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Summary

  • Add manual testing guide (refactoring/testing-package-system.md) covering local visibility enforcement, pkg list, pkg init, main_pipe auto-export, backward compatibility, and cross-package -> syntax
  • Add ready-to-use test fixtures (refactoring/test-package-fixtures/) with three domains (legal, scoring, reporting) including intentional visibility violations for testing pass/fail scenarios
  • Add v6 design/implementation docs for the package system refactoring
  • Mark test_validate_all as xfail(raises=LibraryLoadingError) since fixtures contain intentional visibility violations

Test plan

  • make agent-check passes (lint, pyright, mypy)
  • make agent-test passes (full test suite)
  • pipelex pkg list from fixtures directory displays correct tables
  • pipelex validate --all --library-dir refactoring/test-package-fixtures correctly raises LibraryLoadingError on the blocked scoring.internal_score_normalizer ref
  • test_validate_all shows as XFAIL with correct reason

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Medium Risk
Adds new validation that can block previously-working cross-domain pipe calls when a METHODS.toml is present, affecting bundle loading paths. The change is opt-in and covered by extensive unit/integration tests, but impacts core runtime loading/validation.

Overview
Introduces an opt-in package manifest (METHODS.toml) that gives .mthds projects an identity, declares dependencies, and enforces cross-domain pipe visibility via [exports] (with main_pipe auto-export).

This adds a new packages subsystem (manifest model + TOML parse/serialize, walk-up discovery with .git boundary, bundle scanning, and a visibility checker) and wires visibility validation into library loading so blocked references fail fast with actionable errors. The builder now optionally generates a skeleton METHODS.toml for multi-domain outputs, and the CLI gains pipelex pkg init/pipelex pkg list for scaffolding and inspecting manifests.

Docs are expanded to cover hierarchical domains, package layout/behavior, and the new CLI commands, and a comprehensive test/fixture set is added to validate manifest validation, discovery, visibility rules, and builder/CLI behavior.

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lchoquel and others added 4 commits February 12, 2026 02:06
…CLI (Phase 2)

Introduce the package manifest system for .mthds bundles: MthdsPackageManifest
data model with TOML parsing/serialization, walk-up manifest discovery, cross-domain
pipe visibility enforcement against [exports], cross-package -> reference detection,
CLI commands (pipelex pkg init/list), and builder awareness for multi-domain output.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ackage manifest

Make description a required field on MthdsPackageManifest (no longer optional),
add version constraint validation for dependencies (supporting ^, ~, >=, <=, >,
<, ==, !=, comma-separated, and wildcard syntax), and update all test fixtures
and invalid manifest files to include the now-required description field.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
New pages: packages.md (manifest reference, exports/visibility, dependencies,
directory structure, quick start) and pkg.md (CLI reference for pkg init/list).
Updated domain.md with hierarchical domains section, project-organization.md
with METHODS.toml in project tree, CLI index with pkg command row, and
mkdocs.yml nav entries.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…date_all

Add a step-by-step manual testing guide (refactoring/testing-package-system.md)
with ready-to-use .mthds fixture files covering local visibility enforcement
and cross-package reference syntax. Mark test_validate_all as xfail since the
test fixtures contain intentional visibility violations for testing purposes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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… file discovery order)

On Linux/GHA, file discovery order differs from macOS: the visibility check
may not find the fixture METHODS.toml, causing a DomainLibraryError from
duplicate 'scoring' domain instead of the LibraryLoadingError seen locally.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
lchoquel and others added 2 commits February 12, 2026 13:52
Non-table dependency values (e.g. `foo = "1.0.0"`) were silently dropped
during parsing, causing confusing errors later during alias resolution.
Now raises ManifestValidationError immediately with a clear message.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The export-building loop in do_pkg_init was using sorted(pipe_codes)
and ignoring the populated domain_main_pipes dict, making it dead code.
Now matches the sibling pattern in builder_loop.py by placing main_pipe
first in each domain's export list before appending remaining pipes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
lchoquel and others added 2 commits February 12, 2026 15:34
Deduplicate ~35 lines of identical .mthds scanning and DomainExports
building logic from builder_loop.py and init_cmd.py into two shared
functions in pipelex/core/packages/bundle_scanner.py, reducing
divergence risk when fixing or extending this code path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…domain

When two .mthds bundles share the same domain but declare different main_pipe
values, the scanner now reports the conflict in the errors list instead of
silently overwriting. The first value is kept for determinism. Identical
main_pipe declarations across bundles are allowed. A secondary warning guard
is added in PackageVisibilityChecker for defense in depth.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
lchoquel and others added 2 commits February 12, 2026 17:34
…ManifestValidationError

The exports parsing path in parse_methods_toml was missing the same
ValidationError handling that the dependency parsing path already had,
causing unhandled pydantic ValidationError to escape to callers expecting
ManifestError.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@lchoquel lchoquel changed the title Add package system testing guide and fixtures mthds-6-package-manifest Feb 12, 2026
…_all

The refactoring/test-package-fixtures/ directory contained intentionally
non-compliant .mthds bundles (visibility violations, domain name collisions)
that caused LibraryLoadingError/DomainLibraryError when test_validate_all
scanned from ".". This forced a blanket xfail that hid real regressions.
Equivalent, properly namespaced fixtures already exist in tests/data/packages/.

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pipes_value = value_dict["pipes"]
if isinstance(pipes_value, list):
pipes_list = cast("list[str]", pipes_value)
result.append(DomainExports(domain_path=current_path, pipes=pipes_list))
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Silent data loss for non-list pipes in exports

Low Severity

In _walk_exports_table, when pipes exists in a domain's dict but is not a list (e.g., user writes pipes = "single_pipe" instead of pipes = ["single_pipe"]), the domain's export is silently dropped. The isinstance(pipes_value, list) guard prevents the DomainExports model from being instantiated, bypassing its Pydantic validation entirely. This means no error is raised — the domain simply has no exports, and its pipes are treated as private. An explicit error when pipes is present but not a list would avoid confusing silent behavior.

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Replace the single-section "Remote Testing" approach (which assumed multiple
GitHub accounts) with a four-layer testing strategy: unit tests, local path
dependencies, local git repos with file:// URLs, and a manual GitHub smoke
test. This keeps layers 1-3 fully automated in CI with no network dependency
while still validating the end-to-end flow manually in layer 4.

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