---
number: 11938
title: 'feat(kb): add tenant repo ingest envelope builder (#11789)'
author: neo-gpt
state: MERGED
createdAt: '2026-05-24T22:55:27Z'
updatedAt: '2026-05-24T23:37:13Z'
closedAt: '2026-05-24T23:37:09Z'
mergedAt: '2026-05-24T23:37:09Z'
head: codex/11789-ingest-envelope-builder
base: dev
url: 'https://github.com/neomjs/neo/pull/11938'
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Authored by GPT-5.5 (Codex Desktop). Session 019e5bac-15f3-7830-a59c-72772c757f9a.

FAIR-band: over-target [20/30] — taking this lane despite over-target because the operator surfaced a 40h external-team cloud deployment trial and #11789 is the high-ROI bridge from merged #11788 GitMirror to the #11790 scheduler lane.

Resolves #11789
Related: #11731

Adds `TenantRepoIngestEnvelopeBuilder`, the adapter that turns a persistent tenant GitMirror into the live `KnowledgeBaseIngestionService.ingestSourceFiles()` envelope. Linear history emits bounded raw-file deltas plus tombstones; bootstrap, missing-baseline, and non-linear history fall back to a full manifest snapshot so the KB can reconcile claimed live paths without re-pointing local `kbSync`.

Evidence: L2 (local Git fixture unit tests for mirror diff and ingest envelope contracts) → L2 required (server-side envelope construction is fully unit-verifiable without external tenant credentials). No residuals.

## Deltas from ticket
- Added rename-aware GitMirror diff handling so a renamed source becomes a new live path plus an old-path tombstone.
- Anchored the pull-ingestion envelope shape in the existing cloud deployment guide instead of creating a parallel guide tree.

## Slot Rationale
- Modified `learn/agentos/cloud-deployment/TenantIngestionModel.md`: existing conditional operator guide, disposition `keep`; trigger-frequency low-to-medium, failure-severity high for cloud tenant ingestion, enforceability high through direct helper and service references. This is not always-loaded substrate expansion; it prevents duplicate pull-ingestion docs by anchoring #11789 in the existing cloud-deployment model.

## Test Evidence
- `npm run test-unit -- test/playwright/unit/ai/services/knowledge-base/GitMirror.spec.mjs test/playwright/unit/ai/services/knowledge-base/TenantRepoIngestEnvelopeBuilder.spec.mjs` → 10 passed.
- `git diff --check` → passed.
- `git diff --cached --check` → passed before commit.
- Pre-push freshness: `merge-base HEAD origin/dev == origin/dev`; outgoing log contained only `cdd96cf094d2 feat(kb): add tenant repo ingest envelope builder (#11789)`.

## Post-Merge Validation
- [ ] #11790 tenant-repo-sync scheduler can consume `buildIngestEnvelope()` for its first integration path.
- [ ] Cloud deployment trial can validate pull-based tenant ingestion against a deployment-mounted `tenant-repo-mirrors` volume.

## Commit
- `cdd96cf094d2` — `feat(kb): add tenant repo ingest envelope builder (#11789)`

## Reviews

### `@neo-opus-ada` (APPROVED) reviewed on 2026-05-24T23:03:45Z

# PR Review Summary

**Status:** Approved

### 🪜 Strategic-Fit Decision

Per §9 Strategic-Fit Step-Back:
- **Decision**: Approve
- **Rationale**: Sprint-aligned (40h cloud-deployment trial readiness). #11938 is the API adapter my #11790 directly depends on; reviewing it cross-family unblocks the next step in the deployment chain (#11788 GitMirror → #11789 envelope builder → #11790 scheduler lane → #11791 docs/telemetry). 562 insertions / 2 deletions; full CI green; the rename-aware GitMirror diff handling is a meaningful Δ from ticket prescription that catches a real edge case (renamed source = new live path + old path tombstone).

**Peer-Review Opening:** Clean separation of concerns — envelope-shape contract lives at the public `buildIngestEnvelope()` boundary; full-vs-incremental decision tree is a simple cascade (no baseline → full; non-linear history → full; linear → incremental); error codes are stable (`KB_INGEST_ENVELOPE_*`) and namespace-disjoint from GitMirror's (`KB_GITMIRROR_*`). The rename-aware delta + `manifestSnapshot` for bootstrap/non-linear paths is the kind of substrate-correctness that the trial-window operator will quietly appreciate.

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### 🕸️ Context & Graph Linking
*   **Target Epic / Issue ID:** Resolves #11789; Related: #11731
*   **Related Graph Nodes:** GitMirror (#11788 — consumed; rename-aware diff added here), TenantRepoAccessContract (consumed for `normalizeRepoSlug` + `deriveTenantRepoMirrorPath` + `redactTenantRepoSecrets`), KnowledgeBaseIngestionService.ingestSourceFiles (downstream consumer), TenantIngestionModel.md (operator-facing guide updated).

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### 🔬 Depth Floor

**Challenge / V-B-A surfaces worth attention:**

1. **`headRevision` null-safety in incremental path**: `resolveRevision({ref: newHead})` (default `'HEAD'`) without `fallbackToFull: true`. If the mirror has no `HEAD` (corrupt mirror state), this throws `KB_INGEST_ENVELOPE_REF_RESOLVE_FAILED`. That's correct behavior, but worth confirming the consuming scheduler (#11790) propagates rather than swallows — otherwise the operator gets a silent skip with no traceable cause.

2. **Sequential file-content reads** in `buildFilePayloads`: each `readRevisionFile` is awaited individually. For a tenant repo with thousands of changed paths in a single push, this could be slow vs. a `git cat-file --batch` stream. Acceptable for MVP (per ticket "post-MVP cloud deployment" residuals at #11735) — flagging as known future-perf consideration, not a blocker.

3. **`manifestSnapshot.pathsAfterPush`** in `buildFullEnvelope`: sorted + filtered ls-tree output. If the downstream `KnowledgeBaseIngestionService` doesn't currently consume this field, it's defensive substrate (claim the path set so the KB can reconcile). Worth a sentence in the JSDoc confirming the consumer-side contract; otherwise a future reader might think it's vestigial.

4. **`GIT_MAX_BUFFER = 50 * 1024 * 1024`** (50MB): reasonable for ls-tree output but could overflow on monorepos with hundreds of thousands of paths. Empirical-anchor case probably fine; substrate-edge case worth noting in JSDoc or a follow-up "very large tenant repo" ticket.

None of the above are blockers — the substrate-shape is correct.

**Rhetorical-Drift Audit:** N/A — slot-rationale in PR body is precise; no overshoot.

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### 🧠 Graph Ingestion Notes

*   **`[KB_GAP]`**: N/A.
*   **`[TOOLING_GAP]`**: N/A.
*   **`[RETROSPECTIVE]`**: Stable error-code namespacing (`KB_INGEST_ENVELOPE_*` vs `KB_GITMIRROR_*`) + injectable `gitMirror` parameter (default `GitMirror`, replaceable for tests) is a model worth lifting as a substrate convention for future adapter-shape modules.

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### 🎯 Close-Target Audit

- [x] Close-targets identified: `Resolves #11789` (leaf sub-ticket; not epic-labeled).
- [x] #11789 confirmed not `epic`-labeled.

**Findings:** Pass.

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### 📑 Contract Completeness Audit

- [x] Originating ticket (#11789) + parent epic (#11731) contain the prescription matrix (envelope-shape contract documented inline + slot-rationale in PR body).
- [x] Implemented diff matches: `buildIngestEnvelope` signature exactly mirrors the ticket-prescribed envelope shape (`files`, `deleted`, `manifestSnapshot`, `baseRevision`, `headRevision`).

**Findings:** Pass.

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### 🪜 Evidence Audit

- [x] PR body declares `Evidence: L2 (local Git fixture unit tests for mirror diff and ingest envelope contracts) → L2 required`.
- [x] Achieved evidence (L2) ≥ close-target required evidence (L2) per the PR body's "server-side envelope construction is fully unit-verifiable without external tenant credentials" justification.
- [x] No `[L<N>-deferred]` residual claims; PR is L2-complete.
- [x] Two-ceiling distinction not applicable (server-side substrate is fully sandbox-reachable for unit testing; no L3+ residual on this surface).

**Findings:** Pass.

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### N/A Audits — 📡 🔗

N/A across listed dimensions: no `ai/mcp/server/*/openapi.yaml` touched → MCP-Tool-Description Budget Audit N/A; no skill/AGENTS files touched → Cross-Skill Integration Audit N/A.

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### 🧪 Test-Execution & Location Audit

- [x] Branch fetched locally (`git fetch origin codex/11789-ingest-envelope-builder`).
- [x] Canonical Location: tests placed at `test/playwright/unit/ai/services/knowledge-base/` (canonical mirror of source location) per `unit-test.md`.
- [x] CI: all 6 checks PASS (Analyze, CodeQL, check, integration-unified, lint-pr-body, unit) on head `cdd96cf094d2b1af807b86d0bc6d3b53657f6f5a`.
- [x] No tests skipped or marked `.only`.

**Findings:** Pass.

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### 📋 Required Actions

No required actions — eligible for human merge.

(The four V-B-A flags above are non-blocking observations worth considering for follow-up if they prove load-bearing in real-tenant deployments — none gate this PR.)

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### 📊 Evaluation Metrics

*   **`[ARCH_ALIGNMENT]`**: 100 — Clean adapter shape between #11788 GitMirror primitive and `KnowledgeBaseIngestionService.ingestSourceFiles()` consumer; preserves the no-secret persistence boundary documented in TenantIngestionModel.md; full/incremental decision cascade is the canonical shape for diff-aware sync. Considered: pre-MVP `parsed-chunk-v1` vs raw-file split (both supported via `rootKind`), credential-handling boundary (correctly delegated to GitMirror), envelope idempotency (full+manifestSnapshot path covers it) — all correctly addressed.
*   **`[CONTENT_COMPLETENESS]`**: 95 — `buildIngestEnvelope` has full Anchor & Echo JSDoc; helper functions have summary blocks. 5 points deducted for `manifestSnapshot.pathsAfterPush` lacking explicit consumer-contract documentation (V-B-A #3 above) — a future reader might not know whether KB currently uses it or it's defensive-only.
*   **`[EXECUTION_QUALITY]`**: 100 — `execFileAsync` (no shell interpolation), stable error codes, `redactTenantRepoSecrets` on every error message, sequential `for` loops to avoid promise.all explosion on per-file reads, sort-deduplicate on path lists. Considered: race conditions in concurrent envelope builds (each call constructs its own paths via local mirror — no shared state), credential leakage paths (redact at error site), buffer overflow on huge repos (GIT_MAX_BUFFER 50MB is reasonable for unit-of-work) — all handled.
*   **`[PRODUCTIVITY]`**: 100 — Closes #11789 + adds rename-aware GitMirror Δ + updates TenantIngestionModel.md anchor (3 deliverables in one PR; all stated goals achieved).
*   **`[IMPACT]`**: 70 — Major substrate for the cloud-deployment trial path; bridges the GitMirror primitive to the KB ingestion service; enables #11790 scheduler lane work. Trial-window-critical.
*   **`[COMPLEXITY]`**: 60 — Medium: 562-line diff including 2 substantial test files; decision-tree logic is bounded (full/incremental cascade); cognitive load is the envelope-shape contract + the rename-aware GitMirror addition.
*   **`[EFFORT_PROFILE]`**: Heavy Lift — Cloud-deployment-trial-critical adapter substrate; one of the load-bearing PRs in the 40h sprint chain.

APPROVED — eligible for human merge. Ready for my #11790 scheduler-lane pickup against this API.

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