perf: avoid repeated work in skill commands by LadyBluenotes · Pull Request #257 · TanStack/intent

LadyBluenotes · 2026-09-05T03:35:22Z

Avoid repeated filesystem reads and path calculations in list, load, validate, and stale while preserving command output, strict policy failures, and symlink-aware source classification.

Reuse one skill discovery pass during validation.
Share workspace artifacts, package manifests, and skill discovery across staleness checks and coverage; build artifact matching indexes once per package.
Share command-scoped manifests between discovery, source policy, and exclusions.
Reuse identical Markdown destinations within a loaded document.
Batch workspace identity checks by parent directory; retain individual checks for symlinks and refresh identities on each invocation.

Add operation-budget and freshness regressions plus a shared-artifact benchmark. Migrate the benchmark harness for the Vitest 5 update already on main, using native module loading to avoid timing Vitest's export-getter wrappers.

Verification

NX_DAEMON=false NX_NO_CLOUD=true pnpm test: all eight targets passed, including 665 unit tests and 73 integration tests. Four existing lint warnings remain.
Benchmark TypeScript check, formatting, and git diff --check passed.
42 CLI output/exit-code pairs match the unmodified main build across seven warm workloads.
The new regression file has nine failures and one pass on unmodified main; all ten pass with this change, covering operation budgets and policy/symlink freshness.

Local benchmarks

Compared with 6cf9c36a29ca5950148c225da1a5cdd9b943302d using identical migrated harnesses, built artifacts, and locked dependencies. Apple M4, macOS arm64, Node 24.12.0, Vitest 5.0.0; two alternating full runs per version. Values below are ms per command, dividing each batch mean by its invocation count. Warm workloads call the CLI in-process with console output silenced; fixture setup is outside timing. These are local measurements, not fresh-process latency guarantees.

Workload	Main 1	Main 2	PR 1	PR 2	Mean reduction
`list --json`	1.8530	1.8244	1.8137	1.7999	1.7%
`validate (30 skills)`	1.7383	1.7388	1.4184	1.4146	18.5%
`stale --json`	1.0725	1.0933	1.0633	1.0431	2.7%
`stale --json, shared artifacts`	2.9380	2.9626	1.5082	1.4931	49.1%
`load --path`	0.1792	0.1813	0.1733	0.1793	2.2%
`load --json`	0.3377	0.3356	0.2166	0.2235	34.6%
`load --path, 120 workspace packages`	0.3761	0.3727	0.3167	0.3191	15.1%
`fresh intent --help`	25.4958	25.6989	25.5057	25.3499	0.7%
`empty Node process`	20.6817	21.1471	20.7338	20.6423	1.1%

The larger gains repeat across both pairs. Treat the 1–3% differences in list, plain stale, and direct path loading as small local changes; cold startup is effectively unchanged. Warm cases retain module-level workspace caches. CPU frequency and unrelated host activity were not controlled.

Instrumentation limitation

CodSpeed simulation is not verified. The already-installed @codspeed/vitest-plugin@5.7.1 analysis runner cannot import under Vitest 5: ERR_PACKAGE_PATH_NOT_EXPORTED for vitest/runners. This dependency incompatibility is separate from the command changes; no dependency or CI changes are included. All reported timings use the working local, uninstrumented harness.

Summary by CodeRabbit

Performance
- Improved command performance by reducing repeated filesystem and path operations across listing, loading, validation, and stale checks.
- Improved handling of workspace packages, skill discovery, exclusions, and artifact matching for repeated operations.
Bug Fixes
- Improved consistency when reading package metadata and resolving skill sources during validation and staleness checks.
Tests
- Expanded coverage for repeated operations, workspace symlinks, Markdown rewriting, manifest updates, and staleness reporting.
- Updated performance benchmarks to provide more consistent measurements across key commands.

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The change adds shared filesystem caching across intent commands and core operations. It reuses package metadata, skill discovery, workspace identity checks, Markdown rewrites, and staleness artifact indexes. It also updates benchmarks and adds repeated-work coverage.

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Intent cache optimization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cache-aware metadata and policy foundation `packages/intent/src/core/package-json.ts`, `packages/intent/src/core/excludes.ts`, `packages/intent/src/core/source-policy.ts`, `packages/intent/src/core/intent-core.ts`, `packages/intent/src/discovery/package-manager.ts`, `.changeset/quick-skill-reads.md`	Package metadata, source-policy reads, exclude resolution, and package-manager detection now accept and reuse `IntentFsCache`.
Workspace identity and command cache wiring `packages/intent/src/discovery/scanner.ts`, `packages/intent/src/commands/support.ts`, `packages/intent/src/commands/stale.ts`, `packages/intent/src/commands/validate.ts`, `packages/intent/tests/repeated-work.test.ts`	Workspace scanning and command paths share cached filesystem access for package identity, validation, stale-target resolution, and package discovery.
Staleness cache and artifact indexing `packages/intent/src/staleness/check.ts`, `packages/intent/tests/repeated-work.test.ts`	Staleness checks reuse cached metadata and skill discovery. Artifact matching uses precomputed path and name maps.
Markdown rewrite caching and repeated-work coverage `packages/intent/src/core/markdown.ts`, `packages/intent/tests/repeated-work.test.ts`	Markdown destination rewrites use a per-document cache. Tests verify repeated reads, rewrites, manifest refreshes, validation, staleness, and symlink behavior.
Benchmark harness migration `benchmarks/intent/*.bench.ts`, `benchmarks/intent/tsconfig.json`, `benchmarks/intent/vitest.config.ts`	Benchmarks now use Vitest test fixtures. Stale benchmarks generate shared artifacts, and the benchmark configuration supports TypeScript helper imports and built-CLI measurement.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0340c

Fallback stale-target resolution still performs avoidable filesystem work, reducing the intended performance benefit for that path. This is bounded but should be addressed before relying on the optimization claim.

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249-249: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Reuse fsCache in fallback package scanning.

Line 249 starts scanIntentsOrFail() without the cache created at line 158. That scan creates a separate cache. Line 253 then checks the discovered packages with the outer cache. The fallback stale path repeats package-manifest and skill-file reads instead of reusing the scan results. Add an optional cache parameter to scanIntentsOrFail and pass it to scanForPolicedIntents.
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In `@packages/intent/src/commands/support.ts` at line 249, Update
scanIntentsOrFail to accept an optional cache parameter and forward it to
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in the fallback stale path so discovered package and skill-file results are
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In `@packages/intent/src/commands/support.ts`:
- Line 249: Update scanIntentsOrFail to accept an optional cache parameter and
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fix: close release validation and workspace policy gaps #256

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