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feat(signature): expose change_signature through the CLI and MCP, with docs (#1533, 5/9) - #2164

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Summary

  • Adds cgr change-signature QUALIFIED_NAME NEW_PARAMS... [--map NEW=SOURCE] [--allow-heuristic] [--dry-run] [--project] [--repo-path], which prints the report as JSON.
  • Adds the change_signature MCP tool with the same fields, and its descriptions.
  • Adds the architecture page docs/architecture/change-signature.md to the site nav, and the CLI and MCP reference entries.

Demo

cgr change-signature on a small repo: the parent layer has no such command; this branch plans the change, applies it with a contract check, and the rewritten code still runs

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The same before and after run, animated

The shop repo has def discount(price, pct) and three callers: discount(p, 10), discount(price=p, pct=25) and discount(*args). Both runs use cgr change-signature shop.pricing.discount price pct 'currency: str' --map 'currency=="EUR"' --project shop against Memgraph 3.3.0.

  • Before (025a7976b, feat(signature): the change_signature operation (#1533, 4/9) #2166): No such command 'change-signature'.
  • After (09c5ae4f4, this branch):
    • --dry-run prints 2 site(s) would be rewritten, 1 left unmapped, then a diff. The diff adds "EUR" positionally, currency="EUR" by keyword, and currency: str to the definition. shop.cart.bulk (line 13) is listed as unmapped: arguments cannot be read positionally: `*args` .
    • Without --dry-run it prints Applied 2 file(s). The re-ingested graph marks both rewritten sites ok and the untouched *args site unknown.
    • git diff --stat shows 2 files changed, 3 insertions and 3 deletions. total([100, 50]) and sale(40) still run, giving 135.0 30.0.

The new docs page, built with zensical build from this branch:

The Change Signature Operation page in the Architecture section of the docs site

Type of Change

  • Bug fix
  • New feature
  • Performance improvement
  • Refactoring (no functional changes)
  • Documentation
  • CI/CD or tooling
  • Dependencies

Related Issues

Part of #1533 (split from #1912; stack: #2163 → #2161 → #2162 → #2166 → #2164 → #2169 → #2168 → #2165 → #2167).

Test Plan

  • Unit tests pass (make test-parallel or uv run pytest -n auto -m "not integration")

  • New tests added

  • Integration tests pass (make test-integration, requires Docker)

  • Manual testing (describe below)

  • uv run python -m pytest codebase_rag/tests/test_signature_wiring.py -p no:randomly -q at 09c5ae4f4: 15 passed.

  • uvx --from zensical==0.0.65 zensical build at 09c5ae4f4: No issues found.

  • The full suite was not run locally. The CI Unit Tests run at 09c5ae4f4 was cancelled before it finished.

  • Manual: the Demo above.

Checklist

  • PR title follows Conventional Commits format
  • All pre-commit checks pass (make pre-commit)
  • No hardcoded strings in non-config/non-constants files
  • No # type: ignore, cast(), Any, or object type hints
  • New comments and docstrings explain why, not what (see Comment Policy)

SKIP=no-commit-to-branch pre-commit run --from-ref 025a7976b --to-ref 09c5ae4f4 (ruff, ruff-format, ty, bandit, generate-readme and the file hygiene hooks): passed. The unit-suite step of make pre-commit was not run locally.

Unchecked items:

  • cli.py declares the option flags ("--map", "--dry-run" and the rest) inline.
  • mcp/tools.py types two new handlers -> object.
  • test_signature_wiring.py has five # type: ignore comments.
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Files changed

  • codebase_rag/cli.py
  • codebase_rag/cli_help.py
  • codebase_rag/constants/mcp.py
  • codebase_rag/mcp/tools.py
  • codebase_rag/tests/test_signature_wiring.py
  • codebase_rag/tools/tool_descriptions.py
  • docs/architecture/change-signature.md
  • docs/guide/cli-reference.md
  • docs/guide/mcp-server.md
  • mkdocs.yml

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+814 additions, -1 deletions (815 LOC)

Dependencies

This PR depends on: pr-4

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Merge in this order:

pr-1: feat(signature): contract expectation, shared call-site helpers and constants for change_signature (#1533, 1/9)
└── pr-2: feat(signature): parameter specs, mapping sources and the change_signature contract check (#1533, 2/9)
    └── pr-3: feat(signature): read the header, bind call arguments, render the rewrite (#1533, 3/9)
        └── pr-4: feat(signature): the change_signature operation (#1533, 4/9)
            └── pr-5: feat(signature): expose change_signature through the CLI and MCP, with docs (#1533, 5/9)  <-- this PR
                └── pr-6: test(signature): acceptance, transaction and MCP tests for change_signature (#1533, 6/9)
                    └── pr-7: test(signature): mapping tests for change_signature (#1533, 7/9)
                        └── pr-8: test(signature): definition and renamed-parameter tests for change_signature (#1533, 8/9)
                            └── pr-9: test(signature): hierarchy, receiver and default guards for change_signature (#1533, 9/9)

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added a command and MCP tool to change Python function or method parameters and rewrite recognized call sites, including overrides.
    • Supports parameter mappings, optional heuristic handling, and dry runs. Unmapped call sites are reported and left unchanged; unsupported or unsafe changes are refused, and failed validation can roll back applied changes.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance on the operation, its options, parameter and mapping rules, and how results and unmapped call sites are reported.

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The change adds a change-signature CLI command and an MCP tool. Both expose parameter-list changes and call-site rewriting through the signature-change operation. Tests cover command and tool wiring, including dry runs, refusals, and rollback handling. Documentation describes the inputs and operation behavior.

Changes: Signature change operation

Layer / File(s) Summary
CLI command and options
codebase_rag/cli.py, codebase_rag/cli_help.py, codebase_rag/tests/test_signature_wiring.py
Adds the command, its options and help text, mapping parsing, operation invocation, and JSON reporting. Tests cover dry-run and apply results, refusal and parse-failure exit codes, and mapping validation.
MCP tool and execution flow
codebase_rag/constants/mcp.py, codebase_rag/mcp/tools.py, codebase_rag/tools/tool_descriptions.py, codebase_rag/tests/test_signature_wiring.py
Registers the MCP tool and parameters, routes requests through the graph-query path, checks for a verified source root, and delegates edits and re-ingestion. Handles refusal responses and incomplete-graph rollback markers. Tests cover the schema, results, root checks, and rollback handling.
Operation documentation
docs/architecture/change-signature.md, docs/guide/cli-reference.md, docs/guide/mcp-server.md, mkdocs.yml
Documents signature and mapping rules, call-site handling, validation, rollback, dry runs, and the CLI and MCP interfaces. Adds the architecture page to the navigation.

Priority: Low

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MCPClient
  participant MCPToolsRegistry
  participant GraphQuery
  participant RunChangeSignature
  MCPClient->>MCPToolsRegistry: call change_signature
  MCPToolsRegistry->>GraphQuery: route project-scoped request
  GraphQuery->>RunChangeSignature: execute signature change
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Suggested labels: split

Suggested reviewers: claude

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 7390f

A mismatched project selection can change the wrong checkout and contaminate its indexed graph. Reject the mismatch before merging.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 7390f

The new operation can rewrite several files and update their index. The MCP path preserves authentication and project-root controls, but the CLI can pair a project with the wrong checkout. This creates a bounded risk of unintended edits and index contamination without demonstrating additional filesystem privileges.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · architecture · inferred: The new CLI does not bind the selected graph project to its indexed filesystem root. If another checkout contains matching relative paths and definition locations, its files can be rewritten using the selected project's graph and re-ingested under that project name. Filesystem confinement limits writes to the supplied checkout but does not establish project ownership. Existing CLI rename has the same omission; this PR carries it into the new signature-change contract.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The operation's intended mutation scope includes the selected definition, its override hierarchy, mapped graph-known callers, and their indexed state. CLI ownership mismatch can affect the supplied checkout and selected graph project, but does not demonstrate writes outside that checkout or access beyond the caller's existing filesystem and database authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Client-controlled signature requests reach a server-side editing handler through the existing tool dispatcher. HTTP authentication governs entry to that dispatcher, while workspace, project, and stored-root checks govern the selected editing target. The new handler follows the existing MCP rename boundary rather than accepting an arbitrary filesystem root.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Mutating re-ingestion failures retain incomplete state and invalidate the updater instead of treating a partial graph as authoritative. Dry-run avoids cold updater hydration; pre-callback refusal normally releases its marker. A failed marker clear sets incomplete state and returns an error string, so it does not support the claimed exception-masking failure. Recovery behavior for that cleanup failure remains incompletely exercised.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Bind the CLI's selected project to its stored indexed root before planning or updater construction, using the same identity rule as MCP. Treat mismatched checkouts as a refusal rather than relying on matching source paths or structural postconditions.
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pr-1 chore(split): review change-signature-1 +162/-0 — docs/architecture/change-signature.md
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pr-3 chore(split): review cli-3 +76/-0 — codebase_rag/cli.py
pr-4 chore(split): review cli-help-4 +27/-0 — codebase_rag/cli_help.py
pr-5 chore(split): review tool-descriptions-5 +26/-0 — codebase_rag/tools/tool_descriptions.py
pr-6 chore(split): review mcp-6 +4/-1 — codebase_rag/constants/mcp.py
pr-7 chore(split): review mcp-server-7 +1/-0 — docs/guide/mcp-server.md
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🟠 Major · Reject a project whose indexed root differs from --repo-path. · cli.py:1723-1741

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Reject a project whose indexed root differs from --repo-path.

When --project names a project indexed from another root, this CLI still uses that project’s definition and call-site rows with --repo-path as the patch root. If the graph-recorded paths exist in that checkout, change_signature can rewrite those files and re-ingest them under the selected project name. The MCP change_signature handler already rejects this mismatch; apply the same check here.

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     name, fetch_all, ingestor = _project_and_fetch(project, repo_path)
     with ingestor:
+        from .graph_query import source_root_for
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+        if source_root_for(fetch_all, name, repo_path) is None:
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         parsers, queries = load_parsers()
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@coderabbitai The outside-diff finding on cli.py:1723-1741 (no wrong-root check in cgr change-signature) is fixed in 2caa17b. The command now refuses a --project whose indexed root is not --repo-path before it loads parsers or patches anything, as the MCP handler does. test_cli_refuses_a_project_indexed_from_another_checkout fails without the check and passes with it.

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Dry run and apply through both entry points, the JSON payload, exit codes,
a malformed --map entry refused before any graph access, refusals returned
as payloads, a project indexed from another root, and the graph
invalidation after a rollback whose re-ingest failed.
…change

A dry run passed the guarded re-ingest callback like an apply, and building
it on a cold registry hydrates an updater and marks the project mid-update.
Only the callback clears that mark and a preview never calls it, so the
project stayed marked and later reads refused until a rebuild. A change
refused during planning left the same mark behind.

A dry run now gets no callback, and an applied change clears the mark its
own hydration made when the callback never ran. The callback is still
built before planning, so a graph left partial by an earlier run refuses
the change before any file is written.
cgr change-signature used the selected project's graph rows with
--repo-path as the patch root, so a project indexed elsewhere could have
same-named files in this checkout rewritten and re-ingested under it.
It now checks the project's indexed root first, as the MCP handler does.
Sonar flags each `isinstance(...) and ...` assertion; checking the type
first and the applied flag second also reports which one failed.
Follows #2162: reordered values are spelled by keyword in the order the
site wrote them, so a reorder never changes evaluation order.
…ally

Follows #2162: only a site with a value that runs code keeps its written
order by keyword.
A class pattern's keyword names an attribute of the subject, and the tail
of a dotted value pattern is an attribute name, so renaming a parameter
leaves both as written, like an attribute and a keyword argument's name.
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[Medium impact] No new blocking issue was found; the earlier CLI graph-marker gap remains explicitly deferred.

Summary

Exposes change_signature through the CLI and MCP, adds wiring tests, and documents the operation.

  • Developers can change a Python signature from the CLI and get a JSON report.
  • MCP callers can request a Python signature change and receive its report as JSON.

Reviews (2) · Last reviewed commit: "docs(signature): say a new parameter the..." · Reviewed by Greptile

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…d mark their own re-ingest

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NVdycfDFvbqaoyHWVWHJ1N
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fix(cli): refuse rename and change-signature over a partial graph, and mark their own re-ingest
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Port of #3501. change_signature (#2164) and the tool annotations (#3471)
reached main together, so the annotation tests' WRITERS list never named
it and main's unit shards fail on three of them. It rewrites the files it
changes, so it is a destructive writer and a read-only server refuses it.

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