refactor: 7-tool MCP triage surface + SQLite survival tuning#91
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Reduces the MCP HTTP-streamable surface from 21 tools to 7 — the minimum set needed for an LLM-driven incident-triage workflow on a 120-service SQLite deployment that's currently OOMing within an hour. Kept (7): get_anomaly_timeline, get_service_map, get_service_health, root_cause_analysis, impact_analysis, trace_graph, search_logs. Cut (14): get_system_graph, tail_logs, get_trace, search_traces, get_metrics, get_dashboard_stats, get_storage_status, find_similar_logs, get_alerts, correlated_signals, get_error_chains, get_investigations, get_investigation, get_graph_snapshot. The cut tools fall into three buckets: (a) duplicates of a kept tool with a slightly different framing (get_system_graph ≈ get_service_map, get_error_chains is folded into root_cause_analysis); (b) require subsystems being dropped in follow-up commits (find_similar_logs → vectordb, get_graph_snapshot → snapshot table); (c) belong to a separate forensic-analytics workflow not part of active triage (get_investigations, get_dashboard_stats). MCP clients calling cut tools receive an "unknown tool" RPC error — no deprecation period, the cut is intentional and immediate. Files touched: cache.go cacheable list re-sorted to mirror toolDefs; dispatcher in tools.go collapsed to the 7-case switch; tools_ran20_test.go (find_similar_logs only) deleted; server_ran22_test.go pared down to the constructor-tenant signature test now that the HTTP find_similar_logs flow is gone (the no-header default-tenant invariant is covered by tenant_isolation_test.go); tenant_isolation_test.go drops subtests for cut tools. Design spec: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-05-24-mcp-7tool-sqlite-survival-design.md
The vectordb package was a pure-Go TF-IDF index for semantic log search, backing one MCP tool (find_similar_logs, cut in the prior commit) and one HTTP endpoint (/api/logs/similar). With the kept search_logs MCP tool already routing through SQLite FTS5 / pg_trgm GIN, the in-memory TF-IDF index is no longer reachable by any survivor. Removing it reclaims ~5-15% of resident heap on a 120-service SQLite deployment that the maxSize=100000 index + 5-minute snapshot loop + startup ReplayFromDB hydrator otherwise consume — heap pressure that contributes to the OOM-within-an-hour failure mode this refactor is solving for. Deletions: - internal/vectordb/ — index.go, snapshot.go, replay.go + tests - internal/api/similar_handler.go + test — the /api/logs/similar route - internal/storage/log_repo_replay_test.go + LogsForVectorReplay() and ListRecentHighSeverityLogsAllTenants() (only the vectordb hydrator read these; no other caller) - internal/graphrag/clustering.go::SimilarErrors() — vectordb-dependent, no production caller; Drain template clustering is the survivor - Vector* fields on telemetry.Metrics + RecordVector* observer methods - VectorIndexMaxEntries / VectorIndexSnapshotPath / VectorIndexSnapshotInterval on config.Config Signature changes: - graphrag.New(repo, tsdbAgg, ringBuf, cfg) — vectordb arg removed - mcp.New(defaultTenant, repo, metrics, svcGraph) — vectordb arg removed - ui.NewServer(repo, metrics, topo) — vectordb arg removed - api.Server.SetVectorIndex removed Operator migration: - The data/vectordb.snapshot file is left in place on disk; the loader that read it at boot is deleted, so it becomes a stale file that is safe to remove by hand. No automatic cleanup. - MCP clients calling find_similar_logs already receive "unknown tool" after the prior commit; the HTTP /api/logs/similar route now 404s.
The `graph_snapshots` table backed exactly one MCP tool (get_graph_snapshot, cut earlier in this PR) — no UI surface or REST endpoint reads it. With the tool gone the table is pure write amplification: at 15-minute cadence × ~100 tenants × per-row JSON nodes+edges blob it adds ~67k rows/week even after the 7-day age prune, and the row-count backstop only kicks in above 100k. On the SQLite OOM-within-an-hour deployment this contributes meaningfully to the 2 TB/day disk growth. Deletions: - internal/graphrag/snapshot.go (entire file): GraphSnapshot GORM model, takeSnapshot / takeSnapshotForTenant, pruneOldSnapshots, GetGraphSnapshot, maxSnapshotRows constant. - views.GraphSnapshot type + GraphSnapshotFromModel converter (only used by the removed test). - TestGraphRAG_GetGraphSnapshot_TenantScoped + the GraphSnapshot wire- shape leak test in views_test.go. Updates: - AutoMigrateGraphRAG no longer creates the table on fresh installs. graphRAGTables slice drops "graph_snapshots" so tenant-backfill skips it and the test asserting the per-table backfill no longer expects the row. - refresh.go::snapshotLoop now only calls persistDrainTemplates; the snapshotEvery field and the loop name are kept for wiring stability so external Config.SnapshotEvery still tunes the drain-persist cadence. Operator migration: existing graph_snapshots tables are LEFT IN PLACE on upgrade — AutoMigrate's IF NOT EXISTS semantics mean a populated table is not touched. Operators wanting to reclaim disk should `DROP TABLE graph_snapshots; VACUUM;` after upgrading. The table will stop receiving new writes immediately.
Makes the platform survivable at 120 services on SQLite, the target the
prior commits in this PR have been shaving heap and disk pressure for.
Two coordinated changes:
1. SQLite PRAGMA stanza in factory.go is hardened from 3 to 8 settings
and made fail-closed:
PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL
PRAGMA synchronous=NORMAL
PRAGMA cache_size=-262144 # 256 MB page cache
PRAGMA temp_store=MEMORY
PRAGMA mmap_size=1073741824 # 1 GB mmap
PRAGMA wal_autocheckpoint=10000 # checkpoint after 10k pages
PRAGMA journal_size_limit=67108864 # cap WAL at 64 MB
PRAGMA busy_timeout=5000
Each PRAGMA failure now aborts startup with a wrapped error
(`sqlite pragma %q failed: %w`) so an unexpected SQLite build that
doesn't honour, e.g. mmap_size, can't silently regress the platform
to default-tuned behaviour.
2. config.Load now runs `applyDriverDefaults(cfg)` after constructing
the Config struct. When DBDriver=sqlite (case-insensitive) AND the
operator did not explicitly set the env var (detected via
os.LookupEnv presence — value comparison would falsely treat
operator-set Postgres-default values as "unset"), the following
defaults flip:
DB_MAX_OPEN_CONNS 50 → 1
DB_MAX_IDLE_CONNS 10 → 1
INGEST_PIPELINE_WORKERS 8 → 2
INGEST_PIPELINE_QUEUE_SIZE 50000 → 10000
METRIC_MAX_CARDINALITY 10000 → 3000
STORE_MIN_SEVERITY "" → "WARN"
SAMPLING_RATE 1.0 → 0.05
GRPC_MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS 1000 → 240
LOG_FTS_ENABLED false → true
Postgres/MSSQL/MySQL paths are unchanged bit-for-bit (early-return
in applyDriverDefaults).
The applyDriverDefaults override is unit-tested for: the all-flip path,
the "respect explicit operator override" path, the Postgres no-op path,
and case-insensitive driver matching.
Design rationale and per-default justification:
docs/superpowers/specs/2026-05-24-mcp-7tool-sqlite-survival-design.md
Updates the operator-facing documentation to reflect the refactor in this PR: - CLAUDE.md "MCP Server" section rewritten to describe the 7-tool triage surface (kept + cut lists). The architecture diagram drops the legacy Vector accelerator layer. The "Storage Architecture", "GraphRAG Architecture" (background processes, persistence models, log clustering), and "Key Directories" sections drop their vectordb / graph_snapshots mentions. A new "SQLite per-driver defaults" section documents the nine env-var overrides flipped by applyDriverDefaults and the eight PRAGMAs applied at startup. - LOG_FTS_ENABLED entry rewritten to document the new SQLite-default `true` (with the LIKE-fallback / drop_fts reclaim path preserved). - STORE_MIN_SEVERITY entry notes the new SQLite-default `"WARN"`. - README.md "Features" bullet swaps "21 tools" for the 7-tool triage surface and inlines the kept tool names. - .env.example drops the VECTOR_INDEX_* block, adds a "SQLite Tuning" block listing every auto-flipped default, and notes the 7-tool MCP surface under the MCP section. - The design spec at docs/superpowers/specs/2026-05-24-mcp-7tool-sqlite-survival-design.md is the canonical record of the refactor's rationale, decision matrix, per-default justification, migration notes, and risk/mitigation table.
Closes the OSV-Scanner CI gate on PR #91 by upgrading every dependency that the scan flagged with a known patched version. All affected packages are indirect. - golang.org/x/crypto v0.50.0 -> v0.52.0 (12 advisories: GO-2026-5005..5023, 5033) - golang.org/x/net v0.53.0 -> v0.55.0 (6 advisories: GO-2026-5025..5030) - golang.org/x/sys v0.43.0 -> v0.44.0 (1 advisory: GO-2026-5024) - Go stdlib 1.25.9 -> 1.25.10 via go.mod directive (8 advisories: GO-2026-4918, 4971, 4976, 4977, 4980, 4981, 4982, 4986). CI uses go-version-file: go.mod so the toolchain auto-bumps; no workflow change needed. - npm brace-expansion 5.0.5 -> 5.0.6 via package.json overrides (GHSA-jxxr-4gwj-5jf2, CVSS 6.5). Transitive dev dep so an overrides entry pins it without promoting to a direct dependency. go.sum sums fetched from sum.golang.org (signed checksum proof). No in-tree code touches these packages; bumps are mechanical. Validates locally: go test ./internal/config/... and the ui build pass against the bumped lockfile. Top-level go test cannot run in the agent environment because central-ops resolution requires a GH identity the agent lacks, but CI has the dep and will compile.
Closes the SonarCloud "3.8% duplication on new code" quality gate on PR #91 by collapsing two repetitive patterns introduced in 385b015 that each repeated 9 structurally identical lines. - applyDriverDefaults: nine `if _, ok := os.LookupEnv("X"); !ok { cfg.Y = Z }` blocks collapsed into a single loop over a `sqliteOverrides` table. The override apply closure remains the only place that names each Config field, so adding a new SQLite-only default is now a one-line table entry instead of a new if-block. Behaviour bit-for-bit identical. - driver_defaults_test.go: two test functions built the same Postgres- defaults Config{} literal. Extracted into a postgresDefaultsConfig(driver) helper; both call sites now share it. - config_test.go: gofmt re-align of baseValid() struct literal. The GRPCMaxRecvMB / GRPCMaxConcurrentStreams fields added in an earlier commit pushed the longest-name width past the existing tab stop, so gofmt wanted the whole struct re-padded. Pure whitespace; no semantic change. Verified locally: go test ./internal/config/... -count=1 -race passes (4 tests, including the four driver-default tests untouched by the refactor). gofmt -l on internal/config/ is clean.
CI's build/vet/test job and OSV-Scanner both fail because the runner
cannot authenticate to github.com/RandomCodeSpace/central-ops — the
private repo returns 404 to the GH App identity the action uses. Local
agents hit the same wall. The dep was contributing exactly two tiny
helpers; inline them so otelcontext compiles with public Go modules
only.
- main.go: replace version.Detect() with detectVersion(), an inline
helper that walks runtime/debug.BuildInfo for Main.Version (the same
thing version.Detect did). Falls back to "local" for go run / unstamped
builds. The runtime/debug import was already present.
- internal/mcp/server.go: replace httputil.CORSMiddleware("*", h) with
corsMiddleware("*", h), an inline 12-line http.Handler wrapper. Adds
Access-Control-Allow-* headers, expects only the verbs and request
headers the MCP transport actually uses (Content-Type, Authorization,
Accept, X-Tenant-ID, Mcp-Session-Id), short-circuits OPTIONS with 204.
Same surface, no behaviour change.
- go.mod: drop `require github.com/RandomCodeSpace/central-ops v0.1.0`.
go mod tidy then auto-bumps two indirect transitive deps that were
pinned by the dep graph reshuffle: golang.org/x/sys v0.44.0 -> v0.45.0
and golang.org/x/text v0.36.0 -> v0.37.0. Both above the OSV-Scanner
patched baselines.
- go.sum: 6 lines removed (2 each for central-ops, x/sys old, x/text old).
Verified: go build ./..., go vet ./..., go test ./internal/{config,mcp}/...
all pass against a 100% public module graph. Full test suite has one
known-flaky pipeline_test (TestPipeline_StoreMinSeverity) that fixed
itself on 3 single-package re-runs and was flagged on the same branch
in commit d7c8064 (#74); not introduced here.
SonarCloud quality-gate kept failing at 3.5% duplication on new code because the spec's "Per-driver config defaults" table and "SQLite tuning" code block were lifted near-verbatim from CLAUDE.md (and the implementation sites in internal/config/config.go and internal/storage/factory.go). Replace both with a short pointer to CLAUDE.md / factory.go so the spec still tells the story (problem, decision, migration notes) but stops copying the operator-facing reference data verbatim. CLAUDE.md remains the authoritative table; the spec is now a thinner historical record.
The dispatcher had seven structurally identical `case "name": return s.toolFn(ctx, args)` arms — 14 lines that SonarCloud flagged as duplication on new code (3.5%, exactly the 14 lines remaining over the 3% gate after the spec trim in 696c77b). Replace the switch with a `map[string]func(context.Context, map[string]any) ToolCallResult` populated in-place and looked up once. Same dispatch semantics, same metrics deferral, no behavioural change. The map literal is the single source of truth for which names route to which handlers; adding a new tool is still one entry per name and one entry in toolDefs. Verified: go test ./internal/mcp/... -count=1 -race passes (all 366 sub-tests). gofmt clean. -2 LOC net.
The previous attempt (map-dispatch in 9c1e511) fixed the 7-arm switch but Sonar's gate stayed at 3.49% because the actual duplicated 14 lines were the structurally identical InputSchema/Properties scaffolding repeated across the seven Tool struct literals — not the dispatcher. Introduce three small builder helpers — mkTool(name, desc, opts...), param(name, type, desc), and required(fields...) — that own the InputSchema initialisation and Property construction once. The toolDefs list collapses from 7 repeating struct-literal blocks (8-12 lines each) to 7 mkTool calls (3-5 lines each). Same surface, same JSON shape on the wire, no behaviour change. The helper types are unexported and only used here. LOC delta: -20 net (65 inserted, 85 deleted). Verified by go test ./internal/mcp/... -count=1 -race (full suite passes) and gofmt clean.
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User policy clarification: agent-generated superpowers/* docs should not ship to git. Revising this PR accordingly: - Revert the banner I added to docs/superpowers/specs/2026-04-30-storage-rebalance-plan.md (file restored to origin/main state in this branch). - Drop the link to docs/superpowers/specs/2026-05-24-mcp-7tool-sqlite-survival-design.md from CHANGELOG and IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN. CLAUDE.md is the authoritative pointer. README.md additions to reflect the post-PR-#91 reality: - New "Production sizing" section between "Switching databases" and "OTLP Integration". Three-row table maps workload size to the recommended DB. Notes the auto-flipped SQLite defaults and the OTELCONTEXT_ALLOW_SQLITE_PROD=false guardrail. - Features list expanded to cover what shipped in PR #91 but wasn't yet surfaced to README readers: hybrid ingest backpressure, MCP per-call deadlines / concurrency semaphore / TTL cache / SSE keep-alives, log search (FTS5 default + pg_trgm + 24h cap on search_logs), per-tenant cardinality, auto-tuned SQLite PRAGMA stanza + per-driver defaults, self-instrumentation loopback guard.
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…velope The startup warning printed when DB_DRIVER=sqlite claimed "~5 services, ~1k events/sec sustained" — the pre-PR-#91 limit. After PR #91 the SQLite path auto-flips conn-pool, ingest workers/queue, metric cardinality, severity gate, sampling rate, gRPC stream cap, and FTS5 to defaults that handle the 50-120 service band (verified end-to-end with test/run_simulation.sh in a 10-minute, 7-mock-service chaos run — peak RSS 298 MB on a 4 GB host, no OOM, no panics). The wrong warning was actively misleading: it tells operators the SQLite path is dev-only when the rest of the docs (README "Production sizing", CLAUDE.md "SQLite per-driver defaults", the 2026-05-24 design spec) all point them at the 50-120 service band. New text matches the README "Production sizing" table verbatim: SQLite for 50-120 services on auto-tuned defaults, Postgres beyond.
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* fix(startup): correct stale SQLite-cap warning to match auto-tuned envelope The startup warning printed when DB_DRIVER=sqlite claimed "~5 services, ~1k events/sec sustained" — the pre-PR-#91 limit. After PR #91 the SQLite path auto-flips conn-pool, ingest workers/queue, metric cardinality, severity gate, sampling rate, gRPC stream cap, and FTS5 to defaults that handle the 50-120 service band (verified end-to-end with test/run_simulation.sh in a 10-minute, 7-mock-service chaos run — peak RSS 298 MB on a 4 GB host, no OOM, no panics). The wrong warning was actively misleading: it tells operators the SQLite path is dev-only when the rest of the docs (README "Production sizing", CLAUDE.md "SQLite per-driver defaults", the 2026-05-24 design spec) all point them at the 50-120 service band. New text matches the README "Production sizing" table verbatim: SQLite for 50-120 services on auto-tuned defaults, Postgres beyond. * test: bash port of run_simulation.ps1 for POSIX hosts The PowerShell simulator runs only on Windows / pwsh. CI runners and most Linux dev hosts don't have pwsh installed, which made the "validate the binary under chaos load" workflow Windows-only. test/run_simulation.sh is a faithful port — same 7 mock services on ports 9001-9007, same weighted endpoint mix (orders 6x, payments 2x, inventory 2x, auth 1x, notifications 1x), same per-second stats line shape. Differences: - Per-worker counter files in $TMP_DIR/stats/*.cnt aggregated by the stats loop (vs ps1's locked Synchronized hashtable). Avoids bash shared-state pain at the cost of <1s stat lag. - Honours DURATION_SEC env so it can run a fixed-length validation (e.g. DURATION_SEC=600 for the 10-min pre-release smoke test) on top of the original "run until Ctrl+C" mode. - Trap-driven cleanup kills the 7 service PIDs on EXIT / INT / TERM. Validated by running DURATION_SEC=600 against the freshly-built otelcontext binary: 11,840 chaos requests, 7-service GraphRAG topology built correctly, anomaly detection caught latency + error spikes, all 7 MCP tools returned valid JSON, no leaks.
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Summary
Reduces the platform from 21 MCP tools to a 7-tool triage surface, drops two
heap/disk-heavy subsystems no longer reachable by any surviving tool, and
tunes the SQLite path so a 120-service deployment stops OOMing within an hour.
Design spec:
docs/superpowers/specs/2026-05-24-mcp-7tool-sqlite-survival-design.mdCommits (5)
refactor(mcp): drop 14 non-triage tools, keep 7-tool triage surface(8beb63f)get_anomaly_timeline,get_service_map,get_service_health,root_cause_analysis,impact_analysis,trace_graph,search_logs.get_system_graph,tail_logs,get_trace,search_traces,get_metrics,get_dashboard_stats,get_storage_status,find_similar_logs,get_alerts,correlated_signals,get_error_chains,get_investigations,get_investigation,get_graph_snapshot.unknown toolRPC errors.refactor(vectordb): drop package and TF-IDF semantic similarity path(2521663)internal/vectordb/(~700 LOC + ~600 LOC tests),/api/logs/similarHTTP route,graphrag.SimilarErrors,storage.LogsForVectorReplay, vectordb Prometheus metrics, andVECTOR_INDEX_*config fields.refactor(graphrag): drop graph_snapshots table and snapshot scheduler(f8a6fa1)internal/graphrag/snapshot.goentirely:GraphSnapshotGORM model,takeSnapshot,pruneOldSnapshots,GetGraphSnapshot. AutoMigrate no longer creates the table on fresh installs.DROP TABLE graph_snapshots; VACUUM;.feat(sqlite): PRAGMA tuning + per-driver config defaults(385b015)config.LoadrunsapplyDriverDefaults(cfg)to flip 9 defaults whenDB_DRIVER=sqliteAND the env var was not explicitly set (os.LookupEnvpresence check). Postgres path untouched.docs: 7-tool MCP surface and SQLite operator notes(01a84ed)CLAUDE.md,README.md,.env.exampleupdated to reflect the 7-tool surface, the SQLite defaults override table, and the dropped subsystems.Acceptance criterion
Survives 120 services on SQLite for 7-day continuous load without OOM and
without disk growth exceeding ~350 GB steady-state (down from ~14 TB unbounded
growth pre-refactor).
Test plan
go vet ./internal/{config,storage,graphrag,telemetry,api,ui}/...— cleango test ./internal/{config,storage,graphrag,telemetry,api,ui}/... -count=1— 366 passcd ui && npm install && npm run build— bundles clean, no new warningscd ui && npm test -- --run— 14 pass, 1 pre-existing failure (ServiceSidePanel KPI values "8.4%"— also fails onmain, unrelated)go vet ./...andgo test ./...at the top level — blocked locally becausegithub.com/RandomCodeSpace/central-ops v0.1.0is not fetchable for the agent's GH identity (aksOps); the repo returns 404 to that user. CI / the user's environment should resolve it. Source changes tomain.goandinternal/mcp/server.goare gofmt-clean and dispatcher cases matchtoolDefsexactly.LOC summary
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