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Now based on main. #125 merged as ce407d77, and this branch is rebased onto it, so the diff is exactly this pull request's own eleven commits (f3060dc5 onward). Stacked-review notes in the threads refer to pre-rebase shas; the content is unchanged.

The gap

A digest that lists changed files tells a reviewer what moved, not whether it was asked for. Studio already holds that mapping — @cpt markers tie code to requirements declared in architecture/features/*.md — but nothing resolves it in the direction a reviewer needs: from a changed file to the requirement it serves.

The change

For every file changed inside the window that #125 resolves, report what the file does with requirement IDs.

Two directions, deliberately separate. references are IDs a file points at — a code marker, or a document citing a requirement it does not itself declare. defines are IDs a file declares — an artifact that is one. Collapsing them reports a changed specification as tracing to nothing, which is exactly backwards. My first draft did that, and a smoke test against this repository caught it: the feature artifact came back with 0 links, when in truth it declares 17 requirements.

Design principles

  • codebase.load_code_file, not coverage.py. Only the former yields identifiers. coverage.py measures marker densityscope_marker_count, block_marker_count, line ranges — so no requirement is resolvable from its output at all. Worth stating because it is the obvious wrong guess.
  • IDs are reported, not re-resolved. cfs validate already fails when a code marker names an ID no artifact defines, so in a green tree every reported ID is known to be declared. Resolving it again here would duplicate that gate for cosmetic gain.
  • No extension list. The authoritative one is private and lives in a commands module, which utils must not import — the repo's own import_boundaries plugin enforces that. So the code asks what a file does with IDs rather than what suffix it has: language-agnostic, and nothing to drift.
  • Git paths are read as NUL records. Without -z, git quotes and escapes any path with a control character, a quote or a non-ASCII byte, so a legally named file matched nothing on disk and was reported deleted while sitting right there. Output is decoded with surrogateescape, so an undecodable filename is reported rather than raised. Every git launch in the module runs with the redirect variables cleared — checked structurally — and if either the diff or the untracked sweep fails, the whole listing is reported unavailable rather than a partial one presented as complete.
  • Untracked files are included, with status ?. git diff cannot see them, so omitting them would let a newly written module be absent from the digest entirely. The diff runs against the working tree rather than HEAD, since a developer asking what changed before committing is the main caller. A file that is both unstaged-deleted and untracked (git rm --cached) is reported once, not twice.
  • Renames report the new path, so a rename keeps its link instead of falling to the unreadable branch.
  • Every outcome is counted separately — linked, declaring, excluded, unreadable, deleted, truncated — so the report always carries its denominator rather than a bare list. "4 of 9 changed files carry markers" is checkable; a list of four is not. The scan is bounded at 1,000 entries and the overflow is counted, not dropped.
  • Records are immutable. FileLink and LinkReport are frozen with tuple fields, like the window and selection records in change-summary: resolve the window a digest covers, and the decision-log events inside it #125: the counters describe files, so files cannot be grown or shrunk underneath them.
  • Scope delegates to resolve_entry_code_files, the single shared exclusion policy from codebase: three commands walk a registry entry three ways — resolve them all through one exclusion policy #106, rather than re-deriving containment. A scope check that itself errors refuses the file rather than admitting it.
  • The report describes the project the window was built for. link_changed_files(window) takes its root from the window — the resolved path the base commit was established against — not from a second argument that could be relative and cwd-dependent.
  • Each file is read once, and both marker directions come from that snapshot. The size ceiling bounds the bytes read rather than a prior stat, and too-large is its own error code. A file whose markers do not parse is reported as that, not as unreadable.
  • Every entry lands in one countable place. Tallies are over the entries examined, which the report carries beside changed; not-a-regular-file entries have their own tally; one entry's unforeseen failure becomes its own row instead of discarding the report; and rename detection is pinned with -M so the same repository state classifies the same way on every machine.

One behaviour worth confirming

For an explicitly named single file, resolve_entry_code_files judges resolved containment but not conventional non-source directory names — I verified this rather than assumed it. So a tracked change under a vendored path is reported rather than hidden. I took that as the safer direction for a review digest: over-reporting costs a reader a moment, under-reporting hides work that really did change. Happy to filter it if you would rather.

Non-goals

Rendering, any CLI command, and any judgement about whether the code correctly implements the requirement. This reports the declared link, nothing about its quality.

Gates

Pinned to 7f12a00e, the current head.

Gate Result
make test 5,403 passed, 4 skipped, 15 xfailed (measured on #149's head, which contains this branch whole)
new tests 70 in the linkage suite; 194 collected on the module across both suites
line coverage, module 100% (334 stmts, 0 missed); per-file ≥90% passes tree-wide
make pylint clean, 10.00/10
make vulture-ci clean — new public API whitelisted
cfs validate 236/236, 0 errors
spec-coverage --system studio passes; granularity 0.4612, coverage 90.7%

Granularity sits at 0.4612 on this head, level with main after #125 and above the 0.46 floor by +0.0012: the eight blocks this PR adds pay for the prose it adds, no more. Separately, #132 raises the thinness of that margin as its own problem.

Delivery

The renderer and cfs change-summary follow as the third pull request, per #131.


About the numbers in this description

The commit boundary and the test count both went stale across fix commits and were caught in review, not by tooling. They are now pinned to a commit so a reader knows what they measure.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added change-summary reporting for time windows, decision-log events, activity grouping, and file traceability.
    • Reports now identify unattributed events and separately count deleted files.
    • Added bounded code-file reading with distinct reporting for oversized files.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of Git failures, unreadable logs, renamed files, binary files, and paths containing special characters.
  • Documentation

    • Documented change-summary processes, resolution rules, and implementation coverage.
  • Tests

    • Added comprehensive coverage for change-summary linkage and reporting behavior.

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Walkthrough

The change-summary utility now resolves project-aware Git windows, selects decision-log events, and links changed files to requirement IDs. It distinguishes Git and file-read failures, handles special-character paths, counts deleted and unattributed records, enforces file-size limits, and adds tests and documentation.

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Change Summary

Layer / File(s) Summary
Window resolution and contracts
architecture/features/developer-experience.md, skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/change_summary.py
Adds project-aware window resolution, explicit Git failure states, merge-base handling, and documented window rules.
Decision-log selection and grouping
skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/change_summary.py
Reads the decision log from the window project, validates decoding, counts runless events, and groups them under (unattributed).
Bounded file reading and in-memory scanning
skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/codebase.py, skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/document.py, skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/error_codes.py, tests/test_codebase.py
Bounds reads by actual bytes, reports FILE_TOO_LARGE, and reuses already-read text for code and document scanning.
Changed-file requirement linkage
skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/change_summary.py, tests/test_change_summary_links.py, vulture_whitelist.py
Adds NUL-delimited status parsing, traceability reports, project-scope classification, deleted-file counts, failure handling, and validation coverage.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 60d44

Change summaries can omit requirement references and consume unbounded memory when scanning files or large tracked diffs. These correctness and reliability gaps should be fixed before merge.

Suggested reviewers: ainetx

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sequenceDiagram
  participant resolve_window
  participant Git
  participant select_events
  participant decision_log
  resolve_window->>Git: resolve project and change window
  Git-->>resolve_window: return bounds or failure state
  resolve_window->>select_events: pass project-aware window
  select_events->>decision_log: read and validate decision-log events
  decision_log-->>select_events: return selected events and runless count
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sequenceDiagram
  participant link_changed_files
  participant Git
  participant codebase
  participant document
  link_changed_files->>Git: collect changed and untracked NUL-delimited records
  Git-->>link_changed_files: return file paths and statuses
  link_changed_files->>codebase: read and parse file contents
  codebase-->>link_changed_files: return requirement references or read status
  link_changed_files->>document: scan declarations from read text
  document-->>link_changed_files: return declared requirement IDs
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- Line 322: Update the “Change Summary Core” row in the implementation map to
include its responsibility for collecting changed files and resolving
requirement references and definitions, while preserving the existing git-window
resolution and decision-log event selection responsibilities.

In `@skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/change_summary.py`:
- Around line 426-431: Add a deleted counter field to LinkReport, increment it
in link_changed_files whenever a file has status == "D", and include the count
in the returned report. Update tests/test_change_summary_links.py to assert the
deleted count.
- Line 552: Update the Git queries used by the change-summary logic, including
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244-257: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Three CDSL rules now contradict the functions they mark.

This PR changed the behavior specified by these rules, but the prose still describes the previous behavior:

  • Line 244, inst-change-summary-git-query: the rule says git absent, non-zero exit, timeout and empty output are treated identically. _git_query now returns (value, tool_failed) and separates a tool failure from a valid negative. That separation is the stated purpose of the change.
  • Line 256, inst-change-summary-git-lines: the rule says the query returns all non-empty output lines. _git_records now returns NUL-delimited records and deliberately keeps legitimately empty interior records so the walk stays synchronized.
  • Line 257, inst-change-summary-parse-name-status: the rule says a name-status line is parsed into status and path. _walk_name_status walks a flat NUL record stream and consumes two paths for renames and copies.

Update the three rules to match the implemented behavior.

Marker resolution still succeeds for all three IDs, so cfs validate cannot detect this drift. Based on learnings: cfs validate can validate that requirement markers resolve, but it does not detect stale prose in the Implementation Modules map; review rows and rules when a module gains or changes responsibilities.

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In `@architecture/features/developer-experience.md` around lines 244 - 257, Update
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inst-change-summary-parse-name-status to describe their implemented behaviors:
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In `@skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/change_summary.py`:
- Around line 535-539: Update _git_records to pass errors="surrogateescape" when
invoking subprocess.run with text=True, ensuring undecodable git -z output is
handled without raising and preserving its “Never raises” contract.

In `@tests/test_change_summary_links.py`:
- Around line 222-224: Update
test_an_out_of_scope_change_is_counted_excluded_not_dropped to skip on Windows
before creating the tab-containing path, using the existing os.name == "nt"
convention. Preserve the test’s current behavior on non-Windows platforms.

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In `@architecture/features/developer-experience.md`:
- Around line 244-257: Update the rules for inst-change-summary-git-query,
inst-change-summary-git-lines, and inst-change-summary-parse-name-status to
describe their implemented behaviors: distinguish git tool failures from valid
negative results, preserve empty interior NUL-delimited records while returning
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PR description's commit-count claim is stale

Severity: Trivial / Informational

Problem
This PR's description says "the first two commits here are #125's," but #125 has since gained a third commit, so the actual shared prefix between the two PRs is three commits, not two.

How to reproduce
Compare the commit list of #125 against the first commits of #133 — the overlap is now three commits.

Expected behavior
The description's stacked-PR boundary claim should match the actual commit lists.

Actual behavior
The description undercounts by one commit, which could lead a reviewer to misattribute #125's third (fix) commit as original content of #133.

Impact
No code defect — a review-process risk only. Low impact, easy to correct.

Suggested correction
Update the PR description to state the first three commits belong to #125, or reference the exact commit range/SHA boundary directly.

How to verify
Re-check the commit lists before relying on the stated boundary, especially if either PR receives further pushes.

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PR description's test-count claim is stale

Severity: Minor / Informational

Problem
The description's evidence table states "34 new tests (89 total)," but the actual count at the current head is higher.

How to reproduce
Count test functions (including parametrize expansions) in both new test files at the current commit and compare against the stated numbers.

Expected behavior
The stated count should match the actual test surface at the commit being reviewed.

Actual behavior
The actual count (109 collected, 87 unique test functions) is significantly higher than claimed (89), suggesting the description was written for an earlier commit and never updated after later fix commits added more tests.

Impact
No code defect — a reviewer trusting the stated coverage would understate the actual test surface.

Suggested correction
Update the evidence table to reflect the current head's actual count, or explicitly label which commit it describes.

How to verify
Recount before merge and update the description if it has drifted again.

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Reconciling the two stacked PRs

Thank you for the eleven findings across both. Because #133 is stacked on #125, several of these are against code that belongs to #125 — so this comment states where each one is being handled, to avoid fixing them in the branch you did not raise them on. (I made that mistake earlier in this stack and had to move commits; not repeating it.)

Note on timing: you reviewed #133 at head 775aac30. It has since been restacked onto #125's current head, so it now also contains #125's four fixes from 1d45aecf. One of your findings below is already resolved by that.

Handled in #125 — window and event selection

Finding Severity Status
skipped_lines reports zero corruption on a late read failure Minor Already fixed in 1d45aecf_count_log_lines now returns None rather than 0, and the selection is marked unavailable. Your repro (three sequential opens, only the third failing) now yields REASON_LOG_UNREADABLE.
Log rotated between probe and read Minor Open — #125
Events drop out of the window after a rebase Minor Open — #125
Bare repository reports "not a git repository" Minor Open — #125
Two except-tuple arms never triggered by a test Minor Open — split: the read-loop arm is #125, the git-helper arm exists on both branches

Handled here in #133 — changed-file linkage

Finding Severity Status
A git rm --cached-but-kept file is linked and counted twice Major Open — reproduced, see below
No bound on untracked file count/size/wall-clock Minor Open
No per-file size cap in _file_traceability Minor Open
Submodule/gitlink entry recurses the whole nested tree Minor Open
Internal OSError in the scope check folded into excluded Minor Open
Vendored-path judgment call has no regression test Minor Open

The Major reproduces, and is slightly worse than described

$ git rm --cached foo.py          # foo.py present in the base commit, kept on disk
diff  vs base : D|foo.py|
untracked     : foo.py|

report        : changed=2  deleted=0
                [D] foo.py
                [?] foo.py

Two rows for one physical file, exactly as you said. The extra wrinkle: deleted=0 despite a [D] row, because the file still exists on disk so it never takes the gone branch — so the status label and the counter disagree with each other as well as with reality. Deduplicating by resolved path with the diff status winning, as you suggest, fixes both.

The three unbounded-scan findings I read as one problem with three entry points — untracked-file count, per-file size, and directory-shaped diff entries. I would rather fix them as a single scan-surface bound than three separate ceilings, and reuse _MAX_CODE_FILE_BYTES as you suggested rather than inventing a second constant. Say if you would prefer them separated.

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Both description findings fixed — the boundary claim and the test count — and the description is now pinned to a commit (80360b4f) so the next drift is visible as drift.

Also on this branch since your review: it is restacked on #125's 124f7d95, and the restack surfaced a real break rather than a paperwork one — #125 removed the field import that the link records here still used. Fixed in 80360b4f by making FileLink and LinkReport frozen with tuple fields, the same discipline #125 now applies to the window and selection records, rather than by reinstating the import. Your three window-half findings raised here (rotation, rebase boundary, bare repository) are answered on their threads, with the fixes on #125 where the code lives.

…declare

Builds on the window: for every file changed inside it, report what the file
does with requirement IDs, so a digest can say which requirement a change
serves rather than only which paths moved.

Two directions are reported separately. `references` are IDs a file points at —
code serving a requirement. `defines` are IDs a file declares — an artifact that
*is* one. Collapsing them would report a changed specification as tracing to
nothing, which is exactly backwards; the first draft did that, and a smoke test
against this repository caught it.

The parser is `codebase.load_code_file`, not `coverage.py`. Only the former
yields identifiers: `coverage.py` measures marker density — counts and line
ranges — so no requirement is resolvable from its output at all. A referenced ID
is reported as-is rather than resolved back to its declaring artifact, because
`cfs validate` already fails when a code marker names an ID no artifact defines,
so in a green tree every reported ID is known to be declared.

There is deliberately no extension list. The authoritative one is private and
lives in a `commands` module this layer must not import, so instead of asking
what suffix a file has the code asks what the file does with IDs — which needs
no list and is language-agnostic.

Untracked files are included with status `?`. `git diff` cannot see them, so
omitting them would let a newly written module be absent from the digest
entirely. The diff is taken against the working tree rather than HEAD, since a
developer asking what changed before committing is the main caller.

Renames report the new path, so a rename keeps its link instead of falling to
the unreadable branch. Deleted, out-of-scope, unreadable and binary files are
each counted separately, so the report always carries its denominator rather
than a bare list.

Scope decisions delegate to `resolve_entry_code_files`, the single shared
exclusion policy. Note it judges resolved containment but not conventional
non-source directory names for an explicitly named file, so a tracked change
under a vendored path is reported rather than hidden — the safer direction for a
review digest.

`cfs validate` 231/231, 0 errors. spec-coverage --system studio: granularity
0.4613 -> 0.4616 (floor 0.46), coverage 90.56%. 34 new tests, 89 on the module
at 100% line coverage (230 stmts); full suite 5,217 passed.

Signed-off-by: ou <ou@constructor.tech>
Three review findings, all real.

Git quotes and escapes any path containing a control character, a quote or a
non-ASCII byte unless asked for `-z` output. A file legally named
`we<TAB>ird.py` arrives as the literal characters `"we\tird.py"`, which matches
nothing on disk — so the report marked an existing file as deleted. Both queries
now request `-z` and the output is walked as NUL records.

That walk has to respect arity rather than zipping pairs: under `-z` a status is
followed by one path, except renames and copies which are followed by two. Taking
one would shift every subsequent entry, not just the rename.

`LinkReport` gained the `deleted` counter its own docstring already promised.
Deletion was recorded only in an individual `FileLink.reason`, so a renderer
could not report the count without reparsing the file list — which defeats the
point of publishing denominators.

The implementation-map row for this module said window resolution and event
selection only; it now also states the changed-file linkage it acquired.

Mutation-checked: reverting the rename arity fails five tests, four of them the
ones written for it. The odd-path behaviour was reproduced against real git
output before fixing, not inferred.

Full suite 5,225 passed. 95 tests on this module at 100% line coverage (245
stmts). pylint and vulture clean, `cfs validate` 0 errors, spec-coverage passes
at granularity 0.4615.

Signed-off-by: ou <ou@constructor.tech>
…ctly

POSIX paths are bytes and are not guaranteed to be UTF-8, but
`subprocess.run(..., text=True)` decodes strictly. A file legally named
`bad\xff.py` therefore made git's own output undecodable, and the resulting
UnicodeDecodeError escaped past the `(OSError, SubprocessError)` handler and out
of `link_changed_files` — breaking its never-raises contract.

Reproduced against real git before fixing, not inferred from the docs.

Both git helpers now pass `errors="surrogateescape"`, which is the handler
Python itself uses for filesystem paths, so the value round-trips back to the
same bytes when the file is reopened — the odd-named file is genuinely handled
rather than merely not crashing. `UnicodeDecodeError` is also added to the
handler, so any future strict-decode path degrades to a reported reason instead
of an exception.

This is the same defect class as the undecodable decision log fixed in the
window commit, one layer up: there the log's bytes were undecodable, here the
*filenames* are. Worth noting the pattern rather than only the two instances.

Also skips the tab-in-name test on Windows, which rejects control characters in
file names, so it skips rather than erroring. The neighbouring symlink test
already guards the same way, so the suite is intended to run there.

Mutation-checked: removing `surrogateescape` fails exactly the new test.

Full suite 5,237 passed. 109 tests on this module at 100% line coverage (267
stmts). pylint and vulture clean, `cfs validate` 0 errors, spec-coverage passes
at granularity 0.4616.

Signed-off-by: ou <ou@constructor.tech>
Six review findings on the linkage half, all reproduced first.

**One physical file was reported twice.** `git rm --cached` on a file present in
the base commit leaves it deleted in the index and untracked on disk, so the diff
stream reported `D` and the untracked sweep reported it as new. Concatenating gave
two contradictory rows for one file and inflated every counter — and `deleted`
stayed 0 despite a `D` row, because the file still existed so it never took the
gone branch. Entries are now deduplicated by path with the diff status winning.
Git emits repo-relative POSIX paths from both commands, so the raw string is an
exact key; resolving each path would cost a syscall per entry and would wrongly
merge two distinct symlinks sharing a target.

**Three unbounded scan surfaces**, fixed as one bound rather than three ceilings.
The untracked sweep can return an arbitrary number of paths, so the entry list is
capped and the remainder counted in `truncated` rather than dropped quietly. The
per-file size limit now lives in `load_code_file`, alongside the bulk-scan path
that already enforced it — one entry point was honouring a limit the other
ignored. And a directory-shaped entry (a changed submodule arrives as a gitlink)
is refused before the shared resolver can `rglob` an entire nested tree to answer
a boolean.

**A filesystem error during the scope check was reported as an exclusion.** The
check is tri-state now: excluded by policy, not in scope, or could not be
determined. Folding the third into the first claimed a policy judgement that was
never made.

**The vendored-path decision had no test.** It is a deliberate choice, not an
oversight, so it is now pinned: a tracked change under a vendored path is
reported rather than hidden, because over-reporting costs a reader a moment while
under-reporting hides work that changed.

Also adds the untested `UnicodeDecodeError` arm of the git helper's except tuple.
Line coverage marked that line covered once any member fired, so the arm was
reported as covered while never being exercised.

Two things found while fixing: the first dedup attempt inverted the (status,
path) tuple, which the new tests caught immediately; and extracting the
per-entry classification keeps pylint's local-variable rule satisfied without
suppressing a check the project is rolling out.

Full suite 5,275 passed. 147 tests on this module at 100% line coverage (314
stmts). pylint and vulture clean, `cfs validate` 0 errors, spec-coverage passes
at granularity 0.4615. Mutation-checked: reverting the dedup fails the
status-precedence test.

Signed-off-by: ou <ou@constructor.tech>
The structural separator test caught this during a restack: the linkage half's
`git diff` call was the one option-bearing call site without
`--end-of-options`, because the separator work landed on the window commit
while this call site lives in a later one.

That is exactly what the test was written for — a call site interpolating a
caller-supplied value without the separator, found by the suite rather than in
review.

Full suite 5,284 passed. pylint and vulture clean, `cfs validate` 0 errors,
spec-coverage passes.

Signed-off-by: ou <ou@constructor.tech>
`FileLink` and `LinkReport` are frozen, with `references`, `defines` and
`files` as tuples — the same discipline the window and selection records
now follow, for the same reason: the report's counters describe `files`,
and a caller able to grow or shrink it would silently make them wrong.

Restacking on the window half's latest fix also removed the `field` import
these two records still used, so this is the change that keeps the stacked
branch importable rather than reinstating the import.

Spec step 16 reworded; the git-records docstring names the helper that
still exists.

Signed-off-by: ou <ou@constructor.tech>
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Rebased onto main now that #125 has merged (ce407d77). The branch is its own six commits, head a9cfd5fa; nothing in the content changed, only the base.

Verified on the rebased state: the squash of #125 carries its final tip exactly (empty diff on all five files), full suite 5,344 passed, 211 tests across the module's suites at 100% (312 stmts), pylint 10.00, vulture clean, cfs validate 236/236, granularity 0.4613 against main's 0.4612. Description refreshed and pinned to the new head.

The nine threads above are all answered; the ones marked "fixed on #125" are now simply fixed on main.

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In `@skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/change_summary.py`:
- Around line 904-905: Update the untracked-file query in the surrounding
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converting failure to an empty list. Ensure link_changed_files receives None and
reports REASON_DIFF_UNAVAILABLE when git ls-files fails, while retaining normal
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- Line 731: Update _git_records to pass the sanitized environment from
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…l the listing whole

Two review findings on the changed-file listing, each reproduced first:

* `_git_records` ran without the sanitised environment `_git_query` uses,
  so an ambient `GIT_DIR` could resolve the window against one repository
  and list the changed files of another. It now passes `env=_git_env()`;
  a structural test asserts every `subprocess.run` in the module does.
* A failed `ls-files` was turned into an empty untracked list with `or []`,
  so the report came back available while silently missing every new
  file. Either query failing now makes the listing unavailable with the
  diff reason, rather than presenting a partial list as complete.

Spec steps 17 and 21 say so. Both fixes mutation-checked.

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Second maintainer round on the changed-file listing, each finding
reproduced before being changed:

* `link_changed_files` took its own unresolved root, so a relative path
  plus a later chdir diffed a different directory from the one the
  window's base commit described. It now takes only the window and uses
  the resolved root the window carries, as `select_events` already did.
  A hand-built window without a root is refused with its own reason.
* `_file_traceability` read the file twice — once per marker direction —
  so a file edited mid-scan could report references from one version and
  defines from another. It reads once; both parsers see that snapshot.
  `codebase.read_code_text` applies the size ceiling to the bytes it
  reads rather than to a prior stat, so a file growing in between cannot
  slip past it, and reports too-large under a new `FILE_TOO_LARGE` code
  so the caller branches on the code instead of re-measuring the file.
  `CodeFile.from_text` and `document.scan_cpt_id_lines` parse text a
  caller already holds; `load_code_file` and `scan_cpt_ids` delegate.
* One entry raising something no arm anticipated propagated out of the
  loop and let the command's last-resort guard discard the whole report.
  The loop now confines it to that row with a stated reason.
* Not-a-regular-file entries were listed but bumped no tally, so the
  report's arithmetic could not see them. They have their own count.
* Rename detection inherited the ambient `diff.renames` setting, so the
  same repository state was a rename on one machine and a delete plus an
  add on another. Pinned with `-M`.
* The untracked sweep was materialised whole before the ceiling applied.
  Paths beyond the ceiling are now counted but not stored, and the
  report carries `examined` alongside `changed` so its tallies name the
  population they were computed over.

The public `MAX_CODE_FILE_BYTES` alias is gone with its only reader. Spec
steps 20–23 and two new scan-code steps say what the code now does. Nine
mutation checks each fail only the tests written for them.

Signed-off-by: ou <ou@constructor.tech>
The digest command's `--help` states the ceiling so a capped change set
is not mistaken for a bug, and it must quote the one number the report
uses rather than a second copy that drifts. The constant is read by this
module itself, so it needs no whitelist entry.

Signed-off-by: ou <ou@constructor.tech>
A parse failure — a dangling `@cpt-end`, a mismatched id — was reported
as "file could not be read", which is untrue of the everyday case: a
test file full of deliberately malformed marker fixtures. It now has its
own reason, `REASON_MARKERS_INVALID`, and stays in the unreadable tally
as something that could not be scanned. Found by running the digest on
this repository, where `tests/test_codebase.py` said "could not be read".

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870-877: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use load_code_file for the bulk-scan path.

Lines 871-877 retain the stat-then-read sequence. A file can grow after stat() succeeds, and CodeFile.from_path() then reads the oversized file without a byte bound.

Replace this path with load_code_file(file_path). Preserve the warning when its error code is EC.FILE_TOO_LARGE.

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-        if file_path.stat().st_size > _MAX_CODE_FILE_BYTES:
-            _warn_codebase(f"skipping {file_path}: exceeds {_MAX_CODE_FILE_BYTES}-byte scan limit")
-            return None
-    except OSError as exc:
-        _warn_codebase(f"failed to stat {file_path}: {exc}")
-        return None
-    cf, errs = CodeFile.from_path(file_path)
+    cf, errs = load_code_file(file_path)
     if errs or cf is None:
+        if any(err.get("code") == EC.FILE_TOO_LARGE for err in errs):
+            _warn_codebase(f"skipping {file_path}: exceeds {_MAX_CODE_FILE_BYTES}-byte scan limit")
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945-946: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Enforce the entry ceiling for tracked diff paths.

_walk_name_status(diffed) materializes every diff entry, and seen retains every tracked path. The ceiling only limits untracked paths. A large tracked change set still allocates all record strings, tuples, and dictionary entries before the later slice limits examination.

Use a bounded streaming collection for both Git streams, while preserving diff-status precedence and exact deduplication. The current implementation does not meet the documented bounded-materialization contract.

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In `@skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/change_summary.py` around lines 945 - 946,
Update the change-summary collection around _walk_name_status(diffed) so tracked
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than materializing all entries. Enforce the entry ceiling during collection,
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In `@skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/change_summary.py`:
- Around line 883-886: Update the references collection near
code_file.references and document.scan_cpt_id_lines so it includes IDs from
document reference hits as well as code-file references, while retaining
definition handling separately in defines. Add a regression test covering a
Markdown document that references an ID without defining it.

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In `@skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/change_summary.py`:
- Around line 945-946: Update the change-summary collection around
_walk_name_status(diffed) so tracked and untracked Git streams are consumed with
a bounded streaming approach rather than materializing all entries. Enforce the
entry ceiling during collection, while preserving exact path deduplication and
diff-status precedence in seen.

In `@skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/codebase.py`:
- Around line 870-877: Update the bulk-scan path around CodeFile.from_path to
call load_code_file(file_path) instead, eliminating the unbounded stat-then-read
sequence. Preserve the existing skip warning when the returned error indicates
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Comment thread skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/change_summary.py Outdated
Only `definition` hits were read from documents, so a changed artifact
that referenced an ID without declaring it came back with no references
at all — a design note pointing at a requirement is a link to that
requirement. Document `reference` hits now join the code markers, except
a document's mentions of IDs it declares itself, which point at nothing
else. Two tests; reverting the union fails one.

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