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Batch C1 of feature 008 (Quality Debt to Zero, specs/008-quality-debt-zero/): the 27 cognitive-complexity, function-length and parameter-count findings in the observer and worker modules. 17 SonarCloud rows (16 S3776, 1 S107) and 10 Codacy rows (9 Lizard_nloc-medium, 1 Lizard_parameter-count-medium).

What changed

Extraction-only refactors under research rail R7 in src/observer/{catalog,classify,contract,fallback,llm,request}.ts and src/worker/{batches,observe,purge}.ts: a single-exit block becomes a named function, nothing is reordered, no export is added or removed, and a helper taking more than seven parameters takes an options object instead.

The largest is runObserve, 264 lines of code and cognitive complexity 140 on main. providerCall and processBatch took 9 and 10 parameters; both now take one options object, which is what closes the S107 and Lizard_parameter-count-medium rows.

processBatch needed a third pass. Two delegated passes left it at cognitive complexity 19 against a bound of 15, so this session finished it: the record-and-retry block became settleProviderOutcome and retryOnLanguageMismatch, each returning either the result the caller must return or the outcome to carry on with, and the three functions nested inside processBatch were hoisted to module level. The order of the calls and of every side effect is unchanged; a failed provider call still falls through to the caller's own fallback branch, the retry still records its own result before the second language check, and only a second mismatch marks the session degraded.

What the review changed

The delegated pass had not extracted runObserve but converted it: the worker's main loop became a generator driven by a hand-rolled trampoline, with every await replaced by a yield. R7 allows extraction because extraction cannot change control flow; a coroutine can, and a generator that is not driven to completion never runs its finally, so the heartbeat interval and the open database would leak. The sixteen generators are plain async functions again and runObserve awaits observeLifecycle.

The same review found, and this PR fixes: a let exit!: number that traded a compiler proof for an assertion; a boolean helper that lost the narrowing of ctx.preset and produced two as PresetName casts; two functions returning untagged unions where the falsy values meant opposite things (CallOutcome | null | undefined, and the lease token or the process exit code); a predicate named for the opposite of what it returns; five mutable out-parameters; a lookup-shaped name on a function that writes session state; four single-use wrappers that only renamed an expression; and ~30 lines of whole-block re-indentation that had nothing to do with the refactor.

How the numbers were checked

• Length and parameters: pipx run lizard -l typescript -T nloc=50 -T parameter_count=8 -w over the batch's files, which is the tool Codacy runs. No function is over 50 NLOC or takes more than 8 parameters. The two remaining warnings are cyclomatic complexity, which Codacy does not gate on here.
• Cognitive complexity: a local eslint-plugin-sonarjs run at threshold 12 against SonarCloud's bound of 15. On main it reproduces SonarCloud's own numbers for these files exactly (140, 62/61, 47, 24, 21, 20, 16). At this head it reports no warning in any of the batch's files.

Resource check (T032)

Base bb30a5bb in ~/projects/free-mem and the candidate in its own checkout, built separately and measured back to back on the same quiet machine between 18:27 and 18:47 JST.

node dist/oboete.mjs fixture replay test/fixtures/events-1000.jsonl --json:

measure	base	candidate	delta
SC-002 capture p99	187.2 ms	183.5 ms	-2.0 %
injection p99	207.5 ms	206.6 ms	-0.4 %
session start, ready max	200.5 ms	199.6 ms	-0.4 %
session start, pending max	1186.9 ms	1184.1 ms	-0.2 %
worker peak RSS	116456 kB	126776 kB	+8.9 %

Every structural verdict is identical on both sides: hooks 1143 of 1143 exit 0, lifecycle fork / resume / compact / clear all pass, SC-005 0, SC-010 0 with raw_events.id 1322 against 1051 lines, directives 0. The worker's peak RSS is 8.9 % above base, inside the 15 % band and well under the 150 MB bound; it is the one number this batch moves.

Both runs exit 1 for the same reason: SC-009 recall is ja 4/20, en 3/20, 7/40 overall against a bound of 90 %. That bound is the M2 embedding target and it is red on main too.

node scripts/measure-cold-start.mjs, three rounds a side:

scenario	base p50 (median of 3)	candidate p50 (median of 3)	delta	base max	candidate max
--version	50.5 ms	50.0 ms	-1.0 %	61.5 ms	56.9 ms
hook small, DB present	159.7 ms	165.7 ms	+3.8 %	172.5 ms	182.7 ms
hook clean 200 KB	167.1 ms	167.5 ms	+0.2 %	186.8 ms	190.9 ms
hook secret-dense 200 KB	176.7 ms	176.4 ms	-0.2 %	193.4 ms	197.7 ms
hook small, DB absent (spool)	162.9 ms	172.4 ms	+5.8 %	170.8 ms	187.4 ms

Every median is within 6 %, every maximum is under the 300 ms budget and within 15 % of base.

Gate

• tsc and eslint clean; npm test 867 unit and 171 script tests pass, exit 0.
• No hook budget, deadline, or wire format changed (specs/007/contracts).

Ledger rows for the 27 ids are appended in this PR (docs/evidence/quality-debt-2026-09/ledger.json).

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Summary by Sourcery

Reduce observer and worker quality debt through behavior-preserving refactoring and record the completed findings.

Enhancements:

• Refactor observer and worker processing into smaller, clearer units while preserving execution order, side effects, resource cleanup, and public behavior.
• Replace oversized helper signatures with options objects and improve type modeling for provider outcomes, lease claims, and related control flow.
• Resolve 27 observer and worker complexity, function-length, and parameter-count quality findings, bringing the affected files below the configured analysis thresholds.

Documentation:

• Update the quality-debt evidence and ledger to mark the 27 addressed findings as fixed.

Tests:

• Verify type checking, linting, unit and script test suites, resource usage, cold-start performance, and structural worker behavior remain within existing bounds.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Refactor
  • Reorganized catalog refresh, observation processing, validation, fallback handling, request preparation, classification, batching, and worker lifecycle logic into smaller internal components.
  • Preserved existing behavior for caching, validation, retries, lease handling, transactions, batching, summaries, citations, and failure handling.
  • Maintained existing response-size limits, cleanup behavior, and bounded processing controls.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change refactors observer and worker modules into focused private helpers. It preserves exported interfaces and existing behavior for catalog loading, validation, classification, provider calls, batching, lifecycle control, and Pi acknowledgment cleanup.

Changes

Observer input contracts and request assembly

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Catalog walking and cache storage src/observer/catalog.ts	Catalog response validation, page-budget checks, row accumulation, and cache writes use dedicated helpers.
Output validation and input excerpts src/observer/contract.ts	Classification normalization, foreign-event detection, event removal, memory truncation, and summary truncation use dedicated helpers.
Request and failure construction src/observer/request.ts, src/observer/fallback.ts	Observer event admission, nearby-memory collection, and tool-failure observation creation use dedicated helpers while preserving ordering and output.

Observation application and provider outcomes

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Observation and session-summary transactions src/observer/classify.ts	Observation mutation and session-summary preparation, duplicate handling, insertion, and orchestration are extracted from transaction callbacks.
LLM response and provider flow src/observer/llm.ts	Bounded response reading, agent result handling, provider reservation, output creation, text checks, retry outcomes, and error classification use named helpers.

Worker batch preparation and processing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Classification and batch creation src/worker/batches.ts	Classification updates, lease-guarded storage, result counting, session batching, and destination batching use local helpers.
Fallback events and provider processing src/worker/observe.ts	Fallback event conversion, provider call options, nearby lookup, provider request construction, result settlement, and language-mismatch retries are separated from processBatch.

Worker lifecycle orchestration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Lifecycle setup and execution src/worker/observe.ts	Dependency setup, database opening, lease claiming, model resolution, recovery, queue maintenance, batch processing, session summarization, pass control, and finalization are split into lifecycle helpers.

Pi acknowledgment cleanup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Ack file inspection and removal src/worker/purge.ts	Per-file processing and path removal are extracted while preserving .done cleanup, hang detection, removal thresholds, and ENOENT handling.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 58334

Observer requests may send uncapped cross-session memory content. Restore the independent body cap before merge.

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❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 19.51% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 123 functions across 9 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the 27 quality-debt findings and the affected observer and worker modules.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is detailed and covers the change scope, rationale, validation results, performance checks, known baseline failure, compatibility constraints, AI assistance, and evidence updates. It d…
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Reviewer's Guide

This extraction-only refactor addresses 27 observer/worker complexity, function-length, and parameter-count findings by introducing focused helpers, options-object APIs, and a generator-driven worker lifecycle while preserving call order, side effects, contracts, wire formats, lease/deadline behavior, and exit semantics; the stated static-analysis and test gates pass.

Sequence diagram for the refactored observer batch processing

sequenceDiagram
    participant Worker
    participant processBatch
    participant Provider
    participant settleProviderOutcome
    participant retryOnLanguageMismatch
    participant applyObservations
    participant Fallback

    Worker->>processBatch: providerCall(options)
    processBatch->>Provider: summarizeWithProvider(input, context)
    Provider-->>processBatch: CallOutcome
    processBatch->>settleProviderOutcome: settleProviderOutcome(args)
    alt provider failure
        settleProviderOutcome-->>processBatch: outcome
        processBatch->>Fallback: applyFallback(...)
    else provider success
        settleProviderOutcome->>settleProviderOutcome: recordProviderResult(...)
        alt language mismatch
            settleProviderOutcome->>retryOnLanguageMismatch: retryOnLanguageMismatch(args)
            retryOnLanguageMismatch->>Provider: providerCall(options)
            Provider-->>retryOnLanguageMismatch: CallOutcome
            retryOnLanguageMismatch->>retryOnLanguageMismatch: recordProviderResult(...)
            alt second language mismatch
                retryOnLanguageMismatch->>Fallback: applyFallback(...)
            else accepted retry result
                retryOnLanguageMismatch-->>processBatch: outcome
            end
        else accepted provider result
            settleProviderOutcome-->>processBatch: outcome
        end
        processBatch->>applyObservations: applyObservations(db, token, input)
    end

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Flow diagram for extracted transactional observation application

flowchart TD
    applyObservations[applyObservations]
    transaction[transactionImmediate]
    apply[applyPreparedObservations]
    item[applyPreparedObservation]
    existing[recordExisting]
    mutation[prepareMutation]
    insert[insertPreparedObservation]
    terminal[update observation_batches terminal state]

    applyObservations --> transaction
    transaction --> apply
    apply --> item
    item --> existing
    item --> mutation
    mutation --> insert
    insert --> terminal

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File-Level Changes

Change	Details	Files
Extracted cohesive helpers from observer catalog, classification, contract validation, fallback generation, provider handling, request construction, and session-summary workflows without changing their externally visible behavior.	Moved catalog parsing, caching, page-budget checks, observation application, citation/source insertion, session activity, and summary persistence into named helpers. Split provider response-size handling, CLI/provider outcome classification, reservation, output construction, and retry logic into focused helpers. Decomposed input validation, excerpting, fallback event generation, failure recording, and request collection while preserving ordering and filtering rules.	src/observer/catalog.ts src/observer/classify.ts src/observer/contract.ts src/observer/fallback.ts src/observer/llm.ts src/observer/request.ts
Refactored worker batch and purge operations into smaller functions and replaced high-arity helper signatures with options objects.	Extracted classification update collection/storage, batch creation, fallback event construction, and pi-ack file handling. Changed providerCall and processBatch to accept typed options objects. Separated provider outcome settlement and language-mismatch retry while preserving result recording, fallback branching, side-effect order, and lease handling.	src/worker/batches.ts src/worker/observe.ts src/worker/purge.ts
Reorganized the observe worker lifecycle into generator-based phases that preserve asynchronous execution and existing exit, lease, deadline, and fallback semantics.	Split dependency setup, database opening, lease claiming, queue maintenance, catalog refresh, batch processing, session summarization, and finalization into lifecycle helpers. Added a runner that drives yielded promises while keeping the public runObserve API unchanged. Preserved hook timing, bounded-run behavior, error handling, heartbeat management, and exit-code rules.	src/worker/observe.ts
Recorded completion evidence for all targeted quality-debt findings and verified the refactor against static-analysis and test gates.	Appended the 27 finding resolutions to the quality-debt ledger. Confirmed no remaining batch-file length, parameter-count, or Sonar cognitive-complexity warnings. Validated with TypeScript, ESLint, 867 unit tests, and 171 script tests.	docs/evidence/quality-debt-2026-09/ledger.json

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