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k8s-manifest-specific layer (graphify/extractors/k8s_manifest.py) -- the ticket's original scope: recognizes real Kubernetes resources (apiVersion+kind+metadata, value-validated, not just key presence) and extracts:

  • Standard metadata.ownerReferences -> owns edges.
  • This repo's own annotation-based convention (osac.openshift.io/owner-reference = parent's ID, osac.openshift.io/tenant = tenant scoping) -- confirmed against osac/.claude/rules/architecture-patterns.md and the operator's own Go source (subnet_type.pb.go et al: the annotation value is the parent's ID, not name).
  • ConfigMap/Secret references (configMapKeyRef/secretKeyRef, envFrom, volume mounts) via a generic recursive walk of spec.
  • *Ref/*Refs CRD cross-references (e.g. subnetRef, securityGroupRefs) -- a real, live convention confirmed against osac-operator/config/samples/osac_v1alpha1_computeinstance.yaml, not invented.
  • Label-selector matches (Service -> Deployment/pods) via a shared "label hub" stub node -- confirmed exact against a real single-key example (osac-operator/config/console-proxy/{service,deployment}.yaml); documented as an approximation for multi-key selectors.

Direction change (confirmed explicitly mid-implementation)

Per discussion on PR #2, the scope broadened from k8s-only to universal YAML/JSON coverage: any YAML or JSON that doesn't match a recognized schema now gets a generic structural walk (graphify/extractors/yaml_generic.py, graphify/extractors/json_generic.py -- one node per key/list item, no domain semantics) instead of staying invisible, accepting lower-value/noisier nodes in exchange for nothing being invisible. Layered via graphify/extractors/yaml_dispatch.py (try k8s shape, else generic, per-document -- a single file can bundle multiple ----separated resources, confirmed against a real file, osac-operator/config/manager/manager.yaml). extract_json() gained the same layering for data JSON. detect.py now routes ALL .yaml/.yml to FileType.CODE unconditionally, matching .json's existing precedent.

Templated YAML safety, checked empirically rather than assumed: a real Go-templated Helm chart file (osac-operator/charts/operator/templates/metrics-service.yaml) parses to a tree-sitter root ERROR node, not a best-effort partial tree. The dispatcher checks .has_error and a raw {{ marker per document (see "Fixed in review" below for why both are needed) and skips with a one-line warning naming the file -- never crashes, never walks garbage.

Fixed in review

Two real bugs found by review, both reproduced empirically before fixing and verified after:

  1. Owner-reference namespace-scoping bug, hit by this PR's own flagship example: a namespaced child (Deployment) owned by a cluster-scoped resource (Namespace, ClusterRole, a CRD, ...) had its owner lookup keyed by the CHILD's namespace, while the cluster-scoped owner was indexed with none -- guaranteed miss, minting a duplicate stub instead of linking to the real node. Compounded by a second bug: the dispatcher called extract_k8s_resources() once per document instead of once per file, defeating the two-pass same-file design the module's own comments claimed -- each document got an empty local_nids scope, so a same-file forward reference (Namespace declared before the Deployment it owns) was never visible. Fixed both: _resolve_owner() now tries cluster scope for well-known cluster-scoped kinds (and falls back to trying both scopes otherwise), and the dispatcher now classifies every document first, then extracts all k8s-shaped documents in a file together in one call.
  2. Templated-Helm-chart detection was unreliable in both directions. replicas: {{ .Values.x }} (the single most common Helm idiom) parsed with has_error=False on the specific document node checked -- {{ looks like valid, if bogus, nested flow-mapping syntax to the grammar, not a parse error -- so it was silently extracted as a "clean" resource. image: {{ .Values.x }}:{{ .Values.y }} set has_error=True on the parse tree's stream root but not on the specific document node checked, so it silently produced zero output with no warning. Fixed by also checking each document's raw text for a literal {{ marker, independent of has_error -- confirmed this catches both directions.

New tests assert on real node-ID uniqueness (a set of ids, plus the graph actually built via build_from_json) for the cluster-scoped-owner scenario, not label-based _rel_pairs/_labels helpers, which are blind to two distinct node dicts sharing the same label -- exactly the shape bug 1 produced.

Known interaction with PR #2 (not blocking, needs reconciling when both merge)

Verified via retest: once both PRs are combined, detect.classify_file() ends up returning CODE for every .yaml/.yml unconditionally (this PR's change), which silently makes PR #2's narrower is_github_actions_workflow_path() path-based carve-out dead code -- not a textual conflict, a semantic one. Output is still correct today because the generic fallback here catches whatever PR #2's workflow-shaped extractor doesn't, but whoever merges both should explicitly remove PR #2's now-redundant carve-out rather than leave two classification paths where only one is reachable.

Optional extra

Reuses [yaml] from OSAC-4049 (same tree-sitter-yaml dependency, no isolation benefit from splitting) -- added independently here since that PR isn't merged into v8 yet (same reasoning as the _DISPATCH/pyproject.toml overlap noted inline, which will need trivial-to-resolve combining once both land).

Test plan

  • 30 tests (tests/test_k8s_manifest.py): every relationship type above, multi-document files, shape-validation negative cases (coincidental key names, Docker Compose out-of-scope), the combined dispatcher's layering and templated-YAML warning path, classify_file()'s universal coverage, plus the four regression tests added for the two review-caught bugs (real node-ID-uniqueness assertions for the cluster-scoped-owner scenario, direct repros for both templated-YAML failure directions).
  • 2 existing tests updated to reflect the new intentional behavior (data JSON / generic yaml no longer silently empty) -- tests/test_extract.py, tests/test_manifest_ingest.py.
  • Full suite: 4395 passed, 0 failures (one pre-existing, unrelated flaky test confirmed passing in isolation both before and after this change).
  • ruff check: clean.

Real, measured corpus impact -- read before merging

Ran a true before/after against a fresh checkout of the actual osac repo (matching what graphify-brain-refresh.yaml scans), pristine v8 vs this branch, same commit:

nodes edges query wall-clock
Before (pristine v8) 96,879 176,690 -- (matches the already-established baseline)
After (this branch) 396,492 472,414 26.2s
Established ceiling 170,000 -- 10s

This exceeds the established performance ceiling (~2.3x on nodes, ~2.6x on query wall-clock). Root-caused, not just observed: 70.3% of the new nodes (278,734) come from one vendored third-party tree, osac-aap/vendor/ansible_collections/... -- invisible under the old YAML-is-a-document behavior, now walked in full since all YAML is unconditionally CODE. Excluding that tree arithmetically lands around ~118K nodes, comfortably under the ceiling.

Decision (explicitly confirmed with the user): ship this PR as-is; the fix is a .graphifyignore change in the osac repo (excluding vendored third-party trees), a corpus-scoping decision in a different repo, not a defect in this extractor. Flagging here so it isn't merged without that context -- the osac-side follow-up should land and be re-verified before this is relied upon in the real pipeline.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added support for extracting Kubernetes manifests from YAML files, including resource relationships, references, labels, and selectors.
    • Added generic structural extraction for YAML and previously unrecognized JSON data.
    • Added support for multi-document YAML files and clearer handling of malformed, templated, oversized, or truncated content.
  • Improvements
    • YAML files are now classified as code and included in graph extraction.
    • Added YAML parsing support through the optional full-installation dependency set.

…the rich layer

graphify/extractors/k8s_manifest.py: recognizes real Kubernetes resources
(apiVersion+kind+metadata, value-validated) and extracts owner-reference
edges (both standard metadata.ownerReferences and this repo's own
osac.openshift.io/owner-reference annotation convention, plus
osac.openshift.io/tenant scoping -- confirmed against
osac/.claude/rules/architecture-patterns.md and the operator's own Go
source), ConfigMap/Secret references, *Ref/*Refs CRD cross-references
(confirmed against real usage in osac-operator's CRD samples), and
label-selector matches via a shared label-hub node (confirmed exact
against a real Service/Deployment pair in osac-operator/config/console-proxy/).

Direction change confirmed explicitly mid-implementation: rather than stay
k8s-only, ANY YAML or JSON with no recognized schema now also gets a
generic structural walk (graphify/extractors/yaml_generic.py,
graphify/extractors/json_generic.py) instead of staying invisible --
layered under the k8s-specific extractor via
graphify/extractors/yaml_dispatch.py, matching how extract_json already
layers config-JSON extraction over a (previously empty, now generic)
fallback for data JSON. detect.py now routes ALL .yaml/.yml to
FileType.CODE unconditionally, matching .json's existing precedent.

Go-templated Helm chart YAML (confirmed empirically to break the
tree-sitter-yaml grammar outright, producing a root ERROR node rather than
a partial tree) is detected per-document and skipped with a one-line
warning, never crashed on or walked for garbage structure.

Real, measured corpus impact against the actual osac repo (before/after on
the same commit): 96,879 -> 396,492 nodes, query wall-clock 26.2s -- both
well past the established ceiling (170K nodes / 10s). Root-caused: 70% of
the new nodes come from one vendored third-party tree
(osac-aap/vendor/ansible_collections) that contributed nothing under the
old YAML-is-a-document behavior. Estimated ~118K nodes with that tree
excluded, comfortably under ceiling -- the fix is a .graphifyignore change
in the osac repo, not a defect in this extractor; shipping this PR now on
that basis, per explicit decision.

Full test suite: 4390 passed, 0 failures (one pre-existing, unrelated
flaky test confirmed passing in isolation).
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YAML files are classified as code and routed through a YAML dispatcher. Kubernetes manifests receive relationship-aware extraction. Generic YAML and unrecognized JSON receive structural graph extraction with node limits and truncation reporting.

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YAML and generic data extraction

Layer / File(s) Summary
Classification and extractor wiring
graphify/detect.py, graphify/extract.py, pyproject.toml, tests/test_k8s_manifest.py, tests/test_manifest_ingest.py
YAML extensions now use code classification, YAML dispatch, and the yaml optional dependency.
Shared YAML CST and generic structure
graphify/extractors/_yaml_cst.py, graphify/extractors/json_generic.py, graphify/extractors/json_config.py, graphify/extractors/yaml_generic.py, tests/test_extract.py
Shared CST helpers support YAML mappings, sequences, scalars, and documents. Unrecognized JSON and YAML produce hierarchical nodes and contains edges with truncation limits.
Kubernetes resource extraction
graphify/extractors/k8s_manifest.py, tests/test_k8s_manifest.py
Kubernetes-shaped documents produce validated resource nodes and ownership, reference, tenant, selector, and label relationships.
YAML parsing and dispatch
graphify/extractors/yaml_dispatch.py, tests/test_k8s_manifest.py
The dispatcher handles size limits, parse failures, template markers, mixed documents, Kubernetes batching, generic fallback, warnings, and truncation reporting.

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

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 0a48d

The new universal YAML/JSON and Kubernetes extraction can currently omit valid scalar YAML, merge distinct Kubernetes resources incorrectly, treat templated manifests as real resources, and bypass its structural safety limit, causing incorrect graph data or excessive resource use. The PR is not merge-ready until these issues are fixed.

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  participant Dispatcher as extract_yaml
  participant Parser as tree-sitter YAML
  participant K8s as k8s_manifest
  participant Generic as yaml_generic

  Extract->>Dispatcher: route .yaml or .yml
  Dispatcher->>Parser: parse bounded YAML input
  Parser-->>Dispatcher: YAML documents
  Dispatcher->>K8s: batch Kubernetes-shaped documents
  K8s-->>Dispatcher: resource nodes and relationship edges
  Dispatcher->>Generic: extract non-Kubernetes documents
  Generic-->>Dispatcher: structural nodes and contains edges
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…etection

Two real bugs found in review, both verified empirically before and
after the fix:

1. Namespace-scoping bug in ownerReference resolution, reproduced
   against this PR's own manager.yaml-style example (Namespace owning a
   Deployment). The owner lookup was keyed by the CHILD's own namespace,
   but a cluster-scoped owner (Namespace, ClusterRole, a CRD, ...) is
   indexed with no namespace at all -- guaranteed miss, minting a
   duplicate stub instead of linking to the real node. Fixed with
   _resolve_owner(), which tries cluster scope for well-known
   cluster-scoped kinds and falls back to trying both the child's
   namespace and cluster scope otherwise.

   This was compounded by a second, real bug in yaml_dispatch.py: it
   called extract_k8s_resources() once PER DOCUMENT instead of once per
   file, defeating the two-pass same-file design k8s_manifest.py's own
   comments already claimed -- each document got its own empty
   local_nids scope, so a same-file forward reference (the Namespace
   declared before the Deployment that owns it) was never visible when
   resolving the owner. Fixed by classifying all documents first, then
   extracting every k8s-shaped document in the file together in one call.

2. The templated-Helm-chart safety net was unreliable in both
   directions, not "always warns and skips" as originally claimed.
   Verified empirically: a bare inline template value like
   "replicas: {{ .Values.x }}" (the single most common Helm templating
   idiom) parses with has_error=False on the specific document node
   checked -- the template markers look like valid, if bogus, nested
   flow-mapping syntax to the grammar, not a parse error, so it was
   silently extracted as a clean resource. Concatenated template blocks
   like "image: {{ .Values.x }}:{{ .Values.y }}" go the other way:
   has_error=True on the parse tree's stream root but NOT on the specific
   document node checked, so it silently produced zero output with no
   warning. Fixed by also checking the document's raw text for a literal
   template-open marker, independent of has_error -- confirmed this
   catches both directions.

New tests assert on real node-ID uniqueness (a set of ids, and the built
graph via build_from_json) for the cluster-scoped-owner scenario, not
label-based _rel_pairs/_labels helpers, which are blind to two distinct
node dicts sharing the same label -- exactly the shape the first bug
produced. Plus direct regression tests for both new templated-YAML repro
patterns.

Full suite: 4395 passed, 0 failures.
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Fixed both real bugs from review, pushed in 0a48d80:

1. Namespace-scoping bug in ownerReference resolution (hit this PR's own manager.yaml example). Reproduced directly: a Namespace owning a Deployment produced two Namespace/osac nodes, with the owns edge bound to the stub, not the real node. Root-caused to two compounding bugs:

  • The owner lookup was keyed by the child's namespace, but a cluster-scoped owner (Namespace, ClusterRole, a CRD, ...) is indexed with none. Fixed with _resolve_owner(), which tries cluster scope for well-known cluster-scoped kinds and falls back to trying both scopes otherwise.
  • yaml_dispatch.py called extract_k8s_resources() once per document instead of once per file, so each document got its own empty local_nids -- a same-file forward reference (Namespace declared before the Deployment it owns) was never visible even with the namespace fix alone. Fixed by classifying all documents first, then extracting every k8s-shaped document in a file together in one call.

Verified: Namespace/osac node count is now 1 (was 2), and the owns edge binds to the real node's id. Added tests asserting on real node-ID uniqueness (a set of ids, plus the graph built via build_from_json) for both same-file and cross-file variants of this scenario -- not label-based _rel_pairs/_labels, which would not have caught this.

2. Templated-Helm-chart safety net was unreliable in both directions. Verified both new repro patterns empirically before fixing:

  • replicas: {{ .Values.x }} -- has_error=False on the specific document node checked (confirmed: {{ parses as valid, if bogus, nested flow-mapping syntax, not a grammar error), so it was silently extracted as a clean resource.
  • image: {{ .Values.x }}:{{ .Values.y }} -- has_error=True on the parse tree's stream root but not on the specific document node checked, so it silently produced zero output with no warning.

Fixed by also checking each document's raw text for a literal {{ marker, independent of has_error. Confirmed both patterns now correctly warn and skip with an empty result. Added direct regression tests for both.

Also flagged in the PR description (not fixed, not blocking): the semantic classify_file() overlap with PR #2 once both merge.

Full suite: 4395 passed, 0 failures.

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Inline comments:
In `@graphify/extractors/json_generic.py`:
- Around line 89-100: Update the walkers in graphify/extractors/json_generic.py
lines 89-100 and graphify/extractors/yaml_generic.py lines 92-98 to track
visited mapping keys and array items independently of deduplicated nodes,
stopping when the visited-position count reaches MAX_NODES_PER_DOCUMENT;
preserve the existing node and contains-edge behavior for positions processed
before the cap.

In `@graphify/extractors/k8s_manifest.py`:
- Around line 372-400: Update the manifest parsing flow to retain each
resource’s API group derived from apiVersion, include it in _resource_id and the
local_nids key so same-named resources from different groups remain distinct,
and use ownerReferences[].apiVersion when resolving owners. Add a regression
test covering two API groups defining the same kind, namespace, and name.
- Around line 484-486: Update extract_k8s_manifest() to apply the same
invalid-template gate as yaml_dispatch.py before collecting resource_tops:
reject documents when root.has_error is true or the raw input contains the {{
marker, returning empty nodes and edges. Preserve normal extraction for valid
non-templated Kubernetes manifests.

In `@graphify/extractors/yaml_generic.py`:
- Around line 118-120: Update the scalar-root handling in _walk and extract_yaml
so scalar YAML documents create a document-root node connected to file_nid
instead of returning no nodes; preserve existing mappings and sequences, and add
a regression test covering a scalar document such as enabled.

In `@tests/test_k8s_manifest.py`:
- Around line 37-39: Limit the _require_grammar autouse fixture to tests that
exercise YAML extraction so classify_file() coverage remains runnable without
tree_sitter_yaml. Move the classify_file() tests to a fixture-free module or
apply the skip selectively to extractor tests, preserving the existing grammar
requirement where parsing is actually used.
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All verified against actual current code before fixing; all 5 were real:

1. yaml_generic.py / json_generic.py: MAX_NODES_PER_DOCUMENT was checked
   against len(nodes), which is deduplicated via seen_ids. Confirmed real:
   make_id(path, "a.b", "c") normalizes to the same id as
   make_id(path, "a", "b.c") -- a mapping key containing "." collapses two
   genuinely different structural positions. This let the walk visit
   unboundedly more positions than the cap intends while len(nodes) stayed
   under it, defeating the safety valve for exactly the pathological,
   deeply-nested files it exists to bound. Fixed with a separate `visited`
   counter incremented per position considered, independent of dedup.

2. k8s_manifest.py: resource identity was (kind, namespace, name) with no
   API group, so two different API groups defining the same
   kind/namespace/name (a legitimate real k8s scenario -- apiVersion exists
   precisely to allow this, e.g. NetworkPolicy historically existed in both
   extensions/v1beta1 and networking.k8s.io/v1) would silently collide into
   one node -- the same class of bug as the namespace-scoping fix from the
   previous round. Fixed: _api_group() extracts the group from apiVersion
   (deliberately excluding version, since the same group+kind+namespace+
   name accessed via a different version is the same logical resource, not
   a distinct one), threaded through _resource_id, local_nids keys, and
   ownerReferences resolution (which always carries its own apiVersion).
   ConfigMap/Secret refs use the core group (always correct, no ambiguity).
   *Ref/*Refs convention references (which carry no apiVersion of their
   own) default to the referencing resource's own group -- a documented,
   reasonable approximation, not a perfect resolution.

3. extract_k8s_manifest() -- confirmed via grep it is NOT wired into
   _DISPATCH (unreachable from the real extraction pipeline) but IS a
   real, re-exported, directly-callable entry point (used throughout this
   test file, importable via graphify.extract) that lacked the
   has_error/template-marker gate yaml_dispatch.py has. A templated file
   routed through this function directly would have been silently
   mis-extracted. Fixed by moving the shared gate into
   _yaml_cst.is_unparseable() and filtering in all_top_level_mappings()
   itself (which both extract_k8s_manifest and yaml_dispatch already
   route through), rather than duplicating the check in a second place.

4. yaml_generic.py / json_generic.py: a document that's a bare scalar at
   the top level (e.g. a file containing just `true` or `"hello"`, no
   mapping or sequence at all) produced zero nodes -- not even a file
   node, since the caller only creates one when the walk returns at least
   one node. Directly contradicts the "nothing invisible" goal universal
   coverage exists for. Fixed: mint a doc-root node for the scalar,
   connected to file_nid.

5. tests/test_k8s_manifest.py: the module's autouse _require_grammar
   fixture (skips if tree_sitter_yaml isn't installed) applied to two
   classify_file()-only tests that never parse YAML content and don't
   need the grammar at all -- reducing real coverage when the optional
   [yaml] extra is absent. Moved to a new, fixture-free
   tests/test_k8s_manifest_classify.py; confirmed passing with the extra
   uninstalled.

9 new/moved regression tests. Full suite: 4398 passed, 0 failures.
ruff check: clean.
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Closing without merging — deliberate decision, not abandoned mid-review.

This PR's motivating use case (making CI/merge-queue "is everything healthy" questions cheaper/better via the brain) was tested with two separate real trials after the extractor work landed:

  1. A qualitative retest confirmed the data-invisibility bug is genuinely fixed (graphify explain returns correct real YAML-derived structure), but a fresh agent's own honest quality verdict on the original question was still negative ("not useful, actively noisy").
  2. A real $-cost A/B trial, run twice (once before, once after adding an explicit "verify live state, don't trust static YAML" caveat to CLAUDE.md), showed the tradeoff can't be resolved either way: without the caveat, the brain was cheaper but complacent (stopped at static analysis); with the caveat, it matched without-brain's rigor but lost the cost advantage entirely (paid for a graph lookup it then correctly discarded as useless).

Root cause, not a fixable bug: this class of question needs live GitHub state (branch protection, actual required checks, run history, live queue state) that no structural code graph — however complete — can ever hold.

A follow-up attempt to find a different supporting use case (a CRD/manifest cross-reference question, closer to this PR's actual k8s-manifest logic) also didn't pan out — the real implementation path for that specific question turned out to be pure Go/SQL, never touching YAML/CRD manifests at all, so it didn't end up exercising this PR's capability either.

The underlying engineering here is real and correct (2 rounds of review, 9 regression tests, 4398 tests passing) and could be revived if a genuine use case shows up organically later — but shipping it now would mean carrying its real corpus-scale cost (+18% nodes even with the vendor exclusion) for a benefit that's been tested for twice and not found.

#2 (the narrower GitHub Actions extractor) merged separately on its own proven merits.

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