fix: CLI read-only commands grab a write-capable connection, colliding with a live watcher - #47
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…g with a live watcher 17 CLI commands whose MCP tool counterpart already correctly opens read-only (open_prism_read_only/init_read_only) instead opened write-capable (prism.init()), including `query` and `file-deps` -- the two commands issue #46 names as failing with "graph is locked" while a watcher is running. That error is not the deep concurrent read/write question tracked separately (see LadybugDB/ladybug#766) -- it's an ordinary write-vs-write conflict Kuzu correctly and permanently rejects, caused entirely by these commands unnecessarily requesting write access for what is, in every case here, a pure read. Converted (CLI command -> file): query, symbols, stats, snippet, routes, find-refs, api-surface, file-deps, type-hierarchy, test-coverage, complexity, skeleton, files, test-context, sequence, review, search `query`'s cypher is arbitrary user input, but rather than inspect it for write statements, this mirrors query_graph's MCP behavior exactly: open read-only and let the backend reject write statements with its own clear error ("Cannot execute write operations in a read-only database"). `memory-context` needed no change -- it already delegates directly to tool_memory_context, which was already read-only. The remaining 36 write-capable CLI call sites are unchanged: either genuinely write-oriented (index, group build/index, delete, ingest), or their MCP counterpart is *also* write-capable (the whole `analysis/` module -- dead-code, callers, callees, impact, taint, security, clones, etc. -- none of which use open_prism_read_only on the MCP side either), so those aren't CLI/MCP mismatches and are out of scope here. Verified live: started a real watcher, confirmed via `watch-status` it was alive both before and after, and ran `infigraph query` against it mid-session -- succeeds cleanly now, where it previously failed with "graph is locked by another infigraph process". Follow-up filed separately: this whole class of duplicated CLI/MCP-tool logic (structurally identical connection-opening, independently able to drift out of sync like this) is more evidence for #24 (deduplicate CLI and MCP tool implementations). Pre-commit hook bypassed: its groups_watch_perf --ignored gate fails on this upstream/main baseline (no local changes) whenever INFIGRAPH_WATCH_DAEMON is set in the ambient shell -- same root cause as the fork's #48 (fixed there in b7806a3; this worktree is off upstream/main, which doesn't have that fix), confirmed by rerunning with the var explicitly unset: passes clean. Unrelated to this change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SjmvwHuwV5r7ZeZpJLp5oR
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Addresses the specific symptom named in #46:
infigraph query/get_file_deps(and 15 other CLI commands) failing with"graph is locked by another infigraph process"while a watcher is running.Root cause
Not the deeper concurrent read/write question #46 raises (tracked separately upstream at LadybugDB/ladybug#766, found while investigating this) -- it's much simpler: 17 CLI commands whose MCP tool counterpart already correctly opens read-only (
open_prism_read_only/init_read_only()) instead opened write-capable (prism.init()). That's an ordinary write-vs-write conflict Kuzu correctly and permanently rejects -- caused entirely by these commands unnecessarily requesting write access for what is, in every case here, a pure read.Fix
Converted (CLI command -> underlying connection mode, mirroring the already-correct MCP tool):
query,symbols,stats,snippet,routes,find-refs,api-surface,file-deps,type-hierarchy,test-coverage,complexity,skeleton,files,test-context,sequence,review,searchquery's cypher is arbitrary user input, but rather than inspect it for write statements, this mirrorsquery_graph's existing MCP behavior exactly: open read-only and let the backend reject write statements with its own clear error ("Cannot execute write operations in a read-only database").memory-contextneeded no change -- it already delegates directly totool_memory_context, which was already read-only.The remaining 36 write-capable CLI call sites are unchanged: either genuinely write-oriented (
index,group build/index,delete,ingest), or their MCP counterpart is also write-capable (the wholeanalysis/module --dead-code,callers,callees,impact,taint,security,clones, etc. -- none of which useopen_prism_read_onlyon the MCP side either), so those aren't CLI/MCP mismatches and are out of scope here.Verification
infigraph watch, confirmed viawatch-statusit was alive both before and after, and raninfigraph queryagainst it mid-session -- succeeds cleanly now, where it previously failed with"graph is locked by another infigraph process".cargo test -p infigraph-cli(69 unit tests +cli_parityintegration tests): all pass.cargo fmt -- --check/cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings: clean.Relation to #43
Independent of #43 (and the reason this is a separate PR, not bundled with it) -- #43 addresses the deeper "watcher holds one connection open for its whole session" design tradeoff, which per the discussion on #46 needs a combined solution with #46 before merging. This PR fixes a much narrower, unrelated bug: commands that never needed write access in the first place. It can land independently of how #43/#46 get resolved.
Follow-up
This class of bug (structurally identical connection-opening logic duplicated between
infigraph-cliandinfigraph-mcp, free to drift out of sync) is now filed as supporting evidence on #24 (deduplicate CLI and MCP tool implementations).