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Outcome

Adds the architecture direction for ecp and the evidence behind it, so the refactor can run across many sessions without re-deriving it. docs/specs/2026-10-25-architecture-direction.md names 11 structural areas, five shared contracts, a phased lane order and latency gates. docs/specs/2026-10-25-architecture-review.md holds the whole-repo review: 14 subsystems, 178 findings with tier and evidence, the small local fixes, the modules to keep as they are. Designs A and B and their cross-check are archived beside them. Docs only. Two-way door: a revert removes the pages. Blast radius: no code symbol changes; the readers are maintainers and the agent sessions that will implement the slices.

What happened

Designs A (owner_class split) and B (shared resolution ladder) lived only in a PR #861 worktree. A first draft placed them beside two more areas. The owner then asked for complete coverage of the repo, ranked by ecp's own priorities (per-query latency, answers that do not mislead the agent, signal density). Thirteen read-only reviewers, one per subsystem, found the defects; the main session re-ran the key T1 claims. GitNexus and codegraph were read at source to see how peer tools handle the same problems. codex reviewed the plan for conflicts and execution order in five rounds until lanes, order and gates came back with no new finding.

What changed

• Direction page: areas 1-4 (resolution rules, owner split, current-build ranking, workspace scope) and new areas 5-11 (one read path per command, one routing fact, post-parse endpoints, one route record, Cypher exact-or-refuse, a shared parse_file driver, test architecture).
  • Priority check and a certainty table that separates "defect certain" from "target sufficient".
  • The incremental overlay: every builder output gets a refresh mode; measured cost on this repo and vscode.
  • Latency gates measured on vscode (clean 164 ms, first query after an edit 363 ms) and the protocol that turns them into gates.
  • Contracts C1-C5, a cross-area conflict table, lessons from peer tools, and an order in phases 0-3 with lanes R, F and P.
• Review page: per-subsystem verdicts, findings, small fixes, deletion candidates under the LLM-utility filter, healthy modules, blind spots.
• Designs A and B: answers to the three CodeRabbit threads (overload uids under I4, an exact R14 baseline, the mixed-version build window).

How to verify

• Every relative .md link under docs/specs/2026-10-2* resolves; no page contains a local /home/ path (grep -c prints 0).
• Code citations: codex fact-checked both pages (35 items, all applied), then four conflict rounds; reports are summarised in the commit messages.
• Reproductions named on the pages were re-run by the main session where the page says re-run.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added architecture documents describing proposed changes to resolution, lexical identity, build ordering, imports, graph reads, routing, edge evidence, routes and contracts, Cypher behavior, parsing, and tests.
  • Added a cross-check of two architecture proposals, including risks, open questions, and implementation sequencing.
  • Added an architecture review inventory summarizing findings, evidence status, proposed local fixes, and areas for further measurement.
  • The documents record proposals and findings only; no implementation or tests were added.

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Walkthrough

This pull request adds architecture direction and review documents, detailed proposals for shared resolution and lexical identity, and a cross-check of those proposals. The documents describe proposed changes and state that no implementation or runtime checks were performed.

Changes: Architecture documents

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Subsystem review evidence docs/specs/2026-10-25-architecture-review.md	The document catalogs subsystem findings, proposed local fixes, measurements, deletion candidates, and review limitations.
Resolution and lexical identity designs docs/specs/2026-10-23-shared-resolution-design.md, docs/specs/2026-10-23-owner-split-design.md	The designs propose shared resolution outcomes and fallback rules, plus lexical-parent identity, graph-format changes, language admissions, and verification plans.
Architecture direction and cross-area contracts docs/specs/2026-10-25-architecture-direction.md	The document defines shared contracts and staged proposals covering resolution, identity, build ranking, workspace imports, graph reads, routing, edge evidence, routes, Cypher, parser structure, and tests.
Design cross-check and sequencing docs/specs/2026-10-23-architecture-designs-crosscheck.md	The document records findings and evidence, compares design claims and gaps, and proposes an implementation order.

Priority: Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Other

Possibly related PRs

• coseto6125/egent-code-plexus#861: The design documents use PR #861 as a baseline and discuss its resolution and lexical identity work.
• coseto6125/egent-code-plexus#864: PR #864 changes same-SHA build publication. The architecture direction proposes same-SHA ranking and a repository-and-SHA lock.

Merge Risk: Low · up to e4055

This documentation-only PR has a few inaccuracies and gaps in its design contracts, such as the stale-caveat count, the Area 2 identity proof gate and the parity harness key. They should be tidied before the designs are used as implementation gates, but they do not affect runtime behavior.

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Actionable comments posted: 3

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docs/specs/2026-10-23-owner-split-design.md: 1

266-269: 🎯 Functional Correctness

The stale-session behavior is an intentional, documented design choice. The design does not define a contract that requires stale state to be surfaced, so this review comment does not identify a defect to fix.

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381-381: Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

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Fix the UID parity sentence.

Replace “Each case asserts four paths give equal uids per node” with “Each case asserts four-path UID parity per node.”

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Review comments at @docs/specs/2026-10-23-owner-split-design.md:
- Around line 254-255: The plain UID recomputation described in the I5 design
does not identify later unscoped overloads, so they may be misclassified as
scoped and excluded from name-tier resolution. Update the I5 guidance for
identifying lexical scope to retain the lexical-parent table or compute and
compare the expected overload UID from I4 before classifying nodes; do not
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Review comments at @docs/specs/2026-10-23-shared-resolution-design.md:
- Line 323: Update the Overlay self-parity requirement to define an explicit R14
baseline that accepts only the known differing edge set until B7b lands; keep
the harness failing on any additional edge differences, and identify the known
mismatch as an expected failure rather than a pass.

Review comments at @docs/specs/2026-10-25-architecture-direction.md:
- Around line 140-144: Update the Target statement to limit the strictly
rising-name guarantee to periods when every builder uses the new lock. Add an
open question addressing whether old and new binaries may write to the same
commits directory during rollout, and specify that the decision must document
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docs/specs/2026-10-25-architecture-direction.md: 1

217-219: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add the three identity cases to Area 2’s proof contract.

The Area 2 proof and order currently cover only swapped trait implementations and sibling blocks. Add fixtures with expected identity outcomes for #[cfg] twins and same-name YAML Service/Deployment declarations. Define the canonical owner spelling for owner-form drift. If these cases are not part of this slice, mark each one as explicitly deferred or out of scope.

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Review comments at @docs/specs/2026-10-25-architecture-direction.md:
- Line 443: Update the strict parity edge key in the parity harness description
to include both source and target UIDs, so edges with different targets compare
as distinct. Preserve the existing kind, line, edge type, and confidence fields.
- Around line 31-32: Update the cold-index target in the architecture direction
so the under-5-second-per-25k-files gate is marked provisional until a 25k-file
scaling measurement is available, or add that measurement to establish the
target; the current 12,737-file profile is insufficient evidence.
- Line 362: Update C5’s routing-result definition to include the identifier
finder alongside its existing routed values, matching the separate routing-row
value used by rename. Keep the change limited to the C5 definition.

Review comments at @docs/specs/2026-10-25-architecture-review.md:
- Line 381: Qualify the answer-equivalence claim in the healthy-modules row to
clarify that MCP answers match CLI answers except for the text-mode stale caveat
identified in agent A1; leave the process-cost and other row content unchanged.
- Line 54: Update the cli F6 row to include find-transaction-patterns,
find-schema-bindings, and find-event-mirrors among the commands that print no
marker, and correct the total from 15 to 17. Keep the existing caller list and
other row details unchanged.

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Review comments at @docs/specs/2026-10-25-architecture-direction.md:
- Around line 217-219: Update Area 2’s proof contract to specify expected
identity outcomes for #[cfg] twin declarations and same-name YAML
Service/Deployment declarations, and define the canonical spelling for
owner-form identity. If any case is outside this slice, explicitly mark it
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