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Summary

  • toc.py gains four warning-only JIT-retrieval readiness signals: duplicate heading titles, heading depth jumps, oversized sections (configurable --max-section-lines, default 300), and a missing top-of-file description — structural properties that make heading-based JIT retrieval harder without invalidating otherwise-valid documents.
  • New doc_index.py (util + cfs doc-index command): a cached, etag-invalidated structural index (headings + section line ranges) so navigation reads a file's structure once per file, not once per query, with an annotate_section_summary hook for a future LLM caller to attach per-section summaries.

See #104.

Test plan

  • pytest tests/test_toc.py tests/test_doc_index.py — 132 passed
  • Verified doc-index/eval both resolve correctly via the CLI dispatch table after rebasing onto current main

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  • New Features

    • Added a doc-index command to build, reuse, inspect, and rebuild structural indexes for Markdown documents.
    • Cached indexes refresh automatically when source content changes.
  • Validation Improvements

    • TOC validation now warns about duplicate headings, abrupt heading-depth changes, oversized sections, and missing document descriptions.
    • Added a configurable maximum section length, defaulting to 300 lines.

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Adds a cached Markdown document-index CLI command and four warning-only TOC readiness checks. The changes include cache invalidation, section summaries, configurable section limits, new warning codes, CLI wiring, and tests.

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Document indexing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Index cache and CLI
skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/doc_index.py, skills/studio/scripts/studio/commands/doc_index.py, skills/studio/scripts/studio/cli.py, .gitignore, tests/test_doc_index.py
Adds Markdown section indexing with etag-based cache validation, cache persistence, summary annotation, and --rebuild. Registers the doc-index command and tests cache, invalidation, annotation, and CLI behavior.

TOC readiness validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Readiness checks and validation wiring
skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/toc.py, skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/error_codes.py, skills/studio/scripts/studio/commands/validate_toc.py, tests/test_toc.py
Adds fence-aware heading parsing and warning-only checks for duplicate headings, depth jumps, oversized sections, and missing descriptions. Exposes --max-section-lines and tests warning fields and suppression cases.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ae063

The PR adds cached document indexing and warning-only TOC readiness checks, but the cache can return stale headings and section ranges after certain edits, while absolute-path usage can select the wrong project cache and readiness warnings can be incomplete. These are bounded but concrete merge-readiness risks requiring owner follow-up before merge.

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In `@skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/doc_index.py`:
- Around line 34-42: The document-index cache must validate file changes using
metadata rather than the content-insensitive _compute_etag formula or read_text
on every hit. Update load_doc_index and its cache metadata to store st_mtime_ns
and st_size, call Path.stat() before loading a cached index, and reuse the cache
only when both values match; add a regression test replacing a heading with
same-size, same-line-count text to verify stale headings and section ranges are
not returned.
- Line 54: Update the Studio directory lookup in the doc-index flow to call
find_studio_directory with path.resolve().parent instead of Path.cwd(), ensuring
the cache is resolved from the indexed file’s project directory.

In `@skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/toc.py`:
- Around line 856-859: Update the frontmatter handling in the description-check
flow around _find_frontmatter_end so it suppresses the warning only when the top
YAML block contains a non-empty accepted description field. Do not return early
for frontmatter containing only unrelated fields such as title; preserve the
existing line-count and warning behavior otherwise.
- Around line 987-990: Update the readiness checks around
parse_headings_with_lines and _check_duplicate_heading_titles,
_check_heading_depth_jumps, and _check_section_lengths to parse all heading
levels without applying max_heading_level. Retain max_heading_level exclusively
for TOC validation, and ensure ignored headings are included when determining
section boundaries for length validation.
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…c index

Heading-based JIT retrieval needs headings that are unambiguous, evenly
sized, and structurally sound, and needs to parse a document's structure
once rather than on every query. toc.py gains four warning-only checks
(duplicate headings, depth jumps, oversized sections, missing top-of-file
description) and doc_index.py adds a cached, stat-invalidated structural
index (`cfs doc-index`) with a hook for attaching per-section summaries.

Fixes applied after CI and CodeRabbit review of the initial version:
- The cache-validity fingerprint was path+byte_size+line_count, which
  can't distinguish a same-size content edit from no edit at all, and
  load_doc_index() read the whole file on every cache hit regardless --
  defeating the "read once, not per query" point of the cache. Now uses
  Path.stat() (mtime_ns + size): cheaper (no read on a hit) and correctly
  catches same-size edits, since a write always advances mtime.
- The Studio directory was resolved from the process's cwd, not the
  indexed file's own path -- could target the wrong project's cache.
- Two silent except-and-return-None blocks (pylint's custom
  silent-exceptions rule) now log at debug level, following the existing
  decision_log.py convention.
- The JIT-readiness checks were filtered through max_heading_level, whose
  CLI default is 3 -- hiding real issues in H4-H6 headings, exactly as
  seen against a real PDF-converted document during development. They now
  always parse every level, independent of the TOC-completeness cap.
- The missing-description check accepted any frontmatter block, even one
  with no actual description field.
- validate_toc() exceeded pylint's local-variable limit after the
  JIT-readiness wiring; extracted into _collect_jit_readiness_warnings.
- Registered the doc-index algo and the two new toc-utils instructions in
  traceability-validation.md with real per-function tracing (was
  whole-file-scope only, tripping the granularity floor and two
  code-orphan-ref/code-inst-orphan validate errors).
- Whitelisted annotate_section_summary in vulture_whitelist.py per this
  repo's existing "future caller, exercised by tests" convention.
- Added tests for every fix above plus the doc_index CLI's human-output
  path (previously the one sub-90%-coverage file).

See constructorfabric#104.

Verified: full pytest suite (4800 passed; the 12 failures present with or
without this change are macOS-local temp-dir path quirks and pre-existing
test-order flakiness, none in the files touched here), pylint and vulture
clean on the changed files, cfs validate 0 errors, spec-coverage
thresholds met.

Signed-off-by: TECK KEAT WILSON <yeow.teck.keat@constructor.tech>
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…abric#109

- cmd_doc_index() built its output from the index but omitted
  retrieval_sections/section_level in both JSON and human output -- the
  new data constructorfabric#109 added was invisible through the CLI. Both are exposed now,
  and the human formatter lists retrieval sections the same way it already
  lists the finer-grained ones.
- A write landing between read_text() and _compute_etag() in
  build_doc_index() could save headings parsed from the *old* content
  stamped with the *new* file's etag; load_doc_index() would then treat
  that stale index as valid until a later edit changed the etag again.
  _read_with_stable_etag() brackets the read with a stat snapshot on each
  side and retries on mismatch, so the saved etag is provably the one that
  matches what was actually parsed.
- diff_stale_sections() reported changed/unchanged sections by heading
  text alone; two sections sharing a duplicate title (a real,
  already-flagged possibility -- see toc-heading-duplicate) couldn't be
  told apart. Each entry now carries line_start alongside the heading
  text, which is what a caller should actually use to address "this
  specific section" afterwards.
- annotate_section_summary() updated only index["sections"], leaving the
  matching retrieval_sections entry at summary=None even on success -- a
  caller reading retrieval_sections (the more relevant list for a future
  per-section summarizer) couldn't see the annotation. Now updates both
  when both have an entry at line_start.
- toc.py's _frontmatter_has_description() accepted `description: # TODO`
  and `description: ""` as satisfying the check, since `#` and `"` both
  match \S. Now parses the field's actual value and rejects comments and
  empty/whitespace-only quoted strings.

Extracted _compute_fresh_retrieval_sections/_position_entry out of
diff_stale_sections() to stay under pylint's local-variable limit after
the line_start addition; registered the new instructions (stable-read,
diff-stale-helpers) in traceability-validation.md.

See constructorfabric#104.

Verified: pytest (test_doc_index.py + test_toc.py: 166 passed, 100%
coverage on touched doc_index files); full suite: 4825 passed, the same
12 pre-existing macOS-local/flaky failures as on constructorfabric#108/constructorfabric#109, none in files
touched here; pylint and vulture clean; cfs validate 0 errors;
spec-coverage thresholds met; infer_section_level/retrieval_sections
re-verified against the real PDF-converted document that originally
exposed the granularity bug -- still 12 correct sections.

Signed-off-by: TECK KEAT WILSON <yeow.teck.keat@constructor.tech>
tkcoding pushed a commit to tkcoding/studio that referenced this pull request Aug 31, 2026
…ctorfabric#110

Adding commands/tfidf.py and commands/okf.py (both whole-file-scope
claims, no instruction tracing) dropped the repo's spec-coverage
granularity below its floor (0.4593 < 0.4600) -- the exact same failure
shape constructorfabric#108 hit for utils/doc_index.py originally. commands/doc_index.py
had the same gap already (pre-existing, just under the floor's margin
until now).

Added real @cpt-begin/@cpt-end instruction markers to all three command
wrappers' main function and human-output formatter, registered as
Supporting instructions under each module's existing algo ID.

Along the way, instrumenting all three surfaced a real pylint duplicate-
code finding: all three commands independently reimplemented the same
"resolve a file-path CLI argument, emit the standard File-not-found ERROR
result, return exit code 2" block. Extracted into
ui.require_existing_file(), shared by all three (and available to any
future single-file-argument command), registered under
core-infra.md's existing render-info-human algo alongside ui.py's other
generic helpers.

See constructorfabric#104.

Verified: pytest (test_tfidf.py + test_okf.py + test_doc_index.py +
test_toc.py + test_ui_human_mode.py: 346 passed, 100% coverage on the
three command files, 97% on ui.py full-suite); full suite: 4869 passed,
the same 12 pre-existing macOS-local/flaky failures seen throughout this
feature's development, none in files touched here; pylint and vulture
clean (duplicate-code finding resolved, not suppressed); cfs validate 0
errors; spec-coverage thresholds met; TF-IDF re-verified against the real
PDF-converted document after the refactor -- still reproduces the
documented "zero-shot" margin (1.06x) exactly.

Signed-off-by: TECK KEAT WILSON <yeow.teck.keat@constructor.tech>

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Automated Deep Review — 5 Major findings out of 66 checks run across 7 thematic phases (each independently adversarially verified). Full plan and 12 additional Minor findings available on request.

content,
artifact_path=filepath,
max_heading_level=args.max_level,
max_section_lines=args.max_section_lines,

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JIT-readiness warnings invisible in human CLI output

Severity: Major

Problem
The human-readable output branch for a WARN-only file (_human_validate_toc's final else:, line 134) prints only f"{path}: {status}" and never iterates r.get("warnings", []), unlike the FAIL branch just above it which does. Since this PR's four new JIT-retrieval readiness checks (duplicate headings, heading-depth jumps, oversized sections, missing description) are warning-only by design, any file that trips only these new checks lands in this silent branch. (Anchored here at the new max_section_lines wiring since line 134 itself isn't touched by this diff, but its behavior is what this PR's new warnings now depend on.) Separately, _human_doc_index in commands/doc_index.py never prints the target file name either.

How to reproduce

  1. Create a Markdown file with one duplicate heading title and no other TOC issues.
  2. Run cfs validate-toc file.md (human mode, no --json).

Expected behavior
The new warning (e.g. toc-heading-duplicate: ...) is printed, the same way an error would be under FAIL.

Actual behavior
Output is just file.md: WARN with no indication of what's wrong — the JSON output (--json) does contain the warning, so the information exists but never reaches the default human-facing path.

cmd_validate_toc()
   -> validate_toc() returns {status: "WARN", warnings: [...]}
   -> _human_validate_toc()
        status == "WARN"  -->  else: branch
                                   prints "path: WARN" only
                                   (warnings list never read)

Impact
The PR's headline feature (JIT-readiness warnings) is effectively invisible to anyone using the default CLI output instead of --json.

Suggested correction
Add a branch for status == "WARN" (or extend the else) that iterates r.get("warnings", []) the same way the FAIL branch iterates r.get("errors", []); print data["file"] in _human_doc_index.

How to verify
Add/extend a TestCmdValidateToc case: a file with exactly one warning and no errors, run through cmd_validate_toc's human-output path, and assert the warning text appears in the captured output.


if cached.get("etag") != current_etag:
return None
return cached

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Cache read has no shape/key validation, causing unhandled KeyError

Severity: Major

Problem
load_doc_index validates only the etag key before returning the cached dict as-is. It never checks that the other required keys (total_lines, sections, etc.) are present. Downstream code (commands/doc_index.py, annotate_section_summary) indexes into the result with bare [...], not .get(...).

How to reproduce

  1. Run cfs doc-index file.md once to create the cache file under .cache/doc-index/<slug>.json.
  2. Hand-edit that JSON to remove the "sections" key, leaving "etag" untouched (source file unmodified, so the etag still matches).
  3. Run cfs doc-index file.md again without --rebuild.

Expected behavior
A malformed/incomplete cache should be treated like a stale or corrupt one — logged and rebuilt (the module's own docstring says load_doc_index returns None "if missing/stale/absent").

Actual behavior
load_doc_index returns the truncated dict as a valid hit, and commands/doc_index.py's len(index["sections"]) raises an unhandled KeyError: 'sections'.

load_doc_index(path)
   etag matches -> return cached   (no key-shape check)
                        |
                        v
cmd_doc_index(): index["sections"]  -->  KeyError: 'sections'

Impact
A partially-written or hand-edited cache file crashes the CLI with a raw traceback instead of a documented error or automatic rebuild.

Suggested correction
After the etag check in load_doc_index, validate the presence of required keys ({"etag", "total_lines", "sections"} at minimum); treat a mismatch the same as stale/corrupt (log and return None).

How to verify
Add a test that writes a cache file with a matching etag but a missing required key, then asserts load_doc_index returns None (and/or that cmd_doc_index transparently rebuilds rather than raising).

any real edit (including a same-size, same-line-count text swap, since
a write always advances mtime), so it still catches content changes; a
byte-count/line-count-only fingerprint would not (two edits that happen
to preserve both would silently look unchanged, and computing either

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mtime+size cache etag can silently miss same-size edits

Severity: Major

Problem
The cache-validity fingerprint is f"{st.st_mtime_ns}:{st.st_size}" — filesystem metadata only, no content hash. The docstring above it asserts this is safe unconditionally ("a write always advances mtime"), but that isn't universally true: filesystems with coarse mtime resolution (FAT32, classic HFS+, many NFS mounts) can give two same-size edits within one mtime tick an identical etag.

How to reproduce
On a filesystem with ≥1s mtime granularity:

  1. Write a file with heading "Section A"; call get_or_build_doc_index (caches etag T:N).
  2. Within the same mtime tick, overwrite with same-length content renaming the heading to "Section Z".
  3. Call get_or_build_doc_index again.

Expected behavior
The cache should detect the content change and rebuild.

Actual behavior
_compute_etag returns the same T:N string, so the stale cache (still showing "Section A") is returned as a valid hit. Notably, this PR's own regression test (test_same_size_same_line_count_edit_is_still_detected_as_stale) has to manually call os.utime(f, ns=(..., st.st_mtime_ns + 1)) to force the mtime forward — direct evidence that the "always advances mtime" assumption doesn't hold reliably even in this PR's own test environment.

write("...Section A...")  -> etag = T:N  -> cache saved
write("...Section Z...")  (same size, same mtime tick)
   -> etag = T:N  (unchanged!)
   -> load_doc_index(): cached.etag == current_etag -> HIT (stale data returned)

Impact
Silent false cache hit — stale headings/sections/summaries served with no error surfaced anywhere.

Suggested correction
Either document this as an explicit, accepted limitation (call out filesystem mtime granularity in the docstring), or add a stronger invalidation signal (e.g. a monotonic write-generation counter, or falling back to a content hash when size matches but the edit is suspiciously fast).

How to verify
On a filesystem/test harness that can simulate coarse mtime resolution (or by monkeypatching Path.stat() to return identical st_mtime_ns/st_size across two different contents), confirm the cache is invalidated regardless.

MIN_LINES_FOR_DESCRIPTION_CHECK = 100


def _check_duplicate_heading_titles(

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Duplicate-heading check misses case/whitespace variants and doesn't skip front-matter

Severity: Major

Problem
_check_duplicate_heading_titles compares raw heading text via a plain dict with no case-folding or whitespace normalization, and the heading list it operates on (parse_headings_with_lines) has no YAML front-matter skip (unlike _check_missing_description, which does skip front-matter). No unicodedata.normalize call exists anywhere in the file either, so NFC/NFD-distinct but visually-identical headings are also missed by the same root cause.

How to reproduce
Parse a document containing:

---
title: Foo
# this is a note
---
## Section
## section
## Setup  Guide
## Setup Guide

Expected behavior
"Section"/"section" and "Setup Guide"/"Setup Guide" (double space) should be flagged as duplicates; the # this is a note line inside front-matter should not be parsed as a real heading.

Actual behavior
None of the four headings above are flagged as duplicates, and the front-matter comment line is parsed into the heading list, potentially throwing off depth-jump and section-length checks that consume the same list.

parse_headings_with_lines(lines)
  no front-matter awareness --> "# this is a note" counted as H1
_check_duplicate_heading_titles(headings)
  seen[text] keyed on raw text --> "Section" != "section" (case)
                                --> "Setup  Guide" != "Setup Guide" (whitespace)

Impact
Silently defeats the duplicate-heading check (and pollutes the shared heading list used by the other three JIT-readiness checks) for a common class of real-world documents.

Suggested correction
Normalize heading text (casefold + collapse internal whitespace + NFC-normalize) before using it as the seen dict key, while still reporting the original text in the warning payload; skip front-matter lines in parse_headings_with_lines (reuse the existing _find_frontmatter_end helper).

How to verify
Add test cases for case-only duplicates, whitespace-only duplicates, NFC/NFD-only duplicates, and a front-matter block containing a #-prefixed line, asserting the expected warnings/non-warnings.


Thin CLI wrapper around ``studio.utils.doc_index``.

@cpt-flow:cpt-studio-flow-traceability-validation-validate:p1

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CPT @cpt-flow tag references the wrong, unrelated flow

Severity: Major

Problem
This module docstring adds @cpt-flow:cpt-studio-flow-traceability-validation-validate:p1. That ID is the pre-existing "Validate Artifacts" flow (cfs validate), already correctly tagged as a bare #-comment directly above cmd_validate in commands/validate.py:1230. None of that flow's steps (load context, resolve artifacts, cross-validate, etc.) relate to doc-index in any way.

How to reproduce
Run cfs where-used --id cpt-studio-flow-traceability-validation-validate after this PR merges.

Expected behavior
Only commands/validate.py's cmd_validate should be attributed to this flow ID; cfs doc-index should either have no @cpt-flow tag, or a real one describing its own flow.

Actual behavior
doc_index.py is now also attributed to the Validate-Artifacts flow, polluting cfs where-used/cfs validate traceability/coverage data for that flow, while the real cfs doc-index feature ends up with zero flow-level traceability of its own. The tag is also placed inside the module docstring rather than as a bare comment directly above the entry-point function, unlike every other @cpt-flow usage in this codebase.

cpt-studio-flow-traceability-validation-validate
   correctly tagged:   commands/validate.py:1230  (above cmd_validate)
   ALSO tagged:        commands/doc_index.py:7     (unrelated command, docstring)
   -> traceability tooling now double-counts this flow ID

Impact
Corrupts the traceability data this feature exists to protect — the exact opposite of what a traceability-validation PR should do.

Suggested correction
Remove the stray @cpt-flow tag from doc_index.py's docstring. If a flow-level definition is actually wanted for cfs doc-index, add a real cpt-studio-flow-... entry to architecture/features/traceability-validation.md and reference that ID as a bare #-comment directly above def cmd_doc_index.

How to verify
Run cfs where-used --id cpt-studio-flow-traceability-validation-validate (or the equivalent traceability query) and confirm it reports only commands/validate.py.

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Automated Deep Review — 12 Minor findings (10 inline below). Two more without a diff-anchorable line:

  • No Unicode (NFC/NFD) normalization in duplicate-heading comparison (same root cause and same fix as the Major finding on _check_duplicate_heading_titles in the prior review — add unicodedata.normalize("NFC", text) alongside the casefold/whitespace fix).
  • skills/studio/studio.clispec not updated for the new doc-index command or the validate-toc --max-section-lines flag. This file isn't touched by this PR's diff at all, so it can't be anchored inline. It's the repo's maintained per-command CLI reference (COMMAND/SYNOPSIS/OPTIONS/EXIT CODES/OUTPUT blocks for all 38 dispatchable commands) — no COMMAND doc-index entry exists, and validate-toc's OPTIONS block doesn't list the new flag. Doc-only gap, no evidence of CI enforcement, so kept Minor.

6. [x] - `p1` - Validate TOC: check existence, anchor validity, completeness, staleness - `inst-toc-util-validate`
7. [x] - `p1` - Parse headings with line numbers, fence-aware (shared by doc-index and the JIT-retrieval readiness checks, which need section boundaries the plain heading list doesn't carry) - `inst-toc-util-parse-headings-lines`
8. [x] - `p1` - Collect JIT-retrieval readiness warnings for a document: gathers all four signals below over *every* heading level, independent of whatever level cap the caller configured for TOC-completeness checking - `inst-toc-jit-readiness-collect`
9. [x] - `p1` - Compute the four JIT-retrieval readiness signals -- duplicate heading titles, heading depth jumps, oversized sections (`--max-section-lines`), and a missing top-of-file description/frontmatter block -- all warning-only, never errors (see constructorfabric/studio#104) - `inst-toc-jit-readiness`

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Spec doc field-shape mismatch and missing defaults/output fields

Severity: Minor

Problem
This spec doc describes --max-section-lines by name here but never states its default (300, DEFAULT_MAX_SECTION_LINES in utils/toc.py). The pre-existing "Validate TOC" return-shape line a few lines up (**RETURN** JSON: {status, files_checked, errors}, line 402) doesn't match the actual output shape ({status, files_validated, error_count, warning_count, results}) even before this PR — and this PR's new warning codes (toc-heading-duplicate, toc-heading-depth-jump, toc-section-too-long, toc-missing-description) aren't named anywhere either. Separately, the "Document Index" section below never enumerates cfs doc-index's exact JSON output fields.

How to reproduce
Read the "Validate TOC" section expecting to find the four new warning-code strings or the --max-section-lines default; read the "Document Index" section expecting the cfs doc-index output field list.

Expected behavior
The doc should state the default value and the exact field/error-code names as the authoritative contract.

Actual behavior
Neither is present — the default and the literal codes/field names must be discovered by reading source/tests instead of the spec.

traceability-validation.md line 402: RETURN JSON: {status, files_checked, errors}   <- stale, wrong field names
actual:                              {status, files_validated, error_count, warning_count, results}
line 422: mentions --max-section-lines by name, no default value stated
Document Index section: no output-field enumeration for `cfs doc-index`

Impact
Spec doc is misleading/incomplete as a contract reference for both commands touched by this PR.

Suggested correction
Update the stale return-shape line at 402 to the actual field names, add the --max-section-lines default here, and add an output-fields line to the Document Index section.

How to verify
Cross-read the updated doc against commands/validate_toc.py's and commands/doc_index.py's actual output dicts and confirm every field/code name matches.

return warnings


def _check_section_lengths(

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--max-section-lines unguarded against nan/negative at the gate-function layer

Severity: Minor

Problem
_check_section_lengths/validate_toc's max_section_lines parameter has no independent validation inside this function — only the CLI's argparse(type=int) layer blocks non-numeric junk.

How to reproduce
Call validate_toc(content, max_section_lines=float('nan')) or validate_toc(content, max_section_lines=-1) directly as a library call, bypassing the CLI.

Expected behavior
A non-numeric/out-of-range value should be rejected or explicitly classified by the function itself, independent of any CLI wrapper.

Actual behavior
float('nan') silently disables the oversized-section check entirely (x > nan is always False), and a negative value flags virtually every section — no explicit error in either case.

validate_toc(content, max_section_lines=float('nan'))  # oversized-section warnings never fire
validate_toc(content, max_section_lines=-1)             # every section flagged

Impact
A caller using the Python API directly (not the CLI) gets silently wrong behavior instead of a clear error.

Suggested correction
Clamp/validate max_section_lines inside validate_toc/_check_section_lengths itself, independent of the CLI's argparse type guard.

How to verify
Add unit tests calling validate_toc/_check_section_lengths directly with nan, inf, and a negative value, asserting either a raised error or documented classification.

"summary": None,
})

return {

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No schema-version marker on the doc-index cache

Severity: Minor

Problem
The index dict returned here has no schema_version/version field, and load_doc_index only compares etag, never a version marker.

How to reproduce
Ship a future Studio version that changes the sections shape; run against a project with an existing cache built by the old version and an unchanged source file (etag still matches).

Expected behavior
A future schema change should be detectable and trigger an explicit rebuild/error rather than silently returning old-shape data.

Actual behavior
This is a brand-new, local-only, gitignored cache with no existing incompatible format to worry about yet, so today there is no active bug — but nothing would catch a future mismatch either.

build_doc_index() -> {"path","etag","built_at","total_lines","sections"}   # no schema_version
load_doc_index()  -> only checks cached.get("etag") != current_etag

Impact
Forward-looking hardening gap, not an active bug today.

Suggested correction
Add a SCHEMA_VERSION constant, embed it here, and check it alongside etag in load_doc_index.

How to verify
Bump the constant in a follow-up schema change and confirm old caches are rejected/rebuilt rather than returned as-is.



# @cpt-begin:cpt-studio-algo-traceability-validation-doc-index:p1:inst-doc-index-annotate
def annotate_section_summary(path: Path, line_start: int, summary: str) -> bool:

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annotate_section_summary is unreachable from any production code path

Severity: Minor

Problem
annotate_section_summary is not called from any production code path in this PR — only from tests, and imported into vulture_whitelist.py purely to silence the unused-symbol linter.

How to reproduce
Search the repo for callers of annotate_section_summary outside tests/test_doc_index.py and vulture_whitelist.py.

Expected behavior
A shipped, non-test-only function should have at least one reachable production caller, or be clearly marked as forward-looking API.

Actual behavior
Zero production callers exist; it's genuinely speculative code for a documented "future LLM caller" per its own docstring — transparent and tested, not hidden, but unreachable outside tests today.

annotate_section_summary()
   callers: tests/test_doc_index.py (6 sites), vulture_whitelist.py (import only)
   callers in commands/doc_index.py or cli.py: none

Impact
No runtime risk; purely a maintainability/clarity note.

Suggested correction
No change required for merge; consider tracking a follow-up issue for when the LLM-caller integration actually lands, since right now there's no way to reach this function from cfs doc-index.

How to verify
N/A — informational; nothing to verify until a real caller is wired in.

# @cpt-end:cpt-studio-algo-traceability-validation-toc-utils:p1:inst-toc-util-parse-headings

# @cpt-begin:cpt-studio-algo-traceability-validation-toc-utils:p1:inst-toc-util-parse-headings-lines
def parse_headings_with_lines(

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Heading-parsing logic duplicated between parse_headings and parse_headings_with_lines

Severity: Minor

Problem
This function duplicates the fence-tracking/heading-matching loop of the pre-existing parse_headings almost line-for-line, rather than having one delegate to the other (the docstring explains this was a deliberate choice to avoid touching parse_headings's existing 2-tuple call sites).

How to reproduce
Compare parse_headings (existing) and parse_headings_with_lines (new) side by side — both independently call _fence_update and _HEADING_RE in the same sequence.

Expected behavior
A future fix to fence-detection or the heading regex should apply to both functions automatically.

Actual behavior
A future fix applied to only one of the two would silently diverge them, since there is no shared implementation.

parse_headings()              parse_headings_with_lines()
  loop: _fence_update()          loop: _fence_update()   <- duplicated
        _HEADING_RE.match()           _HEADING_RE.match() <- duplicated

Impact
Maintenance/drift risk, not an active bug.

Suggested correction
Have parse_headings delegate to parse_headings_with_lines internally and strip the line numbers, or extract the shared fence/heading-match loop into one private generator both functions consume.

How to verify
After refactoring, confirm both functions' existing test suites still pass unchanged (behavior-preserving refactor).

# @cpt-end:cpt-studio-algo-traceability-validation-toc-utils:p1:inst-toc-jit-readiness-collect

# @cpt-begin:cpt-studio-algo-traceability-validation-toc-utils:p1:inst-toc-util-validate
def validate_toc(

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No opt-out for the four new warning-only checks

Severity: Minor

Problem
The four new JIT-readiness checks run unconditionally inside validate_toc() — there's no flag to disable them as a group (only --max-section-lines tunes one threshold).

How to reproduce
Run cfs validate-toc on a large legacy doc corpus with many long-standing oversized sections or duplicate headings.

Expected behavior
A team should be able to quiet noisy warnings for files/repos where they aren't actionable, without weakening the check globally.

Actual behavior
Every run emits WARN for these files with no way to suppress all four short of raising --max-section-lines globally (which weakens that one check for everyone, and does nothing for the other three checks).

validate_toc(content)
   _collect_jit_readiness_warnings() always runs, no disable flag
   only knob: --max-section-lines (threshold, not on/off)

Impact
Low severity since the checks are warning-only and never affect exit code — a real but non-blocking UX gap.

Suggested correction
Optional — consider a --skip-readiness-checks flag if teams later report warning fatigue; not blocking for this PR.

How to verify
N/A unless implemented — then verify the flag suppresses all four warning codes.



# @cpt-begin:cpt-studio-algo-traceability-validation-doc-index:p1:inst-doc-index-save
def save_doc_index(path: Path, index: Dict[str, Any]) -> None:

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Cache write is not atomic

Severity: Minor

Problem
save_doc_index writes the cache file directly (cache_path.write_text(...)) rather than atomically (temp file + os.replace). Two concurrent processes building/saving the same file's cache could interleave writes.

How to reproduce
Run two processes concurrently calling get_or_build_doc_index for the same file with force_rebuild=True, racing on the same cache path.

Expected behavior
A reader should never observe a torn/partial write, ideally via an atomic rename.

Actual behavior
A reader mid-write could see truncated/invalid JSON. This matches the rest of the codebase's existing convention (not unique to this PR), and load_doc_index's existing except (json.JSONDecodeError, OSError): return None — backed by a dedicated passing test — already turns a torn/corrupt read into a safe, self-healing rebuild rather than propagated corruption, so the practical risk is low.

Process A: write_text(partial...) ─┐
Process B: read_text() ------------┘--> JSONDecodeError -> load_doc_index returns None -> safe rebuild

Impact
Low — bounded by the existing corrupt-cache fallback; worst case is a wasted rebuild, not silent corruption reaching a caller.

Suggested correction
Optional hardening — write to a temp file and os.replace() into place.

How to verify
A concurrency stress test writing/reading the same cache path from multiple processes/threads, asserting no unhandled exception ever surfaces to the caller.

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def _check_missing_description(

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Missing-description check is front-matter-only, flags badge/blurb READMEs

Severity: Minor

Problem
_check_missing_description only recognizes a description declared inside a YAML front-matter description: field.

How to reproduce
Create a >100-line document with a title, badge images, and a genuine one-line prose blurb directly under the title, but no YAML front-matter block, followed by a normal ## Table of Contents.

Expected behavior
A document with a clear, human-readable description near the top should not be flagged as missing one, regardless of whether it uses YAML front-matter.

Actual behavior
The document is still flagged toc-missing-description — a plausible false positive for common README styles. (A nearby test's docstring references "CodeRabbit PR #108," suggesting this front-matter-only scope was already discussed and may be intentional design rather than an oversight.)

Doc: # Title\n[badge][badge]\nThis tool does X for people who need Y.\n## Table of Contents
_check_missing_description(): no YAML front-matter found -> toc-missing-description (even though a real blurb exists)

Impact
Possible noisy false positives on README-style docs that don't use YAML front-matter.

Suggested correction
Optional — rename the check/message to explicitly say "no YAML front-matter description field" so it reads as scoped rather than "no description at all"; or extend detection to accept a short prose blurb before the first ## heading.

How to verify
Add a test with a badge+blurb, no-front-matter document and assert the intended (documented) behavior, whichever is chosen.

Comment thread tests/test_toc.py
codes = [w["code"] for w in result["warnings"]]
assert "toc-missing-description" in codes

def test_jit_readiness_warnings_are_never_errors(self):

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Test coverage gap: warning-only guarantee not proven via full CLI path

Severity: Minor

Problem
This is the only test exercising all four new warning codes together, but it also deliberately trips an unrelated pre-existing TOC-completeness error, and it calls validate_toc() directly rather than cmd_validate_toc.

How to reproduce
Read test_jit_readiness_warnings_are_never_errors and check whether it asserts an exit code via the CLI entry point.

Expected behavior
A dedicated test should prove "all four warnings, zero errors -> cmd_validate_toc returns 0" end-to-end.

Actual behavior
No such test exists — the behavior looks correct by code inspection (cmd_validate_toc returns 2 only if total_errors), but it's unverified end-to-end for the all-four-warnings, zero-errors case.

test_jit_readiness_warnings_are_never_errors()
   calls validate_toc() directly, also trips an unrelated error
   -> does not prove: cmd_validate_toc([...]) == 0 when ONLY warnings fire

Impact
A regression in cmd_validate_toc's exit-code logic for the warn-only case would not be caught by the current suite.

Suggested correction
Add a TestCmdValidateToc case with a document tripping all four JIT codes and a clean/complete TOC (no completeness/staleness errors), asserting rc == 0 and status == "WARN" with warning_count >= 4.

How to verify
Run the new test and confirm it fails if cmd_validate_toc's exit-code branch is deliberately broken (mutation check).

Comment thread tests/test_doc_index.py
f = _write(tmp_path)
rc = cmd_doc_index([str(f)])
assert rc == 0
out = json.loads(capsys.readouterr().out)

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Test coverage gap: corrupted-cache auto-rebuild not proven at CLI/exit-code level

Severity: Minor

Problem
This test only asserts load_doc_index(f) is None for a corrupted cache file — it never calls cmd_doc_index([...]) afterward to confirm the command-level exit code stays 0 when transparently rebuilding after corruption.

How to reproduce
Read test_load_returns_none_on_corrupt_cache_file and check whether it calls cmd_doc_index after corrupting the cache.

Expected behavior
A dedicated test should prove the full CLI path recovers cleanly (rc == 0, fresh rebuild) from a corrupted on-disk cache.

Actual behavior
No such end-to-end test exists — the underlying behavior looks safe by inspection (the except (json.JSONDecodeError, OSError) path returns None, triggering a rebuild), but it's unverified at the CLI/exit-code layer.

test_load_returns_none_on_corrupt_cache_file()
   asserts load_doc_index(f) is None only
   -> does not call cmd_doc_index([str(f)]) to confirm rc == 0

Impact
A regression in the CLI's handling of the rebuild-after-corruption path would not be caught by the current suite.

Suggested correction
Add a test that corrupts the cache file the same way, then calls cmd_doc_index([str(f)]) and asserts rc == 0 and cache_hit is False.

How to verify
Run the new test and confirm it fails if the corrupt-cache fallback path is deliberately broken (mutation check).

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No Unicode (NFC/NFD) normalization in duplicate-heading comparison

Severity: Minor

Problem
_check_duplicate_heading_titles (skills/studio/scripts/studio/utils/toc.py) uses plain Python string equality with no unicodedata.normalize call anywhere in the file. This is the same root cause as the Major finding on this function (missing case/whitespace normalization) — Python does not consider NFC and NFD forms of the same visual text equal.

How to reproduce
Create two headings that are visually identical but encoded differently: ## café (NFC, b'caf\xc3\xa9') and ## café (NFD, b'cafe\xcc\x81').

Expected behavior
Both should be flagged as duplicate headings, since they render identically to a reader.

Actual behavior
Neither is flagged — text in seen compares the raw byte-distinct strings, which are unequal.

seen = {}
"café" (NFC) -> seen["café(NFC)"] = line
"café" (NFD) -> "café(NFD)" not in seen -> not flagged as duplicate (false negative)

Impact
Genuinely duplicate/near-duplicate Unicode headings silently pass unflagged; a narrower instance of the same missing-normalization problem as the case/whitespace finding.

Suggested correction
Normalize with unicodedata.normalize("NFC", text) in addition to the casefold/whitespace-collapse fix already suggested for the case/whitespace finding on this same function.

How to verify
Add a test with one heading in NFC form and a visually-identical one in NFD form, asserting they're flagged as duplicates.


studio.clispec CLI reference not updated for the new command/flag

Severity: Minor

Problem
skills/studio/studio.clispec is the repo's maintained per-command CLI reference (COMMAND/SYNOPSIS/DESCRIPTION/ARGUMENTS/OPTIONS/EXIT CODES/OUTPUT/EXAMPLE/RELATED blocks for all 38 dispatchable commands, including toc and validate-toc). This file is not touched anywhere in this PR's diff.

How to reproduce
Search studio.clispec for doc-index (no COMMAND doc-index entry exists) and check the existing validate-toc entry's OPTIONS block for --max-section-lines (absent).

Expected behavior
Every dispatchable command and its flags should have a corresponding entry in this reference.

Actual behavior
The new cfs doc-index command has no entry at all, and the existing validate-toc entry's OPTIONS block doesn't list the new --max-section-lines flag.

studio.clispec:
  COMMAND toc          (exists)
  COMMAND validate-toc (exists, OPTIONS missing --max-section-lines)
  COMMAND doc-index    (missing entirely)

Impact
Doc-only gap — no evidence this file is enforced by CI or read at runtime, so it doesn't break anything functionally, but it misleads anyone (human or agent) consulting it for the current CLI surface.

Suggested correction
Add a COMMAND doc-index block (synopsis, description, exit codes, JSON output shape, example) mirroring neighboring entries, and add --max-section-lines <number> [default: 300] to the existing validate-toc OPTIONS block.

How to verify
After updating, confirm the new/updated blocks follow the same structure as sibling command entries in the file.

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