test(mcp): a 627-line tool surface with no test file, via harness not extraction

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packages/mcp/src/tools/query.ts is 627 lines with no dedicated test file — named by a sibling sweep as the strongest remaining target in this package. Test-only, one new file, five mutants killed.

Being straight about what this is: no broken code was found. Every mutant was killed by a test written to kill it, so this is coverage for previously-unobserved behaviour, not a defect report.

Harness, not extraction

query.ts is entirely tool handlers built around resolveModel/ctx. The package already has an established harness pattern — InMemoryModelRegistry + loadIfcModel + STEP-string fixtures, used by diff.test.ts and backend-query-limit-offset.test.ts — so a harness was cheaper than carving shapeEntities / formatQueryResult / the sort out of the file.

That matters for review burden: query.ts is untouched, still 627 lines, no budget row moved. A sibling PR (#3143) did extract, and said so; this one did not need to.

The five mutants

mutant	RED
shapeEntities default branch — name/description swapped	expected 'Desc A' to be 'Name A'
shapeEntities fields-subset — has('name') writing to out.objectType	expected undefined to be 'Name A'
formatQueryResult pluralisation — total === 1 flipped to !== 1	"Found 0 matching entity." / "Found 26 matching entity."
formatQueryResult name guard — dropped, always rendering ''<name>''	line contained ''
countEntities group_by sort — b[1]-a[1] flipped to ascending	[1,2,2,3] vs expected [3,2,2,1]

Three fixtures were built specifically against the symmetries that would have hidden these:

• The default-branch fixture gives every field a distinct value, so a swap cannot coincide.
• The fields-subset test asserts absent keys too — catching a mutant that writes to the wrong key while another guard still populates the right one.
• The sort fixture is inserted deliberately out of order (A=1, B=3, C=2, D=2) with a tie at count 2, so neither an ascending sort nor a no-op insertion-order pass could survive.

And the pluralisation test covers both sides of the boundary — an exact-0 and an exact-26 case — rather than the singular case alone.

A fixture bug the author caught in their own work

The first group_by test called count_entities without a type filter, so it grouped every entity in the model — walls, storeys, building, project: 14 items across 5 groups — instead of the 8 walls intended. Caught on the RED run ([4,3,3,2,2], total 14) before any mutant was applied, and fixed by adding type: 'IfcWall'.

Reported as a fixture error rather than dressed up as a finding, which is the right instinct.

Verification

packages/mcp 293 → 305 tests, 27 → 28 files. check-module-size.mjs exit 0, no budget moved.

On the noisy baseline, checked from both sides: pnpm --filter @ifc-lite/mcp typecheck fails with 10 pre-existing TS2307/TS7006 errors in packages/cli's diff-engine.ts and diff-scope.ts — missing @ifc-lite/parser/@ifc-lite/data declarations, an unbuilt-closure symptom. The author verified this by moving the new test file out of the tree and re-running: same 10 errors, same 2 files.

In my own verification worktree the mcp suite cannot run at all — both this new file and the pre-existing overlay.test.ts report "no tests", and overlay.test.ts does the same on unmodified main. That is my closure being incomplete, not anything about this branch; the authoring worktree, which had the closure built, ran all 305.

No changeset — test-only, no published behaviour change.

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Viewer benchmark

✅ No threshold regressions detected.

01_Snowdon_Towers_Sample_Structural(1).ifc

Baseline recorded 2026-07-01T20:31:05.538Z on github-actions ubuntu-latest, viewer-benchmark-ci (headless Chrome, SwiftShader ANGLE), production build.

Metric	Current	Baseline	Delta	Threshold	Status
firstBatchWaitMs	1845ms	2905ms	-36.5%	+50%	✅
firstVisibleGeometryMs	2389ms	3652ms	-34.6%	+50%	✅
streamCompleteMs	2914ms	3598ms	-19.0%	+50%	✅
spatialReadyMs	1324ms	1032ms	+28.3%	+50%	✅
metadataCompleteMs	1838ms	3063ms	-40.0%	+50%	✅
totalWallClockMs	3000ms	3700ms	-18.9%	+50%	✅

AC20-FZK-Haus.ifc

Baseline recorded 2026-07-01T20:30:59.972Z on github-actions ubuntu-latest, viewer-benchmark-ci (headless Chrome, SwiftShader ANGLE), production build.

Metric	Current	Baseline	Delta	Threshold	Status
firstBatchWaitMs	344ms	1075ms	-68.0%	+50%	✅
firstVisibleGeometryMs	1856ms	1572ms	+18.1%	+50%	✅
streamCompleteMs	1038ms	1980ms	-47.6%	+50%	✅
spatialReadyMs	1056ms	915ms	+15.4%	+50%	✅
metadataCompleteMs	1135ms	1392ms	-18.5%	+50%	✅
totalWallClockMs	1900ms	3300ms	-42.4%	+50%	✅

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[louistrue]

One test in the new file cannot fail, and it is the one guarding the singular branch. In packages/mcp/src/tools/query.test.ts:218, 'singular "entity" really does trigger at count 1' asserts expect(text(out)).toMatch(/^Found \d+ matching entit(y|ies)/), a regex that matches both renderings, so it holds for any output. Its second assertion, expect(single).toBeDefined(), is also unfailable: the local call() helper always returns a CallToolResult object.

Mutation that survives, in packages/mcp/src/tools/query.ts:117:

-  const head = `Found ${total.toLocaleString()} matching entit${total === 1 ? 'y' : 'ies'}${truncated ? ` (showing ${items.length})` : ''}.`;
+  const head = `Found ${total.toLocaleString()} matching entities${truncated ? ` (showing ${items.length})` : ''}.`;

That deletes the pluralisation feature outright. With it applied at 6b917f6, vitest run src/tools/query.test.ts gives 12 passed (12), and the whole package gives Test Files 28 passed (28) / Tests 305 passed (305). Nothing in the package observes the singular branch.

Fix is one line, same test:

-    expect(text(out)).toMatch(/^Found \d+ matching entit(y|ies)/);
+    expect(text(out)).toMatch(/^Found 1 matching entity\./);

I ran that query and the header really is "Found 1 matching entity.", so the fix passes clean and fails under the mutation above (1 failed | 11 passed). The get_entity round trip and the expect(single).toBeDefined() line below it can go; they are not testing formatting.

On the PR body:

And the pluralisation test covers both sides of the boundary — an exact-0 and an exact-26 case — rather than the singular case alone.

0 and 26 are the same side of the boundary. Both render entities. The body's own RED column says so: "Found 0 matching entity." / "Found 26 matching entity.". There is no exact-1 assertion anywhere in the file.

The mutant table's claim also lands on the wrong test. I applied total === 1 -> total !== 1 and the two tests that turn red are 'singular "entity" for exactly one match — the pluralization boundary' (the 0 case) and the +N-more test (the 26 case). The test named for count 1 stays green. That mutant is killed, just not by the test the name implies, and a mutant that deletes pluralisation instead of flipping it is not killed at all.

The other four mutants hold up: I did not find a second hole. The distinct-value shape fixture, the absent-key assertions on the fields subset, and the deliberately unsorted group_by fixture with the tie at 2 all do the work the body says they do.

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[louistrue]

Reviewed at head 2253164d. Zero prior reviews — CodeRabbit is rate-limited org-wide, so its green check means it declined to review. First reader.

23 mutations run, 20 reddened. Name↔description swap, objectType := name, description dropped, has('name') writing out.objectType, expressId dropped, total === 1→!== 1, slice(0,25)→slice(0,26), the "+N more" line and its count, sort direction and sort removal, total := largest group, type always '?' — all red. The group-by fixture really is inserted out of order with a tie, so both the ascending and the no-op sort mutants die.

Three findings, all in claims rather than logic.

1. A test name that is false in the place a failure report displays it.

query.test.ts:212:

it('singular "entity" for exactly one match — the pluralization boundary', async () => {
  ...
  expect(text(out)).toMatch(/^Found 0 matching entities\./);

The name says singular-at-one; the body asserts plural at zero. The genuine singular case is the next test at :218. A failure report showing that name would point a reader at the wrong boundary.

2. toBeFalsy() hides half the mutant class the docblock says it covers.

:178 — it('an entity with no optional attributes gets them as null/undefined, not filled in from another row'). The actual shaped output for WALC is {"n":"","d":"","o":""} — empty strings, not null/undefined. So:

name: e.name || e.type            RED
name: 'FILLED'                    RED
name: e.name ?? e.type            SURVIVES   ('' ?? x === '')
objectType: e.objectType ?? e.type SURVIVES

The docblock at :13-15 says the fixture exists so "a 'always fill in X' mutant is observable". Half that class is invisible. toBe('') instead of toBeFalsy() fixes it and makes the name true at the same time.

3. An expect that cannot fail.

:231-232:

const single = await call('get_entity', { model_id: 'shape', express_id: 72 });
expect(single).toBeDefined();

call() either throws or returns a CallToolResult object, so toBeDefined() is unconditional. The preceding comment ("Filter down to a single concrete entity via express id round trip instead:") promises a check the code does not make.

4. "the largest untested file in this package" is not accurate.

:7-8. Measured across packages/mcp/src: tools/viewer.ts is 699 lines with no dedicated test file and nothing importing viewerTools — larger than query.ts's 627. Also untested: backend-query.ts (485), tools/layer-review.ts (470), tools/mutate.ts (440). The title's claim ("627-line tool surface with no test file") is exactly right; only the docblock's superlative overstates.

Two uncovered gaps, not false statements. Dropping the globalId guard survives — every fixture entity has a GlobalId. And the head count total.toLocaleString() → items.length.toLocaleString() survives, because no fixture is truncated so total === items.length everywhere and the (showing N) suffix never renders. That second one is the same symmetry the docblock says the fixtures were built to avoid (:10, "Fixtures are built so a mutant cannot hide behind a symmetry"); a limit: 2 call against MANY_MODEL separates them and lights up both.

Confirmed accurate: 627 lines exact, 12 tests added, 27 → 28 test files exact, check-module-size.mjs exit 0 with no allowlist row moved, and "no broken code was found" — every mutant here is synthetic.

Nothing here blocks.