meta-ast 0.7.0

Polyglot static-analysis engine: extract symbols and cross-language dependency graphs from 9 supported source languages, with optional MetaCall deployment manifest generation.
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# Code Structure and Design Plan

This document defines the module layout, data structures, design patterns, language features, testing strategy, and implementation order for `meta-ast`. It is the authoritative reference for how code is organized and why.

---

## 1. Module Structure

```
src/
├── cache.rs                BLAKE3 fingerprinting and the extraction cache
├── error.rs                Error + Diagnostic types (thiserror)
├── lib.rs                  Public API re-exports
├── main.rs                 CLI entry point: parse, subscriber setup, dispatch
├── pipeline.rs             Full graph analysis orchestration, one assembly path for both entry points
├── reanalyze.rs            Incremental re-analysis: overlays, diffs, cache reuse
├── deploy/
│   ├── check.rs                check_cut_fairness() - bijection check between cuts and rpc_stub edges
│   ├── client_call.rs          Client call resolution: load aware first, then the global name index
│   ├── config.rs               DeployConfig and its defaults
│   ├── cut.rs                  find_cross_language_cuts(), find_oversized_pod_cut(), CutEdge, CutAnnotation
│   ├── dependency.rs           One table of lockfile and manifest sources plus one reader per format
│   ├── manifest.rs             generate_pod_manifest(), PodManifest, ManifestEdge
│   ├── mesh.rs                 generate_mesh_annotation(), DeploymentUnit, CrossLanguageEdge
│   ├── metrics.rs              compute_file_metrics(), compute_pod_metrics(), FileMetrics
│   ├── mod.rs                  Entry: run_deploy() in named stages, DeployConfig, add_metacall_edge()
│   ├── pod.rs                  Union-Find partition_into_pods(), PodPartition, InterPodEdge
│   ├── scanner.rs              tree-sitter call-site detection, CallSite, CallSiteVariant, confidence
│   └── tags.rs                 LangId <-> MetaCall runtime tag mapping
├── extractor/
│   └── mod.rs                  Pipeline orchestration: parallel parse + extract per file (symbols, imports, references, call sites, dataflow)
├── graph/
│   ├── builder.rs              GraphBuilder: named stages for files, symbols, dataflow, imports, references and client calls; AnalysisParts
│   ├── edge.rs                 EdgeKind enum (Ownership / Import / Reference / Flow) with confidence + flow_kind, one merge rule, confidence_tier
│   ├── mod.rs                  CodeGraph (DiGraph), add_edge_normalized_with_flow, re-exports
│   ├── naming.rs               Node display name and kind name; one authority for the graph output
│   ├── node.rs                 NodeData enum (File / Symbol / External / Data)
│   ├── resolver.rs             FlattenedScopeCache, ResolutionContext, resolve_references_detailed, ResolvedReference, resolve_all_references
│   └── scc.rs                  Tarjan SCC + DeployabilityHint in a single edge walk
├── input/
│   └── mod.rs                  File discovery, filtering, language routing, portable paths
├── interface/
│   ├── args.rs                 Clap derive structs (Inspect, Graph, Deploy and their flags)
│   ├── banner.rs               Startup banner
│   ├── commands.rs             Command implementations: inspect, graph, watch and deploy
│   ├── mod.rs                  CLI module root
│   └── report.rs               FailOn policy and diagnostic reporting
├── language/
│   ├── c.rs                    C queries + extraction
│   ├── common.rs               extract_with_spec, extract_imports_and_references_with_spec, associate_docstrings
│   ├── cpp.rs                  C++ queries + extraction
│   ├── dataflow.rs             extract_dataflow() dispatcher (feature: dataflow; Rust impl in rust.rs)
│   ├── go.rs                   Go queries + extraction
│   ├── import_resolver.rs      ImportResolver trait, stateful resolvers (Python, Go, JS, TS)
│   ├── javascript.rs           JavaScript queries + extraction
│   ├── mod.rs                  LangId enum, LanguageSpec struct, DefaultVisibility, DocCommentConfig, the query registry
│   ├── pack.rs                 define_language_pack! macro: query statics, fallible accessors, spec literal and snapshot scaffolding
│   ├── python.rs               Python queries + extraction
│   ├── ruby.rs                 Ruby queries + extraction
│   ├── rust.rs                 Rust queries + extraction
│   ├── tsx.rs                  TSX queries + extraction (separate grammar from TS)
│   └── typescript.rs           TypeScript queries + extraction
├── model/
│   ├── ids.rs                  FileId, SymbolId, SnapshotId, DataNodeId (newtyped NonZeroU32; generator starts at 1)
│   ├── mod.rs                  Symbol, SymbolKind, SourceRange, UnresolvedImport, UnresolvedReference, FileExtraction, DataNode, DataScope, FlowEdge, FlowKind (feature: dataflow)
│   └── output.rs               InspectOutput, FuncEntry, ClassEntry, ObjectEntry
├── output/
│   ├── dashboard.rs            Interactive HTML dashboard with the vendored Cytoscape bundle (--html, --open)
│   ├── emitter.rs              EmitConfig, emit_inspect(), emit_graph() - CLI output dispatch
│   ├── graph.rs                Unified GraphOutput (schema_version, metadata, nodes, edges, sccs, deployability)
│   ├── inspect.rs              Inspect-compatible JSON/YAML emission
│   ├── mod.rs                  OutputFormat and the single default output path
│   └── shard/
│       ├── edge.rs                 ShardEdge, ShardEdgeKind, restore_shard_edges()
│       ├── error.rs                ShardError enum
│       ├── file.rs                 ShardFile, ShardSymbol, write_shard(), read_shard()
│       ├── header.rs               ShardHeader, write_header(), read_header()
│       ├── index.rs                load_index(), hardened index verification
│       ├── manifest.rs             ShardManifestRecord, write_manifest(), read_manifest()
│       ├── mod.rs                  Module root, re-exports, unit tests
│       └── name.rs                 Portable shard naming: the name plan, the collision key and parent hierarchy resolution
├── parser/
│   └── mod.rs                  Tree-sitter parser lifecycle, parse function
├── sink/
│   └── mod.rs                  GraphSink trait + JsonSink
└── watch/
    ├── config.rs               WatchConfig: debounce, emit configuration and the diagnostic policy
    ├── mod.rs                  IncrementalCache, WatchState, re-analysis entry point, run_watch
    └── watcher.rs              Debounced notify loop with a stop flag and a failure count
```

### Module dependency direction

```
CLI (interface/)
  → Pipeline (pipeline.rs)  → orchestrates the full graph analysis
    → Extractor (extractor/) → depends on model + language + parser
      → Parser (parser/)     → depends on language (grammar dispatch)
    → Graph (graph/)         → depends on model + petgraph
      → Resolver (graph/resolver.rs) → cross-file reference resolution
    → Input (input/)         → depends on language (detection)
  → Output (output/)         → depends on model + graph
  → Deploy (deploy/)         → depends on pipeline + graph + input [feature: metacall-deploy]
  → Sink (sink/)             → depends on output/graph [feature: dataflow]
  → Error (error.rs)         ← cross-cutting
```

Outer layers depend on inner layers. The model layer has zero knowledge of parsing, I/O, or language specifics.

---

## 2. Core Data Structures

### 2.1 ID Types

Newtyped `NonZeroU32` values generated by `define_id_type!` and allocated by
`IdGenerator<T>` (an `AtomicU32` wrapper) for lock-free, thread-safe,
session-deterministic allocation. Type-safe against mixing.

The generator starts at 1: 0 is the permanently invalid niche value, so
`Option<Id>` niche-optimizes to 4 bytes (the size of `Id` itself) instead of
the 8 bytes an `Option<u32>` would cost. This benefits structures that store an
optional id, e.g. `DataNode.symbol_id: Option<SymbolId>`.

```rust
define_id_type!(FileId);
define_id_type!(SymbolId);
define_id_type!(SnapshotId);
define_id_type!(DataNodeId);
```

Construction is fallible: `Id::new(u32) -> Option<Self>` returns `None` for 0
(rejecting the niche value at the type boundary, including deserialization).
The raw value is reachable via `Id::to_raw() -> u32` and `From<NonZeroU32>`.

### 2.2 Source Location

```rust
pub struct LineColumn {
    pub line: usize,    // 0-indexed
    pub column: usize,  // 0-indexed, byte offset within line
}

pub struct SourceRange {
    pub byte_start: usize,
    pub byte_end: usize,
    pub start: LineColumn,
    pub end: LineColumn,
}
```

### 2.3 Symbol Model

Immutable IR - constructed once during extraction, never mutated.

```rust
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize)]
#[non_exhaustive]
pub enum SymbolKind {
    Function,
    Method,
    Class,
    Struct,
    Interface,
    Trait,
    Enum,
    Object,
    Constant,
    Static,
    Module,
    Namespace,
    TypeAlias,
}

#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize)]
#[non_exhaustive]
pub enum Visibility {
    Public,
    Private,
}

#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize)]
pub struct Symbol {
    pub id: SymbolId,
    pub name: String,
    pub kind: SymbolKind,
    pub language: LangId,
    pub file_path: PathBuf,
    pub source_range: SourceRange,
    /// Identifier range when the language pack captured one; editors reveal
    /// this range instead of the whole declaration.
    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
    pub name_range: Option<SourceRange>,
    pub visibility: Option<Visibility>,
    pub signature: Option<String>,
    pub docstring: Option<String>,
    pub is_async: bool,
}
```

`FileExtraction` also carries `text: Option<Arc<str>>`, filled only when
`ExtractOptions::keep_text` asks for it. Shards never persist the text, and the
field is not serialized. The full symbol and extraction contract lives in
`docs/src/specs/symbol-extraction.md`.

### 2.4 Graph Model

Node and edge types:

| Node | Fields |
| ------ | -------- |
| `FileNode` | id, path (project-root-relative), language, snapshot_id |
| `SymbolNode` | id, name, kind, file_id, visibility, source_range |
| `ExternalNode` | raw_path, language |

| Edge | Direction |
| ------ | ----------- |
| `Ownership` | FileNode -> SymbolNode, SymbolNode -> SymbolNode (nesting) |
| `Import` | FileNode -> FileNode |
| `Reference` | SymbolNode -> SymbolNode |

Graph invariants:

1. Every SymbolNode maps to exactly one FileNode.
2. Ownership edges form an acyclic containment structure.
3. SCC applies to dependency/reference subgraph only (Ownership excluded).
4. Duplicate edges normalized by `(src, dst, edge_kind)`.
5. External dependencies get `NodeData::External` placeholder nodes.

### 2.5 Inspect Output

Stable contract:

```rust
pub struct InspectOutput {
    pub funcs: Vec<FuncEntry>,
    pub classes: Vec<ClassEntry>,
    pub objects: Vec<ObjectEntry>,
}
```

Each entry type includes: `name`, `source_range`, optional `signature`, `visibility`, `docstring`. `FuncEntry` additionally includes an `async` flag.

---

## 3. Language System Design

### 3.1 LanguageSpec Struct

Each language is a static `LanguageSpec` constant with function pointers (not a trait):

```rust
pub struct LanguageSpec {
    pub extensions: &'static [&'static str],
    pub grammar_fn: fn() -> tree_sitter::Language,
    pub query_fn: fn() -> &'static Query,
    pub import_path_resolver: fn(&str, &Path, &Path) -> Option<PathBuf>,
    pub import_ref_query_fn: fn() -> &'static Query,
    pub class_like_parents: &'static [&'static str],
    pub ancestor_visibility_rules: &'static [(&'static str, Visibility)],
    pub visibility_from_name: Option<fn(&str) -> Option<Visibility>>,
    pub import_statement_kinds: &'static [&'static str],
    pub default_visibility: DefaultVisibility,
    pub doc_comment_config: Option<DocCommentConfig>,
}
```

### 3.2 LangId Enum

The aggregate dispatch enum. `#[non_exhaustive]` for forward compatibility:

```rust
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Hash, Serialize, strum::Display, strum::AsRefStr)]
#[non_exhaustive]
#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
#[strum(serialize_all = "snake_case")]
#[repr(usize)]
pub enum LangId {
    Python,
    JavaScript,
    TypeScript,
    Tsx,
    C,
    Cpp,
    Rust,
    Go,
    Ruby,
}
```

### 3.3 Stateful Import Resolution Seam

To support complex stateful import resolution (e.g. resolving paths using configuration files like `tsconfig.json` or module boundary scanning like `go.mod`), `meta-ast` implements a hybrid seam combining static `LanguageSpec` specs with a stateful `ImportResolver` trait:

```rust
pub trait ImportResolver: Send + Sync {
    fn resolve(
        &self,
        raw: &str,
        source_dir: &Path,
        project_root: &Path,
    ) -> Option<PathBuf>;
}
```

#### Hybrid Resolution Bridge

1. **`LanguageSpec`** remains static and `const` (containing a stateless `import_path_resolver` fn pointer).
2. **`ImportResolver`** represents a stateful trait interface.
3. Concrete adapters bridge the two:
   - `StatelessResolver`: Zero-cost wrapper delegating to static fn pointers.
   - `PythonResolver`, `GoModResolver`, `NodeResolver`: concrete structs implementing `ImportResolver` that memoize filesystem probes.
4. **`make_resolver(LangId) -> Box<dyn ImportResolver>`**: Factory function constructing the stateful resolver for each language dynamically.

#### Stateful Caching and Memoization Engines

To guarantee maximum throughput and avoid redundant filesystem traversal during large-scale workspace parsing, the stateful resolvers employ optimized, thread-safe caching strategies:

- **`OnceLock` Module Boundary Scanning (`GoModResolver`)**: Scans for the root `go.mod` file and parses the module path at most once per execution using a standard `OnceLock`. Subsequent resolution calls query the in-memory boundary in $O(1)$ time.
- **`RwLock` File Existence Memoization (`PythonResolver`, `NodeResolver`)**: memoizes `exists()` and `is_file()` checks in an `RwLock<HashMap<PathBuf, bool>>`, which removes repeated system calls during candidate extension resolution while staying safe for concurrency.
- **Stateless Fallback**: When candidate paths do not match or cannot be resolved using stateful logic, all resolvers gracefully fallback to their underlying stateless `LanguageSpec` function pointer, ensuring 100% backward compatibility.

During graph assembly, `make_resolver` builds one resolver set per graph build, so a memoized probe never outlives the build that created it.

### 3.4 Adding a New Language

The process is:

1. Add the tree-sitter grammar crate to `Cargo.toml`.
2. Create `src/language/<name>.rs` with query constants, extraction function, and `LanguageSpec` constant.
3. Add a variant to `LangId` enum.
4. Add a match arm in `spec_for()`.
5. Add fixture files and tests.

No trait objects, no runtime plugins. Compile-time completeness checking via exhaustive match.

### 3.5 Language Detection

`detect_language(path: &Path) -> Option<LangId>` maps file extensions to `LangId` variants. Lives in `input/mod.rs`.

| Extension(s) | LangId |
| --- | --- |
| `.py`, `.pyi` | `Python` |
| `.js`, `.mjs`, `.cjs` | `JavaScript` |
| `.ts`, `.cts`, `.mts` | `TypeScript` |
| `.tsx` | `Tsx` |
| `.c`, `.h` | `C` |
| `.cc`, `.cpp`, `.cxx`, `.hpp` | `Cpp` |
| `.rs` | `Rust` |
| `.go` | `Go` |
| `.rb`, `.gemspec` | `Ruby` |

---

## 4. Design Patterns

### 4.1 Enum Static Dispatch (Language System)

All language-specific behavior dispatches through `match` on `LangId`. No vtables, no `dyn` - full monomorphization and inline optimization.

### 4.2 Pipeline Pattern

The analysis pipeline is orchestrated by `pipeline.rs`:

```
Source Discovery -> Parallel Parse + Extract -> Graph Assembly -> Import Resolution -> Reference Resolution -> SCC -> Output
   (sequential)       (rayon par_iter)         (sequential)       (sequential)          (sequential)      (sequential)
```

Parse and extract are combined per-file to avoid materializing all tree-sitter trees simultaneously.

### 4.3 Newtype Pattern

`FileId`, `SymbolId`, `SnapshotId` are newtyped `u32` values via `define_id_type!` macro. The compiler prevents mixing them, and `#[serde(transparent)]` keeps serialization clean.

### 4.4 Recoverable Error Accumulation

Parse errors do not abort extraction. The pipeline accumulates `Vec<Diagnostic>` alongside results. Tree-sitter `ERROR` and `MISSING` nodes are skipped during extraction. Diagnostics are a separate concern from the symbol model.

### 4.5 Immutable IR

`Symbol` structs are constructed during extraction and never mutated. Downstream consumers (graph assembly, output serialization) read them immutably.

---

## 5. Parallelism Strategy

### 5.1 rayon Integration

`rayon = "1.12"` is used for file-level parallelism in the parse + extract phase.

- A thread-local pool of `Parser` instances (one per language) is maintained within each worker thread via `thread_local!` and `RefCell` caching. This avoids sharing the non-`Sync` `Parser` across threads.
- Emitted `Tree` and symbol models are `Send` and are safely returned from rayon workers to the main thread for graph assembly.
- Caching `Parser` instances avoids redundant grammar re-initialization and allocation overhead on every task.

### 5.2 Pipeline Phases

| Phase | Concurrency | Rationale |
| ------- | ------------ | ----------- |
| File discovery | Sequential | Single walk, fast I/O |
| Parse + Extract | rayon `par_iter` | CPU-bound, per-file independent, largest time slice |
| Graph assembly | Sequential | petgraph mutation + cross-file resolution requires single-threaded access |
| Import resolution | Sequential | Uses per-language import path resolvers |
| Reference resolution | Sequential | FlattenedScopeCache + cross-file lookup |
| Output serialization | Sequential | Single JSON/YAML document emission |

---

## 6. Error Handling

### 6.1 Error Type Hierarchy

```rust
#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
pub enum Error {
    #[error("IO: {0}")]
    Io(#[from] std::io::Error),

    #[error("parse error in {path}: {message}")]
    Parse { path: PathBuf, message: String },

    #[error("query error ({language}): {message}")]
    Query { language: LangId, message: String },

    #[error("config: {0}")]
    Config(String),

    #[error("graph error: {0}")]
    Graph(String),
}
```

Library uses `Result<T, Error>` with `?` propagation. Application boundary (CLI) uses `anyhow::Result`.

### 6.2 Diagnostics

```rust
pub struct Diagnostic {
    pub path: PathBuf,
    pub severity: Severity,  // Warning, Error
    pub message: String,
    pub source_range: Option<SourceRange>,
}
```

Diagnostics are accumulated in a `Vec<Diagnostic>` separate from the symbol model. Extraction continues on recoverable errors.

### 6.3 Error Recovery Rules

1. Tree-sitter `ERROR` and `MISSING` nodes are skipped during extraction.
2. Partial extraction is allowed and expected for malformed source files.
3. Any tree with an error node emits one Warning diagnostic that carries the error ratio. Extraction still returns partial results and never aborts the pipeline.
4. Fatal errors are reserved for invalid configuration or unrecoverable I/O failures.

### 6.4 Query Compilation Failure Strategy

Tree-sitter queries are hardcoded constants in each language pack. If a query fails to compile, it indicates a programmer bug in the shipped query text, not a runtime input error.

**Strategy**: `compile_query` uses `panic!()` rather than `std::process::abort()` or `Result` propagation.

**Why not `abort()`**: `panic!()` runs destructors, is propagated by rayon, and integrates with Rust's panic infrastructure. `abort()` skips all cleanup.

**Why not `Result`**: Queries are compiled inside `LazyLock<T>::new()` closures which require `FnOnce() -> T` (infallible return).

**Mitigation**: `language::validate_queries()` eagerly initializes all 16 `LazyLock` statics at startup, ensuring any query bug panics immediately rather than after processing files.

---

## 7. Rust Language Features Used

| Feature | Usage |
| --------- | ------- |
| Edition 2024 | MSRV 1.94.0 |
| `#[non_exhaustive]` | All public enums (`LangId`, `SymbolKind`, `Visibility`, `Severity`) |
| Newtype pattern | `FileId`, `SymbolId`, `SnapshotId`, `DataNodeId` via `define_id_type!` macro (`NonZeroU32` inner, 1-based generator) |
| `impl From<X> for Error` | Automatic error conversion for `?` propagation |
| `AtomicU32` | Thread-safe ID generation (counter starts at 1; 0 is the invalid `NonZeroU32` niche) |
| `NonZeroU32` niche | `Option<Id>` collapses to 4 bytes via the `NonZeroU32` niche optimization |
| `serde` derive | All serializable types with `#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]` |
| `thiserror` derive | Error types with formatted messages |
| `clap` derive | CLI argument structs |
| rayon `par_iter` | File-level parallelism |
| `strum` derives | `LangId` display/serialization |
| `LazyLock` | Language query static initialization |

---

## 8. Dependencies

### 8.1 Runtime Dependencies

| Crate | Version | Purpose |
| ------- | --------- | --------- |
| `tree-sitter` | 0.27.0 | Core parsing |
| `tree-sitter-python` | 0.25.0 | Python grammar |
| `tree-sitter-javascript` | 0.25.0 | JavaScript grammar |
| `tree-sitter-typescript` | 0.23.2 | TypeScript + TSX grammars |
| `tree-sitter-c` | 0.24.2 | C grammar |
| `tree-sitter-cpp` | 0.23.4 | C++ grammar |
| `tree-sitter-rust` | 0.24.2 | Rust grammar |
| `tree-sitter-go` | 0.25.0 | Go grammar |
| `tree-sitter-ruby` | 0.23.1 | Ruby grammar |
| `petgraph` | 0.8.3 | Directed graph + Tarjan SCC |
| `serde` + `serde_json` | 1.0 | JSON serialization |
| `url` | 2.5 | File URI parsing for editor overlays |
| `yaml_serde` | 0.10 | YAML serialization |
| `strum` | 0.28 | Enum derive macros (Display, AsRefStr) |
| `webbrowser` | 1.2 | Auto-open HTML dashboard in browser |
| `clap` | 4.6 | CLI (derive API, env, color) |
| `rayon` | 1.12 | Parallel file processing |
| `thiserror` | 2.0 | Library error types |
| `anyhow` | 1.0 | Application error boundary |
| `dunce` | 1.0 | Cross-platform path canonicalization |
| `ignore` | 0.4 | Gitignore-aware file walking |
| `blake3` | 1.8 | Cryptographic content hashing (optional under `watch`) |
| `notify` | 8.2 | File system notification watcher (optional under `watch`) |
| `notify-debouncer-mini` | 0.7 | Debounced event loop (optional under `watch`) |
| `tracing` + `tracing-subscriber` | 0.1 / 0.3 | Structured diagnostics |

### 8.2 Development Dependencies

| Crate | Version | Purpose |
| ------- | --------- | --------- |
| `insta` | 1.48 | Snapshot testing for JSON output contracts |
| `criterion` | 0.8 | Benchmark gating (`pipeline`, `graph`, `incremental`) |
| `tempfile` | 3.27 | Temporary filesystem test fixtures |

### 8.3 Feature Flags

| Feature | Purpose |
|---------|---------|
| `metacall-deploy` | Generate MetaCall deployment manifests and mesh annotations |
| `dataflow` | Data/flow node tracking and def-use graph extraction |
| `watch` | Debounced file-system watch mode with incremental re-analysis |

---

## 9. Test Structure

```
tests/
├── integration.rs                   Integration test module root
├── integration/
│   ├── pipeline_test.rs             End-to-end: discover -> parse -> extract -> graph -> output
│   ├── dashboard_test.rs            HTML dashboard generation tests
│   ├── output_format_test.rs        JSON/YAML output format tests
│   └── inspect_output_test.rs       Inspect-compatible output validation
└── fixtures/
    ├── python/
    │   ├── simple_functions.py
    │   ├── classes.py
    │   ├── async_decorators.py
    │   ├── deep_nesting.py
    │   ├── partial_syntax_error.py
    │   └── sample.py
    ├── javascript/
    │   ├── functions.js
    │   ├── classes.js
    │   └── large_classes.js
    ├── typescript/
    │   └── interfaces.ts
    ├── tsx/
    │   └── components.tsx
    ├── c/
    │   ├── functions.c
    │   └── structs_enums.c
    ├── cpp/
    │   ├── classes.cpp
    │   └── namespaces.cpp
    ├── rust/
    │   ├── functions.rs
    │   ├── structs_enums.rs
    │   └── large_file.rs
    ├── go/
    │   ├── functions.go
    │   ├── methods.go
    │   └── deep_nesting.go
    ├── mixed/                      Multi-language single-directory fixtures
    │   ├── app.py, index.js, main.rs, test.generated.py
    │   └── auth_microservice{,_level2,_level3}  Deploy edge-case fixtures
    │       (star / cross-language SCC cycle / full-module stress)
    └── multi/                      Multi-file cross-language fixtures
        ├── main.py, lib.py, app.js, util.js
        ├── c_app/, cpp_app/, go_app/, rust_crate/, ts_app/, tsx_app/
        └── edge_*/                 Edge case fixtures (circular, alias, shadowing, etc.)
```

### Snapshot policy

Insta snapshot files live in `src/language/snapshots/` as `.snap` files (not under fixture directories). Each
language module generates snapshots via inline unit tests. Update workflow: `cargo insta test` then
`cargo insta review` then commit accepted `.snap` files.

### Testing Strategy

| Layer | Tool | Purpose |
| ------- | ------ | --------- |
| Language detection | Unit tests | Extension-to-LangId mapping |
| Per-language extraction | Fixture files + unit tests | Query correctness, capture mapping |
| JSON output contract | `insta` snapshots in `src/language/snapshots/` | Regression detection |
| Error recovery | Fixture with invalid syntax | Partial results, no panics |
| End-to-end pipeline | Integration tests | Full discover -> output flow |
| Deploy module | Tiered `mixed/auth_microservice*` fixtures + `cut.rs` unit tests | Cross-language SCC cut, intra-language collapse, oversized-pod, load variants, dependency classification |
| Performance | `criterion` benchmarks | Extraction throughput |