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What & why

Beta.24 continuously consumed several CPU cores while managed sessions kept their hosted MCP tool streams connected. Activity Monitor showed 355.2%; independent process samples observed 256–384% daemon CPU. Logs and CPU profiles identified repeated workspace discovery, descriptor validation and catalog encoding during hosted tool projection refresh.

The final controlled comparison reduced daemon CPU by 87.84% (8.22x):

Same representative workload CPU-seconds / wall seconds Daemon CPU
Released beta.24 56.94 / 30.471 186.867%
This fix 6.89 / 30.318 22.726%

Both binaries use Go 1.26.4, CGO disabled, trimpath, darwin/arm64. Each window has two active sessions, two total sessions and two connected hosted MCP clients. The synthetic fixture matches the observed traversal shape: 89 workspace skill definitions, 872 regular files, 501 directories, five rejected links and 22 global definitions. On macOS, 100% means one logical CPU. This is a shared active host; the report distinguishes this final comparison from earlier compiler/build/history variants.

Five focused corrections remove repeated work:

  1. Resolve extension workspace identity through a shared registration operation instead of loading all resources for each tool. Preserve aliases, root reconciliation and durable identity validation.
  2. Reuse privately owned, constructor-validated native descriptors during indexing. Dynamic descriptors still undergo validation; availability, policy, conflicts and ordering remain live.
  3. Reuse unchanged skill discovery and parsed names after checking directory/file identity, metadata and link containment. Preserve nested additions, atomic replacement, rejected-link transitions, sidecars and expiry.
  4. Reuse hosted digests only after rebuilding and comparing the complete current projection. Preserve the original JSON/SHA-256 contract, invalid-schema behavior and concurrency. Deep-copy backend capability lists so caller mutation cannot hide changes.
  5. Resolve current configuration and agents through a separate typed workspace operation for policy checks. Skip unused skill inventories while retaining config/agent/profile freshness, identity checks, invalidation and catalog precedence.

The 100 ms refresh interval is unchanged. Mutable native callbacks still report unknown generation; this does not enable a stale full-projection cache.

How you verified it

Authored and verified by Codex, including independent code review and actual daemon/MCP/CLI/UDS/extension runs.

  • Every unchanged runtime catalog contains the same 237 descriptors and canonical SHA-256: 92ff728f80cb445b7bde44f2dfcb6d82c264548c8110d13c5472655db6f6790c.
  • Both connected clients observe workspace tools.enabled transitions 237 → 0 → 237 and extension disable/enable transitions 237 → 234 → 237, restoring the exact catalog hash.
  • Nested skill create/rename/remove converged across MCP, CLI and provenance in 3.534 / 2.896 / 3.085 seconds, within the existing three-second watcher cadence and ten-second scenario bound. MCP session IDs match the CLI; UDS status succeeds.
  • Native 128-tool projection benchmark: median 2.234 ms → 0.149 ms, with 29,989 → 1,060 allocations/op. Hosted unknown-generation benchmark: 0.472 ms → 0.303 ms after digest reuse. These are per-operation results, separate from daemon CPU.
  • Final Go 1.26.6 scale checks measured 20.903% with 23 skills and 22.712% with 200 skills. The compiler version is explicitly separated from the authoritative Go 1.26.4 comparison above.

Passed:

CGO_ENABLED=1 go test -race ./internal/tools/... ./internal/mcp -count=1
CGO_ENABLED=1 go test -race -tags integration ./internal/skillscan ./internal/workspace -count=1
CGO_ENABLED=1 go test -race ./internal/daemon -run 'TestDaemonNativeRuntimePolicyResolver|TestResourceAgentCatalog|TestAgentCatalogLens|TestLoopEffectRelay' -count=1
GOTOOLCHAIN=go1.26.4 CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -trimpath -o .cache/cpu-investigation/compozy-policy-go1264 ./cmd/compozy

The three existing daemon integration tests for hosted workspace MCP, extension authoring and extension lifecycle parity also passed against the CGO-disabled production binary. They run under the shared verification lock, with real daemon and ACP subprocesses. Regression coverage includes dynamic policy/availability, scope precedence, malformed schemas, concurrent digest reads, defensive copies, nested filesystem changes, expiry and current root/profile failures.

make gate passed with zero lint issues and all affected Go race suites green
(276 seconds). Strict QA audit passed with zero blockers/warnings; canonical
lab teardown reports clean: true and zero surviving lab processes. Formatting
and commit-message checks were run directly before committing, avoiding automatic
lint-staged stashing.

The investigation report, native-tool scenario and incident record contain the complete methodology, evidence and verification limits.

Impact

No public tool IDs, schemas, DTOs, configuration keys, stored state, extension SDK or Web contracts change. No migration or generated wire change is required. The report owns the cross-surface impact audit; public product documentation and the official Compozy skill retain their existing contracts.

Runtime validation uses deterministic ACP subprocesses on a shared active host. It does not claim inference-provider or renderer performance, and the final daemon still has measured polling overhead. The installed user app and its sessions were inspected without being restarted or replaced. Raw logs, private file contents, lab instrumentation and binaries remain local and are excluded from this PR.


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  • New or changed behavior is covered by tests
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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for resolving agent configurations by workspace and profile.
    • Added workspace registration validation without loading runtime resources.
    • Added more responsive skill discovery by reusing results when files are unchanged.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved refresh behavior when skills, tool availability, schemas, or policies change.
    • Strengthened isolation so returned tool and agent data cannot be unintentionally modified.
    • Improved hosted projection digest accuracy and caching.
    • Added validation for unavailable or invalid workspace registrations.

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  • internal/daemon/agent_catalog_scope.go
  • internal/daemon/agent_skill_catalog.go
  • internal/daemon/native_extension_tool_provider.go
  • internal/daemon/native_extension_tool_provider_test.go
  • internal/daemon/tool_policy_resolver.go
  • internal/filesnap/change_token_darwin.go
  • internal/filesnap/change_token_linux.go
  • internal/filesnap/change_token_other.go
  • internal/filesnap/filesnap.go
  • internal/filesnap/filesnap_test.go
  • internal/mcp/hosted_bootstrap_projection.go
  • internal/mcp/hosted_projection_cache.go
  • internal/mcp/hosted_records.go
  • internal/mcp/hosted_tool_views.go
  • internal/skills/watcher.go
  • internal/skills/watcher_test.go
  • internal/skillscan/scan_cache.go
  • internal/skillscan/scan_directory.go
  • internal/skillscan/scan_test.go
  • internal/tools/policy_evaluate.go
  • internal/tools/registry.go
  • internal/tools/registry_index.go
  • internal/tools/registry_test.go
  • internal/workspace/resolver.go
  • internal/workspace/resolver_agent_config.go
  • internal/workspace/resolver_cache_behavior_test.go
  • internal/workspace/resolver_cache_contract_test.go
  • internal/workspace/resolver_crud.go
  • internal/workspace/resolver_identity_behavior_test.go
  • internal/workspace/scanner.go
  • internal/workspace/scanner_skills.go

Walkthrough

This change adds workspace registration and agent-config resolution, filesystem discovery snapshots, daemon policy-agent snapshots, validated extension scoping, native registry isolation, and hosted projection digest memoization.

Changes

Runtime resolution and caching

Layer / File(s) Summary
Workspace registration and agent configuration resolution
internal/workspace/workspace.go, internal/workspace/resolver*.go, internal/workspace/*test.go
The workspace resolver now supports registration-only lookup and cached ResolvedAgentConfig results. Cache reuse validates configuration, agent, skill, profile, identity, and runtime inputs.
Skill discovery snapshots and reuse
internal/skillscan/*, internal/workspace/scanner*.go, internal/workspace/resolver_cache_behavior_test.go
Directory scans now record filesystem and symlink state. Workspace scans reuse unchanged skill sources and rescan incomplete or changed discoveries.

Daemon resolution and extension scope

Layer / File(s) Summary
Agent catalog and policy snapshots
internal/daemon/agent_catalog_scope.go, internal/daemon/agent_skill_catalog.go, internal/daemon/tool_policy_resolver.go, internal/daemon/*test.go
Agent resolution now uses workspace and policy snapshots. Policy resolution accepts ResolvedAgentConfig and preserves defensive-copy, precedence, fallback, and error behavior.
Validated extension workspace scope
internal/daemon/native_extension_tool_provider.go, internal/daemon/native_extension_tool_provider_test.go, internal/daemon/daemon_extension_agent_native_e2e_integration_test.go
Extension operations now resolve canonical workspace registrations and reject missing registration IDs before scoped operations.

Native registry and hosted projections

Layer / File(s) Summary
Native descriptor and registry indexing
internal/tools/native.go, internal/tools/policy_evaluate.go, internal/tools/registry*.go, internal/tools/*test.go
Native providers use direct index construction. Descriptor cloning now protects nested capability slices and policy evaluation inputs.
Hosted projection digest memoization
internal/mcp/hosted*.go, internal/mcp/perf_bench_test.go
Hosted bindings cache projection digests with synchronized deep-equality checks. Tool-view cloning now copies capability requirements.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f4add

Concurrent invalidation and same-metadata skill edits can leave sessions using stale configuration or skill data. These cache correctness issues should be fixed before merge; the associated regression tests also need stronger assertions.

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The PR reduces connected-session CPU usage by avoiding repeated workspace/resource work while preserving live policy, availability, identity, and catalog behavior. Changes since the previous review harden the optimization by:

  • Recording directory membership and platform-specific filesystem change tokens so cached skill discovery notices additions, replacements, and metadata-preserving edits.
  • Publishing those edits through the skill watcher and resource catalog.
  • Preventing invalidated narrow agent-configuration builds from repopulating their cache.
  • Strengthening defensive copies, validation coverage, regression tests, and the incident/QA evidence.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge; the previous stale-skill finding is resolved and no new actionable failure remains.

Directory membership snapshots now invalidate skill discovery when children are added, removed, renamed, or change type, while shared filesystem change tokens and watcher publication cover metadata-preserving edits. Agent-config cache publication is guarded against concurrent invalidation, and descriptor/projection reuse retains defensive-copy boundaries. The previous thread was manually resolved without explanation; the current implementation and regression coverage nevertheless fully address its reported failure mode.

Important Files Changed

Filename Overview
internal/filesnap/filesnap.go Adds conservative, platform-aware file and directory snapshots used to detect metadata-preserving skill changes.
internal/skillscan/scan_cache.go Revalidates captured directory membership and file snapshots before reusing skill discovery results, resolving the prior stale-addition finding.
internal/skills/watcher.go Uses shared filesystem snapshot equality so skill changes that preserve size and modification time still trigger publication.
internal/workspace/resolver_agent_config.go Guards narrow agent-config cache publication with an invalidation generation and returns detached resolved data.
internal/tools/registry_index.go Reuses privately owned native descriptors while retaining validation and cloning boundaries for dynamic providers and public consumers.
internal/mcp/hosted_records.go Reuses hosted projection digests only after complete view equality and stores isolated memo snapshots.
docs/qa/reports/2026-09-10-beta24-daemon-cpu.md Documents the performance incident, remediation, review hardening, compatibility analysis, and final runtime evidence.

Flowchart

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart LR
    Client[Connected hosted MCP client] --> Poll[Projection refresh]
    Poll --> Registry[Live tool registry]
    Registry --> Policy[Current availability and policy]
    Registry --> Identity[Identity-only workspace resolution]
    Policy --> AgentConfig[Narrow config and agent resolution]
    AgentConfig --> ConfigCache[Generation-guarded cache]
    Registry --> Native[Constructor-validated native descriptors]
    Poll --> Projection[Complete current projection]
    Projection --> Digest[Binding-local digest memo]
    Watcher[Skill watcher] --> FileSnap[Filesystem snapshots]
    FileSnap --> Catalog[Resource catalog refresh]
    Catalog --> Registry
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In `@internal/daemon/native_extension_tool_provider_test.go`:
- Around line 72-76: Strengthen the error assertions in the
registration-validation test for provider.List, provider.Resolve, and the
related Call check: verify expected message content with ErrorContains where
applicable, and use ErrorAs to assert Call returns *toolspkg.ToolError whose
Reason is ReasonScopeMismatch. Keep the existing validation scenarios and
failure messages while rejecting unrelated non-nil errors.

In `@internal/skillscan/scan_cache.go`:
- Around line 81-93: The directorySnapshot validation in unchangedFiles must
detect same-inode, same-size rewrites that preserve metadata. Store a content
digest or equivalent reliable change metadata when creating the snapshot,
compare it during unchangedFiles, and add coverage for an in-place rewrite that
keeps identity, mode, size, and modification time unchanged.

In `@internal/tools/registry_test.go`:
- Line 150: Update the assertion around requireToolIDs in the SessionProjection
ordering test to compare the projected descriptor IDs in sequence, rather than
relying on the helper’s membership-only map check. Preserve the expected
first.ID, descriptor.ID, and last.ID order and use an existing order-sensitive
assertion or equivalent direct comparison.

In `@internal/workspace/resolver_agent_config.go`:
- Around line 68-70: The ResolveAgentConfig cache publication must be guarded
against invalidation races. Capture the cache generation on a miss, increment it
in both Invalidate and InvalidateAll, and publish the resolved agent
configuration only when the captured generation still matches; add a barrier
test covering invalidation during the build.

In `@internal/workspace/resolver_cache_contract_test.go`:
- Around line 701-703: Update the ResolveAgentConfig assertion for
"../marketing" to verify the returned error contains the profile-validation
failure and the "workspace: resolve profile resources" wrapper, rather than only
checking that an error exists. Preserve the test’s rejection behavior while
ensuring it specifically validates resolveProfileIdentity.

In `@internal/workspace/resolver_identity_behavior_test.go`:
- Line 40: Update the test loop around the registration aliases in the relevant
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with the required “Should...” pattern, while preserving the existing assertions
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  • internal/mcp/hosted_records.go
  • internal/mcp/hosted_test.go
  • internal/mcp/hosted_tool_views.go
  • internal/mcp/perf_bench_test.go
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  • internal/workspace/scanner.go
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