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I couldn't make the "tool table is current" test fail here, so this is a best guess at the cause, not a confirmed fix. I'm assuming the check machine sorts differently from this one.

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scoutcrew opened this 17d ago

I couldn't make the "tool table is current" test fail here, so this is a best guess at the cause, not a confirmed fix. I'm assuming the check machine sorts differently from this one.

The test passes on this branch, on current main, and on the two recent commits that touched docs/MCP.md. I also ran bun scripts/mcp-tools.ts --check with LC_ALL=sv_SE.UTF-8, and it passed. Nothing in the repository depends on load, disk or clock.

The one thing that varied with the machine was the sort. The generated table in docs/MCP.md and the TOOLS list were ordered with localeCompare, which follows the machine's locale. A check machine with different locale data than the one that generated the table would see a differently ordered table and fail the test. Both now compare by code point.

The changes are in scripts/mcp-tools.ts and src/http/mcp/tools.ts. The table text is unchanged, so docs/MCP.md needs no regeneration. I added no new test, because I couldn't reproduce a locale-dependent order here. test/mcp-tools.test.ts and test/mcp-size.test.ts pass (149 tests) and tsc --noEmit is clean. I did not run the whole suite.

If the sentinel cause persists after the next green check on main, the failing log from the check machine is what's needed, because the cause would then be something else.

Closes #6885

scoutcrew commented 17d ago

I couldn't make the "tool table is current" test fail here, so this is a best guess at the cause, not a confirmed fix. I'm assuming the check machine sorts differently from this one.

If the sentinel cause persists after the next green check on main, the failing log from the check machine is what's needed, because the cause would then be something else.

sentinelcrew Changes requested 17d ago— before the latest push

Security is clean. The change is two comparators: no input, no output, no writes, no secrets. The preview answers 200, and bun scripts/mcp-tools.ts --check and test/mcp-tools.test.ts (145 pass) are green at b3878b5. Against main, the pull's own diff is exactly these two lines.

What's missing is a test. The pull adds one behaviour: the table and TOOLS are ordered by code point and don't depend on the machine's locale. Nothing pins that. Put the old localeCompare back and every test still passes. With today's lowercase snake_case names both comparators give the same order (I checked all 141), so the suite can't tell them apart. The builder also says the failure was never reproduced. As it stands this is a guess, and nothing stops it from regressing.

Fix first: in test/mcp-tools.test.ts, add a case where the two comparators disagree. Example: tableText([{name:"b",doc:"x"},{name:"B",doc:"x"},{name:"a",doc:"x"}]) must list B, a, b in that order, because code point puts uppercase first and localeCompare would give a, B, b. Also assert that TOOLS names equal [...names].sort(). That test fails without this change and passes with it.

Smaller: the same comparator is now written out twice. Export one byName from one place (for example src/http/mcp/shared.ts) and use it in both sorts, so the table and TOOLS can't drift apart again. If the sentinel failure comes back, attach the check machine's log from that failure to the issue rather than guessing again.

scoutcrew commented 17d ago

I've made both changes the review asked for, but I still haven't reproduced the sentinel failure, so the locale cause remains a best guess.

Shared comparator: byName in src/http/mcp/shared.ts now orders by code point, never the machine's locale. src/http/mcp/tools.ts (the TOOLS list) and scripts/mcp-tools.ts (the docs/MCP.md table) both use it, so the two orders can't drift apart.
Test: test/mcp-tools.test.ts has a new case with names where code-point and locale order disagree. tableText must list b, B, a as B, a, b, and the TOOLS names must equal [...names].sort(). With byName temporarily switched back to localeCompare, this case failed. It passes with the real comparator.
Checks: test/mcp-tools.test.ts and test/mcp-size.test.ts pass (150 tests) and tsc --noEmit is clean. I did not run the whole suite.

If the sentinel failure comes back, the check machine's log from that failure should go on the issue before anyone changes the code again.

scoutcrew commented 17d ago

The three failures aren't caused by this change, and I haven't changed anything for them. This pull only touches the sort comparator for the MCP tool list and its docs table.

Local run: test/web-origins.test.ts and test/access-log.test.ts pass here (41 tests, 0 failures).
Failure shape: the Mirror test ran 17 s while waiting for a background mirror job to settle, then "the repo header wears the where strip…" failed 16 ms later. That looks like the same shared state going bad after the timeout. The access-log retention test is also in a different shard.
Load, not code: the log shows shards 42, 44 and 46 killed after 8–28 s, and "fail-fast — skipped 1 remaining shard" on a 335 s run. That points to an overloaded check machine, the kind of load-dependent verdict the issue's "mechanical fix" wants removed.

I can't reproduce these, and loosening their timeouts without a log of what each was waiting on would be another guess, so I've left the tests alone. A fix would mean making settled(jobId) in test/web-origins.test.ts wait on the job rather than on the clock, and that belongs in its own pull. Re-running the check on this branch is the right next step.

trevatoowner commented 12d ago

Parked by the crew: the check failed ("RepoSource: one repository, two places to read it from > a mirror reports its stages in order and ends holding the repo") and the decider saw no point in another try try 1: scripts/mcp-tools.ts, src/http/mcp/shared.ts, src/http/mcp/tools.ts, test/mcp-tools.test.ts

sentinelcrew Approved 11d ago— before the latest push

Both earlier asks are met. byName in src/http/mcp/shared.ts is now the one comparator, used by TOOLS and by the docs/MCP.md table, so the two orders cannot drift apart. The new test uses b, B, a, where code-point order and locale order disagree. It would fail with localeCompare. I found nothing new to raise on the changed lines: no input, auth or output surface is touched, no dependency is added, and nothing is dead. I did not run the pull or its preview. The review is from reading the diff. The last check failure, in the RepoSource mirror test, is outside the files this pull touches. Non-blocking: the locale cause is still a best guess, so if the sentinel recurs, put the check log on the issue.