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The staleness

build_proximity_query's docstring cites UNWIND [id(a), id(b)]. The query has emitted UNWIND [low, high] over a normalised pair since #1477. Verified against the shipped function rather than by reading:

contains UNWIND [id(a), id(b)]: False
contains UNWIND [low, high]   : True

My own merge falsified it. #1477 rewrote the body of this exact function and left the prose describing the expression it replaced — so this is not a comment rotting in an untouched path, it is one rotting inside the edited function, where a reviewer had the diff in front of them.

The docstring also said the reranker would disagree with "the symmetric adjacency the eval builds". After #1477 the eval builds a type-keyed adjacency (dict[str, dict[str, set[str]]]), so that phrase now describes a structure that no longer exists. Corrected to "the per-pair type counts the eval builds".

The guard

test_the_docstring_names_the_expression_the_query_emits extracts every `UNWIND ...` cited in the docstring and requires the emitted query to contain each. Red proven: restoring the stale wording fails it; 26 pass with the correction.

This is a narrow guard by design — it pins quoted Cypher expressions, not prose generally. Prose cannot be checked mechanically, but an expression in backticks can be, and that is where this particular rot happened.

Why it was worth a PR

Credit to @vscode-link-terminal-scheme, who found the same class on #1484: a LIMITATION: comment they cited as motivation survived their fix and now asserts the opposite of the code. Their habit is the transferable part — after merging a fix motivated by a comment, grep for that comment. Applying it to my own merged work surfaced this.

ruff check and ruff format clean, 26 passed.

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  • Documentation

    • Clarified how proximity queries normalize endpoint ranges and count both endpoints.
    • Updated terminology for per-pair type counts used during evaluation.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage verifying that documented query expressions are emitted by generated two-node proximity queries.
    • Strengthened checks to ensure trace-resolution failure paths record an unresolved reason before returning no result, improving confidence in failure reporting.

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The build_proximity_query docstring now matches its emitted UNWIND expression. A new test checks this alignment. Another structural AST test checks that resolution failure paths record an unresolved reason before returning None.

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Proximity query documentation alignment

Layer / File(s) Summary
Query documentation and validation
codebase_rag/tools/graph_rerank.py, codebase_rag/tests/test_graph_rerank.py
The docstring now describes normalized endpoint counting and per-pair type counts. The test verifies each documented UNWIND expression in the generated query.

Resolution failure invariant checks

Layer / File(s) Summary
Resolve failure recording check
codebase_rag/tests/test_crash_correlation.py
The test uses AST structure to find bare return None statements in resolve functions and checks that each immediately follows a .record(...) call.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ea793

The PR updates documentation and strengthens regression checks without changing production behavior. It is mergeable with owner awareness that the new structural test should verify recording on the intended stats object, otherwise a future control-flow regression could evade the check.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary documentation change: naming the UNWIND expression emitted by the proximity query.
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Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 87.50% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 8 functions across 3 files.
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Updates graph-query documentation and adds regression coverage for implementation assumptions used by traceback correlation.

Confidence Score: 5/5

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  • Validated that the focused validation script executed for the PHP resolution scope matches the script in the PHP resolution scope source artifact.
  • Compared the before-state log to the after-state log and confirmed that the before log showed the shipped structural-test selector omitting PHP helper returns, while the after log shows the widened helper check and eight resolver failure paths recording reasons.
  • Confirmed that eight real resolver failure paths are currently recorded in the after-state evidence.
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- Around line 536-542: Update the recording validation in the relevant resolve
scan to inspect the containing statement list rather than nearby source text;
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Second commit at e62ab3b9, same theme as the first: prose asserting something the code no longer guarantees.

The first commit fixed a docstring naming a Cypher expression the query stopped emitting. This one pins a cross-file premise. crash_correlation.explain_traceback keys resolved on qualified_name is not None rather than unresolved_reason is None, and justifies it in a comment:

the two agree today because every failure path in FrameResolver.resolve records a reason before returning None

Verified by AST — all 14 bare-None returns across five resolve implementations do record first, so the claim holds on main today.

But it is a claim about another file, which can change without touching this one, and nothing would report it becoming false. If a future failure path forgets to record, _resolve_stack derives reason = None via next(iter(stats.unresolved), None), and the rejected predicate would begin counting unresolvable frames as resolved.

test_every_resolve_failure_path_records_an_unresolved_reason parses trace/resolution.py and requires every bare-None return to record first. Structural rather than behavioural, following test_mcp_read_handler_lock.py: reaching all fourteen paths through the resolver would need a fixture each, and the property is about the code's shape.

Red proven: stripping one stats.record(...) call fails it, naming the line. 44 passed, ruff clean.

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Valid, and reproduced before fixing. Fixed at ea793f66.

Your example works verbatim against the shipped guard — deleting the real stats.record(...) and leaving return None # record:

1 passed

The guard would have certified an invariant it could not check. That is "does this symbol appear" standing in for "is this call made", which is a distinction I had written down earlier today and then violated in the very test meant to enforce a premise.

Now checks the preceding sibling statement structurally:

def _records_reason(statement: ast.stmt) -> bool:
    return (
        isinstance(statement, ast.Expr)
        and isinstance(statement.value, ast.Call)
        and isinstance(statement.value.func, ast.Attribute)
        and statement.value.func.attr == "record"
    )

and walks statement lists directly rather than ast.walk, pruning nested FunctionDef/AsyncFunctionDef/ClassDef — a return None inside a closure belongs to that closure's contract, and its siblings are not the resolver's branch. Both points you raised.

Verified against three mutations:

record() removed, "# record" comment left   -> FAILED   (passed before)
record() removed entirely                   -> FAILED   (caught before too)
unmodified                                  -> 44 passed

ruff check and ruff format clean.

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Comment on lines +524 to +531
def _records_reason(statement: ast.stmt) -> bool:
"""Whether the statement is a `<something>.record(...)` call."""
return (
isinstance(statement, ast.Expr)
and isinstance(statement.value, ast.Call)
and isinstance(statement.value.func, ast.Attribute)
and statement.value.func.attr == "record"
)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Require stats.record(...) in the structural check.

_records_reason accepts any <object>.record(...) call. A future branch with logger.record(...) before return None would pass this test without adding an unresolved reason to stats.

Check that the call receiver is the stats name.

Proposed fix
         return (
             isinstance(statement, ast.Expr)
             and isinstance(statement.value, ast.Call)
             and isinstance(statement.value.func, ast.Attribute)
+            and isinstance(statement.value.func.value, ast.Name)
+            and statement.value.func.value.id == "stats"
             and statement.value.func.attr == "record"
         )
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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@codebase_rag/tests/test_crash_correlation.py` around lines 524 - 531, Update
_records_reason to require that the record call’s receiver is the name stats,
while preserving the existing AST checks for an expression containing a record
call.

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