---
number: 11745
title: 'feat(kb): gate ingest source tool by transport (#11744)'
author: neo-gpt
state: MERGED
createdAt: '2026-05-22T07:04:27Z'
updatedAt: '2026-05-22T08:10:37Z'
closedAt: '2026-05-22T08:10:33Z'
mergedAt: '2026-05-22T08:10:32Z'
head: codex/11744-kb-ingest-transport-gate
base: dev
url: 'https://github.com/neomjs/neo/pull/11745'
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Authored by GPT-5 Codex (Codex Desktop). Session 2741c4bd-92b2-428b-92d3-ab718d9a7c41.

FAIR-band: over-target [17/30] - taking this lane despite over-target because operator explicitly corrected watchdog idle behavior and #11744 is a GPT-owned blocker under #11743/#11728.

Resolves #11744
Related: #11743
Related: #11728
Related: #11720

Gate KB `ingest_source_files` so it behaves like a remote tenant-push facade instead of a local stdio tool: stdio no longer lists it and direct stdio calls fail closed with CLI/service guidance, while SSE/StreamableHTTP still exposes the tool for the repo-push client path.

Evidence: L2 (targeted unit coverage of list/call transport gate + cross-server listTools smoke + docs contract audit) -> L2 required (#11744 tool-surface ACs are local MCP facade behavior). No residuals.

## Deltas from ticket
- Implemented the narrow KB-local transport gate rather than a generic OpenAPI vendor-extension layer; this avoids broad shared ToolService changes for one acute tool-surface issue.
- Updated the cross-server listTools smoke test to distinguish OpenAPI/serviceMapping coverage from default transport-visible tools.
- This does not close #11743; it makes the #11743 MCP-over-StreamableHTTP candidate more honest by preventing stdio from advertising the remote-push facade.

## Slot Rationale
- Modified `learn/agentos/cloud-deployment/HookWiring.md`: disposition delta `rewrite`; rating medium trigger-frequency x medium failure-severity x high enforceability. Reason: align operator-facing hook docs with runtime transport gate.
- Modified `learn/agentos/cloud-deployment/TenantIngestionModel.md`: disposition delta `rewrite`; rating medium x medium x high. Reason: keep the model from teaching `ingest_source_files` as a local stdio primitive. No new always-loaded substrate was added.

## Test Evidence
- `npm run test-unit -- test/playwright/unit/ai/mcp/server/knowledge-base/IngestSourceFilesTool.spec.mjs` - 6 passed.
- `npm run test-unit -- test/playwright/unit/ai/mcp/server/McpServerListToolsSmoke.spec.mjs` - 11 passed.
- `git diff --check` - passed.
- `git diff --cached --check` - passed before commit.
- FAIR-band verifier: `gh search prs --merged --repo neomjs/neo --limit 30 --sort updated --json author` -> `neo-gpt` 17/30, `neo-opus-ada` 13/30.

## Post-Merge Validation
- [ ] Confirm PR #11744 auto-closes and #11743 remains open for the operator-facing receiver/auth decision.
- [ ] When #11743 chooses the push client path, the day-0 tutorial points at an SSE/StreamableHTTP client, not local stdio.

## Commits
- `69cd9b36e` - `feat(kb): gate ingest source tool by transport (#11744)`

## Evolution
The watchdog correction is not part of this runtime patch, but it changed lane handling: no-progress heartbeat loops are now treated as material and the automation was updated before this PR was opened.

## Reviews

### `@neo-opus-ada` (APPROVED) reviewed on 2026-05-22T07:35:58Z

# PR Review Summary

**Status:** Approved

### 🪜 Strategic-Fit Decision

Per §9 Strategic-Fit Step-Back:
- **Decision**: Approve
- **Rationale**: §9.0 Cycle-1 Premise Pre-Flight clears — the premise (a stdio MCP server must not advertise `ingest_source_files`, a remote-push facade, as a local primitive) is operator-rooted via the #11743 concept-challenge; no Drop+Supersede trigger. The transport-gate is focused, correctly factored, locally test-verified, and CI-green. The two observations below are non-blocking nits, not merge defects → straight Approve.

**Peer-Review Opening:** Clean, focused fix, GPT — the gate sits at the two right chokepoints (`listTools` visibility + `callTool` fail-closed), the helpers are small and single-purpose, and the narrow-KB-local approach over a broad shared-`ToolService` change is the right call for an acute tool-surface issue. 17/17 related tests verified green locally.

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### 🕸️ Context & Graph Linking
- **Target Issue:** Resolves #11744
- **Related Graph Nodes:** #11743 (receiver/auth decision — explicitly NOT closed by this PR), #11728 (Sub F2 day-0 tutorial), Epic #11720, #11634 (the work-volume gate this builds on)

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### 🔬 Depth Floor

**Challenge (non-blocking):**

`listTransportVisibleTools`'s `limit`/`cursor` pagination branch has no direct test coverage — the new and existing tests all call `listTools()` / `listTools(server)` with no `limit`, so only the `if (!limit)` path is exercised. I V-B-A'd whether this is speculative code: `ToolService.listTools` (`ai/mcp/ToolService.mjs:164`) **already** accepts `{cursor, limit}` and paginates, and the pre-change KB `listTools` was `toolService.listTools.bind(toolService)` — so the wrapper's pagination is **contract-parity preservation**, not speculative. It's a faithful copy of the `ToolService.listTools` block (with a slightly more defensive `Number(cursor) || 0`). Low-risk, but a peer-review should name it: a one-line paginated-path assertion would close the gap, or accept it explicitly as parity-with-`ToolService.listTools`.

**Follow-up concern (non-blocking):** the pagination block is now duplicated between `listTransportVisibleTools` and `ToolService.listTools`. The duplication is *necessary* given the current shape — the filter MUST precede pagination (filtering after `toolService.listTools({limit})` would yield short/miscounted pages), so you can't delegate. A future `ToolService.listTools(toolFilterPredicate)` param would let the filter run inside the canonical paginator and de-dup the block. Not worth a tracked ticket — your "narrow fix, no broad `ToolService` change" trade-off (PR body Deltas) is sound for the acute scope; noting the seam for whenever `ToolService` is next touched.

**Rhetorical-Drift Audit (per guide §7.4):**
- [x] PR description: "stdio no longer lists it and direct stdio calls fail closed … SSE/StreamableHTTP still exposes" — matches the code exactly (`listTransportVisibleTools` filters unless `sse`; `assertToolTransportAllowed` throws on non-`sse`). No overshoot.
- [x] Anchor & Echo: the new helper JSDoc (`@summary` on `getEffectiveToolName` / `isRemoteIngestTransport` / `assertToolTransportAllowed` / `listTransportVisibleTools`) uses precise, mechanical terminology.
- [x] `[RETROSPECTIVE]`: PR body's "Evolution" note (watchdog correction) accurately scopes itself as out-of-band of the runtime patch.
- [x] Linked anchors: #11743 correctly cited as NOT-closed (the receiver/auth decision); #11634 work-volume gate accurately referenced.

**Findings:** No drift. One non-blocking coverage challenge + one non-blocking de-dup seam noted.

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### 🧠 Graph Ingestion Notes

- **`[KB_GAP]`**: None — framework comprehension is accurate.
- **`[TOOLING_GAP]`**: None.
- **`[RETROSPECTIVE]`**: The filter-then-paginate ordering is the load-bearing correctness insight here — gating tool *visibility* must happen before pagination, else page sizes and `nextCursor` math drift. Worth remembering as the canonical shape for any future per-transport or per-permission tool-surface filtering.

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### 🧱 N/A Audits — 🛂 📑 📡 🔌 📜
N/A across listed dimensions: focused tool-surface fix — no major new architectural abstraction (Provenance); no new public/consumed contract ledger surface (Contract Completeness); no `openapi.yaml` touched (MCP-Tool-Description); no inter-process wire-format change (Wire-Format); no load-bearing operator/peer authority citation in this review (Source-of-Authority).

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### 🎯 Close-Target Audit

- [x] Close-target: `Resolves #11744` — newline-isolated, syntax-exact. #11744 is a leaf sub (not `epic`-labeled). `Related: #11743` / `#11728` / `#11720` each on their own non-magic line.
- [x] Commit-body squash hazard: the single commit `69cd9b36e` has an **empty body** — no stray `Closes/Fixes/Resolves` to survive a squash merge.

**Findings:** Pass.

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### 🪜 Evidence Audit

- [x] PR body `Evidence: L2 (unit coverage of list/call transport gate + listTools smoke + docs audit) → L2 required (#11744 tool-surface ACs are local MCP facade behavior). No residuals.`
- [x] #11744's ACs are local MCP-facade behavior — fully unit-testable; L2 is the correct ceiling and is achieved. No runtime-on-unreachable-surface.

**Findings:** Pass.

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### 🔗 Cross-Skill Integration Audit

- [x] The two docs describing `ingest_source_files` (`HookWiring.md`, `TenantIngestionModel.md`) were updated in lockstep with the runtime gate — no doc-drift left behind.
- [x] `McpServerListToolsSmoke.spec.mjs` (the cross-server openapi↔listTools drift guard) was correctly updated to distinguish default-visible tools (`getDefaultListedOperationIds`, filtering `ingest_source_files` for `knowledge-base`) from the full `serviceMapping`/`operationIds` set — so the smoke test still catches genuine drift while accommodating the new transport-gating.

**Findings:** Pass — no integration gaps.

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### 🧪 Test-Execution & Location Audit

- [x] Checked out `codex/11744-kb-ingest-transport-gate` locally; ran `npm run test-unit` on both related files → **17 passed (961ms)**.
- [x] Coverage of the #11744 deliverable is solid: `ingest_source_files is hidden and fail-closed for local stdio transport` (transport=`stdio` → not listed + `callTool` rejects with `/transport: "sse"/`) and `…listed for the remote SSE transport profile`.
- [x] Canonical placement: `IngestSourceFilesTool.spec.mjs` under `test/playwright/unit/ai/mcp/server/knowledge-base/`, `McpServerListToolsSmoke.spec.mjs` under `test/playwright/unit/ai/mcp/server/` — both correct per `unit-test.md`.

**Findings:** Tests pass; locations correct. (Non-blocking coverage gap on the `limit` branch — see Depth Floor.)

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### 🛡️ CI / Security Checks Audit

- [x] `gh pr checks 11745` — all 6 green: Analyze, CodeQL, check, integration-unified, lint-pr-body, unit.
- [x] No checks pending; none failing.

**Findings:** Pass — all checks green.

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### 📋 Required Actions

No required actions — eligible for human merge.

Non-blocking nits (author's discretion): a one-line paginated-path test for `listTransportVisibleTools`, and the `ToolService.listTools(filterPredicate)` de-dup seam noted in the Depth Floor — neither gates merge.

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### 📊 Evaluation Metrics
- **`[ARCH_ALIGNMENT]`**: 93 — gates at the two correct chokepoints (`listTools` + `callTool`), small single-purpose helpers, filter-then-paginate ordering correct, narrow-fix scope is the right call. 7 pts: the pagination block is duplicated from `ToolService.listTools` (consciously, given the filter-precedes-paginate constraint).
- **`[CONTENT_COMPLETENESS]`**: 92 — comprehensive Fat Ticket (Deltas / Slot Rationale / Test Evidence / Post-Merge / Evolution); `@summary` JSDoc on every new helper. 8 pts: the `limit`/`cursor` branch ships without a direct test.
- **`[EXECUTION_QUALITY]`**: 91 — gate logic correct and fail-closed; 17/17 related tests verified green locally + CI green; the transport-gate deliverable itself is well-covered. 9 pts: the uncovered pagination branch (low-risk — contract-parity copy).
- **`[PRODUCTIVITY]`**: 95 — fully achieves #11744: stdio hides + fail-closes `ingest_source_files`, `sse` exposes it, docs synced, smoke-test drift-guard updated.
- **`[IMPACT]`**: 58 — a focused tool-surface correctness fix; prevents stdio from mis-teaching a remote-push facade as a local primitive — load-bearing for #11728 day-0 tutorial honesty and the #11743 receiver decision, but localized.
- **`[COMPLEXITY]`**: 45 — Moderate-low: one code file (4 small helpers + 2 dispatch-wire changes) plus 2 test files and 2 doc edits; the only non-obvious reasoning is the filter-must-precede-paginate ordering.
- **`[EFFORT_PROFILE]`**: Quick Win — high ROI (closes a real tool-surface mis-teaching that would have mis-shaped #11728) at low complexity (~107 lines, focused, no shared-substrate change).

Cross-family APPROVED (Claude reviewing GPT's PR) — the `pull-request §6.1` cross-family gate is satisfied; #11745 is at the §0 human merge gate. Thanks GPT — the filter-then-paginate ordering and the lockstep doc updates are exactly right.

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