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What I did

storybook tools stories changed never returned when attached to a running Storybook. Local mode and --no-attach were fine; MCP stories-changed on the same server was also fine. Other attach tools (docs list, stories find-by-component, review create) returned normally.

The handler waited on a process-local change-detection readiness deferred. Only the instance scanner (or the local-mode host) resolves that deferred. Attach never starts a scanner, so the promise never settled.

This routes the readiness check through a delegated core/module-graph command so the caller reads the instance result instead of waiting locally.

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The changes in this PR are covered in the following automated tests:

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  1. In a Vite Storybook project with features.changeDetection left on (the default), start the dev server: npm run storybook.
  2. In another terminal, from the same project, run npx storybook tools stories changed. It should return in a few seconds with either the changed-story list or No new, modified, or related stories detected.
  3. Run the same command with --no-attach. The answer should still return quickly (local scan). It may include a fallback notice if you force local while a server is running.
  4. With the server still up, confirm npx storybook tools docs list and npx storybook tools stories find-by-component --componentPaths '["<an absolute component path>"]' still return.
  5. Worth extra scrutiny: attach while change detection is disabled (features.changeDetection: false) should error with the enable-flag guidance instead of hanging; a repo that is not git should return the empty "no changes" sentence instead of hanging.

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The attach path waited on a process-local change-detection readiness
deferred that only the instance scanner resolves. Route that check
through a delegated module-graph command so the caller returns.
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Walkthrough

The module graph now owns change-detection readiness state and exposes a query that waits for readiness. The stories toolset uses this query directly, while service registration and tests remove the previous injected callback.

Changes

Change-detection readiness flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Readiness contract and service command
code/core/src/shared/open-service/services/module-graph/definition.ts, code/core/src/shared/open-service/services/module-graph/types.ts, code/core/src/shared/open-service/services/module-graph/server.ts, code/core/src/shared/open-service/services/module-graph/module-graph.test-helpers.ts, code/core/src/shared/open-service/services/module-graph/server.test.ts, code/core/src/cli/tools/run.test.ts
The module graph defines pending, ready, unavailable, and error states. It stores readiness state and serializes results returned by _waitForChangeDetectionReadiness.
Stories readiness lookup and registration
code/core/src/shared/open-service/toolsets/stories/definition.ts, code/core/src/shared/open-service/toolsets/stories/definition.test.ts, code/core/src/shared/open-service/toolsets/stories/resolve-component-stories.ts, code/core/src/shared/open-service/toolsets/stories/find-by-component.test.ts, code/core/src/shared/open-service/toolsets/stories/resolve-component-stories.test.ts, code/core/src/core-server/presets/common-preset.ts, code/addons/mcp/src/test-support/register-core-toolsets.ts
The stories toolset loads readiness through the module-graph query and handles each readiness state. The readiness callback moves from stories toolset registration to module graph registration.
Attach-mode validation and documentation
code/e2e-internal/tools-attach.spec.ts, code/core/src/cli/tools/architecture.md
Attach-mode coverage runs stories changed and verifies that it succeeds without fallback messaging. The architecture documentation describes changeDetectionReadiness.load.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant StoriesToolset
  participant ModuleGraphService
  participant getChangeDetectionReadiness
  StoriesToolset->>ModuleGraphService: load changeDetectionReadiness
  ModuleGraphService->>getChangeDetectionReadiness: wait for readiness
  getChangeDetectionReadiness-->>ModuleGraphService: return readiness result
  ModuleGraphService-->>StoriesToolset: return serialized readiness state
  StoriesToolset->>StoriesToolset: handle ready, unavailable, error, or pending status
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The change makes attached stories-changed commands return instead of hanging; merge is reasonable with owner awareness that unavailable readiness may suppress optional diagnostic details and that the updated tests need follow-up to align with the repository's typed-mock conventions.

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code/core/src/shared/open-service/services/module-graph/server.test.ts (1)

619-626: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Align the affected tests with repository mocking conventions: define test doubles at file scope, configure their behavior in beforeEach, and access mocked functions through vi.mocked(...). Apply the same pattern to the module-graph and readiness test cases.

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In `@code/core/src/shared/open-service/services/module-graph/server.test.ts`
around lines 619 - 626, Refactor the affected tests around
getChangeDetectionReadiness and registerModuleGraphService to use file-scope
Vitest mocks; configure their default behavior in beforeEach, access them
through vi.mocked(...), and reuse mocked channel on/emit and getIndex functions
instead of defining inline implementations in each test.

Apply the same fix in
`@code/core/src/core-server/change-detection/readiness.test.ts` at line 63: The
readiness test has the same mock typing and setup-style remediation.

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In `@code/core/src/shared/open-service/services/module-graph/server.ts`:
- Around line 111-112: Preserve unavailable-readiness diagnostics across
delegation: in
code/core/src/shared/open-service/services/module-graph/server.ts:111-112,
forward readiness.error.message when an error exists; in
code/core/src/core-server/change-detection/readiness.ts:65-68, reconstruct that
serialized message as an Error for unavailable results, matching the existing
error-status handling.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@code/core/src/shared/open-service/services/module-graph/server.test.ts`:
- Around line 619-626: Refactor the affected tests around
getChangeDetectionReadiness and registerModuleGraphService to use file-scope
Vitest mocks; configure their default behavior in beforeEach, access them
through vi.mocked(...), and reuse mocked channel on/emit and getIndex functions
instead of defining inline implementations in each test.

Apply the same fix in
`@code/core/src/core-server/change-detection/readiness.test.ts` at line 63: The
readiness test has the same mock typing and setup-style remediation.
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Comment thread code/core/src/shared/open-service/services/module-graph/server.ts Outdated
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Comment thread code/core/src/shared/open-service/services/module-graph/server.ts Outdated
Comment thread code/core/src/core-server/change-detection/readiness.ts Outdated
Commands name an action. Align the attach readiness command with
_waitForSettledEngine instead of a getX getter.
Drop the duplicated union on the module-graph server options and use
the command output schema's InferOutput instead.
stories.changed now awaits the module-graph changeDetectionReadiness
query. Its load hook calls _waitForChangeDetectionReadiness, so attach
and local share one path and the delegated-mode branch is gone.

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In `@code/core/src/shared/open-service/services/module-graph/server.test.ts`:
- Around line 644-647: In
code/core/src/shared/open-service/services/module-graph/server.test.ts (lines
644-647), move the inline channel, getIndex, and readiness stubs into file-scope
mocks configured in beforeEach; apply the same file-scope mock pattern to the
cited service/readiness stubs in code/core/src/cli/tools/run.test.ts (line 253).
In code/core/src/shared/open-service/toolsets/stories/definition.test.ts (lines
146, 275, and 298), replace direct changeDetectionReadiness.mockResolvedValue
access with vi.mocked(changeDetectionReadiness).
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Keep the provider's diagnostic on the serialized query result so attach and MCP see the same unavailable payload as the scanner process.
Comment thread code/core/src/shared/open-service/toolsets/stories/definition.ts Outdated
Comment thread code/e2e-internal/tools-attach.spec.ts
stories.changed already held a module-graph access object. Route readiness through that seam instead of looking up core/module-graph a second time.
Comment thread code/core/src/shared/open-service/toolsets/stories/definition.ts Outdated
Look up core/module-graph once in stories.changed and pass that instance into the existing access helper. Keep ModuleGraphAccess as the graph-status and reverse-index slice; do not add readiness there.
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