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The bug

agentmemory://graph/stats lists every node and every edge in order to produce four aggregate numbers:

const nodes = await kv.list<GraphNode>(KV.graphNodes);
const edges = await kv.list<GraphEdge>(KV.graphEdges);
// ...returns totalNodes, totalEdges, nodesByType, edgesByType

kv.list returns every value in a scope (state/kv.ts:41-46), so this is a full materialisation of the graph over the engine transport — to compute a histogram.

Real behavior proof

Measured on a deployed instance, read-only:

scope size vs the 16 MiB limit
mem:graph:nodes 111 MB 7× over
mem:graph:edges 84 MB 5× over

The limit is not incidental — this repo defines it itself, in state/frame-guard.ts:5:

const FRAME_LIMIT_BYTES = 16 * 1024 * 1024;

So this read cannot succeed. It closes the worker connection with 1009 Message Too Big every time it is served. In the logs:

[iii] WebSocket error RangeError: Max payload size exceeded
  code: 'WS_ERR_UNSUPPORTED_MESSAGE_LENGTH', [Symbol(status-code)]: 1009
[iii] Reconnecting in 1014ms (attempt 1)...
[iii] Worker registered with ID: <new uuid>

Measured rate across three separate containers: 3.8 to 5.1 kills per minute, each followed by a reconnect that registers a fresh worker id. Roughly 150 new registrations accumulate per 40 minutes.

The fix

The counts were already precomputed. KV.graphSnapshot carries totalNodes, totalEdges, nodesByType, and edgesByType in a single key, and the comment introducing it in state/schema.ts names this exact caller:

"precomputed snapshot of the top-degree subgraph and aggregate type counts. Saves /graph/query and /graph/stats from a full kv.list enumeration over 75K+ node corpora, which exceeds the iii invocation timeout"

This resource simply never adopted it.

An absent snapshot now reports zeros with pending: true rather than falling back to enumeration. The fallback is the failure mode, so there is no version of it worth keeping.

Limitations, stated up front

This does not fully bound the read. The snapshot key is currently 15 MB on the measured instance, right at SAFE_PAYLOAD_BYTES. It is a single kv.get rather than an enumeration, and 15 MB against 195 MB is a 13× reduction, but the stats block would be better split into its own small key so it is not carried behind topNodes/topEdges. That is a schema change and belongs in its own PR.

This is not the only enumerating caller. Also outstanding, and deliberately not bundled here:

  • mcp/server.ts agentmemory://status lists all sessions and the entire 36 MB mem:memories scope to return three integers. It is a status endpoint, so it is polled — this is almost certainly the higher-frequency offender, and it needs maintained counters rather than a swap.
  • cascade.ts:27,44 needs a sourceObservationId → nodeIds index before it can stop scanning.
  • api.ts:2801 calls checkPayloadFrameSize on its response but not on the inbound read that has already happened.

Testing

npm test: 1710 passing; the single failure is test/cli-lifecycle-safety.test.ts, which spawns real subprocesses, passes 14/14 in isolation, and imports none of the changed modules.

tsc --noEmit unchanged from base (same 30 pre-existing errors, confirmed by stashing).

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved the graph statistics resource to retrieve current statistics directly, providing more accurate node and edge counts.
    • Removed the pending-status response from graph statistics, ensuring results consistently include the available totals, type breakdowns, and warnings.

…he graph

agentmemory://graph/stats listed every node and every edge in order to produce
four aggregate numbers. On a real corpus that is a multi-hundred-megabyte frame
over the engine transport, against the 16 MiB limit this repo already defines in
state/frame-guard.ts. Measured on a deployed instance: the two scopes hold
112 MB and 80 MB, five and seven times the limit, so the read cannot succeed —
it closes the worker connection with 1009 Message Too Big every time. The
observed rate was 3.8 to 5.1 kills per minute, each followed by a reconnect that
registers a fresh worker id.

The counts were already precomputed. KV.graphSnapshot carries totalNodes,
totalEdges, nodesByType and edgesByType in a single small key, and the comment
introducing it in state/schema.ts names /graph/stats as the caller it was built
to spare. This resource simply never adopted it.

An absent snapshot now reports zeros with pending: true rather than falling back
to enumeration. The fallback is the failure mode, so there is no version of it
worth keeping.

Other enumerating callers remain and need separate treatment: cascade.ts needs a
sourceObservationId index before it can stop scanning, and the export route in
api.ts guards its response size but not the inbound read that already happened.
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The graph statistics resource now invokes mem::graph-stats and returns its result directly. A test verifies the counts, type breakdowns, warning, and absence of pending.

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Graph statistics resource

Layer / File(s) Summary
Retrieve and validate graph statistics
src/mcp/server.ts, test/mcp-resources.test.ts
The resource calls mem::graph-stats instead of reading KV.graphSnapshot. The test verifies the returned statistics and confirms that pending is absent.

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The graph-stats change is mergeable with explicit follow-up: the test setup still needs the repository-required dependency mock, and the changed source retains comments that violate repository conventions. These are bounded readiness issues, not evidence of a production correctness or availability blocker.

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Comment on lines +1481 to +1487
// Read the precomputed snapshot rather than enumerating the graph.
// KV.graphSnapshot exists for exactly this (#814, state/schema.ts):
// it carries the same aggregate counts in one small key. Listing
// the scopes instead pulled every node and edge over the engine
// transport — on a real corpus that is a multi-hundred-MB frame
// against a 16 MiB limit (state/frame-guard.ts), which kills the
// worker connection every time this resource is read.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the explanatory comments.

These comments explain the implementation and fallback behavior. Keep the code self-explanatory through clear naming. Move architectural rationale to PR or issue documentation if needed.

As per coding guidelines, src/**/*.ts: Do not add comments that explain what code does; use clear naming instead.

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In `@src/mcp/server.ts` around lines 1481 - 1487, Remove the explanatory comments
surrounding the precomputed graph snapshot read and the related fallback near
the affected resource logic, while leaving the implementation unchanged; rely on
existing symbol names such as KV.graphSnapshot to convey intent.

Source: Coding guidelines

inix-x added 2 commits August 27, 2026 00:50
AGENTS.md coding standards forbid comments that explain what code does.
KV.graphSnapshot and the `pending: true` spread already say what the two
blocks were narrating, so they carried no information the names do not.

The rationale is not lost. The frame-limit failure mode and the deliberate
refusal to fall back to enumeration are both recorded in the parent
commit's message and in the PR body, which is where a reader looking for
why will go.

Comment-only: nine lines removed, none added, no executable statement
touched.
The MCP resource hand-rolled its own snapshot read rather than calling the
function the REST path already routes to. GET /agentmemory/graph/stats goes
through api::graph-stats to mem::graph-stats, which has read the snapshot
exclusively since rohitg00#814 v2, so the inline kv.get duplicated the shared
function instead of avoiding an enumeration it never did.

Duplicating it also dropped behavior. readSnapshot() rejects a stored value
whose version is not 1; the inline read cast whatever was there to
GraphSnapshot and trusted it. The shared function reports fromSnapshot, and
when no snapshot exists returns a warning naming the snapshot-rebuild and
reset endpoints; the inline version invented `pending: true` for the state
the codebase already calls `fromSnapshot: false`. A snapshot marked dirty
carries an eventual-consistency warning the resource never surfaced.

The payload gains fields rather than breaking. mem::graph-stats returns
totalNodes, totalEdges, nodesByType and edgesByType on both of its branches,
and `pending` had no other reference in src or test, so nothing observed the
old shape. The viewer already consumes the richer payload over REST. The
try/catch fallback is unchanged: sdk.trigger throws when the graph functions
are not registered, the same case api::graph-stats wraps.

Adds the graph/stats case test/mcp-resources.test.ts never had. Against the
inline path it fails on each of its three assertion groups independently:
the counts come back zero, there is no warning, and `pending` is set.

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Comment on lines +234 to +247
it("reads agentmemory://graph/stats from mem::graph-stats", async () => {
sdk.overrideTrigger("mem::graph-stats", async () => ({
totalNodes: 3,
totalEdges: 2,
nodesByType: { file: 3 },
edgesByType: { imports: 2 },
fromSnapshot: false,
warning:
"No graph snapshot available. Run POST /agentmemory/graph/snapshot-rebuild",
}));

const fn = sdk.getFunction("mcp::resources::read")!;
const result = (await fn(
makeReq({ uri: "agentmemory://graph/stats" }),

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Add the required iii-sdk mock to test/mcp-resources.test.ts.

The file uses hand-written SDK and KV doubles but does not call vi.mock("iii-sdk"). Add mocks for sdk.trigger, kv.get, kv.set, and kv.list to satisfy the test convention.

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In `@test/mcp-resources.test.ts` around lines 234 - 247, Add a vi.mock("iii-sdk")
setup in mcp-resources.test.ts, providing mocks for sdk.trigger, kv.get, kv.set,
and kv.list while preserving the existing hand-written doubles and test
behavior.

Source: Coding guidelines

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