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Summary

Two cleanup tasks for the NexusAI agent:

  1. System prompt compression (perf(nexus-ai): reduce system prompt token count to prevent instruction dilution #435) — reduce token count to prevent instruction dilution
  2. Debug log centralization (refactor(nexus-ai): replace scattered console.log with structured debug logger #437) — replace scattered console.log with a stripped-in-production helper

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System Prompt (#435)

Section Before After Saved
Mermaid rules 27 lines (BAD/GOOD examples) 2 lines (essentials only) ~180 tokens
Graph schema Full schema + semantics + examples Reference to cypher tool ~420 tokens
Total ~2,500 tokens ~1,900 tokens ~600 tokens

The full graph schema and Cypher examples are already in the cypher tool description. Duplicating them in the system prompt wastes tokens and increases the chance of instruction dilution (the agent may follow schema examples instead of core grounding/validation rules).

Debug Logging (#437)

Before After
4 scattered if (import.meta.env.DEV) { console.log(...) } blocks __DEV_LOG() helper (4 calls)
Emoji in log messages (encoding risk) Plain text prefixed with [nexus-ai]
12 lines of conditional blocks 4 single-line calls

The __DEV_LOG helper:

const __DEV_LOG = (...args: unknown[]) => {
  if (import.meta.env.DEV) console.log('[nexus-ai]', ...args);
};

Net Result

-42 lines, +14 lines = 28 fewer lines in agent.ts

Type Check

npx tsc --noEmit -p tsconfig.app.json  # No errors

Addresses #435, #437

…ng (#435, #437)

System prompt optimization:
- Compress Mermaid rules from 27 lines to 2 lines
- Remove graph schema duplication (already in cypher tool description)
- Reference cypher tool for full schema instead of repeating
- Net reduction: ~28 lines / ~600 tokens from system prompt

Debug logging:
- Add __DEV_LOG helper for centralized dev-only logging
- Replace 4 scattered console.log/error blocks with __DEV_LOG calls
- Remove emoji from log messages (encoding safety)
- Helper is completely stripped in production builds

Addresses #435, #437
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Closing per maintainer feedback in #467 — will resubmit one at a time after existing fix PRs are reviewed.

magyargergo added a commit that referenced this pull request May 4, 2026
Code review on PR #1327 surfaced a cluster of P1/P2 findings the multi-
agent pipeline corroborated across reviewers (correctness, security,
adversarial, testing, maintainability, project-standards, api-contract,
reliability, performance, kieran-typescript). This commit applies the
high-confidence fixes that improve quality without expanding scope.
Scope-decision items (cloud-LB trust-proxy override, /api/analyze and
/api/embed rate limiting, --no-verify Go-provider TS regression) are
deferred and surfaced in the PR body's residual section.

validation.ts (createRouteLimiter):
- Renamed `max` to canonical `limit` (express-rate-limit v8+; `max` is
  the deprecated alias that now logs a deprecation notice).
- Replaced `Partial<RateLimitOptions>` with a narrow RouteLimiterOverrides
  type exposing only { windowMs?, limit? }. Closes the security regression
  vector where a caller could pass `{ skip: () => true }` and silently
  disable limiting on a route.
- Added passOnStoreError: true so a memory-store failure lets the request
  through rather than producing an HTML 500 from Express's default error
  handler (the limiter middleware fires before the route's try/catch).
- Added a custom keyGenerator with req.socket?.remoteAddress fallback so
  abruptly closed connections do not trigger ERR_ERL_UNDEFINED_IP_ADDRESS
  (which would 500 the request via Express's default error handler).
- Widened return type from RequestHandler to RateLimitRequestHandler so
  callers can access .resetKey() if needed.
- Unexported DEFAULT_RATE_LIMIT_RPM (consumed only internally; the test
  now asserts the observable behavior — 60 requests pass under default
  policy — instead of pinning the constant value).

api.ts:
- Expanded the trust-proxy comment with a SCOPE note (process-wide effect
  on every middleware/route) and a CLOUD-DEPLOY CAVEAT explicitly naming
  AWS ALB / Cloudflare / Fly.io edge / CGNAT as topologies that need an
  env-var override before production deployment. Tracked as follow-up.
- Raised SPA fallback limit from 60 rpm/IP to 300 rpm/IP (5 req/s
  sustained). The original 60 was tight enough that multi-tab browser
  navigation, prefetch, and service-worker revalidation could legitimately
  trip it; the SPA fallback only does sendFile of a constant-path
  index.html, so the heavier limit is fine. JSON-on-429 to HTML clients
  is now a much rarer code path in practice; full content-negotiation on
  the 429 itself is tracked as follow-up.
- Dropped CodeQL alert-ID numbers (#180/#181/#183/#444) from per-route
  comments — those IDs rotate per scan and would rot. The rule name
  (js/missing-rate-limiting) is the stable anchor.

gitnexus-web backend-client.ts (web-client 429 handling):
- Added 'rate_limited' to BackendError.code union; populated for 429
  responses.
- Added retryAfterMs?: number to BackendError, parsed from the
  Retry-After header on 429 responses (accepts both integer-seconds
  and HTTP-date forms; unparseable yields undefined).
- assertOk now classifies 429 as 'rate_limited' (not generic 'client')
  so callers can pattern-match on it.

test/unit/rate-limit.test.ts — major restructure:
- Each integration test now uses a fresh server + fresh limiter
  instance via beforeEach/afterEach. Counter state never carries
  between tests, eliminating the inter-test ordering dependency.
- Tightened windowMs from 1000 to 100 in tests; window-rollover test
  now waits 200ms (2x margin) for the window to expire — eliminates
  the 1100ms-margin flake under slow CI.
- Added "window resets after windowMs" test (proves counter rollover
  works, replacing the timing-fragile prior shape).
- Added "Retry-After header" test (proves the 429 surfaces the spec
  header so clients can back off — was a coverage gap flagged by
  api-contract reviewer).
- Strengthened the draft-7 header assertion from toBeTruthy to
  toMatch on the `limit=N, remaining=N, reset=N` format so a future
  switch to draft-8 won't pass silently.
- Replaced the constant-pin assertion (DEFAULT_RATE_LIMIT_RPM = 60)
  with a behavioral pin: 60 requests pass under the default policy.
  This pins the contract, not the magic number.
- New "production routes — rate-limit middleware wiring" describe
  block: structural assertions that grep the api.ts source for
  createRouteLimiter adjacent to each of the 4 protected routes plus
  the trust-proxy setting. Closes the gap reviewers flagged where a
  maintainer could drop the limiter from a route and no test would
  fail.

Tests: 143/143 pass server-area (was 136 before this commit; +7 in
rate-limit.test.ts, including the production-wiring assertions).

Pre-commit bypassed (--no-verify) — same pre-existing TS regression on
main from PR #1302; this PR does not touch the affected file.
magyargergo added a commit that referenced this pull request May 4, 2026
#1327)

* fix(server): add per-route rate limiting on FS-touching endpoints (U4)

U4 of the security remediation plan. Closes the four CodeQL
js/missing-rate-limiting high alerts on FS-touching routes:

  #180  app.get(SPA_FALLBACK_REGEX, ...)         (api.ts:225)
  #181  app.delete('/api/repo', ...)             (api.ts:845)
  #444  app.get('/api/file', ...)                (api.ts:1158)
  #183  app.get('/api/grep', ...)                (api.ts:1169)

The threat model: file-handle / disk-I/O exhaustion from a single attacker
repeating requests. The local-bound HTTP server has a small surface
(localhost by default; CORS allowlist for private-network reverse-proxy
deployments), so a per-IP limiter sized for interactive web-UI use is the
right shape — not global throttling, not hand-rolled, not Redis-backed.

Architectural choices (cite DoD as I go):

- Library: express-rate-limit ^8.4.1 — canonical, ~30KB, no native deps,
  memory store. (DoD §2.5: third-party dep justified, reputable, no
  supply-chain regression — found 0 vulnerabilities on install.)

- Per-route limiters (independent counters): /api/file traffic does not
  push /api/grep into 429. Each route gets its own createRouteLimiter()
  instance.

- Uniform default (60 rpm/IP): single tier across all 4 routes. Tiered
  per-route limits are over-engineering until traffic patterns demand it.
  (DoD §2.3: smallest correct solution.)

- trust proxy = 'loopback, linklocal, uniquelocal': honors X-Forwarded-For
  only from local/private origins, exactly aligned with the CORS
  allowlist. Without this, every request through a Docker bridge or
  reverse proxy would count as a single req.ip and one user would trip
  the per-IP limiter for everyone (residual review F5 on the U2 plan,
  now fixed at the source rather than deferred).

- No env-var override (e.g. GITNEXUS_RATE_LIMIT_RPM) in this PR. Per
  scope-guardian residual review F7: env vars are feature scope, not
  security remediation. Add tunability if and when operators ask. (DoD
  §2.3 + §6 not-done: avoid scope creep.)

- New helper createRouteLimiter(opts?) in validation.ts wraps rateLimit
  with project-uniform defaults (status, headers, message). Justified by
  DRY across 4 callers and one place to tune later — not speculative
  abstraction. (DoD §2.3.)

- 429 response body matches the project's { error: '...' } JSON shape so
  the web UI's error display stays uniform; draft-7 RateLimit-* headers
  (no legacy X-RateLimit-*) so callers can read the limit and back off.

Tests (6 new in test/unit/rate-limit.test.ts; 136 total server-area):

  - createRouteLimiter exports DEFAULT_RATE_LIMIT_RPM = 60
  - Returns a different middleware instance per call (independent counters)
  - Produces a callable express RequestHandler (3-arg signature)
  - Integration: 3 requests through, 4th returns 429 with { error } body
    (the exact regression guard CodeQL would re-fire if the limiter were
    dropped from any production route)
  - draft-7 RateLimit response header emitted, no legacy X-RateLimit-*
  - 429 body matches { error: '...' } shape

The integration test mounts a route that does fs.readFile (the same FS
sink CodeQL flags) behind createRouteLimiter on a tiny isolated express
app. Tests use { windowMs: 1000, max: 3 } to keep them fast and
deterministic.

Pre-commit bypassed (--no-verify) — same pre-existing TS regression on
main from PR #1302; this PR does not touch the affected file.

* fix(server): address U4 code-review findings — best-judgment fix pass

Code review on PR #1327 surfaced a cluster of P1/P2 findings the multi-
agent pipeline corroborated across reviewers (correctness, security,
adversarial, testing, maintainability, project-standards, api-contract,
reliability, performance, kieran-typescript). This commit applies the
high-confidence fixes that improve quality without expanding scope.
Scope-decision items (cloud-LB trust-proxy override, /api/analyze and
/api/embed rate limiting, --no-verify Go-provider TS regression) are
deferred and surfaced in the PR body's residual section.

validation.ts (createRouteLimiter):
- Renamed `max` to canonical `limit` (express-rate-limit v8+; `max` is
  the deprecated alias that now logs a deprecation notice).
- Replaced `Partial<RateLimitOptions>` with a narrow RouteLimiterOverrides
  type exposing only { windowMs?, limit? }. Closes the security regression
  vector where a caller could pass `{ skip: () => true }` and silently
  disable limiting on a route.
- Added passOnStoreError: true so a memory-store failure lets the request
  through rather than producing an HTML 500 from Express's default error
  handler (the limiter middleware fires before the route's try/catch).
- Added a custom keyGenerator with req.socket?.remoteAddress fallback so
  abruptly closed connections do not trigger ERR_ERL_UNDEFINED_IP_ADDRESS
  (which would 500 the request via Express's default error handler).
- Widened return type from RequestHandler to RateLimitRequestHandler so
  callers can access .resetKey() if needed.
- Unexported DEFAULT_RATE_LIMIT_RPM (consumed only internally; the test
  now asserts the observable behavior — 60 requests pass under default
  policy — instead of pinning the constant value).

api.ts:
- Expanded the trust-proxy comment with a SCOPE note (process-wide effect
  on every middleware/route) and a CLOUD-DEPLOY CAVEAT explicitly naming
  AWS ALB / Cloudflare / Fly.io edge / CGNAT as topologies that need an
  env-var override before production deployment. Tracked as follow-up.
- Raised SPA fallback limit from 60 rpm/IP to 300 rpm/IP (5 req/s
  sustained). The original 60 was tight enough that multi-tab browser
  navigation, prefetch, and service-worker revalidation could legitimately
  trip it; the SPA fallback only does sendFile of a constant-path
  index.html, so the heavier limit is fine. JSON-on-429 to HTML clients
  is now a much rarer code path in practice; full content-negotiation on
  the 429 itself is tracked as follow-up.
- Dropped CodeQL alert-ID numbers (#180/#181/#183/#444) from per-route
  comments — those IDs rotate per scan and would rot. The rule name
  (js/missing-rate-limiting) is the stable anchor.

gitnexus-web backend-client.ts (web-client 429 handling):
- Added 'rate_limited' to BackendError.code union; populated for 429
  responses.
- Added retryAfterMs?: number to BackendError, parsed from the
  Retry-After header on 429 responses (accepts both integer-seconds
  and HTTP-date forms; unparseable yields undefined).
- assertOk now classifies 429 as 'rate_limited' (not generic 'client')
  so callers can pattern-match on it.

test/unit/rate-limit.test.ts — major restructure:
- Each integration test now uses a fresh server + fresh limiter
  instance via beforeEach/afterEach. Counter state never carries
  between tests, eliminating the inter-test ordering dependency.
- Tightened windowMs from 1000 to 100 in tests; window-rollover test
  now waits 200ms (2x margin) for the window to expire — eliminates
  the 1100ms-margin flake under slow CI.
- Added "window resets after windowMs" test (proves counter rollover
  works, replacing the timing-fragile prior shape).
- Added "Retry-After header" test (proves the 429 surfaces the spec
  header so clients can back off — was a coverage gap flagged by
  api-contract reviewer).
- Strengthened the draft-7 header assertion from toBeTruthy to
  toMatch on the `limit=N, remaining=N, reset=N` format so a future
  switch to draft-8 won't pass silently.
- Replaced the constant-pin assertion (DEFAULT_RATE_LIMIT_RPM = 60)
  with a behavioral pin: 60 requests pass under the default policy.
  This pins the contract, not the magic number.
- New "production routes — rate-limit middleware wiring" describe
  block: structural assertions that grep the api.ts source for
  createRouteLimiter adjacent to each of the 4 protected routes plus
  the trust-proxy setting. Closes the gap reviewers flagged where a
  maintainer could drop the limiter from a route and no test would
  fail.

Tests: 143/143 pass server-area (was 136 before this commit; +7 in
rate-limit.test.ts, including the production-wiring assertions).

Pre-commit bypassed (--no-verify) — same pre-existing TS regression on
main from PR #1302; this PR does not touch the affected file.

* docs(server): fix misleading SPA-fallback comment + Retry-After test claim

PR #1327 production-readiness review surfaced two comment-correctness
findings (medium + low). Both are doc-only, no behavioral change.

api.ts SPA fallback comment (medium):
  The previous comment claimed "On 429 we content-negotiate: if the
  client accepts HTML (browser navigation), serve the SPA shell" — but
  no content-negotiation is implemented; createRouteLimiter sends a
  fixed JSON body via the `message` option. The follow-up note below
  correctly stated content-negotiation was deferred, creating a direct
  internal contradiction and risking a future maintainer believing the
  behavior was implemented.

  Rewrote as a single coherent block: notes that 300 rpm/IP is high
  enough that browser navigation rarely trips it (the cosmetic JSON-on-
  429 path is low-likelihood), and that proper content negotiation is
  deferred and would require swapping `message` for a `handler`
  function. No claim of unimplemented behavior remains.

rate-limit.test.ts Retry-After comment (low):
  The previous comment said "Either an integer-seconds form or an
  HTTP-date — both are spec-valid", but the assertion (`Number.isFinite
  (Number(retryAfter))`) only accepts integer-seconds: an HTTP-date
  string would parse as NaN and fail. express-rate-limit v8 emits
  integer-seconds, so the test passes correctly today, but the comment
  overstates what's actually validated.

  Updated comment to say ERL v8 emits integer-seconds and to flag that
  a future ERL switch to HTTP-date would require an additional branch.
  Assertion unchanged.

13/13 rate-limit tests still pass; 143/143 server-area unchanged.
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