Make the MCP package standalone and acyclic (Fixes #3305) - #3384
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…ixes #3305) @vybestack/llxprt-code-mcp value-imports @vybestack/llxprt-code-core but declared it in devDependencies only. scripts/bind-release-deps.ts rewrites file: specifiers in every dependency section at release time, so the published manifest carried core in a section npm install never installs for a consumer, while the shipped dist/mcp/** still emitted bare specifiers: @vybestack/llxprt-code-core/utils/errors.js @vybestack/llxprt-code-core/utils/debugLogger.js @vybestack/llxprt-code-core/utils/events.js @vybestack/llxprt-code-core/debug/DebugLogger.js @vybestack/llxprt-code-core/debug/index.js @vybestack/llxprt-code-core/utils/safeJsonStringify.js @vybestack/llxprt-code-core/utils/secure-browser-launcher.js @vybestack/llxprt-code-core/config/configTypes.js npm i @vybestack/llxprt-code-mcp therefore produced a package that could not resolve its own imports. It never reproduced in-repo because workspace hoisting and the tsconfig path wildcards satisfy the import regardless of what the manifest says. Reproduced hermetically: packing the tarball and materializing a node_modules containing only what the packed manifest declares fails with "Cannot find module '@vybestack/llxprt-code-core/config/configTypes.js'". Most of the imports the issue lists are already `import type` and are erased. The residual value imports are genuine: getErrorMessage, debugLogger, DebugLogger, coreEvents, openBrowserSecurely, AuthProviderType and safeJsonStringify. core already declares mcp in dependencies and value-imports McpClientManager, KeychainTokenStorage and DiscoveredMCPTool, so declaring mcp's side makes the core <-> mcp cycle visible. That is the intent: an undeclared cycle is worse than a declared one, because any audit reading package.json concludes the workspace is acyclic when it is not. Extracting the shared leaf utilities into a lower-level package is the better end state but is a cross-package refactor, so this change declares and documents the cycle and leaves the extraction for separate work. npm resolves it without complaint. A repo-wide guard replaces the one-off fix. scripts/check-runtime-dependency- declarations.ts walks each published workspace's production source, defined by transitive relative-import reachability from its published source entrypoints, and fails when a bare runtime specifier names a package absent from dependencies, peerDependencies or optionalDependencies. A devDependencies-only declaration fails, since that is the defect shape. Specifiers come from the TypeScript AST, so type-only imports and inline `{ type X }` bindings are excluded and commented-out code cannot produce false positives. Production source is defined by reachability rather than by a filename allowlist, because an allowlist can be widened to make a real violation disappear. The guard found four more undeclared runtime dependencies that workspace hoisting was masking, all fixed as declaration-only edits: packages/telemetry zod, @opentelemetry/context-async-hooks packages/providers @vybestack/llxprt-code-telemetry packages/cli semver, strip-json-comments Root gains @opentelemetry/context-async-hooks and semver in dependencies, because publish-integrity requires the root packaging bridge to cover every external dependency of a shipped workspace with a subset range; semver moves out of root devDependencies rather than being duplicated. packages/agents/src/api/apiSurfaceParser.ts imports typescript but is not reachable from a published entrypoint, so agents does not ship the compiler. Tests: - runtime-dependency-declarations.test.ts, 29 synthetic-fixture cases covering each declaration section, every runtime import form, type-only exclusion, scoped and unscoped subpath attribution, builtin exemption, reachability including the dist-versus-bun-condition preference, and workspace selection. - runtime-dependency-declarations.repo.test.ts, asserts the real repository has zero violations and names the mcp and cycle invariants directly. - mcp-standalone-consumer.test.ts, packs the tarball, builds a sandbox in the OS temp directory containing only the packed manifest's declared dependencies, and imports the entrypoint. The sandbox must live outside the repo: a sandbox under the repo lets resolution walk up into the repo's own node_modules and the test passes vacuously. A negative control omitting core asserts the failure, so the positive case cannot pass for the wrong reason. Confirmed red before this change and green after. Wired into npm run lint:runtime-deps, scripts/lint-all.sh and ci.yml. Fixes #3305
) Windows correctness, the one that mattered. isInsideDirectory compared with a hard-coded forward-slash prefix while resolve() yields backslash-separated paths on Windows, so every resolved file failed the containment check, the BFS queue stayed empty, and the guard would have scanned zero files and reported PASS. A guard that silently passes is worse than no guard. Now compared via relative(), rejecting '', absolute results (different drive) and '..'-prefixed results under either separator. literalSpecifierOf accepted only ts.isStringLiteral, so import(`some-pkg`) written as a no-substitution template literal escaped the guard entirely even though it resolves to a fixed package at runtime. Now accepted, with a test. collectBunConditionPaths followed only bun/import/default, so an exports subpath exposing only a `require` condition would have dropped out of the entrypoint set and taken its reachable sources with it. No current manifest has a require-only subpath, so this was latent rather than active, but the failure mode is silent narrowing. The conditions are now an explicit fallback chain, with a test for the require-only case. main() walked each workspace's source closure twice, once to count files and once inside checkWorkspaceRuntimeDeclarations, re-reading and re-parsing every production file. checkWorkspaceRuntimeDeclarations now accepts an already computed file list. The repository regression test drops from about 4.9s to about 2.8s. Removed the RUNTIME_DEPS_ROOT override. It was written for a fixture suite that ended up passing repoRoot explicitly, so the branch was unreachable and its comment described a contract that did not exist. Documented the standalone-consumer test's isolation boundary. Declared dependencies are symlinked from the repository and resolution follows realpaths, so once execution hops into one of them that package resolves its own imports against the repository's node_modules. The suite pins that mcp's direct imports are satisfiable from its declared dependencies, not that the whole transitive closure is installable; the latter is what the static guard covers for every published workspace. Saying so stops a future maintainer over-trusting the green result. Refs #3305
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294-351: 🎯 Functional Correctness | ⚡ Quick winThe publication-path follow-ups are addressed at the current head: condition-only and
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In `@scripts/check-runtime-dependency-declarations.ts`:
- Around line 294-351: Update deriveSourceEntryPaths and
collectBunConditionPaths to distinguish subpath keys from condition-only
exports, selecting the bun source path first and using import, require, node,
then default as fallbacks. Handle entries containing only unsupported conditions
such as types by reporting unresolved entries instead of silently dropping them,
while preserving deduplication and existing main/index.ts fallbacks.
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clarification is included in the consolidated resolution.
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check:lockfile rejects "peer": true entries in package-lock.json; main has zero. Regenerating with a plain `npm install --package-lock-only` after the dependency declaration changes introduced 15 of them, on entries unrelated to this change (@types/react, acorn, express, ink, react, typescript, zod and others), because npm marks peer-satisfied placements that way by default. Regenerated from main's lockfile with --legacy-peer-deps, which is what keeps the committed lockfile peer-flag free. The resulting diff contains only this PR's declaration changes: packages/mcp @vybestack/llxprt-code-core moved dependencies <- devDependencies packages/telemetry + zod, + @opentelemetry/context-async-hooks packages/providers + @vybestack/llxprt-code-telemetry packages/cli + semver, + strip-json-comments root + @opentelemetry/context-async-hooks, semver moved dependencies <- devDependencies Refs #3305
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OCR review triageThree findings fixed, one rejected. Details per thread; summary here. Fixed
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The suggested remedies are to continue past an unreadable file or to fail with a friendlier message. Continuing is the wrong behavior here and is the exact failure mode this PR exists to prevent: a guard that skips files it cannot read is a guard that silently narrows its own scope, which is how the undeclared Failing with a better message is defensible but buys little. Node's This repo's stated architecture preference is fail-fast over defense in depth, and a lint guard crashing loudly on an unreadable source file is the correct fail-fast behavior. Verification after the fixes: 38 tests pass across the three new suites, ESLint clean, |
Three findings fixed; one rejected with reasoning recorded on the PR.
Windows path assertions in runtime-dependency-declarations.test.ts. Three
assertions matched fragments against raw path.resolve output, which is
backslash-separated on Windows, so they would fail there even with a correct
guard. That matters more than usual in this PR: the previous round fixed a
Windows separator bug in isInsideDirectory, and a Windows-broken test would
have hidden a regression on exactly the platform needing the coverage. Added a
toPosixPath helper and routed all three through it, including the
includes('/dist/') check the finding did not name but which had the same
defect.
cpSync preserved symlinks in the standalone-consumer sandbox. The copy exists
so the package's realpath sits inside the sandbox; a preserved symlink would
resolve back out to the repository and quietly restore the leak the negative
control rules out. Now passes dereference: true, so the stated guarantee is
actually enforced.
afterAll cleanup aborted early. splice(0) drains the array before the loop, so
a throw on one directory stranded every later one with no record. Cleanup is
now per-directory try/catch, collecting failures and warning once.
Rejected: wrapping readFileSync in the BFS walk. Continuing past an unreadable
file is the silent-narrowing failure mode this PR exists to prevent, and Node's
ENOENT/EACCES errors already name the path, so the uncaught error is already
the diagnostic. Fail-fast is the correct behavior for a lint guard.
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Move the Zed ACP integration into a peer client package (Fixes #3306) Three conflicts, all from #3384 having landed first: - bun.lock: generated, so regenerated with `bun install` over the merged manifests rather than reconciled by hand. - scripts/affected-test-shards.data.json, testOnlyEdges: this PR still carried "agents": ["mcp", "storage"], which only reflects the graph before #3384 made the MCP package standalone and removed that edge. Took the post-#3384 "agents": ["storage"] and kept this PR's genuinely new "zed-acp" entry. `npm run lint:affected-shards` re-derives the graph from real AST imports and passes, so the resolution is checked rather than asserted. - scripts/tests/issue-2994-lint-scoped.bun.test.ts: a comment recording reverseClosure('core'). Both sides were stale in opposite directions; the assertion it documents had already auto-merged to the correct set, so the comment now matches it: {a2a-server, agents, cli, providers, zed-acp}. Verified: 56/56 in issue-2994-lint-scoped, affected-shards drift guard passes.
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Migrate a2a-server onto the public Agent facade (Fixes #3221) Conflicts: - bun.lock: generated; regenerated with `bun install`. - package.json: both sides added a different lint script (lint:runtime-deps here, lint:a2a-boundary from this PR). Kept both. - packages/a2a-server/src/http/app.ts: this PR consolidates the core imports into one block that already provides GitService and debugLogger, so the two separate import lines it replaced were dropped as duplicates. The third import in that hunk, wireMcpHostServices from #3384, was KEPT: its call site in main() survived the merge and is still required. The interesting part is a genuine collision of intent between two merged PRs: #3305/#3384 gives the MCP package a host-services seam, published as the "./host/hostServices.js" subpath export, and wires it once at startup in every host process. scripts/tests/mcp-host-wiring.test.ts asserts a2a-server does this, by name. #3221/#3392 adds a fail-closed boundary forbidding a2a-server from importing runtime deep subpaths, on the grounds that subpaths are internals. Both are deliberate and both are covered by tests, so neither could simply be dropped. Deleting a2a-server's wiring was considered -- createTaskAgent goes through createAgent, which wires the seam itself -- but rejected: the facade wires at agent-creation time whereas #3384 deliberately wires at process start, and its test pins that. Resolved by narrowing #3392's rule rather than its intent: the MCP host-services seam is a *declared* export, not an internal, and cli and agents import the identical specifier. It is now allowed by exact match (never prefix, so the guard stays fail-closed) in both enforcement layers -- ALLOWED_RUNTIME_SUBPATHS in scripts/a2a-boundary/a2aBoundary.ts and the no-restricted-imports regex in eslint.config.js, which are cross-referenced in comments. #3392's own rejection tests cover core/agents/storage subpaths and are unaffected. This one is worth a second opinion from the #3221 and #3305 authors. Verified: lint:a2a-boundary passes, eslint packages/a2a-server clean, issue-3221 boundary tests 10/10, mcp-host-wiring tests 8/8.
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@vybestack/llxprt-code-mcpvalue-imported@vybestack/llxprt-code-coreat runtime while declaring it indevDependenciesonly, sonpm i @vybestack/llxprt-code-mcpshipped a package that could not resolve its own imports. Rather than declare that edge and make thecore<->mcpcycle official, this PR removes the edge. MCP now imports nothing from core, of any kind, and does not name core in any dependency section or TypeScript path mapping. The capabilities MCP needed from core are inverted into a host-services seam that each application composition root registers at startup.Reviewers should look hardest at two things:
packages/mcp/src/host/hostServices.ts, because a missing registration degrades MCP feedback and OAuth browser launching silently, andscripts/check-runtime-dependency-declarations.ts, because a bug in how it defines "production source" makes the guard scan nothing and still report PASS.Targets
dev/0.12.0, milestone 0.12.0.Dive Deeper
The defect
scripts/bind-release-deps.tsrewritesfile:specifiers in every dependency section at release time, so the published manifest carried core indevDependencies, a sectionnpm installnever installs for a consumer. The shippeddist/mcp/**still emitted bare specifiers into@vybestack/llxprt-code-core/*. It never reproduced in-repo because workspace hoisting and tsconfig path wildcards satisfy the import regardless of what the manifest says. Packing the tarball and materializing anode_modulescontaining only the packed manifest's declarations reproduced it:Why the edge was removed instead of declared
Core already declares mcp and value-imports
McpClientManager,KeychainTokenStorage, andDiscoveredMCPTool. Declaring mcp's side would have made a real cycle official and left the published package unable to stand alone in any meaningful sense: installing mcp would drag core, which drags mcp. The direction is now one way.Contract ownership
Each contract moved to the package that owns the concept, not to a barrel or a shim.
MCPServerConfigConfig,WorkspaceContext,PromptRegistry, andResourceRegistrysatisfy them structurally, so no class moved and no edge was added.AuthProviderTypeRegistration is exposed only at
@vybestack/llxprt-code-mcp/host/hostServices.js. It is deliberately not re-exported from the package root, so the import site names the seam it is using.Startup registration
Four composition roots register both capabilities before any asynchronous application work begins:
packages/cli/src/cli.tsx, at the top ofmain()packages/a2a-server/src/http/app.tspackages/agents/src/api/createAgent.tspackages/agents/src/api/fromConfig.tsEach calls the same wiring:
The standalone defaults are chosen so a consumer that never registers still behaves sanely rather than crashing: feedback falls back to telemetry logging, and the browser capability rejects, which is the signal MCP OAuth already handles by printing the authorization URL for manual use.
scripts/tests/mcp-host-wiring.test.tsasserts every one of the four roots registers, and pinsMCP_CLIENT_UPDATE_EVENTto the value core listeners subscribe to, since that string is now duplicated rather than imported.The guard
scripts/check-runtime-dependency-declarations.ts(npm run lint:runtime-deps, wired into CI andscripts/lint-all.sh) walks each published workspace's production source and fails when a bare runtime specifier names a package absent fromdependencies,peerDependencies, oroptionalDependencies. AdevDependencies-only declaration fails, because that is the defect shape. It currently covers 1,880 production files across 13 workspaces.Two design points worth review:
src/, which is whypackages/agents/src/api/apiSurfaceParser.tsimportingtypescriptdoes not force agents to ship the compiler.import typeand inline{ type X }bindings are excluded and commented-out code cannot produce false positives.Beyond mcp, the guard found undeclared runtime dependencies in
packages/telemetry(zod,@opentelemetry/context-async-hooks),packages/providers(@vybestack/llxprt-code-telemetry),packages/cli(semver,strip-json-comments), andpackages/agents. Root gains the corresponding entries becausepublish-integrity.test.tsrequires the root packaging bridge to cover every external dependency of a shipped workspace with a subset range.Boundary enforcement
scripts/tests/runtime-dependency-declarations.repo.test.tsasserts the boundary behaviorally rather than by convention: zero MCP-to-core imports of every kind, including type-only imports, dynamic imports, requires, and re-exports, and no mention of core in any of mcp's dependency sections or tsconfig paths.scripts/tests/mcp-standalone-consumer.test.tspacks the tarball and imports it from a sandbox containing only its declared dependencies, with a negative control.Reviewer Test Plan
To watch the boundary go red, add
import type { Config } from '@vybestack/llxprt-code-core';to any file underpackages/mcp/srcand re-run the repo boundary test. To watch startup registration go red, delete thewireMcpHostServices()call from any of the four composition roots and re-runmcp-host-wiring.test.ts.Testing Matrix
Verified locally on macOS against the exact pushed tree:
npm run test,npm run test:scripts,npm run lint,npm run typecheck,npm run format,npm run build,npm run lint:affected-shards,npm run lint:runtime-deps,npm run check:lockfile, the full MCP suite under the isolated runner, and a CLI startup smoke run. Linux and Docker coverage comes from CI. Windows path handling in the guard is unit-covered but not executed on a Windows host locally.Linked issues / bugs
Fixes #3305