`SQLCompiler.as_sql pre_sql_setup get_select` on django returned get_select and
pre_sql_setup in full and SQLCompiler.as_sql -- qualified, step 1 of the Flow,
226 lines -- as one signature line. compiler.py renders as a per-symbol
focused view, which picked bodies in source order within a tier, so the
unnamed bridge get_qualify_sql and get_select (both above as_sql in the file)
took the cap. The follow-ups agents issue (`compiler.py:776`,
`compiler.py lines 900-1003`) pinned the file and dropped the line numbers.
Every agent run ended in a Read of compiler.py.
- query-paths: keep `:776` / `:12-40` / `#L88-L120` suffixes as line anchors
and bind prose ranges (`lines 900-1003`, `L900-L1003`, `lines 900 to 1003`)
to the nearest single-file path.
- EXACT targets: a qualified name resolving to <=3 callables, or the callable
enclosing a single-line anchor. Multi-line anchors render as that span.
- Focused view: tiers exact > named spine step > unnamed bridge > unique named >
family co-named, spine in call order. A tier 0-1 body that does not fit is
windowed (head + calls into the question's other symbols) with the explore
range that returns each hole, never reduced to a signature. Priced in
rendered chars net of the signature lines, so the section keeps its promise.
- Cluster path: exact clusters rank first with the spine's bounded overshoot,
shrink by exact rendered size, and hold back what lower-ranked exact
clusters still owe; files holding one are funded like spine files.
- Blast radius leads with exact targets.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sizes codegraph_explore to the answer, not the file count: shows the mechanism +
the exact methods you named in full (even buried in a large file) while collapsing
redundant interchangeable implementations to signatures. Adds uniqueness-aware
spare, per-symbol focused rendering of family files, all-tier test-file exclusion,
and named-method cluster survival in non-sibling god-files.
Validated A/B (Opus 4.8, 7-repo sweep): avg 25%% cheaper / 57%% fewer tokens / 23%%
faster / 62%% fewer tool calls. Django 9->23%% cheaper (0 reads), OkHttp 4->11%%
cheaper; gains across small/medium/large, inert repos unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
codegraph_explore now skeletonizes off-spine, redundant members of a polymorphic
family (OkHttp's interceptor chain, Django's SQLCompiler family) to signatures
instead of shipping every full body, while keeping the dispatch mechanism, the
orchestrator/base, and any method the agent named in full. Sizes the response to
the answer rather than the budget cap, so interface-heavy flows stop costing more
than plain grep/read. Default on; CODEGRAPH_ADAPTIVE_EXPLORE=0 disables.
Gate: off-spine + >=3-impl sibling + not-spared, where spared = the agent named a
callable in the file UNLESS the file defines the family's supertype (a huge
base+subclasses file is Read-anyway, so skeletonizing frees explore budget).
Validated headless A/B (Opus 4.8): both former README cost outliers flipped —
OkHttp and Django went from costlier-than-native to cheaper; full 7-repo average
22%% cheaper / 47%% fewer tokens / 20%% faster / 50%% fewer tool calls, every repo
cost-positive, inert repos unchanged. 7-case regression test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Colby Mchenry