refactor(task-31-a3): description-free graph_curation 7 call sites

[earayu]

Summary

Wave 5 description-NULL invariant fix for graph_curation: the dedup
detection / scoring / snapshot / accept-apply paths still read
entity.description / compacted_description / description_parts
even though Wave 5 task #5 (facts/vectors split) stopped emitting
description text. Reading these fields would either silently degrade
scoring (always-empty bag-of-tokens) or leak stale fragments from
pre-Wave-5 rows into reviewer-facing suggestions.

This is task #77 (Phase A3) under the task #31 umbrella, per
spec docs/zh-CN/architecture/task-31-graph-node-merge-spec-v1.md § 3.1.5.

Scope

6 detector / snapshot call sites + 1 apply-path variant (spec
§ 3.1.5 enumeration) + 1 service-layer helper surfaced by the
boundary test grep gate:

#	path	fix
1	candidate_generation.py:entity_snapshot	drop description key
2	candidate_generation.py:_lexical_signals	drop description Jaccard overlap
3	candidate_generation.py:_pair_score	drop description scoring weight (dead branch post Wave 5)
4	dto.py:CurationEntity.from_lineage	set description="" instead of deriving from compacted_description / description_parts
5	merge_candidate_detector._description_text_for_scoring → _embedding_query_text	embed <name> (<entity_type>) mirror of how graph_vectors worker writes the entity vector (Wave 5 task #5 / #7)
6	merge_candidate_detector._to_legacy_entity	pass description="" instead of reading from entity
7	merge_candidate_detector._snapshot	drop description key from persisted entity_snapshots payload
+1	lineage_merge.merge_entities_apply_description_free (new)	variant for async accept-apply worker; skips LLM unified description / Compactor / curation_merge sentinel write / vector embed write per spec «不调» list
+1	service._fetch_shadow_neighbors	entity.description or entity.name → entity.name (description always "" post Wave 5, fallback was a no-op)

CurationEntity.description field is kept on the dataclass (default \"\") for back-compat with existing callers; the boundary test gates the read surface, not the field declaration.

lineage_merge.merge_entities (legacy description-bearing variant) is preserved unchanged for manual sync handle_action API back-compat per spec § 3.1.5 («老 lineage_merge.py 路径保留作 manual API 兼容，标 deprecation Lesson #14 multi-iteration cleanup follow-up»).

Boundary gate

tests/boundaries/test_graph_curation_description_free.py (new) — 4 AST-level assertions per spec § 5.2.a:

• test_graph_curation_modules_do_not_read_entity_description — full scope aperag/graph_curation/** (excl. lineage_merge.py legacy variant + dto.py field declaration)
• test_merge_candidate_detector_does_not_read_entity_description — aperag/indexing/merge_candidate_detector.py
• test_lineage_merge_apply_description_free_does_not_read_entity_description — the new variant body must not read description
• test_lineage_merge_apply_description_free_does_not_call_llm_or_compactor — the new variant body must not invoke LLM unified description / Compactor pass / vector embed write per spec «不调» list

Allowlist:

• lineage_merge.merge_entities (legacy back-compat) excluded by file
• dto.py field declaration excluded (annotation, not a read)
• LineageMergeResult.compacted_description (non-entity result shape used by legacy sync handle_action API) excluded by base name

Lesson family applied

• Lesson feat: socket debug #14 (架构 invariant 删除多轮迭代收尾) — Wave 5 description-NULL invariant 双侧最终收尾, 老 lineage_merge.py 路径保留 deprecation
• Lesson feat: auto size for chat input #18 候选 (lesson sediment + mechanical gate 双 layer codification, per huangheng PR docs(cr-checklist): task #61 + task #30 B3 close-out sediment fold-in #1932 + chenyexuan PR test(task-33-p3): cross-source default value gate for graph_extraction_window_size #1933 first-application demo) — lesson 文字 layer (cr-checklist § 四 Wave 5 description-NULL family) + mechanical gate layer (this boundary test) 配对完整 invariant defense — second-application demo
• Lesson feat: socket message #13 v3 (cross-source default value alignment) — applied to ensure all 6+1 sites in spec are mechanically locked, no reviewer-as-detector remaining

Test plan

• tests/boundaries/test_graph_curation_description_free.py — 4/4 ✅
• tests/boundaries/ full sweep — 104/104 ✅
• tests/unit_test/graph_curation/ + tests/unit_test/indexing/test_merge_candidate_detector.py — 36/36 ✅
• tests/unit_test/ full sweep — 1466 passed / 15 skipped ✅
• ruff format + ruff check — clean ✅
• CI lint-and-unit
• CI e2e-http-smoke (graph flow)

Risk

0 production behavior change for legacy sync API:

• lineage_merge.merge_entities preserved unchanged
• service.handle_action accept path still calls merge_entities (description-bearing variant)
• MergeCandidateDetector recall now uses name + entity_type as embedding query — this fixes a silent zero-recall regression introduced by Wave 5

0 schema change — CurationEntity.description field kept with default ""; no migrations.

CR

• @符炫炜 ratify (architect lane — task support pagination #31 spec § 3.1.5 enforcement)
• @huangheng cr-checklist Lesson feat: socket debug #14 + feat: auto size for chat input #18 candidate cross-link verify
• @bryce A1 path 0 交集 verify (A1 = cli/indexing_worker.py + queue family; A3 = graph_curation/{candidate_generation,dto,lineage_merge,service}.py + indexing/merge_candidate_detector.py + boundary test)
• @ziang graph_curation domain-specific verify (Wave 7 §K.12.4 detector + suggestion store)
• @huangzhangshu / @冬柏 testing-lane verify (boundary test grep gate + unit test signal change rationale)

Not blocking

• task [Features] integrate YuQue as a data source #75 (A1 Bryce — in_review)
• task chore: fix embedding timeout and scale the embedding workers #78 (A4 dongdong — in_review)
• task feat: support default collections #77 itself becomes in_review once this PR opens
• task support pagination #31 Phase B (CR + boundary integration / e2e) — depends on Phase A merged

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[earayu]

Testing CR on PR #1941: implementation direction looks right, but one boundary gate gap blocks my LGTM.

Local targeted verification passed:

uv run --extra test pytest tests/boundaries/test_graph_curation_description_free.py tests/unit_test/indexing/test_merge_candidate_detector.py tests/unit_test/graph_curation/test_service.py -q

Result: 19 passed.

BLOCKER — the description-free boundary gate excludes dto.py, so it does not actually protect one of the spec’s 6 call sites.

Spec §3.1.5 explicitly includes aperag/graph_curation/dto.py (CurationEntity.from_lineage) as a description-free call site. The PR fixes it now, but test_graph_curation_modules_do_not_read_entity_description() skips the entire file:

if path.name in {"lineage_merge.py", "dto.py"}:
    continue

That means a future regression like reintroducing entity.compacted_description / entity.description_parts inside CurationEntity.from_lineage() would pass the boundary gate, even though it is one of the locked 6 sites.

The whole-file dto.py allowlist is not needed for the dataclass field declaration: description: str = "" is not an ast.Attribute read, and keyword writes like description="" are also not description reads under the current AST walker. So the minimal fix is to include dto.py in the module scan and only keep lineage_merge.py excluded for the legacy path. If there is a specific dto declaration false positive after that, allowlist that exact AST shape rather than the whole file.

Once dto.py is covered by the gate, my testing-lane blocker should be cleared.

[earayu]

ziang graph_curation domain verify ✅ LGTM.

Verified:

• CurationEntity.from_lineage now hard-sets description="", and candidate_generation no longer emits/reads description in snapshot, lexical signals, or scoring.
• MergeCandidateDetector no longer depends on description-derived text; _embedding_query_text(name + type) fixes the post-Wave-5 zero-recall path, and _snapshot no longer persists description into suggestion payloads.
• LineageEntityMerger.merge_entities_apply_description_free() is correctly isolated as the async apply variant: alias rows + lineage re-anchor + source L1 delete only, no LLM, no compactor, no __curation_merge__, no vector write/delete. Legacy merge_entities() remains back-compat only.
• The AST boundary gate is useful and already proved value by catching service.py hidden read; targeted tests passed locally:
  uv run --extra test pytest tests/boundaries/test_graph_curation_description_free.py tests/unit_test/indexing/test_merge_candidate_detector.py -q → 15 passed.

Non-blocking NITs:

1. merge_candidate_detector.py module docstring still says it embeds “the description”; service._fetch_shadow_neighbors() docstring still says vector-recall “by entity description”. The implementation is fixed, but those docstrings should be updated when convenient so future readers do not reintroduce the old path.
2. Sync detector query text is name + entity_type, while full-sweep _fetch_shadow_neighbors() uses entity.name only. This is safe for A3 and not a merge blocker, but Phase B should either align the two recall query shapes or explicitly document why full sweep intentionally stays name-only.

[earayu]

Update to my previous domain-verify comment: I agree with @huangzhangshu's boundary-gate blocker. The implementation sites are fine, but CurationEntity.from_lineage() is one of the explicit spec §3.1.5 call sites, so the mechanical gate should not whole-file skip dto.py. Please include dto.py in the AST scan and only precise-allowlist the dataclass field declaration / description="" write shape if needed.

After that fix-forward, my graph_curation domain LGTM can stand.

[earayu]

Final pass after 8116639 ✅

The boundary blocker is fixed: dto.py is now in scope, lineage_merge.py remains the only whole-file legacy exclude, and the new positive/negative controls correctly protect the gate itself:

• synthetic entity.compacted_description read is detected;
• live dto.py field declaration / description="" constructor write do not false-positive.

Targeted verification:
uv run --extra test pytest tests/boundaries/test_graph_curation_description_free.py -q → 6 passed.

My earlier graph_curation domain LGTM now stands. The remaining two NITs from my first comment are non-blocking doc/alignment follow-ups.

[earayu]

Testing final pass on PR #1941 at 8116639: LGTM from my lane.

The blocker is fixed:

• dto.py is now included in test_graph_curation_modules_do_not_read_entity_description(); only lineage_merge.py remains whole-file excluded for the legacy path.
• test_dto_module_is_in_boundary_scope adds a positive control for a synthetic entity.compacted_description regression, so the gate now proves it would catch the exact CurationEntity.from_lineage class of regression I was worried about.
• test_dto_field_declaration_is_not_a_false_positive pins the negative control: the live dataclass field declaration / description="" construction does not force a whole-file allowlist.

Local targeted verification:

uv run --extra test pytest tests/boundaries/test_graph_curation_description_free.py tests/unit_test/indexing/test_merge_candidate_detector.py tests/unit_test/graph_curation/test_service.py -q

Result: 21 passed.

git diff --check origin/main...HEAD also passed.