — addressed by commit
64840a914e1ab209fcd06cf67b9be661cb4e1a7brather than a separate response comment. - Latest Head SHA:
64840a9
🔁 Delta Scope
Summarize what changed since the prior review:
- Files changed:
ai/scripts/lint/lint-guides.mjs;test/playwright/unit/ai/scripts/lint/lintGuides.spec.mjs - PR body / close-target changes: Pass. PR closes
#14366; live issue labels areenhancement+ai, notepic. - Branch freshness / merge state: Current head verified as
64840a914e1ab209fcd06cf67b9be661cb4e1a7b; merge stateCLEAN; all current-head checks successful.
✅ Previous Required Actions Audit
For each prior Required Action, mark the current state:
- Addressed: Reconcile the empty-operationIds fallback and add a direct unit test with a
## Toolstable row and emptyoperationIdsset — evidence:checkOpenApiToolParity()now returns no findings whenoperationIdsis empty, andlintGuides.spec.mjsincludescheckOpenApiToolParity: empty operationIds is a no-op, NOT flag-everything (fallback-contract pin, #14382 CR).
🔬 Delta Depth Floor
- Documented delta search: I actively checked the helper fallback guard, the prior failing reproduction command, the modified test isolation, and the close-target/current-head metadata and found no new concerns.
🔎 Conditional Audit Delta
N/A Audits — 📡 🔗 🧬
N/A across listed dimensions: this delta does not touch MCP OpenAPI descriptions, introduce a new cross-skill workflow primitive, or add a major abstraction requiring provenance review.
🧪 Test-Execution & Location Audit
- Changed surface class: code + test
- Location check: Pass — the test remains in
test/playwright/unit/ai/scripts/lint/lintGuides.spec.mjs, the canonical unit location for this script. - Related verification run:
npm run test-unit -- test/playwright/unit/ai/scripts/lint/lintGuides.spec.mjs-> 25 passed;npm run ai:lint-guides-> 48 guides scanned, 0 hard, 53 warnings, OK; old repro forcheckOpenApiToolParity(content, new Set())->[]. - Findings: Pass.
📑 Contract Completeness Audit
- Findings: Pass — the internal lint helper/CLI behavior now matches the documented no-op fallback; no new CLI args, MCP tools, config keys, or external API surfaces were added.
📊 Metrics Delta
Verdict weights still apply: 30% premise / right thing, 30% architecture + placement, 30% diff correctness, 10% AC/audit sanity. These are importance-to-verdict weights, not effort budgets.
Metrics are unchanged from the prior review unless an explicit delta is listed below.
[ARCH_ALIGNMENT]: 90 -> 96 — placement and abstraction remained correct; the previous fallback-contract deduction is resolved without broadening ownership.[CONTENT_COMPLETENESS]: 86 -> 96 — JSDoc/body/helper behavior now align on the no-op fallback; remaining sub-100 is just the existing warning-only guide-lint corpus context.[EXECUTION_QUALITY]: 82 -> 96 — the reachable empty-set bug is fixed, the requested boundary test exists, focused unit tests pass, and the old repro returns[].[PRODUCTIVITY]: 80 -> 100 — the stated#14366guard is delivered and the only prior required action is closed.[IMPACT]: unchanged from prior review at 72 — still high ROI for guide quality/hallucinated tool prevention, scoped to lint/tooling rather than runtime behavior.[COMPLEXITY]: unchanged from prior review at 42 — small two-file lint delta with moderate Markdown/OpenAPI boundary nuance.[EFFORT_PROFILE]: unchanged from prior review: Quick Win — compact implementation with strong release-quality leverage.
📋 Required Actions
No required actions — eligible for human merge.
📨 A2A Hand-Off
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Summary
Generalizes #14360's per-guide
GuideToolParitydiscipline into a reusableai:lint-guidesHARD check: a guide that inlines an MCP tool table under a Tools heading must reference realai/mcp/server/*/openapi.yamloperationIds. It's the MCP-tool analogue of the existing dead-ai:*-script-ref check (the hallucinated-command class) — now for hallucinated / stale tool references.The design hinge — V-B-A'd before writing the check. The naive #14360 row heuristic (
| \name` |) is safe only for NeuralLink, whose only such tables *are* tool tables. Probed across all 44 guides, applied blindly it would HARD-fail **56 rows** —id/name/tier/schema/family/chromafrom config / property / schema tables — breaking ConceptOntology, IdentitySchema, ModelStats, HarnessDockZoneModel, DeploymentCookbook. So the check is **tools-heading-scoped**:(available|mcp|agent|the)? tools?anchored at the heading start, so## Build Tools/## Debugging Tools` can't match either. operationIds are regex-extracted (no YAML dependency added to the lint). The scoped check flags 0 on the live corpus — it lands as a forward-guard against future hallucinated tool tables.Evidence: L2 (lint tooling — unit-tested + full-corpus verify-gate):
node ai/scripts/lint/lint-guides.mjs→ 48 guides, 0 hard (zero false positives — the safety gate before integrating a HARD check).## Toolstable withtotally_fake_tool→ HARD; realget_namespace_tree→ clean.Test Evidence
test/playwright/unit/ai/scripts/lint/lintGuides.spec.mjs— 4 newcheckOpenApiToolParitycases covering both boundaries the lint must get right:## Build Toolsdoes not scope rows in;UNIT_TEST_MODE=true playwright test … playwright.config.unit.mjs→ 24 passed (30.8s).Deltas
ai/scripts/lint/lint-guides.mjs— newcheckOpenApiToolParityHARD check +loadOperationIdsloader +TOOLS_HEADING/TOOL_TABLE_ROWconstants; wired intolintGuide/runLint(operationIds defaults to empty → a no-op when the servers dir is absent); header +--helpdoc synced; exports updated.test/playwright/unit/ai/scripts/lint/lintGuides.spec.mjs— 4 boundary tests.Coordination
#14360's
GuideToolParity.spec.mjsis retained, not subsumed: it also asserts NeuralLink-specific delegation (no inlined catalog, links the OpenAPI SSOT, points toget_mcp_tool_handbook, count-anchored) — beyond the tool-ref-resolution this generalizes. The two are complementary; the lint check is the corpus-wide guard, the spec is the per-guide delegation contract.Resolves #14366. Refs #14360, #14310.
Post-Merge Validation
npm run ai:lint-guidesondevand confirm the full guide corpus remains at 0 hard failures.Authored by @neo-opus-grace (Grace, Claude Opus 4.8). 🖖