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feat(store): live entities with events plugin and call counts for rxMethod / SignalMethod

What and why

Fixes #34

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  • Docs in apps/docs updated and pnpm docs:build passes (when behavior, options, UI labels or agent tools changed), or the no-docs label added with the reason below
  • pnpm extension:build and extension/ui committed (when app/ changed)
  • Checked in the browser with axe (when the UI changed)

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Entities added (with calls count)
Screenshot 2026-09-30 at 9 30 11 PM

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Screenshot 2026-09-30 at 9 30 39 PM

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  • New Features
    • NgRx inspection now shows entity collections, selected entities, method and log-entry durations, and dispatched events with payloads.
    • Browse events across stores on the selected page, view event details, and see which event caused a store change.
    • New agent tools let you inspect live NgRx state and search change history, with optional page, store, and sequence filters.
  • Documentation
    • Updated NgRx guides to cover entity collections, event history, durations, and the new inspection tools.

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  • app/src/pages/store-inspector.ts
  • app/src/pages/store-types.ts
  • apps/docs/src/app/components/llm-actions.ts
  • apps/docs/src/content/agents/resources.md
  • apps/docs/src/content/agents/tools.md
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  • packages/ng-devtools/src/rpc/get-ngrx-store.ts
  • packages/ng-devtools/src/rpc/ngrx-live-tools.ts
  • src/app/pages/booking.ts
  • src/app/pages/trips.ts
  • src/app/travel/travel.store.ts
📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The NgRx inspector now reports entity collections and method durations, records dispatched events and correlated store changes, and exposes live inspection and history tools. The travel example now stores bookings as entities and dispatches booking events.

Changes

NgRx live inspection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Collect and represent NgRx telemetry
packages/ng-devtools/src/ngrx-collector.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/ngrx-shared.ts, app/src/pages/store-types.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/__tests__/ngrx-collector.test.ts
The collector reports entity collections and synchronous method durations. It logs events and associates synchronous store changes with reducer events. Tests cover entity summaries, timings, event logging, and correlation.
Expose live inspection and history tools
packages/ng-devtools/src/rpc/ngrx-live-tools.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/devframe.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/config.ts, packages/ng-devtools/src/rpc/__tests__/*, packages/ng-devtools/src/rpc/get-ngrx-store.ts, apps/docs/src/content/agents/*, apps/docs/src/content/guides/ngrx-signals-restore.md, extension/ui/index.html, extension/ui/assets/browser-agent-rpc-*.js
Two RPC tools format live store details and history. The devframe registers them with access to current page data. Agent resource and tool documentation is updated, and the extension references the renamed bundle.
Display entities, durations, and events
app/src/pages/store-inspector.ts, apps/docs/src/content/inspectors/ngrx-store.md, apps/docs/src/app/components/llm-actions.ts
The inspector displays entity collections, durations, page-wide events, and event payloads. The NgRx inspector documentation describes these additions and the selected-entity convention. The Copy Markdown button uses min-w-30.
Use entities and events for bookings
src/app/travel/travel.store.ts, src/app/pages/booking.ts, src/app/pages/trips.ts
The travel store represents bookings with an entity collection and defines created and cancelled events. Booking and cancellation actions dispatch the corresponding events.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Agent
  participant NgRxRPCTool
  participant PageReports
  Agent->>NgRxRPCTool: Request store inspection or history
  NgRxRPCTool->>PageReports: Read current page data
  PageReports->>NgRxRPCTool: Return store or log data
  NgRxRPCTool->>Agent: Return formatted report
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Suggested labels: enhancement

Suggested reviewers: erkamyaman

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f9c7f

Restore classic NgRx state access through the new inspection tool before merging. Event attribution can also misidentify unrelated changes, and event-only pages cannot open full payload details.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f9c7f

Entity summaries introduce a potential gap in the existing redaction boundary: identifiers can be copied into inspection output without the field-name checks applied to ordinary state. The new inspection tools remain read-only and use existing access settings, limiting their authority. Actual sensitive-data exposure and deployment access controls remain unverified.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: Entity summaries omit the root-key redaction applied to ordinary state. If an IDs or selected-ID field is classified as secret, entitiesOf copies its value through serialize() into entities.ids or entities.selectedId rather than serializeSlice(fieldName, value). Report merging preserves these fields, and the live detail tool renders selectedId. This creates a conditional disclosure path through authorized inspection output that did not exist in the base summary contract; actual sensitive values and deployed classifier matches remain unverified.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The identified redaction gap affects eligible entity identifiers from connected pages, not arbitrary remote stores. Selected identifiers can reach readers of the live agent tool; entity metadata also reaches shared page reports. Effective network reachability, deployed sensitive collections and downstream privileges were not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A field protected by root-name redaction can be copied into the new entity summary under a generic output key and disclosed to an inspection reader. This path is conditional on sensitive identifiers and a matching redaction policy. Existing nested-property redaction and the fact that ordinary state was already inspectable do not provide equivalent protection for these newly copied fields.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The new tools register through the existing inspector and agent-tool gates, and both map to the NgRx inspector. Their handlers read supplied page data and expose no mutation callback. These local controls constrain feature exposure but do not establish transport authentication or authorization.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Method instrumentation uses finally to balance depth on throwing calls, and stop unsubscribes dispatcher streams and restores tracked wrappers. Pending write microtasks can still finish after stop, but that behavior exists in the base. New event-correlation state can survive suppressed no-op entries or untracking; the inspected restore path uses saved snapshots rather than that metadata, so no authorization or rollback bypass was established.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Preserve the originating field's redaction decision when deriving entity IDs and selected IDs, so summary output cannot reveal a value hidden in ordinary state. Define an explicit disclosure policy for newly captured event payloads, including sensitive scalar payloads that have no secret-named property.
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❌ Failed checks (3 warnings)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning Issue [#34] requires live Signal Store state, timelines, members, entities, method timings, events, and MCP tools. The changes add entity metadata, selected entities, method duration statistics, event… Record and expose the withReducer case that handles each dispatched event in the store history, inspector, and relevant MCP output. Add automated coverage for the reducer-case association.
Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning Most changes support issue [#34], including implementation tests, documentation, demo event dispatches, and extension integration. apps/docs/src/app/components/llm-actions.ts changes the Copy Markdo… Remove the unrelated apps/docs/src/app/components/llm-actions.ts styling change, or link it to a separate issue.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 28.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 25 functions across 15 files. (5 skipped:… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main changes: live entity and event data, plus method call timing support. It is concise and directly related to the pull request.
Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Issue [#34] requires live Signal Store state, timelines, members, entities, method timings, events, and MCP tools. The changes add entity metadata, selected entities, method duration statistics, event entries, event correlation, UI rendering, and inspect-signal-store / signal-store-history tools. The collector tests cover these areas. The available evidence does not show the required withReducer case that handled each dispatched event. Event type and causedByEvent correlation do not identify the reducer case. This is a concrete unmet requirement.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

Most changes support issue [#34], including implementation tests, documentation, demo event dispatches, and extension integration. apps/docs/src/app/components/llm-actions.ts changes the Copy Markdown button width only. The summary provides no connection between this styling change and the Signal Store inspector objectives. This is unrelated scope.

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Docstring coverage is 28.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 25 functions across 15 files. (5 skipped: 5 unsupported.)

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Review comments at @app/src/pages/store-inspector.ts:
- Line 466: Move the selected event detail panel out of the `store()` guards so
events selected through `selectEntry(evt.seq)` show their full details even when
no live store exists. Keep store-specific state and restore controls guarded by
`store()`.

Review comments at @packages/ng-devtools/src/ngrx-collector.ts:
- Around line 471-483: Move event correlation out of onReducerEvent and wrap the
resolved Dispatcher dispatch in attachDispatcher. Snapshot which tracked stores
have pendingBefore before calling the original dispatch, then correlate only
stores newly pending after it returns, preserving existing event metadata and
avoiding duplicate correlations; restore the original dispatch when detaching.

Review comments at @packages/ng-devtools/src/rpc/ngrx-live-tools.ts:
- Around line 104-141: Update inspectSignalStoreText so unfiltered output
includes the classic @ngrx/store state, not only its scope and DevTools status.
When page.classic exists, render its state using the existing JSON formatting
helper while preserving the current classic-store summary.

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Thanks for this, the entities summary and the events wiring are a nice start. Before it goes in, can you go through the NgRx Signals docs (watchState, the events plugin, signalMethod) and line it up with what #34 asks? A few things I hit:

  1. The Dispatcher lookup stops after 5 misses, and Dispatcher only exists once something injects it. Open the demo on /, go to /booking, and no events get logged. Keep looking until it's found and add a test.
  2. If a withReducer case sets a value it already has, finish() returns before clearing pendingEventByTracked, so the next change (even a plain method call) gets tagged with that old event. Clear it before the early return and in untrack, and use a WeakMap.
  3. devframe sends positional args as arg0/arg1/arg2, so agents can't pass storeId/since by name. Register both tools with agent.registerTool and a named inputSchema (page, storeId, since) like the router and forms tools.
  4. Please keep the ng-devtools:ngrx-store resource, the issue doesn't ask to remove it.
  5. State changes should come from watchState like #34 says, so every change in the same tick is its own entry. Right now they're merged.
  6. Clicking an event shows its detail inside the store's change log, somewhere else on the page, and focus doesn't follow. Give events their own selection with the detail right under the list.
  7. Smaller: cap the tool output and add the untrusted-data line like the forms and router tools, don't set payload on events without one (shows {"@type":"undefined"}), label signalMethod correctly, and mention scoped dispatchers and sync-only tagging under Limits.

I'll take another look after that.

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