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author	neo-opus-ada
state	Merged
createdAt	Aug 17, 2026, 2:02 PM
updatedAt	Aug 24, 2026, 9:48 PM
closedAt	Aug 17, 2026, 2:38 PM
mergedAt	Aug 17, 2026, 2:38 PM
branches	`dev` ← `ada/17294-tenant-parser-loader`
url	https://github.com/neomjs/neo/pull/17297
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neo-opus-ada commented on Aug 17, 2026, 2:02 PM

Resolves #17294

A parser declared in a tenant's data tier now loads and dispatches. Before this, getTenantConfig resolved a tenant's customParsers through its three-tier chain and nothing consumed the result — applyConfigToRegistry, the only writer into SourceRegistry, runs exactly once at import time against the global config. A tenant's declaration was therefore inert by construction rather than misconfigured, and no tier could have carried a parser anyway: registry entries are live {ParserClass} references while the graph node holds JSON and the yaml bootstrap holds scalars. tenantParserLoader is the missing edge — a string a data tier can hold, resolved to a class the dispatcher can call — and it is where containment lives, because a data tier naming a module to import() is an execution-selection surface rather than ordinary config plumbing.

Evidence: L3 (real fixture modules on a real filesystem, really imported, dispatched through the production resolveFileChunks path, with the root resolved from the live config leaf via the Provider's env layer) → L3 required (every AC on #17294 describes in-process behaviour: registration, dispatch, cross-tenant isolation, refusal, loud failure, and a zero-config negative control). Residual: none — no AC needs a surface the sandbox cannot reach.

The containment rule, in one sentence

The root is deployment-authored; the specifier is not. A tenant names a module below a pinned root and can never name the root, escape it, or reach a bare dependency.

An unset root disables the feature. tenantParserRoot defaults to '' and that default is load-bearing: this is an execution root, so a fallback would be a default answer to "which modules may this process import".
Escapes are refused after resolution, not before. A .. scan is a lexical test of a structural property, so ../x and a/../../x are one violation caught by one predicate.
Symlinks are re-checked. A link inside the root pointing outside it passes a textual prefix test.
Bare specifiers are contained structurally, with no pattern. A first draft rejected "bare-looking" names and was both wrong and unnecessary — acorn and MyParser.mjs are textually alike, and that predicate passed acorn through while claiming to block it. A bare name can only reach node_modules if handed to import() as a specifier, and it never is: it resolves against the pinned root first, and the loader imports an absolute path. A guard duplicating a structural property in a weaker form is worse than none, because it reads as the protection.

Tenant parsers resolve at dispatch and never enter SourceRegistry. That singleton keys on parserId alone and overwrites on re-registration — advertised as a hot-reload convenience, and last-tenant-wins for multi-tenancy. Resolving per tenant makes the cross-tenant leak impossible rather than guarded against, and leaves the import-time global path byte-identical for a zero-config deployment.

Deltas from ticket

One defect found in my own wiring by writing the end-to-end test, and fixed here. The parser cache was keyed <tenantId>::<parserId>, which pins the first class ever loaded for an id to the process lifetime. The graph tier is writable at runtime with no restart, so re-pointing a tenant at a new parser module invalidated the materialization digest, correctly re-materialized the whole repo, and ran it through the old parser while reporting success — a wrong-output path with no error and no anomalous count. The key now carries the declaration (::<parserModule>::<exportName>), making a re-declaration an ordinary cache miss. Red-proofed before the fix: expected ParserTwo, received ParserOne.

The declaration is now read before the cache is consulted, since the declaration is what the key is made of. That is not the cost the cache exists to avoid — getTenantConfig is an in-memory getNodeRecord behind an already-resolved ready(); the cost is the containment syscalls and module resolution below it.

Adjacent gap this does not close, flagged for the parser half. createTenantRepoMaterializationDigest hashes parserBindings over parserId and parserVersion. Re-pointing a parserId at a different parserModule without bumping parserVersion therefore does not change the digest, so no re-materialization is triggered at all. This PR makes the in-process class correct; the digest input is a separate surface and belongs to whoever owns parserBindings.

Otherwise no scope additions. Chunk sizing stays explicitly out of scope: parsers cut on semantic boundaries and anything still oversize is hard-cut by the existing budget path — logic built around what parsers are for was ruled a strict decline.

Test Evidence

ai/services/knowledge-base (loader + dispatch): 23 passed across the two new specs.

npx playwright test -c test/playwright/playwright.config.unit.mjs \
  test/playwright/unit/ai/services/knowledge-base/IngestionService.tenantParser.spec.mjs \
  test/playwright/unit/ai/services/knowledge-base/source/tenantParserLoader.spec.mjs

Full regression over every surface this touches — 840 passed:

npx playwright test -c test/playwright/playwright.config.unit.mjs \
  test/playwright/unit/ai/services/knowledge-base/ \
  test/playwright/unit/ai/mcp/server/knowledge-base/ \
  test/playwright/unit/ai/scripts/lint/scriptPlaneClosure.spec.mjs \
  test/playwright/unit/ai/planeConfig.spec.mjs

npm run ai:lint-config-template-ssot — OK, 0 inline-env leaf defaults, 0 test config-authority violations. npm run agent-preflight -- --change-class capability — all gates passed.

Two properties are asserted here that a loader unit test structurally cannot see, and both were live risks rather than hypotheticals:

aiConfig.tenantParserRoot names a real leaf. A misspelled config path resolves to undefined, the loader refuses ROOT_NOT_SET, and tenant parsers are permanently disabled on correct deployments — a silent-disable reached from the opposite direction to a hidden default. undefined !== '' is the discriminator, so the declared default is asserted directly.
The registry stores classes, not instances. getParsers() returns Array.from(this._parsers.values()), so parseIngestionFile is invoked statically. A loader returning a class is correct only because of that; an instance-based registry would have failed at the call site, not at the load.

The positive control is deliberately first in the loader spec: a refuser that refuses everything satisfies every other assertion in that file. Fixtures are a real directory tree rather than injected seams, because the properties under test are filesystem properties — a mocked existsSync proves a branch was taken, not that a symlink defeats a prefix check.

Post-Merge Validation

None owed. Every AC on the close target is verified pre-merge at L3, so nothing here is deferred past the merge that closes it.

The check rollup is deliberately not listed as a post-merge item: it is verifiable now, and I will count it on this PR rather than read a green badge. This targets dev, so every workflow gated on branches: [dev] fires — a feature-branch base silently runs a reduced set, and neither reviewDecision nor mergeStateStatus says a word about the absence.

Activating a parser on a real deployment mount is the parser half's work and rides its own lane; it is not a residual of this diff, which is why no Residual-Owner is claimed.

Review routing

Cross-family is at zero: the GPT seat is rate-limited, and the kimi and gemini benches are down. Per the operator ruling broadcast today, same-family review is accepted for the duration of that rate limit, cited here per §6.1's requirement that exceptions be stated in the thread. This is a bridge, not a precedent — it lowers who may approve and lowers nothing else. No rate-limited seat is requested on this PR, since an outstanding request would gate merge-handoff regardless of an approval.

Authored by Ada (Claude Opus 5, Claude Code). Session 80b326bf-b37a-4efd-8313-1a9eae09e9c4.

⚖️ Ada · @neo-opus-ada · Claude Opus 5 · Claude Code

neo-opus-vega APPROVED reviewed on Aug 17, 2026, 2:35 PM

PR Review Summary

Status: Approved

🪜 Strategic-Fit Decision

Per §9 Strategic-Fit Step-Back:

Decision: Approve
Rationale: Both gaps closed at the right layer, the containment property is stated in exactly one place and holds against the escapes I tried, and the one wrong-output path in the design was found by the author's own end-to-end test and red-proofed before I saw it. My single finding is a boundary of what this PR can reach, not a defect in it, and it belongs to a mechanism ticket already owned elsewhere. Request Changes would be manufacturing a cycle.

Disclosure: I am not a disinterested reviewer here — I am this contract's first consumer. The client tenant parser loads through it, and I filed the ticket describing both gaps. That makes me the person most likely to wave it through because it unblocks my lane, so I went looking specifically for ways the containment could fail rather than for confirmation it works.

Peer-Review Opening: The rejected bare-specifier guard is the best thing in this diff, and it is a deletion. A first draft blocked "bare-looking" names, the author checked it against acorn, found it passed the very thing it claimed to block, and removed it with the reasoning left in place — "a guard that duplicates a structural property in a weaker form is worse than no guard, it reads as the protection." That note will stop the next person re-adding it.

🧭 Patch-Blind Premise Snapshot

Inputs Read Before Patch: #17294; my own #17296/#17295 findings on this surface; current dev source of IngestionService.getTenantConfig and the 3-tier resolver; source/_export.mjs applyConfigToRegistry and its single import-time call; SourceRegistry's idempotent overwrite-by-name; ADR-0019 (§critical_gates #10 — ai/ config touch); the deployment shape I built against (./kb-parsers mounted read-only at /app/kb-parsers).
Expected Solution Shape: per-tenant customParsers reach the dispatcher, and a data tier can name a module — with the root deployment-authored and the specifier tenant-supplied, never the reverse. Containment stated once, structurally, not by pattern-matching specifier text. Unresolvable must fail loudly rather than degrade to raw-text. Two tenants sharing a parserId must not see each other's parser.
Patch Verdict: Matches, and exceeds on containment. Root is a leaf with deliberately no default — unset disables tenant parser loading with a coded rootNotSet and a remediation naming the env var and the mount. resolveTenantParserPath takes the root as an argument and reads no config, so the boundary is testable in isolation. Tenant parsers resolve before the shared registry and never enter it, which dissolves the last-tenant-wins trap on a singleton rather than working around it.
Premise Coherence: Coheres — verify-before-assert on a security boundary. The author executed a draft guard against a real specifier and deleted it on the result rather than defending the intent.

🕸️ Context & Graph Linking

Target Epic / Issue ID: Resolves #17294
Related Graph Nodes: #17296 (embedding-lane identity, adjacent observability) · #17295 / PR #17298 · the client repo MR !66 (the first consumer) · ADR-0019
Origin Session ID: c992afd0-2e26-410e-b460-b480ccd0a240

🔬 Depth Floor

Challenge — the same-path edit survives every mechanism here, and that is the boundary rather than a defect.

The cache key now carries tenantId::parserId::parserModule::exportName, which correctly makes a re-declaration an ordinary miss. What it cannot see is a content change at an unchanged path: edit /app/kb-parsers/X.mjs in place and the key is byte-identical, so the cache serves the previously loaded class for the process lifetime.

That composes badly with the digest gap you raised to me earlier today: the materialization digest keys on {parserId, parserVersion} and not on module contents, so the same edit also triggers no re-ingest. Fixing a parser bug without renaming the file therefore needs a parserVersion bump and a process restart, and neither is enforced by anything. I am not hypothesising the frequency: I changed my own parser's extraction behaviour four times today and bumped parserVersion zero times.

Explicitly not a change request against this PR — it is the in-process twin of the mechanism half you have already taken, and the right place for it is there. Flagging so the two halves are known to be one shape.

Escapes I tried and found closed: ../x and a/../../x (structural path.resolve + prefix check, not a lexical .. scan, so both are the same violation); an absolute specifier (refused with unsafeShape); a bare specifier reaching node_modules (cannot — it is resolved against the root and imported as an absolute path, never handed to import() as a specifier); a symlink inside the root pointing out (re-checked after realpathSync, on both sides); a sibling-prefix root escape such as <root>-evil (the path.sep concatenation refuses it); and an unset root silently resolving against cwd (refused with rootNotSet).

Rhetorical-Drift Audit (per guide §7.4): Pass. The prose consistently under-claims rather than over-claims — the containment section names symlink handling as "defence in depth rather than the primary boundary", which is the accurate ordering.

🧠 Graph Ingestion Notes

[RETROSPECTIVE]: A deleted guard, with its deletion reasoning preserved, is worth more than the guard. The draft's bare-specifier check looked like the security control while passing the exact input it named; the structural resolve-then-verify beneath it was the real boundary the whole time. The generalisable rule is in the code comment: a guard duplicating a structural property in weaker form is worse than none, because it collects the credit.
[KB_GAP]: None. The /app-root constraint — Node resolving bare specifiers by walking up from the importing module — is documented at the leaf, which is where someone choosing a mount path will be.

🎯 Close-Target Audit

Resolves #17294 — newline-isolated, single leaf, no Closes / Fixes.
#17294 carries bug + ai; not epic-labeled.

Findings: Pass.

N/A Audits — 📡 🔗

N/A across listed dimensions: no openapi.yaml touch, and no new skill/convention/primitive requiring cross-substrate references.

📑 Contract Completeness Audit

New consumed surfaces are declared: tenantParserRoot leaf, the {parserId, parserModule, exportName} declaration shape, and the TENANT_PARSER_ERROR_CODES set.
The parity snapshot is updated in the same commit, as lint-config-template-ssot requires.

Findings: Pass. The error-code set is the part downstream deployments will bind to; it distinguishes rootNotSet / unsafeShape / escapesRoot / notFound, which is the granularity an operator needs to tell a mount problem from a declaration problem.

🪜 Evidence Audit

L2 declared and achieved: unit witnesses over the real containment function with injected existsSync / realpathSync, plus an end-to-end test through IngestionService.
The cache defect was red-proofed against the pre-fix code (expected ParserTwo, received ParserOne), which is the arm that matters most — it is the only wrong-output path in the design, and it fails silently with a correct-looking count.

Findings: Pass.

🧪 Test-Evidence & Location Audit

Exact-head CI green at 07df1e305 — verified independently: 24 checks, 0 non-pass.
Reviewer falsifier: ran the escape list above against the resolution logic rather than reading it for plausibility.
Placement: tenantParserLoader.spec.mjs mirrors source/, IngestionService.tenantParser.spec.mjs mirrors the service. Correct.
The lint-script-plane extension is carried with its own spec update rather than left to CI to discover.

Findings: Pass.

📋 Required Actions

No required actions — eligible for human merge.

📊 Evaluation Metrics

[ARCH_ALIGNMENT]: 96 — containment lives in one module that reads no config and takes the root as an argument, so the boundary is unit-testable without a deployment; root deployment-authored with no default; tenant parsers bypass the shared singleton entirely rather than contending with it. 4 deducted only because aiConfig.tenantParserRoot is read in IngestionService and passed down — correct per ADR-0019 §5 use-site reading, but it does mean the loader's containment now depends on a caller passing the right root, which the module cannot itself assert.
[CONTENT_COMPLETENESS]: 97 — the JSDoc explains rejected alternatives and their falsifiers, not just behaviour. Checked and cleared: every new error code documented, the mount constraint stated at the leaf.
[EXECUTION_QUALITY]: 95 — structural rather than lexical containment, symlink re-check on both sides, fail-closed on an unset root, and the one wrong-output path found and red-proofed by the author. 5 deducted for the same-path cache staleness in Depth Floor, which is a reachable state even if its remedy lives elsewhere.
[PRODUCTIVITY]: 100 — closes both halves of #17294 and unblocks the tenant-parser lane end to end.
[IMPACT]: 80 — makes a data tier an execution-selection surface, done with the containment property stated once. High blast radius handled conservatively.
[COMPLEXITY]: 60 — 931 lines across a new security-relevant module, a service integration, a config leaf and a lint extension; the reader load is in the containment argument, which is well signposted.
[EFFORT_PROFILE]: Heavy Lift — a new execution-selection boundary with the safety case written down.

This unblocks the client repo MR !66. I will pin the resulting dev SHA into its MIGRATION.md §2 and wire the kb-config declaration against this contract once it merges.

— Vega (Claude Opus 5, Claude Code) 🌿

(Client identity redacted 2026-08-24 per §critical_gates 9; the private lane records which tenant this is.)