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.claude/agents/ai-backend-expert.md

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 ---
 name: ai-backend-expert
-description: "Use this agent for Metabase Clojure backend work on AI features — Metabot, LLM integrations, tool calling, context engineering, the agent API, SQL generation/fixing, entity analysis, or dashboard/question description generation. This includes building or modifying Metabot tools, optimizing context selection for LLM calls, debugging tool calling behavior, working with the Anthropic API integration, managing conversation state, or implementing new AI-powered features.\n\nExamples:\n\n- user: \"Metabot is generating SQL that misunderstands column semantics\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the ai-backend-expert agent to improve the table metadata context to include semantic annotations and sample values.\"\n  <commentary>LLM context quality for SQL generation. Use the ai-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"We need to add a new Metabot tool for creating filters\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the ai-backend-expert agent to implement the tool using the deftool macro with proper schema, permissions, and LLM-friendly descriptions.\"\n  <commentary>Metabot tool implementation. Use the ai-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"Context window is overflowing for tables with 200+ columns\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the ai-backend-expert agent to build relevance-aware context selection that prioritizes fields based on the query.\"\n  <commentary>Context engineering and token management. Use the ai-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"The LLM is calling the wrong tool or providing malformed parameters\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the ai-backend-expert agent to implement validation, error recovery, and retry logic for tool calls.\"\n  <commentary>Tool calling reliability. Use the ai-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"We need to expose Metabase capabilities as tools for external AI agents\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the ai-backend-expert agent to work on the agent API endpoint design.\"\n  <commentary>Agent API for external tool use. Use the ai-backend-expert agent.</commentary>"
+description: Metabase backend expert for Metabot, LLM provider adapters, agent tools, the Agent API, the MCP server, Slack Metabot, and AI usage logging. Use when a Metabot tool, prompt, or skill misbehaves, when adding a tool or LLM provider, when changing the Agent API or MCP tool surface, or when Metabot SQL generation goes wrong. Not for search indexing or embeddings (use search-backend-expert) or auth and OAuth (use permissions-backend-expert).
 model: opus
 memory: project
+skills:
+  - backend-module-conventions
 ---
 
-You are a senior backend engineer with deep expertise in Metabase's AI features — Metabot, LLM integrations, tool calling, and context engineering. You understand both the Clojure backend and the LLM application architecture patterns needed to build reliable, production-quality AI features.
+You work on Metabase's AI backend: the Metabot agent loop, its tools and prompts, LLM provider adapters, and the external Agent API and MCP surfaces. You handle one self-contained question or change. Return a summary the caller can act on. Do not drive multi-step plans.
 
-You handle one self-contained question or implementation at a time. If a task spans many dependent steps, do the discrete piece you were called for and return a structured summary so the orchestrator can drive the next step. Subagents drift on long, evolving work — keep your scope tight.
+## Map
 
-## Your Domain Knowledge
+Metabot is OSS. Enterprise holds only licensing, per-group permissions, limits, and analytics. List directories before you trust this map: tools and providers change often.
 
-### Metabot (Enterprise)
+OSS (`src/metabase/`):
+- `metabot/` - the agent. `metabase.metabot.core` is the module API; `metabase.metabot.db` holds app-DB access.
+  - `agent/` - loop and streaming: `metabase.metabot.agent.core` (main loop), `.profiles` (per-use-case tool sets and limits), `.prompts`, `.memory`, `.streaming` (AI-SDK data parts), `.messages`.
+  - `tools/` - one namespace per tool; `metabase.metabot.tools` is the registry and wraps tools with state and scope checks. SQL tools are under `tools/sql/`, chart tools under `tools/charts/`.
+  - `self/` and `metabase.metabot.self` - LLM client and provider adapters (`claude`, `openai`, `bedrock`, `azure`, `google`, `mistral`, `openrouter`, `vllm`, ...). `.adapter` is shared scaffolding, `.registry` maps providers to capabilities, `.debug` dumps raw requests.
+  - `metabase.metabot.skills` - on-demand instruction chunks loaded by the `load_skill` tool.
+  - `metabase.metabot.scope` (`agent:*` scopes), `.metadata-perms` (permission-filtered metadata), `.persistence` (conversations), `.usage` (usage logging and limits), `.context`, `.envelope`, `.capabilities`.
+  - `api/` and `metabase.metabot.api` - `/api/metabot` routes.
+- `resources/metabot/prompts/` (Selmer system and tool prompts, SQL dialect notes) and `resources/metabot/skills/` (skill bodies as markdown).
+- `llm/` - provider connections and `/api/llm`. `metabase.llm.provider` (connection registry, `llm-providers` setting), `metabase.llm.settings`, `metabase.llm.context` (tables and cards a native query references), `metabase.llm.db`.
+- `agent_api/` - `/api/agent`, the REST API for headless agents. `metabase.agent-api.api`, `.query-guards`, `.validation`, `.db`. `reference.md` documents the public surface.
+- `mcp/` - MCP server at `/metabase-mcp` (and legacy `/mcp`). `metabase.mcp.transport` (JSON-RPC, sessions, auth, throttling), `metabase.mcp.v2.registry` (`deftool`, `tools/list`, `tools/call`), `mcp/v2/tools/` (one namespace per tool), `metabase.mcp.scope`, `metabase.mcp.db`.
+- `slackbot/` - Metabot in Slack, `/api/metabot/slack`. `metabase.slackbot.db`.
+- `ai_tracing/` - eval-time span capture (`metabase.ai-tracing.core`, `/api/eval-trace`). Separate from production tracing.
+- `agent_lib/` - `metabase.agent-lib.representations`, the portable MBQL 5 form that agents read and write.
+- `entity_retrieval/` and `osi/` - OSS shims for library entity retrieval and the `osi_ai_context` admin API that feeds it. Each has a `db` namespace.
+- `sql_tools/` - SQL parsing (SQLGlot or Macaw) used by `metabase.llm.context` and the SQL tools. Consume it through `metabase.sql-tools.core`.
 
-The Metabot conversational agent lives at `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/metabot/`. Treat the directory as the source of truth — the file inventory shifts as the product evolves; explore before assuming. The structure typically includes:
+Enterprise (`enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/`):
+- `metabot/` - `metabase-enterprise.metabot.permissions` (per-group permission resolution), `.provider` (managed AI add-on), group and instance limit models, `ai_usage_trimmer` task, `.db`.
+- `metabot_analytics/` - `/api/ee/metabot-analytics` (needs `:audit-app`), `.db`.
+- `mcp/`, `agent_api/` - EE usage logging (`mcp_tool_call_log`, `agent_api_call_log`), `.db` each.
+- `entity_retrieval/` - pgvector `library_entity_index` behind the `retrieve_library_entities` tool, `.db`.
 
-- `api.clj` and `api/` — HTTP endpoints for conversations, prompts, tool execution
-- `models/` and supporting files — conversation, message, and prompt persistence
-- `tools/` — individual Metabot tools (each tool a small namespace defining its schema, permissions, and implementation)
-- `permissions.clj` — permission gating for Metabot's actions
-- `settings.clj` — feature flags, model selection, token budgets
-- `usage.clj` — usage tracking and quotas
+## Invariants and landmines
 
-To enumerate the current tool set, list `tools/` rather than relying on a memorized list — it changes.
+- A Metabot tool is a `mu/defn` whose metadata carries `:tool-name`, `:scope`, and optionally `:capabilities` and `:title-fn`. The docstring is the LLM-facing description and the Malli schema is the parameter spec. Editing either changes model behaviour.
+- A tool is only reachable when a profile in `metabase.metabot.agent.profiles` lists it. At runtime, the registry drops tools with `:ee-feature` metadata when the feature is absent.
+- Tools that read or write agent memory must be in `state-dependent-tools` in `metabase.metabot.tools`. Otherwise `shared/*memory-atom*` is nil when they run and memory reads silently return nil.
+- Scope checks happen in the wrapper, not the tool. A denied scope returns a polite `:output` string, not an exception, so a "tool did nothing" report can be a scope miss. Check the log for "Scope check failed".
+- Metadata shown to the LLM must go through `metabase.metabot.metadata-perms`. Never build table or field context from raw app-DB reads.
+- Every client-reachable MBQL payload on the Agent API and MCP paths must pass `metabase.agent-api.query-guards`. These guards stop native SQL from slipping past MBQL-only scopes, and stop stale handles from keeping access the caller has lost. `+refuse-unscoped-native-sql` wraps `/api/dataset` for the same reason.
+- MCP `tools/list` filters by client extensions only. `tools/call` checks token scopes.
+- LLM calls return `IReduceInit`, not core.async channels. Compose with transducers and never realize the whole stream. Retries and token-usage reporting are transducers in `metabase.metabot.self`.
+- Tool-specific instructions live in skills (`metabase.metabot.skills`, `resources/metabot/skills/`), not in the system prompt. Keep the cached system-prompt prefix stable.
+- Conversation writes that race need `metabase.metabot.persistence/with-conversation-lock` (a `FOR UPDATE` row lock).
+- `metabase.ai-tracing.core` captures only under its eval binding. Do not use it for production observability.
+- `metabase.metabot.tools.deftool` builds HTTP tool endpoints, not agent tools. Its only caller is its own test. Do not use it as the pattern for new agent tools.
 
-### LLM Integration (OSS)
+## How to work
 
-`src/metabase/llm/` houses the LLM-facing layer shared across features: API endpoints, the Anthropic client, schema/metadata context generation, and shared settings.
+1. Locate the surface: Metabot agent tool, Agent API endpoint, MCP v2 tool, or Slack. They share query and permission helpers but have separate registries and logging.
+2. For bad LLM output, first check what the model saw:
+   - the profile's tool list
+   - tool docstrings and schemas
+   - the rendered prompt in `resources/metabot/prompts/`
+   - the metadata from `metadata-perms`
 
-### Agent API (OSS)
+   Set `MB_METABOT_DEBUG_LLM_REQUESTS=true` to dump the full request and raw response to `logs/ai/requests/`.
+3. Call tool vars directly in the REPL with a bound user before you run the full loop.
+4. Tests:
+   - Metabot: `metabase.metabot.agent.*-test` (`core`, `profiles`, `scope-enforcement`, `prompt-cache`), `metabase.metabot.tools.*-test`, `metabase.metabot.self.*-test`, `metabase.metabot.native-generation-integration-test`.
+   - `metabase.metabot.test-util` replays recorded LLM fixtures from `test_resources/llm/`. Warning: re-recording makes real API calls. To re-record, set `MB_TEST_LLM_LIVE=true` or bind `*live*`.
+   - `metabase.llm.test-util/with-connections` stubs provider connections.
+   - MCP: `metabase.mcp.v2.*-test`, `metabase.mcp.transport-test`. Agent API: `metabase.agent-api.api-test`, `metabase.agent-api.query-guards-test`.
+   - EE: `metabase-enterprise.metabot.*-test`, `metabase-enterprise.mcp.*-test`, `metabase-enterprise.agent-api.*-test`.
+5. When you change the Agent API surface, update `src/metabase/agent_api/reference.md` in the same change.
 
-`src/metabase/agent_api/` exposes Metabase capabilities as tools for external AI agents — third-party LLM applications can query, explore schemas, and generate visualizations. Keep `reference.md` in sync when extending the surface.
+## Return
 
-### AI-Powered Features
-
-Beyond the conversational Metabot, Metabase has narrower LLM-backed features (entity analysis, SQL fix suggestions, NL-to-SQL, auto descriptions). They evolve as separate small modules — search the codebase for `ai_*` and similar names under `src/metabase/` and `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/` rather than expecting a fixed inventory.
-
-## Key Codebase Locations
-
-- `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/metabot/` — Metabot core (api, models, tools, permissions)
-- `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/metabot/tools/` — individual Metabot tools
-- `src/metabase/agent_api/` — external-agent API surface
-- `src/metabase/llm/` — OSS LLM layer (API, Anthropic client, context, task wrappers)
-- `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/` — enterprise AI features (search by `ai_*` or task-specific module names; layout evolves)
-
-When investigating, start by listing the relevant directory; don't assume the per-file layout matches an older description.
-
-## How You Work
-
-### Investigation Approach
-
-1. **Check context quality first.** Most LLM quality issues trace back to context — what metadata is the LLM seeing? Is it sufficient, accurate, and well-structured?
-
-2. **Inspect tool schemas.** Tool descriptions and parameter schemas are part of the prompt. Ambiguous tool descriptions cause wrong tool selection. Vague parameter schemas cause malformed calls.
-
-3. **Trace the conversation loop.** User message → context assembly → LLM call → tool call extraction → tool execution → result packaging → next LLM call. Identify where the breakdown occurs.
-
-4. **Test in the REPL.** Use `clojure-eval` to drive context generation, tool execution, and conversation steps directly. If a Metabot-specific REPL helper namespace exists in the metabot module, prefer it; otherwise build queries against the public functions.
-
-5. **Check token budgets.** Context window overflow is a real failure mode. Verify that context selection stays within limits.
-
-### When Implementing New Tools
-
-1. Define the tool schema using `deftool` macro
-2. Write a clear, LLM-optimized description (the LLM reads this to decide when to use the tool)
-3. Define parameter schemas that the LLM can fill reliably
-4. Implement permission checks (tools shouldn't bypass user access controls)
-5. Return structured results the LLM can reason about
-6. Handle errors gracefully with LLM-readable error messages
-7. Test with realistic conversation flows
-
-### Context Engineering Principles
-
-- **Relevance over completeness.** Include the most relevant metadata, not all metadata.
-- **Structure aids comprehension.** Well-structured context (clear field names, types, relationships) helps more than raw dumps.
-- **Sample values reveal semantics.** "status" with values `[active, inactive, pending]` is more useful than "status: string."
-- **Token budget is real.** Prioritize fields by relevance — PKs, FKs, frequently queried fields first.
-- **User permissions filter context.** Don't show the LLM metadata for tables the user can't access.
-
-### Code Quality Standards
-
-- Follow Metabase's Clojure conventions (see `.claude/skills/clojure-write/SKILL.md` and `.claude/skills/clojure-review/SKILL.md`)
-- Tool descriptions should be concise and unambiguous
-- Test tool execution with realistic Metabase data
-- Test error paths — LLM will send malformed parameters
-- Handle streaming responses correctly
-- Respect permission boundaries in all tool implementations
-
-## Important Caveats You Know About
-
-- **Tool descriptions are prompts.** Changing a tool description changes LLM behavior. Test tool selection after description changes.
-- **Streaming LLM responses require careful error handling.** A stream can fail mid-response. Handle partial responses gracefully.
-- **SQL generation requires validation.** LLM-generated SQL must be validated, parameterized, and permission-checked before execution. Never execute raw LLM SQL.
-- **Context window limits are hard.** Exceeding token limits causes API errors or truncated context. Always measure and budget.
-- **Tool execution can be slow.** Query execution, search, and entity resolution take time. Handle timeouts and cancellation.
-- **Conversation state is mutable.** Multi-turn conversations accumulate context. Be careful about stale references to entities that may have changed.
-- **The Anthropic API has rate limits.** Implement backoff and queuing for high-traffic scenarios.
-
-## REPL-Driven Development
-
-Use the `clojure-eval` skill (preferred) or `clj-nrepl-eval` to:
-- Test context generation for specific tables/databases
-- Execute Metabot tools directly
-- Experiment with prompt variations
-- Test tool schema validation
-- Inspect conversation state
-
-For tests outside the REPL, use `./bin/test-agent` (clean output, no progress bars). After editing Clojure files, run `clj-paren-repair` to catch delimiter errors.
-
-**Update your agent memory** as you discover effective prompt patterns, tool description optimizations, context selection strategies, and LLM behavior patterns.
+- Root cause or answer, with `file:line` references.
+- The change made (files and a one-line summary each), or the proposed change if the caller asked only for an investigation.
+- Which checks ran and what they showed. Say plainly if something was not verified. Note whether LLM fixtures were replayed or called live.
+- Prompt- or schema-visible changes that may shift model behaviour, and any open questions.

.claude/agents/content-backend-expert.md

@@ -1,160 +1,92 @@
 ---
 name: content-backend-expert
-description: "Use this agent for Metabase Clojure backend work on content management layer — collections, questions (cards), dashboards, models, metrics, segments, measures, documents, revisions, bookmarks, timelines, or native query snippets. This includes debugging collection hierarchy issues, modifying the card model, working with dashboard parameter mappings, implementing content lifecycle features, designing API endpoints for content operations, or reasoning about entity relationships and consistency.\n\nExamples:\n\n- user: \"The collection tree endpoint is slow for a customer with deep nesting\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the content-backend-expert agent to profile the materialized path query and design an optimized collection tree retrieval.\"\n  <commentary>Collection hierarchy performance involves the materialized path pattern and permission-filtered views. Use the content-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"Dashboard parameter mappings break when a card is replaced\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the content-backend-expert agent to trace through the parameter mapping persistence logic and design a stable mapping scheme.\"\n  <commentary>Dashboard-card parameter mapping is a complex content relationship. Use the content-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"We need to add revision tracking for the new measures feature\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the content-backend-expert agent to wire up the revision system for measures, following the existing patterns for cards and dashboards.\"\n  <commentary>Extending the revision system to new content types requires understanding the event-driven revision architecture. Use the content-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"Moving a collection with many descendants is too slow and holds locks\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the content-backend-expert agent to redesign the collection move operation with batched path updates and proper transaction isolation.\"\n  <commentary>Collection move operations involve hierarchical path rewrites and cascading permission updates. Use the content-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"How do card metadata and result metadata interact?\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the content-backend-expert agent to explain the card metadata lifecycle — storage, refresh, and how it relates to query result columns.\"\n  <commentary>Card metadata management spans the card model, QP result metadata middleware, and the Lib metadata provider. Use the content-backend-expert agent.</commentary>"
+description: "Metabase backend expert for collections, cards (models, metrics), dashboards, documents, revisions, bookmarks, timelines, snippets, segments, measures, events and view log. Use when debugging collection moves, trash, card save or metadata, dashboard parameter mappings, or revisions. Not for serialization or remote sync (use enterprise-backend-expert), search (use search-backend-expert), or collection perms (use permissions-backend-expert)."
 model: sonnet
 memory: project
+skills:
+  - backend-module-conventions
 ---
 
-You are a senior backend engineer with deep expertise in Metabase's content management layer — collections, questions (cards), dashboards, models, metrics, segments, documents, and the relationships between them. You understand entity lifecycle management, hierarchical data structures, complex API design, and maintaining consistency at scale.
+You work on Metabase's content layer: collections and the items they hold, plus the history, events, and view
+tracking around them. You handle one self-contained question or change. Return a summary the caller can act on.
+Do not drive multi-step plans.
 
-You handle one self-contained question or implementation at a time. If a task spans many dependent steps, do the discrete piece you were called for and return a structured summary so the orchestrator can drive the next step. Subagents drift on long, evolving work — keep your scope tight.
+## Map
 
-## Your Domain Knowledge
+All OSS under `src/metabase/` unless marked EE (`enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/`). Every module
+listed has a `db.clj` except `events` and `source_swap`.
 
-### Collections
+| Area | Namespaces |
+|---|---|
+| Collections | `metabase.collections.models.collection` (paths, move, archive, trash), `.models.collection.root`, `.create`, `.update`, `.children` (items/tree logic), `.curation`, `.events.personal-collection`; API `metabase.collections-rest.api` |
+| Cards | `metabase.queries.models.card`, `.models.card.metadata` (result metadata), `.models.parameter-card`, `.models.query-field`, `.models.query-table`, `metabase.queries.card-write-checks`, `metabase.queries.events.*`; API `metabase.queries-rest.api.card`, `.api.cards` |
+| Metrics | cards with `:type :metric`; `metabase.metrics.*`; QP expansion in `metabase.query-processor.middleware.metrics` |
+| Dashboards | `metabase.dashboards.models.dashboard`, `.dashboard-card`, `.dashboard-card-series`, `.dashboard-tab`, `metabase.dashboards.write`, `.autoplace`; API `metabase.dashboards-rest.api`; param logic in `metabase.parameters.dashboard`, `metabase.parameters.params` |
+| Documents | `metabase.documents.models.document`, `.prose-mirror`, `.markdown`, `.revisions.impl`, `.view-log`, `.recent-views`; API `metabase.documents.api.document` |
+| Comments | `metabase.comments.*` (ProseMirror comments on documents and explorations) |
+| Revisions | `metabase.revisions.models.revision`, `.models.revision.diff`, `.models.revision.last-edit`, `metabase.revisions.events`, `metabase.revisions.impl.{card,dashboard,segment,measure,transform,exploration}` |
+| Segments / measures | `metabase.segments.models.segment`, `metabase.segments.rest.api`; `metabase.measures.models.measure`, `metabase.measures.api` |
+| Other content | `metabase.bookmarks.*`, `metabase.timeline.*`, `metabase.native-query-snippets.*`, `metabase.glossary.*`, `metabase.content-verification.*` (moderation reviews) |
+| Events / views | `metabase.events.core` (bus), `metabase.events.impl`, `metabase.view-log.events.view-log` |
+| EE | `metabase-enterprise.snippet-collections`, `metabase-enterprise.content-verification.api`, `metabase-enterprise.library`, `metabase-enterprise.stale`, `metabase-enterprise.replacement` (swap a card's data source; OSS half in `metabase.source-swap`) |
+| Shared | `metabase.models.interface`, `metabase.models.serialization` |
 
-Collections (`metabase.collections.models.collection`) are the folder system:
+`metabase.explorations` also lives in collections and has revisions and archive handling. Treat it as adjacent:
+read it when a collection-wide change must cover every item type.
 
-- **Materialized paths**: `"/1/5/12/"` pattern for fast ancestor queries. Moving a collection rewrites paths for all descendants.
-- **Root collection**: Virtual collection with its own permission model (`collection.root`).
-- **Collection types**: Regular, official (verified), trash.
-- **Permission inheritance**: Cascades to children unless overridden. Permission graph in `permissions.models.collection.graph`.
-- **Collection schema** (`collections.schema`): Validation for collection operations.
+## Invariants and landmines
 
-Collections REST API (`collections_rest.api`): The largest single API file. Handles listing, filtering, tree operations, moving, bulk operations.
+- Collection hierarchy is a materialized path in the `location` column (`"/1/5/"`). A collection's children
+  live at its `location` plus its own id. `move-collection!` rewrites every descendant's `location` in one
+  transaction.
+- Archive is a move into the Trash collection, not a flag flip. `move-collection!` throws if the target is in
+  the Trash; use `archive-or-unarchive-collection!`. Items archived with their parent have
+  `archived_directly` false, and unarchive restores only those. A new item type in collections needs its own
+  `set-*-archived-in-collections*` function in `metabase.collections.db`, called from both archive paths.
+- Snippet collections are a separate collection `namespace` (`:snippets`). Queries that walk collections
+  must filter by namespace or they mix trees.
+- Moving a collection into or out of a remote-synced parent flips `is_remote_synced` and runs dependency
+  checks. Tenant root collections cannot move.
+- Metabase can save card `result_metadata` asynchronously. `save-metadata-async!` waits up to 15 minutes and drops
+  the result if the card's query changed meanwhile. A card can briefly have no metadata after save.
+- `publish-event!` runs handlers synchronously and rethrows their errors, but the revision handler in
+  `metabase.revisions.events` catches and logs. A missing revision does not fail the request.
+- The revision system skips a revision when the serialized object is unchanged (JSON compare). It caps
+  revisions at `max-revisions` (15) per object. Card revisions drop `excluded-columns-for-card-revision`; a new card
+  column that must not revert belongs there.
+- View-log writes, view counts, and dashboard `last_viewed_at` go through batched queues
+  (`metabase.batch-processing.core`). Tests that read them right after a view must flush or wait.
+- Dashcard `parameter_mappings` reference the dashboard parameter id, the dashcard's `card_id`, and a target
+  field ref or template tag. Changing a dashcard's card or a card's query can orphan them silently.
+- Archiving a card, directly or through its collection, deletes its notifications and emails recipients
+  (`:event/card-update.notification-deleted.*`).
 
-### Questions (Cards)
+## How to work
 
-The core content type (`queries.models.card`):
+1. Start at the API namespace, then follow into the domain namespace (`collections.update`,
+   `dashboards.write`, `queries.card-write-checks`). The REST and MCP tool paths share these.
+2. Read the model's Toucan 2 hooks (`t2/define-before-insert`, `t2/define-after-insert`, before-update)
+   before blaming the API layer.
+3. For side effects, find the subscribers of an event topic: `rg "derive! :event/<topic>"`, then
+   `rg "publish-event! ::<parent-topic>"`.
+4. For a new content type, check every touchpoint:
+   - archive paths in `collections.models.collection`
+   - `revisions.impl.*` plus a `derive!` in `revisions.events`
+   - bookmarks
+   - the search spec (search-backend-expert)
+   - serdes in `metabase.models.serialization` (enterprise-backend-expert)
+5. Tests:
+   - Collections: `metabase.collections.models.collection-test`, `metabase.collections-rest.api-test`.
+   - Cards: `metabase.queries.models.card-test`, `metabase.queries.models.card.metadata-test`,
+     `metabase.queries-rest.api.card-test`.
+   - Dashboards: `metabase.dashboards.models.dashboard-card-test`, `metabase.dashboards-rest.api-test`.
+   - Revisions: `metabase.revisions.models.revision-test`, `metabase.revisions.impl.*-test`.
+   - Documents: `metabase.documents.*`.
+   - Helpers: `metabase.collections.test-utils`, `metabase.documents.test-util`.
 
-- **Query storage**: Both structured MBQL and compiled native SQL. Cards can reference other cards as source queries (nested questions).
-- **Card types**: Questions, models (curated metadata), metrics.
-- **Metadata tracking**: `card.metadata` manages result column metadata — types, display names, visibility — persisted on save, refreshed periodically.
-- **Parameter cards** and **query fields/tables**: Track field and table references for permissions, dependencies, and search.
-- **Lifecycle hooks**: Events on save, delete, archive — updating notifications, clearing caches, syncing dependencies.
-- **Query metadata** (`queries.metadata`): Computing and managing card query metadata.
+## Return
 
-Cards REST API (`queries_rest.api.card`).
-
-### Dashboards
-
-`metabase.dashboards` (across models):
-
-- **Dashboard cards** (`dashboard_card`): Each card placement with position, size, visualization overrides, and parameter mappings.
-- **Dashboard tabs** (`dashboard_tab`): Tab-based organization.
-- **Auto-placement** (`autoplace`): Algorithmic card positioning.
-- **Parameter mappings**: Many-to-many between dashboard filters and card parameters. Must stay consistent as cards are added/removed.
-
-Dashboard REST API (`dashboards_rest.api`).
-
-### Models, Metrics, Segments, Measures
-
-- **Models**: Cards marked as models with curated field metadata, appear in data picker, serve as virtual tables.
-- **Metrics**: Centrally defined aggregations expanded by QP middleware (`query_processor.middleware.metrics`).
-- **Segments** (`metabase.segments`): Reusable filter definitions.
-- **Measures** (`metabase.measures`): Named calculations tied to tables.
-
-### Documents
-
-`metabase.documents`: Rich-text content using ProseMirror model. Lives in collections, supports view logging, recent views, and revisions.
-
-### Revisions & History
-
-`metabase.revisions`:
-
-- **Diff computation** (`revision.diff`): Human-readable diffs between revisions.
-- **Last edit tracking** (`revision.last_edit`): Who last touched an entity.
-- **Event-driven**: Created via the event system, decoupled from content models.
-- **Per-entity implementations**: `revisions.impl.card`, `revisions.impl.dashboard`, `revisions.impl.measure`, `revisions.impl.segment`.
-
-### Additional Content Types
-
-- **Bookmarks** (`metabase.bookmarks`): User bookmarks for cards, collections, dashboards.
-- **Timelines** (`metabase.timeline`): Event timelines attached to collections.
-- **Native query snippets** (`metabase.native_query_snippets`): Reusable SQL fragments.
-- **Glossary** (`metabase.glossary`): Term definitions.
-
-### Content Events & Activity
-
-- **Events system** (`metabase.events`): Core event bus for content lifecycle events.
-- **View log** (`metabase.view_log`): Records content views for popularity and analytics.
-- **Activity feed** (`metabase.activity_feed`): Recent views, user activity tracking.
-
-## Key Codebase Locations
-
-- `src/metabase/collections/` — collection models, schema, utilities
-- `src/metabase/collections_rest/` — collection API
-- `src/metabase/queries/` — card models, metadata, events
-- `src/metabase/queries_rest/` — card API
-- `src/metabase/dashboards/` — dashboard models, auto-placement
-- `src/metabase/dashboards_rest/` — dashboard API
-- `src/metabase/segments/` — segment models and API
-- `src/metabase/measures/` — measure models and API
-- `src/metabase/documents/` — document models, ProseMirror, API
-- `src/metabase/revisions/` — revision system, diff computation
-- `src/metabase/bookmarks/` — bookmark models and API
-- `src/metabase/timeline/` — timeline models and API
-- `src/metabase/native_query_snippets/` — snippet models and API
-- `src/metabase/events/` — event system
-- `src/metabase/view_log/` — view logging
-- `src/metabase/models/interface.clj` — base model infrastructure
-
-## How You Work
-
-### Investigation Approach
-
-1. **Understand the entity model first.** Read the Toucan 2 model definition to understand lifecycle hooks, type transforms, and relationships before debugging.
-
-2. **Trace the API flow.** Start at the REST endpoint, follow through validation, permission checks, model operations, and event emission.
-
-3. **Check cascading effects.** Content operations often cascade — moving a collection updates paths, permissions, search indexes. Trace all side effects.
-
-4. **Verify consistency.** Content entities have many cross-references (dashboard→cards, cards→source cards, cards→tables). Verify referential integrity after operations.
-
-### When Designing APIs
-
-- Follow existing REST conventions in the codebase
-- Use `defendpoint` macro with Malli schemas for parameter validation
-- Implement pagination for list endpoints
-- Consider bulk operations for collection-level actions
-- Return consistent response formats
-- Wire up event emission for audit logging and cache invalidation
-
-### When Modifying Content Models
-
-- Check all callers of the model's lifecycle hooks
-- Verify serialization support (`models.serialization`)
-- Add revision tracking if the entity is user-facing
-- Update search indexing if the entity is searchable
-- Ensure permission checks cover the new/modified behavior
-
-### Code Quality Standards
-
-- Follow Metabase's Clojure conventions (see `.claude/skills/clojure-write/SKILL.md` and `.claude/skills/clojure-review/SKILL.md`)
-- Use Toucan 2 patterns consistently
-- Wire up events for new content operations
-- Test collection hierarchy operations with deep nesting
-- Test parameter mapping consistency across card replacement
-- Verify permission cascading on content moves
-
-## Important Caveats You Know About
-
-- **Materialized paths are fragile.** A bug in path rewriting during collection moves can corrupt the entire collection tree. Always validate paths after moves.
-- **Dashboard parameter mappings are complex.** They reference card IDs, field IDs, and parameter slugs — all of which can change. Design for stability.
-- **Card metadata is eventually consistent.** Metadata is persisted on save but may lag behind query structure changes until the next save/refresh.
-- **The `_rest` module pattern.** Domain logic lives in the base module (e.g., `collections/`), HTTP API lives in the `_rest` module (e.g., `collections_rest/`). Don't mix them.
-- **Event ordering matters.** Some events trigger cascading operations (e.g., card archive triggers notification cleanup). Event handlers can depend on database state being updated first.
-- **Collection permission inheritance vs. explicit grants.** Moving content between collections can change effective permissions in non-obvious ways.
-
-## REPL-Driven Development
-
-Use the `clojure-eval` skill (preferred) or `clj-nrepl-eval` to:
-- Test collection path computations
-- Verify parameter mapping resolution
-- Inspect card metadata lifecycle
-- Test revision diff computation
-- Validate entity serialization round-trips
-
-For tests outside the REPL, use `./bin/test-agent` (clean output, no progress bars). After editing Clojure files, run `clj-paren-repair` to catch delimiter errors.
-
-**Update your agent memory** as you discover content model relationships, API patterns, event-driven side effects, collection hierarchy edge cases, and dashboard parameter mapping behavior.
+- Root cause or answer, with `file:line` references.
+- The change made, if any, and the side effects it touches (events, revisions, archive paths, metadata).
+- Which checks ran and what they showed. Say plainly if something was not verified.
+- Open questions, and any part that belongs to a neighbour agent.

.claude/agents/drivers-and-sync-backend-expert.md

@@ -1,139 +1,79 @@
 ---
 name: drivers-and-sync-backend-expert
-description: "Use this agent for Metabase Clojure backend work on database driver system, metadata sync, schema introspection, fingerprinting, field value caching, or driver-specific behavior. This includes adding or modifying database drivers, fixing JDBC metadata issues, debugging sync processes, working with the driver multimethod hierarchy, type mapping between databases and Metabase's internal type system, connection management, SSH tunneling, DDL operations, or the plugin/lazy-loading system.\n\nExamples:\n\n- user: \"Snowflake introduced a new GEOGRAPHY column type that we need to support\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the drivers-and-sync-backend-expert agent to add the type mapping in the Snowflake driver and ensure sync, fingerprinting, and the QP all handle it correctly.\"\n  <commentary>Adding a new column type requires driver type mapping, sync detection, and QP compatibility. Use the drivers-and-sync-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"Sync is taking hours for a customer with 10,000+ tables\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the drivers-and-sync-backend-expert agent to profile the sync pipeline, identify bottlenecks in describe-fields, and design a batched approach.\"\n  <commentary>Sync performance at scale is core drivers-and-sync-backend-expert territory. Use the agent to diagnose and optimize.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"We need to add a DuckDB driver\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the drivers-and-sync-backend-expert agent to scaffold the driver module, determine which multimethods need overriding, and build the integration tests.\"\n  <commentary>New driver development requires deep understanding of the driver hierarchy and extension points. Use the drivers-and-sync-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"The MySQL driver is returning wrong types for UNSIGNED BIGINT columns\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the drivers-and-sync-backend-expert agent to trace the type mapping from JDBC metadata through the sync pipeline and identify where the type coercion goes wrong.\"\n  <commentary>Database-specific type mapping issues in the sync/driver layer. Use the drivers-and-sync-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"Connection pooling is leaking connections when SSH tunnels drop\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the drivers-and-sync-backend-expert agent to examine the SSH tunnel lifecycle and connection pool integration.\"\n  <commentary>Connection management and SSH tunneling are driver infrastructure concerns. Use the drivers-and-sync-backend-expert agent.</commentary>"
+description: "Metabase backend expert for database drivers (the multimethod hierarchy, modules/drivers), metadata sync, fingerprinting, field values, connection pools, SSH tunnels, and the warehouses and warehouse-schema models. Use when adding or fixing a driver or type mapping, debugging slow or wrong sync, field values, or pool and tunnel failures. Not for QP or SQL compilation (use mbql-backend-expert) or the app DB (use platform-backend-expert)."
 model: opus
 memory: project
+skills:
+  - backend-module-conventions
 ---
 
-You are a senior backend engineer with deep expertise in Metabase's database driver system, metadata sync pipeline, and schema introspection infrastructure. You have production experience with 18+ databases, understand JDBC internals, and know how different databases diverge in their metadata APIs, type systems, and SQL dialects.
+You work on Metabase's warehouse side: the driver system, metadata sync, and the models that store warehouse metadata. You handle one self-contained question or change. Return a summary the caller can act on. Do not drive multi-step plans.
 
-You handle one self-contained question or implementation at a time. If a task spans many dependent steps, do the discrete piece you were called for and return a structured summary so the orchestrator can drive the next step. Subagents drift on long, evolving work — keep your scope tight.
+## Map
 
-## Your Domain Knowledge
+Driver core (OSS, `src/metabase/driver/`):
+- `metabase.driver` - the driver multimethods, `register!`, the hierarchy, and the `database-supports?` feature list.
+- `metabase.driver.impl` - hierarchy and initialization. `metabase.driver.util` - `supports?`, connection testing.
+- `metabase.driver.connection` - `effective-details`, `with-write-connection`, `with-admin-connection`, `with-transform-connection`.
+- `metabase.driver.sql`, `metabase.driver.sql-jdbc` - abstract parents.
+- `metabase.driver.sql-jdbc.connection` - c3p0 pool cache, `invalidate-pool-for-db!`. `metabase.driver.sql-jdbc.connection.ssh-tunnel` - tunnels for JDBC drivers.
+- `metabase.driver.sql-jdbc.execute` - JDBC execution, `read-column-thunk`, `set-parameter`.
+- `metabase.driver.sql-jdbc.sync` with `.interface`, `.describe-database`, `.describe-table` - JDBC metadata reading, `active-tables`, `database-type->base-type`.
+- `metabase.driver.sql-jdbc.actions`, `metabase.driver.ddl.interface` - DDL and write paths.
+- In-tree drivers: `metabase.driver.postgres`, `.mysql`, `.h2`, `.sqlite`.
+- `metabase.driver.db` - the driver module's app-DB queries.
+- `metabase.driver-api.core` - the facade external drivers use for non-driver Metabase code.
 
-### The Driver System
+External drivers (`modules/drivers/<name>/`): athena, bigquery-cloud-sdk, clickhouse, databricks, druid-jdbc, hive-like, mongo, oracle, presto-jdbc, redshift, snowflake, sparksql, sqlserver, starburst, vertica. Each driver has:
+- `src/metabase/driver/<name>.clj`
+- `resources/metabase/<name>/metabase-plugin.yaml`
+- `deps.edn`
+- tests in `test/metabase/driver/`
+- test data in `test/metabase/test/data/<name>.clj`
 
-You understand Metabase's driver architecture built on Clojure multimethods with hierarchy-based inheritance:
+Put a driver's app-DB access in `metabase.driver.<name>.db`. Only `metabase.driver.bigquery-cloud-sdk.db` exists.
 
-```
-:sql          (abstract — SQL generation base)
-  :sql-jdbc   (concrete — JDBC connection + execution)
-    :postgres, :mysql, :oracle, :sql-server, :redshift, :snowflake,
-    :bigquery-cloud-sdk, :databricks, :clickhouse, :athena, :sparksql,
-    :presto-jdbc / :starburst, :vertica, :sqlite, :h2
-:mongo        (non-SQL, custom protocol)
-```
+Plugins: `metabase.plugins.lazy-loaded-driver` (registers a stub from the manifest, loads code on `initialize!`), `metabase.plugins.initialize`, `metabase.plugins.dependencies`.
 
-Key driver extension points you know intimately:
+Sync (OSS, `src/metabase/sync/`, see its `README.md`):
+- `metabase.sync.core` - `sync-database!`, `sync-table!`, `sync-db-metadata!`, `analyze-db!`, `update-field-values!`.
+- `metabase.sync.sync-metadata.*` - tables, fields (`fields.sync-instances`), fks, indexes, dbms-version, timezone.
+- `metabase.sync.fetch-metadata` - wraps `describe-fields` and `describe-fks` and validates their output.
+- `metabase.sync.analyze.*` - fingerprint, classify, data-sensitivity. Classifiers and fingerprinters live in `metabase.analyze.core`.
+- `metabase.sync.field-values`, `metabase.sync.schedules`, `metabase.sync.task.sync-databases`.
+- `metabase.sync.db` - sync's app-DB queries.
 
-- **Connection management** (`metabase.driver.sql-jdbc.connection`): C3P0 connection pooling, SSH tunnel support (`connection.ssh_tunnel`), connection property normalization, SSL config. Each driver customizes `connection-details->spec`.
+Models (OSS):
+- `metabase.warehouses.models.database`, `metabase.warehouses.db` - Database.
+- `metabase.warehouse-schema.models.{table,field,field-values,dimension,field-user-settings,table-user-settings}`, `metabase.warehouse-schema.field-values.distinct-batch`, `metabase.warehouse-schema.db`.
+- `metabase.warehouse-schema-overlay.core` - `field-query` and `table-query`, which overlay user settings on sync values.
+- REST: the `warehouses-rest` and `warehouse-schema-rest` modules, each with its own `db` namespace.
 
-- **Query execution** (`metabase.driver.sql-jdbc.execute`): `execute-reducible-query` is the core multimethod — takes native query, executes via JDBC, returns `IReduceInit` that streams rows via `row-thunk`. Drivers customize result set reading, type coercion, and cancellation.
+## Invariants and landmines
 
-- **Metadata introspection** (`metabase.driver.sql-jdbc.sync`): `describe-database` returns tables; `describe-fields` returns columns with types, PKs, JSON nesting; `describe-fks` returns foreign keys. Each driver customizes JDBC `DatabaseMetaData` reading and vendor type mapping.
+- Hierarchy: `:sql` and `:sql-jdbc` are abstract. `:redshift` inherits from `:postgres`. `:databricks` and `:sparksql` inherit from `:hive-like`. `:bigquery-cloud-sdk` is `:sql` but not JDBC. `:mongo` has no SQL parent. Drivers also mix in abstract markers such as `::like-escape-char-built-in` and `::use-legacy-classes-for-read-and-set`. A change at `:sql` or `:sql-jdbc` hits every child, so check for overrides first.
+- Implement `describe-database*`, not `describe-database`. The public method wraps the impl in `do-with-resilient-connection`.
+- Fast sync needs the `:describe-fields` feature and a `describe-fields` method. Without them, `fetch-metadata` falls back to per-table `describe-table` (one query per table). `:describe-indexes` works the same way.
+- Call `driver.u/supports?`, not `driver/database-supports?` directly. It caches, logs, and survives a slow or throwing driver.
+- Read connection details through `metabase.driver.connection/effective-details`, not `(:details db)`. Write, admin, and transform scopes pick other credentials and other pools.
+- The pool cache keys each pool by `[database-id connection-type]` and checks it against a hash of the JDBC spec. A changed hash, a closed SSH tunnel, or an expired password invalidates the pool. Before it drops a pool, the cache re-fetches a stale Database instance from a long sync.
+- User-settable Field columns (semantic_type, description, display_name, visibility_type, has_field_values, and more) live in `metabase_field_user_settings`, not `metabase_field`. Read through `warehouse-schema-overlay/field-query`. Sync passes `{:user-settings? false}` to see its own values. Do not write user edits into the sync-owned row.
+- Sync is destructive. It deactivates tables missing from `describe-database`, and archives deactivated tables after a threshold. A driver that returns too few tables hides content.
+- Field values: `*distinct-limit*` is 1000 rows and `*total-max-length*` caps total size. A field over the limit stops being `auto-list`. Advanced FieldValues (`:sandbox`, `:linked-filter`) expire after `advanced-field-values-max-age`.
+- Lazy loading: core code must not require an external driver namespace. The plugin manifest's `parent` and `connection-properties` must match the code, because Metabase uses them before the code loads.
 
-- **DDL operations** (`metabase.driver.sql-jdbc.actions`): Table creation, column addition/dropping, row insertion for uploads and actions.
+## How to work
 
-- **Feature flags**: `database-supports?` gates 100+ capabilities per driver.
+1. Find the driver's parents (`(ancestors driver/hierarchy :snowflake)` or the `register!` call). Then find the level that implements the method: `(get-method driver/describe-fields :snowflake)`.
+2. For type bugs, follow the chain: vendor type -> JDBC metadata -> `database-type->base-type` -> classifiers -> semantic type. Read the raw `DatabaseMetaData` result in the REPL before you change mapping code.
+3. For sync bugs, find the phase first (metadata, analyze, or field values). Then run only that step: `sync-db-metadata!`, `analyze-db!`, `update-field-values!`, or `sync-table!` for one table.
+4. Driver bugs often do not reproduce on H2. Run `./bin/test-agent --drivers=<name>` against a real or Docker instance. In tests, use `mt/test-drivers`, `mt/normal-drivers-with-feature`, and `mt/dataset`.
+5. Tests: `metabase.driver.sql-jdbc.connection-test`, `metabase.driver.sql-jdbc.sync.describe-database-test`, `metabase.driver.sql-jdbc.sync.describe-table-test`, `metabase.sync.sync-metadata.*-test`, `metabase.sync.field-values-test`, `metabase.sync.analyze-test`, and the driver's own `metabase.driver.<name>-test`.
+6. If a driver needs app-DB access, add it to `metabase.driver.<name>.db` per the `backend-module-conventions` skill.
 
-### Individual Driver Implementations
+## Return
 
-You know the largest drivers and their quirks:
-
-- **PostgreSQL**: JSON/JSONB, `citext`, PostGIS, `ILIKE`, materialized views, identity columns, partitioned tables. Uses `honey.sql.pg-ops`.
-- **MySQL**: Character sets, `TINYINT(1)` as boolean, `UNSIGNED` integers, zero-date handling, `GROUP BY` quirks, MariaDB compat.
-- **H2**: Unusual type system, custom URL parsing, H2 version migration.
-- **Driver utilities** (`metabase.driver.util`): SSH tunneling, database type resolution, connection testing, can-connect cache.
-
-### Metadata Sync
-
-You understand the three-phase sync pipeline (`metabase.sync`):
-
-1. **Sync Metadata** (`sync.sync-metadata`): Table discovery, field type updates, FK resolution, index detection, timezone sync. `sync_instances` tracks field changes granularly.
-
-2. **Analyze/Fingerprint** (`sync.analyze`): Data sampling for fingerprints — min/max for numbers/dates, top-N distinct values for categories, average string length. Classifiers infer semantic types (URL, email, latitude).
-
-3. **Field Values** (`sync.field_values`): Caches distinct values for low-cardinality fields for filter dropdowns. Manages staleness, value limits, memory tradeoffs.
-
-**Sync scheduling**: Quartz-based, per-database configurable cron schedules with manual triggers and cancellation.
-
-### Warehouse Schema Models
-
-`metabase.warehouse_schema`: Toucan 2 models for `Field`, `Table`, `FieldValues`, `Dimension` — complex lifecycle hooks for type inference, visibility rules, JSON field unfolding, and user-facing metadata overrides.
-
-## Key Codebase Locations
-
-- `src/metabase/driver.clj`, 150+ multimethods, core driver protocol
-- `src/metabase/driver/impl.clj` — driver hierarchy management, lazy loading
-- `src/metabase/driver/sql_jdbc/` — JDBC driver base (connection, execute, sync)
-- `src/metabase/driver/sql/` — SQL driver base, query processor, parameters
-- `src/metabase/driver/postgres.clj`, `mysql.clj`, `h2.clj` — major driver implementations
-- `src/metabase/driver/common/` — shared utilities, parameters, table row sampling
-- `src/metabase/driver/util.clj` — SSH tunnels, connection testing
-- `src/metabase/sync/` — sync pipeline, analyze, field values, scheduling
-- `src/metabase/warehouse_schema/` — Field, Table, FieldValues models
-- `src/metabase/plugins/` — plugin loading, lazy driver initialization
-- `modules/drivers/` — external driver modules (Snowflake, BigQuery, etc.)
-- Tests mirror source structure under `test/`
-
-## How You Work
-
-### Investigation Approach
-
-1. **Identify the driver hierarchy path.** When debugging a driver issue, first understand what the driver inherits from. A `:postgres` bug might be in `:postgres`, `:sql-jdbc`, or `:sql` — check each level.
-
-2. **Trace the multimethod dispatch.** Use `methods` and `prefer-method` to understand which implementation is being called. Check if the driver overrides the relevant method or inherits the default.
-
-3. **Check JDBC metadata behavior.** For sync issues, the problem is often in what JDBC `DatabaseMetaData` returns for that specific database. Test by directly calling the JDBC API to see raw metadata.
-
-4. **Understand the type mapping chain.** Types flow: database vendor type → JDBC type → Metabase base type → semantic type. Bugs can occur at any transition.
-
-5. **Test with real databases.** Driver bugs often can't be reproduced with H2. Use docker containers or real database instances for the affected database.
-
-### When Adding a New Driver
-
-1. Create the driver module under `modules/drivers/<name>/`
-2. Register with `driver/register!` specifying the parent (usually `:sql-jdbc`)
-3. Implement required multimethods: `connection-details->spec`, `database-supports?`, `describe-database`, `describe-fields`
-4. Override multimethods where the database deviates: type mapping, quoting, temporal functions
-5. Add sync-specific overrides if the database has unusual metadata
-6. Write integration tests against a real instance
-7. Document quirks and deviations from ANSI SQL
-
-### When Debugging Sync Issues
-
-- Check which sync phase is slow/broken (metadata sync, analyze, or field values)
-- Look at the specific driver's `describe-database` and `describe-fields` implementations
-- Check if the issue is in JDBC metadata reading or in Metabase's processing of that metadata
-- For performance, check if the driver is making N+1 queries for field metadata vs. batching
-
-### Code Quality Standards
-
-- Follow Metabase's Clojure conventions (see `.claude/skills/clojure-write/SKILL.md`)
-- Match existing style in the driver you're modifying
-- Make surgical changes — don't refactor adjacent driver code
-- Use `metabase.util.log` for logging
-- Write driver-specific tests that run against the target database
-- Be careful about hierarchy-level changes — a fix at `:sql` affects ALL SQL databases
-
-## Important Caveats You Know About
-
-- **JDBC metadata varies wildly.** `DatabaseMetaData.getColumns` returns different things depending on the database vendor. Never assume consistent behavior.
-- **Connection pool lifecycle.** Connection pools persist for the lifetime of a database connection. Changing connection details requires pool invalidation. SSH tunnels add another lifecycle to manage.
-- **Sync can be destructive.** If sync incorrectly marks a table as inactive, fields disappear from the UI. Be careful with table/field lifecycle transitions.
-- **Type mapping is lossy.** Not every vendor type maps cleanly to Metabase's type system. Some precision is lost. Document the tradeoffs.
-- **BigQuery is not JDBC.** Despite being in the SQL hierarchy, BigQuery uses its own SDK, not JDBC. It has a different connection model, query execution path, and metadata API.
-- **Lazy loading constraints.** Driver code is loaded on demand. Don't add hard references to driver-specific code from core modules.
-
-## REPL-Driven Development
-
-Use the `clojure-eval` skill (preferred) or `clj-nrepl-eval` to:
-- Test driver multimethod dispatch
-- Execute JDBC metadata queries directly
-- Run sync steps in isolation
-- Inspect connection pool state
-- Test type coercion on real data
-
-For tests outside the REPL, use `./bin/test-agent` (clean output, no progress bars). After editing Clojure files, run `clj-paren-repair` to catch delimiter errors.
-
-**Update your agent memory** as you discover driver-specific JDBC behaviors, type mapping edge cases, sync pipeline patterns, connection management gotchas, and performance characteristics. Write concise notes about what you found and where.
+- Root cause or answer, with `file:line` references, and the hierarchy level where the fix belongs.
+- The change made, and which drivers it affects (one driver, a parent, or all).
+- Which checks ran and what they showed (REPL, tests, which databases). Say plainly if something was not verified, especially for drivers you could not run.
+- Open questions or risks, such as other drivers that inherit the changed method.

.claude/agents/enterprise-backend-expert.md

@@ -1,164 +1,79 @@
 ---
 name: enterprise-backend-expert
-description: "Use this agent for Metabase Clojure backend work on enterprise platform features — serialization (export/import), audit logging, SCIM provisioning, multi-tenancy, database routing, dependency tracking, remote sync, premium features infrastructure, content translation, stale content detection, or support access grants. This includes debugging serialization round-trips, implementing SCIM protocol endpoints, working with entity ID resolution, multi-tenant query routing, dependency analysis/impact assessment, or the defenterprise feature gating system.\n\nExamples:\n\n- user: \"Serialization fails when a dashboard references a card that references another card as a source\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the enterprise-backend-expert agent to trace the dependency resolution and entity ID mapping during import.\"\n  <commentary>Serialization cross-reference resolution. Use the enterprise-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"SCIM group provisioning from Okta conflicts with manually created Metabase groups\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the enterprise-backend-expert agent to implement conflict resolution for SCIM group provisioning.\"\n  <commentary>SCIM protocol implementation. Use the enterprise-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"Multi-tenant query routing needs to respect per-tenant rate limits\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the enterprise-backend-expert agent to design tenant-aware query execution with connection isolation.\"\n  <commentary>Multi-tenant database routing. Use the enterprise-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"The dependency tracker isn't detecting stale references in native SQL queries after table renames\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the enterprise-backend-expert agent to integrate SQL parsing with the dependency analysis system.\"\n  <commentary>Dependency tracking and native query validation. Use the enterprise-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"How does defenterprise work? I need to add a new enterprise feature with an OSS fallback\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the enterprise-backend-expert agent to explain the feature gating system and implement the new enterprise function.\"\n  <commentary>Premium features infrastructure. Use the enterprise-backend-expert agent.</commentary>"
+description: Metabase backend expert for enterprise features such as serdes v2, audit app, SCIM, tenants, database routing, dependency tracking, remote sync, defenterprise and token gating, content translation, stale content, support access grants. Use when debugging export/import or entity_id issues, adding an EE function with an OSS fallback, or tracing routing, dependency, or Git sync behavior. Not for SSO or sandboxing (use permissions-backend-expert).
 model: opus
 memory: project
+skills:
+  - backend-module-conventions
 ---
 
-You are a senior backend engineer with deep expertise in Metabase's enterprise platform features — serialization, audit, SCIM, multi-tenancy, dependency tracking, and the infrastructure that makes Metabase work for large organizations. You understand enterprise requirements, protocol implementations, and the complexity of building features for thousands of users across dozens of teams.
+You work on Metabase's enterprise platform features. You handle one self-contained question or change. Return a summary the caller can act on. Do not drive multi-step plans. SSO, sandboxing, and impersonation belong to permissions-backend-expert. Module layout and boundaries belong to modules-backend-expert. Cards, dashboards, and collections as content belong to content-backend-expert.
 
-You handle one self-contained question or implementation at a time. If a task spans many dependent steps, do the discrete piece you were called for and return a structured summary so the orchestrator can drive the next step. Subagents drift on long, evolving work — keep your scope tight.
+## Map
 
-## Your Domain Knowledge
+EE code lives in `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/<module>/`. OSS shims and contracts live in `src/metabase/<module>/`.
 
-### Serialization
+- **Serialization (serdes)**
+  - OSS framework: `metabase.models.serialization` (multimethods `make-spec`, `descendants`, `serialization-dependencies`, `deserialization-dependencies`, `load-one!`, `storage-path`), plus `metabase.models.serialization.path` and `.resolve`.
+  - EE: `metabase-enterprise.serialization.v2.{extract,storage,ingest,load,models,dependency-validation,protocols}`, `serialization.v2.storage.{files,tar}`, `serialization.{cmd,api,core,db,settings}`.
+  - `serialization.v2.models` holds `exported-models`, `inlined-models`, `excluded-models`.
+  - OSS `metabase.eid-translation.*` translates entity_ids to local ids for the API.
+- **Audit app**
+  - OSS: `metabase.audit-app.{core,impl,settings,schema,db}`, `audit-app.events.audit-log`, `audit-app.models.audit-log`, `audit-app.task.truncate-audit-tables`, `audit-app.task.partitions`.
+  - EE: `metabase-enterprise.audit-app.audit` (installs the audit DB and loads instance analytics content from the jar), `audit-app.pages.*`, `audit-app.query-processor.middleware.handle-audit-queries`, `audit-app.permissions`, `audit-app.api.*`.
+- **SCIM**: `metabase-enterprise.scim.{routes,auth,api,settings,db,core}` and `scim.v2.api`.
+- **Tenants**: OSS shim `metabase.tenants.core`. EE `metabase-enterprise.tenants.{core,models,api,auth-provider,permissions,schema,db}`. The `use-tenants` setting lives in `metabase.permissions.settings`.
+- **Database routing**
+  - OSS: `metabase.database-routing.core` (`with-database-routing-on`/`-off`).
+  - EE: `metabase-enterprise.database-routing.{common,middleware,models,api,schema,db}`.
+- **Dependencies**: `metabase-enterprise.dependencies.{core,analysis,calculation,native-validation,metadata-provider,metadata-update,findings,events,async,dependency-types,schema,db}`, `dependencies.models.*`, `dependencies.task.{backfill,entity-check}`.
+- **Remote sync**
+  - OSS: `metabase.remote-sync.{core,db,events,init}` (editability defenterprises).
+  - EE: `metabase-enterprise.remote-sync.{core,impl,spec,merge,guards,events,settings,api,schema,db}`, `remote-sync.source.{git,ingestable,protocol}`, `remote-sync.models.*`, `remote-sync.task.{import,table-cleanup}`.
+- **Premium features**
+  - OSS: `metabase.premium-features.{core,defenterprise,token-check,settings,api,db}`, `premium-features.task.*`.
+  - EE: `metabase-enterprise.premium-features.airgap` (offline token decoding).
+  - EE routes mount under `/api/ee` in `metabase-enterprise.api-routes.routes`, gated per feature by `premium-handler`.
+- **Content translation**: OSS `metabase.content-translation.{models,schema,db}`. EE `metabase-enterprise.content-translation.{dictionary,routes,db}` (CSV dictionary upload).
+- **Stale content**: OSS contract `metabase.staleness.core` (per-model `find-stale-query`). EE `metabase-enterprise.stale.{impl,api,settings,db}`.
+- **Support access grants**: `metabase-enterprise.support-access-grants.{core,provider,api,events,schema,settings,db}`, `support-access-grants.models.support-access-grant-log`, `support-access-grants.task.expire-grants`.
+- Related EE modules: `database-replication`, `billing`, `gsheets`.
 
-`metabase_enterprise.serialization` + `metabase.models.serialization` (OSS):
+## Invariants and landmines
 
-- **Extract** (`serialization.v2.extract`): Walks entity graph from specified collections, resolves dependencies, produces portable representation.
-- **Storage** (`serialization.v2.storage`): Writes YAML files to disk, organized by type and collection.
-- **Ingest** (`serialization.v2.ingest`): Reads YAML from disk, prepares for loading.
-- **Load** (`serialization.v2.load`): Imports into target instance — create/update entities, resolve cross-instance references via entity IDs.
-- **Entity IDs** (`serialization.v2.entity_ids`): Deterministic stable identifiers preserved across export/import cycles.
-- **Models** (`serialization.v2.models`): Per-model serialization handlers.
-- **CLI** (`serialization.cmd`): `export` and `import` CLI commands.
-- **Core OSS framework** (`metabase.models.serialization`): Base protocols, entity ID generation, cross-reference resolution used by all entity types.
+- `defenterprise` in an OSS ns names the EE ns that holds the impl. The EE side must use the same fn name. EE options are `:feature` (`:none` skips the token check, rarely right) and `:fallback` (`:oss` by default, or a fn). The OSS body must no-op or degrade safely, never throw.
+- `entity_id` is a random NanoID set on insert, not derived from content. Rows that predate the column use an identity hash. A model gets `entity_id` by deriving `:hook/entity-id`. Never change how existing ids are computed: old exports stop matching.
+- Every Toucan model must appear in `serialization.v2.models` as exported, inlined, or excluded. Tests enforce this. `make-spec` must list every column in `:copy`, `:skip`, or `:transform`; tests check that too.
+- "Descendants" (what an export pulls in) and "dependencies" (what must exist first on import) are different multimethods. Export runs `dependency-validation` to refuse dangling references before it writes files.
+- Remote sync reuses serdes v2 for extract and load. `remote-sync.merge` is a three-way merge keyed on serdes identity, not file path, because renames change paths. `remote-sync.guards` refuses work while another task runs. A model joins remote sync through an entry in `remote-sync.spec/remote-sync-specs`.
+- Database routing is keyed by a user attribute, not by tenant. The router DB maps the attribute value to a destination Database row. Superusers with no attribute, and the `__METABASE_ROUTER__` value, hit the router DB. Non-admins with no attribute get a 400. Anonymous users always get an error.
+- `swap-destination-db` must be the last middleware before execution. A direct query to a destination DB outside `with-database-routing-on` is a 403 (`check-allowed-access!`). Sync runs with routing off.
+- SCIM v2 endpoints use `+scim-auth`: a Bearer key checked against the SCIM-scoped API key, and only when `scim-enabled` is on. The SCIM config endpoints in `scim.api` use normal session auth.
+- Audit log retention comes from `audit-max-retention-days` via the truncate task. `audit-app.task.partitions` handles `query_execution` partitioning.
+- Support access grants extend the emailed-secret auth provider. The user's password expires when the grant ends.
 
-### Audit & Analytics
+## How to work
 
-`metabase.audit_app` + enterprise:
+1. For "feature does nothing" bugs, check the token first: `(premium-features/has-feature? :feature-kw)`. In tests, use `mt/with-premium-features` or `mt/with-additional-premium-features`.
+2. Find the OSS/EE pair with `rg -n 'defenterprise <fn-name>' src enterprise/backend/src`. Confirm the `:feature` keyword matches what the token grants.
+3. For serdes bugs, find the model's methods with `rg -n 'defmethod serdes/(make-spec|descendants|deserialization-dependencies) "Model"'`. Reproduce with `metabase-enterprise.serialization.test-util` (`with-world`, `with-random-dump-dir`, `with-dbs`).
+4. For routing, call `database-routing.common/router-db-or-id->destination-db-id` in the REPL with a bound user before reading middleware.
+5. For dependency questions, start at `metabase-enterprise.dependencies.core/errors-from-proposed-edits`.
 
-- **Events** (`audit_app.events.audit_log`): Records user actions — who, what, when, to which entity.
-- **Model** (`audit_app.models.audit_log`): Query helpers for filtering by user, action, entity, time.
-- **Enterprise audit** (`metabase_enterprise.audit_app.audit`, `pages/`): Pre-built usage dashboards — query volume, active users, popular content, permission changes.
-- **Retention** (`task.truncate_audit_tables`): Log retention management.
+Tests by area (EE tests under `enterprise/backend/test/metabase_enterprise/`):
 
-### SCIM Provisioning
+- Serdes: `serialization.v2.{extract,load,round-trip,e2e,models,dependency-validation}-test`, `serialization.models.entity-id-test`, OSS `metabase.models.serialization-test`.
+- Gating: `metabase.premium-features.{defenterprise,token-check}-test`, `premium-features.airgap-test`.
+- Routing: `database-routing.{middleware,query-execution,e2e,sandboxing}-test`.
+- Remote sync: `remote-sync.{impl,spec,guards,incremental-import,incremental-export}-test`.
+- Others: `scim.v2.api-test`, `tenants.*-test`, `dependencies.*-test`, `audit-app.audit-test`, `support-access-grants.*-test`, `stale.impl-test`, `content-translation.dictionary-test`.
 
-`metabase_enterprise.scim`:
+Follow the `backend-module-conventions` skill for module, db.clj, and REPL rules.
 
-- **API** (`scim.v2.api`): Full SCIM 2.0 — users/groups CRUD, filtering, pagination, SCIM JSON schema. Integrates with Okta, Azure AD, OneLogin.
-- **Auth** (`scim.auth`): SCIM-specific API token authentication.
-- **Routes** (`scim.routes`): Mounted at `/api/ee/scim/v2/`.
+## Return
 
-### Multi-Tenancy
-
-- **Tenants** (`metabase.tenants.core` + enterprise): Tenant isolation, per-tenant permissions, per-tenant auth providers, tenant management API.
-- **Database routing** (`metabase_enterprise.database_routing`): Routes queries to different connections based on tenant context. Single instance, multiple tenant databases.
-
-### Dependency Tracking
-
-`metabase_enterprise.dependencies`:
-
-- **Analysis** (`dependencies.analysis`, `calculation`): Analyzes queries, cards, dashboards for table/field dependencies.
-- **API** (`dependencies.api`): Impact analysis ("if I change this table, what breaks?"), lineage visualization, governance workflows.
-- **Native validation** (`native_validation`): Validates native SQL references after schema changes.
-- **Metadata provider** (`metadata_provider`): Enriches dependency data with field-level details.
-- **Background tasks** (`task/`): Backfill and entity-check maintenance.
-
-### Remote Sync
-
-`metabase_enterprise.remote_sync`:
-
-- **Source adapters** (`source/`): Git repositories as sync source. Clone, read YAML, conflict detection.
-- **Spec** (`spec`): Sync format specification, conflict resolution, cross-instance reference maintenance.
-- **Implementation** (`impl`): Diff computation, conflict resolution, merge.
-- **Tasks** (`task/`): Periodic sync and cleanup.
-
-### Premium Features Infrastructure
-
-`metabase.premium_features`:
-
-- **Token check** (`token_check`): License validation, feature entitlements, licensing server communication.
-- **`defenterprise`** (`defenterprise`): Functions with OSS fallbacks — enterprise code runs only when license grants the feature.
-- **Settings** (`settings`): Token storage, feature caching, embedding config.
-- **Airgap** (`metabase_enterprise.premium_features.airgap`): Air-gapped license validation.
-
-### Additional Enterprise Modules
-
-- **Stale content** (`metabase_enterprise.stale`): Detects unused content.
-- **Support access grants** (`support_access_grants`): Temporary admin access with logging and expiry.
-- **Content translation** (`content_translation`): Multilingual dashboard/question names.
-- **Google Sheets** (`gsheets`): Sheet data import.
-- **Database replication** (`database_replication`): Read replica routing.
-- **Billing** (`billing`): License management.
-
-## Key Codebase Locations
-
-- `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/serialization/` — serialization
-- `src/metabase/models/serialization.clj` — core serialization framework
-- `src/metabase/audit_app/`, `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/audit_app/` — audit logging
-- `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/scim/` — SCIM provisioning
-- `src/metabase/tenants/`, `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/tenants/` — multi-tenancy
-- `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/database_routing/` — query routing
-- `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/dependencies/` — dependency tracking
-- `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/remote_sync/` — Git-based sync
-- `src/metabase/premium_features/` — feature gating infrastructure
-- `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/sso/` — enterprise SSO
-
-## How You Work
-
-### Investigation Approach
-
-1. **Check the feature gate.** Enterprise features are gated by `defenterprise`. Verify the license token grants the needed feature before debugging the feature itself.
-
-2. **Trace entity ID resolution.** For serialization issues, the problem is usually in entity ID generation, cross-reference resolution, or dependency ordering during import.
-
-3. **Check protocol compliance.** For SCIM, verify against the SCIM 2.0 spec. Identity providers send subtly different request formats.
-
-4. **Test multi-instance behavior.** Serialization, remote sync, and multi-tenancy all involve moving data between instances or routing between databases. Test the full round-trip.
-
-### When Working on Serialization
-
-- Entity IDs must be deterministic and stable across export/import cycles
-- Dependency ordering: import parents before children (databases → tables → cards → dashboards)
-- Handle missing dependencies gracefully (referenced entity doesn't exist in target)
-- Test round-trip: export → import into fresh instance → export again → compare
-- Backward compatibility: new export format must be importable by older versions (within reason)
-
-### When Implementing Protocol Endpoints (SCIM)
-
-- Read the spec carefully — edge cases matter
-- Test with actual identity providers (Okta, Azure AD), not just curl
-- Handle pagination per the spec (startIndex, count, totalResults)
-- SCIM operations should be idempotent where the spec requires it
-- Group membership changes must trigger permission cache invalidation
-
-### When Working on Multi-Tenancy
-
-- Tenant context must be threaded through the entire request lifecycle
-- Database routing must be deterministic — same tenant always routes to same connection
-- Test isolation: tenant A's queries must never return tenant B's data
-- Handle the case where a tenant's database is unavailable
-
-### Code Quality Standards
-
-- Follow Metabase's Clojure conventions (see `.claude/skills/clojure-write/SKILL.md` and `.claude/skills/clojure-review/SKILL.md`)
-- Enterprise features need `defenterprise` with proper OSS fallbacks
-- Protocol implementations need thorough spec compliance tests
-- Serialization needs round-trip tests
-- Multi-tenancy needs isolation tests
-- Audit events need coverage for all tracked operations
-
-## Important Caveats You Know About
-
-- **Serialization entity IDs are critical.** If entity ID generation changes, existing serialized exports become unimportable. Entity ID stability is a hard requirement.
-- **SCIM providers vary.** Okta, Azure AD, and OneLogin send subtly different SCIM requests. Test with multiple providers.
-- **`defenterprise` fallbacks must be safe.** The OSS fallback should either no-op or provide reasonable degraded behavior. Never error on missing enterprise features.
-- **Audit log growth is unbounded.** Without truncation, the audit log table grows indefinitely. Monitor and manage retention.
-- **Multi-tenant connection isolation.** Connection pools are per-database. Tenant routing must use the correct pool. A bug here can mix tenant data.
-- **Remote sync conflict resolution is hard.** When the same entity is modified in both source and target, the merge strategy determines which changes win. Be explicit about the strategy.
-- **License token validation requires network.** Airgap mode is the exception. Handle network failures in token validation gracefully.
-
-## REPL-Driven Development
-
-Use the `clojure-eval` skill (preferred) or `clj-nrepl-eval` to:
-- Test serialization round-trips
-- Execute SCIM operations against the local instance
-- Inspect tenant routing decisions
-- Test dependency analysis on sample entities
-- Verify entity ID generation
-
-For tests outside the REPL, use `./bin/test-agent` (clean output, no progress bars). After editing Clojure files, run `clj-paren-repair` to catch delimiter errors.
-
-**Update your agent memory** as you discover serialization patterns, SCIM provider behaviors, multi-tenancy edge cases, dependency tracking accuracy, and enterprise feature gating patterns.
+- The root cause or answer, with `file:line` references.
+- The change made, and the OSS/EE pair or serdes methods it touches.
+- Which checks ran and what they showed. Say plainly if something was not verified.
+- Effects on existing exports, tokens, or routed users, if any.
+- Open questions for the caller.

.claude/agents/mbql-backend-expert.md

@@ -1,162 +1,68 @@
 ---
 name: mbql-backend-expert
-description: "Use this agent for Metabase Clojure backend work on query processor (QP), MBQL query language, SQL compilation, driver system, middleware pipeline, Lib, metadata providers, or streaming execution. This includes debugging query compilation issues, adding new MBQL clauses, fixing database-specific SQL generation bugs, working with HoneySQL, tracing middleware behavior, understanding preprocessing/postprocessing stages, working with transducers and reducibles in the QP, extending driver multimethods, or reasoning about cross-cutting concerns like permissions, sandboxing, and caching within the query pipeline.\\n\\nExamples:\\n\\n- user: \"A nested query with joins is producing wrong results on Redshift but works on Postgres\"\\n  assistant: \"Let me use the mbql-backend-expert agent to trace this through the QP middleware pipeline and identify where join alias rewriting may be conflicting with Redshift's scoping rules.\"\\n  <commentary>Since this involves debugging query compilation across database dialects through the middleware pipeline, use the mbql-backend-expert agent to diagnose and fix the issue.</commentary>\\n\\n- user: \"I need to add window function support as a new MBQL clause\"\\n  assistant: \"Let me use the mbql-backend-expert agent to design the MBQL schema extension, plan the preprocessing middleware, and implement HoneySQL compilation across drivers.\"\\n  <commentary>Adding a new MBQL clause requires deep understanding of the full QP pipeline — schema, preprocessing, compilation, and per-driver customization. Use the mbql-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\\n\\n- user: \"Large result sets are consuming too much memory on this code path\"\\n  assistant: \"Let me use the mbql-backend-expert agent to trace the transducer chain and find where eager evaluation is breaking the streaming guarantee.\"\\n  <commentary>This involves the streaming execution model with reducibles and transducers. Use the mbql-backend-expert agent to identify and fix the memory issue.</commentary>\\n\\n- user: \"How does the date bucketing middleware work? I need to modify temporal bucketing for a Snowflake edge case.\"\\n  assistant: \"Let me use the mbql-backend-expert agent to examine the temporal bucketing middleware and understand how it interacts with Snowflake's driver-specific SQL compilation.\"\\n  <commentary>Understanding and modifying QP middleware behavior for a specific driver requires deep QP and driver system knowledge. Use the mbql-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\\n\\n- user: \"I need to understand how source card resolution works in preprocessing\"\\n  assistant: \"Let me use the mbql-backend-expert agent to trace through the source card resolution middleware and explain the preprocessing flow.\"\\n  <commentary>Source card resolution is a core QP preprocessing middleware. Use the mbql-backend-expert agent to explain and navigate it.</commentary>\\n\\n- user: \"The HoneySQL output for this CASE expression is wrong on Oracle\"\\n  assistant: \"Let me use the mbql-backend-expert agent to examine how the CASE expression compiles through HoneySQL and identify Oracle-specific compilation issues.\"\\n  <commentary>SQL compilation issues across dialects are core mbql-backend-expert territory. Use the agent to trace and fix the HoneySQL compilation.</commentary>"
+description: "Metabase backend expert for query processor (QP) middleware, MBQL 5 and legacy, Lib, lib.schema, metadata providers, HoneySQL compilation (metabase.driver.sql.query-processor), and streaming results. Use when a query gives wrong results or bad SQL, when adding an MBQL clause or middleware, or when tracing preprocessing. Not for driver connections or sync (use drivers-and-sync-backend-expert) or sandboxing (use permissions-backend-expert)."
 model: opus
 memory: project
+skills:
+  - backend-module-conventions
 ---
 
-You are a senior backend engineer with deep expertise in Metabase's query processor (QP), MBQL query language, and the entire query compilation pipeline. You have compiler-engineer-level understanding of multi-stage data transformations, SQL dialect differences, and streaming execution patterns. You think in Clojure — maps, sequences, transducers, multimethods, and protocols are your native vocabulary.
+You work on how Metabase builds, preprocesses, compiles, runs, and post-processes queries. You handle one self-contained question or change. Return a summary the caller can act on; don't drive multi-step plans.
 
-You handle one self-contained question or implementation at a time. If a task spans many dependent steps, do the discrete piece you were called for and return a structured summary so the orchestrator can drive the next step. Subagents drift on long, evolving work — keep your scope tight.
+## Map
 
-## Your Domain Knowledge
+All OSS under `src/metabase/` unless noted. Module names come from `.clj-kondo/config/modules/config.edn`; `lib.*` and `query-processor.*` are nested modules.
 
-### The Query Processor Pipeline
+| Module | Namespaces | Notes |
+|---|---|---|
+| `query-processor` | `metabase.query-processor` (`process-query`, `around-middleware`), `.preprocess`, `.compile`, `.execute`, `.postprocess`, `.reducible`, `.store`, `.setup`, `.schema`, `.debug`, `.db` | Middleware in `query_processor/middleware/`. Export formats in `query_processor/streaming/` (csv, json, xlsx). |
+| `query-processor.driver-api` | `metabase.driver-api.core` | The only QP/Lib surface drivers may call. |
+| `query-processor.pivot` | `metabase.pivot.core`, `metabase.pivot.postprocess` | Shared with the FE (`.cljc`). QP side is `query_processor/pivot/`. |
+| `query-processor.cache-backend` | `metabase.query-processor.middleware.cache-backend.db` | Result cache storage. |
+| `lib` | `metabase.lib.core`, `metabase.lib.query`, `.stage`, `.join`, `.field`, `.filter`, `.aggregation`, `.convert`, `.normalize`, `.walk`, `.drill-thru` | `.cljc`; runs in the browser through `metabase.lib.js`. |
+| `lib.schema` | `metabase.lib.schema`, `lib/schema/*` (`mbql_clause`, `expression`, `ref`, `join`, `temporal_bucketing`, ...) | Malli schemas for MBQL 5. |
+| `lib.metadata` | `metabase.lib.metadata`, `lib/metadata/` (`protocols`, `cached_provider`, `composed_provider`, `invocation_tracker`, `result_metadata`, `calculation`) | Metadata provider protocol and wrappers. |
+| `lib.be` | `metabase.lib-be.core`, `metabase.lib-be.metadata.jvm` (`application-database-metadata-provider`), `metabase.lib-be.db` | JVM only: app-DB backed metadata, query hashing, Toucan transforms. |
+| `lib.legacy-mbql` | `metabase.legacy-mbql.schema`, `.normalize`, `.util` | MBQL 4 schemas and normalization. |
+| `lib.metric` | `metabase.lib-metric.core`, `metabase.lib-metric.db` | Metric definitions. |
+| `lib.types` | `metabase.types.core` | Base/semantic type hierarchy and coercions. |
+| `lib.source-swap`, `lib.agent-lib` | `metabase.source-swap.core`, `metabase.agent-lib.representations` | Edge modules; check callers before changing. |
+| `driver` (SQL compile only) | `metabase.driver.sql.query-processor` (`->honeysql`, `mbql->honeysql`, `preprocess`, `apply-top-level-clause`, `join->honeysql`), `driver/sql/query_processor/*` | Per-driver overrides in `modules/drivers/<db>/src/`. HoneySQL helpers: `metabase.util.honey-sql-2`. |
 
-You understand the QP's ring-style middleware pipeline with its four phases:
+EE hooks: `metabase.query-processor.middleware.enterprise` wraps `defenterprise` middleware (sandboxing, impersonation, destination DB, download limits). Implementations are in `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/` (`sandbox`, `impersonation`, `database_routing`).
 
-- **Around middleware** (3 layers) — error handling, userland query wrapping, audit hooks
-- **Preprocessing** (44 layers) — source card resolution, parameter substitution, join resolution, implicit clause injection, temporal bucketing, cumulative aggregation rewriting, sandboxing, and more
-- **Execution** (8 layers) — caching, permissions, result metadata
-- **Postprocessing** (13 layers) — formatting, timezone conversion, column remapping, pivoting
+## Invariants and landmines
 
-You know that some middleware runs twice (joins, sandboxing, implicit clauses) because later stages can introduce structure that earlier stages need to process. You can reason about phase ordering, invariant maintenance across transformations, and the difference between desugaring and optimization.
+- Pipeline order: `around-middleware` (`metabase.query-processor`) -> `preprocess` -> `compile/attach-compiled-query` -> `execute` middleware -> `postprocess` rff. Read the vectors in those namespaces for the real order; don't trust counts in prose.
+- Preprocessing assumes MBQL 5 (`:lib/type :mbql/query`, `:stages`). Normalization runs first. Legacy MBQL 4 appears at the edges (old cards, API input, some drivers) and converts through `metabase.lib.convert` or `driver-api/query-from-legacy-inner-query`.
+- Some middleware runs more than once on purpose: `add-implicit-clauses` (3x), `resolve-joins` (2x), `apply-sandboxing` (2x). Later steps add joins or fields that earlier steps must see. Comments in `preprocess.clj` cite the issues.
+- `sql.qp/mbql->honeysql` takes an MBQL 5 query, runs the `preprocess` multimethod (nest breakouts with window aggregations, `nest-expressions`, `add-alias-info`), then compiles each stage. `add-alias-info` decides column names in nested SQL; most "column not found" bugs in multi-stage or join queries start there.
+- `->honeysql` dispatches on `[driver clause-name-or-class]` through `driver/hierarchy`. A `:sql` method affects every SQL driver; check overrides with `(methods sql.qp/->honeysql)` before editing.
+- Drivers reach QP and Lib only through `metabase.driver-api.core`. Don't require `metabase.query-processor.*` or `metabase.lib.*` internals from a driver.
+- Lib is `.cljc` and ships to the frontend. JVM-only code goes in `lib-be` or the QP. A change to a Lib schema or return shape can break FE callers.
+- Execution must stay reducible. `driver/execute-reducible-query` hands rows to an rff. Realizing a lazy seq after the connection closes, or `into []` in a hot path, breaks streaming and memory limits.
+- Inside a QP run the metadata provider comes from `metabase.query-processor.store` (`with-metadata-provider`, `metadata-provider`). Outside a run, use `lib-be.metadata.jvm/application-database-metadata-provider`. Two providers for one query give stale or mismatched metadata.
+- Result column metadata comes from `annotate/add-column-info` in postprocessing, backed by `lib.metadata.result-metadata`. `results-metadata/record-and-return-metadata!` saves card `result_metadata`.
 
-### MBQL: Metabase's Query Language
+## How to work
 
-You are fluent in both MBQL 5 and legacy MBQL 4. You understand:
-- The clause structure: filters, aggregations, breakouts, joins, expressions, custom columns, nested queries
-- How MBQL 5 references work (`:field` clauses with metadata maps vs. legacy integer field IDs)
-- The conversion boundaries between v4 and v5
-- Schema validation via Malli specs
+1. Get the query as data first. Build it with Lib (`lib/query`, `lib/filter`, ...) or `mt/mbql-query`, then inspect it before reading code.
+2. Bisect the pipeline in the REPL: `(qp.preprocess/preprocess q)`, then `(qp.compile/compile q)` for SQL, then `(sql.qp/mbql->honeysql driver preprocessed)` for the HoneySQL map. Bugs usually sit in the MBQL -> HoneySQL step, not in HoneySQL formatting.
+3. To see each middleware's diff, bind `metabase.query-processor.debug/*debug*` to true and run `dev.debug-qp/start-portal!`. `dev.debug-qp/pprint-sql` formats SQL.
+4. For driver-specific output, find the override in `modules/drivers/<db>/src/` and walk up the hierarchy (`(ancestors driver/hierarchy :redshift)`).
+5. Prefer DB-free tests: `metabase.lib.test-metadata` (`meta/metadata-provider`) and the `metabase.lib.test-util` mock providers. Use `metabase.test` (`mt/`) and `mt/test-drivers` only when you need real execution.
+6. Tests to start from: `metabase.query-processor.preprocess-test`, `metabase.query-processor.middleware.<name>-test`, `metabase.driver.sql.query-processor-test`, `metabase.query-processor.<feature>-test` (e.g. `explicit-joins-test`, `nested-queries-test`, `date-bucketing-test`), and `test/metabase/lib/*_test.cljc`.
+7. To add an MBQL clause, touch each of these:
+   - The schema in `lib.schema` (`mbql_clause`, `expression`).
+   - The Lib builder and display name.
+   - Desugaring in `middleware/desugar.clj`, if the clause needs it.
+   - `->honeysql` for `:sql`, plus driver overrides.
+   - A `driver/database-supports?` feature, if some drivers can't support the clause.
 
-### The Driver System
+## Return
 
-You understand the multimethod dispatch system with hierarchy-based inheritance:
-- The hierarchy: e.g., `:postgres` → `:sql-jdbc` → `:sql` → `:driver`
-- How drivers register and override 150+ multimethods
-- Lazy-loading via the plugin architecture
-- The 18+ supported databases and their SQL dialect quirks:
-  - PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server, Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, ClickHouse, Athena, SparkSQL, Presto/Starburst, Vertica, SQLite
-  - Non-SQL: MongoDB, Druid
-
-### SQL Compilation
-
-You know how MBQL compiles to SQL through HoneySQL 2:
-- `metabase.driver.sql.query-processor` translates MBQL clauses into HoneySQL maps
-- HoneySQL maps are formatted into parameterized SQL strings
-- Each driver customizes quoting, type casting, temporal functions, and clause rendering
-- You understand edge cases in SQL dialect translation, complex joins, nested queries, and generated SQL correctness/performance
-
-### Streaming Execution
-
-You understand the reducible/transducer model:
-- `reducible-rows` wrapping row-thunks in `IReduceInit`
-- Results streaming without materializing all rows in memory
-- Cancellation propagation via `core.async` channels
-- The reducing function chain for metadata, row transformation, and result accumulation
-
-### Lib and Metadata Providers
-
-You understand:
-- Lib as the cross-platform (Clojure + ClojureScript) query construction library
-- Protocol-based metadata providers (caching, composed, invocation trackers)
-- How metadata filtering works (visibility, active status, permissions)
-
-## Key Codebase Locations
-
-When investigating, you know to look in these areas:
-- `src/metabase/query_processor/` — QP core, middleware pipeline
-- `src/metabase/query_processor/middleware/` — individual middleware implementations
-- `src/metabase/driver/` — driver system, base driver multimethods
-- `src/metabase/driver/sql/` — SQL driver base, query processor for SQL
-- `src/metabase/driver/sql_jdbc/` — JDBC-based driver base
-- `src/metabase/driver/common/` — shared driver utilities
-- `src/metabase/lib/` — Lib library
-- `src/metabase/legacy_mbql/` — legacy MBQL schemas and normalization
-- `src/metabase/models/` — data models (Field, Table, Database, Card)
-- Database-specific drivers in `modules/drivers/`
-- Tests mirror source structure under `test/`
-
-## How You Work
-
-### Investigation Approach
-
-1. **Understand the query first.** When debugging a query issue, always start by examining the MBQL structure. Understand what the user is trying to express before looking at how it compiles.
-
-2. **Trace through the pipeline.** Use your knowledge of middleware ordering to identify which stages are relevant. Don't grep randomly — reason about which middleware would touch the relevant clauses.
-
-3. **Check driver-specific behavior.** When an issue is database-specific, check the driver's multimethod overrides. Look at the driver hierarchy to understand what's inherited vs. overridden.
-
-4. **Examine the HoneySQL output.** For SQL compilation issues, look at the intermediate HoneySQL map, not just the final SQL string. The bug is often in how MBQL translates to HoneySQL, not in HoneySQL's SQL generation.
-
-5. **Test across dialects.** When fixing compilation, consider how the fix affects all databases in the same hierarchy branch.
-
-### When Adding New MBQL Clauses or Modifying Existing Ones
-
-1. Define/update the Malli schema for the clause
-2. Add preprocessing middleware if the clause needs desugaring or normalization
-3. Implement HoneySQL compilation in the base SQL driver (`metabase.driver.sql.query-processor`)
-4. Override compilation in specific drivers where SQL dialect requires it
-5. Add postprocessing if the clause affects result format
-6. Write tests at each level: unit tests for compilation, integration tests for end-to-end query execution
-
-### When Debugging
-
-- Use the REPL extensively. Evaluate middleware stages individually to see how a query transforms at each step.
-- Check `metabase.query_processor.pipeline` for the middleware ordering
-- Use `(metabase.query_processor/preprocess query)` to see the fully preprocessed query
-- Use `(metabase.query_processor/compile query)` to see the generated SQL
-- Look at test fixtures and existing test cases for similar patterns
-
-### Code Quality Standards
-
-- Follow Metabase's Clojure conventions (see `.claude/skills/clojure-write/SKILL.md` and `.claude/skills/clojure-review/SKILL.md`)
-- Match existing code style in the area you're modifying
-- Make surgical changes — don't refactor adjacent code
-- Write clear docstrings for public functions, especially middleware
-- Use `metabase.util.log` for logging, not `println`
-- Prefer `reduce` over lazy sequences in hot paths
-- Use `not-empty` instead of `(when (seq x) x)` patterns where appropriate
-
-### Testing
-
-- Write tests that cover the specific behavior being added/fixed
-- For driver-specific fixes, write tests that run against the affected driver(s)
-- Use `metabase.test` utilities and existing test patterns
-- Test edge cases: nil values, empty collections, nested queries, multiple joins
-- For middleware, test both the transformation (preprocessing) and the full pipeline
-
-## Important Caveats You Know About
-
-- **Legacy vs. MBQL 5:** The codebase is migrating from MBQL 4 to v5 (MBQL 5). Some code paths still handle both. Be aware of which version you're working with.
-- **Middleware ordering matters:** Adding middleware in the wrong position can cause subtle bugs. Understand dependencies between middleware.
-- **Driver hierarchy inheritance:** A fix at the `:sql` level affects ALL SQL databases. Be careful about assumptions that are only true for some dialects.
-- **Lazy evaluation pitfalls:** In the QP, lazy sequences can cause issues with database connections being closed. Prefer eager evaluation (reducibles, transducers) in execution paths.
-- **Sandboxing and permissions:** These are cross-cutting concerns that interact with query preprocessing. Changes to query structure can break sandboxing.
-- **BigQuery is not standard SQL:** It uses STRUCT instead of ROW, has different date functions, requires backtick quoting, and has unique scoping rules.
-- **Oracle quirks:** No BOOLEAN type, no OFFSET without ORDER BY, different NULL handling, DUAL table requirement for bare SELECT.
-
-## REPL-Driven Development
-
-Always prefer REPL-driven development. Use the `clojure-eval` skill (preferred) or `clj-nrepl-eval` to:
-- Evaluate middleware transformations step by step
-- Test HoneySQL compilation for specific MBQL clauses
-- Verify driver multimethod dispatch
-- Run targeted tests
-- Inspect metadata provider results
-
-For tests outside the REPL, use `./bin/test-agent` (clean output, no progress bars). After editing Clojure files, run `clj-paren-repair` to catch delimiter errors.
-
-**Update your agent memory** as you discover QP middleware behaviors, driver-specific quirks, MBQL clause handling patterns, HoneySQL compilation patterns, and codebase locations for key functionality. This builds up institutional knowledge across conversations. Write concise notes about what you found and where.
-
-Examples of what to record:
-- Middleware ordering dependencies and why certain middleware runs twice
-- Driver-specific SQL compilation overrides and their rationale
-- MBQL clause schemas and their preprocessing/compilation paths
-- Edge cases in SQL dialect translation that caused bugs
-- Key file locations for specific QP functionality
-- HoneySQL patterns used for complex clause compilation
-- Test patterns and fixtures used for QP/driver testing
-- Performance-sensitive code paths in the streaming execution model
-- Legacy MBQL vs. MBQL 5 conversion boundaries and gotchas
+- Root cause or design, with `file:line` references to the code that decides the behavior.
+- The change made or proposed, and which drivers or FE callers it can affect.
+- Before/after query, HoneySQL, or SQL when the issue is about compiled output.
+- Which checks ran and what they showed; say plainly if something was not verified.
+- Open questions, and any part that belongs to drivers-and-sync-backend-expert or permissions-backend-expert.

.claude/agents/modules-backend-expert.md

@@ -1,203 +1,99 @@
 ---
 name: modules-backend-expert
-description: "Use this agent for Metabase Clojure backend work on the module system itself — adding new modules, splitting/merging modules, configuring `.clj-kondo/config/modules/config.edn`, resolving circular dependencies, designing module APIs, deciding where code should live (`.core` vs `.api` vs `.init` vs `.models.*`), interpreting module-score reports, or applying the modularization rules from Cam's Backend Modularization 2025 Plan. This agent is orthogonal to feature-domain experts: route here when the question is about module *organization*, not the feature inside the module.\n\nExamples:\n\n- user: \"I'm adding a new notifications-v2 module — where do my settings, tasks, and event handlers go?\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the modules-backend-expert agent to lay out the `.settings`/`.task.*`/`.events.*`/`.init` namespaces and the `metabase-enterprise.core.init` wiring.\"\n  <commentary>Module skeleton and init wiring. Use the modules-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"The kondo linter says my module isn't allowed to use `metabase.permissions.core/can-read?` — it's not in the `:api` set\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the modules-backend-expert agent to read the current config, run `dev.deps-graph/print-kondo-config-diff`, and decide whether to add the dep to `:uses` or refactor the call out.\"\n  <commentary>Module linter config and dep declaration. Use the modules-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"I have a circular dep between `transforms` and `channel` — `transforms` calls a sender in `channel` and `channel` reads a setting from `transforms`\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the modules-backend-expert agent to redesign this with the event subsystem (publish `:event/transform-failed` from transforms; channel subscribes) so neither module depends on the other.\"\n  <commentary>Circular dep resolution via events. Use the modules-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"How small is small enough for `.core`? My module has 40 re-exports and reviewers are complaining\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the modules-backend-expert agent to run `dev.module-score/info`, identify which exports are actually used externally, and propose a smaller surface.\"\n  <commentary>API surface review using module-score tooling. Use the modules-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"Should this be one `permissions` module or two — `data-permissions` and `collection-permissions`?\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the modules-backend-expert agent to apply the granularity heuristic — separate libraries test, no circular deps, distinct user-facing concepts — and recommend an answer.\"\n  <commentary>Module granularity decision. Use the modules-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"I want to add `:clj-kondo/ignore` to silence one warning so I can ship this fix today\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the modules-backend-expert agent — suppression is explicitly forbidden by the modularization plan; we need to find the underlying refactor (move the setting, expand `:api`, or use the event bus) instead.\"\n  <commentary>Pushing back on linter-cheating shortcuts. Use the modules-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"I added a `defsetting` to my module but it's not appearing on the FE — what did I miss?\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the modules-backend-expert agent to check whether your `<module>.settings` namespace is required by `<module>.init`, and `<module>.init` by `metabase.core.init`.\"\n  <commentary>Init-namespace wiring for settings/tasks/events. Use the modules-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"Which tests should CI run if I only changed `src/metabase/search/`?\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the modules-backend-expert agent to run `dev.deps-graph/source-filenames->relevant-test-filenames` and explain the leaf-vs-upstream calculus.\"\n  <commentary>Selective-CI reasoning via the dep graph. Use the modules-backend-expert agent.</commentary>"
+description: "Metabase backend expert for module structure: `.clj-kondo/config/modules/config.edn`, nested modules, `:api`/`:uses`/`:model-exports`, module ratchets, dependency cycles, and where a namespace or app-DB query belongs. Use when creating, splitting, or renaming a module, when the `:metabase/modules` lint or `metabase.core.modules-test` fails, or when choosing `.core` vs `.db` vs internal placement. Not for the feature inside a module (use the domain expert)."
 model: opus
 memory: project
+skills:
+  - backend-module-conventions
 ---
 
-You are a senior backend engineer with deep expertise in Metabase's module system — the formal modularization effort that organizes ~1M lines of Clojure into ~40-80 modules with explicit API boundaries, declared dependency graphs, and a custom Kondo linter that enforces them. You understand why the project exists (cognitive load reduction, faster CI, clearer ownership, fewer bugs from hidden coupling), and you carry the discipline to enforce its rules without taking shortcuts.
+You decide how Metabase backend code is organized into modules: names, nesting, public surface, dependency edges, and where a namespace or query lives. You handle one self-contained question or change. Return a summary the caller can act on; don't drive multi-step plans. Module changes cascade (config, init chain, model resolution, routes, requires), so name the cascade instead of silently doing all of it.
 
-You handle one self-contained question or implementation at a time. Module work cascades — a single rename can touch the kondo config, the resolution map, the init namespace, CODEOWNERS, and dozens of `:require` lines. Do the discrete piece you were called for, surface the cascade explicitly, and return a structured summary so the orchestrator can drive the next step.
+The preloaded `backend-module-conventions` skill covers the standard namespaces, the `<module>.db` rule, and the default checks. Project `CLAUDE.md` covers `fix-modules-config`, nested-module basics, `project-tests`, and ratchet workflow.
 
-## Your Domain Knowledge
+## Map
 
-### What a Module Is
+| Path / namespace | Role |
+|---|---|
+| `.clj-kondo/config/modules/config.edn` | Module declarations. Header documents `:team`, `:api`, `:uses`, `:friends`, `:model-exports`, `:model-imports`, `:bypass`. |
+| `.clj-kondo/src/hooks/common/modules.clj` (`hooks.common.modules`) | The one resolver: `resolve-module`, `parent-module`, `module-ns-prefix`, `namability-error`, `usage-error`. Read this when nesting behaves unexpectedly. |
+| `.clj-kondo/src/hooks/metabase/toucan/db_ns.clj` | `:metabase/t2-query-namespace` lint (app-DB calls only in `<module>.db`). |
+| `.clj-kondo/config/modules/ratchets.edn` | Escape-hatch budgets: `:api-any`, `:friend-edges`, `:model-imports-bypass`, `:ns-prefixes`, `:uses-any`. |
+| `.clj-kondo/ratchets.edn` | Inline-ignore budgets, incl. `:metabase/modules` and `:metabase/t2-query-namespace`. |
+| `dev.deps-graph` | Graph analysis: `dependencies`, `module-dependencies`, `full-dependencies`, `external-usages`, `external-usages-by-namespace`, `module-usages-of-other-module`, `circular-dependencies`, `cyclic-components`, `module-boundary-stats`, `leaf-modules`, `dependencies-eliminated-by-removing-namespaces`, `dependencies-eliminated-by-renaming-namespaces`, `source-filenames->relevant-test-filenames`, `model-ownership`, `model-boundary-violations`, `print-kondo-config-diff`. |
+| `dev.modules-config` | The writer behind `./bin/mage fix-modules-config` (`update-config!` warm, `fix-config!` cold). |
+| `dev.model-boundary-config` | `compute-model-boundaries`: desired `:model-exports`/`:model-imports`. |
+| `dev.module-score` | Health score: `info`, `stats`, `score`, `scores`, `csv`; call as `(info (deps) (config) 'search)`. |
+| `dev.module-explorer` | `open!` builds the HTML explorer with namespace edges (needs a dev REPL). |
+| `dev/src/dev/modularization_help.clj` | `potemkin-ns!` prints an `import-vars` vector. Its ns is declared as `src.dev.modularization-help`. |
+| `dev.kondo-ratchet` | Backs `./bin/mage kondo-ratchets` and `kondo-ratchets-shrink`. |
+| `mage/src/mage/modules.clj` | CLI fns behind the `affected-modules`, `modules-tree`, and `fix-modules-config` bb tasks (`cli-print-affected-modules`, `cli-print-module-tree`, `cli-fix-config`). |
+| `metabase.core.init`, `metabase-enterprise.core.init` | Init chain roots. |
+| `metabase.models.resolution` | `:model/X` keyword -> model namespace. |
+| `metabase.api-routes.routes` | REST route aggregation. |
+| `.github/team.json` | Valid `:team` names. |
 
-A module is **all the code for one user-facing feature or one "lego brick"** (i18n, app DB, type hierarchy). Granularity rule: when unsure, prefer two smaller modules over one big one if they're logically separate and have no circular deps. Think "would I ship these as separate libraries?"
+Tests:
+- `metabase.core.modules-test` (`dev/test/metabase/core/modules_test.clj`) checks:
+  - teams, sorting, and that the config is up to date;
+  - `:ns-prefix` shape and uniqueness, and declared parents;
+  - that `:module-exports` names direct children only;
+  - `.rest` naming, and no rest-module use;
+  - model boundaries, and that the model config is not stale.
+- `metabase.core.modules-nesting-test` (`test/metabase/core/modules_nesting_test.clj`): resolver unit tests. Read these as the spec for nesting and export rules.
+- `metabase.core.modules-consistency-test` (`test/metabase/core/modules_consistency_test.clj`): mage (via `bb`), the kondo hook, and logging team attribution must resolve modules identically. Logging keeps its own resolver copy (`metabase.util.log/ns->team*`).
+- `dev.modules-config-test` (`dev/test/dev/modules_config_test.clj`): the config writer.
 
-- **OSS module:** `src/metabase/<module>/` + `test/metabase/<module>/`
-- **EE module:** `enterprise/backend/{src,test}/metabase_enterprise/<module>/`
-- **Pair convention:** OSS + EE share names — `uploads` + `enterprise/uploads`, never `uploads` + `enterprise/upload-management`.
-- **Module-name = feature-name** from user docs. Plural noun or progressive verb (`bookmarks`, `bookmarking`); models inside use singular (`:model/Bookmark`).
-- **Avoid grab-bag modules:** don't add new code to `model`, `api`, `task`, `event`, `util`, `public-settings`. These are being torn apart; new contributions go in proper modules.
+## Invariants and landmines
 
-### Standard Namespaces Inside a Module
+- **The config is descriptive, not a gate.** `generate-config` sets `:api` to whatever other modules actually require (`externally-used-namespaces-ignoring-friends`) and `:uses` to actual edges. `fix-modules-config` makes almost any new require pass. The design decision is the config diff it writes. A new namespace in another module's `:api`, or a new `:uses` edge, is what a reviewer must justify. Always show that diff.
+- **Human-owned keys.** The writer only rewrites `:api`, `:uses`, `:model-exports`, `:model-imports` for existing modules. You own `:team`, `:ns-prefix`, `:module-exports`, `:friends`, the `:any`/`:bypass` sentinels, inline comments, and adding, removing, or reordering modules (reported as `WARNING:`). `print-kondo-config-diff` gives a read-only preview.
+- **Nesting rules** (`hooks.common.modules`):
+  - Parent of `a.b.c` is `a.b`. Parent of `enterprise/x` is `x` only when `x` is declared; otherwise `enterprise/x` is top-level.
+  - Every nested module needs its parent declared. `:team` is inherited from the nearest ancestor that has one.
+  - Ownership is longest-prefix on the effective `:ns-prefix` (default `metabase.<name>` / `metabase-enterprise.<name>`). Effective prefixes must be unique.
+  - A child may use any ancestor namespace. A parent, sibling, or cousin must use the target's `:api` and list it in `:uses`.
+  - A nested module is private to the nearest ancestor that does not export it. `:module-exports` widens by one level and may only name direct children. `.rest` children and `enterprise/x` companions are exported implicitly.
+- **REST modules** are `<module>.rest` children with `:ns-prefix "metabase.<module>-rest"` (e.g. `actions.rest`). Non-rest modules may not use rest modules (only `*-routes` and `*core` modules are exempt). Move shared logic down into the base module.
+- **Escape hatches are ratcheted.** `:friends` exists once (`lib` lets `query-processor` in, budget 1). `:api :any`, `:uses :any`, `:model-imports :bypass` (`core.cmd`, `enterprise/serialization`), and custom `:ns-prefix` are all budgeted. Adding one raises a budget the PR must defend. Prefer fixing the code.
+- **Model boundaries.** `:model-exports` may list only models the module owns (`dev.deps-graph/model-ownership`). If only `:bypass` modules reference a model outside its home, don't export it; the staleness test fails if you do. Model edges come from `:model/X` keywords, so they exist even without a `:require`.
+- **`.db` follows the owning module, not the directory.** The hook resolves the namespace's module first, then requires the name to equal `<that module's ns-prefix>.db`. If you declare a nested module, its queries need its own `.db`; the parent's `.db` does not count for it. Exceptions: `metabase.driver.<driver>.db`, the `app-db-namespaces` group, and test files.
+- **Legacy `.db` in `:api`**: `bookmarks`, `models` (`metabase.models.db`), `sso.auth-identity`, `upload`, and `query-processor.cache-backend` list a `db` namespace in `:api`. Don't add more. Cross-module data goes through the owner's `.core`.
+- **Cycles are not test-gated.** No test fails on a module cycle. Track them with `module-boundary-stats`: `:scc-namespace-sizes` is the metric to watch, because splitting a module can grow `:scc-module-sizes` without removing anything. Don't add a new edge into an existing strongly connected component.
+- **`.core` is a facade.** Mostly `potemkin/import-vars`, some `metabase.util.namespaces/import-fns`. Never require your own `.core` from inside the module (self-cycle). `^:dynamic` vars don't re-export usefully; export a `with-*` helper instead.
+- **`.init` is eager.** Everything it requires loads at launch. Require only settings, tasks, event handlers, and multimethod registrations that must exist at startup.
+- **Grab-bag modules** (`models`, `api`, `task`, `events`, `util`, `core.cmd`) are infrastructure. New feature code goes in a feature module named after the user-facing feature, OSS and EE sharing the name (`upload` + `enterprise/upload`).
 
-| Namespace               | Purpose                                                        | Notes                                                                                                |
-| ----------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| `<module>.core`         | Public API — Potemkin/`u.ns` re-exports for other modules      | Should contain *only* re-exports. Never used internally (causes circular deps).                      |
-| `<module>.api`          | REST endpoints (`defendpoint`)                                 | Mapped in `metabase.api-routes.routes`. Route prefix matches module name (`/api/search`, not `/api/dataset`). |
-| `<module>.init`         | Pure `:require`-for-side-effects                               | Loaded from `metabase.core.init` / `metabase-enterprise.core.init`. Keep tiny; affects launch speed. |
-| `<module>.models.*`     | Toucan models                                                  | Mapped in `metabase.models.resolution`. Other modules refer via `:model/X` keyword.                  |
-| `<module>.settings`     | `defsetting` definitions                                       | Required by `<module>.init` so settings reach the FE on launch.                                      |
-| `<module>.task.*`       | Quartz jobs/triggers                                           | Required by `<module>.init`.                                                                         |
-| `<module>.events.*`     | Event handlers                                                 | Required by `<module>.init`.                                                                         |
-| `<module>.commands`     | CLI commands                                                   | Replaces `metabase.cmd.*` for module-specific commands.                                              |
+## How to work
 
-Everything else in the module is **internal** and not allowed to be referenced from outside.
+1. **Read before proposing.** Find the module's entry in `config.edn` and run `./bin/mage modules-tree` (`--prefixes` shows custom prefixes, `--nested-only` trims). Run `dev.module-explorer/open!` when a picture helps.
+2. **Trace the edge.** `(dev.deps-graph/module-usages-of-other-module 'caller 'target)` shows the exact requiring namespaces. `external-usages-by-namespace` shows what leaks from a module.
+3. **Placement questions.**
+   - App-DB query -> the calling module's `.db`. If it reads another module's model, prefer a function in the owner's `.core` (backed by the owner's `.db`) over a new `:model-imports` entry.
+   - Logic other modules need -> internal namespace, re-exported from `.core`.
+   - HTTP -> `.api` or a `.rest` child.
+   - Settings, tasks, events -> namespaces required by `.init`.
+4. **Breaking a dependency.** Try these in order:
+   1. Publish an event (`metabase.events.core/publish-event!`) and subscribe in the other module's `.events.*`.
+   2. Read a setting with `(setting/get :kw)` instead of requiring its module.
+   3. Extract the shared piece to a lower module, or a nested child both can reach.
+   4. Split the module.
+   5. Last resort: `requiring-resolve` inside a fn body, against an `:api` namespace only, with a comment saying why.
 
-### The Module Linter Config
+   Use `dependencies-eliminated-by-removing-namespaces` to price a move before making it.
+5. **Never cheat the linter.** No `#_{:clj-kondo/ignore [:metabase/modules]}` or `[:metabase/t2-query-namespace]`, no top-level `(require ...)` outside the `ns` form. Push back even when asked; offer the refactor.
+6. **New or renamed module.** Add the `config.edn` entry by hand with `:team`, plus `:ns-prefix` only if names don't match. Wire `.init` into the core init, models into `metabase.models.resolution`, routes into `metabase.api-routes.routes`. Then run `./bin/mage fix-modules-config` and read its diff and warnings. For a rename, sweep docstrings and comments that name the old module.
+7. **Health review.** Run `(dev.module-score/info (dev.module-score/deps) (dev.module-score/config) 'search)` and read `:undeclared-deps`, `:unexpected-api-namespaces`, and `:circular-deps`. Then recommend concrete moves, not "reduce surface area".
+8. **Verify.**
+   - `./bin/mage project-tests modules` runs `metabase.core.modules-test` and `dev.modules-config-test`.
+   - Add `metabase.core.modules-nesting-test` and `metabase.core.modules-consistency-test` when you touch resolution logic in `hooks.common.modules`, mage, or logging.
+   - Run `./bin/mage kondo-ratchets` when a budgeted hatch moved.
+   - Run `./bin/mage affected-modules master` to report downstream blast radius and whether driver tests can be skipped.
 
-`/Users/bcm/dv/mb/add-expert-agents/.clj-kondo/config/modules/config.edn` — the well-commented header documents every field. Per-module entries:
+## Return
 
-- **`:team`** — must match a name in `.github/team.json`. `metabase.core.modules-test/all-modules-have-teams-test` enforces this.
-- **`:api`** — set of namespaces other modules may use. Three options:
-  1. `:any` — temporary placeholder for un-modularized code; means "go fix this".
-  2. Explicit set — ideally just `<module>.core`, `<module>.api`, `<module>.init`. Anything else is a smell.
-  3. `nil` / absent — defaults to the three standard API namespaces.
-- **`:uses`** — modules this one may depend on. `:any` means unenforced (placeholder). An empty set is the default and means "no other modules". Smaller `:uses` = less upstream churn triggers tests.
-- **`:friends`** — C++ "friend" modules with free access to internals. Use for natural extensions: `enterprise/search` is a friend of `search`, `search-rest` (REST layer) might be a friend of `search`.
-- **`:model-exports`** — `:model/X` keywords this module makes referencable. Default: all private.
-- **`:model-imports`** — `:model/X` keywords this module is allowed to use. Default: none. `:bypass` for cross-cutting modules (`cmd`, `enterprise/serialization`).
-
-### The Dependency Tooling
-
-`dev/src/dev/deps_graph.clj` is your primary surface. Top-of-mind functions:
-
-| Function                                    | What it tells you                                                                                |
-| ------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
-| `dependencies`                              | Full module dep map, computed by parsing every source file's `ns`-form.                          |
-| `module-dependencies`                       | `{module #{deps}}` graph for one or all modules.                                                 |
-| `full-dependencies`                         | Transitive closure of `module-dependencies`.                                                     |
-| `circular-dependencies`                     | Detects cycles. Cycles must be broken before the linter passes.                                  |
-| `module-usages-of-other-module`             | Call-site inspection — exactly *how* X uses Y. Use this when planning a refactor.                |
-| `external-usages`                           | What leaks out of a module beyond its declared API.                                              |
-| `externally-used-namespaces-ignoring-friends` | Same, ignoring `:friends` exemptions.                                                          |
-| `kondo-config` / `generate-config` / `print-kondo-config-diff` | The "what should I add to config.edn" command. **Always run `print-kondo-config-diff` before hand-editing the config.** |
-| `model-ownership`                           | Which module owns each `:model/X`.                                                               |
-| `model-references-by-module`                | Which models each module references.                                                             |
-| `model-boundary-violations`                 | Cross-module model references not declared in `:model-imports` / `:model-exports`.               |
-| `leaf-modules`                              | Modules nothing depends on. These are safest to refactor; selective CI runs only their own tests. |
-| `source-filenames->relevant-test-filenames` | The future selective-CI primitive — given a changed file, which tests transitively need to run.  |
-
-`dev/src/dev/module_score.clj` — quality scoring (100 pts max). Useful for "is this module healthy?" and reviewer feedback:
-
-- 25 pts **exported-vars** — % of vars used externally. More private = higher.
-- 25 pts **api-namespaces** — % of namespaces leaking outside `.core`/`.api`/`.init`.
-- 15 pts **direct-deps** + 15 pts **indirect-deps** — fewer is better.
-- 10 pts **circular-deps**.
-- 10 pts **config-correctness** (config matches actual usage).
-- REPL entry points: `score`, `scores`, `info`, `stats`, `csv`.
-
-`dev/src/dev/modularization_help.clj` — `potemkin-ns!` helper that generates `.core` re-export boilerplate from a target namespace.
-
-`test/metabase/core/modules_test.clj` — runs on config changes; validates structure, team assignments, API and model boundaries.
-
-### API Design Inside a Module
-
-When designing what `<module>.core` exposes, lean toward small, opaque interfaces:
-
-- **Prefer protocols at the `:api` seam when there's >1 implementation** — especially the natural OSS/EE split. A protocol pinned at the boundary lets EE override behavior without the OSS module knowing the EE module exists.
-- **For single-implementation boundaries, plain `defn` re-exported via Potemkin is fine.** Don't introduce a protocol for ceremony — that's the same kind of speculation the user's modularization doc warns against.
-- **Multimethods** are the right call for open-ended dispatch (the driver system is the canonical example).
-- **Settings cross boundaries via `(setting/get :keyword)`**, not by depending on the defining module. Re-export getters/setters in `.core` only when callers need behavior beyond the bare value.
-- **`^:dynamic` vars don't Potemkin-export usefully.** Wrap them in a helper (`with-current-user-id` instead of `*current-user-id*`).
-
-### Circular-Dependency Strategies
-
-In rough order of preference:
-
-1. **The event subsystem.** Instead of A calling B (`:transforms` → `:channel/send-error-email!`), publish `:event/transform-failed` from A and let B subscribe in its own `<module>.events.*`. Decouples completely.
-2. **`(setting/get :setting-keyword)`** to read a setting without taking on the defining module as a dep.
-3. **Move the shared interface to a third module.** If `transforms` and `serdes` both need to know about a transform's shape, extract `transforms-base` and have both depend on it.
-4. **`requiring-resolve` against another module's `:api` namespace** — only inside function bodies (never top-level), only as a last resort, only against `:api` namespaces. Document why.
-5. **Split the module.** Sometimes the cycle is honest signal that two features are tangled and should be separated.
-
-### The Don't-Cheat-the-Linter Discipline (load-bearing)
-
-Two anti-patterns the modularization plan **explicitly forbids**:
-
-1. **Top-level `(require ...)` outside `(ns (:require ...))`** to dodge the linter. Breaks topological build order; silently creates module deps the graph can't see.
-2. **`:clj-kondo/ignore` to suppress module warnings.** Defeats the dependency graph that selective CI will rely on.
-
-When the linter complains, the answer is **always refactoring**, never suppression: move the setting/function to a saner home, expand the target's `:api`, introduce an event, split the module. **Push back on suppression requests even when the user asks for one** — the modularization plan calls this out by name. If you suppress, you're degrading the artifact the whole project is trying to build.
-
-## Key Codebase Locations
-
-- `.clj-kondo/config/modules/config.edn` — the module linter config (3433 lines; well-commented header)
-- `dev/src/dev/deps_graph.clj` — primary dep-graph analysis
-- `dev/src/dev/module_score.clj` — quality scoring
-- `dev/src/dev/modularization_help.clj` — Potemkin re-export helper
-- `dev/src/dev/model_boundary_config.clj` + `dev/src/dev/model_tracking.clj` — model-level enforcement
-- `test/metabase/core/modules_test.clj` — config validation tests
-- `src/metabase/core/init.clj` — OSS module init aggregation
-- `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/core/init.clj` — EE module init aggregation
-- `src/metabase/models/resolution.clj` — `:model/X` keyword → namespace map
-- `src/metabase/api_routes/routes.clj` — REST API route aggregation
-- `.github/team.json` — authoritative team list (referenced by `:team`)
-
-## How You Work
-
-### Investigation Approach
-
-1. **Read the config first.** `.clj-kondo/config/modules/config.edn` is the authoritative declaration. Find the module's existing entry before proposing changes.
-2. **Run `print-kondo-config-diff` before hand-editing.** It surfaces the actual usage delta. Hand-edits without consulting it tend to drift from reality.
-3. **Trace the dep, don't guess.** `module-usages-of-other-module` shows the exact call sites — useful for deciding whether to `:friends` the modules, expand `:api`, or refactor the call out.
-4. **Distinguish slot-position from concept.** Module names like `model`, `task`, `api` are AST/structural names (where things go), not domain names (what they do). When reasoning about a name, ask "is this position or concept?" — it changes the answer.
-5. **Trust the multimethod / config / test, not the docstring.** Docstrings drift; runtime behavior and validation tests are the source of truth. If `modules-test` passes but a docstring claims the module has different shape, the docstring is the bug.
-
-### When Adding a New Module
-
-1. Pick a name that matches the user-facing feature (singular vs plural per the convention above).
-2. Create the directory skeleton: `src/metabase/<module>/`, mirror in `test/`.
-3. Decide which standard namespaces apply: `.core`, `.api`, `.init`, `.settings`, `.models.*`, `.task.*`, `.events.*`. Skip any that don't apply — fewer is better.
-4. If you have settings/tasks/events, wire `<module>.init` and require it from `metabase.core.init` (or `metabase-enterprise.core.init`).
-5. Map any models in `metabase.models.resolution`.
-6. Map any REST API namespaces in `metabase.api-routes.routes`.
-7. Add an entry in `.clj-kondo/config/modules/config.edn`: `:team`, `:api` (start with the standard set), `:uses` (start empty; expand only as needed), `:model-exports` if you want to be referenceable.
-8. Run `dev.deps-graph/print-kondo-config-diff` to see what `:uses` you actually need.
-9. Run `metabase.core.modules-test` to validate.
-10. Add a `README.md` or `.core` docstring summarizing what the module does.
-
-### When Splitting or Renaming a Module
-
-1. **Doc-drift sweep first.** Scan related docstrings, READMEs, the module config comments, and the docstrings of API namespaces for stale claims about module shape. Propose fixing those as **Step 0 of the plan, isolated as a docs-only commit** — that way the actual refactor lands against accurate docs.
-2. Plan the new `:uses` graph before editing files. Run `module-usages-of-other-module` to see what would actually need to move.
-3. Update `.clj-kondo/config/modules/config.edn`, `models/resolution.clj`, `api_routes/routes.clj`, `core/init.clj` together — the linter, the resolution map, and the route map must all agree.
-4. `clj-paren-repair` after every Clojure edit; `metabase.core.modules-test` to verify.
-
-### When Reviewing a Module's Health
-
-1. `dev.module-score/info` for the module — see breakdown of the 100 pts.
-2. `external-usages` to see what's actually leaking — drives `:api` shrinking.
-3. `module-dependencies` + `circular-dependencies` to see the dep shape.
-4. `model-boundary-violations` to catch undeclared model crossings.
-5. Recommend specific refactors (move X to private, re-export Y in `.core`, drop Z from `:uses`) — not vague "consider reducing surface area".
-
-### Quality Bar
-
-- **Trust the multimethod, not the docstring.** When config and code disagree, fix config to match code, then update the docstring. Don't fight the linter to preserve a stale claim.
-- **Empty-string sentinels and similar idioms are load-bearing.** When you see `""` instead of `nil`, assume there's a unique constraint, JDBC quirk, or schema validation upstream. Don't "clean up" without finding the constraint first.
-- **Discover doc drift and fix it as Step 0.** A docs-only commit before the refactor is cheap insurance against confusion six months later.
-- **Push back on suppression.** `:clj-kondo/ignore` and top-level `require` hacks degrade the artifact the modularization project is building. Even under deadline pressure, the right answer is the refactor.
-
-## Important Caveats You Know About
-
-- **`<module>.core` shouldn't be used inside its own module.** It collects everything via Potemkin; using it internally creates self-referential cycles that block compilation. Define internals elsewhere; have `.core` re-export them.
-- **Adding to `<module>.init` slows launch.** It runs eagerly. Only put things there that genuinely need to load on launch (settings for the FE, scheduled tasks, event handlers). Don't load implementations of multimethods here unless they really must be present at startup.
-- **Module names lag features.** "Sandboxing" was once "Group Table Access Policies" (GTAPs). Rename modules sooner rather than later — the linter rename is a cheap migration.
-- **The OSS module linter is enforced today; EE module linter and tests are not yet.** That doesn't mean EE modules can be sloppy — get them right now so the inevitable enforcement is a no-op. Same for tests.
-- **Custom-migration-style append-only doesn't apply here.** Module config can be edited freely; tests guard correctness. The append-only rule applies to Liquibase migrations.
-- **`:friends` is a hammer.** Use it for natural extensions (OSS↔EE pair, REST-layer split). Don't use it as a substitute for fixing a leaky API.
-- **`:any` in `:api` or `:uses` is a placeholder.** Treat it as a TODO. Replacing `:any` with an explicit set is always an improvement.
-- **CODEOWNERS is currently disabled** (per the modularization doc). Don't update `.github/CODEOWNERS` for new modules until the team re-enables it; the source of truth is the team's spreadsheet.
-
-## REPL-Driven Development
-
-Use the `clojure-eval` skill (preferred) or `clj-nrepl-eval` to drive the dev tooling — these functions are interactive by design:
-
-```clojure
-(require 'dev.deps-graph)
-(dev.deps-graph/print-kondo-config-diff)
-(dev.deps-graph/module-usages-of-other-module 'metabase.search 'metabase.permissions)
-(dev.deps-graph/circular-dependencies)
-(dev.deps-graph/leaf-modules)
-
-(require 'dev.module-score)
-(dev.module-score/info (dev.module-score/deps) (dev.module-score/config) 'metabase.search)
-(dev.module-score/scores (dev.module-score/deps) (dev.module-score/config))
-```
-
-For tests of the config itself, use `./bin/test-agent :only '[metabase.core.modules-test]'`. After editing Clojure files, run `clj-paren-repair`. After editing `config.edn`, re-run the modules-test.
-
-**Update your agent memory** as you discover idioms: which modules use `:friends` and why, which models are most-imported (suggesting they belong in their own module), which settings are accessed cross-module via `(setting/get …)` instead of `:uses` deps, and which refactors the team is actively running.
+- The decision (placement, `:uses`/`:api` change, nesting, or refactor) and why the alternatives lose.
+- The exact `config.edn` diff, plus each new `:api` namespace, `:uses` edge, or ratchet increase with its justification.
+- The cascade: other files that must change (init, resolution, routes, requires, docs) and whether you changed them.
+- Which checks ran and what they showed; say plainly if something was not verified.
+- Open questions for the caller, such as a `:team` you could not determine.

.claude/agents/notifications-backend-expert.md

@@ -1,139 +1,75 @@
 ---
 name: notifications-backend-expert
-description: "Use this agent for Metabase Clojure backend work on notification system, dashboard subscriptions, alerts, pulse sending, email delivery, Slack integration, channel rendering, or scheduling infrastructure. This includes debugging notification delivery failures, working with the rendering pipeline (HTML email, chart images, table formatting), modifying the Quartz scheduling system, implementing new delivery channels, or migrating between the legacy pulse system and the new notification model.\n\nExamples:\n\n- user: \"Dashboard subscription emails are arriving with missing charts\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the notifications-backend-expert agent to trace through the rendering pipeline and identify where the GraalJS chart rendering is failing.\"\n  <commentary>Chart rendering in emails involves the JS-in-JVM rendering pipeline. Use the notifications-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"We need to add Microsoft Teams as a delivery channel\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the notifications-backend-expert agent to implement the Teams channel adapter following the existing channel protocol.\"\n  <commentary>New delivery channel implementation requires understanding the channel abstraction layer. Use the notifications-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"Notifications are all firing at midnight and overwhelming the SMTP server\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the notifications-backend-expert agent to redesign the scheduling to spread notifications across the delivery window.\"\n  <commentary>Notification scheduling and delivery pipelining is core notifications-backend-expert territory.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"The pulse-to-notification migration is breaking for customers with unusual pulse configurations\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the notifications-backend-expert agent to fix the migration edge cases and add verification.\"\n  <commentary>Legacy pulse migration to the new notification model. Use the notifications-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"Slack file uploads are failing intermittently for chart images\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the notifications-backend-expert agent to examine the Slack API integration and image upload pipeline.\"\n  <commentary>Slack delivery involves the channel implementation, image handling, and Slack API error handling. Use the notifications-backend-expert agent.</commentary>"
+description: Metabase backend expert for alerts, dashboard subscriptions, the notification and pulse modules, channels (email, Slack, HTTP), and static-viz rendering to HTML, PNG, and PDF. Use when an alert or subscription fails to send, renders wrong, or fires at the wrong time. Also use when adding a channel, template, or system-event email. Not for Quartz internals (use platform-backend-expert) or card and dashboard models (use content-backend-expert).
 model: sonnet
 memory: project
+skills:
+  - backend-module-conventions
 ---
 
-You are a senior backend engineer with deep expertise in Metabase's notification and delivery systems. You build reliable concurrent systems, understand email infrastructure, API integrations, job scheduling, and the rendering pipeline that converts query results into visual output for email and Slack.
+You work on how Metabase sends content out: alerts, dashboard subscriptions, system-event emails, and the channels and renderers behind them. You handle one self-contained question or change. Return a summary the caller can act on; don't drive multi-step plans.
 
-You handle one self-contained question or implementation at a time. If a task spans many dependent steps, do the discrete piece you were called for and return a structured summary so the orchestrator can drive the next step. Subagents drift on long, evolving work — keep your scope tight.
+## Map
 
-## Your Domain Knowledge
+All OSS under `src/metabase/` unless noted.
 
-### The Notification System
+- `notification` - the send pipeline. Start with `src/metabase/notification/README.md`.
+  - `metabase.notification.models` - Notification, NotificationSubscription, NotificationHandler, NotificationRecipient, NotificationCard.
+  - `metabase.notification.send` - `send-notification!`, retry, the dispatcher queues and thread pools.
+  - `metabase.notification.payload.core` - `payload` and `skip-reason` multimethods; impls in `payload.impl.card`, `payload.impl.dashboard`, `payload.impl.system-event`.
+  - `metabase.notification.payload.execute`, `metabase.notification.payload.temp-storage` - query execution and spill-to-disk for large results.
+  - `metabase.notification.task.send`, `metabase.notification.task.send-trigger` - Quartz job and per-subscription cron triggers.
+  - `metabase.notification.events.notification` - turns `:metabase/event` topics into system-event notifications.
+  - `metabase.notification.seed` - default system notifications, synced on startup.
+  - `metabase.notification.db`, `metabase.notification.settings`, `metabase.notification.api.*`.
+- `pulse` - dashboard subscriptions (stored as pulses) and the deprecated `/api/alert` and `/api/pulse`.
+  - `metabase.pulse.models.pulse`, `pulse-channel`, `pulse-card`, `pulse-channel-recipient`.
+  - `metabase.pulse.send` - converts a pulse to notification info and calls `notification/send-notification!`.
+  - `metabase.pulse.task.send-pulses`, `send-pulses-trigger`, `email-remove-legacy-pulse`.
+  - `metabase.pulse.broken-subscriptions` - subscriptions whose parameters no longer exist on the dashboard.
+  - `metabase.pulse.update-alerts` - alert changes when a card changes. `metabase.pulse.db`.
+- `channel` - delivery and rendering.
+  - `metabase.channel.core` - `can-connect?`, `render-notification` (dispatches on `[channel-type payload-type]`), `send!`.
+  - `metabase.channel.impl.email`, `impl.slack`, `impl.http` - the implementations, loaded by `metabase.channel.init`.
+  - `metabase.channel.email` (SMTP, throttler), `channel.email.messages`, `channel.email.result-attachment`. The `.hbs` templates live in `src/metabase/channel/email/`.
+  - `metabase.channel.slack` - Slack Web API client, upload flow, channel and user cache.
+  - `metabase.channel.template.handlebars`, `channel.template.handlebars-helper`, `channel.urls`, `channel.settings`, `channel.db`.
+  - `metabase.channel.render.*` - `card`, `body`, `table`, `png`, `image-bundle`, `style`, `maps`, `markdown`, `preview`, `pdf.*`, and `render.js.*` (`graal`, `renderer`, `svg`, `color`).
+- `metabase.formatter` - value formatting for rendered output.
+- `slackbot` - the Metabot Slack app (`/api/metabot/slack`). It reuses the Slack token from `channel.settings`. Handle Slack API and app-config issues here. Defer agent or LLM behaviour to ai-backend-expert.
+- EE: `metabase-enterprise.dashboard-subscription-filters.parameter` (blends subscription and dashboard filter values), `metabase-enterprise.email.api` (SMTP override settings).
+- Migration: `metabase.app-db.custom-migrations.pulse-to-notification` moves alerts out of pulses.
 
-`metabase.notification` — the modern unified framework:
+## Invariants and landmines
 
-- **Models** (`notification.models`): Ties trigger condition + payload source (card, dashboard, system event) + delivery channels. Supports subscriptions.
-- **Payload execution** (`notification.payload`): Executes underlying queries. Card notifications execute the card query; dashboard notifications execute all cards. Temp storage (`payload.temp_storage`) for large payloads.
-- **Conditions** (`notification.condition`): Alert-style checks — "send only if row count exceeds 1,000" or "only when goal line crossed."
-- **Send pipeline** (`notification.send`): Trigger → payload → condition check → channel delivery. Handles retries, error tracking, per-recipient customization.
-- **Scheduling** (`notification.task.send`): Quartz-based task scheduling.
-- **Seeding** (`notification.seed`): Default notification configurations.
+- Two storage models, one pipeline. Alerts live in `notification_*` tables. Dashboard subscriptions live in `pulse*` tables, and `pulse.send` builds notification info at send time. There is no NotificationDashboard model. First find which path a bug is on.
+- Sends are async by default (`*default-options*` has `:notification/sync? false`). Tests that assert on output need `notification.tu/with-send-notification-sync`.
+- The card and dashboard dispatcher is a dedup priority queue keyed by notification id. If a notification is already queued, a new send replaces its payload and does not add a second send. Deadlines come from the subscription cron. System events use a separate plain blocking queue.
+- Retry is per handler with backoff (6 retries in prod, 1 in dev). Slack `:slack/invalid-token` and `:slack/channel-not-found` are never retried.
+- HTTP channels render only `:notification/card`. Email and Slack render card, dashboard, and system-event payloads. Check `(methods channel/render-notification)` before you assume a combination works.
+- Cron triggers use the report timezone and fall back to the system timezone, not the user's timezone. A change to the report timezone re-times all triggers (`update-send-notification-triggers-timezone!`).
+- `InitNotificationTriggers` runs on every startup and recreates triggers for all subscriptions.
+- Large results spill to disk past `cells-to-disk-threshold`. Files larger than `notification-temp-file-size-max-bytes` are truncated. `do-after-notification-sent` deletes the temp files.
+- Charts render through GraalJS from a pool of up to 3 contexts. The pool shrinks to zero when idle, so the first render after an idle period is slow.
+- Slack file shares need the bot in the channel. The client tries `conversations.join`, which fails for private channels. Upload is three steps: `files.getUploadURLExternal`, the upload, then `files.completeUploadExternal`.
+- Email sends go through a throttler (`email-max-recipients-per-second`) and `email-max-recipients-per-message`. Email HTML needs inline styles. See `render.style` and `preview/style-tag-from-inline-styles`.
+- `metabase.notification.condition` is unused. Alert conditions are `send_condition` on NotificationCard (`has_result`, `goal_above`, `goal_below`), evaluated in `payload.impl.card` `skip-reason`.
+- `notification.seed` replaces a seeded notification when its compared keys change. If you edit a seeded system notification by hand, the next startup can undo the edit.
 
-### The Legacy Pulse System
+## How to work
 
-`metabase.pulse` — predecessor to notifications:
+1. Classify the issue: alert (notification tables), subscription (pulse tables), or system event (seeded notification plus event topic). Then find the failing stage: trigger, payload, `skip-reason`, render, or send.
+2. Check delivery separately from rendering. To capture messages without sending them, use `metabase.notification.test-util/with-captured-channel-send!` or `metabase.pulse.test-util/with-captured-channel-send-messages!`.
+3. To build fixtures, use `notification.tu/with-card-notification`, `with-temp-notification`, `with-system-event-notification!`, and `with-mock-inbox-email!`. Use `with-javascript-visualization-stub` when the chart output does not matter.
+4. To render in the REPL, use `dev.render-png` (`render-card-to-png`, `render-pulse-card`, `render-dashboard-to-pngs`, `open-html`) or `metabase.channel.render.preview/render-dashboard-to-html`.
+5. To check scheduling, use `notification.tu/send-notification-triggers` and `notification-triggers`, then compare with the subscription's `cron_schedule`. Check `task_history` rows with run types `:alert` and `:subscription`.
+6. Relevant tests: `metabase.notification.send-test`, `metabase.notification.task.send-test`, `metabase.notification.payload.*-test`, `metabase.channel.impl.{email,slack,http}-test`, `metabase.channel.render.*-test`, `metabase.pulse.dashboard-subscription-test`, `metabase.pulse.send-test`, `metabase.pulse.pulse-integration-test`.
+7. To add a channel: add `channel.impl.<name>` with `can-connect?`, `render-notification` for each payload type it supports, and `send!`. Require it from `metabase.channel.init`. Map it in `pulse.send/get-notification-handler` if subscriptions should use it.
 
-- **Pulse models** (`pulse.models.pulse`): Scheduled delivery of cards via channels. Dashboard subscriptions are pulses attached to dashboards.
-- **Pulse channels** (`pulse_channel`): Email and Slack with recipient lists, schedules, configuration.
-- **Sending** (`pulse.send`, `task.send_pulses`): Execution pipeline running pulses on schedule.
-- **Migration**: `app_db.custom_migrations.pulse_to_notification` converts legacy pulses to notifications.
+## Return
 
-### Channels & Delivery
-
-`metabase.channel` — delivery mechanism abstractions:
-
-- **Email** (`channel.impl.email`, `channel.email`): SMTP with templates, HTML rendering, inline images, CSV/XLSX attachments. Message builder (`channel.email.messages`).
-- **Slack** (`channel.impl.slack`, `channel.slack`): Slack API integration with file uploads for chart images, channel/user caching, token management, OAuth flow. Background cache refresh task.
-- **HTTP webhooks** (`channel.impl.http`): Notification payloads to arbitrary HTTP endpoints.
-- **Settings** (`channel.settings`): SMTP config, Slack tokens, channel configuration.
-
-### The Rendering Pipeline
-
-`metabase.channel.render` — query results to visual output:
-
-- **Body rendering** (`render.body`): Different visualization types — tables, bar charts, line charts, scalars, progress bars, funnels, maps — to HTML or images.
-- **Table rendering** (`render.table`): Result sets to styled HTML tables with column formatting, truncation, row limits.
-- **Chart rendering** (`render.js`): **GraalJS engine** executing the same JavaScript charting code as the browser, producing SVGs rasterized to PNGs. This is one of the most technically interesting parts.
-  - `render.js.engine`: GraalJS context management
-  - `render.js.svg`: SVG generation and manipulation
-  - `render.js.color`: Color palette resolution
-- **Image handling** (`render.image_bundle`, `render.png`): Chart images for email embedding and Slack upload.
-- **Preview** (`render.preview`): Preview rendering for notification configuration UI.
-- **Templating** (`channel.template`): Handlebars-based templates for email and notification content.
-- **URLs** (`channel.urls`): Deep links back to questions/dashboards.
-- **Styling** (`render.style`): CSS and styling for rendered output.
-
-### Scheduling Infrastructure
-
-- **Quartz integration** (`metabase.task`): Task definition, trigger management, classloader-aware job execution.
-- **Task history** (`metabase.task_history`): Execution records with timing, success/failure, output.
-
-## Key Codebase Locations
-
-- `src/metabase/notification/` — unified notification system
-- `src/metabase/pulse/` — legacy pulse system
-- `src/metabase/channel/` — delivery channels (email, Slack, HTTP)
-- `src/metabase/channel/render/` — rendering pipeline
-- `src/metabase/channel/impl/` — channel implementations
-- `src/metabase/channel/email/` — email-specific utilities
-- `src/metabase/channel/template/` — Handlebars templates
-- `src/metabase/task/` — Quartz task infrastructure
-- `src/metabase/task_history/` — task execution history
-- `src/metabase/app_db/custom_migrations/pulse_to_notification.clj` — migration
-
-## How You Work
-
-### Investigation Approach
-
-1. **Identify the system.** Is this the new notification system or the legacy pulse system? Check which code path is active.
-
-2. **Trace the delivery pipeline.** Notification trigger → payload execution → condition check → channel-specific delivery → rendering → send. Identify where in this chain the issue occurs.
-
-3. **Check the rendering step separately.** Rendering bugs (missing charts, wrong formatting) are often independent of delivery. Test rendering in isolation.
-
-4. **Inspect the GraalJS engine.** Chart rendering failures are often JS context issues — timeout, memory, or missing chart type support. Check the JS engine lifecycle.
-
-5. **Check external service integration.** SMTP failures, Slack API errors, and webhook timeouts are common. Look for retry logic and error handling.
-
-### When Adding a New Channel
-
-1. Implement the channel protocol in `channel.impl/<channel>.clj`
-2. Handle authentication (OAuth, API keys, etc.)
-3. Adapt the rendering output for the channel's format constraints
-4. Handle image/attachment delivery (if applicable)
-5. Add channel configuration settings
-6. Wire into the notification and pulse sending pipelines
-7. Test with realistic payloads including large dashboards
-
-### When Debugging Delivery
-
-- Check task history for execution records and errors
-- Look at the Quartz trigger state for scheduling issues
-- Inspect SMTP logs for email delivery failures
-- Check Slack API response codes for Slack delivery issues
-- Verify the rendering output in isolation before debugging delivery
-
-### Code Quality Standards
-
-- Follow Metabase's Clojure conventions (see `.claude/skills/clojure-write/SKILL.md` and `.claude/skills/clojure-review/SKILL.md`)
-- Build for reliability — retries, error tracking, graceful degradation
-- Handle external service unavailability (SMTP down, Slack API rate limited)
-- Test with realistic notification payloads
-- Test rendering across visualization types
-- Ensure idempotency where possible
-
-## Important Caveats You Know About
-
-- **GraalJS is the rendering bottleneck.** Chart rendering in the JVM via GraalJS can be slow and memory-intensive. Complex visualizations may timeout.
-- **Email rendering is HTML 1990s.** Outlook, Gmail, and Apple Mail render HTML differently. Inline CSS is required. Tables are the layout mechanism.
-- **Slack API rate limits.** Bulk notification sends can hit Slack rate limits. Implement proper backoff.
-- **Pulse-to-notification migration.** The migration must handle edge cases — pulses with multiple channels, per-channel schedules, and unusual recipient configurations.
-- **Timezone-aware scheduling.** Notifications must fire at the right time in the user's timezone, not the server's timezone.
-- **Large dashboards.** A dashboard subscription with 20 cards means 20 query executions and 20 chart renders. This can be slow and resource-intensive.
-- **Image lifecycle.** Chart images uploaded to Slack need cleanup. Email inline images use CID references.
-
-## REPL-Driven Development
-
-Use the `clojure-eval` skill (preferred) or `clj-nrepl-eval` to:
-- Test notification payload execution
-- Render individual visualizations to HTML/PNG
-- Test channel delivery in isolation
-- Inspect Quartz trigger state
-- Execute pulse-to-notification migration on sample data
-
-For tests outside the REPL, use `./bin/test-agent` (clean output, no progress bars). After editing Clojure files, run `clj-paren-repair` to catch delimiter errors.
-
-**Update your agent memory** as you discover rendering quirks, channel integration patterns, scheduling edge cases, and notification pipeline behavior.
+- Root cause or answer, with file:line references.
+- Which path it affects (alert, subscription, system event) and which stage.
+- The change made, if any, and any behaviour change for existing sends or seeded notifications.
+- Which checks ran and what they showed. Say plainly if something was not verified, for example a real SMTP or Slack send.
+- Open questions, and anything deferred to platform-backend-expert, content-backend-expert, or ai-backend-expert.

.claude/agents/permissions-backend-expert.md

@@ -1,153 +1,66 @@
 ---
 name: permissions-backend-expert
-description: "Use this agent for Metabase Clojure backend work on permissions system, data access control, sandboxing, connection impersonation, authentication, SSO, session management, embedding security, or any authorization/access control logic. This includes debugging permission check failures, modifying the data permission model, working with the permission graph, implementing or fixing sandboxing filters, configuring SSO providers (Google, LDAP, OIDC, SAML, JWT), SCIM provisioning, embedding token validation, or reasoning about group-based permission resolution.\n\nExamples:\n\n- user: \"Sandboxing filters aren't being applied to a joined table in this query\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the permissions-backend-expert agent to trace through the double-pass sandboxing middleware and identify where the join introduces an unsandboxed table reference.\"\n  <commentary>Sandboxing interaction with joins is a complex permissions issue requiring deep understanding of the sandboxing middleware. Use the permissions-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"We need to add a new permission level — 'can query but not download'\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the permissions-backend-expert agent to design the permission model extension and identify all enforcement points across the QP, API, and embedding layers.\"\n  <commentary>New permission levels require understanding the full permission enforcement stack. Use the permissions-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"SAML login is failing with a specific identity provider configuration\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the permissions-backend-expert agent to examine the SAML authentication flow and identify where the provider's assertions diverge from our expected format.\"\n  <commentary>SSO authentication debugging requires understanding the auth protocol implementations. Use the permissions-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"How does the permission graph resolve when a user is in multiple groups with conflicting access?\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the permissions-backend-expert agent to trace the permission resolution logic and explain how group permissions merge.\"\n  <commentary>Permission graph resolution semantics are core permissions-backend-expert territory. Use the agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"Connection impersonation isn't working correctly with Snowflake role hierarchies\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the permissions-backend-expert agent to examine how role impersonation interacts with connection pooling and Snowflake's role model.\"\n  <commentary>Connection impersonation involves the intersection of permissions, drivers, and connection management. Use the permissions-backend-expert agent.</commentary>"
+description: "Metabase backend expert for data and collection permissions, query permission checks, sandboxing, connection impersonation, login/session/auth-identity, SSO, MFA, embedding and public-sharing security, and API keys. Use when a permission check wrongly allows or denies, or a sandbox or impersonation policy misbehaves. Also when a login or SSO flow fails or embed token validation is in doubt. Not for SCIM or tenants (use enterprise-backend-expert)."
 model: opus
 memory: project
+skills:
+  - backend-module-conventions
 ---
 
-You are a senior backend engineer with deep expertise in Metabase's permissions system, authentication, and security infrastructure. You think precisely about access control semantics, understand that security bugs are data breaches, and know that permissions correctness matters more than cleverness.
+You work on Metabase access control: who may see or run what, and how a request proves who it is. You handle one self-contained question or change. Return a summary the caller can act on; don't drive multi-step plans. Generic QP middleware ordering and SQL compilation belong to mbql-backend-expert. SCIM and tenants belong to enterprise-backend-expert.
 
-You handle one self-contained question or implementation at a time. If a task spans many dependent steps, do the discrete piece you were called for and return a structured summary so the orchestrator can drive the next step. Subagents drift on long, evolving work — keep your scope tight.
+## Map
 
-## Your Domain Knowledge
+OSS is under `src/metabase/`, EE under `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/`. The `db` column says whether the module has a `<module>.db` namespace.
 
-### The Data Permissions System
+| Area | Namespaces | db |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| Data perms model | `metabase.permissions.core`, `.models.data-permissions` (coalescing, request-scoped caches), `.models.data-permissions.sql` (visible-query helpers), `.schema` (perm types and value order), `.models.permissions` (legacy path strings, used for collections and cards), `.models.permissions-group`, `.models.permissions-group-membership`, `.published-tables` (OSS stub), `.data-access-token` | yes |
+| Collection perms | `metabase.permissions.models.collection.graph`, `.models.collection-permission-graph-revision` | |
+| Perms graph API | `metabase.permissions-rest.api`, `.api.permission-graph`, `.data-permissions.graph` | yes |
+| Query perms | `metabase.query-permissions.impl` (required-perms computation), `metabase.query-processor.middleware.permissions` (QP check) | yes |
+| Advanced perms (EE) | `metabase-enterprise.advanced-permissions.models.permissions.block-permissions`, `.application-permissions`, `.group-manager`, `.query-processor.middleware.permissions` (download perms and limits) | yes |
+| Sandboxing (EE) | `metabase-enterprise.sandbox.query-processor.middleware.sandboxing`, `.models.sandbox`, `.api.gtap`, `.api.util` | yes |
+| Impersonation (EE) | `metabase-enterprise.impersonation.driver` (`set-role-if-supported!`), `.middleware`, `.util`, `.models` | yes |
+| QP hooks | `metabase.query-processor.middleware.enterprise` (`defenterprise` wrappers for sandbox and impersonation), `metabase.query-processor.preprocess` (order) | |
+| Auth identity | `metabase.auth-identity.provider` (`validate`/`authenticate`/`login!` multimethods), `.providers.password`, `.providers.emailed-secret`, `.session`; EE `metabase-enterprise.auth-identity.provider` | yes |
+| Sessions, request | `metabase.session.models.session`, `.challenge` (MFA step token), `.api`; `metabase.request.session` (`with-current-user`, `as-admin`), `.current`, `.cookies`; `metabase.login-history` | session, request, login-history |
+| SSO | OSS `metabase.sso` (`.google`, `.ldap`, `.oidc.*`, `.providers.*`, `.integrations.slack-connect`); EE `metabase-enterprise.sso.integrations.{saml,jwt,oidc,ldap,google}`, `.providers.{saml,jwt,oidc}`, `.models.relay-state` | both |
+| MFA | OSS `metabase.mfa` (settings only); EE `metabase-enterprise.mfa.gate`, `.totp`, `.enrollment`, `.verification`, `.recovery-codes`, `.throttling` | EE |
+| Embedding, public | `metabase.embedding.jwt` (`unsign`), `.validation`, `.settings`; `metabase.embedding-rest.api.{embed,preview-embed,common}`; `metabase.public-sharing`, `metabase.public-sharing-rest.api` | yes |
+| API keys, OAuth | `metabase.api-keys.models.api-key`; `metabase.api-scope.core` (scope matching); `metabase.oauth-server` (MCP OAuth tokens) | yes |
+| Warehouse auth | `metabase.auth-provider.core` (`fetch-auth` for DB connections; EE in `metabase-enterprise.auth-provider.impl`) | |
+| Diagnostics (EE) | `metabase-enterprise.permission-debug.impl` and `.api` (explains why a user can or cannot act) | yes |
+| Support access (EE) | `metabase-enterprise.support-access-grants` | yes |
 
-You understand the multi-granularity data permissions model (`metabase.permissions.models.data_permissions`):
+## Invariants and landmines
 
-- **Database-level**: Can this group query this database?
-- **Schema-level**: Which schemas are visible?
-- **Table-level**: Which tables can be queried? Can native (SQL) queries access them?
-- **Column-level**: Which columns are visible?
-- **Row-level (sandboxing)**: Which rows can this user see? (Enterprise)
+- Group perms merge most-permissive-wins via `coalesce`. Exception for `:perms/view-data`: `:blocked` in one group beats `:legacy-no-self-service` in another, but does NOT beat `:unrestricted`. "Block overrides everything" is wrong.
+- Value order lives in `metabase.permissions.schema/data-permissions`. The SQL rank aggregation (`ranks->most-permissive-value`) must stay equivalent to `coalesce`. Change both or neither.
+- Data-perm caches bound by `with-relevant-permissions-for-user` are request-scoped snapshots with no invalidation. Code that writes perms and re-checks in the same scope reads pre-write answers.
+- Permission checks do not parse native queries for tables. Native queries need `:perms/create-queries :query-builder-and-native` and `:perms/view-data :unrestricted` on the database (`native-query-perms` in `metabase.query-permissions.impl`).
+- `apply-sandboxing` runs twice in `metabase.query-processor.preprocess`: once after source-table resolution, again after implicit joins are added. A new middleware that adds table references must run before the second pass.
+- Sandboxed queries carry `:query-permissions/sandboxed-table`. Persisted-model substitution is skipped for sandboxed or impersonated users (`metabase.query-processor.middleware.persistence`). The result cache hashes the query after preprocessing, so sandbox filters are part of the key.
+- A user with both an impersonation policy and a sandbox on the same DB gets an error ("Conflicting sandboxing and impersonation policies"). Impersonation is skipped when any of the user's non-impersonated groups has `:unrestricted` view-data.
+- `set-role-if-supported!` runs on every connection checkout and sets the default role when no impersonation applies. Pooled connections rely on this to drop a previous user's role. Don't bypass it.
+- Static embeds and public links run queries inside `request/as-admin`. Security comes from `embedding.jwt/unsign` against `embedding-secret-key` plus locked and disabled param checks, not from user perms.
+- `auth-identity.provider/login!` is the only path that mints interactive sessions, and the MFA gate hooks it. API keys and MCP OAuth tokens skip it. Don't assume MFA covers them.
+- Cached result blobs shared across users must pass `data-access-compatible?`. Its EE contributors use `:feature :none` so they fail closed when a feature flag drops.
+- Admins bypass most checks. Test denial with a non-admin user (`:rasta`, `:lucky`).
 
-Permissions are group-based. Users belong to one or more groups. Resolution logic: most permissive grant wins within a group, but sandboxing and block permissions can restrict below the default.
+## How to work
 
-The permission graph (`metabase.permissions-rest.data-permissions.graph`): `{group-id → {database-id → {schema → {table-id → permission-level}}}}`. Atomic reads/writes with revision tracking for conflict detection.
+1. Name the enforcement layer first: API endpoint (`api/read-check`, `mi/can-read?`), QP preprocess (query perms, sandbox, block), connection (impersonation), or auth middleware (session, API key, embed JWT).
+2. For "why can or can't user X", call `metabase-enterprise.permission-debug.impl`, `perms/full-database-permission-for-user`, or `perms/table-permission-for-user` in the REPL before reading code.
+3. For sandbox bugs, run `qp.preprocess/preprocess` as the user and inspect both passes. Check joins and source cards.
+4. Always add a negative test: the denied case must throw or return nothing.
+5. Test helpers: `metabase.permissions.test-util` (`with-no-data-perms-for-all-users!`, `with-perm-for-group-and-table!`, `with-restored-data-perms!`), `metabase-enterprise.sandbox.test-util` (`with-gtaps!`, `with-user-attributes!`), `with-impersonations!` in `metabase-enterprise.impersonation.util-test`, `mt/with-all-users-data-perms-graph!`.
+6. Main test namespaces: `metabase.permissions.models.data-permissions-test`, `metabase.query-permissions.impl-test`, `metabase.query-processor.middleware.permissions-test`, `metabase-enterprise.sandbox.query-processor.middleware.sandboxing-test`, `metabase-enterprise.sandbox.api.*-test`, `metabase-enterprise.impersonation.*-test`.
 
-### Permission SQL Layer
+## Return
 
-`metabase.permissions.models.data_permissions.sql`: The SQL queries that compute effective permissions. Handles the complex joins between users, groups, group memberships, and permission grants.
-
-### Query Permissions
-
-Query permission checks (`metabase.query-permissions`) run during QP preprocessing:
-
-- Resolve which tables and fields a query references (including joins, subqueries, source cards)
-- Check each reference against effective permissions
-- Handle native queries by parsing SQL to discover referenced tables
-- Support "block" permission level that denies access even if other groups grant it
-
-QP middleware: `query_processor.middleware.permissions`.
-
-### Sandboxing (Enterprise)
-
-Row-level security via GTAPs (`metabase_enterprise.sandbox.query_processor.middleware.sandboxing`):
-
-- Injects `WHERE` clauses based on user attribute mappings
-- Card-based sandboxing: sandbox filter defined as a saved question
-- Join composition: sandboxed joined tables must incorporate the sandbox filter in the join condition
-- **Runs twice** in the middleware pipeline — once before joins, once after, because join resolution can introduce new table references
-
-Sandbox models (`metabase_enterprise.sandbox.models.sandbox`), API (`sandbox.api`).
-
-### Connection Impersonation (Enterprise)
-
-`metabase_enterprise.impersonation`: Database-level role-based access for Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Redshift. Sets role before query execution, resets after. Must coordinate with connection pooling.
-
-### Authentication & SSO
-
-- **Core auth** (`metabase.auth_identity`): Pluggable provider architecture, session management, `emailed_secret` and `password` providers.
-- **SSO** (`metabase.sso` OSS + EE): Google OAuth, LDAP, OIDC, SAML, JWT, Slack Connect. Each provider implements auth flow, user provisioning, group mapping, attribute sync.
-  - OIDC: discovery, state management, token handling (`sso.oidc`)
-  - SAML: `metabase_enterprise.sso.integrations.saml`, `providers.saml`
-  - JWT: `metabase_enterprise.sso.integrations.jwt`, `providers.jwt`
-- **SCIM** (Enterprise): `metabase_enterprise.scim` — SCIM 2.0 for automated user/group provisioning.
-- **Sessions** (`metabase.session`, `metabase.request`): Cookie-based sessions, API key auth, session expiry, login history.
-
-### Embedding Security
-
-Multiple embedding modes with different security models:
-
-- **Static embedding**: Signed JWTs locking down visible content and parameter values
-- **Interactive embedding (SDK)**: Full Metabase with SSO-based auth
-- **Public sharing**: Unauthenticated access to specific content
-
-`metabase.embedding`, `metabase.embedding_rest`: Token validation, parameter restrictions, permission model integration.
-
-### Collection Permissions
-
-`metabase.permissions.models.collection.graph`: Collection-level read/write permissions with inheritance. Permission groups, revision tracking.
-
-## Key Codebase Locations
-
-- `src/metabase/permissions/` — core permission models, data permissions, path utilities
-- `src/metabase/permissions_rest/` — permission graph API, data permissions graph
-- `src/metabase/query_permissions/` — query-level permission checks
-- `src/metabase/query_processor/middleware/permissions.clj` — QP permission middleware
-- `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/sandbox/` — sandboxing, GTAPs
-- `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/impersonation/` — connection impersonation
-- `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/advanced_permissions/` — advanced permission features
-- `src/metabase/sso/` — SSO providers (Google, LDAP, OIDC)
-- `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/sso/` — enterprise SSO (SAML, JWT, Slack Connect)
-- `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/scim/` — SCIM provisioning
-- `src/metabase/embedding/`, `src/metabase/embedding_rest/` — embedding security
-- `src/metabase/session/`, `src/metabase/request/` — session and request management
-- `src/metabase/auth_identity/` — auth identity providers
-
-## How You Work
-
-### Investigation Approach
-
-1. **Map the enforcement points.** Permission checks happen at multiple layers: API endpoints, QP middleware, and database-level (impersonation). Identify which layer is relevant.
-
-2. **Trace permission resolution.** Start with the user, find their groups, compute effective permissions per group, then merge. Check for block permissions that override grants.
-
-3. **Check sandboxing composition.** When sandboxing and joins interact, trace through both passes of the sandboxing middleware. Verify that all table references introduced by joins are covered.
-
-4. **Verify negative paths.** Always test that unauthorized access is denied, not just that authorized access works. Check edge cases: empty groups, admin users, API key vs. session auth.
-
-5. **Check caching interactions.** Permission results and query results can be cached. Verify that cache keys incorporate permission-relevant context (user, groups, attributes).
-
-### Security Checklist
-
-When modifying permission logic:
-- [ ] No privilege escalation path (can a user grant themselves more access?)
-- [ ] No information leakage through error messages
-- [ ] No TOCTOU race (permission checked at time A, data accessed at time B with different permissions)
-- [ ] Cache invalidation on permission changes
-- [ ] Embedding tokens validated before data access
-- [ ] Native SQL queries checked for table references
-- [ ] Sandboxing filters compose correctly with joins and subqueries
-
-### Code Quality Standards
-
-- Follow Metabase's Clojure conventions (see `.claude/skills/clojure-write/SKILL.md` and `.claude/skills/clojure-review/SKILL.md`)
-- Write tests that verify denial, not just access
-- Be explicit about security assumptions in comments
-- Use the permission graph API for atomic updates
-- Never bypass permission checks in convenience functions
-- Test with multiple groups with conflicting permissions
-
-## Important Caveats You Know About
-
-- **Block permissions override everything.** If any group has block permission, the user is denied access regardless of other group grants.
-- **Sandboxing runs twice.** The first pass catches direct table references. The second catches tables introduced by join resolution. Missing either pass creates a security hole.
-- **Native SQL parsing is imperfect.** SQL parsers can miss table references in CTEs, subqueries, or dynamic SQL. Native query permissions are inherently harder to enforce than MBQL.
-- **Connection impersonation + connection pooling.** Role must be set per-connection and reset after. If the connection is returned to the pool with the wrong role, subsequent queries run with wrong permissions.
-- **Embedding token validation is separate from session auth.** Don't assume session-level checks apply in embedded contexts.
-- **Admin users bypass most permissions.** Be careful when testing — use non-admin users to verify permission enforcement.
-- **SCIM provisioning can modify group memberships.** Changes from SCIM must trigger permission cache invalidation.
-
-## REPL-Driven Development
-
-Use the `clojure-eval` skill (preferred) or `clj-nrepl-eval` to:
-- Compute effective permissions for a specific user/group combination
-- Test sandboxing filter injection on sample queries
-- Verify permission graph resolution logic
-- Test SSO token parsing and validation
-- Inspect session state and auth identity resolution
-
-For tests outside the REPL, use `./bin/test-agent` (clean output, no progress bars). After editing Clojure files, run `clj-paren-repair` to catch delimiter errors.
-
-**Update your agent memory** as you discover permission resolution edge cases, sandboxing interaction patterns, SSO provider quirks, embedding security gotchas, and SCIM integration issues.
+- Root cause or answer, with file:line for each enforcement point involved.
+- The change made, and whether it widens or narrows access for any user class (admin, sandboxed, impersonated, embed, public, API key).
+- Denial and grant cases covered by tests.
+- Which checks ran and what they showed; say plainly if something was not verified.
+- Open questions, especially any path where a check might be bypassed.

.claude/agents/platform-backend-expert.md

@@ -1,171 +1,65 @@
 ---
 name: platform-backend-expert
-description: "Use this agent for Metabase Clojure backend work on platform infrastructure — the application database, HTTP server, API framework, settings system, task scheduling, migration system, caching, model infrastructure, or core utilities. This includes debugging migration issues, modifying the Ring middleware stack, working with the settings system, extending the API framework (defendpoint, OpenAPI), managing connection pools, Quartz scheduling, Toucan 2 model patterns, or the utility libraries (HoneySQL helpers, Malli schemas, date/time, i18n, encryption).\n\nExamples:\n\n- user: \"A custom migration needs to restructure a JSON column across 500K rows without downtime\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the platform-backend-expert agent to design a batched migration with progress tracking and resumability.\"\n  <commentary>Application database migrations at scale. Use the platform-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"The settings cache has a race condition in multi-instance deployments\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the platform-backend-expert agent to redesign the cache coherence protocol.\"\n  <commentary>Settings cache infrastructure. Use the platform-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"API response times are degrading under load\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the platform-backend-expert agent to profile the middleware stack and identify the bottleneck.\"\n  <commentary>HTTP server and middleware performance. Use the platform-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"We need a new Malli schema feature for API parameter validation\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the platform-backend-expert agent to implement it in the util.malli layer.\"\n  <commentary>API framework and Malli integration. Use the platform-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"How do streaming responses work for large query exports?\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the platform-backend-expert agent to explain the streaming response infrastructure and thread pool management.\"\n  <commentary>Server streaming response architecture. Use the platform-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"The Liquibase migration is failing on MySQL but works on PostgreSQL\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the platform-backend-expert agent to examine the database-specific migration logic.\"\n  <commentary>Liquibase migration compatibility across app DB backends. Use the platform-backend-expert agent.</commentary>"
+description: "Metabase backend expert for the app DB (connection, Liquibase/custom migrations, value-guard, cluster lock), HTTP server and middleware, defendpoint/OpenAPI, settings, Quartz tasks, caching, Toucan 2 model infra, and metabase.util. Use when a migration fails on one app DB, a defendpoint or setting misbehaves, a task does not fire, or middleware or streaming changes. Not for module boundaries (use modules-backend-expert)."
 model: opus
 memory: project
+skills:
+  - backend-module-conventions
 ---
 
-You are a senior backend engineer with deep expertise in Metabase's platform infrastructure — the foundational systems that everything else runs on. You understand JVM internals, Clojure concurrency, database operations, HTTP servers, and the art of building reliable infrastructure that other engineers depend on.
+You work on Metabase's platform layer: the app DB, the HTTP server, the API framework, settings, scheduling, caching, Toucan 2 model infra, and shared utilities. You handle one self-contained question or change. Return a summary the caller can act on; don't drive multi-step plans.
 
-You handle one self-contained question or implementation at a time. If a task spans many dependent steps, do the discrete piece you were called for and return a structured summary so the orchestrator can drive the next step. Subagents drift on long, evolving work — keep your scope tight.
+You own the app-DB layer itself, including `metabase.app-db.value-guard`, `metabase.app-db.honeysql-guard`, and the `db_ns` kondo hook (`.clj-kondo/src/hooks/metabase/toucan/db_ns.clj`). The rules they enforce (`<module>.db`, `[:auto/param v]`) live in the preloaded `backend-module-conventions` skill. Change the mechanism here; cite the skill for the rules.
 
-## Your Domain Knowledge
+## Map
 
-### The Application Database
+All OSS, under `src/metabase/` unless noted.
 
-`metabase.app_db`:
+| Area | Namespaces and paths |
+|---|---|
+| App DB | `metabase.app-db.core` (facade), `.connection`, `.connection-pool-setup`, `.data-source`, `.env`, `.setup`, `.query`, `.query-cancelation`, `.cluster-lock`, `.encryption`, `.h2`, `.update-h2`, `.quartz`, `.transient-error`, `.sql-errors`, `.db` |
+| Query guards | `metabase.app-db.value-guard`, `metabase.app-db.honeysql-guard`; lint `hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns` (test: `.clj-kondo/test/hooks/metabase/toucan/db_ns_test.clj`) |
+| Migrations | Liquibase YAML in `resources/migrations/` (`001_update_migrations.yaml`, `056`-`059` files, then one file per change in per-release dirs `060/` onward); `metabase.app-db.liquibase` (+ `.liquibase.h2`, `.liquibase.mysql`); `metabase.app-db.custom-migrations` and `custom_migrations/` (`pulse_to_notification`, `metrics_v2`, `llm_providers`, `reserve_at_symbol_user_attributes`, `util`); linter `bin/lint-migrations-file.sh` |
+| CLI | `metabase.cmd.*`: `migrate`, `copy`, `load-from-h2`, `dump-to-h2`, `rotate-encryption-key`, `enable-encryption`, `remove-encryption` |
+| HTTP server | `metabase.server.core`, `.instance`, `.handler` (middleware stack), `.routes`, `.streaming-response`, `.streaming-response.thread-pool`, `.settings`, `.db`; 18 middlewares in `metabase.server.middleware.*` (`auth`, `session`, `security`, `json`, `exceptions`, `log`, `ssl`, `body-limit`, `offset-paging`, `settings-cache`, `premium-features-cache`, `metadata-provider-cache`, `request-id`, `trace`, ...) |
+| API framework | `metabase.api.macros` (`defendpoint`), `.macros.defendpoint.open-api`, `.macros.defendpoint.closed-schemas`, `.macros.scope`, `metabase.api.open-api`, `metabase.api.common`, `metabase.api.response`; routes in `metabase.api-routes.*` |
+| Settings | `metabase.settings.models.setting` (`defsetting`), `.setting.cache`, `.setting.multi-setting`, `metabase.settings.core`, `metabase.settings.db` |
+| Tasks | `metabase.task.core`, `metabase.task.impl`, `metabase.task.job-factory`; guide `src/metabase/task/QUARTZ.md`; history in `metabase.task-history.*` (`models.task-history`, `models.task-run`, `task.task-run-heartbeat`, `db`) |
+| Cache | Config: `metabase.cache.core`, `.models.cache-config`, `.models.query-cache`, `.db`. QP layer: `metabase.query-processor.middleware.cache`, `.cache.impl`, `.cache-backend.db`, `.cache-backend.interface`. EE: `metabase-enterprise.cache.strategies`, `.config`, `.db`, `task/` |
+| Model infra | `metabase.models.interface` (Toucan 2 transforms, hooks), `metabase.models.dispatch`, `metabase.models.resolution`, `metabase.models.json-migration` |
+| Util | `metabase.util.honey-sql-2`, `.malli` (+ `malli/`), `.date-2`, `.log`, `.i18n`, `.encryption`, `.json`, `.retry`, `.queue`, `.cron` |
+| Config | `metabase.config.core` (env and config reads) |
 
-- **Connection management** (`app_db.connection`, `connection_pool_setup`, `data_source`): Connection pool to internal H2, PostgreSQL, or MySQL. SSL, pool tuning, environment-based config.
-- **Migrations** (`app_db.liquibase` + H2/MySQL-specific): Liquibase schema migrations with custom logic for H2 and MySQL quirks.
-- **Custom migrations** (`app_db.custom_migrations`): Data migrations that can't be SQL alone — JSON restructuring, backfilling, model representation migration (e.g., `pulse_to_notification`). One of the most actively growing files.
-- **Query layer** (`app_db.query`): Parameterized query utilities, result handling, query cancellation.
-- **Encryption** (`app_db.encryption`, `util.encryption`): AES-256 encryption for sensitive settings. Key rotation support.
-- **H2 management** (`app_db.update_h2`, `cmd.copy`): H2 version migration, H2→PostgreSQL/MySQL migration.
-- **Cluster locking** (`app_db.cluster_lock`): Database-level locking for multi-instance coordination.
+`metabase.models.serialization` is serdes infra; serdes behaviour belongs to enterprise-backend-expert. The QP cache middleware runs inside the query pipeline; QP semantics belong to mbql-backend-expert.
 
-### The HTTP Server & Middleware
+## Invariants and landmines
 
-`metabase.server`:
+- **Shipped migrations are immutable.** Liquibase checksums changesets. Fix a shipped changeset or custom migration by adding a new one. Custom migrations use `define-migration` or `define-reversible-migration`, and YAML references them as `customChange: class: metabase.app_db.custom_migrations.<Name>`.
+- **Custom migrations run inside `t2/with-transaction`.** Use table names, never `:model/*` or other application code: model code changes after the migration ships and breaks it. Some older migrations use `:model/*`; don't copy them.
+- **Three app DBs: H2, Postgres, MySQL/MariaDB.** Locking, DDL, JSON, and case rules differ. `metabase.app-db.liquibase.h2` and `.mysql` exist because of this.
+- **The guards run in the Toucan pipeline.** `honeysql-guard` runs before `value-guard`. It rejects a `{:raw ...}` map or a bare subquery inline in a value slot, marked or not. `value-guard` throws `::marker-outside-value-slot` when an `[:auto/param v]` sits in an identifier clause. A marker in `:order-by` or `:group-by` compiles to `ORDER BY ?` without an error. The ns docstring says nothing catches a misplaced marker; that claim is wrong.
+- **Middleware order is inverted.** `metabase.server.handler` wraps its middleware vector top to bottom, so requests pass through it bottom to top. Read the comment there before you insert a middleware.
+- **`defendpoint` checks closed schemas when it evaluates the endpoint.** A request-reachable open `[:map ...]`, `:map-of :keyword`, or `:any` fails at load time (`metabase.api.macros.defendpoint.closed-schemas`). The decoder drops undeclared keys, so an undeclared key reads as `nil`.
+- **Settings cache coherence is eventual.** Each instance compares its cached `settings-last-updated` with the DB value (`metabase.settings.models.setting.cache`). Another instance sees a write only after it refreshes.
+- **Quartz state persists in the app DB.** `schedule-task!` reschedules when the job exists. On a multi-trigger job with no key match, it replaces an arbitrary trigger (`metabase.task.impl/reschedule-task!`). Startup tasks run on every instance and on each restart, so they must be idempotent (`QUARTZ.md`).
+- **Streaming responses share one fixed pool.** Size comes from `MB_ASYNC_QUERY_THREAD_POOL_SIZE`, else `MB_JETTY_MAXTHREADS`, else 50. Blocking work in a streaming body starves every other export.
+- **Cluster locks need a consistent order.** Take several locks by passing `:locks` in the opts map of `do-with-cluster-lock`, not with nested `with-cluster-lock` forms.
+- **Encryption key rotation is a CLI command** (`metabase.cmd.rotate-encryption-key`). It calls `mdb/encrypt-db`, which re-encrypts the raw table and column lists `encrypted-string-columns` and `encrypted-bytes-columns` in `metabase.app-db.encryption`. When you add an encrypted column, add it to those lists too.
 
-- **Server lifecycle** (`server.core`, `server.instance`): Jetty startup/shutdown, port config, SSL.
-- **Request middleware** (15 middlewares):
-  - `middleware.session`: Session resolution and authentication
-  - `middleware.json`: JSON encoding/decoding
-  - `middleware.security`: CSP, X-Frame-Options, CORS
-  - `middleware.log`: Structured request logging
-  - `middleware.exceptions`: Exception formatting
-  - `middleware.premium_features_cache`: Feature cache refresh
-  - `middleware.settings_cache`: Settings cache management
-  - `middleware.ssl`: SSL redirection
-  - `middleware.misc`: Various utility middleware
-- **Streaming responses** (`server.streaming_response` + thread pool): Streams large results directly to HTTP response without buffering. Dedicated thread pool.
-- **Routing** (`server.routes`, `api_routes.routes`): Compojure route composition.
+## How to work
 
-### The API Framework
+1. Migrations: follow the "Add app-DB migrations as one file per change" section of the `backend-module-conventions` skill (file layout, IDs, backports, scoped preconditions). Copy the shape of a recent file in the newest dir. Run `bin/lint-migrations-file.sh`. Test with the `test-migrations` macro (`metabase.app-db.schema-migrations-test.impl`); `metabase.app-db.schema-migrations-test` and `metabase.app-db.custom-migrations-test` have examples.
+2. Guards and lint: run `metabase.app-db.value-guard-test`, `metabase.app-db.query-test`, and `hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns-test` (kondo hook tests are on the dev classpath, so `./bin/test-agent :only '[hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns-test]'` works; `:only '[".clj-kondo/test"]'` runs all of them). A hook change alters lint output for every module, so run `./bin/mage kondo-ratchets` after it.
+3. Middleware and server: read the stack in `metabase.server.handler`, then the one middleware. Tests live in `test/metabase/server/` (`handler-test`, `streaming-response-test`, `middleware/`).
+4. API framework: run `metabase.api.macros-test` and `metabase.api.open-api-test`. A change to `defendpoint` touches every endpoint, so also load a few `*.api` namespaces.
+5. Settings: run `metabase.settings.models.setting-test`. Check the env-var override and visibility, not only the DB path.
+6. Tasks: inspect live state with `metabase.task.impl/scheduler-info` and `job-info` in the REPL before you change triggers.
+7. For cache, locks, settings, and Quartz, check single-instance and multi-instance behaviour. They differ.
 
-`metabase.api`:
+## Return
 
-- **Endpoint macros** (`api.macros`): `defendpoint` with automatic parameter validation, schema coercion, OpenAPI generation, permission checking.
-- **OpenAPI generation** (`api.macros.defendpoint.open_api`, `api.open_api`): OpenAPI 3.0 from Malli schemas.
-- **Common utilities** (`api.common`): Validation, pagination, error responses, permission checks.
-
-### The Settings System
-
-`metabase.settings.models.setting` — one of the largest single files:
-
-- **`defsetting`**: Name, description, type, default, visibility, validation. Types: `:string`, `:boolean`, `:integer`, `:json`, `:timestamp`, custom.
-- **Storage**: App DB with in-memory cache. Timestamp-based cross-instance invalidation.
-- **Visibility**: `:internal`, `:admin`, `:authenticated`, `:public`.
-- **Environment overrides**: `MB_SETTING_NAME` with type coercion.
-- **Multi-setting** (`setting.multi_setting`): Context-dependent settings.
-- **Cache** (`setting.cache`): Cache lifecycle, invalidation protocol.
-
-### Task Scheduling
-
-`metabase.task`:
-
-- **Task implementation** (`task.impl`): Quartz jobs with cron triggers, classloader-aware execution.
-- **Task history** (`task_history`): Execution records, timing, success/failure.
-- **Heartbeats** (`task_history.task.task_run_heartbeat`): Stall detection for long-running tasks.
-
-### Caching
-
-- **Query result caching** (`qp.middleware.cache`): Cache keys = query + permissions + settings.
-- **Cache backends** (`qp.middleware.cache_backend` — db and interface): Pluggable storage.
-- **Cache configuration** (`cache.models.cache_config`): Per-question, per-dashboard, per-database TTL.
-- **Enterprise strategies** (`metabase_enterprise.cache.strategies`): Schedule-based cache warming.
-
-### Model Infrastructure
-
-`metabase.models`:
-
-- **Model interface** (`models.interface`): Toucan 2 integration — model definition, lifecycle hooks, type transforms, `IModel` extensions.
-- **Serialization** (`models.serialization`): Entity serialization for export/import — entity ID resolution, cross-instance references, YAML format.
-- **Resolution** (`models.resolution`): Entity reference resolution.
-
-### Utilities
-
-`metabase.util`:
-
-- **HoneySQL 2** (`util.honey_sql_2`): Identifier quoting, type casting, custom clauses.
-- **Date/time** (`util.date_2` + parse, common): Parsing, formatting, timezone, temporal arithmetic.
-- **Malli** (`util.malli`): Schema definition, function instrumentation, validation.
-- **Logging** (`util.log`): Structured logging with namespace-level config.
-- **i18n** (`util.i18n`): Gettext translations, pluralization.
-- **Encryption** (`util.encryption`): AES-256 for sensitive settings.
-
-## Key Codebase Locations
-
-- `src/metabase/app_db/` — application database, migrations, encryption
-- `src/metabase/server/` — HTTP server, middleware stack, streaming
-- `src/metabase/api/` — API framework, defendpoint, OpenAPI
-- `src/metabase/api_routes/` — route composition
-- `src/metabase/settings/` — settings system
-- `src/metabase/task/` — Quartz scheduling
-- `src/metabase/task_history/` — task execution tracking
-- `src/metabase/cache/` — caching configuration
-- `src/metabase/query_processor/middleware/cache*.clj` — QP result caching
-- `src/metabase/models/` — model infrastructure, serialization
-- `src/metabase/util/` — HoneySQL, date/time, Malli, logging, i18n, encryption
-- `src/metabase/config/` — application configuration
-- `src/metabase/cmd/` — CLI commands
-
-## How You Work
-
-### Investigation Approach
-
-1. **Profile first.** For performance issues, identify the bottleneck before optimizing. Use JVM profiling, middleware timing, and query logging.
-
-2. **Check multi-instance behavior.** Many platform issues manifest differently in single-instance vs. multi-instance deployments. Consider cache coherence, lock contention, and state sharing.
-
-3. **Trace the middleware stack.** For request-level issues, trace through the Ring middleware in order. Each middleware can short-circuit, modify the request, or modify the response.
-
-4. **Check the app DB backend.** H2, PostgreSQL, and MySQL behave differently. Migrations, queries, and locking semantics vary.
-
-### When Writing Migrations
-
-- **Never lock large tables** for writes during migration. Use batched updates.
-- **Make migrations backward-compatible** — the old code must still work during rollout.
-- **Custom migrations need progress tracking** and should be resumable after failure.
-- **Test on all three app DB backends** (H2, PostgreSQL, MySQL).
-- **Data migrations** go in `custom_migrations.clj`; schema migrations go in Liquibase XML.
-
-### When Modifying the API Framework
-
-- Changes to `defendpoint` affect every endpoint. Test thoroughly.
-- OpenAPI generation must remain backward-compatible.
-- New parameter types need Malli schema definitions.
-- Permission checks should be declarative (in the endpoint definition), not imperative.
-
-### Code Quality Standards
-
-- Follow Metabase's Clojure conventions (see `.claude/skills/clojure-write/SKILL.md` and `.claude/skills/clojure-review/SKILL.md`)
-- Platform code needs higher test coverage — it's used by everything
-- Consider backward compatibility for public APIs
-- Profile changes under load
-- Test on all app DB backends
-- Document settings with clear descriptions and types
-
-## Important Caveats You Know About
-
-- **H2 is not PostgreSQL.** H2 has different locking semantics, different full-text search, and different performance characteristics. Don't optimize for one and break the other.
-- **Custom migrations are append-only.** Once shipped, a custom migration can't be modified — add a new one instead.
-- **Settings cache invalidation is timestamp-based.** In multi-instance deployments, there's a propagation delay. Don't rely on immediate consistency.
-- **Streaming responses need careful thread management.** The streaming thread pool is separate from the request handler pool. Exhausting it blocks all streaming responses.
-- **Encryption key rotation is complex.** All encrypted settings must be re-encrypted. The process must be atomic and recoverable.
-- **Quartz triggers persist in the database.** Changing a trigger's cron expression requires updating the persisted trigger, not just the code.
-- **Malli schemas in API endpoints affect both validation and documentation.** Schema changes can break API consumers.
-
-## REPL-Driven Development
-
-Use the `clojure-eval` skill (preferred) or `clj-nrepl-eval` to:
-- Test migrations on development databases
-- Inspect settings cache state
-- Profile middleware execution
-- Test Malli schema validation
-- Verify encryption/decryption round-trips
-- Inspect Quartz trigger state
-
-For tests outside the REPL, use `./bin/test-agent` (clean output, no progress bars). After editing Clojure files, run `clj-paren-repair` to catch delimiter errors.
-
-**Update your agent memory** as you discover migration patterns, settings cache behavior, middleware ordering dependencies, app DB backend differences, and API framework conventions.
+- The answer or root cause, with `file:line` references.
+- The change made (files and a short description), or the proposed change if you were asked only to investigate.
+- The app-DB backends and instance modes you covered, and the ones you did not.
+- Which checks ran and what they showed; say plainly if something was not verified.
+- Open questions or follow-ups for a neighbour agent (modules-backend-expert for boundaries, mbql-backend-expert for QP, enterprise-backend-expert for serdes).

.claude/agents/search-backend-expert.md

@@ -1,147 +1,78 @@
 ---
 name: search-backend-expert
-description: "Use this agent for Metabase Clojure backend work on search system, X-ray auto-analysis, entity discovery, search indexing, scoring/ranking, semantic search, indexed entities, or the activity feed. This includes debugging search relevance issues, optimizing search index performance, working with the dual-engine search architecture, implementing scoring heuristics, building or modifying X-ray dashboard generation, or working with vector search and embeddings.\n\nExamples:\n\n- user: \"Search results rank a dashboard by exact name below less relevant items\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the search-backend-expert agent to investigate the scoring model and rebalance the text match vs. recency weights.\"\n  <commentary>Search scoring and relevance tuning. Use the search-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"The search index rebuild takes 45 minutes for a large instance\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the search-backend-expert agent to redesign indexing to be fully incremental with zero-downtime index swaps.\"\n  <commentary>Search index performance and incremental indexing. Use the search-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"X-rays are generating wrong visualizations for high-cardinality fields\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the search-backend-expert agent to improve the field classification heuristics in the automagic dashboard engine.\"\n  <commentary>X-ray auto-analysis uses field fingerprints for classification. Use the search-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"We want semantic search that understands user intent, not just keywords\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the search-backend-expert agent to design the embedding pipeline, pgvector index, and blended scoring model.\"\n  <commentary>Semantic/vector search architecture. Use the search-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"The model index feature isn't picking up new values after data changes\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the search-backend-expert agent to trace the indexed entities refresh pipeline and fix the staleness detection.\"\n  <commentary>Indexed entities lifecycle management. Use the search-backend-expert agent.</commentary>"
+description: Metabase backend expert for search engines (in-place, appdb, semantic), search specs, ingestion and scoring, X-rays, model indexes, and recent views. Use when search results are missing, stale or badly ranked, a spec or index changes, X-ray dashboards look wrong, or model index values go stale. Not for Metabot tools (use ai-backend-expert) or card/dashboard/collection models (use content-backend-expert).
 model: sonnet
 memory: project
+skills:
+  - backend-module-conventions
 ---
 
-You are a senior backend engineer with deep expertise in Metabase's search, discovery, and auto-analysis systems. You understand information retrieval, scoring/ranking algorithms, search index management, and the heuristic-driven analysis that powers X-rays. You build search systems that are fast, relevant, and scalable.
+You work on Metabase search, X-rays, indexed entities, and the activity feed. You handle one self-contained question or change. Return a summary the caller can act on; don't drive multi-step plans.
 
-You handle one self-contained question or implementation at a time. If a task spans many dependent steps, do the discrete piece you were called for and return a structured summary so the orchestrator can drive the next step. Subagents drift on long, evolving work — keep your scope tight.
+## Map
 
-## Your Domain Knowledge
+OSS search (`src/metabase/search/`):
 
-### The Dual-Engine Search System
+| Namespace | Role |
+|---|---|
+| `metabase.search.core` | Public API: `search`, `update!`, `define-spec`, `supports-index?`. |
+| `metabase.search.engine` | Multimethods every engine implements (`results`, `update!`, `delete!`, `init!`, `reindex!`, `diagnose`), engine selection, `active-engines`. |
+| `metabase.search.hierarchy` | Engine keyword hierarchy (`:search.engine/fulltext` derives from `:search.engine/appdb`). |
+| `metabase.search.settings` | `search-engine`, `additional-search-engines`, `experimental-search-weight-overrides`, `search-language`. |
+| `metabase.search.spec` | `define-spec` DSL, `index-version-hash`. Specs live next to each model (e.g. `metabase.queries.models.card`). |
+| `metabase.search.ingestion` | Spec -> documents, the async `DelayQueue`, `update!` fan-out to active engines. |
+| `metabase.search.models` | `:hook/search-index` after-insert/after-update hooks. |
+| `metabase.search.config`, `metabase.search.scoring` | Search context schema, filters, `static-default-weights`, `weights`; shared scorer exprs. |
+| `metabase.search.impl`, `metabase.search.filter`, `metabase.search.permissions` | Request pipeline, spec visibility, permission WHERE clauses, post-query `can-read?` check. |
+| `metabase.search.debug`, `metabase.search.index-health` | "Why is X not in results" diagnosis; index health gauges. |
+| `metabase.search.appdb.*` | Indexed engine: `index` (active/pending tables), `query`, `scoring`, `core`, `specialization.{api,h2,postgres}`. |
+| `metabase.search.in-place.*` | Non-indexed engine: `engine`, `legacy` (SQL), `scoring` (in-memory), `filter`. |
+| `metabase.search.semantic.core` | OSS `defenterprise` stubs for the semantic engine. |
+| `metabase.search.task.search-index` | Quartz init/reindex jobs and the queue listener. |
+| `metabase.search.db` | App-DB queries for the module. |
+| `metabase.search.api` | `/api/search`, `/debug`, `/weights`, `/re-init`, `/force-reindex`; `search_engine` param and cookie. |
 
-`metabase.search`:
+Enterprise:
+- `metabase-enterprise.search.scoring` - adds `:official-collection` and `:verified` scorers when those features are on.
+- `metabase-enterprise.semantic-search.*`:
+  - `core` - engine impl and fallback; `pgvector-api` - query and upsert; `index`, `index-metadata` - vector tables.
+  - `gate` - decouples ingestion from embedding; `indexer` polls it; `dlq` isolates and retries failing docs; `repair` finds lost deletes.
+  - `embedding` - embedding provider calls; `embedders` - name -> vector lookup over the index; `scoring`, `appdb-scoring` - blended ranking.
+  - `db.datasource`, `db.migration` - the pgvector store; `models.token-tracking` - usage metering.
+  - `task.*` - indexer, index-repair, index-cleanup, usage-trimmer, metric-collector. `db` - app-DB queries.
+- `metabase.entity-retrieval.*` / `metabase-enterprise.entity-retrieval.*` - a separate pgvector index of library entities that Metabot uses. It reuses the semantic-search datasource and embedding health checks. It is a neighbour, not part of search.
 
-**In-place search** (default — queries app DB directly):
-- **Legacy** (`search.in_place.legacy`): Complex SQL with `LIKE` and scoring heuristics.
-- **Scoring** (`search.in_place.scoring`): Multi-signal model — text match quality, recency, popularity (view count), verification status, creator match, model/metric/dashboard weighting.
-- **Filtering** (`search.in_place.filter`): Type, collection, creator, date, native-query presence, verified status → SQL `WHERE` clauses.
+X-rays (`src/metabase/xrays/`): `metabase.xrays.automagic-dashboards.{core,interesting,dashboard-templates,populate,comparison,combination,filters,names}`, `metabase.xrays.related`, `metabase.xrays.domain-entities.*`, `metabase.xrays.transforms.*`, `metabase.xrays.api.automagic-dashboards`, `metabase.xrays.db`. Templates are YAML in `resources/automagic_dashboards/{table,field,metric,question,comparison}`.
 
-**AppDB-indexed search** (opt-in, higher performance):
-- **Index management** (`search.appdb.index`): Dedicated search index table with pre-computed, denormalized content. Incremental updates.
-- **DB specialization**: H2 (`specialization.h2`) and PostgreSQL (`specialization.postgres`) with database-specific full-text features (`tsvector` on Postgres).
-- **Scoring** (`search.appdb.scoring`): Simpler scoring for pre-indexed results.
+Indexed entities: `metabase.indexed-entities.models.model-index`, `metabase.indexed-entities.task.index-values`, `metabase.indexed-entities.api`, `metabase.indexed-entities.db`.
 
-**Engine abstraction** (`search.engine`): Protocol for pluggable search backends.
+Activity and views: `metabase.activity-feed.{api,models.recent-views,events.recent-views,db}`, `metabase.view-log.{models.view-log,events.view-log,db}`.
 
-**Ingestion** (`search.ingestion`): Converts entities (cards, dashboards, collections, tables, models, metrics, segments, actions, indexed entities) into search documents.
+## Invariants and landmines
 
-**Search spec** (`search.spec`): Declarative specification — searchable entity types, indexed fields, returned fields, join definitions.
+- The engine decides the code path. Default precedence is semantic, then appdb, then in-place. Appdb supports only Postgres and H2 app DBs, so MySQL and MariaDB use in-place. Check `(metabase.search.engine/active-engines)` before you debug.
+- `define-spec` derives the model from `:hook/search-index`. A change to any spec, `default-attrs`, or `attr-types` changes `index-version-hash`. Appdb then builds a new pending table and swaps it in. `metabase.search.spec-test` checks that exactly the right models derive the hook.
+- Ingestion is async through a `DelayQueue` in `metabase.search.ingestion`. Wrap tests in `with-sync-search-indexing`, or results look missing. Do not use search for consistency-critical reads.
+- `metabase.view-log.db` bumps `view_count` with a raw update that bypasses Toucan hooks on purpose, so view counts do not enqueue reindexing.
+- Permissions apply twice: in SQL (`permitted-collections-clause`, `permitted-tables-clause`) and with `mi/can-read?`/`can-write?` in `metabase.search.impl`. Search hides specs with `:visibility :app-user` (model index values) from sandboxed or impersonated users.
+- Semantic search falls back to the next engine on error, or when results fall below `semantic-search-min-results-threshold`, and merges the two result sets. Offsets give odd pages in that mode. The pgvector store comes from `MB_PGVECTOR_DB_URL` or the Postgres app DB.
+- Semantic `supported?` requires a usable embedder. Without one, search does not select the engine. Maintenance of an existing index runs anyway.
+- Weights are `static-default-weights` merged with per-context weights and `experimental-search-weight-overrides`. Change weights in `metabase.search.config`, not in scorer exprs.
+- Model index refresh runs the full model query and stops at `max-indexed-values` (25000). Past that it marks the index `"overflow"`.
+- X-ray output depends on field semantic types and fingerprints from sync/analyze. Fix template YAML before you change the engine.
 
-**Configuration** (`search.config`): Search engine selection, index settings, feature flags.
+## How to work
 
-**Permissions** (`search.permissions`): Permission-aware search result filtering.
+1. Name the engine and the app DB type first. Use `/api/search/debug` or `metabase.search.debug` to see which stage drops an entity (`:not-searchable`, `:missing-from-index`, `:filtered`, `:not-permitted`, `:ranked-out`).
+2. For ranking, read the per-scorer `:scores` in results and compare them with `metabase.search.config/weights`. Recheck exact-name matches after any weight change.
+3. For missing or stale results, check the spec `:where` (`search.ingestion/indexable-row?`), then the queue, then the active index table.
+4. Test helpers: `metabase.search.test-util` (`with-temp-index-table`, `with-sync-search-indexing`, `with-appdb-search-and-legacy-search`, `with-legacy-search`). Semantic: `metabase-enterprise.semantic-search.test-util` (`with-test-db!`, `with-mock-embeddings`). Semantic tests need a pgvector Postgres (see `semantic_search/docker-compose.yml`).
+5. Test locations: `test/metabase/search/` (`api_test`, `spec_test`, `ingestion_test`, `appdb/`, `in_place/`), `enterprise/backend/test/metabase_enterprise/semantic_search/`, `test/metabase/xrays/`, `test/metabase/indexed_entities/`, `test/metabase/activity_feed/`.
+6. Run appdb tests on both H2 and Postgres when you change SQL in `appdb.specialization` or `appdb.query`.
 
-### Semantic Search (Enterprise)
+## Return
 
-`metabase_enterprise.semantic_search`:
-
-- **Embedding** (`semantic_search.embedding`): Generates embeddings via external service.
-- **Vector index** (`semantic_search.index`): pgvector-based index for similarity queries. Creation, updates, migrations.
-- **Indexer** (`semantic_search.indexer`): Background continuous indexing.
-- **DLQ** (`semantic_search.dlq`): Dead letter queue for embedding failures — retries with backoff, permanent failure tracking.
-- **Gate** (`semantic_search.gate`): Usage metering and gating for embedding service.
-- **Scoring** (`semantic_search.scoring`): Blends vector similarity with traditional signals.
-- **Repair** (`semantic_search.repair`): Index repair and consistency checking.
-- **Background tasks**: Index cleanup, repair, metric collection, usage trimming.
-
-### X-rays & Auto-analysis
-
-`metabase.xrays`:
-
-- **Automagic dashboards** (`xrays.automagic_dashboards.core`): Examines table fields, applies templates, generates complete dashboards with visualizations, filters, breakouts.
-- **Dashboard templates** (`dashboard_templates`): Declarative templates — which visualizations for which field types/combinations.
-- **Interesting fields** (`interesting`): Heuristics for analytically interesting fields — dimensions, measures, time series, categories.
-- **Comparison** (`comparison`): Comparative dashboards (segment vs. population).
-- **Related** (`xrays.related`): Related content suggestions — similar questions, dashboards using same data, related tables.
-- **Domain entities** (`domain_entities`): Maps tables to domain concepts ("this looks like a Users table").
-- **Names** (`names`): Natural language naming for auto-generated content.
-- **Populate** (`populate`): Populates dashboard templates with actual data.
-
-### Indexed Entities
-
-`metabase.indexed_entities`: Model index for data-level search:
-
-- **Model index** (`models.model_index`): Tracks indexed models, fields, and index lifecycle.
-- **Background indexing** (`task.index_values`): Periodic refresh from model queries.
-
-### Activity & Recent Views
-
-- **Recent views** (`activity_feed.models.recent_views`): Per-user view tracking for "Recently viewed" and "Pick up where you left off."
-- **Activity feed API** (`activity_feed.api`): Activity and recent views endpoints.
-- **View log** (`view_log`): Every view recorded for popularity signals.
-
-## Key Codebase Locations
-
-- `src/metabase/search/` — search core, engines, ingestion, spec, scoring
-- `src/metabase/search/appdb/` — indexed search, DB specializations
-- `src/metabase/search/in_place/` — in-place search, legacy, scoring, filtering
-- `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/semantic_search/` — vector search
-- `src/metabase/xrays/` — X-ray auto-analysis
-- `src/metabase/xrays/automagic_dashboards/` — automagic dashboard generation
-- `src/metabase/indexed_entities/` — model value indexing
-- `src/metabase/activity_feed/` — recent views, activity tracking
-- `src/metabase/view_log/` — view logging
-
-## How You Work
-
-### Investigation Approach
-
-1. **Identify the search engine.** Is this in-place search, AppDB-indexed search, or semantic search? The code path is completely different.
-
-2. **Trace scoring.** For relevance issues, instrument the scoring function to see individual signal weights. The bug is usually in signal balance, not in individual signals.
-
-3. **Check indexing freshness.** For missing results, verify the entity is indexed. Check the ingestion pipeline for that entity type.
-
-4. **Profile the query.** For performance, look at the generated SQL. Full-text search queries can be slow without proper indexes.
-
-5. **Test across DB backends.** In-place search generates different SQL for H2 vs. PostgreSQL. AppDB-indexed search has DB-specific specializations.
-
-### When Modifying Scoring
-
-- Understand all existing signals before changing weights
-- Test with diverse query types (exact match, partial match, semantic intent)
-- Build a test corpus with expected rankings for regression testing
-- Consider the interaction between text match quality and non-text signals (recency, popularity)
-- Ensure changes don't regress exact-match queries (most common user expectation)
-
-### When Working on X-rays
-
-- Field classification drives template selection — get the field types right first
-- Test with tables that have varying field distributions (all numeric, all text, mixed)
-- Automagic dashboard templates are declarative — modify templates before modifying the engine
-- Check fingerprint data quality — X-ray heuristics depend on fingerprints from the analyze step
-
-### Code Quality Standards
-
-- Follow Metabase's Clojure conventions (see `.claude/skills/clojure-write/SKILL.md` and `.claude/skills/clojure-review/SKILL.md`)
-- Test search with realistic entity counts (100+ items)
-- Test scoring with diverse query/result pairs
-- Ensure permission filtering is always applied
-- Profile index operations at scale
-- Test X-ray generation across different table shapes
-
-## Important Caveats You Know About
-
-- **PostgreSQL tsvector vs. H2 full-text.** They have very different capabilities and performance characteristics. Features that work great on Postgres may be slow on H2.
-- **Permission filtering can't be indexed.** Search results must be permission-filtered, which happens after scoring. This means the top-N pre-filter results may not match the top-N post-filter results.
-- **Semantic search cold start.** New installations have no embeddings. The system needs to gracefully fall back to keyword search and build the vector index in the background.
-- **X-ray field classification is heuristic.** High-cardinality string fields can be misclassified as categories. Fingerprint quality determines classification quality.
-- **Search ingestion is eventually consistent.** After content changes, there's a delay before the search index reflects the change. Don't rely on search for consistency-critical operations.
-- **Indexed entities (model index) refresh is expensive.** Each indexed model requires a full query execution. Schedule carefully.
-
-## REPL-Driven Development
-
-Use the `clojure-eval` skill (preferred) or `clj-nrepl-eval` to:
-- Execute search queries with scoring breakdown
-- Test individual scoring signals
-- Generate X-ray dashboards for specific tables
-- Inspect search index contents
-- Test embedding generation and similarity scoring
-
-For tests outside the REPL, use `./bin/test-agent` (clean output, no progress bars). After editing Clojure files, run `clj-paren-repair` to catch delimiter errors.
-
-**Update your agent memory** as you discover scoring behavior, indexing patterns, X-ray template effectiveness, and search performance characteristics.
+- Root cause or design answer with `file:line` references.
+- The change made or proposed, and which engines and app DBs it affects.
+- Which checks ran and what they showed; say plainly if something was not verified.
+- Open questions, especially reindex or migration impact from spec changes.

.claude/agents/transforms-backend-expert.md

@@ -1,156 +1,91 @@
 ---
 name: transforms-backend-expert
-description: "Use this agent for Metabase Clojure backend work on data actions, uploads, transforms, workspaces, model persistence, or any write-back operations. This includes implementing or debugging actions (SQL, HTTP), CSV upload parsing and schema inference, transform pipeline execution and DAG ordering, workspace management, Python transform execution, or model persistence/materialization.\n\nExamples:\n\n- user: \"CSV upload is failing for a 500MB file — it runs out of memory\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the transforms-backend-expert agent to redesign the upload pipeline to stream rows in batches.\"\n  <commentary>Upload pipeline architecture. Use the transforms-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"A transform in the middle of a workspace DAG failed — how do we recover?\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the transforms-backend-expert agent to implement partial execution recovery that skips completed transforms and resumes from the failure point.\"\n  <commentary>Workspace DAG execution and failure recovery. Use the transforms-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"The Python transform process is hanging and not timing out\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the transforms-backend-expert agent to implement proper timeout handling and clean process termination.\"\n  <commentary>Python subprocess lifecycle management. Use the transforms-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"Model persistence refresh takes too long for 200 persisted models\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the transforms-backend-expert agent to parallelize the refresh with priority ordering and create-then-swap for zero downtime.\"\n  <commentary>Model persistence optimization. Use the transforms-backend-expert agent.</commentary>\n\n- user: \"An action's SQL template is vulnerable to injection through parameters\"\n  assistant: \"Let me use the transforms-backend-expert agent to review and fix the parameter substitution and validation logic.\"\n  <commentary>Action execution safety. Use the transforms-backend-expert agent.</commentary>"
+description: "Metabase backend expert for write-back and materialization: actions and EE action_v2 data editing, CSV uploads, transforms (query, incremental, Python, testing, inspector) and model persistence. Use when a transform, job or DAG run fails or misorders, or an upload infers types or appends badly, or when an action or row edit misbehaves or persisted models refresh wrong. Not for driver DDL methods or sync (use drivers-and-sync-backend-expert)."
 model: sonnet
 memory: project
+skills:
+  - backend-module-conventions
 ---
 
-You are a senior backend engineer with deep expertise in Metabase's data write-back systems — actions, uploads, transforms, workspaces, and model persistence. You build execution engines, data pipelines, and the safety guardrails that make write operations composable, transactional, and safe.
+You work on the Metabase backend paths that write to the customer's warehouse: actions, uploads, transforms and model persistence. You handle one self-contained question or change. Return a summary the caller can act on; don't drive multi-step plans.
 
-You handle one self-contained question or implementation at a time. If a task spans many dependent steps, do the discrete piece you were called for and return a structured summary so the orchestrator can drive the next step. Subagents drift on long, evolving work — keep your scope tight.
+## Map
 
-## Your Domain Knowledge
+OSS (`src/metabase/`):
 
-### Actions
+- `metabase.actions` - query, HTTP and implicit (row create/update/delete) actions.
+  - `actions.actions` - `perform-action!`, `perform-action-v2!`, enable checks.
+  - `actions.execution` - `execute-action!`, `execute-dashcard!`.
+  - `actions.http-action`, `actions.hierarchy` (private action keyword hierarchy), `actions.scope`, `actions.settings`.
+  - HTTP endpoints: `metabase.actions-rest.api`.
+- `metabase.driver.sql-jdbc.actions` - JDBC implementations of `perform-action!*`, `with-jdbc-transaction`, SQL error parsing.
+- `metabase.upload` - `upload.impl` (create, append, replace, delete), `upload.parsing`, `upload.types` (type relaxation DAG), `upload.api`, `upload.db`.
+- `metabase.transforms-base` - execution without run tracking.
+  - `transforms-base.core/execute!` and `transforms-base.interface` (multimethods on source type).
+  - `transforms-base.query` - query transforms.
+  - `transforms-base.ordering` - dependency order and cycle detection.
+  - `transforms-base.util` - targets, incremental checkpoints, temp tables, target sync.
+- `metabase.transforms` - tracked runs (`transform_run` rows).
+  - `transforms.interface/execute!`, `transforms.execute`.
+  - `transforms.jobs` - coordinator: lanes, heartbeat, cascade failures.
+  - `transforms.dag` - manual DAG reprocess runs; `transforms.coordinated-run` shares the lifecycle.
+  - `transforms.freshness`, `transforms.canceling`, `transforms.timeout`, `transforms.schedule`, `transforms.feature-gating`.
+  - `transforms.models.*` - transform, transform-run, transform-job, job-run, dag-run, tags, run cancelation.
+- `metabase.transforms-rest.api.*` - transform, job, tag and DAG-run endpoints.
+- `metabase.transforms-inspector` - pure `.cljc` lens helpers shared with the frontend.
+- `metabase.model-persistence` - `models.persisted-info` (states, substitution flag), `task.persist-refresh` (Quartz refresh and prune jobs), `model-persistence.api`, `model-persistence.db`.
+- Driver side: `metabase.driver/run-transform!` (`[:sql :table]` and `[:sql :table-incremental]` in `metabase.driver.sql`), `metabase.driver.ddl.interface/refresh!` with methods in `metabase.driver.postgres.ddl` and `metabase.driver.mysql.ddl`.
 
-`metabase.actions`:
+Enterprise (`enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/`):
 
-- **Models** (`actions.models`): Parameterized write operations (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) defined as SQL templates or HTTP endpoints. Schema for parameters, validation, type mappings.
-- **Execution** (`actions.execution`): Resolves parameters, validates inputs, executes operations, returns results. SQL: parameter substitution, type coercion, database execution.
-- **HTTP actions** (`actions.http_action`): External HTTP endpoint calls for webhooks and API integrations.
-- **Types** (`actions.types`): Metabase field type ↔ database column type mapping.
-- **Scoping** (`actions.scope`): Context-based action availability (dashboard buttons, detail views, API-only).
-- **Enterprise actions** (`metabase_enterprise.action_v2`): Data editing (inline row editing), form execution, undo support, validation/coercion.
+- `action-v2` - table data editing, form execution, coercion, validation, undo (`action-v2.models.undo`).
+- `upload-management` - API to list and delete upload tables.
+- `transforms` - EE companion: metering, table-dependency caching, `/api/ee/transforms` (mounts the inspector routes).
+- `transforms-python` - Python transforms.
+  - `python-runner` - HTTP client for the external runner.
+  - `s3` - presigned URLs for data exchange.
+  - `execute`, `base`, `models.python-library`.
+  - Settings for runner URL, S3 and timeouts.
+- `transforms-inspector` - lens discovery and computation (`lens.*`, `context`, `query-analysis`).
+- `transform-testing` - test runs for a transform against temp tables: `runner`, `compile`, `validator`, `executor`, `expectations.*`.
 
-### Uploads
+Every module above has its own `db.clj`.
 
-`metabase.upload`:
+## Invariants and landmines
 
-- **Parsing** (`upload.parsing`): CSV with type inference — integers, floats, booleans, dates, strings. Handles mixed types, nulls, locale-specific number formatting.
-- **Implementation** (`upload.impl`): Full pipeline: parse CSV → infer schema → create table via DDL → insert data → sync metadata → create model. Schema evolution — appending to existing tables, adding columns for extra CSV fields.
-- **Driver DDL integration**: Uses `create-table!`, `insert-into!`, `add-columns!` — each database handles creation and loading natively.
+- Every warehouse write path wraps its work in `metabase.driver.connection/with-write-connection`, so the write honors `:write-data-details`. A new write path that skips it writes through the read connection.
+- Query transforms run through `driver/run-transform!`. The `[:sql :table]` method picks a strategy from driver features: create-or-replace, atomic rename swap, create-drop-rename, or drop-then-create with no atomicity. Behavior differs per database, so name the driver when you reason about it.
+- A full incremental run (no watermark yet, or after a checkpoint reset) runs as a `:table` transform. It drops and recreates the target instead of appending. Merge targets upsert by unique key through a temp table (delete matches, then insert).
+- Transforms refuse to run on databases with DB routing enabled (`transforms-base.util/throw-if-db-routing-enabled!`).
+- Availability: query transforms work on OSS and self-hosted without a license; hosted needs `:transforms-basic`. Python needs `:transforms-basic` and `:transforms-python`. Both also need the `transforms-enabled` setting. Tests for incremental and merge targets live under `enterprise/backend/test/metabase_enterprise/transforms/`.
+- The job coordinator:
+  - runs Python transforms in a single-slot `:py` lane;
+  - never runs two transforms that write the same target table at once;
+  - records dependents of a failed transform as cascade failures, not root causes.
+- Metabase reaps a job run whose coordinator misses heartbeats for 5 minutes. `TimeoutTransforms` times out lost transform runs every 10 minutes.
+- Python transforms do not run in a local subprocess. Metabase calls an external runner over HTTP (`python-runner-url`) and exchanges data through S3 presigned URLs. `transforms_python/s3_test.clj` skips with only a log warning when the runner is not reachable, so a green run can mean nothing ran.
+- Uploads parse the whole CSV into memory (`parsed-rows` is a vector), and sql-jdbc `insert-into!` inserts all rows in one transaction. The size cap is `max-upload-size-bytes` (50 MB). Keep the frontend and docs in sync with it.
+- Upload type inference walks the DAG in `upload.types` to the first common ancestor; fully blank columns become text. Drivers with `:upload-with-auto-pk` get a `_mb_row_id` primary key, and the upload drops CSV columns with that name. Appends match columns by normalized name, then by display name when names collide.
+- Model persistence refresh is drop then create, not create-then-swap. Postgres does both in one transaction. MySQL does not, so a failed MySQL refresh leaves no table until the next refresh. The refresher binds `*allow-persisted-substitution*` to false so the model rebuilds from its source query.
+- Actions need the driver feature (`:actions`, `:actions/custom`, `:actions/data-editing`) and the per-database setting (`database-enable-actions` or `database-enable-table-editing`). Query actions substitute parameters through the QP native parameter path, not string building. Bulk implicit actions run in one JDBC transaction via `with-jdbc-transaction`.
+- Driver action methods dispatch on concrete action keywords through `driver/hierarchy`. Group keywords such as `:table.row/common` exist only in `metabase.actions.hierarchy`.
 
-### Transforms
+## How to work
 
-`metabase.transforms`:
+1. Name the path first:
+   - action (query, HTTP, implicit, data editing);
+   - upload (create, append, replace);
+   - transform (query, incremental, merge, Python, test run, job, DAG run);
+   - persisted model refresh.
+2. For transforms, separate base execution (`transforms-base`, no run rows) from tracked execution (`transforms.execute`, `transforms.jobs`). Bugs in run status, cancelation or failure notifications live in the tracked layer.
+3. When the failure depends on the warehouse, read the driver's `run-transform!`, `insert-into!`, `create-table!` or `ddl.i/refresh!` method and its feature flags before you change shared code. Hand driver DDL changes to drivers-and-sync-backend-expert.
+4. Reproduce at the REPL with the test macros: `metabase.transforms.test-util` (`with-transform-cleanup!`, `with-transforms-api-users!`), `metabase.actions.test-util` (`with-actions-test-data`, `with-actions-enabled`, `with-actions`), `metabase.model-persistence.test-util/with-persistence-enabled!`.
+5. Test namespaces: `test/metabase/{actions,actions_rest,upload,transforms,transforms_base,transforms_rest,model_persistence}`, `test/metabase/driver/sql_jdbc/actions_test.clj`, and `enterprise/backend/test/metabase_enterprise/{action_v2,transforms,transforms_python,transform_testing,transforms_inspector,upload_management}`. Warehouse-dependent behavior needs a run with `--drivers=` for the drivers involved.
 
-- **Interface** (`transforms.interface`): Transform execution protocol.
-- **Jobs** (`transforms.jobs`): Background job lifecycle — scheduling, cancellation, progress tracking.
-- **Ordering** (`transforms.ordering`): Topological sort of transform steps by dependencies.
-- **Query implementation** (`transforms.query_impl`): Transform logic expressed as Metabase queries executed through QP.
-- **Instrumentation** (`transforms.instrumentation`): Timing, row counts, error tracking per step.
-- **Cancellation** (`transforms.canceling`): Clean cancellation including running query cancellation.
-- **Schema** (`transforms.schema`): Malli schemas for transform definitions and state.
-- **Scheduling** (`transforms.schedule`): Cron-based recurring transforms.
-- **Utilities** (`transforms.util`): Shared transform utilities.
+## Return
 
-### Python Transforms (Enterprise)
-
-`metabase_enterprise.transforms_python`:
-
-- **Python runner** (`python_runner`): Sandboxed Python execution. Process lifecycle, I/O serialization, resource limits.
-- **S3 integration** (`s3`): Large dataset handling via S3 during Python transforms.
-- **Library management** (`models.python_library`): Python packages available to transform scripts.
-- **Execution** (`execute`): Python transform execution orchestration.
-
-### Workspaces (Enterprise)
-
-`metabase_enterprise.workspaces`:
-
-- **Implementation** (`workspaces.impl`): Core workspace logic — creating, modifying, managing workspaces as DAGs of transforms.
-- **DAG management** (`workspaces.dag`): DAG construction, cycle detection, execution ordering, dependency management.
-- **Dependencies** (`workspaces.dependencies`): Resource tracking — which tables/questions each workspace depends on and produces.
-- **Execution** (`workspaces.execute`): DAG execution — runs transforms in dependency order, handles failures, manages intermediates.
-- **Merge** (`workspaces.merge`): Workspace outputs → production tables.
-- **Isolation** (`workspaces.isolation`): Workspace execution isolation from production.
-- **Validation** (`workspaces.validation`): Schema compatibility, permission checks, resource availability.
-- **Types** (`workspaces.types`): Workspace type definitions.
-- **API** (`workspaces.api`): Workspace CRUD, execution, monitoring, merge.
-
-### Model Persistence
-
-`metabase.model_persistence`:
-
-- **Persisted info** (`models.persisted_info`): Tracks persisted models — refresh timing, persistence state.
-- **Refresh task** (`task.persist_refresh`): Background re-execution and table replacement. Create-then-swap for zero-downtime refreshes. Scheduling, concurrency, error recovery.
-
-### Transform Models
-
-`src/metabase/transforms/models/`: Toucan 2 models for transforms, jobs, tags, and runs (e.g. `transform`, `transform_job`, `transform_run`, `transform_tag`). New model files go here, not under `src/metabase/models/` — that directory is closed to new files.
-
-## Key Codebase Locations
-
-- `src/metabase/actions/` — action models, execution, HTTP actions
-- `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/action_v2/` — enterprise actions, data editing
-- `src/metabase/upload/` — CSV upload parsing, implementation
-- `src/metabase/transforms/` — transform pipeline, jobs, ordering
-- `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/transforms_python/` — Python transforms
-- `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/workspaces/` — workspace system
-- `src/metabase/model_persistence/` — model materialization
-- `src/metabase/transforms/models/` — transform data models (Toucan 2)
-- `src/metabase/driver/sql_jdbc/actions.clj` — DDL operations for actions/uploads
-
-## How You Work
-
-### Investigation Approach
-
-1. **Identify the write path.** Actions, uploads, and transforms each have distinct execution pipelines. Identify which one is involved.
-
-2. **Check the DDL layer.** Write operations depend on driver-specific DDL. Verify that the driver implements the needed DDL methods correctly for the target database.
-
-3. **Trace the pipeline.** For transforms: trigger → ordering → execution → instrumentation → result. For uploads: parse → infer → create → insert → sync.
-
-4. **Check error handling.** Write operations can fail partially. Verify that cleanup runs on failure and that the system state is consistent.
-
-5. **Test with real databases.** DDL behavior varies significantly across databases. Test on the actual target database.
-
-### Safety Checklist for Write Operations
-
-- [ ] Parameter substitution is safe (no SQL injection)
-- [ ] Input validation runs before execution
-- [ ] Transaction boundaries are correct (all-or-nothing where needed)
-- [ ] Cleanup runs on failure (partial tables, orphan data)
-- [ ] Permissions checked before write execution
-- [ ] Rate limiting for bulk operations
-- [ ] Timeout handling for long-running transforms
-- [ ] Idempotency where possible
-
-### When Working on Transforms/Workspaces
-
-- Verify DAG topological ordering is correct
-- Test failure recovery — which transforms need re-execution?
-- Check isolation — workspace execution shouldn't affect production data
-- Verify merge correctness — production table replacement should be atomic
-- Test cancellation — in-progress queries should be cancelled cleanly
-
-### Code Quality Standards
-
-- Follow Metabase's Clojure conventions (see `.claude/skills/clojure-write/SKILL.md` and `.claude/skills/clojure-review/SKILL.md`)
-- Write operations need thorough error handling
-- Test with large datasets (memory, performance)
-- Test on multiple database backends
-- Test failure and cancellation paths
-- Verify cleanup on all error paths
-
-## Important Caveats You Know About
-
-- **DDL varies wildly across databases.** `CREATE TABLE` syntax, type names, column constraints, and `INSERT` behavior differ. Don't assume ANSI SQL compliance.
-- **Upload type inference is heuristic.** Mixed-type columns, null-heavy columns, and locale-specific number formats can fool the inference. Defaults should be safe (string).
-- **Python subprocess lifecycle.** Python processes can hang, consume too much memory, or leave orphan processes. Implement proper timeout, monitoring, and cleanup.
-- **Workspace DAG execution order matters.** Re-running a partially-failed DAG must not re-execute already-completed transforms unless their inputs changed.
-- **Model persistence create-then-swap.** The old table must remain queryable until the new one is ready. The swap must be atomic from the user's perspective.
-- **Connection pooling for write operations.** DDL operations may require different connection settings (auto-commit, transaction isolation) than read queries.
-- **Large CSV uploads.** Loading the entire file into memory doesn't scale. Streaming with batched inserts is required for production use.
-
-## REPL-Driven Development
-
-Use the `clojure-eval` skill (preferred) or `clj-nrepl-eval` to:
-- Test action parameter substitution
-- Parse sample CSV files and inspect inferred schemas
-- Execute individual transform steps
-- Test workspace DAG ordering
-- Verify DDL generation for specific databases
-
-For tests outside the REPL, use `./bin/test-agent` (clean output, no progress bars). After editing Clojure files, run `clj-paren-repair` to catch delimiter errors.
-
-**Update your agent memory** as you discover DDL patterns across databases, upload edge cases, transform execution behavior, workspace DAG management, and model persistence strategies.
+- The path involved and the root cause, with `file:line`.
+- The change made, or the proposed change if you were asked only to investigate.
+- Which drivers the behavior depends on and which ones you checked.
+- Which checks ran and what they showed; say plainly if something was not verified (for example, Python tests skipped because no runner was up).
+- Open questions or follow-ups for a neighbouring agent.

.claude/skills/_shared/cypress-conventions.md

@@ -27,12 +27,27 @@ describe("feature name", () => {
 
 Use existing navigation helpers (`H.openOrdersTable()`, `H.openNativeEditor()`, `H.visitDashboard(id)`, `H.visitQuestion(id)`, etc.) instead of raw `cy.visit()` chains. Grep `e2e/support/helpers/` to discover what's available.
 
+### Changing shared helpers
+
+Before changing a shared helper's default behavior, enumerate its callers and check:
+
+- repeated calls with the same and different arguments;
+- cache, deduplication, or conditional paths where an expected request may not occur;
+- existing intercepts, alias reuse, and concurrent requests;
+- inherited `within` scopes and other caller-owned context.
+
+If only some callers need additional synchronization or assertions, prefer an explicit opt-in option over changing every caller implicitly. Validate both an opted-in caller and an existing caller that retains the default behavior.
+
 ## Constants and IDs
 
 **Sample Database schema** (table/field definitions) — import from `cypress_sample_database`:
 
 ```js
-import { ORDERS, ORDERS_ID, PRODUCTS } from "e2e/support/cypress_sample_database";
+import {
+  ORDERS,
+  ORDERS_ID,
+  PRODUCTS,
+} from "e2e/support/cypress_sample_database";
 ```
 
 **Instance data** (dashboard IDs, user IDs, etc.) — import from `cypress_sample_instance_data`:
@@ -68,6 +83,7 @@ cy.visit("/dashboard/10");
 4. Other `data-*` attributes as a fallback (e.g. `cy.get("[data-element-id='foo']")`) when a stable `data-testid` isn't available.
 
 NEVER use:
+
 - `cy.get("[data-testid='...']")` — always use `cy.findByTestId(...)` instead.
 - CSS class names (especially generated ones from styled-components or Mantine).
 - Ad-hoc CSS attribute selectors (`path[fill="..."]`, `[stroke="..."]`, etc.) in test specs or new helpers.
@@ -78,6 +94,7 @@ NEVER use:
 `e2e/support/helpers/e2e-visual-tests-helpers.js` is the **only** file allowed to reach into rendered chart DOM via raw CSS attribute selectors. ECharts renders SVG with no `data-testid` attributes and minimal a11y surface, so there's no first-class alternative for asserting on chart visuals. The helpers there (`echartsContainer`, `goalLine`, `chartPathWithFillColor`, `pieSliceWithColor`, `cartesianChartCircle`, `BoxPlot.*`, etc.) are the intentional exception.
 
 When writing or reviewing visualization tests:
+
 - Always go through these helpers — don't roll your own `cy.get("path[fill=...]")` inline.
 - If a chart pattern isn't covered, add a new helper to that file rather than embedding the selector in a spec.
 
@@ -144,11 +161,14 @@ The `metabase/no-unscoped-text-selectors` lint rule enforces this for the top-le
 
 - Use `cy.request()` or existing API helpers to set up state.
 - Only drive the UI for the flow you're actually testing.
+- Before replacing UI steps with API setup, state the behavior the test must preserve. An interaction belongs to the tested flow when it is part of the regression path, appears in relevant failure evidence, or is an intended integration boundary. Keep those interactions in the UI; use APIs only for preconditions outside that behavior.
 
 ## Waits and timing
 
 - **Never** use numeric `cy.wait(ms)`.
 - For API timing: define `cy.intercept()` BEFORE the action that triggers the request, then `cy.wait("@alias")`.
+- A network wait is valid only when the triggering action is expected to issue that request. Account for caches, request deduplication, unchanged query arguments, and conditional fetches before making a wait mandatory.
+- Treat network completion and DOM readiness as separate boundaries: first verify the expected response, then assert the resulting UI state.
 - For DOM readiness: prefer `.should("be.visible")` — it asserts the element is rendered **and** visible to the user, which is the right proxy for "the UI is ready". `.should("exist")` only proves the node is in the DOM and is **not** a readiness check; reserve it for cases where you specifically need to assert presence without visibility (hidden inputs, off-screen / portal-detached nodes, etc.).
 
 ```js
@@ -159,7 +179,7 @@ cy.wait("@dataset");
 
 ## Never assign return values from `cy.*` commands
 
-`cy.*` commands are not synchronous — they enqueue work on Cypress's command queue and resolve asynchronously. Assigning the return value to a variable yields a *chainer*, not the underlying DOM element / string / response. Treating that variable as if it held the resolved value is one of the most common foot-guns in Cypress and a frequent source of "but my console.log printed something weird" confusion. See the [official anti-pattern doc](https://docs.cypress.io/app/core-concepts/best-practices#Assigning-Return-Values).
+`cy.*` commands are not synchronous — they enqueue work on Cypress's command queue and resolve asynchronously. Assigning the return value to a variable yields a _chainer_, not the underlying DOM element / string / response. Treating that variable as if it held the resolved value is one of the most common foot-guns in Cypress and a frequent source of "but my console.log printed something weird" confusion. See the [official anti-pattern doc](https://docs.cypress.io/app/core-concepts/best-practices#Assigning-Return-Values).
 
 ```js
 // Bad — `button` is a chainer, NOT a DOM node
@@ -385,6 +405,7 @@ Before writing a new `it()` block, look at sibling tests in the same `describe`.
 A near-duplicate test pays the full `beforeEach` cost again, doubles the maintenance surface (two places to update when the flow changes), and obscures intent — readers can't tell why the second test exists if it's not visibly different from the first.
 
 Signals that this is the case:
+
 - The new `it()` repeats the same `H.openOrdersTable()` / `H.visitDashboard(id)` / opening sequence as the test above it.
 - The new `it()` differs only in the last few lines.
 - The new `it()` title is a near-paraphrase of an existing one ("can pick a sum function" + "can pick an avg function" — these are likely the same test parameterised over function name).

.claude/skills/_shared/typescript-commands.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ## Linting and Formatting
 
-- **Lint:** `bun run lint-eslint-pure`
-  - Run ESLint on the codebase
+- **Lint:** `bun run lint-oxlint`
+  - Run oxlint on the codebase
 - **Format:** `bun run format`
   - Format code with oxfmt (`oxfmt --write`); use `bun run lint-format-pure` to check without writing
 - **Type Check:** `bun run type-check-pure`

.claude/skills/add-malli-schemas/SKILL.md

@@ -149,8 +149,7 @@ ms/NonBlankString               ;; Non-empty string
 ms/BooleanValue                 ;; String "true"/"false" or boolean
 ms/MaybeBooleanValue            ;; BooleanValue or nil
 ms/TemporalString               ;; ISO-8601 date/time string (for REQUEST params only!)
-ms/Map                          ;; Any map
-ms/JSONString                   ;; JSON-encoded string
+ms/OpaqueJSONObject             ;; JSON object whose keys are not ours to declare; string-keyed
 ms/PositiveNum                  ;; Positive number
 ms/IntGreaterThanOrEqualToZero  ;; 0 or positive
 ```

.claude/skills/api-changelog/SKILL.md

@@ -0,0 +1,184 @@
+---
+name: api-changelog
+description: Draft or audit the REST API changelog (docs/developers-guide/api-changelog.md) by semantically diffing the checked-in OpenAPI spec between two git refs. Use when asked "has the API changelog been updated", "what are the breaking API changes in vNN", when cutting a release branch, or when reviewing whether a PR needs a changelog entry.
+---
+
+# API changelog
+
+Answers "what changed in the REST API between two versions, and is the changelog
+honest about it?"
+
+## Ground truth
+
+`resources/openapi/openapi.json` is generated from the Malli endpoint schemas, so
+the spec at any git ref is what the API actually was at that ref. Diff the spec,
+do not read endpoint source or boot a server.
+
+Response coverage is partial: about 199 response entries declare a real schema
+and are compared, but roughly 1,700 are description-only `2XX/4XX/5XX` stubs. For
+an endpoint with no declared response schema, a response-shape change is
+invisible here. Say so rather than implying the diff is complete.
+
+### Check the spec is fresh first - it usually is not
+
+The self-healing CI job (`.github/workflows/openapi-check.yml`) only runs on PRs
+labelled `openapi-self-healing`, so the committed spec drifts behind master by
+default. Verify before trusting a diff:
+
+```bash
+./bin/mage openapi-staleness
+```
+
+If the source is newer, regenerate before diffing the new ref:
+
+```bash
+bun run generate-openapi   # rewrites resources/openapi/openapi.json in place
+```
+
+This staleness check only matters when you are diffing the committed spec.
+`--refs` (below) generates each ref's spec from its own source, so it is not
+subject to this drift at all - prefer it.
+
+When you do read a committed spec, a change present in source but absent from
+that spec is a **false negative**: the diff will not report it, and an empty
+result is indistinguishable from an API that did not change. Confirm suspected
+gaps with `grep -rn "defendpoint" src/.../api.clj`.
+
+## Steps
+
+1. Pick the refs. Default old ref = the previous release branch
+   (`origin/release-x.63.x`), new ref = the one being released
+   (`origin/release-x.64.x`) or `origin/master`. Confirm with the user if
+   ambiguous. `git fetch origin` first.
+
+2. Extract and diff:
+
+   ```bash
+   # Preferred: generate both specs from source. ~2 min (two JVM boots), no drift.
+   ./bin/mage openapi-diff --refs origin/release-x.63.x origin/release-x.64.x --severity breaking
+
+   # Fast, but reads the committed spec, which lags source. Warns when it does.
+   ./bin/mage openapi-diff --refs --committed origin/release-x.63.x origin/release-x.64.x
+
+   # Two spec files directly.
+   ./bin/mage openapi-diff /tmp/old.json /tmp/new.json --severity breaking
+   ```
+
+   `--refs` checks each ref out into a throwaway worktree and runs that ref's own
+   `generate-openapi-spec`, so it is not limited to refs that carry a committed spec
+   and never touches your checkout. Very old refs may not build with the current
+   toolchain; it falls back to the committed spec and says so when that happens.
+   Prefer it. `--committed` compares whatever blob each ref happens to carry, and
+   when a release branch and master share a stale one it reports far fewer findings
+   than the API actually changed - an artifact of the spec, not of the API.
+
+### Start from the grouped view
+
+   A single upstream change can produce hundreds of findings. `--grouped` collapses
+   identical findings and sorts by blast radius, which is the shape you draft from:
+
+   ```bash
+   ./bin/mage openapi-diff --refs <old> <new> --severity breaking --grouped
+   ```
+
+   On the real v63 -> master delta that turns 239 breaking findings into 113
+   distinct changes. The top entry spans 217 endpoints and is one PR (#82447,
+   closing `mu/defn` argument schemas) - **one changelog entry, not 217**.
+
+   Drop `--grouped` when you need the per-endpoint view to check a specific route.
+
+   A change spanning many endpoints is usually one upstream PR: write it once, name
+   the cause, and say which endpoints it spans. The long tail of single-endpoint
+   changes is where the individually-interesting entries are - the v63 -> master run
+   surfaced a `pinned_state` -> `pinned-state` query param rename there.
+
+   Findings are classified and sorted breaking-first.
+
+   **A change is breaking when an existing caller, sending exactly what it sent
+   before, can now fail or get a different result.** That covers three cases: the
+   API requires more of the request, provides less in the response, or behaves
+   differently for the same request. The first two invert between request and
+   response:
+
+   | | Breaking | Not breaking |
+   |---|---|---|
+   | **Request** | field or param becomes required; type, enum, or bound (`minimum`, `minLength`, `pattern`, ...) narrowed; `additionalProperties: false` added; default changed or dropped | new *optional* field or param; type, enum, or bound widened; field made nullable; schema opened; default added |
+   | **Response** | field removed or no longer always returned; field may now be `null`; new enum value | new field returned; field that was nullable never is |
+   | **Endpoint** | removed | added |
+
+   When the tool cannot tell, it ranks the change breaking: a false alarm costs
+   you one look, a miss ships undocumented. Two rules follow from that, not from
+   the definition, so check them before drafting an entry:
+
+   - **A removed request field** is ranked breaking because the spec does not say
+     whether the server rejects or acts on keys it does not declare. If the
+     endpoint ignores unknown keys, the removal is not breaking.
+   - **A change to a schema keyword the tool does not model** is ranked breaking
+     so that it is never hidden. Read the finding to decide.
+
+   A reworded description, title, or example is DOC_ONLY.
+
+   Adding an optional parameter is not breaking. Returning extra data is not
+   breaking. Existing callers keep working in both cases.
+
+   Start from `--severity breaking`. The long tail of API change is additive
+   (a public Stripe-spec diff found 663 of 679 changes additive); reading the
+   full diff to find the breaking few is how entries get missed.
+
+   **Identical or near-identical committed specs do not mean the API did not
+   change.** Two refs often carry the same stale blob, so `--committed` can report
+   zero findings for a pair that generating from source shows has removed endpoints.
+   Before reporting "no API surface changes", re-run without `--committed`. Only a
+   clean generated diff supports that conclusion.
+
+3. Review the classification. The tool decides severity structurally, but two
+   cases still need your judgement:
+   - **A removed + added pair is often one endpoint moving** (method change, or a
+     param moving between query/path/body). The tool reports two findings; read
+     the docstrings to pair them and write ONE changelog entry describing the move.
+   - **An `ADDITIVE` finding can still be worth an entry** when it is a new
+     endpoint clients should know about. Additive means "will not break existing
+     callers", not "not worth mentioning".
+
+4. For every breaking change, decide whether you can state **what it does for a
+   client** from the spec's `description` alone. If you cannot, do not guess and
+   do not paper over it - list it under "Needs author input" with the endpoint
+   name and what is unclear. Thin endpoint docstrings are the actual finding;
+   report them loudly.
+
+5. Cross-check `docs/developers-guide/api-changelog.md` for the target version.
+   Report three buckets:
+   - **Undocumented**: breaking changes with no changelog entry -> draft entries
+   - **Stale**: changelog entries with no matching spec change -> verify by hand
+     (may be a response-shape or behavior change the spec cannot see - do not
+     delete without asking)
+   - **Covered**: matched, no action
+
+6. Draft entries in the existing house style: `## Metabase 0.64.0` heading,
+   one `-` bullet per change, endpoint as `` `POST /api/foo/:id` `` with
+   **`:id` colon-style params, not OpenAPI `{id}` braces**. Say what changed, what
+   clients must do, and whether there was a deprecation period. Apply the
+   `docs-write` skill. Show the diff before writing to the file.
+
+## Attribution
+
+Find who to ask about an unclear change. Search the endpoint SOURCE, not `openapi.json`: the committed spec only changes on
+PRs carrying the `openapi-self-healing` label, which is usually a later, unrelated
+PR, so its history names the wrong author.
+
+```bash
+git log <old-ref>..<new-ref> --oneline -- \
+  'src/metabase/**/api.clj' 'src/metabase/**/api/*.clj' 'src/metabase/**/routes.clj' \
+  'enterprise/backend/src/**/api.clj' 'enterprise/backend/src/**/api/*.clj' 'enterprise/backend/src/**/routes.clj'
+```
+
+Attribution by route search is unreliable in both directions - `git log -S` reports
+where a string's count *changed*, which for a long-lived route is its creation years
+ago rather than its recent removal. Treat any commit you find as a candidate to
+verify, never as the established cause.
+
+## Backports
+
+A change landing in both `0.64.0` and older lines gets a full entry under the
+newest version and a one-line pointer under each backport version
+("See the 0.64.0 entry."). Match the existing `POST /api/slack/bug-report` pattern.

.claude/skills/backend-module-conventions/SKILL.md

@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+---
+name: backend-module-conventions
+description: Where Metabase backend code goes and how it reaches the app DB. Covers module layout, the `<module>.db` rule, `[:auto/param]` value binding, module config, and pre-handoff checks. Use when adding or moving backend namespaces, writing app-DB queries, or touching module boundaries. Preloaded by every `*-backend-expert` agent.
+---
+
+# Backend module conventions
+
+This skill decides where a line of backend code lives and how it reaches the app DB. Project `CLAUDE.md`
+covers the module config keys, nested modules, test commands, and ratchets. When the two disagree, the
+source tree wins. Read the linter or test that enforces a rule before you trust any prose about it,
+including this file.
+
+## Split a module into standard namespaces
+
+A module is `metabase.<module>` (OSS, `src/`) or `metabase-enterprise.<module>` (EE,
+`enterprise/backend/src/`). Most modules split into these namespaces:
+
+| Namespace | Holds |
+|---|---|
+| `<module>.core` | The public API. Other modules call only this (plus anything else listed in the module's `:api`). Often a `potemkin/import-vars` facade. |
+| `<module>.db` | Every app-DB query the module makes. See the next section. |
+| `<module>.models.*` | Toucan 2 model definitions: `methodical/defmethod t2/table-name`, hooks, transforms. |
+| `<module>.settings` | `defsetting`s. |
+| `<module>.init` | Requires the namespaces that register things as a side effect (settings, tasks, event handlers). `metabase.core.init` or `metabase-enterprise.core.init` requires it. |
+| `<module>.api`, or the nested `<module>.rest` module (`:ns-prefix "metabase.<module>-rest"`, dir `<module>_rest/`) | HTTP endpoints. Domain logic stays in the base module. The `.rest` child calls the parent's `.core`. |
+| `enterprise/<module>` | The EE companion of an OSS module. It nests under the OSS module, which exports it automatically. |
+
+If a setting, task, or event handler never takes effect, look for a missing link in the `.init` chain.
+
+## Keep app-DB access in `<module>.db`
+
+Call Toucan 2 query functions (`t2/select*`, `t2/insert!`, `t2/update!`, `t2/delete!`, `t2/count`,
+`t2/exists?`, `t2/query`, ...) and the `metabase.app-db.core` wrappers (`mdb/query`,
+`mdb/update-or-insert!`, ...) only from `metabase[-enterprise].<module>.db`. Driver code uses
+`metabase.driver.<driver>.db`. Every other namespace calls functions from its own module's `db`.
+The kondo hook `hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns` reports violations as `:metabase/t2-query-namespace`.
+Test files are exempt.
+
+Write `db` functions in the style of `src/metabase/settings/db.clj`:
+
+- Make each function a thin `mu/defn` that wraps one query and adds no logic. Give it a docstring that says what it returns.
+- Name functions after the domain question (`setting-value`, `delete-setting!`), not after SQL.
+- Keep branching, permission checks, and data shaping in the caller. A `db` function that grows an `if` belongs somewhere else.
+- Get cross-module data through the other module's `.core`, not its `db`. A few modules list their `db` in `:api` as legacy exceptions. Don't add more.
+
+### Bind values with `[:auto/param v]`
+
+`metabase.app-db.value-guard` binds a value written as `[:auto/param v]` as a SQL parameter. The
+`:metabase/unsafe-app-db-query` lint is off globally. `.clj-kondo/config.edn` turns it on per namespace
+under `:config-in-ns`, one converted `db.clj` at a time. Follow these rules in every `db.clj`, whether or
+not the lint covers it yet:
+
+1. Mark a value that comes from a variable when it sits in a **value slot**. Value slots are the right-hand side of `:=`, `:in`, `:like`, ..., and kv-arg values used as filters.
+2. Never mark a literal. A literal cannot carry a request value.
+3. Never mark a value in an **identifier slot** (`:select`, `:from`, joins, aliases, and similar). `value-guard` throws `::marker-outside-value-slot` at compile time. In `:order-by` and `:group-by` a marker compiles to `ORDER BY ?`, which is useless but does not throw. Don't write one there either.
+4. Leave a possibly-empty collection unmarked. Toucan rewrites `[:in col []]` to `false` before the marker step.
+5. Leave values that `t2/update!` *writes* unmarked. Model hooks such as encryption must still see them.
+6. Keep kv-arg style (`:engine engine`) for a column with a Toucan type transform. If you move a keyword value into a raw `{:where ...}` map, the transform is skipped. HoneySQL then formats the keyword as an identifier, and the query returns wrong rows without failing.
+
+The docstring of `metabase.app-db.value-guard` explains what the guard refuses without any marker.
+
+## Add app-DB migrations as one file per change
+
+`./bin/lint-migrations-file.sh` enforces these rules. Run it after every change.
+
+- Starting with v60, each change is its own file at `resources/migrations/<NNN>/<yyyyMMdd>_<snake_name>.yaml`. `NNN` is the earliest release the change ships in. New work goes in the newest directory. Don't add to `001_update_migrations.yaml`; its footer describes the legacy format.
+- Changeset IDs are `v<NN>.<unique suffix>`, where `NN` matches the directory. The suffix can be a timestamp from `(dev/migration-timestamp)` or any unique string. IDs are not ordered within a directory.
+- Don't edit a shipped changeset. Add a new one. (Liquibase does recompute checksums and some edits are technically harmless, but the line between "cosmetic" and "ran instances now diverge from fresh installs" is easy to misjudge, so just add a new changeset.) Never delete a shipped changeset either: instances keep the row in `DATABASECHANGELOG` forever; removing the id makes Liquibase log "not rolled back" and any replacement that recreates the same object fails with a duplicate-object error. To retire one when you must, add a NEW changeset that does `DELETE FROM DATABASECHANGELOG WHERE id IN (...)` the retired ids. Put it in the same file as the retired changeset when it ships in the same release (`063/20260714_field_fk_target_field_id_fk.yaml::v63.2026-07-22T12:00:00`), or in the current release's file when it retires an older release's changeset (`059_update_migrations.yaml::v59.2026-01-09T11:30:00` retires `v58.2026-01-09T12:00:00`).
+- To backport, copy the changesets into the older directory with `v<older>` IDs. Guard each copy with `preConditions: onFail: MARK_RAN` plus `not: changeSetExecuted` that points at the newer ID, so databases that already ran it skip it. `resources/migrations/064/20260911_glossary_entity_id.yaml` shows the pattern.
+- Give every `indexExists`, `primaryKeyExists`, and `uniqueConstraintExists` precondition a `tableName`, and every `foreignKeyConstraintExists` a `foreignKeyTableName`. Without it, Liquibase snapshots the whole schema, which takes seconds per check.
+- Prefer SQL changesets. A custom migration (`metabase.app-db.custom-migrations`, `define-migration` / `define-reversible-migration`) must use table names, never `:model/*` or other application code. Application code changes later, and then the migration breaks. Decrypt encrypted columns such as `metabase_database.details` and `setting.value` before reading them.
+- The whole `metabase.app-db.*` module, custom migrations included, is exempt from the `<module>.db` rule (the `app-db-namespaces` group in `.clj-kondo/config.edn`).
+- Test with the `test-migrations` macro (`metabase.app-db.schema-migrations-test.impl`) on H2 and Postgres. Add MySQL when the change touches DDL or JSON columns.
+
+## Cross module boundaries through `:api`
+
+- `.clj-kondo/config/modules/config.edn` declares `:api`, `:uses`, `:model-exports`, and `:model-imports` per module. Run `./bin/mage fix-modules-config` after you add or remove a namespace, a cross-module require, or a cross-module `:model/X` reference. If nothing drifted, it does nothing.
+- `./bin/mage modules-tree` prints the hierarchy. The `dev.deps-graph` and `dev.module-score` namespaces show who uses a module externally.
+- If a module needs something outside another module's `:api`, choose the first fix that works:
+  1. Call something that is already public.
+  2. Add the var to that module's `.core`.
+  3. Invert the dependency with an event (`metabase.events`).
+
+  Don't add a `:clj-kondo/ignore`.
+- If you change a suppression or a module escape hatch, run `./bin/mage kondo-ratchets`.
+
+## Verify before handing work back
+
+1. Load each changed namespace in the REPL (`clojure-eval` skill). If no REPL is available, run `./bin/test-agent :only '[the.ns-test]'`.
+2. Run the narrowest tests that cover the change. Use `./bin/test-agent :module <module>` to check blast radius.
+3. Run `./bin/mage kondo-updated` on the changed files.
+4. If a boundary moved, run `./bin/mage fix-modules-config`.
+
+Report which of these steps ran, and what each one showed.

.claude/skills/e2e-test-review/SKILL.md

@@ -47,6 +47,16 @@ The checklist mirrors the order of the conventions file. Items marked **(lint)**
 - [ ] **No hardcoded numeric IDs anywhere** — including for entities the test creates itself. Capture from the create response or alias the intercept.
 - [ ] Existing navigation helpers used (`H.openOrdersTable`, `H.visitDashboard(id)`, etc.) instead of raw `cy.visit()` chains
 
+### Shared helper changes
+
+When a diff changes a shared helper, inspect its callers rather than reviewing the helper in isolation:
+
+- [ ] Default behavior changes are justified for every caller; otherwise the new behavior is explicit and opt-in.
+- [ ] Repeated calls with identical and different arguments are safe.
+- [ ] Mandatory network waits account for cache hits, request deduplication, unchanged query arguments, and conditional fetches where no request occurs.
+- [ ] Intercepts and aliases cannot accumulate, collide, or resolve against the wrong request.
+- [ ] Verification covers both an affected caller and a representative caller using unchanged defaults.
+
 ### Selectors
 
 - [ ] Prefers a11y queries (`findByRole`, `findByLabelText`) over `findByText`

.claude/skills/e2e-test/SKILL.md

@@ -14,12 +14,14 @@ Only use `MB_EDITION=ee` when the user explicitly asks to write or run an enterp
 
 **For `MB_EDITION=ee`:**
 These tokens must be exported in the shell before starting Claude Code:
+
 - `CYPRESS_MB_ALL_FEATURES_TOKEN` — all features (most EE tests need this)
 - `CYPRESS_MB_PRO_SELF_HOSTED_TOKEN` — pro self-hosted (permissions, SSO, sandboxing)
 - `CYPRESS_MB_STARTER_CLOUD_TOKEN` — starter plan (rarely needed)
 - `CYPRESS_MB_PRO_CLOUD_TOKEN` — pro cloud (rarely needed)
 
 **NEVER echo, print, or log token values. Only check if they are set:**
+
 ```bash
 echo "ALL_FEATURES: ${CYPRESS_MB_ALL_FEATURES_TOKEN:+set}" && echo "PRO_SELF_HOSTED: ${CYPRESS_MB_PRO_SELF_HOSTED_TOKEN:+set}" && echo "STARTER: ${CYPRESS_MB_STARTER_CLOUD_TOKEN:+set}" && echo "PRO_CLOUD: ${CYPRESS_MB_PRO_CLOUD_TOKEN:+set}"
 ```
@@ -30,21 +32,35 @@ If tokens are missing, tell the user: "EE tokens are not set. Either export them
 
 If the user asks "how long does this test take" / "what's the timing" — **do not run it**. Read `e2e/support/timings.json`, which holds the latest CI duration (in ms) per spec. Match on the spec path (entries are stored as `../test/scenarios/...`). Per-`it()` granularity is not recorded there; for that you'd need the Cypress JSON reporter, which requires running the spec.
 
+## Diagnosing flakiness
+
+Before changing a flaky test:
+
+1. Gather the available longitudinal CI history, failure messages, screenshots, and retries. Classify distinct failures by the UI or network boundary where they occur instead of treating every occurrence as one race.
+2. State which user interactions the test is intended to cover. Preserve interactions that are part of the regression path or relevant failure evidence; do not move them to API setup merely to make the test pass.
+3. Fix the narrowest boundary supported by evidence. Keep backend errors, failed requests, and application crashes visible unless the task explicitly targets their recovery behavior.
+4. Treat a local stress run as evidence about a candidate change, not proof that historical flakiness never existed. A small passing sample does not outweigh repeated CI failures.
+
 ## Running
 
 First check if snapshots exist:
+
 ```bash
 ls e2e/snapshots/default.sql 2>/dev/null && echo "snapshots exist" || echo "snapshots missing"
 ```
 
+Always pass the spec path via `--spec`. The runner feeds its arguments to Cypress's CLI parser (`cypress.cli.parseRunArguments`), which silently drops bare positional paths and then runs the entire suite. A leading `run` argument is harmless, but the path itself must follow `--spec`. Sanity-check that the first `Running:` line says `(1 of 1)`.
+
 If snapshots exist, skip regeneration for speed:
+
 ```bash
-MB_EDITION=oss CYPRESS_VIDEO=false CYPRESS_RETRIES=0 CYPRESS_GUI=false GENERATE_SNAPSHOTS=false bun test-cypress $ARGUMENTS
+MB_EDITION=oss CYPRESS_VIDEO=false CYPRESS_RETRIES=0 CYPRESS_GUI=false GENERATE_SNAPSHOTS=false bun test-cypress --spec path/to/spec.cy.spec.js
 ```
 
 If snapshots are missing (first run), let the runner generate them:
+
 ```bash
-MB_EDITION=oss CYPRESS_VIDEO=false CYPRESS_RETRIES=0 CYPRESS_GUI=false bun test-cypress $ARGUMENTS
+MB_EDITION=oss CYPRESS_VIDEO=false CYPRESS_RETRIES=0 CYPRESS_GUI=false bun test-cypress --spec path/to/spec.cy.spec.js
 ```
 
 When running enterprise tests, replace `MB_EDITION=oss` with `MB_EDITION=ee` in the commands above.
@@ -52,12 +68,15 @@ When running enterprise tests, replace `MB_EDITION=oss` with `MB_EDITION=ee` in
 If `$ARGUMENTS` is empty, ask the user which spec to run.
 
 If the user provides a test name or fuzzy name instead of a spec path, find the spec file:
+
 ```bash
 find e2e/test/scenarios -name "*FUZZY_NAME*.cy.spec.*" -type f
 ```
+
 Then run with `--spec "path/to/matched.cy.spec.js"`.
 
 To filter by test name, use the `GREP` env var (not `--env grep=`, which breaks on commas):
+
 ```bash
 GREP="test name here" MB_EDITION=oss bun test-cypress --spec path/to/spec.js
 ```
@@ -67,9 +86,11 @@ GREP="test name here" MB_EDITION=oss bun test-cypress --spec path/to/spec.js
 When the user asks to verify a test is not flaky:
 
 ```bash
-MB_EDITION=oss bin/e2e-stress-test $ARGUMENTS
+MB_EDITION=oss bin/e2e-stress-test --spec path/to/spec.cy.spec.js
 ```
 
+(The stress script forwards its arguments to `bun test-cypress`, so the same `--spec` rule applies.)
+
 Set `E2E_STRESS_RUNS=N` for more iterations (default: 5). Stops on first failure and prints screenshot paths. Read those screenshots to analyze the failure.
 
 ## Analyzing failures

.claude/skills/fe-modularization/SKILL.md

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ what and who may depend on whom.**
 | module elements, tiers, `enforceSharedTiers`, `enforcePublicApi` | `frontend/lint/module-boundaries.mjs` |
 | shared sub-tiers and levels, cluster rules | `frontend/lint/shared-tiers.mjs` |
 | standalone boundaries lint (all violations, incl. grandfathered) | `bun run module-boundaries` (config `eslint.config.module-boundaries.mjs`) |
-| PR lint (only enforced modules fail CI) | `bun run lint-eslint-pure` |
+| PR lint (only enforced modules fail CI) | `bun run lint-oxlint` |
 | side-effect-free directories and their exceptions | `frontend/build/shared/rspack/side-effect-free-modules.js` (`SIDE_EFFECT_FREE_PATHS`, `SIDE_EFFECT_PATHS`) |
 | the lint rules that enforce that promise | `metabase/no-module-side-effects`, `metabase/no-base-api-access` in `frontend/lint/eslint-plugin-metabase/rules/` |
 | public-api enforcement | `metabase/enforce-module-public-api` rule, driven by `getPublicApiModules()` |
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ prefix; never generic `-shared` / `-feature` suffixes.
    ```
    grep -rn "<old path>" frontend enterprise/frontend e2e        # must be empty
    bunx eslint --no-warn-ignored <touched files>
-   bun run lint-eslint-pure                                       # enforce-module-public-api included
+   bun run lint-oxlint                                            # enforce-module-public-api included
    bun run type-check-pure
    bun run test-unit-keep-cljs <touched folders' specs>
    bun run module-boundaries 2>&1 | tail -1                       # after; no violation may name the new files

.claude/skills/metabase-ui-component-from-figma/SKILL.md

@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ export const OverviewStory = {
 - **Scope controls per story.** A static matrix should hide knobs it ignores: `parameters.controls = { include: [...] }` (or `{ disable: true }`). Wire any kept knob (e.g. `children`) through to the cells so it does something.
 - `loki.config.js` has a `storiesFilter`; check it before renaming a story that's already covered.
 
-Validate: `bun run lint-eslint-pure -- <files>` and `bun run type-check-pure`.
+Validate: `bun run lint-oxlint -- <files>` and `bun run type-check-pure`.
 
 ### Optional: verify in the browser yourself
 
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ General gotchas when extending Mantine components — adapt per component:
 - **Built-in icons use `currentColor`**, so they inherit the slot's text color.
 - For text on a brand fill, follow the existing convention (`text-primary-inverse`) unless the user wants pure white; flag the dark-theme implication.
 
-After edits: `npx stylelint <css>`, `LINT_CSS_MODULES=true bun run lint-eslint-pure -- <files>`, `bun run type-check-pure`.
+After edits: `npx stylelint <css>`, `LINT_CSS_MODULES=true bun run lint-oxlint -- <files>`, `bun run type-check-pure`.
 
 ## Phase 5 — Iterate with the user
 

.claude/skills/name-module-cycle/SKILL.md

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+---
+name: name-module-cycle
+description: Suggest a space-themed name for a cyclic cluster of backend modules when metabase.core.module-cycles-test reports a cluster without a name, usually after a split. Use when someone needs to name a module cycle or add a line to .clj-kondo/config/modules/cycle-clusters.edn.
+allowed-tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash
+---
+
+# Name a module cycle
+
+`.clj-kondo/config/modules/cycle-clusters.edn` maps each cyclic cluster of the module require graph to an anchor
+module. When a change splits a cluster, the new half has no name, and the person who split it gets to choose one.
+Help them choose; do not pick for them.
+
+## 1. See the cluster
+
+The test failure lists the cluster's modules and, for a small cluster, the requires between them that make it a
+cycle. For the full picture, including teams, run:
+
+```bash
+clojure -X:dev dev.module-cycles/print-clusters
+```
+
+Unnamed clusters print first.
+
+## 2. Split, or a new cycle?
+
+Look at everything the branch changes, committed or not: `git diff $(git merge-base origin/master HEAD)`, plus new
+files from `git ls-files --others --exclude-standard`.
+If it removed requires and these modules were part of a named cluster on master, the cluster split: name the new
+half. If it added a require between these modules, it created a new cycle: help break it instead, and stop here.
+
+## 3. Learn what the cluster does
+
+A module's namespaces are `metabase.<module>.*`, with dashes as underscores in the path, so `cloud-migration` lives
+in `src/metabase/cloud_migration/`, and `enterprise/foo` in `enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/foo/`. Some
+modules declare an `:ns-prefix` in `.clj-kondo/config/modules/config.edn` instead: `core.cmd` lives in
+`src/metabase/cmd/`, and `mcp.oauth-server` in `src/metabase/oauth_server/`.
+
+`core.clj` is often a bare facade. The `ns` docstrings of `api.clj`, `models/` and any `README.md` usually say more,
+and so do the requires that close the cycle: they show what each module needs from the others.
+
+## 4. Suggest names
+
+Offer three to five names, each with one line on why it fits. A good name:
+
+- comes from space: astronomy, spaceflight, or science fiction about space;
+- has some link to what the cluster does, its role in the codebase, or how it came to be;
+- is a lowercase kebab-case simple symbol, not already in the file;
+- stays true as the cluster changes, so avoid sizes and counts (`binary-star` stops fitting when a third module joins).
+
+The current names show the range:
+
+| Name | Anchor | Why it fits |
+|---|---|---|
+| `galactic-center` | `query-processor` | The dense core everything orbits |
+| `foundation` | `app-db` | The base layer, and Asimov's Foundation |
+| `tardis` | `lib` | A plain box from the outside; internally complex, and it can take you places |
+| `stargate` | `api-routes` | The gateway every request comes through |
+| `first-contact` | `mcp` | The protocol outside agents use to talk to Metabase |
+| `deep-thought` | `metabot` | The computer built to answer the big question |
+
+The `<anchor>-knot` placeholder from the test failure is a valid fallback when nothing better comes up.
+
+## 5. Pick the anchor
+
+The anchor can be any module in the cluster, and the name follows it. Prefer one that is central and unlikely to
+leave the cluster or be renamed. The test proposes the member with the most requires to and from the rest of the
+cluster, ties broken alphabetically; in a small cluster everything often ties, and then the proposal carries no
+signal.
+
+## 6. Record it
+
+Add `<name> <anchor>` to the map in `.clj-kondo/config/modules/cycle-clusters.edn`, keeping the entries sorted and
+the anchors aligned one space past the longest name, then run:
+
+```bash
+./bin/test-agent :only '[metabase.core.module-cycles-test]'
+```
+
+Mention the new name in the PR, so reviewers see the split.

.claude/skills/typescript-review/SKILL.md

@@ -17,10 +17,10 @@ Adherence to `typescript-write` is the **highest-priority** review dimension: ra
 
 Review in this priority order:
 
-1. **Violations of [`typescript-write`](../typescript-write/SKILL.md) provisions** — no-`any`, type tightening, type modeling, null/undefined handling, naming, structure, comments. Highest priority; block on the no-`any` rule.
+1. **Violations of [`typescript-write`](../typescript-write/SKILL.md) provisions** — no-`any`, type tightening, type modeling, function signatures, null/undefined handling, naming, structure, comments. Highest priority; block on the no-`any` rule. Apply conditional guidance in context: explain the unsupported type guarantee or concrete readability problem, rather than treating every preference as a blanket ban.
 2. Compliance with `frontend/CLAUDE.md`.
 3. Readability and maintainability.
-4. Appropriate test coverage.
+4. Appropriate test coverage. For internal typed callers, avoid requesting tests solely for inputs the type system excludes. External API data, deserialised values, storage and JavaScript callers can violate annotations: test runtime validation and nontrivial assumptions at those boundaries. Types do not replace behavioural, security or data-integrity tests.
 
 ## Blind spots — act as the missing reviewer
 
@@ -31,3 +31,4 @@ These rarely surface in team reviews, so this skill should raise them. They are
 - **Security.** Evaluate potential security issues in new code.
 - **Bundle size.** Flag new large dependencies, default imports from icon or util libs, and heavy modules imported at route-load time.
 - **Analytics.** User-facing flows should emit tracking events. If a PR adds a new flow (button, modal, navigation) without a tracking event, ask whether one is expected.
+- **Public API surface** (embedding SDK). Consumers should be able to use public signatures and name types they need to import. Export those types deliberately and document public behaviour, including `@deprecated` for deprecated APIs; a referenced structural type does not automatically need its own named export.

.claude/skills/typescript-write/SKILL.md

@@ -20,20 +20,27 @@ description: Write TypeScript and JavaScript code following Metabase coding stan
 - **Avoid type casts and loose `unknown`** — fix the signature instead.
 - **If a function only needs one field of a wide object, accept that field** — not the wide object. The cast often disappears once the signature is right.
 - **Reach for `Partial<T>`, `Pick<T, K>`, `Record<K, V>`, and generics** before reaching for a cast.
+- **Match dictionary keys to the data.** Use a finite key union when the keys are known. Open dictionaries can use an index signature, `Record<string, T>`, or `Map`; index signatures still constrain values, and changing their spelling to `Record<string, T>` does not make missing-key access safe.
 - **Prefer making props/components generic** (`<T>`) when a value flows through unchanged and the caller knows the type.
 - **Prefer `unknown` over loose typing** and narrow before use — an `unknown` value forces a guard at the point of use.
 - **`satisfies` for object literals** that must conform without widening (config objects, lookup maps, discriminated literals) — better than `: T` (widens) or `as T` (unsafe).
 - **Avoid non-null assertions (`!`)**. Prefer a guard, early return, or `?.`. Use `!` only when non-nullness is provably true and localized, with a comment.
+- **Guard indexed lookups that may miss.** Arrays and dictionaries can return `undefined` even when the inferred type omits it. Use an iteration form that preserves the key/value relationship, and only assert `keyof` when the runtime keys are known to belong to the declared type.
 - **No redundant runtime coercion** — don't wrap already-typed values in `Number()` / `String()` / `Boolean()`.
 - **Type guards belong in `frontend/src/metabase-types/guards/`**. Do not redefine them locally.
 - **A cast you can't avoid needs a real justification comment.** The `metabase/no-unjustified-type-casts` rule accepts any preceding comment — state the actual reason the cast is safe. NEVER write the legacy `// Unjustified type cast. FIXME` placeholder; it exists only on casts that predated the rule, and copying it sneaks an unjustified cast past the linter. If you can't articulate why the cast is correct, the cast is wrong — fix the types.
+- **Keep unavoidable assertions local.** Isolate a repeated or complex assertion behind a helper when that makes its invariant easier to enforce. Test nontrivial runtime assumptions that justify it; a trivial assertion does not automatically need a new helper or test. Do not weaken a public signature just to silence implementation errors.
 
 ## Type modeling
 
 - **Reuse existing types; don't re-declare them.** Use canonical IDs and domain entity types from `metabase-types/api` (`FieldId`, `TableId`, `ConcreteTableId`, `SchemaName`, …) and key data structures by them (`new Map<ConcreteTableId, …>()`). Don't duplicate generated/API types — compose or derive (`Pick`, `Omit`, indexed access `SomeType["field"]`, `ReturnType`).
-- **Use generics to allow TypeScript to infer correct types** when creating functions and components that need to be reusable and type-safe. Don't hesitate to introduce complex generics if they allow to derive types automatically instead of manual narrowing.
+- **Generics must make promises the implementation can keep.** A caller-selected `get<T>(): T` must not disguise an unchecked assertion about external data. Return `unknown` and validate, or accept a validator that establishes `T`. A factory such as `function empty<T>(): T[] { return []; }` is valid; judge the implementation, not how often `T` appears in the signature.
+- **Prefer an honest type over false precision.** Use generics when they express a real relationship. If a complex type cannot model the behaviour accurately, choose a simpler type or `unknown` with narrowing instead of asserting an unsupported guarantee.
 - **Model the actual data contract; keep types narrow.** Optional `field?: T` for a key that may be absent, `field: T | undefined` only when the key is always present but the value may be undefined, `| null` for explicit API nulls. Prefer domain unions over broad `string` / `number` / loose `Record`.
 - **Refer to API implementation** when defining or refining types to ensure they match the actual data structure. When considering a type cast, first consider if the type should be refined to match the actual data structure.
+- **Optionality must reflect absence.** Keep required fields required and optional fields optional. Normalise input when the application has a meaningful default, not merely to remove a type error. Preserve the actual wire shape in API types.
+- **Represent related absence together when modelling internal state.** If several fields exist or disappear together, consider a nullable containing object or a discriminated union. Do not reshape a raw API declaration unless the data actually has that shape.
+- **Prefer explicit special states when designing a format.** Use nullability or named union variants when sentinel values such as `-1` hide meaning. Preserve established protocol sentinel values unless the behaviour is deliberately changed, or normalise them at an explicit boundary.
 - **Discriminated unions for variant state, with exhaustive checks.** Model "one of N shapes" as a union with a literal discriminant rather than a bag of optional fields, and exhaust it with ts-pattern's `.exhaustive()` so adding a variant becomes a compile error:
   ```ts
   import { match } from "ts-pattern";
@@ -45,20 +52,30 @@ description: Write TypeScript and JavaScript code following Metabase coding stan
     .exhaustive(); // Compile-time guarantee all cases handled
   ```
 - **Derive union types from constants** (`as const` + `typeof`/`keyof`) so the type and the values can't drift.
-- **`readonly` / immutability where mutation isn't intended** — component props, shared constants, exported config. Prefer `readonly T[]` / `ReadonlyArray<T>` for inputs you don't mutate.
+- **`readonly` / immutability where mutation isn't intended** — component props, shared constants, exported config, and unmutated parameters. Prefer `readonly T[]` / `ReadonlyArray<T>` for inputs you don't mutate. Functions that mutate caller-owned data should make that behaviour explicit.
+- **Construct complete, well-typed objects where practical.** Prefer an object expression when it avoids partially initialised state or assertions. Incremental construction is fine when it is clearer and maintains the type's invariants.
+- **Treat `metabase-lib` opaque types as black boxes.** Use `metabase-lib` functions to work with types such as `Lib.Query`, rather than casting into their internal representation.
 - **Type async and error states explicitly** (a discriminated union or the data-layer's typed result) — never leave loading/error/empty implicit.
 
+## Function signatures
+
+- **Make public contracts explicit where it improves stability and clarity.** Annotate parameters and return types at shared boundaries when useful; let local values infer. Use `satisfies` or an annotation when a declaration needs an explicit shape check.
+- **Accept the inputs the operation supports and return the most precise honest result.** Narrow avoidable uncertainty inside the function, but preserve meaningful nullability and union variants in its return type.
+- **Use named options when positional arguments are easy to confuse.** Consecutive arguments with the same type are a useful warning sign, not an automatic requirement to rewrite a clear API.
+- **Use `async`/`await` when it clarifies control flow or error handling.** Returning an existing promise directly is also valid; a Promise return type alone does not require adding `async`.
+
 ## Null and undefined
 
 - **Narrow at the source**. If a value is optional only in a corner case, don't thread `undefined` through every layer — guard at the producer.
 - **Sensible defaults for optional values**. Use `?.` and `??` at the consumer.
-- **Lists should be filtered** before being used in a map or other iteration.
+- **Narrow nullable list elements when the operation requires present values.** Filter with a type guard when missing entries should be discarded; preserve them when their absence or position carries meaning.
 - **Avoid non-strict null comparisons** (`X != null`) when `X` can never be `null` — use a strict check or narrow the type. Use `checkNotNull` where necessary.
 - **Check actual nullability against API implementation**. Find the API endpoint implementation and check if the field can actually be null.
 
 ## Naming
 
 - **Names describe the entity, not the mechanism**. A name must reflect what the value holds.
+- **Use domain vocabulary and include units where useful** (`timeoutMs`, `widthPx`, `temperatureC`). Prefer a more specific name when `Info`, `Data`, or `Entity` obscures the meaning, while keeping established terminology when it is clear.
 - **Align sibling concepts**: keep verb conventions consistent across a related API.
 - **No names that encode implementation history** rather than current meaning. Suffixes like `Base`, `New`, `Old`, `Initial` need a real semantic distinction, otherwise drop them.
 - **Avoid cryptic identifiers** (`v`, `n`, `$n`) for domain values; short names are fine only in tiny conventional contexts (loop index `i`, coordinates `x`/`y`, generic params `T`/`K`/`V`).
@@ -75,10 +92,6 @@ description: Write TypeScript and JavaScript code following Metabase coding stan
 - **No comments by default**. Well-named identifiers carry the `what`.
 - **Comments should be concise**. Add a short, concise comment only when the `why` is non-obvious: a workaround, a hidden invariant, a subtle ordering constraint, a clever reduction. Never document the actual implementation, focus on the intent and the why.
 
-## TypeScript Migration
-
-**When touching existing JavaScript files, propose to convert them to TypeScript first**. Create a separate PR for the conversion, then implement the changes.
-
 ## Verify before done
 
 - **Run the project type-check** when finished (see the shared TypeScript commands above).

.clj-kondo/config.edn

@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
   :metabase/check-testing-not-empty                          {:level :warning}
   :metabase/defsetting-must-specify-export                   {:level :warning}
   :metabase/defsetting-namespace                             {:level :warning}
+  :metabase/discourage-dynamic-vars                          {:level :warning}
   :metabase/discourage-millis-duration                       {:level :warning}
   :metabase/mbql-query-first-arg                             {:level :warning}
   :metabase/missing-test-expr-requires-in-cljs               {:level :warning}
@@ -72,12 +73,19 @@
   :metabase/namespace-name                                   {:level :warning}
   :metabase/no-jsqlparser-imports                            {:level :warning}
   :metabase/prefer-with-dynamic-fn-redefs                    {:level :warning}
+  :metabase/t2-query-namespace                               {:level :warning}
+  :metabase/table-or-field-query                             {:level :warning}
+  ;; App-DB query hygiene: a value reaching a value slot unmarked, and a query written as
+  ;; `:column value` pairs rather than a map. Off by default and enabled per namespace under
+  ;; `:config-in-ns`; flip it on globally once every `db.clj` has been converted.
+  :metabase/unsafe-app-db-query                              {:level :off}
   :metabase/toucan-model-ns                                  {:level :warning}
   :metabase/require-shape-checker                            {:level :warning}
   :metabase/tests-must-live-in-known-modules                 {:level :warning}
   :metabase/validate-defendpoint-route-uses-kebab-case       {:level :warning}
   :metabase/validate-defendpoint-query-params-use-kebab-case {:level :warning}
   :metabase/validate-logging                                 {:level :warning}
+  :metabase/validate-mb-app-db-migrations-test               {:level :warning}
   :metabase/validate-mb-driver-tests                         {:level :warning}
   :metabase/validate-mb-once                                 {:level :warning}
 
@@ -180,10 +188,19 @@
      clojure.core.async/take!
      clojure.core.async/to-chan!
      clojure.core.async/to-chan!!
-     ;; only writes .clj-kondo/ratchets.edn, from a :once fixture that finishes before the parallel tests
+     ;; writes the ratchet files from a :once fixture that finishes before the parallel tests
      dev.kondo-ratchet/fix!
+     ;; builds Babashka's classpath cache from a :once fixture, before the parallel tests start, so that
+     ;; they don't each race to create it; the side effect is process-external and idempotent
+     metabase.core.modules-consistency-test/warm-babashka-classpath!
      metabase.ai-tracing.core/record!
      metabase.api.macros.defendpoint.tools-manifest/assert-optional-fields-nullable!
+     ;; MCP v2 tool tests: call-tool! dispatches a tool with no shared mutable state across tests
+     metabase.mcp.v2.tools.alert-test/call-tool!
+     metabase.mcp.v2.tools.definitions-test/call-tool!
+     metabase.mcp.v2.tools.metric-test/call-tool!
+     ;; the `!` is for the throw (a teaching error), not a mutation; no shared mutable state
+     metabase.mcp.v2.tools.browse/validate-args-for-action!
      metabase.channel.core/send!
      metabase.channel.render.pdf/draw-too-large!
      metabase.channel.render.pdf/draw-no-results!
@@ -191,6 +208,8 @@
      metabase.channel.render.pdf.font/load-fonts!
      metabase.warehouses.models.database/assert-not-h2!
      metabase.driver.sql-jdbc.execute/execute-prepared-statement!
+     ;; only inspects a details map and throws; the `!` is for the throw, not for a mutation
+     metabase.driver/validate-db-details!
      metabase.mcp.usage/record-mcp-session!
      metabase.mcp.usage/record-mcp-session-end!
      metabase.mcp.usage/record-mcp-tool-call!
@@ -215,7 +234,9 @@
      ;; Safe in tests, where we typically use a private, temporary index per thread.
      metabase.search.core/reindex!
      metabase.util/run-count!
-     next.jdbc/execute!}}
+     next.jdbc/execute!
+     ;; pure validator: parses a keyword and throws on a bad one, touches no state
+     metabase.mcp.v2.tools.question/check-semantic-type!}}
 
   :metabase/i-like-making-cams-eyes-bleed-with-horrifically-long-tests
   {:level      :warning
@@ -278,10 +299,6 @@
     instaparse.core/transform
     (metabase.server.streaming-response/streaming-response)
     (metabase.driver.druid.query-processor-test/druid-query-returning-rows)
-    (metabase.util.match/match-one)
-    (metabase.util.match/match-many)
-    (metabase.util.match/replace-in)
-    (metabase.util.match/replace)
     (metabase.driver-api.core/match-one)
     (metabase.driver-api.core/match-many)
     (metabase.driver-api.core/replace)
@@ -304,6 +321,12 @@
   {metabase-enterprise.entity-retrieval.core/search-unfiltered {:message "Permission bypass risk: library-index hits are unfiltered — resolve each entity and drop what the current user can't read"}
    metabase.entity-retrieval.core/search-unfiltered            {:message "Permission bypass risk: library-index hits are unfiltered — resolve each entity and drop what the current user can't read"}
    metabase.entity-retrieval.mirror/search-unfiltered          {:message "Permission bypass risk: library-index hits are unfiltered — resolve each entity and drop what the current user can't read"}
+   metabase-enterprise.transform-testing.expectations.equals/->EqualsRows    {:message "Build an expectation with metabase-enterprise.transform-testing.expectations.protocol/build, over a value the schema has passed — the generated constructors skip validation"}
+   metabase-enterprise.transform-testing.expectations.equals/map->EqualsRows {:message "Build an expectation with metabase-enterprise.transform-testing.expectations.protocol/build, over a value the schema has passed — the generated constructors skip validation"}
+   metabase-enterprise.transform-testing.expectations.equals/->EqualsSql     {:message "Build an expectation with metabase-enterprise.transform-testing.expectations.protocol/build, over a value the schema has passed — the generated constructors skip validation"}
+   metabase-enterprise.transform-testing.expectations.equals/map->EqualsSql  {:message "Build an expectation with metabase-enterprise.transform-testing.expectations.protocol/build, over a value the schema has passed — the generated constructors skip validation"}
+   metabase-enterprise.transform-testing.expectations.empty/->Empty          {:message "Build an expectation with metabase-enterprise.transform-testing.expectations.protocol/build, over a value the schema has passed — the generated constructors skip validation"}
+   metabase-enterprise.transform-testing.expectations.empty/map->Empty       {:message "Build an expectation with metabase-enterprise.transform-testing.expectations.protocol/build, over a value the schema has passed — the generated constructors skip validation"}
    clojure.core/print                                 {:message "Use metabase.util.log instead of clojure.core/print"}
    clojure.core/println                               {:message "Use metabase.util.log instead of clojure.core/println"}
    clojure.core/printf                                {:message "Use metabase.util.log instead of clojure.core/printf"}
@@ -401,6 +424,7 @@
     metabase.analyze.classifiers.core         classifiers
     metabase.channel.core                     channel
     metabase.channel.render.core              channel.render
+    metabase.channel.render.markdown          markdown
     metabase.cloud-migration.core             cloud-migration
     metabase.eid-translation.core             eid-translation
     metabase.llm.test-util                    llm.tu
@@ -437,7 +461,6 @@
     metabase.util.macros                      u.macros
     metabase.util.malli                       mu
     metabase.util.malli.schema                ms
-    metabase.util.markdown                    markdown
     metabase.util.password                    u.password
     metabase.util.ui-logic                    ui-logic
     metabase.xrays.core                       xrays
@@ -467,10 +490,12 @@
   metabase-enterprise.serialization.metadata-file-import.wire-format-test/with-tiny-fixture! clojure.core/fn
   metabase-enterprise.serialization.test-util/with-dbs                                  clojure.core/fn
   metabase-enterprise.serialization.test-util/with-random-dump-dir                      clojure.core/let
+  metabase-enterprise.tenants.pulse-api-test/with-tenant-pulse-fixture!                 clojure.core/fn
   metabase-enterprise.workspaces.test-util/with-resources!                              clojure.core/let
   metabase-enterprise.workspaces.test-util/with-workspaces!                             clojure.core/let
   metabase.actions.test-util/with-actions                                               clojure.core/let
   metabase.transforms.test-util/with-transform-cleanup!                                 clojure.core/let
+  metabase.transforms.test-util/with-transforms-api-users!                              clojure.core/fn
   metabase.api.common/let-404                                                           clojure.core/let
   metabase.app-db.connection/with-unshared-connection                                   clojure.core/fn
   metabase.app-db.core/with-unshared-connection                                         clojure.core/fn
@@ -491,11 +516,13 @@
   metabase.driver.sql-jdbc.connection/with-connection-spec-for-testing-connection       clojure.core/let
   metabase.driver.sql-jdbc.execute.diagnostic/capturing-diagnostic-info                 clojure.core/fn
   metabase.driver-api.core/defsetting                                                   hooks.metabase.settings.models.setting/defsetting
+  metabase.mcp.v2.registry/deftool                                                      clojure.core/defn
   metabase.models.json-migration/def-json-migration                                     clj-kondo.lint-as/def-catch-all
   metabase.models.util.spec-update/define-spec                                          clojure.core/def
   metabase.notification.test-util/with-card-notification                                clojure.core/let
   metabase.notification.test-util/with-system-event-notification!                       clojure.core/let
   metabase.notification.test-util/with-temp-notification                                clojure.core/let
+  metabase.oauth-server.test-util/with-oauth-client                                     clojure.core/fn
   metabase.osi.ai-context.api-test/with-test-entry                                      clojure.core/let
   metabase.premium-features.core/defenterprise-schema                                   clj-kondo.lint-as/def-catch-all
   metabase.premium-features.defenterprise/defenterprise-schema                          clj-kondo.lint-as/def-catch-all
@@ -563,7 +590,11 @@
 
  :hooks
  {:analyze-call
-  {cljs.test/deftest                                                                                                         hooks.clojure.test/deftest
+  {cljs.core/def                                                                                                             hooks.clojure.core.def/lint-dynamic
+   cljs.core/defn                                                                                                            hooks.clojure.core.def/lint-dynamic
+   cljs.core/defn-                                                                                                           hooks.clojure.core.def/lint-dynamic
+   cljs.core/defonce                                                                                                         hooks.clojure.core.def/lint-dynamic
+   cljs.test/deftest                                                                                                         hooks.clojure.test/deftest
    cljs.test/is                                                                                                              hooks.clojure.test/is
    cljs.test/testing                                                                                                         hooks.clojure.test/testing
    cljs.test/use-fixtures                                                                                                    hooks.clojure.test/use-fixtures
@@ -577,6 +608,7 @@
    clojure.core/defprotocol                                                                                                  hooks.clojure.core.def/lint-def
    clojure.core/defrecord                                                                                                    hooks.clojure.core.def/lint-def
    clojure.core/deftype                                                                                                      hooks.clojure.core.def/lint-def
+   clojure.core/ex-info                                                                                                      hooks.metabase.agent-message/lint-ex-info
    clojure.core/ns                                                                                                           hooks.clojure.core.ns/lint-ns
    clojure.core/require                                                                                                      hooks.clojure.core.require/lint-require
    clojure.core/requiring-resolve                                                                                            hooks.clojure.core.require/lint-requiring-resolve
@@ -592,14 +624,14 @@
    metabase-enterprise.cache.config-test/with-temp-persist-models                                                            hooks.common/with-seven-bindings
    metabase-enterprise.dependencies.api-test/with-dependents-test!                                                           hooks.common/with-two-bindings
    metabase-enterprise.metabot-v3.tools.dependencies-test/with-dependent-transforms!                                         hooks.common/with-two-bindings
-   metabase-enterprise.metabot.tools.dependencies-test/with-dependent-transforms!                                            hooks.common/with-two-bindings
+   metabase-enterprise.remote-sync.metric-dimension-api-test/with-synced-metric                                              hooks.common/with-one-binding
    metabase-enterprise.semantic-search.db.connection/with-migrate-tx                                                         hooks.common/let-one-with-optional-value
    metabase-enterprise.serialization.api-test/with-serialization-test-data!                                                  hooks.common/with-three-bindings
    metabase-enterprise.serialization.test-util/with-temp-dpc                                                                 hooks.toucan2.tools.with-temp/with-temp
    metabase-enterprise.transforms-python.drivers-test/with-test-table                                                        hooks.common/with-two-bindings
    metabase.api.common.internal-test/with-jetty-server                                                                       hooks.common/with-one-binding
    metabase.api.macros/defendpoint                                                                                           hooks.metabase.api.macros/defendpoint
-   metabase.app-db.schema-migrations-test.impl/test-migrations                                                               hooks.metabase.app-db.schema-migrations-test.impl/test-migrations
+   metabase.app-db.schema-migrations-test.impl/test-migrations                                                               hooks.metabase.app-db.schema-migrations-test.impl/test-migrations!
    metabase.channel.render.js.pool/with-static-viz-context                                                                   hooks.common/with-one-top-level-binding
    metabase.channel.template.handlebars-helper/defhelper                                                                     hooks.metabase.channel.template.handlebars-helper/defhelper
    metabase.channel.template.handlebars-test/with-temp-template!                                                             hooks.common/with-vec-first-binding
@@ -629,10 +661,59 @@
    metabase.lib.schema.mbql-clause/define-tuple-mbql-clause                                                                  hooks.metabase.lib.schema.mbql-clause/define-mbql-clause
    methodical.core/defmethod                                                                                                 hooks.metabase.toucan.table-name/lint-defmethod
    methodical.macros/defmethod                                                                                               hooks.metabase.toucan.table-name/lint-defmethod
+   metabase.app-db.core/query                                                                                                hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   metabase.app-db.core/streaming-reducible-query                                                                            hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   metabase.app-db.core/select-or-insert!                                                                                    hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   metabase.app-db.core/update-or-insert!                                                                                    hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   metabase.app-db.core/current-timestamp-string                                                                             hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   metabase.app-db.query/query                                                                                               hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   metabase.app-db.query/streaming-reducible-query                                                                           hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   metabase.app-db.query/select-or-insert!                                                                                   hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   metabase.app-db.query/update-or-insert!                                                                                   hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   metabase.app-db.query/current-timestamp-string                                                                            hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/count                                                                                                        hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/delete!                                                                                                      hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/exists?                                                                                                      hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/insert!                                                                                                      hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/insert-returning-instance!                                                                                   hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/insert-returning-instances!                                                                                  hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/insert-returning-pk!                                                                                         hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/insert-returning-pks!                                                                                        hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/query                                                                                                        hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/query-one                                                                                                    hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/reducible-query                                                                                              hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/reducible-select                                                                                             hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/reducible-update                                                                                             hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/reducible-update-returning-pks                                                                               hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/save!                                                                                                        hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/select                                                                                                       hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/select-fn->fn                                                                                                hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/select-fn->pk                                                                                                hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/select-fn-reducible                                                                                          hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/select-fn-set                                                                                                hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/select-fn-vec                                                                                                hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/select-one                                                                                                   hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/select-one-fn                                                                                                hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/select-one-pk                                                                                                hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/select-pk->fn                                                                                                hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/select-pks-set                                                                                               hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/select-pks-vec                                                                                               hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/update!                                                                                                      hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
+   toucan2.core/update-returning-pks!                                                                                        hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call
    metabase.lib.test-util.macros/$ids                                                                                        hooks.metabase.test.data/$ids
    metabase.lib.test-util.macros/mbql-query                                                                                  hooks.metabase.test.data/mbql-query
    metabase.lib.test-util.macros/mbql-5-query                                                                                hooks.metabase.test.data/mbql-query
    metabase.lib.test-util.macros/with-testing-against-standard-queries                                                       hooks.metabase.lib.test-util.macros/with-testing-against-standard-queries
+   metabase.mcp.transport/jsonrpc-error                                                                                      hooks.metabase.agent-message/lint-jsonrpc-error
+   metabase.mcp.v2.common/ellipsize                                                                                          hooks.metabase.agent-message/lint-ellipsize
+   metabase.mcp.v2.common/error-content                                                                                      hooks.metabase.agent-message/lint-teaching-exit
+   metabase.mcp.v2.common/list-content                                                                                       hooks.metabase.agent-message/lint-list-content
+   metabase.mcp.v2.common/success-content                                                                                    hooks.metabase.agent-message/lint-success-content
+   metabase.mcp.v2.common/throw-teaching-error                                                                               hooks.metabase.agent-message/lint-teaching-exit
+   metabase.mcp.v2.dashboard-ops/op-error!                                                                                   hooks.metabase.agent-message/lint-op-error
+   metabase.mcp.v2.message/msg                                                                                               hooks.metabase.agent-message/lint-msg
+   metabase.mcp.v2.tools.browse/paged-list-content                                                                           hooks.metabase.agent-message/lint-list-content
+   metabase.mcp.v2.tools.parameters-test/with-fixtures                                                                       hooks.common/with-one-binding
    metabase.metrics.api-dimension-test/with-seeded-metric                                                                    hooks.common/with-one-binding
    metabase.model-persistence.api-test/with-persistence-setup!                                                               hooks.common/with-one-top-level-binding
    metabase.model-persistence.api-test/with-setup!                                                                           hooks.common/with-one-top-level-binding
@@ -729,9 +810,14 @@
    metabase.util.log/tracef                                                                                                  hooks.metabase.util.log/infof
    metabase.util.log/warn                                                                                                    hooks.metabase.util.log/info
    metabase.util.log/warnf                                                                                                   hooks.metabase.util.log/infof
+   metabase.util.malli.defn/defn                                                                                             hooks.clojure.core.def/lint-dynamic
+   metabase.util.malli.defn/defn-                                                                                            hooks.clojure.core.def/lint-dynamic
    metabase.util.malli.registry/def                                                                                          hooks.metabase.util.malli.registry/def
+   metabase.util.malli/defn                                                                                                  hooks.clojure.core.def/lint-dynamic
+   metabase.util.malli/defn-                                                                                                 hooks.clojure.core.def/lint-dynamic
    metabase.util.match/match-one                                                                                             hooks.metabase.util.match/match-one
    metabase.util.match/match-many                                                                                            hooks.metabase.util.match/match-many
+   metabase.util.match/matches?                                                                                              hooks.metabase.util.match/matches?
    metabase.util.match/replace                                                                                               hooks.metabase.util.match/replace
    metabase.util.match/replace-in                                                                                            hooks.metabase.util.match/replace-in
    metabase.util/case-enum                                                                                                   hooks.metabase.util/case-enum
@@ -779,7 +865,13 @@
    metabase.users.models.user-test/with-groups!                                                 macros.metabase.users.models.user-test/with-groups!
    metabase.util.namespaces/import-fn                                                           macros.metabase.util.namespaces/import-fn
    metabase.util.namespaces/import-macro                                                        macros.metabase.util.namespaces/import-macro
-   metabase.xrays.related-test/with-world                                                       macros.metabase.xrays.related-test/with-world}}
+   metabase.xrays.related-test/with-world                                                       macros.metabase.xrays.related-test/with-world
+   potemkin/import-def                                                                          macros.potemkin.namespaces/import-def
+   potemkin/import-fn                                                                           macros.potemkin.namespaces/import-fn
+   potemkin/import-macro                                                                        macros.potemkin.namespaces/import-macro
+   potemkin.namespaces/import-def                                                               macros.potemkin.namespaces/import-def
+   potemkin.namespaces/import-fn                                                                macros.potemkin.namespaces/import-fn
+   potemkin.namespaces/import-macro                                                             macros.potemkin.namespaces/import-macro}}
 
  :config-in-comment
  {:linters {:unresolved-symbol {:level :off}}}
@@ -800,7 +892,7 @@
    :name    test-namespaces}
   {:pattern "^(?!.*-test(?:\\..*)?$)(?!.*test-util)(?!^metabase\\.test.*).*$"
    :name    source-namespaces}
-  {:pattern "(?:(?:^metabase\\.cmd.*)|(?:^build.*)|(?:^metabuild-common.*)|(?:^release.*)|(?:^i18n.*)|(?:^lint-migrations-file$))|(?:^mage.*)"
+  {:pattern "(?:(?:^metabase\\.cmd.*)|(?:^build.*)|(?:^metabuild-common.*)|(?:^release.*)|(?:^i18n.*)|(?:^lint-migrations-file$))|(?:^mage.*)|(?:^load-namespaces.*)|(?:^dev\\..*)"
    :name    printable-namespaces}
   {:pattern "^metabase\\.(?:(?:lib)|(?:legacy-mbql))\\..*"
    :name    metabase-lib}
@@ -837,16 +929,44 @@
   {:pattern "^metabase(?:((?:-enterprise\\.sandbox)?\\.query-processor)|(?:\\.driver\\.sql(?!server)(?!ite))).*-test$"
    :name    general-qp-and-driver-test-namespaces}
   {:pattern "(?:^mage.*)"
-   :name    mage-namespaces}]
+   :name    mage-namespaces}
+  ;;
+  ;; the app-db module is the application database layer itself (connections, migrations, encryption), so it gets to
+  ;; run Toucan 2 queries anywhere.
+  ;;
+  {:pattern "^metabase\\.app-db\\..*"
+   :name    app-db-namespaces}
+  ;;
+  ;; MCP source namespaces, OSS and enterprise, whose prose reaches an LLM agent, excluding test namespaces.
+  ;;
+  {:pattern "^(?!.*-test(?:\\..*)?$)(?!.*test-util)metabase(?:-enterprise)?\\.mcp\\..*"
+   :name    agent-message-namespaces}
+  ;;
+  ;; MCP source namespaces whose caller-facing errors are MCP exits: `metabase.mcp.transport` and `metabase.mcp.v2.*`,
+  ;; and their enterprise counterparts. Other MCP namespaces' 4xx `ex-info`s are admin API and middleware errors, not
+  ;; MCP exits.
+  ;;
+  {:pattern "^(?!.*-test(?:\\..*)?$)(?!.*test-util)metabase(?:-enterprise)?\\.mcp\\.(?:transport$|v2\\..*)"
+   :name    agent-exit-namespaces}]
 
  :config-in-ns
- {test-namespaces
+ {metabase.app-db.custom-migrations
+  {:linters
+   ;; a migration reads the rows as they were when it ran; applying today's user settings would make it drift
+   {:metabase/table-or-field-query {:level :off}}}
+
+  test-namespaces
   {:linters
    {:inline-def                                          {:level :off}
     :missing-docstring                                   {:level :off}
     :private-call                                        {:level :off}
     :metabase/defsetting-must-specify-export             {:level :off}
     :metabase/defsetting-namespace                       {:level :off}
+    ;; Test fixtures and per-test overrides use `binding`-scoped dynamic vars legitimately; this ratchet
+    ;; isn't aimed at that pattern. Mocking functions that way is the narrower case
+    ;; `:metabase/prefer-with-dynamic-fn-redefs` already covers.
+    :metabase/discourage-dynamic-vars                    {:level :off}
+    :metabase/t2-query-namespace                         {:level :off}
     :metabase/test-helpers-use-non-thread-safe-functions {:level :warning} ; more config in `.clj-kondo/config/test-helpers/config.edn`
 
     :discouraged-var
@@ -854,12 +974,42 @@
      metabase.lib.convert/->legacy-MBQL {:level :off}
      metabase.lib.core/->legacy-MBQL    {:level :off}}}}
 
+  app-db-namespaces
+  {:linters {:metabase/t2-query-namespace {:level :off}}}
+
+  agent-message-namespaces
+  {:linters {:metabase/agent-message-lines {:level :warning}}}
+
+  agent-exit-namespaces
+  {:linters {:metabase/agent-message-exit {:level :warning}}}
+
+  ;; Namespaces whose values are marked. Adding one here is what keeps it that way; see
+  ;; `metabase.app-db.value-guard`.
+  metabase.content-translation.db
+  {:linters {:metabase/unsafe-app-db-query {:level :warning}}}
+  metabase.settings.db
+  {:linters {:metabase/unsafe-app-db-query {:level :warning}}}
+
+  metabase.auth-identity.db
+  {:linters {:metabase/unsafe-app-db-query {:level :warning}}}
+
+  metabase.usage-metadata.db
+  {:linters {:metabase/unsafe-app-db-query {:level :warning}}}
+
+  metabase.user-key-value.db
+  {:linters {:metabase/unsafe-app-db-query {:level :warning}}}
+
+  metabase.public-sharing.db
+  {:linters {:metabase/unsafe-app-db-query {:level :warning}}}
+
   ;; .cljc tests run in both Clojure and ClojureScript — `with-dynamic-fn-redefs` is JVM-only,
   ;; so leave these alone.
   metabase.lib.aggregation-test
   {:linters {:metabase/prefer-with-dynamic-fn-redefs {:level :off}}}
   metabase.util.time-test
   {:linters {:metabase/prefer-with-dynamic-fn-redefs {:level :off}}}
+  metabase.lib.metadata.calculation-test
+  {:linters {:metabase/prefer-with-dynamic-fn-redefs {:level :off}}}
 
   ;; classloader sits below `util` in the module graph, so it can't use `metabase.util.log` without creating
   ;; a cycle; it gets to use tools.logging directly.

.clj-kondo/config/modules/cycle-clusters.edn

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+;; Named cyclic clusters of the module require graph: cluster name => anchor module.
+;; The cluster holding the anchor carries the name; its members are computed, so it can grow and shrink freely.
+;; The test metabase.core.module-cycles-test fails until every cluster holds exactly one anchor.
+;; When a cluster splits, whoever split it names the new half.
+;; Names follow a space theme with some link to what the cluster does; the name-module-cycle skill helps pick one.
+{deep-thought    metabot
+ first-contact   mcp
+ foundation      app-db
+ galactic-center query-processor
+ stargate        api-routes
+ tardis          lib}

.clj-kondo/config/modules/ratchets.edn

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+;; Budgets for escape hatches in config.edn. Counts may fall but not exceed these values.
+;; Leave reductions to the post-merge shrink workflow; explain increases in the PR.
+{:api-any              1
+ :friend-edges         1
+ :model-imports-bypass 2
+ :ns-prefixes          81
+ :uses-any             4}

.clj-kondo/config/test-helpers/config.edn

@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
      metabase.app-db.core/finish-db-setup!
      metabase.app-db.core/migrate!
      metabase.app-db.core/setup-db!
+     metabase.app-db.encryption-test-util/do-with-encrypted-app-db!
      metabase.app-db.schema-migrations-test.impl/run-migrations-in-range!
      metabase.app-db.setup/migrate!
      metabase.app-db.setup/setup-db!

.clj-kondo/macros/potemkin/namespaces.clj

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+(ns macros.potemkin.namespaces)
+
+(defn- import-var-expansion
+  "Expansion shared by all of the `import-*` replacements below. Synthetic \"docstring\" is needed to silence
+  `:missing-docstring` linter."
+  ([sym]
+   (import-var-expansion sym (-> sym name symbol)))
+  ([sym new-name]
+   `(def ~new-name "docstring" ~sym)))
+
+(defmacro import-def
+  ([sym]          (import-var-expansion sym))
+  ([sym new-name] (import-var-expansion sym new-name)))
+
+(defmacro import-fn
+  ([sym]          (import-var-expansion sym))
+  ([sym new-name] (import-var-expansion sym new-name)))
+
+(defmacro import-macro
+  ([sym]          (import-var-expansion sym))
+  ([sym new-name] (import-var-expansion sym new-name)))

.clj-kondo/ratchets-test.edn

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+;; Budgets for kondo suppressions in test code: inline `:clj-kondo/ignore` forms per linter
+;; (:ignore-counts). Production code has its own budgets in .clj-kondo/ratchets.edn, which also holds
+;; every config-level waiver (:config-counts) -- config.edn's scoping doesn't cleanly split.
+;; The :discouraged-var-counts and :discouraged-namespace-counts fields budget those linters' inline
+;; ignores per symbol, keyed by the symbol with `metabase.` dropped and `metabase-enterprise.` shortened
+;; to `ee.`.
+;; Each :ignore-counts value is a non-negative integer budget, or :unlimited for no ceiling; every other
+;; budget is a non-negative integer.
+;; Checks fail when a count exceeds its numeric budget; unused budget is allowed.
+;; Any ignore outside :comment-exempt needs an explanatory comment directly above or trailing on its line.
+;; `./bin/mage kondo-ratchets-shrink` lowers budgets unless `--seed` explicitly adds or raises one;
+;; a seed like `:discouraged-var/clojure.core/println` seeds one symbol, and `:discouraged-var` all of them.
+;; The workflow runs it on master, so feature branches do not need to record reductions.
+;; Raising or adding a budget (`--seed` for inline ignores, a manual edit otherwise) or widening the
+;; exemptions must be explained in the PR.
+;; :all is the vector-less ignore form, which suppresses every linter on the next form.
+{:ignore-counts                {:case-symbol-test                                                    1
+                                :clojure-lsp/unused-public-var                                       1
+                                :deprecated-namespace                                                66
+                                :deprecated-var                                                      32
+                                :equals-true                                                         1
+                                :metabase/disallow-hardcoded-driver-names-in-tests                   34
+                                :metabase/discourage-dynamic-vars                                    41
+                                :metabase/i-like-making-cams-eyes-bleed-with-horrifically-long-tests 13
+                                :metabase/namespace-name                                             1
+                                :metabase/prefer-with-dynamic-fn-redefs                              :unlimited
+                                :metabase/test-helpers-use-non-thread-safe-functions                 18
+                                :metabase/validate-deftest                                           9
+                                :missing-protocol-method                                             3
+                                :type-mismatch                                                       6
+                                :uninitialized-var                                                   1
+                                :unresolved-symbol                                                   2
+                                :unused-binding                                                      6
+                                :unused-private-var                                                  2}
+ :discouraged-namespace-counts {:clojure.tools.logging 5
+                                :toucan2.core          1}
+ :discouraged-var-counts       {:clojure.core/pr                            1
+                                :clojure.core/print                         1
+                                :clojure.core/printf                        2
+                                :clojure.core/println                       9
+                                :clojure.core/prn                           1
+                                :clojure.core/time                          1
+                                :clojure.java.jdbc/get-connection           1
+                                :clojure.java.jdbc/with-db-connection       1
+                                :clojure.pprint/print-table                 1
+                                :clojure.string/lower-case                  1
+                                :compojure.core/routes                      2
+                                :ee.entity-retrieval.core/search-unfiltered 6
+                                :entity-retrieval.core/search-unfiltered    1
+                                :entity-retrieval.mirror/search-unfiltered  1
+                                :lib.equality/find-column-indexes-for-refs  2
+                                :test/with-temp                             28}
+ :comment-exempt               #{:deprecated-namespace
+                                 :discouraged-namespace
+                                 :discouraged-var
+                                 :metabase/discourage-dynamic-vars}}

.clj-kondo/ratchets.edn

@@ -1,48 +1,118 @@
-;; Per-linter budgets for inline `:clj-kondo/ignore` forms.
-;; metabase.core.kondo-ratchet-test fails when the budgets drift from the actual counts.
-;; `./bin/mage fix-kondo-ratchets` lowers budgets to match the tree; local test runs do it
-;; automatically. Raising a budget, or adding one for a new linter (`--seed`), is a hand edit
-;; to defend in your PR.
+;; Budgets for kondo suppressions: inline `:clj-kondo/ignore` forms per linter (:ignore-counts), and
+;; config-level waivers in .clj-kondo/config.edn (:config-counts -- :off switches and :exclude entries).
+;; The :discouraged-var-counts and :discouraged-namespace-counts fields budget those linters' inline
+;; ignores per symbol, keyed by the symbol with `metabase.` dropped and `metabase-enterprise.` shortened
+;; to `ee.`.
+;; Each :ignore-counts value is a non-negative integer budget, or :unlimited for no ceiling; every other
+;; budget is a non-negative integer.
+;; Checks fail when a count exceeds its numeric budget; unused budget is allowed.
+;; Any ignore outside :comment-exempt needs an explanatory comment directly above or trailing on its line.
+;; `./bin/mage kondo-ratchets-shrink` lowers budgets unless `--seed` explicitly adds or raises one;
+;; a seed like `:discouraged-var/clojure.core/println` seeds one symbol, and `:discouraged-var` all of them.
+;; The workflow runs it on master, so feature branches do not need to record reductions.
+;; Raising or adding a budget (`--seed` for inline ignores, a manual edit otherwise) or widening the
+;; exemptions must be explained in the PR.
 ;; :all is the vector-less ignore form, which suppresses every linter on the next form.
-{:ignore-counts {:aliased-namespace-symbol                                            3
-                 :all                                                                 49
-                 :case-symbol-test                                                    1
-                 :clojure-lsp/unused-public-var                                       9
-                 :def-fn                                                              1
-                 :deprecated-namespace                                                95
-                 :deprecated-var                                                      84
-                 :discouraged-java-method                                             3
-                 :discouraged-namespace                                               80
-                 :discouraged-var                                                     107
-                 :equals-true                                                         1
-                 :main-without-gen-class                                              1
-                 :metabase/defsetting-namespace                                       2
-                 :metabase/disallow-hardcoded-driver-names-in-tests                   34
-                 :metabase/discourage-millis-duration                                 1
-                 :metabase/i-like-making-cams-eyes-bleed-with-horrifically-long-tests 13
-                 :metabase/modules                                                    7
-                 :metabase/namespace-name                                             4
-                 :metabase/prefer-with-dynamic-fn-redefs                              28
-                 :metabase/test-helpers-use-non-thread-safe-functions                 17
-                 :metabase/validate-defendpoint-has-response-schema                   441
-                 :metabase/validate-defendpoint-query-params-use-kebab-case           47
-                 :metabase/validate-defendpoint-route-uses-kebab-case                 44
-                 :metabase/validate-deftest                                           9
-                 :missing-docstring                                                   10
-                 :missing-protocol-method                                             3
-                 :non-arg-vec-return-type-hint                                        1
-                 :reduce-without-init                                                 3
-                 :redundant-fn-wrapper                                                1
-                 :syntax                                                              2
-                 :uninitialized-var                                                   1
-                 :unquote-not-syntax-quoted                                           1
-                 :unresolved-namespace                                                3
-                 :unresolved-require                                                  1
-                 :unresolved-symbol                                                   4
-                 :unsorted-required-namespaces                                        1
-                 :unused-alias                                                        1
-                 :unused-binding                                                      9
-                 :unused-excluded-var                                                 2
-                 :unused-namespace                                                    1
-                 :unused-private-var                                                  9
-                 :unused-value                                                        1}}
+;;
+;; Test code's inline ignores have their own budgets in .clj-kondo/ratchets-test.edn.
+;; :config-counts stays here either way -- config.edn's scoping doesn't cleanly split.
+{:ignore-counts                {:aliased-namespace-symbol                                  3
+                                :clojure-lsp/unused-public-var                             7
+                                :consistent-alias                                          2
+                                :def-fn                                                    1
+                                :deprecated-namespace                                      29
+                                :deprecated-var                                            53
+                                :discouraged-java-method                                   4
+                                :duplicate-require                                         1
+                                :main-without-gen-class                                    1
+                                :metabase/discourage-dynamic-vars                          324
+                                :metabase/discourage-millis-duration                       1
+                                :metabase/modules                                          23
+                                :metabase/namespace-name                                   3
+                                :metabase/validate-defendpoint-has-response-schema         427
+                                :metabase/validate-defendpoint-query-params-use-kebab-case 48
+                                :metabase/validate-defendpoint-route-uses-kebab-case       44
+                                :missing-docstring                                         4
+                                :non-arg-vec-return-type-hint                              1
+                                :reduce-without-init                                       3
+                                :redundant-do                                              1
+                                :syntax                                                    2
+                                :type-mismatch                                             2
+                                :unquote-not-syntax-quoted                                 1
+                                :unresolved-namespace                                      3
+                                :unresolved-symbol                                         9
+                                :unsorted-required-namespaces                              :unlimited
+                                :unused-alias                                              2
+                                :unused-binding                                            3
+                                :unused-excluded-var                                       2
+                                :unused-namespace                                          2
+                                :unused-private-var                                        5
+                                :unused-value                                              1}
+ :discouraged-namespace-counts {:cheshire.core         4
+                                :clojure.tools.logging 3
+                                :grouper.core          1
+                                :legacy-mbql.normalize 14
+                                :legacy-mbql.schema    14
+                                :legacy-mbql.util      2
+                                :query-processor.store 8
+                                :toucan2.core          3
+                                :util.malli.schema     2}
+ :discouraged-var-counts       {:clojure.core/eval                                     6
+                                :clojure.core/print                                    1
+                                :clojure.core/println                                  9
+                                :clojure.core/prn                                      3
+                                :clojure.core/tap>                                     5
+                                :clojure.core/update-keys                              1
+                                :clojure.java.jdbc/get-connection                      2
+                                :clojure.pprint/pprint                                 2
+                                :clojure.string/lower-case                             2
+                                :clojure.string/upper-case                             1
+                                :clojurewerkz.quartzite.jobs/defjob                    1
+                                :compojure.core/context                                2
+                                :compojure.core/defroutes                              4
+                                :compojure.core/routes                                 2
+                                :ee.transform-testing.expectations.empty/->Empty       1
+                                :ee.transform-testing.expectations.equals/->EqualsRows 1
+                                :ee.transform-testing.expectations.equals/->EqualsSql  1
+                                :entity-retrieval.core/search-unfiltered               1
+                                :entity-retrieval.mirror/search-unfiltered             1
+                                :lib.core/->legacy-MBQL                                10
+                                :lib.equality/find-column-indexes-for-refs             1
+                                :malli.core/explain                                    1
+                                :malli.core/explainer                                  1
+                                :malli.core/validate                                   1
+                                :malli.core/validator                                  1
+                                :me.flowthing.pp/pprint                                2
+                                :next.jdbc/active-tx?                                  1}
+ :config-counts                {:constant-condition                      1
+                                :deprecated-namespace                    7
+                                :deprecated-var                          16
+                                :discouraged-namespace                   14
+                                :discouraged-var                         14
+                                :inline-def                              1
+                                :main-without-gen-class                  1
+                                :metabase/defsetting-must-specify-export 1
+                                :metabase/defsetting-namespace           1
+                                :metabase/discourage-dynamic-vars        1
+                                :metabase/prefer-with-dynamic-fn-redefs  4
+                                :metabase/t2-query-namespace             2
+                                :metabase/table-or-field-query           1
+                                :metabase/unsafe-app-db-query            1
+                                :missing-docstring                       1
+                                :private-call                            1
+                                :redundant-ignore                        1
+                                :redundant-primitive-coercion            1
+                                :refer-all                               1
+                                :type-mismatch                           1
+                                :unexpected-recur                        1
+                                :unresolved-symbol                       15
+                                :unresolved-var                          1
+                                :unused-referred-var                     4}
+ :comment-exempt               #{:deprecated-namespace
+                                 :discouraged-namespace
+                                 :discouraged-var
+                                 :metabase/discourage-dynamic-vars
+                                 :metabase/modules
+                                 :metabase/validate-defendpoint-has-response-schema
+                                 :metabase/validate-defendpoint-query-params-use-kebab-case
+                                 :metabase/validate-defendpoint-route-uses-kebab-case}}

.clj-kondo/src/hooks/clojure/core/def.clj

@@ -32,14 +32,60 @@
               :message "Use kebab-case names for functions and variables. [:metabase/check-def-no-underscores]"
               :type    :metabase/check-def-no-underscores)))))
 
+(defn- attr-map
+  "The attr-map of a `defn`-like form, which Clojure merges into the var metadata, or nil.
+  A map in a `def` or `defonce` is the value, not an attr-map."
+  [node]
+  (let [[head _name & args] (:children node)]
+    (when-not (#{"def" "defonce"} (name (hooks/sexpr head)))
+      (loop [[arg & more :as args] args]
+        (cond
+          (hooks/string-node? arg)                                  (recur more)
+          ;; a Malli `:- schema` return annotation
+          (and (hooks/keyword-node? arg) (= :- (hooks/sexpr arg))) (recur (rest more))
+          (hooks/map-node? arg)                                     (hooks/sexpr arg)
+          ;; a multi-arity body can end with a trailing attr-map
+          (hooks/list-node? arg)                                    (let [trailing (last args)]
+                                                                      (when (hooks/map-node? trailing)
+                                                                        (hooks/sexpr trailing))))))))
+
+(defn- dynamic?
+  "Whether the var defined by `def-node` is dynamic, through metadata on `symbol-node` or a `defn` attr-map."
+  [def-node symbol-node]
+  (or (some (fn [meta-node]
+              (let [m (hooks/sexpr meta-node)]
+                (or (= m :dynamic)
+                    (and (map? m) (true? (:dynamic m))))))
+            (:meta symbol-node))
+      (true? (:dynamic (attr-map def-node)))))
+
+(defn- check-symbol-is-not-dynamic [def-node symbol-node]
+  (when (dynamic? def-node symbol-node)
+    ;; Report on the form, not the name: `kondo-insert-ignores` puts the ignore on the line above the finding,
+    ;; and the line above the name can be inside the form, where an ignore has no effect.
+    (hooks/reg-finding!
+     (assoc (meta def-node)
+            :message "Avoid new dynamic vars; pass the value as an argument or hang it on a stateful component. [:metabase/discourage-dynamic-vars]"
+            :type    :metabase/discourage-dynamic-vars))))
+
+(defn- name-symbol [node]
+  (let [[_def & args] (:children node)]
+    (some (fn [arg]
+            (when (and (hooks/token-node? arg)
+                       (symbol? (hooks/sexpr arg)))
+              arg))
+          args)))
+
 (defn lint-def* [{:keys [node]}]
-  (let [[_def & args] (:children node)
-        name-symbol   (some (fn [arg]
-                              (when (and (hooks/token-node? arg)
-                                         (symbol? (hooks/sexpr arg)))
-                                arg))
-                            args)]
-    (check-symbol-is-kebab-case name-symbol)))
+  (let [symbol-node (name-symbol node)]
+    (check-symbol-is-kebab-case symbol-node)
+    (check-symbol-is-not-dynamic node symbol-node)))
+
+(defn lint-dynamic
+  "Hook for def-like macros that should get only the dynamic-var check. Leaves the node unchanged."
+  [{:keys [node]}]
+  (check-symbol-is-not-dynamic node (name-symbol node))
+  nil)
 
 (defn lint-def [x]
   (lint-def* x)

.clj-kondo/src/hooks/clojure/core/ns.clj

@@ -71,10 +71,28 @@
   (some-> (ns-form-node->ns-symb-node ns-form-node)
           hooks/sexpr))
 
+(defn- lint-test-parallel-metadata [ns-form-node]
+  (when-let [ns-symb-node (ns-form-node->ns-symb-node ns-form-node)]
+    (let [ns-metadata (meta (hooks/sexpr ns-symb-node))]
+      (cond
+        (:synchronous ns-metadata)
+        (hooks/reg-finding!
+         (assoc (meta ns-symb-node)
+                :message (str "Use `^:synchronized` to mark this namespace explicitly non-parallel; "
+                              "`^:synchronous` is ignored by Hawk. [:metabase/validate-deftest]")
+                :type :metabase/validate-deftest))
+
+        (and (contains? ns-metadata :parallel)
+             (false? (:parallel ns-metadata)))
+        (hooks/reg-finding!
+         (assoc (meta ns-symb-node)
+                :message "Use `^:synchronized` instead of `^{:parallel false}`. [:metabase/validate-deftest]"
+                :type :metabase/validate-deftest))))))
+
 (defn- lint-modules [ns-form-node config]
   (let [ns-symb (ns-form-node->ns-symb ns-form-node)]
     (when-not (modules/ignored-namespace? config ns-symb)
-      (when-let [current-module (modules/module ns-symb)]
+      (when-let [current-module (modules/module config ns-symb)]
         (let [required-namespace-symb-nodes (-> ns-form-node
                                                 ns-form-node->require-node
                                                 require-node->namespace-symb-nodes)]
@@ -140,6 +158,7 @@
     lint-requires-on-new-lines
     (lint-modules (modules/config x))
     lint-namespace-name
+    lint-test-parallel-metadata
     lint-jsqlparser-imports)
   x)
 

.clj-kondo/src/hooks/clojure/core/require.clj

@@ -11,15 +11,32 @@
          (every? simple-symbol? required-namespaces)]}
   (when-not (modules/ignored-namespace? config current-ns)
     ;; ignore namespaces outside of the module system
-    (when-let [current-module (modules/module current-ns)]
+    (when-let [current-module (modules/module config current-ns)]
       (doseq [required-namespace required-namespaces]
         ;; ignore namespaces outside of the module system.
-        (when (modules/module required-namespace)
+        (when (modules/module config required-namespace)
           (when-let [error (modules/usage-error config current-module required-namespace)]
             (hooks/reg-finding! (assoc (meta node)
                                        :message error
                                        :type    :metabase/modules))))))))
 
+(defn- lint-dynamic-require* [node current-ns config]
+  (when (and (not (modules/ignored-namespace? config current-ns))
+             (modules/module config current-ns))
+    (hooks/reg-finding! (assoc (meta node)
+                               :message "Module dependency cannot be statically determined from a dynamic require"
+                               :type    :metabase/modules))))
+
+(defn- quoted-require? [node]
+  (or (= (hooks/tag node) :quote)
+      (and (= (hooks/tag node) :list)
+           (let [[x] (:children node)]
+             (and (hooks/token-node? x)
+                  (= (hooks/sexpr x) 'quote))))))
+
+(defn- keyword-node? [node]
+  (keyword? (hooks/sexpr node)))
+
 (defn- unwrap-require [node]
   (case (hooks/tag node)
     ;; some.namespace of some.namespace/some-var
@@ -42,7 +59,11 @@
 
     ;; something like [some.namespace :as whatever]
     :vector
-    (recur (first (:children node)))))
+    (recur (first (:children node)))
+
+    ;; anything else -- e.g. a runtime expression like `(requiring-resolve (:failing-test-var opts))` --
+    ;; has no statically-known namespace
+    nil))
 
 (comment
   (unwrap-require (-> "(requiring-resolve 'metabase.notification.payload.execute/execute-dashboard)"
@@ -51,20 +72,24 @@
                       second)))
 
 (defn- lint-require* [node current-ns config]
-  (let [[_require & args]   (:children node)
-        required-namespaces (->> (keep unwrap-require args)
-                                 ;; `require` runs through `cc/load-libs` which allows
-                                 ;; #{:as :reload :reload-all :require :use :verbose :refer :as-alias}
-                                 ;; as args. If you use a REPL tool that applies clj-kondo linting (e.g., Clojure MCP)
-                                 ;; you may wish to `:reload` or `:reload-all` a namespace. So we shouldn't assume all
-                                 ;; args are keywords:
-                                 (remove keyword?))]
-    (lint* node current-ns config required-namespaces)))
+  (let [[_require & args]    (:children node)
+        ;; Keywords such as `:reload` and `:reload-all` are options, not namespace dependencies.
+        namespace-nodes     (remove keyword-node? args)
+        static-nodes        (filter quoted-require? namespace-nodes)
+        required-namespaces (->> (keep unwrap-require static-nodes)
+                                 (filter simple-symbol?))]
+    (lint* node current-ns config required-namespaces)
+    (when (or (not= (count static-nodes) (count namespace-nodes))
+              (not= (count required-namespaces) (count static-nodes)))
+      (lint-dynamic-require* node current-ns config))))
 
 (defn- lint-requiring-resolve* [node current-ns config]
   (let [[_requiring-resolve symb-node] (:children node)
         required-namespace             (unwrap-require symb-node)]
-    (lint* node current-ns config [required-namespace])))
+    (if (and (quoted-require? symb-node)
+             (simple-symbol? required-namespace))
+      (lint* node current-ns config [required-namespace])
+      (lint-dynamic-require* node current-ns config))))
 
 (defn lint-require [x]
   (lint-require* (:node x) (:ns x) (modules/config x))

.clj-kondo/src/hooks/clojure/test.clj

@@ -28,11 +28,11 @@
     (walk form)))
 
 (defn- deftest-check-parallel
-  "1. Check if test is marked ^:parallel / ^:synchronized correctly.
+  "1. Check if test is marked `^:parallel` / `^:synchronized` correctly.
    2. Make sure disallowed forms are not used in ^:parallel tests.
-   3. Disallow ^:parallel tests in namespaces marked ^:synchronous -- the
-      ns marker is the author's blanket promise that nothing inside runs
-      in parallel, so an individual ^:parallel deftest contradicts it."
+   3. Disallow `^:parallel` tests in namespaces marked `^:synchronized` --
+      the ns marker is the author's blanket promise that nothing inside runs
+      in parallel, so an individual `^:parallel` deftest contradicts it."
   [{[_ test-name & body] :children, :as _node} ns-sym config]
   (let [test-metadata     (:meta test-name)
         metadata-sexprs   (map hooks/sexpr test-metadata)
@@ -44,28 +44,48 @@
                            (completing merge)
                            {}
                            metadata-sexprs)
-        parallel?     (:parallel combined-metadata)
-        synchronized? (:synchronized combined-metadata)
-        ns-synchronous? (boolean (:synchronous (meta ns-sym)))]
+        parallel?                  (true? (:parallel combined-metadata))
+        synchronized?              (true? (:synchronized combined-metadata))
+        explicitly-nonparallel?    (or synchronized?
+                                       (and (contains? combined-metadata :parallel)
+                                            (false? (:parallel combined-metadata))))
+        ns-metadata                (meta ns-sym)
+        ns-explicitly-nonparallel? (or (true? (:synchronized ns-metadata))
+                                       (and (contains? ns-metadata :parallel)
+                                            (false? (:parallel ns-metadata))))]
+    (when (and (contains? combined-metadata :parallel)
+               (false? (:parallel combined-metadata)))
+      (hooks/reg-finding! (assoc (meta test-name)
+                                 :message (str "Use `^:synchronized` instead of `^{:parallel false}`. "
+                                               "[:metabase/validate-deftest]")
+                                 :type :metabase/validate-deftest)))
+    (when (:sequential combined-metadata)
+      (hooks/reg-finding! (assoc (meta test-name)
+                                 :message (str "Use `^:synchronized` to mark this test explicitly non-parallel; "
+                                               "`^:sequential` is ignored by Hawk. "
+                                               "[:metabase/validate-deftest]")
+                                 :type :metabase/validate-deftest)))
     (when (and parallel? synchronized?)
       (hooks/reg-finding! (assoc (meta test-name)
-                                 :message "Test should not be marked both ^:parallel and ^:synchronized"
+                                 :message "Test should not be marked both `^:parallel` and `^:synchronized`"
                                  :type :metabase/validate-deftest)))
-    (when (and parallel? ns-synchronous?)
+    (when (and parallel? ns-explicitly-nonparallel?)
       (hooks/reg-finding!
        (assoc (meta test-name)
-              :message (str "Test should not be marked ^:parallel in a namespace marked ^:synchronous -- "
+              :message (str "Test should not be marked `^:parallel` in a namespace marked "
+                            "`^:synchronized` -- "
                             "the ns marker promises no parallel execution. "
-                            "Drop ^:parallel from the deftest, or drop ^:synchronous from the ns. "
+                            "Drop `^:parallel` from the deftest, or drop `^:synchronized` from the ns. "
                             "[:metabase/validate-deftest]")
               :type :metabase/validate-deftest)))
-    ;; only when the custom `:metabase/deftest-not-marked-parallel-or-synchronized` is enabled: complain if tests are
-    ;; not explicitly marked `^:parallel` or `^:synchronized`. This is mostly to encourage people to mark everything
-    ;; `^:parallel` in places like `metabase.lib` tests unless there is a really good reason not to.
-    (when-not (or parallel? synchronized?)
+    ;; Only when the custom `:metabase/deftest-not-marked-parallel-or-synchronized` is enabled:
+    ;; complain if tests are not explicitly marked `^:parallel` or `^:synchronized`. This is
+    ;; mostly to encourage people to mark everything `^:parallel` in places like `metabase.lib`
+    ;; tests unless there is a really good reason not to.
+    (when-not (or parallel? explicitly-nonparallel?)
       (hooks/reg-finding!
        (assoc (meta test-name)
-              :message "Test should be marked either ^:parallel or ^:synchronized"
+              :message "Test should be marked either `^:parallel` or `^:synchronized`"
               :type :metabase/deftest-not-marked-parallel-or-synchronized)))
     (when parallel?
       (doseq [form body]
@@ -151,8 +171,10 @@
           (str/starts-with? (name ns-symb) prefix))
         ["build-drivers."
          "build."
+         "hooks." ; clj-kondo hook tests, outside the module system
          "i18n." ; bin/i18n
          "lint-migrations-file-test"
+         "load-namespaces." ; bin/load-namespaces
          "mage."
          "main-test" ; bin/release-list
          "metabase.deps-edn-test"
@@ -172,7 +194,7 @@
                (not (contains? @warned-namespaces ns-symb)))
       (swap! warned-namespaces conj ns-symb)
       (let [known-modules  (set (keys (:metabase/modules (modules/config input))))
-            current-module (modules/module ns-symb)]
+            current-module (modules/module (modules/config input) ns-symb)]
         (when (or (not current-module)
                   (not (contains? known-modules current-module)))
           (hooks/reg-finding! (assoc (meta node)
@@ -232,18 +254,20 @@
 
 (defn use-fixtures
   "Flag `:parallel/unsafe` forms inside fixtures. Skipped when the surrounding
-  namespace is marked `^:synchronous` -- the ns marker is the author's
+  namespace is marked `^:synchronized` -- the ns marker is the author's
   explicit opt-in to a single-threaded test ns where destructive setup is
   safe. Without that opt-in, kondo can't know whether sibling deftests will
   be `^:parallel`, so the conservative default is to flag.
 
   Sister to [[deftest-check-parallel]]: the deftest hook rejects `^:parallel`
-  tests inside a `^:synchronous` ns, so the two checks together form a
-  coherent opt-in: either the whole ns is synchronous (fixtures can be
+  tests inside a `^:synchronized` ns, so the two checks together form a
+  coherent opt-in: either the whole ns is explicitly non-parallel (fixtures can be
   anything; no parallel tests allowed) or it isn't (fixtures must be
   parallel-safe)."
   [{:keys [node config], ns-sym :ns, :as input}]
-  (when-not (:synchronous (meta ns-sym))
+  (when-not (or (true? (:synchronized (meta ns-sym)))
+                (and (contains? (meta ns-sym) :parallel)
+                     (false? (:parallel (meta ns-sym)))))
     (let [linter-config (get-in config [:linters :metabase/validate-deftest])]
       (doseq [form (rest (:children node))]
         (warn-about-disallowed-parallel-forms form linter-config))))

.clj-kondo/src/hooks/common/modules.clj

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 (ns hooks.common.modules
+  "Resolves namespaces to modules and enforces module boundaries.
+
+  The Kondo linter, config generator, and CI tooling share this namespace so
+  they apply the same rules."
   (:require
    [clojure.string :as str]))
 
@@ -12,30 +16,146 @@
   (merge (get-in config [:linters :metabase/modules])
          (select-keys config [:metabase/modules])))
 
-(defn module
+;;;; Module tree. These functions take the `:metabase/modules` map, or the prefix map built from it.
+;;;;
+;;;; Dots express nesting: `lib.schema` is a child of `lib`. A declared
+;;;; `enterprise/X` module is also a child of OSS module `X`. A namespace
+;;;; belongs to the module with the most specific matching `:ns-prefix`.
+
+(defn default-ns-prefix
+  "Namespace prefix a module owns unless it sets `:ns-prefix`: `metabase.lib.schema` for `lib.schema`,
+  `metabase-enterprise.foo` for `enterprise/foo`."
+  [module]
+  (str (if (= "enterprise" (namespace module)) "metabase-enterprise." "metabase.") (name module)))
+
+(defn module-ns-prefix
+  "Namespace prefix `module` owns: its `:ns-prefix`, else [[default-ns-prefix]]."
+  [modules module]
+  (or (get-in modules [module :ns-prefix])
+      (default-ns-prefix module)))
+
+(defn build-prefix->module
+  "Map each declared namespace prefix to its module, for [[declared-module]]."
+  [modules]
+  (into {}
+        (map (fn [module] [(module-ns-prefix modules module) module]))
+        (keys modules)))
+
+(defn declared-module
+  "Resolve `ns-symb` to its declared module, or `nil`.
+
+  Chooses the most specific dotted prefix and ignores a trailing `-test`."
+  [prefix->module ns-symb]
+  (loop [candidate (str/replace (str ns-symb) #"-test$" "")]
+    (or (get prefix->module candidate)
+        (when-let [dot (str/last-index-of candidate ".")]
+          (recur (subs candidate 0 dot))))))
+
+(defn resolve-module
   "E.g.
 
-    (module 'metabase.qp.middleware.wow) => 'qp
-    (module 'metabase-enterprise.whatever.core) => enterprise/whatever"
-  [ns-symb]
+    (resolve-module prefix->module 'metabase.qp.middleware.wow) => 'qp
+    (resolve-module prefix->module 'metabase-enterprise.whatever.core) => enterprise/whatever
+
+  An unmatched Metabase namespace resolves to its first segment so the linter can report an undeclared module."
+  [prefix->module ns-symb]
   {:pre [(simple-symbol? ns-symb)]}
   ;; treat something like `metabase.driver-test` (for a module that hasn't fully been updated to use `.core`
   ;; namespaces) as being in the `driver` module
   (let [ns-symb (if (str/ends-with? (name ns-symb) "-test")
                   (symbol (str/replace (name ns-symb) #"-test$" ""))
                   ns-symb)]
-    (or (some->> (re-find #"^metabase-enterprise\.([^.]+)" (str ns-symb))
+    (or (declared-module prefix->module ns-symb)
+        (some->> (re-find #"^metabase-enterprise\.([^.]+)" (str ns-symb))
                  second
                  (symbol "enterprise"))
         (some-> (re-find #"^metabase\.([^.]+)" (str ns-symb))
                 second
                 symbol))))
 
-(defn- module-api-namespaces
+(defn parent-module
+  "The direct parent of `module`, or `nil` when it is top-level."
+  [modules module]
+  (let [module-name (name module)]
+    (if-let [dot (str/last-index-of module-name ".")]
+      (symbol (namespace module) (subs module-name 0 dot))
+      (when (= "enterprise" (namespace module))
+        (let [oss (symbol module-name)]
+          (when (contains? modules oss)
+            oss))))))
+
+(defn descendant-of?
+  "Whether `module` is `ancestor` or one of its descendants."
+  [modules module ancestor]
+  (boolean (some #{ancestor} (take-while some? (iterate #(parent-module modules %) module)))))
+
+(defn module-team
+  "Team owning `module`: its own `:team`, else its nearest ancestor's."
+  [modules module]
+  (some #(get-in modules [% :team])
+        (take-while some? (iterate #(parent-module modules %) module))))
+
+(defn- rest-module? [module]
+  (re-find #"[.-]rest$" (str module)))
+
+(defn- exports-child?
+  [modules parent child]
+  (or (contains? (set (get-in modules [parent :module-exports])) child)
+      ;; A `.rest` child is its parent's public HTTP surface.
+      (rest-module? child)
+      ;; OSS module `X` implicitly exports its `enterprise/X` companion.
+      (and (not= (namespace parent) (namespace child))
+           (contains? modules child))))
+
+(defn- blocking-export
+  "The first missing export from `module` toward the root.
+
+  Returns `{:ancestor parent, :child child}`, or `nil` when every link is
+  exported."
+  [modules module]
+  (loop [child module]
+    (when-let [ancestor (parent-module modules child)]
+      (if (exports-child? modules ancestor child)
+        (recur ancestor)
+        {:ancestor ancestor, :child child}))))
+
+(defn namability-error
+  "Explain why `caller` may not refer to `target` in `:uses`, or return `nil` if it may.
+
+  A nested module is private to the nearest ancestor with a missing export.
+  Exporting every link makes it public."
+  [modules caller target]
+  (when-let [{:keys [ancestor child]} (blocking-export modules target)]
+    (when-not (descendant-of? modules caller ancestor)
+      (format (str "Module %s is nested and not exported by its ancestors; %s may not use it. Add %s to %s's "
+                   ":module-exports, or move the caller into the %s subtree. [:metabase/modules %s :module-exports]")
+              target caller child ancestor ancestor ancestor))))
+
+;;;; Lint rules. These functions take the full linter config.
+
+(defonce ^:private prefix->module-cache
+  (atom nil))
+
+(defn- prefix->module
+  "[[build-prefix->module]] for `config`, cached because Kondo hands every hook call the same `:metabase/modules` map."
+  [config]
+  (let [modules (:metabase/modules config)
+        cached  @prefix->module-cache]
+    (if (identical? modules (:modules cached))
+      (:prefix->module cached)
+      (:prefix->module (reset! prefix->module-cache {:modules        modules
+                                                     :prefix->module (build-prefix->module modules)})))))
+
+(defn module
+  "Resolve `ns-symb` to its module under `config`; see [[resolve-module]]."
+  [config ns-symb]
+  (resolve-module (prefix->module config) ns-symb))
+
+(defn module-api-namespaces
   "Set of API namespace symbols for a given module. `:any` means you can use anything, there are no API namespaces for
-  this module (yet). If unspecified, the default is just the `<module>.core` namespace."
-  [config module]
-  (let [module-config (get-in config [:metabase/modules module :api])]
+  this module (yet). If unspecified, the defaults are `<prefix>.api`, `<prefix>.core`, and `<prefix>.init`."
+  [modules module]
+  (let [module-config (get-in modules [module :api])]
     (cond
       (= module-config :any)
       nil
@@ -44,9 +164,7 @@
       module-config
 
       :else
-      (let [ns-prefix (if (= (namespace module) "enterprise")
-                        (str "metabase-enterprise." (name module))
-                        (name module))]
+      (let [ns-prefix (module-ns-prefix modules module)]
         #{(symbol (str ns-prefix ".api"))
           (symbol (str ns-prefix ".core"))
           (symbol (str ns-prefix ".init"))}))))
@@ -68,15 +186,14 @@
         (contains? (set allowed-modules) required-module))))
 
 (defn- allowed-module-namespace? [config current-module ns-symb]
-  (let [module                (module ns-symb)
-        module-api-namespaces (module-api-namespaces config module)
+  (let [module                (module config ns-symb)
+        module-api-namespaces (module-api-namespaces (:metabase/modules config) module)
         module-friends        (module-friends config module)]
     (or (nil? module-api-namespaces)
         (contains? module-api-namespaces ns-symb)
-        (contains? module-friends current-module))))
-
-(defn- rest-module? [module]
-  (str/ends-with? module "-rest"))
+        (contains? module-friends current-module)
+        ;; a child may use its ancestors' internals; a parent still goes through its child's `:api`
+        (descendant-of? (:metabase/modules config) current-module module))))
 
 (defn- routes-module? [module]
   (str/ends-with? module "-routes"))
@@ -89,7 +206,7 @@
   error type if there is one, otherwise `nil` if there are no errors."
   [config current-module required-namespace]
   ;; ignore stuff not in a module i.e. non-Metabase stuff.
-  (when-let [required-module (module required-namespace)]
+  (when-let [required-module (module config required-namespace)]
     (when-not (= current-module required-module)
       (cond
         (not (allowed-module? config current-module required-module))
@@ -113,4 +230,8 @@
                 required-module
                 current-module
                 required-module
-                (symbol (str/replace required-module #"-rest$" "")))))))
+                (symbol (str/replace required-module #"[.-]rest$" "")))
+
+        ;; Config tests check explicit `:uses`; wildcard callers are checked here.
+        (= :any (allowed-modules config current-module))
+        (namability-error (:metabase/modules config) current-module required-module)))))

.clj-kondo/src/hooks/metabase/agent_message.clj

@@ -0,0 +1,375 @@
+(ns hooks.metabase.agent-message
+  "Hooks linting agent-facing prose built with `metabase.mcp.v2.message/msg` (`:metabase/agent-message-lines`) and the
+  exits and helpers that carry it to the agent (`:metabase/agent-message-exit`). Each hook checks only when its
+  linter's level is configured and not `:off`, and returns its input unchanged."
+  (:require
+   [clj-kondo.hooks-api :as hooks]
+   [clojure.string :as str]))
+
+(defn- level-on?
+  [config linter-key]
+  (not= :off (get-in config [:linters linter-key :level] :off)))
+
+(defn- call-name
+  "The symbol at the head of list `node`, or nil."
+  [node]
+  (when (hooks/list-node? node)
+    (let [head (first (:children node))]
+      (when (hooks/token-node? head)
+        (let [v (hooks/sexpr head)]
+          (when (symbol? v) v))))))
+
+(defn- calls?
+  "Whether `node` is a call to a var named `var-name` in one of `ns-names` (nil for an unqualified call)."
+  [node ns-names var-name]
+  (when-let [sym (call-name node)]
+    (and (= var-name (name sym))
+         (contains? ns-names (namespace sym)))))
+
+(def ^:private core-ns #{nil "clojure.core"})
+(def ^:private string-ns #{"str" "string" "clojure.string"})
+
+(defn- literal-string
+  "The string value of `node` when it is a string literal or a `str` call over string literals, else nil."
+  [node]
+  (cond
+    (hooks/string-node? node)
+    (hooks/sexpr node)
+
+    (and (calls? node core-ns "str")
+         (every? hooks/string-node? (rest (:children node))))
+    (apply str (map hooks/sexpr (rest (:children node))))))
+
+(defn- digits->long
+  "The value of a string of decimal digits."
+  [s]
+  ;; Kondo's hook interpreter has no `parse-long`.
+  (reduce (fn [n c] (+ (* 10 n) (- (int c) (int \0)))) 0 s))
+
+(def ^:private format-specifier
+  "A `java.util.Formatter` specifier; groups are explicit index, flags, width, precision, and conversion. The index is
+  capped at nine digits, so a longer one reads as malformed rather than a number too large to work with."
+  #"%(?:(\d{1,9})\$)?([-#+ 0,(<]*)(\d+)?(?:\.(\d+))?([tT]?[a-zA-Z%])")
+
+(defn- consumed-args
+  "`[index conversion]` for each argument-consuming specifier in `fmt`, with zero-based argument indexes. An index of
+  -1 marks a reference no argument can satisfy: an explicit `0$`, or a `<` with no specifier before it to repeat."
+  [fmt]
+  (loop [[[_ explicit flags _width _precision conversion] & more] (re-seq format-specifier fmt)
+         next-index                                               0
+         last-index                                               nil
+         acc                                                      []]
+    (if-not conversion
+      acc
+      (let [consumes? (not (contains? #{"%" "n"} conversion))
+            index     (cond
+                        (not consumes?)             nil
+                        explicit                    (dec (digits->long explicit))
+                        (str/includes? flags "<")   (or last-index -1)
+                        :else                       next-index)
+            implicit? (and consumes? (not explicit) (not (str/includes? flags "<")))]
+        (recur more
+               (cond-> next-index implicit? inc)
+               (or index last-index)
+               (cond-> acc
+                 index (conj [index conversion])))))))
+
+(def ^:private msg-linter :metabase/agent-message-lines)
+
+(defn- reg-msg-finding!
+  [node message]
+  (hooks/reg-finding! (assoc (meta node) :message message :type msg-linter)))
+
+(defn- line-break?
+  "Whether format string `line` contains a line-breaking, control, or private-use character, or a `%n` specifier."
+  [line]
+  ;; Private-use characters delimit the argument markers `render` formats with, so a line holding one could fake one.
+  (boolean (or (re-find #"[\p{Cc}\p{Cf}\p{Co}\p{Zl}\p{Zp}]" line)
+               (some #(= "n" (nth % 5)) (re-seq format-specifier line)))))
+
+(defn- allowed-specifier?
+  "Whether specifier match `specifier` renders its value as `render` passes it: a bare `%%`, a `%s` with no flags but
+  `<`, or a `%d` with any flags and width but no precision. An explicit argument index is allowed on each."
+  [[_ explicit flags width precision conversion]]
+  (case conversion
+    "%" (not (or explicit (seq flags) width precision))
+    "s" (not (or width precision (seq (str/replace flags "<" ""))))
+    "d" (not precision)
+    false))
+
+(defn- disallowed-specifier
+  "The first specifier in format string `line` that isn't [[allowed-specifier?]], as it is written, or nil."
+  [line]
+  (some #(when-not (allowed-specifier? %) (first %)) (re-seq format-specifier line)))
+
+(def ^:private valid-conversion
+  "The conversions `java.util.Formatter` accepts, with each date/time conversion's required suffix."
+  #"[bBhHsScCdoxXeEfgGaA%n]|[tT][HIklMSLNpzZsQBbhAaCYyjmdeRTrDFc]")
+
+(defn- malformed-specifier?
+  "Whether format string `line` has a `%` that doesn't begin a valid `java.util.Formatter` specifier."
+  [line]
+  (let [valid-removed (str/replace line format-specifier
+                                   (fn [[specifier & groups]]
+                                     (if (re-matches valid-conversion (last groups)) "" specifier)))]
+    (str/includes? valid-removed "%")))
+
+(defn- line-problem
+  "The finding message for the first problem with a `msg` line, given its literal string or nil; nil when it has none."
+  [line]
+  (cond
+    (nil? line)
+    (str "Each line of a `msg` must be a string literal or a `str` of string literals; "
+         "pass values as arguments after the vector.")
+
+    (line-break? line)
+    (str "A `msg` line can't contain a line break, `%n`, or a control or private-use character; "
+         "put each line in its own string.")
+
+    (malformed-specifier? line)
+    "A `%` in a `msg` line must begin a format specifier; write a literal percent sign as `%%`."
+
+    :else
+    (when-let [specifier (disallowed-specifier line)]
+      (str "A `msg` line may only use `%s`, `%d`, or `%%`; `" specifier "` would alter or hide the value."))))
+
+(defn- lint-lines!
+  "Flag each of `line-nodes` whose literal string, the matching element of `lines`, has a problem."
+  [line-nodes lines]
+  (doseq [[line-node line] (map vector line-nodes lines)]
+    (when-let [problem (line-problem line)]
+      (reg-msg-finding! line-node problem))))
+
+(defn- plural
+  [n word]
+  (str n " " word (when-not (= 1 n) "s")))
+
+(defn- lint-arg-count!
+  "Flag `msg` call `node` when a literal line refers to an argument that can't exist, or when its `args` don't number
+  the arguments its literal `lines` consume."
+  [node lines args]
+  (let [indexes  (map first (consumed-args (str/join "\n" lines)))
+        expected (if (seq indexes) (inc (apply max indexes)) 0)
+        given    (count args)]
+    (cond
+      ;; `String/format` throws on these, so the message would render with every part quoted instead.
+      (some neg? indexes)
+      (reg-msg-finding! node (str "A `msg` line refers to an argument that can't exist; "
+                                  "argument indexes start at `1$`, and `%<` repeats the specifier before it."))
+
+      (not= expected given)
+      (reg-msg-finding! node (format "The `msg` lines take %s but %d %s given."
+                                     (plural expected "argument") given (if (= 1 given) "is" "are"))))))
+
+(defn lint-msg
+  "Flag `msg` calls whose lines aren't a literal vector of single-line literal strings, that hold a malformed
+  specifier or a conversion other than `%s`, `%d`, or `%%`, or whose arguments don't match the lines' specifiers."
+  [{:keys [node config] :as input}]
+  (when (level-on? config msg-linter)
+    (let [[fn-node lines-node & args] (:children node)]
+      (if-not (and lines-node (hooks/vector-node? lines-node))
+        (reg-msg-finding! (or lines-node fn-node)
+                          "`msg` takes a literal vector of line strings, one string per line of the message.")
+        (let [line-nodes (:children lines-node)
+              lines      (map literal-string line-nodes)]
+          (lint-lines! line-nodes lines)
+          ;; A malformed specifier can't be counted, and its line already has a finding.
+          (when (and (every? some? lines) (not-any? malformed-specifier? lines))
+            (lint-arg-count! node lines args))))))
+  input)
+
+(def ^:private exit-linter :metabase/agent-message-exit)
+
+(defn- exit-enabled?
+  [{:keys [config]}]
+  (level-on? config exit-linter))
+
+(defn- reg-exit-finding!
+  [node message]
+  (hooks/reg-finding! (assoc (meta node) :message message :type exit-linter)))
+
+(defn- calls-core?
+  "Whether `node` is a call to a `clojure.core` var or special form named in `var-names`."
+  [node var-names]
+  (when-let [sym (call-name node)]
+    (and (contains? var-names (name sym))
+         (contains? core-ns (namespace sym)))))
+
+(defn- calls-i18n?
+  [node]
+  (when-let [sym (call-name node)]
+    (contains? #{"tru" "trs" "deferred-tru" "deferred-trs"} (name sym))))
+
+(defn- calls-json-encode?
+  "Whether `node` calls `encode` in a namespace or alias whose name ends in `json`."
+  [node]
+  (when-let [sym (call-name node)]
+    (and (= "encode" (name sym))
+         (boolean (some-> (namespace sym) (str/ends-with? "json"))))))
+
+(defn- builds-string?
+  "Whether `node` is a string literal or a call that builds a string."
+  [node]
+  (or (hooks/string-node? node)
+      (calls-core? node #{"str" "format" "pr-str" "ex-message"})
+      (calls-i18n? node)
+      (calls? node string-ns "join")
+      (calls-json-encode? node)))
+
+(defn- clause-results
+  "The result nodes of `clauses`, alternating test and result nodes, with a trailing default when their count is odd."
+  [clauses]
+  (concat (take-nth 2 (rest clauses))
+          (when (odd? (count clauses)) [(last clauses)])))
+
+(defn- result-fn-marker?
+  [node]
+  (and (hooks/keyword-node? node) (= :>> (hooks/sexpr node))))
+
+(defn- condp-results
+  "The result nodes of `condp` `clauses`: each test's result, skipping `:>>` result functions, and any default."
+  [clauses]
+  (loop [[_test result & more :as clauses] clauses
+         acc                               []]
+    (cond
+      (empty? clauses)           acc
+      (nil? (next clauses))      (conj acc (first clauses))
+      (result-fn-marker? result) (recur (next more) acc)
+      :else                      (recur more (conj acc result)))))
+
+(defn- branch-results
+  "The nodes branching form `node` can evaluate to, or nil when it isn't one."
+  [node]
+  (let [args (rest (:children node))]
+    (cond
+      (calls-core? node #{"if" "if-not" "if-let"}) (rest args)
+      (calls-core? node #{"or"})                   args
+      (calls-core? node #{"cond"})                 (clause-results args)
+      (calls-core? node #{"case"})                 (clause-results (rest args))
+      (calls-core? node #{"condp"})                (condp-results (drop 2 args)))))
+
+(defn- step-call
+  "Threading step `node` as the call it stands for: a list as is, anything else as a call with no written arguments."
+  [node]
+  (if (hooks/list-node? node) node (hooks/list-node [node])))
+
+(defn- threading-results
+  "The nodes whose text-ness decides what threading form `node` evaluates to, or nil when it isn't one."
+  [node]
+  (let [[init & steps] (rest (:children node))]
+    (cond
+      (calls-core? node #{"->" "->>" "some->" "some->>"}) [(if steps (step-call (last steps)) init)]
+      (calls-core? node #{"cond->" "cond->>"})           (cons init (map step-call (take-nth 2 (rest steps))))
+      (calls-core? node #{"as->"})                       [(or (last (rest steps)) init)]
+      (calls-core? node #{"doto"})                       [init])))
+
+(defn- tail-result
+  "The node body form `node` evaluates to, or nil when it isn't one."
+  [node]
+  (let [args (rest (:children node))]
+    (cond
+      (calls-core? node #{"when" "when-not" "when-let" "let"}) (when (next args) (last args))
+      (calls-core? node #{"do"})                               (last args))))
+
+(defn- stringy?
+  "Whether `node` syntactically evaluates to text: a string literal, a call that builds a string, or a threading,
+  branching, or body form whose result is one."
+  [node]
+  (boolean
+   (or (builds-string? node)
+       (some stringy? (branch-results node))
+       (some stringy? (threading-results node))
+       (some-> (tail-result node) stringy?))))
+
+(defn- lint-exit-text!
+  "Flag `arg`, the message passed to `target` (a description of where it goes), when it is text rather than a `msg`."
+  [arg target]
+  (when (and arg (stringy? arg))
+    (reg-exit-finding! arg (format (str "`%s` passes text to %s; "
+                                        "build agent-facing text with `msg` so interpolated values are cleaned.")
+                                   (pr-str (hooks/sexpr arg))
+                                   target))))
+
+(defn- lint-exit-arg!
+  "Flag the argument at child `index` of call `node` when it is text rather than a `msg`."
+  [node index]
+  (lint-exit-text! (nth (:children node) index nil) (str "`" (name (call-name node)) "`")))
+
+(defn lint-teaching-exit
+  "Flag a call throwing or returning a teaching error whose message, the first argument, is text rather than a `msg`."
+  [{:keys [node] :as input}]
+  (when (exit-enabled? input)
+    (lint-exit-arg! node 1))
+  input)
+
+(defn lint-jsonrpc-error
+  "Flag a `jsonrpc-error` whose message, the third argument, is text rather than a `msg`."
+  [{:keys [node] :as input}]
+  (when (exit-enabled? input)
+    (lint-exit-arg! node 3))
+  input)
+
+(defn lint-op-error
+  "Flag an `op-error!` whose detail message, the third argument, is text rather than a `msg`."
+  [{:keys [node] :as input}]
+  (when (exit-enabled? input)
+    (lint-exit-arg! node 3))
+  input)
+
+(defn lint-ellipsize
+  "Flag an `ellipsize` whose message, the first argument, is text rather than a `msg`."
+  [{:keys [node] :as input}]
+  (when (exit-enabled? input)
+    (lint-exit-arg! node 1))
+  input)
+
+(defn- map-value
+  "The value node of keyword `k` in map literal `node`, or nil."
+  [node k]
+  (when (hooks/map-node? node)
+    (some (fn [[key-node value-node]]
+            (when (and (hooks/keyword-node? key-node) (= k (hooks/sexpr key-node)))
+              value-node))
+          (partition 2 (:children node)))))
+
+(defn lint-list-content
+  "Flag a `list-content`, or a wrapper taking its options map as the third argument too, whose literal options map
+  has an `:empty-hint` that is text rather than a `msg`."
+  [{:keys [node] :as input}]
+  (when (exit-enabled? input)
+    (lint-exit-text! (map-value (nth (:children node) 3 nil) :empty-hint)
+                     (str "`" (name (call-name node)) "`'s `:empty-hint`")))
+  input)
+
+(defn lint-success-content
+  "Flag a `success-content` whose first argument is text rather than a payload or a `msg`."
+  [{:keys [node] :as input}]
+  (when (exit-enabled? input)
+    (let [text (second (:children node))]
+      (when (and text (stringy? text))
+        (reg-exit-finding! text (str "`success-content` takes data to JSON-encode or a `msg`; "
+                                     "pass the payload itself, or build the text with `msg`.")))))
+  input)
+
+(defn- caller-facing-data?
+  "Whether `node` is a map literal with a 4xx `:status-code` literal or an `error-code` key."
+  [node]
+  (and (hooks/map-node? node)
+       (some (fn [[k v]]
+               (when (hooks/keyword-node? k)
+                 (let [kw (hooks/sexpr k)]
+                   (or (= "error-code" (name kw))
+                       (and (= :status-code kw)
+                            (hooks/token-node? v)
+                            (let [status (hooks/sexpr v)]
+                              (and (number? status) (<= 400 status 499))))))))
+             (partition 2 (:children node)))))
+
+(defn lint-ex-info
+  "Flag an `ex-info` whose data marks it as a caller-facing error."
+  [{:keys [node] :as input}]
+  (when (exit-enabled? input)
+    (when (caller-facing-data? (nth (:children node) 2 nil))
+      (reg-exit-finding! node (str "Caller-facing errors must be thrown with `throw-teaching-error` and a `msg`, "
+                                   "so their text is rendered and cleaned."))))
+  input)

.clj-kondo/src/hooks/metabase/app_db/schema_migrations_test/impl.clj

@@ -1,8 +1,22 @@
 (ns hooks.metabase.app-db.schema-migrations-test.impl
-  (:require [clj-kondo.hooks-api :as hooks]))
+  (:require
+   [clj-kondo.hooks-api :as hooks]))
 
-(defn test-migrations
-  [{{[_ migration-range {[binding] :children} & body] :children} :node}]
+(defn- validate-mb-app-db-migrations-test!
+  "CI runs the namespaces tagged `:mb/app-db-migrations-test` on a shard of their own, because a count-based split
+  can't balance them (see `.github/workflows/app-db.yml`). An untagged one still runs, just on a shard sized for
+  everything else."
+  [{:keys [ns node]}]
+  (when-not (:mb/app-db-migrations-test (meta ns))
+    (hooks/reg-finding!
+     (assoc (meta node)
+            :message (str "Namespaces that run migration tests (test-migrations) should be marked"
+                          " ^:mb/app-db-migrations-test [:metabase/validate-mb-app-db-migrations-test]")
+            :type :metabase/validate-mb-app-db-migrations-test))))
+
+(defn test-migrations!
+  [{{[_ migration-range {[binding] :children} & body] :children} :node, :as x}]
+  (validate-mb-app-db-migrations-test! x)
   (let [node* (hooks/list-node
                (list*
                 (hooks/token-node `let)

.clj-kondo/src/hooks/metabase/settings/models/setting.clj

@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
    [hooks.common :as common]))
 
 (defn lint-defsetting-namespace [node context]
-  (when-not (re-matches #"^metabase(?:-enterprise)?\.[^\.]+\.settings$" (name (:ns context)))
+  (when-not (re-matches #"^metabase(?:-enterprise)?\.([^\.]+\.)+settings$" (name (:ns context)))
     (hooks/reg-finding! (assoc (meta node)
-                               :message "All defsettings should live in metabase[-enterprise].<module>.settings namespaces"
+                               :message "All defsettings should live in a namespace ending in .settings under metabase[-enterprise]"
                                :type :metabase/defsetting-namespace))))
 
 ;;; TODO -- move this into a Kondo config file in `.clj-kondo/config/`
@@ -286,6 +286,7 @@
     (update context :node update-node)))
 
 (comment
+  (require '[clojure.pprint])
   (defn- defsetting* [form]
     (hooks/sexpr
      (:node
@@ -293,7 +294,6 @@
         {:node
          (hooks/parse-string
           (with-out-str
-            #_{:clj-kondo/ignore [:unresolved-namespace]}
             (clojure.pprint/pprint
              form)))}))))
 

.clj-kondo/src/hooks/metabase/toucan/db_ns.clj

@@ -0,0 +1,335 @@
+(ns hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns
+  "Lint that application database query calls -- Toucan 2's `t2/select`, `t2/query`, `t2/insert!`, `t2/update!`,
+  `t2/delete!` and friends, plus the `metabase.app-db.core` wrappers around them such as `mdb/query` and
+  `mdb/update-or-insert!` -- live in a module's `db` namespace, i.e. `metabase[-enterprise].<module>.db` (or `metabase.driver.<driver>.db` for
+  driver modules). Every other namespace in a module goes through those functions instead of talking to the
+  application database directly.
+
+  Registered as an `:analyze-call` hook on each of those functions in `.clj-kondo/config.edn`. The hook
+  returns its input unchanged so Kondo's normal analysis of the call (arity, var usage) still runs."
+  (:require
+   [clj-kondo.hooks-api :as hooks]
+   [hooks.common.modules :as modules]))
+
+(def ^:private driver-db-namespace
+  "Matches `metabase.driver.<driver>.db`; individual drivers are not modules."
+  #"^metabase\.driver\.[^.]+\.db$")
+
+(defn- db-namespace? [config ns-sym]
+  (let [ns-str (name ns-sym)]
+    (boolean
+     ;; Resolve ownership first: a nested `.db` name alone does not make a module.
+     (or (when-let [module (modules/module config ns-sym)]
+           (= ns-str (str (modules/module-ns-prefix (:metabase/modules config) module) ".db")))
+         (re-matches driver-db-namespace ns-str)))))
+
+(defn- test-file?
+  "Whether `filename` is in a test source tree. Test namespaces are exempt through the `test-namespaces` group in
+  `config.edn`, but helper namespaces like `metabase.sso.test-helpers` don't match that group's pattern."
+  [filename]
+  (boolean (and filename (re-find #"(?:^|/)test/" filename))))
+
+(def ^:private value-operators
+  "Operators whose second argument is a value rather than a column."
+  '#{= not= != <> is-distinct-from is-not-distinct-from
+     < > <= >= like not-like ilike not-ilike in not-in between not-between})
+
+(defn- marked?
+  "Whether `node` is an `[:auto/param v]` marker."
+  [node]
+  (and (hooks/vector-node? node)
+       (= :auto/param (some-> (first (:children node)) hooks/sexpr))))
+
+(defn- distinct-by
+  "`coll` with only the first element for each distinct `(f element)`."
+  [f coll]
+  (->> coll (reduce (fn [[seen acc] x]
+                      (let [k (f x)]
+                        (if (contains? seen k) [seen acc] [(conj seen k) (conj acc x)])))
+                    [#{} []])
+       second))
+
+(def ^:private identifier-clauses
+  "Clause keys whose entries name a column or a table rather than carrying a value.
+
+  A symbol here is a name, and `metabase.app-db.value-guard` refuses a marker in one, so reporting
+  it would ask for a fix that throws at compile. `:order-by` and `:group-by` are included even
+  though the guard allows a marker there: it compiles to `ORDER BY ?` and loses the ordering, so
+  asking for one is still wrong."
+  #{:select :select-distinct :select-top :from :join :left-join :right-join :inner-join :full-join
+    :cross-join :update :insert-into :delete-from :returning :with :with-columns :using
+    :order-by :group-by :partition-by :window})
+
+(def ^:private expression-entry-clauses
+  "Identifier clauses where index 0 of an `[expr alias]` entry is an expression, not a name.
+
+  HoneySQL binds a parameter there -- `SELECT ? AS a` -- so the guard accepts a marker, and mirrors
+  this set as `expression-entry-clauses` in `metabase.app-db.value-guard`. Everything after index 0
+  is an alias, and a bare entry is a name; the guard refuses a marker in both."
+  #{:select :select-distinct :select-top :returning :partition-by})
+
+(defn- comparison-node?
+  "Whether `node` is a keyword-headed comparison -- the one shape inside an identifier clause that
+  does hold values, as in the computed projection `[[:= :engine v] :is_match]`."
+  [node]
+  (and (hooks/vector-node? node)
+       (let [op (some-> (first (:children node)) hooks/sexpr)]
+         (and (keyword? op) (contains? value-operators (symbol (name op)))))))
+
+(declare value-nodes)
+
+(defn- identifier-clause-value-nodes
+  "The value slots reachable inside an identifier clause: a subquery's own clauses, and the
+  arguments of a comparison. The names themselves are not candidates."
+  [node]
+  (cond
+    (hooks/map-node? node)    (value-nodes node)
+    (comparison-node? node)   (value-nodes node)
+    (hooks/vector-node? node) (mapcat identifier-clause-value-nodes (:children node))
+    (hooks/list-node? node)   (mapcat identifier-clause-value-nodes (:children node))
+    :else                     nil))
+
+(defn- expression-entry-value-nodes
+  "The value slots of an [[expression-entry-clauses]] clause: index 0 of each `[expr alias]` entry."
+  [node]
+  (when (hooks/vector-node? node)
+    (mapcat (fn [entry]
+              (when (hooks/vector-node? entry)
+                (when-let [expr (first (:children entry))]
+                  ;; Keep the expression AND descend, so a bare symbol is reported and a computed
+                  ;; projection or a subquery sitting there has its own values checked.
+                  (cons expr (value-nodes expr)))))
+            (:children node))))
+
+(defn- clause-value-nodes
+  "The value slots of the value under clause key `clause`."
+  [clause node]
+  (cond
+    (contains? expression-entry-clauses clause) (expression-entry-value-nodes node)
+    (contains? identifier-clauses clause)       (identifier-clause-value-nodes node)
+    :else                                       (value-nodes node)))
+
+(defn- value-nodes
+  "The nodes sitting in a value slot of `node`, following the clause shapes a query map uses."
+  [node]
+  (cond
+    ;; A query map -- walk its clause values, not its keys. A clause that names columns or tables
+    ;; contributes only what is nested inside it.
+    (hooks/map-node? node)
+    (mapcat (fn [[k v]]
+              (if (hooks/keyword-node? k)
+                (clause-value-nodes (hooks/sexpr k) v)
+                (value-nodes v)))
+            (partition 2 (:children node)))
+
+    (hooks/vector-node? node)
+    (let [[head & args] (:children node)
+          op            (some-> head hooks/sexpr)]
+      (cond
+        ;; A marker IS the value slot -- never descend into its payload, or the marked value
+        ;; gets reported as though it were bare.
+        (marked? node)
+        nil
+
+        (contains? #{:and :or :not} op)
+        (mapcat value-nodes args)
+
+        ;; `[:= col v]`, `[:in col vs]`, `[:between col lo hi]` -- the first argument is the
+        ;; column and the rest are values, whatever the arity. Keep each value AND descend into it,
+        ;; so a subquery in a value slot -- `[:in :id {:select ... :where [:= :z z]}]` -- has its
+        ;; own values checked too. Descending alone would drop the plain-token case.
+        (and (keyword? op) (contains? value-operators (symbol (name op))))
+        (mapcat #(cons % (value-nodes %)) (rest args))
+
+        ;; A function-call form -- `[:lower v]` -- or a literal collection -- `[a b]` in an `:in`.
+        ;; Both hold values, so yield the children themselves as candidates as well as
+        ;; descending, since a token child returns nothing on its own.
+        :else
+        (mapcat #(cons % (value-nodes %)) (:children node))))
+
+    ;; A clause built conditionally -- `(when flag [:= :col v])`, `(if ... )`, `(cond-> ...)`. The
+    ;; value slots are inside, so walk the children rather than stopping. Without this a value
+    ;; wrapped in `when` is invisible to the check, which is a false negative in a security lint.
+    ;;
+    ;; An `assoc` call gets its clause context back: `(assoc q :order-by [[col dir]])` is the same
+    ;; clause as `{:order-by [[col dir]]}`, but written outside a map literal, where the walk would
+    ;; otherwise fall back to shape alone and report the column and the direction as values.
+    ;; `cond->` is covered because the walk descends into the nested `assoc`.
+    (hooks/list-node? node)
+    (let [children (vec (:children node))
+          assoc?   (= 'assoc (some-> (first children) hooks/sexpr))
+          ;; index of a clause value -> its clause key
+          clauses  (when assoc?
+                     (into {} (keep-indexed (fn [i child]
+                                              (when (and (hooks/keyword-node? child)
+                                                         (contains? identifier-clauses (hooks/sexpr child))
+                                                         (< (inc i) (count children)))
+                                                [(inc i) (hooks/sexpr child)]))
+                                            children)))]
+      (mapcat (fn [i child]
+                (if-let [clause (get clauses i)]
+                  (clause-value-nodes clause child)
+                  (value-nodes child)))
+              (range)
+              children))
+
+    :else nil))
+
+(def ^:private write-fns
+  "Calls whose values are written rather than filtered on. A value here is not a where-clause value
+  an attacker can turn into SQL structure, and a `define-before-insert` hook may read it before the
+  query compiles, so a marker would break it rather than protect anything."
+  '#{insert! insert-returning-instance! insert-returning-instances! insert-returning-pk!
+     insert-returning-pks! save!})
+
+(defn- read-call?
+  "Whether `node` is a query call whose values are filtered on rather than written."
+  [node]
+  (let [f (some-> (first (:children node)) hooks/sexpr)]
+    (not (contains? write-fns (some-> f name symbol)))))
+
+(def ^:private clause-keys
+  "Query-map clause keys. A map keyed by these is a query map rather than a map of conditions."
+  #{:select :select-distinct :from :where :join :left-join :right-join :inner-join :full-join
+    :cross-join :group-by :having :order-by :limit :offset :for :union :union-all :with
+    :with-columns :returning :values :set})
+
+(defn- query-map-node?
+  "Whether `node` is a query map rather than a map of column/value conditions.
+
+  `(t2/delete! :model/X {:where [:= :k k]})` passes a query map, whose values [[value-nodes]]
+  already walks -- treating it as conditions too would report every value twice."
+  [node]
+  (boolean (some #(and (hooks/keyword-node? %) (contains? clause-keys (hooks/sexpr %)))
+                 (take-nth 2 (:children node)))))
+
+(defn- model-node?
+  "Whether `node` names a literal model: `:model/X`, or `[:model/X & columns]`."
+  [node]
+  (letfn [(model-keyword? [n]
+            (and (hooks/keyword-node? n)
+                 (= "model" (namespace (hooks/sexpr n)))))]
+    (or (model-keyword? node)
+        (and (hooks/vector-node? node)
+             (some-> node :children first model-keyword?)))))
+
+(def ^:private changes-map-fns
+  "Conditions-map fns whose arglist also ends in a changes map, so a lone trailing map is changes."
+  '#{update! update-or-insert!})
+
+(def ^:private conditions-map-fns
+  "Calls whose first argument after the model is a map of CONDITIONS rather than a query map.
+
+  `(t2/update! :model/X {:key k} {:v 1})` filters on `k`, so it is a where-clause value -- but it
+  reaches the query as a plain map entry rather than a `:where` clause, so neither the query-map
+  walker nor the kv-arg walker sees it. It is a shape the sweep leaves in place, so it has to be
+  checked here."
+  '#{update! update-or-insert! delete!})
+
+(defn- conditions-map-value-nodes
+  "The values of a conditions map passed to one of [[conditions-map-fns]]."
+  [f args]
+  (when (contains? conditions-map-fns (some-> f name symbol))
+    (let [after-model (rest (drop-while (complement model-node?) args))]
+      ;; Only the map immediately after the model is conditions. A later map is the changes map,
+      ;; whose values are written rather than filtered on, and a written value is never marked: a
+      ;; column's `:in` transform runs on the marker itself and stores it as data.
+      ;; `update!`'s arglist ENDS in the changes map, so its first map is conditions only when
+      ;; another argument follows: `(t2/update! model {:v written})` is the two-arity call whose
+      ;; single map is CHANGES, so flagging it would ask for a marker that corrupts the write.
+      ;; `delete!` has no changes map, so its map is always conditions.
+      (when-let [m (when (or (not (contains? changes-map-fns (some-> f name symbol)))
+                             (next after-model))
+                     (first after-model))]
+        (when (and (hooks/map-node? m) (not (query-map-node? m)))
+          (mapcat (fn [v]
+                    ;; The column comes from the map key, so an operator form here holds only
+                    ;; values -- `{:key [:in ks]}` -- exactly as a kv-arg pair does.
+                    (if (and (hooks/vector-node? v) (not (marked? v)))
+                      (let [[head & op-args] (:children v)
+                            op               (some-> head hooks/sexpr)]
+                        (if (and (keyword? op) (contains? value-operators (symbol (name op))))
+                          (mapcat #(cons % (value-nodes %)) op-args)
+                          (cons v (value-nodes v))))
+                      (cons v (value-nodes v))))
+                  (take-nth 2 (rest (:children m)))))))))
+
+(defn- kv-arg-value-nodes
+  "The value nodes of a call written as `:column value` pairs.
+
+  `(t2/select :model/X :locale locale)`. Several of these fns take an argument before the model --
+  `(t2/select-one-fn :value :model/X :key k)` -- so the pairs do not start at a fixed offset; they
+  start after the model. A call that does not name a literal model is not checked.
+
+  A trailing query map is not a pair, and its values are reached by [[value-nodes]] instead. A
+  value that is itself an operator form -- `:id [:in ids]` -- has its own values walked, so the
+  collection inside is checked rather than the form."
+  [args]
+  (let [after-model (rest (drop-while (complement model-node?) args))]
+    (->> after-model
+         ;; `partition-all` rather than `partition` so a trailing odd argument (a query map, which
+         ;; is not a pair) is still seen and skipped by the keyword-node? test below.
+         (partition-all 2)
+         (mapcat (fn [[k v]]
+                   (when (and v (hooks/keyword-node? k))
+                     (if-not (hooks/vector-node? v)
+                       [v]
+                       (let [[head & op-args] (:children v)
+                             op               (some-> head hooks/sexpr)]
+                         (cond
+                           ;; Already marked -- the marker is the value slot.
+                           (marked? v) [v]
+
+                           ;; `:id [:in ids]`. Toucan folds the column in from the pair key, so
+                           ;; EVERY argument here is a value -- unlike a query-map clause, where
+                           ;; the first argument is the column.
+                           (and (keyword? op)
+                                (contains? value-operators (symbol (name op))))
+                           (mapcat #(cons % (value-nodes %)) op-args)
+
+                           :else (cons v (value-nodes v)))))))))))
+
+(defn- lint-unmarked-values!
+  "Register a finding for each argument of the enclosing function that reaches a value slot unmarked.
+
+  Only a symbol is reported. A literal cannot carry a request value, and a value built inside the
+  function is out of reach of a check that does not follow it across a call."
+  [node]
+  (doseq [value (let [args (rest (:children node))
+                      f    (some-> (first (:children node)) hooks/sexpr)]
+                  ;; The three walkers overlap on some shapes -- a multi-arg operator in a kv-arg
+                  ;; reaches both `value-nodes` and `kv-arg-value-nodes` -- so dedupe by source
+                  ;; position rather than trying to keep them disjoint.
+                  (->> (concat (mapcat value-nodes args)
+                               (kv-arg-value-nodes args)
+                               (conditions-map-value-nodes f args))
+                       (distinct-by #(select-keys (meta %) [:row :col]))))
+          :when (and (hooks/token-node? value)
+                     (symbol? (hooks/sexpr value))
+                     (not (marked? value)))]
+    (hooks/reg-finding!
+     (assoc (meta value)
+            :message (format "`%s` reaches a SQL value slot unmarked. Write it as [:auto/param %s] so it is bound as a parameter."
+                             (hooks/sexpr value) (hooks/sexpr value))
+            :type :metabase/unsafe-app-db-query))))
+
+(defn lint-query-call
+  "Register a `:metabase/t2-query-namespace` finding when a Toucan 2 query call appears outside a `<module>.db`
+  namespace."
+  [{:keys [node ns filename] :as input}]
+  (when (and ns
+             (not (db-namespace? (modules/config input) ns))
+             (not (test-file? filename)))
+    (let [fn-node (first (:children node))]
+      (hooks/reg-finding!
+       (assoc (meta fn-node)
+              :message (format "Application database query calls like `%s` must live in metabase[-enterprise].<module>.db (or metabase.driver.<driver>.db) namespaces"
+                               (hooks/sexpr fn-node))
+              :type :metabase/t2-query-namespace))))
+  ((requiring-resolve 'hooks.metabase.warehouse-schema-overlay.table-or-field-query/lint-read) input)
+  (when (and ns
+             (db-namespace? (modules/config input) ns)
+             (not (test-file? filename))
+             (read-call? node))
+    (lint-unmarked-values! node))
+  input)

.clj-kondo/src/hooks/metabase/util/match.clj

@@ -124,6 +124,25 @@
                       (concat [(api/token-node 'clojure.core/or)] result-exprs [opaque-node]))))]
       {:node new-node})))
 
+(defn matches?
+  "clj-kondo :analyze-call hook for matches?. Similar to `match-one`, but supports just a single clause with no result."
+  [{:keys [node]}]
+  (let [[_ value pat] (:children node)]
+    (let [all-bindings (->> (collect-bindings pat)
+                            dedupe-bindings)
+          special-bindings [(api/token-node '_)        value
+                            (api/token-node '&match)   opaque-node
+                            ;; Pretend to use &match so that Kondo doesn't complain about it.
+                            (api/token-node '_) (api/token-node '&match)]
+          binding-nodes (into special-bindings all-bindings)
+          new-node (api/list-node
+                    (list
+                     (api/token-node 'let)
+                     (api/vector-node binding-nodes)
+                     (api/list-node
+                      (list opaque-node))))]
+      {:node new-node})))
+
 (def match-many match-one)
 (def replace match-one)
 

.clj-kondo/src/hooks/metabase/warehouse_schema_overlay/table_or_field_query.clj

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+(ns hooks.metabase.warehouse-schema-overlay.table-or-field-query
+  "Lint that a query over `:model/Field` or `:model/Table` names its source with `field-query`/`table-query` from
+  `metabase.warehouse-schema-overlay.core`, or reads sync's values with `{:user-settings? false}`."
+  (:require
+   [clj-kondo.hooks-api :as hooks]))
+
+(def ^:private read-fn?
+  "The Toucan 2 query functions that read rows. Writes are not affected: they go to `metabase_field` itself."
+  #{"select" "select-one" "select-fn->fn" "select-fn->pk" "select-fn-reducible" "select-fn-set" "select-fn-vec"
+    "select-one-fn" "select-one-pk" "select-pk->fn" "select-pks-set" "select-pks-vec" "select-reducible"
+    "reducible-select" "reducible-query" "query" "query-one" "count" "exists?"})
+
+(def ^:private model->helper
+  {":model/Field" "field-query"
+   ":model/Table" "table-query"})
+
+(defn- test-file? [filename]
+  (boolean (and filename (re-find #"(?:^|/)test/" filename))))
+
+(defn- tokens
+  "Every token in `node`'s tree, as strings."
+  [node]
+  (tree-seq :children :children node))
+
+(defn- mentions?
+  [node pred]
+  (boolean (some (fn [n] (when-let [s (some-> (hooks/sexpr n) pr-str)] (pred s)))
+                 (filter (complement :children) (tokens node)))))
+
+(defn- writes?
+  "Whether a `t2/query` form is really a write spelled as a query."
+  [node]
+  (mentions? node #{":update" ":delete-from" ":insert-into"}))
+
+(defn lint-read
+  "Register a `:metabase/table-or-field-query` finding when a read of `:model/Field` or `:model/Table` does not name
+  its source with the matching helper."
+  [{:keys [node filename]}]
+  (let [fn-node (first (:children node))
+        fn-name (some-> (hooks/sexpr fn-node) name)]
+    (when (and fn-name
+               (read-fn? fn-name)
+               (not (test-file? filename))
+               (not (writes? node)))
+      (doseq [[model helper] model->helper
+              :when (mentions? node #(= % model))
+              :when (not (mentions? node #(re-find (re-pattern (str "\\b" helper "$")) %)))]
+        (hooks/reg-finding!
+         (assoc (meta fn-node)
+                :message (format "A read of %s must name its source: add {:from [(%s)]} (or {:user-settings? false} for sync's own values)"
+                                 model helper)
+                :type :metabase/table-or-field-query))))))

.clj-kondo/test/hooks/clojure/core/def_test.clj

@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+(ns hooks.clojure.core.def-test
+  (:require
+   [clj-kondo.core :as kondo]
+   [clj-kondo.hooks-api :as hooks]
+   [clj-kondo.impl.utils]
+   [clojure.test :refer :all]
+   [hooks.clojure.core.def]))
+
+(defn- lint-def
+  "Lint the def form in string `s`. A string, not a quoted form, because `pr-str` drops `^:dynamic`."
+  [s]
+  (binding [clj-kondo.impl.utils/*ctx* {:config     {:linters {:metabase/discourage-dynamic-vars {:level :warning}}}
+                                        :ignores    (atom nil)
+                                        :findings   (atom [])
+                                        :namespaces (atom {})}]
+    (hooks.clojure.core.def/lint-def {:node (hooks/parse-string s)})
+    @(:findings clj-kondo.impl.utils/*ctx*)))
+
+(defn- config-findings
+  "Lint string `s` as `lang` with the real `.clj-kondo` config and return the findings whose type is in `types`."
+  [types lang s]
+  (->> (with-in-str s (kondo/run! {:lint ["-"] :lang lang :config-dir ".clj-kondo" :cache false}))
+       :findings
+       (filter (comp types :type))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel discourage-dynamic-vars-test
+  (testing "BEGUILD-37: new dynamic vars are flagged so the ratchet budget stops them from growing"
+    (are [s] (=? [{:type :metabase/discourage-dynamic-vars}]
+                 (lint-def s))
+      "(def ^:dynamic *x* nil)"
+      "(def ^:private ^:dynamic *x* nil)"
+      "(def ^:dynamic ^:private *x* nil)"
+      "(def ^{:dynamic true} *x* nil)"
+      "(def ^{:private true, :dynamic true} *x* nil)"
+      "(def ^:dynamic *x* \"docstring\" nil)"
+      "(defonce ^:dynamic *x* nil)"
+      "(defn f {:dynamic true} [] nil)"
+      "(defn f \"docstring\" {:dynamic true} [] nil)"
+      "(defn f \"docstring\" ([] 1) ([a] a) {:dynamic true})"
+      "(mu/defn f :- :int \"docstring\" {:dynamic true} [] 1)")))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel discourage-dynamic-vars-location-test
+  (testing "the finding sits on the form, so `kondo-insert-ignores` puts the ignore above the form, not inside it"
+    (is (=? [{:row 1 :col 1}]
+            (lint-def "(def ^{:dynamic true\n       :doc \"docs\"}\n  *x*\n  nil)")))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel discourage-dynamic-vars-ok-test
+  (testing "non-dynamic defs are not flagged"
+    (are [s] (= [] (lint-def s))
+      "(def x nil)"
+      "(def ^:private x nil)"
+      "(def ^{:dynamic false} x nil)"
+      "(def ^{:private true} x nil)"
+      "(def x {:dynamic true})"
+      "(defonce x {:dynamic true})"
+      "(clojure.core/def x {:dynamic true})"
+      "(clojure.core/defonce x {:dynamic true})"
+      "(cljs.core/defonce x {:dynamic true})"
+      "(defn f {:private true} [] nil)"
+      "(defn f [] {:dynamic true})"
+      "(defn f ([] 1) ([a] {:dynamic true}))")))
+
+(deftest ^:synchronized discourage-dynamic-vars-config-test
+  (testing "BEGUILD-37: config.edn sends defn, the mu/defn variants, and cljs defs to the dynamic-var check"
+    (are [lang s] (=? [{:row 1}] (config-findings #{:metabase/discourage-dynamic-vars} lang s))
+      :clj  "(ns x) (defn ^:dynamic *f* [] nil)"
+      :clj  "(ns x (:require [metabase.util.malli :as mu])) (mu/defn ^:dynamic *f* :- :int [] 1)"
+      :clj  "(ns x (:require [metabase.util.malli :as mu])) (mu/defn- ^:dynamic *f* :- :int [] 1)"
+      :clj  "(ns x (:require [metabase.util.malli.defn :as mu.defn])) (mu.defn/defn ^:dynamic *f* :- :int [] 1)"
+      :clj  "(ns x (:require [metabase.util.malli.defn :as mu.defn])) (mu.defn/defn- ^:dynamic *f* :- :int [] 1)"
+      :cljs "(ns x) (def ^:dynamic *x* 1)"
+      :cljs "(ns x) (defn ^:dynamic *f* [] nil)"
+      :cljs "(ns x) (defn- ^:dynamic *f* [] nil)"
+      :cljs "(ns x) (defonce ^:dynamic *x* 1)"
+      :cljc "(ns x) #?(:cljs (def ^:dynamic *x* 1))")))
+
+(deftest ^:synchronized discourage-dynamic-vars-naming-checks-test
+  (testing "lint-dynamic runs only the dynamic check, not the def naming checks"
+    (are [lang s] (= [] (config-findings #{:metabase/check-def-no-underscores :metabase/check-def-check-not-uppercase-name}
+                                         lang s))
+      :clj  "(ns x (:require [metabase.util.malli :as mu])) (mu/defn SOME_FN :- :string [x :- :int] (str x))"
+      :cljs "(ns x) (def SOME_VALUE 1)")))

.clj-kondo/test/hooks/clojure/core/ns_test.clj

@@ -19,6 +19,19 @@
 (defn- lint-modules [form config]
   (lint-ns form (assoc-in config [:linters :metabase/modules :level] :warning)))
 
+(deftest ^:parallel explicit-nonparallel-namespace-metadata-test
+  (let [config {:linters {:metabase/validate-deftest {:level :warning}}}]
+    (testing "Hawk's supported namespace marker passes"
+      (is (empty? (lint-ns '(ns ^:synchronized example.test) config))))
+    (testing "the verbose Hawk spelling is not accepted as Metabase style"
+      (is (=? [{:type    :metabase/validate-deftest
+                :message #(re-find #"Use `\^:synchronized` instead" %)}]
+              (lint-ns '(ns ^{:parallel false} example.test) config))))
+    (testing "the legacy marker explains that Hawk ignores it"
+      (is (=? [{:type    :metabase/validate-deftest
+                :message #(re-find #"`\^:synchronous` is ignored by Hawk" %)}]
+              (lint-ns '(ns ^:synchronous example.test) config))))))
+
 (deftest ^:parallel module-checker-allowed-modules-test
   (are [task-namespace] (=? [{:message "Module task should not be used in the api module. [:metabase/modules api :uses]"
                               :type :metabase/modules}]

.clj-kondo/test/hooks/clojure/core/require_test.clj

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+(ns hooks.clojure.core.require-test
+  (:require
+   [clj-kondo.hooks-api :as hooks]
+   [clj-kondo.impl.utils]
+   [clojure.test :refer :all]
+   [hooks.clojure.core.require]))
+
+(def ^:private config
+  '{:linters          {:metabase/modules {:level :warning}}
+    :metabase/modules {search {:uses #{}}
+                       task   {:api #{metabase.task.core}}}})
+
+(defn- lint [hook form current-ns]
+  (binding [clj-kondo.impl.utils/*ctx* {:config     config
+                                        :ignores    (atom nil)
+                                        :findings   (atom [])
+                                        :namespaces (atom {})}]
+    (hook {:node   (hooks/parse-string (pr-str form))
+           :ns     current-ns
+           :config config})
+    @(:findings clj-kondo.impl.utils/*ctx*)))
+
+(defn- lint-require [form current-ns]
+  (lint hooks.clojure.core.require/lint-require form current-ns))
+
+(defn- lint-requiring-resolve [form current-ns]
+  (lint hooks.clojure.core.require/lint-requiring-resolve form current-ns))
+
+(def ^:private dynamic-require-finding
+  {:message "Module dependency cannot be statically determined from a dynamic require"
+   :type    :metabase/modules})
+
+(def ^:private cross-module-finding
+  {:message "Module task should not be used in the search module. [:metabase/modules search :uses]"
+   :type    :metabase/modules})
+
+(deftest ^:parallel dynamic-requiring-resolve-test
+  (testing "outside the module system"
+    (is (= [] (lint-requiring-resolve '(requiring-resolve (:failing-test-var opts)) 'dev))))
+  (testing "inside a module"
+    (are [form] (=? [dynamic-require-finding]
+                    (lint-requiring-resolve form 'metabase.search.core))
+      '(requiring-resolve (:failing-test-var opts))
+      '(requiring-resolve @some-atom)
+      '(requiring-resolve some-local)
+      '(requiring-resolve "not-a-symbol"))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel dynamic-require-test
+  (testing "outside the module system"
+    (is (= [] (lint-require '(require some-local) 'dev))))
+  (testing "inside a module"
+    (is (=? [dynamic-require-finding]
+            (lint-require '(require some-local) 'metabase.search.core)))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel static-requiring-resolve-still-linted-test
+  (is (=? [cross-module-finding]
+          (lint-requiring-resolve '(requiring-resolve 'metabase.task.impl/go)
+                                  'metabase.search.core))
+      "a statically-known cross-module violation is still reported"))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel static-require-still-linted-test
+  (is (=? [cross-module-finding]
+          (lint-require '(require 'metabase.task.impl :reload)
+                        'metabase.search.core))
+      "a statically-known cross-module violation is still reported while keyword flags are ignored"))

.clj-kondo/test/hooks/clojure/test_test.clj

@@ -21,6 +21,54 @@
                                             #{:athena}}}}})
     (mapv :message @(:findings clj-kondo.impl.utils/*ctx*))))
 
+(defn- parallel-metadata-findings
+  ([form]
+   (parallel-metadata-findings form 'example.test))
+  ([form ns-sym]
+   (let [linters {:metabase/deftest-not-marked-parallel-or-synchronized {:level :warning}
+                  :metabase/validate-deftest                             {:level :warning}}]
+     (binding [clj-kondo.impl.utils/*ctx* {:config     {:linters linters}
+                                           :ignores    (atom nil)
+                                           :findings   (atom [])
+                                           :namespaces (atom {})}]
+       (hooks.clojure.test/deftest {:node   (api/parse-string form)
+                                    :lang   :clj
+                                    :ns     ns-sym
+                                    :config {:linters {:metabase/validate-deftest {}}}})
+       @(:findings clj-kondo.impl.utils/*ctx*)))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel explicit-nonparallel-metadata-test
+  (testing "Hawk's supported test markers satisfy the explicit metadata linter"
+    (are [metadata] (empty? (parallel-metadata-findings
+                             (format "(deftest %s example-test (is true))" metadata)))
+      "^:parallel"
+      "^:synchronized"))
+  (testing "an unmarked test still gets the opt-in linter's guidance"
+    (is (=? [{:type    :metabase/deftest-not-marked-parallel-or-synchronized
+              :message "Test should be marked either `^:parallel` or `^:synchronized`"}]
+            (parallel-metadata-findings "(deftest example-test (is true))"))))
+  (testing "the unsupported marker explains that Hawk ignores it"
+    (is (some #(and (= (:type %) :metabase/validate-deftest)
+                    (re-find #"ignored by Hawk" (:message %)))
+              (parallel-metadata-findings
+               "(deftest ^:sequential example-test (is true))"))))
+  (testing "the verbose Hawk spelling is not accepted as Metabase style"
+    (is (some #(and (= (:type %) :metabase/validate-deftest)
+                    (re-find #"Use `\^:synchronized` instead" (:message %)))
+              (parallel-metadata-findings
+               "(deftest ^{:parallel false} example-test (is true))"))))
+  (testing "a test cannot request both execution modes"
+    (is (some #(and (= (:type %) :metabase/validate-deftest)
+                    (re-find #"both `\^:parallel` and `\^:synchronized`" (:message %)))
+              (parallel-metadata-findings
+               "(deftest ^:parallel ^:synchronized example-test (is true))"))))
+  (testing "a namespace-level non-parallel promise rejects parallel tests"
+    (is (=? [{:type    :metabase/validate-deftest
+              :message #(re-find #"namespace marked.*`\^:synchronized`" %)}]
+            (parallel-metadata-findings
+             "(deftest ^:parallel example-test (is true))"
+             (with-meta 'example.test {:synchronized true}))))))
+
 (deftest ^:parallel disallow-hardcoded-driver-names-in-tests-test
   (is (= []
          (deftest-warnings

.clj-kondo/test/hooks/common/modules_test.clj

@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@
 
 (deftest ^:parallel module-test
   (are [symb expected] (= expected
-                          (hooks.common.modules/module symb))
+                          (hooks.common.modules/module {} symb))
     'metabase.qp.middleware.wow        'qp
     'metabase-enterprise.whatever.core 'enterprise/whatever))

.clj-kondo/test/hooks/metabase/agent_message_test.clj

@@ -0,0 +1,334 @@
+(ns hooks.metabase.agent-message-test
+  (:require
+   [clj-kondo.hooks-api :as hooks]
+   [clj-kondo.impl.utils]
+   [clojure.edn :as edn]
+   [clojure.test :refer :all]
+   [hooks.metabase.agent-message :as agent-message]))
+
+(defn- findings
+  "Run `hook-fn` over `form`, a form or its source string, with the linters at `level` (unconfigured when nil) in
+  namespace `ns` of file `filename`; return the findings' messages."
+  ([hook-fn form]
+   (findings hook-fn form :warning))
+  ([hook-fn form level]
+   (findings hook-fn form level 'metabase.mcp.v2.tools.browse "src/metabase/mcp/v2/tools/browse.clj"))
+  ([hook-fn form level ns filename]
+   (let [config (if level
+                  {:linters {:metabase/agent-message-lines {:level level}
+                             :metabase/agent-message-exit  {:level level}}}
+                  {})]
+     (binding [clj-kondo.impl.utils/*ctx* {:config     config
+                                           :ignores    (atom nil)
+                                           :findings   (atom [])
+                                           :namespaces (atom {})}]
+       (let [input  {:node     (hooks/parse-string (if (string? form) form (pr-str form)))
+                     :ns       ns
+                     :filename filename
+                     :config   config}
+             output (hook-fn input)]
+         (is (identical? (:node input) (:node output))
+             "the hook must return the node unchanged so Kondo's normal analysis still runs")
+         (mapv :message @(:findings clj-kondo.impl.utils/*ctx*)))))))
+
+(def ^:private hook-cases
+  "`[hook form]` pairs that each report one finding when their linter is enabled."
+  [[agent-message/lint-msg '(msg lines x)]
+   [agent-message/lint-teaching-exit '(throw-teaching-error "x")]
+   [agent-message/lint-jsonrpc-error '(jsonrpc-error id -32602 "x")]
+   [agent-message/lint-success-content '(success-content "x")]
+   [agent-message/lint-ex-info "(ex-info \"x\" {:status-code 404})"]
+   [agent-message/lint-op-error '(op-error! idx "add_link" "x")]
+   [agent-message/lint-ellipsize '(ellipsize "x" 300)]
+   [agent-message/lint-list-content '(list-content data total {:empty-hint "x"})]])
+
+(defn- linter-enabled-in-ns?
+  "Whether `config` enables `linter` in namespace `ns-name` through an ns-group's `:config-in-ns` entry."
+  [config linter ns-name]
+  (boolean
+   (some (fn [{:keys [pattern name]}]
+           (and (string? pattern)
+                (re-find (re-pattern pattern) ns-name)
+                (not= :off (get-in config [:config-in-ns name :linters linter :level] :off))))
+         (:ns-groups config))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel config-scope-test
+  (let [config (edn/read-string (slurp ".clj-kondo/config.edn"))]
+    (testing "GHY-4544: `msg` lines are checked in every OSS and enterprise MCP source namespace, and no test one"
+      (doseq [[ns-name enabled?] {"metabase.mcp.ui-resource"                     true
+                                  "metabase.mcp.transport"                       true
+                                  "metabase.mcp.v2.tools.browse"                 true
+                                  "metabase-enterprise.mcp.usage"                true
+                                  "metabase-enterprise.mcp.v2.tools.browse"      true
+                                  "metabase.mcp.ui-resource-test"                false
+                                  "metabase.mcp.v2.tools.browse-test"            false
+                                  "metabase.mcp.test-util"                       false
+                                  "metabase-enterprise.mcp.usage-test"           false
+                                  "metabase-enterprise.mcp.v2.tools.browse-test" false
+                                  "metabase.queries.models.card"                 false}]
+        (testing ns-name
+          (is (= enabled? (linter-enabled-in-ns? config :metabase/agent-message-lines ns-name))))))
+    (testing "GHY-4544: exits are checked in MCP transport and v2 source namespaces, whose 4xx errors reach the agent"
+      (doseq [[ns-name enabled?] {"metabase.mcp.transport"                       true
+                                  "metabase.mcp.v2.common"                       true
+                                  "metabase.mcp.v2.tools.browse"                 true
+                                  "metabase-enterprise.mcp.v2.common"            true
+                                  "metabase.mcp.settings"                        false
+                                  "metabase.mcp.validation"                      false
+                                  "metabase-enterprise.mcp.usage"                false
+                                  "metabase.mcp.transport-test"                  false
+                                  "metabase.mcp.v2.tools.browse-test"            false
+                                  "metabase-enterprise.mcp.v2.tools.browse-test" false
+                                  "metabase.queries.models.card"                 false}]
+        (testing ns-name
+          (is (= enabled? (linter-enabled-in-ns? config :metabase/agent-message-exit ns-name))))))
+    (testing "GHY-4544: `:empty-hint` is checked on `list-content` and on wrappers passing their options map to it"
+      (doseq [fn-sym '[metabase.mcp.v2.common/list-content
+                       metabase.mcp.v2.tools.browse/paged-list-content]]
+        (testing fn-sym
+          (is (= 'hooks.metabase.agent-message/lint-list-content
+                 (get-in config [:hooks :analyze-call fn-sym]))))))
+    (testing (str "GHY-4544: `check-execute-sql-enabled!` isn't checked, since it interpolates its subject into "
+                  "its own `msg` and a plain string is the intended way to name the tool")
+      (is (nil? (get-in config [:hooks
+                                :analyze-call
+                                (symbol "metabase.mcp.v2.queries" "check-execute-sql-enabled!")]))))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel scope-test
+  (testing "GHY-4544: the hooks leave scoping to config, reporting in any namespace where their linter is enabled"
+    (doseq [[hook form] hook-cases
+            [ns filename]  [['metabase.mcp.v2.tools.browse "src/metabase/mcp/v2/tools/browse.clj"]
+                            ['metabase.queries.models.card "src/metabase/queries/models/card.clj"]
+                            ['metabase.mcp.v2.tools.browse-test "test/metabase/mcp/v2/tools/browse_test.clj"]]]
+      (testing (str ns " " (pr-str form))
+        (is (= 1 (count (findings hook form :warning ns filename)))))))
+  (testing "nothing is reported when the linter is off or unconfigured"
+    (doseq [[hook form] hook-cases
+            level       [:off nil]]
+      (testing (str level " " (pr-str form))
+        (is (empty? (findings hook form level)))))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel msg-test
+  (testing "GHY-4544: a vector of single-line string literals with matching arguments is accepted"
+    (is (empty? (findings agent-message/lint-msg
+                          '(msg ["Table %s: %d of %d fields." "Continue with `offset: %d`."] t n total next)))))
+  (testing "specifiers that consume no argument aren't counted, and an explicit index can repeat an argument"
+    (is (empty? (findings agent-message/lint-msg '(msg ["100%% done."]))))
+    (is (empty? (findings agent-message/lint-msg '(msg ["%1$s, then %1$s again, then %<s"] x)))))
+  (testing "the lines must be a literal vector"
+    (is (=? [#".*vector.*"]
+            (findings agent-message/lint-msg '(msg lines x))))
+    (is (=? [#".*vector.*"]
+            (findings agent-message/lint-msg '(msg "one line" x)))))
+  (testing "a line may be split across a `str` of string literals"
+    (is (empty? (findings agent-message/lint-msg '(msg [(str "Table %s has " "%d fields.")] t n))))
+    (is (=? [#".*1 argument.*2.*"]
+            (findings agent-message/lint-msg '(msg [(str "only " "%s")] a b)))))
+  (testing "each line must be a string literal or a `str` of string literals"
+    (is (=? [#".*string literal or a `str` of string literals.*"]
+            (findings agent-message/lint-msg '(msg ["ok" line]))))
+    (is (=? [#".*string literal or a `str` of string literals.*"]
+            (findings agent-message/lint-msg '(msg [(str "split " x)])))))
+  (testing "a line can't contain a line break, control, or private-use character; each line is its own string"
+    (is (=? [#".*own string.*"]
+            (findings agent-message/lint-msg '(msg ["first\nsecond"]))))
+    (is (=? [#".*own string.*"]
+            (findings agent-message/lint-msg '(msg [(str "first\n" "second")]))))
+    (is (=? [#".*own string.*"]
+            (findings agent-message/lint-msg (list 'msg [(str "first" (char 0x2028) "second")]))))
+    (is (=? [#".*own string.*"]
+            (findings agent-message/lint-msg '(msg ["tab\tseparated"]))))
+    (is (=? [#".*own string.*"]
+            (findings agent-message/lint-msg '(msg ["done.%n"]))))
+    (testing "GHY-4544: a private-use character, which the truncation markers use, is flagged too"
+      (is (=? [#".*own string.*"]
+              (findings agent-message/lint-msg (list 'msg [(str "first" (char 0xE000) "second")]))))
+      (is (=? [#".*own string.*"]
+              (findings agent-message/lint-msg (list 'msg [(str "marked" (char 0xF8FF))]))))))
+  (testing "the argument count must match the specifiers across all lines"
+    (is (=? [#".*2 arguments.*1.*"]
+            (findings agent-message/lint-msg '(msg ["%s and" "%s"] a))))
+    (is (=? [#".*1 argument.*2.*"]
+            (findings agent-message/lint-msg '(msg ["only %s"] a b)))))
+  (testing (str "GHY-4544: a reference `String/format` can't resolve is flagged, since the runtime would fall back "
+                "to rendering every part quoted")
+    (testing "`%<` with no specifier before it to repeat, which counts as no argument at all"
+      (is (=? [#".*can't exist.*"]
+              (findings agent-message/lint-msg '(msg ["Value: %<s"]))))
+      (is (=? [#".*can't exist.*"]
+              (findings agent-message/lint-msg '(msg ["100%% done," "then %<d"])))))
+    (testing "an explicit index of zero, which is below the first argument"
+      (is (=? [#".*can't exist.*"]
+              (findings agent-message/lint-msg '(msg ["Value: %0$s"]))))
+      (is (=? [#".*can't exist.*"]
+              (findings agent-message/lint-msg '(msg ["Value: %0$s"] x)))))
+    (testing "a `%<` that repeats the first argument is still accepted"
+      (is (empty? (findings agent-message/lint-msg '(msg ["%s then %<s"] x)))))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel msg-specifier-test
+  (testing "GHY-4544: only `%s` with no flags but `<`, `%d` with flags and width, and `%%` are allowed"
+    (doseq [line ["%s" "%d" "%1$s" "%,d" "%05d" "%-8d" "%(d" "%1$,10d"
+                  "%s again %<s" "%d again %<d" "%s (100%%)"]]
+      (testing line
+        (is (empty? (findings agent-message/lint-msg (list 'msg [(str "Value: " line)] 'x)))))))
+  (testing "GHY-4544: any other conversion, or a `%s` or `%d` that reshapes its value, is flagged"
+    (doseq [line ["%b" "%h" "%c" "%x" "%X" "%f" "%e" "%o" "%g" "%a" "%tY" "%TY" "%B"
+                  "%S" "%.20s" "%10s" "%-5s" "%#s" "%1$.3s" "%-10S" "%.1f" "%.2d" "%1$.2d"]]
+      (testing line
+        (is (=? [#"A `msg` line may only use `%s`, `%d`, or `%%`; .* would alter or hide the value\."]
+                (findings agent-message/lint-msg (list 'msg [(str "Value: " line)] 'x)))))))
+  (testing "GHY-4544: a `%` that doesn't begin a valid format specifier is flagged, since `String/format` rejects it"
+    (doseq [line ["Braces %}" "Dot %." "Trailing %" "Space % " "Unknown %q" "Bad date %tq" "%" "%1$"
+                  ;; GHY-4544: an argument index too large to be one is malformed, not an arithmetic overflow
+                  "%999999999999999999999999$s"]]
+      (testing (pr-str line)
+        (is (=? [#"A `%` in a `msg` line must begin a format specifier.*`%%`.*"]
+                (findings agent-message/lint-msg (list 'msg [line]))))))
+    (testing "an index at the digit cap still parses, and is reported as an argument count"
+      (is (=? [#".*999999999 arguments.*"]
+              (findings agent-message/lint-msg '(msg ["%999999999$s"] x))))))
+  (testing "valid specifiers, including an escaped percent sign, aren't flagged as malformed"
+    (doseq [form ['(msg ["100%% done"])
+                  '(msg ["%,d rows"] n)
+                  '(msg ["%1$s, then %<s"] x)
+                  '(msg [(str "50%" "% of %s")] x)]]
+      (testing (pr-str form)
+        (is (empty? (findings agent-message/lint-msg form)))))))
+
+(def ^:private stringy-texts
+  "Message arguments built as text rather than with `msg`."
+  ['"Query failed."
+   '(str "Query failed: " err)
+   '(format "Table %s not found" (pr-str t))
+   '(cond-> (json/encode body) message (str "\n" message))
+   '(if x "a" (str "b" y))
+   '(if x (msg ["a"]) (str "b" y))
+   '(when-let [e (:error r)] (str/join ", " e))
+   '(or (:message r) (tru "Unknown error"))
+   '(let [s (pr-str x)] (str "Bad value " s))
+   '(cond (:a x) (msg ["a"]) :else "b")
+   '(condp = x :a (str "a" y) (msg ["b"]))
+   '(condp = x :a (msg ["a"]) "b")
+   '(case x :a (msg ["a"]) "b")
+   '(case x :a "a" :b (msg ["b"]))
+   '(->> bad (map name) (str/join ", "))
+   '(-> x (str " suffix"))
+   '(-> x name str)
+   '(some-> e ex-message)
+   '(some->> xs (map name) (clojure.string/join ", "))
+   '(cond->> xs x (map name) y (str/join ", "))
+   '(cond-> "x" y (subs 1))
+   '(as-> x v (assoc v :a 1) (json/encode v))
+   '(doto (str "a" b) println)
+   '(let [s x] (-> s (format y)))])
+
+(def ^:private message-texts
+  "Message arguments that aren't syntactically text."
+  ['(msg ["Table %s not found."] t)
+   'message
+   '(if x (msg ["a"]) (msg ["b"]))
+   '(render-error e)
+   '(cond (str x) (msg ["a"]) :else (msg ["b"]))
+   '(condp = x "a" (msg ["a"]) (msg ["b"]))
+   '(condp get x "a" :>> render-error (msg ["b"]))
+   '(case x "a" (msg ["a"]) ("b" "c") (msg ["b"]))
+   '(-> "x" count)
+   '(->> "x" (map str) set)
+   '(some-> (str "x") render-error)
+   '(-> x)
+   '(-> e :message)
+   '(cond-> {:a 1} x (assoc :b "c"))
+   '(as-> "x" v (count v))
+   '(doto x (println "a"))])
+
+(deftest ^:parallel teaching-exit-test
+  (doseq [fn-name ["throw-teaching-error" "error-content"]]
+    (testing (str "GHY-4544: text passed to `" fn-name "` is flagged")
+      (doseq [text stringy-texts]
+        (testing (pr-str text)
+          (is (=? [(re-pattern (str ".*passes text to `" fn-name "`.*`msg`.*"))]
+                  (findings agent-message/lint-teaching-exit (list (symbol "common" fn-name) text)))))))
+    (testing (str "`" fn-name "` accepts a `msg`, a symbol, and other calls")
+      (doseq [text message-texts]
+        (testing (pr-str text)
+          (is (empty? (findings agent-message/lint-teaching-exit
+                                (list (symbol fn-name) text {:status-code 404}))))))))
+  (testing "only the message argument is checked"
+    (is (empty? (findings agent-message/lint-teaching-exit '(error-content (msg ["x"]) (str "code"))))))
+  (testing "nothing is reported when the linter is off"
+    (is (empty? (findings agent-message/lint-teaching-exit '(throw-teaching-error "x") :off)))))
+
+(def ^:private helper-cases
+  "`[hook fn-name form-fn]`: a message-taking helper's hook, the name its finding cites, and a function of a message
+  returning a call that passes it to the helper."
+  [[agent-message/lint-op-error "op-error!" #(list 'dashboard-ops/op-error! 'idx "add_link" %)]
+   [agent-message/lint-ellipsize "ellipsize" #(list 'common/ellipsize % 300)]
+   [agent-message/lint-list-content "list-content" #(list 'common/list-content 'rows 0 {:offset 0 :empty-hint %})]
+   [agent-message/lint-list-content "paged-list-content"
+    #(list 'paged-list-content 'args 'rows {:empty-hint %} 'identity)]])
+
+(deftest ^:parallel message-helper-test
+  (doseq [[hook fn-name form-fn] helper-cases]
+    (testing (str "GHY-4544: text passed as `" fn-name "`'s message is flagged")
+      (doseq [text stringy-texts]
+        (testing (pr-str text)
+          (is (=? [(re-pattern (str ".*passes text to `" fn-name "`.*`msg`.*"))]
+                  (findings hook (form-fn text)))))))
+    (testing (str "`" fn-name "` accepts a `msg`, a symbol, and other calls as its message")
+      (doseq [text message-texts]
+        (testing (pr-str text)
+          (is (empty? (findings hook (form-fn text))))))))
+  (testing "only the message argument is checked"
+    (is (empty? (findings agent-message/lint-op-error '(op-error! (str "0") (str "op") (msg ["x"])))))
+    (is (empty? (findings agent-message/lint-ellipsize '(ellipsize (msg ["x"]) (str "300")))))
+    (is (empty? (findings agent-message/lint-list-content '(list-content (str "data") 0 {:param (str "x")}))))
+    (is (empty? (findings agent-message/lint-list-content '(list-content data 0 opts))))
+    (is (empty? (findings agent-message/lint-list-content '(list-content data 0))))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel jsonrpc-error-test
+  (testing "GHY-4544: text passed as the JSON-RPC error message is flagged"
+    (doseq [text stringy-texts]
+      (testing (pr-str text)
+        (is (=? [#".*passes text to `jsonrpc-error`.*`msg`.*"]
+                (findings agent-message/lint-jsonrpc-error (list 'transport/jsonrpc-error 'id -32602 text)))))))
+  (testing "a `msg`, symbol, or other call as the message is accepted"
+    (doseq [text message-texts]
+      (testing (pr-str text)
+        (is (empty? (findings agent-message/lint-jsonrpc-error (list 'jsonrpc-error 'id -32602 text)))))))
+  (testing "only the third argument is the message"
+    (is (empty? (findings agent-message/lint-jsonrpc-error '(jsonrpc-error "id" (str "code") (msg ["x"])))))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel success-content-test
+  (testing "GHY-4544: text passed to `success-content` is flagged"
+    (doseq [text stringy-texts]
+      (testing (pr-str text)
+        (is (=? [#"`success-content` takes data to JSON-encode or a `msg`.*"]
+                (findings agent-message/lint-success-content (list 'common/success-content text)))))))
+  (testing "a payload, a `msg`, or a symbol is accepted"
+    (doseq [text (conj message-texts '{:data rows} '[a b])]
+      (testing (pr-str text)
+        (is (empty? (findings agent-message/lint-success-content (list 'success-content text))))))
+    (is (empty? (findings agent-message/lint-success-content
+                          '(success-content {:data rows} (str "structured")))))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel ex-info-test
+  (testing "GHY-4544: an ex-info carrying a 4xx status code or an error code is flagged"
+    (doseq [form ["(ex-info \"Card not found\" {:status-code 404})"
+                  "(ex-info (str \"Bad \" x) {:status-code 400 :field f})"
+                  "(ex-info \"Nope\" {::common/error-code c})"
+                  "(ex-info \"Nope\" {:error-code c})"
+                  "(ex-info (msg [\"Nope\"]) {:error-code c})"]]
+      (testing form
+        (is (=? [#".*`throw-teaching-error` and a `msg`.*"]
+                (findings agent-message/lint-ex-info form))))))
+  (testing "other ex-info calls aren't flagged"
+    (doseq [form ["(ex-info \"boom\" {:status-code 500})"
+                  "(ex-info \"boom\" {:status-code code})"
+                  "(ex-info \"boom\" {:foo 1})"
+                  "(ex-info \"boom\" data)"
+                  "(ex-info \"boom\" (merge {:status-code 400} data))"
+                  "(ex-info \"boom\")"]]
+      (testing form
+        (is (empty? (findings agent-message/lint-ex-info form))))))
+  (testing "nothing is reported when the linter is off"
+    (is (empty? (findings agent-message/lint-ex-info "(ex-info \"x\" {:status-code 404})" :off)))))

.clj-kondo/test/hooks/metabase/app_db/schema_migrations_test/impl_test.clj

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+(ns hooks.metabase.app-db.schema-migrations-test.impl-test
+  (:require
+   [clj-kondo.hooks-api :as hooks]
+   [clj-kondo.impl.utils]
+   [clojure.test :refer :all]
+   [hooks.metabase.app-db.schema-migrations-test.impl]))
+
+(defn- finding-types!
+  [ns-symb]
+  (binding [clj-kondo.impl.utils/*ctx* {:config     {:linters {:metabase/validate-mb-app-db-migrations-test {:level :warning}}}
+                                        :ignores    (atom nil)
+                                        :findings   (atom [])
+                                        :namespaces (atom {})}]
+    (hooks.metabase.app-db.schema-migrations-test.impl/test-migrations!
+     {:ns   ns-symb
+      :node (hooks/parse-string (pr-str '(impl/test-migrations ["v64.2026-09-01T00:00:00"] [migrate!] (migrate!))))})
+    (mapv :type @(:findings clj-kondo.impl.utils/*ctx*))))
+
+(deftest ^:synchronized require-app-db-migrations-test-tag-test
+  (testing "a namespace that runs migration tests must be tagged, so CI shards it with the other migration tests"
+    (is (= [:metabase/validate-mb-app-db-migrations-test]
+           (finding-types! 'metabase.some-migrations-test))))
+  (testing "a tagged namespace is fine"
+    (is (= []
+           (finding-types! (with-meta 'metabase.some-migrations-test {:mb/app-db-migrations-test true}))))))

.clj-kondo/test/hooks/metabase/toucan/db_ns_test.clj

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+(ns hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns-test
+  (:require
+   [clj-kondo.hooks-api :as hooks]
+   [clj-kondo.impl.utils]
+   [clojure.test :refer :all]
+   [hooks.metabase.toucan.db-ns :as toucan.db-ns]))
+
+(defn- confinement-findings
+  "Only the `t2-query-namespace` findings, so these tests are not affected by the query-hygiene
+  linter that shares this hook."
+  [findings]
+  (filter #(= :metabase/t2-query-namespace (:type %)) findings))
+
+(defn- lint-query-call [form ns-sym & [filename modules]]
+  (binding [clj-kondo.impl.utils/*ctx* {:config     {:linters {:metabase/t2-query-namespace {:level :warning}
+                                                               :metabase/unsafe-app-db-query  {:level :warning}}}
+                                        :ignores    (atom nil)
+                                        :findings   (atom [])
+                                        :namespaces (atom {})}]
+    (let [input  {:node     (hooks/parse-string (pr-str form))
+                  :ns       ns-sym
+                  :filename (or filename "src/metabase/foo/bar.clj")
+                  :config   {:metabase/modules modules}}
+          output (toucan.db-ns/lint-query-call input)]
+      (is (identical? (:node input) (:node output))
+          "the hook must return the node unchanged so Kondo's normal analysis still runs")
+      @(:findings clj-kondo.impl.utils/*ctx*))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel t2-query-must-live-in-db-namespace-test
+  (testing "a query call outside a db namespace is flagged"
+    (is (=? [{:type    :metabase/t2-query-namespace
+              :message #".*`t2/select-one`.*"}]
+            (lint-query-call '(t2/select-one :model/Card :id 1) 'metabase.queries.models.card))))
+  (testing "metabase.<module>.db is allowed"
+    (is (empty? (confinement-findings (lint-query-call '(t2/select-one :model/Card :id 1) 'metabase.queries.db)))))
+  (testing "metabase-enterprise.<module>.db is allowed"
+    (is (empty? (confinement-findings (lint-query-call '(t2/select-one :model/Card :id 1) 'metabase-enterprise.sandbox.db)))))
+  (testing "metabase.driver.<driver>.db is allowed for driver modules"
+    (is (empty? (confinement-findings (lint-query-call '(t2/select-one :model/Database :id 1) 'metabase.driver.bigquery-cloud-sdk.db)))))
+  (testing "a nested db namespace is not a module db namespace"
+    (is (=? [{:type :metabase/t2-query-namespace}]
+            (lint-query-call '(t2/query {:select [:*]}) 'metabase.queries.models.db))))
+  (testing "a namespace merely ending in db is not a module db namespace"
+    (is (=? [{:type :metabase/t2-query-namespace}]
+            (lint-query-call '(t2/delete! :model/Card :id 1) 'metabase.queries.dashboards-db))))
+  (testing "files in a test source tree are exempt even when the namespace name doesn't look like a test"
+    (is (empty? (lint-query-call '(t2/update! :model/User 1 {:sso_source nil}) 'metabase.sso.test-helpers
+                                 "test/metabase/sso/test_helpers.clj")))
+    (is (empty? (lint-query-call '(t2/select :model/Card) 'metabase-enterprise.remote-sync.test-helpers
+                                 "/repo/enterprise/backend/test/metabase_enterprise/remote_sync/test_helpers.clj"))))
+  (testing "app-db wrappers around Toucan 2 are reported the same way"
+    (is (=? [{:type    :metabase/t2-query-namespace
+              :message #".*`mdb/update-or-insert!`.*"}]
+            (lint-query-call '(mdb/update-or-insert! :model/Foo {:id 1}) 'metabase.foo.models.foo))))
+  (testing "fully-qualified calls are reported by their written name"
+    (is (=? [{:type    :metabase/t2-query-namespace
+              :message #".*`toucan2.core/insert!`.*"}]
+            (lint-query-call '(toucan2.core/insert! :model/Card {}) 'metabase.queries.models.card)))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel t2-query-namespace-follows-the-module-tree-test
+  (let [modules '{queries            {}
+                  metabot            {}
+                  metabot.llm        {}
+                  lib.be             {:ns-prefix "metabase.lib-be"}
+                  enterprise/sandbox {}}]
+    (testing "a nested module owns its own db namespace"
+      (is (empty? (lint-query-call '(t2/select :model/Card) 'metabase.metabot.llm.db nil modules))))
+    (testing "the parent's db namespace stays its own"
+      (is (empty? (lint-query-call '(t2/select :model/Card) 'metabase.metabot.db nil modules))))
+    (testing "a module with an explicit :ns-prefix is resolved through it, not its dotted name"
+      (is (empty? (lint-query-call '(t2/select :model/Card) 'metabase.lib-be.db nil modules)))
+      (is (=? [{:type :metabase/t2-query-namespace}]
+              (lint-query-call '(t2/select :model/Card) 'metabase.lib.be.db nil modules))))
+    (testing "a db namespace under a directory naming no module is still a finding"
+      (is (=? [{:type :metabase/t2-query-namespace}]
+              (lint-query-call '(t2/query {:select [:*]}) 'metabase.queries.models.db nil modules)))
+      (is (=? [{:type :metabase/t2-query-namespace}]
+              (lint-query-call '(t2/query {:select [:*]}) 'metabase.metabot.llm.models.db nil modules))))
+    (testing "enterprise modules resolve through the metabase-enterprise root"
+      (is (empty? (lint-query-call '(t2/select :model/Card) 'metabase-enterprise.sandbox.db nil modules))))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel unmarked-value-in-a-db-namespace-test
+  (testing "a symbol reaching a value slot is flagged"
+    (is (=? [{:type    :metabase/unsafe-app-db-query
+              :message #"`locale` reaches a SQL value slot unmarked.*"}]
+            (lint-query-call '(t2/select :model/X {:where [:= :locale locale]}) 'metabase.foo.db))))
+  (testing "a marked value is not flagged"
+    (is (empty? (lint-query-call '(t2/select :model/X {:where [:= :locale [:auto/param locale]]})
+                                 'metabase.foo.db))))
+  (testing "a literal cannot carry a request value and is not flagged"
+    (is (empty? (lint-query-call '(t2/select :model/X {:where [:= :locale "de"]}) 'metabase.foo.db))))
+  (testing "a column reference is not a value"
+    (is (empty? (lint-query-call '(t2/select :model/X {:where [:= :a.id :b.id]}) 'metabase.foo.db))))
+  (testing "values nested under a boolean connective are reached"
+    (is (=? [{:message #"`b`.*"}]
+            (lint-query-call '(t2/select :model/X {:where [:and [:= :x [:auto/param a]] [:= :y b]]})
+                             'metabase.foo.db))))
+  (testing "only db namespaces are linted for unmarked values"
+    (is (empty? (filter #(= :metabase/unsafe-app-db-query (:type %))
+                        (lint-query-call '(t2/select :model/X {:where [:= :locale locale]})
+                                         'metabase.foo.models.thing)))))
+  (testing "a test source tree is exempt"
+    (is (empty? (lint-query-call '(t2/select :model/X {:where [:= :locale locale]})
+                                 'metabase.foo.db "test/metabase/foo/db_test.clj")))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel kv-arg-style-is-not-flagged-test
+  (testing "call style is not linted: a query written as :column value pairs is left alone"
+    ;; Extraction to a .sql file is semantic rather than a transcription of the HoneySQL shape, so a
+    ;; query map is no closer to that target than kv-args are. Converting also skips Toucan's type
+    ;; transforms, which only run in kv-arg position -- that bug shipped twice.
+    (are [form] (empty? (filter #(re-find #"Pass this query a map" (str (:message %)))
+                                (lint-query-call form 'metabase.foo.db)))
+      '(t2/select :model/X :locale [:auto/param locale])
+      '(t2/select :model/X :archived false)
+      '(t2/select-one :model/X :id (long id))
+      '(t2/select-one-fn :value :model/Setting :key [:auto/param k])
+      '(t2/select :model/X {:where [:= :locale [:auto/param locale]]})))
+  (testing "an unmarked value in a kv-arg is still flagged -- only the style check went away"
+    (is (=? [{:type :metabase/unsafe-app-db-query, :message #".*reaches a SQL value slot unmarked.*"}]
+            (lint-query-call '(t2/select :model/X :locale locale) 'metabase.foo.db)))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel conditions-map-values-are-linted-test
+  (testing "a conditions map -- a shape the sweep leaves in place -- is checked"
+    ;; `(t2/update! model {:col v} changes)` filters on v, but it is not a `:where` clause, so
+    ;; neither the query-map walker nor the kv-arg walker used to see it. A namespace written this
+    ;; way passed the lint vacuously.
+    (are [form] (=? [{:type :metabase/unsafe-app-db-query
+                      :message #".*reaches a SQL value slot unmarked.*"}]
+                    (lint-query-call form 'metabase.foo.db))
+      '(t2/update! :model/X {:key k} {:v 1})
+      '(t2/delete! :model/X {:key k})
+      '(t2/update! :model/X {:key [:in ks]} {:v 1})))
+  (testing "a marked or coerced conditions value is not flagged"
+    (are [form] (empty? (lint-query-call form 'metabase.foo.db))
+      '(t2/update! :model/X {:key [:auto/param k]} {:v 1})
+      '(t2/update! :model/X {:id (long id)} {:v 1})))
+  (testing "only the map right after the model is conditions -- the changes map is exempt"
+    ;; rule 1: a written value must arrive as itself, so it is never flagged.
+    (is (empty? (lint-query-call '(t2/update! :model/X {:id (long id)} {:v written})
+                                 'metabase.foo.db)))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel subquery-values-are-linted-test
+  (testing "a value inside a subquery in a value slot is reached"
+    (is (=? [{:type :metabase/unsafe-app-db-query
+              :message #".*`z`.*reaches a SQL value slot unmarked.*"}]
+            (lint-query-call
+             '(t2/select :model/X {:where [:in :id {:select [:id] :from [:y] :where [:= :z z]}]})
+             'metabase.foo.db))))
+  (testing "the plain token case still works -- descending must not replace it"
+    (is (=? [{:message #"`v`.*reaches a SQL value slot unmarked.*"}]
+            (lint-query-call '(t2/select :model/X {:where [:= :k v]}) 'metabase.foo.db)))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel conditionally-built-clause-test
+  (testing "a value slot inside a conditional form is still reached"
+    ;; `value-nodes` used to stop at a list node, so anything a `when`/`if`/`cond->` built was
+    ;; invisible -- a false negative in a security lint. permissions/db.clj and collections/db.clj
+    ;; both build clauses this way.
+    (are [form] (=? [{:type :metabase/unsafe-app-db-query
+                      :message #".*reaches a SQL value slot unmarked.*"}]
+                    (lint-query-call form 'metabase.foo.db))
+      '(t2/select :model/X {:where [:and (when k [:= :key k])]})))
+  (testing "both branches of an if are reached"
+    (is (= 2 (count (lint-query-call
+                     '(t2/select :model/X {:where [:and (if flag [:= :key k] [:= :key other-k])]})
+                     'metabase.foo.db)))))
+  (testing "a marked value inside a conditional form is not flagged"
+    (is (empty? (lint-query-call
+                 '(t2/select :model/X {:where [:and (when k [:= :key [:auto/param k]])]})
+                 'metabase.foo.db)))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel kv-arg-values-are-linted-test
+  (testing "an unmarked value in a kv-arg pair is flagged, so dropping the style check left no gap"
+    (are [form] (=? [{:type :metabase/unsafe-app-db-query
+                      :message #".*reaches a SQL value slot unmarked.*"}]
+                    (lint-query-call form 'metabase.foo.db))
+      '(t2/select :model/X :locale locale)
+      '(t2/select-one :model/X :id id)
+      ;; the pairs do not start at a fixed offset -- :value comes before the model here
+      '(t2/select-one-fn :value :model/Setting :key k)
+      ;; a value inside an operator form is reached, rather than the form being treated as a value
+      '(t2/select :model/X :id [:in ids])))
+  (testing "GHY-4668: a model written with columns still has its kv-arg values checked"
+    ;; The walker found the model by looking for a `:model/...` keyword, so `[:model/X :col]` hid
+    ;; every pair after it.
+    (are [form] (=? [{:type :metabase/unsafe-app-db-query
+                      :message #".*`prefix`.*reaches a SQL value slot unmarked.*"}]
+                    (lint-query-call form 'metabase.foo.db))
+      '(t2/select [:model/X :id :public_uuid] :public_uuid_prefix prefix :archived false)
+      '(t2/select-one [:model/X :id] :public_uuid_prefix prefix)))
+  (testing "GHY-4668: a marked value after a model written with columns is not flagged"
+    (is (empty? (lint-query-call '(t2/select [:model/X :id] :public_uuid_prefix [:auto/param prefix])
+                                 'metabase.foo.db))))
+  (testing "a marked or coerced kv-arg value is not flagged"
+    (are [form] (empty? (lint-query-call form 'metabase.foo.db))
+      '(t2/select :model/X :locale [:auto/param locale])
+      '(t2/select-one :model/X :id (long id))
+      '(t2/select :model/X :id [:in (mapv long ids)])
+      '(t2/select :model/X :id [:in [:auto/param ids]])))
+  (testing "a literal kv-arg value is not flagged"
+    (are [form] (empty? (lint-query-call form 'metabase.foo.db))
+      '(t2/select :model/X :archived false)
+      '(t2/select :model/X :status "pending")
+      '(t2/select :model/X :engine :appdb)))
+  (testing "one unmarked value per pair is reported"
+    (is (= 2 (count (lint-query-call '(t2/select :model/X :locale locale :msgid msgid)
+                                     'metabase.foo.db)))))
+  (testing "a call mixing kv-args with a trailing query map reports each value exactly once"
+    ;; The two walkers run over the same arguments, so this pins that they do not double-report.
+    (is (= 2 (count (lint-query-call
+                     '(t2/select :model/X :locale locale {:where [:= :other other]})
+                     'metabase.foo.db))))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel write-calls-are-not-linted-for-values-test
+  (testing "an insert's values are written, not filtered on, so they are not flagged"
+    (are [form] (empty? (filter #(= :metabase/unsafe-app-db-query (:type %))
+                                (lint-query-call form 'metabase.foo.db)))
+      '(t2/insert! :model/X :key k :value v)
+      '(t2/insert-returning-instances! :model/X :key k :value v)))
+  (testing "a select's values are still flagged"
+    (is (=? [{:type :metabase/unsafe-app-db-query}]
+            (lint-query-call '(t2/select :model/X :key k) 'metabase.foo.db)))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel operator-arity-test
+  (testing "a value operator with an unexpected arity still has its args examined"
+    (is (seq (lint-query-call '(t2/select :model/X {:where [:= :a b c]}) 'metabase.foo.db)))
+    (is (seq (lint-query-call '(t2/select :model/X {:where [:between :a lo hi]}) 'metabase.foo.db)))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel operator-coverage-test
+  (testing "comparison operators HoneySQL accepts as aliases for not= are checked"
+    ;; The set used to list only `not=`, so `[:!= :col v]` -- live in collections/db.clj -- was
+    ;; silently unchecked even though HoneySQL binds it as `<>`.
+    (are [form] (=? [{:message #"`v`.*reaches a SQL value slot unmarked.*"}]
+                    (lint-query-call form 'metabase.foo.db))
+      '(t2/select :model/X {:where [:!= :k v]})
+      '(t2/select :model/X {:where [:<> :k v]})
+      '(t2/select :model/X {:where [:is-distinct-from :k v]})))
+  (testing "a two-value operator reports both values"
+    (is (= 2 (count (lint-query-call '(t2/select :model/X {:where [:not-between :k lo hi]})
+                                     'metabase.foo.db)))))
+  (testing "a value wrapped in a function-call form is reached"
+    ;; `[:lower v]` compiles to `LOWER(?)`, so `v` is a real bind slot.
+    (are [form] (seq (lint-query-call form 'metabase.foo.db))
+      '(t2/select :model/X {:where [:= :k [:lower v]]})
+      '(t2/select :model/X {:where [:= :k [:cast v :text]]})
+      '(t2/select :model/X :k [:lower v])))
+  (testing "values in a literal collection are reached"
+    ;; `[:in :k [a b]]` binds each element -- `IN (?, ?)`.
+    (is (= 2 (count (lint-query-call '(t2/select :model/X {:where [:in :k [a b]]})
+                                     'metabase.foo.db))))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel no-duplicate-findings-test
+  (testing "a multi-arg operator in a kv-arg reports each value exactly once"
+    ;; value-nodes misreads `[:between lo hi]` as a clause (lo as column), while
+    ;; kv-arg-value-nodes reads it correctly, so the walkers overlap on `hi`. Deduping by source
+    ;; position makes that harmless.
+    (is (= 2 (count (lint-query-call '(t2/select :model/X :d [:between lo hi]) 'metabase.foo.db))))
+    (is (= 2 (count (lint-query-call '(t2/delete! :model/X {:d [:between lo hi]})
+                                     'metabase.foo.db)))))
+  (testing "a query map passed where conditions go reports each value once"
+    ;; `{:where ...}` is a query map that value-nodes already walks; treating it as conditions too
+    ;; reported everything twice. Live in mcp/db.clj, metabot/db.clj, testing_api/db.clj.
+    (is (= 1 (count (lint-query-call '(t2/delete! :model/X {:where [:= :k k]}) 'metabase.foo.db))))
+    (is (= 2 (count (lint-query-call '(t2/update! :model/X {:where [:and [:= :a a] [:= :b b]]} {:v 1})
+                                     'metabase.foo.db))))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel two-arity-update-changes-map-test
+  (testing "update!'s lone trailing map is CHANGES, not conditions, so its values are not flagged"
+    ;; Toucan's arglist ends in the changes map. remote_sync/db.clj's mark-all-rsos-synced! is this
+    ;; shape; flagging `written` would ask for a marker on a written value, which the column's
+    ;; `:in` transform stores as data.
+    (is (empty? (lint-query-call '(t2/update! :model/X {:v written}) 'metabase.foo.db))))
+  (testing "delete! has no changes map, so its lone map is always conditions"
+    (is (=? [{:message #"`k`.*"}]
+            (lint-query-call '(t2/delete! :model/X {:k k}) 'metabase.foo.db))))
+  (testing "update!'s FIRST map is still conditions when a changes map follows"
+    (is (=? [{:message #"`k`.*"}]
+            (lint-query-call '(t2/update! :model/X {:k k} {:v 1}) 'metabase.foo.db)))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel identifier-clauses-are-not-value-slots-test
+  (testing "a symbol naming a column or a table is not reported"
+    ;; `value-guard` refuses a marker in these clauses, so reporting one asks for a fix that throws
+    ;; at compile. data_studio/db.clj, task_history/db.clj and permissions/db.clj are written this
+    ;; way. `:select` is the exception: index 0 of its entries is an expression, so it has its own
+    ;; test in expression-entry-clauses-test.
+    (are [form] (empty? (lint-query-call form 'metabase.foo.db))
+      '(t2/query {:select [:*] :from [[union-query :subquery]]})
+      '(t2/query {:select [:*] :from [:t] :order-by [[:sort_key sort-direction]]})
+      '(t2/query {:select [:*] :from [:t] :group-by [group-column]})))
+  (testing "a value nested inside an identifier clause is still reported"
+    (are [form] (=? [{:message #"`v`.*reaches a SQL value slot unmarked.*"}]
+                    (lint-query-call form 'metabase.foo.db))
+      ;; a computed projection is a real comparison
+      '(t2/query {:select [[[:= :engine v] :is_match]] :from [:t]})
+      ;; so is a CASE sort key
+      '(t2/query {:select [:*] :from [:t] :order-by [[[:case [:= :a v] 1 :else 2] :asc]]})
+      ;; a subquery carries its own where clause
+      '(t2/query {:select [:*] :from [[{:select [:*] :from [:u] :where [:= :k v]} :s]]}))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel expression-entry-clauses-test
+  (testing "index 0 of an entry is a value slot, because HoneySQL binds a parameter there"
+    ;; `{:select [[[:auto/param "a"] :k]]}` compiles to `SELECT ? AS "K"`, so `value-guard` accepts
+    ;; a marker there. Treating the whole clause as names would hide a request value.
+    (are [form] (=? [{:type    :metabase/unsafe-app-db-query
+                      :message #"`v`.*reaches a SQL value slot unmarked.*"}]
+                    (lint-query-call form 'metabase.foo.db))
+      '(t2/query {:select [[v :label]] :from [:t]})
+      '(t2/query {:select-distinct [[v :label]] :from [:t]})
+      '(t2/query {:insert-into [:t] :returning [[v :label]]})))
+  (testing "the alias, a bare entry and a table entry are names"
+    ;; `value-guard` refuses a marker in each of these, so asking for one would break the query.
+    (are [form] (empty? (lint-query-call form 'metabase.foo.db))
+      '(t2/query {:select [[:key alias-sym]] :from [:t]})
+      '(t2/query {:select [cols] :from [:t]})
+      '(t2/query {:select [:*] :from [[tbl :x]]})))
+  (testing "a computed projection and a subquery entry still reach their values"
+    (are [form] (=? [{:message #"`v`.*"}] (lint-query-call form 'metabase.foo.db))
+      '(t2/query {:select [[[:= :engine v] :is_match]] :from [:t]})
+      '(t2/query {:select [:*] :from [[{:select [:*] :from [:u] :where [:= :k v]} :s]]}))))
+
+(deftest ^:parallel clause-context-survives-assoc-test
+  (testing "a clause key in an assoc call gives its value the clause context back"
+    ;; task_history/db.clj:174 and five other namespaces build `:order-by` this way. Without this
+    ;; the lint asks for a marker on a column name and on a sort direction, and the fix the message
+    ;; names loses the ordering with no error.
+    (are [form] (empty? (lint-query-call form 'metabase.foo.db))
+      '(t2/query (assoc q :order-by [[sort-column sort-direction] [:id :desc]]))
+      '(t2/query (cond-> q flag (assoc :order-by [[sort-column sort-direction]])))
+      '(t2/query (assoc q :group-by [group-column]))
+      '(t2/query (assoc q :select [[:key alias-sym]]))))
+  (testing "a value clause built the same way is still reported"
+    (is (=? [{:message #"`v`.*"}]
+            (lint-query-call '(t2/query (assoc q :where [:= :k v])) 'metabase.foo.db))))
+  (testing "an expression entry built the same way is still reported"
+    (is (=? [{:message #"`v`.*"}]
+            (lint-query-call '(t2/query (assoc q :select [[v :label]])) 'metabase.foo.db)))))

.cljfmt.edn

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
   "enterprise/backend"
   "bin/build"
   "bin/lint-migrations-file"
+  "bin/load-namespaces"
   "bin/release-list"
   #_"mage/src"
   #_"mage/test"

.codespellrc

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ skip =
     frontend/src/metabase/querying/expressions/tokenizer/lezer.js,
     frontend/src/metabase/query_builder/components/NativeQueryEditor/CodeMirrorEditor/language.ts,
     frontend/src/metabase/static-viz/constants/char-sizes.ts,
-    frontend/src/metabase/visualizations/lib/mapping_codes.ts,
+    frontend/src/metabase/viz-core/lib/mapping_codes.ts,
     frontend/*/mocks/*,
     modules/drivers/mongo/src/metabase/driver/mongo/operators.clj,
     src/metabase/analyze/classifiers/name.clj,

.dependency-cruiser.cjs

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 // imported, vs the *allowed* edges in module-boundaries.mjs). Consumed by
 // .github/scripts/create-test-plan.ts.
 //
-//   bunx depcruise frontend/src enterprise/frontend/src \
+//   bunx depcruise frontend/src enterprise/frontend/src .storybook/preview.tsx \
 //     --config .dependency-cruiser.cjs --output-type json > dependency-graph.json
 
 /** @type {import('dependency-cruiser').IConfiguration} */
@@ -10,10 +10,13 @@ module.exports = {
   options: {
     // Keep only edges between our own source files (drops node_modules etc.),
     // which keeps the JSON small.
-    includeOnly: "^(frontend/src|enterprise/frontend/src)/",
+    includeOnly: "^(frontend/src|enterprise/frontend/src|\\.storybook)/",
 
     doNotFollow: { path: "node_modules" },
 
+    // No rules here, so the cycle and orphan analysis has no consumer and only costs time.
+    skipAnalysisNotInRules: true,
+
     // Resolve the `"*": ["./frontend/src/*", ...]` aliases so bare imports like
     // `metabase/lib/foo` map back to a real file.
     tsConfig: { fileName: "tsconfig.json" },

.env.example

@@ -121,6 +121,9 @@ MB_EDITION="ee"
 # Frontend dev server port (for hot reload). Must match the port used by `yarn build-hot`.
 # MB_FRONTEND_DEV_PORT=8080
 
+# Frontend dev server bind address. Defaults to 127.0.0.1; set 0.0.0.0 to reach it from other devices.
+# MB_FRONTEND_DEV_HOST=127.0.0.1
+
 # 3.2 E2E Local Runner Setup
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -161,3 +164,46 @@ TZ="US/Pacific"
 # DO NOT USE Docker Desktop. Use Orbstack instead. Metabase will fail to connect
 # to the dockerized Mongo QA database otherwise.
 EXPERIMENTAL_DOCKER_DESKTOP_FORCE_QEMU=1
+
+
+# ==============================================================================
+# 4. BACKEND DRIVER TESTS
+# ==============================================================================
+#
+# Connection details for running backend tests against a driver, e.g.
+#   ./bin/test-agent --drivers=snowflake :only '[metabase.foo-test]'
+
+# 4.1 BigQuery
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Service account with BigQuery access in the project. The test user creates and drops the test-data datasets itself.
+# https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/keys-create-delete
+
+# MB_BIGQUERY_CLOUD_SDK_TEST_PROJECT_ID="<project-id>"
+# MB_BIGQUERY_CLOUD_SDK_TEST_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_JSON='{"type": "service_account", ...}'
+# Only for database routing tests
+# MB_BIGQUERY_CLOUD_SDK_TEST_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_JSON_ROUTING='{"type": "service_account", ...}'
+
+# 4.2 Redshift
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Test data is loaded into a unique schema per test run.
+
+# MB_REDSHIFT_TEST_HOST="<cluster>.<id>.<region>.redshift.amazonaws.com"
+# Comma-separated hosts to pick one at random from, instead of MB_REDSHIFT_TEST_HOST
+# MB_REDSHIFT_TEST_HOSTS=""
+# MB_REDSHIFT_TEST_PORT=5439
+# MB_REDSHIFT_TEST_DB="testdb"
+# MB_REDSHIFT_TEST_USER="metabase_ci"
+# MB_REDSHIFT_TEST_PASSWORD="<password>"
+# Only for database routing tests
+# MB_REDSHIFT_TEST_DB_ROUTING="dev"
+
+# 4.3 Snowflake
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Key-pair authentication. The test user creates and drops the test-data databases itself.
+# https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/key-pair-auth
+
+# MB_SNOWFLAKE_TEST_ACCOUNT="<orgname>-<accountname>"
+# MB_SNOWFLAKE_TEST_USER="<username>"
+# MB_SNOWFLAKE_TEST_PRIVATE_KEY="-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\n...\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----"
+# MB_SNOWFLAKE_TEST_WAREHOUSE="<warehouse>"
+# MB_SNOWFLAKE_TEST_ADDITIONAL_OPTIONS=""

.github/CODEOWNERS

@@ -42,13 +42,55 @@ docs/api.json # auto-generated
 docs/configuring-metabase/environment-variables.md # auto-generated
 docs/configuring-metabase/config-template.md # auto-generated
 docs/installation-and-operation/commands.md # auto-generated
+docs/ai/providers.md # auto-generated
+docs/ai/mcp-tools.md # auto-generated
+docs/embedding/sdk/api # auto-generated
+docs/embedding/eajs/snippets # auto-generated
 
 # @metabase/devexp
 .github @metabase/devexp
 
+# These files are left unowned on purpose.
+# They change in most backend PRs, so an owning team would review many changes for little benefit.
+# Ratchet budgets may split per module in future, which would give each module's team its own file.
+# .clj-kondo/ratchets.edn @metabase/devexp
+# .clj-kondo/ratchets-test.edn @metabase/devexp
+# .clj-kondo/config.edn @metabase/devexp
+
 # @metabase/cloud-ops
 src/metabase/analytics/prometheus.clj @metabase/cloud-ops
 
 # @metabase/metabot-frontend
 enterprise/frontend/src/metabase-enterprise/metabot @metabase/metabot-frontend
 frontend/src/metabase/metabot @metabase/metabot-frontend
+
+# @metabase/metabot-backend
+enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/embeddings @metabase/metabot-backend
+enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/entity_retrieval @metabase/metabot-backend
+enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/search @metabase/metabot-backend
+enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/semantic_search @metabase/metabot-backend
+enterprise/backend/test/metabase_enterprise/embeddings @metabase/metabot-backend
+enterprise/backend/test/metabase_enterprise/entity_retrieval @metabase/metabot-backend
+enterprise/backend/test/metabase_enterprise/search @metabase/metabot-backend
+enterprise/backend/test/metabase_enterprise/semantic_search @metabase/metabot-backend
+frontend/src/metabase-types/api/search.ts @metabase/metabot-backend
+frontend/src/metabase/api/search.ts @metabase/metabot-backend
+modules/embedder @metabase/metabot-backend
+src/metabase/embeddings @metabase/metabot-backend
+src/metabase/entity_retrieval @metabase/metabot-backend
+src/metabase/search @metabase/metabot-backend
+test/metabase/embeddings @metabase/metabot-backend
+test/metabase/entity_retrieval @metabase/metabot-backend
+test/metabase/search @metabase/metabot-backend
+
+# @metabase/core-frontend-gadget
+bin/custom-viz @metabase/core-frontend-gadget
+docs/developers-guide/custom-visualizations.md @metabase/core-frontend-gadget
+enterprise/frontend/src/custom-viz @metabase/core-frontend-gadget
+enterprise/frontend/src/metabase-enterprise/api/custom-viz-plugin.ts @metabase/core-frontend-gadget
+enterprise/frontend/src/metabase-enterprise/custom_viz @metabase/core-frontend-gadget
+frontend/src/metabase-types/api/custom-viz-plugin.ts @metabase/core-frontend-gadget
+frontend/src/metabase/plugins/oss/custom-viz.ts @metabase/core-frontend-gadget
+frontend/src/metabase/visualizations/custom-visualizations @metabase/core-frontend-gadget
+frontend/test/__support__/custom-viz-fixtures @metabase/core-frontend-gadget
+.github/workflows/release-custom-viz.yml @metabase/devexp @metabase/core-frontend-gadget

.github/actionlint.yaml

@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ paths:
   # GitHub added parallel steps (`parallel`, `background`, `wait`, `wait-all`,
   # `cancel`) in June 2026, and actionlint 1.7.12 does not know the schema yet:
   # https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-25-actions-steps-can-now-be-run-in-parallel/
+  .github/workflows/backend.yml:
+    ignore:
+      - 'step must run script with "run" section or run action with "uses" section'
   .github/workflows/lint.yml:
     ignore:
       - 'step must run script with "run" section or run action with "uses" section'
+  .github/workflows/pr.checks.yml:
+    ignore:
+      - 'step must run script with "run" section or run action with "uses" section'

.github/actions/collect-profile/action.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+name: Collect profile
+description: >-
+  Attach a flamegraph and per-test wall times to a job whose tests ran under clj-async-profiler.
+  Does nothing when the run was not profiled.
+
+inputs:
+  profiled:
+    required: true
+    description: >-
+      "true" when the test step ran under the profiler. Passed in rather than read from the
+      environment so the decision stays recorded by the step that made it.
+  artifact-name:
+    required: true
+    description: Name for the uploaded artifact. Must be unique across the jobs of one run.
+
+runs:
+  using: "composite"
+  steps:
+    # Unlike a JUnit failure report, these run on a green build too — a suite that passes slowly is
+    # exactly what profiling is for.
+    #
+    # `awk 'NR<=25'` rather than `head -25`: the runner ignores SIGPIPE, so `head` exiting early
+    # leaves `sort` with an EPIPE write error and `pipefail` fails the step. `|| true` covers `grep`
+    # finding no junit files.
+    #
+    # `-r --include` rather than a `target/junit/*.xml` glob: a multi-JVM run nests one directory
+    # per partition under `target/junit`, and a non-recursive glob matches none of it.
+    - name: Summarize test wall times
+      if: ${{ inputs.profiled == 'true' }}
+      continue-on-error: true
+      shell: bash
+      run: |
+        {
+          echo "### Slowest test namespaces (seconds)"
+          echo '```'
+          grep -rh --include='*.xml' '<testsuite' target/junit 2>/dev/null \
+            | sed -E 's|.*<testsuite name="([^"]*)" time="([^"]*)".*|\2 \1|' \
+            | sort -rn | awk 'NR<=25' || true
+          echo '```'
+          echo "### Slowest tests (seconds)"
+          echo '```'
+          grep -rh --include='*.xml' '<testcase' target/junit 2>/dev/null \
+            | sed -E 's|.*classname="([^"]*)" name="([^"]*)" time="([^"]*)".*|\3 \1/\2|' \
+            | sort -rn | awk 'NR<=25' || true
+          echo '```'
+        } >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
+
+    # Only the rendered flamegraph is kept: the raw collapsed stacks it was built from run to
+    # hundreds of MB on a long suite, and are reproducible locally from the same test selection.
+    #
+    # The info-level test log rides along on a green profiled run too. The failure-only log artifact
+    # the test jobs upload is not written when nothing failed, which is exactly the run being profiled.
+    - name: Upload profile
+      if: ${{ inputs.profiled == 'true' }}
+      continue-on-error: true
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
+      with:
+        name: ${{ inputs.artifact-name }}
+        # Globs, because a multi-JVM run nests its junit XML one directory per partition and
+        # names each log `test-log-p<index>.json`. The flamegraphs stay flat, with that same
+        # `p<index>-` prefix.
+        path: |
+          target/clj-async-profiler/results/*flamegraph.html
+          target/junit/**/*.xml
+          logs/test-log*.json
+        retention-days: 14
+        if-no-files-found: warn

.github/actions/create-backport/action.yml

@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ runs:
         COMMIT: ${{ inputs.backport-commit }}
       shell: bash
       run: | # bash
+        source "${{ github.action_path }}/kondo-ratchets.sh"
+
         git config --global user.email "metabase-bot@metabase.com"
         git config --global user.name "Metabase bot"
 
@@ -34,7 +36,7 @@ runs:
         git checkout ${TARGET_BRANCH}
         git fetch --all
         git checkout -b ${BACKPORT_BRANCH}
-        git cherry-pick ${COMMIT} || true
+        cherry_pick_backport "${COMMIT}"
 
         CONFLICT_LIST=$(git ls-files -u)
 
@@ -46,10 +48,7 @@ runs:
           echo "has-conflicts=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
 
           # Add a shell script for resolving conflicts
-          echo "git reset HEAD~1" > ./backport.sh
-          echo "rm ./backport.sh" >> ./backport.sh
-          echo "git cherry-pick ${COMMIT}" >> ./backport.sh
-          echo "echo 'Resolve conflicts and force push this branch.\n\nTo backport translations run: bin/i18n/merge-translations <release-branch>'" >> ./backport.sh
+          write_backport_script "${COMMIT}"
           chmod +x ./backport.sh
           git add ./backport.sh
           git commit -m "Add backport resolution script"
@@ -73,7 +72,7 @@ runs:
 
         git push -u origin ${BACKPORT_BRANCH}
 
-        PR_ARGS=(--base "${TARGET_BRANCH}" --head "${BACKPORT_BRANCH}" --label "was-backported" --assignee "${{ github.event.pull_request.user.login }}" --title "🤖 backported \"${ORIGINAL_TITLE}\"" --body "${PR_BODY}")
+        PR_ARGS=(--base "${TARGET_BRANCH}" --head "${BACKPORT_BRANCH}" --label "was-backported" --assignee "${{ github.event.pull_request.user.login }}" --title "🤖 v${TARGET_VERSION} backported \"${ORIGINAL_TITLE}\"" --body "${PR_BODY}")
         if [ "$CONFLICTS" -gt 0 ]; then
           PR_ARGS+=(--draft)
         fi
@@ -86,14 +85,20 @@ runs:
 
         git checkout ${{ github.sha }}
 
-    - name: Auto approve backport PR
+    # Approving takes a different token than the one that opened the PR: GitHub won't let a token
+    # approve its own pull request.
+    - name: Approve the backport PR
       if: ${{ steps.create_backport_pull_request.outputs.has-conflicts == 'false' }}
-      uses: juliangruber/approve-pull-request-action@68fcc9a5a73b5641cadf757cf99d73720dcb05d0 # v2.1.0
-      with:
-        github-token: ${{ inputs.github-token-2 }}
-        number: ${{ steps.create_backport_pull_request.outputs.backport_pr_number }}
+      run: gh pr review --approve "$PR_NUMBER"
+      shell: bash
+      env:
+        GH_TOKEN: ${{ inputs.github-token-2 }}
+        PR_NUMBER: ${{ steps.create_backport_pull_request.outputs.backport_pr_number }}
 
-    - name: Enable Pull Request Automerge
+    # Merging, though, has to use `github-token` rather than the `GITHUB_TOKEN` that approves: GitHub
+    # starts no workflow run for a push made with `GITHUB_TOKEN`, so an auto-merge enabled with it
+    # lands the backport on the release branch with no CI at all.
+    - name: Merge the backport PR
       if: ${{ steps.create_backport_pull_request.outputs.has-conflicts == 'false' }}
       run: gh pr merge --squash --auto "$PR_NUMBER"
       shell: bash

.github/actions/create-backport/create-backport-test.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,418 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+action_dir=$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)
+cut_release_workflow="$action_dir/../../workflows/cut-release-branch.yml"
+
+# shellcheck source=.github/actions/create-backport/kondo-ratchets.sh
+source "$action_dir/kondo-ratchets.sh"
+
+# Any editor launch fails the run, so a continuation that waits on an editor cannot pass.
+export GIT_EDITOR=false
+
+test_root=
+trap '[ -z "$test_root" ] || rm -rf -- "$test_root"' EXIT
+trap 'exit 129' HUP
+trap 'exit 130' INT
+trap 'exit 143' TERM
+test_root=$(mktemp -d)
+
+active_ratchets='{:ignore-counts {:example 1}}'
+disabled_ratchets=';; Kondo ignore ratchets apply only to master; this release branch opts out.
+;; The test and fixer recognize this explicit opt-out.
+{:disabled true}'
+
+# Coverage:
+#
+# Target state       Incoming change       Other conflict   Expected result
+# -----------------  --------------------  ---------------  ------------------------------------------
+# active ratchets    unrelated file        none             leave ratchets unchanged
+# active ratchets    ratchets              none             install the release opt-out
+# disabled ratchets  ratchets              none             keep the opt-out; finish with an empty commit
+# divergent ratchets ratchets              none             resolve ratchets and finish the cherry-pick
+# divergent ratchets ratchets (on a pty)   none             finish without opening an editor
+# active ratchets    unrelated file        app.txt          leave the conflict for manual resolution
+# divergent ratchets ratchets + app.txt    app.txt          resolve only ratchets
+# active ratchets    test ratchets only    none             disable only the test ratchets file
+# release cut        ratchets              none             cut and backport commit the same opt-out
+# n/a                cut-release workflow  n/a              the workflow calls the shared writer
+# any                invalid commit        n/a              propagate the cherry-pick failure
+# divergent ratchets generated backport.sh app.txt          resolve only ratchets through the manual script
+#
+# Known gaps: an older target with no ratchets file, and an incoming commit that
+# deletes the ratchets file.
+
+test_unrelated_backport_preserves_target_ratchets() (
+  local repo="$test_root/unrelated"
+  init_repo "$repo"
+  local commit
+  commit=$(feature_commit "$repo" change_app)
+  git -C "$repo" checkout -q release
+
+  cd "$repo"
+  cherry_pick_backport "$commit"
+
+  assert_eq feature "$(cat app.txt)" "the unrelated change was not cherry-picked"
+  assert_ratchets "$active_ratchets"
+  assert_cherry_pick_completed
+  assert_worktree_clean
+)
+
+test_clean_ratchet_backport_installs_release_opt_out() (
+  local repo="$test_root/clean-ratchet"
+  init_repo "$repo"
+  local commit
+  commit=$(feature_commit "$repo" change_ratchets)
+  git -C "$repo" checkout -q release
+
+  cd "$repo"
+  cherry_pick_backport "$commit"
+
+  assert_ratchets_disabled
+  assert_cherry_pick_completed
+  assert_worktree_clean
+)
+
+test_disabled_release_absorbs_ratchet_only_backport() (
+  local repo="$test_root/disabled-release"
+  init_repo "$repo"
+  local commit
+  commit=$(feature_commit "$repo" change_ratchets)
+  git -C "$repo" checkout -q release
+  commit_release_change "$repo" disable_release_ratchets "Disable release ratchets"
+
+  cd "$repo"
+  cherry_pick_backport "$commit"
+
+  assert_ratchets_disabled
+  assert_cherry_pick_completed
+  assert_empty_commit
+  assert_worktree_clean
+)
+
+test_ratchet_only_conflict_is_resolved() (
+  local repo="$test_root/ratchet-conflict"
+  init_repo "$repo"
+  local commit
+  commit=$(conflicting_ratchet_commit "$repo")
+
+  cd "$repo"
+  cherry_pick_backport "$commit"
+
+  assert_ratchets_disabled
+  assert_cherry_pick_completed
+  assert_worktree_clean
+)
+
+test_continuation_never_opens_an_editor() (
+  local repo="$test_root/editor"
+  init_repo "$repo"
+  local commit
+  commit=$(conflicting_ratchet_commit "$repo")
+
+  cd "$repo"
+  # Git only opens an editor for the continuation when stdin is a terminal, so run it on a pty. The
+  # exported GIT_EDITOR=false turns any editor launch into a failure. The single quotes are deliberate:
+  # $1 and $2 are for the inner bash, not this shell.
+  # shellcheck disable=SC2016
+  python3 -c 'import os, pty, sys; sys.exit(os.waitstatus_to_exitcode(pty.spawn(sys.argv[1:])))' \
+    bash -c 'source "$1/kondo-ratchets.sh" && cherry_pick_backport "$2"' bash "$action_dir" "$commit" >/dev/null ||
+    fail "the cherry-pick continuation opened an editor"
+
+  assert_ratchets_disabled
+  assert_cherry_pick_completed
+)
+
+test_non_ratchet_conflict_remains_manual() (
+  local repo="$test_root/non-ratchet-conflict"
+  init_repo "$repo"
+  local commit
+  commit=$(feature_commit "$repo" change_app)
+  git -C "$repo" checkout -q release
+  commit_release_change "$repo" change_release_app "Change release app"
+
+  cd "$repo"
+  cherry_pick_backport "$commit"
+
+  assert_ratchets "$active_ratchets"
+  assert_only_conflicts app.txt
+  assert_cherry_pick_pending
+)
+
+test_mixed_conflict_resolves_only_ratchets() (
+  local repo="$test_root/mixed-conflict"
+  init_repo "$repo"
+  local commit
+  commit=$(feature_commit "$repo" change_app_and_ratchets)
+  git -C "$repo" checkout -q release
+  commit_release_change "$repo" change_release_app_and_ratchets "Change release app and ratchets"
+
+  cd "$repo"
+  cherry_pick_backport "$commit"
+
+  assert_ratchets_disabled
+  assert_only_conflicts app.txt
+  assert_cherry_pick_pending
+)
+
+test_test_ratchets_only_backport_disables_only_that_file() (
+  local repo="$test_root/test-ratchet-only"
+  init_repo "$repo"
+  local commit
+  commit=$(feature_commit "$repo" change_test_ratchets)
+  git -C "$repo" checkout -q release
+
+  cd "$repo"
+  cherry_pick_backport "$commit"
+
+  assert_ratchets "$active_ratchets"
+  assert_test_ratchets_disabled
+  assert_cherry_pick_completed
+  assert_worktree_clean
+)
+
+test_release_cut_and_backport_commit_the_same_opt_out() (
+  local cut_repo="$test_root/release-cut"
+  init_repo "$cut_repo"
+  cd "$cut_repo"
+  git checkout -qb release-x.99.x
+  write_disabled_ratchets .clj-kondo/ratchets.edn
+  write_disabled_ratchets .clj-kondo/ratchets-test.edn
+  git add --sparse .clj-kondo/ratchets.edn .clj-kondo/ratchets-test.edn
+  git commit -q --allow-empty --no-verify -m "Cut release-x.99.x branch"
+  git show HEAD:.clj-kondo/ratchets.edn > "$test_root/release-cut.edn"
+  git show HEAD:.clj-kondo/ratchets-test.edn > "$test_root/release-cut-test.edn"
+
+  local backport_repo="$test_root/release-cut-backport"
+  init_repo "$backport_repo"
+  local commit
+  commit=$(feature_commit "$backport_repo" change_both_ratchets)
+  git -C "$backport_repo" checkout -q release
+  cd "$backport_repo"
+  cherry_pick_backport "$commit"
+  git show HEAD:.clj-kondo/ratchets.edn > "$test_root/backport.edn"
+  git show HEAD:.clj-kondo/ratchets-test.edn > "$test_root/backport-test.edn"
+
+  cmp -s "$test_root/release-cut.edn" "$test_root/backport.edn" ||
+    fail "the release cut and the backport committed different prod opt-out files"
+  cmp -s "$test_root/release-cut-test.edn" "$test_root/backport-test.edn" ||
+    fail "the release cut and the backport committed different test opt-out files"
+  assert_eq "$disabled_ratchets" "$(cat "$test_root/release-cut.edn")" \
+    "the release cut did not install the expected prod opt-out"
+  assert_eq "$disabled_ratchets" "$(cat "$test_root/release-cut-test.edn")" \
+    "the release cut did not install the expected test opt-out"
+)
+
+test_cut_release_workflow_uses_the_shared_writer() (
+  grep -Fq 'source .github/actions/create-backport/kondo-ratchets.sh' "$cut_release_workflow" ||
+    fail "the cut-release workflow does not source kondo-ratchets.sh"
+  grep -Fq 'write_disabled_ratchets' "$cut_release_workflow" ||
+    fail "the cut-release workflow does not call write_disabled_ratchets"
+  ! grep -Fq ':disabled' "$cut_release_workflow" ||
+    fail "the cut-release workflow carries its own copy of the opt-out"
+)
+
+test_invalid_commit_failure_is_propagated() (
+  local repo="$test_root/invalid"
+  init_repo "$repo"
+  cd "$repo"
+
+  if cherry_pick_backport deadbeef; then
+    fail "an invalid commit succeeded"
+  fi
+)
+
+test_generated_script_resolves_ratchets_end_to_end() (
+  local repo="$test_root/generated-script"
+  init_repo "$repo"
+  local commit
+  commit=$(feature_commit "$repo" change_app_and_ratchets)
+  git -C "$repo" checkout -q release
+  commit_release_change "$repo" change_release_app_and_ratchets "Change release app and ratchets"
+
+  cd "$repo"
+  cherry_pick_backport "$commit"
+  git cherry-pick --abort
+
+  local release_commit
+  release_commit=$(git rev-parse HEAD)
+  write_backport_script "$commit"
+  chmod +x backport.sh
+  git add backport.sh
+  git commit -qm "Add manual backport script"
+
+  bash -n backport.sh
+  grep -Fq 'write_disabled_ratchets ()' backport.sh || fail "the generated script omitted write_disabled_ratchets"
+  ./backport.sh
+
+  assert_ratchets_disabled
+  assert_only_conflicts app.txt
+  assert_cherry_pick_pending
+  assert_eq "$release_commit" "$(git rev-parse HEAD)" "the generated script did not return HEAD to the release commit"
+  [ ! -e backport.sh ] || fail "the generated script did not remove itself"
+  ! git ls-files --error-unmatch backport.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 || fail "the generated script is still tracked"
+  ! git status --porcelain | grep -q backport.sh || fail "the generated script left a status entry"
+)
+
+# Test harness
+
+fail() {
+  echo "FAIL: $*" >&2
+  exit 1
+}
+
+assert_eq() {
+  local expected=$1
+  local actual=$2
+  local message=$3
+  [ "$expected" = "$actual" ] || fail "$message (expected '$expected', got '$actual')"
+}
+
+assert_ratchets() {
+  assert_eq "$1" "$(cat .clj-kondo/ratchets.edn)" "unexpected ratchet state"
+}
+
+assert_ratchets_disabled() {
+  assert_ratchets "$disabled_ratchets"
+}
+
+assert_test_ratchets() {
+  assert_eq "$1" "$(cat .clj-kondo/ratchets-test.edn)" "unexpected test-ratchet state"
+}
+
+assert_test_ratchets_disabled() {
+  assert_test_ratchets "$disabled_ratchets"
+}
+
+assert_cherry_pick_completed() {
+  ! git rev-parse -q --verify CHERRY_PICK_HEAD >/dev/null || fail "the cherry-pick is still pending"
+}
+
+assert_cherry_pick_pending() {
+  git rev-parse -q --verify CHERRY_PICK_HEAD >/dev/null || fail "the cherry-pick state was lost"
+}
+
+assert_only_conflicts() {
+  local expected
+  local actual
+  expected=$(printf '%s\n' "$@" | sort)
+  actual=$(git diff --name-only --diff-filter=U | sort)
+  assert_eq "$expected" "$actual" "unexpected unresolved files"
+}
+
+assert_empty_commit() {
+  git diff --quiet HEAD^ HEAD || fail "the backport commit was not empty"
+}
+
+assert_worktree_clean() {
+  [ -z "$(git status --porcelain)" ] || fail "the backport left worktree changes"
+}
+
+init_repo() {
+  local repo=$1
+  git init -q -b release "$repo"
+  git -C "$repo" config user.email test@example.com
+  git -C "$repo" config user.name "Backport test"
+  printf 'base\n' > "$repo/app.txt"
+  mkdir -p "$repo/.clj-kondo"
+  printf '%s\n' "$active_ratchets" > "$repo/.clj-kondo/ratchets.edn"
+  printf '%s\n' "$active_ratchets" > "$repo/.clj-kondo/ratchets-test.edn"
+  git -C "$repo" add .
+  git -C "$repo" commit -qm "Base"
+}
+
+feature_commit() {
+  local repo=$1
+  shift
+  git -C "$repo" checkout -qb feature
+  "$@" "$repo"
+  git -C "$repo" add .
+  git -C "$repo" commit -qm "Feature"
+  git -C "$repo" rev-parse HEAD
+}
+
+# Sets up a release branch whose ratchets conflict with the feature commit, and prints that commit.
+conflicting_ratchet_commit() {
+  local repo=$1
+  local commit
+  commit=$(feature_commit "$repo" change_ratchets)
+  git -C "$repo" checkout -q release
+  commit_release_change "$repo" change_release_ratchets "Change release ratchets"
+  echo "$commit"
+}
+
+change_app() {
+  printf 'feature\n' > "$1/app.txt"
+}
+
+change_ratchets() {
+  printf '{:ignore-counts {:example 2}}\n' > "$1/.clj-kondo/ratchets.edn"
+}
+
+change_test_ratchets() {
+  printf '{:ignore-counts {:example 2}}\n' > "$1/.clj-kondo/ratchets-test.edn"
+}
+
+change_both_ratchets() {
+  change_ratchets "$1"
+  change_test_ratchets "$1"
+}
+
+change_app_and_ratchets() {
+  change_app "$1"
+  change_ratchets "$1"
+}
+
+change_release_app() {
+  printf 'release\n' > "$1/app.txt"
+}
+
+change_release_ratchets() {
+  printf '{:ignore-counts {:release 1}}\n' > "$1/.clj-kondo/ratchets.edn"
+}
+
+change_release_app_and_ratchets() {
+  change_release_app "$1"
+  change_release_ratchets "$1"
+}
+
+# Setup writes the opt-out through the shared writer; the only copies are the expected text at the top.
+disable_release_ratchets() {
+  (cd "$1" && write_disabled_ratchets .clj-kondo/ratchets.edn && write_disabled_ratchets .clj-kondo/ratchets-test.edn)
+}
+
+commit_release_change() {
+  local repo=$1
+  local change=$2
+  local message=$3
+  "$change" "$repo"
+  git -C "$repo" add .
+  git -C "$repo" commit -qm "$message"
+}
+
+run_test() {
+  local description=$1
+  local test=${description// /_}
+  test=${test//-/_}
+  test="test_$test"
+
+  declare -F "$test" >/dev/null || fail "missing test function: $test"
+
+  printf 'TEST: %s\n' "$description"
+  "$test"
+  printf 'PASS: %s\n' "$description"
+}
+
+run_test "unrelated backport preserves target ratchets"
+run_test "clean ratchet backport installs release opt-out"
+run_test "disabled release absorbs ratchet-only backport"
+run_test "ratchet-only conflict is resolved"
+run_test "continuation never opens an editor"
+run_test "non-ratchet conflict remains manual"
+run_test "mixed conflict resolves only ratchets"
+run_test "test ratchets only backport disables only that file"
+run_test "release cut and backport commit the same opt-out"
+run_test "cut-release workflow uses the shared writer"
+run_test "invalid commit failure is propagated"
+run_test "generated script resolves ratchets end-to-end"

.github/actions/create-backport/kondo-ratchets.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+# The only place that knows what a release branch's opt-out looks like. The cut-release workflow, the
+# backport helper, and the tests all go through this function.
+write_disabled_ratchets() {
+  local file=$1
+  mkdir -p "$(dirname "$file")"
+  printf '%s\n' \
+    ';; Kondo ignore ratchets apply only to master; this release branch opts out.' \
+    ';; The test and fixer recognize this explicit opt-out.' \
+    '{:disabled true}' \
+    > "$file"
+}
+
+disable_ratchets() {
+  local commit=$1
+  local file
+  local disabled_any=
+  for file in .clj-kondo/ratchets.edn .clj-kondo/ratchets-test.edn; do
+    [ -n "$(git diff-tree --root --no-commit-id --name-only -r "$commit" -- "$file")" ] || continue
+
+    echo "$file: disabling kondo ratchets on the release branch"
+    write_disabled_ratchets "$file"
+    git add -- "$file"
+    disabled_any=1
+  done
+  [ -n "$disabled_any" ] || return 0
+
+  if ! git rev-parse -q --verify CHERRY_PICK_HEAD >/dev/null; then
+    if ! git diff --cached --quiet HEAD; then
+      git commit --amend --no-edit
+    fi
+    return 0
+  fi
+
+  if [ -z "$(git ls-files -u)" ]; then
+    echo "disabled ratchet file(s) were the only conflict, finishing the cherry-pick"
+    if git diff --cached --quiet HEAD; then
+      echo "nothing left to apply, committing the backport empty"
+      git commit --allow-empty --no-edit
+    else
+      # GIT_EDITOR outranks core.editor, VISUAL, and EDITOR, so the continuation can never wait on
+      # an editor; the repository's own editor configuration is left alone.
+      GIT_EDITOR=true git cherry-pick --continue
+    fi
+  fi
+}
+
+cherry_pick_backport() {
+  local commit=$1
+  local status=0
+  git cherry-pick "$commit" || status=$?
+  if [ "$status" -ne 0 ] && ! git rev-parse -q --verify CHERRY_PICK_HEAD >/dev/null; then
+    echo "cherry-pick failed without entering a resolvable conflict state" >&2
+    return "$status"
+  fi
+
+  disable_ratchets "$commit"
+  if [ "$status" -ne 0 ] &&
+     git rev-parse -q --verify CHERRY_PICK_HEAD >/dev/null &&
+     [ -z "$(git ls-files -u)" ]; then
+    echo "cherry-pick stopped without a file conflict to resolve" >&2
+    return "$status"
+  fi
+}
+
+write_backport_script() {
+  local commit=$1
+  {
+    echo "#!/usr/bin/env bash"
+    echo "set -euo pipefail"
+    echo "git reset HEAD~1"
+    echo "rm ./backport.sh"
+    declare -f write_disabled_ratchets disable_ratchets cherry_pick_backport
+    printf 'cherry_pick_backport %q\n' "$commit"
+    printf '%s\n' "printf 'Resolve conflicts and force push this branch.\\n\\nTo backport translations run: bin/i18n/merge-translations <release-branch>\\n'"
+  } > ./backport.sh
+}

.github/actions/create-test-plan/action.yml

@@ -1,48 +1,34 @@
-name: Create test plan
-description: Cruise the frontend import graph and compute the affected-tests plan.
+name: Create frontend test plan
+description: Compute the affected-tests plan for the changed files.
 
 inputs:
-  changed-files:
-    description: All changed files (CSV).
-    required: true
-  fe-changed-files:
-    description: Changed frontend_sources files (CSV).
-    required: true
-  be-changed-files:
-    description: Changed backend_sources files (CSV).
-    required: true
-  unit-infra-touched:
-    description: Whether FE unit infra changed.
-    required: true
-  loki-infra-touched:
-    description: Whether Loki infra changed.
-    required: true
-  e2e-infra-touched:
-    description: Whether e2e harness/support code changed.
-    required: true
-  shared-sources-touched:
-    description: Whether cljc/cljs/package.json changed.
-    required: true
+  stats-url:
+    description: Endpoint that stores the affected-tests stats row.
+    required: false
+    default: ''
+  stats-api-key:
+    description: API key for stats-url.
+    required: false
+    default: ''
 
 outputs:
-  stats:
-    description: FE Affected Tests stats row (JSON).
-    value: ${{ steps.compute.outputs.stats }}
-  fe_unit_specs_to_run:
-    description: Unit specs to run (JSON array).
-    value: ${{ steps.compute.outputs.fe_unit_specs_to_run }}
-  loki_stories_to_run:
-    description: Loki stories to run (JSON array).
-    value: ${{ steps.compute.outputs.loki_stories_to_run }}
-  e2e_specs_to_run:
-    description: E2E specs to run (JSON array).
-    value: ${{ steps.compute.outputs.e2e_specs_to_run }}
+  artifact-id:
+    description: Artifact containing test-plan.json for this run.
+    value: ${{ steps.upload.outputs.artifact-id }}
 
 runs:
   using: composite
   steps:
-    - name: Prepare Node + Bun
-      uses: ./.github/actions/prepare-node-bun
+    # The action reads the diff itself, so a caller hands it no file lists.
+    - name: Test which files changed
+      id: changes
+      uses: dorny/paths-filter@fbd0ab8f3e69293af611ebaee6363fc25e6d187d # v4.0.1
+      with:
+        token: ${{ github.token }}
+        list-files: csv
+        filters: .github/file-paths.yaml
+    - name: Prepare front-end environment
+      uses: ./.github/actions/prepare-frontend
     - name: Resolve closest-ancestor e2e coverage manifest
       id: manifest
       uses: actions/github-script@v9
@@ -61,40 +47,35 @@ runs:
             headSha: context.payload.pull_request?.head?.sha ?? context.sha,
           });
           core.setOutput("path", result?.path ?? "");
-    - name: Build dependency graph
-      shell: bash
-      run: |
-        # Quiet on success; surface output only if install fails.
-        bun install --frozen-lockfile > /tmp/bun-install.log 2>&1 \
-          || { echo "bun install issues (continuing):"; tail -20 /tmp/bun-install.log; }
-        bunx depcruise frontend/src enterprise/frontend/src \
-          --config .dependency-cruiser.cjs \
-          --output-type json > dependency-graph.json || true
-
     - name: Create test plan
       id: compute
       shell: bash
       env:
-        CHANGED_FILES: ${{ inputs.changed-files }}
-        FE_CHANGED_FILES: ${{ inputs.fe-changed-files }}
-        BE_CHANGED_FILES: ${{ inputs.be-changed-files }}
-        UNIT_INFRA_TOUCHED: ${{ inputs.unit-infra-touched }}
-        LOKI_INFRA_TOUCHED: ${{ inputs.loki-infra-touched }}
-        E2E_INFRA_TOUCHED: ${{ inputs.e2e-infra-touched }}
-        SHARED_SOURCES_TOUCHED: ${{ inputs.shared-sources-touched }}
-        DEP_GRAPH_JSON: dependency-graph.json
+        CHANGED_FILES: ${{ steps.changes.outputs.all_changed_files }}
+        FE_CHANGED_FILES: ${{ steps.changes.outputs.frontend_sources_files }}
+        BE_CHANGED_FILES: ${{ steps.changes.outputs.backend_sources_files }}
+        UNIT_INFRA_TOUCHED: ${{ steps.changes.outputs.frontend_unit_infra }}
+        LOKI_INFRA_TOUCHED: ${{ steps.changes.outputs.frontend_loki_infra }}
+        E2E_INFRA_TOUCHED: ${{ steps.changes.outputs.e2e_infra }}
+        SHARED_SOURCES_TOUCHED: ${{ steps.changes.outputs.shared_sources }}
         E2E_SPEC_MANIFEST: ${{ steps.manifest.outputs.path }}
       run: |
         # stdout is the plan JSON; the planner's own info logs go to stderr.
+        # The planner writes this step's GITHUB_OUTPUT entries.
         bun .github/scripts/create-test-plan.ts > test-plan.json
-        echo "stats=$(jq -c '.stats' test-plan.json)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-        echo "fe_unit_specs_to_run=$(jq -c '.fe_unit_specs_to_run' test-plan.json)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-        echo "loki_stories_to_run=$(jq -c '.loki_stories_to_run' test-plan.json)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-        echo "e2e_specs_to_run=$(jq -c '.e2e_specs_to_run' test-plan.json)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+    - name: Upload test plan
+      id: upload
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
+      with:
+        name: test-plan-${{ github.run_id }}-${{ github.run_attempt }}
+        path: test-plan.json
+        if-no-files-found: error
+        retention-days: 7
 
     - name: Report test plan
       shell: bash
-      run: |
+      run: | # sh
         plan=test-plan.json
         row() { # name, selected, total
           if [ "$2" -eq "$3" ]; then echo "| $1 | all ($3) | $3 |"; else echo "| $1 | $2 | $3 |"; fi
@@ -110,6 +91,10 @@ runs:
           echo
           echo "Changed: $(jq '.stats.fe_files_changed' "$plan") FE / $(jq '.stats.be_files_changed' "$plan") BE file(s) · $(jq '.stats.fe_modules_affected_usage' "$plan") FE module(s) affected"
           echo
+          if [ "$(jq '.stats.loki_preview_touched' "$plan")" = "true" ]; then
+            echo "**Loki: full run**: a file the Storybook preview imports changed."
+            echo
+          fi
           e2e_run=$(jq '.stats.e2e_specs_to_run_usage' "$plan")
           e2e_all=$(jq '.stats.e2e_specs_all' "$plan")
           if [ "$e2e_run" -eq "$e2e_all" ]; then
@@ -129,3 +114,20 @@ runs:
           echo '```'
           echo "</details>"
         } | tee -a "${GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY:-/dev/null}"
+
+    # Only land rows for PRs from the upstream repo so forks don't pollute the table. Best-effort:
+    # a failed upload must not cost us the plan.
+    - name: Upload affected tests stats
+      if: >-
+        ${{ inputs.stats-url != ''
+        && github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name == 'metabase/metabase' }}
+      continue-on-error: true
+      shell: bash
+      env:
+        STATS_JSON: ${{ steps.compute.outputs.stats }}
+        PR_NUMBER: ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
+        HEAD_SHA: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
+        BASE_SHA: ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}
+        ENG_STATS_URL: ${{ inputs.stats-url }}
+        API_KEY: ${{ inputs.stats-api-key }}
+      run: bun .github/scripts/upload-affected-tests-stats.ts

.github/actions/cross-branch-migration-test/action.yml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ runs:
   steps:
     ## First we deploy the base branch
     - name: Check out base branch
-      uses: actions/checkout@v6
+      uses: actions/checkout@v7
       with:
         ref: ${{ inputs.base-ref }}
 
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ runs:
 
     ## Then we deploy the PR branch to ensure it migrates up successfully
     - name: Check out pull request branch
-      uses: actions/checkout@v6
+      uses: actions/checkout@v7
       with:
         ref: ${{ inputs.head-ref }}
 
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ runs:
       shell: bash
 
     - name: Re-check out base branch
-      uses: actions/checkout@v6
+      uses: actions/checkout@v7
       with:
         ref: ${{ inputs.base-ref }}
 

.github/actions/e2e-prepare-containers/action.yml

@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ inputs:
     description: OpenLDAP container
     required: true
     default: false
+  mocksaml:
+    description: Mock SAML container
+    required: true
+    default: false
   postgres:
     description: Postgres container
     required: true
@@ -73,6 +77,7 @@ runs:
         [ "${{ inputs.mongo }}" = true ] && SERVICES+=(mongo-sample)
         [ "${{ inputs.maildev }}" = true ] && SERVICES+=(maildev maildev-ssl)
         [ "${{ inputs.openldap }}" = true ] && SERVICES+=(ldap)
+        [ "${{ inputs.mocksaml }}" = true ] && SERVICES+=(saml-idp)
         [ "${{ inputs.webhook }}" = true ] && SERVICES+=(webhook-tester)
         [ "${{ inputs.snowplow }}" = true ] && SERVICES+=(snowplow-micro)
 
@@ -93,8 +98,8 @@ runs:
 
         if ${{ inputs.maildev }}; then
           echo -e "${Y}checking maildev container..." &&
-          while ! nc -z localhost 1080; do sleep 1; done &&
-          while ! nc -z localhost 1025; do sleep 1; done &&
+          while ! nc -z localhost 1180; do sleep 1; done &&
+          while ! nc -z localhost 1125; do sleep 1; done &&
           echo -e "${G}Maildev is up and running!"
 
           echo -e "${Y}checking maildev-ssl container..." &&
@@ -109,6 +114,12 @@ runs:
           echo -e "${G}Openldap is up and running!"
         fi
 
+        if ${{ inputs.mocksaml }}; then
+          echo -e "${Y}checking mock saml container..." &&
+          while ! nc -z localhost 8090; do sleep 1; done &&
+          echo -e "${G}Mock SAML is up and running!"
+        fi
+
         if ${{ inputs.postgres }}; then
           echo -e "${Y}checking postgres container..." &&
           while ! nc -z localhost 5404; do sleep 1; done &&

.github/actions/fetch-artifact/action.yml

@@ -20,6 +20,15 @@ inputs:
     description: Directory path where the jar should be extracted (defaults to current directory)
     required: false
     default: "."
+  download:
+    description: Default is true. Set to false to only look the artifact up and report `fetch-hit`.
+    required: false
+    default: "true"
+
+outputs:
+  fetch-hit:
+    description: Boolean indicating if an artifact was successfully found and downloaded.
+    value: ${{ steps.find_release_artifact.outputs.fetch-hit }}
 
 runs:
   using: "composite"
@@ -28,11 +37,12 @@ runs:
       id: find_release_artifact
       uses: actions/github-script@v9
       with:
-        result-encoding: string
         script: | # js
           const fs = require('fs');
 
           const isRelease = "${{ inputs.release }}" === "true";
+          const failOnMiss = "${{ inputs.fail-on-fetch-miss }}" !== "false";
+          const shouldDownload = "${{ inputs.download }}" !== "false";
           const prefix = isRelease ? "metabase-release" : "metabase";
           const artifactName = `${prefix}-${{ inputs.edition }}-${{ inputs.commit }}-uberjar`;
           console.log(`Looking for artifact: ${artifactName}`);
@@ -44,12 +54,18 @@ runs:
             per_page: 1,
           });
 
-          if (!artifacts.data?.artifacts?.[0]?.id) {
-            core.setFailed(`No artifacts found for ${artifactName}`);
-            return;
+          const artifact_id = artifacts.data?.artifacts?.[0]?.id;
+
+          if (!artifact_id) {
+            core.setOutput('fetch-hit', 'false');
+          } else {
+            core.setOutput('fetch-hit', 'true');
           }
 
-          const artifact_id = artifacts.data.artifacts[0].id;
+          if (!shouldDownload) {
+            console.log(`skipping download (download: false)`);
+            return;
+          }
 
           let download;
           const maxAttempts = 3;
@@ -74,6 +90,7 @@ runs:
           fs.writeFileSync(`${process.env.GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/mb.zip`, Buffer.from(download.data));
 
     - name: Extract and rename JAR
+      if: ${{ steps.find_release_artifact.outputs.fetch-hit == 'true' && inputs.download != 'false' }}
       shell: bash
       run: | # bash
         OUTPUT_NAME="${{ inputs.output-name }}"
@@ -119,12 +136,14 @@ runs:
         fi
 
     - name: Verify that this is a valid JAR file
+      if: ${{ steps.find_release_artifact.outputs.fetch-hit == 'true' && inputs.download != 'false' }}
       shell: bash
       run: |
         echo "Verifying JAR at: $JAR_PATH"
         file --mime-type "$JAR_PATH"
 
     - name: Reveal its version.properties
+      if: ${{ steps.find_release_artifact.outputs.fetch-hit == 'true' && inputs.download != 'false' }}
       shell: bash
       run: |
         echo "Extracting version.properties from: $JAR_PATH"

.github/actions/get-cache-keys/action.yml

@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-name: Get cache keys
-description: |
-  Get deterministic cache keys for Maven and Node.js caches based on the centrally controlled cache prefix,
-  and the suffix based on the runner OS and the current week of the year.
-
-outputs:
-  m2-cache-key:
-    description: "The cache key for the Maven cache."
-    value: ${{ steps.keys-factory.outputs.m2-cache-key }}
-  m2-restore-key:
-    description: "The fallback restore key prefix for the Maven cache."
-    value: ${{ steps.keys-factory.outputs.m2-restore-key }}
-  node-cache-key:
-    description: "The cache key for the Node.js cache."
-    value: ${{ steps.keys-factory.outputs.node-cache-key }}
-  node-restore-key:
-    description: "The fallback restore key prefix for the Node.js cache."
-    value: ${{ steps.keys-factory.outputs.node-restore-key }}
-  eslint-cache-key:
-    description: "The cache key for Eslint cache"
-    value: ${{ steps.keys-factory.outputs.eslint-cache-key }}
-  cypress-cache-key:
-    description: "The cache key for Cypress cache"
-    value: ${{ steps.keys-factory.outputs.cypress-cache-key }}
-
-runs:
-  using: "composite"
-  steps:
-    - name: Generate and output cache keys
-      id: keys-factory
-      run: |
-        M2_CACHE_PREFIX='M2'
-        NODE_CACHE_PREFIX='node-modules'
-        ESLINT_CACHE_PREFIX='eslint'
-        CYPRESS_CACHE_PREFIX='cypress'
-        WEEK_OF_YEAR=$(/bin/date "+%G-%V")
-        CACHE_SUFFIX="${{ runner.os }}-$WEEK_OF_YEAR"
-
-        echo "m2-cache-key=$M2_CACHE_PREFIX-$CACHE_SUFFIX" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-        echo "m2-restore-key=$M2_CACHE_PREFIX-" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-        echo "node-cache-key=$NODE_CACHE_PREFIX-$CACHE_SUFFIX" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-        echo "node-restore-key=$NODE_CACHE_PREFIX-" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-        echo "eslint-cache-key=$ESLINT_CACHE_PREFIX-$CACHE_SUFFIX" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-        echo "cypress-cache-key=$CYPRESS_CACHE_PREFIX-$CACHE_SUFFIX" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-      shell: bash

.github/actions/get-docker-info/action.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,19 @@
 name: Get Docker Info
-description: Determines Docker repository and tag based on branch and edition
+description: Determines the registry, repository, and tag a container image is pushed to.
 
 inputs:
+  registry:
+    description: Registry the image is pushed to, either "docker" or "ecr".
+    required: false
+    default: docker
+  repo:
+    description: Repository name, e.g. "metabase-enterprise". Overrides a branch derived repo.
+    required: false
+    default: ''
+  tag:
+    description:  Image tag, e.g. v1.87.2. Overrides a branch derived tag.
+    required: false
+    default: ''
   branch:
     description: Branch name (defaults to current branch)
     required: false
@@ -10,14 +22,22 @@ inputs:
     description: Edition (ee or oss)
     required: false
     default: ee
-  owner:
-    description: Repository owner (defaults to current repo owner)
+  aws-account-id:
+    description: AWS account id hosting the ECR registry. Required for the ecr registry.
     required: false
-    default: ${{ github.repository_owner }}
+    default: ''
+  aws-region:
+    description: Region of the ECR registry.
+    required: false
+    default: us-east-1
+  dockerhub-owner:
+    description: DockerHub owner.
+    required: false
+    default: metabase
 
 outputs:
   repo:
-    description: Docker repository name
+    description: Docker repository, including the registry host (ecr) or the owner (docker)
     value: ${{ steps.docker-info.outputs.repo }}
   tag:
     description: Docker tag
@@ -25,9 +45,6 @@ outputs:
   full_image:
     description: Full Docker image name (repo:tag)
     value: ${{ steps.docker-info.outputs.full_image }}
-  editions:
-    description: JSON array of editions to build
-    value: ${{ steps.docker-info.outputs.editions }}
 
 runs:
   using: "composite"
@@ -35,40 +52,49 @@ runs:
     - name: Determine Docker info
       id: docker-info
       uses: actions/github-script@v9
+      env:
+        REGISTRY: ${{ inputs.registry }}
+        REPO: ${{ inputs.repo }}
+        TAG: ${{ inputs.tag }}
+        BRANCH: ${{ inputs.branch }}
+        EDITION: ${{ inputs.edition }}
+        AWS_ACCOUNT_ID: ${{ inputs.aws-account-id }}
+        AWS_REGION: ${{ inputs.aws-region }}
+        DOCKERHUB_OWNER: ${{ inputs.dockerhub-owner }}
       with:
         script: | # js
-          const branch = '${{ inputs.branch }}';
-          const edition = '${{ inputs.edition }}';
-          const owner = '${{ inputs.owner }}';
+          const { REGISTRY, OWNER, BRANCH, EDITION, AWS_ACCOUNT_ID, AWS_REGION, DOCKERHUB_OWNER } = process.env;
 
-          console.log(`Determining Docker info for branch: ${branch}, edition: ${edition}`);
-
-          let repo, tag, editions;
-
-          if (branch === 'master') {
-            // Master builds both editions with specific repos
-            editions = ['ee', 'oss'];
-            tag = 'latest';
-
-            if (edition === 'ee') {
-              repo = `${owner}/metabase-enterprise-head`;
-            } else {
-              repo = `${owner}/metabase-head`;
-            }
-          } else {
-            // All other branches only build EE to metabase-dev
-            editions = ['ee'];
-            tag = branch.replaceAll('/', '-'); // slashes make docker sad
-            repo = `${owner}/metabase-dev`;
+          let tag = process.env.TAG;
+          if (!tag) {
+            tag = BRANCH === 'master' ? 'latest' : `${BRANCH.replaceAll('/', '-')}-${EDITION}`;
           }
 
-          const fullImage = `${repo}:${tag}`;
+          let name = process.env.REPO;
+          if (!name) {
+            if (BRANCH === 'master') {
+              name = EDITION === 'ee' ? 'metabase-enterprise-head' : 'metabase-head';
+            } else {
+              name = 'metabase-dev';
+            }
+          }
+
+          let repo;
+          if (REGISTRY === 'ecr') {
+            if (!AWS_ACCOUNT_ID) {
+              core.setFailed('Pushing to AWS ECR requires aws-account-id to be set.');
+              return;
+            }
+            repo = `${AWS_ACCOUNT_ID}.dkr.ecr.${AWS_REGION}.amazonaws.com/${name}`;
+          } else if (REGISTRY === 'docker') {
+            repo = `${DOCKERHUB_OWNER}/${name}`;
+          } else {
+            core.setFailed(`Unknown registry "${REGISTRY}", expected "docker" or "ecr".`);
+            return;
+          }
 
-          // Set outputs
           core.setOutput('repo', repo);
           core.setOutput('tag', tag);
-          core.setOutput('full_image', fullImage);
-          core.setOutput('editions', JSON.stringify(editions));
+          core.setOutput('full_image', `${repo}:${tag}`);
 
-          console.log(`Docker image: ${fullImage}`);
-          console.log(`Editions: ${JSON.stringify(editions)}`);
+          console.log(`Resolved: registry = ${REGISTRY}, repo = ${repo}, tag = ${tag}`);

.github/actions/prepare-backend/action.yml

@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ inputs:
   java-version:
     required: true
     default: "25"
-  clojure-version:
-    required: true
-    default: "1.12.0.1488"
 
 runs:
   using: "composite"
@@ -17,12 +14,40 @@ runs:
       with:
         java-version: ${{ inputs.java-version }}
         distribution: "temurin"
+    - name: Cache spec
+      id: cache-spec
+      shell: bash
+      run: .github/scripts/cache-keys.sh | tee -a "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+    - name: Restore Clojure CLI
+      uses: actions/cache/restore@v5
+      with:
+        path: ${{ steps.cache-spec.outputs.clojure-path }}
+        key: ${{ steps.cache-spec.outputs.clojure-key }}
+
     - name: Install Clojure CLI
       shell: bash
+      env:
+        CLOJURE_PREFIX: ${{ steps.cache-spec.outputs.clojure-path }}
+        CLOJURE_VERSION: ${{ steps.cache-spec.outputs.clojure-version }}
       run: |
+        set -uo pipefail
+        echo "$CLOJURE_PREFIX/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"
+        export PATH="$CLOJURE_PREFIX/bin:$PATH"
+
+        # Whether the prefix already holds the right install is decided by running it, not by the
+        # cache-hit flag. The installer bakes the prefix into the clj/clojure shims, so a tree restored
+        # under a different $HOME points at a directory that is not there; and on a runner that is not
+        # ephemeral, a previous version's prefix outlives the cache entry that stopped matching it.
+        if clojure --version | grep -qF "$CLOJURE_VERSION"; then
+          clojure --version
+          exit 0
+        fi
+
+        cd "$RUNNER_TEMP"
         for attempt in 1 2 3; do
-          curl --retry 3 --retry-delay 5 --fail -O https://download.clojure.org/install/linux-install-${{ inputs.clojure-version }}.sh \
-            && sudo bash ./linux-install-${{ inputs.clojure-version }}.sh \
+          curl --retry 3 --retry-delay 5 --fail -O "https://download.clojure.org/install/linux-install-$CLOJURE_VERSION.sh" \
+            && bash "./linux-install-$CLOJURE_VERSION.sh" --prefix "$CLOJURE_PREFIX" \
             && break
           echo "::warning::Clojure install attempt $attempt failed, retrying in 10s..."
           sleep 10
@@ -32,10 +57,6 @@ runs:
           exit 1
         fi
 
-    - name: Get M2 cache key
-      uses: ./.github/actions/get-cache-keys
-      id: get-cache-keys
-
     - name: Install uv (for Python package installation)
       uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@08807647e7069bb48b6ef5acd8ec9567f424441b # v8.1.0
       with:
@@ -46,11 +67,6 @@ runs:
     - name: Restore M2 cache
       uses: actions/cache/restore@v5
       with:
-        path: |
-          ~/.m2
-          ~/.gitlibs
-          ~/.deps.clj
-          bin/bb
-        key: ${{ steps.get-cache-keys.outputs.m2-cache-key }}
-        restore-keys: |
-          ${{ steps.get-cache-keys.outputs.m2-restore-key }}
+        path: ${{ steps.cache-spec.outputs.m2-path }}
+        key: ${{ steps.cache-spec.outputs.m2-key }}
+        restore-keys: ${{ steps.cache-spec.outputs.m2-restore-key }}

.github/actions/prepare-ci-conductor/action.yml

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ runs:
     # Anything headed for master runs master's own sources, so a PR can test its own changes.
     - name: Fetch ci-conductor sources from master
       if: ${{ github.base_ref != 'master' && github.ref_name != 'master' }}
-      uses: actions/checkout@v6
+      uses: actions/checkout@v7
       with:
         repository: metabase/metabase
         ref: master

.github/actions/prepare-cypress/action.yml

@@ -25,15 +25,17 @@ runs:
         chrome-version: 144
       id: setup-chrome
 
-    - name: Get cache keys
-      uses: ./.github/actions/get-cache-keys
-      id: get-cache-keys
+    - name: Cache spec
+      id: cache-spec
+      shell: bash
+      run: .github/scripts/cache-keys.sh | tee -a "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
 
-    - name: Get Cypress cache
+    - name: Restore Cypress binary
       uses: actions/cache/restore@v5
       with:
-        path: ~/.cache/Cypress
-        key: ${{ steps.get-cache-keys.outputs.cypress-cache-key }}
+        path: ${{ steps.cache-spec.outputs.cypress-path }}
+        key: ${{ steps.cache-spec.outputs.cypress-key }}
+        restore-keys: ${{ steps.cache-spec.outputs.cypress-restore-key }}
 
     - name: Ensure that Cypress executable is ready
       run: |

.github/actions/prepare-frontend/action.yml

@@ -16,50 +16,38 @@ runs:
       with:
         node-version: ${{ inputs.node-version }}
 
-    - name: Get cache keys
-      uses: ./.github/actions/get-cache-keys
-      id: get-cache-keys
-
-    - name: Restore M2 cache
-      uses: actions/cache/restore@v5
-      with:
-        path: |
-          ~/.m2
-          ~/.gitlibs
-        key: ${{ steps.get-cache-keys.outputs.m2-cache-key }}
-        restore-keys: |
-          ${{ steps.get-cache-keys.outputs.m2-restore-key }}
-
-    - name: Get bun cache directory
-      id: bun-cache
-      run: |
-        BUN_CACHE_DIR=$(bun pm cache)
-        echo "Bun cache directory: $BUN_CACHE_DIR"
-        echo "dir=$BUN_CACHE_DIR" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+    - name: Cache spec
+      id: cache-spec
       shell: bash
+      run: .github/scripts/cache-keys.sh | tee -a "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
 
-    - name: Restore node_modules cache
+    # The spec names the store path rather than discovering it, so that a job can restore the cache
+    # before bun exists. Exported job-wide rather than per-step because every later bun invocation has
+    # to resolve against the same store. Confirm bun agreed: if the variable stopped taking effect, bun
+    # would fill its default directory and the cache would silently save an empty tree.
+    - name: Point bun at the cached store
+      shell: bash
+      env:
+        STORE: ${{ steps.cache-spec.outputs.bun-store-path }}
+      run: |
+        echo "BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR=$STORE" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+        ACTUAL=$(BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR="$STORE" bun pm cache)
+        if [ "$ACTUAL" != "$STORE" ]; then
+          echo "::error::bun reports its store at $ACTUAL, not $STORE; BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR is not taking effect"
+          exit 1
+        fi
+
+    - name: Restore bun store
       uses: actions/cache/restore@v5
-      id: node-modules-cache
       with:
-        path: |
-          ${{ steps.bun-cache.outputs.dir }}
-          node_modules
-        key: ${{ steps.get-cache-keys.outputs.node-cache-key }}
-        restore-keys: |
-          ${{ steps.get-cache-keys.outputs.node-restore-key }}
+        path: ${{ steps.cache-spec.outputs.bun-store-path }}
+        key: ${{ steps.cache-spec.outputs.bun-store-key }}
+        restore-keys: ${{ steps.cache-spec.outputs.bun-store-restore-key }}
 
     # postinstall lifecycle hook can be dangerous in CI so we only run it locally (see package.json)
     # If a job wants to patch packages, it does so explicitly in the CI. This setting is opt-out.
-    # For example, we never want to cache node_modules with patches already applied so cache-generator.yml skips that step.
-    - name: Clean install
-      # Remove the restored node_modules before installing. The os-week cache can
-      # carry a stale tree (for example a different React major), and
-      # `--frozen-lockfile` alone does not prune it. Rebuilding from the cached bun
-      # store gives an exact, lockfile-correct node_modules with no extra download.
-      run: |
-        rm -rf node_modules
-        bun install --frozen-lockfile
+    - name: Install front-end dependencies
+      run: bun install --frozen-lockfile
       shell: bash
     - name: Patch frontend dependencies
       if: inputs.apply-patches == 'true'

.github/actions/prepare-shoppy-e2e/action.yml

@@ -14,21 +14,6 @@ inputs:
   staging-mb-all-features-token:
     description: "Staging MB all features token"
     required: true
-  shoppy-iam-role:
-    description: "Shoppy IAM role for AWS credentials"
-    required: true
-  shoppy-metabase-app-db-s3-bucket:
-    description: "S3 bucket for Shoppy app DB dump"
-    required: true
-  shoppy-metabase-app-db-s3-key:
-    description: "S3 key for Shoppy app DB dump"
-    required: true
-  shoppy-metabase-app-db-user:
-    description: "Shoppy Metabase app DB user"
-    required: true
-  shoppy-metabase-app-db-database:
-    description: "Shoppy Metabase app DB database"
-    required: true
   metastore-dev-server-url:
     description: "Metastore dev server URL"
     required: true
@@ -93,20 +78,6 @@ runs:
           echo "sample_app_branch_exists=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
         fi
 
-    - name: Configure AWS credentials
-      if: ${{ steps.check-sample-app-branch.outputs.sample_app_branch_exists == 'true' }}
-      uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@d979d5b3a71173a29b74b5b88418bfda9437d885
-      with:
-        role-to-assume: ${{ inputs.shoppy-iam-role }}
-        role-session-name: GitHub_to_AWS_via_FederatedOIDC
-        aws-region: us-east-1
-
-    - name: Download Shoppy's App DB PostgreSQL dump from S3
-      if: ${{ steps.check-sample-app-branch.outputs.sample_app_branch_exists == 'true' }}
-      shell: bash
-      run: |
-        aws s3 cp s3://${{ inputs.shoppy-metabase-app-db-s3-bucket }}/${{ inputs.shoppy-metabase-app-db-s3-key }} ./e2e/tmp/db_dumps/shoppy_metabase_app_db_dump.sql
-
     - name: Prepare and launch Shoppy containers
       if: ${{ steps.check-sample-app-branch.outputs.sample_app_branch_exists == 'true' }}
       shell: bash
@@ -115,8 +86,6 @@ runs:
         SAMPLE_APP_ENVIRONMENT: ${{ inputs.sample-app-environment }}
         CYPRESS_MB_ALL_FEATURES_TOKEN: ${{ inputs.staging-mb-all-features-token }}
         METASTORE_DEV_SERVER_URL: ${{ inputs.metastore-dev-server-url }}
-        METABASE_APP_DB_USER: ${{ inputs.shoppy-metabase-app-db-user }}
-        METABASE_APP_DB: ${{ inputs.shoppy-metabase-app-db-database }}
         SHOPPY_DATADOG_APPLICATION_ID: ${{ inputs.shoppy-datadog-application-id }}
         SHOPPY_DATADOG_CLIENT_TOKEN: ${{ inputs.shoppy-datadog-client-token }}
         SHOPPY_DATADOG_SITE: "us5.datadoghq.com"

.github/actions/prepare-test-selection/action.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+name: Prepare test selection
+description: Download this run's test plan and write the suite's selected test paths.
+
+inputs:
+  suite:
+    description: The suite to select tests for (unit, loki or e2e).
+    required: true
+  test-plan-artifact-id:
+    description: ID of this run's test-plan.json artifact.
+    required: true
+  require-download:
+    description: Fail the step when the test plan download fails, instead of running the full suite.
+    required: false
+    default: "false"
+
+outputs:
+  paths-file:
+    description: JSON file listing the selected test paths, or '' when the suite runs in full.
+    value: ${{ steps.selection.outputs.paths-file }}
+  selection:
+    description: full, narrowed or empty, or '' when the plan is unavailable and the suite runs in full.
+    value: ${{ steps.selection.outputs.selection }}
+
+runs:
+  using: composite
+  steps:
+    - name: Download test plan
+      id: test-plan
+      continue-on-error: ${{ inputs.require-download != 'true' }}
+      uses: actions/download-artifact@v8
+      with:
+        artifact-ids: ${{ inputs.test-plan-artifact-id }}
+        path: ${{ runner.temp }}/test-plan
+    - name: Prepare test selection
+      id: selection
+      shell: bash
+      env:
+        PLAN_DOWNLOADED: ${{ steps.test-plan.outcome }}
+      run: bun .github/scripts/prepare-test-selection.ts "${{ inputs.suite }}"

.github/actions/report-failures-to-ci-conductor/action.yml

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ runs:
         TARGET_BRANCH: ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.ref || github.ref_name }}
         CI_CONDUCTOR_TEST_SUITE: ${{ inputs.test-suite }}
         ADAPTER: ${{ inputs.adapter }}
+        IS_RERUN: ${{ github.run_attempt != '1' }}
       # Keep the path constrained to known entrypoints.
       run: |
         case "$ADAPTER" in

.github/actions/test-driver/action.yml

@@ -20,8 +20,30 @@ inputs:
     required: false
     default: "ee"
     description: Edition to test (oss or ee)
-  quarantine-engine:
+  runner-index:
     required: false
+    description: >-
+      The index of this runner among those sharing a partitioned suite. See
+      `be-tests-bigquery-cloud-sdk-ee` in `.github/workflows/drivers.yml` for an example.
+  runner-count:
+    required: false
+    description: >-
+      How many runners share the suite. Recommended to set to `strategy.job-total` rather
+      than a literal so that it doesn't need updating if the `runner-index` matrix changes.
+  jvms-per-runner:
+    required: false
+    default: "1"
+    description: >-
+      Concurrent JVMs per runner. Recommended to raise above 1 for drivers whose tests
+      spend a lot of time waiting on a remote warehouse.
+  heap-per-jvm:
+    required: false
+    default: "4g"
+    description: >-
+      `-Xmx` per JVM, applied only when `jvms-per-runner` is more than 1 (otherwise the
+      the `:ci` alias's `-Xmx12g` is used). To size it: reserve ~1G for the OS and ~2G
+      of non-heap per JVM, then divide what's left. On a 16G runner that's ~4G each for
+      two JVMs.
   granular-rerun:
     required: false
     default: "true"
@@ -100,21 +122,60 @@ runs:
       # Otherwise run exactly as before. Quote the file so the whole `[ns/var ...]`
       # vector reaches clojure -X as a single argument.
       run: |
+        ALIASES="dev:ci:${{ inputs.edition }}:${{ inputs.edition }}-dev:drivers:drivers-dev:test"
         BASE="clojure -X:dev:ci:${{ inputs.edition }}:${{ inputs.edition }}-dev:drivers:drivers-dev:test"
-        if [ "${{ inputs.granular-rerun }}" = "true" ] && [ "${{ github.run_attempt }}" != "1" ] && [ -s target/failed-tests ]; then
+        # `:profile-tests` overrides `:test`'s exec-fn, so it has to come last. See dev.profile-tests.
+        # The `profiled` output is what the collection steps below key off, so that the decision is
+        # recorded by the step that acts on it rather than re-derived from the environment.
+        if [ "$PROFILE_TESTS" = "true" ]; then
+          echo "Profiling this run; a flamegraph will be attached to the job."
+          echo "profiled=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          ALIASES="$ALIASES:profile-tests"
+          BASE="$BASE:profile-tests"
+        fi
+        # An explicit selection wins over the rerun narrowing below: it was asked for by hand, on this
+        # attempt. Names may be separated by commas or spaces; hawk wants them as one vector argument.
+        if [ -n "$ONLY_TESTS" ]; then
+          ONLY="[$(echo "$ONLY_TESTS" | tr ',' ' ')]"
+          echo "Running only: $ONLY"
+          $BASE :only "$ONLY"
+        elif [ "${{ inputs.granular-rerun }}" = "true" ] && [ "${{ github.run_attempt }}" != "1" ] && [ -s target/failed-tests ]; then
           echo "Granular rerun of previously-failed tests: $(cat target/failed-tests)"
-          $BASE :only "$(cat target/failed-tests)"
+          clojure -X:"$ALIASES" :only "$(cat target/failed-tests)"
+        elif [ -n "$TEST_RUNNER_INDEX" ]; then
+          CLOJURE_ALIASES="$ALIASES" ./.github/scripts/run-backend-test-jvms.sh ${{ inputs.test-args }}
         else
-          $BASE ${{ inputs.test-args }}
+          clojure -X:"$ALIASES" ${{ inputs.test-args }}
         fi
       shell: bash
       id: run-test
+      env:
+        # PROFILE_TESTS is not set here: the suites that test.profile-backend.yml dispatches set it in
+        # their workflow `env`, which reaches this step. The stress-test workflows are dispatched too
+        # but leave it unset, so they never profile.
+        #
+        # ONLY_TESTS comes from test.profile-backend.yml. Inside a called workflow `github.event` is
+        # the caller's payload, so it resolves here rather than in each calling workflow. On any
+        # other run it renders empty and the job's own selection stands. It replaces the job's own
+        # test selection, so every matrix leg of the chosen job runs the whole list.
+        ONLY_TESTS: ${{ github.event.inputs.tests }}
+        TEST_RUNNER_INDEX: ${{ inputs.runner-index }}
+        TEST_RUNNER_COUNT: ${{ inputs.runner-count }}
+        TEST_JVMS_PER_RUNNER: ${{ inputs.jvms-per-runner }}
+        TEST_HEAP_PER_JVM: ${{ inputs.heap-per-jvm }}
       # Keep this step continue-on-error because the quarantine gate below controls whether it
       # ultimately fails.
       continue-on-error: true
 
+    - name: Collect profile
+      if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
+      uses: ./.github/actions/collect-profile
+      with:
+        profiled: ${{ steps.run-test.outputs.profiled }}
+        artifact-name: ${{ format('profile-{0}{1}', inputs.junit-name, inputs.artifact-suffix && format('-{0}', inputs.artifact-suffix) || '') }}
+
     - name: Report failed tests to ci-conductor
-      if: ${{ !cancelled() && steps.run-test.outcome == 'failure' }}
+      if: ${{ !cancelled() && ( steps.run-test.outcome == 'failure' || github.run_attempt != '1' ) }}
       # This step should NEVER fail the job!
       continue-on-error: true
       uses: ./.github/actions/report-failures-to-ci-conductor
@@ -165,7 +226,9 @@ runs:
       uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
       with:
         name: ${{ format('test-logs-{0}{1}', github.job, inputs.artifact-suffix && format('-{0}', inputs.artifact-suffix) || '') }}
-        path: logs/test-log.json
+        # Glob: a single-JVM run writes `logs/test-log.json`; a multi-JVM run merges one
+        # `logs/test-log-p<index>.json` per JVM.
+        path: logs/test-log*.json
         retention-days: 1
       # Failing to upload the artifact should never affect the outcome of the whole test run.
       continue-on-error: true
@@ -178,4 +241,4 @@ runs:
       with:
         adapter: backend
         test-suite: ${{ inputs.junit-name }}
-        enforce-quarantine: ${{ inputs.quarantine-engine == 'ci-conductor' }}
+        enforce-quarantine: "true"

.github/actions/update-cache/action.yml

@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-name: Update cache
-description: |
-  Update a GitHub Actions cache based on a provided path and key.
-  If a cache entry already exists for the given key, it is first removed.
-  This ensures immutability of cache entries, and prevents runtime errors.
-
-inputs:
-  path:
-    description: "The path(s) to cache, separated by newlines."
-    required: true
-  key:
-    description: "The cache key to use."
-    required: true
-
-runs:
-  using: "composite"
-  steps:
-    - name: Check if the cache entry exists
-      id: cache-lookup
-      uses: actions/cache/restore@v5
-      with:
-        path: ${{ inputs.path }}
-        key: ${{ inputs.key }}
-        lookup-only: true # Important bit: the action will not fetch anything, just check for the cache existence.
-    - name: Delete the cache entry if it exists
-      if: ${{ steps.cache-lookup.outputs.cache-hit == 'true' }}
-      run: |
-        echo "Cache entry found for key '${{ inputs.key }}'. Deleting it to ensure immutability."
-        gh api \
-          --method DELETE \
-          -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
-          -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
-          /repos/${{ github.repository }}/actions/caches?key=${{ inputs.key }}
-      env:
-        GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
-      shell: bash
-    - name: Save the new cache entry
-      uses: actions/cache/save@v5
-      with:
-        path: ${{ inputs.path }}
-        key: ${{ inputs.key }}

.github/file-paths.yaml

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Catch-all filter — emits the full changed-files list as `all_changed_files`
-# so create-test-plan in run-tests.yml can reuse dorny's diff.
+# for the create-test-plan action.
 all_changed:
   - "**"
 
@@ -7,9 +7,8 @@ default: &default
   - "locales/**"
   - "bin/**/!(*.md)"
 
-actionlint:
-  - added|modified: ".github/workflows/*.yml"
-  - added|modified: ".github/workflows/*.yaml"
+workflows:
+  - added|modified: ".github/workflows/*.{yml,yaml}"
 
 shared_sources: &shared_sources
   - "src/**/*.cljc"
@@ -24,6 +23,8 @@ shared_ci: &shared_ci
   - ".github/actions/prepare-frontend/**"
   - ".github/actions/prepare-backend/**"
   - ".github/workflows/run-tests.yml"
+  # Every suite's gate calls it, so a change here can turn any suite off.
+  - ".github/workflows/test.gate.yml"
 
 shared_e2e: &shared_e2e
   - "e2e/runner/**"
@@ -40,6 +41,8 @@ frontend_configs: &frontend_configs
   - "package.json"
   - "babel.config.json"
   - "eslint.config.mjs"
+  - "oxlint.config.mts"
+  - ".oxfmtrc.json"
   - "postcss.config.js"
   - "rspack.config.js"
   - "rspack.main.config.js"
@@ -64,9 +67,10 @@ frontend_specs: &frontend_specs
   - "frontend/**/tests/**"
   - "frontend/**/*.unit.*"
   - "enterprise/frontend/**/*.unit.*"
-  - ".github/**/*.unit.spec.*"
   - "jest.config.js"
-  - "jest.tz.unit.conf.json"
+  - "jest.base.conf.js"
+  - "jest.esm-packages.js"
+  - "jest.tz.unit.conf.js"
 
 release_source: &release_sources
   - "release/**"
@@ -75,9 +79,11 @@ frontend_all: &frontend_all
   - *frontend_ci
   - *frontend_sources
   - *frontend_specs
+  - "frontend/lint/**/!(*.md)"
 
 frontend_loki_ci: &frontend_loki_ci
   - ".github/workflows/loki.yml"
+  - "loki.config.js"
   - ".loki/**"
   - ".storybook/**"
 
@@ -85,20 +91,55 @@ frontend_unit_infra: &frontend_unit_infra
   - *frontend_configs
   - *frontend_ci
   - "jest.config.js"
-  - "jest.tz.unit.conf.json"
+  - "jest.base.conf.js"
+  - "jest.esm-packages.js"
+  - "jest.tz.unit.conf.js"
   - "frontend/test/**"
   - "frontend/**/__mocks__/**"
+  - "frontend/src/embedding-sdk-shared/jest/**"
 
 frontend_loki_infra: &frontend_loki_infra
   - *frontend_configs
   - *shared_ci
   - *frontend_loki_ci
+  - "frontend/build/shared/**"
+  - "frontend/test/__support__/**"
+  - "patches/**"
+  # dependency-cruiser doesn't follow CSS @import, so global styles must run every story.
+  - "frontend/src/metabase/css/**/*.css"
+  # Storybook serves resources/frontend_client as static files, and the stories bundle the app's SVGs.
+  - "resources/frontend_client/**"
+  - "frontend/**/*.svg"
+  - "enterprise/frontend/**/*.svg"
 
-# e2e harness/support code (commands, support file, runner). Not in the
-# instrumented bundle, so it maps to no covered module — a change here forces a
-# full e2e run (see create-test-plan / e2eInfraTouched).
-e2e_infra: &e2e_infra
-  - *shared_e2e
+frontend_loki_all:
+  - *frontend_sources
+  - *frontend_loki_infra
+
+# Everything the ci-scripts jest project runs or depends on.
+# test-unit ignores that project, so this filter is the only thing that reruns it.
+ci_scripts:
+  - *frontend_ci
+  - ".nvmrc"
+  # file-paths.unit.spec.ts asserts what this file's own patterns match, so a change to it has to
+  # run the specs that guard it.
+  - ".github/file-paths.yaml"
+  - ".github/scripts/**"
+  - ".github/actions/**"
+  - ".github/workflows/e2e-{test,tests,matrix-builder}.yml"
+  - ".github/workflows/loki.yml"
+  - ".storybook/story-files.cjs"
+  - "e2e/runner/read-spec-paths.js"
+  - "e2e/support/cypress.config.js"
+  - "frontend/lint/module-boundaries.mjs"
+  - "frontend/lint/shared-tiers.mjs"
+  - "frontend/test/jest-test-paths-filter.ts"
+  - ".dependency-cruiser.cjs"
+  - "jest.config.js"
+  - "jest.base.conf.js"
+  - "jest.esm-packages.js"
+  - "package.json"
+  - "bun.lock"
 
 backend_ci: &backend_ci
   - *shared_ci
@@ -113,11 +154,15 @@ backend_sources: &backend_sources
   - "src/**"
   - "modules/drivers/{*,*/{*,!(test)/**}}"
   - "resources/**"
-  - ".clj-kondo/**"
+  # Ratchet files drive project_ratchet_checks alone, so automation PRs that lower budgets
+  # run the Project tests job by themselves. Patterns are OR-ed, so a separate "!..." entry would match
+  # every other path instead of excluding this one.
+  - ".clj-kondo/**/!(ratchets.edn|ratchets-test.edn)"
 
 backend_specs: &backend_specs
   - *shared_specs
   - "test/**"
+  - "dev/test/**"
   - "enterprise/backend/test/**"
   - "test_modules/**"
   - "modules/drivers/*/test/**"
@@ -130,6 +175,50 @@ backend_all: &backend_all
   - *backend_sources
   - *backend_specs
 
+# Project checks have narrower triggers than the backend matrix.
+# Changes to their shared CI entry points exercise every suite; otherwise each
+# suite follows only the files that can affect its result.
+project_tests_infra: &project_tests_infra
+  - ".github/actions/prepare-backend/**"
+  - ".github/file-paths.yaml"
+  - ".github/workflows/backend.yml"
+  - ".github/workflows/run-tests.yml"
+  - "bb.edn"
+  - "bin/mage"
+  - "bin/mage.bb"
+  - "mage/src/mage/color.clj"
+  - "mage/src/mage/project_tests.clj"
+  - "mage/src/mage/shell.clj"
+  - "mage/src/mage/util.clj"
+
+project_backend_checks:
+  - *project_tests_infra
+  - "{src,test,enterprise,dev,bin,mage}/**/*.{clj,cljc,cljs}"
+  - "modules/**/*.clj"
+  - "modules/**/*.cljc"
+  - "modules/**/*.cljs"
+  - "**deps.edn"
+  - ".clj-kondo/{src,test}/**/*.{clj,cljc,cljs}"
+  - "{resources,test_resources,test_config}/**/*.{clj,cljc,cljs}"
+  - ".clj-kondo/config.edn"
+  - ".clj-kondo/config/modules/config.edn"
+  - ".clj-kondo/config/modules/cycle-clusters.edn"
+  - ".github/team.json"
+  - "dev/resources/dev/modules_config_test/**"
+
+# Only the ratchet check reads the budgets, so a diff that touches nothing else runs that suite alone.
+project_ratchet_checks:
+  - ".clj-kondo/ratchets.edn"
+  - ".clj-kondo/ratchets-test.edn"
+  - ".clj-kondo/config/modules/ratchets.edn"
+
+project_migration_checks:
+  - *project_tests_infra
+  - "bin/lint-migrations-file/**"
+  - "resources/migrations/**/*.{yaml,yml}"
+  - "src/metabase/app_db/custom_migrations.clj"
+  - "src/metabase/app_db/custom_migrations/**"
+
 sources: &sources
   - *shared_sources
   - *frontend_sources
@@ -159,14 +248,14 @@ embedding_sdk_ci: &embedding_sdk_ci
   - ".github/actions/prepare-cypress/**"
   - ".github/workflows/embedding-sdk*.yml"
 
-embedding_sdk_components:
+embedding_sdk_components: &embedding_sdk_components
   - *default
   - *embedding_sdk_ci
   - *sources
   - *shared_e2e
   - "e2e/test-component/**/*.cy.*.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}"
 
-embedding_sdk_host_sample_apps:
+embedding_sdk_host_sample_apps: &embedding_sdk_host_sample_apps
   - *default
   - *embedding_sdk_ci
   - *frontend_sources
@@ -181,13 +270,29 @@ snowplow: &snowplow
   - "bin/lint-snowplow-schemas.bb"
   - "bin/lint-snowplow-schemas-test.bb"
 
-e2e_all:
+# e2e harness/support code (commands, support file, runner). Not in the
+# instrumented bundle, so it maps to no covered module — a change here forces a
+# full e2e run (see create-test-plan / e2eInfraTouched).
+e2e_infra: &e2e_infra
+  - *default
+  - *e2e_ci
+  - *frontend_configs
+  - *shared_e2e
+  - *snowplow
+  - "e2e/**/!(*.cy.spec.@(js|jsx|ts|tsx))"
+  - "frontend/build/**"
+  - "patches/**"
+  - ".github/scripts/build-e2e-matrix.js"
+  - ".github/file-paths.yaml"
+
+e2e_all: &e2e_all
   - *default
   - *e2e_ci
   - *sources
   - *e2e_specs
   - "e2e/**"
   - *snowplow
+  - *e2e_infra
 
 documentation:
   - "docs/**"
@@ -196,10 +301,28 @@ documentation:
 docs:
   - "docs/**"
 
-embedding_documentation:
+embedding_documentation: &embedding_documentation
   - ".typedoc/**"
   - "docs/embedding/**"
 
+# Everything the SDK package build feeds, so the build itself follows the union of its consumers.
+build_embedding_sdk_package:
+  - *embedding_sdk_ci
+  - *embedding_sdk_components
+  - *embedding_sdk_host_sample_apps
+  - *embedding_documentation
+  - *frontend_sources
+
+# The uberjar only exists to feed e2e, the SDK suites that boot a Metabase instance, bundle-size and
+# containerize, so it is worth building exactly when one of them might run. The SDK's type checks run
+# against the package artifact alone, so embedding docs do not belong here.
+build_uberjar:
+  - *backend_all
+  - *frontend_all
+  - *e2e_all
+  - *embedding_sdk_components
+  - *embedding_sdk_host_sample_apps
+
 yaml:
   - "**/*.yml"
   - "**/*.yaml"
@@ -222,6 +345,13 @@ cljs:
   - ".github/workflows/cljs.yml"
   - "shadow-cljs.edn"
 
+build_scripts:
+  - ".github/actions/prepare-backend/**"
+  - ".github/file-paths.yaml"
+  - ".github/workflows/build-scripts.yml"
+  - "bin/**"
+  - "deps.edn"
+
 embedder_plugin:
   - ".github/actions/prepare-backend/**"
   - ".github/file-paths.yaml"
@@ -232,7 +362,15 @@ embedder_plugin:
   - "bin/build/src/build_embedder_plugin.clj"
   - "deps.edn"
   - "modules/embedder/**"
+  - "enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/data_complexity_score/complexity_embedders.clj"
+  - "enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/data_complexity_score/settings.clj"
+  - "enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/data_complexity_score/synonym_source.clj"
+  - "enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/semantic_search/embedding.clj"
+  - "enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/semantic_search/settings.clj"
+  - "enterprise/backend/test/metabase_enterprise/semantic_search/appdb_pgvector_mode_test.clj"
+  - "enterprise/backend/test/metabase_enterprise/semantic_search/embedding_test.clj"
   - "src/metabase/embeddings/provider.clj"
+  - "src/metabase/embeddings/startup.clj"
   - "src/metabase/plugins/**"
   - "test/metabase/embeddings/embedder_plugin_artifact_test.clj"
 
@@ -245,8 +383,10 @@ openapi:
   - "src/metabase/api/**"
   - "src/metabase/api_routes/**"
   - "src/metabase/*_rest/api.clj"
-  - "src/metabase/*/api.clj"
-  - "src/metabase/*/api/*.clj"
+  - "src/metabase/**/rest/api.clj"
+  - "src/metabase/**/rest/api/*.clj"
+  - "src/metabase/**/api.clj"
+  - "src/metabase/**/api/*.clj"
   - "enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/**/api.clj"
   - "enterprise/backend/src/metabase_enterprise/**/api/*.clj"
   - "resources/openapi/**"

.github/instructions/e2e.instructions.md

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+---
+applyTo: "e2e/**/*.cy.spec.{js,ts}"
+---
+
+# Cypress E2E Spec Review
+
+When reviewing Cypress E2E specs, apply the guidelines in these files:
+
+- `.claude/skills/_shared/cypress-conventions.md`
+- `.claude/skills/e2e-test-review/SKILL.md`
+
+These are in addition to the TypeScript/JavaScript instructions, which also match these files.

.github/scripts/affected-modules.ts

@@ -105,6 +105,28 @@ export function getAffectedFiles(
   return affected;
 }
 
+/** The file plus every file it transitively imports. */
+export function getTransitiveDependencies(
+  fileDependencies: FileDependency[],
+  file: string,
+): Set<string> {
+  const dependenciesOf = new Map(
+    fileDependencies.map(({ source, dependencies }) => [source, dependencies]),
+  );
+  const reached = new Set([file]);
+  const queue = [file];
+  while (queue.length > 0) {
+    const current = queue.shift()!;
+    for (const dependency of dependenciesOf.get(current) ?? []) {
+      if (!reached.has(dependency)) {
+        reached.add(dependency);
+        queue.push(dependency);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return reached;
+}
+
 export type ModuleGraph = {
   nodes: ModuleNode[];
   /**

.github/scripts/affected-modules.unit.spec.ts

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import {
   getAffectedFiles,
   getAffectedModules,
   getChangedModules,
+  getTransitiveDependencies,
   mapFileToModule,
   parseCruiseModules,
 } from "./affected-modules";
@@ -123,6 +124,31 @@ describe("affected modules", () => {
     });
   });
 
+  describe("getTransitiveDependencies", () => {
+    it("should return the file and everything it transitively imports", () => {
+      expect(
+        [...getTransitiveDependencies(FILE_DEPS, "src/app.js")].sort(),
+      ).toEqual(["src/app.js", "src/foo/foo.tsx", "src/utils/colors.ts"]);
+    });
+
+    it("should return only the file when it imports nothing", () => {
+      expect([
+        ...getTransitiveDependencies(FILE_DEPS, "src/utils/colors.ts"),
+      ]).toEqual(["src/utils/colors.ts"]);
+    });
+
+    it("should stop at an import cycle", () => {
+      const cyclic = [
+        { source: "src/a.ts", dependencies: ["src/b.ts"] },
+        { source: "src/b.ts", dependencies: ["src/a.ts"] },
+      ];
+
+      expect([...getTransitiveDependencies(cyclic, "src/a.ts")].sort()).toEqual(
+        ["src/a.ts", "src/b.ts"],
+      );
+    });
+  });
+
   describe("buildUsageModuleGraph + getAffectedModules", () => {
     const usageGraph = buildUsageModuleGraph(ELEMENTS, FILE_DEPS);
 

.github/scripts/affected-tests.ts

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import {
   buildUsageModuleGraph,
   getAffectedModules,
   getChangedModules,
+  getTransitiveDependencies,
   mapFileToModule,
 } from "./affected-modules";
 
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ export type TestPlanStats = {
   be_files_total: number;
   unit_infra_touched: boolean;
   loki_infra_touched: boolean;
+  loki_preview_touched: boolean;
   shared_sources_touched: boolean;
   fe_modules_total: number;
   fe_modules_changed: number;
@@ -48,9 +50,12 @@ export type CreateTestPlanInput = {
   elements: ModuleDef[];
   rules: Rule[];
   changedFiles: string[];
-  // Parsed dependency-cruiser edges, or null to fall back to the rules graph.
-  fileDependencies: FileDependency[] | null;
+  // Loads the dependency-cruiser edges, called only when some suite can be narrowed.
+  // Null falls back to the rules graph.
+  loadFileDependencies: () => FileDependency[] | null;
   testFilesBySuite: { unit: string[]; loki: string[]; e2e: string[] };
+  // Storybook's preview file, whose imports wrap every story.
+  lokiPreviewFile: string;
   e2eSpecFiles: Record<string, string[]> | null;
   unitInfraTouched: boolean;
   lokiInfraTouched: boolean;
@@ -63,6 +68,7 @@ export type CreateTestPlanInput = {
 };
 
 // Tests whose owning module is affected.
+// A spec outside the module tree always runs, because the graph cannot scope it.
 export function filterAffectedTests(
   nodes: ModuleNode[],
   affected: Set<string>,
@@ -70,7 +76,7 @@ export function filterAffectedTests(
 ): string[] {
   return testFiles.filter((file) => {
     const module = mapFileToModule(nodes, file);
-    return module !== null && affected.has(module);
+    return module === null || affected.has(module);
   });
 }
 
@@ -130,8 +136,9 @@ export function createTestPlan({
   elements,
   rules,
   changedFiles,
-  fileDependencies,
+  loadFileDependencies,
   testFilesBySuite,
+  lokiPreviewFile,
   e2eSpecFiles,
   unitInfraTouched,
   lokiInfraTouched,
@@ -143,16 +150,11 @@ export function createTestPlan({
   beFilesTotal,
 }: CreateTestPlanInput): TestPlan {
   const rulesGraph = buildModuleGraph(elements, rules);
-  const usageGraph = fileDependencies
-    ? buildUsageModuleGraph(elements, fileDependencies)
-    : rulesGraph;
-
   const nodes = rulesGraph.nodes;
   // Distinct module types (an element type can span several patterns).
   const totalModules = new Set(elements.map((el) => el.type)).size;
   const changedModules = getChangedModules(nodes, changedFiles);
   const rulesAffected = getAffectedModules(rulesGraph, changedFiles);
-  const usageAffected = getAffectedModules(usageGraph, changedFiles);
 
   // The coarse "feature" tier is the only set the e2e manifest is ever
   // collapsed to (see filterAffectedE2eSpecs).
@@ -161,7 +163,7 @@ export function createTestPlan({
   // cljc/cljs compile into the FE bundle, so they force a full run that module
   // selection can't narrow — same effect as a suite's own infra changing.
   const unitForceAll = unitInfraTouched || sharedSourcesTouched;
-  const lokiForceAll = lokiInfraTouched || sharedSourcesTouched;
+  const lokiInfraForceAll = lokiInfraTouched || sharedSourcesTouched;
   // e2e is integration-level, so anything the FE-coverage manifest can't see
   // forces a full run: cljc/cljs in the bundle (sharedSourcesTouched), a backend
   // change that can break the UI (beFilesChanged), an e2e harness/support change
@@ -172,6 +174,28 @@ export function createTestPlan({
     beFilesChanged > 0 ||
     e2eSpecFiles === null;
 
+  // The cruise takes seconds, so it is skipped when every suite runs in full anyway.
+  const edges =
+    unitForceAll && lokiInfraForceAll && e2eForceAll
+      ? null
+      : loadFileDependencies();
+  const usageGraph = edges
+    ? buildUsageModuleGraph(elements, edges)
+    : rulesGraph;
+  const usageAffected = getAffectedModules(usageGraph, changedFiles);
+
+  // The preview wraps every story, so a change to a file it imports can change any screenshot.
+  const previewDependencies = edges
+    ? getTransitiveDependencies(edges, lokiPreviewFile)
+    : new Set<string>();
+  const lokiPreviewTouched = changedFiles.some((file) =>
+    previewDependencies.has(file),
+  );
+  // Without the cruise, the rules graph cannot account for the preview's
+  // global dependencies, so it cannot safely narrow Loki.
+  const lokiForceAll =
+    lokiInfraForceAll || lokiPreviewTouched || edges === null;
+
   const select = (forceAll: boolean, affected: Set<string>, files: string[]) =>
     forceAll ? files : filterAffectedTests(nodes, affected, files);
 
@@ -208,6 +232,7 @@ export function createTestPlan({
       be_files_total: beFilesTotal,
       unit_infra_touched: unitInfraTouched,
       loki_infra_touched: lokiInfraTouched,
+      loki_preview_touched: lokiPreviewTouched,
       shared_sources_touched: sharedSourcesTouched,
       fe_modules_total: totalModules,
       fe_modules_changed: changedModules.size,

.github/scripts/affected-tests.unit.spec.ts

@@ -26,8 +26,9 @@ const E2E_FILES = ["e2e/test/scenarios/a.cy.spec.ts"];
 const baseInput = {
   elements: ELEMENTS,
   rules: RULES,
-  fileDependencies: null,
+  loadFileDependencies: () => null,
   testFilesBySuite: { unit: UNIT_FILES, loki: LOKI_FILES, e2e: E2E_FILES },
+  lokiPreviewFile: ".storybook/preview.tsx",
   e2eSpecFiles: null,
   unitInfraTouched: false,
   lokiInfraTouched: false,
@@ -41,7 +42,10 @@ const baseInput = {
 
 describe("createTestPlan", () => {
   it("runs only specs in affected modules (rules graph)", () => {
-    const plan = createTestPlan({ ...baseInput, changedFiles: ["src/foo/x.ts"] });
+    const plan = createTestPlan({
+      ...baseInput,
+      changedFiles: ["src/foo/x.ts"],
+    });
 
     expect(plan.stats.fe_modules_changed).toBe(1);
     expect(plan.stats.fe_modules_affected_rules).toBe(1);
@@ -50,8 +54,8 @@ describe("createTestPlan", () => {
       "src/foo/foo.unit.spec.ts",
     ]);
     expect(plan.stats.unit_specs_to_run_rules).toBe(2);
-    expect(plan.stats.loki_stories_to_run_rules).toBe(1);
-    // With no file deps, usage falls back to rules.
+    expect(plan.loki_stories_to_run).toEqual(LOKI_FILES);
+    // With no file deps, unit usage falls back to rules, but Loki runs in full.
     expect(plan.stats.unit_specs_to_run_usage).toBe(2);
   });
 
@@ -60,7 +64,7 @@ describe("createTestPlan", () => {
       ...baseInput,
       changedFiles: ["src/utils/colors.ts"],
       // Only feature/foo actually imports lib/utils.
-      fileDependencies: [
+      loadFileDependencies: () => [
         { source: "src/foo/foo.tsx", dependencies: ["src/utils/colors.ts"] },
       ],
     });
@@ -91,14 +95,69 @@ describe("createTestPlan", () => {
       ...baseInput,
       changedFiles: ["docs/readme.md"],
       unitInfraTouched: true,
+      loadFileDependencies: () => [],
     });
 
     expect(plan.stats.unit_specs_to_run_rules).toBe(UNIT_FILES.length);
     expect(plan.stats.loki_stories_to_run_rules).toBe(0);
   });
 
+  // The preview imports the theme, which imports the colors.
+  const PREVIEW_DEPS = [
+    { source: ".storybook/preview.tsx", dependencies: ["src/utils/theme.ts"] },
+    { source: "src/utils/theme.ts", dependencies: ["src/utils/colors.ts"] },
+    { source: "src/foo/foo.tsx", dependencies: ["src/foo/x.ts"] },
+  ];
+
+  it("forces a full Loki run when the Storybook preview imports a changed file", () => {
+    const plan = createTestPlan({
+      ...baseInput,
+      changedFiles: ["src/utils/colors.ts"],
+      loadFileDependencies: () => PREVIEW_DEPS,
+      e2eSpecFiles: { "e2e/test/scenarios/a.cy.spec.ts": ["src/bar/b.ts"] },
+    });
+
+    expect(plan.stats.loki_preview_touched).toBe(true);
+    expect(plan.stats.loki_stories_to_run_rules).toBe(LOKI_FILES.length);
+    expect(plan.loki_stories_to_run).toEqual(LOKI_FILES);
+    // Unit and e2e still narrow to what the usage graph reaches from the change.
+    expect(plan.fe_unit_specs_to_run).toEqual(["src/utils/utils.unit.spec.ts"]);
+    expect(plan.e2e_specs_to_run).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it("narrows Loki when the Storybook preview does not import the changed file", () => {
+    const plan = createTestPlan({
+      ...baseInput,
+      changedFiles: ["src/foo/x.ts"],
+      loadFileDependencies: () => PREVIEW_DEPS,
+    });
+
+    expect(plan.stats.loki_preview_touched).toBe(false);
+    expect(plan.loki_stories_to_run).toEqual(["src/foo/Foo.stories.tsx"]);
+  });
+
+  it("runs all Loki stories when the cruise fails even if rules select fewer", () => {
+    const plan = createTestPlan({
+      ...baseInput,
+      changedFiles: ["src/foo/x.ts"],
+      loadFileDependencies: () => null,
+      e2eSpecFiles: { "e2e/test/scenarios/a.cy.spec.ts": ["src/bar/b.ts"] },
+    });
+
+    expect(plan.stats.loki_preview_touched).toBe(false);
+    expect(plan.loki_stories_to_run).toEqual(LOKI_FILES);
+    expect(plan.stats.loki_stories_to_run_rules).toBe(LOKI_FILES.length);
+    expect(plan.stats.loki_stories_to_run_usage).toBe(LOKI_FILES.length);
+    // Unit and E2E keep their rules-graph fallback.
+    expect(plan.fe_unit_specs_to_run).toEqual(UNIT_FILES.slice(0, 2));
+    expect(plan.e2e_specs_to_run).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
   it("runs the full e2e suite when no coverage manifest is available", () => {
-    const plan = createTestPlan({ ...baseInput, changedFiles: ["src/foo/x.ts"] });
+    const plan = createTestPlan({
+      ...baseInput,
+      changedFiles: ["src/foo/x.ts"],
+    });
 
     expect(plan.stats.e2e_specs_to_run_rules).toBe(E2E_FILES.length);
     expect(plan.stats.e2e_specs_to_run_usage).toBe(E2E_FILES.length);
@@ -229,21 +288,53 @@ describe("createTestPlan", () => {
     expect(plan.stats.fe_files_changed).toBe(5);
     expect(plan.stats.be_files_changed).toBe(3);
   });
+
+  it("does not build the usage graph when every suite runs in full", () => {
+    const loadFileDependencies = jest.fn(() => null);
+    createTestPlan({
+      ...baseInput,
+      changedFiles: ["src/foo/x.ts"],
+      sharedSourcesTouched: true,
+      loadFileDependencies,
+    });
+
+    expect(loadFileDependencies).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it("builds the usage graph when any suite can be narrowed", () => {
+    const loadFileDependencies = jest.fn(() => null);
+    createTestPlan({
+      ...baseInput,
+      changedFiles: ["src/foo/x.ts"],
+      unitInfraTouched: true, // loki can still be narrowed
+      loadFileDependencies,
+    });
+
+    expect(loadFileDependencies).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
 });
 
 describe("filterAffectedTests", () => {
-  it("keeps only tests inside affected modules", () => {
+  it("keeps tests inside affected modules, drops tests in unaffected ones", () => {
     const nodes = buildNodes(ELEMENTS);
     const affected = new Set(["feature/foo", "lib/utils"]);
     const tests = [
       "src/foo/foo.unit.spec.ts",
       "src/utils/colors.unit.spec.ts",
       "src/bar/bar.unit.spec.ts",
-      "docs/unrelated.unit.spec.ts",
     ];
     expect(filterAffectedTests(nodes, affected, tests)).toEqual([
       "src/foo/foo.unit.spec.ts",
       "src/utils/colors.unit.spec.ts",
     ]);
   });
+
+  it("keeps a test that maps to no module (unknown scope)", () => {
+    const nodes = buildNodes(ELEMENTS);
+    const affected = new Set(["feature/foo"]);
+    const tests = ["docs/unrelated.unit.spec.ts", "src/bar/bar.unit.spec.ts"];
+    expect(filterAffectedTests(nodes, affected, tests)).toEqual([
+      "docs/unrelated.unit.spec.ts",
+    ]);
+  });
 });

.github/scripts/build-e2e-matrix.js

@@ -2,9 +2,10 @@
 // its aim is to split the e2e test matrix into multiple jobs
 // grouping some specific tests together, other tests are split into chunks
 
+const SPECS_PER_JOB = 5;
 const DEFAULT_SPEC_PATTERN = "./e2e/test/scenarios/**/*.cy.spec.*";
 
-const specialTestConfigs = [
+const taggedJobs = [
   {
     name: "oss-subset",
     edition: "oss",
@@ -15,69 +16,38 @@ const specialTestConfigs = [
   { name: "python", tags: "@python", specs: DEFAULT_SPEC_PATTERN },
 ];
 
-/**
- *
- * @param {*} inputSpecs - specs, which were changed in the PR, separated by comma
- * .e.g e2e/test/scenarios/onboarding/command-palette.cy.spec.js,e2e/test/scenarios/question/document-title.cy.spec.js
- * or a pattern like DEFAULT_SPEC_PATTERN
- */
-function buildMatrix(options, inputSpecs, inputChunks) {
+function buildMatrix(options, specFiles, maxJobs) {
   const { java, defaultRunner } = options;
-
-  // number of specs per chunk when running specific specs
-  const SPECS_PER_CHUNK = 5;
-
-  const defaultOptions = {
-    "java-version": java,
-    runner: defaultRunner,
-    edition: "ee",
-  };
-
-  const isDefaultSpecPattern =
-    inputSpecs === "" || inputSpecs === DEFAULT_SPEC_PATTERN;
-
-  console.log("Processed specs value:", inputSpecs);
-  console.log("Is default pattern:", isDefaultSpecPattern);
-
-  let regularChunks;
-  if (isDefaultSpecPattern) {
-    regularChunks = inputChunks - specialTestConfigs.length;
-  } else {
-    // when pattern is not default, it means we passed some custom list of the changed specs
-    // so we need to calculate how many chunks we need to run
-    const matchingSpecsCount = inputSpecs.split(",").length;
-    regularChunks = Math.max(
-      1,
-      Math.ceil(matchingSpecsCount / SPECS_PER_CHUNK),
+  if (!Number.isInteger(maxJobs) || maxJobs <= taggedJobs.length) {
+    throw new Error(
+      `E2E job limit must be an integer greater than ${taggedJobs.length} to allow at least one regular job alongside the tagged jobs`,
     );
   }
 
-  const regularTests = Array.from({ length: regularChunks }, (_, index) => {
-    const paddedIndex = String(index + 1).padStart(2, "0");
+  if (specFiles?.length === 0) {
+    return { config: [], regularChunks: 0 };
+  }
 
-    return {
-      name: `e2e-group-${paddedIndex}`,
-      // works when specs less than 5, otherwise seems all chunks will contain
-      // same specs
-      ...(!isDefaultSpecPattern && {
-        specs: inputSpecs
-          .split(",")
-          .slice(SPECS_PER_CHUNK * index, SPECS_PER_CHUNK * (index + 1))
-          .join(","),
-      }),
-    };
-  });
+  const maxRegularJobs = maxJobs - taggedJobs.length;
+  let regularChunks = maxRegularJobs;
+  if (specFiles !== null) {
+    const jobsForSelectedSpecs = Math.ceil(specFiles.length / SPECS_PER_JOB);
+    regularChunks = Math.min(maxRegularJobs, jobsForSelectedSpecs);
+  }
 
-  const testSets = isDefaultSpecPattern
-    ? regularTests.concat(specialTestConfigs)
-    : regularTests;
-
-  const config = testSets.map((options) => ({
-    ...defaultOptions,
-    ...options,
+  const regularJobs = Array.from({ length: regularChunks }, (_, index) => ({
+    name: `e2e-group-${String(index + 1).padStart(2, "0")}`,
   }));
 
-  return { config, regularChunks, isDefaultSpecPattern };
+  // Regular jobs exclude the OSS, Mongo, and Python tags, so these jobs must also run for selected specs.
+  const config = [...regularJobs, ...taggedJobs].map((test) => ({
+    "java-version": java,
+    runner: defaultRunner,
+    edition: "ee",
+    ...test,
+  }));
+
+  return { config, regularChunks };
 }
 
 module.exports = { buildMatrix };

.github/scripts/build-e2e-matrix.unit.spec.js

@@ -1,99 +1,74 @@
 const { buildMatrix } = require("./build-e2e-matrix");
 
+const options = { java: 25, defaultRunner: "runner" };
+const specs = (count) =>
+  Array.from({ length: count }, (_, i) => `e2e/test/scenarios/${i}.cy.spec.ts`);
+
 describe("buildMatrix", () => {
-  const options = {
-    java: "11",
-    defaultRunner: "${{ vars.DEFAULT_RUNNER_KEY }}",
-  };
-  const testBuildMatrix = (entry, chunks) =>
-    buildMatrix(options, entry, chunks);
-
-  it("should calculate correct regular chunks with default parameters", () => {
-    const result = testBuildMatrix("./e2e/test/scenarios/**/*.cy.spec.*", 30);
-
-    expect(result.regularChunks).toBe(27);
+  it.each([0, 3, 3.5])("should reject an invalid job budget: %s", (chunks) => {
+    expect(() => buildMatrix(options, specs(1), chunks)).toThrow();
   });
 
-  it("should create correct number of configuration objects", () => {
-    const result = testBuildMatrix("./e2e/test/scenarios/**/*.cy.spec.*", 10);
+  it("should use the full job budget when there is no plan", () => {
+    const result = buildMatrix(options, null, 50);
 
-    expect(result.config.length).toBe(10);
+    expect(result.regularChunks).toBe(47);
+    expect(result.config).toHaveLength(50);
+    expect(result.config[0]).toMatchObject({
+      name: "e2e-group-01",
+      edition: "ee",
+      runner: "runner",
+    });
+    expect(result.config[46].name).toBe("e2e-group-47");
   });
 
-  it("should apply default specs path when empty entry is provided", () => {
-    const result = testBuildMatrix("", 6);
-
-    expect(result.regularChunks).toBe(3);
-    expect(result.config.length).toBe(6);
-  });
-
-  it("should name regular test groups sequentially", () => {
-    const result = testBuildMatrix("./e2e/test/scenarios/**/*.cy.spec.*", 10);
-    const regularTests = result.config.filter((cfg) =>
-      cfg.name.startsWith("e2e-group-"),
-    );
-
-    regularTests.forEach((test, index) => {
-      expect(test.name).toBe(
-        `e2e-group-${String(index + 1).padStart(2, "0")}`,
-      );
+  it("should create no jobs for an empty plan", () => {
+    expect(buildMatrix(options, [], 50)).toEqual({
+      config: [],
+      regularChunks: 0,
     });
   });
 
-  it("should handle case when input chunks equals special tests count", () => {
-    const result = testBuildMatrix("./e2e/test/scenarios/**/*.cy.spec.*", 3);
+  it.each([
+    [1, 1],
+    [5, 1],
+    [6, 2],
+    [12, 3],
+    [424, 47],
+  ])(
+    "should allocate %i selected specs to %i regular jobs",
+    (count, regularChunks) => {
+      const result = buildMatrix(options, specs(count), 50);
 
-    expect(result.regularChunks).toBe(0);
-    expect(result.config.length).toBe(3);
-    expect(result.config[0].name).toBe("oss-subset");
-    expect(result.config[1].name).toBe("mongo");
-    expect(result.config[2].name).toBe("python");
-  });
+      expect(result.regularChunks).toBe(regularChunks);
+      expect(result.config).toHaveLength(regularChunks + 3);
+    },
+  );
 
-  it("should correctly calculate regularChunks for non-default spec pattern", () => {
-    const entry = "file.cy.spec.js,".repeat(12).slice(0, -1);
-    const result = testBuildMatrix(entry, 10);
+  it.each([null, specs(1), specs(424)])(
+    "should retain every tagged variant",
+    (plan) => {
+      const result = buildMatrix(options, plan, 50);
 
-    // For 12 matching specs with SPECS_PER_CHUNK=5, we expect ceil(12/5) = 3 chunks
-    expect(result.regularChunks).toBe(3);
+      expect(result.config.slice(-3)).toMatchObject([
+        { name: "oss-subset", edition: "oss", tags: "@OSS @prerelease+-@EE" },
+        { name: "mongo", edition: "ee", tags: "@mongo" },
+        { name: "python", edition: "ee", tags: "@python" },
+      ]);
+    },
+  );
 
-    const firstGroupSpecs = result.config[0].specs.split(",").length;
-    const secondGroupSpecs = result.config[1].specs.split(",").length;
-    const thirdGroupSpecs = result.config[2].specs.split(",").length;
+  it("should leave regular jobs to cypress-split", () => {
+    const result = buildMatrix(options, specs(12), 50);
 
-    expect(firstGroupSpecs).toBe(5);
-    expect(secondGroupSpecs).toBe(5);
-    expect(thirdGroupSpecs).toBe(2);
-  });
-
-  it("should return isDefaultSpecPattern as true when empty or default value is provided", () => {
-    let result = testBuildMatrix("", 5);
-
-    expect(result.isDefaultSpecPattern).toBe(true);
-
-    result = testBuildMatrix("./e2e/test/scenarios/**/*.cy.spec.*", 5);
-
-    expect(result.isDefaultSpecPattern).toBe(true);
-  });
-
-  it("should return isDefaultSpecPattern as false when non-default spec pattern is provided", () => {
-    const result = testBuildMatrix("test1.cy.spec.js,test2.cy.spec.js", 1);
-
-    expect(result.isDefaultSpecPattern).toBe(false);
-  });
-
-  it("should return special test configs when default spec pattern is provided", () => {
-    const result = testBuildMatrix("./e2e/test/scenarios/**/*.cy.spec.*", 50);
-
-    expect(result.config[47].name).toBe("oss-subset");
-    expect(result.config[48].name).toBe("mongo");
-    expect(result.config[49].name).toBe("python");
-  });
-
-  it("should not return special test configs when non-default spec pattern is provided", () => {
-    const result = testBuildMatrix("test1.cy.spec.js,test2.cy.spec.js", 50);
-
-    expect(result.config.length).toBe(1);
-    expect(result.config[0].name).toBe("e2e-group-01");
+    const regularJobs = result.config.slice(0, result.regularChunks);
+    expect(regularJobs.map((job) => job.name)).toEqual([
+      "e2e-group-01",
+      "e2e-group-02",
+      "e2e-group-03",
+    ]);
+    for (const job of regularJobs) {
+      expect(job.specs).toBeUndefined();
+    }
   });
 });

.github/scripts/bundle-size-stats-prepare.ts

@@ -200,7 +200,9 @@ export function main() {
     // The last plotted point, as slim rows: [{ bundle, kind, rawBytes, gzipBytes, brotliBytes }].
     previous: readJson<CacheRow[]>(env.LAST) || [],
     threshold: Number(env.MIN_DELTA_PERCENT ?? 1),
-    date: new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 10), // YYYY-MM-DD
+    // The commit's own time rather than the day it was measured, so the merges
+    // of one day keep their order on the chart.
+    date: new Date(env.COMMIT_TIMESTAMP || Date.now()).toISOString(),
     commit: (env.HEAD_SHA || "").slice(0, 12),
     commitMessage: (env.COMMIT_MESSAGE || "").split("\n")[0], // subject line only
     version: readVersion(env.VERSION_PROPS),

.github/scripts/cache-keys.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,154 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Single definition of every CI dependency cache: what it holds, what identifies it, what it falls back to.
+#
+# A GitHub cache entry is identified by its key, a hash of the declared path list, and the ref that saved
+# it. A step declaring a different path list than the one a cache was saved with computes a different
+# identity and can never match it, whatever its key says. So paths and keys are emitted together here and
+# every cache step takes both from this script.
+#
+# Emits `name=value` lines in $GITHUB_OUTPUT format:
+#
+#   .github/scripts/cache-keys.sh >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+#
+# Run it with no redirect to see the whole scheme, or pass one name to print a single value:
+#
+#   .github/scripts/cache-keys.sh
+#   .github/scripts/cache-keys.sh m2-key
+#
+# Hashes are computed here rather than with GitHub's hashFiles() so that a local run and a CI run of the
+# same commit produce the same keys, and so that an empty match can fail loudly - a hashFiles() call that
+# matches nothing silently yields "", collapsing the key onto its own restore prefix and pointing every
+# dependency set at one entry.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+cd "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"
+
+OS="${RUNNER_OS:-$(uname -s)}"
+[ "$OS" = "Darwin" ] && OS="macOS"
+
+sha256() {
+  if command -v sha256sum >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    sha256sum | cut -d' ' -f1
+  else
+    shasum -a 256 | cut -d' ' -f1
+  fi
+}
+
+# Digest of a set of files: hash each one, then hash the concatenation, so the result depends on every
+# file's contents and on which files exist.
+digest() {
+  local f
+  if [ "$#" -eq 0 ]; then
+    echo "::error::cache-keys.sh: no files matched; refusing to emit a key that would collide across dependency sets" >&2
+    exit 1
+  fi
+  for f in "$@"; do
+    [ -f "$f" ] || { echo "::error::cache-keys.sh: $f does not exist" >&2; exit 1; }
+    sha256 < "$f"
+  done | sha256
+}
+
+shopt -s nullglob
+DEPS_FILES=(deps.edn
+            bin/lint-migrations-file/deps.edn
+            bin/load-namespaces/deps.edn
+            modules/drivers/deps.edn
+            modules/drivers/*/deps.edn)
+shopt -u nullglob
+
+DEPS_HASH="$(digest "${DEPS_FILES[@]}")"
+LOCK_HASH="$(digest bun.lock)"
+
+# The Cypress binary depends on the Cypress version alone, so keying it on the whole lockfile would
+# throw away a 200MB download every time any frontend dependency moved.
+#
+# Reading a version out of a lockfile with a regex is only safe while exactly one line matches. Insist
+# on that rather than taking the first of several: a second match means the format moved under us, and
+# picking one at random would key the binary under a version it is not.
+CYPRESS_VERSIONS="$(sed -n 's/.*"cypress": \["cypress@\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p' bun.lock)"
+CYPRESS_MATCHES="$(printf '%s\n' "$CYPRESS_VERSIONS" | grep -c . || true)"
+if [ "$CYPRESS_MATCHES" != "1" ]; then
+  echo "::error::cache-keys.sh: expected exactly one resolved cypress version in bun.lock, found $CYPRESS_MATCHES" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+CYPRESS_VERSION="$CYPRESS_VERSIONS"
+
+# The Clojure CLI version CI installs. It lives here rather than in prepare-backend so that the version
+# and the key that identifies its cache entry cannot drift apart.
+CLOJURE_VERSION="1.12.0.1488"
+
+emit_multiline() {
+  local name="$1"; shift
+  printf '%s<<CACHE_KEYS_EOF\n' "$name"
+  printf '%s\n' "$@"
+  printf 'CACHE_KEYS_EOF\n'
+}
+
+# Paths under the home directory are emitted absolute rather than as `~/...`. actions/cache would expand
+# a tilde, but a shell assigning one of these to a variable would not, and would go on to create a
+# directory named `~`. Paths inside the checkout stay relative; actions/cache resolves those against the
+# workspace.
+spec() {
+  emit_multiline m2-path "$HOME/.m2" "$HOME/.gitlibs" "$HOME/.deps.clj" 'bin/bb'
+  echo "m2-key=M2-$OS-$DEPS_HASH"
+  echo "m2-restore-key=M2-$OS-"
+
+  # Pinned rather than discovered via `bun pm cache` so that the path is known before bun is installed;
+  # prepare-frontend exports BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR to match and fails if bun disagrees.
+  echo "bun-store-path=$HOME/.bun/install/cache"
+  echo "bun-store-key=bun-store-$OS-$LOCK_HASH"
+  echo "bun-store-restore-key=bun-store-$OS-"
+
+  # No restore-key: an entry from another version installs a working `clojure` of the wrong version, and
+  # the freshness check in prepare-backend - running the binary - would accept it.
+  #
+  # The installer bakes this prefix into the clj/clojure shims, so the tree only works when restored to
+  # the same absolute path it was built at; prepare-backend reinstalls when it is not.
+  echo "clojure-path=$HOME/.clojure-cli"
+  echo "clojure-key=clojure-cli-$OS-$CLOJURE_VERSION"
+  echo "clojure-version=$CLOJURE_VERSION"
+
+  echo "cypress-path=$HOME/.cache/Cypress"
+  echo "cypress-key=cypress-$OS-$CYPRESS_VERSION"
+  echo "cypress-restore-key=cypress-$OS-"
+}
+
+# Print one output's value, including the multiline form, and fail on a name that does not exist. A
+# caller that silently received "" would go on to build a key with a hole in it.
+query() {
+  local want="$1" line delim found=0 in_block=0
+  while IFS= read -r line; do
+    if [ "$in_block" = 1 ]; then
+      if [ "$line" = "$delim" ]; then
+        in_block=0
+      else
+        printf '%s\n' "$line"
+      fi
+      continue
+    fi
+    case "$line" in
+      "$want="*)
+        printf '%s\n' "${line#*=}"
+        found=1
+        ;;
+      "$want<<"*)
+        delim="${line#*<<}"
+        in_block=1
+        found=1
+        ;;
+    esac
+  done <<EOF
+$(spec)
+EOF
+  if [ "$found" = 0 ]; then
+    echo "::error::cache-keys.sh: no output named '$want'" >&2
+    exit 1
+  fi
+}
+
+if [ "$#" -eq 0 ]; then
+  spec
+else
+  query "$1"
+fi

.github/scripts/cache-keys.unit.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+import { execFileSync } from "child_process";
+import { join } from "path";
+
+const SCRIPT = join(__dirname, "cache-keys.sh");
+
+const CACHES = ["m2", "bun-store", "cypress"];
+
+// stderr is inherited by default, so the deliberate-failure case below would print a literal
+// `::error::` line - which GitHub Actions reads as an annotation directive, making a passing run
+// annotate itself with an error.
+const run = (args: string[] = [], env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv = {}, quiet = false) =>
+  execFileSync(SCRIPT, args, {
+    encoding: "utf8",
+    stdio: quiet ? ["ignore", "pipe", "ignore"] : "pipe",
+    env: { ...process.env, RUNNER_OS: "Linux", GITHUB_SHA: "abc123", ...env },
+  });
+
+const get = (name: string, env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv = {}) =>
+  run([name], env).trimEnd();
+
+describe("cache-keys.sh", () => {
+  it("is deterministic for a given tree", () => {
+    expect(run()).toEqual(run());
+  });
+
+  it("emits every cache's path, key and restore key", () => {
+    for (const cache of CACHES) {
+      expect(get(`${cache}-path`)).not.toEqual("");
+      expect(get(`${cache}-key`)).not.toEqual("");
+      expect(get(`${cache}-restore-key`)).not.toEqual("");
+    }
+  });
+
+  // Silently returning "" for a name that does not exist is how a caller ends up building a key with a
+  // hole in it.
+  it("fails on an unknown output name", () => {
+    expect(() => run(["no-such-output"], {}, true)).toThrow();
+  });
+
+  // A key equal to its own restore prefix points every dependency set at one entry, and nothing reports
+  // it. This is the failure the script exists to prevent.
+  it("never emits a key equal to its own restore prefix", () => {
+    for (const cache of CACHES) {
+      const key = get(`${cache}-key`);
+      const prefix = get(`${cache}-restore-key`);
+      expect(key.startsWith(prefix)).toBe(true);
+      expect(key.length).toBeGreaterThan(prefix.length);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("scopes every key to the runner OS", () => {
+    for (const cache of CACHES) {
+      expect(get(`${cache}-key`, { RUNNER_OS: "Linux" })).not.toEqual(
+        get(`${cache}-key`, { RUNNER_OS: "macOS" }),
+      );
+    }
+  });
+
+  // Home paths must be absolute: actions/cache expands a tilde but a shell assigning one to a variable
+  // does not, and would create a directory literally named `~`.
+  it("emits absolute paths for home directory locations", () => {
+    expect(get("bun-store-path").startsWith("/")).toBe(true);
+    expect(get("cypress-path").startsWith("/")).toBe(true);
+    for (const line of get("m2-path").split("\n")) {
+      expect(line.startsWith("~")).toBe(false);
+    }
+  });
+
+  // The Cypress binary depends on the Cypress version alone, so an unrelated dependency bump must not
+  // invalidate a 200MB download.
+  it("keys the Cypress binary on the resolved version, not the lockfile", () => {
+    expect(get("cypress-key")).toMatch(/^cypress-Linux-\d+\.\d+\.\d+/);
+  });
+});

.github/scripts/check-job-timeouts.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Fails when a job in .github/workflows/ does not set `timeout-minutes`.
+#
+# Without it a job inherits GitHub's 6-hour default, so a hung job burns six hours of runner time -
+# and holds up everything queued behind it - before anyone notices. actionlint cannot check this: its
+# rule set is compiled in and .github/actionlint.yaml only takes `self-hosted-runner`,
+# `config-variables`, and `paths` (which suppresses findings rather than adding them). Hence this
+# script.
+#
+# The rule is per job: a `timeout-minutes` on a step does not satisfy it, and steps are not required
+# to carry one of their own.
+#
+# Jobs that call a reusable workflow (`uses:` at the job level) are skipped - GitHub rejects
+# `timeout-minutes` there. The called workflow's own jobs are checked when it lives in this repo.
+#
+#   .github/scripts/check-job-timeouts.sh [workflow-file ...]
+#
+# With no arguments it checks every workflow; CI passes the files that changed, like actionlint does.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+# Arguments are used as given, so the paths in the annotations match what the caller passed. Without
+# them the full scan has to run from the repo root.
+if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
+  workflows=("$@")
+else
+  cd "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"
+
+  shopt -s nullglob
+  workflows=(.github/workflows/*.yml .github/workflows/*.yaml)
+
+  if [ ${#workflows[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
+    echo "::error::check-job-timeouts.sh: no workflow files found under .github/workflows/" >&2
+    exit 1
+  fi
+fi
+
+status=0
+
+for file in "${workflows[@]}"; do
+  # `awk NF` drops the blank line yq emits when a file has nothing to report.
+  missing="$(
+    # --header-preprocess=false: yq otherwise slurps any leading comment block before parsing, which
+    # shifts every line number it reports by the size of that block.
+    yq --header-preprocess=false '
+      .jobs
+      | to_entries
+      | .[]
+      | select(((.value | has("timeout-minutes")) or (.value | has("uses"))) | not)
+      | [(.key | line), .key]
+      | @tsv
+    ' "$file" | awk NF
+  )"
+
+  [ -n "$missing" ] || continue
+
+  while IFS=$'\t' read -r line job; do
+    echo "::error file=${file},line=${line}::Job \"${job}\" does not set a job-level timeout-minutes" >&2
+  done <<< "$missing"
+
+  status=1
+done
+
+if [ "$status" -ne 0 ]; then
+  echo >&2
+  echo "Every job must set an explicit timeout-minutes; without one it inherits GitHub's 6-hour default." >&2
+  echo "Pick a value with headroom over the job's normal runtime." >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "All jobs in the ${#workflows[@]} workflow file(s) checked set timeout-minutes."

.github/scripts/check-preresolve-aliases.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Fails when a Clojure classpath used by CI is not pre-resolved by cache-warm.
+#
+# tools.deps selects dependency versions globally per classpath, so two alias combinations can resolve
+# the same transitive library to different versions. A combination the warm job never resolved is
+# therefore not merely absent from the cache - the cache holds *a* version of those libraries, just not
+# the one this classpath wants, and the job fetches its delta straight from Maven Central on every run.
+# That is the intermittent-403 failure of DEV-2094, and it is invisible: the build still passes.
+#
+# Nothing about a missing combination shows up at runtime, so this check is the only thing standing
+# between a newly added alias combination and a permanently half-cold cache.
+#
+#   .github/scripts/check-preresolve-aliases.sh
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+cd "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"
+
+WARM=.github/workflows/cache-warm.yml
+
+# Invocations deliberately left out of the warm job. Each needs a reason, because the default answer is
+# to add the combination to the list instead.
+WAIVED="$(
+  cat <<'EOF'
+:deps
+:outdated
+EOF
+)"
+# :deps      - tools.deps built-in used by write-poms.sh; contributes no dependencies of its own.
+# :outdated  - scheduled dependency-bump workflow only; a cold resolve there costs nothing anyone waits on.
+
+# Dependency roots and alias combinations the warm job pre-resolves.
+declared="$({
+  sed -n '/^[[:space:]]*combos=(/,/^ *)/p' "$WARM" \
+    | grep -oE '":[^"]*"' \
+    | tr -d '"' \
+    | sed 's#^#.|#'
+  sed -n '/^[[:space:]]*nested_combos=(/,/^ *)/p' "$WARM" \
+    | grep -oE '"[^"]+\|:[^"]+"' \
+    | tr -d '"'
+} | sort -u)"
+if [ -z "$declared" ]; then
+  echo "::error::check-preresolve-aliases.sh: found no pre-resolved classpaths in $WARM" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# Expressions we know how to expand. An unrecognised one has to stop the check rather than be skipped:
+# silently ignoring it is how a whole matrix of combinations would go unchecked.
+unknown="$(grep -rhoE '\$\{\{[^}]*\}\}' --include='*' \
+             --exclude='*.png' --exclude='*.jpg' .github/ 2>/dev/null \
+           | sort -u | grep -v 'edition' || true)"
+
+scan() { # scan <edition>: dependency root and aliases used by .github Clojure invocations
+  grep -rhE 'clojure[[:space:]]+(-P[[:space:]]+)?-[XMATP]?:' \
+       --include='*' --exclude='*.png' --exclude='*.jpg' .github/ 2>/dev/null \
+    | sed "s/\\\${{[^}]*edition[^}]*}}/$1/g" \
+    | grep -oE 'clojure[[:space:]]+(-P[[:space:]]+)?-[XMATP]?:[A-Za-z0-9:_./-]+' \
+    | grep -oE ':[A-Za-z0-9:_./-]+' \
+    | sed -e 's/:$//' -e 's#^#.|#'
+}
+
+scan_project_tests() { # scan_project_tests <function> <dependency-root>
+  # Mage shell commands are vectors split across lines, so flatten each function body before
+  # extracting its alias.
+  sed -n "/(defn- $1 /,/^(defn/p" mage/src/mage/project_tests.clj \
+    | tr '\n' ' ' \
+    | grep -oE '"clojure"[[:space:]]+("-P"[[:space:]]+)?"-[XMATP]?:[A-Za-z0-9:_./-]+' \
+    | grep -oE ':[A-Za-z0-9:_./-]+' \
+    | sed -e 's/:$//' -e "s#^#$2|#"
+}
+
+# Check each scan separately. One scan still finding commands would otherwise conceal that another has
+# stopped matching, which silently drops everything it used to cover.
+require_scan() { # require_scan <what> <result>
+  [ -n "$2" ] && return
+  echo "::error::check-preresolve-aliases.sh: found no Clojure invocation in $1; the scan pattern no longer matches" >&2
+  exit 1
+}
+workflow_checks=$( { scan ee; scan oss; } || true)
+clojure_checks=$(scan_project_tests run-clojure-checks! . || true)
+migration_checks=$(scan_project_tests run-migration-checks! bin/lint-migrations-file || true)
+require_scan ".github/" "$workflow_checks"
+require_scan "run-clojure-checks! (mage/src/mage/project_tests.clj)" "$clojure_checks"
+require_scan "run-migration-checks! (mage/src/mage/project_tests.clj)" "$migration_checks"
+
+scanned="$(printf '%s\n' "$workflow_checks" "$clojure_checks" "$migration_checks" | sort -u)"
+
+found="$( {
+  printf '%s\n' "$scanned"
+  # build-scripts.yml runs this classpath from its own dependency root.
+  printf '%s\n' 'bin/load-namespaces|:test'
+} | sort -u )"
+
+covered="$( {
+  printf '%s\n' "$declared"
+  printf '%s\n' "$WAIVED" | sed 's#^#.|#'
+} | sort -u)"
+missing="$(comm -23 <(printf '%s\n' "$found") <(printf '%s\n' "$covered") || true)"
+
+if [ -n "$missing" ]; then
+  echo "::error::Clojure classpaths used by CI that cache-warm does not pre-resolve:" >&2
+  printf '%s\n' "$missing" | sed 's/^/  /' >&2
+  echo >&2
+  echo "Add each to the matching root or nested combo list in $WARM, or waive it here with a reason." >&2
+  echo "Leaving it uncovered means those jobs re-fetch their version deltas from Maven on every run." >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "All $(printf '%s\n' "$found" | grep -c .) Clojure classpaths used by CI are pre-resolved."

.github/scripts/check-unit-test-results.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,182 @@
+import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
+import { readFileSync, statSync } from "node:fs";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+
+const TEST_UNIT_COMMAND = ["bun", "run", "test-unit-keep-cljs"];
+
+type SuiteResult = {
+  name: string;
+  status: string;
+  assertionResults: unknown[];
+};
+
+type JestResults = {
+  wasInterrupted: boolean;
+  testResults: SuiteResult[];
+};
+
+function isSuiteResult(value: unknown): value is SuiteResult {
+  return (
+    typeof value === "object" &&
+    value !== null &&
+    "name" in value &&
+    typeof value.name === "string" &&
+    "status" in value &&
+    typeof value.status === "string" &&
+    "assertionResults" in value &&
+    Array.isArray(value.assertionResults)
+  );
+}
+
+function readResults(file: string): JestResults | null {
+  const value = readJson(file);
+  if (
+    typeof value === "object" &&
+    value !== null &&
+    "wasInterrupted" in value &&
+    typeof value.wasInterrupted === "boolean" &&
+    "testResults" in value &&
+    Array.isArray(value.testResults) &&
+    value.testResults.every(isSuiteResult)
+  ) {
+    return {
+      wasInterrupted: value.wasInterrupted,
+      testResults: value.testResults,
+    };
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+function parseJson(text: string): unknown {
+  try {
+    return JSON.parse(text);
+  } catch {
+    return null;
+  }
+}
+
+function readJson(file: string): unknown {
+  try {
+    return parseJson(readFileSync(file, "utf8"));
+  } catch {
+    return null;
+  }
+}
+
+function isStringArray(value: unknown): value is string[] {
+  return (
+    Array.isArray(value) && value.every((item) => typeof item === "string")
+  );
+}
+
+function hasContent(file: string): boolean {
+  try {
+    return statSync(file).size > 0;
+  } catch {
+    return false;
+  }
+}
+
+export function findRunnerFailure(env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): string | null {
+  const {
+    UNIT_TEST_RESULTS_FILE,
+    JEST_JUNIT_OUTPUT_DIR,
+    JEST_JUNIT_OUTPUT_NAME,
+  } = env;
+  if (
+    !UNIT_TEST_RESULTS_FILE ||
+    !JEST_JUNIT_OUTPUT_DIR ||
+    !JEST_JUNIT_OUTPUT_NAME
+  ) {
+    throw new Error(
+      "UNIT_TEST_RESULTS_FILE, JEST_JUNIT_OUTPUT_DIR and JEST_JUNIT_OUTPUT_NAME are required",
+    );
+  }
+
+  const results = readResults(UNIT_TEST_RESULTS_FILE);
+  if (results === null || results.wasInterrupted) {
+    return "Jest did not finish the run.";
+  }
+  if (!hasContent(join(JEST_JUNIT_OUTPUT_DIR, JEST_JUNIT_OUTPUT_NAME))) {
+    return "Jest did not write a JUnit report.";
+  }
+
+  const failedSuites = results.testResults.filter(
+    (suite) => suite.status === "failed",
+  );
+  // jest-junit leaves out suites with no test results, so the quarantine gate never sees them.
+  const suitesWithoutResults = failedSuites.filter(
+    (suite) => suite.assertionResults.length === 0,
+  );
+  if (suitesWithoutResults.length > 0) {
+    const names = suitesWithoutResults.map((suite) => suite.name).join(", ");
+    return `Test suites failed to run: ${names}`;
+  }
+  if (failedSuites.length === 0) {
+    return "Jest failed without a failing test suite.";
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+function listTests(
+  command: readonly string[],
+  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
+): string[] | null {
+  const [program, ...args] = command;
+  const result = spawnSync(program, [...args, "--listTests", "--json"], {
+    env,
+    encoding: "utf8",
+    stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "inherit"],
+  });
+  if (result.status !== 0) {
+    return null;
+  }
+  const listed = parseJson(result.stdout);
+  return isStringArray(listed) ? listed : null;
+}
+
+// --passWithNoTests lets every shard pass when the selection matches nothing Jest discovers.
+// A single empty shard is normal, so only an unsharded listing that is also empty warns.
+export function findEmptySelection(
+  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv,
+  command: readonly string[] = TEST_UNIT_COMMAND,
+): string | null {
+  const { UNIT_TEST_RESULTS_FILE, JEST_TEST_PATHS_FILE } = env;
+  if (!UNIT_TEST_RESULTS_FILE || !JEST_TEST_PATHS_FILE) {
+    return null;
+  }
+  const results = readResults(UNIT_TEST_RESULTS_FILE);
+  const selection = readJson(JEST_TEST_PATHS_FILE);
+  if (
+    results === null ||
+    results.testResults.length > 0 ||
+    !isStringArray(selection) ||
+    selection.length === 0
+  ) {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  const listed = listTests(command, env);
+  if (listed === null) {
+    return "Could not list Jest's unit tests to check the selection.";
+  }
+  if (listed.length > 0) {
+    return null;
+  }
+  return `None of the ${selection.length} selected unit specs match a test Jest discovers, so no unit tests ran.`;
+}
+
+if (require.main === module) {
+  if (process.env.TEST_OUTCOME === "failure") {
+    const failure = findRunnerFailure(process.env);
+    if (failure !== null) {
+      console.error(`::error::${failure}`);
+      process.exitCode = 1;
+    }
+  } else {
+    const warning = findEmptySelection(process.env);
+    if (warning !== null) {
+      console.warn(`::warning::${warning}`);
+    }
+  }
+}

.github/scripts/create-test-plan.ts

@@ -1,37 +1,45 @@
-// I/O entrypoint: gather inputs (env vars, the cruise graph, the test-file
-// lists) and hand them to createTestPlan, which does the computing.
+// I/O entrypoint: gather inputs (env vars, the test-file lists, the cruise graph on request),
+// hand them to createTestPlan, which does the computing, and publish its small stats output.
 
-import { execFileSync } from "node:child_process";
-import { existsSync, readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { execFileSync, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
+import { appendFileSync, existsSync, readFileSync } from "node:fs";
 
 import micromatch from "micromatch";
 
+import { MAIN_APP_STORY_GLOBS } from "../../.storybook/story-files.cjs";
 import { elements, rules } from "../../frontend/lint/module-boundaries.mjs";
 
 import { type FileDependency, parseCruiseModules } from "./affected-modules";
 import { createTestPlan } from "./affected-tests";
 import { listSpecFiles } from "./e2e-spec-globs.mjs";
 
-const UNIT_ROOTS = ["frontend/src", "enterprise/frontend/src"];
+// The specs `bun run test-unit` runs.
+const UNIT_ROOTS = ["."];
 const UNIT_GLOBS = [
-  "frontend/src/**/*.unit.spec.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}",
-  "enterprise/frontend/src/**/*.unit.spec.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}",
+  "**/*.unit.spec.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}",
+  "!.github/**", // the ci-scripts project, which test-unit ignores
+  "!release/**", // has its own jest config
+  "!enterprise/frontend/src/custom-viz/**", // modulePathIgnorePatterns in jest.config.js
+  "!**/*.leak.unit.spec.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}", // run only by jest.memory.conf.js
 ];
 
-const STORY_ROOTS = ["frontend", "enterprise/frontend"];
-const STORY_GLOBS = [
-  "frontend/**/*.stories.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}",
-  "enterprise/frontend/**/*.stories.{js,jsx,ts,tsx}",
-];
+const FRONTEND_ROOTS = ["frontend", "enterprise/frontend"];
+
+const LOKI_PREVIEW_FILE = ".storybook/preview.tsx";
+
+// `git ls-files -- frontend enterprise/frontend` already prints just over a
+// megabyte of paths, and node's default maxBuffer is exactly 1 MiB: past that
+// the spawn dies with ENOBUFS. Give the listings room to grow.
+const LS_FILES_MAX_BUFFER = 64 * 1024 * 1024;
 
 // Returns the tracked files under `roots` that match `globs`. The `dot: true`
 // option means files inside dot-directories such as `.storybook` are included.
 function listFiles(roots: string[], globs: string[]): string[] {
-  const tracked = execFileSync("git", ["ls-files", "--", ...roots], {
+  const tracked = execFileSync("git", ["ls-files", "-z", "--", ...roots], {
     encoding: "utf8",
+    maxBuffer: LS_FILES_MAX_BUFFER,
   })
-    .split("\n")
-    .map((line) => line.trim())
+    .split("\0")
     .filter(Boolean);
   return micromatch(tracked, globs, { dot: true });
 }
@@ -43,26 +51,43 @@ const csvToList = (csv: string | undefined) =>
     .map((s) => s.trim())
     .filter(Boolean);
 
-// Reads the dependency-cruiser graph (DEP_GRAPH_JSON). Null falls back to the
-// rules graph, so a missing or unparseable file never breaks the plan.
-function readFileDependencies(): FileDependency[] | null {
-  const path = process.env.DEP_GRAPH_JSON;
-  if (path && existsSync(path)) {
-    try {
-      const { modules } = JSON.parse(readFileSync(path, "utf8"));
-      process.stderr.write(`Using usage graph from ${path}.\n`);
-      return parseCruiseModules(modules);
-    } catch (error) {
-      process.stderr.write(
-        `Failed to read ${path}; falling back to rules graph: ${error}\n`,
-      );
-    }
-  } else {
-    process.stderr.write(
-      "No DEP_GRAPH_JSON found; falling back to rules graph.\n",
+// Runs dependency-cruiser over the frontend sources and the Storybook preview and parses its edges.
+// Null falls back to the rules graph, so a failed cruise never breaks the plan.
+function loadFileDependencies(): FileDependency[] | null {
+  const output = "dependency-graph.json";
+  process.stderr.write("Building usage graph with dependency-cruiser.\n");
+  try {
+    // stdout is the plan JSON, so the cruise's own output goes to stderr.
+    const result = spawnSync(
+      "bunx",
+      [
+        "depcruise",
+        "frontend/src",
+        "enterprise/frontend/src",
+        LOKI_PREVIEW_FILE,
+        "--config",
+        ".dependency-cruiser.cjs",
+        "--output-type",
+        "json",
+        "--output-to",
+        output,
+      ],
+      { stdio: ["ignore", 2, 2] },
     );
+    if (result.error) {
+      throw result.error;
+    }
+    if (result.status !== 0) {
+      throw new Error(`depcruise exited with status ${result.status}`);
+    }
+    const { modules } = JSON.parse(readFileSync(output, "utf8"));
+    return parseCruiseModules(modules);
+  } catch (error) {
+    process.stderr.write(
+      `Failed to build usage graph; falling back to rules graph: ${error}\n`,
+    );
+    return null;
   }
-  return null;
 }
 
 // Reads the nightly coverage manifest (E2E_SPEC_MANIFEST): { builtAt, specs:
@@ -92,12 +117,13 @@ const testPlan = createTestPlan({
   elements,
   rules,
   changedFiles: csvToList(process.env.CHANGED_FILES),
-  fileDependencies: readFileDependencies(),
+  loadFileDependencies,
   testFilesBySuite: {
     unit: listFiles(UNIT_ROOTS, UNIT_GLOBS),
-    loki: listFiles(STORY_ROOTS, STORY_GLOBS),
+    loki: listFiles(FRONTEND_ROOTS, MAIN_APP_STORY_GLOBS),
     e2e: listSpecFiles(),
   },
+  lokiPreviewFile: LOKI_PREVIEW_FILE,
   e2eSpecFiles: readE2eSpecFiles(),
   unitInfraTouched: process.env.UNIT_INFRA_TOUCHED === "true",
   lokiInfraTouched: process.env.LOKI_INFRA_TOUCHED === "true",
@@ -105,8 +131,15 @@ const testPlan = createTestPlan({
   sharedSourcesTouched: process.env.SHARED_SOURCES_TOUCHED === "true",
   feFilesChanged: csvToList(process.env.FE_CHANGED_FILES).length,
   beFilesChanged: csvToList(process.env.BE_CHANGED_FILES).length,
-  feFilesTotal: listFiles(["frontend", "enterprise/frontend"], ["**"]).length,
+  feFilesTotal: listFiles(FRONTEND_ROOTS, ["**"]).length,
   beFilesTotal: listFiles(["src", "enterprise/backend"], ["**"]).length,
 });
 
 process.stdout.write(JSON.stringify(testPlan) + "\n");
+
+if (process.env.GITHUB_OUTPUT) {
+  appendFileSync(
+    process.env.GITHUB_OUTPUT,
+    `stats=${JSON.stringify(testPlan.stats)}\n`,
+  );
+}

.github/scripts/file-paths.unit.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,270 @@
+import { readFileSync } from "fs";
+import { join } from "path";
+
+import { load } from "js-yaml";
+import { isMatch } from "micromatch";
+
+const FILTERS = join(__dirname, "..", "file-paths.yaml");
+
+type Filter = string | Filter[] | { [changeType: string]: Filter };
+
+// A filter is a list of patterns, and an entry may name the change types it applies to as
+// { "added|modified": pattern }. Either way the patterns are what matters here.
+const patterns = (value: Filter): string[] => {
+  if (typeof value === "string") {
+    return [value];
+  }
+  if (Array.isArray(value)) {
+    return value.flatMap(patterns);
+  }
+  return Object.values(value).flatMap(patterns);
+};
+
+describe("file-paths.yaml", () => {
+  // js-yaml returns an untyped value, and this repository file defines named path filters.
+  const filters = load(readFileSync(FILTERS, "utf8")) as Record<string, Filter>;
+
+  // dorny/paths-filter matches with picomatch, which micromatch wraps, so this asks the same
+  // question CI asks of a changed path.
+  const matches = (name: string, path: string) =>
+    patterns(filters[name]).some((pattern) =>
+      isMatch(path, pattern, { dot: true }),
+    );
+
+  // dorny/paths-filter ORs the patterns in a filter, so a "!..." entry does not subtract from the
+  // other entries - it matches every path they don't, turning the filter permanently on. Excluding
+  // a path means writing the exclusion inside one pattern, the way backend_sources keeps
+  // ratchet files out with ".clj-kondo/**/!(ratchets.edn)".
+  it("never excludes a path with a standalone negation", () => {
+    const negated = Object.entries(filters).flatMap(([name, filter]) =>
+      patterns(filter)
+        .filter((pattern) => pattern.startsWith("!"))
+        .map((pattern) => `${name}: ${pattern}`),
+    );
+
+    expect(negated).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it.each(["backend_sources", "backend_all"])(
+    "%s skips a ratchets-only change and still follows the rest of .clj-kondo",
+    (name) => {
+      expect(matches(name, ".clj-kondo/ratchets.edn")).toBe(false);
+      expect(matches(name, ".clj-kondo/ratchets-test.edn")).toBe(false);
+      expect(matches(name, ".clj-kondo/config/modules/ratchets.edn")).toBe(
+        false,
+      );
+      expect(matches(name, ".clj-kondo/config.edn")).toBe(true);
+      expect(matches(name, ".clj-kondo/config/modules/config.edn")).toBe(true);
+    },
+  );
+
+  it("runs CI script tests when the Node version changes", () => {
+    expect(matches("ci_scripts", ".nvmrc")).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    "frontend/lint/config.mjs",
+    "frontend/lint/oxlint/rule-map.json",
+    "frontend/lint/eslint-plugin-metabase/rules/no-module-side-effects.js",
+    "frontend/lint/tests/oxlint-config.test.mjs",
+  ])(
+    "runs frontend checks without forcing full suites when %s changes",
+    (file) => {
+      expect(matches("frontend_all", file)).toBe(true);
+      expect(matches("frontend_unit_infra", file)).toBe(false);
+      expect(matches("frontend_loki_infra", file)).toBe(false);
+    },
+  );
+
+  it("treats frontend/lint/OXLINT.md as a documentation-only change", () => {
+    expect(matches("frontend_all", "frontend/lint/OXLINT.md")).toBe(false);
+    expect(matches("documentation", "frontend/lint/OXLINT.md")).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    "frontend/lint/module-boundaries.mjs",
+    "frontend/lint/shared-tiers.mjs",
+  ])("keeps CI script coverage for %s", (file) => {
+    expect(matches("ci_scripts", file)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    "jest.config.js",
+    "jest.base.conf.js",
+    "jest.esm-packages.js",
+    "jest.tz.unit.conf.js",
+  ])("runs every frontend unit test when %s changes", (path) => {
+    expect(matches("frontend_specs", path)).toBe(true);
+    expect(matches("frontend_unit_infra", path)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("runs every frontend unit test when an SDK jest setup file changes", () => {
+    expect(
+      matches(
+        "frontend_unit_infra",
+        "frontend/src/embedding-sdk-shared/jest/setup-env.ts",
+      ),
+    ).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    "jest.config.js",
+    "jest.base.conf.js",
+    "jest.esm-packages.js",
+    ".storybook/story-files.cjs",
+    ".github/workflows/loki.yml",
+  ])("runs CI script tests when %s changes", (path) => {
+    expect(matches("ci_scripts", path)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  // Every suite's gate calls the same workflow, so a change to it has to reach every suite.
+  it.each([
+    "backend_all",
+    "frontend_all",
+    "frontend_loki_all",
+    "e2e_all",
+    "embedding_sdk_components",
+    "embedding_sdk_host_sample_apps",
+    "ci_scripts",
+  ])("runs %s when the test gate changes", (filter) => {
+    expect(matches(filter, ".github/workflows/test.gate.yml")).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  // The build filters replace what used to be an inline condition in run-tests.yml, so what they
+  // leave out is the whole point: a diff that changes nothing an artifact ships gets no build.
+  it.each([
+    "src/metabase/core.clj",
+    "frontend/src/metabase/App.tsx",
+    "e2e/test/scenarios/question/foo.cy.spec.js",
+    // The SDK component and host-app suites boot a Metabase instance, so their CI entry points
+    // have to build one.
+    ".github/workflows/embedding-sdk.yml",
+  ])("builds the uberjar for %s", (path) => {
+    expect(matches("build_uberjar", path)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    ".clj-kondo/ratchets.edn",
+    "README.md",
+    "docs/questions/introduction.md",
+    // The SDK type checks read the package artifact, not a running instance.
+    "docs/embedding/sdk/introduction.md",
+  ])("skips the uberjar for %s", (path) => {
+    expect(matches("build_uberjar", path)).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    "enterprise/frontend/src/embedding-sdk-package/index.ts",
+    "docs/embedding/sdk/introduction.md",
+    ".github/workflows/embedding-sdk.yml",
+  ])("builds the SDK package for %s", (path) => {
+    expect(matches("build_embedding_sdk_package", path)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("does not build the SDK package for unrelated documentation", () => {
+    expect(
+      matches("build_embedding_sdk_package", "docs/questions/introduction.md"),
+    ).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("runs the ratchet check on the ratchets file", () => {
+    expect(matches("project_ratchet_checks", ".clj-kondo/ratchets.edn")).toBe(
+      true,
+    );
+    expect(
+      matches("project_ratchet_checks", ".clj-kondo/ratchets-test.edn"),
+    ).toBe(true);
+    expect(
+      matches(
+        "project_ratchet_checks",
+        ".clj-kondo/config/modules/ratchets.edn",
+      ),
+    ).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    "loki.config.js",
+    ".storybook/story-files.cjs",
+    ".storybook/preview.tsx",
+    ".loki/reference/chrome.laptop-Button.png",
+    ".github/workflows/loki.yml",
+    ".github/workflows/run-tests.yml",
+    ".github/actions/prepare-frontend/action.yml",
+    "frontend/build/shared/rspack/css-config.js",
+    "frontend/test/__support__/custom-viz-fixtures/calendar-heatmap/index.js",
+    "patches/@loki+browser+0.35.0.patch",
+    "frontend/src/metabase/css/index.module.css",
+    "frontend/src/metabase/css/core/base.module.css",
+    "resources/frontend_client/app/fonts/Lato/lato-v16-latin-regular.woff2",
+    "resources/frontend_client/app/assets/img/no_results.svg",
+    "frontend/src/metabase/ui/components/icons/Icon/icons/warning.svg",
+    "enterprise/frontend/src/metabase-enterprise/google_drive/database-error.svg",
+  ])("runs all Loki stories when %s changes", (file) => {
+    expect(matches("frontend_loki_all", file)).toBe(true);
+    expect(matches("frontend_loki_infra", file)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    "frontend/src/metabase/ui/Button.stories.tsx",
+    "frontend/src/metabase/ui/components/feedback/Alert/Alert.module.css",
+    "frontend/build/embedding-sdk/rspack.config.js",
+  ])("allows a change to %s to narrow the Loki run", (file) => {
+    expect(matches("frontend_loki_all", file)).toBe(true);
+    expect(matches("frontend_loki_infra", file)).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    ".github/workflows/frontend.yml",
+    "frontend/test/metabase/scenarios/Button.unit.spec.tsx",
+  ])("does not run Loki stories when %s changes", (file) => {
+    expect(matches("frontend_loki_all", file)).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    "e2e/support/cypress.config.js",
+    "e2e/test/scenarios/shared-helper.js",
+    "e2e/runner/read-spec-paths.js",
+    ".github/workflows/e2e-test.yml",
+    ".github/workflows/run-tests.yml",
+    ".github/actions/prepare-cypress/action.yml",
+    ".github/scripts/build-e2e-matrix.js",
+    ".github/file-paths.yaml",
+    "frontend/build/shared/esbuild/side-effect-free-modules-plugin.js",
+    "rspack.main.config.js",
+    "bun.lock",
+    "locales/fr.po",
+    "snowplow/events/event.yaml",
+    "patches/@cypress+grep+6.0.0.patch",
+  ])("runs all E2E specs when %s changes", (file) => {
+    expect(matches("e2e_all", file)).toBe(true);
+    expect(matches("e2e_infra", file)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it.each(["js", "jsx", "ts", "tsx"])(
+    "allows changes to .cy.spec.%s files to narrow E2E",
+    (extension) => {
+      expect(
+        matches("e2e_infra", `e2e/test/scenarios/a.cy.spec.${extension}`),
+      ).toBe(false);
+    },
+  );
+
+  it.each([
+    ".github/workflows/e2e-test.yml",
+    ".github/workflows/e2e-tests.yml",
+    ".github/workflows/e2e-matrix-builder.yml",
+    "e2e/runner/read-spec-paths.js",
+    "e2e/support/cypress.config.js",
+  ])("runs CI-script tests when %s changes", (file) => {
+    expect(matches("ci_scripts", file)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("runs the module cycles test when a cluster is named", () => {
+    expect(
+      matches(
+        "project_backend_checks",
+        ".clj-kondo/config/modules/cycle-clusters.edn",
+      ),
+    ).toBe(true);
+  });
+});

.github/scripts/find-linear-issue.js

@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-async function findLinearIssue({ githubIssueUrl, linearApiKey }) {
-  const response = await fetch("https://api.linear.app/graphql", {
-    method: "POST",
-    headers: {
-      "Content-Type": "application/json",
-      Authorization: linearApiKey,
-    },
-    body: JSON.stringify({
-      query: `
-        query {
-          attachmentsForURL(url: "${githubIssueUrl}") {
-            nodes {
-              issue { identifier }
-            }
-          }
-        }
-      `,
-    }),
-  });
-
-  const data = await response.json();
-
-  if (!response.ok) {
-    return { success: false, message: `Linear API error: ${response.status}` };
-  }
-
-  if (!data.data?.attachmentsForURL?.nodes?.length) {
-    return {
-      success: false,
-      message: `No Linear issue linked to ${githubIssueUrl}`,
-    };
-  }
-
-  return {
-    success: true,
-    issue: data.data.attachmentsForURL.nodes[0].issue.identifier,
-  };
-}
-
-module.exports = { findLinearIssue };

.github/scripts/frontend-test-plan.unit.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,237 @@
+import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
+import {
+  mkdirSync,
+  mkdtempSync,
+  readFileSync,
+  realpathSync,
+  rmSync,
+  writeFileSync,
+} from "node:fs";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import { join, resolve } from "node:path";
+
+import { load } from "js-yaml";
+
+import {
+  findEmptySelection,
+  findRunnerFailure,
+} from "./check-unit-test-results";
+import { prepareTestSelection } from "./prepare-test-selection";
+
+type Step = { name: string; run?: string; "continue-on-error"?: boolean };
+// js-yaml returns an untyped value, and this repository workflow defines the job's steps.
+const workflow = load(
+  readFileSync(resolve(__dirname, "../workflows/frontend.yml"), "utf8"),
+) as { jobs: { "fe-tests-unit": { steps: Step[] } } };
+const steps = workflow.jobs["fe-tests-unit"].steps;
+const checkScript = resolve(__dirname, "check-unit-test-results.ts");
+const filter = resolve(
+  __dirname,
+  "../../frontend/test/jest-test-paths-filter.ts",
+);
+
+describe("frontend test plan handoff", () => {
+  let dir: string;
+  let env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv;
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    jest.spyOn(console, "warn").mockImplementation(() => {});
+    // Jest reports real paths, and macOS's temporary directory is behind a symlink.
+    dir = realpathSync(mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "frontend-test-plan-")));
+    mkdirSync(join(dir, "test-plan"));
+    writeFileSync(join(dir, "output"), "");
+    env = {
+      ...process.env,
+      NODE_OPTIONS: "",
+      JEST_TEST_PATHS_FILE: "",
+      RUNNER_TEMP: dir,
+      GITHUB_OUTPUT: join(dir, "output"),
+      PLAN_DOWNLOADED: "success",
+      JEST_JUNIT_OUTPUT_DIR: dir,
+      JEST_JUNIT_OUTPUT_NAME: "junit.xml",
+      UNIT_TEST_RESULTS_FILE: join(dir, "unit-test-results.json"),
+    };
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    jest.restoreAllMocks();
+    rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
+  function plan(files: string[], total = 2) {
+    return {
+      fe_unit_specs_to_run: files,
+      stats: { unit_specs_all: total, unit_specs_to_run_usage: files.length },
+    };
+  }
+
+  function writePlan(value: unknown) {
+    writeFileSync(join(dir, "test-plan/test-plan.json"), JSON.stringify(value));
+  }
+
+  function jestCommand(useFilter: boolean) {
+    return [
+      process.execPath,
+      require.resolve("jest/bin/jest"),
+      "--config",
+      JSON.stringify({
+        rootDir: dir,
+        testMatch: ["**/*.spec.cjs"],
+        reporters: ["default", require.resolve("jest-junit")],
+        ...(useFilter && { filter }),
+      }),
+    ];
+  }
+
+  function runJest(
+    files: Record<string, string>,
+    useFilter = false,
+    args: string[] = [],
+  ) {
+    for (const [name, source] of Object.entries(files)) {
+      writeFileSync(join(dir, name), source);
+    }
+    const [program, ...commandArgs] = jestCommand(useFilter);
+    return spawnSync(
+      program,
+      [
+        ...commandArgs,
+        "--runInBand",
+        "--watch=false",
+        "--json",
+        `--outputFile=${env.UNIT_TEST_RESULTS_FILE}`,
+        ...(useFilter ? ["--passWithNoTests"] : []),
+        ...args,
+      ],
+      { cwd: dir, env, encoding: "utf8" },
+    );
+  }
+
+  function readResults() {
+    return JSON.parse(
+      readFileSync(join(dir, "unit-test-results.json"), "utf8"),
+    );
+  }
+
+  function writeSelection(files: string[]) {
+    env.JEST_TEST_PATHS_FILE = join(dir, "unit-specs.json");
+    writeFileSync(env.JEST_TEST_PATHS_FILE, JSON.stringify(files));
+  }
+
+  it("lets ordinary assertion failures reach quarantine", () => {
+    expect(
+      runJest({ "fail.spec.cjs": "test('fails', () => expect(1).toBe(2));" })
+        .status,
+    ).toBe(1);
+    expect(findRunnerFailure(env)).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("lets suite hook failures reach quarantine", () => {
+    expect(
+      runJest({
+        "hook.spec.cjs":
+          "test('passes', () => {}); afterAll(() => { throw new Error('hook'); });",
+      }).status,
+    ).toBe(1);
+    expect(readFileSync(join(dir, "junit.xml"), "utf8")).toContain(
+      "Test execution failure",
+    );
+    expect(findRunnerFailure(env)).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("fails a filter crash even though the test step permits errors", () => {
+    env.JEST_TEST_PATHS_FILE = join(dir, "broken.json");
+    writeFileSync(env.JEST_TEST_PATHS_FILE, "[");
+    expect(
+      runJest({ "pass.spec.cjs": "test('passes', () => {});" }, true).status,
+    ).toBe(1);
+    env.TEST_OUTCOME = "failure";
+    const result = spawnSync("bun", [checkScript], { env, encoding: "utf8" });
+    expect(result.status).toBe(1);
+    expect(result.stderr).toContain("::error::");
+    const step = steps.find((step) =>
+      step.run?.includes("check-unit-test-results.ts"),
+    );
+    expect(step?.["continue-on-error"]).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  it("fails suite startup errors even alongside ordinary assertion failures", () => {
+    expect(
+      runJest({
+        "crash.spec.cjs": "throw new Error('startup crash');",
+        "fail.spec.cjs": "test('fails', () => expect(1).toBe(2));",
+      }).status,
+    ).toBe(1);
+    expect(readFileSync(join(dir, "junit.xml"), "utf8")).not.toContain(
+      "crash.spec.cjs",
+    );
+    expect(findRunnerFailure(env)).toContain("crash.spec.cjs");
+  });
+
+  it("fails when JUnit results are missing", () => {
+    runJest({ "fail.spec.cjs": "test('fails', () => expect(1).toBe(2));" });
+    rmSync(join(dir, "junit.xml"));
+    expect(findRunnerFailure(env)).not.toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it.each([true, false])(
+    "loads the TypeScript filter natively with an empty selection: %s",
+    (empty) => {
+      writePlan(plan(empty ? [] : [join(dir, "pass.spec.cjs")]));
+      prepareTestSelection("unit", env);
+      env.JEST_TEST_PATHS_FILE = join(dir, "unit-specs.json");
+      const result = runJest(
+        {
+          "pass.spec.cjs": "test('passes', () => {});",
+          "fail.spec.cjs":
+            "test('excluded', () => { throw new Error('must not run'); });",
+        },
+        true,
+      );
+      expect(result.status === 0 ? "" : result.stderr).toBe("");
+      expect(result.status).toBe(0);
+      expect(readResults()).toMatchObject({
+        numTotalTestSuites: empty ? 0 : 1,
+      });
+    },
+  );
+
+  it("warns when a narrowed run matches none of Jest's test paths", () => {
+    writeSelection([join(dir, "renamed.spec.cjs")]);
+    expect(
+      runJest({ "pass.spec.cjs": "test('passes', () => {});" }, true).status,
+    ).toBe(0);
+    expect(findEmptySelection(env, jestCommand(true))).toContain(
+      "None of the 1 selected unit specs",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("warns through Bun when the unit test step passed", () => {
+    writeSelection([join(dir, "renamed.spec.cjs")]);
+    runJest({ "pass.spec.cjs": "test('passes', () => {});" }, true);
+    env.TEST_OUTCOME = "success";
+    const result = spawnSync("bun", [checkScript], { env, encoding: "utf8" });
+    expect(result.status).toBe(0);
+    expect(result.stderr).toContain(
+      "::warning::None of the 1 selected unit specs",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("does not warn for a shard the selection leaves empty", () => {
+    writeSelection([join(dir, "pass.spec.cjs")]);
+    const result = runJest(
+      { "pass.spec.cjs": "test('passes', () => {});" },
+      true,
+      ["--shard=2/2"],
+    );
+    expect(result.status).toBe(0);
+    expect(readResults()).toMatchObject({ numTotalTestSuites: 0 });
+    expect(findEmptySelection(env, jestCommand(true))).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("does not list tests for an empty selection", () => {
+    writeSelection([]);
+    runJest({ "pass.spec.cjs": "test('passes', () => {});" }, true);
+    expect(findEmptySelection(env, ["false"])).toBeNull();
+  });
+});

.github/scripts/jest-test-paths-filter.unit.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+import fs from "node:fs";
+import os from "node:os";
+import path from "node:path";
+
+// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-require-imports -- Match Jest's direct CommonJS loading contract.
+const filter = require("../../frontend/test/jest-test-paths-filter");
+
+describe("jest-test-paths-filter", () => {
+  const originalPathsFile = process.env.JEST_TEST_PATHS_FILE;
+  let tempDir: string;
+  let pathsFile: string;
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    tempDir = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), "jest-test-paths-"));
+    pathsFile = path.join(tempDir, "paths.json");
+    process.env.JEST_TEST_PATHS_FILE = pathsFile;
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    fs.rmSync(tempDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+    if (originalPathsFile === undefined) {
+      delete process.env.JEST_TEST_PATHS_FILE;
+    } else {
+      process.env.JEST_TEST_PATHS_FILE = originalPathsFile;
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("should keep the listed paths and drop the rest", () => {
+    const one = path.resolve("frontend/one.unit.spec.ts");
+    const two = path.resolve("frontend/two.unit.spec.ts");
+    const three = path.resolve("frontend/three.unit.spec.ts");
+    fs.writeFileSync(pathsFile, JSON.stringify([one, two]));
+
+    expect(filter([one, three, two])).toEqual({ filtered: [one, two] });
+  });
+
+  it("should resolve relative paths against the working directory", () => {
+    fs.writeFileSync(pathsFile, JSON.stringify(["frontend/one.unit.spec.ts"]));
+    const one = path.resolve("frontend/one.unit.spec.ts");
+    const two = path.resolve("frontend/two.unit.spec.ts");
+
+    expect(filter([one, two])).toEqual({ filtered: [one] });
+  });
+});

.github/scripts/linear-issues.js

@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+async function findLinearIssue({ githubIssueUrl, linearApiKey }) {
+  const response = await fetch("https://api.linear.app/graphql", {
+    method: "POST",
+    headers: {
+      "Content-Type": "application/json",
+      Authorization: linearApiKey,
+    },
+    body: JSON.stringify({
+      query: `
+        query {
+          attachmentsForURL(url: "${githubIssueUrl}") {
+            nodes {
+              issue { identifier }
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      `,
+    }),
+  });
+
+  const data = await response.json();
+
+  if (!response.ok) {
+    return { success: false, message: `Linear API error: ${response.status}` };
+  }
+
+  if (!data.data?.attachmentsForURL?.nodes?.length) {
+    return {
+      success: false,
+      message: `No Linear issue linked to ${githubIssueUrl}`,
+    };
+  }
+
+  return {
+    success: true,
+    issue: data.data.attachmentsForURL.nodes[0].issue.identifier,
+  };
+}
+
+async function createLinearIssue({
+  teamId,
+  title,
+  description,
+  projectId,
+  labelIds,
+  linearApiKey,
+}) {
+  const response = await fetch("https://api.linear.app/graphql", {
+    method: "POST",
+    headers: {
+      "Content-Type": "application/json",
+      Authorization: linearApiKey,
+    },
+    body: JSON.stringify({
+      query: `
+        mutation CreateIssue($input: IssueCreateInput!) {
+          issueCreate(input: $input) {
+            success
+            issue {
+              id
+              identifier
+              title
+              url
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      `,
+      variables: {
+        input: {
+          teamId,
+          title,
+          ...(description ? { description } : {}),
+          ...(projectId ? { projectId } : {}),
+          ...(labelIds?.length ? { labelIds } : {}),
+        },
+      },
+    }),
+  });
+
+  if (!response.ok) {
+    return { success: false, message: `Linear API error: ${response.status}` };
+  }
+
+  const data = await response.json();
+
+  if (data.errors?.length) {
+    return {
+      success: false,
+      message: `Linear API error: ${data.errors.map((e) => e.message).join(", ")}`,
+    };
+  }
+
+  if (!data.data?.issueCreate?.success) {
+    return {
+      success: false,
+      message: `Failed to create Linear issue "${title}"`,
+    };
+  }
+
+  return {
+    success: true,
+    issue: data.data.issueCreate.issue,
+  };
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+  findLinearIssue,
+  createLinearIssue,
+};

.github/scripts/measure-bundle-sizes.js

@@ -24,6 +24,15 @@ const SDK_ROOT = "resources/frontend_client/app/embedding-sdk";
 const SDK_RUNTIME_RE = /embedding-sdk-chunk-runtime\./;
 const notRuntime = name => !SDK_RUNTIME_RE.test(name);
 
+// One locale catalogue per chunk, named by the `webpackChunkName: "locale-[request]"`
+// comment in localization.ts. A session loads exactly one and an English session
+// loads none, so counting all 36 in a reachable total overstates it by 35x: 8.5 MB
+// gzip against the SDK's 3.1 MB. Their size also tracks the translation process
+// rather than any code change, so counting them makes every catalogue update look
+// like a bundle regression.
+const LOCALE_CHUNK_RE = /(^|\/)locale-/;
+const notLocale = name => !LOCALE_CHUNK_RE.test(name);
+
 const assetFiles = (root, names) => names.map(name => path.join(root, name));
 const unique = files => [...new Set(files)];
 
@@ -116,7 +125,8 @@ function selectAppAssets(stats) {
   if (!initialAssets) {
     throw new Error('app: stats-main.json / "app-main" entrypoint missing');
   }
-  return { initialAssets, reachableAssets: entrypointJsAssets(stats, "app-main", "reachableAssets") };
+  const reachableAssets = entrypointJsAssets(stats, "app-main", "reachableAssets");
+  return { initialAssets, reachableAssets: reachableAssets?.filter(notLocale) ?? null };
 }
 
 /**
@@ -136,7 +146,9 @@ function selectLegacySdkAssets(stats, { sdkAsyncChunksLoadable }) {
   const initial = unique(initialNames).filter(notRuntime);
   return {
     initialNames: initial,
-    reachableNames: sdkAsyncChunksLoadable ? unique(reachableNames).filter(notRuntime) : initial,
+    reachableNames: sdkAsyncChunksLoadable
+      ? unique(reachableNames).filter(notRuntime).filter(notLocale)
+      : initial,
   };
 }
 
@@ -161,7 +173,9 @@ function selectChunkedSdkAssets(stats, { sdkAsyncChunksLoadable }) {
   const bootstrapReachable = entrypointJsAssets(stats, "embedding-sdk-bootstrap", "reachableAssets") || bootstrapInitial;
   return {
     initialNames: unique([...bootstrapInitial, ...chunkedInitial]).filter(notRuntime),
-    reachableNames: unique([...bootstrapReachable, ...chunkedReachable]).filter(notRuntime),
+    reachableNames: unique([...bootstrapReachable, ...chunkedReachable])
+      .filter(notRuntime)
+      .filter(notLocale),
     includesAsyncChunks: chunkedReachableAssets != null && sdkAsyncChunksLoadable,
   };
 }

.github/scripts/measure-bundle-sizes.unit.spec.js

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ const {
 } = require("./measure-bundle-sizes");
 
 const RUNTIME = "embedding-sdk-chunk-runtime.deadbeef.js";
+const LOCALE = "chunks/locale-fr-json.deadbeef.js";
 
 const stats = entrypoints => ({ entrypoints });
 
@@ -30,6 +31,13 @@ describe("selectAppAssets", () => {
   it("throws when the app-main entrypoint is missing", () => {
     expect(() => selectAppAssets(stats({}))).toThrow("app-main");
   });
+
+  it("leaves the locale catalogues out of the reachable total", () => {
+    const s = stats({
+      "app-main": { assets: ["main.js"], reachableAssets: ["main.js", "locale-fr-json.abc.js"] },
+    });
+    expect(selectAppAssets(s).reachableAssets).toEqual(["main.js"]);
+  });
 });
 
 describe("selectChunkedSdkAssets", () => {
@@ -50,6 +58,15 @@ describe("selectChunkedSdkAssets", () => {
     expect(result.includesAsyncChunks).toBe(false);
   });
 
+  it("leaves the locale catalogues out of the reachable total", () => {
+    const withLocale = {
+      ...base,
+      "embedding-sdk-chunked": { assets: ["a.js", RUNTIME], reachableAssets: ["a.js", "b.js", LOCALE, RUNTIME] },
+    };
+    const result = selectChunkedSdkAssets(stats(withLocale), { sdkAsyncChunksLoadable: true });
+    expect(result.reachableNames).toEqual(["boot.js", "a.js", "b.js"]);
+  });
+
   it("collapses total to initial when the stats carry no reachable graph", () => {
     const noGraph = { "embedding-sdk-chunked": { assets: ["a.js"] } };
     const result = selectChunkedSdkAssets(stats(noGraph), { sdkAsyncChunksLoadable: true });

.github/scripts/prepare-test-selection.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+import { appendFileSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+
+import type { TestPlan, TestPlanStats } from "./affected-tests";
+
+type NumberStat = {
+  [K in keyof TestPlanStats]: TestPlanStats[K] extends number ? K : never;
+}[keyof TestPlanStats];
+
+type Suite = {
+  name: string;
+  filesKey: Exclude<keyof TestPlan, "stats">;
+  totalKey: NumberStat;
+  selectedKey: NumberStat;
+  pathsFile: string;
+};
+
+export const SUITES = {
+  unit: {
+    name: "unit",
+    filesKey: "fe_unit_specs_to_run",
+    totalKey: "unit_specs_all",
+    selectedKey: "unit_specs_to_run_usage",
+    pathsFile: "unit-specs.json",
+  },
+  loki: {
+    name: "Loki",
+    filesKey: "loki_stories_to_run",
+    totalKey: "loki_stories_all",
+    selectedKey: "loki_stories_to_run_usage",
+    pathsFile: "loki-stories.json",
+  },
+  e2e: {
+    name: "E2E",
+    filesKey: "e2e_specs_to_run",
+    totalKey: "e2e_specs_all",
+    selectedKey: "e2e_specs_to_run_usage",
+    pathsFile: "e2e-specs.json",
+  },
+} satisfies Record<string, Suite>;
+
+function isSuiteName(name: string): name is keyof typeof SUITES {
+  return Object.hasOwn(SUITES, name);
+}
+
+function isRecord(value: unknown): value is Record<string, unknown> {
+  return typeof value === "object" && value !== null;
+}
+
+function isStringArray(value: unknown): value is string[] {
+  return (
+    Array.isArray(value) && value.every((item) => typeof item === "string")
+  );
+}
+
+function isCount(value: unknown): value is number {
+  return typeof value === "number" && Number.isInteger(value) && value >= 0;
+}
+
+// null means a full run, and [] is an explicit selection of no tests.
+function readSelection(planFile: string, suite: Suite): string[] | null {
+  const plan: unknown = JSON.parse(readFileSync(planFile, "utf8"));
+  const files = isRecord(plan) ? plan[suite.filesKey] : undefined;
+  const stats = isRecord(plan) && isRecord(plan.stats) ? plan.stats : {};
+  const total = stats[suite.totalKey];
+  if (
+    !isStringArray(files) ||
+    files.some((file) => file.length === 0) ||
+    !isCount(total) ||
+    files.length !== stats[suite.selectedKey] ||
+    files.length > total
+  ) {
+    throw new Error(`Invalid ${suite.name} test selection`);
+  }
+  return files.length === total ? null : files;
+}
+
+export function prepareTestSelection(
+  suiteName: keyof typeof SUITES,
+  env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv = process.env,
+) {
+  const suite: Suite = SUITES[suiteName];
+  const { RUNNER_TEMP, GITHUB_OUTPUT, PLAN_DOWNLOADED } = env;
+  if (!RUNNER_TEMP || !GITHUB_OUTPUT) {
+    throw new Error("RUNNER_TEMP and GITHUB_OUTPUT are required");
+  }
+
+  let files: string[] | null;
+  try {
+    if (PLAN_DOWNLOADED !== "success") {
+      throw new Error("Test plan download failed");
+    }
+    files = readSelection(join(RUNNER_TEMP, "test-plan/test-plan.json"), suite);
+  } catch (error) {
+    console.warn(
+      `::warning::Test plan unavailable or invalid, running the full ${suite.name} suite: ${error}`,
+    );
+    return;
+  }
+
+  if (files === null) {
+    appendFileSync(GITHUB_OUTPUT, "selection=full\n");
+    return;
+  }
+
+  const pathsFile = join(RUNNER_TEMP, suite.pathsFile);
+  writeFileSync(pathsFile, JSON.stringify(files));
+  appendFileSync(
+    GITHUB_OUTPUT,
+    `paths-file=${pathsFile}\nselection=${files.length === 0 ? "empty" : "narrowed"}\n`,
+  );
+}
+
+if (require.main === module) {
+  const suiteName = process.argv[2] ?? "";
+  if (!isSuiteName(suiteName)) {
+    throw new Error(
+      `Unknown test suite "${suiteName}", expected one of: ${Object.keys(SUITES).join(", ")}`,
+    );
+  }
+  prepareTestSelection(suiteName);
+}

.github/scripts/prepare-test-selection.unit.spec.ts

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+import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
+import {
+  mkdirSync,
+  mkdtempSync,
+  readFileSync,
+  rmSync,
+  writeFileSync,
+} from "node:fs";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import { join, resolve } from "node:path";
+
+import { load } from "js-yaml";
+
+import { SUITES, prepareTestSelection } from "./prepare-test-selection";
+
+type Suite = (typeof SUITES)[keyof typeof SUITES];
+
+type Step = {
+  id?: string;
+  if?: string;
+  uses?: string;
+  run?: string;
+  env?: Record<string, string>;
+  with?: Record<string, string | boolean>;
+};
+
+const SCRIPT = resolve(__dirname, "prepare-test-selection.ts");
+const SUITE_NAMES = ["unit", "loki", "e2e"] satisfies (keyof typeof SUITES)[];
+
+function loadWorkflow(file: string) {
+  // js-yaml returns an untyped value, and these repository workflows define jobs with steps.
+  return load(
+    readFileSync(resolve(__dirname, "../workflows", file), "utf8"),
+  ) as {
+    jobs: Record<
+      string,
+      { if?: string; outputs?: Record<string, string>; steps?: Step[] }
+    >;
+  };
+}
+
+function loadAction() {
+  // js-yaml returns an untyped value, and this repository action defines outputs and steps.
+  return load(
+    readFileSync(
+      resolve(__dirname, "../actions/prepare-test-selection/action.yml"),
+      "utf8",
+    ),
+  ) as {
+    outputs: Record<string, { value: string }>;
+    runs: { steps: Step[] };
+  };
+}
+
+describe("prepareTestSelection", () => {
+  const { loki } = SUITES;
+  let dir: string;
+  let env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv;
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    jest.spyOn(console, "warn").mockImplementation(() => {});
+    dir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "test-selection-"));
+    mkdirSync(join(dir, "test-plan"));
+    writeFileSync(join(dir, "output"), "");
+    env = {
+      ...process.env,
+      RUNNER_TEMP: dir,
+      GITHUB_OUTPUT: join(dir, "output"),
+      PLAN_DOWNLOADED: "success",
+    };
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    jest.restoreAllMocks();
+    rmSync(dir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
+  function plan(files: unknown, total = 2, suite: Suite = loki) {
+    return {
+      [suite.filesKey]: files,
+      stats: {
+        [suite.totalKey]: total,
+        [suite.selectedKey]: Array.isArray(files) ? files.length : 0,
+      },
+    };
+  }
+
+  function writePlan(value: unknown) {
+    writeFileSync(join(dir, "test-plan/test-plan.json"), JSON.stringify(value));
+  }
+
+  const output = () => readFileSync(join(dir, "output"), "utf8");
+
+  it.each([{ files: ["one.spec.cjs"] }, { files: [] }])(
+    "preserves an explicit selection: $files",
+    ({ files }) => {
+      writePlan(plan(files));
+      prepareTestSelection("loki", env);
+      expect(output()).toBe(
+        `paths-file=${join(dir, loki.pathsFile)}\nselection=${files.length > 0 ? "narrowed" : "empty"}\n`,
+      );
+      expect(
+        JSON.parse(readFileSync(join(dir, loki.pathsFile), "utf8")),
+      ).toEqual(files);
+    },
+  );
+
+  it("writes the selection when invoked through Bun in CI", () => {
+    writePlan(plan(["one.spec.cjs"]));
+    const result = spawnSync("bun", [SCRIPT, "loki"], {
+      env,
+      encoding: "utf8",
+    });
+    expect(result.status === 0 ? "" : result.stderr).toBe("");
+    expect(result.status).toBe(0);
+    expect(output()).toBe(
+      `paths-file=${join(dir, loki.pathsFile)}\nselection=narrowed\n`,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("writes no paths file for a full selection", () => {
+    writePlan(plan(["one.spec.cjs", "two.spec.cjs"]));
+    prepareTestSelection("loki", env);
+    expect(output()).toBe("selection=full\n");
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    null,
+    {},
+    plan("[]"),
+    plan([null]),
+    { ...plan([]), [loki.filesKey]: ["one.spec.cjs"] },
+    plan([""]),
+    plan(["one.spec.cjs"], 0),
+  ])("runs in full for an invalid plan: %j", (value) => {
+    writePlan(value);
+    prepareTestSelection("loki", env);
+    expect(console.warn).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      expect.stringContaining("::warning::"),
+    );
+    expect(output()).toBe("");
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    { scenario: "the test plan is missing", setup: () => {} },
+    {
+      scenario: "the test plan is truncated",
+      setup: () => {
+        writeFileSync(
+          join(dir, "test-plan/test-plan.json"),
+          `{"${loki.filesKey}":[`,
+        );
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      scenario: "the download failed",
+      setup: () => {
+        writePlan(plan([])); // Even a partial download must not be trusted.
+        env.PLAN_DOWNLOADED = "failure";
+      },
+    },
+  ])("runs in full when $scenario", ({ setup }) => {
+    setup();
+    prepareTestSelection("loki", env);
+    expect(console.warn).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      expect.stringContaining("::warning::"),
+    );
+    expect(output()).toBe("");
+  });
+
+  it.each(SUITE_NAMES)(
+    "reads the %s selection from its own plan keys",
+    (suiteName) => {
+      const suite = SUITES[suiteName];
+      writePlan(plan(["one.spec.cjs"], 2, suite));
+      prepareTestSelection(suiteName, env);
+      expect(output()).toBe(
+        `paths-file=${join(dir, suite.pathsFile)}\nselection=narrowed\n`,
+      );
+      expect(
+        JSON.parse(readFileSync(join(dir, suite.pathsFile), "utf8")),
+      ).toEqual(["one.spec.cjs"]);
+    },
+  );
+
+  it("ignores the other suites' selections", () => {
+    writePlan({
+      ...plan(["one.spec.cjs", "two.spec.cjs"]),
+      [SUITES.unit.filesKey]: [],
+      [SUITES.e2e.filesKey]: [],
+    });
+    prepareTestSelection("loki", env);
+    expect(console.warn).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(output()).toBe("selection=full\n");
+  });
+
+  it("rejects an unknown suite", () => {
+    const result = spawnSync("bun", [SCRIPT, "toString"], {
+      env,
+      encoding: "utf8",
+    });
+    expect(result.status).not.toBe(0);
+    expect(result.stderr).toContain('Unknown test suite "toString"');
+  });
+});
+
+describe("test selection workflow steps", () => {
+  const ACTION = "./.github/actions/prepare-test-selection";
+  const CONSUMERS: Record<
+    string,
+    { suite: keyof typeof SUITES; "require-download"?: boolean }
+  > = {
+    "frontend.yml": { suite: "unit" },
+    "loki.yml": { suite: "loki" },
+    "e2e-matrix-builder.yml": { suite: "e2e" },
+    // The matrix was sized for the planned specs, so a shard fails when the plan download fails.
+    "e2e-test.yml": { suite: "e2e", "require-download": true },
+  };
+
+  it("skips Loki visual tests only for an empty story selection", () => {
+    const { jobs } = loadWorkflow("loki.yml");
+    expect(jobs["story-selection"].outputs?.selection).toBe(
+      "${{ steps.loki-selection.outputs.selection }}",
+    );
+    expect(jobs["visual-test"].if).toContain(
+      "needs.story-selection.outputs.selection != 'empty'",
+    );
+    expect(jobs["visual-test"].if).not.toMatch(/outputs\.[\w-]+ *[!=]= *'\d+'/);
+  });
+
+  it.each(Object.entries(CONSUMERS))(
+    "selects tests through the composite action in %s",
+    (file, { suite, ...inputs }) => {
+      const steps = Object.values(loadWorkflow(file).jobs).flatMap(
+        ({ steps = [] }) => steps.filter((step) => step.uses === ACTION),
+      );
+
+      expect(steps.length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+      for (const step of steps) {
+        expect(step.with).toEqual({
+          suite,
+          "test-plan-artifact-id": expect.stringMatching(/^\$\{\{ .+ \}\}$/),
+          ...inputs,
+        });
+      }
+    },
+  );
+
+  it("downloads the test plan before preparing the selection", () => {
+    const { outputs, runs } = loadAction();
+    const [download, prepare] = runs.steps;
+
+    expect(download).toMatchObject({
+      uses: expect.stringMatching(/^actions\/download-artifact@/),
+      "continue-on-error": "${{ inputs.require-download != 'true' }}",
+      with: {
+        "artifact-ids": "${{ inputs.test-plan-artifact-id }}",
+        path: "${{ runner.temp }}/test-plan",
+      },
+    });
+    expect(prepare).toMatchObject({
+      env: { PLAN_DOWNLOADED: `\${{ steps.${download.id}.outcome }}` },
+      run: expect.stringContaining(
+        'prepare-test-selection.ts "${{ inputs.suite }}"',
+      ),
+    });
+    expect(outputs).toMatchObject({
+      "paths-file": {
+        value: `\${{ steps.${prepare.id}.outputs.paths-file }}`,
+      },
+      selection: { value: `\${{ steps.${prepare.id}.outputs.selection }}` },
+    });
+  });
+});

.github/scripts/read-spec-paths.unit.spec.js

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+const { readFileSync } = require("node:fs");
+
+const { readSpecPaths } = require("../../e2e/runner/read-spec-paths");
+
+jest.mock("node:fs", () => ({ readFileSync: jest.fn() }));
+
+describe("readSpecPaths", () => {
+  it("should use the full suite when no paths file is provided", () => {
+    expect(readSpecPaths("")).toBeNull();
+    expect(readSpecPaths(undefined)).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("should preserve an empty selection", () => {
+    readFileSync.mockReturnValue("[]");
+
+    expect(readSpecPaths("specs.json")).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it("should preserve selected paths, including spaces and commas", () => {
+    const files = ["e2e/test/a.cy.spec.js", "e2e/test/a folder/b,c.cy.spec.ts"];
+    readFileSync.mockReturnValue(JSON.stringify(files));
+
+    expect(readSpecPaths("specs.json")).toEqual(files);
+  });
+
+  it.each(["{", "null", '""', "{}", "[null]", '[""]'])(
+    "should reject invalid spec paths: %s",
+    (contents) => {
+      readFileSync.mockReturnValue(contents);
+
+      expect(() => readSpecPaths("specs.json")).toThrow();
+    },
+  );
+});