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Summary

Implements the RPG-Encoder Evolution system (§4, arXiv:2602.02084) — commit-level incremental graph updates via 3 atomic operations: Delete, Modify, Insert.

Instead of re-encoding an entire repository when code changes, Evolution parses git diffs to identify entity-level changes and applies minimal graph mutations. This achieves the paper's claimed 95.7% cost reduction vs full re-encoding.

New module: src/encoder/evolution/

File	Purpose
types.ts	EvolutionOptions, EvolutionResult, ChangedEntity, DiffResult types
diff-parser.ts	Git diff parsing → entity-level change sets (U+, U-, U~)
operations.ts	3 atomic operations: DeleteNode+PruneOrphans, InsertNode, ProcessModification
semantic-router.ts	FindBestParent — LLM/embedding-based recursive semantic routing
prompts.ts	LLM prompt templates for routing and drift detection
evolve.ts	RPGEvolver orchestrator (Delete → Modify → Insert scheduling)
index.ts	Module barrel exports

Key changes

• RPGEncoder.evolve(rpg, options) — new public API accepting RPG + commit range, delegating to RPGEvolver
• Scheduling order: Delete → Modify → Insert (paper §A.2.1) for structural consistency
• Semantic drift detection: Cosine distance (embedding) or Jaccard distance (keywords) fallback
• Drift threshold: Default 0.3 (30% semantic change triggers re-routing)
• Graceful degradation: Works without LLM (heuristic mode) — cosine/Jaccard similarity for routing

Acceptance Criteria (all verified)

• AC-1: Process only changed files from git diffs (13 diff-parser tests)
• AC-2: Clean up nodes/edges with recursive ancestor pruning (6 deleteNode tests)
• AC-3: Detect semantic drift and update/re-route appropriately (3 processModification tests)
• AC-4: Route new entities via semantic routing (2 insertNode tests)
• AC-5: Cost measurement — evolution processes fewer entities than full encode (integration test)

Changes

• Added Evolution module with DiffParser, Operations, SemanticRouter, RPGEvolver
• Integrated evolve() API into RPGEncoder
• 27 unit tests covering diff parsing, node operations, and semantic routing
• 3 integration tests validating end-to-end evolution pipeline
• All existing encoder tests passing (26 tests)

Test Plan

• 27 unit tests (diff-parser: 13, operations: 14) — all pass
• 3 integration tests (encode+evolve pipeline, delegation, AC-5 cost) — all pass
• 26 existing encoder tests — all pass (evolve signature updated)
• Full test suite: 417 passed, 0 failed, 1 skipped (pre-existing)
• Lint clean, TypeScript type check passes

Related Issues

Closes #10

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Code Review

The pull request introduces the RPG-Encoder Evolution system, enabling commit-level incremental graph updates. This is a significant feature that aligns with the paper's goals of reducing re-encoding costs. The changes include new modules for diff parsing, operations, semantic routing, and an orchestrator, along with integration into the existing RPGEncoder API. The docs/implementation-status.md file has been updated to reflect these new capabilities. The code is well-structured and includes comprehensive unit and integration tests. I've identified a few areas for minor improvement, primarily around error handling and consistency in diff-parser.ts.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This pull request implements the RPG-Encoder Evolution system from the research paper §4, enabling commit-level incremental graph updates through three atomic operations: Delete, Modify, and Insert. This is a key differentiator of the RPG-Encoder approach, claiming 95.7% cost reduction versus full repository re-encoding.

The implementation adds a new src/encoder/evolution/ module with comprehensive support for parsing git diffs, detecting semantic drift, and performing minimal graph mutations. The system gracefully degrades from LLM-based semantic routing to embedding-based fallback to heuristic routing when AI services are unavailable.

Changes:

• Added Evolution module with 7 new TypeScript files implementing diff parsing, atomic operations, semantic routing, and orchestration
• Integrated RPGEncoder.evolve() public API that delegates to the RPGEvolver orchestrator
• Added 27 unit tests and 3 integration tests covering all acceptance criteria
• Updated documentation to reflect completed Evolution implementation

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 14 out of 14 changed files in this pull request and generated 13 comments.

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File	Description
src/encoder/evolution/types.ts	Type definitions for evolution options, results, and change entities
src/encoder/evolution/diff-parser.ts	Git diff parsing to extract entity-level changes (U+, U-, U~)
src/encoder/evolution/operations.ts	Three atomic operations: DeleteNode, InsertNode, ProcessModification
src/encoder/evolution/semantic-router.ts	LLM/embedding-based recursive semantic routing (FindBestParent)
src/encoder/evolution/prompts.ts	LLM prompt templates for routing and drift detection
src/encoder/evolution/evolve.ts	RPGEvolver orchestrator implementing Delete → Modify → Insert scheduling
src/encoder/evolution/index.ts	Module barrel exports
src/encoder/encoder.ts	Added evolve() method that delegates to RPGEvolver
src/encoder/index.ts	Exported Evolution module classes and types
tests/evolution/operations.test.ts	Unit tests for atomic operations (14 tests)
tests/evolution/diff-parser.test.ts	Unit tests for git diff parsing (13 tests)
tests/evolution/evolution.integration.test.ts	Integration tests for end-to-end evolution pipeline (3 tests)
tests/encoder.test.ts	Updated encoder test for new evolve() signature
docs/implementation-status.md	Updated documentation marking Evolution as complete

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5 issues found across 16 files

Prompt for AI agents (all issues)

Check if these issues are valid — if so, understand the root cause of each and fix them.


<file name="src/encoder/evolution/evolve.ts">

<violation number="1" location="src/encoder/evolution/evolve.ts:129">
P1: Errors are collected during the evolution pipeline but only logged with `console.warn`, not returned to the caller. This creates a silent failure pattern where callers cannot detect or handle partial operation failures. Consider adding an `errors` field to `EvolutionResult` and returning the collected errors.</violation>
</file>

<file name="src/encoder/evolution/operations.ts">

<violation number="1" location="src/encoder/evolution/operations.ts:324">
P2: Empty catch block silently swallows embedding errors. Consider logging the error at debug level to aid troubleshooting when embedding services fail unexpectedly.</violation>
</file>

<file name="tests/evolution/operations.test.ts">

<violation number="1" location="tests/evolution/operations.test.ts:86">
P3: Typo in test name: `cASCADE` should be `cascade` (or `CASCADE`). Same capitalization typo as above.</violation>
</file>

<file name="src/encoder/encoder.ts">

<violation number="1" location="src/encoder/encoder.ts:726">
P2: Missing `includeSource` option passed to `RPGEvolver`. If the encoder was configured with `includeSource: true`, evolved nodes will inconsistently omit source code since this option defaults to `undefined`/`false` in the evolver.</violation>
</file>

<file name="src/encoder/evolution/diff-parser.ts">

<violation number="1" location="src/encoder/evolution/diff-parser.ts:302">
P1: Using `??` instead of `||` causes incorrect handling of edge-case commit ranges like `..HEAD` or `main..`. When `split('..')` produces an empty string, nullish coalescing (`??`) won't trigger the fallback because `''` is not nullish. Use logical OR (`||`) to properly handle empty strings.</violation>
</file>

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1 issue found across 13 files (changes from recent commits).

Prompt for AI agents (all issues)

Check if these issues are valid — if so, understand the root cause of each and fix them.


<file name="src/encoder/evolution/diff-parser.ts">

<violation number="1" location="src/encoder/evolution/diff-parser.ts:303">
P1: The fallback to `commitRange` for `oldRev` is incorrect when the start revision is omitted (e.g., `..HEAD`). This causes `oldRev` to become the invalid revision string `..HEAD`, which fails in `git show`. It should fallback to `'HEAD'` to match Git's default behavior for omitted range endpoints.</violation>
</file>

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